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The defeat of Trump and the road ahead
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-11-30
It is a good thing that a decisive majority of voters in the United States rejected Trump in his run for the White House. The massive turnout of youth, African Americans, Chicanos, Latinos, native peoples and other oppressed nationalities was critical in defeating his anti-immigrant, racist, reactionary and misogynist agenda. This defeat provides a more favorable contest to fight for and win things people desperately need and for revolutionaries to advance the struggle to end the existing order of things. | We do not have a working crystal ball to predict the future, and Trump has a demonstrated capacity for the…
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This week in history: November 30-December 6
wsws.org | 2020-11-30
75 years ago: General Douglas MacArthur, the effective leader of US-occupied Japan, ordered the arrest of former Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe and eight of the country’s other civilian and military leaders for war crimes, setting the stage for criminal prosecutions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/30/twih…

Utopia and the cartoonishness of “conspiracy theories”
wsws.org | 2020-11-30
The world is not shaped by the hidden machinations of elites, but by social development, the development of the class struggle.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/30/utop…

Despite strikes and protests over coronavirus, schools and day-care centres remain open in Germany
wsws.org | 2020-11-30
Last week’s Coronavirus Summit, attended by Chancellor Angela Merkel along with the 16 heads of the state governments, demonstrated one thing: businesses, schools and day-care centres are to be kept open no matter what.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/30/scho…

Workers from Turkey defend Dr. Scalice against the attacks by Jose Sison and the CPP
wsws.org | 2020-11-30
“Workers from all over the world, we must speak up to show our support for his efforts, especially in countries with a belated capitalist development such as Turkey or the Philippines.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/30/turk…

Private sector and Conservative Party cronies reap over £17 billion in government contracts during pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-11-30
At least 15 companies handed contracts without tendering or oversight had connections to the Conservative government in what is being described as a “chumocracy”.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/30/prof…

NPR’s Shameful Comparison of Stacey Abrams to Donald Trump
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-11-29
TED Conference / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] By Ari Paul / FAIR It’s very likely that Stacey Abrams is not governor of Georgia today because in 2018, she and thousands of the state’s voters were victims of voter suppression that propelled then–Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp into the governor’s office. She wasn’t quiet about this, not just because the shenanigans probably cost her the election… | Source…
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Video: Covid-Gate, The Political Virus
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-29
The national economies of 193 countries, member states of the United Nations were ordered to close down on March 11, 2020. The order came from above, from Wall Street, the World Economic Forum, the billionaire foundations. And corrupt politicians throughout …
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Supreme Court’s Scientifically Illiterate Decision Will Cost Lives
Jeffrey D. Sachs | commondreams.org | 2020-11-29
Pope Francis: The common good takes precedence over simplistic appeals to “personal freedom” in protests against justified public health measures. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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‘Fakhrizadeh assassination meant to destabalize region’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) –The Head of the Russian Federation Council committee on intl. affairs believes the assassination of Iran’s Fakhrizadeh was aimed at destabilizing the situation in the region and that Iranian leadership is not to blame for this.
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Initiating a war with Iran insanity: Former US official
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Former US Deputy National Security Advisor said bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities will start a war in the Middle East.
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Why COVID-19 Granted the U.S. Most Favored Nation Status
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-29
Paul STREET | 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 the biggest global pandemic in more than a century? | The first and most obvious answer is that its government has been headed by a fascist lunatic who has fanned and fueled the pandemic in numerous overlapping ways: publicly denying its lethal impact while privately under…
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Consign chemical weapons to history, UN chief urges, honouring victims
news.un.org | 2020-11-30
The United Nations Secretary-General has called for “renewed determination” to eliminate chemical weapons from the world.
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UN condemns ‘brutal and callous’ attack on civilians in north-east Nigeria
news.un.org | 2020-11-29
Denouncing attack, on Saturday, targeting civilians in Nigeria’s restive Borno state, a senior UN humanitarian official called on the authorities to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice.
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Black Friday sales reveal how far we are from an ethical, sustainable future
Sophia Purdy-Moore | thecanary.co | 2020-11-29
Black Friday saw flash sales in fashion, beauty, technology, and beyond, in which corporations encouraged consumers to buy products at heavily reduced prices. While many took part in the nationwide spending spree, others highlighted the social and environmental costs of the mass consumption these dramatic sales encouraged. | Some took to social media to share their concerns; the GMB Union staged a protest outside Amazon’s London HQ highlighting “dehumanising” working conditions at the company’s warehouses. This year’s Black Friday highlighted the extent of exploitative corporate behaviour. | Black Friday sale…
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Jordanian and Palestinian leaders pin hopes on Biden reviving two-state solution
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-29
Jordanian and Palestinian leaders pin hopes on Biden reviving two-state solution | Staunch US ally King Abdullah tells President Mahmoud Abbas that Jordan ‘stood with all its resources alongside Palestinians’ | MEE and agencies | Sun, 11/29/2020 – 22: 03 | Jordan’s King Abdullah II (R) receives Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (L) in Aqaba, Jordan, on 29 November 2020 (AFP) | Jordan’s King Abdullah on Sun…
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Thursday 12/10: Barbara Lee Support US HR 1175/1162:Drop Charges Against Assange & Snowden
Bay Action to Free Julian Assange | indybay.org | 2020-11-29
Barbara Lee’s Congressional Office | Oakland Federal Building | 1301 Clay St. Oakland.
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On Contact: Fascism — America’s DNA
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Gabriel Rockhill about the undercurrents of fascism in America’s DNA, and the US role in internationalizing fascism after World War II through clandestine activities such Operation Paperclip and Operation Gladio. | Rockhill is a Franco-American philosopher and the founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. His books include Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy, Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics, Radical History &#03…
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Decolonizing Thanksgiving And Supporting Indigenous Peoples
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
This week, as some people in the United States celebrated the mythical ‘Thanksgiving’ dinner, Indigenous Peoples held a National Day of Mourning and continued their resistance to defend the land and water. As Native American, Matt Remle, writes: | “Despite colonial efforts to exterminate, terminate, relocate, and assimilate Indigenous populations, Native communities continue to resist efforts to both desecrate Unci Maka and strip Native peoples of their languages, spirituality and communities.” | Settler colonialism continues to this day in the United States…
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Indigenous Land Defenders Shut Down Port Access
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
Vancouver, BC – A group of Indigenous land defenders have taken over the intersection of East Hastings Street and Clark Drive in Vancouver, blocking one of the access routes to the Port of Vancouver. | About 75 people first gathered at Grandview Park as part of a national week of action promoted by Indigenous leaders hoping to call attention to a number of issues including climate change and systemic racism. | “This is what we have to do. We can’t sit back anymore and watch our Indigenous people being treated the way they’re being treated from coast to coast,” said Will George, of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.
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Why I’m Thankful For 500 Years Of Indigenous Resistance
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
Starting in 1452, under the guise of the Papal Bull Romanus Pontifex and later the 1493 Papal Bull Inter Cetera, the Christian Doctrine of Discovery, European Christians began their efforts to expand colonial rule, and the Christian Empire, throughout the world. | These Papal Bulls sanctioned European Christian Nations to “capture, vanquish, and subdue the saracens, pagans, and other enemies of Christ, to put them into perpetual slavery, and to take all their possessions and property” and were authorized “to take possession of any lands discovered that were not under the dominion of any Christian rulers.”
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Indigenous Women Lead Land Struggle Against Wealthiest People In The US
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
While the United States shudders in the shambles of another election year, whether from a collective sigh of relief or fear of what’s to come, a different system of governance blooms in a swath of woodlands jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. This sandy shoreline now part of what is called Long Island has always been home to the Shinnecock people. A group of Shinnecock women, organized as the Warriors of the Sunrise, are called to rise up in the face of invasive settlement. This is not their first battle. | Members of the Shinnecock Nation know of a time before there was a Southampton…
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The Actual Effects Of Enhanced Unemployment Benefits
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
No matter how hard they search, unemployed workers can’t find jobs that don’t exist. The major cause of today’s high unemployment is the lack of jobs, not workers who have stopped searching for work and have left jobs unfilled. By the end of July, there were still 11.1 million fewer jobs in the U.S. economy than there had been prior to the pandemic in January 2020. | Renewing the FPUC supplemental unemployment benefits would boost spending and create jobs. Economist Mark Zandi from Moody’s Analytics estimates that $1 of renewed unemployment benefits would increase economic output by $1.64…
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John Shipton calls on government not to break its own rules
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-30
John Shipton, the father of jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has called on the federal government to follow its own rules, reports Jim McIlroy.
greenleft.org.au/content/john-shipton-ca…

