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2020-12-02: Social Media Postees

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Indigenous sovereignty struggle on Long Island: Shinnecock Nation, allies fight back
Kevin Salvatore | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-03
The battle has focused on a highway advertising space on Shinnecock land which is important to the nation’s economy, but which New York officials seek to block.
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Indigenous sovereignty struggle on Long Island: Shinnecock Nation, allies fight back
Kevin Salvatore | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-03
The battle has focused on a highway advertising space on Shinnecock land which is important to the nation’s economy, but which New York officials seek to block.
liberationnews.org/indigenous-sovereignt…

Reach out into darkness; come together, right now
Clay Reynolds | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-03
Now is the time to roll up our sleeves and get down to the business of working together.
nationofchange.org/2020/12/02/reach-out-…

Tony Blinken Replaces Mike Pompeo
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
I for one am getting really excited by the staff that Honest Joe Biden is pulling together for the White House. When I first heard the name Tony Blinken during the Obama kleptocracy I assumed that he was one of …
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Tony Blinken Replaces Mike Pompeo
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
I for one am getting really excited by the staff that Honest Joe Biden is pulling together for the White House. When I first heard the name Tony Blinken during the Obama kleptocracy I assumed that he was one of …
globalresearch.ca/tony-blinken-replaces-…

Former Officials of the àÅñez Administration Are Fleeing Bolivia for U.S. and Brazil
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
New Bolivian President Luis Arce is investigating several former officials who served his predecessor Jeanine àÅñez. They are accused of corruption or being responsible for massacres. Dozens fled Bolivia for the U.S. and Brazil to avoid prosecution, while others have …
globalresearch.ca/former-officials-anez-…

Separated Families, Death, and Despair — All at the Hands of CBP. We Need Action, Now
Naureen Shah | aclu.org | 2020-12-02
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is at the heart of some of the greatest moral horrors of the last four years, personified in stories that we cannot forget: the children breathlessly crying for their parents after being separated at the border; the children sleeping in the dirt in open air cages and people trapped in cells so overcrowded that they pressed their palms against the windows in a…
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Separated Families, Death, and Despair — All at the Hands of CBP. We Need Action, Now
Naureen Shah | aclu.org | 2020-12-02
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is at the heart of some of the greatest moral horrors of the last four years, personified in stories that we cannot forget: the children breathlessly crying for their parents after being separated at the border; the children sleeping in the dirt in open air cages and people trapped in cells so overcrowded that they pressed their palms against the windows in a…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/separate…

Millions of Americans Vulnerable to Eviction
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
During the most severe Main Street economic collapse in US history — with over one-fourth of working-age Americans jobless — additional calamity looms in the coming weeks. | According to Census Bureau estimates, 30 to 40 million Americans face possible eviction …
globalresearch.ca/millions-americans-vul…

Millions of Americans Vulnerable to Eviction
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
During the most severe Main Street economic collapse in US history — with over one-fourth of working-age Americans jobless — additional calamity looms in the coming weeks. | According to Census Bureau estimates, 30 to 40 million Americans face possible eviction …
globalresearch.ca/millions-americans-vul…

La Ley Antibloqueo de Venezuela y las elecciones el 6 de diciembre
Gloria La Riva | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-02
Las fuerzas progresistas se están movilizando en todo el país para recuperar la asamblea de los políticos de derecha que obtuvieron la mayoría en diciembre de 2015.
liberationnews.org/la-ley-antibloqueo-de…

Venezuela’s anti-blockade law and the Dec. 6 elections
Gloria La Riva | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-02
Progressive forces mobilize nationwide to win back the assembly from right-wing politicians who won the majority in December 2015.
liberationnews.org/venezuelas-anti-block…

La Ley Antibloqueo de Venezuela y las elecciones el 6 de diciembre
Gloria La Riva | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-02
Las fuerzas progresistas se están movilizando en todo el país para recuperar la asamblea de los políticos de derecha que obtuvieron la mayoría en diciembre de 2015.
liberationnews.org/la-ley-antibloqueo-de…

Venezuela’s anti-blockade law and the Dec. 6 elections
Gloria La Riva | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-02
Progressive forces mobilize nationwide to win back the assembly from right-wing politicians who won the majority in December 2015.
liberationnews.org/venezuelas-anti-block…

How Israel deployed an intelligence deception to justify killing Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-12-02
Israel’s Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program — and legitimizing its assassinations of Iranian academics. The Israeli assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is being treated as a triumph of Israeli intelligence, with ubiquitous references in the New York Times and other major media outlets to the killing of “Iran’s top nuclear scientist”. In fact, Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency eliminated Fakhrizadeh, a defense official, despite the …
thegrayzone.com/2020/12/02/israel-intell…

How Israel deployed an intelligence deception to justify killing Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Gareth Porter | thegrayzone.com | 2020-12-02
Israel’s Mossad has spent years on a propaganda campaign aimed at convincing the world Iran possessed a nuclear weapons program — and legitimizing its assassinations of Iranian academics. The Israeli assassination of Iranian defense official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh is being treated as a triumph of Israeli intelligence, with ubiquitous references in the New York Times and other major media outlets to the killing of “Iran’s top nuclear scientist”. In fact, Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency eliminated Fakhrizadeh, a defense official, despite the …
thegrayzone.com/2020/12/02/israel-intell…

“Global Policeman”: Why’s the US in the South China Sea?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
America regards itself as the “global policeman”, hence its arrogant actions, but it was never deputized by the international community to fulfill such a role. Rather, it’s more like a dangerously delusional role player than a legitimate law enforcement officer….
globalresearch.ca/why-us-south-china-sea…

Will This Be the Radicalization of Black Lives Matter?
Ajamu Baraka | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-02
On Monday a group of local Black Lives Matter chapters issued a statement to the public calling for more transparency and accountability from the Black Lives Matter Global Network (BLMGN), the umbrella structure for the Black Lives Matter structures. In what appears to be an ongoing internal discussion, the chapters claimed that BLMGN not only …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/will-this-be-…

Stop ICE’s rush to illegally deport families!
| workers.org | 2020-12-02
By Marta Guttenberg Philadelphia Around 50 people, including immigrant community members, Shut Down Berks Coalition activists, and elected Pennsylvania State Representatives Chris Rabb and Joseph Hohenstein, took part in an emergency rally outside Philadelphia’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on Nov. 25. Demonstrators tell ICE, “Don’t deport the 28,” . . . | Continue reading Stop ICE’s rush to illegally deport families! at Workers.org
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Stop ICE’s rush to illegally deport families!
| workers.org | 2020-12-02
By Marta Guttenberg Philadelphia Around 50 people, including immigrant community members, Shut Down Berks Coalition activists, and elected Pennsylvania State Representatives Chris Rabb and Joseph Hohenstein, took part in an emergency rally outside Philadelphia’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on Nov. 25. Demonstrators tell ICE, “Don’t deport the 28,” . . . | Continue reading Stop ICE’s rush to illegally deport families! at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/12/52819/?utm_source=rs…

The Accord: a class collaboration project that weakened unions
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
Tripartite discussions aimed at reaching consensus between the government of the day, unions and business are not new. Jonathan Strauss discusses the legacy of Labor government-sponsored prices and incomes accords of the 1980s and 1990s.
greenleft.org.au/content/accord-class-co…

Time to mobilise to defend workers’ rights
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
The union-bosses-government working groups to discuss industrial relations reform have not delivered and the PM has signalled new IR laws before Christmas. Sarah Hathway argues that union leaderships need to get prepared.
greenleft.org.au/content/time-mobilise-d…

Sunday 12/13: The Confounding 2020 Election: Analysis & Next Steps for Action
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Zoom (registration link in description)…
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Ethiopian Government and UN strike deal for ‘unimpeded’ humanitarian access in Tigray
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
The UN on Friday announced that agreement has been reached with the Ethiopian Government to allow “unimpeded, sustained and secure access” for humanitarian supplies to reach those in need across areas now under its control in Tigray.
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Sudan struggles to cope with refugees of war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-02
As many as 43,000 refugees crossed over from Tigray into Sudan during the two-and-a half week-long military conflict between November 4-28. They are mainly in the El Gedaref and Kassala States…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/02/sudan-str…

Sudan struggles to cope with refugees of war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-02
As many as 43,000 refugees crossed over from Tigray into Sudan during the two-and-a half week-long military conflict between November 4-28. They are mainly in the El Gedaref and Kassala States…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/02/sudan-str…

