The rise of China panics a confused Trump administration

Canada’s best response to Donald Trump’s aggression? Socialism | We need to start reversing 40 years of neoliberalism with economic planning and public ownership

Gabbard deserves to be confirmed ASAP

Locking the Door on Corporate Housing Rollups

MIT Shuts Down Internal Grant Database After It Was Used to Research School’s Israel Ties | A new report from MIT Coalition for Palestine details Israeli-funded research into everything from drone swarms to underwater surveillance.

Jonathan Cook: Corbyn is being smeared again – this time to stop protests against genocide | I was an eyewitness to events on Saturday. The Metropolitan police are lying when they claim the ex-Labour leader and MP John McDonnell forced their way through a police cordon

Alastair Crook : Is the US Trying to Escape Reality?

Trump Gaza ceasefire. Biden takes credit

Joe Biden using his last day in office to pardon Liz Cheney, among others, is the perfect expression of American political realignment and the rotted soul of the Democratic Party. | Glenn Greenwald

Everything you're hearing from older conservatives about how Gen Z is "lazy, entitled" etc was already said before about Millennials. When Millennials were in our 20s, the 2008 financial crisis had recently happened, the job market was awful and most of us couldn't get our adult lives off the ground

Support for Trump’s Policies Exceeds Support for Trump | A new poll found the public is sympathetic to the president-elect’s plans to deport migrants and reduce America’s presence overseas.

American Exceptionalist Delusions Run Amok...I will not mince words: In my estimation, Beebe is a woefully deficient observer and analyst of those things about which he is purported to be an expert. He clearly does not closely follow what is said by the most important voices in Russian leadership...

Workers at Some of DC’s Best-Known Restaurants Move to Unionize | Employees at five upscale restaurants, including Le Diplomate and Rasika, coordinated a union push.

Venture Capitalist Invokes Trans Dead-Naming to Justify Media Censorship | Maury Blackman's former ACLU lawyer invokes creative justifications for blocking access to public documents.

The Next Unwind of Social Guarantees: Home and Medical Insurance | naked capitalism

The USA is building a new megastructure HQ in Lebanon over 43 acres as an "Embassy". Lebanon is a country with the area and population of Yorkshire or Connecticut, but a tenth of the economy. So what is it?

Private firefighters: Popular with insurers, are they a risk?

Biden's final humiliation: Most Americans can't name one success and will remember him for doing 'nothing'

New Homes In America Are Falling Apart, And People Are Trapped

New polling suggests that Kamala Harris' Israel policy cost her more votes than originally estimated

“BadAss Grandmas” Pushed for an Ethics Commission. Then the North Dakota Legislature Limited Its Power.

What Will A Trump-Aligned EU Look Like? | naked capitalism

The Financial Times, the newspaper of the Western capitalist class, complains that the revolutionary governments in Africa's Sahel are taking control of their natural resources to try to lift people out of brutal poverty. The FT calls their resistance against Western mining corporations "terrifying"

CNN's lawyer begging the jury -- which just found CNN liable for defamation -- not to soak them with huge punitive damages because a) CNN's reporting is so vital and b) they're in financial "decline." Maybe they should cut the bloated salaries of hosts nobody watches? | Glenn Greenwald

A complete transcript of the negotiations between the pilots of the crashed AZAL plane and the dispatchers has been published...All decisions not to land in Grozny, not... and then to fly back to Baku - and as a result to fly to Aktau - were made independently only by the Azerbaijan Airlines crew;