2020-11-28: Social Media Postees

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Assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh condemned across the globe
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-28
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was attacked by unknown assailants near Tehran on Friday. Both Iranian authorities and observers around the world accused Israel of being behind the murder…
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Iran Accuses Israel of Killing Nuclear Scientist
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-28
Iranian President Hasan Rohani has accused Israel of being behind the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fajrizadeh, considered to be the director of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, and has denounced that his death was the result of an “act of terrorism.” | RELATED: | Iran’s Nuclear Program Director Killed in Terrorist Attack | In a statement, the Iranian president indicated “once again, the evil hands of global arrogance, with the usurping Zionist regime as a mercen…
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“Superheroes” and “Nice” guys: Coverage of Biden’s hawkish cabinet picks is predictably lacking
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-11-28
Just as they failed to hold power to account in the run-up to the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, corporate media is refusing to ask the hard questions about Biden’s hawkish cabinet picks.
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Revolutionary Friedrich Engels at 200
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-11-28
Today the world is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels, renowned across the globe as one of the greatest revolutionaries and theorists to ever live.
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Diego Maradona: Comrade of the Global South
David Zirin | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-28
The world mourns today following the passing of Diego Maradona, the soccer God and revolutionary from Argentina whose play inspired all manner of poetry and prose. The best description of Maradona’s abilities came from the late Eduardo Galeano who wrote of Maradona in his book Soccer in Sun and Shadow, No one can predict the devilish …
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New ultra-right Supreme Court majority invokes religion to block COVID-19 safety measures
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
The Supreme Court struck down New York’s measures to control the spread of COVID-19 by limiting indoor events, including religious services, heralding the power of the new five-justice, ultra-reactionary bloc.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/supr…

Where is Canadian Media on the Assange File?
Peter Biesterfeld | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-28
After 10 years of restricted freedom, political exile and incarceration, Julian Assange finally came face-to-face with his accusers at the Old Bailey Criminal Court in London. For three weeks in September, a team of English lawyers argued on behalf of their client, the U.S. Department of Justice, that the beleaguered WikiLeaks founder and publisher should …
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The Emperor Has No Clothes
Andres Kargar | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-28
I reviewed Sra. Michelle Bachelet’s Report on Venezuela, and was quite outraged at her lack of consideration and due diligence. I will, in a moment, tell everyone why this report needs to be trashed, but even before that, I think I should mention two systemic flaws about this type of reporting regardless of which country …
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We suffer from an incurable disease called hope
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-11-28
The total level of global indebtedness now sits at an astronomical $277 trillion, an increase of $15 trillion since 2019. This amount is equivalent to 365% of the global gross domestic product.
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Climate change, hurricanes and their destruction in Central America
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-11-28
Hurricane Iota, the 30th named storm, 13th hurricane and 6th major hurricane of 2020, made landfall in Nicaragua just 10 miles south of where Hurricane Eta struck two weeks earlier. Iota was more powerful than Eta, carried more rain and did more damage, especially to the Indigenous communities in Honduras . . . | Continue reading Climate change, hurricanes and their destruction in Central America at Workers.org
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200 years since the birth of Friedrich Engels
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
Born on Nov. 28, 1820, Engels was the co-founder of scientific socialism with his friend Karl Marx, who was two-and-a-half years his senior. Two hundred years later, their life’s work is of burning contemporary relevance.
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Marx on exploitation: an ABC for an unequal world
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-11-28
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
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[World Report] Funding crisis threatens Palestinian refugee agency
Sharmila Devi | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East says that a $300 million shortfall is threatening health services. Sharmila Devi reports.
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Colombians embark on a fresh national strike against Ivan Duque
Tanya Wadhwa | zcomm.org | 2020-11-28
The nationwide protest is being carried out in rejection police brutality, economic crisis, massacres and the indifference of the national government towards them…
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Moving past apartheid: one-state is not ideal justice, but it is just and possible
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-11-28
Once again, Europe’s top diplomats expressed their ‘deep concern’ regarding Israel’s ongoing illegal settlement expansion, again evoking the maxim that Israeli actions “threaten the viability of the two-state solution”
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Iran not to hesitate to revenge for Fakhrizadeh assassination
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Commenting on the assassination of top Iranian scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, an Iranian expert says Iran will respond to Friday’s assassination.
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Iran calls on intl. community to condemn terror attack
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Iranian Embassy to France on Saturday called for international community to condemn assassination of Iranian prominent nuclear scientist ‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’.
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Envoy urges UK to ‘condemn’ Fakhrizadeh terror
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Iran’s Ambassador to the UK has urged London to ‘unreservedly condemn’ Friday’s terror attack against Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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Iran knows how to punish aggressors of scientist’s attack
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Ali Rabiei vowed that aggressors of the Friday terror attack of Iranian scientists will definitely be punished, and it is Iran that defines where and how the punishment will happen.
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Iran must limit IAEA’s access to its nuclear facilities
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Spokesman said that the Islamic Republic must reduce IAEA’s inspections to a minimum.
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COVID-19 daily deaths drop below 400 after nearly a month
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — According to the latest announced figures by the Iranian Health Ministry, daily death toll of the COVID-19 has dropped belowe 400 for the first time since Oct. 31.
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ICRC to grant SFr 250K of aid to IRCS amid outbreak
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — ICRC will provide SFr 250,000 worth of humanitarian aid to the Iranian Red Crescent Society so as to provide home oxygen equipment for Covid-19 patients.
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FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers: Iran defeats Saudi Arabia
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Iran’s national basketball team gained a 71-64 win over Saudi Arabia on matchday three of the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup qualifiers.
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Iran Navy to unveil homegrown ‘Dena’ destroyer in near future
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Commander of the Iranian Navy announced that Iran Navy is supposed to unveil the new home-made “Dena” destroyer and the “Zereh” missile launcher in the coming month.
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Iran to continue path of Martyr Fakhrizadeh: Sattari
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Iran’s Vice President for Science and Technology said that the Islamic Republic will continue the path of Martyr Fakhrizadeh to achieve more technological advances.
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Assassination of Iranian scientist act of terrorism: Turkey
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Turkish parliament head said that the assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist was an act of terror, whether committed by an illegal group or state.
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Iran has always been at forefront of fight against terrorism
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister said that Islamic Republic of Iran has always been at the forefront of fight against terrorism.
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Changing IAEA’s access requires decisions at highest levels
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that changing access of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s inspectors should be decided at the highest levels.
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Parl. to mandate gov. to reduce IAEA inspections to zero
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — An Iranian lawmaker announced that Parliament seeks to mandate the government to reduce the level of IAEA spy inspections of nuclear and military installations to zero.
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Intl. reactions to assassination of Iranian top scientist
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — The assassination of Iranian scientist Fakhrizadeh provoked many reactions in the region and the world but in the meantime, the silence of many human rights defenders in not condemning this assassination is debatable.
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[Comment] First-line treatment for type 2 diabetes: is it too early to abandon metformin?
Francesco Zaccardi, Kamlesh Khunti, Nikolaus Marx, Melanie J Davies | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
With the sulfonylurea gliclazide and insulin, metformin is part of the triad of antihyperglycaemic agents on the 2019 WHO list of essential medications. In most international guidelines on the management of hyperglycaemia, metformin is the recommended first-line glucose-lowering agent in patients with type 2 diabetes. The evidence that underpins these recommendations is partly based on the efficacy results in a small subgroup of the UK Prospective Diabetes Study participants, which showed a reduction in macrovascular and microvascular complications in overweight people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes randomi…
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Police investigate ‘Toilet of England’ prank on Kent road signs
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-28
Activists behind an anti-Brexit stunt that rebranded Kent as the “Toilet of England” have said police have better things to do than investigate their prank.Park and deride: Signs across the county were changed by a group of campaigners opposed to Brexit. Where before motorists would be politely informed they were entering the Garden of England — as Kent is known — the new message read: Welcome to Kent The Toilet of England.The stunt aimed to highlight fears of huge lorry queues along the county’s motorways, with suggestions that portable toilets will have to be installed on roadsides for use by de…
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Transforming the Corporate System, One Step at a Time
Collective 20 | zcomm.org | 2020-11-28
If we want a different world, one that respects people and all life on earth, we should not despair. We have the solutions and a movement-wide boycott could serve as an important vehicle for implementing those solutions…
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The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a “Test” To Lock Down Society
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-28
The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…
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Police escalate violence in Providence, Rhode Island amid calls to defund
Max Binder | liberationnews.org | 2020-11-28
“It’s very obvious the Providence Police Department and Rhode Island State Police have been essentially on a spree. Just about every action, most of them that I’ve attended, they have started riots.”
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Mass shootings in the US have risen sharply in 2020–why?
Craig Jackson | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-28
There have been 578 mass shootings so far this year, this is already significantly above the 417 mass shootings recorded in the whole of 2019.
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History of World War I and Its Aftermath: The Ludendorff Dictatorship’s Expansionist Policies in Europe
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-28
Shortly before midday on 9 November 1923, around 3,000 far-right insurgents began marching on Munich, Germany’s second largest city in the south of the country. Before these brownshirts had set out it was clear to the Nazi Party leader, the …
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Tuesday 12/1: Alicia Garza: BLM Co-Founder & Activist on New Book, “The Purpose of Power”
Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-11-28
Online via livestream…
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Lethridge Professor Anthony Hall & The FBI Seizure Of The American Herald Tribune Website
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-11-28
Lethridge Professor Anthony Hall is interviewed about the efforts to fire him for his criticism of Israel and also the action by the FBI to shutdown is website of American Herald Tribune which he edited.
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[Articles] First human facial retransplantation: 30-month follow-up
Laurent Lantieri, Bernard Cholley, Cedric Lemogne, Romain Guillemain, Nicolas Ortonne, Philippe Grimbert, Eric Thervet, Alexandre G Lellouch | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
This clinical report of the first documented human facial retransplantation is proof-of-concept that the loss of a facial transplant after CAMR can be mitigated successfully by retransplantation combined with an aggressive desensitisation process.
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Dr Pascal Sacré: Emergency Physician Unjustly Fired for His Writings on the COVID Crisis: The Right of Response
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-28
There, it happened. | For my words, my words, my writings, I was dismissed like a waste, a thief, without the right to answer. | An experienced, competent emergency physician, appreciated by his colleagues for my actions in stressful situations, fired in …
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Massive spread of COVID-19 in Kentucky schools and death of 15-year-old girl prompts statewide school closures
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
Almost 10,000 K-12 students and 2,000 faculty members are presently in quaratine or isolation across Kentucky.
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Canada and Venezuela
Yves Engler | zcomm.org | 2020-11-28
Despite claims to objectivity and fairness, when it comes to Canadian interference in other countries’ domestic affairs, there’s long been only one side to the story reported in the dominant media…
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How King County Employees Made Childcare a Union Benefit
Michael Laslett | zcomm.org | 2020-11-28
Ultimately SEIU 925 and our coalition partners dream of forming a multiemployer, multi-union childcare benefits trust in Washington state, covering public and private sector employers…
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Chilean health workers hold an indefinite national strike
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-28
The healthcare professionals are demanding special bonuses for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic and a greater budget for the public health sector in 2021, among other measures…
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New IRS rule will push many US small businesses to the brink
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
A new ruling by the Treasury Department will affect millions of small businesses that received a portion of the total $717 billion in relief funds from the US Small Business Administration through the federal Paycheck Protection Program.
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[Editorial] Maintaining the HIV response in a world shaped by COVID-19
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
Although global attention is dominated by COVID-19, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, as it enters its fifth decade, is far from over. Since the early 1980s, 75 ∑7 million people have become infected with HIV. 32 ∑7 million people have died from AIDS-related illnesses. HIV/AIDS remains a major public health crisis and only a few countries will meet the 90–90–90 treatment target for 2020. Much has been made of how information systems and service models in the HIV response have helped the COVID-19 response, but the COVID-19 pandemic could have knock-on effects on the HIV response and be devastating for com…
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Residents take action for the climate, against gas
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-28
Climate-concerned residents organised actions calling for 100% renewables in Parramatta and Newtown as part of a national day of action against the federal government’s gas-led recovery. Kerry Smith reports.
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Thursday 12/10: We Charge Genocide: Systemic Poverty in All Its Forms is Violence!
National Welfare Rights Union, NUH, partners | indybay.org | 2020-11-28
Online event…
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Government hyperbole and exceptionalism hides serious flaws in coronavirus programme
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-11-28
People on low income are avoiding Boris Johnson’s self lauded coronavirus (Covid-19) Test and Trace programme. The equally self lauded Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine may have significant flaws in its study design and outcomes. | Both are examples…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/11/28/gove…

