20 November 2020 Archives

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Elections Proved Americans Are Done with the Drug War
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-11-20
By Lee Camp / Original to ScheerPost Something seismic happened in this election and it has nothing to do with Joe Biden winning. And yes, Joe Biden did indeed win. I’m sorry for those of you Trump fans who believe the election was rigged against him. It simply wasn’t. Yes, millions of Americans were indeed purged from the voter rolls — but they were mostly people of color. So if MAGA Nation are… | Source…
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Despite Media Blackout — The Elections Proved Americans Are Done With The Drug War
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-20
Something seismic happened in this election and it has nothing to do with Joe Biden winning. And yes, Joe Biden did indeed win. I’m sorry for those of you Trump fans who believe the election was rigged against him. It simply wasn’t. Yes, millions of Americans were indeed purged from the voter rolls — but…
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Ten Foreign Policy Fiascos Biden Can Fix on Day One
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-20
Saudi Arabia’s War in Yemen Has Failed — Council on Foreign Relations Donald Trump loves executive orders as a tool of dictatorial power, avoiding the need to work through Congress. But that works both ways, making it relatively easy for President Biden to reverse many of Trump’s most disastrous decisions. Here are ten things Biden…
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What’s Up With Trump?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-20
Is anybody surprised that Donald Trump refuses to concede the election he lost? Everyone knows that his septuagenarian body houses the mind of a child. The only question is whether it is a toddler’s mind or a spoiled male adolescent’s. Either way, petulance and acting out comes with the territory. And, though cunning, as the…
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Hungary-led Vetoes Against New EU Budget Further Fragments the Bloc’s Unity
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
Hungary, Poland and Slovenia have blocked the EU’s budget and post-COVID recovery plan in order to oppose conditions that European aid must be connected to “respecting the rule of law.” Budapest, which is leading the veto, blocked the budget after …
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Possible US Strike on Iran?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
Since Iran ended a generation of US/UK-installed fascist tyranny in 1979, both wings of US duopoly rule waged dirty war on the country and its people by other means. | They stopped short of attacking Iranian territory militarily. | Will US hardliners …
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PDF of November 19 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-11-20
Download the 12-page PDF. Evo Morales returns Bolivians eject coup regime Editorial: Pandemic surges, economy sputters Storms, hurricanes devastate Indigenous communities; COVID profits; Free Them All protest; COVID surges, economy sputters; Sue Davis, °presente! Stop Amazon censorship; Kaepernick: ‘Free Mumia!’ Elections 2020: The vote & class solidarity Im/migrant movement lessons . . . | Continue reading PDF of November 19 issue at Workers.org…
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The shaman’s message: An urgent cry from the Amazon
Special to People’s World | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
The entire world knows by now how urgently the Amazon rainforest needs protection from the ravages of destruction, deforestation, Western invasion and settlement. One might say, from capitalism itself. And now from a pandemic against which the Indigenous peoples have little to no defense. “The Shaman’s Message” is a short (just over two minutes), newly …
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Colombians embark on a fresh national strike against Ivan Duque
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-20
On November 19, hundreds of thousands of Colombians began a new national strike in rejection of the social and economic policies of the right-wing government of president Iván Duque as well as the upsurge in violence in the country. Under the banner of “For Life, Peace, Democracy and Negotiation of an Emergency Plan”, workers, peasants, teachers, students, doctors, women, Indigenous and Afro-descendant co…
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How Joe Biden Plans to Make The American Empire Great Again
Dan Cohen | mintpressnews.com | 2020-11-20
Behind his rhetoric, Joe Biden will seek nothing less than global supremacy, escalating a new and even more dangerous arms race that risks the destruction of humanity, what he calls “decency” and “normalcy.”
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“One Nation, Indivisible, Under God . . .” But Whose God?
Rev. William Alberts | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-20
Many people take for granted what one means when he or she refers to “God.” It is assumed that “God” has a common meaning . That assumption is implied in the countless generalized references to “God” made by politicians, journalists, other media persons, faith leaders, and citizens. Herein lays a shared — and dangerous –…
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Foreign Correspondent: The Upcoming Fights Over COVID-19 Vaccines
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2020-11-20
Who will be vaccinated first, and in what countries?
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Yet another death in Cleveland jail
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-11-20
Cleveland On Nov. 9 Shone Trawick became the third person to die in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County Jail this year and the 12th jail death since June 2018. Trawick is the first casualty to be blamed on violence by another prisoner. Those in nearby cells reportedly screamed for help on hearing . . . | Continue reading Yet another death in Cleveland jail at Workers.org…
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The Secret Agenda of the World Bank and IMF
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-20
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) work hand in glove — smoothly. Not only are they regularly lending huge sums of money to horror regimes around the world, but they blackmail poor nations into accepting draconian conditions imposed by the west. In other words, the WB and the IMF are guilty of …
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How to End the War in Afghanistan (Video)
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-11-20
The U.S. war on Afghanistan is in its 19th year. Enough is enough! Ann Wright is the moderator. Panelists are Kathy Kelly, Matthew Hoh, Rory Fanning, Danny Sjursen, and Arash Azizzada. Ann Wright is a retired Army Colonel who became a US diplomat for 16 years in US Embassies in Grenada, Nicaragua, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, …
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Let’s Give Trump A Little Help
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2020-11-20
The only way Donald Trump will leave the White House is if we convince him he’ll be better off out of office.
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Shocking New Figures Show How Just Much the US is Fueling the Violence in Yemen
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-11-20
New figures from the UN and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute show that since the war in Yemen began, the US has sold over $13 billion in high-tech weapons to Saudi Arabia, making the Kingdom a cash cow for US weapons makers.
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Palestinians with disabilities battling PA for vital healthcare
Shatha Hammad | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
Palestinians with disabilities battling PA for vital healthcare | Covid-19 has exposed a deeply flawed health insurance system that lets disabled Palestinians down badly | Shatha Hammad | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 16: 17 | Disability rights activists including Abdelrahman Awwad (C) and Shatha Abu Srour (R) have staged a sit-in for nearly three weeks in Ramallah. The banner reads: “We die of coronavirus and we die of medic…
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“A Huge Blow to Civil Society”: Egypt Arrests Leading Human Rights Monitors in Latest Crackdown
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-11-20
In Egypt, the executive director of the country’s leading human rights group has been arrested as part of an unprecedented crackdown on activists and journalists. Gasser Abdel-Razek was arrested at his home just days after two other staffers for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights were also arrested. The move signals a major escalation of repression from the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has imprisoned thousands of people since he came to power after the 2013 overthrow of former President Mohamed Morsi. “These arrests are a huge blow to civil society in Egypt,” says Sharif Abdel Kouddo…
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Jewish-Led Groups Condemn Pompeo For Declaring Boycott-Divestment Movement Anti-Semitic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
Jewish peace activists led a wave of stinging rebuke of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday after he declared the peaceful Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian human rights “anti-Semitic” while visiting an illegal Israeli settler colony built on stolen West Bank land. | Pompeo became the first top U.S. diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the unlawfully occupied West Bank of Palestine as he lunched at a winery in Psagot, located on a hill formerly known as Jabel Tawil until Israeli forces conquered it in 1967.
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The AMA Officially Recognized Racism As A Public-Health Threat
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
The American Medical Association has officially defined racism as a public health threat that has created substantial health inequality. | Racism, both systemic and structural, has historically perpetuated health inequality and cut short the lives of many Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) in the US and around the world. | Over the last year, a number of county and state authorities have also labelled racism a public health threat. | Among them are county councils in San Bernardino, California, and Montgomery, Maryland, as well as authorities in Michigan, Nevada, Cleveland, Denver, and Indianapolis.
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US Political Crisis Just Entered More Dangerous Phase
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-11-20
Not only can the Electoral College thwart the popular vote for president; but there are even more nefarious ways for political elites to circumvent the Electoral College if they don’t like it…
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War crimes report: Australian special forces murdered 39 Afghans
wsws.org | 2020-11-20
The report whitewashes successive governments and the military command, but the killings it documents underscore the utter criminality of the 19-year occupation of Afghanistan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/20/aust…

