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So is Trump really pressuring Netanyahu into this supposed ceasefire? Trump was the harm reduction candidate all along huh

TikTok ban is going through on Sunday.

The lack of desire to win in the dems is just staggering. Why would they let the ban take place after the election?

They are such loyal stooges of the empire it really beggars belief.

I also recently finished reading International Brigade Against Apartheid by Ronnie Kasrils and this other book, the title of which would certainly give off some vibes at a first glance by Steven Friedman, published just in November 2023. Despite the otherwise problematic title, the author of the latter gave an interview on CII Radio live and on Newzroom Afrika last year, discussing the launch of his newest book that reads like the South African counterpart to Blackshirts and Reds and he speaks just like George Galloway and Norman Finkelstein.

The first book is a collection of war stories and the numerous campaigns against the Apartheid South African regime, more in-depth details of guerilla operations, organized calls of boycott throughout the world, the development of various solidarity movements and a closer examination of the Apartheid government's politics, both internal/domestic and international. While the intent of this book is not necessarily to draw parallels between one former and one current Apartheid entity, many of the actions, goals and the words of the participants of Apartheid has matched exactly with those of piSSrael today. Of course, the Apartheid South Africa's ambitions of a "genocide against most of the continent in self-defence" fell flat.

The second book goes more into detail on the deliberate misuse of the label "antisemitism" against anyone critical of piSSrael (as well as similar tactics employed during the Apartheid in South Africa), the prevalence of Western hypocrisy, the conflation between Judaism and Zionism, supporters of piSSrael overlooking or complicit in actual antisemitism and lastly, the demonization of Palestinian solidarity activism, particularly the targeting of Jewish pro-Palestinians by pro-piSSraeli individuals/governments/organizations mostly in the Western world. Had this book come out in 2024 instead, there would be plenty more to write about the double-standards post 7 October, the university encampments worldwide and repression of Palestinian solidarity movements in the UK and EU. It isn't stated in the book specifically, but Steven Friedman mentioned in an interview by the SAJFP how the end of Apartheid in South Africa had really magnified this conflation. Really, only in South Africa can these words be spoken without putting oneself in danger.

I can't find a PDF of International Brigade Against Apartheid as of right now, but I did find Steven Friedman's book on Libgen

Death to AmeriKKKa

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/syrias-new-central-bank-chief-vows-boost-bank-independence-post-assad-2025-01-14/

Having the Central Bank "finance" deficits by simply issuing debt to them was the common practice in the west till 1980s. This "central bank independence" is nonsense. It is just a way to transfer the responsibility for austerity to someone else.

It should be seen in a different way. Strain on the external sector due to sanctions and the war forced the Government to deficit spend as the economy went to a recession due to shrinking tax revenues.

This happened in the West too in 2008, when economic collapse resulted in tax revenues going down and unemployment benefits to go up. "Automatic stablizers". If anything, the lack of discretionary spending on recovery in Syria didn't help the economy recover once the war subsided.

The exchange rate depreciation resulted in passthrough inflation. This wasn't the fault of Syrian Government, sanctions were responsible for it. You can look at Iranian Rial and see the same thing when Trump ramped up sanctions.

Duma Boko became president of Botswana 2 months ago and he has very promptly demanded that the Americans halt operations in the Thebephatshwa Airbase. In 2019, the EFF also stated that the base presents a direct security threat to South Africa, being less than 400 kilometers away from Gauteng and that an attack would be casus belli for South Africa to engage in conflict with Botswana again. 20 million people live within this 400-kilometer radius with the bulk of them in Gauteng.

Of course, post-Apartheid South Africa and Botswana have maintained generally good relations apart from that one time they undermined the beginnings of academic boycotts against piSSrael. It would take a coup for the relations between the two to go sideways which would create an immediate parallel to the Euromaidan coup over a decade ago.

The Palestinian football team Burj al Luq-Luq has also landed in Cape Town last week and recently, the Palestine Solidarity Alliance scaled the Diamond Building in Johannesburg, hoisting a large Palestinian flag to the building's eastern side antenna.

Death to NATO, Death to AmeriKKKa, Death to piSSrael

Btw the IMF has an online library where you can download a bunch of their analysis (analyses?) of various regions of the world. Presumably you can learn a lot about how the vampires all think, and where they see potential faultlines in the financial empire of the United States. Same with the world bank, which has a quarterly commodities forecast which talks about the potential price developments in wheat, oil and others.

This is not to encourage people to take their word as gospel, but it's probably a decent idea to know how these specific institutions looks upon the world, since their ideology is so dominant among the ruling elites of the world.

