✊ Progressive News | 20 January 2025

International

• Geopolitical Economy Report What will Trump’s return mean for Ukraine, Gaza, and the economy?
• Geopolitical Economy Report BRICS expands to 55% of world population by adding Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country
• Tricontinental All Wars End in Negotiations. So Will the War in Ukraine: The Third Newsletter (2025)
• Transnational Foundation The West’s suicide over Gaza and Ukraine
• Transnational Foundation TFF PressInfo # 762 from Substack: Diverse peace public education making a great 2025 start
• Transnational Foundation WHAT DO GREENLAND AND MACEDONIA HAVE IN COMMON?
• Transnational Foundation What is time? And when is time up?
• Progressive International PI Briefing No. 2 From Cessation to Liberation
• Thinkers Forum The West Is Freefalling, But Will They Freefall Without a Fight? Redhika Desai
• Thinkers Forum US Is Making the Next Ukraine Jeffrey Sachs & Joanna Lei
• Think BRICS BRICS vs WEF: Who’s Shaping the Future at Davos?
• New Economic Thinking How Mutual Funds Shape Society
• Novara Media Tiktok Users Flee to Overtly Chinese App After Ban
• Neutrality Studies The Origins Of The Most DEADLY Ideology On Earth Prof. David N. Gibbs
• Empire Watch Tings Chak on the Tricontinental Exhibition of Children’s Art from Gaza
• Double Down News How Billionaires Took Over The World
• WION Fossil Fuel Plan’s Endanger 1.5°C Climate Goal WION Podcast
• South China Morning Post SpaceX’s Starship explodes in test flight
• Planet: Critical Planetary Solvency Sandy Trust
• Al Jazeera How does the use of AI affect human relationships? The Stream

China

• Breakthrough News BRICS and Belt and Road: Will China Lead In the 21st Century?
• Thinkers Forum A Recession Is Not Always a Bad Thing Professor Keyu Jin
• Thinkers Forum Where is China’s Juggernaut Economy Headed? Professor Keyu Jin
• Thinkers Forum How China Grows: A Country That Defies Western Economists
• The China Academy China Investigates U. S. Chips Sold in China
• The China Academy The Great American RedNote Migration
• Reports on China Melissa Chen: EXPOSING an anti-Chinese Chinese reporter / activist
• Reports on China Washington is MAD! TikTok ban forces Americans to download new Chinese app, Xiaohongshu
• Empire Watch Tings Chak on China’s Green Revolution
• Empire Watch How will China respond to Trump 2.0? With Tings Chak
• China Up Close U. S. TikTok users flocking to Chinese app RedNote amid looming ban
• Center for China and Globalisation Towards Inclusive AI
• T-House One week after M6.8 Xizang quake: What relief efforts are underway?
• T-House TikTok Debate: What’s really behind the U. S. approach to Chinese tech?
• T-House What’s behind ‘TikTok refugees’ flocking to Chinese app RedNote
• T-House Nanning: A Cultural Bridge Connecting China and ASEAN
• South China Morning Post Smooth Sailing Beerhouse serves up a look at life in China’s ‘rust belt’
• Shanghai Eye How China’s CATL dominating the global battery market?
• Shanghai Eye Influx of US TikTok users offers Chinese brands opportunity to expand global reach: expert
• Shanghai Eye Shanghai’s eVTOL maiden flight paves the way for urban air mobility
• New China TV Chinese researchers develop super-fast quadrupedal robot
• New China TV China’s first 2, 000-m ultra-deepwater oil and gas extraction equipment assembled
• New China TV GLOBALink Navigating Spring Festival travel rush: Keeping freight trains in motion
• New China TV China’s economic growth far exceeds expectations: former German official
• New China TV Chinese researchers invent advanced compressed air energy storage system
• New China TV Riding on a slow green train in China’s Kunming
• New China TV Young overseas returnee takes a deep dive into rural revitalization
• FridayEveryday The world is overheating–and China makes all the aircons!
• Channel News Asia Zhengzhou manufacturing sector braces for more uncertainty as Trump takes office again
• CCTV Video News Agency (M) China Launches Five New Satellites

