Kamala Emanuel (2021-12-11). Assange extradition 'an attack on us all'. greenleft.org.au The British decision to extradite Julian Assange is an attack on us all, argues Socialist Alliance Senate candidate Kamala Emanuel.

WSWS (2021-12-11). UK High Court orders Assange extradited: A pseudo-legal travesty. wsws.org The UK High Court is greenlighting a prosecution, in open defiance of the American constitution and international law, of a journalist for exposing monstrous criminal wrongdoing by the US government and military.

Editor2 (2021-12-11). On Human Rights' Day, UK Court Permits Extradition of Julian Assange to US. orinocotribune.com The British High Court's decision overturns the January decision by the district judge that found that extraditing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange would be "oppressive". Rights advocates and Assange's supporters and family strongly condemned the High Court's decision | On Human Rights Day, a British court cleared the way for the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US where he will stand trial on espionage charges. On Friday, December 10, the High Court of Justice in London overturned the decision by Judge Vanessa Baraitser of Westminster Magistrate's Court in January this year to deny the US e…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-12-11). Journalism, Assange and Reversal in the High Court. dissidentvoice.org British justice is advertised by its proponents as upright, historically different to the savages upon which it sought to civilise, and apparently fair. Such outrages as the unjust convictions of the Guilford Four and Maguire Seven, both having served time in prison for terrorist offences they did not commit, are treated as blemishes. In recent …

John Pilger (2021-12-11). The Judicial Kidnapping OF Julian Assange. zcomm.org Who among us is prepared to stand up rather than remain mere bystanders to an epic travesty such as the judicial kidnapping of Julian Assange?>

Emil Avdaliani (2021-12-11). Much More Than Just Ukraine. moderndiplomacy.eu A war scare in Ukraine is a pivotal moment for the West. It tests transatlantic resolve, unity, and the very foundations of NATO. Failure to prevent potential Russian military advances or an unwillingness to respond if such a move occurs will likely cause an accentuation of internal divisions within NATO and the European Union (EU.) …

Iveta Cherneva (2021-12-11). The U.S. national security establishment needs a paradigm shift. Now. moderndiplomacy.eu If you can sense one trend over the past weeks is that war is in the air, both on the Ukraine and the Taiwan fronts. That brings the world to a brink of war, and it seems like the US military establishment is interested in connecting the dots. They have been waiting for this for …

Editor (2021-12-11). The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations. mronline.org The Maidan massacre trial and investigation produced overwhelming evidence that Maidan protesters were massacred by snipers at Maidan-controlled buildings, rather than by government snipers or Berkut policemen—who were nevertheless charged with the crime.

_____ (2021-12-11). Erdogan's Bayraktar Bonanza. journal-neo.org On December 3, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Russian President Vladimir Putin. The heads of the two states spoke about Libya, Ukraine, and what is happening in Transcaucasia. While discussing the Ukrainian conflict, the Russian President stressed the importance of full and strict compliance with the Implementation of the 2015 Minsk Package of Measures …

_____ (2021-12-11). The Fierce Determination Of Ordinary People To Build An Extraordinary World. popularresistance.org United States President Joe Biden has suborned 111 countries to attend his Summit for Democracy on December 9—10, ending on Human Rights Day. 'We welcome all countries, organizations, and individuals to support the goals of the Summit', the US State Department wrote. However, there are 82 countries that have not been invited, including two large countries that are permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (the People's Republic of China and Russia) and two small countries from the Caribbean (Cuba and Haiti). In the name of democracy, the US government is pushing its own agenda to consolidate…

WSWS (2021-12-11). US State Department holds talks with Sri Lankan Tamil leaders. wsws.org The TNA and the GTF are acting as quislings of US imperialism, seeking privileges for the Tamil elite.

Newsroom (2021-12-11). Public-Private Collaboration Will Define New Era for Cities. moderndiplomacy.eu At the World Economic Forum's inaugural Urban Transformation Summit, which closed on Wednesday, global leaders underscored the need for increased public-private collaboration to capitalize on new infrastructure funding and tackle growing urban challenges around the globe. "Our cities and our communities are changing right before our eyes. Digitization is transforming urban economies, public health and …

Joris Leverink (2021-12-11). India's community health workers' struggle for recognition. roarmag.org Asha worker marking the finger of a baby girl after administering a polio vaccine in Delhi, India. June 28, 2021. Photo: PradeepGaurs / Shutterstock.com | This essay is published in collaboration with Public Services International | | Over the last year-and-a-half, one of the most visible groups of workers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in India have been the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs), a cadre of community health workers appointed by the National Health Mission (NHM). These hitherto invisible women were seen not only going hou…

WSWS (2021-12-11). Fifty-five immigrants killed, over 100 injured in Mexico truck crash. wsws.org The catastrophic accident in southern Mexico came as Washington renews its "stay in Mexico" policy and the Mexican government collaborates in the repression of migrants.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2021-12-11). Why Xiomara Castro's win in Honduras could address the country's endemic corruption and violence. zcomm.org "She's inheriting a broken country, legal system and Supreme Court and is coming into an empty house that has been robbed."

Dr. James M. Dorsey (2021-12-11). Saudi Arabia targets banned ultra-conservative proselytisers. moderndiplomacy.eu Saudi Islamic affairs minister Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz al-Sheikh has ordered imams in the kingdom to identify one of the world's largest Muslim movements as misguided, deviant, dangerous, and a breeder of militancy. Mr. Al-Sheikh's offensive against Tablighi Jamaat or Society for Preaching, a secretive transnational ultra-conservative Sunni Muslim missionary movement of South Asian origin long …

Nguyen Huu Loi (2021-12-11). Should we start rethinking urban agriculture and food provisioning? moderndiplomacy.eu With rising global environmental effects and food production and consumption security challenges, establishing sustainable and resilient food systems will necessitate innovative methods, technologies, techniques, and procedures. Food production systems, particularly those in cities, have experienced significant innovation and improvement in recent years. Distributed food production systems and urban agriculture are becoming more prominent as a …

