3 December 2020 Archives

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The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
WHO has most likely received orders from “above”, from those people who also manage Trump and the “leaders” (sic) of the EU, European Union. The final decision to go ahead NOW with COVID-19 pandemic, was taken in January 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – behind very much closed doors.
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Boycott the Vaccination Program: The FDA-approved Drug Ivermectin Inhibits the Replication of SARS-CoV-2 but Nobody Talks About It
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Peruvian Doctors for the Truth have issued a short video, explaining the enormous risks of the three different types of vaccines currently on the market in Peru, two of them are genetically engineered in one way or another and will …
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A Killing in Iran: Who Gains from Yet Another Assassination? The Role of MEK?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
It is not often that one can agree with the pronouncements made by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, but his tweeted comment on the killing of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh suggesting that the incident “…was a …
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Moving Past Apartheid: One-State is not Ideal Justice, but It is Just and Possible
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
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”. This position was communicated by EU Foreign Affairs Chief, Josep Borrell, on November 19, during a video-conference with Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister, Riyad al-Maliki. All Israeli…
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Palestinian student activist released from Israeli prison after 15 months
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-03
23-year-old Mays Abu Ghosh, a student of Birzeit university, was arrested by the Israeli security forces on charges of being a member of the Democratic Progressive Student Pole, a student group affiliated to the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)…
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Decolonizing Thanksgiving And Supporting Indigenous Peoples
Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-03
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 …
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Age of capital
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2020-12-03
It was during the “age of capital,” as the illustrious British historian Eric Hobsbawm aptly called it, that Marx formulated his critique of political economy.
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The Smearing of Robert Fisk…Now That He Can’t Defend Himself
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days. Leading journalists in the corporate media have suddenly felt the urgent need not only to criticise the late, much-respected foreign correspondent Robert Fisk, but to pile in against him, using the most outrageous smears imaginable. He is suddenly a fraud, a fabulist, a fantasist, a liar.
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Establishment journalists are piling on to smear Robert Fisk now he cannot answer back
Jonathan Cook | mronline.org | 2020-12-03
Something remarkable even by the usually dismal standards of the stenographic media blue-tick brigade has been happening in the past few days.
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A New Technology That Will Dangerously Expand Government Spying on Citizens
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-03
Jack RASMUS | 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 a contract to test new software of a company called SignalFrame, a Washington DC wireless tech company. The company’s new software is able to access smartphones, and from your phone jump off to access any other wireless or bluetooth device in the…
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Covid-19: Gaza closing mosques and schools as virus surges
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-03
Covid-19: Gaza closing mosques and schools as virus surges | After avoiding widespread outbreak until August, when cases began to spike, death toll in Gaza has quadrupled in past month | MEE staff | Thu, 12/03/2020 – 21: 37 | Palestinian men walk past street art in Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip on 12 November (AFP/File photo) | Schools and mosques are set to close in the besieged Gaza Strip this weekend, as the Pales…
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Jerusalem municipality sparks controversy by renaming Damascus Gate steps
Jessica Buxbaum | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-03
Jerusalem municipality sparks controversy by renaming Damascus Gate steps | Critics denounce the move to name the area after two slain Israeli soldiers as an attempt to further erase Palestinian identity of occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City | Jessica Buxbaum | Thu, 12/03/2020 – 13: 00 | A mask-clad teenager sits in front of the nearly deserted area outside the Damascus Gate in the Old City in occupied East Je…
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Thai activists stage creative protest
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-04
Thailand’s royal excesses were mercilessly parodied in street theatre in Sydney, reports Peter Boyle.
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Indian Farmers Lead Historic Strike and Protests Against Narendra Modi
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-03
As COVID rages through India, which has the second-highest number of reported cases worldwide, hundreds of thousands of farmers are converging on the capital New Delhi to demand the government repeal new laws that deregulate agricultural markets, saying the reforms give major corporations power to set crop prices far below current rates and devastate the livelihoods of farmers. Agriculture is the leading source of income for more than half of India’s 1.3 billion people. The farmer revolt comes as some…
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The David McBride Case: Whistleblowing, Afghanistan and Australian War Crimes
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-03
Much complaint can be had of the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry Report. It exempts political actors of responsibility for alleged atrocities and war crimes. It suggests that those in the highest echelons of the Australian Defence Forces are ignorant in incompetent innocence. It spares the desk warriors and flays the field …
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Indian Farmers Lead Historic Strike & Protests Against Narendra Modi, Neoliberalism & Inequality
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-03
As COVID rages through India, which has the second-highest number of reported cases worldwide, hundreds of thousands of farmers are converging on the capital New Delhi to demand the government repeal new laws that deregulate agricultural markets, saying the reforms give major corporations power to set crop prices far below current rates and devastate the livelihoods of farmers. Agriculture is the leading source of income for more than half of India’s 1.3 billion people. The farmer revolt comes as some 250 million workers across the country took part in the largest strike in history against the Modi government’s n…
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Saturday 12/5: Marxism in the Age of Trump
Platypus Santa Cruz | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Online Event | zoom.us/j/96939137271…
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Friday 12/4: State & Local Advocacy Strategies During Covid-19 to Aid Immigrants, Undocumented, & DACA
United We Dream | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Online webniar…
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Yemen: Unchecked violations ‘may amount to war crimes’, Security Council hears
news.un.org | 2020-12-03
UN experts called on the Security Council on Thursday, along with the international community at large, to put an end to the “surreal and absurd dimension” of human rights violations engulfing war-torn Yemen, where abuses continue unchecked.
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Amid ‘unprecedented’ needs, UNICEF asks for $6.4 billion to help 190 million children
news.un.org | 2020-12-03
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday, launched a $6.4 billion emergency funding appeal to reach more than 190 million children affected by humanitarian crises amidst the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ethnic Cleansing Feared as Ethiopia Wages War on Tigray Region Amid Communication Blackout
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-03
The United Nations has reached a deal with Ethiopia’s government to allow humanitarian access to the northern Tigray region and start providing aid. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched military action against regional forces one month ago, setting off a bloody conflict and adding to the already alarming number of displaced people and refugees in the country and neighboring nations. Ethiopia has declared victory after announcing it took control of the capital of Tigray, but the Tigray People’s Liberation Front says they are continuing to fight. CNN senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir says what…
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/3/nima_elba…

