The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2021-01-21
No speculation is needed. Those who wield power are demanding it. The only question is how much opposition they will encounter…
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The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-01-21
By Glenn Greenwald / Reposted with author permission from Substack The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting "terrorism" that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began nearly twenty years ago. This trend shows no sign of receding as we move farther from the January 6 Capitol riot. | Source…
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About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocent in Yemen
Kathy Kelly | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
In 1565, Pieter Bruegel the Elder created The Massacre of the Innocents, a provocative masterpiece of religious art. The painting reworks a biblical narrative about King Herod's order to slaughter all newborn boys in Bethlehem for fear that a messiah …
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Cornel West and Maria Hinojosa Discuss Promise and Dangers of the Biden Admin
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-01-21
We host a wide-ranging discussion of the historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — the first-ever woman, South Asian and Black vice president — how we got here, and what comes next, with award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa and author and Harvard professor Cornel West. Hinojosa says she had "mixed emotions" watching the inauguration, her sense of hope tempered by memories of the Obama administration. "We all had these extraordinary expectations, and then th…
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"The Work Continues": Cornel West & Maria Hinojosa on the Promise & Dangers of the Biden Admin
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-21
We host a wide-ranging discussion of the historic inauguration of President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — the first-ever woman, South Asian and Black vice president — how we got here, and what comes next, with award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa and author and Harvard professor Cornel West. Hinojosa says she had "mixed emotions" watching the inauguration, her sense of hope tempered by memories of the Obama administration. "We all had these extraordinary expectations, and then things didn't turn out that way," she says. "The work continues." West says that while getting Trump out of office was vita…
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"The Hill We Climb": Watch Breathtaking Poem by Amanda Gorman, Youngest Inaugural Poet in U.S. History
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-21
One of the most remarkable moments from Wednesday's inauguration ceremony came from poet Amanda Gorman, the youngest poet in U.S. history to speak at a presidential inauguration. The 22 year-old read "The Hill We Climb," a poem she finished right after the riot at the Capitol earlier this month. We feature her full recitation and get reaction from scholar Cornel West and award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa.
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The Hill we Climb: Amanda Gorman's Inauguration Poem
contributors | juancole.com | 2021-01-21
Amanda Gorman | — ( Buy her forthcoming poetry collection via Penguin Random House.) The Hill We Climb When day comes we ask ourselves, where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, a sea we must wade We've braved the belly of the beast We've learned that quiet isn't always …
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'Perfect crystal' could lead to more diabetes treatment options
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-01-21
Scientists have used crystals to reveal why the diabetes treatment glulisine is faster acting than insulin.
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"Q Anon" May Have Been an FBI Psyop
Swiss Policy Research | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
A recent Reuters investigation may indicate that "Q Anon" was in fact an FBI cyber psyop. | The "Q Anon" phenomenon has generally been regarded as a hoax or prank, originated by online message board users in late October 2017, …
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Enough with the Damn Secrets! Open Up the Government Joe!
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-21
The incoming Biden administration is considering breaking with a long-standing tradition of new presidents sharing national secrets with prior presidents. Instead, in the case of his future predecessor Trump, Biden says he wants to hear the advice of key national security figures in the new government regarding whether or not to brief the impeached ex-chief…
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Sunk before Service: Australia's Disastrous Submarine Project
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-01-22
One only gets into the submarine procurement business to spite government treasurers and economic managers. Efficiency and effectuality are bonus additions, but hardly necessary. Witness the evolving disaster that is Australia's SEA 1000 Future Submarine program, won by France's DCNS, now Naval Group, in 2016. From the start, this seemed an audaciously peculiar choice. Australia …
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Israeli Colonists Attack, Displace, Palestinian Family Near Hebron
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Several fanatic Illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday at night, a Palestinian family and forced them out of a cave they were using as a residence in Khirbat Tawamin, east of Susiya village in Masafer Yatta, south of the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Fuad al-'Amour, the coordinator of the Protection and Steadfastness Committees, …
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Developing working-class resistance to fascism
Dianne Mathiowetz | workers.org | 2021-01-22
These excerpts were taken from the Jan. 14 webinar, "Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism," sponsored by Workers World Party. To view the entire panel discussion, go to tinyurl.com/y25tapr2. Like most people, I had been very much aware that this fascist rally was going to take place in Washington[, D.C.,] . . . | Continue reading Developing working-class resistance to fascism at Workers.org…
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Palestinian PM Condemns "Organized Settler Terrorism" in West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh denounced, on Thursday at night, the seriously escalating attacks, carried out by the illegal Israeli colonialist settlers against the Palestinians in the West Bank, and described them as organized terrorism. Shtayyeh said the colonists attacked and injured many Palestinians, including women and children, after hurling stones and Molotov cocktails at …
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Cancel ALL Student Debt — 2021 YDSA Winter Conference Preview
mgrochowski | dsausa.org | 2021-01-22
This is a preview event for the 2021 YDSA Online Winter Conference. Learn more about the Winter Conference here: y.dsausa.org/2021wintercon/ Biden has the power to cancel ALL student debt with a stroke of his pen, but he won't do it without a movement to force his hand. Join us on Friday, February 5 at 8PM…
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Defunding the Myths and Cults of Cold War Canada
Richard Sanders | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-01-22
For decades the Canadian government has been supporting East European émigré associations whose much-revered founders, leaders and war heroes include veterans of Waffen SS divisions and other fascist military formations, perpetrators of the Holocaust and other ethnic-cleansing campaigns, officials from and apologists for Nazi puppet regimes, postwar CIA propaganda assets, proponents of Cold War terrorist …
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Israeli Colonists Injure Child Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Several fanatic illegal Israeli colonists attacked, on Thursday evening, many Palestinian cars near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, causing damage and injuring a child in the face. Media sources said the colonists injured Jad Ala' Sawafta, 3, in the face after hurling stones at the family's car while his father was driving near …
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2021 YDSA Online Winter Conference
mgrochowski | dsausa.org | 2021-01-22
Register at the RSVP link for $20 early bird registration by Friday 1/22 or $30 regular registration by Friday 2/12. Join YDSA for our first ever ONLINE Winter Conference from Friday, February 26 — Sunday, February 28. Trump has been defeated, but our fight for a better world is far from over. Learn…
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2021 is the Year of the Political Prisoner
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2021-01-22
The U.S. "justice" system, like every institution of a capitalist state, is a weapon designed and wielded by the billionaires to beat workers into submission. Special bodies of armed troops, deputized by the ruling class, round up workers by the millions and contrive laws to justify locking them in dangerously . . . | Continue reading 2021 is the Year of the Political Prisoner at Workers.org…
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Ongoing Escalation: Israeli Colonists Hurled Molotov Cocktails At Homes Near Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Israeli colonists hurled Molotov cocktails, on Thursday evening, at two Palestinian homes in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Local sources in the village said the colonists invaded the southern area of Burin, and hurled Molotov cocktails at two homes. They added that the residents rushed to help the family …
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Israeli Colonists Close Many Roads In Northern West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-22
Groups of fanatic illegal Israeli colonialist settlers closed, on Thursday evening, many roads and junctions, in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, and attacked homes, before the soldiers abducted a young Palestinian man. Eyewitnesses said the colonists gathered at Huwwara junction, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and closed it. …
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Assange cannot be extradited, but free speech arguments dismissed — an extended look
Sapan Maini-Thompson | ukhumanrightsblog.com | 2021-01-21
In The Government of the United States v Julian Assange (2021), the District Judge sitting at Westminster Magistrates' Court discharged the American extradition request against the founder of WikiLeaks because there is a substantial risk that he would commit suicide. Given Julian Assange's political notoriety as an avowed whistle-blower, however, the judgment is significant for …
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Chomsky and Prashad: Why neoliberal leaders who failed to protect their countries from COVID-19 must be investigated
Noam Chomsky | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-21
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad deem the inaction of neoliberal and far-right governments to contain the pandemic and thus save tens of thousands of lives, as criminal…
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Shut Down Dissent. Going After the New "US Domestic Terrorists"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Post-9/11, war on dissent in the US raged. | In 2010, the ACLU said "freedom is under fire in the US." | "There is a pall over our fire. (There are) attempts to squelch dissent." | "A chilling message has gone out across …
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China tech ban mirrors 1980s attempts to destroy Japanese competition
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2021-01-21
In the 1980s, the U.S. imposed a 100% tariff on virtually all Japanese electronics and forced Tokyo to sign a one-sided trade deal that reserved much of its domestic semiconductor sector for American companies.