Mahmut Cengiz (2021-12-11). New Threats in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Taliban's Capacity, Tehrik-i Taliban, and ISIS-Khorasan. moderndiplomacy.eu Authors: Mahmut Cengiz, Asma Ul Hussna Durrani, Andrea Quinn The world was stunned by the Taliban's quick takeover of Afghanistan. The former Afghan government's military was four times larger than the Taliban's, but the world saw how the Afghan military surrendered to the Taliban in a short time. Overlooked or at least underestimated were the …

Newsroom (2021-12-11). Insect and Hydroponic Farming Could Boost Food Security and the Circular Economy. moderndiplomacy.eu Insect and hydroponic crop farming, for both human food and animal feed, have the potential to increase access to nutritious food, while creating millions of jobs, improving the climate and the environment, and strengthening national economies, according to a new World Bank report 'Insect and Hydroponic Farming in Africa: The New Circular Food Economy'. "The …

Amjed Jaaved (2021-12-11). No focus on India on UN Genocide Day. moderndiplomacy.eu Each year, on the ninth day of December, the United Nations observes the UN Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims and Crimes of Genocide. The day is also remembered as anniversary of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the "Genocide Convention). As usual, the Day came and passed …

Ann Brown (2021-12-11). New York Attorney General Letitia James Suspends Campaign For Governor. moguldom.com After her high-profile sexual harassment investigation that led to the resignation of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in August, New York Attorney General Letitia James had put her hat in the bid for…

Editor2 (2021-12-11). Iran Warns Against 'Dangerous' Acts of Piracy Targeting its Oil at Sea. orinocotribune.com An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has issued a stern warning against acts of piracy targeting tankers carrying Iran's oil cargos at sea, urging the international community to condemn such illegal measures that endanger freedom of navigation. | Zahra Ershadi, deputy permanent representative of Iran to the UN, made the remarks on Wednesday in an address to the UN General Assembly's meeting on oceans and the law of the sea. | She complained that the coronavirus pandemic and the US imposition of sanctions under the so-called maximum pressure campaign had disrupted freedom of movement for Iranian vessels and affe…

Editor (2021-12-11). Systems thinking in COVID-19 recovery is urgently needed to deliver sustainable development for women and girls. mronline.org Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the gendered aspect of pandemics; however, addressing the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic comprehensively and effectively requires a planetary health perspective that embraces systems thinking to inequalities.

Martha Grevatt (2021-12-11). Rank-and-file democracy wins in the UAW. workers.org From Oct. 19 through Nov. 29, working and retired members of the United Auto Workers participated in a referendum vote on how they would elect their union's International Executive Board officers. The two choices were whether to continue the current delegate voting system, where the IEB is chosen by delegates . . . |

Martha Grevatt (2021-12-11). Baseball players union blasts owners for lockout. workers.org At midnight Dec. 2, immediately after the contract between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association expired, team owners locked out all members of the MLBPA. The union issued the following statement on Twitter 20 minutes after the lockout was imposed. In two days the statement received . . . |

Staff (2021-12-11). Venezuela: VP Delcy Rodríguez Presents 2022 Budget to National Assembly. orinocotribune.com The Executive Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, emphasized this Friday, December 10, that 2022 will be the year of the recovery of the bolívar as Venezuela's national currency. | During the presentation of the budget and annual plan 2022 before the National Assembly (NA), Rodríguez affirmed that strengthening the bolívar as the national currency will be the center of the economic actions of the national government next year. In this regard, she pointed out that the government is refusing to dollarize the economy. | "We come from the year 2020, a year of pandemic, but 2021 has also been a year of pande…

William M Arkin (2021-12-11). Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army. globalresearch.ca Below are excerpts of …

WSWS (2021-12-11). Unions ram through extension at Ingalls shipyard, stall for time at Newport News. wsws.org While the IBEW had until March 2022 to negotiate before the expiration of the contract, they opted instead to call a snap vote on the exact same contract workers rejected last week.

Global Research (2021-12-11). Bombshell Document Dump on Pfizer Vaccine Data. globalresearch.ca What is contained in Pfizer's confidential report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the "vaccine" on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the Horse's Mouth can be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

Jonathan F Mosser, Kate Causey, Nancy Fullman (2021-12-11). [Correspondence] Prioritising immunisation across the life course — Authors' reply. thelancet.com Anja Saso and colleagues rightly emphasise the importance of quantifying pandemic-related effects on maternal immunisation, with the IMmunising PRegnant women and INfants neTwork highlighting the multifaceted disruptions in 2020 and incomplete recovery to date among 18 countries.1 Our study, which modelled the effects of COVID-19 on routine childhood immunisation in 2020,2 focused on one part of the life course where vaccination can improve health and wellbeing. But the ambition of the Immunization Agenda 20303 is broader: a world where everyone benefits from vaccines at every age.

WSWS (2021-12-11). Winter pandemic surges in Canada amid warnings Omicron variant could increase infections eight-fold. wsws.org Even prior to the arrival of Omicron, experts were warning that this winter's Delta surge could overwhelm the country's hospitals.

WSWS (2021-12-11). Dopesick: A compelling drama of the opioid crisis. wsws.org The eight-episode series is a devastating indictment of the American pharmaceutical industry. Nearly 1 million people have died in the US since 1999 from drug overdoses and over 70 percent of such deaths have involved an opioid.

WSWS (2021-12-11). Socialist Equality Party to continue campaign against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org Whether the SEP is registered or not, the party will stand candidates in the looming federal election to take out to the broadest possible audience the fight for socialism and the overturn of capitalism.

WSWS (2021-12-11). Youth mental health issues in the US have skyrocketed during pandemic. wsws.org The US Surgeon General reports that symptoms of depression and anxiety have doubled.

WSWS (2021-12-11). "They are killing us": More flight attendants speak out about poisoned job uniforms. wsws.org Flight attendants from a number of airlines spoke about the toxic working conditions that they have been subjected to by their employers and the airline unions.

