1. Perspective:  US Vice President JD Vance's harangue at the opening of the Munich Security Conference in Germany was but another step toward the normalization and revival of fascism

2. Strongly-worded comments by a leading member of the Michigan Educators Rank-and-File Committee get a warm public reception at a recent Detroit Public Schools Community District board meeting

3. With time running out, over 700 residents of East Palestine, Ohio are taking part in lawsuits challenging the terms of a federally approved settlement over the Norfolk Southern train derailment and toxic spill disaster of 2023

4. A dangerous turn for public health:  the US Department of Health and Human Services announces the firing of up to 5,200 employees one day after Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is confirmed to head it

5. The US states of Florida and Texas execute two intellectually disabled prisoners with poisoned injections

6. New Zealand’s ruling elite and coalition government demonstrate their amenability to US President Trump's plan to remake Gaza into a "Middle Eastern Riviera"

7. Wall Street's latest concern: the rise and rise of largely unregulated non-banking financial institutions and the risky private credit they extend

8. What is behind the establishment propaganda hyping the Left Party's candidate in the German federal elections, Heidi Reichinnek (whose only asset is moral outrage coupled with a few radical-sounding phrases)?

9. A major newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, targets a restaurant in Newtown, Australia in an attempt to allege some sort of antisemitism existed there, and fails

10. Who runs Haiti today, where nearly half of the population lives on one meal a day or less, where over a million are still homeless, and where six thousand are starving? Short answer: the US

11. With political relations between the US and Canada in crisis, who is most likely to replace Justin Trudeau as Canada's next Prime Minister?

12. The Democratic Party governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey adapts to Trump's anti-immigrant agenda, by helping him

13. Classical music is by its very nature global: the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Windsor Symphony in Ontario team up to demonstrate an alternative to ultra-nationalism

14. The film, Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here), is the 5th highest box office draw in Brazil's history

15. San Francisco, California city resources for immigrants needing legal help 

16. Free Ukrainian socialist and anti-war activist, Bogdan Syrotiuk!