Crisis & Critique: What is at stake in the parliamentary elections?
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-11-28
With legislative elections on the horizon, Ociel López looks at the different political forces and scenarios ahead.
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Joann Little and the right to self-defense
Minnie Bruce Pratt | workers.org | 2020-11-28
The following remarks were given at the Sept. 24 webinar “Women and Gender Oppressed Prisoners: Survival and Resistance,” hosted by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. A struggle waged in the U.S. South gives a historic lesson in how imprisoned women and gender-oppressed people have fought back. I . . . | Continue reading Joann Little and the right to self-defense at Workers.org
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This holiday season, hunger and poverty stalk the US
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-28
It’s holiday season in the United States but the country faces an unprecedented crisis as poverty and hunger are soaring and millions face the risk of evictions…
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Papua New Guinea embroiled in ongoing political turmoil
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
With a deepening economic and social disaster, the defection of MPs to the opposition has pitched the James Marape-led government into crisis.
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Dancing in the streets
Mumia Abu-Jamal | workers.org | 2020-11-28
Taken from a Nov. 8 audio column on prisonradio.org. An American president loses his hard-fought reelection bid, and within moments, the streets are full of people, who are beyond exultant: they are singing, they are dancing — dancing in the streets! I’ve never seen such a thing, nor was it . . . | Continue reading Dancing in the streets at Workers.org
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Health experts fear rapid tests may distract from vaccine work
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-28
Ambitious rapid coronavirus testing plans for England threaten to become a distraction from other key goals such as the roll-out of a vaccine, prominent health officials have warned.Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised the fast mass community testing systems conducted in Liverpool — which gave results in around 20 minutes without the need for a laboratory — will be replicated in all tier three areas after lockdown ends. This covers areas with a combined population of some 23 million people.Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Liverpool — where 300,000 people have been tested in the pilot scheme…
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FCA ramps up production at Warren Truck despite death of temporary worker from COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
The worker who succumbed to the virus had been hired less than three weeks before he became sick and had told his coworkers that he had waited a long time to get the chance for a job at FCA.
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Martyr Fakhrizadeh expose false supporters of human rights
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — IRGC Quds Force Commander said that Martyr Fakhrizadeh exposed the false supporters of human rights, democracy, and freedom.
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[World Report] Afghanistan braced for second wave of COVID-19
Sophie Cousins | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
Afghan health workers predict a second wave of COVID-19 infections, but is the health system ready? Sophie Cousins reports from Afghanistan.
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Department of Finance audit reveals repeated oil and gas regulation violations
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-11-28
“If you thought that dining with an oil lobbyist at French Laundry showed Newsom’s true colors, this audit proves you right,” said Kretzmann.
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Three problems of reading Engels and the reasons why we need to
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-28
On this bicentenary of Friedrich Engels, we need to understand the nature of the struggle of ideas that Engels was engaged in his times, and what its significance is today…
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[Correspondence] Harmful marketing to children — Authors’ reply
Anthony Costello, Sarah L Dalglish, Anshu Banerjee, Jeremy Shiffman, Helen Clark, WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
We thank Darren Powell for his insightful feedback. Members of the WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission1 agree with Powell that marketing of any products to children might encourage potentially harmful consumption for the child, the planet, and children’s futures, and that more work in both academic and political spheres is needed to highlight the risks.1 Our Commission’s analysis of children’s wellbeing and rights extends to the dangers of the commercialisation of childhood.
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Diego Maradona (1960-2020): Some Bittersweet Reflections
Thomas Palley | commondreams.org | 2020-11-28
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[Therapeutics] Direct oral anticoagulants: evidence and unresolved issues
Noel Chan, Magdalena Sobieraj-Teague, John W Eikelboom | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
Currently licenced direct oral anticoagulants selectively target thrombin (eg, dabigatran) or coagulation factor Xa (eg, apixaban, betrixaban, edoxaban, and rivaroxaban). Designed to be given in fixed doses without routine monitoring, direct oral anticoagulants have a lower propensity for food and drug interactions than do vitamin K antagonists, and in randomised controlled trials involving around 250‚Äà000 patients, they were at least as effective for prevention and treatment of thrombosis and were associated with a lower risk of life-threatening bleeding.
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Creating American Carnage
Dario Castillejos, Liza Donnelly, Felipe Galindo, Peter Kuper | thenation.com | 2020-11-28
Dario Castillejos, Liza Donnelly, Felipe Galindo, Peter Kuper Our Golfer-in-Chief’s parting shots at democracy.
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Biden Should Call for Emergency G20 Leaders Meeting, Says Religious Development Group
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2020-11-28
A religious development group urges President-elect Biden to convene an emergency G20 meeting upon inauguration into the high office.
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EPA warns glyphosate is likely to harm the nation’s most endangered species
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-28
“If we want to stop the extinction of amazing creatures like monarch butterflies, we need the EPA to take action to stop the out-of-control spraying of deadly poisons.”
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Dystopian “Great Reset”: “Own Nothing and Be Happy”, Being Human in 2030
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-28
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile individuals to discuss global issues. Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus …
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MAS factory workers in Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka, discuss concerns over pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
Workers’ concerns have been deepened because of the disastrous pandemic situation globally and in Sri Lanka.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/vana…

