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Iran’s Rouhani to Biden: We Will Fulfill Our Nuclear Obligations on Day One if You Return to 2015 Deal
Prof. Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani was asked Tuesday in an interview with a state-owned news outlet under what conditions Iran would return to the 2015 nuclear deal with the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council (P5), including the U.S., …
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Pardon Julian Assange, under Article II, Section 2 of US Constitution
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
The US Constitution gave presidents “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment (Article II, Section 2).” | Throughout US history, sitting presidents used this power thousands of times. | Jack Kennedy pardoned, …
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Justice for Casey Goodson in Columbus, Ohio
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-12-16
Nighttime rally for Casey Goodson, Dec. 11, Columbus. Franklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Jason Meade killed Casey “Tank” Goodson Jr. in his family’s Columbus, Ohio, home on Dec. 4. According to family eyewitnesses, Goodson “literally walked across the yard, walked into the back fence to get to the side door, . . . | Continue reading Justice for Casey Goodson in Columbus, Ohio at Workers.org
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Las brigadas médicas de Cuba luchan contra la pandemia
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-12-16
La Cuba socialista encarna el espíritu de solidaridad internacional mediante su constante ayuda médica a países de todo el mundo, especialmente a los afectados por el imperialismo. Esta no es solo una frase vacía. El verdadero significado de la solidaridad lo demuestran todos los días equipos de trabajadores de la . . . | Continue reading Las brigadas médicas de Cuba luchan contra la pandemia at Workers.org
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Resisting Amazon is not futile
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-16
Amazon represents the pinnacle challenge to union organizers and socialists throughout the country. Are we in a 1919 moment, still a generation of failures away from breakthrough success? Or closer to 1935, approaching the tipping point of winning real worker power?>…
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The Solutions Are Obvious, But It Will Take A Revolution To Win Them
Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-16
The United States has reached a severe crisis point and the next few months will determine how we address it. The COVID-19 pandemic is raging across the country and some areas are struggling to provide enough hospital beds and staff to care for people. The recession is deepening as unemployment benefits and the moratorium on …
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2021’s Most Pressing Humanitarian Crises Are All Victims of US War, Regime Change
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-16
A new report highlights 2021’s most pressing humanitarian crises and perhaps no surprise to many, victims of US wars and regime change efforts top the list.
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2021’s Most Pressing Humanitarian Crises Are All Victims of US War, Regime Change
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-16
A new report highlights 2021’s most pressing humanitarian crises and perhaps no surprise to many, victims of US wars and regime change efforts top the list.
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Fulfillment centers so hazardous, Washington state boosts Amazon’s workers’ comp rates 15%
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-16
Workers at Amazon fulfillment centers rush to keep up with robotic systems to meet shipment deadlines of one or two days.
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‘Red House on Mississippi Ave.’Portland activists block eviction
Johnnie Lewis | workers.org | 2020-12-16
Dec. 14 — The Kinney family — owners of the now internationally famous “Red House on Mississippi” — is the last Black-Indigenous family in their neighborhood. They have been fighting foreclosure, and now eviction, since 2018. The house, purchased in 1955, is in the Albina district — a collection of . . . | Continue reading ‘Red House on Mississippi Ave.’ | Portland activists block eviction at Workers.org
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‘Red House on Mississippi Ave.’/Portland activists block eviction
Johnnie Lewis | workers.org | 2020-12-16
Dec. 14 — The Kinney family — owners of the now internationally famous “Red House on Mississippi” — is the last Black-Indigenous family in their neighborhood. They have been fighting foreclosure, and now eviction, since 2018. The house, purchased in 1955, is in the Albina district — a collection of . . . | Continue reading ‘Red House on Mississippi Ave.’/Portland activists block eviction at Workers.org
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VIDEO: SA holding migrants in inhuman conditions
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-16
TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) — Human Rights Watch has released footage of a detention center for foreigners in Riyadh, proving that Saudi officials have detained and tortured hundreds of foreign workers. As reported, three have lost lives by the present.
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Taliban delegation arrives in Pakistan for afghan peace talks
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-16
TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) — Led by the deputy political chief and head of the political office of the Taliban Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a Taliban delegation arrived in Pakistan to negotiate Afgan Peace Talks.
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Rafael Correa on Venezuela, Assange, and ‘preventing the total destruction of our homeland’
Max Blumenthal | mronline.org | 2020-12-16
Max Blumenthal interviews former Ecuador President Rafael Correa, who was in Venezuela to observe its legislative elections and show support to a government under sustained economic and political attack by the U.S.
