February 18, 2024
Informed Leftist
February 18, 2024
Informed Leftist
1-min read
Tossed-Aside Headlines
Russia captures long-time Ukrainian stronghold Avdiivka. Ukraine ordered a retreat from the small city north of Donetsk, in what is considered by many Moscow’s biggest gain since the capture of Bakhmut last May.
Only 14 of 36 hospitals in Gaza still partially operating after Nasser hospital falls to Israeli forces. Raids and arbitrary arrests persist all over occupied Palestine, as Netanyahu vows to invade Rafah refugee camp against world outcry.
Senegal’s president Macky Sall ordered by top court to hold elections. The leader’s initial attempt to postpone was met by protests, quelled by police repression.
US permanently stations troops a mere 6 miles (9 km) away from Chinese mainland. The de facto occupation of the Taiwanese-controlled Kinmen islands marks a large escalation, which has gone largely unreported in the bourgeois Western press.
A high-ranking Canadian MP agrees Israel is “probably, yes” committing genocide. In a leaked phone call, the parliamentary secretary to the foreign affairs minister Rob Oliphant also blasted his own government’s policy for defunding UNRWA.
Poverty rose 16% in Argentina in 2 months of Javier Milei. The study behind this finding blames the devaluation of the local currency carried out by the self-described “arnarcho-capitalist” president.
Non-Taught History
Declassified US foreign policy during the Chinese Revolution stated that the US should attempt to control Taiwan, then-called “Formosa,” for its own geopolitical interest under the guise of democracy:
“The Department of State concurs in the Joint Chiefs of Staff conclusion that it is in our strategic interest that Formosa be denied to the communists. . . . [A]nd put [our]self in a position to intervene with force if necessary. Such intervention should be publicly based not on obvious American strategic interests but on principles which are likely to have support in the international community, mainly the principle of self-determination of the Formosan people.”
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