Silent march against domestic violence
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-30
Janet Parker reports that the 30th annual Silent Domestic Violence Memorial March was held in Perth.
greenleft.org.au/content/silent-march-ag…

Jobs for Women film proves a hit in Perth
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-30
Tickets to Women of Steel, which premiered in Perth on November 26, sold out some two weeks in advance, reports Kerry Smith.
greenleft.org.au/content/jobs-women-film…

XR brought the love, WA police brought the rage
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-30
WA Police brutally attacked senior protesters, among others, at a Extinction Rebellion action to highlight the need to act to stop the growing climate emergency. Petrina Harley reports.
greenleft.org.au/content/xr-brought-love…

XR bought the love, WA police bought the rage
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-30
WA Police brutally attacked senior protesters, among others, at a Extinction Rebellion action to highlight the need to act to stop the growing climate emergency. Petrina Harley reports.
greenleft.org.au/content/xr-bought-love-…

The War Crimes of Obama, Cameron and Hillary Clinton
Rod Driver | zcomm.org | 2020-11-29
Libya, Syria and Yemen…
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Sri Lankan government orders schools to reopen, threatening thousands with COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-11-30
In line with its dangerous and irresponsible “new normal” coronavirus policies, the Rajapakse government is sending students and teachers back to school.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/30/scho…

Swiss Fall Short in Sunday’s Vote to Hold Multinational Corporations Accountable
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-11-29
Despite winning a majority of votes, Swiss election rules—much like the US Electoral College—kills the initiative. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Guatemalans Continue Anti-Government Protests
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
Guatemala City, Guatemala — Guatemalans have returned to protest across the country for the second Saturday in a row, as discontent with President Alejandro Giammattei and his government continues. | More than 2,000 people gathered in Guatemala City’s central plaza to demand the resignation of Giammattei and congressional representatives who had approved the country’s controversial 2021 budget. | “We are demanding that they respect our rights and that all those corrupt politicians in Congress leave,” Maria Fernanda Saldana, a 22-year-old university student…
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Rocket hits small oil refinery in northern Iraq: Report
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — A rocket hit a small oil refinery in northern Iraq, Baiji city on Sunday, causing fire and minor damage, two refinery officials said.
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As Pandemic Aid Ends, Families Face Brutal New Year
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
California – In late 2017, a house fell on Jacques Gene. | The construction foreman in Cool, east of Sacramento, was inside a half-finished home when the rolling trusses that make up the underside of the roof fell, collapsing the whole house. Gene, 46, suffered broken ribs, a punctured lung and a concussion. When his coworkers sorted through the rubble, he says, they didn’t expect to find him alive. | But he found work again, earning $70,000 annually as a foreman to support his wife, their two kids and two children from a previous marriage.
popularresistance.org/as-pandemic-aid-en…

MPs call for reviving Iran’s nuclear industry
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — In a statement, MPs called for the revival of Iran’s nuclear industry by halting the voluntary implementation of the Additional Protocol to NPT and preventing inspections of the IAEO of Iranian nuclear sites.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166506/MPs-call-for…

Turkey sees record Covid-19 deaths for seventh day in a row
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-29
Turkey sees record Covid-19 deaths for seventh day in a row | Surge in cases comes despite stricter efforts to contain virus, but opposition politicians accuse Erdogan of taking ‘band-aid’ measures | MEE and agencies | Sun, 11/29/2020 – 18: 00 | A deserted street in Istanbul’s popular tourist neighbourhood of Beyoglu amid the coronavirus pandemic, 21 November 2020 (Reuters) | Coronavirus deaths in Turkey ros…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-sees-r…

