Political Instability in the Central African Republic, The Role of China-Russia Cooperation
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-28
The Chinese-Russian strategic partnership could be leveraged to stabilize the CAR after this Sunday’s elections and might eventually become a model for them to apply towards their other African partners too. | The Central African Republic (CAR) has once again attracted | …
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Meet The Pseudo-Left Imperialists Fighting Against Universal Healthcare
Dan Cohen | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-28
Since comedian Jimmy Dore called on progressive members of Congress to pressure Nancy Pelosi to hold a floor vote on Medicare For All, a collection of media personalities have launched vicious attacks against him while deflecting from his overwhelmingly popular argument.
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China — A Marxist Analysis
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-12-28
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Bolivia: Cochabamba Farmers Request a Lawsuit Against Añez
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-28
The Six Federations of the Cochabamba Tropics (CTF) held an assembly to demand justice for the victims of the Sacaba and Senkata massacres, which were committed by the coup-born government led by Jeanine Añez in 2019. | RELATED: | Bolivia: President Arce Calls for Peace, Unity Among the People | Chaired by the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) leader Evo Morales, the CTF requested the activation of a lawsuit against Añez and other officials for crimes against humanity, including…
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Leo Panitch and the Socialist Project
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-28
The death of Leo Panitch has made the world a darker place. His writings have carried us through some of the most difficult periods in the history of the socialist left, as wave after wave of the neoliberal onslaught broke workers’ organizations, serving up one defeat after the next. Leo’s work sustained so many of …
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“The Priorities Are Wrong”: Rep. Ro Khanna Says He Won’t Vote to Override Trump Veto on Defense Bill
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-28
Congress is set to override President Trump’s veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, the $740 billion annual defense policy bill that funds the U.S. military. Trump vetoed the legislation last week over objections to liability protections for social media companies and because he did not want to rename military bases currently named for Confederate generals. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna says Trump’s reasons for vetoing the bill are “disingenuous,” but that he will not be voting to override the veto. “The bottom line is $740 billion is way too much defense spending,” says Khanna. “The priorities ar…
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“I Just Felt Like I Had No Control Over My Body”: Survivors of Alleged ICE Medical Abuse Speak Out
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-28
Dozens of immigrant women detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia have joined a class-action lawsuit against ICE over allegations they were subjected to nonconsensual and invasive gynecological procedures and surgeries that were later found to be unnecessary, and in some cases left them unable to have children. The lawsuit cites sworn testimony from at least 35 women about their treatment by Mahendra Amin, a physician in Ocilla, Georgia, and describes retaliation and threats of deportation for speaking out.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Migrant lives at ‘immediate risk’, warn UN agencies
news.un.org | 2020-12-28
United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners have called on authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to act urgently to help hundreds of migrants, stranded and without shelter, amid freezing winter temperatures.
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Monday 1/4: Drop The Charges Against Assange & Snowden: Free Them NOW!