South Asia

• Geopolitical Economy Report Is India the world’s next economic superpower?
• WION Pakistan: Imran Khan Accuses Military Of Human-Rights Abuses WION Dispatch
• WION Jammu & Kashmir: One Indian Army Soldier Killed in Encounter With Terrorists in Sopore WION News
• WION Kolkata Rape & Murder Case: Kolkata Court Sentences Sanjay Roy to Life Imprisonment WION Dispatch
• WION India: Delhi Sees Warmest January Day in Six Years at 26.1 Degrees Celsius WION Dispatch
• Channel News Asia India doctor rape-murder case: Court in Kolkata sentences convict to life in prison
• Channel News Asia India’s pharmaceutical sector braces for potential upheavals caused by Trump tariffs

Southeast Asia

• Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Ageing, Art, and the Impact of AI - A Benefactors’ Exclusive Masterclass - 20 September 2024
• Diplomatify 3 Ways BRICS Expansion Could Cause ASEAN Decline
• South China Morning Post Will Indonesia keep feeding Prabowo’s free school meal scheme?
• New China TV China-Vietnam freight trains facilitate cross-border trade
• New China TV ASEAN chairmanship will boost Malaysia’s efforts in promoting regional integration, says minister
• Channel News Asia Second Trump term could challenge US ties with Southeast Asia: Analysts
• Channel News Asia Indranee Rajah on support for young families
• Channel News Asia Singapore committed to work with ASEAN and partners like China to combat scams: Josephine Teo
• CGTN Singapore’s Chinatown celebrates Spring Festival with lantern display
• CGTN Collaboration with China boosts Vietnam’s wind power sector
• CGTN Spring Festival celebration with ASEAN guests in ‘old-friend’ city Nanning

East Asia

• WION Impeached South Korean President Yoon Continues to Refuse Questioning World News WION
• South China Morning Post South Korean president Yoon arrested after weeks-long stand-off
• Channel News Asia How are protests in South Korea linked to Trump’s voter fraud allegations?
• CGTN Yoon’s detention period extended, supporters break into court

West Asia (Middle East)

• Electronic Intifada News highlights on week 67 of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, with Nora Barrows-Friedman
• Electronic Intifada Why a military embargo against Israel is a moral obligation, with Shir Hever
• Electronic Intifada Why I consider Gaza to be victorious, with Ahmed Alnaouq
• Electronic Intifada Gaza resistance backs Israel into corner as ceasefire looms, with Jon Elmer
• Electronic Intifada Why Trump forced Israel to accept Gaza ceasefire, with Ali Abunimah
• Breakthrough News Ceasefire Deal: Israel Failed to “Achieve Military Objectives’
• Breakthrough News Live Ceasefire or Not, Palestinian Liberation is Inevitable w/ Ali Abunimah
• Breakthrough News Live Gaza Ceasefire Explained: Reading Between The Lines
• Breakthrough News Live Will Gaza Ceasefire Hold, Will Netanyahu Fall and Will Israel Stop Targeting Palestinians?
• Breakthrough News 15 Months of Genocide: Academic Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza, w/ Ussama Makdisi
• Transnational Foundation What to Know About the Gaza Ceasefire Deal
• The Socialist Program Gaza Ceasefire Explained: Reading Between The Lines
• The Socialist Program Gaza Ceasefire Explained: Reading Between The Lines
• Progressive International People’s Tribunal to Examine Alleged War Crimes in Northern Syria
• Novara Media Ceasefire Deal Agreed Between Israel and Hamas #NovaraLIVE
• Novara Media Benjamin Netanyahu Stalls Gaza Ceasefire Approval #NovaraLIVE
• Novara Media David Lammy’s Shocking Pro-Israel Hypocrisy
• Novara Media Israel Approves Gaza Ceasefire Agreement #NovaraLIVE
• Neutrality Studies The Cease-Fire Is NOT Designed For Peace. More War Is Certain L. Kasradze & Col. L. Wilkerson
• Neutrality Studies Norman Finkelstein on Genocide in Gaza and Free Speech
• Neutrality Studies Jeffrey Sachs: A Comprehensive Deal for Peace in the Middle East
• Middle East Eye How large parts of Israeli society have come to justify war crimes Anat Matar UNAPOLOGETIC
• Middle East Eye The story behind Yahya Sinwar’s last ever interview Hind Hassan Real Talk
• Middle East Eye Palestinians in Gaza celebrate ceasefire deal
• Middle East Eye Gaza ceasefire: After 15 months of brutality, Israel has failed on every front
• Middle East Eye Israeli media says ceasefire deal is ‘unimaginable failure’
• Middle East Eye ‘This isn’t the Rafah we knew’: Displaced Palestinians return to destroyed homes during ceasefire
• Al Mayadeen English A Timeline: How Yemen Aided Gaza
• Al Mayadeen English What’s next for Lebanon after President Joseph Aoun’s election?
• Telesur English Iran: Attack against supreme court judges leaves 2 dead, 1 wounded
• Telesur English Special Interview with Hassan Ben Imran on ceasefire in Gaza
• Straits Times Gaza ceasefire deal: What are the main points?
• New China TV Displaced Palestinians happy with ceasefire, prepare to return home
• New China TV Egypt resumes sending aid trucks to Gaza as ceasefire takes effect: state TV
• New China TV GLOBALink On-site in Gaza: Gaza ceasefire comes into effect
• New China TV GLOBALink Yemenis welcome Gaza ceasefire deal
• New China TV GLOBALink Palestinians celebrate ceasefire as hope returns to Gaza
• CCTV Video News Agency (M) First Humanitarian Aid Trucks Enter Gaza as Ceasefire Takes Effect
• Al Jazeera Has democracy failed in Israel? Fatima Bhutto & Yuli Novak Reframe
• Al Jazeera Gaza in fragments DigiDocs

