Former Pfizer Vice-President Dr. Michael Yeadon Questions Company’s Vaccine ‘Breakthrough’ Spin
John O’Sullivan | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-19
Yesterday Pfizer announced to much media fanfare that it has a breakthrough in the search for a reliable COVID-19 vaccine claiming studies showed it can prevent 90% of people contracting the virus. But respected former vice-president of Pfizer, Dr. Michael …
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Ramsey Prison Unit: The terror of Texas
| workers.org | 2020-12-19
By Nanon M. Williams Nanon Williams was arrested in 1992 at age 17 for capital murder and spent years on death row. In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled people under 18 could not be sentenced to death. His sentence, along with 70 others, was commuted to life and he . . . | Continue reading Ramsey Prison Unit: The terror of Texas at Workers.org…
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Cops and landlords go hand-in-hand in New York City
Tony Murphy | workers.org | 2020-12-19
WW PHOTO: Tony Murphy With the looming Jan. 31 expiration of the federal ban on evictions — and landlords already evicting tenants — protests, stoop defense and militant housing actions are spreading. In Brooklyn, a Dec. 11 downtown protest that began at housing court made the just demand to stop . . . | Continue reading Cops and landlords go hand-in-hand in New York City at Workers.org…
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Toronto Children’s Hospital Recommends Back to School without Masks or Social Distancing. Detailed Report
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-19
First published by Global Research on July 21, 2020 | Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (aka SickKids) has released a detailed report on “the harms of school closure on [children’s] physical and mental health.” Harms included: “Increased rates of depression, trauma, …
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Dystopian “Great Reset”: “Own Nothing and Be Happy”, Being Human in 2030
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-19
The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting at the end of January in Davos, Switzerland, brings together international business and political leaders, economists and other high-profile individuals to discuss global issues. Driven by the vision of its influential CEO Klaus …
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Coronavirus: Why Everyone Was Wrong. It is Not a “New Virus”. “The Fairy Tale of No Immunity”
Beda M Stadler | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-19
So: Sars-Cov-2 isn’t all that new, but merely a seasonal cold virus that mutated and disappears in summer, as all cold viri do — which is what we’re observing globally right now. Flu viri mutate significantly more, by the way, and nobody would ever claim that a new flu virus strain was completely novel.
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Swift Justice: ‘A fight from the inside out’
Devin Cole | workers.org | 2020-12-19
These slightly edited comments are from a Dec. 10 webinar organized by the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party. Swift Justice is currently incarcerated within the Alabama Department of Corrections system. For more on prison stoppage by the Free Alabama Movement, see Workers World, Dec. 4. Co-moderator Devin C.: . . . | Continue reading Swift Justice: ‘A fight from the inside out’ at Workers.org…
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The penalty for half a million deaths? A stern talking-to before Congress
Patricia Gorky | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-19
Corporate drug kingpins are given the privilege of choosing to appear before Congress in a video conference, while more than 2 million prisoners are forced into squalid conditions.
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How long will Peru last? History weighs on today’s events
| workers.org | 2020-12-19
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein The writer was the director of international relations in Venezuela’s presidential office and the country’s ambassador to Nicaragua. Currently, he is a guest professor at Shanghai University in China. This article was posted at sergioro07.blogspot.com on Nov. 13. Translation: Michael Otto. In his “Seven Essays on . . . | Continue reading How long will Peru last? History weighs on today’s events at Workers.org…
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Release Mumia now!
