Daily Archives: January 16, 2021

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Peruvian healthcare workers strike for rights
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-16
In this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes we take you to Peru, where healthcare workers have embarked on an indefinite strike. We also take you to India, where farmers continue their protest for the withdrawal of the three controversial farm laws and a segment from Brasil de Fato on the future of the COVID-19 vaccine in Brazil.
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Issues Involving Current And Other Vaccines
Article Writer | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Why does 50% of the population want to be avoid vaccination injections.
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Issues Involving Current And Other Vaccines
Article Writer | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Why does 50% of the population want to be avoid vaccination injections.
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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 | 2021-01-17
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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Yemen: UN condemnation of Houthi terror designation sparks campaign against envoy
MEE correspondent | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-16
Yemen: UN condemnation of Houthi terror designation sparks campaign against envoy | UN special envoy to Yemen accused by government supporters of taking sides, while others warn of humanitarian issues at stake | MEE correspondent | Sat, 01/16/2021 – 16: 24 | Martin Griffiths, centre, the UN special envoy for Yemen, arrives at Sanaa international airport on 11 February 2019 (AFP) | The reaction of Martin Gr…
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“Justice for Tamir Rice”
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2021-01-16
On January 15 close to 100 activists from Cleveland and around the country gathered at a downtown park to demand “Justice for Tamir Rice.” Tamir, a Black youth, was 12 years old when, on Nov. 22, 2014, Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann murdered him while he was playing with a . . . | Continue reading “Justice for Tamir Rice” at Workers.org
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Chris Hedges : America Has the Tinder to Ignite Social Uprising
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-01-16
The ScheerPost columnist and Pulitzer winning journalist speaks to the host of “The Jimmy Dore Show” about the storming of the Capitol and what it says about American culture.
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AUDIO: The Fascist Assault and the Ruling Class Response
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2021-01-16
This interview is an episode of The Socialist Program with Brian Becker, a podcast providing news and views about the world for those who want to change it. You can follow the show on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The profound political crisis gripping the United States continues to deepen and take new twists and turns …
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Peacekeepers under attack again in Mali, as one Egyptian blue helmet dies, another seriously injured
news.un.org | 2021-01-16
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned another fatal attack carried out against a peacekeeping convoy that left a ‘blue helmet’ from Egypt dead, and another seriously injured on Friday.
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America now has its own Green Zone, as Trumpian Fascism erects Racist Red Zone
Juan Cole | juancole.com | 2021-01-16
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — America now has its own Green Zone in downtown Washington, D.C., where the Mall is closed, the city is locked down, and protective fencing has gone up around the Capitol. You only need a Green Zone, a safe small space completely under the control of the government, if the rest …
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The US Economy Could Use Some ‘Overheating’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-16
Recent proposals for large-scale fiscal relief and recovery from the economic effects of COVID-19 have drawn criticism that they could lead to “overheating” of the U.S. economy. These criticisms should be ignored. Proposals under discussion–including Biden’s economic plan introduced tonight–are highly unlikely to lead to any durable uptick in inflation or interest rates (the normal indicators of “overheating”) and even if they did, these higher interest rates and inflation would be a welcome sign of economic healing, not something to worry about. | Warnings about economic “overheating” normally mean t…
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Tens of thousands of UK National Health Service workers fall ill with COVID-19
wsws.org | 2021-01-16
Nearly 50,000 health care workers have contracted the virus and thousands more are isolating or shielding.
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New York Coalition Pushes ‘Tax the Rich’ to Raise State Revenue
Sam Mellins | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
The Invest in Our New York Campaign, involving more than 100 groups, is urging legislators to take action amid the COVID-19-induced recession…
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First Person: Cheese proves key to survival for Syrian refugee family amid pandemic
news.un.org | 2021-01-16
Syrian refugee Fatima Hussein Al Ahmad, a mother of four, lives on a farm with 50 other workers in Sahba, Jordan. COVID-19 travel restrictions meant that didn’t work for two months in 2020, and feeding her family became a daily struggle.
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First Person: Syrian refugee makes cheese to survive the pandemic
news.un.org | 2021-01-16
Syrian refugee Fatima Hussein Al Ahmad, a mother of four, lives on a farm with 50 other workers in Sahba, Jordan. COVID-19 travel restrictions meant that didn’t work for two months in 2020, and feeding her family became a daily struggle.
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Sunday 1/17: MLK Beloved Community Action & Prayer Gathering in Midst of COVID & Chaos w/ PPC
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Online via livestream…
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Sunday 1/17: MLK Beloved Community Action & Prayer Gathering in Midst of COVID & Chaos w/ PPC
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Online via livestream…
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COVID-19 cases in Africa exceed 3.1 million
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-16
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Africa exceeded 3.1 million on January 15. According to data from the Africa Center for Disease Control, 76,752 out of the 3,176,784 infected people have died, while 2,594,088 have recovered. | Over the last two weeks alone, almost 10,000 new deaths have been recorded on the continent and the total number of cases has risen by 447,967 from the 2,728,817 recorded on December 31. Across the continent as cases are drastically rising, concerns remain over under testing, lac…
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Network Meeting of the Action Committees for Safe Education: Pupils, workers and students discuss perspectives for a European-wide general strike
wsws.org | 2021-01-16
In introducing the meeting, Gregor Link of the International Youth and Students for Social Equality referred to the now almost 400,000 confirmed COVID deaths in the European Union.
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Prepare for a surge in Global inequality
C.P. Chandrasekhar | mronline.org | 2021-01-16
The evidence clearly is that the Covid-crisis has upended the fiscal conservatism that has been the hallmark of the neoliberal era since the 1980s.
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America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another
Lee Camp | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
Where is the corporate media’s disgust for the courtesans of corporate destruction that wreak violence on Americans daily?
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A new migrant caravan leaves from Honduras for the US
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-16
Over 3,000 Hondurans have embarked on a perilous journey to the US in the absence of a response from the far-right government of President Juan Orlando Hernández to the socio-economic crisis in the country…
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Andrew Yang “can’t imagine” my New York City pandemic life
Mary Elizabeth Williams | salon.com | 2021-01-16
The mayoral candidate doesn’t know that I’m the “lucky” one, though…
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Water Protectors Chain Themselves Inside Enbridge Line 3 Pipe
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-16
Minnesota – Water protectors were arrested Thursday after halting construction at a Minnesota worksite for Enbridge’s Line 3 project by locking themselves together inside a pipe segment. | “After moving to Minnesota to attend college and study environmental science, I was excited to be in a place where people valued protecting the Earth and finding a viable future. What I found, however, was a state that had formed ‘ambitious’ climate goals yet endorsed one of the dirtiest fossil fuels, tar sands oil,” water protector Abby Hornberger said in a statement. “I realized that Indigenous ways of knowing and practicing…
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Tech Giants’ Power Is Scary
Alan MacLeod | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
Silicon Valley corporations are far from neutral moral arbiters, and have a history of abusing their power…
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Black Lives Matter Protestors Charged As A Gang
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-16
Maricopa County, AZ – In Washington, D.C., members of a pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol and killed a police officer are so far being charged mainly with disorderly conduct and unlawful entry. The man photographed with his feet on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk faces three charges that carry a maximum penalty of one year in prison. After the violent siege, some members of the mob simply returned to their hotel. | Many were quick to point out an apparent double standard when compared to the way police in D.C. treated Black Lives Matter protesters over the summer–like when they tear gassed protesters to cl…
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Sunday 1/17: The Farmer’s Movement in India
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Log-info available on our website; | ICSSMARX.ORG LINK: OUR CURRENT SCHEDULE…
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Sunday 1/17: The Farmer’s Movement in India
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Log-info available on our website; | ICSSMARX.ORG LINK: OUR CURRENT SCHEDULE…
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Pack Your Bags
Bill Bramhall, Ron Hauge, Clay Bennett | thenation.com | 2021-01-16
Bill Bramhall, Ron Hauge, Clay Bennett Pack Your Bags…
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UN Expert: End US Sanctions On Syria
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-16
An independent United Nations expert is calling on the US to lift its crippling sanctions on Syria. | Under the Caesar Act, US sanctions explicitly target Syria’s reconstruction in the aftermath of a catastrophic 10-year war. Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the impact of sanctions, says that the US sanctions are illegal and depriving Syrian civilians of their basic needs. | “People shouldn’t die, people shouldn’t suffer, and people shouldn’t fear whether they can survive after tomorrow, because they have neither medicine or food, because of the sanctions applied,” Douhan says.