Russia

• Breakthrough News FIFA’s Hypocrisy: Russia Banned While Israel’s Genocide Doesn’t Even Get a Penalty
• Glenn Diesen Armenia’s Westward Shift Raises Tensions with Russia
• Glenn Diesen Russian Victory or Political Settlement in Ukraine?
• Glenn Diesen Why the US Misunderstands Russia
• Thinkers Forum How US Neocons Pushed Russia into China’s Arms Ron Unz
• Think BRICS Moscow Summit Forges New Era of Strategic Partnership Between Russia and Iran
• Neutrality Studies Ex-Diplomat REVEALS: Russian Peace Efforts, NATO Destroys Peace Amb. Jean-Daniel Ruch
• Telesur English Moscow bans import of livestock products from EU due to disease outbreak
• Telesur English Moscow bans import of livestock products from EU due to disease outbreak
• Telesur English Russia and Iran sign strategic partnership treaty for the next 20 years

Europe

• Breakthrough News ‘NATO Lost’: Ukraine War Backfires, Brings Russia and China Closer Together
• Tarik Cyril Amar Going After Another Pipeline? The future of TurkStream will be a test of Trumpism
• Tarik Cyril Amar An Exemplary Fiasco: Ukraine’s Astoundingly Disappearing “Anna of Kiev” Brigade
• Glenn Diesen Peace Agreement to End the Ukraine War
• Glenn Diesen The Predictable Collapse of Pan-European Security
• Glenn Diesen ‘NATO Lost’: Ukraine War Backfires, Brings Russia and China Closer Together
• Glenn Diesen Why NATO’s Plan to Conscript Ukraine’s Youth Will Fail
• Wave Media China: No Ukraine if We Had Really Sent Weapons to Russia
• Novara Media Nigel Farage Slammed Over Massive Income
• Novara Media Shock Poll Has Reform Just ONE POINT Behind Labour
• Novara Media Keir Starmer Tells Sun He “Has The Balls” To Cut Benefits
• Novara Media Aaron Bastani DEBATES Libertarian Economist Aaron meets Kristian Niemietz
• Neutrality Studies In Memory of Fritz Edlinger: A Giant of Austria’s Peace Movement.
• Middle East Eye Over 100 thousand attend pro-Palestine march in London despite significant restrictions
• Global Times German parties have decided on chancellor candidates; these changes are worth paying attention to
• Telesur English Ukraine: National police carry out massive raids to arrest draft evaders
• New China TV Türkiye’s Istanbul raises public transport, taxi fares by 35 pct
• Islam Channel Keir Starmer’s fight against student protests - a threat to democracy? Analysis

