Daily Archives: January 3, 2024

2024-01-03: News Headlines

Larry Johnson (2024-01-03). Israel's Counter Productive Assassination Policy. sonar21.com Saleh al-Arouri | If you were betting on a peaceful start to the New Year time to pay up. Israel made you a loser today by assassinating Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas leader living in Beirut, Lebanon. This is likely to throw more gasoline on the inferno of war that is raging in Gaza and along Israel's border with Lebanon and Syria and will once again prove to be a futile act by Israel. | Assassination, apart from being an act of revenge killing, has not brought peace or tranquility to the citizens of Israel. In fact, I think the evidence based on Israel's record of assassination over the last 70 years shows tha…

WSWS (2024-01-03). Biden's border police doubled deportations in Fiscal Year 2023. wsws.org Biden has reneged on his campaign promises to enact more "humane" immigration policies than his fascist predecessor and is now preparing to effectively abolish the right to asylum.

ecns.cn (2024-01-03). China sees surge in New Year holiday cross-border trips. ecns.cn China's border-check agencies saw nearly 5.18 million inbound and outbound trips during the three-day New Year holiday from Saturday to Monday, representing a massive year-on-year increase, the National Immigration Administration said Tuesday."ÄÄ…

Larry Johnson (2024-01-02). Are Israel and the U.S. Caught In A Quagmire? sonar21.com We are closing in on the 3 month anniversary since Hamas launched the October 7 attack on Israeli military positions and kibbutzim that bordered the Gaza strip and Israel is no closer to destroying Hamas or freeing the hostages snatched by Hamas. Meanwhile, the United States has ordered the USS Gerald Ford Carrier Strike Group to head home after patrolling the Red Sea and flexing sea-muscle in an effort to intimidate Yemen. In short, both Israel and the United States are admitting that pure military power cannot change the situation in Gaza or the Red Sea. | Let's start with the evidence that Israel is star…

MEE staff (2024-01-02). War on Gaza: Hezbollah vows retaliation over Israel's killing of senior Hamas leader in Beirut. middleeasteye.net War on Gaza: Hezbollah vows retaliation over Israel's killing of senior Hamas leader in Beirut | Lebanese group says 'finger on the trigger' after drone strike killed Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh | Tue, 01/02/2024 – 21: 54 | Hezbollah fighters attend funeral of comrade killed in southern Lebanon in cross-border fire with Israeli troops, on 21 December 2023 in Markaba, Lebanon (AFP)…

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-01-02). Hezbollah Attacks More Israeli Occupation Sites in Northern Palestine. english.almanar.com.lb In support of the Palestinian people and resistance in Gaza and in light of the Israeli aggression on the various South Lebanon villages, the Islamic Resistance continued on Tuesday striking the Zionist occupation sites near Lebanon border. Hezbollah military media issued consecutive statements to illustrate the attacks and their outcomes. The first statement affirmed that …

Franc Contreras (2024-01-02). Thousands attempt the journey to the U.S. in a migrant caravan. america.cgtn.com Heading into the new year, mass migration remains a key issue in the Americas. | U.S. Customs and Border Protection says in December, U.S. border agents registered more than 300,000 encounters with undocumented migrants. | As CGTN's Franc Contreras reports from Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, large numbers of migrant travelers continue making their way north.

Zane McNeill (2024-01-02). Biden Administration Will Sue Texas If Anti-Immigrant Law Takes Effect. truthout.org The Justice Department notified Texas on Thursday that it would sue if the state implements SB4, a bill that authorizes local and state law enforcement to arrest undocumented migrants at the border and allows Texas judges to issue deportation orders. Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed SB4 into law in December and Texas officials are expected to begin enforcement of the law in March. "This is an extreme… |

ecns.cn (2024-01-02). China sees surge in New Year holiday cross-border trips. ecns.cn China's border-check agencies saw nearly 5.18 million inbound and outbound trips during the three-day New Year holiday from Saturday to Monday, representing a massive year-on-year increase, the National Immigration Administration said Tuesday."ÄÄ…

ecns.cn (2024-01-02). Rewards of e-commerce flow across border bridge. ecns.cn Dongxing, a county-level border city in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is located on the banks of the Beilun River. On the other side of the river in Vietnam lies Mong Cai, with the two cities linked by a bridge.

english.almanar.com.lb (2024-01-02). Israeli Channel 12: Rockets fall in the vicinity of the settlement of Margaliot at the border with Lebanon. english.almanar.com.lb

Cesar Chelala (2024-01-02). The Healing Power of Tango. counterpunch.org Few musical styles are associated with a country as the tango is with Argentina, where it was born. Tango evolved slowly, following the great immigration waves to Argentina in the late 1880s. Tango resulted from the fusion of different rhythms: the "candomblé" (of South American Blacks), the Cuban "habanera;" brought to Argentina in the nineteenth

teleSUR, lfb, SH (2024-01-03). Confirma el rescate de cinco migrantes en el norte de México. telesurtv.net El presidente López Obrador señaló que para este miércoles se espera tener más información sobre el secuestro del grupo de migrantes en Tamaulipas.

teleSUR, SH (2024-01-03). Se desintegra caravana de migrantes en el sur de México. telesurtv.net El grupo de migrantes aceptó subirse a los autobuses del INM para viajar a la ciudad de Huixtla, en donde podrán tramitar documentos migratorios.

Dave DeCamp (2024-01-02). US, Ben Gvir Trade Barbs Over Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza. news.antiwar.com The State Department on Tuesday criticized comments from two Israeli ministers about their desire to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, an idea that's favored by many officials within the Israeli government. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir both said on Monday that they wanted to "encourage the migration" …

Jake Johnson (2024-01-02). Israeli Ministers' Comments About Mass Evictions in Gaza Alarm Observers. truthout.org Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Monday said the Netanyahu government should "encourage the migration" of Gazans out of the besieged Palestinian enclave, which has been devastated by a three-month bombing campaign that has internally displaced around 90% of the territory's population. "This is a correct, just, moral, and humane solution," Ben-Gvir said during a meeting of his… |

Caitlin Johnstone (2024-01-02). They're Calling Ethnic Cleansing "Voluntary Migration" Now. caitlinjohnstone.com.au

teleSUR, SH (2024-01-02). Más de 500 mil migrantes cruzaron la Selva de Darién en el 2023. telesurtv.net La cifra del 2023 representó un récord a los datos del 2022, cuando 248.283 atravesaron la peligrosa selva.

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