UN, aid groups warn US against blacklisting Yemen’s Houthis
Umar A Farooq | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-03
UN, aid groups warn US against blacklisting Yemen’s Houthis | Designating Houthis as terrorist organisation would have far-reaching consequences in Yemen, including halting aid work amid threat of famine | Umar A Farooq | Thu, 12/03/2020 – 18: 11 | Aid groups are operating in Yemen amid funding shortages, working to deliver as much humanitarian assistance as possible (AFP/File photo) | The United Nations is making…
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A Massacre in Lagos: Nigerian Military Forced to Admit It Fired Live Rounds at Peaceful Protesters
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-03
A CNN investigation has exposed the Nigerian Army’s role in a deadly attack on protesters in the capital city of Lagos in October, when soldiers opened fire on protesters gathered at Lekki toll gate, a key roadway and protest site. At least 12 people were killed in the massacre, which the Army initially denied, and capped weeks of demonstrations against the notorious Nigerian police unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS. Senior CNN international correspondent Nima Elbagir says the massacre “had a chilling effect” on the protest movement and enraged many Nigerians. “We kept hearing from these famil…
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Doctored Indignation: Australia-China Relations
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
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…
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We Are Grass. We Grow on Everything
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-12-03
Around 250 million people across India joined the general strike on 26 November, making it the largest strike in world history…
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After the Lockdown: A Global Coronavirus Vaccination Program
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
The tendency is towards a Worldwide lockdown spearheaded by fear and media disinformation. Currently, hundreds of millions of people Worldwide are under lockdown. | What is the next step in the evolution of the COV-19 Crisis? A multibillion dollar coronavirus vaccination program to be implemented in the wake of the Lockdown.
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Venezuela, China Condemn US Sanctions Against Tech Company
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-12-03
Beijing reiterated its support for Venezuelan sovereignty.
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Censorship in the Biden Era
Margaret Kimberley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
The corporate media have joined the incoming administration in deciding what we can and cannot see and hear. | Ever since Donald Trump was elected president in 2016 the country has been warned about the dangers of fascism. It isn’t difficult …
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Protesters demand president Alejandro Giammattei’s resignation in Guatemala
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-03
On November 30, thousands of Guatemalans once again hit the streets in rejection of corruption, austerity and police brutality, as well as to demand the resignation of right-wing president Alejandro Giammattei, his ministers and the members of the congress. | The Indigenous communities of Sololá department and members of various social organizations organized blockades on the Inter-American highway, which connects the capital to western Guatemala, at several points across the department to demand structural changes in the country. Indigenous people in María Tecún, San Juan Argueta and La Cuchilla, among other vil…
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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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Right-wing extremist jailed for targeting left, Muslims
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
Far-right figure Phillip Galea, who was just sentenced to jail on terrorism charges, also threatened Socialist Alliance activist and local councillor Sue Bolton after having done reconnaissance in the Resistance Bookshop.
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The “Secret Agenda” of the So-called Elite
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Important and timely article, first published on April 10, 2020 | “The International” is the world-renowned battle song of the socialist labor movement. The English version of the original French text reads: | “Wake up, damned of this earth, who are still …
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Video: Chicken Kiev Meets Cold Turkey: Black Sea Turkey-Ukraine Axis Emerges?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
On the face of it, an alliance between Turkey and Ukraine seems like a rather odd creation, yet one that may surprisingly durable simply because neither country has anywhere else to turn. What practically dooms them to a partnership if …
globalresearch.ca/video-chicken-kiev-mee…