The Shortwave Report 11/27/20 Listen Globally!
Dan Roberts | indybay.org | 2020-11-28
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Spanish National Radio, Radio Havana Cuba, and Germany.
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‘The People Are Not Afraid Any More’: Young Peruvians Rise Up to Demand Change
Dan Collyns | zcomm.org | 2020-11-28
After a tumultuous week, Peru’s burgeoning grassroots movement says it will not accept a return to business as usual…
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‘No plans’ to change Hunting Act despite trail-hunting row
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-28
Environment secretary George Eustice said there was a “settled consensus” for the Hunting Act to remain unchanged, amid controversy that trail-hunting was being used as a “smokescreen” for the banned practice. | Suspensions: | It comes after the National Trust and Forestry England decided this week to suspend licences for trail hunting on their land while police investigate webinars by the governing body The Hunting Office, which discussed the…
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“We did not sign up to be raped”: Women veterans fight back against military sexual trauma
Johnnie Lewis | workers.org | 2020-11-28
The writer is a U.S. Army veteran and was an organizer of the American Servicemen’s Union, 1968-69. This month two veterans, represented by the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Service Clinic, won a lawsuit against the U.S. Army for giving “bad paper” discharges to veterans with mental health diagnoses. The . . . | Continue reading “We did not sign up to be raped”: Women veterans fight back against military sexual trauma at Workers.org
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Michigan COVID-19 hospitalizations pushing medical facilities to occupancy limits
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
The exponential surge in coronavirus cases in Michigan during the months of October and November has resulted in an alarming increase in the number of patients entering hospitals across the state with 53 facilities at 75 percent or higher bed occupancy.
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[Comment] Offline: Europe and COVID-19–struggling with tragedy
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA, publishes weekly reports on progress to control the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe. They make grim reading. The latest iteration, dated Nov 19, predicts that daily deaths from COVID-19 will continue to rise in the coming weeks, reaching a peak of over 7000 deaths per day around mid-January. Hospitals will be stretched to breaking point from December through to the end of February. COVID-19 is currently the second leading cause of death in the region–29‚Äà858 weekly deaths (ischaemic heart dis…
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[Correspondence] Harmful marketing to children
Darren Powell | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
The WHO–UNICEF–Lancet Commission1 identified an important threat to children’s health and futures by stating that children across the globe are exposed to exploitative advertising and marketing by the private sector. Fast food and sugar-sweetened beverages, alcohol, tobacco, e-cigarettes, breastmilk substitutes, and gambling, were positioned as the key products that children are increasingly exposed to and harmed by. However, by focusing on the marketing of particular so-called unhealthy products, the Commission has made a critical oversight.
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Otomí Community Maintains Takeover of Government Institution in Mexico City
El Enemigo Común | indybay.org | 2020-11-28
Despite lack of government response, Otomí Community carries on resistance at INPI.
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[Perspectives] Applying for residency in the time of COVID-19
Tema Fodje, Esther Choo | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
This year has been one of tremendous uncertainty for medical students, especially those entering their final year. The dynamics of selecting a specialty, preparing to apply for it, and entering the application process have been disrupted. Many rotations were cancelled or changed so the opportunities to fully explore a specialty were curtailed. Other research and extracurricular activities in support of such training were also constrained. Students entered application season with only the small comfort of knowing that everyone was pretty much in the same boat.
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[World Report] New international group on antimicrobial resistance
John Zarocostas | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
The One Health Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance aims to raise awareness and political advocacy on antimicrobial resistance. John Zarocostas reports from Geneva.
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[Correspondence] Ruxolitinib cream for the treatment of vitiligo
Shelley K Uppal, Donovan G Kearns, Vipawee S Chat, Jashin J Wu | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
We read with interest the study by David Rosmarin and colleagues,1 which investigated the safety and efficacy of ruxolitinib cream in vitiligo. The study concluded that ruxolitinib cream is safe and effective as monotherapy in treating patients with vitiligo.1 We believe that this generalised statement cannot be concluded based on major study limitations.
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BluSky workers in Cedar Rapids win victory against wage theft
Mike Kuhlenbeck | workers.org | 2020-11-28
Cedar Rapids, Iowa Nov. 24 — Six workers from Houston, Texas, hired for essential repairs on storm-damaged buildings in Cedar Rapids, won their battle against wage theft with the solidarity of labor, faith and community allies. In August, Iowa was hit by a rare hurricane-like storm known as a “derecho,” . . . | Continue reading BluSky workers in Cedar Rapids win victory against wage theft at Workers.org
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Stop the Press: The 20 Percent Solution
T.P. Wilkinson | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-28
The Great Reset Hymn I have heard a lot of discussion about when the war will end that began in April 2020. Yes, war. I have spent the better part of the past ten months trying to determine what the best attitude or approach to the current unpleasantness ought to be taken. A tension has …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/stop-the-pres…

