For today, links to reports from the Associated Press and Reuters, and to an interview, via the Greanville Post, from YouTube; other information is accessible by clicking on names and initials below. (UKRAINE entry for this date is HERE.)— MCM

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Israeli bombs target Gaza’s crowded Rafah as the U.S. warns Israel against sending troops there, by Najib Jobain, Wafaa Shurafa and Bassem Mroe | AP  RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Israel bombed targets in overcrowded Rafah early today, hours after Biden administration officials and aid agencies warned Israel against expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge. Airstrikes overnight and . . . READ MORE . . .

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Aid groups warn of Rafah ‘bloodbath’ if Israel advances. From Reuters. GENEVA — Any Israeli military advance into southern Gaza’s Rafah area could cause mass deaths among the more than a million Palestinians trapped there, with humanitarian aid in danger of collapse, aid workers said today. Israel has threatened to advance from Khan Younis, Gaza’s main southern city, to Rafah, where . . . READ MORE . . .

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Almost 10% of Gaza’s under-fives now acutely malnourished, UN says, by Emma Farge | Reuters  GENEVA — Almost one in 10 of Gazan children under five are now acutely malnourished, overwhelmingly as a result of Israel’s war on the territory’s Hamas rulers, according to initial U.N. data from arm measurements that show physical wasting. The food supplies that Gaza depends on have . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JAN. 16  Michael Hudson on Russia, Iran and the Red Sea: NATO’s war economy collapses. Danny Haiphong of YouTube and Patreon and Substack interviews the economist and author Michael Hudson on geopolitical and economic issues including U.S. foreign policy, the war in Ukraine, the war in Gaza and its context, NATO, and Europe. Click HERE for further introducton and to listen and watch. Click HERE for Wikipedia’s biography of Hudson.