✊ Progressive News | 13 January 2025

International

• Breakthrough News Is TikTok’s Time Up? Will the Supreme Court Strike Down Free Speech to Spite China?
• Geopolitical Economy Report What will Trump’s return mean for Ukraine, Gaza, and the economy?
• Geopolitical Economy Report BRICS grows, adding Indonesia as member: world’s 4th most populous country, 7th biggest economy
• Tricontinental Dr Victor Frankenstein Disavows His Monster: The Second Newsletter (2025)
• The Socialist Program Global Politics Shifted in 2024, Multiple Crises Loom in 2025 Preview
• The Socialist Program Greenland, Panama, Gulf of Mexico: Trump’s Cowboy Colonialism Isn’t a Joke
• Progressive International PI Briefing No. 1 Decades when millennia happen
• Transnational Foundation 📌 Welcome to the Transnational and Jan Oberg in 2025
• Transnational Foundation Grooming Weakness
• Transnational Foundation Democratic Global Governance with UN Reforms: Toward the Future Multipolar World
• Transnational Foundation He Calls Himself a Citizen Pilgrim. I Call Him a Moral and Intellectual Hero.
• Transnational Foundation Geopolitical Games, Human Loss
• Transnational Foundation U. S. quietly buying China drones for Ukrainians
• Glenn Diesen The Magnitsky Act & Narrative Control
• Thinkers Forum The World in 2024: Trump, Europe, South Korea, Syria & More Yanis Varoufakis
• The China Academy Defining 2024 Yanis Varoufakis (Part I)
• Novara Media Woke Capitalism Just COLLAPSED. Here’s Why. Aaron Bastani Meets Brett Christophers
• New Economic Thinking The Other Dangerous Supremacy: Wealth Supremacy
• Double Down News How Billionaires Took Over The World
• Al Mayadeen English Exclusive Marcus Papadopoulos on Russia, Ukraine, Trump, EU and NATO
• Straits Times Nvidia unveils robot training tech, gaming chips at CES 2025
• Planet: Critical Climate Criminals Aaron Regunberg
• Al Jazeera Artificial Intelligence accused of powering misinformation on social media
• Al Jazeera AI revolutionizes media: Experts highlight opportunities and challenges at Doha conference

China

• Thinkers Forum How China “Subsidized” Its EVs to Success
• Thinkers Forum Is China likely to accept a new Plaza Accord? Zero probability
• Think BRICS Should We Be Concerned About China’s Influence in BRICS?
• The China Academy China’s AI Performs Surgeries and Reads Minds
• The China Academy A New Chinese Economy Created By Trump (Part II)
• Global Times Pentagon’s mislabeling Chinese companies on ‘Section 1260H list’ reflects a lack of judgment
• Global Times Rescue team helps search for earthquake-affected residents’ property
• Empire Watch How China eradicated absolute poverty Global South Rising
• China Up Close China remains confident to overcome global challenges in 2025
• T-House Heroic rescues after Xizang earthquake
• T-House New Dynamics in China-U. S. Relations: Opportunities and Challenges
• T-House Xizang earthquake aftermath: From rescue to reconstruction
• South China Morning Post Trump wants the Panama Canal: empty talk or real threat for Hong Kong?
• South China Morning Post Missing Chinese actor found in Myanmar
• Shanghai Eye China’s Xinjiang completes first 1, 000-megawatt mountainous wind power project featuring new tech
• Shanghai Eye Shanghai’s container shipping hit new record, and what’s next?
• Shanghai Eye Shanghai launches mega methanol project with 100, 000-ton annual capacity, a boost to green shipping
• Shanghai Eye China unveils prototype of bullet train with operational speed of 400 km/h
• Shanghai Eye AI powers Chinese tech hub Shenzhen’s smart city transformation
• Shanghai Eye China’s largest tidal flat photovoltaic storage power station starts operation
• New China TV 5.0-magnitude quake hits Xizang: CENC
• New China TV GLOBALink AI powers innovation at CES 2025 as Chinese brands shine
• New China TV GLOBALink Volunteers provide food, counseling to quake-affected people in China’s Xizang
• New China TV Aerial view of quake-hit area in China’s Xizang
• CCTV Video News Agency (M) Psychological Support Provided to Quake-Affected Children in Xizang
• CCTV Video News Agency (M) Rescuers Provide Extra Support for Children in Quake-Stricken Xizang
• CCTV Video News Agency (M) China Plans Bigger Deficit, Strategic Fiscal Policy in 2025
• CCTV Video News Agency (M) CMG Holds Second Rehearsal for 2025 Spring Festival Gala