Is Trump Right? Was Election 2020 Rigged?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Rigged Election 2020 wasn’t the first time it happened in America. | Throughout US history, it occurred time and again at the federal, state and local levels. | “Democracy” by duopoly rule eliminates competition from independent candidates, debauching the process, assuring democracy …
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Yemen: Trump Is Showering Saudi Arabia with Last-Minute Gifts
Ahmed AbdulKareem | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
While the administration of Donald Trump readies its exit from the White House and the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s use of American diplomatic cover and weapons alike has taken on a fevered pace as the Kingdom deepens the tragedy it …
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Are “net-zero” emissions a smoke screen?
Paul Jay | mronline.org | 2020-12-03
Peter Carter of the Climate Emergency Institute says “net zero” carbon emissions by 2050 and targeting 2 degrees warming are a recipe for runaway climate catastrophe. On theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay.
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United Native Americans Victory over GSA to Formally Recognize Joe Biden
Quanah Brightman | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
United Native Americans Victory over GSA to Formally Recognize Joe Biden as the President Elect…
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Graduate Student Labor Organizing Is Rising — and So Is Retaliation
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-03
Carlos Cruz was paying $1,550 per month to live in a 750-square-foot garage-studio without insulation in Santa Cruz while earning a salary of $18,000 per year as a graduate student teaching assistant at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). He was barely scraping by and was going into debt. Accordingly, in November, he became involved in the burgeoning Cost of Living Adjustment campaign on the UCSC campus. | Cruz, an outspoken first-generation Chicano Ph.D. student in the History Department, is n…
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Former police officers sentenced to prison for framing innocent man
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-03
“These officers shattered the victims’ lives and dishonored the Honolulu Police Department. This community deserved so much better from these officers.”
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New York tenants battle privatization of public housing
Turner Roth | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-03
Housing rights groups, including supporters from the Movement School, the Young Communist League and the Communist Party of New York, stood with the tenants of the New York City Housing Authority’s Fulton Houses in Chelsea as they recently recommenced protesting the de facto privatization of their homes and the nearby Chelsea-Elliott Houses. Under cover of …
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Tenants Demand Landlords Sign ‘Cancel Rent’ Contracts As Evictions Loom
Tenant and Neighborhood Councils | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Tenant union raises cancel rent calls to landlord association.
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Tuesday 12/15: COVID’s Hidden Toll: Discussion with Filmmakers and Policy Leaders
Berkeley Food Institute | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Virtual Event…
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Assassination of nuclear scientist is a bid to provoke Iran into conflict
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-03
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. He analyzes the implications of this on the region and looks at the myths about Iran’s nuclear program…
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Equal pay for equal work? Not yet for U.S. women’s soccer team
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-03
LOS ANGELES–Equal pay for equal work? Not yet for the medal-winning U.S. women’s soccer team. But they’re going to get everything else they fought for in their long-running battle with the U.S. Soccer Federation, and the pay issue remains open, awaiting a trial next year. In a settlement announced on Dec. 1, the federation, soccer’s …
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The Economy Isn’t Working. That’s Exactly the Plan
Robert Freeman | zcomm.org | 2020-12-03
Forty years ago, around 1980, the uber-wealthy decided they wanted to get their money out of the economy. So, they engineered a controlled demolition of the U.S. economy…
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Seeds of Destruction, Globalization of Poverty, Globalization of War: Three Important Books From Global Research Publishers
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Global Research brings you a selection of three books that help give some context to the current state of the world and the power dynamics that got us here. Unfortunately, these books remain rather relevant, if not more so than …
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Four Women Martyred in Service to the Poor
Mary Jo McConahay | progressive.org | 2020-12-03
Four churchwomen killed forty years ago are being commemorated this month in prayer services and zoomed gatherings around the world. They stand for the thousands who gave themselves for faith in a better future for the poor of Central America.
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A New Peru, Struggling To Be Born?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-03
While November saw two Peruvian presidents removed in a week and the emergence of a grassroots movement to defend democracy, there are no clear answers yet as to who will benefit in the long term. | It is not the first time that Plaza San Martín, one of the major squares in Lima’s historic centre, has been surrounded by police and filled with protestors demonstrating against the country’s political elite, but this time something felt different. | The week beginning 9 November saw a series of major demonstrations pop up around Lima, and across Peru, in condemnation of the removal of President Martín Vizcarra from…
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Mass Ignorance in the Age of Information
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-03
It is beyond counter-intuitive that in the Age of Information, the masses are more ignorant of facts than at any time in the past. It matters not that smart phones provide reliable information to individuals at their fingertips. Increasingly, some of the most well-informed people on the planet are adopting the mindsets of the Luddites, the anti-technology English workers of the 19th century. | Aversion to facts is endemic among the right-wing. However, even among certain quarters of the left-wing, mostly neo-Trotskyists and affiliated anarchists, there is an increasing rejection of Covid-19 pandemic public health…
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Pfizer and Moderna’s “95% Effective” Vaccines–Let’s be Cautious and First See the Full Data
Dr. Peter Doshi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
In the United States, all eyes are on Pfizer and Moderna. The topline efficacy results from their experimental covid-19 vaccine trials are astounding at first glance. Pfizer says it recorded 170 covid-19 cases (in 44,000 volunteers), with a remarkable split: …
globalresearch.ca/pfizer-moderna-95-effe…

EU-Turkey tensions mount over Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean
wsws.org | 2020-12-03
The unilateral opening of Varosha or Mara≈ü in northern Cyprus and Ankara’s proposed two-state solution have intensified tensions between the European Union and Turkey.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/03/turk…

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-…

The Streetlight Effect: When People Look Within the System for Solutions to the System
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-03
The US political system is not designed to be moved to the left. It is not designed to facilitate a revolution. It is not designed to reflect the general will of the public in any way. The US political system is designed to keep the public placid and obedient while the imperialists run the empire. Nothing else is allowed. Nothing else will ever be allowed.
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“We have delegated our moral judgment to the markets”
Michael Sandel | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
“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.
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COVID-19 recovery, focus of UN General Assembly special session
news.un.org | 2020-12-03
Nations united on Thursday for a special session of the UN General Assembly to survey the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflect on the best response, and forge a path to better days ahead.
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Sanders Slams McConnell for Pushing Tax Deductions for CEOs in COVID Relief
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-03
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for pushing a coronavirus relief measure that contains a 100% tax deduction for business meals — a gift to corporate executives — but nothing for the tens of millions of people across the U.S. who are struggling to afford food for themselves and their families. | “Mitch McConnell’s…
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The Relevance of Utopianism
Bernard Marszalek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-03
One summer during my youth I was hired to work the assembly line at a television manufacturer. This was in the days when America had a manufacturing base and actually produced consumer goods. I found myself working next to a conveyor belt slapping stickers onto large cathode ray tubes as they left an oven from …
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The contradictions of capitalism emerge amid the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine
wsws.org | 2020-12-03
Both Pfizer, a pharmaceutical giant, and the start-up firm Moderna have used essentially the same biochemical process, involving messenger RNA (mRNA) to develop a new vaccine against coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/03/vacc…