Statement by Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad on the Tata Lit Fest
Noam Chomsky | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-20
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad issue a statement following the abrupt cancellation of the dialogue that was scheduled to be held as part of the Mumbai (Tata) Lit Fest on Friday…
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A Preview of How a Biden/Harris Regime May Operate. “Hired Guns” and the Role of “Registered Lobbyists”
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
What’s coming if Biden/Harris succeed Trump begins with regime appointees. | According to the Wall Street Journal, the Biden/Harris transition team includes “at least 40 registered lobbyists” — hired guns for special interests. | Bringing them onboard is one of many examples …
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It is freedom, only freedom which can quench our thirst
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-11-20
In the 1980s, after Mozambique won its independence from Portugal in 1974, the South African apartheid regime and the settler-colonial army of Rhodesia backed an anti-communist faction against the government of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO).
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Suppressing the Cult of Pope John Paul II. The Cardinal McCarrick Affair
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
As chief conductor of the saint factory, Pope John Paul II was always going to be, in time, canonised. Almost 500 saints were created under his watch. The previous 600 years had seen 300. But declaring him a saint in …
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Dim Halos: Suppressing the Cult of Pope John Paul II
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-20
As chief conductor of the saint factory, Pope John Paul II was always going to be, in time, canonised. Almost 500 saints were created under his watch. The previous 600 years had seen 300. But declaring him a saint in 2014, a mere nine years after his death, was speedy by the standards of the …
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“I Am Greta” isn’t About Climate Change. It’s About the Elusiveness of Sanity in an Insane World
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-20
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…
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The most dangerous man in America
Thomas Magstadt | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-20
“Anyone can ride a train, only a wise man knows when to get off.”
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Saturday 11/21: Wake the ZUCK up! We won’t let Facebook destroy our democracy
Protest Facebook Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Please join us outside Mark Zuckerberg’s house in San Francisco. Facebook needs to stop election lies from running rampant on its platform.
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Capitalism and inheritance
Prabhat Patnaik | mronline.org | 2020-11-20
IT is often believed that the ability to pass on property to one’s progeny is an essential element of capitalism, without which the capitalists’ incentives will dry up and the system will lose its dynamism.
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Obsession With “Academic Performance” is Charter School Disinformation
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-20
Promoters of privately-operated non-profit and for-profit charter schools are obsessed with students’ scores on punitive and curriculum-narrowing high-stakes tests produced by big corporations. They think that test scores on these unsound tests are the end-all and be-all. They have even convinced themselves that the more technical and professional their “academic performance” reports look and feel …
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Plastic Entangling, Choking 1,800 Marine Animals in U.S. Waters
Oceana | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
In a report released today, Oceana reveals for the first time the available data on marine mammals and sea turtles swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic in U.S. waters. After surveying dozens of government agencies, organizations and institutions that collect …
globalresearch.ca/oceana-finds-plastic-e…