Ethiopia: The TPLF’s Precipitous Fall
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is facing a “final and conclusive” offensive against it by Ethiopian federal forces. On Tuesday, November 17, Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, declared that, “The three-day ultimatum given to Tigray special forces and the militia to surrender to the national defence…ended today. Following the expiration of this deadline, the final critical act of law enforcement will be done in the coming days.” The dire situation that the TPLF now finds itself in reflects just how precipitous its fall from power has been.
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Ethiopia: The TPLF’s Precipitous Fall
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is facing a “final and conclusive” offensive against it by Ethiopian federal forces. On Tuesday, November 17, Dr. Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, declared that, “The three-day ultimatum given to Tigray special forces and the militia to surrender to the national defence…ended today. Following the expiration of this deadline, the final critical act of law enforcement will be done in the coming days.” The dire situation that the TPLF now finds itself in reflects just how precipitous its fall from power has been.
popularresistance.org/ethiopia-the-tplfs…

Valery Giscard d’Estaing, ex-president of France and author of ill-fated EU constitution, dies ‘due to Covid-19’ at age 94
rt.com | 2020-12-02
Valery Marie Rene Georges Giscard d’Estaing, who served as president of France from 1974 to 1981, passed away from what his family said were effects of the novel coronavirus, having been hospitalized with breathing difficulties. | Also known as Giscard and VGE, d’Estaing was the third president of the French Fifth Republic, succeeding the popular Georges Pompidou as the leader of the Gaullist conservatives. He narrowly lost re-election to socialist Francois Miterrand, after a challenge from the right by future president Jacques Chirac. | VGE was hospitalized in September with a lung infection, and then again i…
rt.com/news/508510-former-french-preside…

Valery Giscard d’Estaing, ex-president of France and author of ill-fated EU constitution, dead ‘due to Covid-19’ at age 94
rt.com | 2020-12-02
Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d’Estaing, who served as president of France from 1974 to 1981, passed away from what his family said were effects of the novel coronavirus, having been hospitalized for breathing difficulties. | Also known as Giscard and VGE, d’Estaing was the third president of the French Fifth Republic, succeeding the popular Georges Pompidou as the leader of the Gaullist conservatives. He narrowly lost re-election to socialist Francois Miterrand, after a challenge from the right by future president Jacques Chirac. | VGE was hospitalized in September with a lung infection, and then again in…
rt.com/news/508510-former-french-preside…

Friday 12/4: State & Local Advocacy Strategies During Covid-19 to Aid Immigrants, Undocumented, & DACA
United We Dream | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Online webniar…
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Embassy Protection Collective Members Mark End Of Federal Probation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
Washington, DC — Today, three of the four members of the Embassy Protection Collective, Adrienne Pine, David Paul and Margaret Flowers, who stayed in the Venezuelan Embassy last year to stop its illegal handover to coup leaders, are finished with their six-month probation and 30-day suspended sentence. The fourth member of the collective, Kevin Zeese, died unexpectedly in September. | The three collective members are traveling to Venezuela to serve as official election observers for the National Assembly election to be held on December 6, 2020.
popularresistance.org/embassy-protection…

Embassy Protection Collective Members Mark End Of Federal Probation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
Washington, DC — Today, three of the four members of the Embassy Protection Collective, Adrienne Pine, David Paul and Margaret Flowers, who stayed in the Venezuelan Embassy last year to stop its illegal handover to coup leaders, are finished with their six-month probation and 30-day suspended sentence. The fourth member of the collective, Kevin Zeese, died unexpectedly in September. | The three collective members are traveling to Venezuela to serve as official election observers for the National Assembly election to be held on December 6, 2020.
popularresistance.org/embassy-protection…

One of the Best Ways to Protect Biodiversity is to Preserve Indigenous Languages
Subhankar Banerjee | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
One million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations. Now, think about cultural production–art and literature that we have invested to address the extinction of just a handful of species (passenger pigeon included). Quite a bit actually. The extinction of one million species feels rather abstract, beyond…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/one-of-the-b…

Ecuador Sentences 11 Waorani Indigenous People Over Homicide
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-02
The Justice Court of Orellana province in Ecuador ratified the sentence imposed on 11 persons of the Waorani Indigenous community, who were accused of a crime of homicide against the Tagaeri-Taromenane Indigenous tribe in 2013. | RELATED: | Ecuador: Quito to Host 13th International Book Fair | The prosecutor’s office pointed out that the sentence was imposed under the “principles of interculturality” as set out in the Constitution, following a dialogue with elders of the Waorani tribes.
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuador-Sentence…

Native Lives Matter holds candlelight vigil on National Day of Mourning
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-02
Minneapolis, MN – Over 100 protesters gathered in Minneapolis to stand in solidarity with Indigenous people on Thanksgiving, November 26, for a National Day of Mourning. It is a reminder of the genocide and suffering of Native Americans that still continues today. 400 years have passed since Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock and colonized the land Native Americans had been living on for thousands of years. In the shadow of the Minneapolis skyline, several speakers touched on the many struggles Indigenous people face today and the erasure of their people. | Tonia Black Elk, an organizer from Native Lives Matter, s…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/12/2/native-l…

Thousands bust ‘Thanksgiving’ myth on 51st National Day of Mourning
Steve Gillis | workers.org | 2020-12-02
Plymouth, Mass. November 26 marked the 51st National Day of Mourning. The first was in 1970 when Aquinnah Wampanoag elder Wamsutta Frank James called Indigenous peoples and their supporters to “America’s Hometown.” The crowd joined the United American Indians of New England on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Mass., to expose . . . | Continue reading Thousands bust ‘Thanksgiving’ myth on 51st National Day of Mourning at Workers.org
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Is Not Just Public Land. It’s Sacred Land
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-02
As we approach the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s 60th anniversary on December 6, it is important to remember that the past 60 years are a blip within millennia of coexistence and stewardship by Arctic Indigenous peoples. Though these six decades of legislative protections call for celebration, they have also been marred by political conflict and the constant threat of oil extraction on the coastal plain. Redefining the ways in which we understand and manage lands like the Arctic Refuge cou…
truthout.org/articles/the-arctic-nationa…

Indigenous people block Trans-Amazon Highway protesting industrial drought
Assessoria de Imprensa | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-02
ALTAMIRA, Pará, Brazil (Nov. 9) — On Monday morning, Nov. 9, an estimated 150 fishermen, riverside inhabitants, local farmers and members of the indigenous Curuaya and Xipaya peoples from Altamira, Senator José Porfírio, Novo Brasil, Anapu and Vitória do Xingu, five municipalities in the State of Pará, occupied both lanes of the Trans-Amazon Highway at …
peoplesworld.org/article/indigenous-peop…

One of the Best Ways to Protect Biodiversity is to Preserve Indigenous Languages
Subhankar Banerjee | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
One million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations. Now, think about cultural production–art and literature that we have invested to address the extinction of just a handful of species (passenger pigeon included). Quite a bit actually. The extinction of one million species feels rather abstract, beyond…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/one-of-the-b…

Ecuador Sentences 11 Waorani Indigenous People Over Homicide
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-02
The Justice Court of Orellana province in Ecuador ratified the sentence imposed on 11 persons of the Waorani Indigenous community, who were accused of a crime of homicide against the Tagaeri-Taromenane Indigenous tribe in 2013. | RELATED: | Ecuador: Quito to Host 13th International Book Fair | The prosecutor’s office pointed out that the sentence was imposed under the “principles of interculturality” as set out in the Constitution, following a dialogue with elders of the Waorani tribes.
telesurenglish.net/news/Ecuador-Sentence…

Indigenous people block Trans-Amazon Highway protesting industrial drought
Assessoria de Imprensa | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-02
ALTAMIRA, Pará, Brazil (Nov. 9) — On Monday morning, Nov. 9, an estimated 150 fishermen, riverside inhabitants, local farmers and members of the indigenous Curuaya and Xipaya peoples from Altamira, Senator José Porfírio, Novo Brasil, Anapu and Vitória do Xingu, five municipalities in the State of Pará, occupied both lanes of the Trans-Amazon Highway at …
peoplesworld.org/article/indigenous-peop…

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Is Not Just Public Land. It’s Sacred Land
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-02
As we approach the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s 60th anniversary on December 6, it is important to remember that the past 60 years are a blip within millennia of coexistence and stewardship by Arctic Indigenous peoples. Though these six decades of legislative protections call for celebration, they have also been marred by political conflict and the constant threat of oil extraction on the coastal plain. Redefining the ways in which we understand and manage lands like the Arctic Refuge cou…
truthout.org/articles/the-arctic-nationa…

Spain on the Brink of Financial Collapse
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
The Spanish economic situation worsens day after day. The national manufacturing sector dropped significantly in November, according to data from IHS Markit, which attributes the decline to the drop in production demand due to the pandemic. The decrease in production …
globalresearch.ca/spain-brink-financial-…