BACFJA | indybay.org | 2020-12-28
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Navalny Poisoning: CIA, MI6, ‘Discredited’ State-Funded Bellingcat Play Key Role In Accusing Russia
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-28
Russia’s FSB intelligence agency has been accused of poisoning opposition activist Alexei Navalny. While the allegation may prove to be true, Western media coverage has overlooked the key role of the CIA, MI6, and the state-funded outlet Bellingcat in generating it. | Western media outlets have failed to disclose that Bellingcat is funded by NATO member states, including the US via the National Endowment for Democracy, and that Bellingcat has a dubious record. In a leaked assessment, the UK government’s Integrity Initiative wrote: “Bellingcat was somewhat discredited, both by spreading disinformation itself, and…
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Peruvians Call New Agrarian Law a Mockery Against Working Class
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-28
Peruvian workers Sunday called the new agricultural bill, which is to be approved by the Congress next week, a mockery against the working class. | RELATED: | Political Crisis Stricken Peru Tops One Million COVID-19 Cases | The new norm, endorsed by Peruvian Congress’ Economics Committee on Sunday, assigns farmers the official minimum wage and a 20 percent bonus. This salary represents a lower monthly income than they previously had. | “The text is an insult to the sector’s work…
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A More Honest Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Richard Gale | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-28
Since the first cases of the new coronavirus strain outside of China, every aspect of the pandemic’s ever-changing amoebic narrative has been carefully controlled by the World Health Organization and major government health agencies. | High officials within a syndicate of …
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Native Youth Provide For Community And Elders During Covid Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-28
2020 has been a year of many trials across Indian Country. Across our many Nations, rural, city and everywhere in between, we are all coping with the catastrophic effects of the COVID-19 virus. We have missed gatherings, ceremonies, and the everyday celebrations as part of quarantine and to keep those we love safe. Our loved ones lost during this time often died alone, while those of us left behind have had to mourn them without the touch and care of being physically together. Left to pick up the pieces as we try to move forward has left so much anxiety and depression in our young, elders, and even us adults.
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New Organizing Model Helps Build Worker Power
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-28
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and lockdowns started in March, a new class of “essential workers” continued to go to work across the United States under new dangerous conditions. As stories came out about workers lacking personal protective equipment, or PPE, and working in crowded workplaces, union workers began to take action. They stopped work, organized sick-outs, won hazard pay, protested employer COVID-19 policies that left them unsafe and negotiated for improvements. | Unions have made workplaces safer, as research has shown that unionized essential workers have had better COVID-19 workplace practices duri…
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Teetering on the Edge: A Postcard From London
D.D. Guttenplan | thenation.com | 2020-12-28
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The US Covid Death Toll Increases Exponentially
Andrea Arroyo | thenation.com | 2020-12-28
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Covid-19: Infected Israelis to vote at drive-through polling stations
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-28
Covid-19: Infected Israelis to vote at drive-through polling stations | Coronavirus-hit voters can cast ballots through their car windows in March’s election | MEE and agencies | Mon, 12/28/2020 – 15: 41 | Drive-through polling stations will be installed for Israel’s national election in March (Screengrab) | With politicians desperate for every vote in March’s election, Israelis suffering from the coronaviru…
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Doomsday ex Machina: Daniel Ellsberg and the Nuclear Gang
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-28
You hide in your mansion While the young people’s blood Flows out of their bodies And is buried in the mud You’ve thrown the worst fear That can ever be hurled Fear to bring children Into the world — Bob Dylan, “Masters of War” (1963) October 15, 1969. That’s the day the world might have…
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Tuesday 12/29: COVID-19 Vaccine & the Black Community: Safety, Efficacy & Dispelling Fear
FB Post Feed: NAACP Silicon Valley | indybay.org | 2020-12-28
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As Covid conspiracies spread, Lebanon’s president ‘doesn’t know’ if he’ll take vaccine
Kareem Chehayeb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-28
As Covid conspiracies spread, Lebanon’s president ‘doesn’t know’ if he’ll take vaccine | Michel Aoun’s spokesperson tells MEE president has not decided whether to take jab, as healthcare officials urge a public awareness campaign | Kareem Chehayeb | Mon, 12/28/2020 – 16: 44 | A supporter of Lebanese President Michel Aoun wears a face mask with a drawing of the president and the writing in Arabic that reads “Yo…
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Lebanon’s president compelled to say he’ll take Covid vaccine as conspiracies spread
Kareem Chehayeb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-28
Lebanon’s president compelled to say he’ll take Covid vaccine as conspiracies spread | Michel Aoun’s spokesperson had told MEE 85-year-old was yet to make a decision on getting the jab, as healthcare officials urge a public awareness campaign | Kareem Chehayeb | Mon, 12/28/2020 – 16: 44 | A supporter of Lebanese President Michel Aoun wears a face mask with a drawing of the president and the writing in Arabic t…
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The virus that shut down the world: Education in crisis
news.un.org | 2020-12-28
Children all over the world have had their education severely disrupted this year, as schools struggle to cope with repeated closures and re-openings, and the transition, if it’s even an option, to online schooling. Disadvantaged children, however, have been worst-hit by the emergency measures. In part three of our look back at the effect that COVID-19 has had on the world, we focus on the education crisis provoked by the pandemic.