WSWS (2021-12-11). UK: Mother "invited" to attend school meeting under police caution for protecting her son from unsafe schools. wsws.org Sarah received her threatening letter on December 8, the same day that Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty held a press conference on the rapid spread of the new Omicron variant.

Susan Jaffe (2021-12-11). [World Report] US Supreme Court expected to weaken abortion rights. thelancet.com A majority of Supreme Court justices may be inclined to overturn Roe v Wade. Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.

WSWS (2021-12-11). "A lot of things come down to money": Race-based affirmative action and the furor over Canadian academic Carrie Bourassa's native identity claims. wsws.org The entire episode is a particularly foul expression of the consequences of race-based affirmative action, which is irreconcilably at odds with the interests of working people and the fight for social equality.

WSWS (2021-12-11). Biden backs Ukrainian president's militarist policies in phone conversation. wsws.org With the backing of the Biden administration, the government of Voldymyr Zelensky continues to make a series of hostile decisions leading his country to war with Russia.

Coral Wynter (2021-12-11). Protesting BlackRock's support for Adani. greenleft.org.au A protest called on United States multinational investment management corporation BlackRock not to fund Adani. Coral Wynter reports.

Claudia Drdul (2021-12-11). Starbucks workers win historic first union. zcomm.org "If we can do this here, you can do this too"

Peter Montague (2021-12-11). The Future of Fossil Fuels Hinges on Two Huge Midwestern Pipeline Fights. zcomm.org CCS is the fossil-fuel industry's last-gasp attempt to prevent the U.S. and the world from abandoning fossil energy in favor of cheaper, cleaner solar power…

WSWS (2021-12-11). Delta coronavirus variant overwhelms US hospitals as Omicron variant looms large. wsws.org The latest surge in cases has already pushed hospitals across the Midwest and Northeast past their capacity.

WSWS (2021-12-11). Threat to fire striking Kellogg's workers prompts nervous statement from Biden administration. wsws.org The short, eight-sentence statement is a clear sign of the nervousness within ruling circles that the move by Kellogg's could trigger a social explosion within the working class.

WSWS (2021-12-11). Australian governments create conditions for a huge surge of COVID infections. wsws.org Delta infections are growing, Omicron is spreading and Australian governments are lifting the few public health safety restrictions that remain.

Talha Burki (2021-12-11). [World Report] What next for the Philippines' war on drugs? thelancet.com With President Duterte's term in office ending, an investigation by the International Criminal Court into the killing of drug users has been suspended. Talha Burki reports.

WSWS (2021-12-11). UK: Unite leader Sharon Graham wins chorus of approval from the corporate media. wsws.org If Unite's presentation that it is waging a "pushback" on behalf of workers had any element of truth, the Johnson government would by now be confronting an unprecedented strike wave with Graham the subject of a corporate media witch-hunt.

WSWS (2021-12-11). US consumer prices rise 6.8 percent, near 40-year high. wsws.org The average family faces $4,000 more in annual expenses than one year ago.

Karen J. Greenberg (2021-12-11). Are We Forever Captives of America's Forever Wars? zcomm.org What Needs to Be Done to Finally End Them…

Paul Haeder (2021-12-11). The Oil Companies Tell Us About Climate Change and Big Pharma Tells Us About Variants. dissidentvoice.org They never call that Conflic$ of $ntere$t Doctors are urging everyone to get vaccinated and boosted as cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant are popping up in more states, but the vaccine may also need to change to keep up with the mutations of the virus. "It is, probably, one of our worst-case scenarios in …

Staff (2021-12-10). Headlines for December 10, 2021. democracynow.org U.K. Court Will Allow Extradition of Julian Assange to U.S. to Face Espionage Charges, Venezuela's Juan Guaidó, Who Led Failed Coup Efforts, Speaks at White House Democracy Summit, Federal Court Rejects Trump's Bid to Keep January 6 Records Secret, New York Attorney General Letitia James Ends Gubernatorial Bid, Will Subpoena Trump, National Guard Called Out as COVID-19 Cases Overwhelm U.S. Hospitals, WHO Warns Rich Countries Against Vaccine Hoarding as Omicron Variant Spreads , Truck Carrying Asylum Seekers Crashes in Mexico, Killing 54 and Injuring Over 100, Award-Winning Filipino Journalist Jesus Malabanan, Who…

WSWS (2021-12-10). "How can they accept an extradition to the country that plotted to kill Julian, that plotted to kill a publisher because of what he published?" wsws.org Stella Moris, the fiancée of Julian Assange, made the following impassioned statement demanding his freedom outside the High Court in London.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Britain's High Court rules on United States extradition appeal: Assange must be handed to his assassins. wsws.org The US Department of Justice, Pentagon and CIA are determined that Assange rots in jail for revealing their crimes.

Staff (2021-12-10). "Terrible Step": Press Freedom in Danger as U.K. Court Clears the Way for Julian Assange Extradition to U.S. democracynow.org WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange could soon face charges in the United States after a U.K. court ruled Friday in favor of the U.S. government's appeal to extradite him. U.K. Judge Timothy Holroyde said he was satisfied with a pledge from the United States that Assange would not be held in a so-called ADX maximum-security prison in Colorado, despite a U.K. district court ruling in January that said Assange should not be extradited because it would be "oppressive" due to his mental health and that he would likely die by suicide in a U.S. prison. "They can't guarantee his safety in the U.S. prison system. He will li…

Dr. Matthew Crosston (2021-12-10). NATO's Projectile Dysfunction: Deterring Russia and Ukrainian Bluffs. moderndiplomacy.eu The shrill lamentations over Ukraine are reaching fever pitch here in the United States: The New York Times discusses how Ukrainian commanders say a Russian invasion would overwhelm them. CNN reports that Biden promises withering sanctions if Russia invades. Military.com is devoting first page space on its site to how the US military could mobilize …

Eric Zuesse (2021-12-10). The Chief Outcome From the Two-Hour Biden-Putin Summit. moderndiplomacy.eu The two-hour December 7th Biden-Putin conversation (via video-conference) focused mainly on the conflict between Ukraine and its breakaway former Donbass region, which is in Ukraine's far east and borders on Russia. In order to understand the conversation, some basic history that produced the current situation there needs to be stated, because this is the point-of-reference …

WSWS (2021-12-10). The "Summit for Democracy": Biden gathers anti-democratic forces against Russia and China. wsws.org The function of Biden's summit is to escalate global pressure on Russia and China while dressing this up as a defense of "democracy" against "autocracy."

