🟡 NOW: German police violently shut down a pro-Palestine protest for chanting in Arabic—the first since Germany introduced a new ban on Arabic slogans at demonstrations. Police used force to disperse the crowd, enforcing a rule based on false claims from the Bild newspaper.

Ecuador has presidential elections tomorrow, amid a climate of violent crime and economic disaster caused by seven years of neoliberalism. We spoke to Ecuadorian economist, Juan Teran, about the failures of the free-market experiment in the country.

This marks the fifth round of prisoner exchanges since the ceasefire took effect in Gaza.

Anti-Nazi partisan Lepa Svetozara Radić from modern-day Bosnia-Herzegovina was executed on this day in 1943. This photograph (AI-upscaled and colorized) was later found on the body of the German soldier who took it.

🟡 BREAKING: The Palestinian resistance hands over three Israeli captives to the Red Cross in Deir el-Balah, Gaza. The release follows a delayed handover, after Hamas accused Israel of jeopardizing the ceasefire by restricting humanitarian aid. This marks the fifth exchange under the ceasefire deal.

Today, in Black History Month, we remember revolutionary socialist, guerrilla intellectual, and pan-African activist Walter Rodney. Rodney developed a Marxist analysis of the pan-African liberation struggle that placed Black Power at its core.

RT @Blacks4Peace: Listen to our coming Coordinating Committee Chair, Jacqueline Luqman talk about fascism and the idea of "Suviving Trump"…

These revelations about USAID’s foreign operations suggest that it serves as a strategic instrument of US foreign policy with ideological aims, rather than solely providing humanitarian aid.

Trump sanctioned the International Criminal Court while Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was visiting. He cited the court’s “baseless attacks” against the US and Israel.” Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for war crimes in Palestine, of which the US is the main sponsor.

As part of Operation Rolling Thunder, the US would go on to drop a total of 864,000 tons of bombs and missiles on the DRV.