Doctored Indignation: Australia-China Relations
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-12-02
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Doctored Indignation: Australia-China Relations
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-02
Clay foot diplomacy is all the rage in Canberra, and the Australian government has become a solid practitioner. Having stuck its neck out across continents and seas to proclaim the need to investigate China over the origins of the novel coronavirus, the Morrison government now finds itself in the tightest of corners. Very much one …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/doctored-indi…

Doctored Indignation: Australia-China Relations
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-12-02
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Where Are the Progressives? Briahna Joy Gray on Neera Tanden & Other Biden Picks for Economic Team
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-02
President-elect Joe Biden announced his top economic advisers this week, setting the tone for his administration’s recovery plan, including Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress think tank, as head of the Office of Management and Budget. While Tanden would be the first woman of color and the first South Asian woman in the role, critics oppose her organization’s cozy relationship with corporate funders, her record of antagonizing and undermining progressive Democrats, and her aggressive foreign policy positions. Briahna Joy Gray, former national press secretary for the Bernie Sanders 2020 pre…
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/2/biden_cab…

“The Dead Are Arising”: New Biography on Malcolm X’s Childhood, Killing & Secret Meeting with KKK
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-02
We speak with the co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” which recently won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and offers a sweeping account of Malcolm X’s life by weaving together hundreds of interviews with Malcolm X’s family, friends, colleagues and enemies. The book is based on decades of research by Les Payne, who died in 2018, and finished by his daughter, Tamara Payne. “The reason why he admired Malcolm is because Malcolm was dealing with the conditions that Black people are facing even internally and how we viewed ourselves in this situation,” she says, and descr…
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/2/tamara_pa…

“The Dead Are Arising”: New Biography on Malcolm X’s Childhood, Killing & Secret Meeting with KKK
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-02
We speak with the co-author of a major new biography of Malcolm X, “The Dead Are Arising,” which recently won the 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction and offers a sweeping account of Malcolm X’s life by weaving together hundreds of interviews with Malcolm X’s family, friends, colleagues and enemies. The book is based on decades of research by Les Payne, who died in 2018, and finished by his daughter, Tamara Payne. “The reason why he admired Malcolm is because Malcolm was dealing with the conditions that Black people are facing even internally and how we viewed ourselves in this situation,” she says, and descr…
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/2/tamara_pa…

Disputed Election 2020 Results in Key Swing State Pennsylvania
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Brazen Election 2020 fraud in Pennsylvania and other key swing states rigged things for Biden/Harris over Trump. | If he’s out and they’re inaugurated on January 20, the events of that day will be an epitaph for open, free, and fair …
globalresearch.ca/disputed-election-2020…

Selected Articles: Millions of Americans Vulnerable to Eviction
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Millions of Americans Vulnerable to Eviction | By Stephen Lendman, December 02 2020 | During the most severe Main Street economic collapse in US history — with over one-fourth of working-age Americans jobless — additional calamity looms in the coming weeks. | …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-mill…

Selected Articles: Millions of Americans Vulnerable to Eviction
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Millions of Americans Vulnerable to Eviction | By Stephen Lendman, December 02 2020 | During the most severe Main Street economic collapse in US history — with over one-fourth of working-age Americans jobless — additional calamity looms in the coming weeks. | …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-mill…

We Desperately Need an Affordable Justice Act
natashahz | scheerpost.com | 2020-12-02
Craig Moe / CC BY-NC 2.0] By Ronald Goldfarb / Washington Independent Review of Books Foreign judges regularly visit the U.S. Supreme Court. On one such occasion, a guest asked then-Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, as he accompanied him on a tour of the premises, the source of the words “Equal Justice Under Law.” Those high-minded words were engraved into the spandrel at the front of the… | Source…
scheerpost.com/2020/12/02/we-desperately…

This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order
Nathan Newman | thenation.com | 2020-12-02
This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order…
thenation.com/article/society/supreme-co…

Here’s how big oil wants the Supreme Court to help delay and derail climate lawsuits
Dana Drugmand | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-02
This industry push is a concerted effort to squash climate liability lawsuits.
nationofchange.org/2020/12/02/heres-how-…

We Desperately Need an Affordable Justice Act
natashahz | scheerpost.com | 2020-12-02
Craig Moe / CC BY-NC 2.0] By Ronald Goldfarb / Washington Independent Review of Books Foreign judges regularly visit the U.S. Supreme Court. On one such occasion, a guest asked then-Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, as he accompanied him on a tour of the premises, the source of the words “Equal Justice Under Law.” Those high-minded words were engraved into the spandrel at the front of the… | Source…
scheerpost.com/2020/12/02/we-desperately…

Here’s how big oil wants the Supreme Court to help delay and derail climate lawsuits
Dana Drugmand | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-02
This industry push is a concerted effort to squash climate liability lawsuits.
nationofchange.org/2020/12/02/heres-how-…

This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order
Nathan Newman | thenation.com | 2020-12-02
This Supreme Court Case Could Wreck the New Deal Legal Order…
thenation.com/article/society/supreme-co…

Video: Azerbaijani Troops Are in Lachin, but Unresolved Karabakh Status Remains Source of Tensions
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
The Nagorno-Karabakh region has been nearing the end of the first phase of the implementation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani ceasefire deal that started on November 10. | Late on November 30, Azerbaijani troops started entering the Lachin district in the Nagorno-Karabkah region. …
globalresearch.ca/video-azerbaijani-troo…

Working class unites across India/250-million-strong strike!
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-12-02
For the second time this year, a class-wide mobilization in an “All-India strike” brought out 250 million workers. With one in four working-age people in India participating, this 24-hour work stoppage can again claim the status of “world’s biggest strike.” The first record-breaking general strike had taken place on Jan. . . . | Continue reading Working class unites across India/250-million-strong strike! at Workers.org
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Protesters decry Amazon warehouse conditions as they gear up for holiday shopping
Katherine Khashimova Long | zcomm.org | 2020-12-02
“We’re going to march and rally and tell these people who are making six figures what they need to hear: We’re essential workers. And we still exist”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/protesters-decry-a…

How Do We Solve A Problem Like Amazon?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
Progressive International has launched a global campaign to #MakeAmazonPay. Yet for two decades numerous unions and campaigns across the globe have scratched their heads wondering how to curb the ever-expanding might of what has become one of the world’s most valuable companies. | At Bad Hersfeld and (eventually) internationally, Amazon has become far more accustomed to strikes, yet the company’s power shows no signs of being tempered. Indeed in Germany, despite more than 300 days lost to strike action, Amazon has consistently been able to resist workers’ demand for a collective agreement.
popularresistance.org/how-do-we-solve-a-…

Protesters decry Amazon warehouse conditions as they gear up for holiday shopping
Katherine Khashimova Long | zcomm.org | 2020-12-02
“We’re going to march and rally and tell these people who are making six figures what they need to hear: We’re essential workers. And we still exist”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/protesters-decry-a…

Amazon Deforestation Tops 11,000 sq km in Brazil, Reaching 12-year High
Mongabay | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon topped 11,000 square kilometers for the first time since 2008 reports the Brazilian government. | According to data released today by Brazil’s national space research institute INPE, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon for the year …
globalresearch.ca/amazon-deforestation-t…

How Do We Solve A Problem Like Amazon?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
Progressive International has launched a global campaign to #MakeAmazonPay. Yet for two decades numerous unions and campaigns across the globe have scratched their heads wondering how to curb the ever-expanding might of what has become one of the world’s most valuable companies. | At Bad Hersfeld and (eventually) internationally, Amazon has become far more accustomed to strikes, yet the company’s power shows no signs of being tempered. Indeed in Germany, despite more than 300 days lost to strike action, Amazon has consistently been able to resist workers’ demand for a collective agreement.
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A New Technology That Will Dangerously Expand Government Spying on Citizens
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
If you’re worried about the capability of government to conduct surveillance of citizens engaged in political assembly and protest, or even just personal activity, then you should be aware the technological capability of government surveillance is about to expand exponentially. The US Air Force’s Research Lab (yes, it has its own lab) has recently signed…
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A New Technology That Will Dangerously Expand Government Spying on Citizens
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
If you’re worried about the capability of government to conduct surveillance of citizens engaged in political assembly and protest, or even just personal activity, then you should be aware the technological capability of government surveillance is about to expand exponentially. The US Air Force’s Research Lab (yes, it has its own lab) has recently signed…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/a-new-techno…