Ann Garrison, Ann Fitz-Gerald (2021-12-10). Biden Deploys National Guard: It's "Déjà Vu All Over Again" as Government Hawks and Corporate Media Play Up Ethiopian Atrocities in Tigray. covertactionmagazine.com Twelve days after a Bloomberg Nov. 11 Headline proclaimed that "Ethiopia's Civil War Is a Problem That U.S. Troops Can …

Fight Back (2021-12-10). Ethiopian community rallies in Dallas against U.S. intervention. fightbacknews.org Dallas, TX – Hundreds of members of Dallas's large Ethiopian community rallied outside Dallas City Hall on November 21 against U.S. intervention in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The protest was associated with the nationwide #NoMore movement and was called by community members, though the rally was also attended by members of the All African People's Revolutionary Party and the Dallas Anti-War Committee. | A community spokeswoman talked about the sanctions and diplomatic moves that the Biden administration has taken against Ethiopia in recent weeks, stating, "The Biden administration actions are a pretext to ge…

WSWS (2021-12-10). Australian Labor Party helps government ram through another anti-democratic electoral law. wsws.org The latest bipartisan bill deepens the attack on basic democratic rights made when the two ruling parties joined hands in August to rush through party deregistration laws.

_____ (2021-12-10). A Pause in the Talks between the US and North Korea Continues. journal-neo.org Since the failure of February 2019's summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, relations between the US and North Korea have been put on hold, with no active dialogue, but no nuclear crisis or military stand-off. On the one hand, Pyongyang has avoided any talks on the question of denuclearization. On the other hand, it is …

_____ (2021-12-10). Parisian "Wheeling and Dealing" in the Persian Gulf. journal-neo.org The first official European assessment of the recent round of talks in Vienna between the representatives of Iran and those of the E3 (Great Britain, France, and Germany), Russia, China, and the US came, oddly enough, from Dubai, where the quick-witted French president Emmanuel Macron announced what he called the failure of the foregoing phase …

Alfin Febrian Basundoro (2021-12-10). Between China and the AUKUS: The Future of Indonesia-France Strategic Partnership. moderndiplomacy.eu The regional tension between Indonesia and China was reaching a new stage. On December 1, 2021, some Chinese diplomats told Indonesia to halt the oil and gas exploration in Northern Natuna. Believing that the drilling was taking place in the Chinese territory, the Chinese authorities sent a protest letter towards the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign …

Houston Tenants Union (2021-12-10). Braeswood Tenants Unite To Fight Extreme Rent Hike By New Landlord in Houston, TX. itsgoingdown.org Report on tenants in Houston delivering their demands to Fat Property, their landlord, who is hiking rent substantially after taking over the complex earlier this year. Originally posted by Houston Tenants Union. HOUSTON, TEXAS — The tenants of The Terraces on Brompton united under the banner of Brompton Mutual Aid, to deliver a demand letter…

MD Staff (2021-12-10). Africa Free Trade Area, likely spur for growth and development. moderndiplomacy.eu With productivity-boosting measures, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement could reduce poverty and inequality while spurring sustainable and inclusive growth, according to a report launched on Wednesday by the UN trade and development body, UNCTAD. The Economic Development in Africa Report 2021, underscores the importance of infrastructure financing that helps link up urban …

MD Staff (2021-12-10). Bachelet describes 'disastrous' human rights situation across Occupied Palestinian Territory. moderndiplomacy.eu The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said on Tuesday that the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has become "disastrous", with severe infringements occurring effecting some four million people. "This clearly also has damaging impact on prospects for peace and sustainable development for Israel, as well as the surrounding region", she argued. Ms. Bachelet was briefing the UN Committee on …

Mogi Bian Darmawan (2021-12-10). Observing The Effectiveness of Indonesia's Food Estate Program. moderndiplomacy.eu Food security is again a public concern and discussion, this is related to…

Newsroom (2021-12-10). Internet Governance Forum promotes inclusive digital future for all. moderndiplomacy.eu Leveraging the power of the Internet while tackling the risks of cyberspace is the focus of a UN meeting underway in Katowice, Poland, this week. The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) brings together more than 7,000 innovators, big tech executives, young people, ministers and parliamentarians to spur efforts to build an open, secure and free digital …

Newsroom (2021-12-10). Women sweep UN's 2021 'Champions of the Earth' awards. moderndiplomacy.eu A Caribbean-based prime minister, a scientist, a group of indigenous women, and an entrepreneur were announced on Tuesday as this year's winners of the United Nations' Champions of the Earth awards. According to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the all-female Champions were chosen for their impact and leadership in advancing bold action on behalf of …

rebekah (2021-12-10). Amazon Can't Bust Unions Forever. inequality.org

Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (2021-12-10). Ralph Nader on Journalism and the Public Interest. fair.org Harvard Institute of Politics ( This week on CounterSpin:

Heba Salim (2021-12-10). A database for the displaced. electronicintifada.net Activists are trying to create single register for all title deeds to lands stolen in 1948.

Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman (2021-12-10). UNRWA stifles employee speech on Palestinian rights. electronicintifada.net "This was my dream job. It's become a nightmare."

Amjad Ayman Yaghi (2021-12-10). How Israel made Gaza's houses unsafe. electronicintifada.net Numerous buildings had to be demolished after the May attack ended.

Karen Conner (2021-12-10). Reopening Issues Are Still a Big Factor Driving Inflation In November. cepr.net Overall, reopening issues are still a big factor in inflation. Energy prices in the CPI are lagging world prices, and are almost certain to be sharply negative (lowering inflation) in December.