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Be prepared for another, more severe pandemic: WHO officials
news.un.org | 2020-12-28
In the final World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 press conference of the year, on Monday, senior officials warned that the virus is “not necessarily the big one”, and that there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world.
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Vaccination no guarantee of virus eradication: WHO officials
news.un.org | 2020-12-28
In the final World Health Organization (WHO) COVID-19 press conference of the year, on Monday, senior officials warned that the virus is “not necessarily the big one”, and that there is a real chance of another, more serious pandemic spreading across the world.
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Argentina prepares to roll out Sputnik Covid-19 vaccine
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-28
Buenos Aires, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- Argentina mobilized Monday to distribute 300,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to hospitals in each of the 34 provinces amid concerns about a second wave of infections in the South American country that has already lost nearly 43,000 lives to Covid-19. The operation was on track “to initiate …
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Thousands of Americans “Negatively-Affected” Following COVID-19 Vaccination. Anaphylaxis, Severe Allergic Reaction
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-28
Thousands of people have been unable to work or perform daily activities, or required care from a healthcare professional, after getting the new COVID-19 vaccine, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). | As of …
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Pfizer vaccine shipments to 8 EU countries delayed
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-28
Madrid, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- Pharma major Pfizer has announced a one-day delay in shipments of the Covid-19 vaccine to eight European countries due to some loading and shipping problems, the Spanish health ministry said on Monday. The ministry, in a statement, said Pfizer Spain had informed it “that the delivery of the promised vaccine shipment …
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Big Pharma and Big Profits: The Multibillion Dollar Vaccine Market
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-28
First published on January 27, 2016. | Of relevance to an understanding of the Covid Vaccine Initiative | The business of vaccines is soon to become a major source of profits for the world’s largest pharmaceutical corporations. A press release (Business Wire, …
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‘Now It’s the Senate’s Turn’: All Eyes on McConnell After House Approves $2,000 Coronavirus Relief Checks
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-12-28
Progressives in both chambers of Congress are pressuring the GOP majority leader to urgently hold a vote on the Covid-19 legislation. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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‘Surge on a Surge’: Fauci Leads Health Officials Warning of Post-Holiday Coronavirus Spike
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-12-28
“Our darkest days in the battle against Covid-19 are ahead of us, not behind us,” the nation’s top infectious disease expert predicted. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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After Deadly Delay, Trump Folds and Signs Coronavirus Relief Bill
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-12-28
But only after the president “let 1,309 more people die from Covid-19 and 179,104 more people contract it,” lamented Rep. Mark Pocan. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Sri Lanka welcomes first tourists in nine months since Covid-19 outbreak
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-28
Colombo, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- Sri Lanka on Monday welcomed its first batch of nearly 200 tourists, more than nine months after the country closed its borders for foreigners due to the coronavirus outbreak. A flight operated by Ukrainian airline SkyUp, carrying the visitors, landed at the Mattala International Airport in the afternoon, thus resuming tourism …
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Sydney’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display to go ahead without large crowds
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-28
Sydney, Australia, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- Sydney will usher in the new year with its famous fireworks display in the heart of the city without the usual crowds, local authorities said on Monday, amid a recent Covid-19 outbreak in a district in the north of the city. Only people with special permits to go to shops …
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Covid-19 cases at Man. City force postponement of Everton away game
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-28
Sports Desk, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- Everton’s Monday evening home fixture against Manchester City has been postponed after tests revealed a growing number of Covid-19 cases at the Manchester club. Manchester City confirmed the news in a statement, which comes just three days after it announced that defender Kyle Walker, forward Gabriel Jesus and two members …