Lucha de clases en China: øcómo lidiar con los multimillonarios?
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2020-12-02
“El aprendiz del brujo” es una vieja historia que se repite en muchas variaciones, desde mitos griegos hasta un famoso poema alemán de Goethe en 1797 y hasta una película de Alfred Hitchcock y varias versiones de Disney. Todas las variaciones tratan de invocar o desatar fuerzas abrumadoras que no . . . | Continue reading Lucha de clases en China: øcómo lidiar con los multimillonarios? at Workers.org
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Lucha de clases en China: øcómo lidiar con los multimillonarios?
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2020-12-02
“El aprendiz del brujo” es una vieja historia que se repite en muchas variaciones, desde mitos griegos hasta un famoso poema alemán de Goethe en 1797 y hasta una película de Alfred Hitchcock y varias versiones de Disney. Todas las variaciones tratan de invocar o desatar fuerzas abrumadoras que no . . . | Continue reading Lucha de clases en China: øcómo lidiar con los multimillonarios? at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/12/52844/?utm_source=rs…

Australian ruling elite responds to Chinese condemnation of Afghan war crimes with nationalist hysteria
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
Having covered up and downplayed the atrocities against Afghan civilians, Australia’s official parties and the corporate media are up in arms about a tweet condemning the war crimes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/twee…

US senators and activists push to block huge arms deal with UAE
Ali Harb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-02
US senators and activists push to block huge arms deal with UAE | Legislators in Washington introduce resolution against $23bn arms package for Abu Dhabi that includes killer drones and F-35 jets | Ali Harb | Wed, 12/02/2020 – 23: 20 | Saudi Arabia and UAE have been accused of war crimes in Yemen (Reuters/File photo) | Opposition in Washington is mounting against an enormous arms deal with the United Arab Emirates that woul…
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Australian war crimes report: A damning indictment of the barbarity in Afghanistan
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
The depraved abuses flowed inevitably from the nature of the war itself–a brutal operation to crush all resistance to the imposition of US control over the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/wars…

Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan Go All the Way to the Top
Keith Lamb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
The Australian Defense Force’s (ADF) recent inquiry into Australian special forces conduct in Afghanistan, between 2005 and 2016, reveals that 39 Afghan prisoners and civilians were killed outside of battle, as part of a culture of “competition killings,” where commanders …
globalresearch.ca/australian-war-crimes-…

Australian war crimes report: A damning indictment of the barbarity in Afghanistan
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
The depraved abuses flowed inevitably from the nature of the war itself–a brutal operation to crush all resistance to the imposition of US control over the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/wars…

Australian War Crimes in Afghanistan Go All the Way to the Top
Keith Lamb | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
The Australian Defense Force’s (ADF) recent inquiry into Australian special forces conduct in Afghanistan, between 2005 and 2016, reveals that 39 Afghan prisoners and civilians were killed outside of battle, as part of a culture of “competition killings,” where commanders …
globalresearch.ca/australian-war-crimes-…

Saturday 12/5: Marxism in the Age of Trump
Platypus Santa Cruz | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Online Event | zoom.us/j/96939137271
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Saturday 12/5: Marxism in the Age of Trump
Platypus Santa Cruz | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Online Event | zoom.us/j/96939137271
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Tuesday 12/15: COVID’s Hidden Toll: Discussion with Filmmakers and Policy Leaders
Berkeley Food Institute | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Virtual Event…
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Inequality Gone Viral: The Obscene Numbers
Paul Buchheit | zcomm.org | 2020-12-02
Something has to be done to heal the rupture in the sickened body of our nation…
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Black activists demand Biden make a down payment on reparations NOW!
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-12-02
On Nov. 27, a People’s Webinar entitled, “Post Election Fight for Reparations Now!” was organized by the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based December 12th Movement to demand that President-Elect Joe Biden issue an executive order to make a down payment of at least $500 billion on the debt owed to the descendants of . . . | Continue reading Black activists demand Biden make a down payment on reparations NOW! at Workers.org
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More People In The US Are Paying Rent On Credit Cards
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
With their savings running out, many Americans are being forced to use credit cards to pay for bills they can’t afford — even their rent. Housing experts and economists say this is a blinking-red warning light that without more relief from Congress, the economy is headed for even more serious trouble. | There’s been as much as a 70% percent increase from last year in people paying rent on a credit card, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. | “If you’re putting your rent payments on to a credit card, that shows you’re really at risk of eviction,” says Shamus Roller, executive…
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Sixteen-year-old Wisconsin high school student dies of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
Even though Isai Morocho’s school was not meeting in person, his father, mother and brother all work in-person jobs, allowing for endless possible encounters with the virus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/wisc…

Supply of vaccine doses not enough to stem Covid surges over next 3-6 months — WHO’s Ryan
rt.com | 2020-12-02
There may not be enough doses of coronavirus vaccines until May 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned, amid a flurry of activity among drug-makers and governments to get various jabs authorized and distributed. | “We are not going to have sufficient vaccination in place to prevent another surge of cases for at least another three-to-six months,” the chief of the WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme, Michael Ryan, said during a live-streamed Q&A event on Wednesday. | Before mass inoculation is possible, Ryan said that the number of cases will “bounce back up,” even in countries that are currently ”
rt.com/news/508496-who-covid-vaccination…

Insanity reigns: The US, Israel and Iran
Ron Forthofer | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-02
All too often, events occur that make me feel that I am living in ‘Bizarro World’. The recent talk and extensive US corporate media coverage about whether or not the US and/or Israel will soon attack Iran is one of these occasions. The alleged rationale for such an attack is the possibility that Iran might …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/insanity-reig…

Neo-Nazi groups targeted by German police raids
Ben Chacko | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-02
Hundreds of police officers raided homes in three German states Tuesday, Dec. 1, after the government banned the far-right Wolfsbrigade 44 organization. The homes of 11 members of the group were searched in Hesse, Mecklenburg West-Pomerania, and North Rhine-Westphalia to seize funds and neo-Nazi propaganda. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer declared: “Whoever fights against the basic …
peoplesworld.org/article/neo-nazi-groups…

Imperial convenes industry and government partners to discuss innovation policy
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-02
Imperial and CaSE held a roundtable with industry, academic and Government partners to discuss next steps for UK innovation policy.
imperial.ac.uk/news/208313/imperial-convenes-industry-government-partners-discuss

EU and Russia ‘too interconnected’ to be enemies, former Italian ambassador tells RT
rt.com | 2020-12-02
For all the problems between Russia and the European Union, their economies are so interdependent and complementary that cutting ties would be cause for regret later, former Italian diplomat Cesare Maria Ragaglini told RT. | “We have to start a strategic dialogue, because our relations are too interconnected and cannot be dismissed because we have problems,” Ragaglini, who served as Italy’s envoy to the UN and ambassador to Moscow before he retired, told RT. | Our economies are very much interconnected, interdependent and complementary. | With the EU planning to roll out a “green deal” proposal, it would be a…
rt.com/russia/508501-italy-eu-russian-ec…

Why’s The US In The South China Sea?>
oneworld.press | 2020-12-02
America regards itself as the “global policeman”, hence its arrogant actions, but it was never deputized by the international community to fulfill such a role. Rather, it’s more like a dangerously delusional role player than a legitimate law enforcement officer.
oneworld.press/?module=articles&action=view&id=1813

Aerially Sprayed Pesticide Contains the PFAS “Forever Chemicals”. Impacts on Human Health
PEER | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
State efforts to control mosquito-borne illnesses may be creating a new health problem. The insecticide Massachusetts and numerous other states use for mosquito control, both applied aerially and sprayed from trucks along roads, contains per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), according to …
globalresearch.ca/aerially-sprayed-pesti…

The Heat: U.S. battles COVID-19
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-12-02
A CDC panel meets to discuss who will be first in line for a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
america.cgtn.com/2020/12/02/the-heat-u-s…

Healthcare Innovations: Going Too Far or Not Far Enough?
Beau Peters | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-02
Image Source: Pexels Technological innovations have reshaped the world drastically in only a matter of decades, giving us life-changing devices like smartphones that allow us to tap into worlds of information instantly. The healthcare sector, however, for all its developments, is not quite catching up to the rates of innovation seen in other industries. Introducing …
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9 Months Into Touch-Free Living, What Shall We Birth?
Verandah Porche | thenation.com | 2020-12-02
9 Months Into Touch-Free Living, What Shall We Birth?
thenation.com/article/society/covid-sand…

Iran and Cuba to Produce Vaccine Together Despite US Pressures
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-02
The Persian Minister of Health, Said Namaki, and the Cuban Ambassador in Iran, Alexis Bandrich Vega, held a meeting this Wednesday in Teheran, the Iranian capital. Besides underlining the two countries’ trajectory in joint projects in the health sector, they have advocated further increased cooperation in the field. | RELATED: | Cuba: Researchers Develop 2 New COVID-19 Vaccine Candidates | “We have a long tradition of cooperation and, despite the pressures from the U.S. and the Zio…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-and-Cuba-to…