Matt Sedlar (2021-12-10). CEPR Spotlight: Special Drawing Rights. cepr.net CEPR has played a leading role in educating policymakers and the general public on the importance of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) and in organizing a successful campaign for a major allocation of SDRs by the International Monetary Fund.

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-12-10). Organizing isn't Just Some Romantic Idea, it's Practical Steps and Action! anchor.fm In this episode I talk about the fact that what we need today across the world has already been tried, built, and able to grow in many places around the world; we need to only learn. Communists, socialists, and Marxists all over the world have been building revolutions and mass organizations for centuries. Our objective? Organize the people. But that's not just some slogan, that is a necessary step towards building a New World. If the people are an educated as to what's oppressing them, that they're exploited and HOW, and if they don't learn who their comrades in that fight are, then they lose time and time again…

Tridivesh Singh Maini (2021-12-10). How UAE became a key player in the Middle East. moderndiplomacy.eu The signing of the Abraham Accords in September 2020, through which Bahrain and UAE normalised ties with Israel was a significant development which analysts believed had the potential of altering the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East. In December 2020, Morocco also signed an agreement for normalising relations with Israel, while in January 2021, Sudan …

David Swanson (2021-12-10). Future of Peace and Human Rights in West Asia. warisacrime.org By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 9, 2021 Submission to conference organized by FODASUN ( fodasun.com ) on the future of peace and human rights in West Asia Every government in West Asia, as in the rest of the Earth, abuses human rights. Most of the governments in West Asia and the surrounding regions …

Staff (2021-12-10). "Hold the Line": Watch Filipina Journalist Maria Ressa's Full Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech. democracynow.org Filipina journalist Maria Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their "efforts to safeguard freedom of expression." "There are so many more journalists persecuted in the shadows with neither exposure nor support, and governments are doubling down with impunity," said Ressa in her acceptance speech at Friday's Nobel ceremony, which we play in full.

WSWS (2021-12-10). People's Covid Inquiry in the UK merely calls on Johnson government to make amends. wsws.org Last month, the WSWS initiated a Global Workers' Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic. It is diametrically opposed to the political orientation of the People's Covid Inquiry.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Three northeast states deploy National Guard amid nationwide pandemic surge. wsws.org The governors of New York, Maine and New Hampshire have issued orders mobilizing teams of the National Guard to assist hospitals and other health care facilities with managing the present record surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Irish coalition government forced to introduce new restrictions as COVID cases surge. wsws.org The Irish government has re-introduced minimal restrictions in the face of around 5,000 new COVID cases daily with 530 patients hospitalised and 115 in intensive care.

WSWS (2021-12-10). AFT President Randi Weingarten sabotages "safe schools" town hall. wsws.org Parent advocacy group PRESS NYC cancels AFT co-event about school safety following right-wing attacks on panelists, which union president Randi Weingarten sought to appease.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Striking Quebec child care workers should oppose union efforts to sabotage their struggle. wsws.org In an effort to divide workers, the unions have accepted "differentiated" offers for day care support staff that would provide them with wage increases about half those offered to those tasked with directly providing child care.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-10). "Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II. globalresearch.ca According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, "the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Anger erupts over COVID-19 death of Chicago Public Schools educator as cases spike. wsws.org Parents and teachers called for a return to remote instruction after Jonl Bush, a special education classroom assistant in Chicago, died on November 26, and cases throughout the district increase dramatically.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Washington, DC transit system announces it will keep defective train cars out of service for the rest of 2021. wsws.org The emergency removal of over half the transit authority's rail cars in October has exposed the dangers which the region's political establishment had been willing to expose the public to in order to keep the economy running.

WSWS (2021-12-10). New Zealand's Daily Blog glorifies fascist killer Kyle Rittenhouse. wsws.org The publication of pseudo-left and "liberal" commentators advances the fascist lies that have been used to justify the murder of two men, and attempted murder of a third, at a protest against police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Staff at Springfield, Oregon medical center launch five-day strike. wsws.org Over 300 hospital support staff at the hospital are seeking adequate compensation and resisting management plans to outsource 100 jobs, a quarter of the bargaining unit.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-10). Video: #Yes, It's a "Killer Vaccine": Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Workers' strikes spread at Tiger Brands and Clover food manufacturers, South Africa as Sibanye-Stillwater gold miners close to strike over pay and work fatalities; national strike over three days by healthcare workers in Turkey over pay; sailors begin 48-hour pay strike in Greek ports; health and social care workers strike and demonstrate throughout France against exclusion from pay review…

imperial.ac.uk (2021-12-10). Omicron – latest findings and commentary from Imperial experts. imperial.ac.uk Experts from Imperial College London and worldwide are working around the clock to understand the rapidly spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19.

imperial.ac.uk (2021-12-10). COVID immunity study and green league ranking: News from the College. imperial.ac.uk Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Minamata, suppressed by MGM, to be released in North America on December 15. wsws.org The news of the film's distribution is very welcome, but it in no way diminishes the foul attempt by MGM and the Hollywood establishment generally to "bury" Minamata, along with its star, Johnny Depp.

WSWS (2021-12-10). A balance sheet of Angela Merkel's 16 years of rule in Berlin. wsws.org The axis of German politics has shifted far to the right under the Christian Democratic chancellor.

imperial.ac.uk (2021-12-10). Imperial launches global search for new Visiting Professors. imperial.ac.uk Imperial's Provost is launching a global talent search for the first visiting Professors of a pioneering new programme.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Growth of the class struggle in Australia highlights need for rank-and-file committees. wsws.org A small but significant increase in industrial action points to mounting social and political opposition in the working class.

