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🟡 NEW: Dominique Pelicot, Gisèle Pelicot’s husband and the primary accused in raping Gisèle, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison. However, some of the other men involved in the abuse received only three years, with many serving their sentences at home under electronic bracelets.
Six of those convicted, benefiting from reduced sentences due to pre-trial detention, walked free ahead of Christmas. Gisèle’s children expressed deep disappointment, stating, “These sentences are too low.” Outside the courthouse activists chanted “Shame! Justice!”
Watch our video to hear the full story about Gisèle’s rape trial.
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Supporters of Bolivian President Luis Arce rallied in La Paz on the “Day of the Democratic and Cultural Revolution,” which commemorates former president Evo Morales’ first election victory. Arce’s supporters want to create a new Movement Towards Socialism party without Morales. red. media was on the ground and spoke with the Minister of Infrastructure.
There are currently two parallel versions of the MAS party, one led by Morales and the other led by a government worker loyal to Luis Arce. Both claim to be the “true” party. The fight is over who gets to stand as the MAS candidate at next year’s presidential elections. Morales held a rival rally in Cochabamba later that day.
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🟡Syria Update — Day 22:
🟡Syria’s de-facto leader Ahmad Al-Sharaa, known commonly as Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani, told BBC in an interview with Jeremy Bowen that Syria would not be “a threat to the world,” and reiterated that post-Assad Syria would be inclusive across the sectarian divide.
🟡UN Special Envoy to Syria, Geir Pedersen, concluded his talks with the de-facto leadership in Damascus late Wednesday afternoon. Pedersen expressed a certain optimism that the fall of the Assad government could mark “the start of a peaceful and democratic transition.”
🟡The US has been fighting ISIS cells in Syria, according to the Financial Times, in what is described as a very clear danger posed by the sudden reemergence of the extremist group. US forces claim to have struck more than 75 ISIS targets in the past two weeks alone.
🟡Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Wednesday afternoon that if the de-facto government in Damascus addresses what is being called the “YPG issue” in northeastern Syria, then the Turkish Army would refrain from launching any unilateral military action. The comments add further strain on Syria’s nascent rulers.
🟡Sectarian-driven revenge attacks by rebel groups appear to be continuing in the Alawite heartland of Syria’s Latakia Governorate. According to the Washington Post, at least 4 homes were burned down last Sunday, with many Alawite families having fled the country since the ousting of Assad on December 8.
🟡Significant protests and public discontent gripped the Syrian city of Tartus late Wednesday evening due to the sectarian revenge killings. Protesters gathered in front of the local police station demanding justice and action from the Syria’s de-facto authorities.
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“We communicate with the Americans with missiles and drones”— Yemen’s Ansarallah official Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi told Almasirah TV’s Bandar Al-Hetar. The US bombed the defense ministry in Sana'a, Yemen, on Monday amid signs of escalating attacks from Washington and Tel Aviv.
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Germany’s ruling coalition collapse has triggered snap elections, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surging to second place. As mainstream parties adopt anti-migrant rhetoric, Germany’s political landscape shifts further right, deepening the country’s far-right crisis. Read on.
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The UK could be the next country to fall to the far-right due to the failure of the centrist Labour government, which has already reached historically low approval ratings.
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Do you know who this iconic quote belongs to? The Brazilian socialist and Workers’ Party organizer Francisco “Chico” Mendes was tragically assassinated on this day in 1988 by wealthy landowners wanting to extract resources from the Amazon. As a tireless campaigner for the Amazon rainforest, which is now more threatened than ever, he knew precisely how closely environmental protection and class struggle are linked.
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As we look back on 2024, let’s remember this year’s best act of Indigenous resistance when protesters smeared red urucum seed paste on the faces of business leaders pushing for the construction of a environmentally-destructive railway in the Brazilian Amazon.
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It’s been 10 years since Obama and Raul Castro, then-president of Cuba, announced a thawing of US-Cuba relations. Both Trump and Biden destroyed that legacy as both deliberately strangled the Cuban people and their economy to protect US capital interests.
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German "journalist" Nicholas Potter who relentlessly attacks Palestine solidarity activists and anti-imperialist media like red. has ended up in Tel-Aviv. Potter's role championing Israel's genocide landed him work at the Jerusalem Post. Read here about Germany's pro-Israel state funded propaganda complex.
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🟡 LATEST: A large convoy of Israeli tanks has been seen moving through Saida, a Syrian town located just east of the 1974 Golan Disengagement line. These tank movements contradict Israel’s earlier statement that its military forces were only active within the disengagement line.