Muslim Americans ran for office in record numbers in 2020
Umar A Farooq | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-02
Muslim Americans ran for office in record numbers in 2020 | One hundred and seventy Muslim candidates were on the ballot this election cycle, running across 28 states and Washington DC | Umar A Farooq | Wed, 12/02/2020 – 17: 07 | Of the 170 Muslim American candidates that ran in 2020, at least 62 won their elections (AFP) | Muslim Americans ran for political office in record numbers this year, according to a new r…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-americ…

Imperial convenes industry and government partners to discuss innovation policy
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-02
Imperial and CaSE held a roundtable with industry, academic and Government partners to discuss next steps for UK innovation policy.
imperial.ac.uk/news/208313/imperial-convenes-industry-government-partners-discuss

Tuesday 12/15: Equity in Health Care: The Awful Truth About Race, Economic Status & U.S. Health Care
Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Online via livestream…
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The Handmaid’s Tale: making a drama out of a crisis
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
The Handmaid’s Tale, an award-winning television series, may be about a fictional “alternative reality”, but the show’s creators have gone to great lengths to ensure that references to themes such as climate change, human rights abuses, and refugees, are as real and accurate as possible, by collaborating closely with UN experts.
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Climate Action: It’s time to make peace with nature, UN chief urges
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, has described the fight against the climate crisis as the top priority for the 21st Century, in a passionate, uncompromising speech delivered on Wednesday at Columbia University in New York.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1…

How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System
Susie Cagle | thenation.com | 2020-12-02
How Hospital Monopolies Broke the Health Care System…
thenation.com/article/society/coronaviru…

International values for haemoglobin distributions in healthy pregnant women
Eric O. Ohuma, Melissa F. Young, Reynaldo Martorell, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Juan Pablo Peña-Rosas, Manorama Purwar, Maria Nieves Garcia-Casal, Michael G. Gravett, Mercedes de Onis, QingQing Wu, Maria Carvalho, Yasmin A. Jaffer, Ann Lambert, Enrico Bertino, Aris T. Papageorghiou, Fernando C. Barros, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Stephen H. Kennedy, Jose Villar | thelancet.com | 2020-12-02
We have generated International, gestational age-specific, smoothed centiles for maternal haemoglobin concentration compatible with better pregnancy outcomes, as well as adequate neonatal and early childhood morbidity, growth and development up to 2 years of age.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(20)30404-1/fulltext?rss=yes

Friday 12/4: Teachers on Strike Are Still Teaching: Union Power & the Fight for Democracy
Haymarket Books | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Online event…
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Azeri defense min. condemns assassination of ‘Dr.Fakhrizadeh’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — Minister of Defense of the Republic of Azerbaijan in separate messages on Wed. to Iran’s Chief of General Staff of Armed Forces and Defense Minister condemned assassination of Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist ‘Fakhrizadeh’.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166697/Azeri-defens…

Acclaimed journalist, documentarian in Cinema Verite
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 03 (MNA) — Acclaimed journalist and documentarian, Phil Rees, will hold an online master class in Iran International Documentary Film Festival known as “Cinema Verite”.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166684/Acclaimed-jo…

250 Million People Participate In Countrywide Strike In India
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
On Thursday, November 26, India witnessed the biggest organized strike in human history. Over 250 million workers and farmers, along with their allies among students, feminists and civil society groups participated in the nationwide strike. The strike coincides with India’s Constitution Day, which commemorates the adoption of the constitution in 1949, and comes in the background of an unprecedented attack on workers’ rights and farmers’ protections by the right-wing government of prime minister Narendra Modi.
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Trump’s Landslide Meets the Politics of Electoral Fraud in America
Prof. Anthony J. Hall | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
I want the American public to know right now, we will not be intimidated. American patriots are fed up with the corruption from the local level to the highest level of our government. We are going to take this country …
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Bernie Sanders Calls Betsy DeVos Worst Education Secretary in US History
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-02
Sen. Bernie Sanders late Tuesday called Betsy DeVos “the worst education secretary in the history of America” and made abundantly clear that he’s not mourning her imminent departure after the billionaire school privatization zealot lashed out at popular proposals to cancel student loan debt and make public colleges and universities tuition-free. | “What do you call a bi…
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Fakhrizadeh assassination not justifiable by any theories
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — Richard Falk says the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh cannot be legally, morally, or politically justified by any acceptable theory, and has very negative implications as an international precedent.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166622/Fakhrizadeh-…

Solano Court Requires Public Approval Process for Cell Site Simulator Usage Policies
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Oakland Privacy’s Lawsuit Against the City of Vallejo Upholds 2015 Legislation…
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‘Victims of Communism’ group seeks a return to McCarthyism
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-02
It begins with a carefully worded “draft” resolution asking for public recognition of any “XYZ” event, memorial, or remembrance. From there, copies are given to friendly elected officials seated within any legislative body. And typically, the resolution is introduced, and the innocuous language is read, re-read, and approved to the fanfare of only a few. …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-closing-arg…

Saturday 12/5: Rally on Wheels
christina Beach | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Rally on Wheels: A Mobile Protest to Ban Evictions and Cancel Rent…
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Is the U.S. Actually a ‘Police State’?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-02
Eric ZUESSE | Is the phrase “police state” anything more than propaganda that a government uses against a foreign government that it wants to overthrow — such as the U.S. did against Iraq before invading it in 2003, and against Libya and Syria since 2011, and against Venezuela since 2012, and against Ukraine since 2013, and in all instances destroyed those countries, allegedly to ‘bring democracy and human rights and the rule of law, and fight against corruption’ there (as if that were honestly the intention)? | The phrase “police state” is used propagandistically to denigrate a foreign nation that one’s ow…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/02/is…

COVID-19’s impact on wages is only just getting started, ILO warns
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
Global pressure on wages from COVID-19 will not stop with the arrival of a vaccine, the head of the International Labour Organization (ILO) warned on Wednesday, coinciding with a major report showing how the pandemic had slowed or reversed a trend of rising wages across the world, hitting women workers and the low-paid hardest.
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Iraqi president condemns Iranian scientist terror
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — Iraq’s President Barham Salih strongly condemned the Friday assassination of Iran’s prominent nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166689/Iraqi-presid…

Podemos silent on Spanish generals’ coup threats
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
Podemos is far more afraid of explosive opposition on their left, among workers and youth, than it is about far-right coup plots against its own coalition government with the PSOE.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/pode…

Rainbow Rebellion takes aim at lack of LGBTI rights
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-02
Rainbow Rebellion marched and chanted through the city’s street on November 28 as part of Pride Week, reports Petrina Harley.
greenleft.org.au/content/rainbow-rebelli…

Monday 12/21: Homeless Persons Memorial
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
100 Laurel St, Santa Cruz…
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Joe Biden’s Silence on Ending the Drone Wars. The So-called “Targeted Killings”
Elise Swain | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
President-elect Joe Biden has maintained silence for years on the controversial and continued use of so-called targeted killings — lethal strikes by drones, cruise missiles, and occasionally military special operations raids. Biden has never publicly disavowed or criticized former President | …
globalresearch.ca/joe-biden-silence-endi…

hCG Found in WHO Tetanus Vaccine in Kenya Raises Concern in the Developing World
John Oller | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Of relevance to the current debate on vaccines, originally published in 2017 | Abstract | In 1993, WHO announced a “birth-control vaccine” for “family planning”. Published research shows that by 1976 WHO researchers had conjugated tetanus toxoid (TT) with human chorionic gonadotropin …
globalresearch.ca/hcg-found-who-tetanus-…

Faurecia parts workers launch Rank-and-File Safety Committee in Saline, Michigan
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
Autoworkers in Saline, like their brothers and sisters at Faurecia Gladstone in Indiana, join a national network of rank-and-file committees that is fighting for a complete shutdown of the auto industry with full compensation for workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/faur…

Crecientes amenazas contra hogares de los obreros
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-12-02
En marzo y abril, más de 22 millones de trabajadores en los Estados Unidos perdieron sus trabajos. Hasta ahora, la tambaleante recuperación económica ha traído retornado a 12 millones, pero 10 millones de trabajadores, el 90% de ellos en el sector de servicios mal remunerados, todavía no tienen trabajo. Un . . . | Continue reading Crecientes amenazas contra hogares de los obreros at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/12/52824/?utm_source=rs…