[Correspondence] Ruxolitinib cream for the treatment of vitiligo — Authors’ reply
David Rosmarin, Kathleen Butler, Fiona Kuo, John E Harris | thelancet.com | 2020-11-28
We thank Shelley Uppal and colleagues for their comments on the randomised phase 2 trial of ruxolitinib cream for the treatment of vitiligo,1 in which concerns over the generalisability of the study population were raised. As a phase 2 study, the goal was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of different concentrations and dosing regimens of ruxolitinib cream in patients with non-segmental vitiligo before progressing to phase 3 studies, in which generalisability would be assessed. As such, our study1 does not state that ruxolitinib cream is a safe and effective treatment for vitiligo or conclude that the study’s f…
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Hard revenge awaiting scientist’s assassination perpetrators
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces said that terrorist groups and the commanders and perpetrators of the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh should be aware that severe revenge awaits them.
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‘Criminal act’: Ex-CIA chief urges Iran to wait on ‘return of responsible US leaders’ before reacting to nuclear scientist killing
rt.com | 2020-11-27
Former CIA Director John Brennan has commented on the killing of a top Iranian nuclear scientist by urging Tehran to wait for “return of responsible American leadership” before taking retaliation against suspected perpetrators. | Amid speculation about the involvement of both Israel and the US in the alleged assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Brennan dubbed the death “a criminal act [and] highly reckless.” | “It risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict,” he said of the Friday attack, which reportedly included unknown assailants attacking Fakhrizadeh and his securi…
rt.com/news/508058-cia-brennan-iran-scie…

Iran vows ‘severe revenge’ for assassination of nuclear scientist as UN chief urges ‘restraint’
rt.com | 2020-11-27
The masterminds and perpetrators behind the assassination of prominent Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh will face swift revenge, the Iranian military has vowed, as the UN calls for restraint to avoid escalation. | “The terrorist groups and the perpetrators of this hideous act should know that they will face severe revenge,” General Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s chief of staff and a Revolutionary Guards Corps commander, said in a statement in the wake of Fakhrizadeh’s ki…
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Israel behind attack on Iranian scientist: NY Times reports
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — New York Times quoted intelligence officials as saying that Israel regime was behind the assassination of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
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Venezuela Honors Anti-Oligarchic Bolivarian Rebellion of 1992
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
Venezuela’s Bolivarian Military Aviation (AMB) Friday paid tribute at the Aragua State to the civic-military rebellion that took place on Nov. 27, 1992, against neoliberal policies imposed by Carlos Perez’ administration (1974-1979). | RELATED: | Venezuela Strengthens Ties With Iran Amidst US Sanctions | As part of the tribute, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro unveiled a monument in honor of the AMB officers who lost their lives amid an insurrection which “represented the awake…
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UN Calls for Avoiding Escalation in Middle East Region Following Assassination of Iranian Scientist
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-27
The Iranian government suspects that the assassination was performed by Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, though Tel-Aviv has neither confirmed nor denied the allegation.
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NIAC Statement on the Attempted Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist
commondreams.org | 2020-11-27
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SEC services obliged to identify those behind assassination
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Condemning the assassination of Iranian scientists, Iran’s Judiciary Chief said that the intelligence and security services and the relevant judicial authorities are obliged to identify those behind the assassination.
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COVID-19 lockdown in Iran’s Sanandaj
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — A two-week plan for covid-19 restrictions started in several Iranian cities on Saturday, November 21, according to which car traffic is prohibited from 9 PM to 4 AM. The plan has been going on for a week now.
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Iran offers full commitment to JCPOA if Biden decides to re-join the nuclear deal and lift all sanctions
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-27
The Trump administration unilaterally withdrew from the deal in May 2018 and imposed various sanctions against Iran without any international approval…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/27/iran-offe…

Iran to make terrorists regret their act
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — A military aide to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said Iran will make the terrorists who are behind the assassination of its nuclear scientist regret their act.
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Velayati condemns assassination of Iranian scientist
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 28 (MNA) — Adviser to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution for International Affairs said that the visible and hidden perpetrators of the assassination of martyr Fakhrizadeh should wait for the revenge of Iranian nation.
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Iran Says There Are ‘Serious Indications of Israeli Responsibility’ in Nuclear Scientist’s Murder
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-27
Iranian officials earlier said that its prominent Iranian nuclear physicist was targeted by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, calling on the international community to condemn the attack.
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Iran’s Nuclear Program Director Killed in Terrorist Attack
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
Iran’s Defense Ministry Friday reported that scientist Mohsen Fajrizade, who heads the country’s nuclear program, was killed in a terrorist attack in Tehran. | RELATED: | Iran’s Foreign Minister Starts Latin American Tour in Venezuela | “A group of armed terrorists attacked Fajrizade’s vehicle,” the Ministry stated as he recalled that the scientist was serving as the director of the Defense Ministry’s Research and Innovation Organization. | Fajrizade was taken to a hospital…
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Terror attack not to set back Iran nuclear program
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Spokesman for Iranian Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission said that assassination of nuclear scientists does not set back Iran’s nuclear program.
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Anti-Iran Saber Rattling
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
For over 40 years, the US never attacked Iranian territory — other than by covert operations. | Tehran’s legitimate nuclear energy program has no military component — confirmed time and again by the IAEA and US intelligence community assessments. | Investigative journalist …
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Enemies not to stop plotting against Iran: Amir-Abdollahian
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Stating that the enemies will not stop plotting against the country, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the nuclear scientist assassination shows the US-Zionist effort to continue to hit the advancement of science in Iran.
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Iranian Navy’ authority nullifies dream of Global Arrogance
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Forces said that grandeur and authority of Navy Force of Islamic Republic of Iran nullified dream of Global Arrogance and foreign powers to dominate security components of the region.
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Scientist’s assassination a coward move with Israeli role
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif strongly condemned the assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist, saying the coward move had serious indications of the Israeli regime’s role.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166422/Scientist-s-…

Trump and a Republic That We Could not Keep
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
Donald Trump refuses to concede and claims the 2020 election was rift with fraud. American democracy is in peril. Then the GSA will fund the Biden presidential transition. His lawsuits are coming to an end. The electoral college will soon cast its ballots. And Donald Trump will no longer be president of the US. The…
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Venezuela: The Road To D6 Parliamentary Elections
educators/Dropbox/_data/_rss/telesurenglish.net.xml | 2020-11-27
On December 6, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will celebrate the first parliamentary elections since the National Assembly, which holds legislative power, was declared “in contempt” in 2016 after the opposition majority body repeatedly violated the constitutional order. | RELATED: | LATAM Electoral Experts Certifies Venezuela’s Voting System | According to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, over 300 international observers are registered to participate in the elections due…
Venezuela: The Road To D6 Parliamentary Elections

U.S. Election ‘Success’… And Hey Presto ‘Russian Interference’ Disappears
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-27
The United States’ election victory of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has yet to be officially confirmed. That requires the 500-plus Electoral College comprising the 50 federal states to cast the final vote when the constitutional body meets on December 14. Biden holds a commanding lead of over 300 delegates in the Electoral College, more than 70 above Donald Trump’s quota and decisively more than the 270 threshold required for election to the White House. | Nonetheless, already one thing is indisputably clear. Biden’s nominal victory from the popular vote tallies is glaring proof that Russia did not i…
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Mexico: Senate Passes a Reform Set To End Presidential Immunity
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
Mexico’s Senate approved Thursday a constitutional reform that seeks to eliminate presidential immunity by allowing the prosecutions filled against Presidents not only on treason offenses but also for corruption, electoral, and all other crimes. | RELATED: | Mexico: Ex-Official Videgaray Rejects New Corruption Allegations | The reform was approved with 89 votes in favor and 23 against and must now be approved by at least 17 of the 32 State legislatures in order to be endorsed…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Senate-Pa…