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Washington's 40-year North Korea Policy: Success or Failure?
Prof. Joseph H. Chung | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Washington's 40-year offensive policy of North Korean regime change has gone nowhere. | Bill Clinton created a chance of peace with North Korea in 1994 and he blew it. | George W. Bush accepted the 2005 agreement for peace, then, he threw …
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Keystone XL pipeline canceled. Here's what it means for the future fight against fossil fuels
Nick Cunningham | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-21
"Rescinding KXL's permit is a promising early signal that the new administration is listening to our concerns and will take issues of climate and Indigenous justice seriously. We have to insist that it not stop there."
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Former US Marine charged with assaulting police officers during Capitol riots
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-21
"What are we supposed to do? Supreme Court's not helping us. No one's helping us. Only us can help us. Only we can do it."
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Are Israel And Palestine Headed Towards Yet Another Conflict?
Leonid Savin | thealtworld.com | 2021-01-21
In December 2020, there was a rise in tensions in the West Bank, including demonstrations and Israeli attacks on Palestinian homes. | Reports indicate that it was the most intense month in terms of aggressive Israeli nationalism in the last three years — that is, since the beginning of 2017. Israeli security agencies recorded 41 instances of Israeli extremists calling for…
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Only true unity can end America's uncivil war
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2021-01-21
President Joe Biden made an emotional appeal during his inaugural address on Wednesday to end what he unforgettably described as America's ongoing uncivil war between red and blue, rural and urban, conservative and liberal. He very strongly condemned what he called the political extremism, white supremacy, and domestic terrorism threatening American unity today and preventing the country from coming together as one to defeat the once-in-a-century pandemic of COVID-19. The other crises it faces are attacks on democracy and truth, racism, the climate, inequality, and the U.S.' role in the world, but the uncivil…
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Sweden Doesn't Need to Join NATO to be a Security Threat to Russia
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Sweden's growing ties with NATO over the past half-dozen years make many observers wonder whether the Nordic country will soon join the transatlantic bloc, but it actually doesn't even have to do so formally since it's already a de facto …
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Covid-19: Dubai suspends non-essential surgery, entertainment after surge in cases
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-21
Covid-19: Dubai suspends non-essential surgery, entertainment after surge in cases | The increase in infections in the UAE came after the emirate relaxed its entry requirements to boost tourism and save its economy | MEE and agencies | Thu, 01/21/2021 – 10: 28 | Dubai plans to vaccinate at least 50 per cent of its population using China's SinoPharm vaccine (AFP) | Dubai has suspended all non-essential surger…
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Vaccines may not signal immediate end to epidemic, researchers say
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-01-21
The vaccine rollout may not signal an immediate end to the Covid-19 epidemic, according to latest modeling from Imperial's Covid-19 Response Team.
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Study: Lockdowns Caused 15 Thousand Deaths of Despair Among US Men Aged 15 to 55
Ethan Yang | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-21
It should be common knowledge by now that younger people are significantly less likely to die of Covid-19 than the elderly. However, a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research notes some significant increases in excess deaths among working-age individuals. Excess deaths are the number of deaths exceeding the expected number in a given year. If there are excess deaths that means something unusual has happened, such as a pandemic or a…
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The COVID Illusion, An 'Unauthorized Human Experiment' & The MAGA Straw-Man
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2021-01-21
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (1/20/21). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth Read…
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'With lives at stake, politics must be forgotten': Sputnik V sponsor warns demonizing Russian vaccine distracts from saving people
rt.com | 2021-01-21
Saving human lives amid the raging global pandemic is much more important than following political considerations, Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund that sponsored Sputnik V vaccine development, told RT. | "We are strongly against the politicization of the vaccine," said Dmitriev, adding that when it comes to health and the very life of many people, "one should forget about politics or any attempts to 'contain' Russia." | In its international dealings related to Russia's pioneering Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine, RDIF is simply guided by the principle of helping those in need and is ready…
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Fauci Now Says COVID-19 Vaccine May Become Mandatory
Dr. Joseph Mercola | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Will the COVID-19 vaccine become mandatory? That's a question many are asking these days and, by the looks of it, the answer may well be yes — although as I'll explain later, I suspect the harms of the vaccine will …
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SF Bay View Editor Has Cell Phone Seized & Google Fires Black Scientist Dr. Timnit Gebru
WorkWeek | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
WorkWeek covers the effort to stop SF Bay View Editor Malik Washington from doing his work. The for profit halfway house run by the Geo Group ordered that his cell phone be seized to stop him from doing his work after the facility in the Terderloin was exposed for having a Covid outbreak. We interview his lawyer Richard Tan. | Also WorkWeek looks at the firing of Google top AI scientist Dr. Timnit Gebru. WorkWeek looks at the reason she was fired.
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With Yellen at Treasury, Can we Finally get a Progressive Carbon Tax?
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-01-21
By Rachel Kyte | — Janet Yellen is poised to be the next U.S. Treasury secretary, and her inbox will require every ounce of her vast experience to pilot the economy through a daunting confluence of challenges. How the U.S. manages the economic recovery from COVID-19, the financial risks from climate change and inequality together …
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Israel at the Current Global Juncture
Judith Deutsch | socialistproject.ca | 2021-01-21
How does Israel fit in with current global emergencies and unprecedented dangers, those being the worsening provision of food, water, shelter, and healthcare for the global population, the COVID-19 pandemic and warnings of worse to come, and climate-related calamities? Massive fatalities and immiseration are not inevitable, but the current human situation is shaped by forces … Keep reading »…
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Bidenfreude: COVID-19 in post-Trump U.S
Rob Wallace | mronline.org | 2021-01-21
A jokester once characterized Yale University as a hedge fund with a campus attached to it. One might say something similar of the country in which Yale is based.
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WW Commentary: The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2021-01-21
Family members and prisoners' rights advocates gather outside the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez to demand release of a prisoner suffering from medical neglect during the COVID pandemic. On Jan. 15 at the death row prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with less than a week to go of Donald . . . | Continue reading WW Commentary: The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort at Workers.org…
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140,000 jobs lost in December — all women
Hannah Dickinson | liberationnews.org | 2021-01-21
Originally posted on Breaking the Chains. Working-class and oppressed women are bearing the brunt of the combined COVID and economic crises in the United States. December's jobs numbers produced shocking headlines throughout the mainstream media. CNN's headline read: "The US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December. All of them were held by women." A separate …
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French students protest government apathy in education sector
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-21
On January 20, thousands of university students marched in the major cities of France demanding concrete actions from the government to help the students who are in distress due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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Oregon faces legal challenges after establishing blacks-only COVID-19 relief fund
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
The Oregon Cares Fund revived criteria similar to the racist "one drop" rule to determine eligibility to receive financial aid.