Who is Gregory Meeks, incoming US House foreign affairs leader?
Ali Harb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-03
Who is Gregory Meeks, incoming US House foreign affairs leader? | Meeks will hold gavel of powerful House Foreign Affairs Committee, succeeding staunchly pro-Israel Eliot Engel | Ali Harb | Thu, 12/03/2020 – 22: 57 | Meeks has served in Congress since 1998 (AFP/File Photo) | US Democrats elected moderate legislator Congressman Gregory Meeks to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC), ending Joaquin Castro’s progress…
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Saturday 12/5: Second Annual Medical Symposium on Health Effects of Oil & Gas Industry
Physicians for Social Responsibility | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Virtual conference (FREE)…
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Conjola’s New Year’s Eve never to be forgotten
Peter Boyle | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
Ash Brennan will never forget New Year’s Eve 2019 when he lost his house to a raging firestorm in Conjola Park. Peter Boyle spoke to him about his new file, We are Conjola, which will have a special online release this New Year’s Eve.
greenleft.org.au/content/conjolas-new-ye…

“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East
Israel Shahak | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing wars on Syria and Iraq, the war on Yemen, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East…
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Revealed: The cost of the pandemic on world’s poorest countries
news.un.org | 2020-12-03
More than 32 million of the world’s poorest people face being pulled back into extreme poverty because of COVID-19, leading UN economists said on Thursday, highlighting data showing that the pandemic is likely to cause the worst economic crisis in decades among least developed countries (LDCs).
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The Graying of Mass Incarceration
Victoria Law | progressive.org | 2020-12-03
Prisons, ill-suited for providing health care, are facing an explosion of elderly inmates.
progressive.org/magazine/the-graying-of-…

Lord Maginnis faces suspension for bullying and homophobic slurs towards MPs
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-03
Lord Maginnis should be suspended from the House of Lords for at least 18 months for bullying and harassment of three MPs and a security guard, the peers’ standards watchdog has recommended.The recommendation from the Lords Conduct Committee follows an investigation into the Northern Irish peer’s treatment of a parliamentary security officer and MPs Hannah Bardell, Luke Pollard and Toby Perkins.He was investigated after being “verbally abusive” to security officer Christian Bombolo when asked to show his parliamentary pass in January.The SNP’s Hannah Bardell said she was treated ‘rudely and aggressively’ by the p…
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What’s Between 30 Million Americans and an Eviction Tsunami?
Francesca Mari | zcomm.org | 2020-12-03
Only government intervention can keep millions of Americans housed…
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Tuesday 12/8: COVID-19 Misinformation: Understanding & Seeking Truth During a Pandemic (UC Berkeley)
UBDDSP | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Online via livestream…
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Detained Saudi prince moved to ‘undisclosed’ location, warns European lawmaker
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-03
Detained Saudi prince moved to ‘undisclosed’ location, warns European lawmaker | Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz has been detained for nearly three years | MEE and agencies | Thu, 12/03/2020 – 14: 39 | An undated picture made available on 30 May 2020 by a friend of Saudi Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz shows him signing the visitors book in the German city of Dresden (AFP) | A detained Saudi prince has been moved to…
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Recognize and protect rights of persons with disabilities, UN chief urges, marking International Day
news.un.org | 2020-12-03
The United Nations is commemorating the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, on Thursday, calling for greater inclusion for persons with disabilities, and recognizing and protecting their human rights.
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Video: The Problem with the COVID Vaccine. Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
“The problem with the COVID vaccine is that they recognize that it’s gonna be really hard to get a vaccine so they have been reducing our standards so they can pass the vaccine no matter what.” — Robert F. Kennedy …
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Geelong Trades Hall Council seeks interest in sustainable green jobs campaign
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
Geelong Trades Hall Council has decided it will seek broader interest in a new campaign for a sustainable green jobs, reports Tim Gooden.
greenleft.org.au/content/geelong-trades-…

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…

The Economy of Hate: How Online Retailers Profit Off of Right-Wing Extremists
Mathew Foresta | progressive.org | 2020-12-03
Far-right groups are selling merchandise that celebrates fascism, peddles conspiracy theories, and calls for violence. ‘But because white supremacism is so accepted in the United States, they just treat it as normal and acceptable to retail.’…
progressive.org/dispatches/the-economy-o…

Right-wing extremist jailed for targeting left, Muslims
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
Far-right activist Phillip Galea has been jailed on terrorism charges after threatening to commit violence against left-wing activists and Muslims. Sue Bolton discusses what it will take to defeat such extremists.
greenleft.org.au/content/right-wing-extr…

Haiti: Protests, Repression Mark Police Chief’s First Week
Jake Johnston — Kira Paulemon | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
On November 18, the 217th anniversary of the Battle of Vertières where Haitians delivered a fatal blow to Napoleon’s troops during their struggle for independence, thousands took to the streets across the country to protest rising insecurity and government inaction. Anti-government actions took place in Cap-Haitien, GonaàØves, l’Estère, Saint-Marc, Delmas, Tabarre, Port-au-Prince,Cayes, Jérémie, Mirebalais, and…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/03/haiti-protes…

200K wrongfully purged GA voters fight to be heard in Senate runoffs
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-12-03
Civil rights groups are seeking an injunction against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to allow those voters to participate in the Jan. 5 runoff senate election, which will determine the balance of power in Congress.
therealnews.com/200k-wrongfully-purged-g…

Repeal Section 230 and Never Again Have to Worry About What Mark Zuckerberg Thinks About Anything
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-12-03
Apparently Donald Trump has gotten into his head that he wants to repeal Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Apparently he is upset that Facebook and Twitter have pointed out that much of what he posts is not true. It’s not clear what Trump thinks he would accomplish by repealing this provision of …
cepr.net/repeal-section-230-and-never-ag…