Saturday 12/12: Newcastle: People’s 9th Blockade of the Worlds Largest Coal Port
Extinction Rebellion Newcastle Australia | indybay.org | 2020-11-29
Horseshoe Beach, Muloobinba (aka Newcastle)…
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Jahangiri to address SCO Council of Heads of Govt. meeting
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Iranian 1st VP Es’hagh Jahangiri is to address the 19th meeting of the SCO Council of Heads of Government on Monday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166525/Jahangiri-to…

Who’s Killing Iranian Nuclear Scientists?
RT | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-29
Israel denies being behind the assassination of top Iranian nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and the US is keeping quiet. But the fact remains, Iranian scientists have been continuously and mysteriously murdered for at least a decade now. Who do you think is doing it?
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/whos-killing-…

Funeral ceremony of veteran actor Parviz Pourhosseini
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov . 29 (MNA) — The funeral ceremony of veteran stage and cinema actor Parviz Pourhosseini was held at Tehran’s Behesht-e-Zahra cemetery on Sunday. Pourhosseini passed away at the age of 79 on Friday due to coronavirus disease.
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Russia seeking to build its own space station
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Russia’s rocket and space corporation Energia on Thursday announced that it is working on the development of a new multifunctional space station.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166517/Russia-seeki…

Cost of Lockdowns: A Preliminary Report
AIER | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-29
In the debate over coronavirus policy, there has been far too little focus on the costs of lockdowns. It’s very common for the proponents of these interventions to write articles and large studies without even mentioning the downsides. | Here is …
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Racism and death at Carrefour are the tip of the iceberg involving multinationals
Marques Casara | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-29
In Brazil, the Carrefour supermarket chain has been adopting racist behavior since 2009. In that year, employees at a unit in the city of Osasco beat up a black man, Januário Alves de Santana. Carrefour’s claim was that Januário was trying to steal a car. Small detail: the car was owned by Januário. | In 2018, Luís Carlos Gomes, a physically disabled black man, was beaten in the bathroom of a Carrefour in the town of Sà£o Bernardo do Campo. The offense: opening a can of beer inside the store. | The most recent case occurred this fateful 2020. On the eve of Black Awareness Day, two white security guards beat…
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Joseph Berlinger’s master class in “Cinema Verite”
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Acclaimed American filmmaker, Joseph Berlinger is slated to hold an online master class in Iran International Documentary Film Festival known as “Cinema Verite” in Tehran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166515/Joseph-Berli…

Brazil’s Left Contests in the Second Round of Municipal Elections
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-29
The voting centers in 57 Brazilian cities opened this Sunday at 7: 00 a.m. local time (10: 00 GMT) to elect the mayors of those localities, in a day that takes place under strict measures related to the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | Brazilian Justice Extends Investigation Against Bolsonaro | Some 38.3 million Brazilian voters will elect the mayors of 57 large cities in this second round of elections, including in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in which none of the candidates obtained…
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I ditched my microwave three years ago and never looked back
Michelle Eigenheer | salon.com | 2020-11-29
Weaning myself from the microwave was surprisingly easy, but also led to being happier and healthier than before…
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Persepolis aiming 2020 ACL title: coach
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Persepolis head coach Yahya Golmohammadi says the team will put all-out effort to win the 2020 AFC Champions League title.
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Cabbies slam ‘aggressive’ finance companies over repayment demands
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-29
Finance companies are being “absolute charlatans” by demanding taxi drivers restart vehicle payments despite a collapse in earnings, a trade body has claimed.Cabbies face “a real crisis” as payment holidays offered earlier this year following the coronavirus outbreak are being ended, according to the Licensed Taxi Drivers’ Association (LTDA).Thousands of drivers in London used finance companies to purchase new electric taxis in recent years costing around £65,000 each.Hundreds of taxis are being stored in fields dotted around the edge of London due to the lack of customers (Victoria Jones/PA)Typical repayme…
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The Art of Political Lying
Matthew J.L. Ehret | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-29
A young Queen Anne (Photo: Wikimedia) With idle tales this fills our empty ears; The next reports what from the first he hears; The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. Here vain credulity, with new desires, Leads us astray, and groundless joy inspires; The dubious whispers, tumults …
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Cuban FM slams terrorist assault against Iranian Scientist
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Condemning the assassination of the Iranian Scientist, Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez noted that his country is against all forms and manifestations of terrorism.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166493/Cuban-FM-sla…

Bleeding conservatives dry
Hunter | zcomm.org | 2020-11-29
The new conservative media is about selling a screaming adrenaline rush so cathartic that you need a special pillow afterward to sleep right. It’s an expensive pillow, by God, but it’s the only one left not infested with “antifa.”
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Venezuela’s Voting Machines Audited Ahead of Parliamentary Elections
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-29
This Sunday, the National Electoral Council (CNE) of Venezuela carried out the pre-dispatch audit of voting machines, to validate and replicate all stages of the electoral process, sampling 0.5% of voting tables. | RELATED: | Trump Lawyer Dumped After Claiming Hugo Chavez Rigged U.S. Election | The purpose of the voting machines pre-dispatch audit is to replicate and validate all the stages of the electoral process, verifying that both the software and data, as well as the o…
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Iraq, Iran, Russia, Syria to exchange security information
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Russian Federation and Syria will exchange security information with each other.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166532/Iraq-Iran-Ru…

