(2021-11-24). Apple sues Israeli spy firm NSO Group. electronicintifada.net Mercenary spyware firms "have facilitated some of the world's worst human rights abuses."
(2021-11-24). Morally Bankrupt US Criticizes Venezuela's 21N Elections—Venezuela Responds. orinocotribune.com 
On Monday, November 22, Washington, through the US Department of State, issued a The new attack by Washington, this time against the regional and municipal elections of November 21, occurred while the international oversight teams continue to report with their observations on the process. | In the official statement, State Department spokesman Anthony Blinken accused…
(2021-11-24). Egypt targeted and killed civilians using French military intelligence, new report reveals. peoplesdispatch.org The report has sparked anger along with multiple calls for investigations amid revelations that France was directly responsible for 19 air strikes by Egyptian authorities which killed hundreds of people and destroyed several vehicles between 2016 and 2018…
(2021-11-24). Punishing the exploited: An exploration of the growing wealth gap. nationofchange.org We must find momentum through our discontent, and be "outraged enough to become even more politically active."
(2021-11-24). Five Reasons the Left Won in Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Leonardo Flores — Nov 22, 2021 | These elections should put the Biden administration on notice that continuing to support the MUD, and in particular, the fiction of Guaidó as "interim president," is a failed policy. | For the first time in four years, every major opposition party in Venezuela participated in elections. For the fifth time in four years, the left won in a landslide. Voters elected 23 governors, 335 mayors, 253 state legislators and 2,471 municipal councilors. The governing United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) won at least 19 of 23 governorships (one race remains too close to call)…
(2021-11-24). Headlines for November 24, 2021. democracynow.org Jury Finds "Unite the Right" Organizers Responsible for Deadly Violence, House Cmte Subpoenas Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers Over Jan. 6 Insurrection, Georgia Jury Deliberates For Second Day In Murder Trial of Men Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery, Kevin Strickland Exonerated and Freed 43 Years After He Was Wrongfully Convicted by All-White Jury, Ethiopian State TV: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Has Gone to Battlefront in Escalating Conflict, Chun Doo Hwan, U.S.-Backed, Ex-Military Dictator in South Korea, Has Died, Portugal Shutters Last Coal-Fired Plant, U.S. and Other Nations To Tap Oil Reserves In Attempt To Lower Consum…
(2021-11-24). Can You Bankrupt White Supremacy? Jury Holds Charlottesville Organizers Liable for $26M in Damages. democracynow.org 
A federal jury has ordered a group of white supremacists to pay over $26 million in damages for their role in organizing the deadly 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. "Is bankrupting these organizations, is bankrupting these individuals enough to actually stop the growing threat … of white supremacy and Nazism in the United States?" asks Slate senior editor Nicole Lewis. "I don't think so." Lewis also discusses the Ahmaud Arbery murder case and why claims of self-defense from armed white people serve as a "racist dog whistle." She says it's inevitably a one-sided trial when "the McMichae…
(2021-11-24). "Why Are Ahmaud Arbery's Killers So Scared?": Self-Defense Claims by White Attackers Seen As Racist. democracynow.org 
As the jury deliberates in the trial of the three white men charged with hunting down and murdering 25-year-old Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, we speak with Nicole Lewis, Senior editor of Jurisprudence at Slate about her piece titled, "Why Are Ahmaud Arbery's Killers So Scared?" She says claims of self-defense from armed white people serve as a "racist dog whistle," and that it is inevitably a one-sided trial when "the McMichaels are the only ones [surviving] that get to claim they're scared."
(2021-11-24). Tallahassee protest Rittenhouse verdict. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – Tallahassee Community Action Committee, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and Students for A Democratic Society held a protest, November 20, against the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse, who killed two protesters in Kenosha. TCAC called an emergency protest the night before, urging community members to come out and fight against the white supremacist vigilantism. | Regina Joseph, a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization denounced the acquittal, stating, "I am not surprised that this happened. That does not make my anger any less valid. Kyle Rittenhouse showed up to a protest, was met…
(2021-11-24). "The War Party": Jeremy Scahill on How U.S. Militarism Unifies Democrats & Republicans. democracynow.org 
As Democrats in Congress struggle to pass the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, there is large bipartisan consensus in the U.S. Congress to spend over $7 trillion over the next 10 years in military spending. The United States spends more each year on defense than China, Russia, India, the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and Australia combined. "Democrats have to engage in theater about human rights and international law and due process, but they ultimately, at the end of the day, are just as aggressive as Republicans," says investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept. His most recent p…
(2021-11-24). Colonia Dignidad: Nazi criminality exported to Chile. wsws.org The Netflix documentary addresses the evangelical cult, run by the German psychopath and pro-fascist Paul Schà§fer, that participated in the torture of political prisoners and used slave labor to produce weapons for Chile's Pinochet dictatorship in the 1970s .