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The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…
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Lord Ashcroft — Tory donors outsourcing firm lands £350m vaccination contract
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2021-01-21
By Peter Geoghegan and Russel Scott: A healthcare company ultimately controlled by a leading Tory donor and former party chairman, Lord Ashcroft, has received a £350m contract as part of the government's COVID-19 vaccination roll-out, openDemocracy has learned. Last month the Department of Health and Social Care gave the lucrative contract to Medacs Healthcare plc. In recent …
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The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2021-01-21
Family members and prisoners' rights advocates gather outside the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez to demand the release of a prisoner suffering from medical neglect during the COVID pandemic. On Jan. 15 at the death row prison in Terre Haute, Ind., with less than a week to go of . . . | Continue reading The criminal injustice system is a bipartisan effort at Workers.org…
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"Democracy Has Prevailed": Joe Biden Sworn In as President; Kamala Harris Becomes First Female VP
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-21
Joe Biden was sworn in as 46th president of the United States Wednesday, ending the Trump era with a call for national unity and urging Americans to come together during a period of turbulence. President Biden signed 17 executive orders in his first official act from the Oval Office, including on immigration, the pandemic and the climate crisis. Biden has promised more executive actions in the coming days. Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new Democratic senators Wednesday afternoon, giving Democrats narrow control of the Senate and laying the groundwork for the administration's ambitious agenda. We pla…
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UK Mega Meddling — UK Sets Up Media Influencing Project in Venezuela Amid Secretive £750,000 'Democracy Promotion' Programme
Matt Kennard | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
The UK government has established a journalism project to 'influence' Venezuela's 'media agenda' while a Foreign Office-funded foundation is spending £750,000 on a secretive 'democracy-promotion' programme in the country, as Britain appears to deepen efforts to remove the Maduro government….
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Flint water scandal charges: Slap on the wrist for ex-governor
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2021-01-21
Activists demand justice for Flint, 2016. In April 2014 the city of Flint, Mich., made the fatal decision to switch its water supply from Detroit Water and Sewerage Department to the heavily contaminated Flint River. Flint residents have waited almost seven years for the responsible parties — in particular former . . . | Continue reading Flint water scandal charges: Slap on the wrist for ex-governor at Workers.org…
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My Wish Is That You Win This Fight For Truth
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
On 26 January, India's Republic Day, thousands of farmers and agricultural workers will drive their tractors and walk into the heart of the capital, New Delhi, to bring their fight to the doors of the government. For two months, these farmers and agricultural workers have been part of a nation-wide revolt against a government policy that seeks to deliver all the gains of their labour to the large corporate houses, whose profits have ballooned during this pandemic. Despite the cold weather and the pandemic, the farmers and agricultural workers have created a socialistic culture in their encampments with community…
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The Heat: President Biden's Inauguration
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-01-21
The United States turns the page as Joe Biden becomes the country's 46th president. There was some of the usual pomp and ceremony, but there was something very different about Joe Biden's inauguration. Gone were the crowds — a casualty of both the pandemic and …
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The science of the pandemic supports teachers' concerns over the dangers of school reopening, Part two
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
Science validates teachers' concerns that in-person education during the pandemic is a dangerous proposition. This article reviews some of the more recent scientific findings.
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Domestic Worker Organizing in Times of Crisis: Perspectives from the US and Latin America
mgrochowski | dsausa.org | 2021-01-21
Domestic workers have been hard hit by the global pandemic. Forced to choose between losing their jobs and livelihoods to protect their health or to continue to go to work while risking exposure to the virus in the homes they work in and in the public transportation they use to get to their workplaces, domestic…
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Tennessee educators and parents call for fully funded remote learning to contain the pandemic
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
In opposition to Governor Bill Lee's scheme to pressure schools to reopen, we call for the immediate closure of all schools and for the provision of ample resources to provide high quality remote learning to all students.
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Why Hardly Anyone Trusts the Virus Experts
John Rubino | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Early in the pandemic, "trust the science!" could actually be used in a debate without attracting derisive laughter. But as the flip-flops, mistakes and, yes, lies have accumulated, a consensus seems to be forming that the health care authorities are …
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Oil, gas, and coal behind far right and white supremacist politics
Basav Sen | peoplesworld.org | 2021-01-21
The year 2020 will be remembered in history for a deadly pandemic and a deep economic crisis that touched almost every country on earth. Hopes for a brighter 2021 were one of the few things most people could agree on. But just six days into the new year, these hopes were rudely shattered by images …
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Sunday 1/31: Master of Space: Corporate plans for the militarization & privatization of space
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
ZOOM Meeting, Long-in info at ICSSMARX.ORG…
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Sunday 1/24: The US Capitol Building Riot and Its Blowback: Scarier than QAnon?
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
ZOOM meeting, Log-in info at ICSSMARX.ORG…
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Hubert Harrison Biography Has Much to Offer Us Today
Jeffrey b. Perry | zcomm.org | 2021-01-21
Harrison played unique roles in the largest class-radical movement (socialism) and the largest race-radical movement (the "New Negro"/Garvey movement) of his era…
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Countering the Fascism to Come
Robert Koehler | zcomm.org | 2021-01-21
What if it meant something when he said we should "open our souls instead of hardening our hearts"?>…
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War Propaganda 2: The Cult of Militarism
Rod Driver | zcomm.org | 2021-01-21
War propaganda permeates our society…
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Assault on the Capitol
Party for Socialism and Liberation | zcomm.org | 2021-01-21
24 Questions and Answers…
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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 | 2021-01-21
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.
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Over 18,000 Pentagon Contractors Remain in Afghanistan
Dave DeCamp | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-21
While US troop numbers in Afghanistan are down to 2,500, a deep US presence remains in the form of contractors working for the Pentagon. | According to a report released by the US military this week, there are over 18,000 contractors in Afghanistan. The numbers mean that the Pentagon employs about seven contractors for each US service member in Afghanistan. | At the height of President Obama's Afghanistan surge, there was about one contractor for each US soldier. As troop numbers decreased, the Pentagon increased reliance on contractors. | About 4,700 of the current contra…
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Iraq: Deadly suicide attacks in central Baghdad market kills 32 people
Azhar Al-Rubaie | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-21
Iraq: Deadly suicide attacks in central Baghdad market kills 32 people | Two bombers hit crowds in Tayaran Square, wounding 110, in rare terror attack on Iraqi capital | Azhar Al-Rubaie | Thu, 01/21/2021 – 08: 37 | The twin suicide attack took place in Baghdad's Bab al-Sharqi area after security forces pursued the attackers (Reuters) | A twin suicide attack struck a popular crowded market in central Baghdad on…
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Tunisian groups say police arrested 1,000 people over six days of protests
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-21
Tunisian groups say police arrested 1,000 people over six days of protests | Rights groups said civilians who voiced support for protests on Facebook during the crackdown were also detained | MEE and agencies | Thu, 01/21/2021 – 14: 17 | Police used rubber bullets and water cannons against anti-government protests who hurled rocks and petrol bombs (AFP) | Tunisian security forces have arrested at least 1,000…
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France vows 'symbolic actions' but no apologies for colonisation of Algeria
Adlène Meddi | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-21
France vows 'symbolic actions' but no apologies for colonisation of Algeria | While a new French report highlights moves to reconcile Paris and Algiers on 132 violent years of colonisation, some thorny issues remain | Adlène Meddi | Thu, 01/21/2021 – 16: 15 | Algerians arrested during a French military operation on 21 April 1956, during the war of independence, in Algeria's Tablat and Bir Rabalou region (AFP) | …
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Mesut Ozil: How the politicised playmaker is already causing a stir in Turkey
Yasmina Allouche | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-21
Mesut Ozil: How the politicised playmaker is already causing a stir in Turkey | Fans and politicians alike have made Ozil's arrival "home" to join Fenerbahce a sporting and political spectacle | Yasmina Allouche | Thu, 01/21/2021 – 13: 32 | No stranger to controversy, the German playmaker has seen the last four years of his career marred by controversies for his actions and words off the pitch. (AFP) | "I ha…
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Refusal to retry Turkish MP triggers second ruling by high court
Ragip Soylu | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-21
Refusal to retry Turkish MP triggers second ruling by high court | Lower courts continue to dismiss the rulings of higher courts in politically sensitive cases, such as the imprisonment of former MP Enis Berberoglu | Ragip Soylu | Thu, 01/21/2021 – 10: 31 | Enis Berberoglu, a former MP from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leaves after taking his oath at the Turkish parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Oct…
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Democracy USA? Biden's Neoliberal "Far Left Wing Agenda"
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
You look at what they call 'The Industrialized world' and you can get a feel for how they run their democracies. Canada, France, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea and Scotland, to name a few, all have at least FIVE viable …
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Imperial students launch educational platform to boost diversity in STEM
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-01-21
Accelerate aims to support students from underrepresented backgrounds to secure university offers, internships and graduate jobs.