System Fail #5: Sick of Winning
subMedia | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-29
In this episode we look at the aftermath of the 2020 US Presidential elections, leading up to the so-called “Million MAGA March” in Washington, DC. We also feature an interview with Tom Nomad, author of The Masters Tools: Warfare & Insurgent Possibility. CW: Graphic violence.
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New Music Release By Lynda Carson
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-11-29
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Rouhani condoles on passing of senior politician
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — President Hassan Rouhani has offered condolences on the passing of senior Iranian cleric and politician, Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Shahidi.
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Use leftover cranberry sauce to make these two delicious, low-effort desserts
Ashlie D. Stevens | salon.com | 2020-11-29
This no-bake cheesecake and cran-orange muffins balance cranberries’ natural tartness with sugar…
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Iran, Zimbabwe emphasize strengthening bilateral coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Islamic Republic of Iran and Zimbabwe stressed the expansion of bilateral cooperation and promotion of trade-economic ties.
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Congress can wait: How Biden can reshape our future with executive action
Paul Rosenberg | salon.com | 2020-11-29
Congressional deadlock doesn’t have to mean total paralysis. Biden can change America without passing new laws…
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Iran registers 12,950 new COVID-19 infections, 389 deaths
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — According to the Iranian Health Ministry, 12,950 new cases of COVID-19 infections have been confirmed in the country during the past 24 hours.
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Precarious Working Conditions of Nursing Home Employees Foster Spread of COVID
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-29
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated America’s nursing homes, but the reasons aren’t as simple as people might think. | To understand how nursing homes became the source of over one-third of U.S. COVID-19 deaths, you have to look beyond just the vulnerability of the residents and examine how nursing homes pay and manage their employees. | The average n…
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Evictions Have Led To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Additional COVID-19 Cases
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
Expiring state eviction bans have led to hundreds of thousands of additional coronavirus cases, new research finds, raising alarm about what will happen when the national eviction moratorium lapses next month. | During the pandemic, which at one point was estimated it would displace as many as 40 million people, 43 states, plus Washington, D.C., temporarily barred evictions. Many of the moratoriums lasted just 10 weeks, while some states continue to ban the proceedings. | The researchers, from the University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, San Francisco, Johns Hopkins University…
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Cuba Condemns U.S. Operation in Havana’s San Isidro
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-29
The government of Cuba says it is aware of the current involvement of the U.S. government in interference in Cuba and the logistical support supplied to a group in San Isidro by the U.S. embassy. | RELATED: | Cuba: Health Officials Act Upon Travel Violation in San Isidro | Late night Saturday, the General Director in charge of the United States of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Carlos Fernández de Cossío, summoned the United States Charge d’Affaires Timothy Zúñiga-Brown,…
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Iran keen on boosting agricultural coop with Iraqi Kurdistan
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — The Iranian Consul General in Sulaimaniyah announced Iran’s readiness to cooperate with the Kurdistan Region in the fields of agricultural and water projects, especially dam construction projects.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166501/Iran-keen-on…

Athletes Get COVID-19 Tests While Nurses Are Refused Testing
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
On her day off not long ago, emergency room nurse Jane Sandoval sat with her husband and watched her favorite NFL team, the San Francisco 49ers. She’s off every other Sunday, and even during the coronavirus pandemic, this is something of a ritual. Jane and Carlos watch, cheer, yell — just one couple’s method of escape. | “It makes people feel normal,” she says. | For Sandoval, though, it has become more and more difficult to enjoy as the season — and the pandemic — wears on.
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Comprehensive Trade System operational
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Iranian ICT minister announced that a Comprehensive Trade System has brcome operational.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166522/Comprehensiv…

Malaysia condemns terrorist attack on ‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Chairman of Islamic Institutions of Malaysia entitled “Malaysian Consultative Council of Islamic Organization (MAPIM)” in a statement on Sun. condemned assassination of Iranian prominent nuclear scientist ‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’.
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MP proposes Iran’s withdrawal from NPT
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Iranian MP Javad Karimi Ghoddousi said Iran has to pull out from the NPT in case Europeans do not put removal of anti-Iranian sanctions on their agenda.
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Andy Burnham calls for more Government support on Tier 3
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-29
Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Greater Manchester, has written to the region’s 27 MPs calling for cross-party support to demand more money for areas in Tier 3 lockdowns and to get some restrictions lifted in two weeks’ time.Tier 3: Greater Manchester’s 2.8 million residents, along with much of the rest of the North, will be under Tier 3, the highest level of restrictions when England’s national lockdown ends at midnight on 1 December. Burnham said he wants more financial support from the government for Tier 3 areas when the issue is debated in parliament on 1 December. He also said on current infection trends…
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Facebook Is Still Facilitating the Dissemination of Deadly Disinformation
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-29
Facebook customizes each user’s online experience. Each of us has different friends, different likes, different group affiliations and different interests. As a result, Facebook’s algorithms perpetuate a different experience for each user, specifically designed to keep us hooked on the platform. That’s one key to the platform’s success — but it’s also what makes Facebook so dangerous. This hyper-customization means each of us lives in a different reality, with a unique set of beliefs and f…
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NYT Wants to Talk About Higher Wages, but Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Real Reasons Wages are Low
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-11-29
It’s good to see the New York Times making the case for higher wages in an editorial. Unfortunately, they get much of the story confused. First off, the essence of the case is that higher wages will lead to more consumption, which will spur growth. This is true, but higher pay is not the only …
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Stop Adani message goes down well at the cricket
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-29
Stop Adani protesters took their anti-coal message directly to the first international one-day match of the cricket season, reports Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy.
greenleft.org.au/content/stop-adani-mess…

Iran, Afghanistan discuss judicial coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Iranian ambassador to Kabul met and held talks with Afghanistan’s Minister of Justice on the expansion of judicial cooperation and extradition of criminals.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166524/Iran-Afghani…

Intelligence Min. find clues on perpetrators of terror attack
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Iranian Intelligence Ministry found clues on perpetrators behind assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist ‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166533/Intelligence…

No past meeting between martyr Fakhrizadeh, IAEA officials
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said that Iran’s martyred nuclear scientist ‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’ did not have any meeting with the officials of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
en.mehrnews.com/news/166537/No-past-meet…

Jonathan Rosenbaum’s online master class in “Cinema Verite”
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Famous American film critic and author Jonathan Rosenbaum is slated to hold an online master class in Iran International Documentary Film Festival known as “Cinema Verite” in Tehran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166528/Jonathan-Ros…