WSWS (2021-12-10). US Supreme Court clears way for execution of Oklahoma death row prisoner Bigler Stouffer. wsws.org The 79-year-old Stouffer was executed Thursday morning, making him the oldest inmate in the state's history to be put to death.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Kellogg's workers win wide support for defying union sellout and strikebreaking threats. wsws.org Workers across the country have expressed their support for Kellogg's workers on strike against the sellout agreement brought by the company and the BCTGM union…

Divyanshu Jindal (2021-12-09). India and the 'Summit for Democracy': Behind the Silent Acceptance. moderndiplomacy.eu US president Joe Biden's 'Summit for Democracy' has raised questions over the legitimacy of the American leadership in global geopolitics. The summit is planned for 9-10 December and will be attended by a 'confusing' list of 110 countries. Among the invitees are EU (sans Hungary), Ukraine, Philippines, Pakistan, and India. Some major exclusions are Russia, …

Finian Cunningham (2021-12-09). Biden's Empty Warning Over Putin's Straw Man "Invasion" dissidentvoice.org © Sputnik / Sergey Guneev As we enter the Christmas season that's just pantomime on Pennsylvania Avenue. The private video call which lasted two hours on Tuesday was eagerly anticipated around the world amid mounting tensions and fears of a military confrontation over Ukraine. The next day headlines in Western media outlets were laden with …

Peter Koenig (2021-12-09). China Winter Olympics: US Boycott. dissidentvoice.org President Biden, in full mood of marking "red lines" against Russia and Ukraine in a virtual meeting with Vladimir Putin, does not forget the importance of boycotting China's Winter Olympic Games. It's a diplomatic boycott only, so says Madame Jen Psaki, White House press secretary. Nevertheless, she and Biden are wishing the US sport-participants best …

Eric Zuesse (2021-12-09). Biden-Putin Teleconference: Putin Rejects Biden's Demand That U.S. Take Control Over Negotiations Between Ukraine and Its Former Donbass Region. covertactionmagazine.com The two-hour December 7th Biden-Putin conversation (via video-conference) focused mainly on the conflict between Ukraine and its breakaway former Donbass …

_____ (2021-12-09). Biden's Hypocritical Democracy Summit. strategic-culture.org With his "Summit for Democracy," Joe Biden enthrones himself on the collapsed stage of American exceptionalism, writes Scott Ritter. | By Scott RITTER | Some campaign promises, it turns out, should not be kept. In

WSWS (2021-12-09). Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the DSA's long record of military support for Israel. wsws.org Since its founding, the DSA has functioned as a faction of the American foreign policy establishment, promoting "democratic" and "humanitarian" imperialism.

Steven Lee (2021-12-09). "We Are Chun Tae-il!": the South Korean workers struggle continues. peoplesdispatch.org It is a cloudy afternoon on November 13. | A young man steps out into the streets of Seoul, holding a copy of the South Korean labor laws. Gasoline fire consumes his body with every step. With labor movements suffocated by the regime, this is his last declaration against inhuman exploitation. | "We are not machines," he cries through the flames. "Do not let my death be in vain!" | His name is Chun Tae-il. | Fifty-one years later, clouds once again fill the sky on November 13. | The shrill sound of whistles pierce the air. The police have already cordoned off the site of Chun's immolation to prevent the workers fr…

Media Lens (2021-12-09). A Christmas Tale: The Downing Street Party, Laughter And Bigger State Crimes. dissidentvoice.org Huge media coverage has been devoted to allegations, and now serious evidence, that a Christmas party was held at 10 Downing Street on 18 December 2020. London was then in a strict lockdown with social events banned, including parties. In leaked footage obtained by ITV News, senior Downing Street staff are shown four days later, …

New Atlas (2021-12-09). Laos' Railway Opens: The West Kicks and Screams as China and Laos Move Forward Together. newatlas.report December 9, 2021 (Brian Berletic — NEO) — The China-Laos railway, connecting the landlocked Southeast Asian nation of Laos with China, has finally begun operations. This historic moment marked a new chapter for Laos which remains one of the poorest nations in the region. Besides the devastation wrought by US war with neighboring Vietnam last …

Fabio A. Telarico (2021-12-09). Demythologizing the Russification of Bulgarian Media's Attitude Towards Civil Society. moderndiplomacy.eu Despite 30 years of post-socialist transformation, many CSOs in the country are unable to counter the denigrating rhetoric that some media outlets use against them. Challenging the presumption of Russia's widespread influence in this area, there are many differences in key aspects of the Russian and Bulgarian media's treatment of civil society. So even if …

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2021-12-09). Terrorism: The Sahel-5 are turning to Russia. moderndiplomacy.eu With renewed interest to uproot French domination, Russia has ultimately began its inroads into the Sahel region, an elongated landlocked territory located between north Africa (Maghreb) and west Africa region, and also stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. While it remains largely underdeveloped and greater part of the population impoverished, terrorist organizations …

Prof. Louis René Beres (2021-12-09). Reason, Science and Empathy: Interrelated Foundations of American Survival. moderndiplomacy.eu "Science, by which I mean the entire body of knowledge about things, whether corporeal or spiritual, is as much a work of imagination as it is of observation….-Jose Ortega y'Gasset, Man and Crisis (1958) Reason, anti-Reason and Mortality The distracting whispers must be rejected. To survive long-term, especially during times of growing biological peril, Americans …

Jubeda Chowdhury (2021-12-09). Fifty Years OF India-Bangladesh Ties: Sky's The Limit. moderndiplomacy.eu Bangladesh and India are two neighboring countries of South Asia and these two countries have historically had very close relations. After the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, present day Bangladesh was part of the Republic of Pakistan as East Pakistan. The people of Bengal will never forget the assistance rendered by the late …

_____ (2021-12-09). USA-South Korean Military Cooperation and the Sino-US Standoff. journal-neo.org As the year 2021 comes to a close, the global Sino-American conflict continues, which could radically change our attitude as to how we see the world today. Media reports on the current events do not often mention one of its important world players, the Republic of Korea (or South Korea). After all, most people associate …

