2020-11-18: Social Media Postees

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Faurecia auto parts workers join calls for national shutdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 and save lives
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
Workers at the Faurecia plant in Saline, Michigan, southwest of Detroit, contacted the World Socialist Web Site over the weekend to expose the way in which their company suppresses information about the spread of disease.
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Why Biden will keep the US-imposed Cold War rolling
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-18
Will US foreign policy change significantly under the incoming Biden administration? Vijay Prashad argues that this is unlikely, especially with regard to the Cold War on China…
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Fighting erupts between Morocco and Polisario in Western Sahara
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
The fighting erupted amid reports of mounting protests in regions of both Morocco and Algeria near the former Spanish colonial possession of Western Sahara.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/saha…

The white vote for Trump: Is multinational working class solidarity possible?
Nathaniel Chase | workers.org | 2020-11-18
Why did nearly 73 million people vote for Trump, given his disastrous pandemic response and the economic collapse? The answer, simply put, is racism. In a country built on white supremacy, from slavery and genocide to mass incarceration and imperialist war, it should come as no surprise that a substantial . . . | Continue reading The white vote for Trump: Is multinational working class solidarity possible? at Workers.org
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Meet the filthy rich war hawks that make up Biden’s new foreign policy team
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-11-18
“I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of “limited engagement,” — Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic…
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Meet the Filthy Rich War Hawks that Make up Biden’s New Foreign Policy Team
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
“I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of “limited engagement,” — Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic | *** | After triumphing in a bitterly …
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US Election 2020: The Moment of Truth Approaches
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Joe Biden is not and never will be US president-elect legitimately. | Clear evidence shows significant election fraud in key swing states — favoring Biden/Harris over Trump. | If all US Election 2020 votes were tabulated accurately, Trump would carry key swing …
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Demand immediate release of Palestinian women’s movement leader Khitam Saafin
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-11-18
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) demands Israel immediately release Khitam Saafin, the president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, who has been jailed without charge or trial. Saafin was taken into custody on November 2 along with six other Palestinian human rights activists. Her imprisonment is another in the long list of crimes by the callous and cruel Zionist occupiers of Palestine. | Khitam Saafin is among those who stand in the forefront of the Palestinian women’s movement and is a tireless organizer for social and national liberation. She has spoken at many international venues on th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/11/18/demand-…

Trump Bruited Strike on Iran Civilian Nuclear Facilities, Which May Kill as Many as Did Nuclear Bombing of Hiroshima
Prof. Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Eric Schmitt, Maggie Haberman, David E. Sanger, Helene Cooper and Lara Jakes at the New York Times get the scoop. Their sources in the White House tell them that last Thursday, in a meeting with his senior advisers, Trump abruptly …
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Amazon is censoring: We need your help to distribute this book!
Editor | workers.org | 2020-11-18
“Capitalism on a Ventilator” is a new anthology comparing the effective Chinese response to COVID-19 to the disastrous response in the U.S. This book pushes back against the racist anti-China campaign in U.S. media. However, Amazon is currently censoring the book’s distribution. We need your support to get the book . . . | Continue reading Amazon is censoring: We need your help to distribute this book! at Workers.org
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US Security Agency Accused of Spying on European Private Companies
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
A new cyber espionage scandal involving American intelligence agencies is being revealed — this time in Europe. Government’s ministries and Danish private companies were targets of US espionage, according to a recent report by an anonymous informer. The US National …
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Cyber-Espionage: US Security Agency Accused of Spying on European Private Companies
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
A new cyber espionage scandal involving American intelligence agencies is being revealed — this time in Europe. Government’s ministries and Danish private companies were targets of US espionage, according to a recent report by an anonymous informer. The US National …
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Chile: Senate to Vote for Seats Reserved for Indigenous Peoples
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-18
Chile’s Senate Wednesday will vote on the quorum required for the approval of a bill that seeks to reserve seats for representatives of Indigenous peoples to the Constitutional Convention. | RELATED: | Chile: New Docs Show US Plan to Depose Allende’s Socialist Govt | Right wing parties and the government proposed 15 seats for representatives of Indigenous people, which represents 10 percent of the 155 Constitutional Convention seats set to draft a new Constitution. | The prop…
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Bolivians eject coup regime, and Evo Morales returns
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-11-18
Nov. 16 — Evo Morales — president of Bolivia from 2006-19 before a U.S.-backed right-wing coup forced the first Indigenous president to leave both his office and his country — returned in triumph Nov. 9, as the workers and farmers of Bolivia dealt a blow to imperialist domination of their . . . | Continue reading Bolivians eject coup regime, and Evo Morales returns at Workers.org
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The Mattole Salmon Return Ceremony
Ellen Taylor | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-18
Large gatherings do not find favor, during this plague-haunted time, with regulatory and administrative officials. However, increasing consciousness of indigenous peoples’ rights, recognition that the land management practices of the dominant culture are failing, and their own deep desires for the restoration of historic salmon visitations to our coast, persuaded the BLM and the Humboldt County…
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Quebec, Canada, and the Indigenous Peoples: Toward plurinational alliances around a decolonial outlook?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-11-18
Until the 1960s, the left in Canada and in Quebec was mainly Canadian and Anglophone.
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COVID Offices and the Religion of Remote Work
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Masks can prove liberating. The hidden face affords security. Obnoxious authority breathes better and with greater assurance, hiding in comfort. Behind the material, confidence finds a home. While tens of millions of jobs have been lost to the novel coronavirus …
globalresearch.ca/covid-offices-religion…

The Shrinking Middle Class: an Interview With David Roediger
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-18
In the recently released The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History, David Roediger floats the Marxist-driven notion that the American Middle Class is a misery-filled achievement, producing more Bartleby the Scriveners than East up-moving Jeffersons, and is not worth saving. He explores the language of classification and definition used by politicians and the media to…
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Socialist Party’s Moe Manir expels London Bus Drivers Rank-and-File Safety Committee leader from Facebook group
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
The Socialist Party promotes the dangerous illusion that mass pressure from below can transform the unions into fighting organisations. But in every country the trade unions respond to mass pressure from workers by deepening their collusion with the companies and the state, and by stamping out any semblance of democracy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/sopa…

Brazil: Supreme Court Rules Out Lula’s Motion on Guaruja Case
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-18
Brazil’s Supreme Court (STJ) Tuesday rejected unanimously former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s (2003-2011) appeal regarding the sentence on the Guaruja Triplex case which led to his arrest between April 2018 and November 2019. | RELATED: | Brazil: Bolsonaro Questions Vote Count System After Defeat | The decisions was voted down by ministers Felix Fischer, Joao Otavio de Noronha, Reynaldo Soares da Fonseca, and Ribeiro Dantas. | Lula’s defense team called for a change in th…
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Syrian Foreign Minister Muallem Was a Multipolar Visionary
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem passed away earlier this week, but his multipolar vision will be remembered forever. The Arab Republic’s top diplomat previously served as his country’s Ambassador to the US from 1990-1999 prior to becoming Assistant Foreign Minister …
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World Economic Forum (WEF) Step Two: “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda” After The Great Reset
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-18
The WEF gang have just published (October 2020) a so-called White Paper, entitled “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda in a Post-Covid World”. This 31-page document reads like a blueprint on how to “execute” because an execution it would be — “Covid-19 — The Great Reset” (July 2020), by Klaus Schwab, founder and CEO (since …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/world-economi…

Uruguay: Health Services Unions Call for a National Strike
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-18
Uruguay’s National Medical Union (SMU) and the Medical Federation of the Interior (FEMI) Wednesday called for a 24-hour strike in the private sector and mobile emergencies to demand better working conditions. | RELATED: | Uruguay: Leftist Party Presents Proposal To Reject Budget Bill | On November 5, the General Assembly of the SMU agreed to carry out the national strike due to “the lack of progress in the negotiation with the Wage Council of the private sector.” | SMU represen…
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Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind
Robert Fisk | zcomm.org | 2020-11-18
Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media…
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Video: Silent Retreat of Neo-Ottoman Forces from Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
In October and the first half of November, the war in Syria remained in a relatively calm phase, which was not marked by any active military actions of the sides involved in the conflict. Nonetheless, this period demonstrated several trends …
globalresearch.ca/video-silent-retreat-n…

