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From rolling back the pandemic-era social safety net, to overseeing the largest inflationary crisis in decades, Biden’s legacy was one of economic despair   by Natalia Marques    46th US President Joe Biden officially leaves office Monday, January 20, to be succeeded by former President Donald Trump. Trump’s promises in the name of “saving American workers” have raised alarm for people across sectors of society, including migrant workers who are gearing up for mass deportations, and unionized workers who are preparing for Trump’s attacks on labor rights. Trump’s loyalty to multi-billionaires has also given the working class of the US great cause for concern. Meanwhile, in contrast, the Democrats have attempted to position themselves as the real defenders of working people. As four years of a Democratic presidency come to an end, it is necessary to ask, what was the true impact of the Biden administration on the working class? Part 1 - Rollback of pandemic-era social safet...

Geopolitical Economy Report   BRICS added as a new partner Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, with the 6th-biggest population on Earth. BRICS+ now has 10 members and 9 partners, which make up 54.6% of the world population and 42.2% of global GDP (PPP). Ben Norton explains the importance of this expansion. 

Britain’s ‘public service broadcaster’ is keeping the public in the dark about UK support for Israel’s assault on Gaza, new research finds. Declassified researched the BBC’s online coverage of 16 aspects of UK policy towards Israel and the pro-Israel lobby. “It is high time for the corporation to be truly held to account and be reformed in the public interest”, leading media professor says. by Mark Curtis  Part 2 - Omitting the news   When Israel’s chief of staff, General Herzi Halevi, was allowed to attend a British military meeting in London last November, this also went unreported by the BBC in its written outputs. Halevi’s visit was highly controversial, given he has led Israeli military operations throughout its destruction of Gaza. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant are wanted for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court. Declassified 's research also finds that the BBC has never reported that the British militar...

Emmanuel Macron’s government gave tax breaks for France’s wealthiest while counting on purchase taxes paid by ordinary consumers. Now saying it has a budget hole to fill, his administration is again expecting working-class people to pick up the bill.   by Marlon Ettinger Part 2 - A False Narrative That’s a narrative that Marine Le Pen and her Rassemblement National (RN) have bought into deeply, and sold to voters, on their march to power. In recent years, Le Pen has pointed to deficits to warn that “saving” France’s pension system poses a choice between unlimited immigration or an explosion in birthrates. She’s stood shoulder to shoulder with France’s business elites to claim that the country is facing “a wall of debt.” Absent spending cuts or new taxes, France’s deficit next year will hit 6 percent. That’s twice the level that the European Union nominally allows its member states to maintain.  Barnier’s budget was trying to reduce the deficit to 5.1 percent by the end of 2025...

A senior BBC editor at the center of an ongoing scandal into the network’s systematic pro-Israel bias is, in fact, a former member of a CIA propaganda outfit, MintPress News can reveal. Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, formerly worked for the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a unit that, by his own admission, was a CIA front group. Berg is currently the subject of considerable scrutiny after thirteen BBC employees spoke out, claiming, among other things, that his “entire job is to water down everything that’s too critical of Israel” and that he holds “wild” amounts of power at the British state broadcaster, that there exists a culture of “extreme fear” at the BBC about publishing anything critical of Israel, and that Berg himself plays a key role in turning its coverage into “systematic Israeli propaganda.” The BBC has disputed these claims.   by Alan Macleod    Part 4 - Extraordinary Revelations   Shortly ...

The Grayzone   Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the Gaza ceasefire deal, the real history of US and Israeli obstructionism, and efforts to hold the authors of Gaza's destruction accountable - including Blumenthal's questioning of Tony Blinken at the Secretary of State's final presser.

Genocide Joe, Holocaust Harris, Butcher Blinken The architects of the first live-streamed genocide in history pic.twitter.com/yYM028CntW — Going Underground (@GUnderground_TV) January 15, 2025

globinfo freexchange   The image of a woman being held and auctioned as a slave in Libya has gone viral globally. But few know the context of her ordeal. Naima Jamal is a 20-year-old Ethiopian woman from Oromia, who was abducted shortly after her arrival in Libya in May. Her captors are demanding $6,000 for her release.   Since the 2011 NATO overthrow of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Libya has descended into a failed state, where rival factions of Western-backed warlords vie for supremacy. And what was once Africa’s most prosperous nation is now an open air slave market.  Naima’s story is a common one in Africa today, one that blends together unequal and unjust economic systems with Western imperial misadventures.   https://www.instagram.com/p/DE0HsNaRRYT/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link    

A poll released Wednesday, January 15, by IMEU Policy Project and YouGov found what few in the Democratic Party have been willing to admit: Vice President Harris lost votes because of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. 29% of voters nationally who voted for Biden in 2020 and cast a ballot for someone besides Kamala Harris in 2024 say “ending Israel’s violence in Gaza” was the top issue affecting their vote choice , with the economy a close second at 24%. When Biden 2020 voters cast a ballot for someone besides Harris in 2024 were asked “Which one of the following issues was MOST important in deciding your vote?” they selected: 29% - Ending Israel’s violence in Gaza 24% - The economy 12% - Medicare and Social Security 11% - Immigration and border security 10% - Healthcare 9% - Abortion policy 5% - Don’t know It’s clear this issue played a key role in battleground states as well. Across the six battleground states that flipped from Biden to ...

Drop Site News is publishing a landmark investigation about the BBC’s coverage of Israel’s unrelenting assault on Gaza by British journalist Owen Jones. His report is based on interviews with 13 journalists and other BBC staffers who offer remarkable insights into how senior figures within the BBC’s news operation skewed stories in favor of Israel’s narratives and repeatedly dismissed objections registered by scores of staffers who, throughout the past 14 months, demanded that the network uphold its commitment to impartiality and fairness.    by Owen Jones   Part 7 - Deference to Israeli Claims   Since Israel’s onslaught against Gaza began in October 2023, BBC online’s deference to Israeli narratives has been apparent. BBC journalists pointed to specific examples—beginning with the fate of Nasser hospital in Gaza. In February, the Israeli army laid siege to the hospital. “The evidence at our disposal points to deliberate and repeated attacks by the Israeli forces aga...