Black workers crush police-protected Nazi rally
WKRC 12, 2/7–A group of neo-Nazis was seen on Friday hanging a banner and flags off the overpass between Evendale and Lincoln Heights. With Lincoln Heights being a historically Black community, their demonstration drew counter-protests. Lincoln Heights residents yelled for them to leave and set fire to one of their flags. They took a stand against white supremacists…"They jumped into U-Haul [and] we pulled up on the bridge and grabbed a flag. As the people here, we burned the flag right over there," said Howard…He also wants to talk to the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office and Evendale Police for not breaking up the neo-Nazis' protest…
Historical parallels between South Africa and Israel just won’t go away
France24, 2/8–South Africa on Saturday condemned a "campaign of misinformation" after US President Donald Trump issued an order freezing aid to the country over a law he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers. Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa, with most farmland still owned by white people three decades after the end of apartheid…The allegation came in an executive order, which also noted foreign policy clashes between the United States and South Africa over the war in Gaza, particularly Pretoria's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice…"
Ukraine is running out of people
Der Spiegel, 1/24–The Russian invasion has now turned the demographic crisis into a catastrophe. Almost 7 million people…have fled abroad since…the day of the invasion. At least 5 million Ukrainians are now living under Russian occupation, cut off from the rest of the country by trenches and minefields…In the early 1990s…Ukraine had a population of 51.5 million. Today, only an estimated 29 million people live in Ukrainian areas…The populations of industrialized countries begin shrinking when the birthrate falls below 2.1 children per woman, and in the EU, the rate is 1.5. In Ukraine, though, the birth rate has fallen below one…The country is running out of people.
Workers rally, march and make plans to fight fascism
The Guardian, 2/9–Thousands took to the streets on Wednesday and Saturday last week following a series of dramatic raids by agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement throughout Denver as protesters expressed solidarity with the undocumented…last week heavily armed Swat teams began storming apartment complexes around Denver and Aurora in the early hours of the morning …though with 30 arrests in all, only one gang member has been confirmed to be in custody…The protester and artist Starks, along with many others, has been attending weekly gatherings at a local Methodist church on how to best serve the legal needs of immigrants.
Analysis of Trump’s foreign policy plan
Foreign Affairs, 1/30–Pax Americana is gone. Born with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the U.S.-led international rules-based order died with the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump…“The postwar global order is not just obsolete,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared…Trump’s skepticism about U.S. support for Ukraine and Taiwan, his eagerness to impose tariffs, and his threats to retake the Panama Canal, absorb Canada, and acquire Greenland make it clear that he envisions a return to nineteenth-century power politics and spheres of interest…humiliating wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the 2008–9 financial crisis shattered faith in the U.S…
Mark one for China versus U.S. in battle of imperialists
Al Jazeera, 2/10–Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is visiting Beijing this week to sign a strategic partnership agreement with the world’s second-largest economy in the latest sign of China’s expanding influence in the Pacific Islands region. But the proposed pact has shaken decades-old ties between the Cook Islands and New Zealand…the United States and its allies in the region, including Australia and New Zealand, have been wary of China’s growing influence in the Pacific ever since Beijing signed a security agreement with the Solomon Islands in 2022.
