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French President Macron was heckled by survivors of the recent cyclone in Mayotte, a French colony near Mozambique. When criticized for the poor disaster response, Macron told grieving locals that they should be “grateful” to be part of France.
There is still no official death toll, but it is expected to be in the thousands as 77% of the colony lives below the poverty line. The makeshift slums worsened the effects of the cyclone, as many houses were quickly blown away.
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Thousands rallied in Qamishli, the de facto capital of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)—also known as Rojava—to support the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The SDF has been resisting weeks of attacks by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) as the Turkish military prepares for yet another incursion into Kurdish-held Syrian territory.
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Former president of Cuba Raúl Castro (age 93) made a rare public appearance last night to award Cuban athletes the “Hero of the Republic” medal. The recipients included Mijaín López, the only individual athlete to win five consecutive Olympic gold medals, and Omara Durand, an 11-time gold medallist in the Paralympics.
Did you know that Cuba is the most successful Latin American country at the Olympic games? They have more medals than any other despite having a population of just 11 million, 20 times smaller than Brazil.
This success came after the revolution democratized access to sports by rolling out a state plan providing free access to facilities and employing scores of professional coaches available to all.
The results of this can be seen by the fact that before the revolution, the country won just 12 medals between 1896 and 1960. All the gold medals were in fencing, a sport of the upper class. The rest of the country’s 259 medals came after the revolution, most of them in sports practiced by the working class, such as boxing and wrestling.
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Military defections from the pro-Saudi camp to the pro-Ansarallah Yemeni Armed Forces have increased in recent days. Today, 60 soldiers switched allegiance to Ansarallah, receiving commendation from Yemeni Army Col. Ahmed Mohammed Binneh for their decision.
Since March 2015, a Saudi-led multinational military coalition, supported by the US, has been engaged in a protracted war aimed at toppling the Ansarallah-backed Yemeni government in Sana'a, but without success.
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Anti-Nazi partisan Lepa Svetozara Radić from modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina (former Yugoslavia) was born on this day in 1925. She was executed by the Nazis on February 8, 1943. This photograph (AI-upscaled and colorized) was later found on the body of the German soldier who took it.
Amid a fierce battle, Radić used up all her ammunition. Undeterred, she called on her comrades to fight with their bare hands until overpowered by blows from German rifle butts.
She fought in the 7th Partisan Company of the 2nd Krajina Detachment alongside her sister Dara. On February 8, they were helping refugees, primarily women and children, escape the Nazi 369th and 7th SS Division.
Scheduled for hanging, as the rope was tightened around her neck, her captors offered her a chance at life if she revealed the names of her comrades. Her response was persistent; she was no traitor, and her comrades would reveal themselves when avenging her death.
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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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The biggest Amazon strike in history is underway, and Starbucks workers are rising up as well. Workers are hitting the capitalists when it hurts the most: the busy holiday season. Meanwhile, police are serving Jeff Bezos by breaking picket lines and arresting workers.
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🟡 Syria Update — Day 23:
🟡 US diplomats are visiting Syria for the first time in over a decade. The delegation will meet with the new Syrian leadership, including Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), despite HTS remaining on the US terrorist list.
🟡 The Pentagon says there are now 2,000 US troops in Syria, up from the previous 900 who comprise their “core presence.”
🟡 Iraq handed over 1,905 Syrian soldiers who previously fled to Iraq during the HTS takeover. The soldiers had protested to demand their safe return.
🟡 The Greek Orthodox Church in Syria canceled Christmas and all holiday celebrations until security is restored.
🟡 Syria’s largest oil refinery has halted operations after not receiving the crude oil from Iran, which previously made up the vast majority of the country’s oil production. Following the fall of Assad, an Iranian tanker carrying oil to Syria reversed its course in the Red Sea and headed back toward the Persian Gulf.
🟡 Syrians have taken to the streets in mass numbers in Damascus, demanding a civil and secular state in response to HTS’s talk of constitutional changes. The protest was sparked by comments by a new spokesman for the political administration regarding Syrian women’s ministerial and parliamentary representation.
🟡 Clashes continued between the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) and the US-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) east of Ras al-Ayn. Meanwhile, the SDF launched an operation in the countryside of Raqqa after some ISIS sleeper cells allegedly entered.
🟡 SDF Commander-in-Chief Mazloum Abdî said that if they reach an agreement with Türkiye to end hostilities in northern Syria, non-Syrian Kurdish fighters will leave Syria.
🟡 Thousands took to the streets in the city of Qamishli to protest against a looming Turkish military incursion and in support for the SDF.
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US terrorist designations are little more than window dressing, shifting based on the geopolitical winds of the times.
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Pensioners in Argentina took to the streets again to protest pension privatization pushed by neoliberal President Javier Milei. This year, pensions have been impacted by inflation of nearly 200% and cuts to free medicine for the elderly.
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🟡 NEW: Putin challenges the West to a “21st century high-tech duel” to put Russia's ominous Oreshnik missile to the test.
“If Western experts believe [the Oreshnik missile can be intercepted], let them propose a technological experiment to us and those funding them in the West, particularly in the United States. Let them select a target, say in Kyiv, concentrate all their air and missile defense systems there, and we’ll strike it with the Oreshnik. Then we’ll see what happens. We’re ready for such an experiment. Is the other side ready?”
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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