 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. An initial goal of the data heist is to facilitate a massive assault on social programs, but the broader aim is to create an all-encompassing database that can be used to track, monitor and suppress political opposition. On Monday, Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the creation of a directorate for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tasked with overseeing the implementation of the plan announced by President Donald Trump to ethnically cleanse Gaza. The media has been reporting the figure of $500 billion-worth of critical minerals demanded by Trump, but a leaked document seen by Britain's Telegraph newspaper shows the reality is even more extreme. Major European powers held an emergency summit yesterday in Paris after US officials threatened to cut Europe out of Trump's planned talks with Russia over Ukraine. There is enormous anger and a willingness to fight among large sections of federal workers illegally fired by the fascist billionaires Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Nurses say overwork, understaffing, and spiraling health care costs are the main issues they confront. The decision was made as the looming election is characterised by mass hostility to the official parties and a growing desire among workers and young people for a genuine alternative. The sudden decision to dump the acclaimed artist and curator occurred soon after the Albanese Labor government's arts minister phoned Creative Australia's chief executive officer. The entire campaign for this month's federal election is a repulsive spectacle. All the parties in the Bundestag (parliament) and their candidates to be the next chancellor are competing with each other in inciting anti-refugee hatred, calling for more German and European rearmament spending and currying favour with the fascist Alternative for Germany (AfD). The operation against the Peoples' Democratic Congress, a coalition of nominally left parties led by the Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party, is part of a much broader campaign of repression. A wide range of New York City and state Democratic politicians have urged Mayor Eric Adams to resign in the wake of the deal he struck with the Trump administration to dismiss federal charges against him in exchange for allowing the roundup of immigrants by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Brookings Institution researchers drew attention to an article by long-time Republican Mitch Daniels in the Washington Post, stating "only a dwindling number of denialists doubt that a cataclysmic reckoning … lies ahead." Jacobin magazine, associated with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), published a politically backward and reactionary article last week titled "The Case for Social Drinking." In it, writer Ryan Zickgraf railed against reports that Americans' alcohol use has significantly declined in recent years, a healthy trend. All indicators point to the likelihood that the ongoing 2024-2025 flu season will surpass recent years' figures for both pediatric and adult flu deaths in the United States. The tiny Pacific nation's partnership agreement with China was signed amid a furious diplomatic row with New Zealand, its former colonial ruler. The number of retail store closures is expected to double this year to 15,000, with workers struggling with inflation, stagnating wages and record credit card debt. The government-appointed Reserve Bank of Australia board begrudgingly cut rates to try to ease the political crisis produced by the widespread working-class hostility that has developed to the Labor government. The sellout and premature cancellation of the two-week strike called on February 6 breaks the momentum of the strike and secures no real gains for workers, only an agreement to restart negotiations over the next 100 days. But, according to the union, no negotiations have actually been scheduled. 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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