Portuguese Court Rules PCR Tests as Unreliable & Unlawful to Quarantine People
Great Game India | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
The court stated, the test’s reliability depends on the number of cycles used and the viral load present. Citing Jaafar et al. 2020, the court concludes that | “if someone is tested by PCR as positive when a threshold of | …
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Monday 12/7: Together Against Factory Farming – December Day of Action
Direct Action Everywhere | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Crocker Park, 211 O St, Sacramento, CA 95814…
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Thomas Frank: Don’t Believe Anything You Were Told About Populism
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-11-20
The word “populism” gets a bad rap these days as corporate media warns of its alleged dangers and President Barack Obama goes so far as to blame Sarah Palin for its recent rise. But, according to Thomas Frank, the founding editor of The Baffler and author of What’s the Matter with Kansas and his new book, The People, No, a detailed account about the history of populism in the United States… | Source…
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After Trump: Can the GOP sell itself as the party of the working class?
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-20
“The future of the [Republican] party is based on a multiethnic, multiracial working class coalition.” and that, “…the free market exists to serve our people. Our people don’t exist to serve the free market.”
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RCEP signed despite opposition from social movements
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-20
Once in full effect, the agreement will cover close to 30% of the global population and GDP. However, trade unions and people’s movements have been opposing the deal for years…
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Monday 11/23: In Their Remembrance: From Mourning to a Moral Mandate Pandemic Interfaith Vigil w/ PPC
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online via livestream direct from Washington D.C.
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An Epitaph for the West
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-20
The United States dominated the Twentieth Century for four principal reasons. Its manufacturing capability far exceeded anyone else’s; perhaps the most dramatic illustration was its stunning production in the Second World War when it, for example, manufactured 300,000 aircraft, twice as much as the next place country. Its inventive capability was also immense: from airplanes to electricity transmission to assembly lines the USA was the inventor and, equally important, the adaptor of numerous world-changing innovations. Thi…
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Is there life after coronavirus? China proved pandemic can be controlled
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
TORONTO–Nine months ago, in early February, People’s World interviewed Lupin, a 26-year-old man from Wuhan, China. At the time, his hometown was the epicenter of what scientists were still calling the “novel coronavirus,” a pneumonia-like illness which soon sparked a pandemic that engulfed the entire world. Lupin was working overseas in Canada but had returned …
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‘The French government has no right’: CAIR slams Macron’s ‘ultimatum’ to Muslims
Sheren Khalel | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
‘The French government has no right’: CAIR slams Macron’s ‘ultimatum’ to Muslims | Muslim-American civil rights group labels French president’s order to establish ‘National Council of Imams’ under government parameters ‘hypocritical and dangerous’ | Sheren Khalel | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 19: 58 | “> | The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned French President Emmanuel Macro…
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Thursday 12/10: 2021 Planned Actions at State Level & Post Census Redistricting Town Hall w/ Common Cause
Common Cause | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online via Zoom…
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El Paso at Breaking Point with Hospitals & Mobile Morgues Filling Up
Emilio Gonzalez-Ayala | zcomm.org | 2020-11-20
El Paso County, an area along the U.S.-Mexico border where 80% of residents are Latinx, is facing one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in the U.S. and now has 10 mobile morgues to hold bodies…
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Campaigns to boycott Saudi Arabia G20 summit gain momentum
Sheren Khalel | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
Campaigns to boycott Saudi Arabia G20 summit gain momentum | From hashtags to petitions, damning statements and full-page newspaper ads, human rights groups demand kingdom be held accountable | Sheren Khalel | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 17: 12 | G20 logo is projected at historical al-Tarif in Diriyah district on outskirts of Saudi capital, Riyadh, on 20 November (AFP) | Human rights groups and activists have intensified ca…
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Pennsylvania prisons: Breeding grounds for coronavirus
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-11-20
Philadelphia When the coronavirus first became a global pandemic in the spring of 2020, there were widespread demands, met with promises from state officials, to release particularly vulnerable incarcerated workers. Some states and municipalities did release people, but never in the numbers the situation warranted. In April, protesters in Philadelphia . . . | Continue reading Pennsylvania prisons: Breeding grounds for coronavirus at Workers.org…
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Nuclear Euromissiles Are Back
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
Over five years ago we titled in the Manifesto ((9 June 2015) “Are missiles returning to Comiso? (Sicily).” This hypothesis was ignored by the entire political spectrum and dismissed by some self-styled expert as “alarmist.” The alarm, unfortunately, was well …
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Ways You Can Help Eliminate Global Poverty
Beau Peters | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-20
Image Source: Pexels The planet may feel like a smaller place, thanks to the ease of travel and the internet, but the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that “approximately 1.2 billion people in the world live in extreme poverty” and earn less than a single dollar per day. Poverty affects the health and livelihood of …
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New York Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Cuomo’s Thanksgiving COVID Order
Rick Moran | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
Several county sheriffs in New York State are saying they will not enforce Governor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order that limits Thanksgiving Day gatherings to 10 people or less. | Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo summed up the sheriffs’ objections nicely. | “I | …
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Trump-appointed CEO of US global media agency targets journalists’ independence
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-11-20
Former US global media agency CEO John Lansing worked hard to consolidate his power. His Republican successor, Michael Pack, is putting those powers to use, and compromising the journalistic independence of the US taxpayer-funded news networks he oversees.
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The GOP Is in a State of Terminal Decay
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-11-20
The GOP Is in a State of Terminal Decay…
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The Triumph of Mankind Over the Great Reset: Guns, Books, and the Social Contract
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-20
In The Dystopic Great Reset and the Fight Back: Population Reduction and Hope for the Children of Men , our Part I, we developed on our previous essays on planned obsolescence and the problems of the old paradigm as we enter the 4th Industrial Revolution. We looked at how several science fiction works like ‘The Virus’ and ‘Children of Men’ in culture actually predicted and lent to us an understanding the new reified nightmare being built around us. F…
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Vienna: The Most Livable City of the World
Thomas Madreiter | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
As early as the zero hour, about ten years ago, we developed the vision of the Smart City with the involvement of civil society. There were countless workshops with politicians, scientists, business people and, of course, the city’s residents. They all dealt with the question: What kind of Vienna do we want to live in by 2050? Citizens have said quite clearly: cars out, public transport and pedestrians in.
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Pfizer CEO Sells Stock Same Day Positive Results of COVID-19 Vaccine Announced
Kate Raines | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc. announced on Nov. 9, 2020 that ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial of its COVID-19 mRNA vaccine candidate suggests the vaccine may be 90 percent effective in preventing infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The news sent Pfizer’s …
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Thursday 12/3: What’s Next for Civil Rights: Democracy in the 117th Congress Town Hall w/ Common Cause
Common Cause | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online via Zoom…
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‘Act urgently’ to stave off catastrophic famine in Yemen: Guterres
news.un.org | 2020-11-20
Yemen is in “imminent danger of the worst famine the world has seen for decades”, the UN chief warned in a statement released on Friday, calling for urgent action on the part of the international community to “stave off catastrophe”.
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Tuesday 12/1: UCSC’s African-American Theater Arts Troupe: Building Community for 30 Years
UC Santa Cruz | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online, virtual event…
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Capitalists profit off pandemic
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2020-11-20
Many countries around the world have successfully contained the coronavirus. Most notable is China, the most populous nation and the place where the virus first appeared. As of Nov. 15, China reported a total of 4,634 deaths from COVID-19 and only 13 new cases. (worldometers.info/coronavirus) Here in the United States, . . . | Continue reading Capitalists profit off pandemic at Workers.org…
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Newspapers everywhere are in financial trouble, so is People’s World
Greg Kearney | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
People’s World 2020 Fund Appeal — Become a Monthly Sustainer or Donate Today…
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Indianapolis movement defeats ruling-class attack on the poor
Derek Ford | liberationnews.org | 2020-11-20
Yet the struggle is far from over.
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Don’t [Mourn] Celebrate, Organize!
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-20
The danger is that Joe will put us all to sleep. To show that we will continue to resist, let’s start with a demand that Trump as incumbent, or Biden as President-elect, agree to sign the new START treaty , which Putin has repeatedly agreed to sign if the US does, and which expires in February? Imagine having an anti-war movement again. Don’t celebrate, organize.
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Tuesday 11/24: Community Discussion: Anticolonialism
Direct Action Everywhere | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Zoom online…
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Why Georgia’s Unscientific Recount ‘Horrified’ Experts
Timothy Pratt | thenation.com | 2020-11-20
Why Georgia’s Unscientific Recount ‘Horrified’ Experts…
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Underreported Cause Of Covid-19 Deaths
SNS | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
The filthiest places in any country are the slaughterhouses. Animals are defecating and urinating in terror. Their blood spills everywhere.
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Monday 11/23: Demand the US GSA formally recognize Biden as president elect now!
Quanah Brightman | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
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Friday 11/27: Solidarity Speaker: Direct Action for Farmworkers
Direct Action Everywhere | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online Zoom…
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KPFA PNB Rep/KPFA Management Supporter & WBAI Coupster Sabrina Jacobs Gets Demand For Apo
repost | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
KPFA PNB Rep/KPFA Management Supporter & WBAI Coupster Sabrina Jacobs Gets Demand For Apology On Nicaragua Story…
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New French security bill could make it harder to hold police accountable
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-20
Protests took place across France to oppose the recently introduced Global Security bill. This bill criminalizes filming on-duty police officers if they are identifiable and if harm is intended.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/20/new-frenc…