The “Use of the Armed Forces” in America under a National Emergency. Repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Unrestricted & Arbitrary Powers conferred to the President & Vice President…
globalresearch.ca/the-use-of-the-armed-f…

Traitors to Holy Quds have no future in region
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker’s Special Aide for International Affairs said that traitors to Holy Quds and Palestine have no future in the region.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166051/Traitors-to-…

Pennsylvania Supreme Court shoots down Trump campaign claims of blocking Philadelphia election observers
rt.com | 2020-11-18
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has rejected allegations by President Donald Trump’s campaign team that election observers in Philadelphia were deprived of “meaningful access” to the polls, overturning a lower court’s ruling. | The state’s liberal-leaning Supreme Court ruled 5-2 against Trump’s lawsuit on Tuesday, rebuffing claims that local election officials barred Republican poll-watchers from standing close enough to the vote-counting process to see what was happening. | “We conclude the [Philadelphia County Board of Elections] did not act contrary to law… during the precanvassing and canvassing proces…
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Tucker Carlson dispels rumor he’s leaving Fox for Newsmax, says show will expand company wide
Roger Sollenberger | salon.com | 2020-11-18
The apparent expansion of his show comes weeks after the network announced a round of layoffs amid a restructuring…
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Sunday 11/22: “The Condor & The Eagle” Film & Discussion w/ Indigenous Frontline Climate Leaders
Stand.earth, Stop the Money Pipeline, more | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
Online screening (FREE or donation)…
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Hunger Strikers Caged in the Second Wave Are “Just Trying to Survive the Winter”
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-18
“Our society created the framework for this atrocity just like the trenches of World War I created perfect incubation zones for the 1918 flu,” Truthout’s Kelly Hayes talks with Eric, an organizer with Oakland Abolition and Solidarity about the escalating COVID-19 outbreak at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, where some imprisoned people have launched a hunger strike over unsafe, unlivable conditions. | TRANSCRIPT: | Note: This a rush transcript and has been lightly edi…
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Zarif felicitates Oman on National Day
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister has congratulated his counterpart on the occasion of Oman’s National Day.
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Lawsuit filed against Fort Worth and police officer who killed innocent woman
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-18
“Defendant Dean in his prowl around the backyard of her home caused Atatiana fear and uncertainty. Dean shot Atatiana, causing pain and suffering. Dean failed to render medical aid to Atatiana.”
nationofchange.org/2020/11/18/lawsuit-fi…

It’s Time for Public Banking in New York City
Bob Master, Mark Levine | thenation.com | 2020-11-18
It’s Time for Public Banking in New York City…
thenation.com/article/politics/new-york-…

US to cut troop levels in Afghanistan, Iraq
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — United States President Donald Trump will sharply reduce the number of US forces in Afghanistan from 4,500 to 2,500 before he leaves office, the Pentagon has announced.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166031/US-to-cut-tr…

French workers in revolt
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
In December 1995, David Walsh traveled to Europe as part of an international team of reporters to provide on-the-spot coverage of the massive strike wave in France. We are re-posting the series of articles today.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/revo…

PMO representatives attend 75th MEPC session
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — The 75th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) kicked off on Monday and will go on through Friday (November 16-20).
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Silent Pandemic: Overuse renders antimicrobials less effective — UN agriculture agency
news.un.org | 2020-11-18
People, plants and animals around the world are dying from untreatable infections — even with the best medicines available — due to a rise in antimicrobial resistance, the UN food agriculture agency said on Wednesday, kicking off World Antimicrobial Awareness Week.
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How Can the Belt and Road Better Protect Biodiversity?
Xia Zhijian | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-11-18
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Violence, insecurity continues to plague South Sudan communities
news.un.org | 2020-11-18
Over 1,000 people have been killed and more than 400 abducted in the past six months in intercommunal violence in South Sudan, amid fears that tensions may worsen with the onset of the dry season, the UN envoy for the country has said.
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Psychologisches Manifest des gesunden Menschenverstands (Kurzfassung)
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Nach den Erkenntnissen der Humanwissenschaften Anthropologie, Soziologie und Psychologie besitzt der Mensch von Natur aus einen gesunden Verstand beziehungsweise ein natàºrliches Urteilsvermà∂gen. Dieser gesunde Menschenverstand arbeitet empirisch, das heiàüt, er fà§llt konkrete Urteile auf der Basis alltà§glicher Lebenserfahrung und Beobachtung. …
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Iran, Uzbekistan to establish Joint Trade Committee
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — The Presidents of the Iran-Uzbekistan Chambers of Commerce, in a video conference, signed an MoU to establish the joint trade committee of the two sides.
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The Effects of Technology on Society
Prof. Ruel F. Pepa | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Judging the effects of something on a state of affairs requires a standard scale characterized by a spectrum that separates two opposite axiological points: the positive and the negative. The context of the present issue brings us to the question, …
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German unions offer Lufthansa up to 50 percent compensation reduction
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
According to their own statements, the unons are offering the Lufthansa board of directors a 1.2 billion euro cut in the income of union members.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/luft…

The Dead and Those about to Die: Climate Protests and the Corporate Media
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-18
The Roman poet Horace famously declared: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described this phrase as ‘the old Lie’ in his famous war poem, ‘Dulce et decorum est’. Patriotism so often means ‘honouring’ …
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The only kind of coronavirus contracting the government cares about
Ralph Underhill | thecanary.co | 2020-11-18
Image descriptionWhite text is pictured on a blue background. The headline text reads. “Imagine if the government cared as much about those contracting the virus cared about ‘contracting’ during the virus!”.Under this are three bullet points, each illustrated with green virus with a pound sign in them. They read as follows: | £10.5 billion awarded without competition | Companies with links to to politicians or senior officials given ‘high priority’ | Key documentation on why suppliers chosen is missing | By Ralph Underhill…
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Intl. Resistance Filmfest great chance to touch Resistance
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Stating that today the West seeks to justify its terrorist ideology, a Syrian artist said, “Resistance International Film Festival reflects the reality of the resistance and it is a great chance to watch the real resistance.”
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Lecturers Show Solidarity With Students Following ‘Racial Profiling’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-18
University of Manchester, UK – Teaching staff held a show of solidarity with their students following a ‘racial profiling’ row at the University of Manchester. | Lecturers also voiced their support for students protesting at the university’s handling of the coronavirus crisis. | A group of staff read out a statement at the Fallowfield Campus on Tuesday afternoon telling students: ‘We are with you. We are here for you’. | And they told black students and students of colour ‘who may be feeling particularly hurt and excluded from the university at the moment’ that ‘you do belong here’.
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Ethiopian federal government announces final offensive against Tigray regional forces
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-18
Around 27,000 people are estimated to have fled from Ethiopia’s Tigray region across the western border into Sudan. The UN refugee agency in Sudan estimated that an average of 4,000 refugees have been arriving daily…
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Biden’s Transition Team Is Filled with War Profiteers, Beltway Chickenhawks, and Corporate Consultants
Kevin Gosztola | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
An eye-popping array of corporate consultants, war profiteers, and national security hawks have been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to agency review teams that will set the agenda for his administration. A substantial percentage of them worked in the United …
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Trump: the King of Denial and a Savvy Saboteur
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-18
“The president is an elected king. The fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king.” — Randolph Bourne, “The State.” Are we having fun folks? Are we there yet? On a recent edition of the…
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New Report: ‘Billionaire Wealth vs. Community Health’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-18
Washington, DC – Essential workers went underpaid, unsupported and forced to risk their health at corporations owned or operated by billionaires, even as the total wealth of America’s billionaires rose by more than $1 trillion under the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), United for Respect, and Bargaining for the Common Good Network. An analysis of billionaire wealth by IPS found that 647 U.S. billionaires gained $960 billion, almost $1 trillion in wealth between March 18, 2020 and November 17, 2020.
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Help People’s World continue to champion the stories of working people
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-18
Battles have been won, but the work still continues. This year has not been an easy one for working people. Our collective story has been one where struggle is prominent as we try to make sense of the tragedies that have come our way this year. Yet strength has also been a major theme, as …
peoplesworld.org/article/help-peoples-wo…