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-12-19
Philadelphia The Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police have done everything possible to silence Mumia Abu-Jamal and bury his fight for justice. In February their obstruction even included filing a “King’s Bench” petition — which sidesteps and preempts all other judicial or appeal procedures — to attempt a change in venue . . . | Continue reading Release Mumia now! at Workers.org…
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Workers Suffer As US Pandemic Relief Bill Goes Nowhere In Congress
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-19
Not only has the coronavirus pandemic taken a staggering toll in terms of loss of life in the United States but has also caused social and economic dislocation for the working class on a massive scale. The impact of this crisis is likely to last far beyond the distribution of a vaccine. | When the pandemic began to spiral out of control in March, Will Harris was one of the millions of retail workers who lost their income. Harris, who worked two part-time jobs, said that as the months of unemployment dragged on, “I couldn’t afford all my groceries when I needed them… I felt bad for spending on anything even if i…
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Urgent Call To End The Illegal Sanctions
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-19
U.S.-backed economic sanctions impact nearly one-third of humanity in some thirty countries, causing untold death and devastation by denying them access to global markets restricting the ability to generate wealth, stabilise currency, and provide basic human essentials for their people. For the past several decades, the United States of America has used its considerable institutional power (over finance and diplomacy) to strangle countries that do not fall in line with its global political and economic agenda. The most dramatic case is Cuba, which has faced a blockade for six decades, a blockade that the UN Gener…
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Sunday 1/24: 2021 Medicare for All Strategy Conference (Day 2)
Healthcare-Now & LCSPH | indybay.org | 2020-12-18
Online conference…
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Saturday 1/23: 2021 Medicare for All Strategy Conference (Day 1)
Healthcare-Now & LCSPH | indybay.org | 2020-12-18
Online conference…
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AOC: Nancy Pelosi Needs to Go, but There’s Nobody to Replace Her Yet
Aída Chávez | zcomm.org | 2020-12-18
“We are currently negotiating to get and work towards real material concessions for the left that can move things into place, to help build power for the next two years”
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The Case for Forcing a Floor Vote on Medicare for All
Briahna Joy Gray | currentaffairs.org | 2020-12-18
Briahna Joy Gray on why forcing Pelosi into a floor vote is one important part of a broader strategy for building progressive power.
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“Unhealthy Americans”. Best Healthcare For the Rich. Highest Child Poverty Among Developed Nations
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-18
The world’s richest country USA has one of the least healthy populations. | Among developed nations, Americans have shorter lifespans, more illnesses and injuries — despite around double the per capita amount spent on healthcare compared to other developed countries. | In …
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-12-18
French transport workers strike in Paris against privatisation; UK Heathrow airport workers stoppage over pay and conditions; healthcare workers in six South African hospitals demand pay rise…
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Jessica Martinez on Gutting Worker Protections, Mitch Stoltz on Breaking Up Big Tech
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting | fair.org | 2020-12-18
(photo: Valerie Macon/AFP via Getty Images) | This week on CounterSpin: More than 308,000 US women, men and children have died of Covid-19. That devastating toll has been borne disproportionately by Black and brown people in dangerous occupations and at the short end of an unequal healthcare system. Workers in fields, factories and hospitals, endangered by the pandemic, are now held up as pawns, as some lawmakers look to make workers’ health and safety a “tradeoff” for Covid relief. We talk about efforts to gut worker protections under the guise of economic support with Jessica Martinez, co-executive director of…
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Stop the UK’s winter of death! For emergency action to save lives!
wsws.org | 2020-12-18
It is the responsibility of the working class, organised on its own independent political programme, to put an end to the pandemic.
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More signs of weaker economy point to a ‘double-dip’ recession
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-18
San José, CA – Last week the U.S. economy showed more signs of weakness as retail sales in November fell for the second month in a row and new claims for regular state unemployment insurance and the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance rose for the second week in a row. These are more signs of a weaker economy that point to a ‘double-dip’ recession. | Retail sales, including online orders, fell 1.1% in November. The October figure was revised down from a 0.3% gain to a 0.1% loss. Sales over the Thanksgiving weekend, which included Cyber Monday, were down 14% as compared to a year earlier. The slide in sales i…
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American workers denounce police raid on COVID-19 whistleblower Rebekah Jones
wsws.org | 2020-12-18
The WSWS is publishing statements of support for Jones, whose Florida home was raided last week in response to her efforts to expose the spread of the pandemic in Florida and in K-12 schools across the US.