(2021-11-24). Labor Notes, DSA cover up UAW betrayal of Deere strike. wsws.org The conflict between rank-and-file workers and the UAW is being swept under the rug and deliberately concealed by organizations which have long functioned as apologists for the pro-corporate union bureaucracies.
(2021-11-24). A Chronicle of the Pre-election Race in ROK: Democrats Made Up their Mind, But… journal-neo.org 
The author continues his series of articles on the presidential race in South Korea, as both camps have made up their minds as to the leading candidates. On 31 August 2021, the ruling Toburo Democratic Party launched a campaign to elect its candidate for the 2022 presidential election. 11 rounds of preliminary regional elections were …
(2021-11-24). Libya, on the Eve of Complex and Challenging Elections. journal-neo.org 
The Paris International Conference for Libya, which concluded on November 12, was an important milestone ahead of the long-awaited presidential and parliamentary elections of December 24. Participants, including almost all international and regional stakeholders, reiterated their support for the timely conduct of elections. But they also expressed their view of the vote. However difficult and …
(2021-11-24). Climate injustice at Glasgow COP-out. mronline.org 
Former Irish President Mary Robinson observed, "People will see this as a historically shameful dereliction of duty,… nowhere near enough to avoid climate disaster."
(2021-11-24). Phone Zap: Help Saratoga Lakeview Mobile Home Residents Fight Eviction Threats. itsgoingdown.org 
Call for a phone-zap campaign in support of residents at the Saratoga Lakeview Mobile Home Park. For more information on their struggle, check the interview on This Is America, here. photo: (CC BY-SA 3.0), Wikipedia Don't let Mike Giovanone turn affordable housing into boat storage! Residents of Saratoga Lakeview Mobile Home Park have been subject to…
(2021-11-24). Canadian Anti-Semites and Far-Right Conspiracy Theorists Try New Tactic: Aligning with Indigenous Communities. itsgoingdown.org 
An antifascist report from Canada about how some white nationalist and far-Right conspiracy theorists are attempting to make inroads into Indigenous communities. While the Covid pandemic may or may not be coming to an end, various anti-fascist twitter accounts have been trying to guess where the Canadian far-Right will focus their attention on next. I…
(2021-11-24). Texas' abortion ban is having a 'domino effect' on clinics across the U.S. mronline.org 
"We are seeing massive ripple effects across the country for other states taking on displaced patients."
(2021-11-24). Kingston, ON: Blockade of the LaSalle Causeway. itsgoingdown.org Report on march and action in Kingston, Ontario in solidarity with ongoing Wet'suwet'en struggle. Originally posted to North Shore Counter-Info. On the afternoon of Sunday November 21, about 100 people blocked the Lasalle Causeway in Kingston in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en land defenders and their supporters, following an RCMP raid on Thursday and multiple arrests. People…
(2021-11-24). The Dreaded Rainforest Shift. dissidentvoice.org 
Photo Credit: Rainforest Trust Major portions of the Amazon rainforest have shifted from a carbon sink to a carbon source. This shift has severe planet-wide negative implications. Studies of the Amazon rainforest over the past decade have shown telltale signals of an impending shift from a carbon sink of heat-trapping gases to a source of …
(2021-11-24). EU Observation Mission: Venezuela's Electoral Process was "Good or Very Good" orinocotribune.com After recognizing the balance of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), the head of the European Union's Electoral Observation Mission, Isabel Santos, earlier today presented the The EU's Electoral Observation Mission (EOM), which participated as an observer in last Sunday's elections on the invitation of Venezuela's government, will deliver its final report between January and February of next year, according to Santos. | "This is a pre…
(2021-11-24). Rape suspect bounced off window trying to flee (VIDEO). rt.com 
A rape and kidnapping suspect tried to flee police officers from a sixth-floor Ohio hotel window but bounced off reinforced glass, bodycam video released by Blue Ash city police shows. | "When officers arrived at the hotel room Onjre Damon George, D.O.B. 01/06/2001, answered. During questioning he attempted to jump through a sixth-floor window before he was taken into custody," Blue Ash police said in a statement. | The video showing George's unsuccessful attempt to jump out of the window has since gone viral, with several international media outlets picking it up. | Blue Ash police were alerted by a front…
(2021-11-24). Fauci speaks of 'unfinished business' before he can retire. rt.com 