Selected Articles: Nuclear Euromissiles Are Back
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
Nuclear Euromissiles Are Back | By Manlio Dinucci, November 20 2020 | A few days ago, on November 6, Lockheed Martin (the same company that produces the F-35s) signed a first $ 340 million contract with the US Army for the | …
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The Krugman Boom: Don’t Bank on It
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-11-20
I have largely been in agreement with Paul Krugman in his assessment of the economy over the last dozen years or so, but I think in his latest column he let the promise of a post-Trump era get the better of him. Krugman notes that the distribution of effective vaccines should allow people to return …
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Proposed £21 ‘coronavirus hike’ on household energy bills slammed as ‘shocking’ and ‘farcical’
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-20
British households may have to shoulder a hike on their energy bills from the beginning of April because of new proposals from Ofgem. The suggestion is already drawing strong criticism from groups which claim the energy companies have been “ripping us all off, plunging people into fuel poverty while raking in juicy profits”. | Increase: | The regulator has proposed an increase to the maximum many households can be charged on their bills, claiming that the pandemic is putting pressure on energy companies. | Ofgem said it is considering a £21 per household coronavirus hike to the default price cap whe…
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Monday 11/23: Paul Celan: Honoring the 100th Birthday of the Poet & Holocaust Survivor
CLBSUB | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online event (FREE)…
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A Broader View: Those at risk on our streets
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
In the early morning hours, our eyes adjust to the golden haze beneath an indifferent city skyline. The flicker of red taillights, the smell of noxious exhaust fumes, and the orchestral cadence of honking and revving engines assault our senses. It isolates us within a car’s four doors and obscures the life happening all around …
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Lab-in-a-box and remote experiments: Education news from Imperial
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-11-20
Here’s a round up of education updates from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/209193/lab-in-a-box-remote-experiments-education-news-from

The Endless Trench: Hiding for decades from the Spanish fascists
wsws.org | 2020-11-20
The film fictionally treats an actual phenomenon, the dozens or more of left-wing opponents of Franco, known as “moles,” who concealed themselves in their own homes for 30 years following the defeat of the Republican forces in 1939.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/20/tren…

UN experts warn 50 people face possible executions in Iraq after unfair trials
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
UN experts warn 50 people face possible executions in Iraq after unfair trials | After 21 executions this week, UN experts urge Baghdad to halt mass capital punishment | MEE staff | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 22: 08 | Statement by UN experts notes there are currently about 4,000 prisoners slated for execution (AFP/File photo) | UN human rights experts have said 50 Iraqi prisoners face possible execution next week following convict…
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Golpe colorido na Bielorrússia : a planificaàßà£o social de Lukashenko
Yuri Martins Fontes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
Nestes primeiros vinte anos do século, presenciamos um surpreendente avanàßo tecnológico em setores como informática, telecomunicaàßàµes, indústria militar e também na tecnologia dos golpes de estado. Nà£o só os aparelhos telefà¥nicos e computadores sà£o hoje mais potentes e discretos, mas …
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Challenging EPA’s Failure To Protect People And The Environment From Atrazine
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
The herbicide atrazine is likely to adversely affect over half of endangered species listed in the United States, according to a report released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of a legal agreement with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). Based on both adverse human health and environmental threats, Beyond Pesticides joined with Center for Food Safety, CBD, and other public-interest groups in October to sue EPA over its decision to reapprove atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned across much of the world.
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Five reasons why a moratorium is the right next step in our fight to #CancelAnimalAg
Almira Tanner | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
If you’re reading this, I likely don’t need to tell you that something is deeply wrong and unjust about animal agriculture. This industry tortures and kills trillions of animals each year, forces marginalized people to work in unsafe and traumatizing environments, and is a leading contributor of greenhouse gases, ocean dead zones, and pandemic-causing zoonotic diseases. We need to completely abolish animal agriculture and transition to a more just, plant-based food system, but it’s not going to happen overnight.
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The Heat: Unimaginable loss in U.S. to COVID-19
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-11-20
An unimaginable loss in the United States, more than 250,000 Americans have now lost their lives to COVID-19.
america.cgtn.com/2020/11/20/the-heat-uni…

Dozens File Federal Suit Alleging Chicago Police Abuse This Year
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
“The (Chicago Police Department) and other city agencies responded to these demonstrations with brutal, violent, and unconstitutional tactics that are clearly intended to injure, silence and intimidate plaintiffs and other protesters,” according to the more than 200-page lawsuit. “These abuse tactics include beating protesters with batons — often striking them in the head; tackling and beating protesters while on the ground; using chemical agents against protesters; falsely arresting protesters; and trapping protesters in enclosed areas.”
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Hear from Imperial’s new Director of Academic Services
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-11-20
We speak to Richard Martin, who has recently taken up the role of Director of Academic Services.
imperial.ac.uk/news/208813/hear-from-imperials-director-academic-services

Workers At Fargo Warehouse Strike Over Virus Safety Concerns
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
Fargo – About 70 employees of a Fargo food distribution business went on strike Wednesday, Nov. 18, calling for resumption of union contract talks and drawing attention to what a union spokesman described as “lackadaisical” COVID-19 precautions at the site. | About 20 warehouse workers and truck drivers set up picket lines outside of Cash-Wa Distributing, at 4101 15th Ave. N., Fargo around 1 p.m. Wednesday amid union concerns that the warehouse could contribute to the spread of COVID-19 because of its ties to businesses and warehouses across the region, according to Brian Nowak, business agent for the Teamsters L…
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EU trained Algeria and Morocco police in online disinformation tactics
Simon Hooper | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
EU trained Algeria and Morocco police in online disinformation tactics | Courses funded by European Union taught surveillance methods including data harvesting and use of ‘sock puppets’ | Simon Hooper | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 13: 09 | Algerian security forces face protesters during a demonstration in Algiers in March 2019 (AFP) | The European Union is training police and security forces in North African countries in surv…
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22 million jobless, Senate Republicans go home for Thanksgiving without passing aid
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
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The Nation’s New Crime Boss
John Davis | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-20
In this time of a recalcitrant lame duck who, it is widely proclaimed, threatened and continues to threaten ‘democracy’ – the fig leaf of respectability under which the nation’s criminality festers – liberal triumphalism is shadowed by a residual anguish that rises to fever pitch when confronted by criticisms of Biden, or suggestions raised, in the enclaves of the enlightened, that he is not the savior whom we all seek.
counterpunch.org/2020/11/20/the-nations-…

Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-20
Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion/XR recently interviewed Peter Carter, M.D., who has the distinguished title — Expert IPCC Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The interview was conducted to get to the bottom of what science says about the state of affairs, specifically the health of the planet. The following is a …
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‘Accelerate our efforts’ to free Mumia
| workers.org | 2020-11-20
By Angela Davis Professor Angela Davis, herself once a political prisoner, is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industrial complex. On Nov. 16, Davis delivered the following remarks during the virtual press conference “Freedom & Abolition: A critical moment in the fight . . . | Continue reading ‘Accelerate our efforts’ to free Mumia at Workers.org…
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People’s World will always be there with the real news
Barbara Russum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
I first encountered the Daily World at a rally to free Angela Davis in 1971. An elderly Black gentleman wearing a suit and tie offered me a paper and we chatted a while. I worked in the Chicago Loop and happened upon the rally. Other papers were handed out, but the Daily World was the …
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The Credibles: How Airwars Secured the Most Comprehensive Locational Data on Civilian Harm Ever Released by the US Military
Chris Woods | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
The US-led Coalition has released to Airwars the near coordinates of almost all confirmed or ‘Credible’ civilian harm events in Iraq and Syria in the long war against so-called Islamic State, allowing for the first time the accurate locating of …
globalresearch.ca/most-comprehensive-loc…

New non-invasive technology could spot early signs of motor disorders in babies
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-11-20
Imperial College London scientists have created the world’s first non-invasive way to map how baby movements are generated on a neuronal level.
imperial.ac.uk/news/209073/new-non-invasive-technology-could-spot-early

Anger After North Dakota Governor Asks COVID-Positive Health Staff to Stay on Job
Danielle Renwick | zcomm.org | 2020-11-20
“We are willing to break our backs and work as hard as we physically can. But then to ask us to come in as a potential infectious source is just stunning.”
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Over 235 Organizations Call On Biden To Cancel Student Debt
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
Washington, D.C. — Over 235 organizations sent a letter to President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris, calling on them to use executive authority to cancel federal student debt on day one of their administration. | In the letter, 238 nonprofit and community organizations highlight that cancelling student debt would stimulate the economy, help reduce the racial wealth gap, and could have a positive impact on health outcomes. The groups write that “executive action is one of the few available tools that could immediately provide a boost to upwards of 44 million borrowers and the economy…
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Thursday 11/26: Unlearn “Thanksgiving”: Documentary & Discussion
Direct Action Everywhere | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online Zoom…
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Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-20
Expert IPCC Reviewer Speaks Out Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion/XR recently interviewed Peter Carter, M.D., who has the distinguished title — Expert IPCC Reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The interview was conducted to get to the bottom of what science says about the state of affairs, specifically the health of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/20/expert-ipcc-…

“Collective” is an urgent exposé of killer corruption & how journalism and the people fought back
Gary M. Kramer | salon.com | 2020-11-20
Salon spoke to the filmmaker about the investigation into the lies that cost lives & sparked protests in Romania…
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Marietta, Ga., demonstrators demand ‘Justice for Vincent Truitt,’ Black youth gunned down by police
Arielle Robinson | workers.org | 2020-11-20
Marietta, Ga. About 75 demonstrators rallied at Marietta Square on Nov. 14, demanding justice for 17-year-old Vincent Truitt, a Black teenager who had been killed by Cobb County Police. He was shot twice in the back by an unidentified police officer on July 13, as he ran away from the . . . | Continue reading Marietta, Ga., demonstrators demand ‘Justice for Vincent Truitt,’ Black youth gunned down by police at Workers.org…
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Wednesday 12/16: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online via Zoom.
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Georgia emerges as central target of far right mobilization
Patricia Gorky | liberationnews.org | 2020-11-20
Tensions in Georgia, a state playing a key role in the outcome of the 2020 election, are rising. Far right groups continue to mobilize around the unfounded claims of widespread election fraud in the state.
liberationnews.org/georgia-emerges-as-ce…

New breast cancer treatment and climate voices: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-11-20
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/209133/new-breast-cancer-treatment-climate-voices

State Bank of India must not fund Adani
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-20
Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter report on Stop Adani’s protest outside the State Bank of India, which is considering giving the mining conglomerate $1 billion.
greenleft.org.au/content/state-bank-indi…

Local Labour parties show ‘unjust’ Keir Starmer won’t get rid of Jeremy Corbyn without a fight
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2020-11-20
If Keir Starmer wants to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn, it seems he’s going to have to fight his own party. Up and down the country, Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) have condemned the Labour leader’s decision to keep the Islington MP suspended. | Corbyn was originally suspended from the party on 29 October following his response to the publication of the EHRC antisemitism repo…
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Secwepemc Land Defenders Kanahus Manuel And Isha Jules On Trial
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
On October 19, 2019, Manuel and Tiny House Warrior land defender Isha Jules were charged by the RCMP with mischief when they told construction workers that they did not have consent from the Secwepemc peoples to flag on Highway 5 near Moonbeam Creek, about 60 kilometres north of Blue River, British Columbia. | Manuel’s wrist was fractured during the arrest. | The Tiny House Warriors have set up camps around Blue River (about 230 kilometres north of Kamloops) and Valemount (about 90 kilometres north of Blue River). Moonbeam is situated in between these two communities on Highway 5.
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Corporate capital and Trump’s coup: Will business elites take a stand?>
Jim Sleeper | salon.com | 2020-11-20
Trump’s war on democracy is clearly bad for business — but the leaders of corporate America helped create this mess…
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Labour demands release of full findings of Patel bullying inquiry
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-20
Labour is demanding the publication of the full inquiry findings into allegations of bullying by Priti Patel amid reports she was found to have broken the rules for ministers. | Reassured: | Boris Johnson has rejected calls to sack the home secretary after delivering his long-awaited verdict on her conduct on Friday, even though she breached the ministerial code. According to reports, she was found to have failed to meet the requirement to treat civil servants with respect and consideration. | Normally ministers are expected to resign if they bre…
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K-9 attacks: The new (old) face of police brutality
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-11-20
Indiana mother Jennifer Fleming speaks out about the brutal and excessive police dog attack on her 19-year-old daughter, and calls for police to rethink how these animals and their handlers are trained.
therealnews.com/k-9-attacks-the-new-old-…