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Hot Again: 2020 Sets Yet Another Global Temperature Record
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-16
Earth’s rising fever hit or neared record hot temperature levels in 2020, global weather groups reported Thursday. | While NASA and a couple of other measurement groups said 2020 passed or essentially tied 2016 as the hottest year on record, more agencies, including the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, said last year came in a close second or third. The differences in rankings mostly turned on how scientists accounted for data gaps in the Arctic, which is warming faster than the rest of the globe. | “It’s like the film ‘Groundhog Day.’ Another year, same story — record global warmth,” said Penns…
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The Capitol Was Stormed Long Ago
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-16
There are key flashpoints that define the Trump years. The escalator speech. The “total and complete shutdown.” Charlottesville. But these were not qualitatively dissimilar from the bulk of his Presidential term, during which racism and violence became ubiquitous. These forces were the water we swam in–which was already the case for BIPOC and marginalized communities. But the Trump era saw these social dynamics doused in accelerant. | The aggressive war on the border, the pathological cruelty of social service cuts, or the police siege against social movements are not the only defining facets of the Trump p…
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Ecuador’s Election Promises Advance For Socialism In Latin America
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-16
Four years after turncoat Lenin Moreno claimed the presidency and turned the country inside out, Ecuador will elect a new president on February 7, 2021. Moreno betrayed the citizen’s revolution he had promised to continue, and with his approval rating somewhere between 7 percent (CEDATOS, September 2020) and 16 percent (Atlas Intel, December 2020), Moreno will not be seeking re-election. | After winning the presidency in 2017, Moreno turned his back on his predecessor and nominator Rafael Correa and double-crossed the PAIS Alliance party they both belonged to. Moreno is widely despised as a result, and the PAIS A…
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UN Expert: End US Sanctions On Syria
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-16
An independent United Nations expert is calling on the US to lift its crippling sanctions on Syria. | Under the Caesar Act, US sanctions explicitly target Syria’s reconstruction in the aftermath of a catastrophic 10-year war. Alena Douhan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the impact of sanctions, says that the US sanctions are illegal and depriving Syrian civilians of their basic needs. | “People shouldn’t die, people shouldn’t suffer, and people shouldn’t fear whether they can survive after tomorrow, because they have neither medicine or food, because of the sanctions applied,” Douhan says.
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The Heat: Social media controversy
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-01-16
Blocking U.S. President Trump from social media…. Was it a valid move to prevent violence or was it an assault on free speech?>…
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Iraqi protest leaders launch political bloc ahead of elections
Kaamil Ahmed | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-16
Iraqi protest leaders launch political bloc ahead of elections | New party to push for demands made by protesters in ‘October Revolution’ upcoming in parliamentary elections | Kaamil Ahmed | Sat, 01/16/2021 – 11: 30 | An Iraqi protester holds up a photo of Alaa al-Rikabi, who became a face of Iraq’s protest movement (AFP) | A new party aimed at challenging Iraq’s political class and representing the country’s youth…
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After User Feedback, WhatsApp Delays Changing Service Standards
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-16
“We are postponing the date when people will be asked to review and accept the new terms,” Facebook’s Whatsapp said in a blog post. | The company cancelled the February 8 deadline for users to accept the new rules, which include sharing their information with Facebook servers. | RELATED: | WhatsApp to Up User Age Limit in EU After Pressure | The change will be thoroughly reviewed and was delayed until May 15. The new terms were rejected by users outside of Europe who do not accept that a d…
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Monday 1/18: Call to Action: MLK Moral Monday Interfaith Service of Light, Love and Leadership w/ PPC
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Online via livestream…
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Monday 1/18: Call to Action: MLK Moral Monday Interfaith Service of Light, Love and Leadership w/ PPC
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Online via livestream…
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NRA Files for Bankruptcy Months After Suit Revealed Internal Culture of Fraud
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-01-16
“Thoughts and prayers.” | That is what many opponents of the National Rifle Association wryly stated in response to news that the pro-gun lobby group had officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Friday in the United States. | In a statement on its website, the NRA — which promot…
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Selected Articles: Martin Luther King Day 2021
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-16
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Born this Day: Prophet Who Saw the “Far Deeper Malady” | By David W. Mathisen, January 15 2021 | January 15 is the day on which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born, in Atlanta, Georgia, …
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Two Principles of Racial Equity that Outrage Liberals
Don Fitz | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
Do we really want to say that cops who are unjustly killed should be commemorated but people of color who are killed by cops do not deserve any recognition?>…
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Oil Industry Reconsiders Donations to Election Deniers — but Has Its Own Big Lie
Alleen Brown | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
The fossil fuel industry pioneered massive political disinformation with climate denial. It also fed the “Stop the Steal” movement…
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Google’s ‘experiment’ hiding Australian news just shows its inordinate power
Belinda Barnet | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
By just tinkering with that power, by conducting little ‘experiments’, it can make or break news businesses…
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Absence of Abortion Rights is Depriving Latin America of Agency and the Right to Thrive
Tamara Pearson | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
Maybe if we were able to have complete agency and autonomy over our individual and collective lives, our self esteems would be stronger, love would be less broken, and we’d all get better at making good decisions…
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How to Fight Climate Change and Fascists at the Same Time
Kate Aronoff | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
Democracy reform is the first step toward a sustainable future…
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Lessons From the 6 January Insurrection
Albena Azmanova | zcomm.org | 2021-01-16
The forces that led to the evisceration of working-class security is now extending to those ensconced in historically well-paid jobs, from lawyers to IT engineers…
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Guterres welcomes Palestinian announcement of elections as ‘crucial step’ towards unity
news.un.org | 2021-01-16
The UN Secretary-General has welcomed Friday’s announcement from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of the first full parliamentary and presidential elections in 15 years, scheduled to begin in May.
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FROM THE FIELD: The Myanmar child workers risking their lives for stones
news.un.org | 2021-01-16
Thirteen-year-old Min Min scavenges day and night for precious stones in a quarry in Hpakant, northern Myanmar, where perilous conditions have led to the deaths of many workers. With more than a million children working in the country, the UN is fighting to end child labour worldwide.
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Tuesday 1/19: “Miss Representation”: Screening & Panel on Women’s Representation in Media & Leadership
The Representation Project | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
FREE virtual screening…
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5 Of The Issues In Which The Mayor is On The Wrong Side
Question Unjust Authority | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Shutdown of restaurants, denial of 1st amendment rights of assembly and of worship, coverup of Hunters Point radiation, CCSF… 5 issues in which the mayor seems to be on the wrong side…
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ECOlonialismo en Centroamèrica
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
ECOlonialismo: Economà¨a Verde y reconfiguracià≤n de territorialidad en Centroamèrica…
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Mental Health Issues Facing the Asian American Community
Sunshine Behavioral Health | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
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Friday 1/15: Commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy Committee | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Online Zoom conference | Register here for Zoom link: http: //bit.ly/MLK2021sjpl…
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5 Of The Issues In Which The Mayor is On The Wrong Side
Question Unjust Authority | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Shutdown of restaurants, denial of 1st amendment rights of assembly and of worship, coverup of Hunters Point radiation, CCSF… 5 issues in which the mayor seems to be on the wrong side…
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Mental Health Issues Facing the Asian American Community
Sunshine Behavioral Health | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
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Thursday 2/4: The 23rd IndieFest Opening Night Film: The Book of Vision
Jeff Ross | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
*VIRTUAL EVENT* | Click Link: sfindiefest2021.eventive.org/welcome
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2021 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in California
Governor Newsom | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
May 2021 closes out the 50th Anniversary Year of MLK Library in an underserved area of the Capitol of the Great State of California. MLK 50, Golden Anniversary will carry his prophetic message throughout Sacramento County and beyond year round. Apathetic slumber is over and genuine equality on the short horizon, Spring 2021.
