(2021-11-13). The political issues in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial. wsws.org The campaign to lionize Rittenhouse is a campaign to legitimize right-wing terror directed against social opposition from below.
(2021-11-13). Regime Change In Belarus — Following The Same Script Used In Syria. popularresistance.org Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and his Russian counterpart and key ally, Vladimir Putin, have come in for much criticism from the Western media since coverage of the crisis began, with both leaders being accused of 'orchestrating' the current situation, allegedly in a bid to destabilise the EU, and also as a retaliatory measure taken by Minsk in response to EU sanctions imposed as a result of it successfully repelling a Western-backed colour revolution launched against it last August following the re-election of Lukashenko — again, the warmongers who actually created the refugee crisis in the fi…
(2021-11-13). Why are Moderna's billionaires airbrushing scientists out of the vaccine patent picture? nationofchange.org Moderna has now filed for a patent on the key vaccine breakthrough these scientists helped produce.
(2021-11-13). We need our own party, a labor party. themilitant.com Statement by John Studer, Socialist Workers Party national campaign director, Nov. 10. | The only party that told the truth in the 2021 elections about how working people can fight back against mounting attacks we face today was the Socialist Workers Party. | Our candidates explained the root cause of the crisis — the capitalist rulers, who put their profits above all the needs of land and labor — and how workers can chart a course to take political power into our own hands. They set an example by joining union struggles and building solidarity that is crucial to the outcome and to strengthen the enti…
(2021-11-13). China And Solutions To Climate Change. popularresistance.org Last year, President Xi Jinping, pledged that China's CO2 emissions would peak before 2030, and China would become carbon neutral before 2060. | China has a track history of setting ambitious, nearly impossible goals and then achieving them–often before deadline–so this pledge is significant. Under the CPC, China has already created "an economic miracle" in transforming China into the largest economy in the world. It ended extreme poverty while creating the largest middle class in the world. It has virtually eradicated Covid through non-pharmaceutical methods, while vaccinating up to 20 million people daily, an…
(2021-11-13). Debunking myths about Nicaragua's 2021 elections, under attack by USA/EU/OAS. mronline.org 
The U.S., EU, and OAS are launching a new coup attempt against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, refusing to recognize its 2021 elections. The Grayzone observed the vote on the ground, and dispels myths aimed at discrediting the process.
(2021-11-13). Senate urged to reject Biden's 'poor choice' for FDA chief over ties to Big Pharma. nationofchange.org "The Senate… must reject Califf's nomination and demand that Biden nominate an individual who has been dedicated to advancing public health."
(2021-11-13). Guantánamo trial exposes brutality of CIA torture. themilitant.com In testimony before a sentencing jury of eight senior military officers Oct. 28, Majid Khan read a statement in court detailing his personal experiences being tortured by the CIA. Khan has been imprisoned for 15 years by the U.S. government at its notorious military facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which it occupies against the will of the Cuban people. | "I thought I was going to die," Khan said, describing the various torture techniques he was subjected to, including beatings, sexual assaults, being chained naked from a ceiling beam for long periods, starved, doused repeatedly with ice water to keep him awake…
(2021-11-13). Military knows it looks bad but works with neo-Nazis anyway. mronline.org 
The Canadian military seem willing, even eager, to work with neo-Nazis in the Ukraine in order to weaken Russia, something the U.S., NATO and Ukrainian—Canadian groups support.
(2021-11-13). US appeals court rejects Biden's vaccine mandate. rt.com 
A US federal appeals court has again ruled against President Joe Biden's national vaccine mandate for companies with 100 or more workers, shredding the policy as "staggeringly overbroad" and an abuse of "extraordinary power." | The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stark rebuke to Biden's vaccine requirement for larger American companies in a
(2021-11-13). Polish president, defense minister visit troops near Russian, Belarusian borders. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com President, defence minister praise Polish forces protecting Belarus border The two politicians arrived in the northeastern city of Olsztyn to meet with border guards, police officers and soldiers jointly protecting the Poland-Belarus frontier, news agencies reported. *** The president told reporters that the border forces "are responding to a hybrid attack on the Polish border, …
(2021-11-13). Kamala Harris ***concerned over border crisis,*** threatens Belarus. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com paradox: a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition.hypocrisy: the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.bellicosity: aggression, aggressiveness, assaultiveness, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, contentiousness, defiance, disputatiousness, feistiness, fight, militance, militancy, militantness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, scrappiness, truculence.psychosis: a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions …
(2021-11-13). [Comment] Offline: Decolonisation and the demand for a just memory. thelancet.com According to Kehinde Andrews in The New Age of Empire, the deceit of modern science is its claim to stand for a set of universal values in the service of human progress. Andrews is the UK's first Professor of Black Studies. In his view "Whiteness is at the heart of Enlightenment thinking". The values that science affirms are not based on the universal but, instead, on a purely white particular. Today's western descendants of the Enlightenment "are fundamentally incapable of even naming the racism that is the basis of the global political and economic system".