South Asia

• Progressive International Labour Strike In JNU And The Condition Of Sanitation Workers In Institutional Spaces
• Global Times India’s first automatic docking plan delayed again: space exploration is no easy feat
• WION Maha Kumbh Mela 2025: 45-Day Spiritual Gathering Begins WION Exclusive
• WION Cold Wave Intensifies In North India World News WION
• Channel News Asia Maha Kumbh: Millions take holy dip in India’s Prayagraj as part of world’s largest religious event

Southeast Asia

• Think BRICS Why Indonesia Joining BRICS is a Global Power Move
• Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Ageing, Art, and the Impact of AI - A Benefactors’ Exclusive Masterclass - 20 September 2024
• Diplomatify BRICS - 6 Reasons Why Only Indonesia Was Admitted (for now)
• Diplomatify ASEAN-5 Surprising Ways It Influences Your Life!
• Straits Times AI pioneer Demis Hassabis’ Singapore connection Lunch with Sumiko
• New China TV GLOBALink Indonesia committed to working together with BRICS members: spokesperson
• Channel News Asia PM Wong’s foreign policy likely to focus on defence, trade and investment: Analysts
• Channel News Asia Over 1 in 3 Singaporeans worried about losing jobs in the next 3 months: NTUC

East Asia

• Wave Media Taiwan Successfully Crippled US Arms Industry
• Thinkers Forum US Crushes Japan’s Purchase of US Steel, Citing National Security Concerns
• Reports on China Why is Japan stealing videos from China?!
• T-House South Korea political turmoil
• T-House What’s next for U. S.-Japan relations after Biden blocks U. S. Steel takeover bid?
• T-House U. S. Steel takeover bid blocked
• T-House South Korea’s political crisis: Impact on Northeast Asia?
• Straits Times North Korea claims successful test of new hypersonic missile
• South China Morning Post South Korean transport chief to resign after Jeju crash
• South China Morning Post Pyongyang test-fires new hypersonic missile
• Shanghai Eye Divided South Koreans rally ahead of Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment trial’s first oral arguments
• Channel News Asia Around 300 North Korean soldiers killed while fighting Russia’s war against Ukraine: Seoul

West Asia (Middle East)

• Electronic Intifada News highlights on week 66 of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, with Nora Barrows-Friedman
• Electronic Intifada Exposing ties between MIT and Israel’s army, with Prahlad Iyengar and Michel DeGraff
• Electronic Intifada Gaza resistance steadfast, with Jon Elmer
• AJ+ It’s Bisan From Gaza, And The Rubble Is Still Home
• Breakthrough News The Palestine Advocacy Group Making Israeli Soldiers Scared to Travel Abroad
• Transnational Foundation The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader Middle East War
• Seymour Hersh KILLING FOR KILLING’S SAKE IN GAZA
• Novara Media Surviving Israel’s Assault On Gaza
• Novara Media Trump Warns “All Hell Will Break Loose” In Gaza
• Novara Media Gaza Death Toll 40% Higher Than Previously Thought, Study Shows 10 January 2025
• Neutrality Studies Jeffrey Sachs: A Comprehensive Deal for Peace in the Middle East
• Middle East Eye Looking at Syria’s future and HTS leader Ahmed al-Sharaa Gamal Mansour UNAPOLOGETIC
• Middle East Eye Pregnant Palestinian woman mauled by Israeli combat dog loses baby after attack
• Middle East Eye Where do Trump’s cabinet nominees stand on Israel and Palestine?
• Middle East Eye Syria: The Assad government’s siege of Yarmouk refugee camp Gamal Mansour UNAPOLOGETIC
• Middle East Eye ‘More terrifying than death’: Families in Gaza suffer extreme cold living in tents during winter
• Middle East Eye ‘If you’re an Arab journalist, you’re political’: Hind Hassan on western media & Gaza Real Talk
• Al Mayadeen English Homs in turmoil: Violations and rising tensions shake Syria
• Al Mayadeen English Jabalia: Israeli deliberate campaign to erase an entire community
• Al Mayadeen English What’s next for Lebanon after President Joseph Aoun’s election?
• Africa Stream Supporters Of Israel Are Settler Colonialists
• Shanghai Eye Iranian army takes delivery of 1, 000 new drones amid tensions under incoming US Pres. Trump
• Shanghai Eye Iranian military unveils underground missile facility
• New China TV GLOBALink Gazan children forced to study in tents amid conflict
• New China TV Syria seeks to restore normalcy after end of former leadership
• New China TV Turkish, Jordanian FMs discuss situation in Syria
• Al Jazeera Israel’s war on Gaza targets healthcare, spares no one on the front line: Analysis
• Al Jazeera Israeli siege of north Gaza leaves 5, 000 dead, missing after 100 days
• Al Jazeera What’s next for Yemen as Israel attacks again? Inside Story