Iota Leaves at Least 12 People Dead in Central America
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-18
Hurricane Iota, which reached category 5, the maximum on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale, left at least 12 people dead and incalculable material damage during its passage through Central America and the Caribbean. | RELATED: | Hurricane Iota Wreaks Havoc in Central America | At 21h00 local time this Tuesday, the weather phenomenon, already a tropical storm, was weakening rapidly in southeastern Honduras, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (CNH). | Iota had maximum sustained winds of…
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Anti-Abortion protesters get special treatment from the police
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-11-18
Minneapolis, Louisville, Kenosha, Portland–these cities, among others, have all seen police respond with violence to protests for racial justice this year. However, anti-abortion protesters almost never elicit a police response, even with their long history of violence at clinics.
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As North Dakota Faces World’s Deadliest Outbreak, Native Communities Condemn States’ COVID Response
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-11-18
As COVID-19 rampages through the U.S., we look at how the rapid spread of the disease is affecting Native American communities, which have already faced disproportionate infection and death rates throughout the pandemic. “We’re having a lot of people perish. We’re having a lot of death, a lot of hospitalizations,” says Jodi Archambault, a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and former special assistant to President Obama for Native American affairs. We also speak with Allie Young, founder of Protect the Sacred, who says the Navajo Nation has “worked hard to flatten the curve” of COVID-19 infections but is st…
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Herbert Marcuse and the End of Utopia
Megan Sherman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
“Even among bourgeois economists, there is hardly a serious thinker who will deny that it is possible, by means of currently existing material and intellectual forces of production, to put an end to hunger and poverty, and that the present …
globalresearch.ca/marcuse-end-utopia/572…

Argentina: Congress Approves Extraordinary Tax on Large Fortunes
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-18
Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies in the early morning of this Wednesday approved an extraordinary tax on wealth, which has as its main aim to face the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in the South American country. | RELATED: | Argentina’s President Submits Bill To Decriminalize Abortion | The initiative, promoted by President Alberto Fernandez’s government, will now be sent to the Senate -where the ruling party has a majority- for discussion and eventual approval. | With 133 af…
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Enough with “both sides”! Faux-neutral journalism is no way to fight the truth-deniers
Dan Froomkin | salon.com | 2020-11-18
With Trump defeated, journalists can’t just retreat back to “objectivity” — not with America’s future at stake…
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Thai students lead charge against military rulers and monarchy
Ceren Sagir | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-18
Thailand’s riot police fired water cannons and tear gas at protesters Tuesday as they tried to break through barricades outside parliament while possible changes to the constitution were discussed. Police had set up the barbed wire barricades earlier as hundreds of royalists demonstrated to call on MPs not to change the constitution. But the student-led …
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The Decline of the US Does Not Mean Plain Sailing for China
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Who lost China? The question, first asked when Mao’s dictum about power coming from the barrel of a gun proved pertinent and Truman was in the White House, is being asked again with renewed vigor. Some in the West believed …
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Poll: 71% of Voters Support Strong Regulation to Protect the Public
The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards | zcomm.org | 2020-11-18
Poll Shows Overwhelming Bipartisan Support for Regulation Protecting Workers, Public Health, Our Environment…
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Thursday 11/19: 270 by 2024: National Popular Vote for President Virtual Summit
Common Cause & partners | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
Online via Zoom…
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Why COVID-19 Testing Is a Tragic Waste
Dr. Joseph Mercola | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the clarion call has been to test, test and test some more. However, right from the start, serious questions arose about the tests being used to diagnose this infection, and questions have only …
globalresearch.ca/why-covid-19-testing-t…

Italian actress Sophia Loren returns to the screen in The Life Ahead
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
The 86-year-old actress remains a magnetic presence in this worthwhile film.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/thel…

Paraguay Prepares for the 27th Ibero-American Summit
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-18
Authorities from Paraguay and Andorra Tuesday held a working meeting as part of the preparations for the 27th Ibero-American Summit to take place on April 21 and 22 next year. | RELATED: | The Guarani Language Has Its First Dictionary in Paraguay | Paraguay’s Foreign Minister Federico Gonzalez and his Andorran counterpart Maria Ubach Font debated virtually on the economic and social measures to be adopted in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as part of the topic to be discuss…
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Is the pandemic making turkey more expensive?>
Matthew Rozsa | salon.com | 2020-11-18
After outbreaks among agriculture workers, industry experts weigh in on the pandemic’s effects on turkey prices…
salon.com/2020/11/17/pandemic-turkey-pri…

I Am Greta isn’t about climate change. It’s about the elusiveness of sanity in an insane world
Jonathan Cook | zcomm.org | 2020-11-18
Society could become so pathological, so detached from a normative way of life, that it induced a deep-seated alienation and a form of collective insanity among its members…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/i-amgreta-isnt-abo…

Trump’s New Pentagon — Divisive Duo Will Frustrate Doves and Hawks Alike
Andrew Corbley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
After last week’s firing of various Pentagon officials including Sec. of Defense Mark Esper, the Undersecretaries of Intelligence and Policy, and Chief of Staff to the Sec of Defense, Democrats and Republicans, eager to get back to a status …
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How Mitch McConnell flouts the will of the American people
Tom Conway | salon.com | 2020-11-18
Right now, one person stands in the way of America’s fight against COVID-19…
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I Am Greta isn’t about Climate Change
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-18
Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between society and the individual. In the mid-1950s, his book The Sane Society suggested that insanity referred not simply to the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/i-am-greta-is…

Wednesday 11/18: Discussion of Removing Mission Bells from the City of Santa Cruz
Historic Preservation Commission | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
Online, join meeting here: | ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnli…
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Several injured in police action against pro-democracy protesters in Thailand
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-18
Protesters in Thailand are demanding a curb on the monarchy’s power. The government led by prime minister Prayush Cha-ocha has resorted to repression of the protesters and arrested several leaders…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/18/several-i…

“Fed Up” The SF POA Contract, Mayor Breed, Unions, The SFLC & Cops with John Crew
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
Retired attorney John Crew who was ACLU Director of Police Practices talks about the effort by the Mayor of San Francisco London Breed with the leadership of the San Francisco Labor Council leadership to push through a City contract with the San Francisco Police Officers Association SF POA. He discusses the history of the SF POA including his arrest by a past president and the secret negotiations Mayor Breed and DHR Carol Eise has done with SF POA that that they are now trying to release…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/1883850…

The Horrors of Charlie Kaufman
Erin Schwartz | thenation.com | 2020-11-18
The Horrors of Charlie Kaufman…
thenation.com/article/culture/charlie-ka…

Austrian RC keen on assisting IRCS amid COVID-19: Sec. Gen
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Expressing Austrian Red Cross readiness to aid IRCS amid COVID-19, the Secretary-General of the Austrian RC stressed boycotting the Red Cross and Red Crescent societies is contrary to the international principles.”
en.mehrnews.com/news/166036/Austrian-RC-…

As Mexico records 1 million coronavirus cases, 53 percent of tests are coming out positive
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
Mexico has reached 1 million cases and is expected to reach 100,000 deaths this week, while the country reports the highest COVID-19 positivity rate in the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/mexi…

Defying police deployment, Greeks commemorate 47th anniversary of Polytechnic uprising
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-18
The Athens Polytechnic uprising of 1973 was a key moment in the resistance to the right-wing junta that then ruled Greece. This year, the New Democracy government had tried to ban commemorative gatherings citing COVID-19…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/18/defying-p…