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European Central Bank Takes Bond Market Manipulation to the Next Level
Schiff Gold | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-21
Peter Schiff recently explained how the Federal Reserve has rigged the US Treasury market. Well, the European Central Bank has taken bond market manipulation to the next level. | According to a Bloomberg report, the ECB is buying bonds to control the yield spread between debt issued by various EU countries. As a result of this central bank mechanization, the spread between the yields on German an…
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Class Warfare: Pupils in Anchorage Will Kneel in Front of Their Chairs, No Recess
Suzanne Downing | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-21
Some of the youngest students returning to classes today in Anchorage will enter a dystopian classroom world, where they must kneel for hours on end on the floor while masked, and have no recess or art or physical expression. | Pre-K–2, K–6, self-contained special needs programs, and the Whaley School are returning to in-person learning at Anchorage School District classes on Tuesday, Jan. 19. | Parents who viewed the classroom their students will be returning to expressed shock: All desks have been removed. Students will kneel on gardening pads and use chairs as their desks for 5.5 hours. | [Parents,…
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People Are Flocking to South Dakota
Field Empty | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-21
South Dakota is dealing with a rapid influx of people looking to see each other's faces, worship, earn a living, spend time with loved ones, and do all the other things that make human life, well, human. | A survey by United Van Lines this month ranked the state fourth in the nation as a destination for people moving across state lines. That's pretty significant considering th…
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Medevac refugees released from torture centres, activists vow to continue the campaign
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2021-01-21
The release of refugees from detention has given activists hope that there will be a change in policy. But, as Chloe DS writes, they won't stop organising until all refugees are released from onshore and offshore prisons and given permanent protection.
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In non-binding resolution, EU parliament calls for new anti-Russia sanctions that would stop Nord Stream 2 over Navalny's arrest
rt.com | 2021-01-21
An EU parliament resolution, backed by 581 MEPs out of 675 present, directs members to ramp up sanctions against Russia to stop the Nord Stream 2 project "once and for all," linking it to opposition figure Alexey Navalny's arrest. | The EU member states should take "an active stance" on Navalny's 30-day arrest in Russia. This is according to a non-binding resolution adopted on Thursday, with 581 votes in favor, 50 against and 44 abstenti…
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Ajit Pai's Broadband Legacy: Haste And Waste
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
As we documented in our previous three posts, the $9.2-billion Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's supposed crowning achievement toward closing the broadband digital divide — is looking more and more like one of the most wasteful projects in FCC history. | Our first post gave some examples of questionable funding in urban areas that we stumbled upon after spending just a few minutes with the map of winning bidders. This included ridiculous examples of "rural" subsidies awarded to major ISPs to offer broadband in gated urban communities where they already offer service, and…
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Indian Government Offers To Suspend Farm Laws
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
India's government has offered to suspend implementation of three new farm laws that have triggered the biggest farmers' protests in years. | The cornerstone of the legislation, introduced in September, allows private buyers to deal directly with farmers. | Angry farmers, who say that will make India's traditional wholesale markets irrelevant and leave them at the mercy of big retailers and food processors, have camped out on main highways outside capital New Delhi for more than two months. | Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Wednesday said the government was open to suspending the…
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What Biden Can Do Without Congress
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
What if it could get done now? What if all (or many) of the largest problems within the United States could be solved now? What if the most exploited, the most troubled, the most chopped-up-masticated-and-drooled-out-by-the-American-machine populations could be helped right now? No Congress. No 10 years of "building up power" just to achieve a post-abuse pat on the head. None of that. Just fixing the problems now. Right now. Well, it actually is possible. | I think we can all agree that Congress is basically a pit filled with hungry crocodiles in the later stages of lead poisoning, each with a different degree of…
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New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved In Fred Hampton's Murder
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
In March 1976, we sat in a cavernous Chicago courtroom while FBI agent Roy Martin Mitchell testified in the federal civil rights case that we and our partners at the People's Law Office had brought on behalf of the families of slain Illinois Black Panther leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and the seven survivors of the murderous pre-dawn Chicago police raid on their West Side apartment. | Thanks to the liberation of FBI documents from the Media, Pennsylvania FBI offices, the revelations of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities and our own hotly contested pretrial battles to uncover the truth ab…
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Tribes To Joe Biden: Stop Dakota Access Pipeline
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
Emboldened by President Joe Biden's action to rescind former President Donald Trump's presidential permit to the Keystone XL pipeline project, leaders of four Sioux tribes are requesting Biden take action on the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. | Leaders of the Yankton Sioux Tribe, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Standing Rock Tribe sent a letter to Biden on Tuesday requesting he take quick and decisive action on the Dakota Access Pipeline within the first 10 days of his administration. | A copy of the four-page letter is posted on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's Facebook page. | The l…
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Martin Luther King's Radical Anticapitalism
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-21
In a posthumously published essay, Martin Luther King, Jr. pointed out that the "black revolution" had gone beyond the "rights of Negroes." The struggle, he said, is "forcing America to face all of its interrelated flaws–racism, poverty, militarism and materialism. It is exposing the evils that are rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society. It reveals systemic rather than superficial flaws and suggests that radical reconstruction of society itself is the real issue to be faced." | But it had not started out that way. Over the course of a decade, the black struggle opened up a deeper interrogation…
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Vaccine Injury Reporting Systems 'Utterly Inadequate,' Independent Researchers Say
Children's Health Defense | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
New peer-reviewed study of adverse events following MMRV vaccines highlights the urgent need for independent research on vaccine safety and the importance of informed consent and vaccine choice. | *** | As health officials strive to brush off as " coincidences" …
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Barrage of New Countries and Airlines to Adopt Vaccine Passports
Steve Watson | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
New York Times admits schemes could lead to "a dystopic system that would limit the rights of people who have been careful to avoid infection and are unable or unwilling to be vaccinated" | *** | Several more countries have indicated that …
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Mother of Exiles
Pamela Enriquez-Courts | thenation.com | 2021-01-21
Mother of Exiles…
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The US Empire Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes
Rebecca Gordon | thenation.com | 2021-01-21
The US Empire Is Crumbling Before Our Eyes…
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Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline
Tal Milovina | thenation.com | 2021-01-21
Black Trans Liberation as History and Prophecy: The Art of Tourmaline…
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Kyrie Irving Does Not Have to Be Who You Want Him to Be
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2021-01-21
Kyrie Irving Does Not Have to Be Who You Want Him to Be…
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Saturday 2/6: Article deadline for Slingshot issue #133
slingshot collective | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Long Haul Infoshop – 3124 Shattuck Ave Berkeley – 510-540-0751…
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Wednesday 1/27: The Equal Rights Amendment & the Disability Community Town Hall
FFWEEC | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Online panel discussion…
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UC Places Initial Fencing Around People's Park, More to Come
Anonymous Park Defender | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
January 19th, the day before Biden's inauguration in DC, the University of California at Berkeley has placed the initial fencing on People's Park. "Work is coming", said Kyle Gibson, the director of communications for UCB Capital Strategies (quoted speaking to Berkeleyside).
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ENLACES de Red Latina sin fronteras 20.01.2021
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
ENLACES de Red Latina sin fronteras 20.01.2021 | comunicaciones e información para la liberación…
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President Biden Extends Student Loan Payment Freeze
Zachary Conti | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
President Biden will extend the freeze on student debt payments as one of his first executive actions after his inauguration.
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San Francisco ICE office attacked
anonymous | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
On January 18, as strong winds raged, 30+ anti-racists attacked the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Francisco.
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Windows Broken, Graffiti Attack on south san francisco courthouse
anonymous autonomist | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
On January 19, on Ramaytush Ohlone land occupied under the name "South San Francisco", the county courthouse was vandalized with anti-police, anti-State, anti-colonization slogans and the windows of the front entrance were smashed in.