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Thursday 2/4: The 23rd IndieFest Opening Night Film: The Book of Vision
Jeff Ross | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
*VIRTUAL EVENT* | Click Link: sfindiefest2021.eventive.org/welcome
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Cardiologist Bob Ostfeld And Others Criticize Paleo Diet
Transmitter | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Paleo diets cause diseases to humans, suffering to animals, deforestation, low food yield per acre, energy waste, etc.
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Tuesday 1/19: “Miss Representation”: Screening & Panel on Women’s Representation in Media & Leadership
The Representation Project | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
FREE virtual screening…
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2021 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in California
Governor Newsom | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
May 2021 closes out the 50th Anniversary Year of MLK Library in an underserved area of the Capitol of the Great State of California. MLK 50, Golden Anniversary will carry his prophetic message throughout Sacramento County and beyond year round. Apathetic slumber is over and genuine equality on the short horizon, Spring 2021.
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ECOlonialismo en Centroamèrica
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
ECOlonialismo: Economà¨a Verde y reconfiguracià≤n de territorialidad en Centroamèrica…
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Thursday 1/21: Black and White: The Double Standard in the Capitol Hill Siege w/ Alicia Garza & Rep. Lee
INFORUM program at The Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2021-01-16
Online event via livestream…
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Longtime GOP insider Mike Lofgren on his former party: “Going easy on these people will not work”
David Masciotra | salon.com | 2021-01-16
Lofgren spent 28 years on Capitol Hill. Now he says Republican zealots should be crushed, banished and ostracized…
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Matthew Rozsa | salon.com | 2021-01-16
Caligula, Roman emperor from 37 to 41, was notorious for his debauchery. His infamous garden was his Mar-A-Lago…
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The ultimate guide to achieving roast chicken greatness, with tips from three of America’s top chefs
Joseph Neese | salon.com | 2021-01-16
“A roast chicken dinner is a complete explanation of why we cook,” according to The New York Times food editor…
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Human breeding of cats has made them look like they are always in pain
Matthew Rozsa | salon.com | 2021-01-16
What if cute grumpy-faced cats are really a Cronenberg-esque eldritch horror of human genetic manipulation?>…
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I made the cake from “Dickinson,” an underrated feat of domestic labor
Ashlie D. Stevens | salon.com | 2021-01-16
The poet’s blue ribbon-winning cake tells us a lot about the intersection between gender roles and respect…
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British government rejected visa-free EU touring for musicians to bolster hostile immigration policy
wsws.org | 2021-01-16
Musicians and promoters made it clear that the devastating impact of this move will not only be felt by current performers, but also be an obstacle to emerging performers in the future.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021: The Siege on Capitol Hill. The Impeachment of Donald Trump
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-16
“The purpose of impeachment is to get somebody out of office. If they’re already out of office what’s the purpose? It’s all a political act, and the Establishment getting rid of a non-establishment figure who was seen as a treat …
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Engels on the Peasant War in Germany
Prabhat Patnaik | mronline.org | 2021-01-16
At a time when peasant masses in the country are engaged in a valiant struggle for the repeal of the Central government’s three infamous laws, and have laid peaceful siege to Delhi, braving rains and bitter cold, it is worth recalling Friedrich Engels’ study of the peasant war in Germany in 1525, that also celebrated …
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White Supremacist Trump Backers to Storm state capitols on Jan. 20: How Defenseless are We?
The Conversation | juancole.com | 2021-01-16
By Jennifer Earl | — Americans witnessed an alarming and deadly failure in planning and policing at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The FBI failed to sound intelligence alarms, including about dozens of targets on the terrorist watch list traveling to Washington, D.C. U.S. Park Police, D.C. police and the National Guard, who collectively …
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We need to prepare for ongoing insurrectionary violence and address its root causes
Maria J. Stephan | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-16
Toxic polarization, in which the other side is seen as a monolithic enemy and an existential threat, is dangerous and cripples our ability to solve serious problems.
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Justice Department proposes internal investigation to cover up state involvement in January 6 coup attempt
wsws.org | 2021-01-16
Although the January 6 attempt failed at seizing power, the entire political establishment is now lurching further to the right.
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‘Thoughts and prayers to the NRA’: Reviled gun lobby group files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
Jon Queally | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-16
“The NRA’s claimed financial status has finally met its moral status: bankrupt.”
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PDF of January 14 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2021-01-16
Download the 12-page PDF. Special Coverage: Resisting White Supremacy No fascist coup! Fight back with workers’ power Georgia grassroots victory; Marcy on violence and the state; Threat of fascism remains; Black Lives Matter and ‘democracy’; ‘Fraudulent’ elections; as imperialist ploy; Charlottesville’s how-to lessons; Fascists, the FBI — and legislators; Capitol . . . | Continue reading PDF of January 14 issue at Workers.org
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Youth climate movement demands immediate action after ’empty promises,’ announces next global strike
Jon Queally | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-16
“If we don’t act now, we won’t even have the chance to deliver on those 2030, 2050 targets that world leaders keep on talking about.”
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The U.S. recovery on pause, December brings new job losses
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2021-01-16
A meaningful working-class recovery from the recession seems far away.
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US Places Sanctions on Cuba’s Minister & Ministry of Interior
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-16
Without presenting any evidence, the pretext for this action is the alleged responsibility of the minister of that ministry, General Lázaro àÅlvarez Casas, in alleged violations of human rights, a pretext that the US government repeatedly uses to justify its actions against countries that do not surrender to its dictates. | RELATED: | Terrorism Against Cuba Insitgated from Abroad | According to an official statement by the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, the measure is ad…
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The ugly truth of WhatsApp’s user data privacy
Sasank | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-16
Facebook’s meteoric rise as one of the biggest global monopolies has been accompanied by continuous weakening of its user privacy. With WhatsApp users voting with their feet, has Facebook’s past finally caught up with it?
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Yoweri Museveni Re-Elected for Sixth Term in Uganda
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-16
Uganda’s electoral court declared on Saturday President Yoweri Museveni as the winner of the January 14 parliamentary election, securing the continuity of his mandate which started in 1986. | RELATED: | Uganda’s Presidential and Parliamentary Elections Kick Off | According to the Electoral Commission Museveni won over 58.6 percent of the votes with 5.85 million while the main opponent Bobi Wine collected about 3.48 million votes, representing 34.8 percent. | Wine has refused to acce…
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Trump and his key enablers
Karl Grossman | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-16
Is the Trump nightmare finally ending?>…
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Pittsburgh mayor and DA clamp down on anti-racist activists
Andrew Bankson | liberationnews.org | 2021-01-16
Last week, Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala, Jr. refiled charges against 24 anti-racist activists.
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“No One Took Us Seriously”: Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers for Years
ProPublica | juancole.com | 2021-01-16
By Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien Allegations of racism against the Capitol Police are nothing new: Over 250 Black cops have sued the department since 2001. Some of those former officers now say it’s no surprise white nationalists were able to storm the building. ( ProPublica) — When Kim Dine took over as the new …
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Fed chief pledges massive support for Wall Street will not cease
wsws.org | 2021-01-16
In an interview on Thursday, Powell said there was “real sensitivity” among investors about asset purchases and the Fed did not talk about an “exit” because “markets are listening.”
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As Dutch government resigns, left calls for parliamentary inquiry
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-16
The Dutch government resigned two months ahead of the general election over a child care subsidy scandal in which thousands of parents were wrongly accused of fraud…
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Trump Hardliners Poisoning US-China Relations. Pompeo “Spreads Political Viruses”
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-15
In its waning days in power, Trump regime hardliners are going all-out to more greatly deteriorate US relations with China than already — Pompeo leading the assault. | Mindful of what’s going on with more coming, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao …
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Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Nuland?
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2021-01-15
Join World Beyond War, CODEPINK and dozens of other organizations opposing neocon Nuland’s confirmation as a threat to peace and diplomacy…
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Biden’s Pick: Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Victoria Nuland?
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-15
Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland. Most Americans have no idea that President-elect Biden’s pick for Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs | …
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Will the Senate Confirm Coup Plotter Nuland?