Podcast: The Assassination of a Nuclear Scientist and the War against Iran’s COVID-19 Vaccine
Mnar Muhawesh Adley | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-03
After Iran’s most senior nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrezadeh was assassinated last week the media has been abuzz about a non-existent nuclear weapons program, justifying a killing that masks a broader campaign to target Iran’s COVID vaccine program led by Fakhrezadeh.
mintpressnews.com/assassination-of-mohsi…

The Skripal Affair: Remembering a UK False Flag
Megan Sherman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
In a case of what must be called incriminating timing — the facts established after official conclusions and reprisals were declared — the scientists and experts of Porton Down, the UK’s leading chemical weapons research facility, declared their extensive investigations …
globalresearch.ca/skripal-affair-remembe…

Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?
Tim Schwab | thenation.com | 2020-12-03
Are Bill Gates’s Billions Distorting Public Health Data?
thenation.com/article/society/gates-covi…

Eisenhower’s Ghost Haunts Biden’s Foreign Policy Team
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-03
In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new administration, and Americans should too. | Biden’s foreign policy team will also need a special kind of confidence to confront the most serious challenge they face. That will not be a threat from a hostile foreign country, but the controlling and corrupting power of the Military-Industrial Complex…
popularresistance.org/eisenhowers-ghost-…

The 50th Anniversary of the Mount Rushmore Takeover
Quanah Brightman | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Group gathers during 50th anniversary of the Mount Rushmore occupation…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/02/1883875…

Communist youth in Russia protest budget cuts in health sector
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-03
Even as Russia faces an acute health and social crisis due to COVID-19, the federal budget for 2021-2023 calls for cuts of 200 billion rubles (USD 2.64 billion) in the overall state allocation for the health sector…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/03/communist…

‘This Strike Is A Fight For Our Lives’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-03
As a strike wave sweeps the U.S. health ≠care indus ≠try amid the Covid-19 pan ≠dem ≠ic, 700 front ≠line work ≠ers at 11 Chica ≠go-area nurs ≠ing homes have been on the pick ≠et lines since Novem ≠ber 23. | Pri ≠mar ≠i ≠ly Black and Lati ≠na women, the strik ≠ing work ≠ers are mem ≠bers of SEIU Health ≠care Illi ≠nois & Indi ≠ana and include cer ≠ti ≠fied nurs ≠ing assis ≠tants (CNAs), dietary aides, house ≠keep ≠ers and laun ≠dry work ≠ers. They are fight ≠ing for at least $15 an hour, haz ≠ard pay and ade ≠quate pe…
popularresistance.org/this-strike-is-a-f…

Will Face Masks Cause Facial Deformities in Children?
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
“When wearing a mask, most of us breathe with our upper chest muscles and with our mouth open,” states Children’s Minnesota on their website. | While the hospital admits this can cause “increased stress and anxiety” there are other more | …
globalresearch.ca/will-face-masks-cause-…

East Paradise Grazing Plan Seeks to Expand Livestock Production
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
Below are my comments concerning the expansion of grazing of the East Paradise Grazing Allotments. This is some of the most important wildlife habitat north of Yellowstone NP. Readers are encouraged to write the District Ranger supporting ALT 1 the No Livestock Grazing option. Please put East Paradise Range Allotment Management Plan in the subject…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/03/east-paradis…

How the Market Destroys the Lifeworld
Thomas Klikauer — Nadine Campbell | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
The Chicago School of Economics has not only furnished the unbroken success of the hegemonic ideology of neoliberalism and the three great evils of the 1980s — Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher, and Augusto Pinochet — it has also supplied us with l’idée fixe of behavioural economics. The belief is that when it comes to crucial…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/03/how-the-mark…

Eisenhower’s Ghost Haunts Biden’s Foreign Policy Team
Nicolas J. S. Davies | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
In his first words as President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said, “we have to proceed with equal measures of humility and confidence.” Many around the world will welcome this promise of humility from the new …
globalresearch.ca/eisenhower-ghost-haunt…

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 union leaderships need to get prepared.
greenleft.org.au/content/time-mobilise-d…

Saudi-Qatar deal to end blockade is close, say reports
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-03
Saudi-Qatar deal to end blockade is close, say reports | Information about a new agreement comes as US Middle East envoy Jared Kushner tours Gulf countries | MEE and agencies | Thu, 12/03/2020 – 10: 20 | Senior Advisor to US President Jared Kushner, left, meets with Qatari ruler Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani in the capital Doha on 2 December 2020 (AFP) | A deal between Saudi Arabia and Qatar to end th…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-qatar-b…

Israel warns its citizens they may be targeted abroad by Iran following nuclear scientist’s assassination
rt.com | 2020-12-03
Israel has issued a warning to its citizens abroad about potential terrorist attacks amid threats from Tehran of retaliatory action in response to the killing of a top Iranian nuclear scientist. | Iran was quick to blame Israel last week for the killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, though it has not taken credit for the action. Fakhrizadeh had been accused of heading Iran’s nuclear program — even being named by PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel has long been critical of Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. | As multiple leaders in Iran have threatened consequences for the scientist’s death, Israelis abroad have been warned…
rt.com/news/508622-israel-iran-warning-t…

Gavin Williamson says GCSE and A-level exams will ‘absolutely’ not be cancelled
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-03
Education secretary Gavin Williamson has given an “absolutely” cast-iron guarantee that exams in England will not be cancelled this academic year. | The pledge came as the Government unveiled a package of measures for students sitting their A-level and GCSE exams in the summer to compensate for disruption to their schooling during the pandemic. | Pupils in England will be given advance notice of some topics ahead of their tests and they will be allowed to take in exam aids, like formula sheets, to ensure this cohort of students is not disadvantaged. | Students will also be awarded more generous grades — in…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/12/03/gavin-wi…

