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January 2026

Data Center Boom, Corporate Extraction, And The Obfuscation Of The Land Question

January 31, 2026 Austin Cole, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
The years 2024 and 2025 saw a massive upswing in the number of data centers planned and constructed in the United States and globally as part of the race to develop computing infrastructure for “Artificial Intelligence” technologies. 2025 also witnessed a massive increase in protests, lawsuits, and movements against data center construction throughout the U.S., with at least 25 data center projects cancelled across the United States (four times the number in 2024) in 2025, and up to 25 more canceled in the first three weeks of 2026.

The US Occupation Of Gaza Has Begun

January 31, 2026 Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. , , , ,
This week, Drop Site News revealed a draft resolution from Trump’s newly christened “Board of Peace.” The resolution outlines what is, in essence, Phase Two of Trump’s unrealistic peace plan that ushered in a new phase of horror in Gaza under the guise of a ceasefire.  The actions outlined in the resolution ignore realities on the ground and paint a very grim picture of what the United States is planning for Gaza. Far from abandoning the ludicrous and offensive imagery Trump shared in that AI video from last year of himself and Elon Musk on a beach in an unrecognizable Gaza, this resolution is the battle plan to turn Gaza into the playground for the wealthy that Jared Kushner presented to the World Economic Forum at Davos last week.

Iran Classifies European Armies As ‘Terror Organizations’

January 31, 2026 News Desk, The Cradle. , , ,
The secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council condemned on 30 January the EU's decision to classify Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organization,” saying that the armies of the European countries participating in the decision should be viewed as terrorist organizations. “The European Union certainly knows that … the armies of countries that have participated in the European Union's recent resolution against the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are considered terrorist entities,” Ali Larijani wrote in a post on X.

The US War On Cuba Enters Its Most Brutal Phase

January 31, 2026 Manolo de Los Santos, People's Dispatch. , , ,
In the stillness of a Havana night, the only sounds are the hum of a generator in a distant hospital and the murmur of a family gathered in candlelight. For them, “US national security” is not an abstract concept debated on American cable news; it is the tangible reality of a 20-hour blackout, the smell of spoiled food, and the fear for a child’s refrigerated medicine. This is the face of a policy that the United States government calls a response to an “extraordinary threat.” The true threat, however, is not military. It is the 67-year defiance of a small island nation that has refused to relinquish its sovereignty.

Latin America Pushes Back Against US Intervention

January 31, 2026 Medea Benjamin, Scheer Post. , , , ,
When Senator Tim Kaine told Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a recent Senate hearing on Venezuela that the administration’s announcement of a new Monroe Doctrine “does not land well in the Americas,” he was putting it mildly. I just returned from an emergency gathering in Bogotá on January 24-25 with about 90 delegates from 20 countries, where speaker after speaker denounced the open revival of this doctrine — and its companion, the so-called Trump Corollary or “Donroe Doctrine” based on raw coercion— as a blatant, illegal, and reprehensible interference in their internal affairs.

US Labor Independence And Solidarity With Venezuela

January 31, 2026 James Patrick Jordan, Orinoco Tribune. , , ,
Illegal US military strikes on January 3, 2026, against Venezuela have elicited a flood of resolutions from labor unions. Some of these have focused solely on the US aggression and solidarity with the Venezuelan people. Others have gone further to condemn the kidnapping and arrest of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. In at least one case, a resolution by the Tucson chapter of the National Writers Union has called for systemic changes to how the AFL-CIO, the US’ largest labor confederation, and its Solidarity Center (formerly the American Center for International Labor Solidarity), conducts its international relations.

Workers Of The Data World, Unite

January 31, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. , , ,
This is a call for Marxists to begin to treat accounting as more than a technocratic background. I would argue that the most powerful battlefield of economic governance is in the field of accounting and its intermediaries. A 21st-century Marxist approach has to include accounting. For those who have been following our call for stronger civil society engagement in the revision of the UN System of National Accounts, including critiques of the SEEA and the SDG framework, this is the argument. National accounting may look technical and administrative, yet it is foundational. It determines what an economy is allowed to “see,” what states are expected to optimize, and what becomes eligible for finance, compliance, and enforcement.

Strikes, Student Walkouts, And Demonstrations Against ICE Continue

January 31, 2026 James Dennis Hoff, Left Voice. , , ,
On Friday, thousands of people in cities across the country once again walked out of their workplaces and schools to protest the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies and the recent murders of pro-immigrant activists Rene Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. Since taking office, the Trump administration has overseen the detention and deportation of at least 400,000 immigrants, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents have terrorized several U.S. cities, shooting more than 30 people and killing at least eight more.