Trump wants to keep creating redundant bureaucracies. What is CBP for? Who does he think pays the import tariffs, it's not China. China gets fiat money, U.S. gets real goods.

Some news from occupied Palestine.

The Zionist regime admitted that yesterday Palestinian resistance fighters eliminated five more Zionist occupation troops in northern Gaza: https://southfront.press/israeli-army-takes-in-more-losses-in-gaza-as-ceasefire-nears/

Yemen fired another hypersonic Palestine-2 ballistic missile at the Zionist “Defense Ministry” headquarters in Tel Aviv: https://thecradle.co/articles/undeterred-by-us-led-war-yemen-targets-israel-three-times-in-12-hours

Zionist genocidal attacks massacred over 50 civilians in Gaza, including an attack on Gaza City's Shujaiya neighborhood that killed 11 people. https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/14/740875/Israel-kills-50-Palestinians-Gaza-strikes

Special bonus video, a US activist correctly called out Blinken for being a brutal war criminal: https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/14/977470.html

South Korean president arrested by anti-corruption investigators after weekslong showdown - CNN

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for questioning, according to the country’s anti corruption agency, in the latest chapter of a weekslong political saga that began with the embattled president’s shock martial law decree last month. Yoon left his residential compound with investigators in a motorcade Wednesday morning and was taken into custody – the first time such an action has been taken against a sitting president in South Korea.

Yoon is wanted for questioning in multiple investigations related to his short-lived declaration, including over accusations of leading an insurrection – a crime punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty. The embattled president has been holed up in his fortified residence for weeks surrounded by his Presidential Security Service team, evading arrest as he faces several probes and an impeachment trial.

The Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), which is working with police and the defense ministry to investigate Yoon, first attempted to detain him earlier this month, but it failed after an hours-long showdown in which soldiers and members of the presidential security detail blocked some 80 police and investigators from approaching the presidential compound.

Following his arrest, Yoon released a pre-recorded video message Wednesday in which he again dismissed the investigations into him as “illegal” and said “the law is all broken in this country.” “As a president who must protect the constitution and legal system of the Republic of Korea, responding to these illegal and invalid procedures is not an acknowledgment of them, but in the hopes of preventing unsavory bloodshed,” he said.

The warrant allows investigators to hold Yoon for up to 48 hours. The CIO would need to apply for an arrest warrant within that period to detain him further. Groups of supporters and opponents of Yoon were both at the scene Wednesday, with videos from Reuters and CNN affiliate YTN showing demonstrators pulling up in buses and gathering in the streets around Yoon’s compound, despite sub-zero conditions.

Some demonstrators could be heard chanting “resign,” “your time is up” and “take responsibility,” while supporters of the embattled president chanted “invalid impeachment,” “free ROK, hurrah!” and “we won!” The crowds were accompanied by lines of uniformed police, and a combination of police buses and protester buses remained outside the residence, blockading the street.

A YTN video showed a large sign on the back of one bus that read “Insurrection Department – Yoon Suk Yeol” in Korean – a slogan typical of anti-Yoon protests since the president launched his martial law decree last month. A court approved a warrant to detain the president earlier this month after Yoon, a former prosecutor, refused to answer three summonses by investigators in recent weeks asking for his cooperation, according to the CIO.

Several Russian media outlets are reporting that two Brazilian mercenary groups were destroyed in Kursk. According to reports, the surviving mercenaries are trying to contact Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) by satellite for help evacuating the area.

The Russian government estimates that there are 241 Brazilian mercenaries fighting with Ukraine, most of whom are former Brazilian military or police officers. In 2016, Civil Police in the Southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul discovered that members of the fascist Azov militia were recruiting members of illegal Brazilian Neo-nazi groups in 11 cities to fight for right wing militias in Donbas.

korean dude running the cornerstore is convinced Yoon is gonna get executed. how accurate do newsheads think that assessment is?

Today’s news and videos from the Donbass.

Russian forces liberated the western Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Neskuchnoye (southwest of Kiev-occupied Velikaya Novosyolka) and the northern DPR settlement of Terny (northeast of Kiev-occupied Krasny Liman): https://sputnikglobe.com/20250114/russian-army-liberates-neskuchnoye-and-terny-settlements-in-donbass-1121427446.html

Russian air defenses shot down six US-supplied “ATACMS” missiles and eight British-supplied “Storm Shadow” cruise missiles over the past 24 hours: https://sputnikglobe.com/20250114/ukraine-loses-over-1600-soldiers-in-battles-as-russia-liberates-two-settlements-1121427183.html

Russian self-propelled howitzer in action (video): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/mat.mp4?_=3