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies, Marcy Winograd | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
Who is Victoria Nuland? Most Americans have never heard of her because the U.S. corporate media’s foreign policy coverage is a wasteland. Most Americans have no idea that President-elect Biden’s pick for Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs is stuck in the quicksand of 1950s U.S.-Russia Cold War politics and dreams of continued NATO…
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Venezuela Offers Oxygen to Attend COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Venezuela’s Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza Thursday informed that his country will provide oxygen to Brazil so it can face Manaus city’s health emergency. | RELATED: | Venezuela Announces International Lawsuit Against US | “On instructions from President Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela will support the brotherly Brazilian people. For our nation, solidarity is a duty,” Arreaza tweeted. | On Thursday, Amazon State’s governor Wilson Lima thanked the solidarity gesture that will end the…
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Deadly earthquake hits Indonesia: Dozens killed, hundreds injured
news.un.org | 2021-01-15
At least 35 people have been killed and hundreds of others injured after a 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the West Sulawesi Province of Indonesia on Friday morning, according to the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA).
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Citing famine, UN urges reversal of terrorist designation for Yemen’s Houthis; US refuses
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-15
Mark Lowcock of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warned that recent labeling of Houthis as a terrorist organization by the US would likely trigger a “famine on a scale we have not seen in 40 years…
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A Yemeni Famine Made in Washington and Riyadh
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
Ending months of speculation, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on January 10 that the Trump Administration would designate Yemen’s Houthi rebels (Ansar Allah) as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” (FTO). Branding the Houthis as terrorists will make it vastly more difficult for humanitarian groups to deliver desperately needed food, fuel, and medicine to 24 million…
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Would You Patent the Sun? Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk’s Son Urges More Access to COVD Vaccine
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-15
The total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. is set to top 400,000 before Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, but rollout of coronavirus vaccines has been slow, with many describing a vexing amount of red tape standing between them and the shot. We look at the development and distribution of another vaccine during the polio epidemic in the 1950s with Dr. Peter Salk, a physician and professor of infectious diseases and microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh, whose father, Dr. Jonas Salk, developed the first polio vaccine and famously declined to patent his invention. “The rest of the world and th…
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Would You Patent the Sun? Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk’s Son Urges More Access to COVID Vaccine
Staff | democracynow.org | 2021-01-15
The total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. is set to top 400,000 before Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, but rollout of coronavirus vaccines has been slow, with many describing a vexing amount of red tape standing between them and the shot. We look at the development and distribution of another vaccine during the polio epidemic in the 1950s with Dr. Peter Salk, a physician and professor of infectious diseases and microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh, whose father, Dr. Jonas Salk, developed the first polio vaccine and famously declined to patent his invention. “The rest of the world and th…
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Silicon Valley Destroys Parler in a Show of Monopolistic Force
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2021-01-15
By Glenn Greenwald / Reposted with author permission from Substack Critics of Silicon Valley censorship for years heard the same refrain: tech platforms like Facebook, Google and Twitter are private corporations and can host or ban whoever they want. If you don’t like what they are doing, the solution is not to complain or to regulate them. Instead, go create your own social media platform that… | Source…
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Microsoft, Oracle & Co full speed ahead on Covid-19 vaccine passports, citing incipient government demand
rt.com | 2021-01-15
US tech and health behemoths have joined forces to roll out yet another Covid-19 vaccination passport, dangling a return to international travel but raising more questions about the future of privacy. | Along with healthcare nonprofit Mayo Clinic, health and tech companies including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle have united to form the Vaccination Credential Initiative, aimed at devising a secure “health passport” that tracks the bearer’s vaccination status across borders. | In a press release on Thursday, the CEO of VCI member the Commons Project Foundation argued such passports were necessary to “safely…
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Microsoft, Oracle & Co full speed ahead on Covid-19 vaccine passports, citing incipient government demand
rt.com | 2021-01-15
US tech and health behemoths have joined forces to roll out yet another Covid-19 vaccination passport, dangling a return to international travel but raising more questions about the future of privacy. | Along with healthcare nonprofit Mayo Clinic, health and tech companies including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Oracle have united to form the Vaccination Credential Initiative, aimed at devising a secure “health passport” that tracks the bearer’s vaccination status across borders. | In a press release on Thursday, the CEO of VCI member the Commons Project Foundation argued such passports were necessary to “safely…
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Huelgas de hambre en tres cárceles de Nueva Jersey
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2021-01-15
Las sucias condiciones, el encarcelamiento indefinido y la escalada de infecciones por COVID han desencadenado huelgas de hambre desesperadas en tres cárceles del condado de Nueva Jersey. Cada cárcel funciona como una prisión con fines de lucro, alquilando un espacio a $120 por día para que ICE encarcele a migrantes . . . | Continue reading Huelgas de hambre en tres cárceles de Nueva Jersey at Workers.org
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Trump coup attempt: U.S. war comes home
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2021-01-15
A caustic commentary on U.S. policy that circulated on social media worldwide within 24 hours of the Jan. 6 events at the U.S. Capitol was: “Due to travel restrictions this year, the U.S. had to organize the coup at home.” A domestic coup on the U.S. government was indeed . . . | Continue reading Trump coup attempt: U.S. war comes home at Workers.org
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Trump coup attempt: U.S. war comes home
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2021-01-15
A caustic commentary on U.S. policy that circulated on social media worldwide within 24 hours of the Jan. 6 events at the U.S. Capitol was: “Due to travel restrictions this year, the U.S. had to organize the coup at home.” A domestic coup on the U.S. government was indeed attempted . . . | Continue reading Trump coup attempt: U.S. war comes home at Workers.org
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Brazil: Manaus City on Curfew Over the Sanitary Crisis
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Brazilian authorities declared on Friday a curfew in the Amazonian city of Manaus after a COVID-19 health crisis that has killed 4000 people while 94,000 contagions cases are reported, many of them without oxygen tanks. | RELATED: | Venezuela Offers Oxygen to Attend COVID-19 in Manaus, Brazil | teleSUR correspondent in Brazil Nacho Lemus reports that over 750 people will be transferred from Manaus to other cities due to the sanitary crisis. The local media outlet reported that in…
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Venezuela sends oxygen tanks to the Brazilian Amazonas state amid COVID-19 surge
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-15
The sudden surge in numbers of COVID-19 cases in the state has caused a collapse in the public health system with a lack of ICU beds and oxygen…
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Tucker Carlson faces backlash after mocking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s fears during Capitol riot
Meaghan Ellis | salon.com | 2021-01-15
“Fox’s Tucker Carlson has moved on to mocking lawmakers for fears of a mob howling for blood on their corridors”
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Omar and Ocasio-Cortez Tell Josh Hawley to ‘Resign’—And Poll Shows Majority of Missouri Voters Agree
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-01-15
“While you may politically regret what you’ve revealed about yourself, you still have no place in public office,” Ocasio-Cortez said of Hawley. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Video: Israel and US Efforts in Large-scale Strikes on Iranian Infrastructure in Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-15
The first two weeks of 2021 have, so far, been marked by an incredible increase in Israeli activity in the skies over Syria. | The most intense strike took place on January 13 morning hitting multiple Syrian and Iranian-affiliated targets in …
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Sunday 1/17: Pin@y Power: Building Multi-Racial Working-Class Movements
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2021-01-15
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Bay Area anti-fascist protest
Judy Greenspan | workers.org | 2021-01-15
WW Photo: Marcello Severo Jan. 9–A rally against fascism organized by the United Front Committee for a Labor Party drew a small but enthusiastic crowd in front of the San Francisco Federal Building. Speakers included members of the United Front Committee, the Alliance for Independent Workers, Freedom Socialist Party and . . . | Continue reading Bay Area anti-fascist protest at Workers.org
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Fascist coup in Washington accelerates Spanish army’s coup plotting
wsws.org | 2021-01-15
Spain’s conservative Popular Party, the main parliamentary opposition to the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government, is debating whether to endorse the campaign waged by army officers and the fascist Vox party for a coup d’état.
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Julian Assange, WikiLeaks and Australia’s Complicity
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
Australia’s Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, said little in the statement from her department, which was a good thing, as it might have been dangerously useful. The finding of a UK court on whether Julian Assange would be extradited to the United States was made “on the grounds of his mental health and consequent suicide risk.”