(2021-11-13). [Correspondence] Just how common is TTS after a second dose of the ChAdOx1 nCov-19 vaccine? — Authors' reply. thelancet.com We agree with Sue Pavord and colleagues about our analysis1 of very rare cases of potential thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome (TTS) after a second dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine (AZD1222)—that is, that most of the 13 cases do not fulfil the criteria to be catagorised as definite or probable vaccine-induced thrombosis with thrombocytopenia (VITT), as defined by the UK Expert Haematology Panel criteria.2 This failure to meet the criteria for definite or probable VITT is because crucial information regarding clinical and laboratory parameters was missing, which remains the key limitation of assessing…
(2021-11-13). [Comment] By any means necessary: why lowering insulin prices is relevant to racial health equity. thelancet.com When young revolutionaries in the 1960s sought to free Black people in the USA from lives of structured racism (ie, the differential access to opportunity, goods, and services by race) "by any means necessary",1 few people imagined this movement might one day include efforts to overcome exorbitant insulin prices. Yet organisations such as the Black Panther Party (BPP) understood long ago how poverty and other structural inequities lead to worse health, and were instrumental in creating a framework for cross-sector collaboration to address health disparities in low-income Black communities.
(2021-11-13). To help Democrats survive 2022, Biden should legalize marijuana right now. nationofchange.org Legalizing marijuana allows President Joe Biden to address important issues without Congressional approval and could help Democrats stave off major losses in 2022.
(2021-11-13). Six areas where action must focus to rescue this planet. nationofchange.org In the next three decades, the world must dramatically decrease greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to return to a more stable climate.
(2021-11-13). Pulitzer-winning WaPo 'corrects' Russiagate stories. rt.com 
Critics have called for the revocation of a Pulitzer Prize given to the Washington Post for its "relentless" Russiagate reporting, after the newspaper made heavy corrections to two stories based on the discredited Steele dossier. | In a statement on Friday, the Washington Post
(2021-11-13). Political Dimensions of Bilateral Ties between the PRC and the DPRK during Spring-fall of 2021. journal-neo.org 
Throughout 2021, Pyongyang and Beijing continued to actively demonstrate their long-standing traditional friendship by exchanging messages and holding ceremonial events. On February 19, it was reported that Pyongyang appointed Ri Ryong-nam, a former vice-premier in charge of trade policy in North Korea's Cabinet from June 2016 to January 2021, as ambassador to China. Previously, Ri …
(2021-11-13). Kellogg's workers strike for 'Equal pay for equal work!'. themilitant.com BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union negotiating committee voted down a Nov. 4 "last, best and final" set of contract demands from Kellogg's bosses. Since Oct. 5, 1,400 union members have been on strike at four plants — in Omaha, Nebraska; Memphis, Tennessee; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and here. | The bosses' offer "does not achieve what our members are asking for; a predictable pathway to fully vested, fully benefitted employment for all employees with no concessions," the union said. | Many signs you see on the picket line say, "Equal p…
(2021-11-13). The Existential Threat of Global Heating. dissidentvoice.org 
Once again, the hopes of billions have been raised, only to be dashed, this time by the cruel joke of COP26, the reality being that "By 2030, governments are planning to extract 110% more fossil fuels than their Paris Agreement pledge to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 ∞C above pre-industrial levels would permit". Misrepresentations abound: The United Nations upper …
(2021-11-13). Campaign to expand reach of 'Militant,' books, SWP fund. themilitant.com 
(2021-11-13). Lying in Public Life: The Scott Morrison Formula. dissidentvoice.org He has some gall. Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, a person who finds the truth a creature best beaten, shunned and ignored, is now moving into what looks like campaign mode. At COP26 in Glasgow, he sold the world a climate change model that kept company with countries where fumes linger stubbornly, and the fossil …
(2021-11-13). Marx on the metabolic rift: How capitalism cuts us off from nature. mronline.org 
Marx and Engels were witnesses to and keen analysts of the environmental problems inherent in nineteenth-century capitalism. They wrote about the depletion of coal reserves, the destruction of forests, and, especially, about diminishing soil fertility, which Foster recognizes was the most pressing issue of the day.
