(2021-11-04). As the planet wants to go green, France has a nuclear habit it just cannot kick. peoplesdispatch.org With one of every three lightbulbs in France being lit by the yellow-cake uranium from Niger, its armies have garrisoned the Sahel, from Mauritania at one end to Chad at the other, as part of Operation Barkhane. War is what turns on the lights in France…
(2021-11-04). Why Julian Assange's inhumane prosecution imperils justice for us all. mronline.org 
The damage done to the Wikileaks co-founder in his decade of incarceration and uncertainty, including more than two years in Belmarsh is beyond doubt. But so, too, is his courage beyond doubt.
(2021-11-04). Words without Action: The West's Role in Israel's Illegal Settlement Expansion. dissidentvoice.org 
The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could, in theory, force Israel to abandon its plans. Alas, it will not, because the statements of 'concern,' 'regrets', 'disappointment' and even outright condemnation …
(2021-11-04). Palestine Chronicle: "Words without Action: The West's Role in Israel's Illegal Settlement Expansion" imemc.org 
By Dr. Ramzy Baroud for the Palestine Chronicle: The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could, in theory, force Israel to abandon its plans.
(2021-11-04). Debunking the Media Lies Fueling War in Ethiopia, w/ Journalist Hermela Aregawi. thealtworld.com November 4 is the one year anniversary of the TPLF attacks on the Ethiopian government's Northern Command base, kicking off a brutal war. The TPLF is now advancing towards Addis Ababa, prompting the government to declare a state of emergency. The U.S. government has continued to condemn Ethiopia for fighting back against the TPLF insurgency, leading many Ethiopians to believe that Washington is supporting a violent coup in their country. | Hermela Aregawi is an Ethiopian-American journalist of Tigrayan descent who has been relentlessly attacked and smeared for calling out biased media reporting on the conflict. S…
(2021-11-04). Six Candidates Compete For The Nicaraguan Presidency On Sunday. telesurenglish.net On Nov., the Nicaraguan people will elect president, vice president, 90 lawmakers, and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament. | RELATED: | The parties competing for the presidency are the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), Nicaragua's Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC), Christian Road (CCN), Liberal Alliance Party (ALN), the Independent Liberal Party (PLI), and the Alliance for the Republic Party (APRE). Below are the profiles of the politic…
(2021-11-04). Denial of Wrongdoing in Deadly Kabul Strike Reveals 'Systemic Problem' at Pentagon: Critics. commondreams.org "The flood of disinformation unleashed by Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook is drowning audiences around the world."
(2021-11-04). 'The Big Tobacco of Our Generation': Study Shows Huge Scale of Facebook Climate Lies. commondreams.org Ben van Beurden's doubling down on fossil fuels came a month after he was directly confronted over his company's role in the climate emergency.
(2021-11-04). Simplifying Stories & History Is How Empires Control The Narrative. currentaffairs.org
(2021-11-04). The Pope Just Made A Declaration Against Imperialism. youtu.be
(2021-11-04). Top NATO/EUCOM and Ukrainian military commanders: collaboration against Russia to intensify. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Zaluzhny, Wolters discuss response to Russian aggression Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Valeriy Zaluzhny has held his first phone call with NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe Tod Wolters, emphasizing the importance of NATO's continued military and naval presence in the Black Sea region. *** "…I informed him about…brazen ceasefire violations by the Russian occupation …
(2021-11-04). Nimotuzumab: El medicamento cubano contra el cáncer que reduce las secuelas pulmonares de la COVID-19. cubadebate.cu El Nimotuzumab es una molécula muy segura, que además evidencia una alta tasa de recuperación y permite la reducción de las secuelas pulmonares en pacientes que enfermaron de covid-19. La mejor de las pruebas está en historias como la de Marlon, o en las tantas batallas acumuladas de Leonor, Yaikiel y Raity, quienes desde dentro de la zona roja han visto en el Nimotuzumab traducirse la ciencia de un laboratorio, a la esperanza y la seguridad en salvar vidas.
(2021-11-04). Students and young people must take up the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org "It is becoming clear to millions of young people that capitalism offers them no future. The government and Labor know this opposition exists and its one of the central reasons they have imposed these anti-democratic electoral laws."
(2021-11-04). No Time to Lose: Why Democrats Should Include Voting Rights In Their Build Back Better Compromise. commondreams.org "Agreed at COP26 is an inadequate agreement that allows coal to continue for nearly 20 more years."
(2021-11-04). W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant winner Jane Evelyn Atwood opposes MGM's Minamata censorship. wsws.org "It is outrageous that the film isn't screened in the US… This is a movie that exposes an unconscionable tragedy few people know about but everyone should."
(2021-11-04). China is Building a Military Base in Tajikistan. journal-neo.org 
After the failed US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the coming to power in Kabul of the Taliban (a terrorist group banned in the Russian Federation), the regional security system in Central Asia began to undergo rapid reformatting. New players, the USA, Turkey, and China are trying to enter the traditional zone of influence and responsibility …
(2021-11-04). Julian Assange's Fiancée Stella Moris On dangers Of US Extradition Case. youtube.com 
Moderate Rebels live: Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with Stella Moris, the fiancée of imprisoned WikiLeaks journalist Julian Assange, about the appeal hearings in the US extradition case and how it threatens freedom of the press around the world.