Afghanistan War: A Troop Drawdown is Welcome, But It’s Not Enough
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-18
“A drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq is a long-overdue and welcome step in the right direction. But let’s be clear: this is just a step, not an end to these long wars. Maintaining thousands of troops in indefinite occupation is far from a rethinking of the logic of militarism, particularly when past drawdowns have been repeatedly undermined by troop surges, redeployments to nearby countries, increased reliance on private contractors, and the dramatic growth of aerial warfare, resulting in massive increases in civilian deaths.
popularresistance.org/afghanistan-war-a-…

BRICS 2020: Achievements and Future Challenges. Summit of Leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
On November 17, under Russia’s BRICS Chairmanship, Vladimir Putin hosted the 12th BRICS Summit via videoconference. The leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa participated to discuss the state and prospects of cooperation within BRICS, discussed the global …
globalresearch.ca/brics-2020-achievement…

Democrats sound alarm over possible last-minute cuts to safety-net programs by Trump administration
Igor Derysh | salon.com | 2020-11-18
The Trump administration has finalized a rule making it harder for individuals denied disability benefits to appeal…
salon.com/2020/11/17/democrats-sound-ala…

Ted Cruz calls Democratic senator “a complete ass” for asking Republican colleague to wear a mask
Roger Sollenberger | salon.com | 2020-11-18
GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is 87 years old, revealed the following day that he had tested positive for COVID-19…
salon.com/2020/11/17/ted-cruz-calls-demo…

No safe, impenetrable refuge for criminals: Shamkhani
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) said that Iran’s security forces will eventually terminate any aggressor or criminal.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166061/No-safe-impe…

New Zealand government rejects calls to increase welfare payments
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern again repudiates her promise to eliminate child poverty and the housing affordability crisis.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/nzla…

The US economy needs Joe Biden
Edmund Phelps | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
The economic and socio-political record of US President Donald Trump is devastating. Wages stagnated even before the Corona crisis. Instead, the national debt increased because he lowered taxes for the rich – without any economic benefit. Joe Biden knows the reasons for the misery and knows what to do.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/18/1883855…

Jan Myrdal, the Eternal Rebel, Dies at 93
Mike Powers | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
“Even as many cultural figures in Sweden after his death were quick to witness to his importance, they pissed on his memory by pointing out the many issues they disagreed with him. Their problem was often that they never read …
globalresearch.ca/jan-myrdal-eternal-reb…

Rapid testing for the coronavirus is less accurate than the government wants to admit
Lisa Song | salon.com | 2020-11-18
The federal government pushed it out without a plan, and then spent weeks denying problems with false positives…
salon.com/2020/11/18/rapid-testing-for-t…

‘If You Want to Make the Gods Laugh, Tell Them Your Plans’
Kweku Toure | thenation.com | 2020-11-18
‘If You Want to Make the Gods Laugh, Tell Them Your Plans’…
thenation.com/article/society/covid-elec…

The Tide is Turning: Change and the Coming of Maitreya
Graham Peebles | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-18
For most of 2020 Covid-19 has dominated mainstream media, and whilst serious, the pandemic is but the latest in a series of dark clouds gathering upon our collective horizon: interconnected crises, from the environmental emergency to war, poverty, inequality, and social division among others. All flow from the same root — a misguided set of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/the-tide-is-t…

Iran COVID-19 cases exceed 800,000
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (MNA) — The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 13,421 COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours, bringing the total cases in the country to 801,894.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166047/Iran-COVID-1…

The Climate Threat From Arctic Methane Releases
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-18
A friend, who is an intelligent person with no science background, asked me to explain simply what the concern expressed with alarm by many scientists and (anti) climate change activists is about the increasing rate of methane gas emissions in the Arctic. That attempted explanation follows. From even before the extinction of the dinosaurs by…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/18/the-climate-…

A Typical Democratic Official On The Pentagon And War
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-18
Jeh Johnson, formerly homeland security secretary under President Obama, showed how a typical Democratic official approaches the Pentagon and war as he spoke on ABC’s This Week on Sunday (11/15). For Johnson, the Pentagon “is typically an island of stability” in the U.S. government, but President Trump was destabilizing that island because of recent changes to Pentagon personnel. Trump’s changes could be driven by his desire to get U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, speculated Johnson, which was not a good thing:…
popularresistance.org/a-typical-democrat…

Tutu, Gandhi, King descendants call for clemency for NYS imprisoned elder activist
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-11-18
The Open Letter, coordinated by Fellowship of Reconciliation former Chairperson Matt Meyer, is one of many such efforts throughout the U.S. calling for relief for over-age inmates facing fatal consequences in light of multiple health crises, and throughout the world calling for freedom for all political prisoners.
mronline.org/2020/11/18/tutu-gandhi-king…

Greek protestors face police repression on anniversery of Polytechnic Uprising
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-18
Hundreds of protestors in Greece were met with the riot police and dozens arrested as they commemorated the 47th anniversary of the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/18/greek-pro…

How Mitch McConnell flouts the will of the American people
Tom Conway | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-18
Right now, one person–Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell–stands in the way of America’s fight against COVID-19.
nationofchange.org/2020/11/18/how-mitch-…

Situation critical as COVID-19 spreads through US auto plants
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
Workers are daily reporting the spread of COVID-19 cases in auto plants, with an apparent major outbreak now reported at the Ford Avon Lake, Ohio facility.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/ford…

‘The Queen’s Gambit’: A different kind of superhero
Michael Berkowitz | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-18
Tired of the formulaic diet of high-density superhero fat clogging our entertainment arteries? The new Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit offers a brilliant, well etched study of a different kind of superhero. Instead of non-stop fighting between cartoon characters representing good and evil, Queen’s Gambit is the story of growing up in a difficult society …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-queens-gamb…

Saturday 11/21: Learn about and support the Amah Mutsun Tribal Land Trust
Wendy Snyder | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
Virtual event on Zoom and Facebook…
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There’s One Issue Joe Biden Has Refused to Follow the Science On
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-11-18
jlhervàs / CC BY 2.0] By Jeff Cohen One of the keys to Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump was his constant and accurate accusation that Trump “refuses to follow the science” on COVID-19 — that “he won’t listen to the scientists.” It proved to be a winning campaign theme. Indeed, it’s sobering to realize that without COVID — both Trump’s mishandling of it and the accompanying economic downturn… | Source…
scheerpost.com/2020/11/18/theres-one-iss…

A survivor speaks: ‘I had to defend myself’
| workers.org | 2020-11-18
EDITOR NOTES: I first met Wendy Howard when I joined the No Justice Under Capitalism Coalition in spring 2020. She attended many of its demonstrations demanding mass release of prisoners due to the COVID epidemic. Later I found out Wendy was facing felony murder charges for killing her physically and . . . | Continue reading A survivor speaks: ‘I had to defend myself’ at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/11/52527/?utm_source=rs…

Peruvian government falls after two killed in anti-impeachment protests
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-11-18
Less than one week after being sworn in as successor to Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra, impeached in what amounted to a parliamentary coup, the former president of the Congress, Manuel Merino, was forced to resign Sunday.
mronline.org/2020/11/18/peruvian-governm…

Michigan Gov. Moves to Shut Down Line 5 Pipeline to Protect Great Lakes
Jessica Corbett | zcomm.org | 2020-11-18
“Enbridge has imposed on the people of Michigan an unacceptable risk of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes that could devastate our economy and way of life.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/michigan-gov-moves…

Wednesday 11/18: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
Online Via Zoom. Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org for Zoom info.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/1883851…

On the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the British still control the narrative and the Irish police
Peadar O’Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-11-18
Just six days before Ireland commemorates 100 years since Bloody Sunday in Dublin, Ireland’s Sunday Independent confirmed the British intelligence agency is still operating in the Irish republic. Bloody Sunday was the day the IRA dealt a severe blow to Bri…
thecanary.co/global/2020/11/18/on-the-an…

Thursday 11/19: African Diaspora and Climate Change from Kenya to New Orleans
Sierra Club | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/1883850…

Right-wing trolls launch Stop the Steal PAC to cash in on election lies
Roger Sollenberger | salon.com | 2020-11-18
“Donate” button disappeared from the group’s website amid alleged grift and self-dealing — so now there’s a PAC…
salon.com/2020/11/18/right-wing-trolls-l…