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Covid-19: Ten Palestinians die in 24 hours as Gaza reaches ‘dangerous stage’ in pandemic
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-16
Covid-19: Ten Palestinians die in 24 hours as Gaza reaches ‘dangerous stage’ in pandemic | Rising cases of coronavirus infections have strained the medical system in the besieged Gaza Strip | MEE staff | Wed, 12/16/2020 – 14: 45 | A Palestinian man walks past a mural showing mask-clad doctors in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, 16 November (AFP) | Ten Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip have died o…
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After George Floyd, Carbon Capture Tech Tiptoes into Racial Justice
Rachel M. Cohen | zcomm.org | 2020-12-16
How national police protests and the Green New Deal pressured carbon capture leaders on equity…
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Selected Articles: Pardon Julian Assange, under Article II, Section 2 of US Constitution
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
Pardon Julian Assange, under Article II, Section 2 of US Constitution | By Stephen Lendman, December 16 2020 | The US Constitution gave presidents “power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment | …
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Marx Didn’t Invent Socialism, Nor Did He Discover It
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-16
There’s no debate that Marx didn’t invent socialism. As co-editor of a French-German radical newspaper by 1843, a young Marx would have read the term “socialism” used by French author Pierre Leroux (1797–1871)–generally credited with coining the term–or the German Lorenz von Stein (1815–1890). England’s Robert Owen (1771–1858) had bandied the word about as early as 1835. French philosopher Victor d’Hupay (1746–1818) called himself a communist author around 1785, thirty-three years before Marx’s birth, and his colleague Nicolas-Edme Rétif (1734–1806) even used the term to…
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Indigenous-led Resistance To Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline Threatens Big Oil
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-16
When Dawn Goodwin went down to the bank of the upper Mississippi River on Dec. 4, she just wanted to spend some time honoring the traditions of her people. Goodwin was part of a small group of Mississippi Band Anishinaabe women visiting a traditional teaching lodge, or waaginoogan, near where Enbridge’s proposed Line 3 oil pipeline would cross under the river. Upon reaching the waaginoogan, she was distressed to see the stumps of clear-cut trees and other damage where Enbridge had cut a path for the pipeline. Gazing at the destruction, Goodwin felt moved to act. | “I thought, I needed to pray here,” Goodwin said.
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Months After AOC Demand and Federal Suit, USPS Releases Redacted DeJoy Calendar
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-16
Nearly four months after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first demanded that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy turn over his daily calendar, the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday released documents rendered almost completely useless by heavy redact…
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The Post Covid World, The WEF’s Diabolical Project: “Resetting the Future of Work Agenda” — After “The Great Reset”. A Horrifying Future
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
They call “Resetting the Future” a White Paper, meaning it’s not quite a final version. It is a draft of sorts, a trial balloon, to measure people’s reactions. It reads like an executioner’s tale.
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China’s Economy of Peace. The End of Dollar Hegemony?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
Transcript of Peter Koenig’s presentation to webinar Conference (14 December 2020), on “China’s New Development Paradigm and High-Quality Belt and Road Cooperation”, China Center for Contemporary World Studies, and the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, …
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Jimmy Trending because AOC against Fighting for Medicare for All
The Jimmy Dore Show | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-16
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Assange Prosecution: A Haunting Reminder Of The Travesty Of Justice
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-16
The prosecution against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has invoked my case, making it a haunting reminder of the travesty of justice that befell me. | I worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2015, the United States government wrongfully tried, convicted, and sent me to prison for allegedly violating the U.S. Espionage Act. I am one of the few who has ever gone to trial to defend their selves against this ancient and misused law. | If I had succeeded in defending myself, it is possible Assange may not be facing the same impossible hell that ruined my life. As such, I feel a burden to challenge certain s…
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Trump Is Prolonging the Civil War in Syria
Edward Hunt | progressive.org | 2020-12-16
Under the Obama and Trump administrations, the unending war has caused one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. But will Biden be any different?
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The Black Alliance For Peace Calls For People(s)-Centered Human Rights
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-16
The global economic crisis of neoliberal capitalism–exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic–has exposed the ethical, moral and political contradictions of the liberal interpretation of human rights that contends these rights can be viewed separately from the political economy, global structures and power relationships. Operating from the false premise that human rights are objective and politically neutral, neoliberals began weaponizing the framework in the 1990s as an instrument that rationalized naked imperialist interventions. Humanitarian interventionism and the “responsibility to protect” became the…
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US Wants to Increase Special Agents in Latin America Under Anti-drug Speech
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
Washington’s “war on drugs” is advancing in Latin America. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently asked the US Congress for a new budget, valued at more than 3 billion dollars, to improve its operations abroad and help to prevent narcotics …
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US Unemployed Rising, Evictions, Mortgages Crisis Brewing, Small Business Collapsing: Economic Consequences of a 2nd ‘Mitigation’ Bill
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
As of mid-December 2020 the US economy has begun showing increasing signs of an exceptionally weak 4th quarter, October-December, growth. After having collapsed -10.5% in the March-June 2020 period, followed by a partial ‘rebound’ (not sustained recovery) in the 3rd …
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Abuse on the Mainland: Australia’s Medevac Hotel Detentions
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-16
Governments that issue press releases about the abuse of human rights tend to avoid close gazes at the mirror. Doing so would be telling. In the case of Australia, its record on dealing with refugees is both abysmal and cruel. It tends to be easier to point the finger at national security laws in Hong …
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Fish Wars and Brexit
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-16
Warring over fish in the twenty-first century might seem an unlikely proposition. But the deployment of four Royal Navy ships to deter European fishing vessels from encroaching on British waters in the event of a no-deal Brexit has tongues wagging. The prospects of a trade pact between the EU and UK by the end of…
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Behind Morocco’s recognition of Israel
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-12-16
A February demonstration was held in Rabat, Morocco’s capital, in support of Palestine. It was a deal, pure — but not so simple. The U.S. recognized the Western Sahara — the last remaining colony in Africa according to the United Nations — as part of Morocco, while Morocco upgraded its . . . | Continue reading Behind Morocco’s recognition of Israel at Workers.org
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When the People Rose: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-16
Very few popular movements around the world, and throughout modern history, can be compared to the First Intifada, which remains as relevant today as it was when it began thirty-three years ago.