One year after refounding the National Alliance Against Racist and Pollical Repression
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-03
Fight Back! Interview with Frank Chapman, the Executive Director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. | Fight Back!: Could you say a few words about the refounding of NAARPR last year? | Frank Chapman: We convened the refounding conference of NAARPR last November 22-24, 2019. People all over the country are remembering these days because they are historic moments in the calendar of our movement. On the opening night of November 22, we packed 1200 people in the Chicago Teachers Union Hall to hear our keynote speaker Angela Davis talk about the importance of refounding the National Alli…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/12/3/one-year…

Caught in the Crossfire
George Monbiot | zcomm.org | 2020-12-03
Brexit isn’t about Europe, and isn’t about the UK. It’s the outcome of a civil war within capitalism…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/caught-in-the-cros…

Tuesday 12/15: Equity in Health Care: The Awful Truth About Race, Economic Status & U.S. Health Care
Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/02/1883875…

Imperial projects global coronavirus trajectory with simulation tool
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-03
Imperial has projected the coronavirus outbreak for all countries around the world with the latest version of its scenario analysis tool.
imperial.ac.uk/news/210053/imperial-projects-global-coronavirus-trajectory-with

The Baltimore Ravens’ Cautionary Covid Tale
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-12-03
The Baltimore Ravens’ Cautionary Covid Tale…
thenation.com/article/society/baltimore-…

Gimme Shelter: The Way Home Chronicles the Root Causes of Homelessness in America
Ed Rampell | progressive.org | 2020-12-03
A new documentary series focuses on the growing number of people living on the streets of U.S. cities.
progressive.org/dispatches/gimme-shelter…

COVID-19: Deadliest day recorded
Patricia Gorky | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-03
The United States hit a grim record of 2,875 COVID deaths reported in a single day, making Dec. 2 the deadliest day in the country since the pandemic began.
liberationnews.org/covid-19-deadliest-da…

Trump Tells Pompeo: Go Wild on Iran, Just Don’t Risk ‘World War III’
Erin Banco | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
President Donald Trump may only have seven weeks left in office, but he’s given his top advisers the green light to batter the Iranian regime–anything that doesn’t hazard a full-on war before Joe Biden is inaugurated. | According to …
globalresearch.ca/trump-tells-pompeo-go-…

UK Minister Warns Brits Could be “Denied Normal Life” If They Do Not Receive COVID Vaccination
Joseph Jankowski | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Brits could be denied entry into bars, theaters, and sporting events if they can not prove they’ve received vaccination against COVID-19, according to the head of the United Kingdom’s vaccine rollout. | Nadhim Zahawi, the newly appointed minister to oversee …
globalresearch.ca/uk-minister-warns-brit…

As Private Cities Advance in Honduras, Hondurans Renew Their Opposition
Brett Heinz | cepr.net | 2020-12-03
Guest post by Beth Geglia Efforts to develop semi-privately governed jurisdictions called Economic Development and Employment Zones (ZEDEs) in Honduras have recently emerged anew. ZEDEs, first legislated as Special Development Regions (REDs) and informally known as “charter cities,” “model cities,” or “startup cities,” are a flexible territorial concession that can be used for city-scale real …
cepr.net/as-private-cities-advance-in-ho…

No matter who wins Dec. 7 elections, Ghana will continue on a neoliberal path
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-03
Kwesi Pratt Jnr. of Pan African Television analyzes the political situation in Ghana ahead of the national elections of December 7. He talks about essential continuity between the two leading parties that dominate the country’s politics…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/03/no-matter…

Election Fraud: Where’s the Independent Press? The Mainstream Press Has Failed America
Jacob G. Hornberger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
While President Trump continues to maintain that the presidential election was marred by massive fraud, the mainstream press continues to maintain that Trump’s charges are “false” and “baseless” and that his allegations are damaging trust in America’s democratic electoral system. …
globalresearch.ca/mainstream-press-faile…

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…

Take Care, Big Apple!
Andrea Arroyo | thenation.com | 2020-12-03
Covid cases are rising at an alarming rate in cities big and small.
thenation.com/article/politics/take-care…

Evictions resulted in more than 10,000 covid-19 deaths
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Evictions resulted in more than 10,000 covid-19 deaths!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/01/1883875…

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 union leaderships need to get prepared.
greenleft.org.au/content/time-mobilise-d…

The Accord: a class collaboration project that weakened unions
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
Jon Strauss discusses the legacy of the Labor government-sponsored Prices and Incomes Accords of the 1980s and 1990s.
greenleft.org.au/content/accord-class-co…

Facebook’s “ad” ban hurts political magazines
Norman Stockwell | progressive.org | 2020-12-03
If Facebook truly wants to “Give people the power to build community” perhaps it should consider allowing fact-based, truth-seeking publications to share content.
progressive.org/op-eds/facebook-ad-ban-h…

As Support for Independence Soars, Scottish Nationalists Must Unite
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Alex Salmond is back. Scotland’s former First Minister, under whom the SNP went from strength to strength, has unveiled his own 5-point plan together with MSP Alex Neil, to address the economic aftershocks of the pandemic in Scotland. | There have …
globalresearch.ca/support-independence-s…