Immigrant Rights Network Press Conference And Protest Against ICE Kidnappings

January 31, 2026 Fight Back! News. , , ,
Los Angeles, CA – On Thursday, January 29, Centro CSO held a press conference at Mariachi Plaza denouncing the ICE raids that had happened the day before. On the morning of January 28, ICE agents assaulted and kidnapped at least six people in Boyle Heights, including fruit and flower vendors, and residents of Ramona Gardens. Centro CSO and the Boyle Heights Immigrant Rights Network (BHIRN) responded immediately on the scene, recording and confronting the ICE agents. Members from CSO and the BHIRN helped to alert the neighborhood that ICE was nearby and informed neighbors of their rights.

Protests Mushroom As ‘Drawdown’ Of Attacks Fails To Materialize

January 31, 2026 John Wojcik, People's World. , , , ,
Minneapolis—Determination to resist the continuing assault on democracy by the Trump administration is reflected in demonstrations breaking out here and from coast to coast. There are boycotts being organized by teachers and students in schools, customers at shopping plazas, and workers on the job in Minnesota by people angry about the administration’s backing off on claims that it was going to draw down its attacks on immigrants and their supporters. Early in the morning on Jan. 30, people were already gathering at the Federal Building. The repression was intensified Thursday with the arrest and jailing of journalists covering the protests.

ICE Tactics Prompt Concern Over Canadian Complicity

January 31, 2026 Bridget Potasky, Rabble.ca. , , , ,
So far in 2026, Minneapolis has recorded three homicides. Two of those deaths were at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers. As part of President Donald Trump’s broader crackdown on purportedly illegal immigration, at the end of 2025 the Trump administration launched Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. This operation resulted in 2,000 federal agents from both ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) being deployed in what the government described as the “largest immigration operation ever.”

How To Spread The General Strike Beyond The Twin Cities

January 31, 2026 Stephanie Luce, Labor Notes. , , ,
On January 23, Minnesota unions and community organizations seized the public imagination with “a Day of Truth and Freedom,” an economic blackout that drew perhaps 100,000 marchers to downtown Minneapolis. The Twin Cities have been under siege from federal agents since December. Minnesotans have formed dense networks from the bottom up to patrol neighborhoods, feed the hungry, and train everyday people to scout for rampaging Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents hunting for their immigrant and citizen neighbors. They upped the ante by organizing a general strike with political demands to oust ICE out of their state, deny it any additional federal funding, and hold legally accountable the officer who killed Renee Good.

The Global South Needs Productive Employment

January 30, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. , , ,
On India’s 79th Independence Day, in August 2025, Prime Minister Narendra Modi devoted his speech to Viksit Bharat 2047 (Developed India 2047) and announced a National Manufacturing Mission. The mission, he said, must ‘reduce import dependence and strengthen economic resilience’ in sectors ranging from aerospace to artificial intelligence. He urged India’s twenty-eight states, eight union territories, and the central government to identify 100 ‘priority products’ for domestic manufacturing and added that state governments should streamline regulations and approvals, ‘especially with respect to land, utilities, and social infrastructure’, in order ‘to attract global companies’.

Continuity Of Social Control From Slave Patrols To Policing To ICE

January 30, 2026 Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report. , , ,
The Trump regime’s anti-immigrant program is being carried out by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and local police in cities like Minneapolis, Austin, and New Orleans, among others. Many of the people recruited by these agencies today are members of the white supremacist militias who were involved in the January 6 attempted insurrection and were later pardoned, who have been deputized en masse by these agencies, that relaxed or eliminated application and acceptance requirements to grow their battalion of race warriors swiftly. 

Engineering Iran’s Unrest

January 30, 2026 Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares, Consortium News. , , ,
John Maynard Keynes famously wrote inTheEconomic Consequences of the Peace(1919):  “There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of Society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” The United States mastered this art of destruction by weaponizing the dollar and using economic sanctions and financial policies to cause the currencies of targeted countries to collapse. On Jan. 19, we published “The US–Israel Hybrid War Against Iran,” describing how the United States and Israel are waging hybrid wars on Venezuela and Iran through a coordinated strategy of economic sanctions, financial coercion, cyber operations, political subversion, and information warfare. 
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