_____ (2021-12-09). For Want Of A Dental Plan, Erie Strayer Strike Grinds On. popularresistance.org Many people who work hard in full time jobs take a dental plan for granted. Many people who work hard in full-time jobs assume they will get more than a 25-cent-per-hour raise each year. But a group of workers at a cement plant in Erie, Pennsylvania have spent two months on strike trying to win those basic things‚Äâ—‚Äâand their fight is far from over. | About 40 workers at the Erie Strayer cement factory are members of Ironworkers Local 851. The company is family-owned, and has been unionized since the 1940s. The union contract expired on April 1. The union spent months at…

_____ (2021-12-09). Students Rally To Support Prison Moratorium. popularresistance.org Massachusetts – Smith College students marched through the streets of downtown Northampton backed by a chorus of honking cars as they chanted, "We don't want a prison nation, stop mass incarceration!" on Saturday, Dec. 4. | This march was in support of a moratorium on prison and jail construction within Massachusetts that was introduced in the Massachusetts state legislature. The bill was written by Families for Justice and Healing and the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, who, along with Massachusetts Peace Action, sponsored the walk. Smith students and volunteers from…

_____ (2021-12-09). Talking 'Peace' US Arms Saudis For Latest Attack On Yemen. popularresistance.org Hodeidah, Yemen – Inside the ruins of a modest Yemeni home where human and animal remains were strewn together, local rescuers struggled to evacuate a pregnant mother and other potential survivors from the rubble as warplanes circled above. There, they found the body of a toddler covered in ashes beside the remains of a humble dining table. The chaotic cries of rescuers covered in blood filled the scene as they examined his remains, exposing what appeared to be an umbilical cord. Near the boy, they found his young mother covered in rubble, barely groaning in a muffled voice of pain. | Just two days after World Ch…

_____ (2021-12-09). White Supremacy, Nazism And Fascism R U.S. popularresistance.org Writing these words during the Thanksgiving "celebration" is sadly ironic as it illustrates the contradictions of a culture that has yet to reconcile itself with its colonial and white supremacist ideologies, past and present. Despite many criticisms, white supremacy remains not only well and strong, but is also recognized and hailed by the United States on the world stage as an acceptable and legitimate ideology. | Recently, Ben Norton , journalist at the Grayzone, reported, as others have occasionally done since 2004, on the refusal of the United States to vote to approve a UN resolution against the glorificati…

Alan MacLeod (2021-12-09). OTF — The "independent" internet freedom organization that makes all your favorite privacy apps—is staffed full of spies. mronline.org While the OTF presents itself as independent internet freedom activists, their funding, staff, history and choice of targets all point to the conclusion that they are a digital weapon being used against Washington's enemies.

Anis Chowdhury (2021-12-09). Climate change: Adapt for the future, not the past. mronline.org Funding for developing countries to address global warming is grossly inadequate. Very little finance is for adaptation to climate change, the urgent need of countries most adversely affected. Also, adaptation needs to be forward-looking rather than only addressing accumulated problems.

Anonymous Contributor (2021-12-09). Tenants Demand Tecton Corporation Make Repairs and Provide Habitable Conditions. itsgoingdown.org Report from Puget Sound Tenant Union about campaign to demand that Tecton Corporation make basic repairs in the city of Burien, Washington in the Pacific Northwest. This summer, we made contact and started organizing with tenants at two apartment buildings in Burien managed by Tecton Corporation. Tecton is a large, shady property management company that…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-12-09). Ineffectual Boycotts: The Beijing Winter Olympics. dissidentvoice.org Making moral statements in the blood and gristle of international relations can often come across as feeble. In doing so, the maker serves the worst of all worlds: to reveal a false sense of assurance that something was done while serving no actual purpose other than to provoke. Anger, and impotence, follow. The Biden administration …

Editor2 (2021-12-09). China Plays a Crucial Role Supporting Progress and Sovereignty in Latin America. orinocotribune.com By Carlos Martinez — Dec 6, 2021 | In the last two decades, economic links between Latin America and the People's Republic of China have been expanding at a dizzying rate. | Bilateral trade in 2000 was just $12 billion (1 per cent of Latin American's total trade); now it stands at $315bn. In the same time period, China's foreign direct investment in Latin America has increased by a factor of five. | Since the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, 19 of the 33 countries in the Latin American and Caribbean region have signed up to the China-led global infrastructure development strategy. | Infrastruc…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-12-09). Are the Candidacies of Jorge Arreaza and Claudio Fermín Legal? orinocotribune.com As the January 9 elections in the state of Barinas approach, the temperature of the political debate in Venezuela is heating up between the four opposition candidates and the candidate for the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV)/Great Patriotic Pole (GPP), Jorge Arreaza. | Within both the right-wing groups and the Chavistas, a debate was opened regarding the various options that are on the table. This political landscape was formed after the inconclusive elections of November 21 in Barinas, and the National Electoral Council's (CNE) announcement of a re-election process. | The present candidates now includ…

Montreal Counter-Info (2021-12-09). Report-back from a Rail Blockade in Saint-Lambert. itsgoingdown.org Report on recent blockade in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en land defenders. Originally posted to Montreal Counter-Info. On Saturday, more than sixty people acting in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en land defenders blocked the CN main line in Saint-Lambert south of Montreal for over six hours. It was the longest rail blockade in Quebec since the winter of 2020,…

Pavan Kulkarni (2021-12-09). UN and AU endorse Sudan's coup government, the streets do not. peoplesdispatch.org Protesters are not convinced by the UN and AU's position that democracy can be won by accepting a government where the real levers of power are held by the military while a cabinet of technocrats is paraded before the international community to maintain the facade of 'joint military-civilian rule'

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-09). 'People's Lawyer' Sudha Bharadwaj released after three years in jail. peoplesdispatch.org The activist-lawyer was granted default bail on December 1 following more than three years of her incarceration without trial in the Bhima Koregaon case in which a number of other activists were also implicated…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-12-09). On "Gassing the Arabs" and Other Diseases: Is Israel a "Sick Society"? dissidentvoice.org For whatever reason, some mistakenly perceive the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, as liberal, progressive and even 'pro-Palestinian'. Of course, none of this is true. This misconstrued depiction of an essentially Zionist and anti-Palestinian newspaper tells of a much bigger story of how confusing Israeli politics is, and how equally confused many of us are in understanding …