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Capitalism on a Ventilator
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-18
Asian countries have been far more successful than the US in responding to the COVID pandemic, but you’d never know that from the US media. Even most alternative media has been largely US- & Euro-centric. While our domestic issues here are important, we have been missing out on important lessons from other places. A partial…
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What is the impact of $37,000 of student debt on a worker’s life?
wsws.org | 2020-12-18
Under the current conditions, in which millions of people are unemployed due to the pandemic, student debt becomes even more debilitating for young people in the United States.
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Arizona’s GOP governor committed to inaction as COVID spirals out of control
Josh Bacopulos | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-18
PHOENIX–Arizona is on the brink of crisis as the coronavirus pandemic spirals further out of control with no additional mitigation strategies being put in place or planned. In the month of December so far, there have been over 100,000 new cases, accounting for a quarter of the state’s total number since the start of the pandemic. As …
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Faith and the fight against climate change, Part 3
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-12-18
What does the Quran say about the relationship between human beings and the natural world–and how might this message inform how faith communities participate in the wider conversation around environmental justice? Aman Azhar talks it out with Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, author of the book “Green Deen.”
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Homes Guarantee Campaign Demands Housing for All
Eleanor J. Bader | progressive.org | 2020-12-18
With the pandemic making shelter more crucial than ever, activists are fighting for everyone’s right to a place to live–regardless of income or background.
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Integral to societies, migrants are central to COVID-19 recovery: Guterres
news.un.org | 2020-12-18
The United Nations is commemorating International Migrants Day, on Friday, highlighting their contributions to societies globally, and underlining the need to ensure that they remain central to the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
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Two billion COVID vaccine doses secured, WHO says end of pandemic is in sight
news.un.org | 2020-12-18
The end of the pandemic is in sight but we must not let our guard down, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, as he welcomed the news that the global vaccine partnership COVAX has lined up almost two billion doses of existing and candidate vaccines for use worldwide.
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2020 Saw Resurgence of Strikes as a Key Tactic for Labor Around the World
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-18
Like every other social movement in the U.S. this year, the compounding crises of 2020 proved a catalyzing force for the labor movement, compelling essential and frontline workers to join picket lines to ensure basic protections and increased pay as they continue to face disproportionate risks and increasingly perilous working conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic. | But essential workers weren’t the only sector on strike this year: Prisoners and tenants across the country also withheld their la…
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Humanitarian Aid in the Time of the Virus
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-18
The holiday season around Christmas and New Year is a time for family get-togethers, the sharing of gifts and sending cards. It is a particular moment of friendship and solidarity. Traditionally, it has also been a propitious time for fundraising by charitable organizations. How will this appeal resonate at a time of pandemic and general…
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WHO sending Covid-hunting team to Wuhan, China in January to probe origins of pandemic
rt.com | 2020-12-18
Investigators from the World Health Organization (WHO) will head to China in January in a bid to unearth the origins of the coronavirus, officials said on Friday, more than a year after the first infections were reported there. | The United Nations health agency will send an international team of up to 15 scientists to Wuhan, the Chinese city where the coronavirus is first thought to have spread from a wet market. | The WHO’s health emergencies chief, Dr Michael Ryan, said the researchers would travel to China in the first week of January, visiting Wuhan, which he said was the “purpose of the mission,” as well…
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Swedish embrace of masks on public transport triggers flurry of ‘told you so’s from lockdown cheerleaders
rt.com | 2020-12-18
Sweden, long an outlier in terms of its laissez-faire approach to the Covid-19 pandemic, has called for residents to wear masks on public transit, among other restrictions — exciting fans of mask mandates and lockdowns worldwide. | Stockholm has recommended citizens wear masks on public transportation during busy hours starting on Friday, continuing to move away from the hands-off policies it embraced for most of the Covid-19 pandemic. The guidance was accompanied by several more strict regulations, including an occupancy limit on shops and gyms, a work-from-home order for non-essential employees, and a…
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The Pandemic Pipeline: Land & Water Defenders Continue Resistance to Enbridge Line 3 in Minnesota
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-18
Indigenous and environmental activists have been holding daily protests against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline, which would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to a terminal in Superior, Wisconsin, cutting through Indigenous territory and running under more than 200 streams. Winona LaDuke, director of the group Honor the Earth, says the project’s approval amid a historic slump in oil prices and accelerating climate crisis make it unsound on economic and environmental grounds. “This is the end of the fossil fuel era,” LaDuke says. “The industry is ending, and there’s certainly no reason to…
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The Controversial Covid RT-PCR Test: What Do We Know?
