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Jan 9, 2026 - Free Speech and Its Enemies

By Patrick Lawrence

"We are just so shocked," a German friend residing in Switzerland wrote the other day. "These cases affect us very much, as they will have consequences for us all." What cases would these be, you may wonder. What cases and what consequences? You may especially wonder about cases and consequences if you are an American reliant on corporate media: Europe is convulsing as the "centrist" authoritarians who purport to lead it impose what looks to me like an historically unprecedented regime of censorship and the suppression of speech, but none of the mainstream dailies or broadcasters in America have had a word to say about it - a point to which I will shortly return.

Source: The Bullet No. 3246

Jan 7, 2026 - Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague

By Henry A. Giroux

The horrors of fascism have returned, not as ghosts, but as a plague, fueled by racial hatred and historical amnesia, infiltrating schools, universities, and the public sphere through state violence, fear, censorship, and manufactured ignorance. Across the globe, fascist forces - emboldened by resurgent colonial logics, neoliberal cruelty, and virulent white nationalism - have transformed universities into battlegrounds for democracy's future.

Source: The Bullet No. 3245

Jan 5, 2026 - Is Israel’s Genocide Economy on the Brink?

Since October 2023, Israel has faced a convergence of economic shocks. Tens of thousands of residents have been displaced from border regions in the south and north as a result of hostilities with Hamas and Hezbollah, while hundreds of thousands of reservists were pulled out of the workforce for extended periods, leaving key sectors short-staffed and productivity depleted. Public services, education, and healthcare have deteriorated as state spending was diverted to the war, and almost 50,000 businesses have gone bankrupt.

Source: The Bullet No. 3244

Jan 3, 2026 - #Insorgiamo: A Factory Occupation for the Climate

By Lukas Ferrari and Julia Kaiser

Imagine a climate strike in which 40,000 industrial workers, climate activists, pacifists, and other non-politically active people are brought together. In their speeches, they denounce the shutdown of an automotive supply factory. They all agree that what is needed is a conversion of production instead of layoffs. The bloc right at the front of the demonstration is made up of workers from the affected factory, and behind them are masses of militant climate activists and spontaneous demonstrators.

Source: The Bullet No. 3243

Jan 1, 2026 - Alberta is Privatizing Healthcare

Alberta's government, led by Danielle Smith and the United Conservative Party, passed a new law, Bill 11: The Health Statutes Amendment Act, last week. With its passage the existential threat to public medicare in Canada is here. The new law sets up two-tier medicare and private health insurance in Alberta. It is terrible for Albertans, destroys single-tier public medicare in Canada as a national achievement, and puts at threat public healthcare across the country. It follows on the heels of the Alberta government's repeated use of the Notwithstanding Clause to enable violations of the Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights and an emboldened push for Alberta's separation from Canada among some forces in the province.

Source: The Bullet No. 3242