 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The current wave is the second highest since the pandemic began, only eclipsed by the initial wave of the Omicron variant during the winter of 2021-22. Behind the aggressive statements against the Houthi's in Yemen is the escalating imperialist campaign against Iran. The current trips to the Middle East by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economics Minister Robert Habeck underline that German imperialism is playing a key role in Israel's genocide in Gaza and the preparations for a wider war against Iran. And the former pacifists of the Greens are among the most aggressive warmongers. The Wickremesinghe government's decision to join Washington's latest provocations in the Middle East is another demonstration of Colombo's subservience to US imperialism. The proceeding heard a remarkable exchange between one judge and Trump's lawyer, discussing whether a president could be prosecuted for crimes like ordering assassinations of political rivals and waging illegal wars. Deputies in Rankin County carried out a reign of extrajudicial torture and brutality that went ignored for years. Biden's plans for a high-level delegation to Taipei makes clear that the US intends to continue to heighten tensions with China regardless of who is elected on Saturday. To leak the news just prior to polling day is calculated to influence the vote. BAE Systems, the sixth-largest arms company in the world, funded research projects involving academics at the ARMC worth £8.5 million between 2012 and 2022. The conditions under which Lula's event took place completely demolish the farce of Brazil's "Unshaken Democracy." As recently as June 2022 and October 2019, Ecuador witnessed the same scenes of troops marching and tanks rolling into cities, killing dozens of demonstrators against social inequality. Despite the warnings of scientists, the ruling class and its political representatives have taken no significant measures against earthquakes; public safety and infrastructure have been completely subordinated to the capitalist profit system. The UAW's "historic" wage gains will not make up for the wage cuts it previously agreed to, and workers' living standards will remain far behind where they 10-15 years ago. The persecution of the 11 in relation to a protest against the Indigo bookstore CEO's support for the Israel Defense Forces is part of a global crackdown on protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and efforts to smear those opposed to Israel's onslaught as antisemitic. The World Socialist Web Site spoke to a New York City public school educator at a protest against Israeli/US genocide against Gaza and military operations in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in the "Little Yemen" neighborhood in the Bronx. Hospitalisations have skyrocketed over the holiday season, while health authorities have belatedly admitted that transmission is approaching previous levels that saw hundreds of deaths. While it may have eased tensions somewhat, the Fed pivot to lower interest rates has been described as "too late and too temporary, to prevent rising bankruptcies." The documentary follows the writer from his boyhood in the 1930s through his service during World War II and throughout his tumultuous literary, journalistic and personal life. A new axis of struggle is required to unify the fight with doctors and health workers across the NHS against the Tories and their de facto Labour allies. About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party.
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