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Encircling China and Praising India: The US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2021-01-15
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Court Rules Palestinian Filmmaker Must Pay Damages To Israeli Soldier Who Took Part in Massacre
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2021-01-15
“Jenin, Jenin” documents a deadly Israeli assault on a Palestinian refugee camp that left hundreds of civilians dead and over fifteen hundred wounded, and its release has caused an uproar in Israeli society.
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Germany draws another line in the sand for the U.S
M.K. Bhadrakumar | mronline.org | 2021-01-15
Maas underscored that Berlin “does not need to talk about European sovereignty if that is understood as us (Germany) doing everything in future the way Washington wants.”
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Uruguay’s Gender Violence Courts Have No Funding
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Uruguay’s Supreme Court of Justice (SCJ) announced that it did not have the financial resources to create three gender-based violence courts, although the 2020-2024 Budget Law allocated funds for their establishment. | RELATED: | Economic Crisis Makes Community Pots Reappear in Uruguay | “This was already decided and we had a hard time getting it through Parliament,” National Women’s Institute (INMUJERES) director Monica Bottero said, stressing that “these courts must be created. | S…
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Roaming Charges: Do Me Two Times, I’m Goin’ Away
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
I fully support the right of the People to overthrow their own government. I draw the line at the government currently in power overthrowing the next government before it takes office, thus denying the People the privilege to overthrow it when it, inevitably, betrays them.
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COVID-19 committee stresses need for equitable vaccine access, more data sharing
news.un.org | 2021-01-15
As COVID-19 cases spike in parts of Europe, Africa and the Americas, and new variants of the virus emerge in some countries, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday called for greater global collaboration in ending the pandemic.
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Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium Will Administer Vaccines
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-15
Philadelphia’s Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium will be playing a much more hands-on role in the city’s vaccine distribution efforts. | Consortium founder Dr. Ala Stanford shared on Instagram that the group — which has provided COVID-19 testing to more than 20,000 people — will be administering the vaccine to Philly’s Black communities. | People can sign up through a contact form or can reach out via email at info@blackdoctorsconsortium.com. Vaccinations will be offered on a first come, first served basis. | The consortium will begin administering the vaccines when Philadelphia enters Phase 1B of its…
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‘Unacceptable’: 6 EU countries urge bloc to address Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine delays, as Canada also flags supply issues
rt.com | 2021-01-15
Six EU governments have written to the bloc’s executive to call for action as deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech are being delayed, while supply issues have also been reported in Canada. | The health ministers of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia called on the EU Commission to ensure the “stability and transparency of timely deliveries” of the Pfizer jab in a letter on Friday. | “This situation is unacceptable. Not only does it impact the planned vaccination schedules, it also decreases the credibility of the vaccination process,” the letter reads, according to Reute…
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EC president von der Leyen dares European nations to call her bluff with announcement of (mandatory?) vaccine certificates
rt.com | 2021-01-15
Europeans must carry certificates proving they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19 to travel, EC president Ursula von der Leyen told Portuguese media – likely shocking Europeans who’d never heard of such a rule. | Von der Leyen sprung the idea of a “mutually recognized vaccination certificate” as a “medical requirement” for travel on Thursday in the course of praising a similar plan outlined to her in a letter from Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis. | “It is a medical requirement to have a certificate proving that you have been vaccinated,” von der Leyen told Portuguese reporters. | While Mitsotakis’ plan was not m…
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Argentina Awaits Its Second Batch of Sputnik V Vaccines
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez Thursday sent a second plane to Russia to transport the second batch of Sputnik V vaccines which will be used in a nationwide vaccination campaign. | RELATED: | Argentina Detects Dengue Fever Cases Amid COVID-19 Surge | The flight AR-1060 departed from Ezeiza International airport at 21.14 local time in a direct route to Moscow where it will load 300,000 doses of the vaccine. | The plane is expected to land on Argentine soil on Saturday morni…
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Polio Vaccine Inventor Jonas Salk’s Son Urges More Access to COVID Vaccination
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-01-15
The total number of deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. is set to top 400,000 before Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, but rollout of coronavirus vaccines has been slow, with many describing a vexing amount of red tape standing between them and the shot. We look at the development and distribution of another vaccine during the polio epidemic in the 1950s with Dr. Peter Salk, a physician and professor of infectious diseases and microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh, whose father, Dr. J…
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Global vaccine apartheid
Yanis Iqbal | mronline.org | 2021-01-15
A vaccine alone will not be enough to end the pandemic as it must also be made available at an affordable price and allocated in a way that achieves equity. It follows that suspending intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 is the most appropriate solution to our current situation of global vaccine apartheid.
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The mRNA COVID Vaccine Is Not a Vaccine
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-15
It’s NOT a vaccine. The mRNA COVID vaccine now being militarily deployed in many nations around the world, is NOT a vaccine. I repeat: it is not a vaccine. It is many things indeed, but a vaccine is not one …
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Here We Go Again: Botching the Vaccine Rollout
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
At the rate we’re vaccinating against covid in the U.S., it will take 10 years for the entire population to receive shots. To counter this, on January 12, the Trump regime announced that it would expand vaccination, regardless of whether second doses are available. Biden had earlier said he would do this too. The reasons…
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‘Unacceptable’: 6 EU countries urge bloc to address Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine delays, as Canada also flags supply issues
rt.com | 2021-01-15
Six EU governments have written to the bloc’s executive to call for action as deliveries of Covid-19 vaccines made by Pfizer/BioNTech are being delayed, while supply issues have also been reported in Canada. | The health ministers of Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia called on the EU Commission to ensure the “stability and transparency of timely deliveries” of the Pfizer jab in a letter on Friday. | “This situation is unacceptable. Not only does it impact the planned vaccination schedules, it also decreases the credibility of the vaccination process,” the letter reads, according to Reute…
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Have Covid, Will Travel
Andrea Arroyo | thenation.com | 2021-01-15
Have Covid, Will Travel…
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The Heat: U.S. battles COVID-19 Crisis
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2021-01-15
COVID-19 rages across the United States as the number of people who have died from the virus in the country closes in on 400,000. While the last week here in Washington has been dominated by the attack on the U.S. Capitol and the impeachment of …
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Covid clampdown: UK closing ALL travel corridors in bid to block new virus variants arriving from overseas
rt.com | 2021-01-15
The UK will shut all of its remaining international travel corridors from 4am GMT on Monday until at least February 15, in a bid to shield the country from new coronavirus variants, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday. | The decision means that from next week, any UK-bound arrivals will have to self-isolate for 10 days as soon as they enter the country, unless they can provide a negative test result after five days in quarantine. | Passengers must also be able to provide a negative Covid-19 test 72 hours before leaving their country of origin, and a completed Passenger Locator Form, which airline staff…
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Covid clampdown: UK closing ALL travel corridors in bid to block new virus variants arriving from overseas
rt.com | 2021-01-15
The UK will shut all of its remaining international travel corridors from 4am GMT on Monday until at least February 15, in a bid to shield the country from new coronavirus variants, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday. | The decision means that from next week, any UK-bound arrivals will have to self-isolate for 10 days as soon as they enter the country, unless they can provide a negative test result after five days in quarantine. | Passengers must also be able to provide a negative Covid-19 test 72 hours before leaving their country of origin, and a completed Passenger Locator Form, which airline staff…
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Covid-19: Israeli man arrested for tricking ex into quarantine four times
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Covid-19: Israeli man arrested for tricking ex into quarantine four times | Police said the suspect, a health ministry employee, sent messages on four separate occasions to his ex-girlfriend telling her she needed to isolate | MEE staff | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 13: 48 | An Israeli woman wearing a protective mask due to the Covid-19 pandemic sits on a park bench by feeding pigeons in Jerusalem on 16 April 2020 (2020) | An Israe…
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Inside the COVID-19 outbreak at Lakepointe nursing home in Clinton Township, Michigan
wsws.org | 2021-01-15
At least four Lakepointe residents have died from COVID-19 since Christmas, and workers say that residents who catch COVID are no longer able to be removed from the home, which has resulted in a growing outbreak that they can’t contain.