Top White House Covid adviser Anthony Fauci insisted his long career as a federal bureaucrat is far from over, saying retirement is simply out of the question as he looks to wrap up "unfinished business" in the world of medicine. | Asked whether he is thinking of leaving his long-held leadership post at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the 80-year-old health official said he's "not even remotely contemplating that right now." | "There's a lot of unfinished business right now, so I'm not even thinking about walking away," Fauci told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday, adding th…
(2021-11-24). Dramatic Video Shows Militarized Canadian Police Raid Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders & Journalists. democracynow.org 
We feature dramatic video footage just released that shows a violent raid Friday by Canadian federal police on one of the camps set up to keep Coastal GasLink out of sovereign Indigenous territory. Fifteen people in total were arrested, including two journalists. Wet'suwet'en land defender Sleydo', also known as Molly Wickham, has now been released. The new footage was filmed by documentary filmmaker Michael Toledano, who was also just released. The raid ended a 56-day blockade of the drilling site. The 400-mile pipeline within Wet'suwet'en land violates both Indigenous and Canadian laws.
(2021-11-24). Automakers & union reach deal on vaccine mandates. rt.com 
Automakers Ford, General Motors and Chrysler have agreed with the United Auto Workers union to require masking in the workplace and encourage vaccination and boosters against Covid-19, but will not mandate the jabs yet. | Detroit's big three — with Chrysler represented by the parent company Stellantis — and the union
(2021-11-24). Warrior Met miners face new attacks as pro company judge extends injunction against picketing. wsws.org Judge James Robert, Jr. has renewed a strikebreaking injunction barring all picketing within 300 feet of company property.
(2021-11-24). New Zealand media pushes alarmist propaganda over China's relations with Kiribati. wsws.org Not a shred of evidence was provided that China aims to build a military base in the small Pacific island state. Rather it was simply assumed that Beijing's aims in New Zealand's "own backyard" were nefarious.
(2021-11-24). Groveland Four are exonerated more than 70 years after racist frame-up. wsws.org Four young black men—Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd and Ernest Thomas—were falsely charged with the rape of a young white woman in a case that was all too typical of the Jim Crow era.
(2021-11-24). "The First Wave" Shows What We Haven't Seen of Covid-19. zcomm.org If you have survived the pandemic without going inside a Covid ward, you will likely be stunned by the grim intimacy of Matthew Heineman's new documentary…
(2021-11-24). New type of dangerous building cladding uncovered in Britain, as another fire breaks out. wsws.org An inferno on the scale of Grenfell is a constant threat with so many residential buildings still enveloped in deadly flammable cladding.
(2021-11-24). Pentagon creates new UFO task force. rt.com 
The US Department of Defense has ordered the establishment of a specialized group for detecting unidentified airborne objects, which will become a successor to the US Navy's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. | Read more | | According to Pentagon's announcement, the new task force has been named the Airborne Object Identification and Management Synchronization Group (AOIMSG) and will coordinate the US government's efforts "to d…
(2021-11-24). Cuba's Vaccine Could End up Saving Millions of Lives. orinocotribune.com By Branko Marcetic — Nov 22, 2021 | Thanks to its public biotech sector and its government's deep commitment to public health, Cuba is now the only low-income country to have made its own COVID vaccine. It's already helped millions of Cubans, and it's poised to help millions more around the world. | Much of the press coverage of Cuba last week focused on the anti-government protests that After a di…
(2021-11-24). How Anti-Abortion Advocates Are Pushing Local Bans, City by Small City. zcomm.org Across Ohio, tactics pioneered in Texas are being deployed in disruptive city council meetings…
(2021-11-24). "MELTDOWN" Podcast Series Live Chat On 11/30. dailyposter.com 
(2021-11-24). Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders. zcomm.org Raids, Arrests and Death Threats…
(2021-11-24). Sparrow Health workers in Lansing, Michigan, vote overwhelmingly to authorize strike. wsws.org The demands of Sparrow workers include safe staffing levels, cost-of-living adjustments to wages, curtailing of ballooning health care costs, and sick time without fear of punishment.