25 films reached COVID-19 special section of “Cinema Verite”
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) — 25 films have been reached to the Coronavirus special section of the 14th edition of “Cinema Verite” which is slated to be held in an online format in Tehran from Dec 8-14, 2020.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166523/25-films-rea…

COVID-19 threatens global progress against malaria, warns UN health agency
news.un.org | 2020-11-29
Gaps in life-saving interventions are undermining efforts to curb malaria, amid fears that the coronavirus pandemic could set back the fight against the disease even further, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/11/1…

Rocket hits oil refinery in central Iraq, causing fire
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-11-29
Rocket hits oil refinery in central Iraq, causing fire | The latest attack, not far from the country’s largest refinery, follows a lull linked to US warnings two months ago | MEE and agencies | Sun, 11/29/2020 – 16: 45 | Mine clearers working for the Halo Trust in the Baiji area of Salahuddin province, central Iraq (AFP) | A small oil refinery in central Iraq was struck by a rocket on Sunday, causing fire an…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/rocket-hits-o…

Coronavirus mutates rapidly in mink and ferrets. Should we be afraid?>
Matthew Rozsa | salon.com | 2020-11-29
Mink, with their human-like immune systems, are being culled en masse to prevent the spread of COVID-19 mutations…
salon.com/2020/11/29/covid-19-mutations-…

The Nuremberg Tribunal: 75 Years Later and Still the Basis for Humanity’s Survival
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-29
“The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that Civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captives to the judgement of law, is one of the most significant tributes that Power ever paid to reason.” | -Justice Robert Jackson, Nov. 21, 1945 | It is often forgotten what sort of a battle occurred after WWII to establish the Nuremberg Trials which gave the world a revolutionary co…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/29/nu…

National Council on Disability says Congress should phase out the AbilityOne Program
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-11-29
Person In Wheelchair…
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16 films at Cinema Verite’s Entrepreneurship Doc. Section
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — A total of 16 documentary films have been selected in the Entrepreneurship Documentary section of the 14th edition of “Cinema Verite”, which is slated to be held in an online format in Tehran from Dec 8-14.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166516/16-films-at-…

Ethiopian military seizes control of regional capital after offensive against Tigray province
wsws.org | 2020-11-29
The desperate situation confronting Ethiopia is bound up with great power rivalries between the US, Europe and China that led over the last decades to the fragmentation and disintegration of a region that includes Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia and Djibouti.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/30/ethi…

Protesters Descend On Garcetti’s House For 6th Consecutive Day
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
Los Angeles, CA – A sixth day of demonstrations outside Mayor Eric Garcetti’s official residence unfolded Sunday in an attempt to persuade President-elect Joe Biden not to appoint Garcetti to his cabinet. | Tabatha Jones Jolivet, a spokeswoman for BLM-LA, said Garcetti “has failed the people of Los Angeles in an unending number of ways — from criminalizing folks for being houseless, to refusing to stand up for people who are killed by his police force.” | “We refuse to be quiet as President-elect Biden considers him for a cabinet post where his reach will extend to setting national policy,” she said.
popularresistance.org/protesters-garcett…

No doubt Zionist regime behind terror of Fakhrizadeh
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Washington Post quoted a senior US official as saying that Zionist regime is definitely behind the assassination of Martyr Fakhrizadeh.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166521/No-doubt-Zio…

COVID19 PCR Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless
Torsten Engelbrecht | globalresearch.ca | 2020-11-29
First published on June 29, 2020 | Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify “positive” patients, whereby “positive” is usually equated with …
globalresearch.ca/covid19-pcr-tests-scie…

How We Burned Through a Whole Hemisphere in Just 500 Years
Stan Cox | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-29
Donald Worster, a pioneer of the field of environmental history, held the Hall Distinguished Professorship Chair in American History at the University of Kansas from 1989 to 2012. He is currently a Professor of World History at Renmin University of China. His books have examined the politics and economics of water in the American West,…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/29/how-we-burne…

Fakhrizadeh devoted his life to his nation: Hakim
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of Iraq’s National Wisdom Movement said, Iranian martyred scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, devoted his life to his nation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166526/Fakhrizadeh-…

Turkey dispatches drones to battle against UAE in Yemen
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Informed sources claim that Turkey has dispatched advanced drones to the battle line in southern Yemen to confront UAE-backed forces.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166530/Turkey-dispa…

France: Chaos Over Police Violence And Macron’s Security Bill
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-29
France has protested against the bill on security promoted by the government of Emmanuel Macron into the night on Saturday. The organizers of the protests warn that the security bill approved last week by the National Assembly is an attack on freedom of expression and fundamental public freedoms. | “This bill aims to restrict the freedom of the press, the freedom to inform and be informed, the freedom of expression, in short, the fundamental public freedoms of our Republic,” stated the coordinators who called the protests.
popularresistance.org/france-chaos-over-…

Wednesday 12/9: Impact of COVID-19 on Refugees & Aid Workers in the Middle East
Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-11-29
Online via livestream (FREE)…
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Starmer’s awful week ends on an even sourer note
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-11-29
It’s not been a good week for Keir Starmer. From National Executive Committee (NEC) walk-outs to briefing the Sun, the Labour leader has been mired in controversy. But the situation just got a whole lot worse for him.Strong-arming Bristol: As The Canary previously reported, there have been some dodgy goings on in Bris…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/11/29/starmer…

1 in 6 Families With Children Don’t Have Enough to Eat
Brett Wilkins | zcomm.org | 2020-11-29
“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.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/1-in-6-families-wi…

Tamario Smith’s Death in SC County Jail – Attorneys Discuss May 10 Death & Lawsuit
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-11-29
Interview with Jonathan Gettleman and Elizabeth Caballero, two Santa Cruz attorneys filing a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of Tamario Smith’s family.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/28/1883869…

As winter approaches, Denver plans massive homeless sweep, again despite CDC guidelines
Scott Brown | liberationnews.org | 2020-11-29
Liberation News previously reported on Denver’s non-CDC-compliant homeless sweeps in May, and as winter approaches, the city is continuing to sweep residents. After a flurry of snowfall coated the streets of Denver on the morning of November 24, the city announced that it would carry out a massive homeless sweep of approximately 300 unhoused people …
liberationnews.org/as-winter-approaches-…

