Robert B. Livingston

1. In the United States of America: hundreds of migrants are being dragged out of their homes, arrested while making routine appointments with US immigration authorities or intercepted in the street at all hours, often by plainclothes officials, and taken to unknown locations

2. Evidence of corporate negligence and government complicity continues to emerge two months after wildfires devastated large areas of Los Angeles, California

3. The arrest, detention and possible deportation of Jeanette Vizguerra (named one of Time magazine’s “100 Most Influential” people in 2017) show how the US Trump administration's racist and dehumanizing attacks on immigrants have nothing to do with “public safety” but are aimed at intimidating and suppressing the democratic rights of everyone

4. Scientists in Tanzania discover that humans had the intellectual and technological capacity, or "open endedness" to manufacture and use bone tools a million years earlier than previously documented

5. The political and constitutional crisis now engulfing Israel is not merely the product of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s desire to remain in power and somehow avoid imprisonment for corruption via war, as his opposition claims

6. The soaring cost of rice in the Philippines is driving more people into deeper poverty

7. President Donald Trump signs an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to facilitate the closure of the US Department of Education and return authority over education to the States and local communities.

The money-mad American oligarchy is wielding a wrecking ball to dismantle public education. If they are not stopped, the outcome will be a vast expansion of the class divide, where the working class receives only a minimal, work-oriented education while the financial elite purchases the finest education available

8. As the seat of the federal government where almost 20 percent of the nation's federal workforce is situated, Washington D.C. is having its local economy thrown into chaos by the the Trump administration's mass firings

9. By declaring his intent to "annihilate" Yemen, US President Donald Trump invokes the words of his political role model, Adolf Hitler

10. The arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu marks a new stage in President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s establishment of a presidential dictatorship in Turkey

11. The decision to eliminate the Institute for Museum and Library Services is not simply an error on the part of the Trump administration, but rather a deliberate component of the oligarchy's plans to eliminate democratic rights and establish a dictatorship in the United States

12. In spite of intimidation by law enforcement, several hundred students protest to show support for Cornell PhD student Momodou Taal and his lawsuit against the US Trump administration

13. A wave of waterborne melioidosis (a non-contagious infection that can cause sepsis and multi-organ failure) in Australia has been exacerbated by poverty and the increasing severity of storms and floods resulting from climate change

14. Once again, nearly 2,200 nurses at MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center protest the inhumane conditions that
have become the norm in hospitals across the United States

15. The planned closing of a vital teaching hospital in a New York City community will mean that neighborhood residents will need to travel at least a mile for similar medical services

16. Another week of executions in the United States of America....

17. Solidaire’s new co-leader Ruba Ghazal, whose family immigrated from Palestine, poses no threat to the established capitalist order in Québec because she believes that the "left" must reclaim nationalism

18. The Socialist Equality Party meets to expose the anti-democratic refusal of the Australian Electoral Commission to allow it official party registration and a ballot status in federal elections