Trump and a Republic That We Could not Keep
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
Donald Trump refuses to concede and claims the 2020 election was rift with fraud. American democracy is in peril. Then the GSA will fund the Biden presidential transition. His lawsuits are coming to an end. The electoral college will soon cast its ballots. And Donald Trump will no longer be president of the US. The…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/27/trump-and-a-…

Biden’s Promise: America Is Back(wards)
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
With President Donald Trump all but conceding to the transition team that will take over after January next year, interest now shifts to President-elect Joe Biden’s choices for cabinet. On the national security front, the imperial-military lobby will have …
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Four Days in Occupied Western Sahara — A Rare Look Inside Africa’s Last Colony as Ceasefire Ends
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-11-27
In this special rebroadcast of a Democracy Now! exclusive documentary, we break the media blockade and go to occupied Western Sahara in the northwest of Africa to document the decades-long Sahrawi struggle for freedom and Morocco’s violent crackdown. Morocco has occupied the territory since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community. Thousands have been tortured, imprisoned, killed and disappeared while resisting the Moroccan occupation. A 1,700-mile wall divides Sahrawis who remain under occupation from those who fled into exile. Earlier this month, a three-decade ceasefire in Western…
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Venezuela Presents Proposal for an International Association Against US Sanctions to Stop Crimes Against Humanity (UN Security Council)
Orinoco Tribune | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Samuel Moncada, intervened this Wednesday in the session of the Security Council to denounce the economic aggression of the United States against twenty-nine countries of the world, through …
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Maradona: The Bolivarian Soccer Genius
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-27
The fighting peoples of the world lost a humble legend yesterday. Diego Armando Maradona was 60 years old. Arguably the greatest soccer player to ever grace the pitches, the spirited striker combined unparalleled skills in his sport and an unflinching outspokenness before oppression. No other sports figure’s public statements and transformation has equally captured the changing momentum across Latin America. | The hundreds of thousands of tributes being paid throughout the world portray a particular image: Maradona in close solidarity with the biggest progressive leaders of the social reformist wave embraced by t…
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Selected Articles: No Thanks on Thanksgiving During US-Engineered Economic Collapse
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
No Thanks on Thanksgiving During US-Engineered Economic Collapse | By Stephen Lendman, November 27 2020 | On Thanksgiving day, throughout the year, with likely worsening times ahead, ordinary Americans are suffering through the hardest of hard times in US history. For | …
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No Thanks on Thanksgiving During US-Engineered Economic Collapse
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
On Thanksgiving day, throughout the year, with likely worsening times ahead, ordinary Americans are suffering through the hardest of hard times in US history. | For 36 straight weeks since March, over one million Americans sought unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. | It’s …
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Scheer Intelligence: The California Genocide No One Talks About
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-27
UCLA history professor Benjamin Madley’s book An American Genocide: The United States and the California Catastrophe 1846-1873 details the killing of tens of thousands of Native Americans as the state was being settled in the 19th century. In their conversation, Madley tells Robert Scheer why he believes these massacres did, in fact, constitute genocide in its 20th century United Nations definition. He talks about white settlers’ dehumanization and paranoia about “the other,” and the exceptions to that way of thinking.
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Feminism Not Militarism
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-11-27
Interview on the Movement to Oppose Michèle Flournoy as Pentagon Chief…
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First of four UN humanitarian airlifts for Ethiopia refugees lands in Khartoum
news.un.org | 2020-11-27
An airplane loaded with humanitarian supplies for people fleeing violence in Ethiopia’s Tigray region has arrived in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the UN refugee agency (UNCHR) said on Friday, in an appeal for international assistance to cope with the growing numbers seeking shelter in Sudan.
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Israel Continues To Tear Down Houses in Occupied West Bank
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
The NGO Betselem denounced that Israel demolished a dozen houses in eight villages spread between the areas of Ramallah, southern Hebron, and the Jordan Valley, all of which are under Israeli security and administrative control. | RELATED: | Egypt Allows Opening of Rafah Crossing With Gaza Strip | “As part of its efforts to seize more land in the West Bank, Israel demolished on Thursday four houses where 18 people lived, including seven minors,” the humanitarian NGO said. | The Israeli…
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Maradona: The Fragile God of the Global South
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
His life was a running planetary pop opera for the ages. From Somalia to Bangladesh, everyone is familiar with the basic contours of his story — the pibe from Villa Fiorito, a poor suburb of Buenos Aires (“I am a …
globalresearch.ca/maradona-fragile-god-g…

House Arrest for Bolivian Military Officer Accused of Murder
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
A court judge in Sacaba (Cochabamba) decided on Thursday to impose house arrest for the commander of the Armed Forces, General Alfredo Cuellar, accused of murder during the massacre that occurred in November 2019 during the police-army intervention against a public march of coca growers who were trying to reach the city of Cochabamba in support of deposed President Evo Morales. | RELATED: | Bolivia: General Alfredo Cuellar Arrested Over Sacaba Massacre | Cuellar, who was arrested…
telesurenglish.net/news/House-Arrest-for…

Police Launch Violent Crackdown On Paris Refugee Camp
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-27
French riot police went on a fascistic rampage Monday evening, brutally assaulting a peaceful tent camp of some 500 refugees at the Place de la République in central Paris. | Police used teargas, kicked and beat migrants with batons, tipped refugees out of their tents and assaulted them on the ground. Journalists filming the crackdown were also assaulted. The riot officers threw dozens of confiscated tents into trucks and drove them away. | After the square was cleared, a group of several hundred homeless refugees were forced to march north until they reached the outer suburbs around the city, pursued by police t…
popularresistance.org/police-launch-viol…

Police brutality against protesting migrants in Paris draws widespread outrage
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-27
On November 23, Monday, French police brutally attacked migrants protesting at the Place de la Republique in Paris against last week’s forceful evacuation of the Saint-Denis migrant camp…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/27/police-br…

The War Crimes of Bush and Blair — Afghanistan and Iraq
Rod Driver | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
“The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law…We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to …
globalresearch.ca/war-crimes-bush-blair-…

Venezuela Convicts Six CITGO Former Executives of Corruption
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
Six former executives of the CITGO Petroleum Corporation were sentenced to between eight and 13 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption. | RELATED: | Venezuela Announces International Lawsuit Against US | Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) announced that Citgo former President Jose Pereira will be in jail for 13 years and seven months for the crimes of “intentional embezzlement and conspiracy.” | Pereira also will have to pay a fine of US$2 million, equivalent to…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Finds-…

Bolsonaro Declines To Testify on His Meddling With Police
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro informed the Federal Supreme Court (STF) that he will not testify over the investigation into his alleged interference in the Federal Police’s work. | RELATED: | Brazil: Senate Passes Bill to Penalize Racial Hate Crimes | His decision was notified on Thursday by the Attorney General’s Office (AGU) which is the body in charge of the defense of the Executive branch in judicial proceedings. | STF Minister Celso de Mello ordered that Bolsonaro appear t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolsonaro-Declin…

The New Norm: UK Government Lawbreaking
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
Government lawbreaking in Boris Johnson’s adminstration has now reached an unprecedented scale for a British government — and we should all be concerned. | In September last year, the supreme court ruled that Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen that …
globalresearch.ca/new-norm-government-la…

The New Norm: Government Lawbreaking
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
Government lawbreaking in Boris Johnson’s adminstration has now reached an unprecedented scale for a British government — and we should all be concerned. | In September last year, the supreme court ruled that Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen that …
globalresearch.ca/new-norm-government-la…

Supreme Court blocks New York’s restrictions on religion amid COVID-19
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-27
The Supreme Court’s majority ruled that “even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten.”
nationofchange.org/2020/11/27/supreme-co…