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Saturday 1/30: Carbon Neutral Portfolio: From Vision to Strategy
City of Sunnvale | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Free webinar.
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30 Kinds Of Hunting, Fishing Deaths and Injuries
Knowledge Protects | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Accidents and diseases resulting from killing animals, birds, fishes…
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United States of America President Joseph Biden Inauguration Day Speech
From Speech Transcript – | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
As we look ahead in our uniquely American way, restless, bold, optimistic, and set our sights on a nation we know we can be and must be.
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Wednesday 2/3: Talk on the Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement w/ Author Anna Malaika Tubbs
Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Online event…
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Friday Deadline: Defend Oakland's Pesticide Ban!
Isis Feral | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
The City of Oakland is preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that threatens to roll back a local law that restricts pesticide use on public lands. The herbicides glyphosate, triclopyr, and imazapyr would be exempted for use in the Oakland hills, as part of a plan to remove large numbers of trees. Public comments on the Draft EIR are DUE FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2021 AT 5PM…
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Saturday 2/20: EV 201: Finding the EV for Your Lifestyle
City of Sunnyvale | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Free webinar, register below.
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Thursday 1/21: SF BayView Editor Malik Washington Journalist Rights & Google Firing Of Dr. Timnit Gebru
WorkWeeek | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
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Thursday 2/4: "Mother Jones" in Conversation w/ Rev. William Barber, Sharrelle Barber & Rebekah Barber
Mother Jones | indybay.org | 2021-01-21
Online event; open to the community…
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The Rubble of Empire
Rebecca Gordon | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-21
How can you tell when your empire is crumbling? Some signs are actually visible from my own front window here in San Francisco. Directly across the street, I can see a collection of tarps and poles (along with one of my own garbage cans) that were used to construct a makeshift home on the sidewalk.
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Soldiers Abduct Two Palestinians In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-21
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, two Palestinians in the al-'Isawiya town, and in front of the al-Makassed hospital, in occupied Jerusalem. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Mohammad Nayef Obeid, 32, from his home in al-'Isawiya, after the army invaded the property and searched it. They added that Obeid's abduction came only one day …
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Weakened Italian government clings to power
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte survived confidence votes in both chambers of the Italian parliament and now heads a minority government.
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Mob v. Crowd: the Mass Psychology of Madness
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-21
Mobs are unruly. They usually don't have leaders and leadership. Crowds, on the other hand, are disciplined. They have spokesmen and women, structure and discipline Those aren't iron clad definitions, but they provide a useful framework to talk about the upheaval that took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. As more and more information surfaces, it becomes clearer and clearer that a crowd, not a mob, attacked what is called "The People's House." A crowd is more dangerous than a mob.
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Cuba Solidarity Campaign Statement on the United States Listing of Cuba as a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Cuba Solidarity Campaign | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
The Cuba Solidarity Campaign adds its voice to the worldwide condemnation of the outgoing Trump administration's listing of Cuba as a 'state sponsor of terrorism'. | Trump's move is designed to hinder the incoming Biden administration from reprising the Obama era's …
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Stellantis revives 12-hour shifts for Sterling Heights Assembly skilled trades
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
It is apparent that the earlier report by the Free Press that the 12/7 schedule had been withdrawn was deliberately misleading, aimed at buying the UAW and management a little more time to prepare a new blitz to impose the grueling 12-hour schedule.
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Video: "The New Normal" Documentary
happen.network | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in World history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the sequence of events since January 2020 has been blurred. | Worldwide, people have been misled both by …
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How use of drones to secure borders threatens all our rights
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2021-01-21
A new report published by Drone Wars UK investigates the increasing use of military-style drones by governments to patrol state borders. The study, which examines the use of drones at the borders of the UK, EU, US, Russia, China, Australia and elsewhere, concludes that drones are contributing to the militarisation of everyday borders as part …
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Landmark victory for Smart Motorways Kill campaign as coroner rules Jason Mercer and Alexandru Murgeanu were unlawfully killed
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
The ruling is a devastating blow against Highway England's campaign to defend "smart motorways."
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CEPR News: Guide to Federal Budget Activism for Advocates, Decision-Makers, Public
Karen Conner | cepr.net | 2021-01-21
Trump should be removed from office ASAP CEPR News for January 14, 2021 To get the CEPR News email bimonthly, please sign up here. Want a Better Budget? Send Money, Now! The Biden administration will need to activate every tool in the shed to deal with the urgent needs of a country suffering from a …
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The Trump mobs attack America
Mumia Abu-Jamal | workers.org | 2021-01-21
By Mumia Abu-Jamal Taken from a Jan. 7, 2021 audio column aired on prisonradio.org It was a sight that will be long remembered — hundreds, then thousands of men scaling the walls of the U.S. Capitol like soldiers on a web. Then ripping, tearing, shredding all they could touch, . . . | Continue reading The Trump mobs attack America at Workers.org…
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Rediscovering Earth, Reclaiming Our Lives: A Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
mgrochowski | dsausa.org | 2021-01-21
Kim Stanley Robinson has been called one of the greatest science fiction writers of our age and has shown a pronounced focus on the environment throughout his work. In this webinar, he talks with philosopher Anders Dunker about what it will take to re-imagine and achieve a new relationship to the Earth and to each…
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The Capitol insurrection and white supremacist infiltration of U.S. Police
Vida Johnson | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-21
Domestic terrorism from far-right groups is a significant threat to America's safety and security.
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Your National Political Committee newsletter — Embracing the day-to-day work
claudia | dsausa.org | 2021-01-21
Enjoy your January National Political Committee (NPC) newsletter! Our NPC is an elected eighteen-person body (including two YDSA members who share a vote) which functions as the board of directors of DSA. In this month's newsletter, you can read their thoughts on creating a lasting multi-racial democracy and get involved in DSA's work today. From…
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Philippine military breaks longstanding agreement, returns forces to campuses
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
The return of the Philippine military to the University of the Philippines campuses is both a salvo in the ongoing struggle between rival factions of the elite and another step towards authoritarian rule.
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Massive farmers' blockade shakes far right Indian government to the core
Satya Vatti | liberationnews.org | 2021-01-21
Braving fierce police repression, tens of thousands of farmers in India are carrying out one of the largest sustained strikes the country has seen.
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The Hatred and Insurrection fomented by our first Internet-Troll President finally Drove him from Office
David Faris | juancole.com | 2021-01-21
Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) — In his perfunctory farewell speech, released on Tuesday many months after he had churlishly quit on the American people in their greatest hour of need, Donald Trump claimed that he and his band of inept rapscallions had come to Washington to "restore the allegiance of this government to its …
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PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
PCHR | imemc.org | 2021-01-21
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Summary for January 14 — 20, 2021 Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties, including raids into Palestinian cities that are characterized with excessive use of …
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Forgetting in the land of poets and bones: Spain's 'Desmemoria'
Jordan Elgrably | peoplesworld.org | 2021-01-21
I've long wondered what might have been the final thoughts of Federico García Lorca in the moments before Franco's mercenaries murdered him in his pajamas, in cold blood. No poet characterizes 20th-century Spain for me more than Lorca, who lost his life near the start of that country's civil war in 1936. Did he perhaps …
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To What Degree Is The US Really Meddling In Uganda?>
oneworld.press | 2021-01-21
The Ugandan government's accusations of American meddling in the country's latest elections warrant closer scrutiny to identify the degree to which this is really happening and whether or not it can realistically succeed.