US Under Joe Biden Will Pursue Policy of “Countering” and “Encircling” Russia
Uriel Araujo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
On Sunday, there were new street demonstrations in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. Last week, two British diplomats were declared “persona non grata” by the Belarusian government. They are accused of conducting “destructive activities” — most probably related to aiding …
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Macron accuses Turkey of stoking anti-France sentiment in Africa
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
Macron accuses Turkey of stoking anti-France sentiment in Africa | Tensions have risen between Paris and Ankara over the French president’s defence of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad | MEE and agencies | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 13: 57 | Macron at a press conference at the G5 Sahel summit on 30 June 2020 in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott (AFP) | French President Emmanuel Macron accused Turkey on Friday of p…
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Students criticize University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel over reckless reopening
wsws.org | 2020-11-20
A Q&A session Monday night resulted in a debacle for Schlissel as he faced widespread criticism from participating student representatives over the disastrous reopening he has overseen amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/20/univ…

Thursday 11/19: What’s Next: 2020 Election Wrap-Up Town Hall w/ Common Cause
Common Cause | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online via Zoom…
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Pennsylvania prisons: Breeding grounds for coronavirus
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-11-20
When the coronavirus first became a global pandemic in the spring of 2020, there were widespread demands, met with promises from state officials, to release particularly vulnerable incarcerated workers. Some states and municipalities did release people, but never in the numbers the situation warranted. In April 2020, protesters in Philadelphia . . . | Continue reading Pennsylvania prisons: Breeding grounds for coronavirus at Workers.org…
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UN chief to press G20 for greater solidarity and support during pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-11-20
When he addresses leaders of the world’s richest countries at the G20 summit on Saturday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres will deliver a simple message on the COVID-19 pandemic: “We need solidarity and cooperation. And we need concrete action now — especially for the most vulnerable.”
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Warnock For Congress
Jeff Jurgens | peaceaction.org | 2020-11-20
Peace Action Endorses Rev. Raphael Warnock Sign up to phonebank for Rev. Warnock Donate to Rev. Raphael Warnock While the presidential race is thankfully over, control of the Senate remains at stake, and will comedown to the results of a special election this January in Georgia. The Senate has been a graveyard for pro-peace legislation …
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Saturday 11/21: Playing Monopoly for keeps: take the land, the money, or the housing?
David Giesen | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Join Zoom Meeting | zoom.us/j/93956009800?pwd=SkIvZ01jdDltaX……
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Corona containment could cause more suffering than it prevents
Ralf Wurzbacker | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
In Sept 2020, UNICEF calculated that an additional 150 million children were pushed into poverty as a result of the economic collapse provoked by the quasi-global lockdown in spring. Already in July, experts from the World Food Program (WFP) warned that the Corona crisis could threaten an additional 130 million people with starvation this year.
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Trudeau rules out a ‘normal Christmas’ as Covid-19 cases spike in Canada & health chiefs sound alarm
rt.com | 2020-11-20
Canada’s health system will be “in trouble” if the daily number of Covid-19 cases continues to rise, health chiefs have warned, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged the country to “hang in there” and follow the health measures. | A second wave of the virus has forced 10 Canadian provinces to reimpose restrictions, amid predictions that the number of cases could shoot from the current level of 5,000 a day to 60,000 by the end of the year if people don’t further limit their social contacts. | …
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Monday 11/23: Paul Celan: Honoring the 100th Birthday of the Poet & Holocaust Survivor
CLBSUB | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
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Tacoma, Wa. activists take over vacant school for emergency housing
Jane Cutter | liberationnews.org | 2020-11-20
Liberation News eyewitness report!
liberationnews.org/tacoma-wa-activists-t…

UN agencies uphold human rights considerations in COVID-19 data collection
news.un.org | 2020-11-20
The United Nations and 15 of its agencies have underlined their support for data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic which respects the right to privacy and promotes development.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/11/1…

Toyota workers in India continue strike, defy state back-to-work order
wsws.org | 2020-11-20
Behind the state government’s strikebreaking order is the broader aim of the ruling class to make India a cheap-labor alternative to China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/20/toyo…

Guterres pledges support for sustainable industrial development in Africa
news.un.org | 2020-11-20
The COVID-19 crisis was impacting Africa “well before the pandemic spread across the continent”, the UN chief said on Friday, marking Africa Industrialization Day, arriving at a point when many economies were expanding and “poverty was in decline”. ‚Ä&Oslash…
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Thursday 11/26: Unlearn “Thanksgiving”: Documentary & Discussion
Direct Action Everywhere | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online Zoom…
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Predictive Programming? Israeli Publishers Have Been Writing About a COVID-Like Pandemic for Years
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-11-20
The general public’s willing acceptance of the draconian restrictions placed on mobility and freedom of assembly due to the coronavirus was “predicted” in fictional novels and other artistic creations over the last few decades. Is it a matter of life imitating art or something more sinister?
mintpressnews.com/israel-keter-publishin…

Bombs not food: Labour backs massive Tory military budget
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2020-11-20
Labour has backed a gigantic war budget hike announced by the Tory government. The reported £16.5bn will go on ships and new technology like cyber warfare, artificial intelligence, and space capabilities. | It is said to be the biggest single increase in military funding since the Thatcher era: | The defence of the realm is the first duty of government. | We are investin…
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Saturday 11/21: Trump: You’re Fired. Now Get the Hell OUT!
Refuse Fascism Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Castro & Market, San Francisco…
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Youth suicides and mental health disorders on the rise amid pandemic depression
wsws.org | 2020-11-20
One of the impacts of the pandemic is a rising mental health crisis, particularly among youth, for which no faction of the ruling class proposes any solution.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/20/yout…

Beyond COVID-19: The Power Struggle Over Alternatives For Health Care Reform
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
Today we face the COVID-19 pandemic, with its resultant economic downturn and systemic racism–the triple crises that have exposed the serious problems of U. S. health care. It is now obvious to most observers that the system is broken, raising the question of how it can be put together through the political process after a hotly contested election season filled with disinformation and confusion about potential reform alternatives. | Corporatization, privatization, a shift from not-for-profit to for-profit health care, and the growth of investor-owned corporate health care have been dominant themes in the tr…
popularresistance.org/beyond-covid-19-th…