(2021-11-13). Deere strikers: End divisive two-tier, raise all our wages. themilitant.com WATERLOO, Iowa — United Auto Workers members on strike at John Deere plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas, and distribution centers in Denver and Atlanta, rejected the bosses' second contract proposal Nov. 2. | While it contained a higher wage offer and some other concessions, the bosses made no movement on what workers consider a key issue — divisive two tiers in wages and benefits. The majority of workers felt they could win more by continuing the strike. | This Militant worker-correspondent went along with Mark Severs, a member of Teamsters Local 638 in Minneapolis, and met with Kirk Drape, one of t…
(2021-11-13). Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: An Interview with David Ranney. itsgoingdown.org Interview between David Ranney, author of Living and Dying on the Factor Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out, and the Industrial Worker, a publication of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). In his book Living and Dying on the Factory Floor: From the Outside In and the Inside Out, David Ranney…
(2021-11-13). Women in Benin win right to choose abortion. themilitant.com After lengthy debate, Benin's parliament voted Oct. 20 to decriminalize abortion during the first trimester of pregnancy. If ratified by the constitutional court, Benin will become the first country in West Africa to legalize a woman's right to choose to have an abortion. | Women's rights organizations have led a long fight to gain this victory. "I am very, very happy that from now on, we can give this right back to the woman, to decide for herself," Angela Kpeidja, president of women's rights group Do Not Be Afraid, told Africanews. | "We have to let women choose," said pro-choice activist Faustine Adjagba. "And…
(2021-11-13). Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity —A Discussion of the Deutscher Prize 2020. mronline.org 
This session is a discussion of the Deutscher Prize Winning Book 2020 'The Return of the Dialectics of Nature: Marxian Ecology and the Struggle for Freedom as Necessity' — John Bellamy Foster…
(2021-11-13). The "forgotten fight" for prison abolition in France. roarmag.org 
Abandoned prison in Avignon, France. Jef Wodniack / Shutterstock.com | When I saw that Jaccques Lesage de La Haye had a new book called
(2021-11-13). With attack on Palestinian rights groups, Israel's impunity is on full display. peoplesdispatch.org Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian writer, and activist, and founder of the rights group Al-Haq, talks about the recent Israeli decision to designate six organizations as terrorists…
(2021-11-13). Why is the US fueling the November 15 Cuba protests? peoplesdispatch.org On September 20, letters began to arrive at eight Cuban municipal or provincial government headquarters announcing the
(2021-11-13). Sudan protests continue, fight to overturn military coup. themilitant.com Sudanese security forces fired rubber bullets and arrested scores of protesters in attacks against rallies in several cities Nov. 7, part of an ongoing wave of actions against the Oct. 25 military coup led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Thousands had rallied in the capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, as well as in Wad Madani to the south and in the northern city of Atbara. | In several cities, protesters attempted to build street barricades in response to calls for civil disobedience by the Sudanese Professionals Association. | Police fired tear gas at teachers who "were simply standing on the stre…
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(2021-11-13). Solidarity with striking miners at Warrior Met! themilitant.com 
NEW YORK — Led by a contingent of miners from the more than seven-month-long strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, over 400 people marched here Nov. 4 to support the strikers and to protest an Oct. 27 court injunction that bans picketing or other union activity of any kind within 300 yards of the mines. | "In Alabama we've got an injunction that says we can't picket," United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts told the marchers. "We've got an injunction that says we can't talk. We've go an injunction that says we can't gather up. | "I live in America and somewhere I've heard about th…
(2021-11-13). 21N Regional Elections: Smear Campaign Activated — EFE Takes the Initiative. orinocotribune.com The mega-elections to be held on November 21 in Venezuela have a significance beyond the fact of electing candidates for regional and municipal authorities, as they are the first event in several years that will include the participation of a political sector of the country that had preferred to take the path of sabotage of the elections to damage the national institutions. | In this sense, it is not surprising that there are still attempts to sabotage the elections by creating mistrust among the population and playing the abstention card, even though there are only a few days remaining until the event itself, an…
(2021-11-13). Yale researchers detect 'Remdesivir-resistant' Covid mutation. rt.com 
Researchers have discovered what's believed to be the first Covid-19 mutation resistant to the antiviral drug Remdesivir outside of the lab, according to a new preprint study. | In Though such mutations have been produce…
(2021-11-13). Britney Spears finally freed. rt.com 
A Los Angeles judge has terminated the conservatorship placed on Britney Spears more than a decade ago. The pop singer had called the arrangement "abusive" and fought to take back control of her life. | "As of today, effective immediately, the conservatorship has been terminated as to both the person and the estate," Mathew Rosengart, the pop star's attorney, told reporters outside the courthouse on Friday. "This is a monumental day for Britney Spears." | Spears thanked her fans on Instagram, calling the end of conservatorship her "best day ever." She posted a short clip of herself titled "Finally free!" | <...