Russia

• Think BRICS Russia’s crypto scene is booming. The Kremlin’s got their back.
• Shanghai Eye Fico says Russia has committed to delivering gas; protesters say Fico dragging Slovakia into Russia
• Al Jazeera Intense fighting in Kursk region as Russia repels Ukraine’s counter-offensive
• Al Jazeera Kharkiv Region Evacuations: Russian Attacks Pile Pressure on Ukraine’s Defenses

Europe

• Tarik Cyril Amar What Happens in Greenland Need Not Stay in Greenland
• Glenn Diesen Russia’s Geoeconomic Shift from Greater Europe to Greater Eurasia
• Glenn Diesen False Ukraine Narratives: Sleepwalking Us Toward a Great Power War?
• Glenn Diesen The Ukraine War: Glenn Diesen, John Mearsheimer, Chas Freeman, Jeffrey Sachs & Lawrence Wilkerson
• Thinkers Forum The Rise of Germany’s ‘China-Leaning’ Far-Right, Explained
• The China Academy This is How 2024 Europe Will be Remembered: Wasted! (Pun Intended)
• Novara Media Piers Morgan Destroys Jordan Peterson Over Support For Tommy Robinson
• Neutrality Studies Europe’s Path To Transatlantic Self-Immolation: Can Ireland Escape? Mark Price
• Neutrality Studies New PSYOP: Pro-War Propaganda Preps Finns To Die For NATO Prof. Tuomas Malinen
• Neutrality Studies REVEALED: America’s Dark Secret For Dominating Europe Prof. Ola Tunander
• WION Thousands Protest in Serbia Over Train Station Accident World News WION
• WION Croatia: Milanović Wins Presidential Re-election By A Landslide World News WION
• Shanghai Eye Nordstream, energy policy and ‘Remigration’ - Alice Weidel as German AfD’s chancellor candidate
• Shanghai Eye Croatia’s Milanović, a critic of NATO and EU, wins second five-year term in a landslide
• New China TV Trump’s remarks on Greenland spark unease in Europe, signal further U. S.-Europe divisions
• Al Jazeera Second round of Iran nuclear talks begins in Geneva
• Al Jazeera Dramatic rise of Germany’s far-right AfD party raising concerns Inside Story

Africa

• Progressive International The struggle in Madagascar – an interview with Micheline Ravololonarisoa
• Africa Stream Kenya Abductions: Rights Groups Raise Alarm
• Africa Stream Traore sends fear into BBC Newsroom
• Africa Stream Traoré Shines Bright In Ghana’s Black Star Square
• Africa Stream Remembering Ahmed Sékou Touré
• Africa Stream U. S. Sanctions RSF But Not UAE For Genocide
• Africa Stream When Netanyahu Marked Libya For Destruction
• Africa Stream How U. S. Hijacked Haiti’s Democracy
• WION Nigeria: At Least 16 Killed In Airstrike World News WION Dispatch
• T-House What’s on the agenda for China’s diplomatic tour of Africa in 2025?
• Al Jazeera Sudan army says its forces enter Wad Madani in push to retake city from RSF
• Al Jazeera Mozambique post-election: Businesses struggle to recover from damage

