Is this the beginning of the end for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? Trump threatened Canada with massive tariffs, calling it the “51st state of America,” and lit the match for a political crisis in the country.
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Peru released a Fujimori-era war criminal. Juan Rivero Lazo is responsible for some of the worst human rights violations during the dictatorship’s war against the communist Shining Path guerilla group.
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Student protesters in Indonesia clashed with police over the government’s plan to raise value-added tax to 12% starting next year. Many fear the hike will worsen economic hardships in the Southeast Asian country.
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🇩🇪 BREAKING: German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has dissolved parliament, officially setting February 23 as the date for early elections. This follows Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s loss in a no-confidence vote earlier this month.
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Читать полностью…Did you know that 162 years ago, the US executed 38 Native Americans in the largest mass execution in its history? On December 26, 1862, 38 Dakota nation members were hung in Mankato, Minnesota, for their role in the US Dakota War. The 38 prisoners of war were hung in front of an estimated 4,000 spectators on a specially constructed scaffold and were left dangling on the scaffold for half an hour. Read on.
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Argentina’s unions held a Christmas dinner for the homeless and unemployed in front of the National Congress. Unionized doctors also provided free healthcare for those attending. 54% of the population has fallen below the poverty line under neoliberal President Javier Milei.
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Israel massacred five journalists in a visibly designated press vehicle in front of Al-Awda Hospital in Gaza. Reporters Without Borders stated that Palestine is the most dangerous country for journalists. Israel has killed 201 journalists since the beginning of the genocide.
We pay tribute to every journalist killed in Gaza and all those who continue to report the truth about the ongoing genocide.
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Neoliberalism has destroyed Ecuador. Once a thriving economy, it’s now mired in blackouts, crime, and mass migration out of the country.
red. media spoke to Ecuadorian economist, Juan Fernando Terán, about the failures of the free market.
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As the world prepares for Christmas celebrations, Israeli bombs continue to rain down on Gaza. We asked children in Gaza what they wish for this Christmas season, the second since Israel launched its war of extermination against the enclave.
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The Pope called Palestinian Christians in Gaza who held a Christmas service in spite of the ongoing genocide. As Israel and the world try to erase Palestinian Christians, we pay them a tribute on this holiday which they are incapable of fully enjoying due to the bloodshed.
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Were the Balkan wars of the 90s really resolved? On the border between Serbia and the now independent and majority-Albanian Kosova, the Serbian state is targeting Albanians by deeming their addresses of residence null and void. red. media spoke with both an Albanian and Serbian to understand what is going on.
The process of legally deeming that a citizen no longer resides at their recorded address is called “passivization.” When this happens, a citizen loses their right to vote, receive a passport, and more. The Council for Human Rights in the Preševo Valley reports that Albanians are being disproportionately passivized at their actual place of residence. Sometimes they are not given any notice or right to appeal.
The Serbian state has a long history of discriminating against, oppressing, and ethnically cleansing Albanians from their homes. Its latest behavior in southern Serbia serves as a way to divide and rule the impoverished Serbian, Albanian, and Roma populations living there.
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🇰🇷 NEW: Republic of Korea (ROK) police confirm a plot to provoke a DPRK attack tied to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration. A notebook from the former ROK intelligence commander detailed plans to “induce a North Korean attack” and execute “anti-state forces.”
Читать полностью…The end of free speech? Republican Senator Ted Cruz has announced that criticizing the Israeli government will result in students being arrested and expelled from universities in the US.
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Today, on Sam Sharpe day, we remember the defiant enslaved Jamaican who helped topple slavery in the British Empire. Sharpe was a Baptist deacon in Montego Bay, Jamaica, who traveled around Jamaica to educate slaves about Christianity, which he believed would liberate them from bondage.
In 1831, Sharpe planned a slave rebellion by which slaves would refuse to work on Christmas Day to resist the daily dehumanization they experienced. The peaceful rebellion turned violent as the slaves set ablaze the Kensington Estate Great House, amongst other estates, and killed 14 white people.
The uprising is one of the biggest recorded in Trans-Atlantic Slave History, lasting 10 days and mobilizing more than 60,000 slaves. 200 slaves were killed, and during the trials that ensued, Sharpe was sentenced to death. His final words embody the spirit of the many who perished in the fight to liberate humanity from slavery. Two years later, the British Parliament passed the Abolition Bill, and in 1838, slavery was abolished.
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🟡 NEW: Israeli occupation forces have stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing patients and medical staff to leave the hospital at gunpoint. Israeli forces have besieged the hospital while shelling and bombing parts of it for weeks using drones and tanks. The hospital is one of the last two medical facilities in northern Gaza, which Israel has been ethnically cleansing for months.