Video: Trump Campaign Legal Team Holds Press Conference on Electoral Fraud
Right Side Broadcasting Network | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-20
We bring to the attention of Global Research the video of the press conference in Washington, D.C. (November 18, 2020) with former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani and Trump Campaign Senior Legal Advisor Jenna Ellis. | Our intent is …
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FROM THE FIELD: From President to shepherd, the dreams of displaced children of the Sahel
news.un.org | 2020-11-20
Engineer, nurse, breakdancer, shepherd, human rights lawyer, journalist, musician and president are just some of the future dreams harboured by young displaced people in the Sahel region of Africa.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/11/1…

Biden vowed to protect free speech, but will he reverse Pompeo’s anti-BDS moves?
Ali Harb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
Biden vowed to protect free speech, but will he reverse Pompeo’s anti-BDS moves? | US president-elect opposes BDS but has repeatedly pledged to respect right to boycott. Now, advocates are calling on him to uphold his promise | Ali Harb | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 22: 06 | Palestinians demonstrate near Israeli settlement of Psagot against visit by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on 18 November (AFP) | In almost all of his campaig…
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UPS worker dies of injuries at Louisville Worldport facility as holiday package crush begins
wsws.org | 2020-11-20
David Platt, 28, a mechanic working for UPS, was killed Wednesday at the Centennial hub sorting facility.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/20/upsw…

Collective, conflict-sensitive responses vital to address COVID-19 pandemic and its fallout
news.un.org | 2020-11-20
The coronavirus pandemic has not only exacted a terrible toll on human lives, health and economies, it has also exacerbated existing conflicts, a UN forum heard on Thursday, with top officials urging global solidarity in the fight against COVID-19.
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Republicans aren’t scared of the Trump & Rudy show — they love this stuff
Amanda Marcotte | salon.com | 2020-11-20
Republicans aren’t staying quiet because they fear Trump — this clown-car coup has nothing but upside for them…
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Dozens of Racial Justice Protesters Held by Feds for Months Pretrial
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-20
This story was reported in collaboration with Type Investigations. | Just after midnight on May 31 in downtown Las Vegas, Ricardo Densmore broke off from a larger group of demonstrators and used his phone to record two other protesters lighting a squad car on fire. Densmore, a 24-year-old former security guard, had felt called to action after watching the video of George Floyd being killed by Minneapolis police and joined tho…
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US senators urge Egypt to take action in case of detained Christian activist
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
US senators urge Egypt to take action in case of detained Christian activist | Legislators ask Cairo to allow fair trial for Ramy Kamel or drop charges and release him | MEE staff | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 19: 02 | Ramy Kamel is prominent Coptic Christian activist and founder of rights group Maspero Youth Union (Twitter) | A pair of bipartisan senators called on the Egyptian government to take action in the case of an imprisone…
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Iowa Tyson pork plant bosses bet on how many workers coronavirus would kill
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
WATERLOO, Iowa–This story is unbelievable but apparently true, and it’s so sick that it’s no joke: Bosses at the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, not only didn’t protect their workers against the coronavirus, but set up a betting pool on how many workers would get sick and how many would die. The …
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UN warns $200m needed for Ethiopian refugees fleeing into Sudan
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-20
UN warns $200m needed for Ethiopian refugees fleeing into Sudan | Ethiopians escaping Tigray region where Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has launched a military operation | MEE and agencies | Fri, 11/20/2020 – 14: 49 | Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province are pictured at the Um Rakuba camp in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref province (AFP) | Around $200m is needed to accommodate the thousands of refugee…
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John Harris donates fabulous guitar collection to San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
The Harris Guitar Collection:…
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Why Artsakh Still Matters to American Anarchism
Nicky Reid | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-20
The news broke like a fever last Monday night. A deal had been signed by Armenia and Azerbaijan to end the bloody month long war in Nagorno-Karabakh which had claimed the lives of thousands on both sides. This is a good thing right? How could any peace be bad? But something felt all wrong about…
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Will Biden’s New FCC End the Digital Divide?
David Rosen | progressive.org | 2020-11-20
A critical first step for the President-elect to achieve universal broadband will depend on whom he selects as the new chairperson.
progressive.org/dispatches/biden-fcc-end…

This World Children’s Day, ‘reimagine a better future’, for every child
news.un.org | 2020-11-20
The global community is marking World Children’s Day on Friday, calling for societies to “reimagine a better future” for every child, where each one has the opportunity to thrive.
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Trump Plans Series Of Actions Against China Before Biden Inauguration
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-20
The Trump administration is planning a series of hardline actions against China with the aim of making it politically untenable for a Biden administration to reverse the moves, administration officials told Axios. | According to the officials, the administration plans to sanction or restrict trade with Chinese companies, officials, and government entities. The actions will be related to alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Hong Kong, so-called threats to US national security, and China’s fishing industry.
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‘Lovecraft Country’: Liberating 1950s apartheid America one monster at a time
Dennis Broe | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
It’s now a done deal with the series already out in its entirety, but the best pilot and one of the best shows of the year is HBO’s Lovecraft Country. The series is a second stunner by showrunner Misha Green after the too quickly aborted success of Underground, about the underground railroad. Lovecraft Country refashions …
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BNL lawsuit and the impacts of national nuclear laboratory
Karl Grossman | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-20
Brookhaven National Laboratory “continues to show almost no regard for its neighbors…Is this any way for a government-funded agency to treat its neighbors?”
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It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too!
Eleni Schirmer | thenation.com | 2020-11-20
It’s Not Just Students Drowning in Debt. Colleges Are Too!
thenation.com/article/society/student-de…

