"Israeli prosecutors said Ben-Uliel firebombed the Dawabsheh family home and another dwelling in Duma village after spray-painting “Revenge” and “Long Live King Messiah” on their walls. He was acquitted of a charge of belonging to a terrorist organisation."

"It was not clear whether the Qaeda operative directed Mr. Alshamrani to carry out the December shooting, which killed three sailors and wounded eight people. In an audio recording earlier this year, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed that his group directed a Saudi military officer to carry out the shooting."

Regina’s mayor received an anonymous letter in February from someone threatening to blow up Unifor blockades if police didn’t dismantle them. The local representing locked-out Co-op refinery workers insists it was never warned.

"Officers questioned why Arbery was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017"

Capitalist economies will remain depressed, and even eventually be accompanied by rising inflation, so that this new leg of depression will turn into stagflation. The Keynesian multiplier (government spending) will be found wanting as it was in the 1970s. The Marxist multiplier (profitability) will prove to be a better guide to the nature of capitalist booms and slumps and show that capitalist crises cannot be ended while preserving the capitalist mode of production.

Pandemics, like revolution, war and economic crises, are key determinants of historic change. We look at the history of epidemics, from Black Death to smallpox to COVID-19, and discuss how the coronavirus will reshape the world with leading medical historian Frank Snowden, author of “Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present.” He is a professor emeritus at Yale University who has been in Italy since the pandemic began, and himself survived a COVID-19 infection.

"Under Gaddafi’s brutal rule, Libya had one of the highest standards of living in Africa. Now, the war economy has sent costs skyrocketing, and there are widespread problems with medicine shortages and power cuts. Civilians are in danger of getting caught in the unpredictable fighting – and kidnappings for ransom by militias are common."

In 2008, neoliberals who have shaped economic policy for decades exploited the crisis to further entrench their power. They will do the same with coronavirus – unless the Left builds an alternative.

Sheldon Adelson company Las Vegas Sands played crucial rule in apparent CIA spying operation targeting Julian Assange. Sands security staff helped it.

How Germany is saving jobs during the pandemic. The spike in unemployment in America was inevitable. Germany and many other countries in Western Europe have a program to protect workers and jobs.