Feb 21, 2025

1. Hundreds of people attend the funeral of two homeless children who froze to death in Detroit

2. The US Trump administration paves the way to military actions in Mexico by designating Mexican drug cartels, as “foreign terrorist organizations”

3. Imposition of tariffs is just a small part of US President Trump's overall battle plan to wage economic war on the world

4. Protest demonstrations across the US multiply after the Trump administration fires more than 14,000 federal workers, coerces an estimated 75,000 into resigning or retiring early, and dismantling entire agencies, including USAID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

5.  Who is the fiddle and who is the fiddler?  Why no one should believe that, in reopening diplomatic relations with Russia, the Trump administration is seeking peace

6. The foreign policy establishment in Germany reacts to US President Trump's rapprochement with Russia over Ukraine by ratcheting up war hysteria and calls for more rearmament

7. Taiwan's leaders are eager to comply with the US Trump administration, intent on denying advanced silicon chip technology to China

8. Why historians are rejecting a decision by the American Historical Association Council to reject a proposal for a resolution condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza

9. “Kash” Patel, the lawyer and fascist who played an integral role in US President Trump’s attempted coup in 2021, is confirmed to direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation

10. Australia's Albanese Labor government rams through an electoral reform bill designed to discourage participation of smaller political parties

11. Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia meddles with the International Youth and Students for Social Equality's ability to conduct its normal club affairs

12.  Australia's workplace tribunal, the Fair Work Commission, suspends an industrial action by Sydney commuter rail workers to buy time for their management and labor union leaders to cook up a sellout labor contract

13. Internationally acclaimed actress Tilda Swinton delivers a stinging speech while accepting an honorary award at this year's Berlin International Film Festival

14. Volvo Trucks announces coming layoffs at its largest manufacturing facility in New River Valley, Virginia

15. Head teachers in Stoke-on-Trent, England are taking an unprecedented action by withholding payments to corporations that routinely swindle their schools

16. A “State of the Nation” report released by the Salvation Army charity in New Zealand reveals an appalling social crisis, driven by rising unemployment, low wages and high living costs

17.  US President Trump and Elon Musk take aim at the USPS to dismantle and privatize it

18. The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees and the US Postal Service Workers Rank-and-File Committee are holding an online public meeting this Sunday, February 23

19. The University and College Union suspends a planned strike by academic and administrative staff at the University of Sheffield International College in England

20. The World Socialist Web Site responds again to the dangerous serial sophistry of Alex Steiner

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

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