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When the People Rose: How the Intifada Changed the Political Discourse around Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-16
Very few popular movements around the world, and throughout modern history, can be compared to the First Intifada, which remains as relevant today as it was when it began thirty-three years ago.
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Video: Biden’s Pyrrhic Election Victory
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
As predicted, the election turned out to be considerably closer than most pundits and polls predicted. In spite of polling that suggested Biden leading Trump by a margin of 5%-15%, in actuality the popular vote margin of victory turned out …
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New Report Details the Shocking Growth of the Prison Exploitation Across the US
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-16
“This report is really hoping to unveil the prison industry, the government and corporate actors who are exploiting the fact that they have been in the shadows,” — Bianca Tylek, Founder of Worth Rises…
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U.S. Embassy caught scrubbing Tweets urging Venezuelans not to vote
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-12-16
It is not clear why the embassy decided to go back and delete its posting history, especially as undermining Venezuela’s elections continues to be the official line of the U.S. government.
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Goldman Sachs Analysts: Biggest Risks to COVID Vaccination Targets in US, Europe Are Confidence-Related
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
Goldman Sachs analysts have updated and expanded their popular research detailing the outlook for vaccine rollout in both the US and internationally. As the FDA prepares to grant the virtually inevitable approval of the Moderna mRNA COVID vaccine later this …
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With more than 300,000 infected in a week, Brazil goes back to peak levels of COVID-19
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-16
The pandemic has been advancing at increased rates for more than a month; number of deaths has accelerated for four weeks…
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Kempis Ghani Songster: ‘The struggle of working people in the prison system’
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Kempis Ghani Songster co-produces the podcast “Move It Forward” which can be listened to at: transom.org/2020/move-it-forward/ These slightly edited comments are from a Dec. 10 webinar organized by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. Co-moderator Monica Moorehead: We’re very excited to welcome to the panel Kempis Ghani Songster. . . . | Continue reading Kempis Ghani Songster: ‘The struggle of working people in the prison system’ at Workers.org
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Privileged People Complaining About Privileged People
David Rovics | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-16
How NPR Divides and Conquers What is the result when a media outlet does a new story every day about the history of racism in the US, without ever mentioning the history of the multiracial radical labor movement whose white and BIPOC organizers were lynched for fighting for equality and freedom? I listen to NPR …
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Blueprint: How to Beat the Pro-Charter Billionaires
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-12-16
” In nearly 20 years of privatization push into Oakland, this is the first time since 2003 that Oakland schools will be returned to local control by a school board that values and embraces authentic public education. Remaining hopeful for the future, and look forward to strengthening and improving Oakland’s schools.” Diane Ravitch By Ken Rice The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD)… | Source…
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Hunger in America
Rajan Menon | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-16
COVID-19 and the nightmare of food insecurity.
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Will Israel Deploy Missile Defense Systems to Persian Gulf Amid Growing Tension with Iran?
Almasdar News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-16
On Tuesday, a senior Israeli official expressed his country’s readiness to cooperate in the future in the field of missile defense with Gulf states that share their concerns about Iran. | Moshe Patil, head of the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Missile Defense …
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Faith and the fight against climate change, Part 2
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-12-16
What personal and political action can Buddhist values inspire to fix the climate crisis and runaway consumerism? Does Buddhism hold any promise for our hyper-modern and gravely unequal world?
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ICC’s report on the Philippines alleges crimes against humanity committed by Duterte regime
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-16
The prosecutor’s office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has found “reasonable basis to believe” that crimes against humanity have been committed by Rodrigo Duterte’s government in the Philippines. The findings are part of the annual report issued by the office of ICC’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensoda, on December 14, Monday, and announced on Tuesday. | The report found that the government of Rodrigo Duterte has committed crimes like murder, torture, and inflicted serious physical injury and mental harm on victims between July 2016 and March 2019. The report focused on allegations levelled by human right…
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Lynchings by law
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-16
The U.S. death penalty has always been a symbol of white supremacy and a violation of human rights law. Having already executed 11 people this year, the Trump administration plans to execute five people (four of them Black) during a lame-duck session.