(2021-11-24). Tallahassee: Community activists demand homophobic Police Chief Revell step down. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee , FL – On November 13, the Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) led a march to the headquarters of the Tallahassee Police Department calling for the resignation of police chief Lawrence Revell as well as City Manager Reese Goad. Revell recently spoke at a religious retreat for law enforcement executives hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, a known anti-LGBTQIA+ group that has made claims such as "trans activists are in league with 'many homosexuals' and are 'propagandizing, grooming, and mutilating children.'" | Organizations including the Dream Defenders, Planned Parenthood,…
(2021-11-24). US stokes tensions with Russia over claims of an impending invasion of Ukraine. wsws.org On Monday, Russia's foreign intelligence agency compared the current tensions in the Black Sea to the build-up to the 2008 war between Russia and Washington-backed Georgia in the Caucasus.
(2021-11-24). Only Movements From Below Can Save the Planet. zcomm.org The struggle ahead promises to be hard and brutal, but the "general will" can always prevail in the end even under the most gruesome of circumstances if people are willing to fight for the right cause…
(2021-11-24). The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine. zcomm.org Risking a nuclear holocaust to appease the military-industrial complex is as insane as destroying the climate and the natural world to appease the fossil fuel industry…
(2021-11-24). Future tech investment 'must support transition to green economy' – Alice Gast. imperial.ac.uk Imperial's President Alice Gast says investment in future technologies must not be overlooked as countries strive to meet climate goals.
(2021-11-24). Is a 21st Century Revolution Already Happening? zcomm.org If revolution incorporates feminism it will transform itself. Only through such a transformation will revolutionary change be capable of meeting the broadest range of people's needs…
(2021-11-24). Child infections fuel COVID-19 surge across the US. wsws.org The latest data from the American Academy of Pediatrics on child COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths in the US presents further damning evidence of the impacts of the full reopening of schools this fall.
(2021-11-24). Everything goes Better with Coca Cola: Hitching Capitalism to Sweet Slow Death. dissidentvoice.org 
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." — John Muir "All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to …
(2021-11-24). Dana Fort Wayne workers voice growing opposition as USW stonewalls on local contract. wsws.org After workers voted to reject the local contract at both the Dana Fort Wayne, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky plants, the United Steelworkers is keeping them in the dark on the status of a possible renegotiation of the agreement.
(2021-11-24). PSOE-Podemos government cracks down on Spanish metal strike. wsws.org The Spanish government, presented as "progressive" in capitalist media, unleashed armoured vehicles and squads of riot police on striking metalworkers in Cádiz.
(2021-11-24). Australian electoral members explain why they support the SEP. wsws.org "Oppression is an inexorable process under capitalism—there is no escape from it unless socialist governments of the people, by the people and for the people take over."
(2021-11-24). "Furious and Disgusted": Teen Survivor Speaks Out After Wealthy White Serial Rapist Gets Probation. democracynow.org 
The survivor of a serial rapist who received probation joins us to speak out after a New York judge sparked international outrage when he ruled it is inappropriate to jail the man who attacked her. Christopher Belter pleaded guilty to raping and sexually assaulting her along with three other teenage girls age 15 and 16, but he will avoid serving time in prison, and instead receive 8 years of probation. Belter is white, and from a prominent family who lives in a wealthy neighborhood near Niagara Falls. "This sentencing is telling rapists it's OK to rape and telling victims that there's no point in coming forward,"
(2021-11-24). Tallahassee activists honor trans people on Trans Day of Remembrance. fightbacknews.org On November 22, Tallahassee activists gathered on Transgender Day of Remembrance. Tallahassee Community Action Committee. Florida Coalition for Transgender Liberation, Planned Parenthood, Students for A Democratic Society, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, and the Pride Student Union held a march and vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance, an international day of solidarity and remembrance of the transgender lives lost every year. | "We have to fight every day and mourn every day. I don't get a day when I can just mourn and not fight," said Lakey Love, co-founder of the Florida Coalition for Trans Liberatio…
(2021-11-24). Selected Articles: Appeal for an Anti-Globalist Alliance: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganà≤. globalresearch.ca 
By Not a single "public health expert"-hailed mitigation or suppression measure, including the COVID shots, has done anything …