(2024-12-30). China court hands schoolboy a life sentence for murder. aljazeera.com Two teenagers in Hebei given prison sentences over the killing of their 13-year-old classmate in March.
(2024-12-30). Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir. counterpunch.org 
A pious Sunday school teacher confessing to lust in his heart but swearing never to lie, he came to Washington to reestablish public faith in government just when popular disgust at monstrous U.S. crimes in Indochina had reached unprecedented heights. The big business agenda during his term in office (1977-1981) was to roll back the welfare state, break the power of unions, fan the flames of the Cold War to increase military spending, engineer tax breaks for wealthy corporate interests, and repeal government regulation of business. While portraying himself as a peanut-farming populist, Carter delivered the goods…
(2024-12-30). Washington's Unstoppable Superweapon. popularresistance.org In recent months, even across the collective West's media, growing admissions are being made about both Russia and China's superior military industrial capacity. With Russia's first use of the intermediate-range ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, it is admitted that Russia (and likely China) possess formidable military capabilities the collective West currently lacks. | Despite the collective efforts of NATO in arming, training, and backing Ukraine, Ukrainian forces continue to give ground at an accelerated rate across the entire line of contact amid the ongoing Russian Special Military Operation (SMO).
(2024-12-29). Hui, protests, kotahitanga, and a new Kuini — a historic year for MƒÅoridom. asiapacificreport.nz By Ella Stewart, (NgƒÅpuhi, Te MƒÅhurehure, NgƒÅti Manu), RNZ longform journalist, Te Ao MƒÅori On a sticky day in January, dozens of nannies and aunties from Tainui shook and waved fronds of greenery as they called manuhiri onto Tuurangawaewae Marae. More than 10,000 people had responded to a rare call for unity from the MƒÅori…
(2024-12-29). Despite decline, gun violence remains major crisis in U.S. america.cgtn.com 
On average, 125-people die in gun-related incidents every single day in the United States. | This includes homicides, suicides and accidental deaths. | While the numbers have edged lower in recent years — they remain near the record highs seen during the pandemic. | Violence prevention advocates are growing concerned that President-elect Donald Trump could reverse whatever modest gains have been made when he reclaims the White House next month. CGTN's Toni Waterman reports.