Israel pounds Gaza, killing 81, as it begins assault to seize Gaza City | Israel-Palestine conflict News

At least 81 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli attacks and forced starvation since dawn as the Israeli military said it had begun the first stages of its planned assault... Read more »

German government plans to cut housing costs amid drastically rising rents

Demonstration against high rents in Berlin, September 2021. Banner reads: “Together against Displacement and #CollectiveMadness” The German government is planning a reform of the citizen’s allowance (Bürgergeld) welfare payments, which would cut... Read more »

Why is the US sparing China, but not India, for importing Russian oil? | Business and Economy News

United States President Donald Trump has threatened to slap new sanctions on Russia and secondary sanctions on countries that buy Moscow’s crude in efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war. While Trump imposed... Read more »

Swedish advanced battery maker Northvolt purchased by US competitor

Northvolt Labs, December 2019 [Photo by Anders Utbult / CC BY 4.0] The Swedish advanced EV battery maker Northvolt—once lauded as the best-funded start-up in the European Union (EU)—was purchased by Lyten,... Read more »

What US, Europe security guarantees for Ukraine could look like | Russia-Ukraine war News

When United States President Donald Trump invited his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks at the White House on Monday, the European leaders rushed to Washington, DC to stand alongside Zelenskyy in... Read more »

Armed National Guard troops to begin patrols in Washington, D.C.

Mississippi became the fourth Republican-ruled state to send National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., with Republican Governor Tate Reeves ordering 200 soldiers of the Mississippi National Guard to head to the US... Read more »

Israeli attacks, forced starvation have killed 62,000 Palestinians in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News

More than 62,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in its nearly two-year genocidal war on Gaza, with the population suffering relentless bombardment with nowhere safe in the besieged enclave, Israeli-induced starvation... Read more »

Pseudo-left Socialist Alliance seeks to divert opposition to Gaza genocide behind Australian Labor government

As Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza enters a new stage, with the deliberate mass starvation of the entire population and plans for the occupation of the Strip, the question of... Read more »

Trump says Ukraine’s Zelenskyy could end war ‘almost immediately’ | Russia-Ukraine war News

US president ramps up pressure on Ukrainian leader to accept deal with Russia ahead of talks in Washington, DC. United States President Donald Trump has increased pressure on Ukraine to accept an... Read more »

The Gaza Genocide and China’s multipolar illusion

China presents itself and is often championed as a counterweight to US imperialism and touted the superiority of “an equal and orderly multipolar world” over a unipolar one. This claim has been... Read more »