Manchester university students win rent cuts after month-long protest
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-29
Students of the University of Manchester have been protesting high rents and restrictions on the university campus. Following successful negotiations with authorities, the striking students ended their two-week-long occupation of a campus building…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/29/mancheste…

Leader offers condolence over demise of senior cleric
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has expressed condolences over the passing of prominent Iranian cleric and politician, Hojjatoleslam Seyyed Mohammad-Ali Shahidi.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166531/Leader-offer…

Over 2 tons narcotics confiscated in SE Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) — The Sistan and Baluchestan police commander announced the confiscation of over 2 tons of illicit drugs in an armed clash between police and members of a professional drug trafficking gang in Iranshahr.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166518/Over-2-tons-…

Thursday 12/10: We Charge Genocide: Systemic Poverty in All Its Forms is Violence!
National Welfare Rights Union, NUH, partners | indybay.org | 2020-11-29
Online event…
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Soccer’s God has Died
César Chelala | commondreams.org | 2020-11-29
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Indybay: Please explain why you have censored & banned me for 6 years?
Cris Ericson | indybay.org | 2020-11-29
Indybay: Please explain why you have censored and banned me for 6 years since 2014?>…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/29/1883870…

The Planet Cannot Begin to Heal Until We Rip the Mask off the West’s War Machine
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-29
Making political sense of the world can be tricky unless one understands the role of the state in capitalist societies. The state is not primarily there to represent voters or uphold democratic rights and values; it is a vehicle for facilitating and legitimating the concentration of wealth and power into fewer and fewer hands. In …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/the-planet-ca…

“Fargo” season 4 has spun a complex, compelling American fable of race and crime
Melanie McFarland | salon.com | 2020-11-29
Season 4 of “Fargo” forges a successful union between our love of mob tales and a timely fable about whiteness…
salon.com/2020/11/29/fargo-season-4-has-…

Fakhrizadeh funeral process. at Hazrat Masoumeh shrine
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-29
QOM, Nov. 29 (MNA) — The funeral procession of the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was held on Sunday at Hazrat Masoumeh holy shrine in Qom.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/166507/Fakhrizadeh…

JFK and Mary Meyer
Jefferson Morley | counterpunch.org | 2020-11-29
“JFK and Mary Meyer: A Love Story” is a most unusual thing: a novel with footnotes. In the 1960s, the New Journalists adopted the techniques of novelists to spice up their reporting. Author Jesse Kornbluth offers a 21st-century variation. He imports the apparatus of academia to give ballast to the true tale of a torrid…
counterpunch.org/2020/11/29/jfk-and-mary…

There is no quick solution to the Guatemalan crisis
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-29
Why were hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans on the streets over the past weeks? What is the pact of the corrupt in the country? We take a look…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/29/there-is-…

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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/diego-maradon…

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…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/colombians-embark-…

Trade unions and progressive movements across the world unite to #MakeAmazonPay
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-28
During the pandemic, Amazon emerged as the first trillion-dollar corporation ever while its CEO Jeff Bezos became the first person to amass over USD 200 billion. Meanwhile, its workers across the world have complained of denial of rights…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/28/trade-uni…

Tech Entrepreneur And Retired Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Dies in Connecticut Mansion Blaze
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-28
Tony Hsieh joined Zappos – then called ShoeSite.com – back in 1999, when it was a small online shoe store before transforming the company into an internet giant, which was sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion. Hsieh recently stepped down as CEO of Zappos earlier this year with an estimated $840 million fortune.
sputniknews.com/news/202011281081305551-…

Canadian Media Refuses to Publish Op-ed by Venezuelan Foreign Minister
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.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. Even so, the pro-Ottawa slant on Venezuela is shocking. Recently Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza published an op-ed titled “Regime Change with a Human …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/canadian-medi…

Not Adding Up: Australia, Iran and the Release of Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-28
Australia’s ambassadorial offices and political leaders have a consistent record of ignoring their citizens in tight situations. David Hicks, Mamdouh Habib and Julian Assange are but a few names that come to mind in this inglorious record of indifference. In such cases, Australian public figures and officials have tacitly approved the use of abduction, torture …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/not-adding-up…

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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/where-is-cana…

Israel’s siege means death for Gaza’s COVID-19 patients
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
The Hamas government has said the Gaza Strip “lacks oxygen-generating machines, ventilators, protective gear, and hygiene materials. Thirty-two percent of basic drugs and 62 percent of drugs and materials for medical laboratories are not available.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/gaza…

[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.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32527-7/fulltext?rss=yes

National Day Of Action For Palestine
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-28
The Israeli government continues to press ahead with its gross violations of international law and Palestinian human rights, accelerating the ongoing colonisation of yet more Palestinian land. These include plans to proceed with formal annexation. Despite the rhetoric from some of our political leaders that the US- UAE has taken annexation off the table, Israel has made clear that its plans are merely on temporary hold . Netanyahu has stated clearly, speaking after the UAE deal, that “there is no change to my plan to extend sovereignty, our sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, in full coordination with the United St…
popularresistance.org/national-day-of-ac…

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.
mronline.org/2020/11/28/we-suffer-from-a…

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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/the-emperor-h…

“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.
mronline.org/2020/11/28/superheroes-and-…

[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…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32523-X/fulltext?rss=yes

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.
mronline.org/2020/11/28/marx-on-exploita…

Engels at 200: He transformed dreams of better world into a science for liberation
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-11-28
November 28 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest revolutionaries of all times, Fredrick Engels. Born the son of a factory owner in Barmen, Germany, Engels, along with his comrade and friend Karl Marx, made immense contributions to the struggle for emancipation of the working class. In the U.S. today, monopoly capitalism has revealed itself a corrupt and criminal system that is unable to meet the needs of the vast majority of people. It rewards the wealthy with fabulous profits and unimaginable riches. As a result, there is renewed interest in socialism. | What has made scientific social…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/11/28/engels-…