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Trump's European Orphans
Monika Zgustova | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-21
I was born and raised in a Prague that was under the sway of totalitarian communism. Back then, we all knew that we couldn't trust any official statement because the authorities never told the truth. At school, we were inculcated with doctrines that hardly anyone believed in, and dominating everything was class hatred, one of…
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Palestinian Prisoner Dies After 14 Years in Israeli Jail
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2021-01-21
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society, and the Prisoners and Executives Affairs Authority in a joint statement, on Wednesday, announced the death of a Palestinian political prisoner Maher Thieb Sa'sa, 45, in an Israeli jail. Sa'sa died Wednesday in Rimonim Israeli prison, after spending years incarcerated and suffering from chronic illnesses, however no clear cause of death …
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Medical Doctor Warns that "Bacterial Pneumonias Are on the Rise" from Mask Wearing
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Important article by John C. A Manley. First published in October 2020 | "A group is suing Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum and Tulsa Health Department Executive Director Bruce Dart, saying the city's mask mandate is harmful to healthy people," reports Activist …
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China sanctions Trump administration officials including Pompeo, Bolton and Bannon
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-21
28 officials of the Donald Trump administration were sanctioned for having "seriously violated China's sovereignty" and being "mainly responsible for such US moves on China-related issues."
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Farmers' Protests Reflect Existential Crisis of Indian Agriculture
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
With over 800 million people, rural India is arguably the most interesting and complex place on the planet but is plagued by farmer suicides, child malnourishment, growing unemployment, increased informalisation, indebtedness and an overall collapse of agriculture. | Given that India …
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Israeli Soldiers Abduct Fifteen Palestinians In West Bank
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-21
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians from their homes, in several parts of the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported. The PPS office in Jericho, in northeastern West Bank, said the soldiers invaded and searched many homes in Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, southwest of the Jericho city, before …
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To What Degree Is The US Really Meddling In Uganda?>
oneworld.press | 2021-01-21
The Ugandan government's accusations of American meddling in the country's latest elections warrant closer scrutiny to identify the degree to which this is really happening and whether or not it can realistically succeed.
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Police Obedience and Racialization
Steve Martinot | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-21
What good is a constitution if you can't use it? What good is it if it tells you how to govern and you say: "we can't govern that way." What good is it if it proclaims democracy and you use it to dominate people? When the cops enact their brutality toward black people, are they…
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Video: The New Normal Documentary
happen.network | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
A great documentary that investigates The Fourth Industrial Revolution, what the 1% has to gain and the rest of us are about to lose. | Watch the video below. | * | Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. …
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Casualties of the Old Cold War should inform opposition to U.S.' New Cold War against China
Danny Haiphong | mronline.org | 2021-01-21
The U.S. share of the global economy has shrunk dramatically since 1960. On the other hand, China is on pace to surpass the U.S. in GOP terms in 2030.
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Let Donald Trump Run Again
Bill Lueders | progressive.org | 2021-01-21
There is no need to invoke rarely used constitutional clauses to keep him from running.
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How to Buy Politicians: Corruption and Lobbying
Rod Driver | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
"Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying"(1) | Until recently, the terms Public Relations (PR) and lobbying were used slightly differently. Lobbying means direct communications with policy-makers. …
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Mob v. Crowd: the Mass Psychology of Madness
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-21
Mobs are unruly. They usually don't have leaders and leadership. Crowds, on the other hand, are disciplined. They have spokesmen and women, structure and discipline Those aren't iron clad definitions, but they provide a useful framework to talk about the upheaval that took place at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. As more and more information surfaces, it becomes clearer and clearer that a crowd, not a mob, attacked what is called "The People's House." A crowd is more dangerous than a mob.
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'Call of Duty' Doesn't Just Depict Bad History–It's Pro-War Propaganda
Joe Mayall | progressive.org | 2021-01-21
In the video game's latest sequel, Black Ops Cold War, players are tasked with committing "highly illegal" atrocities.
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I'm Your Woman: The problem of films not genuinely drawn from life
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
In the 1970s, a suburban housewife in the Pittsburgh area leading a largely conventional life experiences a series of increasingly rude and dangerous shocks.
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In Pakistan's North Waziristan, residents take to the streets against murder of doctor
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-21
Dr. Waliullah Dawar was killed last week by unknown assailants. On Wednesday, led by Pashtun Tahafuz Movement leader Mohsin Dawar, protesters demanded legal action against the perpetrators and immediate release of all political prisoners…
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"Wrongful Life" Revisited
Robert Kellar QC | ukhumanrightsblog.com | 2021-01-21
In Evie Toombes v. Dr. Philip Mitchell [2020] EWHC 3506 the High Court has given renewed consideration to claims for, so called, "wrongful life". Can a disabled person ever claim damages on the basis that they would not have been born but for the defendant's negligence? The Court answered that question with a resounding "yes". …
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I didn't vote for Biden, but want him to succeed in righting the train wreck of US democracy. The carnage has to stop here and now
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2021-01-21
Joe Biden's inaugural address was overshadowed by the reality that framed it: a nation deeply divided along …
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The Downfall of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
oneworld.press | 2021-01-21
Mark Rutte (right), former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, defending ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Halbe Zijlstra (left) who lied about his visit to the dacha of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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A united working class can defeat fascism
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2021-01-21
Excerpts taken from Jan. 14 webinar on "Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism" sponsored by Workers World Party. o view the entire panel discussion, go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9_NDIKT0vw Ted Kelly "At the moment that the 'normal' police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer . . . | Continue reading A united working class can defeat fascism at Workers.org…
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The Downfall of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte
oneworld.press | 2021-01-21
Mark Rutte (right), former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, defending ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands Halbe Zijlstra (left) who lied about his visit to the dacha of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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WEBINAR: The struggle for Food Sovereignty In Venezuela
tfaadmin | taskforceamericas.org | 2021-01-21
WEBINAR: Venezuela's Struggle for Food Sovereignty under the US Blockade Register here: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gFJfwt6CQkK3… Thursday Jan 21, 2021 7: 00 PM ET, 4: 00 PM Pacific Time William Camacaro will interview Hugo Alberto Nieves on the progress and challenges to establish food sovereignty in Venezuela. (Simultaneous English translation) William Camacaro maintains the website (in English), revolucionalimentaria.org, a resource for background information on…
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Can We Mine Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
miningwatch.ca | 2021-01-21
This report highlighs the emerging conflict between growing renewable energy generation and the destructive effects that mining can have.
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Plans to liquidate Egyptian Iron and Steel Company draw protest
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-21
The decision by the management of the Egyptian Iron and Steel Company to liquidate the company has led to protests with unions saying that up to 8,000 employees will lose their jobs…
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Russia's Financial Strategy for Africa
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
In order to raise its geopolitical influence, Russia has been making efforts identifying mega infrastructure projects such as nuclear power and energy, natural resources exploration and talks consistently about increasing trade with Africa. On the other hand, Russia primarily needs …
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Major Victory for BDS Movement in Spanish Court Ruling
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2021-01-21
The Electronic Intifada Activists in Spain are celebrating a big legal win against Israel lobby efforts to punish support for Palestinian rights. Their victory also exposes a lie that European Union officials are spreading to discredit BDS — the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. On 11 January a court in Valencia dismissed a criminal complaint …
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Mexico contemplates use of GMO corn in animal feed
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-21
Mexico is currently the biggest foreign market for U.S. GMO yellow corn.
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WW commentary: Diet discrimination in prisons, jails, and detention centers
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2021-01-21
Imam Siddiqui Abdullah Hasan, on death row in Ohio, was falsely convicted of the murder of a guard during the 1993 Lucasville prison rebellion. The rebellion started after Muslim prisoners objected to being forced to take a tuberculosis test containing alcohol, in violation of their religious practice. The interlocking systems . . . | Continue reading WW commentary: Diet discrimination in prisons, jails, and detention centers at Workers.org…
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Ghosts of the Cold War Haunted the Capitol Siege
Luis Feliz Leon | progressive.org | 2021-01-21
The pro-Trump insurrection reflects a decades-long connection between far-right extremism and U.S. militarism.