British Gas workers to vote on strikes over ‘playground bullying tactics’ on pay and conditions
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-20
Thousands of British Gas workers are to be balloted on strikes in a dispute over new contracts. | The GMB warned that industrial action could be held over Christmas if there is a yes vote, although it has pledged to exempt the elderly and vulnerable in homes without heating. | The union has accused the company of threatening to fire and rehire 20,000 workers if they do not accept changes to their pay and conditions. | An indicative ballot in August showed that most members would be in favour of industrial action if there was a vote. | GMB national officer Justin Bowden said: “British Gas issued an ultimatum in Ju…
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Thursday 11/19: What’s Next: 2020 Election Wrap-Up Town Hall w/ Common Cause
Common Cause | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
Online via Zoom…
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People’s World takes sides. Yours
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
Dear People’s World readers: First things first…THANK YOU! Thank you for reading People’s World and the news we bring you from a worker’s point of view. Thank you for reading People’s World to find information and analysis the mainstream media doesn’t cover. And thank you for giving us at People’s World the freedom to …
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‘No Vaccine for Climate Change’
Kenny Stancil | zcomm.org | 2020-11-20
Coronavirus Has Been Disastrous, Says Red Cross, But Global Warming Poses Greater Threat…
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‘Accelerate our efforts’ to free Mumia
a guest author | workers.org | 2020-11-20
By Angela Davis Professor Angela Davis, herself once a political prisoner, is a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industrial complex. On Nov. 16, Davis delivered the following remarks during the virtual press conference “Freedom & Abolition: A critical moment in the fight . . . | Continue reading ‘Accelerate our efforts’ to free Mumia at Workers.org…
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COVID cases surge amid growing threat from antimicrobial resistance — WHO chief
news.un.org | 2020-11-20
More cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the past four weeks than in the first six months of the pandemic, the UN health agency chief told journalists on Friday as he launched a new report on the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance.
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As G20 Leaders Meet, US Supports Expanding Debt Relief for Countries that IMF Says are Lef
Zachary Conti | indybay.org | 2020-11-20
As G20 presidents and prime ministers convene, the IMF warns some countries are left out of the G20’s new debt reduction process. Last Friday, the United States Treasury stated support for extending debt relief beyond the initial 73 poor countries which qualify for the G20 debt reduction process.
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-11-20
Following school occupations for Covid safety measures, Greek public sector workers plan stoppage. As hospitals approach full capacity, date named for nationwide public sector strike in Greece…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/20/wkrs…

People’s World will always be there with the real news
Barbara Russum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-11-20
I first encountered the Daily World at a rally to free Angela Davis in 1971. An elderly Black gentleman wearing a suit and tie offered me a paper and we chatted a while. I worked in the Chicago loop and happened upon the rally. Other papers were handed out, but the Daily World was the …
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Poland’s Women Are in the Streets
Andrew Pasquier | thenation.com | 2020-11-20
Poland’s Women Are in the Streets…
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“Proudly Pro-BDS”: Jewish-Led Groups Condemn Pompeo for Declaring Boycott-Divestment Movement Anti-Semitic
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-11-19
“Our response to the false designation will be to… challenge Israeli policies of occupation and apartheid and galvanize public opinion for freedom and justice in Palestine,” vowed CodePink’s Medea Benjamin. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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‘We are not afraid of you, Mike’: Activists react to Pompeo’s move against pro-BDS groups
Sheren Khalel | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-19
‘We are not afraid of you, Mike’: Activists react to Pompeo’s move against pro-BDS groups | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated any group that supports Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as antisemitic | Sheren Khalel | Thu, 11/19/2020 – 19: 35 | Palestinians demonstrate near Israeli settlement of Psagot against visit by Mike Pompeo on 18 November (AFP/File photo) | Pro-Palestine and…
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Israel boycott: What is the BDS movement?
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-19
Israel boycott: What is the BDS movement? | As the US prepares to brand the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement ‘antisemitic’, Middle East Eye takes a look at the campaign | Alex MacDonald | Thu, 11/19/2020 – 11: 20 | People take part in a pro-Palestinian demonstration on 10 October 2015 in Paris calling for a boycott of Israel and for the recognition of the State of Palestine (AFP) | For 15 years, the Bo…
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Saeb Erekat: Palestinian peace negotiator who epitomised the degeneration of the PLO (1955-2020)
wsws.org | 2020-11-19
While all obituaries testify to Erekat’s tenacity, none could explain why he and the Palestine Liberation Organisation were in the end wholly unsuccessful.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/19/erek…

Covid Vaccine, Hazardous to Human Health? Big Pharma’s Rush to Cash in on Multibillion Bonanza
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-19
All vaccines are toxic and hazardous to human health. | The great covid vaccines to the rescue scheme risks widespread harm, not protection. | In cahoots with Big Government, Big Pharma prioritizes maximum profits over human health. | Drug companies are rushing to …
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Social Security Defenders Tell Biden to Keep Austerity-Obsessed Bruce Reed Far Away From the White House
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-11-19
“In this time of national crisis with millions struggling to get by, we cannot afford to grant positions of power to austerity hawks.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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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 | nationofchange.org | 2020-11-19
We must “shift from an economy that is extractive and exploitative to one that regenerates and repairs,” the new report says.
nationofchange.org/2020/11/19/greenpeace…

PDF of November 19 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-11-19
Download the 12-page PDF. Evo Morales returns Bolivians eject coup regime Editorial: Pandemic surges, economy sputters Storms, hurricanes devastate Indigenous communities; COVID profits; Free Them All protest; COVID surges, economy sputters; Sue Davis, °presente! Stop Amazon censorship; Kaepernick: ‘Free Mumia!’ Elections 2020: The vote & class solidarity Im/migrant movement lessons . . . | Continue reading PDF of November 19 issue at Workers.org…
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Alaskan and Caribbean storms increase dangers for Indigenous peoples, workers
| workers.org | 2020-11-19
People in Honduras deluged after 2020 hurricanes. By Paddy Colligan and G. Dunkel Nov. 16 — The storms battering the north and northwest coast of Alaska and the hurricanes rampaging through the Caribbean and southeastern North America may or may not be produced by human-generated global warming. Scientists differ on . . . | Continue reading Alaskan and Caribbean storms increase dangers for Indigenous peoples, workers at Workers.org…
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Death squads trained at Duntroon — not just a few bad apples
Alex Bainbridge | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-19
Alex Bainbridge writes that the release of the report into Australian war crimes in Afghanistan should be shocking — but it isn’t.
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Forbidden Weapons and Israeli War Crimes
Dr. Zuhair Sabbagh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-19
In the period 2008-2014, Zionist settler colonialists launched three aggressive wars against the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip: (1) Dec 2008-Jan 2009, (2) 14 Nov 2012, and (3) July-August 2014. During these aggressive wars, the Israeli military used a number …
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The capitalist economy doesn’t work for workers
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-11-19
We believe that socialism provides the solution to the world’s ills and that marxist theory gives us the tools to enact social change we so desperately need.
mronline.org/2020/11/19/the-capitalist-e…

Heartbreaking stories from refugees fleeing Ethiopia violence
news.un.org | 2020-11-19
In a briefing to journalists on Thursday, a senior UN humanitarian official in Sudan recounted moving testimony from refugees who are crossing the border from Ethiopia in their thousands, fleeing fighting in Tigray province.
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