[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…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32523-X/fulltext?rss=yes

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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/pers…

Legal proceedings against former de-facto government officials begin in Bolivia
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-28
The newly elected MAS government has opened investigations against several former officials of the de-facto government for their role in crimes committed during their one year tenure after the coup détat ágainst former president Evo Morales…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/28/legal-pro…

Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/labo…

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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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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166447/ICRC-to-gran…

Yemen: Where America Tests its Weapons
RT | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-11-28
The US spends more on military aid to Saudi Arabia than on humanitarian aid to Yemen as the former continues to wage war on the latter. RT America’s Alex Mihailovich reports. Then former UK MP George Galloway weighs in on the conflict and why it is met with such widespread ignorance and apathy in the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/11/yemen-where-a…

Brazilian Justice Extends Investigation Against Bolsonaro
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-28
The Supreme Federal Court (STF) of Brazil extended the investigations against President Jair Bolsonaro this Friday for 60 days. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro Declines To Testify on His Meddling With Police | Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes decided to extend the investigations against Bolsonaro for his alleged political interference in the Federal Police and also gave the Attorney General, Augusto Aras, five days to rule on the requirement for the President to give a statement. | Bo…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazilian-justic…

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…

California Court Strikes Down Limits On Fighting Dirty Power Plants
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-11-28
A state appeals court affirmed Friday that communities concerned about air quality and climate pollution have the right to challenge natural gas-fired and thermal power plants in the lower courts, not just in the Supreme Court, which has historically refused to take up these challenges. | The decision marks a win after about seven years of litigation by the Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice and Communities for a Better Environment, who argued that jurisdictional laws effectively and unconstitutionally blocked Californians from challenging power plant permits issued by the California Energy Commission.
popularresistance.org/california-court-s…

Venezuela Sentences Former Citgo Executives for Corruption
Manuela Solé | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-11-28
The so-called “Citgo six” had been arrested in 2017 and their lawyers will appeal the ruling.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15060

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.
liberationnews.org/revolutionary-friedri…

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”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/moving-past-aparth…

[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…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32526-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[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…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32470-3/fulltext?rss=yes

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.”
liberationnews.org/police-escalate-viole…

Covid-19-driven recession may see Russian economy contract by 4.5% & a million plunged into poverty, says finance guru Kudrin
rt.com | 2020-11-28
The economic consequences of Covid-19 are becoming clearer, and they aren’t good. The number of Russians in poverty is projected to grow by about a million by the end of 2020, with the overall economy due to fall as much as 4.5%. | …
rt.com/russia/508100-covid19-recession-e…

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.”
liberationnews.org/police-escalate-viole…

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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/pppr…

[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.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32471-5/fulltext?rss=yes

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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/26/1883867…

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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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…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/11/28/health-expert…

Tear gas fired as police block Warsaw march against abortion ruling
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-11-28
Police have blocked protesters from marching in Poland’s capital as demonstrations took place across the country against an attempt to restrict abortion rights and recent police violence.Action: In Warsaw police set up cordons which the protesters sought to evade, pushing them to try to regroup elsewhere in the city centre.At one point, protest participants gathered on a major thoroughfare, causing traffic to back up. As drivers honked, the protesters shouted: We are sorry for the inconvenience, we have a government to overthrow.Police issued warnings that the demonstration was illegal because it had not be…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/11/2…

Syria condemns ‘Zionist terrorist attack on science’ as Israel says it has ‘no clue’ who was behind Iranian scientist’s murder
rt.com | 2020-11-28
Syria has condemned the assassination of top Iranian nuclear physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, calling it a chilling “terrorist attack on science”, as Israel denies involvement. | Syria’s Foreign Minister Faysal Mikdad denounced what he called a “cowardly act” in a phone call with his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif. Offering his nation’s condolences to Iran over the incident, Mikdad said that the murder was an attack against scientists and researchers the world over. | While Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was a senior Iranian nuclear physicist with alleged…
rt.com/news/508122-syria-iran-nuclear-sc…

UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson Says COVID-19 Regulations ‘Have a Sunset of 3 February’
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-28
While the currently-imposed nationwide lockdown is set to expire on Wednesday, Johnson has triggered anger among many MPs with his intention to introduce new COVID-19 restrictions after 2 December.
sputniknews.com/uk/202011281081306269-uk…

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 …
globalresearch.ca/ludendorff-dictatorshi…

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…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/transforming-the-c…

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 …
globalresearch.ca/dr-pascal-sacre-emerge…

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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/26/1883867…

[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.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32469-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Largest Retail Association Is Lobbying to Get Stores Open as Pandemic Worsens
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-28
As schools in some parts of the U.S. shut down again because of surging coronavirus cases, the retail industry is lobbying to keep doors open for consumers this holiday season. | CNN reported that on a conference call last Thursday, Macy’s CEO Jeffrey Gennette said the…
truthout.org/articles/largest-retail-ass…

The Revolving Door: Biden’s National Security Nominees Want Back In After Cashing Out Of Government Service
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-11-28
Top Biden advisers Tony Blinken, Michele Flournoy, and Lloyd Austin face new scrutiny. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/11/28/revolvi…

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…

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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166461/Iran-not-to-…

France: Utter Chaos Over Police Violence & Macron’s Security Bill
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-11-28
France has protested against the bill on security promoted by the government of Emmanuel Macron into the night on Saturday. The organizers of the protests warn that the security bill approved last week by the National Assembly is an attack on freedom of expression and fundamental public freedoms. | RELATED: | Brutal Police Attack on Black Producer Shocks France | “This bill aims to restrict the freedom of the press, the freedom to inform and be informed, the freedom of expression, in sh…
telesurenglish.net/news/france-utter-cha…

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…

The delight of HBO’s bizarre docuseries “How to With John Wilson” is found in the detours
Ashlie D. Stevens | salon.com | 2020-11-28
Meticulously captured B-roll poignantly transforms into a beautiful series that will remind you of pre-COVID life…
salon.com/2020/11/28/how-to-with-john-wi…