Zur Psychologie des Bà∂sen. Eine erste Annà§herung an das Thema Der Mensch ist gut. Das Bà∂se wird nicht siegen!
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Die Rà§delsfàºhrer der weltweiten Verschwà∂rung gegen uns Bàºrger haben die Realisierung ihrer diabolischen Plà§ne einer Neuen Weltordnung NWO und einer Eine-Welt-Regierung nach chinesischem Vorbild sowie eines ‚ÄûGroàüen Neustarts” und einer ‚ÄûVierten Industriellen Revolution”, der Verschmelzung physischer und digitaler Identità§t (Transhumanismus), …
globalresearch.ca/zur-psychologie-des-bo…

Labour’s Starmer urged to return donations from ‘Islamophobic’ businessman
Nadda Osman | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-03
Labour’s Starmer urged to return donations from ‘Islamophobic’ businessman | A number of Muslim organisations have highlighted comments made by supporter and property developer David Abrahams | Nadda Osman | Thu, 12/03/2020 – 14: 01 | The businessman has since deleted the social media posts which have been called Islamophobic (Screengrab/BBC) | Labour leader Keir Starmer is facing a backlash for accepting donations fr…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-starme…

Olivia Laing’s Banal Avant-Garde
Dilara O’Neil | thenation.com | 2020-12-03
Olivia Laing’s Banal Avant-Garde…
thenation.com/article/culture/olivia-lai…

Will This Be The Radicalization Of Black Lives Matter?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-03
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 did not collaborate on political visioning and collective analysis with the chapters but shockingly, with the millions reported in the media that was raised from foundations and corporations, “most chapters have received little to no financial support since the launch in…
popularresistance.org/will-this-be-the-r…

World Is ‘Doubling Down’ on Fossil Fuels Despite Climate Crisis — UN Report
Damian Carrington | zcomm.org | 2020-12-03
Production must fall by 6% a year to avoid ‘severe climate disruption’ but Covid-19 funding is supporting increases…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/world-is-doubling-…

Asian American Voters Could Help Flip Georgia
Timothy Pratt | thenation.com | 2020-12-03
Asian American Voters Could Help Flip Georgia…
thenation.com/article/politics/georgia-a…

New Year’s Eve parties ruled out by Airbnb in bid to deter Covid-spreading gatherings
rt.com | 2020-12-03
Short-stay rental giant Airbnb has toughened its booking rules ahead of New Year’s Eve in a bid to crack down on people throwing parties in defiance of coronavirus restrictions, as well as to try to limit the spread of Covid-19. | From Thursday, Airbnb users lacking positive reviews will be barred from booking one-night stays in entire-home listings on December 31 in Australia, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain, the UK and US. | Customers will also need to tick a box when booking to specifically promise that they will not throw a NYE bash, the San Francisco-based firm said in a statement on Thursday. | The company…
rt.com/news/508618-airbnb-new-year-parti…

Pakistan Pressured by Saudi Arabia and UAE to Recognize and Accept the State of Israel
Junaid S. Ahmad | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Putting aside the relics of past Cold War theatrics, Pakistan has been consistently struggling to advance peace and justice in the world. The struggle though has intensified. Pakistan currently experiences unprecedented pressure from the conservative Gulf monarchies of Saudi Arabia …
globalresearch.ca/dangers-pakistan-faust…

One in three children can’t identify with the characters in books
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-03
One in three children do not see themselves in the books they read, a study suggests. | More young people from ethnic minority backgrounds than from white backgrounds responded in this way, at 40% compared with 30.5%, according to a National Literacy Trust (NLT) report. | The research, based on a survey of children aged nine to 18 in the UK, found two in five (39.8%) would like more books with characters similar to them. | Nearly half (45.6%) of young people from Black ethnic backgrounds said it is difficult to find books with characters who look like them, it found. | The NLT report found the issue is more prono…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/12/03/one-in-t…

Monday 12/21: Homeless Persons Memorial
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
100 Laurel St, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/02/1883877…

Biden’s COVID “Supply Commander” Is Bad Medicine
Bradley Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
Included in his plans to fight the coronavirus, presumptive president-elect Joe Biden has pledged to appoint “a fully empowered supply commander in charge of filling in the gaps” in the production and supply of “essential” items needed to fight the …
globalresearch.ca/biden-covid-supply-com…

‘Running out of time’: US adds new demands as Russia makes concessions to save last remaining nuclear deterrent deal — envoy
rt.com | 2020-12-03
Moscow has agreed to key US demands in a bid to preserve the New START agreement in a race against time to extend the treaty before it expires, the Russian envoy to the US said. Washington then simply made new demands. | …
rt.com/russia/508625-russia-new-start-co…

250 million Indian workers and farmers strike, breaking world record
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-03
DELHI–On Thursday, Nov. 26, India witnessed the biggest organized strike in human history. Over 250 million workers and farmers, along with their allies among student, women’s, and civil society groups, participated in the nationwide strike. Now, a week later, farmers continue to occupy the capital city, and labor leaders are vowing this is only the …
peoplesworld.org/article/250-million-ind…

Right-Wing Orgs Are Enlisting Students in Their War Against Campus Progressives
Eleanor Bader | zcomm.org | 2020-12-03
Groups like Campus Reform work hard to create the illusion that conservatives are a beleaguered minority on campuses…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/right-wing-orgs-ar…

COVID-19 could see over 200 million more pushed into extreme poverty, new UN development report finds
news.un.org | 2020-12-03
An additional 207 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty by 2030, due to the severe longterm impact of the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total number to more than a billion, a new study from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has found.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1…

Locked-out Coles warehouse workers need your support
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
What started as a 24-hour strike for a fair redundancy package has become indefinite industrial action by workers at Coles’ Smeaton Grange depot, reports Jim McIlroy.
greenleft.org.au/content/locked-out-cole…