(2021-11-04). ADEX, Nuri and Other Missile News from the South of the Korean Peninsula. journal-neo.org 
While the world was discussing the DPRK's SLBM, a lot was going on south of the 38th parallel. On September 15, South Korea successfully launched a locally produced ballistic missile (SLBM) from a submarine, becoming the seventh country in the world to do so. On September 28, Hyundai Heavy Industries' Ulsan shipyard held a launching …
(2021-11-04). Japan's Energy Policy and its Significance for Russia. journal-neo.org 
Just as decades ago, coal remains a strategically important fuel for the world. Despite the constant talk of greenhouse gas emissions and the complete phase-out of coal, the disappearance of this fuel from the market would lead to the collapse of the global economy. It is quite natural that the world's four major coal consumers, …
(2021-11-04). Will Glasgow fix broken climate finance promises? mronline.org 
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Current climate mitigation plans will result in a catastrophic 2.7 ∞C world temperature rise. US$1.6—3.8 trillion is needed annually to avoid global warming exceeding 1.5 ∞C.
(2021-11-04). US Bullying ASEAN to Turn on Myanmar, Create the Next "Libya" thealtworld.com The US continues pressuring ASEAN to turn on one of their member nations — Myanmar — to reverse the ousting of the US-backed client regime of Aung San Suu Kyi. | The coercion the US uses in reality against ASEAN stands in stark contrast to the coercion and "bullying" the US accuses China of in relation to its neighbors. ASEAN must stand together because if the US succeeds in overturning Myanmar's sovereignty, ASEAN will be weaker as a whole, and each nation faces being picked off one by one in a similar manner. | References: | US State Department — US Relations with Taiwan (re: the One China Pol…
(2021-11-04). Cleo Smith and The Lost Child Syndrome. dissidentvoice.org In the twenty-four-hour news cycle, scraps of information become flecks of distracting gold. Information sifters go through coverage with anorak enthusiasm. Instead of good copy and measured consideration, journalists are encouraged to become manufacturers of news in the hope that what they produce lasts for posterity. For eighteen days, four-year old Cleo Smith could not …
(2021-11-04). New Agers vs Neo-Pagans: Can Either Be Salvaged for Socialism? (Part I). dissidentvoice.org 
Neopagans have a great deal to teach 21st Century socialists, if only we would listen. As capitalism has gone into deep decline in the United States and England beginning in the 1970s, two spiritual movements have sprung up outside Judeo-Christianity: The New Age and Neopaganism. Contrary to some sociologists' claims that Neopagan Wiccans, Druids and …
(2021-11-04). 4 Key Ignored Points in the Inflation / MMT debate. realprogressives.org Inflation has caused great economic harm many times and in many places around the world throughout history. But, where we're stood now, is this time and place one where inflation should be a concern?
(2021-11-04). Capitalism is Bad for Business. realprogressives.org The reason debates about economic equality, social mobility, access to opportunity, capitalism, socialism, and politics are bogged down in stubborn, circular quagmires is because most people, on both ends of the political spectrum, see capitalism and commerce as the same thing.
(2021-11-04). Xi: China will steadfastly advance opening-up. ecns.cn President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech via video at the opening ceremony of the fourth China International Import Expo and the Hongqiao International Economic Forum on Thursday. Here are some highlights:…
(2021-11-04). U.S. has no coherent plan to end COVID-19 pandemic: magazine. ecns.cn The United States is rendering an uncontrolled experiment with every strategy all at once, with COVID-19 policies differing wildly by state, county, university, workplace and school district, The Atlantic has reported.
(2021-11-04). Widespread COVID-19 infection found in U.S. deer: NYT. ecns.cn A large number of white-tailed deer were infected with the coronavirus in Midwestern U.S.Up to 80 percent of deer sampled from April 2020 to January 2021 in the state were infected, which was characterized by researchers and outside experts as a troubling development in the course of the pandemic, it said.
(2021-11-04). China has sufficient rice, wheat to feed its people. ecns.cn The grain stocks in China are sufficient, and the staple food are "absolutely safe", an official with the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration said on Tuesday.
(2021-11-04). Economic, social interdependence between U.S., China makes decoupling impossible: Joseph S. Nye. ecns.cn Given the economic and social interdependence between the United States and China, it is impossible for the two countries to decouple, an American political scientist has noted.
(2021-11-04). 2,000-year-old tombs discovered in China's Inner Mongolia. ecns.cn Archaeologists have recently excavated 31 tombs dating back to the Han Dynasty (206 BC-220 AD) in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to the local cultural relics and archaeology institute.
(2021-11-04). UNESCO officials laud China's role in UN over past 50 years. ecns.cn Officials and ambassadors of member states to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday commended China's role since the restoration of its lawful seat 50 years ago in the United Nations.
(2021-11-04). UK central bank keeps rates unchanged despite higher inflation expectations. ecns.cn The Bank of England, Britain's central bank, said on Thursday it will keep interest rates unchanged despite widespread speculation that it will raise rates to contain rising inflation.