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…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/11/28/police-i…

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…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/28/this-holi…

Ten years since WikiLeaks published the US diplomatic cables
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
WikiLeaks contributed to a growing recognition among workers and young people that state criminality and ruling class conspiracies are not accidents or the work of a few bad individuals, but the product of a whole social system based on the rule of competing oligarchies which must be overthrown.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/dipl…

Come to “Forever Together” for the Knack and “My Sharona,” stay for Doug Fieger’s solo hooks
Kenneth Womack | salon.com | 2020-11-28
In the box set retrospective of the Knack’s late frontman’s career, we get power pop hooks and Hank Williams covers…
salon.com/2020/11/27/come-to-forever-tog…

Navalny uses meeting between EU officials & pro-West Russian opposition to call for sanctions on Kremlin-linked ‘oligarchs’
rt.com | 2020-11-28
Alexey Navalny has called on the EU to impose sanctions on Russian “oligarchs,” rich businessmen he says are connected to the Kremlin. The opposition figure wants them to be prevented from keeping assets inside the 27-member bloc. | Navalny explicitly named Uzbek-Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov and Israeli-Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich. Both men laid the foundations for their immense wealth during the Boris Yeltsin-era, when Western governments were encouraging privatization in Russia, and the country’s integration into the global capitalist system. Finnish-Russian magnate Boris Rotenberg, who came to pr…
rt.com/russia/508114-navalny-sanctions-r…

Top scientist assassinated as Israel and US stage war provocations against Iran
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
The brutal assassination of Iran’s most prominent nuclear physicist Friday is part of an escalating campaign to provoke a catastrophic new war in the Middle East.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/iran…

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.
thenation.com/article/activism/creating-…

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.”
nationofchange.org/2020/11/28/epa-warns-…

[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.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32439-9/fulltext?rss=yes

A Global Police State Is Emerging as World Capitalism Descends Into Crisis
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-11-28
The following is an extract from the Introduction to The Global Police State, a new book by William I. Robinson that was released early this fall by Pluto Press. | In her novel Everything is Known, Liza Elliott describes a future dystopia where five global mega corporations, dubbed Affiliations, rule the planet. “Infested with the inescapable surveillance industry, the five global Affiliations manipulated Big Data t…
truthout.org/articles/a-global-police-st…

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…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/28/chilean-h…

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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/27/1883868…

Ethiopian National Defense Forces Gain Control of Tigray’s Capital
sputniknews.com | 2020-11-28
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) have gained full control of the Tigray region’s capital of Mekelle, passing the further prosecution of the local breakaway authorities, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), on to the federal police, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali said on Saturday.
sputniknews.com/africa/20201128108130587…

[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.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32403-X/fulltext?rss=yes

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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166464/Intl-reactio…

[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…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32530-7/fulltext?rss=yes

Company Town: a damning look at the role of Unifor in the GM Oshawa plant closure
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
The film follows events from the time of the closure announcement in November, 2018 until the final day of production a year later.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/comp…

‘Warehouse’ nominated at Brazil’s GIMFA
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Iranian short film ‘Warehouse’ (Original title in Persian: Anbar) has been nominated for awards at Brazil’s GIMFA (Gralha International Monthly Film Awards).
en.mehrnews.com/news/166467/Warehouse-no…

‘American Bull’ wins award at Chilean, Turkish film festivals
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-11-28
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) — Iranian short ‘American Bull’ directed by Fateme Tousi, has won awards at two international film festivals in Chile and Turkey.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166457/American-Bul…

The trick to perfect cornbread is letting the cornmeal, corn flour, and buttermilk sit overnight
Kelly Fields | salon.com | 2020-11-28
I think the real jewel is the cornbread that you can and will eat all by itself for breakfast, lunch, or dinner…
salon.com/2020/11/28/the-trick-to-perfec…

Civilian casualties to mount as the battle for Mekelle begins in Ethiopia’s northern region
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-11-28
The military conflict between Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray regional government, which began on November 4, has already claimed thousands of lives. International agencies have raised concerns over shortages of food and medicine.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/11/28/civilian-…

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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/scho…

Greek general strike against attacks on right to demonstrate and devastating coronavirus policy
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
As the total number of infections in Greece exceeded the 100,000 mark and the death toll rose to over 2,000, doctors, nurses and public employees, transport workers, dockworkers, journalists, teachers and cultural workers took part in the strike.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/gree…

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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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 …
globalresearch.ca/own-nothing-happy-bein…

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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166482/Martyr-Fakhr…

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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/pnga…

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,…
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-rt-pcr-how-to…

[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.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32528-9/fulltext?rss=yes

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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166481/Changing-IAE…

Advice for “Emily in Paris” season 2: Drop the Americanized fantasy and get to know the real city
Amanda Lee | salon.com | 2020-11-28
Working- and middle-class Parisians, the city’s diverse multi-cultural residents, are all but erased in season 1…
salon.com/2020/11/28/advice-for-emily-in…

10 new political albums that sum up 2020
Mat Ward | greenleft.org.au | 2020-11-28
Here’s a look back at November’s political news and the best new music that related to it. What albums would you suggest? Comment on Twitter, Facebook, or .
greenleft.org.au/content/10-new-politica…

[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.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32529-0/fulltext?rss=yes

Britain’s Class War on Children
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-11-28
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. What has not changed is that poverty is the result of a disease that is still virulent yet rarely spoken about — class.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/28/br…

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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166478/Iran-has-alw…

How Mitch McConnell’s do nothing Republicans are killing you
Robert Reich | salon.com | 2020-11-28
Mitch McConnell has refused to lift a finger for months, and Senate Republicans have been happy to follow his lead…
salon.com/2020/11/28/how-mitch-mcconnell…

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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166460/Parl-to-mand…

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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166477/Iran-must-li…

Australian paramedics under mounting pressure
wsws.org | 2020-11-28
Even before they were placed on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic, paramedics reported the highest rates of workplace injury of any occupation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/28/aust…