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As COVID deaths pass two million worldwide, Guterres warns against self-defeating ‘vaccinationalism’
news.un.org | 2021-01-15
With more than two million lives now lost worldwide to COVID-19, the UN Secretary-General appealed on Friday for countries to work together and help each other to end the pandemic and save lives. In a video statement, Secretary-General António Guterres noted that the absence of a global coordinated effort has worsened the pandemic’s deadly impact.
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Pandemic curbs trend towards ever-increasing migration
news.un.org | 2021-01-15
Travel restrictions and other curbs to movement put in place in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic, have put a significant dent in migration figures, but the overall trend shows 100 million more people living outside their countries of origin in 2020, compared to the year 2000, a new UN report revealed on Friday.
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As COVID deaths pass two million worldwide, Guterres warns against self-defeating ‘vaccinationalism’
news.un.org | 2021-01-15
With more than two million lives now lost worlwide to COVID-19, the UN Secretary-General appealed on Friday for countries to work together and help each other to end the pandemic and save lives. In a video statement, Secretary-General António Guterres noted that the absence of a global coordinated effort has worsened the pandemic’s deadly impact.
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Sunday 1/17: MLK Beloved Community Action & Prayer Gathering in Midst of COVID & Chaos w/ PPC
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2021-01-15
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Hunger Strike Starts Tonight in Santa Clara County Jail
via Silicon Valley deBug | indybay.org | 2021-01-15
Prisoners of Santa Clara County Main Jail 7B will be standing in protest in the form of a hunger strike beginning tonight challenging their conditions of confinement and cruel and unusual punishment, specifically the jail and medical staff response towards Covid outbreaks in the jail. | The letter below is from the county jail prisoners to the Jail Administration.
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Argentina Detects Dengue Fever Cases Amid COVID-19 Surge
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Misiones Province’s Health Secretary Oscar Alarcon Thursday confirmed the first cases of dengue fever amid the COVID-19-related health emergency in Argentina. | RELATED: | Argentina Enacts Landmark Abortion Law | “We are in an inter-breeding phase where the notifications of new cases are minimal. We are working hard on patients who tested positive,” Alarcon said. | Argentina’s Health Ministry announced a comprehensive prevention plan that includes training to local governments to reduce dengue’s impa…
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U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Soar To Nearly 1 Million
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
The U.S. Labor Department on Thursday reported that initial jobless claims in the United States soared to 965,000 last week, showing severe disruption to the labor market recovery by COVID-19 spikes. | RELATED: | Employment in Canada Falls for the First Time Since April | In the week ending Jan. 9, the number of citizens filing for unemployment benefits jumped by 181,000 from the previous week’s downwardly revised level of 784,000, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
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Reimagining the World: Agroecology and Post-COVID Plunder
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2021-01-15
Contingent on World Bank aid to be given to poorer countries in the wake of coronavirus lockdowns, agrifood conglomerates will aim to further expand their influence. These firms have been integral to the consolidation of a global food regime that has emerged in recent decades based on chemical- and proprietary-input-dependent agriculture which incurs massive externalised …
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“Brazil is Broken”: Bolsonaro, COVID, and the Looming Return to Austerity
Dan Beeton | cepr.net | 2021-01-15
As the New Year begins and Brazil officially passes 200,000 COVID deaths, far-right Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro announced with his characteristic bluntness: “Brazil is broken. I can’t do anything.” While blaming the media for exaggerating the threat of the coronavirus, Bolsonaro complained that COVID had prevented him from further pursuing the structural adjustments and austerity …
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As COVID cases surge: Sharp rise in new US unemployment claims
wsws.org | 2021-01-15
The adjusted number of new jobless claims rose to 965,000 for the week ending January 9 as the US Federal Reserve reports 20 percent of low-income workers are unemployed.
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EDITORIAL øPor qué el país más rico del mundo no está tan preparado?
Editor | workers.org | 2021-01-15
La gran pregunta que uno debe hacerse sobre la epidemia de COVID-19, –que hasta el 2 de enero ha matado a más de 1.850.000 personas en todo el mundo,– es, ” øPor qué Estados Unidos no estaba preparado?” Larga fila en la despensa de alimentos de Chelsea, Massachusetts. Este es un . . . | Continue reading EDITORIAL øPor qué el país más rico del mundo no está tan preparado? at Workers.org
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Neo-fascists found their voice in Trump. Where will the left’s voice come from?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2021-01-15
With COVID-19 still raging and Biden’s inauguration around the corner, Warnock and Ossoff win big in Georgia, Trumpist insurgents storm the U.S. Capitol, and Democrats and Republicans seethe with internal strife. What’s next?
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Peru: 10 Officers Under Investigation Over Violence in Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Peru’s Interior Ministry Thursday began an investigation against ten National Police officers for the “unnecessary and excessive” use of force during demonstrations against former Interim President Manuel Merino. | RELATED: | Political Crisis Stricken Peru Tops One Million COVID-19 Cases | The officers, whose identities are kept secret, are investigated for firing tear gas canisters directly at the protesters’ heads and upper bodies. | Authorities revealed that the National Poli…
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UK passes 100,000 COVID-19 deaths
wsws.org | 2021-01-15
The staggering loss of life was underscored, Wednesday with the Office for National Statistics confirming that 2020 saw the largest increase in excess deaths since the Second World War…
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COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink
Dr. Ari Joffe | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-15
Abstract | The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide pandemic in 2020. In response, most countries in the world implemented lockdowns, restricting their population’s movements, work, education, gatherings, and general activities in …
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Belgian left and progressive movements demand justice for Black man who died after arrest
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-15
Ibrahima Barrie was taken in by the police on Saturday night in Brussels North for allegedly violating the COVID-19 curfew. He reportedly lost consciousness at the police station and was subsequently shifted to a hospital where he died…
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Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2021-01-15
Now that Trump is the first President to be impeached twice, we’ll surely see more of his Republican allies slink away.
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The country where liberty is a statue
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2021-01-15
On 6 January, the world witnessed an interesting spectacle, an assortment of what appeared to be characters from fantasy television shows taking possession of the U.S. Capitol, where the legislature sits.
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America Condemns One Violent Mob While Celebrating Another
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
Most rational Americans have correctly criticized and denounced the violent insurrection in the Capitol last week. Those moments of attack by a racist, disgusting mob have not lacked for condemnation and denunciation. They were violent. They were reprehensible. They called for the killing of lawmakers, demanded the hanging of Congress members. The liberal media and…
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Capitalism’s Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
Before Justin Trudeau was prime minister of Canada, right winger Stephen Harper held the position. A loud-mouthed, somewhat boorish right-winger, he attacked immigrants, the indigenous nations of Canada, working people, the environment and everyone to his left. Millions of Canadians breathed a huge sigh of relief when Harper was defeated in the 2012 elections. The overall…
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MN: Progressive groups plan inauguration day rally to demand a People’s Agenda
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-01-15
Minneapolis, MN – A broad coalition of progressive organizations will rally and march in Minneapolis on the day of the inauguration of the Biden-Harris presidency, January 20. Demonstrators will call for a People’s Agenda that immediately reverses the policies of outgoing President Trump and meets the demands of working people, immigrants and oppressed nationality communities. | Protesters will gather near South High School in Minneapolis at 5 p.m. The list of demands compiled by the coalition highlighted not only the failures and racist attacks from the Trump administration, but also what they see as omissions a…
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MN: Progressive groups plan inauguration day rally to demand a People’s Agenda
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-01-15
Minneapolis, MN – A broad coalition of progressive organizations will rally and march in Minneapolis on the day of the inauguration of the Biden-Harris presidency, January 20. Demonstrators will call for a People’s Agenda that immediately reverses the policies of outgoing President Trump and meets the demands of working people, immigrants and oppressed nationality communities. | Protesters will gather near South High School in Minneapolis at 5 p.m. The list of demands compiled by the coalition highlighted not only the failures and racist attacks from the Trump administration, but also what they see as omissions a…
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Honduras: 2nd Migrant Caravan of 2021 Heads to US-Mexico Border
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Over 3,000 Hondurans Friday departed from San Pedro Sula to the border with Guatemala. It is the second migrant caravan to leave the country this week, hoping to reach the U.S. | RELATED: | Honduras: Protests Demand Return of Disappeared Garifuna Youth | The caravan left due to the extreme poverty and the crisis left by the pandemic and the passage of two hurricanes in November 2020. | In early Friday, the Hondurans started the walk towards the border with Guatemala, 100 kilomet…
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Mexico Drops Charges Against Ex-Army Chief Cienfuegos
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) on Friday endorsed the withdrawal of all charges against former Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos, following an investigation by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). | RELATED: | Honduras: 2nd Migrant Caravan of 2021 Heads to US-Mexico Border | On Thursday, the FGR found no evidence of illicit enrichment nor any links between Cienfuegos and an organized illegal organization investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Admin…
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Assange extradition: Justice denied or just delayed?
