Free school meal provisions in England under neoliberal privatisation:

This is considered 3 days worth of food for a family amid the pandemic.

In other news: the wealth of the UK’s 45 richest people went up by 20% between March and June 2020.

Yet this is all we can afford?

Sheldon Adelson, billionaire GOP mega-donor who helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, has passed away aged 87.

His record:

-Claimed ‘There is no such thing as a Palestinian’

-Claimed Obama should drop a nuke on Iran to stop its nuclear program

-Supported the bombing of Syria

-Many alleged a de-facto deal with Trump, opening funds of up to $200 million in donations to President Trump and GOP after the White House arguably facilitated Israel’s annexation plans in the West Bank

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Ex-Editor of The Guardian Alan Rusbridger on Julian Assange, Capitol Riots, Trump's Social Media Ban

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The US has placed Cuba🇨🇺 on the list of state sponsors of terror

Cuba has sent doctors to 40 countries across 5 continents to combat COVID-19

Cuba has a higher number of doctors per capita than the United States

Israel has excluded millions of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation from its COVID vaccination program.

1.5 million Israelis have already received the vaccine.

Under the Geneva Convention, an occupying power has responsibility for the welfare of those under occupation

UK vaccination statistics (published 12th of January):

2,474,205 have received the COVID-19 vaccine

Of which, first dose: 2,080,280
Of which, second dose: 393,925

The U.K. is currently ranked 4th globally for vaccinations per 100 people

BREAKING:

President Trump has been impeached again by the House of Representatives, making him the only President in history to be impeached twice.

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China🇨🇳 in 1981: Almost 90% of the population was below the international poverty threshold in 1981

China🇨🇳 by 2019: Only 1% of the population was below the international poverty threshold

(World Bank)

In 2020:

The richest 500 people added $1.8 trillion to their combined wealth, accumulating a total net worth of $7.8 trillion. This represented a 31% increase in wealth

Meanwhile, 1 billion people are set to live in extreme poverty by 2030

International class war on the poor?

On this day in 1919

Jewish socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht were executed after a failed revolution in Germany

The SPD allied with imperial generals to form the ‘Freikorps’ who would be their killers. Many Freikorps soldiers would go on to join the Nazis

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Will Anything Under Joe Biden Really Change? (Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder Ben Cohen)

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China🇨🇳 is the only major economy to report positive growth in 2020, with GDP rising by 6.4% from a year earlier in the fourth quarter

The UK now has the highest Coronavirus death rate in the world

The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world

Irrefutable evidence of a failed pandemic response?

Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk added $217 billion to their wealth in 2020

At the same time:

54 million Americans are going hungry

40 million Americans were at risk of eviction in December

8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the Summer of 2020

The Senate has approved Biden’s pick for Director of National Intelligence: Avril Haynes.

Her record:

-Recommended no disciplinary action when the CIA backed Senate Intelligence Committee computers to cover up torture

-Worked for WestExec Advisors, a consulting firm with a secretive client list that includes high-tech start-ups seeking Pentagon contracts

-Worked for Palantir, a data-mining firm accused of aiding Trump with immigration detention

-Was instrumental in Obama’s drone program

A worrying appointment for the global south, arguably.

ICYMI:

UNRWA Gaza Director: Israel is Obligated To Vaccinate Palestinians Against COVID-19! https://youtu.be/1sPyvUM5riw

#Ecuador🇪🇨:

Pro-Correa, socialist Presidential candidate Andrés Arauz won the first round of the elections with 32% of the vote, defeating neoliberal conservative banker Guillermo Lasso and Yaku Perez.

The election appears to show a clear rejection of neoliberalism by Ecuadoreans . Under President Rafael Correa, millions were lifted out of poverty and living standards rose. His successor, Lenin Moreno favoured relations with the US and rejected Correa’s socialism, instead imposing harsh austerity measures on Ecuadoreans.

Is a red wave sweeping Latin America?

Bernie Sanders’ Son Levi Sanders: No Excuse For Not Passing Medicare For All Under Joe Biden! https://youtu.be/Idgc8JUbXXA

On this day in 1945:

The Yalta conference between the ‘Big 3’ US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British PM Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin concludes.

The conference crucially gained Stalin’s promise to target Imperial Japan once Germany was defeated.

This would be the final time the ‘Big 3’ would meet, with President Roosevelt passing away in April of 1945, just weeks away from the complete capitulation of Nazi Germany and the capture of Berlin by the Soviet Red Army.