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A Turkish invasion of the Kurdish-held city of Kobani in northern Syria seems imminent, US officials warn. The city was the site of an iconic fight to defeat ISIS. A significant military buildup of Turkish forces and its mercenaries in the Syrian National Army (SNA) has sparked fears of an imminent incursion. US-mediated ceasefire negotiations between Türkiye, the SNA, and the Kurdish-led and US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) broke down earlier this week.
The buildup, which includes Turkish-backed militias, commandos, and heavy artillery, appears similar to Turkish military moves ahead of its 2019 invasion of northeast Syria.
Ilham Ahmad, co-chair of the Foreign Relations Department of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), sent a letter to US President-elect Donald Trump, warning of an imminent Turkish military offensive. Ahmad urged Trump to pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to stop any cross-border action, cautioning that a Turkish invasion could displace over 200,000 Kurdish civilians in Kobani, as well as numerous Christian communities.
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🟡 Syria Update — Day 20:
🟡 Former Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad stated on official channels that his move to Moscow was unplanned and that “fighting against the terrorist onslaught” was his sole option. He denied seeking personal gain and rejected claims of betraying his people and allies.
🟡 Michael Ohnmacht, head of the EU’s Syria delegation, is set to establish direct contact with Damascus’ new HTS-led caretaker government. HTS remains an EU-designated terrorist group.
🟡 EU Foreign Affairs Chief Kaja Kallas said Russia and Iran should have “no place” in Syria’s future. Several Western foreign ministries link recognition of Syria’s de-facto authorities to removing Russian influence from Syria.
🟡 Turkish-backed SNA forces have gathered along the Qara Qozaq line southwest of Kobane and Ein Issa. Türkiye rejected the latest Kurdish-led and US-backed SDF ceasefire proposal, which will likely lead to tensions further escalating between the groups.
🟡 A UN delegation visiting Sednaya prison, known locally as “The Human Slaughterhouse,” was expelled by angry locals. A video posted to social media shows a woman accusing the UN of failing to act earlier despite evidence and past inquiries.
🟡 Residents of Abidin village in Daraa reportedly blocked Israeli forces from entering, marking the only known local resistance against Israel’s colonial expansion in Syria. Meanwhile, Damascus’ de-facto government has not acted against the occupation.
🟡 Mohammed Al-Jolani, de-facto leader of Damascus’ new administration, said Syria won’t be used as a base for attacks “against Israel or any other state.” He downplayed past Israeli presence, claiming targets were only Hezbollah and Iran-aligned forces.
🟡 A French diplomatic delegation has arrived in Damascus today for the first time in 12 years.
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Riots erupted in France after Abdoulaye, a 34-year-old Black man, died in police custody. He suffered from severe mental health issues and experienced medical emergencies while the police apprehended him.
Abdoulaye had already previously been targeted by police, with a 2023 video showing him beaten during an arrest. His death is part of a wider pattern of police violence in France, which leads the European Union in deaths in custody. In 2024, 43 fatalities in police custody were recorded.
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🟡 NOW: Germany’s parliament passed a vote of no confidence for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government. Snap elections are now set to be held on February 23. Last week, the French government suffered a similar fate, demonstrating a pattern across Western so-called democracies.
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Tensions between Yemen and Israel intensified overnight when the Israeli Air Force targeted vital civilian infrastructure in Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. Shortly afterward, the Yemeni Armed Forces launched a retaliatory response. The trajectory of this escalation remains uncertain.
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US State Department Spokesperson Vedant Patel claims that Israel’s occupation of Syria is “self defense” in response to the “terrorist groups.” Where else have we heard this one before?
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Armed groups have attacked one of Haiti's largest hospitals, marking the latest sign of failure for the US-Kenyan intervention, which has only exacerbated the country's security situation. Security forces from El Salvador and Guatemala are now poised to join as reinforcements.
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Ireland’s president furiously hit back at Israel over anti-Semitism allegations against the Irish. This comes in response to Israel closing their embassy in Dublin due to Ireland’s solidarity with Palestine.
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Mining giant Rio Tinto’s holiday party was crashed by protesters in Serbia. For years, the government has been trying to push through its unpopular lithium mine. German and EU capital interests want Serbia’s lithium in order to overtake China’s dominance in the market.
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Over 31 people, mainly children, were killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza in the last 24 hours. In the backdrop of renewed ceasefire talks, Israel’s war on children continues.
Gaza has become hell on earth for children, who make up almost half of the population. According to UNRWA, “Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world.”
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🟡Syria Update — Day 21:
🟡The Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP) has called for the formation of a united front to liberate the southern Syrian territories recently occupied by Israel. In the statement, the SSNP affirmed that defending the homeland is a duty for all Syrians across the political and sectarian divide.