North America

• Breakthrough News Is TikTok’s Time Up? Will the Supreme Court Strike Down Free Speech to Spite China?
• Breakthrough News Greenland, Panama, Gulf of Mexico: Trump’s Cowboy Colonialism Isn’t a Joke
• Breakthrough News The LA Fires Are Exposing the Predatory Nature of For-Profit Insurance
• Breakthrough News How the New York Times is ‘Manufacturing Consent’ for US Intervention in Mexico
• Tarik Cyril Amar The Great Elon Musk Pie-in-the-Face Fest Continues: When the empire gets bratty, the vassals get trampled
• Second Thought We Watched The CIA Masterclass So You Don’t Have To
• Richard D Wolff Wolff Responds: “Civil War Inside MAGA/Trump Land” Dated January 8, 2025
• Glenn Diesen Will Trump Deliver Peace?
• Democracy at Work Capitalism Hits Home: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Trump and his Supporters
• Thinkers Forum As Trump Raises Tariffs, China Cuts Them to Zero Professor Keyu Jin
• Thinkers Forum I don’t see manufacturing returning to the U. S. ｜Professor Richard Wolff
• Thinkers Forum The Decline and Fall of the American Empire｜Ron Unz
• Reports on China Professor Jeffrey Sachs: Is there hope for U. S. democracy?
• Novara Media Mark Zuckerberg Ends Fact Checking Program At Meta
• Novara Media Los Angeles Wildfires: 130, 000 Ordered To Evacuate #NovaraLIVE
• Novara Media What’s Behind Elon Musk’s Love-In With the Far Right?
• Neutrality Studies Brave US Journalist UNMASKS Israel’s Propaganda-Lobby Complex Lee Fang
• Neutrality Studies Fact-Checkers GONE! Zuckerberg Promises Return Of FREE SPEECH On Meta.
• Global Times Why is US unlikely to shrink trade deficit and maintain dollar’s exorbitant privilege in 2025?
• China Up Close Trump’s China Team: The Men and Women Who Will Be Shaping the US-China Relationship
• Al Mayadeen English Trump is back with big ideas: Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal
• Straits Times Trump asks US Supreme Court to halt sentencing in hush money case
• Straits Times The rise and fall of Canada’s Justin Trudeau
• Shanghai Eye California wildfires rage, thousands evacuated, Trump and Governor trade blame
• New China TV GLOBALink Devastating wildfires raging in California with thousands of homes, buildings burned
• Channel News Asia Migrant communities in the US on edge with incoming President Donald Trump vowing mass deportation
• Channel News Asia US Supreme Court inclined to uphold TikTok ban
• Al Jazeera Army gains ground against M23 rebels in Eastern DRC, retakes Ngungu amid intensified fighting

Latin America and The Caribbean

• Breakthrough News Live Brazil Tries to Arrest IDF Soldier, Israel Panics. Will Gaza War Criminals Finally Face Justice?
• Think BRICS Brazil Welcomes Indonesia as Full Member of BRICS+: A Milestone in Economic Governance
• WION Deadly Landslides Hit Brazil After Torrential Rainfall World News WION
• Telesur English “The Bolivarian Militia rejects illegal sanctions imposed on public servants”
• Telesur English Venezuela: The Bolivarian people support the revolution of pres. Maduro
• Telesur English Venezuela Nicolas Maduro was sworn in as president for a new mandate
• Telesur English UPDATES: Great International Anti-fascist World Festival for a New World is underway
• Telesur English President supports migrants and highlights Mexico’s moral authority
• Shanghai Eye Panama marks ‘Martyrs’ Day’ protesting against Trump’s threat to retake Panama Canal
• Shanghai Eye Panama Canal administrator pushes back against Trump’s assertions of Chinese meddling
• Al Jazeera 100 days in office: Mexico’s first female president marks milestone

Miscellaneous

• The Deprogram The Deprogram Episode 163 - 2024, a review