Why The Fed Needs Public Banks
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
On November 20, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin informed Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that he would not extend five of the Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) set up last spring to bail out bondholders, and that he wanted the $455 billion in taxpayer money back that the Treasury had sent to the Fed to capitalize these SPVs. The next day, Powell replied that he thought it was too soon — the SPVs still served a purpose — but he agreed to return the funds. Both had good grounds for their moves, but as Wolf Richter wrote on WolfStreet.com, “You’d think something earth-‚Äãshatt…
popularresistance.org/why-the-fed-needs-…

Spain unveils festive travel ban & Covid curfews, but allows groups of 10 to gather for Christmas and New Year
rt.com | 2020-12-02
Spaniards celebrating Christmas and New Year can meet in groups of 10, but will be banned from moving between regions over the festive period in order to keep a lid on coronavirus infections, the country’s health minister said. | The current six-person limit for people gathering outside their household will be extended to 10 on December 24, 25, 31 and January 1, Minister Salvador Illa revealed on Wednesday. | He also announced curfews will be extended to 1: 30am on December 24 and 31, but said that it is “strongly recommended” that people do not mix together from more than two ‘bubbles.’ | A ban on travel betwe…
rt.com/news/508502-spain-christmas-new-y…

US Plot Relying on Extradition Targets Peace in Colombia
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
For 50 years Colombian governments and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) fought a civil war; 200,000 lives were lost. After four years of negotiations, the two sides signed a peace agreement that took effect in November 2016. Now the agreement is in trouble, mainly at the hands of rightwing extremists led by former…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/us-plot-rely…

Aliens or just nature at play? Amazing light pillars give Russian city sci-fi movie-like feast of brightness (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-12-02
A rare phenomenon was observed by residents of the Siberian city of Tyumen, on the first night of winter, as light pillars colored the pre-dawn skies in blue and orange hues. | Numerous vertical shiny beams remained visible in the sky right up until sunrise, with many people flocking outside and taking pictures to share on social media. | The sight might’ve resembled an alien invasion to an imaginative witness, with tractor beams lowered into Tyumen to deploy extraterrestrial forces from spaceships to Earth. | But there seems to have been no panic among the locals, as light pillars aren’t too uncommon in no…
rt.com/russia/508458-light-pillars-sky-t…

Iran scientist assassination a state terrorism
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — Chairman of Russian Duma’s International Affairs Committee called assassination of nuclear and defense scientist ‘Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’ as example of state terrorism.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166701/Iran-scienti…

Britain’s Pfizer vaccine announcement gives anti-vaxxers an unlikely boost blamed on Russia without any evidence
rt.com | 2020-12-02
The UK’s approval of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine was heralded by the government as a breakthrough for “humanity.” However, its announcement was met with a surge of vaccine skepticism online. | Britain became the first nation in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use on Wednesday. The announcement was delivered in pompous style by the government, with business secretary Alok Sharma celebrating how “the UK led humanity’s charge against this disease,” and Health Secretary Matt Hancock volunteering to take the jab on live television with ITV’s Piers Morgan. | Also on rt.com
rt.com/uk/508503-pfizer-vaccine-thalidom…

Health care workers in the US speak out: “We have PTSD”
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
The dire situation facing frontline health care workers during the pandemic is only getting worse as the number of hospitalizations in the US surpasses 100,000.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/hosp…

UN chief launches plan to revitalise Beirut as ‘beating heart of Lebanon’
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
Against the “grim background” of tragic explosions that destroyed much of central Beirut in early August, the UN chief on Wednesday offered a new multi-agency plan to help the Lebanese people move forward, following months of political gridlock.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1…

Saudi coalition warplanes target Sanaa Intl. airport
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — For the second time this week, the Saudi-led coalition fighters targeted Sanaa International Airport, today.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166691/Saudi-coalit…

Tuesday 12/8: 18th Annual Human Rights Awards
Human Agenda | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Zoom ID: 864 8365 0623 | us02web.zoom.us/j/86483650623 | Call in: +1 669-900-9128…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/30/1883873…

United Native Americans Victory over GSA to Formally Recognize Joe Biden
Quanah Brightman | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
United Native Americans Victory over GSA to Formally Recognize Joe Biden as the President Elect…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/02/1883876…

As COVID Spikes, It’s Normal to Feel Helpless. Let’s Turn Fear to Activism
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-12-02
I feel utterly helpless before this bilge tide of astonishing official malfeasance and self-destructive ground-level stubbornness, and this sense of helplessness is the fuel that feeds my fear.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/as-covid-spikes-it…

World must not accept slavery in 21st century: Guterres
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
Commemorating the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, the United Nations Secretary-General highlighted the impact of the contemporary forms of slavery, underscoring that such abhorrent practices have no space in the twenty-first century.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1…

Spreading the Virus
David Armstrong | zcomm.org | 2020-12-02
“In some ways, the whole country is essentially living with the strategy of the least effective states because states interconnect and one state not doing a good job will continue to spread the virus to other states”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/spreading-the-viru…

Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
Nicolas J S Davies | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-02
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden’s foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the “unwarranted influence” of the Military-Industrial Complex.
nationofchange.org/2020/12/02/eisenhower…

San Lorenzo, CA: Violent Racist Lindsay Grathwohl Exposed to Neighbors
Antifa | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Community safety alerts mailed to Lindsay Grathwohl’s neighbors warn of violent racist in the neighborhood.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/01/1883874…

Q&A: Cold chains, COVID-19 vaccines and reaching low-income countries
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-02
Many low-income countries lack the infrastructure to deliver vaccines effectively, so how can we ensure COVID-19 vaccines are accessible for all?>…
imperial.ac.uk/news/209993/qa-cold-chains-covid-19-vaccines-reaching

Labor’s Continuing Corbyn “Antisemitism” Saga
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
The fallout regarding the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report on antisemitism in the Labour party continues, as do its repercussions for the former leader Jeremy Corbyn. I discussed the report in a previous CounterPunch post, pointing out that while it didn’t uphold the claim by the Jewish Labour Movement, which issued the first…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/labors-conti…

Music and aerosols: What the research reveals about the performing arts during a pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
The Skagit Valley Chorale rehearsal on March 10 was one of the nation’s first super-spreading events. A University of Colorado study provided a critical recognition that the virus that caused COVID-19 spread predominately in the aerosol form.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/musi…

Covid-19, Schools and the Digital Divide
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-02
When the Covid-19 pandemic is finally contained, a day of reckoning over the various failures of the American social system will likely come. The call for a Medicare for All plan may well gain political support in the face of the failure of the private insurance model tied to one’s employment.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/02/co…

Black activists demand Biden make a down payment on reparations NOW!
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-12-02
On Nov. 27, a People’s Webinar entitled, “Post Election Fight for Reparations Now!” was organized by the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based December 12th Movement to demand that President-Elect Joe Biden issue an executive order to make a down payment of at least $500 billion on the debt owed to the descendants of . . . | Continue reading Black activists demand Biden make a down payment on reparations NOW! at Workers.org
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Hundreds of nurses strike in Albany and New Rochelle, New York
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
Nurses at both Albany Medical Center and Montefiore New Rochelle walked out Tuesday over staffing, PPE and other pandemic-critical issues.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/nurs…

One Assassinated Iranian Scientist — Many Questions Raised
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-02
One of the key players in Iran’s nuclear program has been assassinated. This has led to a lot of posturing, finger pointing and narrative spinning about what the ramifications of this event will be down the line. It isn’t every day that a scientist gets taken out by organized killers but someone at this very point in history seems desperate to create some change in the status quo in Iran. As we wait to hear the final verdict of the Electoral College the atomic heart of Persia has been ripped out very loudly. So who killed Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, why now and why did they even bother? | Well, who else could it be? | No…
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Britain’s Pfizer vaccine announcement gives anti-vaxxers unlikely boost blamed on Russia without any evidence
rt.com | 2020-12-02
The UK’s approval of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine was heralded by the government as a breakthrough for “humanity.” However, its announcement was met with a surge of vaccine skepticism online. | Britain became the first nation in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for widespread use on Wednesday. The announcement was delivered in pompous style by the government, with Business Secretary Alok Sharma celebrating how “the UK led humanity’s charge against this disease,” and Health Secretary Matt Hancock volunteering to take the jab on live television with ITV’s Piers Morgan. | Also on rt.com
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Muslim Americans ran for office in record numbers in 2020
Umar A Farooq | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-02
Muslim Americans ran for office in record numbers in 2020 | One hundred and seventy Muslim candidates were on the ballot this election cycle, running across 28 states and Washington DC | Umar A Farooq | Wed, 12/02/2020 – 17: 07 | Of the 170 Muslim American candidates that ran in 2020, at least 62 won their elections (AFP) | Muslim Americans ran for political office in record numbers this year, according to a new r…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/muslim-americ…