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Pregnant Palestinian Woman Miscarries After Inhaling Tear Gas Fired by Israeli Military
Celine Hagbard | imemc.org | 2021-01-21
A Palestinian woman who was seven months pregnant suffered a miscarriage last Thursday after Israeli forces repeatedly fired tear gas toward her home in Mughayir village, east of Ramallah, Areej Abu Alya, 37, was hospitalized for several days with severe bleeding following the firing of over a hundred tear gas canisters by the Israeli military in …
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Yellen takes aggressive stance on China in treasury secretary confirmation hearing
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
Yellen's nomination seems assured, as she enjoys support from both the Republicans and Wall Street.
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New York City educators call for unified struggle with striking Hunts Point market workers!
wsws.org | 2021-01-21
Our brothers and sisters at Hunts Point have taken a courageous stand for the rights of workers everywhere, and we call on them to form their own rank-and-file committee independent of the Teamsters to carry forward their struggle.
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'Stripped to the Bone': Israel Advances Plan to Cut Off Palestinian Suburb from Jerusalem
Qassam Muaddi | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-21
Vehicles move slowly a few metres down the crowded main street of Aizarya, a Palestinian suburb east of Jerusalem, before stopping again. | Islam Rabea, a 23-year-old minibus driver, pulls on the handbrake and begins musing again. | …
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Diet discrimination in prisons, jails, and detention centers
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2021-01-21
The interlocking systems of prisons, jails and detention centers were built up by descendants of those made rich from colonial conquest of this continent. The prison-industrial complex continues to benefit this very class of people every day by its existence. As the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party stated . . . | Continue reading Diet discrimination in prisons, jails, and detention centers at Workers.org…
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Selected Articles: The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-20
The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming | By Glenn Greenwald, January 20 2021 | The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting "terrorism" that are carbon | …
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The New Domestic War on Terror Is Coming
Glenn Greenwald | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-20
The last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting "terrorism" that are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first War on Terror that began …
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Poet Amanda Gorman: 'Even as we grieved, we grew.'
Hillel Italie | peoplesworld.org | 2021-01-20
NEW YORK (AP) — Inaugural poet Amanda Gorman summoned images dire and triumphant Wednesday as she called out to the world "even as we grieved, we grew." In language referencing Biblical scripture and at times echoing the oratory of John F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the 22-year-old Gorman read with urgency …
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No Pardons For Edward Snowden Or Julian Assange
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-20
Although several long shot campaigns were mounted, President Donald Trump did not pardon any whistleblowers who were indicted or prosecuted under the United States Espionage Act. He also declined to pardon the only journalist ever to be indicted under the World War I-era law. | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden were not offered clemency because Trump "did not want to anger Senate Republicans who will soon determine whether he's convicted during his Senate trial." | "Multiple GOP lawmakers had sent messages through aides that they felt strongly about not granting clemency to Ass…
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Profiting from Pardons: Giuliani Aide Told CIA Whistleblower a Trump Pardon Would Cost $2 Million
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-20
With less than 12 hours before the end of his presidency, Donald Trump issued 143 pardons and commutations, including a pardon for Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist and campaign manager. Trump, who has pardoned other associates and allies during his single term, has so far rejected calls to pardon prominent whistleblowers including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and NSA whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Reality Winner. Details continue to emerge about how allies of Trump have personally profited from people seeking pardons. We speak with John Kiriakou, a former CIA analyst and case officer who exposed t…
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Trump Caps off Law and Order Legacy With Record Executions, No Mercy for Whistleblowers
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2021-01-20
Missing from Trump's flurry of last-minute pardons were Snowden, Assange, or Reality Winner. Instead, the president will leave office with a record number of executions under his belt and a slew of pardons for political allies.
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Trump Caps off Law and Order Legacy With Record Executions, No Mercy for Whistleblowers
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2021-01-20
Missing from Trump's flurry of last-minute pardons were Snowden, Assange, or Reality Winner. Instead, the president will leave office with a record number of executions under his belt and a slew of pardons for political allies.
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About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocents in Yemen
Kathy Kelly | zcomm.org | 2021-01-20
We must not turn away. We must decry the terrible war and blockade. Doing so may help spare the lives of at least some of Yemen's children. The opportunity to resist this massacre of the innocents rests with us.
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Women bear brunt of unemployment in COVID economic crisis
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2021-01-20
The month of December revealed some stunning news affecting the U.S. working class, as the impact of the viral pandemic and the capitalist economic crisis continues. The burden of unemployment has fallen on women, especially Black, Latinx, Arab, Asian, Indigenous, im/migrant and low-wage workers. LGBTQ2S+ individuals and people with disabilities . . . | Continue reading Women bear brunt of unemployment in COVID economic crisis at Workers.org…
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All Workers Must Support Honduran migrants and refugees
RWAAL | indybay.org | 2021-01-20
Two months after hurricanes Eta and Iota devastated the region and as the pandemic crisis continues, caravan members are escaping conditions of absolute destitution. Capitalist governments line up to thwart workers' pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.
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President Biden's day-one action a critical step for immigrant justice
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Joe Biden: Immigration Reform During First Day in Office
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-20
U.S. President Joe Biden has sent Congress an immigration reform bill to facilitate citizenship for undocumented migrants. The bill, set to become the most transformative reform package since 1986, is one of the first initiatives Biden kicked off on inauguration day. | RELATED: | 'We Must Be the United States of America' President Biden Says | The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 aims at creating a legalization mechanism for the over 10.5 million undocumented migrants living in the U…
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Ocasio-Cortez, Sanders Lead Call for Solidarity With #HuntsPointStrike
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-01-20
"Essential workers should not have to go on strike for decent pay, and no worker should be threatened for exercising their constitutional rights." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Brazilians celebrate arrival of Venezuelan oxygen supplies to struggling Manaus
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-20
Following the collapse of the healthcare system in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Venezuela has sent 130,000 liters of oxygen and a brigade of 107 doctors to help combat the pandemic…
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An Admiring Review of Cole, 'Muhammad: Prophet of Peace,' in Algeria's Echorouq
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-01-20
The Algerian newspaper Echorouq [al-Shuruq] has published a positive review of the Arabic translation of my book, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires Available at Nicola's Books in Ann Arbor And Hachette And Barnes and Noble And Amazon Juan says: In turbulent era, I am most gratified that Muslim readers on the …
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Brazilians celebrate arrival of Venezuelan oxygen to struggling Manaus
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-20
Following the collapse of the healthcare system in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, Venezuela has sent 130,000 liters of oxygen and a brigade of 107 doctors to help combat the pandemic…
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U.S. makes aggressive opening move on Russian chessboard
M.K. Bhadrakumar | mronline.org | 2021-01-20
A regime change project in Russia was launched on Sunday with the return of political activist Alexei Navalny to Moscow. It was a highly symbolic event–except that Navalny was traveling by an airplane from Germany and not in a sealed train.
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On "True Democracy"
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-20
On January 5, 2021, one day before Trump sparked his fascist Attack on the Capitol, the liberal New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg called for Americans "to defend democracy" by "investigating" Trump and wrote these words:…
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Could Baltimore's Climate Change Suit Become A Supreme Court Test Case?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-20
What began as a narrow jurisdictional question to be argued Tuesday before the U.S. Supreme Court in a climate change lawsuit filed by the city of Baltimore could take on far greater implications if the high court agrees with major oil companies to expand its purview and consider whether federal, rather than state courts, are the appropriate venue for the city's case and possibly a host of similar lawsuits. | The high court initially agreed to hear a request by the oil and gas industry to review a ruling by the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in which the court affirmed a federal district judge's decision to…
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Enough with the Goddamned Secrets! Open Up the Government Joe!
