(2022-12-27). Sarath Kumara: Sri Lankan Trotskyist fighter dies at 57. wsws.org Sarath was a principled working-class fighter for Trotskyism until the very end—a life shortened by the economic circumstances and social misery created by capitalism.
(2022-12-27). Markets and Technology Won't Solve Climate Crisis. We Must End Capitalism. scheerpost.com 
(2022-12-27). The Garrison Church in Potsdam: A symbol of German Militarism is being rebuilt. wsws.org The Garrison Church in Potsdam, a longstanding symbol of Prussian militarism and National Socialism, is currently being rebuilt, mainly with taxpayers' money.
(2022-12-27). Putin bans Russian oil exports to countries that impose price cap. tribune.com.pk 
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday delivered Russia's long-awaited response to a Western price cap, signing a decree that bans the supply of oil and oil products to nations participating in the cap from Feb. 1 for five months. | The Group of Seven major powers, the European Union and Australia agreed this month to a $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian seaborne crude oil effective from Dec. 5 over Moscow's "special military operation" in Ukraine. | Also read: South Korea scrambles jets as North Korea sends drones over border | The Kremlin's decree stated: "This…comes into force on Feb. 1, 2023, and applies u…
(2022-12-27). Exposed: The Most Polluted Place In The United States. popularresistance.org Benton County, Washington – The most polluted place in the United States — perhaps the world — is one most people don't even know. Hanford Nuclear Site sits in the flat lands of eastern Washington. The facility — one of three sites that made up the government's covert Manhattan Project — produced plutonium for Fat Man, the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. And it continued producing plutonium for weapons for decades after the war, helping to fuel the Cold War nuclear arms race. | Today Hanford — home to 56 million gallons of nuclear waste, leaking storage tanks, an…
(2022-12-27). The Nuclear Industry Is Trying To Come Back; Here's What They Don't Want You To Know. popularresistance.org At the most recent United Nations COP27 meeting in Egypt, the nuclear industry had a strong presence pushing nuclear power as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. Clearing the FOG spoke to Dr. Arjun Mkhijani, the president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, about why nuclear power is not needed and is actually counterproductive in the age of the climate crisis. Dr. Makhijani wrote the book on a roadmap to a carbon-free, nuclear-free future. An expert in nuclear fusion, he also talks about the Department of Energy's nuclear fusion advances, which is actually a weapons program, and why thi…
(2022-12-27). Report Warns Risk of Nuclear War At Its Highest Since US Nuked Japan. news.antiwar.com A Swedish group that assesses catastrophic risks warned in its annual report this year that the risk of nuclear weapons use is higher today than at any point since the US dropped nuclear weapons on Japan in 1945, AFP reported on Tuesday. Kennette Benedict, an advisor to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists who led the …