Saturday 12/19: Conversation w/ Elif Shafak, Turkish-British Writer, Speaker, Academic (City Lights Books)
City Lights Bookstore SF | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Online event…
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Provisional Government Of West Papua Won’t Bow Down To Jakarta
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
Today, we announce the formation of our Provisional Government of West Papua. We are ready to take over our territory, and we will no longer bow down to Jakarta’s illegal martial rule. From today, December 1, 2020, we begin implementing our own constitution and reclaiming our sovereign land. | On this day in 1961, the elected West New Guinea Council raised the Morning Star flag in Jayapura. Our national anthem and name, West Papua, were accepted. Diplomats from Australia, the Netherlands and the UK, and a delegation from colonised Papua New Guinea had already witnessed the formation of the Council on April 5, 196…
popularresistance.org/provisional-govern…

Book Review of The Inner Level
H. Patricia Hynes | zcomm.org | 2020-12-02
As this book both documents and generously discusses, rising income inequality leads to a plague of ills: higher rates of people in prison, higher teenage birth rates, higher rates of mental illness, more child neglect and bullying…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/book-review-of-the…

Covid-19, Schools and the Digital Divide
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
On November 19th, Mayor Bill de Blasio closed New York’s public schools. He has been joined by other mayors and education officials throughout the country struggle over whether to keep their local schools open for in-class or offer only remote learning. The Covid-19 pandemic has entered yet another wave and, as of mid-November, over 11…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/covid-19-sch…

Traditional fishing in Caspian coast of Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
MAZANDARAN, Dec. 03 (MNA) — Every year, with the start of the fishing season in mid-October, the northern people in Gilan and Mazandaran provinces, living on the coastlines of the Caspian Sea, catch fish in their traditional way.
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UN commission reclassifies cannabis, no longer considered risky narcotic
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took a number of decisions on Wednesday, leading to changes in the way cannabis is internationally regulated, including its reclassification out of the most dangerous category of drugs.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1…

Update: Forced-hysterectomy victims in ICE detention deported
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-12-02
Eddie Conway talks to Azadeh Shahshahani, Project South Legal and Advocacy Director and lawyer for Dawn Wooten, a nurse at Irwin County Detention Center and the whistleblower who sounded the alarm on ICE abuses, including the case of ICE detainees being forced to have hysterectomies while in custody…
therealnews.com/update-forced-hysterecto…

‘Victims of Communism’ group seeks a return to McCarthyism
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-02
It begins with a carefully worded “draft” resolution asking for public recognition of any “XYZ” event, memorial, or remembrance. From there, copies are given to friendly elected officials seated within any legislative body. And typically, the resolution is introduced, and the innocuous language is read, re-read, and approved to the fanfare of only a few. …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-closing-arg…

Warp Speed Ahead: COVID-19 Vaccines Pave the Way for a New Frontier in Surveillance
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
” Man’s conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men.” –C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man | Like it or …
globalresearch.ca/warp-speed-covid-19-va…

Communist teacher turned health minister leads pandemic fight in India
Beatrice Lumpkin | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-02
“How Communist Physics Teacher Flattens COVID-19 Curve in Southern India,” a headline in the online Science News, caught my eye. That was a contrast to the tragic number of pandemic deaths in the rest of India, or for that matter, in the United States. But I wasn’t surprised. I had attended a math teachers conference …
peoplesworld.org/article/communist-teach…

Cuba: 8th Communist Party Congress Convened for April 2021
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-02
With the attendance of José Ramón Machado Ventura, the second secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, the main event was held for the 64th anniversary of the Disembarkment of the Granma yacht and the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the party’s system of schools.
telesurenglish.net/news/Cuba-8th-Communi…

The Davos “Great Reset” 2021 Agenda of the World Economic Forum. A New Phase of Economic and Social Destruction?
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
On June 3, 2020, as a consequence of the “global health crisis”, the World Economic Forum WEF in Geneva announced a “unique twin summit” for January 2021 in Davos, Switzerland.(1) The theme should be “The Great Reset”. The WEF defines …
globalresearch.ca/davos-reset-2021-agend…

Tribes mount organized responses to COVID-19, in contrast to state and federal governments
Lisa Hardy, Gwendolyn Saul and Kerry F. Thompson | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-02
The story of inequity is imbued with dispossession of lands and is met with organizing from the inside: two crucial points for untangling and responding to COVID-19.
nationofchange.org/2020/12/02/tribes-mou…

Iranian filmmakers, cinema artists slam Fakhrizadeh assassin
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — A number of Iranian filmmakers, documentarians and cinema artists in a statement slammed the assassination of Iran’s scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/166674/Iranian-fil…

UNHCR hails Iran’s move to give nationality to 75000 children
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency, has welcomed Iran’s decision to give nationality to children born to Iranian mothers and non-Iranian fathers.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166678/UNHCR-hails-…

Hope for the future as increasing number of Europeans support climate change actions
Jasmine Norden | thecanary.co | 2020-12-02
A new study has found that an increasing number of Europeans support actions to fight the climate crisis. | Research conducted by eupinions in September surveyed 13,000 UK and EU residents. Two-thirds of respondents said they would support banning short-haul flights and cutting back on meat consumption. Meanwhile, over 50% of the participants said they would back using cars less often. | But while this positive attitude towards dealing with the climate crisis is welcome, personal changes need to be accompanied by c…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/12/0…

Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
Nicolas J S Davies | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-02
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden’s foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the “unwarranted influence” of the Military-Industrial Complex.
nationofchange.org/2020/12/02/eisenhower…

Iran Calls On The International Community To Confront Israel
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-02
Iran is asking the international community to confront the Israeli regime’s actions, “a murderer of children” and “a violator of human rights.” | In a message sent on Tuesday to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Iranian President Hasan Rohani has declared Iran’s strong support for the Palestinian people to achieve their ideals. | Rohani condemned the recent actions of the Israeli regime against the Palestinians, including the killing of Palestinians in custody and the torture of prisoners, especially women and children…
popularresistance.org/iran-calls-on-the-…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire
Tom Engelhardt | zcomm.org | 2020-12-02
Or What It Means to Fall on a Failing Planet…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-history-of-the…

14-year-old Michigan youth who was brutally treated by police dies of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
Fourteen-year-old Honestie Hodges has died from complications of COVID-19 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, two weeks after being hospitalized on her birthday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/mich…

Covid-19, Schools and the Digital Divide
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
On November 19th, Mayor Bill de Blasio closed New York’s public schools. He has been joined by other mayors and education officials throughout the country struggle over whether to keep their local schools open for in-class or offer only remote learning. The Covid-19 pandemic has entered yet another wave and, as of mid-November, over 11…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/covid-19-sch…

What is War?
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
On Marc Levy’s “Medic In The Green Time” What is war? Let me propose the following undoubtedly imperfect definitions. War is dehumanization by the violent crimes of mass murder and the efforts to destroy civil societies. Offensive war is the crime of making war to dominate another civil society. Defensive war is the tragedy of…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/what-is-war/

What is War?
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
On Marc Levy’s “Medic In The Green Time” What is war? Let me propose the following undoubtedly imperfect definitions. War is dehumanization by the violent crimes of mass murder and the efforts to destroy civil societies. Offensive war is the crime of making war to dominate another civil society. Defensive war is the tragedy of…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/what-is-war/

Foreign fighters a ‘serious crisis’ in Libya, UN mission chief tells high stakes political forum
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
The 20,000 foreign fighters now in Libya represent “a serious crisis” and “a shocking violation of Libyan sovereignty”, UN Acting Special Representative Stephanie Williams said on Wednesday, during the latest meeting under the country’s political dialogue forum.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1…

Germany’s Left Party slanders the legacy of Friedrich Engels
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
The attempt to cut this theoretical giant down to the size of the political needs of the Left Party assumed truly grotesque dimensions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/enge…

Black Panthers Eddie Conway and Paul Coates’ revolution wasn’t televised
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-12-02
Former Black Panthers Eddie Conway and Paul Coates talk about their new book, “The Brother You Choose,” which delves deep into their friendship and their parallel lives as freedom fighters and family men, featuring an afterword from Paul’s son, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
therealnews.com/black-panthers-eddie-con…

Iran extends hand of friendship to regional countries: envoy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — Stating that Iran’s strategy is one of cooperation, peace and friendship, the country’s Ambassador to Muscat said that Iran has extended a hand of friendship to the countries of the region.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166679/Iran-extends…

A Bomba está pronta e, em breve, em Itália
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Um vídeo, divulgado, em 23 de Novembro, pelos Sandia National Laboratories, mostra um caàßa F-35A dos EUA que,voando a velocidade supersónica, a uma altitude de 3.000 metros, lanàßa uma bomba nuclear B61-12 (equipada para o ensaio, com uma ogiva nà£o …
globalresearch.ca/a-bomba-esta-pronta-e-…