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-20
The incoming Biden administration is considering breaking with a long-standing tradition of new presidents sharing national secrets with prior presidents. Instead, in the case of his future predecessor Trump, Biden says he wants to hear the advice of key national security figures in the new government regarding whether or not to brief the impeached ex-chief…
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AFRICOM says they left Somalia, San Diego activists tell the truth
Taylor Ikehara | liberationnews.org | 2021-01-20
On Jan. 16, ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) and the Party for Socialism and Liberation held a speak-out and banner drop at Teralta Park in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego to demand a withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Somalia and an end to AFRICOM. City Heights is …
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'Pure Sadism': Biden Blasted for Continuing Trump's Recognition of Guaidó Coup Regime and Deadly Sanctions in Venezuela
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-01-20
"How about a new Good Neighbor Policy on non-interference?" asked CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The Mechanics of an Absurd Crash: Why Driver Error, Not the KGB, Killed Camus
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-20
In his most recent column, CounterPunch editor Jeffrey St. Clair noted the resurrection of an old theory that the KGB had a hand in the death of the French writer Albert Camus. Here's why that's unlikely. 1. "The Rebel" is a great book. 2. I don't like Sartre, he did nothing for the Resistance (Camus…
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Palestinian man who fed cats at al-Aqsa mosque dies from Covid-19
Nadda Osman | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-20
Palestinian man who fed cats at al-Aqsa mosque dies from Covid-19 | Hundreds of people mourn the death of Hajj Ghassan Younes, known for his generosity and his feeding of cats and birds in the area | Nadda Osman | Wed, 01/20/2021 – 15: 51 | Many have shared fond memories of Hajj Ghassan Younes online, remembering his generosity and kindness towards children and animals (Screengrab/Facebook) | An air of sadness was fel…
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Israel publishes tenders for hundreds of new illegal settler homes
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-20
Israel publishes tenders for hundreds of new illegal settler homes | Some of the tenders are for building 2,112 units in various illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, and 460 housing units in East Jerusalem | MEE staff | Wed, 01/20/2021 – 15: 41 | A bulldozer moving sand at a construction site in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish settlement in the mainly Palestinian eastern sector of Jerusalem (AFP) | Israel's Ministry of C…
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'Stripped to the bone': Israel advances plan to cut off Palestinian suburb from Jerusalem
Qassam Muaddi | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-20
'Stripped to the bone': Israel advances plan to cut off Palestinian suburb from Jerusalem | For centuries, Aizarya has been a satellite of the holy city. Now Israel wants to close off its access with a wall in a scheme denounced as de facto annexation | Qassam Muaddi | Wed, 01/20/2021 – 13: 12 | Issam Faroun pointing a 1930s panoramic photo of Aizarya (MEE/Qassam Muaddi) | Vehicles move slowly a few metres down th…
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Filmmakers denounce Israel ban on Palestinian documentary 'Jenin, Jenin'
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-20
Filmmakers denounce Israel ban on Palestinian documentary 'Jenin, Jenin' | An Israeli court orders filmmaker Mohammad Bakri to pay $55,000 in damages to an Israeli officer in a defamation case, and seizes copies of 2002 film | Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Wed, 01/20/2021 – 13: 24 | Mohammad Bakri gestures during a talk at Dar al-Kalima University College of Arts and Culture in Bethlehem city, Palestine (Scree…
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Israeli Army Bombards Gaza, Causes Damage And Injures One Palestinian
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-20
The Israeli army fired, late on Tuesday at night, many artillery and tanks shells targeting several areas in the besieged and impoverished Gaza Strip, causing damage, and wounding a young man. The soldiers fired a tank shell directly striking a home, owned by members of the Abdul-Jawad family in the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central …
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Palestinian Family Survives What Would Have Been A Massacre By Israeli Shell
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2021-01-20
The family of Taiseer Abdul-Jawad (Abu Mazen), living in their home in the eastern part of the al-Maghazi refugee camp, in central Gaza Strip, has survived what would have turned into a massacre when an Israeli shell struck their home as they slept. Abu Mazen said that he, his wife, and their children were sleeping …
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Venezuela Issues Arrest Warrants for 'Illegal' Oil Executives
Manuela Solé | venezuelanalysis.com | 2021-01-20
Oil subsidiary CITGO has been the subject of several legal battles.
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Israel's Fauci Says Pfizer Vaccine's First Dose Less Effective Than Drugmaker Indicated
Jackie Salo | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-20
A single dose of Pfizer's vaccine may be less effective than the drugmaker had indicated, Israel's COVID-19 czar has warned. | Nachman Ash — Israel's equivalent of Dr. Anthony Fauci — said the protection offered by the first dose is "less effective than we had thought," Army Radio reported. | "Many people have been infected between the first and second injections of the vaccine," Ash said, adding that the protective effect appears "lower than [the data] presen…
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As COVID-19 Surges, California Overrides Limits on Nurse Workloads
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-01-20
California's telemetry nurses, who specialize in the electronic monitoring of critically ill patients, normally take care of four patients at once. But ever since the state relaxed California's mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios in mid-December, Nerissa Black has had to keep track of six. | And these six patients are really sick: Many of them are being treated simultaneously for a stroke and covid-19, or a heart attack and covid. With more patients than usual needing more complex care, Black said she's w…
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Covid-19: Turkey vaccinates more than one million people, says health ministry
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-20
Covid-19: Turkey vaccinates more than one million people, says health ministry | Turkey has now given a first shot of the coronavirus vaccine to more than one percent of the population | MEE and agencies | Wed, 01/20/2021 – 13: 17 | A healthcare worker checks the body temperature of an elderly woman at a nursing home in Ankara, on 19 January 2021, amid the Covid-19 pandemic (AFP) | More than one million peop…
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Covid-hit Egypt is spending $23bn on a flashy train line, and people aren't happy
Nadda Osman | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-20
Covid-hit Egypt is spending $23bn on a flashy train line, and people aren't happy | Egyptians say the cash could be better spent on hospitals and the country's coronavirus response as the authorities struggle to secure oxygen | Nadda Osman | Wed, 01/20/2021 – 13: 02 | The new project has been highly controversial amongst Egyptians (Screenshot/Global Construction Review) | With much fanfare, coronavirus-hit Egypt has a…
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Staff 'need clearer guidance' as COVID overwhelms ICUs
imperial.ac.uk | 2021-01-20
Hospital staff are receiving insufficient support as they make agonising choices about who does and does not receive care, writes Dr Katharina Hauck.
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Italian Doctors Sanctioned for Raising Questions About COVID Vaccine
Michael Day | anti-empire.com | 2021-01-20
An Italian doctors association has warned or disciplined 10 medics for promoting anti-vaccination propaganda and is considering sanctions against three others who are accused of downplaying the gravity of covid-19. | This comes amid growing concern that public scepticism over covid-19 vaccines could undermine Europe's fight against the coronavirus pandemic. | Antonio Magi, president of the Ordine dei Medici di Roma (Rome Doctors Guild), said that inquiries into 10 medics accused of unwarranted criticism of vaccinations had been completed, with punishments ranging from warnings to two month suspensions. The other…
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Biden Lifts Health Care Plan From Insurance Lobbyists
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-20
President-elect Joe Biden's new COVID relief plan does not adopt existing Democratic legislation to expand government sponsored medical coverage nor does it propose a promised public health insurance option. Instead, it adopts proposals from health insurance lobbying groups' recent letter to lawmakers demanding lucrative new subsidies for insurance companies, at a moment when those corporations have recorded record profits as millions lose coverage and many face claims denials. | Biden's plan would shovel billions of dollars to private health insurers by providing subsidies for Americans to buy coverage through t…
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'Subsidizing The Spread Of Covid'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-20
Nearly 200 corporate landlords received $320 million in federal pandemic-related assistance only to turn around and file more than 5,380 evictions between mid-March and mid-October of last year, recklessly displacing thousands of impoverished Americans in the midst of a public health and economic emergency. | That's according to Taxpayer Subsidized Evictions: Corporate Landlords Pocket Federal Sweetheart Deals, Subsidies, and Tax Breaks While Evicting Struggling Families, a newreport(pdf) published Tuesday by the Jobs With Justice Education Fund and the Private Equity Stakeholder Project.
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Decade of conflict triggering 'slow tsunami' across Syria, Security Council hears
news.un.org | 2021-01-20
After a decade of conflict, economic collapse compounded by COVID-19, corruption and mismanagement, the UN Syrian envoy told the Security Council on Wednesday that "a slow tsunami" is now "crashing across Syria".
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