Hong Kong: Beijing Presses the Cleanup
Thomas Hon Wing Polin | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-18
Is China a sovereign country? The question may seem ludicrous. But it must be asked of the US and other Western politicians and media objecting loudly to Beijing’s disqualification of four opposition lawmakers in Hong Kong. That act has sparked the resignation of 15 other “pro-democracy” legislators. A sovereign nation has the unchallengeable right to…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/18/hong-kong-be…

Solidarity shown to Peruvians taking action against coup
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-18
Solidarity is being shown to Peruvians in their campaign for a new constituent assembly and justice, reports Rachel Evans.
greenleft.org.au/content/solidarity-show…

End the coverup of the outbreak at Sterling Heights Assembly Plant! Stop nonessential production with full pay for workers to contain the pandemic!
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
All non-essential production must stop to contain the current outbreak, which is on pace to be even worse than in the spring.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/shap…

The Dead And Those About To Die: Climate Protests And The Corporate Media
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-18
The Roman poet Horace famously declared: Dulce et decorum est pro patrie mori. It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen, the great English poet of the First World War, described this phrase as ‘the old Lie’ in his famous war poem, ‘Dulce et decorum est’. Patriotism so often means ‘honouring’ …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/the-dead-and-…

Homicide investigation under way after weeks of police negligence in the death of black Louisiana teen
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
Quawan Charles, 15, was found dead in a field days after police ignored his family’s please to report him missing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/loui…

Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK
Colin Todhunter and Rosemary Mason | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-18
On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public: We’ve all got to be clear; this is the worst public health crisis for a generation. Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, an ongoing government-backed fear campaign, fundamental rights being stripped away, dissent censored, inflated COVID-19 death numbers and the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/crisis-what-c…

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Augurs Hope
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
In the mist of the gloom generated by the twin health and economic crises, the birth of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a ray of light auguring hope. | More than a million lives have been lost world-wide as …
globalresearch.ca/the-regional-comprehen…

Crisis, What Crisis? Hypocrisy and Public Health in the UK
Rosemary Mason | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
On 12 March 2020, British PM Boris Johnson, referring to COVID-19, informed the public: | “We’ve all got to be clear; this is the worst public health crisis for a generation.” | Since that time, we have seen lockdowns, on ongoing …
globalresearch.ca/hypocrisy-public-healt…

International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39 Strike at Macy’s
On the Picket Line | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
Striking IUOE Local 39 stationary engineers at the Macy’s main store in San Francisco’s Union Square.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/18/1883852…

Cuban Medical Teams for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Council of Canadians | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
At the June 2020 Annual Meeting, Council of Canadians’ members voted to endorse and promote a Canadian nominating process for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize to go the Henry Reeve medical teams from Cuba for their international work in the …
globalresearch.ca/cuban-medical-teams-20…

MoU inked between Allameh Tabataba’i, D-8 Intl Universities
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — A memorandum of understanding on joint educational cooperation was inked between presidents of Allameh Tabataba’i University and D-8 International University.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166039/MoU-inked-be…

Colin Kaepernick: ‘Free Mumia!’
| workers.org | 2020-11-18
EDITOR NOTES: During a virtual press conference Nov. 16 on the critical juncture in the fight to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, Colin Kaepernick expressed his support. Kaepernick sacrificed his stellar athletic career in 2016 when he began to take a knee in protest against police terror during the playing . . . | Continue reading Colin Kaepernick: ‘Free Mumia!’ at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/11/52533/?utm_source=rs…

NYC schools to close ‘indefinitely’ as city’s weekly Covid-19 positive rate reaches 3%
rt.com | 2020-11-18
New York City’s public-school system is to close its doors “indefinitely,” officials announced, after the city’s seven-day coronavirus positive rate hit three percent. They won’t necessarily open their doors when it dips, either. | Schools will suspend all in-person instruction on Thursday, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed via tweet on Wednesday. The mayor’s announcement came after schools chancellor Richard Carranza sent an email to principals warning them that New York had “reached [the three percent] threshold of test positivity citywide.” | In-person classes are not expected to begin again anyt…
rt.com/usa/507132-nyc-schools-covid-clos…

Kevin Morby — Wander
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-18
counterpunch.org/2020/11/18/kevin-morby-…

The Healthcare Multinational Profiting off Fraudulent Detentions
Meg Sherman | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-18
In July 2020, US healthcare multinational UHS Delaware reached a $122million settlement with the US federal government as the result of an investigation by the FBI into fraudulent detentions of psychiatric patients for profit. Following the resolution of the investigation and civil settlement, UHS must retain an independent monitor selected by the Office of Inspector …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/the-healthcar…

NSW budget privatises more public assets, cuts wages
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-18
The NSW budget claims to be about job creation but entrenches cuts to public sector workers’ pay while handing windfalls to private corporations, reports Jim McIlroy.
greenleft.org.au/content/nsw-budget-priv…

As COVID Deaths Soar, El Paso at Breaking Point with Hospitals & Mobile Morgues Filling Up
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-11-18
Some Republican governors are dropping their resistance to mask mandates, as public health officials in the United States brace for a COVID-19 surge from the Thanksgiving holiday amid already record-high infection rates. However, Republican resistance to other public health safety measures continues as coronavirus cases in Texas reach record highs for a second time during the pandemic. El Paso County, an area along the U.S.-Mexico border where 80% of residents are Latinx, is also facing one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. and now has 10 mobile morgues to hold bodies. Some prisoners are being paid just…
18.224.45.15/2020/11/18/el_paso_texas_co…

Hunger Strike Enters Third Week At California’s Largest Prison
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-18
In the southern part of California’s Central Valley, about halfway between Bakersfield and Fresno, sits Corcoran, California–a small farming town surrounded on all sides by acres of cotton and tomato fields. | Perched at the town’s southern tip are two of the state’s largest prisons. Together, their denizens make up about 33% of the population of Corcoran. One of the facilities, the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility (CSATF), is the state’s single largest, housing 4,481 prisoners, about 130% of its intended capacity.
popularresistance.org/hunger-strike-ente…

COVID-19 and Catastrophe Capitalism
John Bellamy Foster and Intan Suwandi | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
The scale of the coronavirus pandemic and its consequences on world accumulation are unprecedented, with the global economic costs still increasing. At the end of March, some three billion people on the planet were in lockdown or social-distancing mode.36 Most corporations have no emergency plan for dealing with the multiple breaks in their supply chains.37…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/17/1883851…

Second wave of coronavirus pandemic hits New York and New Jersey
wsws.org | 2020-11-18
Amid the worst-hit regions in the world during the spring, COVID-19 is resurging in New York and New Jersey.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/18/nynj…

Iranian film ‘The Enemies’ goes to Estonian festival
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Iranian film ‘The Enemies’ directed by Ali Derakhshandeh has been accepted into the 2020 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166040/Iranian-film…

Colin Kaepernick: ‘Free Mumia!’
| workers.org | 2020-11-18
During a virtual press conference Nov. 16 on the critical juncture in the fight to free political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, Colin Kaepernick expressed his support. Kaepernick sacrificed his stellar athletic career in 2016 when he began to take a knee in protest against police terror during the playing of the . . . | Continue reading Colin Kaepernick: ‘Free Mumia!’ at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/11/52533/?utm_source=rs…

75 Democrats urge Trump to show leniency on Iran Sanctions
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Democrats on Capitol Hill are pushing back on the Trump administration’s plan to unveil stepped-up sanctions against Iran, urging the outgoing US president to be flexible and allow coronavirus aid to be sent.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166035/75-Democrats…

Japan, Australia, and the Rejigging of Asia-Pacific Alliances
Gavan McCormack | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-11-18
asia-pacificresearch.com/japan-australia…

‘Iran not to fullfil commitments if US does not so’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Iranian President’s Chief of Staff said if the US does not return to its commitments, Iran will not be able to meet its requirements, either.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166041/Iran-not-to-…