Venezuela Convicts Six CITGO Former Executives Of Corruption
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-27
Six former executives of the CITGO Petroleum Corporation were sentenced to between eight and 13 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption. | Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) announced that Citgo former President Jose Pereira will be in jail for 13 years and seven months for the crimes of “intentional embezzlement and conspiracy.” | Pereira also will have to pay a fine of US$2 million, equivalent to 40 percent of the value of the embezzled goods. | Former executives Tomeu Vadell, Jorge Toledo, Gustavo Cardenas, Jose Zambrano, and Alirio Zambrano will serve eight years and ten months in priso…
popularresistance.org/venezuela-convicts…

“Any return to ‘normality’ is a long way off”: Musicians and technicians speak to the WSWS
wsws.org | 2020-11-27
Several British artists and performance technicians spoke to the World Socialist Web Site about the impact of the pandemic on them and their work.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/27/arin…

Union official denounces WSWS, seeks to intimidate workers at Australia Post meeting
wsws.org | 2020-11-27
At a meeting last week, a CEPU official responded to a workers’ call for collective action with a hysterical outburst against the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/27/post…

France Risks More Than It Gains by Joining U.S.-led Anti-China Efforts
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
COVID-19, which has thus far killed over 1.4 million people globally; the alleged treatment of the Uighur minority; the neoliberal-supporting rioters in Hong Kong; and, the trade war with Washington, have all contributed to the deterioration of China’s image in …
globalresearch.ca/france-risks-more-than…

Why Imperialism is Obsolete in Latin America
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
In September 2018, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro visited China, where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping and signed a series of important agreements on trade and culture. Toward the end of his stay, Maduro said that the two countries had built “a relationship of mutual benefit, of shared gain.”
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Why Imperialism is Obsolete in Latin America
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
In September 2018, Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro visited China, where he met with China’s President Xi Jinping and signed a series of important agreements on trade and culture. Toward the end of his stay, Maduro said that the two countries had built “a relationship of mutual benefit, of shared gain.”
counterpunch.org/2020/11/27/why-imperial…

Dangerous Crossroads: NATO’s Attempted Infringement of Russia’s Airspace and Maritime Borders
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
Recent attempted infringements of Russia’s airspace and maritime borders by NATO are very dangerous instances of de-facto brinksmanship intended to provoke the Eurasian Great Power into reacting in a way that could then be manipulated as the “plausible pretext” for …
globalresearch.ca/nato-attempted-infring…

Israeli blockade Has Cost Gaza $16.7 Billion
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-27
Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip cost the Palestinian enclave’s economy an estimated $16.7 billion in just over a decade, the United Nations said Wednesday. | The coastal enclave has been under an Israeli-enforced blockade since 2007, the year the Islamist movement Hamas took power. | In the 11 ensuing years, its economic situation deteriorated dramatically, the UN Conference on Trade and Development found in a new report. | Between 2007 and 2018, “the estimated cumulative economic cost of the Israeli occupation in Gaza under the prolonged closure and severe economic and movement restrictions and military oper…
popularresistance.org/israeli-blockade-h…

Why COVID-19 Granted the U.S. Most Favored Nation Status
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
Routinely described by its “leaders” as “the greatest country in the world” (hereafter “GCITW”) and “the richest country in the world” (hereafter “RCITW”), the United States is home to 4.25% of the world’s population but 21% of global COVID-19 cases and 18% of global COVID-19 deaths. Why has the GCITW fared so poorly in responding…
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Why COVID-19 Granted the U.S. Most Favored Nation Status
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
Routinely described by its “leaders” as “the greatest country in the world” (hereafter “GCITW”) and “the richest country in the world” (hereafter “RCITW”), the United States is home to 4.25% of the world’s population but 21% of global COVID-19 cases and 18% of global COVID-19 deaths. Why has the GCITW fared so poorly in responding…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/27/why-covid-19…

Expansion and Mass Eviction: Israel ‘Takes Advantage’ of Trump’s Remaining Days in Office
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
In a few words, a close associate of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, summed up the logic behind the ongoing frenzy to expand illegal Jewish settlements in Israel.
counterpunch.org/2020/11/27/expansion-an…

Why Imperialism Is Obsolete in Latin America
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-11-27
An interview with Jorge Arreaza, foreign minister of Venezuela…
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The double struggle of Black Native Americans
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-11-27
The legacy of slavery and anti-Black racism haunts Indian Country, too. To this day, Black descendants of Indigenous nations fight for acknowledgment and citizenship from their tribes.
therealnews.com/the-double-struggle-of-b…

Britain’s Class War on Children
John Pilger | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful. In Hackney, in 1975, I filmed Irene Brunsden’s family. Irene told me she gave her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes.
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Britain’s Class War on Children
John Pilger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
In this abridged article published by the London Daily Mirror & based on his 1975 film, Smashing Kids, John Pilger describes class as Britain’s most virulent disease, causing record levels of child poverty. | *** | When I first reported on child | …
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Roaming Charges: Dumb All Over, Again
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
So we have the same “originalists” who used to argue that the “Constitution isn’t a suicide pact” to justify torture, rendition and extrajudicial killings have now ruled that the Constitution is a murder-suicide pact when it comes to religious services during a killer pandemic.
counterpunch.org/2020/11/27/roaming-char…

International Coalition Of Activists Launches Protest Against Amazon
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-27
An international group of climate activists and Amazon warehouse workers have launched an online campaign called “Make Amazon Pay,” calling on the tech giant to provide better working conditions for its employees and to reduce its expanding carbon footprint. The protests come just as the New York Times reports that the Seattle-based company has been on a hiring spree this year, expanding its global workforce. | “During the Covid-19 pandemic, Amazon became a trillion dollar corporation, with CEO Jeff Bezos becoming the first person in history to amass $200 billion in personal wealth,” the campaign states on its we…
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This Black Friday, it is time to #MakeAmazonPay
Casper Gelderblom | zcomm.org | 2020-11-27
Starting this Black Friday, the Progressive International is mobilizing with Amazon workers and their allies around the world. Here’s why…
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China Stabilizes as the West Dithers
Tom Clifford | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
Beijing. It isn’t about what happened, it’s about what will happen. Our time has come is the catchphrase, a rallying cry. The people are told they have been cheated. It won’t happen again. We are the justice seekers. Upend the global trade order, it is skewed against us. This is heady stuff. These are not…
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What is Happening in the United States
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
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On to Normalcy
Paul Atwood | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
On Veteran’s Day last my chapter of Veterans for Peace/Major General Smedley Butler Brigade, stood out on one of the nation’s most ancient and venerable platforms of dissent, Boston Common. We are an aging group. Once able to marshal hundreds, only 15 of us carried placards condemning war and speaking forcefully against numerous overseas troop…
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How Mitch McConnell’s Do Nothing Republicans Are Killing You
Robert Reich | commondreams.org | 2020-11-27
To them I ask: How much death and suffering must the American people endure before you act? | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Court in Tunisia sentences blogger to two years in prison over social media posts
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-27
Blogger Wajdi Mahouechi was reportedly arrested after he criticized the public prosecutor in Tunisia. On November 12, the Tunis First Instance Court convicted him of all charges and sentenced him to two years in prison along with a fine of 1,000 Tunisian Dinars (USD 300)…
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COVID-19: Testing still vital even as vaccines roll out
news.un.org | 2020-11-27
Testing will still be a critical tool against COVID-19, even as vaccines are deployed against the disease, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday during his regular briefing on the crisis.
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Blue Plaque unveiled for Nobel Prize-winner Abdus Salam
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-11-27
English Heritage have unveiled a Blue Plaque to mark the home of Professor Abdus Salam, who founded the Theoretical Physics Department at Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/209573/blue-plaque-unveiled-nobel-prize-winner-abdus