🟡US-based Syrian advocacy group “Syrian Emergency Task Force” has claimed that a mass grave located in Al-Qutayfah 40 kilometers north of Damascus could contain as many as 100,000 bodies, based on what the group calls an “unfairly conservative estimate.”
🟡Geir Pedersen, the UN special envoy to Syria, has warned that even with the fall of the Assad government, the Syrian civil war “has not ended,” pointing to the recent flair-up in violence between Turkish-backed SNA and the US-backed, Kurdish-led SDF in northeastern Syria. The special envoy further called upon the UN Security Council for Israel to cease its illegal land grab of Syrian territory.
🟡Murhaf Abu Qasra, the military chief of the group Hay’at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), told AFP that the group would be the first to dissolve itself and integrate into the new Syrian Armed Forces. Abu Qasra further stated that the new Syrian state would remain unified and centralized, and that federalization in relation to the Kurdish people is out of the question.
🟡Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that Israeli forces will remain present in the 1974 Golan Disengagement Zone “for the foreseeable future,” indicating that the land may be occupied indefinitely. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz later instructed the Israeli occupation forces to dig in and entrench themselves in the area with outposts and fortifications.
🟡US Senators Chris Van Hollen and Lindsey Graham expressed bipartisan support for the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in what they call their fight “to prevent the resurgence of ISIS.” The two senators highlight what they perceive as Turkish escalation that could “undermine regional security.”
🟡Work has resumed at Damascus International Airport and the first domestic flight to Aleppo since the fall of the Assad government took place.
🟡The EU is close to signing a migration deal with Jordan in relation to the still-pertinent question concerning Syrian refugees, according to Financial Times.
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Syria’s new leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, makes it seem like he is helpless in the face of Israeli attacks on the country. While bombs go off in the background, he is busy scheduling meetings with Western diplomats.
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🟡 NEW: Malian forces captured a top leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, Ahmad Ag Ditta. What France couldn’t achieve in a decade of military operations, Mali accomplished just two years after expelling Macron.
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Victory for Ecuador’s Indigenous Amazonian communities. After weeks of protests and strikes, they have forced the right-wing government to scrap plans to build a mega jail on their land in the Napo region.
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Bolivia’s courts issued an arrest warrant for ex-president Evo Morales and are asking for jail time. Police have not yet complied with the arrest order.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) reportedly plans to include a refusal to supply Ukraine with long-range Taurus missiles in its election program ahead of the upcoming snap elections, according to the Berliner Morgenpost.
Scholz has consistently opposed sending these missiles to Ukraine out of concern that it could escalate tensions with Russia. He faces mounting criticism as calls to strengthen military support for Ukraine grow both internationally and domestically. His stance has become a focal point in Germany’s political debate, drawing sharp contrasts between the SPD and opposition parties advocating for increased military aid.
The discussion around supplying Taurus missiles has intensified following the US decision to allow Ukraine to deploy long-range missiles for strikes against Russian targets, a move widely viewed as a significant escalation in the war. While polls indicate that most Germans oppose providing these missiles to Ukraine, several opposition parties, including the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Greens, have expressed support for doing so.
With the collapse of the ruling coalition triggering snap elections, Germany’s political landscape is increasingly divided. The SPD’s firm stance on the Taurus missiles highlights a critical fault line in the upcoming elections, particularly as the CDU leads the polls.
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Serbia’s government is using Israeli technology to spy on opponents. Serbian journalists and activists have been speaking out about this reality for years. A new report published today by Amnesty International proves that they were right all along.
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Russia plans to send military personnel to Myanmar to assist the military government in organizing its first post-coup election. The planned deployment by Myanmar’s closest ally and top arms supplier has sparked criticism from opposition groups and international observers.
The election was initially promised by junta leader Min Aung Hlaing after the 2021 coup. After repeated delays, it is now expected for next year. The civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and several ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), however, reject the election’s legitimacy. They accuse the junta of using the election to consolidate power with support from its allies in Russia, China, and India as fighting continues to engulf the country.
Over the past year, the junta has faced major setbacks, losing control of an estimated third of Myanmar’s territory to resistance forces and ethnic armed organizations. Efforts to secure ceasefires in some regions have failed to halt fierce fighting elsewhere, complicating plans for what critics call a “sham election.”
The National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC), a prominent opposition coalition, condemned Russia’s support for the junta. They called it an invasion of Myanmar’s sovereignty disguised as “election monitoring.” Critics see this move as a calculated effort to suppress dissent and further entrench military rule. With backing from Russia, China, and India, the struggling junta aims to maintain power as its diminishing control and lack of legitimacy push the country further into crisis.
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