Pres. Rouhani congrats Sultanate of Oman on Natl. Day
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani felicitated the Sultanate of Oman on the arrival of National Day.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166068/Pres-Rouhani…

“I Am Greta” Isn’t About Climate Change. It’s About the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Erich Fromm, the renowned German-Jewish social psychologist who was forced to flee his homeland in the early 1930s as the Nazis came to power, offered a disturbing insight later in life on the relationship between society and the individual. | In …
globalresearch.ca/i-am-greta-isnt-about-…

Business School launches new app to help measure personal COVID-19 risk
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-11-18
Academics from the Business School have created a research tool to calculate personal risk from coronavirus based on everyday activities.
imperial.ac.uk/news/208673/business-school-launches-help-measure-personal

Why A 58-day vigil Is Going On Outside The Governor’s House
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-18
Demonstrators gathered outside the Executive Mansion on Sunday to demand that Gov. Roy Cooper use his powers of pardon and clemency to protect people who are incarcerated during the pandemic. | Members of Decarcerate Now NC, a coalition of organizations which say they’re working to end to mass incarceration, have been holding daily vigils outside the governor’s mansion since Election Day and plan to continue through Jan. 1, when Cooper begins his second term. That’s a total of 58 days. | “We stand vigil to bring attention to your Administration’s ongoing failure to prioritize and appropriately protect Black lives…
popularresistance.org/why-a-58-day-vigil…

Extortion, bio-warfare and terrorism: Extremists are exploiting the pandemic, says UN report
news.un.org | 2020-11-18
Criminals and violent extremists are exploiting the pandemic to build their support networks, undermine trust in government and even weaponize the virus, according to a research report published on Wednesday by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/11/1…

Thursday 11/19: Press Conference-Defend The Bernard Zakheim UCSF Toland Hall Murals On History Of Medicine
LaborFest | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
UCSF Hospital | 505 Parnassus | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/17/1883852…

A survivor speaks: ‘I had to defend myself’
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-11-18
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given at the webinar “Women and Oppressed Genders: Survival and Resistance” hosted by WWP’s Prisoners Solidarity Committee on Sept. 24. Wendy Howard with daughters Bailey (left) and Miranda (right) in front of the office of the Kern County District Attorney. . . . | Continue reading A survivor speaks: ‘I had to defend myself’ at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/11/52527/?utm_source=rs…

Iranian filmmaker joins juries at Cortos en Grande fest
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-18
TEHRAN, Nov. 18 (MNA) — Iranian filmmaker Ghasideh Golmakani has joined the jury panel at the 3rd edition of the Cortos en Grande Short Film Festival in Chile.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166044/Iranian-film…

A survivor speaks: ‘I had to defend myself’
| workers.org | 2020-11-18
This is a slightly edited version of a talk given at the webinar “Women and Oppressed Genders: Survival and Resistance” hosted by WWP’s Prisoners Solidarity Committee on Sept. 24. Wendy Howard with daughters Bailey (left) and Miranda (right) in front of the office of the Kern County District Attorney. . . . | Continue reading A survivor speaks: ‘I had to defend myself’ at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/11/52527/?utm_source=rs…

Was Jair Bolsonaro Right about the Plot?
Bolton | indybay.org | 2020-11-18
If you’re paranoid, it doesn’t mean you aren’t being followed. As it turned out, that thesis is fully applicable to President Bolsonaro.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/17/1883851…

UK MP Suggests People Shouldn’t be Allowed to Work Without COVID Vaccine
Steve Watson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
A British MP faced backlash Monday after suggesting that employees in the UK should not be allowed to go to work unless they can prove that they have been vaccinated against COVID-19, when the shot becomes available. | “If vaccination works | …
globalresearch.ca/uk-mp-suggests-people-…

Is the CBC Drowning Itself in a Second Wave of Corona Disinformation?
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-18
Almost every paragraph of a recent CBC Morning Brief, about a supposed “COVID-19 resurgence,” contains statements that leave me questioning the competency and motives of the reporter. Is this part of an orchestrated second wave of illogical fear-mongering from …
globalresearch.ca/cbc-second-wave-corona…

India and ASEAN to Create a “Belt and Road Alternative”?
Dmitry Bokarev | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-11-18
asia-pacificresearch.com/india-asean-cre…

The New U.S. War on Western Sahara
David Swanson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-17
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen (left) and his wife Janet Langhart Cohen (center) meet with King Mohammed VI, of Morocco, at his palace in Marrakech, on Feb. 11, 2000. Cohen and the King agreed to open an expanded security and defense dialogue, and discussed ways that Morocco could expand its leadership role in promoting …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/the-new-u-s-w…

The New US War On Western Sahara
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-17
There is a new U.S. war in Western Sahara, being waged by Morocco with the support of the U.S. military. The U.S. military, unbeknownst to most people in the United States — it’s perfectly knowable but few give a damn — arms and trains and funds the militaries of the world, including almost all of the most brutal governments of the world. I can’t compare this with the outrage in the U.S. media over the U.S. government feeding a few hungry people in the United States, because there isn’t any outrage over it at all.
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Organizations across the globe condemn Moroccan aggression in Western Sahara
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-17
Progressive groups from across the world have expressed their solidarity with people of Western Sahara in the wake of Morocco’s aggression and breach of three-decade long ceasefire agreement on November 13. The organizations have condemned Moroccan aggression and called the international community to intervene to resolve the issue. | On Monday, November 16, Venezuelan social movements gathered in the center of the capital Caracas to express their solidarity with the Sahrawi people and their cause and denounce Moroccan aggression. The demonstrators demanded that the UN should intervene in a more decisive way in th…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/17/organizat…

Corporate Democrats Are to Blame for Congressional Losses
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-11-17
So Naturally They’re Blaming Progressives…
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Corporate Democrats are to blame for congressional losses — so naturally they’re blaming progressives
Norman Solomon | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-17
Those who denounce the fight for a progressive agenda are telling us that, in essence, they don’t want much to change.
nationofchange.org/2020/11/17/corporate-…

Free Press = Free Assange
John Rachel | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-17
Covid-19 Global Solidarity Coalition presents an international webinar: SATURDAY November 21st — 20: 00 EST (U.S.) The panelists will discuss the UK extradition trial of Julian Assange, the 18 criminal offenses conjured by the U.S., and how the case impacts the 99%. DANIEL ELLSBERG: Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower, former defense analyst, activist. MARJORIE COHN: Professor Emerita Thomas …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/free-press-fr…

Police move on hunger striker demanding Labor MP speak up against Assange extradition
Peter Boyle | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-17
Police moved on an activist who had chained himself to outside the office of the Labor MP for Sydney Tanya Plibersek to urge her to speak out against the extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Peter Boyle reports.
greenleft.org.au/content/police-move-hun…

The Fed Man Song (to the music of Beatles ‘The Taxman’)
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-11-17
The Fed so far this year has pumped more than $7 trillion into investors, bankers, and big corporations, who then conveniently diverted most of that ‘free money’ into financial markets, driving up stock price values to current record levels…
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Video: Russia’s Diplomatic Intervention and the Armenia-Azerbaijan War. Russia’s Military Presence in Armenia
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-17
Results of the Nagorno-Karabakh war continue shaping the balance of power of the South Caucasus. The ceasefire regime established as a result of the Russian diplomatic intervention and the deployment of the Russian peacekeeping force in the region nears the …
globalresearch.ca/video-russian-karabakh…