Vindicating Jeremy Corbyn
Megan Sherman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
By now the apocalyptic metaphor for Jeremy Corbyn has crept through the doors of our consciousness. The tendency in the press to describe the unlikely leader in foreboding words which contain a warning: toxic; dangerous; destroy; risk, has gone in …
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How the Richmond Progressive Alliance Organized for Victory
Mike Parker | zcomm.org | 2020-11-27
In California the Richmond Progressive Alliance won another stunning victory in this month’s local elections…
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Attack on protest camp leaves six dead, dozens wounded in Iraq’s south
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-27
Attack on protest camp leaves six dead, dozens wounded in Iraq’s south | Followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attack tent camp of anti-government protesters in Nasiriyah’s Haboubi Square | MEE and agencies | Fri, 11/27/2020 – 17: 45 | Tens of thousands of Sadr supporters hit the streets of Baghdad and southern city of Nasiriyah (AFP/File photo) | Six people have died and dozens of others wounded in southern I…
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’16th Resistance Int’l FilmFest festival of wonders’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Director of the 16th Resistance International Film Festival Mahdi Azimi-Mirabadi said this international cinematic event was the festival of wonders.
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‘Hunger Like They’ve Never Seen It Before’: US Food Banks Struggle as 1 in 6 Families With Children Don’t Have Enough to Eat
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-11-27
“We’re now seeing families who had an emergency fund but it’s gone and they’re at the end of their rope,” said one Texas food bank director. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Biden Should Call for Emergency G20 Leaders Meeting, Says Religious Development Group
commondreams.org | 2020-11-27
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Guatemalans Calls for New Protests Against President Giammattei
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
Guatemala’s social and student organizations called for taking to the streets this Saturday to urge an end to President Alejandro Giammattei’s government “whose neoliberal policies have entrenched corruption.” | RELATED: | Guatemala: Two Young Protesters Lose an Eye Due to Gas Shots | “Workers and students will take over the country’s main squares to demand change. We are disappointed at the government for its lack of interest in the most vulnerable people,” the University Students Asso…
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Venezuela Resumes Sending Oil to China Despite U.S. Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
British news agency Reuters informed as such this Friday, citing tracking data of Refinitiv Eikon’s ships and the state owned company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA). | The news comes after illegal U.S. sanctions, which since 2019 prevented the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and the PetroChina refinery from loading crude oil and fuels in Venezuelan ports. | RELATED: | Venezuela, China Inaugurate Refinery to Boost Production | According to the source, the first tank…
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African nations ‘far from ready’ for COVID-19 vaccination drive, says UN health agency
news.un.org | 2020-11-27
As efforts to find a safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19 are showing increasing promise, the African continent is “far from ready” to roll out what will be its largest ever immunization drive, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
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Charity issues warning that fuel poverty will kill terminally ill people quicker this winter
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-27
Fuel poverty will kill people quicker this winter as terminally ill people struggle to afford to heat their homes, a charity has warned. | At risk: | High energy bills, delays in accessing benefits, and the other costs associated with their illness are leaving terminally ill people struggling to afford their heating costs, said end of life charity Marie Curie. It warned the consequences of living in cold, damp housing could lead to new infections, make existing symptoms worse, affect mental wellbeing and in the worst cases even hasten death. | In a report on 27 November, it said between 2014-2019 in Engla…
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Labour-run Croydon council declares bankruptcy due to rampant property speculation
wsws.org | 2020-11-27
The council has outlined spending cuts demanding hundreds of job losses and will “stop delivering some services that we know our communities find valuable.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/27/croy…

Berejiklian threatens to demolish inner city public housing
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-27
Residents in the Glebe public housing estate were letterboxed on November 11 about the demolition of their homes. The next day, public housing residents in Eveleigh received a similar letter. Rachel Evans reports.
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Cuba and Japan Sign First Memorandum on Health Cooperation
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
On Thursday afternoon, the signing ceremony of a cooperation memorandum between the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare of Japan and the Ministry of Public Health of Cuba (Minsap) took place, intending to collaborate to strengthen the public health and medical assistance system, as well as to share the experience in the treatment of the elderly.
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Escaping the Armed Madhouse
Chad Nelson | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
A review of Robert Anton Wilson’s The Starseed Signals…
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The Rich Are Cheering Wall Street’s Latest Records. Americans of Modest Means Are Draining 401(k)s
Sam Pizzigati | commondreams.org | 2020-11-27
The nation’s woefully inadequate response to the pandemic is jeopardizing millions of retirement futures. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Several Hundred Inmates Involved in Massive Riot at Arizona Prison
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-27
The incident happened after ‘several hundred inmates grouped together around staff and refused to disperse’. Corrections officers deployed ‘nonlethal munitions’ including pepper balls and rubber bullets but it remains unclear what caused the riot itself.
sputniknews.com/world/202011271081296526…

Police to pay out £875,000 over the arrest of two journalists
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-27
Police have agreed to pay significant damages to two journalists inappropriately arrested over material that appeared in a documentary on the conflict in the north of Ireland.It is understood the PSNI has also agreed to delete material it seized from Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey and they raided their homes and offices in August 2018.The PA news agency understands that the PSNI has agreed to pay out £875,000.The total includes £600,000 to Fine Point Films, £150,000 to Birney and £125,000 to McCaffrey.The news a settlement had been reached was announced during a brief hearing at Belfast…
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The Rise of Black Power in Britain
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
With striking parallels to the story Aaron Sorkin told–very problematically–in “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” Steve McQueen’s “Mangrove” brings to life a much more obscure historical struggle against judicial injustice. This is the first in a series of five films McQueen made for the BBC about Black life in England. The Mangrove was a…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/27/the-rise-of-…

(Un)Happy Holiday: Trump Administration Gifts Big Oil as it Guts Migratory Bird Treaty Act
commondreams.org | 2020-11-27
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Bolivia: Court Lifts Photojournalist Facundo Molares’ Arrest
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
In Bolivia, Montero City’s Criminal ruled the cessation of preventive detention measures against Facundo Molares, an Argentine photojournalist who is being investigated for crimes committed during…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Court-Li…

Study finds meatpacking plants were responsible for 8 percent of coronavirus cases in opening phase of pandemic in the US
wsws.org | 2020-11-27
The findings of the study are an indictment not only of the major meatpacking companies themselves but the entire political establishment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/27/meat…

Retail lobby pushes to keep stores open for the holiday season as workers fear for their lives
Nicole Karlis | salon.com | 2020-11-27
If you walk into a store and it’s crowded, “leave,” experts say. But retail workers don’t have that option…
salon.com/2020/11/27/retail-lobby-pushes…

Attack on protest camp leaves six dead, dozens wounded in Iraq’s south
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-27
Attack on protest camp leaves six dead, dozens wounded in Iraq’s south | Followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attack tent camp of anti-government protesters in Nasiriyah’s Haboubi Square | MEE and agencies | Fri, 11/27/2020 – 17: 45 | Tens of thousands of Sadr supporters hit the streets of Baghdad and southern city of Nasiriyah (AFP/File photo) | Six people have died and dozens of others were wounded in south…
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Trump Administration Is Rushing To Mine Sacred Tribal Land
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-27
In yet another attack on the environment before leaving office, the Trump administration is seeking to transfer ownership of San Carlos Apache holy ground in Oak Flat, Arizona, to a copper mining company. | The administration pushed to finish the environmental review process, a necessary step to transfer ownership to copper mining company Resolution Copper, and its two parent companies Rio Tinto and BHP, to December 2020, almost a full year ahead of the planned completion. | “The Trump administration is cutting corners and doing a rushed job just to take care of Rio Tinto…”
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Taiwan: A US Foothold Before a Chinese Tidal Wave
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
Taiwan has found itself increasingly in the middle of the growing power struggle between a waning US and a rising China. | Taiwan is recognized by both the UN and the vast majority of the world’s nations including (officially) the United …
globalresearch.ca/taiwan-us-foothold-bef…