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-18
We know that the PCR tests being used are not “fit for purpose”, that they are for Research Use Only. They are not meant to be used as diagnostic tools, and the late inventor of the RT-PCR instruments was …
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The Covid Scare Campaign Relentlessly Continues
Prof. Ruel F. Pepa | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-18
This headline on a leading online news site stares me in the face: Coronavirus infection is on the rise in Spain. Here’s another “scare campaign” news in the time when people are catching the flu. Besides, there are those who …
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The High Price of the New High Ground
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-18
When President-elect Joe Biden takes office Jan 21 he will be faced with some very expensive problems, from bailing out the Covid-19 economy to getting a handle on climate change. Vaccinating over 300 million people will not be cheap, and wrestling the US hydrocarbon-based economy in the direction of renewable energies will come with a…
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Hey, Hey, FDA! How Many Americans Have You Killed Since May?
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-18
As I write this on December 17, the US Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee is meeting to review a COVID-19 vaccine developed by biotech company Moderna. Likely outcome: The panel will recommend approval of the vaccine to FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen M. Hahn. My question: What took so long,…
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When the Elderly and Frail Die after Receiving the COVID Vaccine
Jon Rappoport | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-18
CNN has the story. And it’s quite a story: “Why vaccinate our most frail? Odd vote out shows the dilemma”, December 4. [1] | “The vote to recommend long-term care residents be among the first to receive Covid-19 vaccinations was not …
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Americans are Broke and Hungry, as Politicians Have Sat on Their Hands
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-18
Covid-19 not only killed over 300,000 Americans, it also bankrupted millions. When it first attacked, congress and the white house rushed billions to rich corporations, while the Fed turned on the money spigot to keep the stock market afloat. But this largesse also reached ordinary people. It saved millions from destitution. That one effort, however,…
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Venezuela’s Maduro proposes joint ALBA COVID-19 vaccination
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-18
The Venezuelan president announced a strict quarantine for January.
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A crise do Corona à escala mundial: A destruir a sociedade civil, engendrar depressà£o económica, golpe de Estado global e a “Grande Reinicializaàßà£o”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-18
Prefácio | A campanha de medo tem servido como instrumento de desinformaàßà£o. | No decorrer dos últimos onze meses, desde o princípio de Janeiro, tenho analisado quase diariamente a evoluàßà£o da crise do Covid. Desde o próprio anúncio em Janeiro de 2020, …
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Selected Articles: Scary ‘R’ Us: The Exaggerated Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-18
The Controversial Covid RT-PCR Test: What Do We Know? | By Mark Taliano, December 18 2020 | We know that the PCR tests being used are not “fit for purpose”, that they are for Research Use Only. They are not meant | …
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UK professor whose romantic dalliances broke the govt Covid-19 rules he devised pushes for even tougher 3rd lockdown
rt.com | 2020-12-18
A British doctor who resigned as PM Boris Johnson’s adviser after flouting the Covid-19 lockdown he helped design has suggested imposing even tougher rules to tackle the virus in areas where restrictions appear not to have worked. | Professor Neil Ferguson quit the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) in May after it was revealed that he had met a married woman he was having an affair with at least twice, therefore breaking government orders to stay at home, the very ones he helped set. | However, on Friday the epidemiologist said that even more draconian rules could be needed in January, for areas…
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Engaging young creatives with COVID-19 research
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-18
Imperial researchers, together with a local theatre company, have supported young people to creatively engage in COVID-19 research.
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Conflict, floods and COVID-19 push South Sudanese into extreme hunger
news.un.org | 2020-12-18