(2021-12-21). How do we stop the neocons from starting another disaster in Ukraine. mronline.org 
If anything, Washington's neoconservatives have an unerring instinct for survival.
(2021-12-21). New Program Is Secretly Privatizing Medicare. popularresistance.org A new program is placing Medicare recipients into private health insurance plans without their knowledge or consent in a final effort to fully privatize our national Medicare system. Known as "Direct Contract Entities (DCEs)," this program is putting more of our healthcare system into the hands of private equity to generate enormous profits at the expense of our health. Clearing the FOG speaks about this with Kay Tillow, a long time health care, civil rights and union activist. Tillow explains what these entities are, why they threaten the future of our entire healthcare system and how they block our ability to a…
(2021-12-21). 2022 Must Be the Year the Left Proactively Shapes the COVID Agenda. truthout.org 
As we head into the winter holidays nervously checking news about the Omicron variant and rising COVID-19 case numbers, let's take a moment to think of how a more just society might handle the coming weeks. | Schools and many workplaces would offer remote options for the final week before Christmas to slow the spread just before people gather with older relatives and immunocompromised loved ones. Airports and bus stations would have free rapid tests for all passengers traveling for the holidays. Finall…
(2021-12-21). LABOUR live at Metabolic Rift. mronline.org 
Titled Metabolic Rift, the month-long event series combined both an exhibition spread across Berlin's Kraftwerk venue and a series of concerts that captured the spirit of Berlin through site-specific interventions and live performance.
(2021-12-21). Property: Is it theft? Is it freedom or is it both? Merry Christmas! mronline.org 
Not long after Thanksgiving this year, I went to San Francisco's Japantown ("Jtown" to locals). Surrounded by commodities for sale and in a high rent district I was reminded of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's famous remark, "La propriété, c'est le vol!, which is usually translated as "Property is theft."
(2021-12-21). Gregory T. Cushman — 'Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History'. mronline.org 
In the last two decades it has been common, in Marxist books on ecology, to find discussions of how capitalist agriculture developed an urgent need for fertilisers to solve the crisis of soil fertility in the 19th century.
(2021-12-20). The two Michaels, Canada's Kovrig and Spavor, caught red-handed spying against China and North Korea. mronline.org 
Western Politicians and Media, However, Made It Seem Like They Were Innocent Victims of China's Authoritarianism.
(2021-12-20). VIDEO: Assange's life is in danger. Attend emergency online meeting to demand his immediate release. wsws.org "The campaign for Assange's freedom must turn to the emerging struggles of the working class against social inequality and the murderous policies of mass infection."
(2021-12-20). Black Women Launch New Organization In Detroit For 'Reparations Transfers' To Go Towards Homeownership. moguldom.com Reparation Generation, a national organization providing direct reparative money transfers to Black Americans for wealth-building pursuits, launched a new program that takes a citizen-driven approach to restoration for disenfranchised descendants of American slavery. "Our vision is for this country that we love to become the 'more perfect union' our nation's founders promised. Equity for Black …
(2021-12-20). 'The Dawn of Everything' gets human history wrong. mronline.org 
Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.
(2021-12-20). Socialist Equality Party (Australia) holds health workers' forum on the Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org Speakers outlined the necessity for the Workers' Inquest to cut through the cover-ups and falsifications being used to justify the removal of even the most basic measures to halt the worsening of the pandemic fuelled by the Omicron variant.
(2021-12-20). Youth election observers share Nicaragua experience at D.C. event. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—Challenging the narrative parroted by U.S. corporate media about Nicaragua's November elections was the focus of an event here on Sunday, Dec. 12 Solidarity activists and friends from the D.C. metropolitan area gathered for a session co-hosted by the Friends of Latin America and the Claudia Jones School for Political Education. Youth observers who participated …
(2021-12-20). UK reaches "hundreds of thousands" of daily COVID cases as education unions demand schools reopen in January. wsws.org With the backing of the education unions, the government refused to close schools before the Christmas break, even though many had to partially close as COVID took its toll among staff and pupils.
(2021-12-20). U.S. inflation and India's economic recovery. mronline.org 
The very day, December 11, when the Indian finance ministry spuriously claimed a robust recovery in…
(2021-12-20). Truck drivers protest 110-year sentence for young driver whose brakes failed in 2019 Colorado crash that killed four. wsws.org An online petition calling for clemency for driver Rogel Aguilera-Mederos has been signed by more than 4.2 million people in just the last five days.
(2021-12-20). Sustainable technology isn't enough to save us. mronline.org 
How many minutes till midnight? Two different but related news stories give us a clue.
(2021-12-20). The full story of Metabolic Rift: A new format of underground culture by Berlin Atonal [Part 1/2]. mronline.org 
In 2020, we were forced to put our lives on pause. Countries were divided from one another; communication between people moved to the more diluted online space. The schedules of jet setters across the world became completely blank, and one German artist passionate about the environment went as far as to say they'd never fly again.