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2021-01-15
“The American public needed urgently to know what was being done routinely in their name, and there was no other way for them to learn it than by unauthorized disclosure.”
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6.2 Earthquake Hits Indonesia Island, at Least 42 Dead
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
At least 42 people died and 600 injured during a 6.2 magnitude earthquake in the Sulawesi island, Indonesia, on Friday. | RELATED: | Indonesia Deems the Chinese Vaccine Suitable for Muslims | According to the Disaster Management Agency, the natural disaster displaced over 2000 people, although the authorities carry out the damage assessment as dozens of buildings are partially or destroy. | A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit West Sulawesi, Indonesia. | In the middle of the pandemic, team…
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National Day Of Action For Eviction Moratorium
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-15
Boston, MA – As part of the National Day of Action to Prevent Evictions, City Life/Vida Urbana organized a rally called “Housing Is The Cure!” on January 13. Protesters gathered outside of the Boston Housing Court on New Chardon Street and marched to the JFK Building. Speakers included frontline residents and faith leaders. | The housing crisis has been exacerbated by the coronavirus, leaving many who have lost their jobs unable to pay rent. According to City Life, a new study from UCLA estimates that states that allowed evictions to continue this summer led to almost 11,000 preventable pandemic-related deaths.
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Pandemic-Caused Plunge in Restaurant Jobs Leads to First Job Loss Since April
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2021-01-15
The pain from the recession is heavily concentrated among the long-term unemployed…
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Sunrise Movement to Rally in NYC, Chicago, Calling on Senate Dems to Tackle Pandemic and Unemployment Crises
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-01-15
The youth-led climate action group called on Sens. Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin to use their new majority “to deliver on the needs of the people who backed their victory.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2021-01-15
Around 55,000 Swedish care workers to begin industrial action today over pay, conditions and increased workload during pandemic; British gas workers plan further strikes to defend pay and conditions as Telecom workers in strike ballot.
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Coronavirus causes 35% weekly hike in jobless claim applications
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2021-01-15
WASHINGTON–More closures due to the fight against community spread of the coronavirus led to a 35% increase in combined applications for state and federal jobless aid in the week ending Jan. 9, compared to the week before, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported. BLS said 1.435 million workers sought state (1,151,015 claims) and federal pandemic …
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Global warming emergency: 2020 joins 2016 as hottest year ever
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2021-01-15
The rise in temperature in 2020 was recorded despite a fall in global emissions due to the pandemic-induced lockdown and the absence of El Niño, which leads to a rise in temperature, that occurred in 2016…
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Biden’s China Conundrum
Michael T. Klare | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
Soon-to-be President Joe Biden will instantly face a set of extraordinary domestic crises — a runaway pandemic, a stalled economy, and raw political wounds, especially from the recent Trumpian assault on the Capitol — but few challenges are likely to prove more severe than managing U.S. relations with China. While generally viewed as a distant…
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How Germany’s Left Party promotes herd immunity
wsws.org | 2021-01-15
As was the case with the federal government in Berlin and every other state government in the pandemic, profits took precedence over human lives for the Left Party’s only state premier, Bodo Ramelow in Thuringia.
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Trump Approves Sacred Land Swap for Foreign-Owned Mining Corporation—Silences Indigenous Voices
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China Tech Ban Mirrors 1980s Attempts To Destroy Japanese Competition
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2021-01-15
In the 1980s, the US 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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What’s the Point of Impeaching Trump Twice?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-15
Despite Trump agreeing to leave the White House next Wednesday after losing the election under contentious circumstances, the Democrats and their “Republican In Name Only” (RINO) allies pushed Trump’s historic second impeachment through the House on allegations that he “incited …
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Sunday 1/17: The Farmer’s Movement in India
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2021-01-15
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Issues Involving Current And Other Vaccines
Article Writer | indybay.org | 2021-01-15
Why does 50% of the population want to be avoid vaccination injections.
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Keri Leigh Merritt on the New Lost Cause, Elisabeth Rosenthal on Troubled Vaccine Rollout
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting | fair.org | 2021-01-15
Historians are shaking their heads as media talk about January 6 as “unprecedented”; while shocking and dispiriting, it has layers and layers of precedent that need to be learned and engaged, if we are ever to actually have the racial reckoning that corporate media are forever insisting we’ve already had.
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Promised Vaccine Stockpile Doesn’t Even Exist? Governors Demand Trump ‘Answer Immediately for This Deception’
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2021-01-15
States “thought they were getting more doses and they planned for more doses and opened up to 65 and up, thinking they were getting more.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Paraguay Approves Emergency Use of Russian Vaccine
telesurenglish.net | 2021-01-15
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced on Friday that Paraguay’s Ministry of Health authorized the Sputnik V vaccine’s emergency use. | RELATED: | Argentina Awaits Its Second Batch of Sputnik V Vaccines | “Registration of Sputnik V vaccine in Paraguay proves the increasing interest of Latin American countries in a safe and effective Russian vaccine against coronavirus,” said the CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund Kirill Dmitriev. | El anuncio de esta mañana del Fondo S…
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What’s Happening to ‘The Chicago Reporter’?
Laura S. Washington | thenation.com | 2021-01-15
What’s Happening to ‘The Chicago Reporter’?