(2021-11-04). U.S. inaction on climate getting embarrassing: Washington Post. ecns.cn Washington's inaction on climate is getting embarrassing, a new opinion by the Washington Post has said.
(2021-11-04). Chinese premier stresses importance of water conservancy, high-standard farmland development. ecns.cn Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday called for solid efforts to facilitate the construction of farmland water conservancy facilities and the high-standard development of farmlands.
(2021-11-04). Beijing in best Autumn view. ecns.cn Tourists and citizens wander and enjoy the Autumn days in Beijing.
(2021-11-04). July 11 Protests in Cuba: A Personal Narrative of Events. orinocotribune.com By Helen Yaffe — Nov 2, 2021 | Abstract: On Sunday July 11 anti-government protests took place simultaneously in towns and cities throughout Cuba; the first violent protests there for 27 years. The international media depicted mass opposition to the Cuban government, police repression of peaceful protests and a regime in crisis. Cuban American leaders and US politicians called for US intervention, while President Biden labeled Cuba a "failed s…
(2021-11-04). 108 Days Of Hunger Strike, Israel To Reactivate Administrative Detention Order. imemc.org 
The Palestinian Prisoners' Society (PPS) has reported that the Israeli military prosecution has decided to reactivate the arbitrary Administrative Detention order against Miqdad al-Qawasma who continues the hunger strike for the 108th consecutive day, protesting his continued imprisonment without charges. Attorney Jawad Boulus stated that the prosecution is alleging that the medical reports indicate "an …
(2021-11-04). Army Abducts Two Palestinians In Bethlehem. imemc.org 
Israeli soldiers abducted, on Thursday at dawn, two young Palestinian men from the Bethlehem governorate, south of occupied Jerusalem, in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded the al-Jadawel area in Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, searched homes, and abducted Mohammad Fawwaz Mashayekh, 24. They added that the soldiers also abducted Mohammad …
(2021-11-04). Army Demolishes A Palestinian Home, Commerical Facilities, In Jerusalem. imemc.org 
Israeli soldiers demolished, Wednesday, a Palestinian home in Jabal al-Mokabber, and several commercial facilities in Hizma town, in the occupied capital, Jerusalem, under the pretext of being built without permits. Local sources said the soldiers, accompanied by bulldozers invaded the as-Sal'a area in Jabal al-Mokabber and demolished a home, owned by Mohannad al-Hroub and his …
(2021-11-04). Israeli Colonizers Injure A Child In Hebron. imemc.org 
A group of illegal Israeli colonizers attacked and injured, Wednesday, a Palestinian child in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank. Aref Jaber, a resident of the Shuhada Street in the center of Hebron city, said the colonizers chased his nephew, Abdul-Majid Hammouda Jaber, 12. He added that the child was …
(2021-11-04). Israeli Soldiers Demolish a Mosque Near Nablus. imemc.org 
Israeli soldiers demolished, on Thursday at dawn, a Palestinian mosque in Douma town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who monitors Israel's illegal colonialist activities in northern West Bank, said several army jeeps and a bulldozer invaded the town, before demolishing the mosque. He added that the …
(2021-11-04). CIA Plot to Kill Julian Assange: Will Perpetrators Ever Face Legal Accountability for Criminal Behavior? covertactionmagazine.com Chances are Slim as Political Cowardice Reigns Supreme in America's Second Gilded Age Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) last week asked …
(2021-11-04). ICC Chief Prosecutor's Visit to Venezuela Ends with Signing of Memorandum of Understanding. orinocotribune.com 
The visit to Venezuela by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Ahmad Khan, concluded with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the ICC. During a three-day stay in the country, Khan pursued a busy schedule. | In this sense, the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, mentioned that it was three days of work, and of frank and direct dialogue which he considered favorable and positive for the work carried out by the ICC. For this reason, the president added that the debate demonstrated the legal, doctrinal, and constitutional str…
(2021-11-04). How Black Politicians Have Let Down Black Communities. blackagendareport.com
(2021-11-04). How The US Prevents Countries From Accessing Their Own Resources. youtu.be
(2021-11-04). China's Counterintelligence People's War Is Patriotic & Pragmatic. oneworld.press The Chinese people are rallying in support of their country after the CIA announced earlier in October that it created a China Mission Center exclusively dedicated to spying on the People's Republic.
(2021-11-04). PCHR: Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. imemc.org 
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR): Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for October 28 — November 3, 2021 Israeli forces continued to commit crimes and multi-layered violations against Palestinian civilians and their properties. This week witnessed escalation of demolitions and attempts to displace Palestinians from occupied …
(2021-11-04). Activists and scholars condemn closure of Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity in Australia. peoplesdispatch.org In a surprise move, Flinders University has decided to shut down the world-renowned Southgate Institute for Health, Society and Equity, a key institution for the research of social determinants of health…
(2021-11-04). The COP26 health agenda must revitalize Primary Health Care. peoplesdispatch.org As COP26 continues, we bring an overview of the intersection of health and climate change at the summit. Health systems can contribute to decreasing carbon emissions by promoting the Primary Health Care approach…