Africa

• Breakthrough News Still No Ceasefire in Sudan, a ‘Chess Piece’ in West’s Power Games
• Progressive International What’s next for the Nigerian left?
• Think BRICS BRICS Expansion Alert: Nigeria’s Big Move!
• Think BRICS Nigeria’s Gamble: A Dance Between Order and Chaos in the BRICS Arena
• Africa Stream 217 More Kenyan Police Deploy To Haiti
• Africa Stream Amílcar Cabral: Colonial Portugal’s Nightmare
• Africa Stream Is France ‘Neo-colonising’ Nigeria?
• Africa Stream Communist Party Leader Survives Assassination Attempt
• Africa Stream Sudan Armed Forces Ethnically Targeting South Sudanese
• Africa Stream Rights Group Accuses Secretive Kenyan Security Unit Of Mass Kidnappings

North America

• Breakthrough News Live Trump Inauguration: Protests Begin Against ‘Billionaire Agenda’
• Breakthrough News How the New York Times is ‘Manufacturing Consent’ for US Intervention in Mexico
• Breakthrough News Not a ‘Natural Disaster’: The Systemic Failures Behind LA’s Wildfire Crisis
• Breakthrough News Housing Profiteers Caused the LA Fires to Spread Way Farther Than They Should Have
• Breakthrough News Trump vs. Labor: The Coming Clash Over Class Power, w/ John Russell
• Transnational Foundation Biden worked ‘tirelessly around the clock’ — to prevent a ceasefire
• The Socialist Program Huge L. A. Fires: The Capitalist Connection
• Seymour Hersh WHAT WE DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE PRESIDENTS WE ELECT
• Second Thought Why Unions Are Good And Cool (and how you can get one in your workplace)
• Richard D Wolff Wolff Responds: “The Lesson California’s Fires Should Teach Us” Dated January 15, 2025
• Glenn Diesen What to Expect with the Return of Trump
• Democracy at Work Economic Update: Marxism and Economics: A Global View with Shahram Azhar
• Democracy at Work Economic Update: Persistent Homelessness: Capitalism’s Housing Failures
• Wave Media People Who Are Saving L. A. Are Facing Discrimination
• Wave Media TikTok Ban: Biden Failed to Make US Social Media Great Again
• Thinkers Forum America on the Cusp of a Revolution Ron Unz
• Novara Media The Truth About The LA Fires David Wallace-Wells
• Neutrality Studies He EXPOSED The Sickest LIE of The Century: How USA/NATO Killed Millions Prof. David N. Gibbs
• Neutrality Studies US Plans For MORE Porxy-Wars. Sanctions On Unwilling Pawns L. Kasradze & Col. L Wilkerson
• Global Times California fire exposes US govt’s inefficiency in emergency response
• Al Mayadeen English Trump is back with big ideas: Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal
• Al Mayadeen English California fires: Leadership crisis and path forward under Trump’s ‘America First’ policy
• WION Stocks & Bitcoin Gain Before Trump Takes Office World News WION
• Telesur English United States, Trump takes office on January 20 with several controversial statements
• Telesur English U. S., preparations underway for Donald Trump’s inauguration
• T-House U. S. in transition: The legacy Joe Biden leaves behind
• T-House Trump uses L. A. fires to criticize political opponents
• T-House Trump’s back, and so is TikTok! But for how long?
• Straits Times TikTok restores US service, thanks Trump
• Straits Times LA firefighters brace for threat of more powerful winds
• Shanghai Eye Donald Trump on TIKTOK is BACK
• Channel News Asia Donald Trump vows blitz of executive orders on first day of office
• CGTN What’s next after Trudeau’s resignation?

Latin America and The Caribbean

• Progressive International ‘The impoverisher of the workers’: Massive mobilisations in Argentina against Milei
• People's Dispatch Venezuelans respond to US threats
• Neutrality Studies Propaganda Operation Advocating Intervention In Venezuela. Preparation For Trump?
• Telesur English Venezuela: Receives displaced Colombians
• Telesur English Brazil: Floods and road chaos after heavy rains in southern region
• CGTN We Talk: Panamanian residents on Trump’s ambitions for Panama Canal
• CCTV Video News Agency (M) Lima Marks 490th Founding Anniversary
• Al Jazeera I’m a Latino preparing for Trump’s mass deportation of migrants Close Up

Miscellaneous

• The Deprogram US vs CANADA vs GREENLAND - The Deprogram Episode 165
• The Deprogram Trump’s Cabinet Picks Are Insane Deprogram Highlight