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These Progressives Helped Keep Hope Alive in 2020–and Prepare Us for 2021
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2021-01-15
These Progressives Helped Keep Hope Alive in 2020–and Prepare Us for 2021…
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An End to Austerity Economics with Mark Blyth
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2021-01-15
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Black Cops Warned About Racist Capitol Police Officers For Years
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-15
When Kim Dine took over as the new chief of the U.S. Capitol Police in 2012, he knew he had a serious problem. | Since 2001, hundreds of Black officers had sued the department for racial discrimination. They alleged that white officers called Black colleagues slurs like the N-word and that one officer found a hangman’s noose on his locker. White officers were called “huk lovers” or “FOGs” — short for “friends of gangsters” — if they were friendly with their Black colleagues. Black officers faced “unprovoked traffic stops” from fellow Capitol Police officers. One Black officer claimed he heard a collea…
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Right-Wing Blames US Capitol Riot On Notorious Instigator
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-15
The most dramatic footage to emerge from the far-right storming of the US Capitol on January 6 depicted the lethal shooting of Ashli Babbit, a pro-Trump activist and military veteran, by a Capitol Police officer. The man responsible for capturing that video was John Sullivan, a self-styled activist who has operated under aliases “Activist X,” “Activist John,” and “Jayden X.” Since an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who described him as a “left-wing activist,” Sullivan has become Exhibit A in the right-wing’s conspiratorial case claiming Antifa was responsible for the violence in the Capitol. | Through inter…
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Against A Domestic Terrorism Law
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2021-01-15
On Monday, Opposite Office, an “activistic architecture studio” based in Munich, released design materials for what it called “Capitol Castle,” a plan that would encircle the entire U.S. Capitol with 36-feet-thick brick walls. The concept was not serious–or, at least, it was “serious” but not intended to be built. It was, depending on how charitable you feel about “activistic architecture studios,” a design meant to spark a debate on democracy and division, or one meant to get written up by the architecture press and shared widely on social media. | But even if these German architects don’t sincerely propos…
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Authorities at former Nazi German concentration camp Buchenwald warn revelers against sledding over MASS GRAVES
rt.com | 2021-01-15
The German memorial at former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald had to issue a bizarre warning, telling people to respect the dead, as some apparently went for sled rides over the mass graves. | In a statement on its website, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation cautioned that “cases of disturbances to the peace of the dead due to winter sports activities near the grave complex will be reported.” | It appealed to people to behave in a way that preserves the dignity of t…
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Authorities at former Nazi German concentration camp Buchenwald warn revelers against sledding over MASS GRAVES
rt.com | 2021-01-15
The German memorial at former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald had to issue a bizarre warning, telling people to respect the dead, as some apparently went for sled rides over the mass graves. | In a statement on its website, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation cautioned that “cases of disturbances to the peace of the dead due to winter sports activities near the grave complex will be reported.” | It appealed to people to behave in a way that preserves the dignity of t…
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‘Dear Tayyip’: Erdogan and Macron exchanged letters to repair ties
Ragip Soylu | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
‘Dear Tayyip’: Erdogan and Macron exchanged letters to repair ties | Turkish president made the first move, with the two leaders seeking to meet in person soon | Ragip Soylu | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 14: 01 | France’s President Emmanuel Macron (L) meets Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. (AFP) | The presidents of Turkey and France hav…
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Iraq: Bird flu blamed for deaths of tens of thousands of chickens
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Iraq: Bird flu blamed for deaths of tens of thousands of chickens | Local authorities said a buffer zone was being imposed on the infected region | Alex MacDonald | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 16: 04 | Iraqi vets check chickens that entered Iraq from Turkey at a market in the southern port city of Basra (AFP) | An outbreak of bird flu was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of chickens in central Iraq, officia…
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Egyptian group Hasm designated ‘terrorist organisation’ by US
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Egyptian group Hasm designated ‘terrorist organisation’ by US | State Department says sanctions ‘seek to deny [Hassm] and its leadership the resources to plan and carry out terrorist attacks’ | MEE staff | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 16: 27 | Cairo’s counterterrorism operation against Hasm and other militants has been criticised for rights abuses against country’s citizens (AFP/File photo) | The United States has designated the Egy…
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Caliphate: How the New York Times’ Islamic State scoop unravelled
Laila Al-Arian | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Caliphate: How the New York Times’ Islamic State scoop unravelled | Laila Al-Arian | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 22: 21 | The Caliphate podcast has revealed again that the paper needs to confront unpleasant truths about how it handles stories at the nexus of Islam, the Middle East and terrorism | One of the most consequential US media scandals in recent years ultimately ended with a whimper. After a two-month internal inv…
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Egyptian group Hasm designated ‘terrorist organisation’ by US
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Egyptian group Hasm designated ‘terrorist organisation’ by US | State Department says sanctions ‘seek to deny [Hasm] and its leadership the resources to plan and carry out terrorist attacks’ | MEE staff | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 16: 27 | Cairo’s counterterrorism operation against Hasm and other militants has been criticised for rights abuses against country’s citizens (AFP/File photo) | The United States has designated the Egyp…
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Egyptian group Hasm designated ‘terrorist organisation’ by US
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Egyptian group Hasm designated ‘terrorist organisation’ by US | State Department said sanctions ‘seek to deny [Hassm] and its leadership the resources to plan and carry out terrorist attacks’ | MEE staff | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 16: 27 | Cairo’s counterterrorism operation against Hasm and other militants has been criticised for rights abuses against the country’s citizens (AFP/File photo) | The United States has designated the…
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Egypt expands oil refining capacity as it aims for self-sufficiency
Amr Emam | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Egypt expands oil refining capacity as it aims for self-sufficiency | Meanwhile, experts say that Egypt’s growing natural gas production will contribute to less dependence on petroleum | Amr Emam | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 10: 32 | A female petrol station worker operates a fuel pump at a petrol station in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on 21 November, 2016 (AFP) | Egypt is moving down the road toward its goal of achieving self-suffi…
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BBC chair donated to Quilliam because he was ‘impressed’ by Maajid Nawaz
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
BBC chair donated to Quilliam because he was ‘impressed’ by Maajid Nawaz | Richard Sharp told parliamentary committee he wanted to support controversial radio host’s ‘personal efforts to combat radicalism and extremism’ | MEE staff | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 14: 31 | Sharp said he donated to Quilliam after he was left impressed by Maajid Nawaz after hearing him on LBC radio (AFP) | The incoming chair of the BBC has told a parlia…
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Abbas announces first Palestinian elections in more than 15 years
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Abbas announces first Palestinian elections in more than 15 years | Parliamentary elections will be held on 22 May, followed by presidential vote on 31 July, according to office of President Mahmoud Abbas | MEE and agencies | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 21: 32 | Mahmoud Abbas, 85, has been Palestinian president since 2005 (AFP) | Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced the first parliamentary and presidential el…
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‘Dear Tayyip’: Erdogan and Macron exchanged letters to repair ties
Ragip Soylu | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
‘Dear Tayyip’: Erdogan and Macron exchanged letters to repair ties | Turkish president made the first move, with the two leaders seeking to meet in person soon | Ragip Soylu | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 14: 01 | France’s President Emmanuel Macron (L) meets Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on 28 June 2019. (AFP) | The presidents of Turkey and France have…
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Algeria: Five civilians killed in bomb blast in Tebessa region
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2021-01-15
Algeria: Five civilians killed in bomb blast in Tebessa region | Homemade explosive detonates as car drives by in the deadliest attack targeting civilians in recent years | MEE and agencies | Fri, 01/15/2021 – 08: 52 | General Said Chengriha, the army’s chief of staff, urged Algerians to be ‘vigilant’ and to avoid going to regions considered unsafe (File pic- AFP) | A homemade bomb killed five people and wou…
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SEIU Local 73: Statement of support for Human Rights Day 7 in the Philippines
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-01-15
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73. | | On International Human Rights Day, December 10, the Philippine National Police raided the homes and jailed Dennise Velasco of Defend Jobs Philippines; Romina Astudillo, Deputy Secretary-General of Kilusang Mayo Uno-Metro Manila; Mark Ryan Cruz, Regional Executive Committee of KMU-Metro Manila; Jaymie Gregorio Jr. of KMU-Metro Manila; Joel Demate of Solidarity of Labor Rights and Welfare (SOLAR); Rodrigo Esparago of Sandigang Manggagawa sa Quezon City (SMQC), and journalist Lady Ann…
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SEIU Local 73: Statement of support for Human Rights Day 7 in the Philippines
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2021-01-15
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73. | | On International Human Rights Day, December 10, the Philippine National Police raided the homes and jailed Dennise Velasco of Defend Jobs Philippines; Romina Astudillo, Deputy Secretary-General of Kilusang Mayo Uno-Metro Manila; Mark Ryan Cruz, Regional Executive Committee of KMU-Metro Manila; Jaymie Gregorio Jr. of KMU-Metro Manila; Joel Demate of Solidarity of Labor Rights and Welfare (SOLAR); Rodrigo Esparago of Sandigang Manggagawa sa Quezon City (SMQC), and journalist Lady Ann…
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Monday 1/18: Call to Action: MLK Moral Monday Interfaith Service of Light, Love and Leadership w/ PPC
Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2021-01-15
Online via livestream…
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Monday 1/18: Martin Luther King Jr. Virtual Day of Service at Homeless Garden Project
Homeless Garden Project | indybay.org | 2021-01-15
This online event is free and open to the public. Be sure to register here in advance to receive the link: http: //bit.ly/HGPMLKday2021…
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Bush: ´Inizia la nuova era della speranza ª
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2021-01-15
Alle 2: 20 del 17 gennaio 1991 (ora del Golfo), elicotteri Usa penetrano in territorio iracheno, distruggendo con missili Hellfire due stazioni radar. Subito dopo missili da crociera Tomahawk e caccia Stealth F-117A colpiscono altri centri nevralgici, accecando le difese aeree …
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2020 Is Tied for the Hottest Year on Record, NASA Says
Staff | truthout.org | 2021-01-15
2020 tied with 2016 for the hottest year on record, signaling a dangerous trend in the ongoing climate crisis, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced on Thursday. | The year’s global temperature average very narrowly exceeded that of 2016, but not by a statistically significant amount, according to NASA. The average temperature was 1.02 degrees Celsius above the baseline mean and rep…
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