Beligian FM slams martyr Fakhrizadeh’s assassin
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-02
TEHRAN, Dec. 02 (MNA) — In a telephone conversation with Iranian FM Mohammad Javad Zarif today, the Belgian FM Sophie Wilmes condemned the assassination of Martyr Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166681/Beligian-FM-…

Labor’s Continuing Corbyn “Antisemitism” Saga
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-02
The fallout regarding the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report on antisemitism in the Labour party continues, as do its repercussions for the former leader Jeremy Corbyn. I discussed the report in a previous CounterPunch post, pointing out that while it didn’t uphold the claim by the Jewish Labour Movement, which issued the first…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/02/labors-conti…

Now Is the Time to Make Good on the Promise of Justice for All
Rep. Ayanna Pressley | thenation.com | 2020-12-02
Now Is the Time to Make Good on the Promise of Justice for All…
thenation.com/article/politics/ayanna-pr…

Saudi diplomat ridiculed for claiming Riyadh does not ‘engage in assassinations’
Sheren Khalel | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-02
Saudi diplomat ridiculed for claiming Riyadh does not ‘engage in assassinations’ | Adel al-Jubeir under fire as critics point to murder and dismemberment of Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 | Sheren Khalel | Wed, 12/02/2020 – 21: 18 | Adel al-Jubeir addresses panel titled ‘G20 to Reconnect the World’ at International Media Centre in Riyadh on 20 November (AFP/File photo) | A senior Saudi diplomat has come under fire for cl…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/adel-jubeir-r…

Tuesday 12/15: COVID’s Hidden Toll: Discussion with Filmmakers and Policy Leaders
Berkeley Food Institute | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Virtual Event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/02/1883876…

Aliens or just nature at play? Amazing light pillars give Russian city sci-fi movie-like feast of brightness (PHOTOS)
rt.com | 2020-12-02
A rare phenomenon was observed by residents of the Siberian city of Tyumen, on the first night of winter, as light pillars colored the pre-dawn skies in blue and orange hues. | Numerous vertical shiny beams remained visible in the sky right up until sunrise, with many people flocking outside and taking pictures to share on social media. | The sight might’ve resembled an alien invasion to an imaginative witness, with tractor beams lowered into Tyumen to deploy extraterrestrial forces from spaceships to Earth. | But there seems to have been no panic among the locals, as light pillars aren’t too uncommon in no…
rt.com/russia/508458-light-pillars-sky-t…

Bayer Lobbying “Very Strongly” to Change EU’s GMO Regulations to Exempt Gene Editing
GMWatch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Speaking during the Bayer Future of Farming online conference, Liam Condon, president of crop science at Bayer, said the company is lobbying “very strongly” to change the EU’s GMO regulations to exempt gene editing, according to an article in …
globalresearch.ca/bayer-lobbying-change-…

Bayer Lobbying “Very Strongly” to Change EU’s GMO Regulations to Exempt Gene Editing
GMWatch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Speaking during the Bayer Future of Farming online conference, Liam Condon, president of crop science at Bayer, said the company is lobbying “very strongly” to change the EU’s GMO regulations to exempt gene editing, according to an article in …
globalresearch.ca/bayer-lobbying-change-…

‘We Need Real Housing Relief for All Tenants’
Eleanor J. Bader | progressive.org | 2020-12-02
In New York City and throughout the nation, activists are standing up for renters’ rights. Rising rents, stagnant wages, and low rental vacancy rates were a toxic mix long before COVID-19 hit U.S. shores.
progressive.org/dispatches/we-need-real-…

Message to National Day of Mourning 2020 from Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier | workers.org | 2020-12-02
Greetings my relatives, friends, loved ones and supporters, First of all, I want to thank you for the privilege of being allowed to express my feelings about this “Day of Mourning,” as we call it, and “Day of Thanksgiving,” as the rest of the U.S. calls it. Sometimes I’m at . . . | Continue reading Message to National Day of Mourning 2020 from Leonard Peltier at Workers.org
workers.org/2020/12/52830/?utm_source=rs…

UK Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Writes to Defence Secretary on the UK’s Approach to LAWS
Chris Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
As members of the UK Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, Drone Wars and a number of other UK civil society groups have written to Secretary of State Ben Wallace on the UK’s position on the development of Lethal Autonomous …
globalresearch.ca/uk-campaign-stop-kille…

Los Angeles school district plans full reopening as COVID-19 outbreaks mount in schools
wsws.org | 2020-12-02
Despite claims that they do not intend to fully reopen schools, behind closed doors the school district is in fact planning such moves with the teachers union.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/02/laus…

Rally on Wheels
christina Beach | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Rally on Wheels: A Mobile Protest to Ban Evictions and Cancel Rent…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/01/1883875…

Black Panthers Eddie Conway and Paul Coates’ revolution wasn’t televised
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-12-02
Former Black Panthers Eddie Conway and Paul Coates talk about their new book, “The Brother You Choose,” which delves deep into their friendship and their parallel lives as freedom fighters and family men, featuring an afterword from Paul’s son, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
therealnews.com/black-panthers-eddie-con…

World cannot accept slavery in 21st century: Guterres
news.un.org | 2020-12-02
Commemorating the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery, the United Nations Secretary-General highlighted the impact of the contemporary forms of slavery, underscoring that such abhorrent practices have no space in the twenty-first century.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1…

The Reagan/Trump playbook
Philip Farruggio | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-02
Yes folks, Reaganland and Trumpworld don’t seem to want to go away… unless more of us say ‘Enough is Enough!’…
nationofchange.org/2020/12/01/the-reagan…

Scientists just used CRISPR to cure the simian equivalent of HIV. Here’s why this is a big deal
Matthew Rozsa | salon.com | 2020-12-02
The surprising results bring us one step closer to an HIV cure…
salon.com/2020/12/02/scientists-just-use…

Solano Court Requires Public Approval Process for Cell Site Simulator Usage Policies
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Oakland Privacy’s Lawsuit Against the City of Vallejo Upholds 2015 Legislation…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/30/1883872…

Ten Years Since WikiLeaks Published the US Diplomatic Cables
Thomas Scripps | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-02
Today is the tenth anniversary of “Cablegate” when WikiLeaks, leading a group of partner media organisations, began reporting on the contents of hundreds of thousands of leaked United States government diplomatic cables. | The documents revealed the vast scope and global …
globalresearch.ca/ten-years-since-wikile…

“Great Reset” Equals Greater Tragedies For the People
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-02
Much has been said in recent months about the so-called “Great Reset,” also known as “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Klaus Schwab, founder and executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF), and Thierry Malleret, founder of the Monthly Barometer, have even co-authored a 2020 book titled “COVID-19: The Great Reset.” Prince Charles of the U.K. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/great-reset-e…

On the Line: Armed and Dangerous
ZACH D ROBERTS | progressive.org | 2020-12-02
Zach D. Roberts reports: “I’ve covered protests in America for the last twenty years. But it wasn’t until 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, that I saw men with guns take to the streets.”
progressive.org/magazine/on-the-line-arm…

“We have delegated our moral judgment to the markets”
Michael Sandel | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
“Yes, we can” was a call to solidarity and common goals. The legend that everyone in America can rise as high as their talents can carry them goes back to Ronald Reagan. Access to education should not be a substitute for policies that directly address the roots of inequality and the dignity of work.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/02/1883876…

Dossier 35: The Legacy of Lekra: Organising revolutionary culture in Indonesia
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2020-12-02
Martin Aleida recalls the moment he was released from prison at the end of 1966. At twenty-two, Martin emerged from nearly a year behind bars to Jakarta, unable to find his friends and comrades.
mronline.org/2020/12/01/dossier-35-the-l…

San Francisco Bay View’s New Era Kicks Off
SF Bay View | indybay.org | 2020-12-02
Revolutionary greetings old and new friends, allies and supporters!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/11/30/1883872…

Bernie Sanders Calls Betsy DeVos Worst Education Secretary US History
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-02
Sen. Bernie Sanders late Tuesday called Betsy DeVos “the worst education secretary in the history of America” and made abundantly clear that he’s not mourning her imminent departure after the billionaire school privatization zealot lashed out at popular proposals to cancel student loan debt and make public colleges and universities tuition-free. | “What do you call a bi…
truthout.org/articles/bernie-sanders-cal…

The Rich Cheer Wall Street’s Records While Americans Drain 401(k)s
Sam Pizzigati | zcomm.org | 2020-12-02
The nation’s woefully inadequate response to the pandemic is jeopardizing millions of retirement futures…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-rich-cheer-wal…