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‘Demon Slayer’ shatters box office records in Japan
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-28
Tokyo, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- “Demon Slayer,” the film adaptation of the manga series “Kimetsu no Yaiba,” has become the highest-grossing movie in Japan in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The animated film has grossed 32.47 billion yen ($313 million) since its release two and a half months ago, according to data published by the …
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Gone but not forgotten, Wuhan a year after coronavirus first emerged
Online News Editor | laprensalatina.com | 2020-12-28
By Jesús Centeno Wuhan, China, Dec 28 (efe-epa).- The preventative measures enforced to curb the spread of Covid-19 are consigned to the memories of Wuhan residents a year after the first confirmed cases of coronavirus began to emerge in the Chinese city, but many questions remain as to how it grew into a pandemic that …
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Covid-19 Exposed the Urgency for a Right to Housing
Marisa Endicott | commondreams.org | 2020-12-28
Without giving renters the option to buy their homes, this crisis could be even worse than the Great Recession. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d’État and the “Great Reset”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-28
We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media as to the causes and devastating consequences of the Covid-19 “pandemic”.
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UN Rapporteur To Analyze Impacts of US Sanctions on Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-28
Following an invitation of President Nicolas Maduro’s administration, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, Alena Douhan, will undertake an official visit to country in February 2021. | RELATED: | US Blockade Prevents Venezuela From Funding COVAX | The Special Rapporteur and her team will collect information and hold a series of meetings with Government authorities, social organizations, private sector,…
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Conviction of Loujain al-Hathloul in Saudi Arabia Condemned as ‘Blatant Attack on the Most Basic Human Rights’
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-12-28
“We stand with the al-Hathloul family and their friends who have not given up, and continue to call on the Saudi government to free Loujain,” said Ariel Gold of CodePink. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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2020 Ends as It Began: With the Looming Threat of a US War With Iran
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-28
2020 began and ended with high-profile assassinations of Iranians, a buildup of the US military on Iran’s borders, and fears of another major war in the Middle East.
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‘Freedom is blossoming’: After dismembering a journalist, Saudi Arabia goes on a PR spree
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-12-28
“Freedom is blossoming.” That is how, without a shred of irony, CNN International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson describes Saudi Arabia in his recent article.
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Killer Cops: Police Killed Over 1,000 Americans in 2020
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-28
American police violence is off the charts compared to other developed countries, with homicides occurring at a per capita rate almost 70 times that of the UK, and nearly 170 times more than Japan.
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In the Fight Against Poor Health, the USA Is Punching Well Below Its Weight
Toby Freeman, Fran Baum | commondreams.org | 2020-12-28
By focusing more on battling inequality, new research shows, the United States could significantly improve American life expectancy. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Trump’s Pardons for the Festive Season
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-28
A flurry of them has been expected, and just prior to Christmas, US President Donald Trump waved his wand of pardon with vigour. On December 22, the president issued fifteen pardons and five commutations. The choices so far have been, to put it mildly, problematic.
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How Amazon Destroys The Intellectual Justifications For Capitalism
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-28
Amazon doesn’t fit comfortably within the free-market fable of how capitalism is supposed to operate. We are, in theory, supposed to get freedom, competition, the reward of innovation, the elimination of all-powerful centralized bureaucracy. But consider this recent Wall Street Journal report on how Amazon destroys its competitors. Essentially, because Amazon is gigantic and has vast sums of money at its disposal, it does not need to “innovate” the same way smaller companies do. It can simply lift the innovations of others, and because it can undercut their prices, it can put them out of business. The Journal cit…
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Neera Tanden and Antony Blinken Personify ‘Moderate’ Rot
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-12-28
Neoliberal corporatists move in…
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Serbia Becomes Hub for Russia’s Gas Distribution in the Balkans