“A Silent Pandemic”: Racism, Negligence, and Medical Assault in ICE Detention Centers
Karen Conner | cepr.net | 2020-11-17
After a whistleblower revealed that an ICE detention facility in Georgia sterilized immigrant women without consent, members of the House Judiciary Committee and Hispanic Caucus visited the facility and heard directly from the whistleblower and immigrant women who experienced forced sterilizations at the facility. Congress members called for an investigation of the Department of …
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From the Immigration Movement, for the Left: Election 2020 lessons
Teresa Gutierrez | workers.org | 2020-11-17
San Antonio, Texas These slightly edited remarks were given on a Workers World Party Nov. 12 webinar, “What Now?” The huge voter turnout from the Latinx and the im/migrant rights movement for the 2020 presidential election must be put into the context of developments on immigration since 2006. Teresa Gutierrez. . . . | Continue reading From the Immigration Movement, for the Left: Election 2020 lessons at Workers.org
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How Our Biggest ISPs Are Failing Students During COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-17
Early in the pandemic, one of our MediaJustice Network members reached out to us in hopes we could support a group of high school students in Baltimore who were trying to amplify their campaign. The students are leaders in a Latinx and immigrant student organization called Students Organizing for a Multicultural and Open Society (SOMOS), and this was their first time organizing for digital equity. | When school ended last year, SOMOS realized that many of their fellow Baltimore city schoolmates who’d relied on Comcast’s Internet Essentials discount program didn’t have a connection fast or reliable enough for onli…
popularresistance.org/how-our-biggest-is…

Albania’s Attempts to Refocus Kosovo War Crime Tribunal onto Serbia Will Not Work
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-17
Kosovo Albanians via their allies in Tirana are once again attempting to antagonize Serbia, this time through the Self-Determination Movements initiative. The Movement is trying to push through the Albanian Parliament a declaration condemning the so-called “Serbian genocide in Kosovo.” …
globalresearch.ca/albania-attempts-refoc…

Japan Militarizes and Worries Russia and China
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-11-17
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Greenpeace Releases Far-Reaching ‘Just Recovery Agenda’ to Tackle Interlocking Crises of Inequality, Racial Injustice, Covid-19, and Climate Chaos
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-11-17
We must “shift from an economy that is extractive and exploitative to one that regenerates and repairs,” the new report says. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Robert Fisk had True Independence of Mind, Which is Why He Angered Governments and Parts of the Media
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-17
Robert Fisk and I often used to discuss the merits and demerits of responding in print to personal attacks on us filled with provable falsehoods. The temptation to refute such falsehood is hard to resist, but we recognised that therein lies a trap because even the most persuasive refutation of a gross lie necessitates repeating…
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Colombia witnesses one of the bloodiest weekends of the year
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-17
Violence against social and political leaders continues at an alarming rate in Colombia. This weekend, between November 13 & 15, a family of 3 was killed in a massacre; 2 Afro-descendant people, 1 Indigenous leader, 1 social leader and 3 former combatants of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerilla group were assassinated by illegal paramilitary groups; and 2 minors were shot dead by a national army soldier. The alarming number of deaths is one of the highest death tolls registered during a weekend this year. | Estos son los trágicos hechos del fin de semana de horror en contra de la paz. En med…
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Sunday 11/22: “The Condor & The Eagle” Film & Discussion w/ Indigenous Frontline Climate Leaders
Stand.earth, Stop the Money Pipeline, more | indybay.org | 2020-11-17
Online screening (FREE or donation)…
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Friday 11/20: Roundtable on “How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America”
San Francisco Public Library & partner | indybay.org | 2020-11-17
Online via livestream & Zoom…
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‘Disaster for Climate and Indigenous Rights’: Coalition Urges Bank of America to End Financing of Arctic Drilling
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-11-17
“Despite risks to the climate, Indigenous rights, and their own bottom line, Bank of America is the only big U.S. bank that hasn’t ruled out funding for drilling in the Arctic Refuge,” noted the Sierra Club. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/11/17/disaste…

Indigenous Communities on the Frontline as Two Climate Change-Fueled Hurricanes Slam Central America
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-11-17
Hurricane Iota made landfall in Nicaragua Monday as a Category 4 storm, just two weeks after Hurricane Eta devastated communities across Central America and caused widespread destruction. Iota is the strongest November hurricane to ever hit Nicaragua. “It’s caused a lot of damages to the most vulnerable peoples, which tends to be Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and Black communities all across Central America,” says Giovanni Batz, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, who has been in touch with people reeling from Hurricane Eta.
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Minnesota Permits for Line 3 Pipeline approved. Indigenous and Climate Leaders are left outraged
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-17
Environmental and Indigenous groups say this construction threatens the water where Native Americans harvest wild rice and also would be a factor in increasing climate change.
nationofchange.org/2020/11/17/minnesota-…

Indigenous Communities on the Frontline as Two Climate Change-Fueled Hurricanes Slam Central America
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-11-17
Hurricane Iota made landfall in Nicaragua Monday as a Category 4 storm, just two weeks after Hurricane Eta devastated communities across Central America and caused widespread destruction. Iota is the strongest November hurricane to ever hit Nicaragua. “It’s caused a lot of damages to the most vulnerable peoples, which tends to be Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and Black communities all across Central America,” says Giovanni Batz, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis, who has been in touch with people reeling from Hurricane Eta.
www.democracynow.org/2020/11/17/hurrican…

House Progressives Call on Pompeo to Condemn Israeli Demolition of West Bank Village That Left Dozens Homeless
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-11-17
“This is a grave humanitarian issue that demands your immediate attention and our collective condemnation,” the lawmakers told the outgoing secretary of state, who is visiting the region this week. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Second major hurricane hits Central America in two weeks
wsws.org | 2020-11-17
Combined with the pandemic and the effects of storm Eta, Category 5 Hurricane Iota is expected to greatly deepen an ongoing humanitarian crisis and mass migration.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/17/iota…

A Dedicated Obsession: Washington’s Continuing Iran Sanctions Regime
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-17
One dogma that is likely to persist in US foreign policy during a Biden presidency will be the sanctions regime adopted towards Iran. Every messianic state craves clearly scripted enemies, and the demonology about the Islamic Republic is not going to go begging. Elliot Abrams, the current US special representative for Iran, told Associated Press…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/17/a-dedicated-…

Newly revealed documents show Nixon, Kissinger plotted Allende overthrow from day one
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-17
WASHINGTON–Almost from the very minute elected Socialist/Marxist President Salvador Allende took office in Chile in November 1970, Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon and his top officials were scared of his example and his impact–and determined to oust him. That’s the conclusion that can be drawn from a new group of memos on the U.S. campaign …
peoplesworld.org/article/newly-revealed-…

Candace Owens’ attack on Harry Styles’ masculinity reveals itself in that Marxist red herring
Ashlie D. Stevens | salon.com | 2020-11-17
The conservative conflation of queer aesthetics and anti-capitalism ideology has a storied history in the U.S.
salon.com/2020/11/17/candace-owens-harry…

A restless thinker
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-11-17
In the millions of pages written about Karl Marx, his final years have been somewhat neglected.
mronline.org/2020/11/17/a-restless-think…

Lula Calls To Vote for Socialist Candidate in Sao Paulo
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-17
The former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva, on Tuesday called on the leftist electorate to vote, independently of the party for which they voted on Sunday, for the socialist candidate Guillermo Boulos, who advanced to the second round scheduled for November 29. | RELATED: | Brazil Elections: The Left Challenges Bolsonaro At Home | Lula’s call comes after it was confirmed that a Homeless Workers Movement’s militant would contest the second round of the municipal electio…
telesurenglish.net/news/Lula-Calls-To-Vo…

1 year after the Sacaba massacre, Bolivians commemorate victims and demand justice
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-17
According to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), 36 people lost their lives in different parts of Bolivia during…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/17/1-year-af…

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Philadelphia Did Not Violate State Election Law – Filing
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-17
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Pennsylvania Supreme Court said in a ruling that the city of Philadelphia did not violate state election law when it restricted the distance poll observers had to maintain to observe the processing of mail-in ballots due to the novel coronavirus, a court document revealed.
sputniknews.com/us-elections-2020-news/2…

Russia’s Red Sea Base in Sudan Is a Recalibration of Its Intra-Ummah Balancing Act
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-17
Russia’s draft deal to open up a Red Sea naval base in Sudan amounts to a strategic recalibration of its careful “balancing” act between the GCC and Turkey after moving more closely to the latter following the end of the …
globalresearch.ca/russia-red-sea-base-su…