Layoffs leave New York City-area nursing homes unprepared as the pandemic intensifies
wsws.org | 2020-11-27
Faced with increased costs, care facilities are cutting staff, jeopardizing the lives of elderly residents.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/27/layf…

Ricardo Salvador on US’s Dysfunctional Food System
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-11-27
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Will Biden Ensure My Family is Reunited?
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-27
Millions of Americans are celebrating Donald Trump’s election loss. But for some of us, it’s also deeply personal. To my family, Trump’s loss means the possibility of reunification. My parents, who are Indian citizens living in the United Arab Emirates, have been waiting to spend their golden years with their daughter and grandchildren–a reward for…
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EPA Finds Glyphosate Is Likely to Injure or Kill 93% of Endangered Species

| globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
The Environmental Protection Agency released a draft biological evaluation today finding that glyphosate is likely to injure or kill 93% of the plants and animals protected under the Endangered Species Act. | The long-anticipated draft biological evaluation released by the agency’s …
globalresearch.ca/epa-finds-glyphosate-i…

Tiny Desk, Tinier Man
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-11-27
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Iowa Tribe Creates National Park
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-27
Lincoln, NE — The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska is creating the nation’s largest tribal national park on a forested bluff overlooking the Missouri River and a historic site of its people. | The 444-acre park will allow the tribe to tell the story of the Ioway people and provide a rustic getaway where people can hike, camp and bird-watch, said Lance Foster, the tribe’s vice chairman. | “We’ve been here for 1,000 years now and, unlike other people who can buy and sell land and move away, we can never move away,” Foster said. “This is our land forever. And we’ll be here for another 1,000 years.”
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Turkey seeking to repair Saudi relations with high-level contacts
Ragip Soylu | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-27
Turkey seeking to repair Saudi relations with high-level contacts | Ankara believes it is time for both countries to move on after the fallout from Khashoggi murder | Ragip Soylu | Fri, 11/27/2020 – 10: 33 | Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) meets Saudi Arabia’s King Salman during Erdogan’s visit to Jeddah on 23 July 2017 (AFP) | Turkey is seeking to repair relations with Riyadh and move on from the murder of…
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Take Trump’s coup seriously. It’s no joke — and Biden’s win was just a sugar high
Chauncey DeVega | salon.com | 2020-11-27
There’s nothing “normal” about this moment. Even if Trump reluctantly leaves office, immense damage has been done…
salon.com/2020/11/27/take-trumps-coup-se…

Chile: Police Quell New Protests Demanding Piñera Step Down
telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-27
On Friday, Chilean police used force against thousands of demonstrators who were trying to approach the Palacio de la Moneda, the seat of the national government, to demand the resignation of President Sebastián Piñera as well as the freedom of those detained during the social unrest that rocked the South American country in October 2019. | RELATED: | Chile: President Piñera Removes Carabineros’ General Director | The police forces attacked the crowd using water cannons and tear g…
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‘Bleak Milestone’: More Than 100,000 Nursing Home Residents and Staff Killed by Pandemic
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-11-27
Forty percent of all Covid-19 deaths in the United States have occurred in long-term care facilities. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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A Plea to MPs from Mike Yeadon: “Don’t Vote for Lockdown”. “The Pandemic Is Over”
Dr. Mike Yeadon | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
Dear Sirs and Madams, | I am an independent scientist of over 30 years experience leading research into new medicines, operating up to Vice President and head of Respiratory Research at Pfizer, a US pharmaceutical company and founder and CEO of …
globalresearch.ca/plea-mps-mike-yeadon-d…

Our Asia Pacific Website
Global Research News | educators/Dropbox/_data/_rss/globalresearch.ca.xml | 2020-11-27
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Resistance cinema enjoys long life as cinema history
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-27
TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) — Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance sent a message on the occasion of the closing ceremony of the 16th Resistance International Film Festival.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166424/Resistance-c…

How the “Great British Baking Show” flaked out on us when we needed it most
Melanie McFarland | salon.com | 2020-11-27
Those craving stability and something purely sweet may feel like the latest season came up short. But … is it us?>…
salon.com/2020/11/27/great-british-bakin…

European Sanctions Against Turkey Are More Likely than Ever
Armen Tigranakert | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-27
Another scandal erupted in relations between Turkey and the EU — on November 22, the Turkish merchant vessel, Roseline A, was detained and fully inspected by personnel of German frigate Hamburg in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, 160 nautical miles north …
globalresearch.ca/european-sanctions-aga…

Differing Mask Mandates in Georgia Schools Put Teachers at Risk for COVID
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-27
Masks were optional, and about half of the children wore them. So did the receptionist, but only sporadically, according to several teachers. | Within a couple of days, the receptionist was out sick. Another receptionist called in sick as well. Both had caught the coronavirus, according to social media posts. In the ensuing weeks, a wave of cases would rush through the building — an outbreak for which district leaders blamed the community rather than the lack of a mask mandate in the schoo…
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Arabic press review: ‘Mass corruption’ probe at Saudi defence ministry
Mohammad Ayesh | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-27
Arabic press review: ‘Mass corruption’ probe at Saudi defence ministry | Meanwhile, French foreign minister says France is being defamed, a plane full of dollars arrives in Damascus from the UAE, and Egypt’s prisoners denied visits | Mohammad Ayesh | Fri, 11/27/2020 – 14: 45 | Saudi authorities are reportedly investigating 158 criminal cases involving 226 Saudi citizens and residents suspected of squandering hun…
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There is rage on the streets of Guatemala
Carlos Barrientos | zcomm.org | 2020-11-27
For the past several days, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Guatemala against the corruption of the political elites…
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COVID-19 death of Ontario youth worker–a tragic outcome of the ruling elite’s criminal school reopening policy
wsws.org | 2020-11-27
Ingrid Salt was employed as a child and youth worker at a school in a low-income north-west Toronto neighbourhood.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/27/casc…

Canada: Quebec court reduces mosque shooter’s sentence
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-27
Canada: Quebec court reduces mosque shooter’s sentence | Alexandre Bissonnette will be eligible for parole in 25 years, instead of 40, after court rules his original sentence was ‘cruel and unusual’ | MEE staff | Fri, 11/27/2020 – 21: 04 | Quebec mosque shooting sent shockwaves across country (AFP/File photo) | The man who shot and killed six worshippers at a Quebec city mosque three years ago has received a reduction in…
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Conservatives backed the ideas behind Obamacare, so how did they come to hate it?>
Christopher Robertson | salon.com | 2020-11-27
Republicans like Newt Gingrich were the ones who came up with the blueprint for the Affordable Care Act…
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Perdue traded hundreds of thousands worth of bank stocks while on Senate Banking Committee
Roger Sollenberger | salon.com | 2020-11-27
Georgia senator co-sponsored 14 bills benefiting finance industry, and got millions in campaign contributions…
salon.com/2020/11/27/perdue-traded-hundr…

Clashes between rival protesters leaves four dead, dozens wounded in Iraq’s south
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-27
Clashes between rival protesters leaves four dead, dozens wounded in Iraq’s south | Followers of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr attacked a tent camp of anti-government protesters in Nasiriyah’s Haboubi Square | MEE and agencies | Fri, 11/27/2020 – 17: 45 | Tens of thousands of Sadr supporters hit the streets of Baghdad and the southern city of Nasiriyah (AFP/File photo) | Four people were shot dead and dozens of oth…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-sadr-pro…