Tuesday 12/15: COVID’s Hidden Toll: Discussion with Filmmakers and Policy Leaders
Berkeley Food Institute | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Virtual Event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/02/1883876…

As COVID Spikes, the GOP Pushes Bans on Suing Negligent Businesses
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-03
Officials estimate that 1 million people in Florida are infected with COVID-19 in the wake of the 2020 Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Meanwhile, state legislators are meeting with business lobbyists at a conference, which includes a golf tournament at the Orlando Ritz-Carlton, to discuss legislation that could prohibit consumers from suing businesses that negligently exposed them to COVID-19. | One of the sponsors of the event is Publix. The Florida-based, employe…
truthout.org/articles/as-covid-spikes-th…

Looking Inward: Can We Win? Or Will We Defeat Ourselves?
Michael Albert | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
By win, I mean win it all, not win a little. Win a new world. Win new defining social institutions. Win an end to injustice, inequality, subordination, and domination. Win an end to class, gender, sex, race, and all hierarchies that position some people above and other people below. Win equity. Win solidarity. Win diversity.
counterpunch.org/2020/12/03/can-we-win/

What to Look for in the November Jobs Report
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
The resurgence of the pandemic is likely to be the biggest factor driving labor market performance in November, especially in a context where most of the CARES Act supports have ended. We are likely to see weak, if any, job growth for the month as the areas most affected by the spread, such as restaurants…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/03/what-to-look…

Report: Aerially Sprayed Pesticide Causes Significant Environmental Issues
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-03
A new study concluded that high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances compounds used in pesticides aerially sprayed on millions of acres of land across the United States have contaminated the water of thousands of communities. The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility recently released the results of these “forever chemicals,” which don’t break down in the environment and build up in the human body. | Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are “a group of man-made chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS, GenX, and many other chemicals,” which are “very persistent in…
popularresistance.org/report-aerially-sp…

COVID-19 could push more than a billion into extreme poverty, new UN development report finds
news.un.org | 2020-12-03
An additional 207 million people could be pushed into extreme poverty by 2030, due to the severe longterm impact of the coronavirus pandemic, bringing the total number to more than a billion, a new study from the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has found.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1…

Saturday 12/5: France: Mass Protests Against a Government Crackdown (Online meeting)
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Online meeting, see website for details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/01/1883874…

Welcome to the Intersectional Empire | Ash Sarkar Meets Naomi Klein
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
counterpunch.org/2020/12/03/welcome-to-t…

Thursday 12/3: Rock the Runoff! Virtual Concert Fundraiser to #GOTV in Georgia
Fair Fight | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/02/1883876…

The Damage Done
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-03
Being home to the largest Superfund site in the nation, Montanans know that the cost of trying to clean up an environment damaged by resource extraction is vastly higher than the cost of preventing the damage in the first place. We also know that after spending hundreds of millions of dollars and decades of effort,…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/03/the-damage-d…

The Nuclear Bomb Is Ready: In Italy Soon. The B61-12 has a Nuclear Warhead with 4 “Selectable Power Options”
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
A video was released on November 23 by Sandia National Laboratories that shows a US F-35A fighter flying at supersonic speed 3000 meters above sea level, launching a B61-12 nuclear bomb (non-nuclear warhead equipped). The bomb did not fall vertically …
globalresearch.ca/bomb-ready-italy-soon/…

Asian American Voters Could Help Flip Georgia
Timothy Pratt | thenation.com | 2020-12-03
Asian American Voters Could Help Flip Georgia…
thenation.com/article/politics/georgia-a…

Conjola’s New Year’s Eve never to be forgotten
Peter Boyle | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-03
Ash Brennan will never forget New Year’s Eve 2019 when he lost his house to a raging firestorm in Conjola Park. Peter Boyle reports that his film We are Conjola will have a special online release this new year’s eve.
greenleft.org.au/content/conjolas-new-ye…

Saturday 12/5: Rally on Wheels
christina Beach | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
Rally on Wheels: A Mobile Protest to Ban Evictions and Cancel Rent…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/01/1883875…

Tyson exploits consumers just like its animals and the workers who raise them
David Coman-Hidy | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-03
Vulnerable workers, abused animals and a rigged system are the foundation of an unethical, destructive business model.
nationofchange.org/2020/12/03/tyson-expl…

Under CARES Act, These Moms Should Be Home. They Remain in COVID-Filled Prisons
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-03
When COVID entered the federal medical prison in Carswell, Texas, it ballooned within weeks — of the 1,288 people tested, 504 were positive. In one housing unit of 300 women, only 26 women tested negative, including 56-year-old Sandra Shoulders. | Shoulders has severe diabetes, respiratory problems, and, since entering prison in 2015, chronic kidney disease, leaving her at only 30 percent kidney function. All of these make her more vulnera…
truthout.org/articles/under-cares-act-th…

Video: President Trump’s Unscheduled Speech on the 2020 Election
Pres. Donald Trump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-03
We bring to the attention of our readers, the Video as well as the complete transcript of Donald Trump’s Speech. | This is for the purpose of information only, discussion and debate. | The US corporate media has sofar provided a slanted …
globalresearch.ca/video-president-trump-…

A Killing in Iran: Who Gains From Yet Another Assassination?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-03
It is not often that one can agree with the pronouncements made by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director John Brennan, but his tweeted comment on the killing of Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh suggesting that the incident “…was a criminal act & highly reckless. It risks lethal retaliation & a new round of regional conflict. Iranian leaders would be wise to wait for the return of responsible American leadership on the global stage & to resist the urge to respond against perceived culprits” was both restrained…
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Monday 12/21: Homeless Persons Memorial
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2020-12-03
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