Uruguay: Leftist Party Presents Proposal To Reject Budget Bill
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-17
Uruguay’s left-wing Broad Front (BF) presented a document at the Senate on Monday in order to reform the 2020-2024 Budget Bill which they claim establishes several cuts in basic policies, such as education, health care, and the administration of justice. | RELATED: | Uruguay: Secondary School Teachers Announce a National Strike | “The 2020-2024 Budget presented by the Executive Branch and approved by the Coalition in the Lower Chamber turns its back on the needs of the great maj…
telesurenglish.net/news/Uruguay-Leftist-…

“No End in Sight”: 9 Months into Pandemic, Nurses Are Tired, Demoralized & Still Lack Adequate PPE
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-11-17
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its ninth month, a new report by National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in the United States, finds hospitals are still failing to provide adequate PPE and are unprepared as the surge is expected to get worse during the flu season. Nurses also report mental health struggles related to the pandemic. The union estimates at least 2,000 frontline healthcare workers have died due to COVID-19, with nurses of color accounting for half of those deaths, even though they’re less than a quarter of the workforce. Jean Ross, president of National Nurses United, says the lack of prepa…
www.democracynow.org/2020/11/17/frontlin…

With COVID Vaccines on the Horizon, U.S. Urged to Help Ensure Equitable Distribution Across Globe
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-11-17
As the U.S. COVID-19 death toll nears 250,000, drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna have both announced promising vaccine trial results showing over 90% effectiveness in preventing illness. But officials and health experts warn widespread distribution of a vaccine for the coronavirus — which has killed 1.2 million people across the globe — will be tremendously difficult to store and distribute. Vaccine researcher Dr. Saad Omer calls the recent news “reassuring” but says drugmakers need to be much more transparent about their data and issue more than just press releases.
www.democracynow.org/2020/11/17/coronavi…

Public Citizen Delivers Robust Transition Agenda Demands to President-Elect Joe Bidenp
commondreams.org | 2020-11-17
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Hollywood’s ‘Songbird’: “Puts the Scare” in People during a “Pandemic”
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-17
Hollywood knows how to put the scare in people. Songbird, a new film produced by Michael Bay and directed by Adam Mason exploits the Covid-19 pandemic which complements the mainstream-media’s (MSM) fear campaign among its audience. Last month, The …
globalresearch.ca/hollywood-songbird-exp…

Borders of Iran, Azerbaijan to be peaceful forever: Envoy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-17
TEHRAN, Nov. 17 (MNA) — The Ambassador of Iran in Azerbaijan said that borders between Iran and Azerbaijan will always be peaceful due to historical and cultural similarities between the two countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166015/Borders-of-I…

Arab American Attitudes Towards Their Heritage and the Middle East
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-17
Any discussion of Arab Americans must consider, at the outset, both the deep diversity as well as the shared attitudes and concerns that exist within the community. As is the case with most ethnic groups, Arab Americans are not a …
globalresearch.ca/arab-american-attitude…

Cuba: New Migration Measures Meant to Support Cubans Abroad
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-17
To continue favoring the return of Cubans outside of the national territory, based on the situation imposed by COVID-19, is the purpose of the most recent measure announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, declared Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, director-general of Consular Affairs and Cubans Residing Abroad of Minrex. | The provision, which allows for nationals residing in the country to return to Cuba in an exceptional manner with their expired passports and without having requested an extension, adds to other measures adopted previously that “support our nationals abroad, taking into account the socio-economic…
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-New-Migrati…

Nico Perrino and John K. Roth
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-11-17
Nico Perrino is the first guest on this week’s program; the topic is “Mighty Ira,” Perrino’s new documentary on the life and times of Ira Glasser. Glasser led the American…
projectcensored.org/nico-perrino-and-joh…

‘More Room For Mischief’: Internet Explodes as Twitter Introduces Its Own Stories Named ‘Fleets’
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-17
It was Snapchat that in 2013 first introduced the idea of temporary posts that disappear after 24 hours – with the trend later adopted by Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and many other social media platforms.
sputniknews.com/viral/202011171081196844…

Testing Clinical Prediction Models
Wang J, Li Y. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-17
To the Editor The Viewpoint by Mr Adibi and colleagues proposed some novel approaches for evaluating the performance and utility of published CPMs.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Hungarian Faludi Intl Film Fest to host Iranian “Branded”
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-17
TEHRAN, Nov. 17 (MNA) — The short film “Branded” directed by an Iranian filmmaker is scheduled to vie at the Faludi International Film Festival in Hungary.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166001/Hungarian-Fa…

Hospitals Are Still Unprepared and Lack PPE After 9 Months of Pandemic
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-17
As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its ninth month, a new report by National Nurses United, the largest nurses’ union in the United States, finds hospitals are still failing to provide adequate PPE and are unprepared as the surge is expected to get worse during the flu season. Nurses also report mental health struggles related to the pandemic. The union estimates at least 2,000 frontline healthcare workers have died due to COVID-19, with nurses of color accounting for half of those deaths, even though th…
truthout.org/video/hospitals-are-still-u…

Red States’ case against ACA hinges on whether they were actually harmed by the law
Phil Galewitz | salon.com | 2020-11-17
The Republican-led states are trying to prove they were harmed by the 2010 health law…
salon.com/2020/11/17/red-states-case-aga…

Partnership to Make 120 Million COVID-19 Rapid Tests Available
Kuehn BM. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-17
A global partnership plans to make 120 million coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapid antigen tests available in low- and middle-income countries, according to an announcement from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

New partnership to boost maternal and newborn health in East and Southern Africa
news.un.org | 2020-11-17
Some 10,000 health workers will be trained to support mothers and newborns in Africa through a partnership between the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, and Laerdal Global Health, the non-profit arm of a Norwegian company that provides innovative training, educational and therapy solutions for emergency medical care and patient safety.
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Huck Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, Other Classic Books Banned in California Schools for “Racism”
Matt Agorist | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-17
When Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1440, the world had no idea that things were about to drastically change. Prior to the release and production of the printing press, books were incredibly expensive, rare, mostly written in Latin, and …
globalresearch.ca/huck-finn-kill-mocking…

“Fed Up” The SF POA Contract, Mayor Breed, Unions, The SFLC & Cops with John Crew
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-11-17
Retired attorney John Crew who was ACLU Director of Police Practices talks about the effort by the Mayor of San Francisco London Breed with the leadership of the San Francisco Labor Council leadership to push through a City contract with the San Francisco Police Officers Association SF POA. He discusses the history of the SF POA including his arrest by a past president and the secret negotiations Mayor Breed and DHR Carol Eise has done with SF POA that that they are now trying to release…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/16/1883850…

Utah teachers stage wildcat sickout to demand COVID-19 testing, online instruction as cases soar
wsws.org | 2020-11-17
Teachers in Utah conducted a sickout strike opposed by the union to demand an end to in-person instruction as the pandemic spreads uncontrolled.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/17/utah…

Libyan warring factions agree to protect oil production facilities
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-17
The talks in Brega led to an agreement to create a joint force to protect the facilities. The political talks that were going in parallel did not lead to an agreement on a transitional government…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/17/libyan-wa…

Assessing Alternative Payment Models
Gondi S, Wadhera RK. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-11-17
To the Editor Dr Navathe and colleagues suggested that alternative payment models have played a key role in slowing the growth of US health care spending despite evidence indicating they have limited effect. They posited that the true effect of alternative payment models has been underestimated in individual evaluations because these models have been compared with a declining spending baseline.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticl…

Muslim Pro users denounce tech firm after their data ‘sold to US military’
Nadda Osman | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-17
Muslim Pro users denounce tech firm after their data ‘sold to US military’ | Muslims leave damning reviews online and offer alternatives to app used for prayer | Nadda Osman | Tue, 11/17/2020 – 12: 28 | Thousands of people have said they are deleting the app after it was revealed the company was selling users’ personal data to brokers (Screengrab) | Muslim Pro users are posting negative reviews about the popular praye…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-military-d…

Thursday 11/19: 270 by 2024: National Popular Vote for President Virtual Summit
Common Cause & partners | indybay.org | 2020-11-17
Online via Zoom…
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