(2021-11-13). Amazon's Bezos predicts only limited number of people will get to remain on Earth. rt.com 
Humanity will move most industry into space and allow only a select few to remain on our planet, which will be turned into a natural resort, according to self-funded space explorer Jeff Bezos. | The Amazon billionaire enthusiastically shared his predictions for what human civilization will look like in the future — with him personally helping to bring that future closer — during a He expects vast cylindrical space colonies spinning to create artificial gravity for million…
(2021-11-13). Qué dolor que dolor que pena… (recuerda una vieja canción popular). cubadebate.cu Las redes "sociales" y sus algoritmos, utilizados como drones teledirigidos por las fuerzas del imperio, intentan lograr al peor estilo de Joseph Goebbels que las mentiras tantas veces repetidas se conviertan en verdades. Esto de intentar vulnerar a guayabazo limpio las neuronas hoy ansiosas del pueblo cubano, o al menos de una parte de este, es otro intento de una política fallida.
(2021-11-13). Xi calls for dialogue, inclusiveness, integration at APEC meeting. ecns.cn Chinese President Xi Jinping Friday urged efforts to practice true multilateralism, stick to dialogue rather than confrontation, inclusiveness rather than exclusion, and integration rather than decoupling, and be resolute in safeguarding the multilateral trading regime with the World Trade Organization at its core.
(2021-11-13). Federal judge gives final approval of derisory settlement for Flint, Michigan residents. wsws.org The $626 million "final settlement" is proclaimed to be "historic," yet seven-and-a-half-years since Flint River water began flowing from their taps, residents continue to be victimized.
(2021-11-13). Wednesday 11/17: goBerkeley SmartSpace Update Opportunities for Public Input Southside/Telegraph. indybay.org Virtual/Online…
(2021-11-13). Another UAW executive charged with stealing dues money, as union announces "re-vote" on defeated Deere contract. wsws.org Every additional indictment and conviction only confirms what workers already know, that the UAW is organized and run by an apparatus that benefits from workers' exploitation, takes bribes from the companies and exists for the sole purpose of suppressing the class struggle.
(2021-11-13). Climate Summit Debates Funding for Developing Countries to Combat Climate Change. indybay.org As the climate summit approaches its final days in Scotland, 200 countries negotiate an agreement to combat climate change.
(2021-11-13). Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia. wsws.org Thousands of Indonesian workers demonstrate for higher minimum wage; Bangladeshi private sector transport workers strike; South Australian health workers impose bans; Country Road warehouse workers strike in Melbourne…
(2021-11-13). Judge Allows Testimony On Impacts Of Climate Change And Role Of Banks. popularresistance.org In a trial that took place on the last scheduled day of the COP 26 global climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Judge Kerry Taylor allowed the 11 pro se defendants who last June sat in rocking chairs in the main thoroughfare in front of JP Morgan Chase Bank's credit card headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, to submit testimony about the climate crisis and the role of banks in funding it. | Defendants pursued a "choice of evils" strategy, which under Delaware law allows someone to break the law to prevent a greater "imminent" harm. The prosecutor, who was the arresting officer, kept asking defendants who took the…
(2021-11-13). Over 40 killed by floods in South India and Sri Lanka. wsws.org Most affected are working people and the poor, in urban as well as rural areas, who have already been hit by the COVID-19 pandemic and hikes in the prices of essentials.
(2021-11-13). YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Accountability Journalism To The Rescue. dailyposter.com 
(2021-11-13). Joe Biden y Xi Jinping se volverán a reunir el 15 de noviembre. telesurtv.net La reunión del próximo 15 de noviembre responde al interés de Washington de mantener abierta la comunicación con China al más alto nivel.
(2021-11-13). Canada's two largest provinces reject vaccine mandates for health workers. wsws.org Ontario's and Quebec's refusal to adopt this vital public health measure will result in still more unnecessary deaths. It is also a political gift to the far right.