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🟡 Syria Update — Day 30:
🟡 500 tons of Ukrainian wheat flour are on their way to Syria as part of the humanitarian program “Grain from Ukraine” in cooperation with the UN World Food Program, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on social media.
🟡 The Hay’at Tahrir al Sham (HTS)-led Syrian interim government launched a large-scale campaign in the western Hama countryside to allegedly pursue the remnants of the ousted Assad government.
🟡 Sectarian tensions are escalating as alleged figures in the Assad government are being hunted down in Syria’s Alawite heartland by HTS-led security forces. The crackdown in the coastal region left 14 policemen killed a day earlier in an ambush blamed on loyalists of the previous government.
🟡 Syria’s new military leadership launched a security campaign and clashed with remnants of former President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Qudsaya and Harasta in the countryside of Damascus, Sana news agency reported.
🟡 An Iraqi delegation headed by head of the National Intelligence Service, met with officials of the new Syrian administration in Damascus. The Iraqi delegation discussed the security and stability on the common border between Iraq and Syria.
🟡 Turkish President Erdoğan says the Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) “will be buried” in Syria if it doesn’t lay down arms. Türkiye has repeatedly insisted that the militia must disband and called on the US to stop supporting it.
🟡 Türkiye has announced an initiative named the “Pioneer Migrant Model” to facilitate the voluntary return of Syrian refugees following what Türkiye assesses as “normalization” in Syria.
🟡 Israel carried out an airstrike targeting the border crossing between Syria and Lebanon.
🟡 The Israeli occupation forces have withdrawn from Suwaysa to Al-Dawaya Al-Kabira in the Quneitra countryside after popular protests against the incursions. Israeli forces had previously shot gunfire at protesters, wounding at least seven people.
🟡 Gulf countries issued a call for Israel to withdraw from the Syrian lands it occupied after taking advantage of the security vacuum.
🟡 Violent clashes continue between the Turkish mercenaries in the Syrian National Army (SNA) and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Force (SDF) on the Tishreen Dam in the Manbij countryside, east of Aleppo. The Turkish Defense Ministry claimed that Manbij and Tishrin Dam are under the control of the SNA while the SDF asserted it had control of the Dam.
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Panamanian union leader debunks Trump and explains the real history of the Panama Canal and the people’s struggle to take it back from US colonial control. He reiterated that the people will mobilize to defend it from any invading forces.
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🟡 BREAKING: Israel is bombing several areas in Yemen’s Sanaa and Hodeidah, targeting ports, the international airport, and civilian facilities. The airstrikes are being carried out with American-British coordination and support.
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On this day in 1893, Mao Zedong was born. He brought the Chinese Communist Party to power in one of the most extraordinary moments in the country’s history. The peasant turned revolutionary led the Chinese Revolution, transforming the country from a poverty-stricken feudal nation into a socialist society. After Mao’s death, Deng Xiaoping led a coup that started the restoration of capitalism in China. Modern-day China now continues this legacy of revisionism by using communist ideas to disguise capitalist exploitation.
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Al Jazeera is a key soft power tool for Qatar and US imperialism, playing a crucial role in advancing their foreign and regional policies in the Middle East. The network shapes narratives internationally, aligning them with US-led Western interests in the region. Read on.
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Molotovs, improvised explosives, water cannons and tear gas marked the year 2024 in Colombia. Students repeatedly rose up to demand university and other reforms abandoned by the left-wing government under Gustavo Petro. Watch red. media’s compilation of their militant resistance.
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Santas in Palestine know that true Christmas spirit includes fighting the Zionist occupation.
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This holiday season, let us not forget that Jesus, Mary, and Joseph fled from violence in their country too (see Matthew 2:13-15).
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Palestinian Authority security forces killed another Palestinian in its ongoing operation targeting the resistance groups in Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern occupied West Bank. The man was shot by a sniper and couldn’t be rescued due to continuous sniper fire afterwards.
The operation started three weeks ago with the blessing of the US, which helped the PA receive Israeli approval to transfer weapons to its forces in Jenin. The PA besieged the camp in an attempt to invade it while its snipers targeted resistance fighters and people in the camp, killing five Palestinians including two children.
Watch red. media’s interview with resistance groups in Jenin Refugee Camp to learn more about the legacy of rebellion there.
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Evo Morales’ supporters are camped outside his home in order to prevent his arrest. The arrest warrant for Morales comes amidst an escalating internal factional struggle within the ruling Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party.
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2024 was rocked by a series of storms and natural disasters exacerbated by climate change. Here’s our compilation of the five worst ones, the damage they caused, and the lives irreversibly changed by them.
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