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Israelis and their American supporters claim that Israel learned its lessons well from the disastrous 2006 Lebanon war and has devised a winning strategy for the present war against Hamas. Of course, when a ceasefire comes, Israel will declare victory. Don’t believe it. Israel has foolishly started another war it cannot win.

Hours after launching thousands of rockets at Israeli targets, hundreds of Palestinian fighters streamed into Israel by land, sea and air. They swiftly penetrated at least three Israeli military installations and killed dozens of Israeli soldiers. They destroyed and seized armoured vehicles, including tanks. They confiscated assault rifles, grenade launchers and ammunition.

The massive search for a missing submersible was a stark contrast to the treatment of a ship packed with people fleeing conflict. Evidently, mass media is in complicit with crimes of the capitalism which require revolutionary actions to save humanity.

A People's History of the United States is a 1980 non-fiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book, Zinn presented what he considered to be a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country".

The leak of a trove of secret U.S. government documents posted on social media has revealed aspects of how the government and its military is striving to reestablish hegemony in the world by targeting its adversaries (especially Russia and China) and pressuring allies to toe the line or face economic and political retaliations.

Today in Britain King Charles III will be crowned in a ‘coronation’. All the other remaining monarchies in Europe (Scandinavia, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain) don’t bother with a coronation, but the British monarchy has had a much more prominent role in helping British state build its huge global empire in the 19th century.

As Charles III was crowned king in a sickening display of pomp and privilege, thousands of protesters gathered in Trafalgar Square and marched in central London to oppose the coronation and the monarchy. Not that you’d know this from the wall-to-wall coverage of the coronation in the mainstream media.

On Monday, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old Black man who performed as a Michael Jackson impersonator, was having a mental health crisis on the F train in New York City. According to bystanders, he declared he was hungry, thirsty, and tired, and that he didn’t care if he went to jail that night. He was loud but didn’t touch anyone on the train. Instead of being met with compassion, he was murdered.

Hidden in the valleys of Luxembourg is a bank Europeans own yet most have never heard of it. What the European Investment Bank (EIB) lacks in profile it however makes up for in financial clout. The lending arm of the European Union, it is the world’s biggest multilateral financial institution, dispensing over €65 billion last year alone and over a trillion euro since its foundation in 1958.

Homelessness is not only about housing, but it is always about housing. And ‘housing first’ has been identified as best practice in dealing with it.

The Nakba (Arabic for “catastrophe”) is the destruction of Palestinian society and homeland and the permanent dispossession of a majority of the Palestinians living in historic Palestine, beginning in the late 1940s. The term subsumes the events of the late 1940s, as well as the subsequent and ongoing persecution, displacement, and military occupation of the Palestinians.

The strategy focused heavily on long-term homelessness, with targets to halve levels by 2011 and to eliminate long-term homelessness by 2015.

As the WikiLeaks founder faces a life sentence in American prison, a new book sheds additional light on the official campaign to silence him.

While workers are in the midst of a cost of living crisis the political and media establishment in Canada have been busy stoking hysteria about Chinese interference in our elections. With little to no actual evidence, the panic emanating from Ottawa serves to whip up reactionary nationalism, while deflecting from the unaccountable and undemocratic corporate influence which is driving the cost of living crisis and undermining our public institutions.

Tyre Nichols, 29, was murdered by police in yet another modern-day lynching in Memphis, Tennessee on January 7. The city is nearly 70 percent African American, including a Black female police chief.

The country's government says it saves approximately $21K on each person housed. A successful Finnish plan to eradicate homelessness is one London may want to consider as it works to redesign housing and health services.

Regardless of the position on Russia Ukraine crisis, working class people should be in support of seizing the assets of billionaires. Those billionaires of all stripes massively contribute to inequality and injustice to people and planet everywhere.

Socialists are very concerned about the injustice and social ills in the world today— hunger, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, disease, war, the exploitation of workers, the oppression of nations, races, women, and gays, the destruction of the environment, and the threat of nuclear annihilation.

I am proud to join Canadian Network for Cuba (CNC) to fight against the United States blockade against Cuba preventing access to basic necessities during the global humanity crisis.