Staff (2021-12-09). Bolton Admits that 'Unity' of Venezuela's Opposition Depends on US Position. orinocotribune.com Former White House national security adviser and one of the main promoters of the maximum pressure policy against Venezuela, John Bolton, assured that the absence of "a solid position" from the United States puts the "unity of the opposition" at risk, in terms of the so-called "interim government," "Without stronger American support, how long could the opposition hold together?" asked Bolton, as quo…

_____ (2021-12-09). Does the Deepening Crisis in Turkey Manifest an End to the Erdogan Era? journal-neo.org Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is experiencing his worst moments as head of state today. Social and political tensions in the country are becoming increasingly evident. The economy is collapsing, the value of the national currency is relentlessly falling, and the number of poor people is skyrocketing. According to recently published data, the nation's citizens …

April M. Short (2021-12-09). How Portland's Activists Are Bringing Mutual Aid to the Homeless. zcomm.org Mutual aid offers a route to directly help people living outside, and potentially save lives through the winter months…

WSWS (2021-12-09). Justice Department launches lawsuit against Texas gerrymandering for violation of Voting Rights Act. wsws.org Texas redistricting alleged to have "discriminatory purpose," disenfranchising minority voters.

WSWS (2021-12-09). CFPE online meeting this Saturday: COVID-19 spreads through Australian schools—Lives before profit! Stop the pandemic! wsws.org Register in advance and promote the meeting among educators, students, colleagues and friends!

Johannah King-Slutzky (2021-12-09). Striking Columbia Student Workers Demand Living Wage. zcomm.org In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike…

WSWS (2021-12-09). In bid to blow up nuclear talks, US imposes sanctions, steals Iranian oil. wsws.org Washington's provocations have been accompanied by increasingly bellicose threats and actions by Israel.

Shiney Varghese (2021-12-09). After a Year-Long Strike, Indian Farmers Score a Big Win. zcomm.org The country's prime minister has agreed to roll back laws that threatened to corporatize agriculture, jeopardizing the food security of more than 800 million people and further enriching the ultra-rich…

WSWS (2021-12-09). Benton Harbor, Michigan water crisis: More of the same toxic politics. wsws.org Unlike the notorious case of the Flint water crisis—where a criminal switch to untreated water corroded pipes—the catastrophe in Benton Harbor is the advanced expression of deteriorating infrastructure on its last legs.

WSWS (2021-12-09). New Omicron alarm: Significant drop in protection for doubly vaccinated individuals. wsws.org Many preliminary studies demonstrate that immunity after vaccines drops considerably with the Omicron variant.

Newsroom (2021-12-09). Most workers support vaccine and mask mandates for the workplace. moderndiplomacy.eu According to a new survey, there is widespread support among workers across the world for workplace COVID-control mandates. On average, about three in four employed adults agree that everyone in their workplace should be fully vaccinated (78%), undergo frequent testing if unvaccinated (74%), and wear a mask in common areas (81%). A majority of workers …

hrupdateadmin (2021-12-09). Join 1 Crown Office Row for an evening discussing Pupillage Application Tips and Life at the Bar. ukhumanrightsblog.com For all the aspiring barristers interested in Clinical Negligence, Public Law, Professional Discipline, Inquests, Public Inquiries, Environment, Tax and more, 1 Crown Office Row are holding an online talk with their barristers. They will give tips for pupillage applications, life as both a pupil and junior tenant as well as talk more about practice areas …

WSWS (2021-12-09). UK: Johnson moves to Plan B measures over Omicron variant amid escalating government crisis. wsws.org Having ruled out any more lockdowns months ago in order to protect the profits of the corporations, the Plan B measures are extremely limited, inadequate, and, as always, way behind the times.

Edward Curtin (2021-12-09). Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.'s Heroic Resistance to the CIA's Continuing Covid Coup D'état. dissidentvoice.org A Meditation With his extraordinary new book, The Real Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, RFK, Jr. has made it very clear that he will not allow Orwell's 1984 totalitarian boot to stamp on his face. His is a very rare moral courage, and he is asking …

WSWS (2021-12-09). Betrayal of Cádiz metal strike exposes Spanish Morenoite Izquierda Diario. wsws.org La Izquierda Diario, the online publication of the Revolutionary Workers Current, is hailing factions of the Podemos party, which worked to crush and sell out the strike.

Jane McAlevey (2021-12-09). Hard Bargaining in Las Vegas Hospitals. zcomm.org The story of big open bargaining and revitalizing the nurses union in Las Vegas…

Editor2 (2021-12-09). Sally Rooney: Anyone who has Visited Palestine Could Not Fail to Support her Decision. orinocotribune.com By Alexandra Pringle — Dec 3, 2021 | Experiencing what Palestinians endure daily changes you forever. That's why many writers who've been to the Palestine Festival of Literature backed her refusal to publish in Israel | Irish author Sally Rooney recently

WSWS (2021-12-09). Social Democrat Chancellor Scholz takes power in Germany at head of "traffic light" coalition. wsws.org The coalition of the Social Democrats, Free Democrats and Greens (Red, Yellow and Green in their party colours) will aggressively pursue a right-wing foreign and domestic policy, including enforcing mass infection in the pandemic.

WSWS (2021-12-09). UK teacher with Long COVID welcomes Global Workers Inquest into the pandemic. wsws.org "I absolutely support a global workers inquest. It's the only way to get out of this mess without causing more death and more comorbidities in the working class and children in state schools."

Yamin Kogoya (2021-12-09). 60th anniversary of the birth of the Papuan state: Betrayal and resurrection. greenleft.org.au December 1, 2021, marks 60 years since the state of West Papua came into being. But Papuans are still struggling to achieve their independence, writes Yamin Kogoya.

WSWS (2021-12-09). US: No money for COVID tests, blank check for the military. wsws.org As the White House rejects sending free COVID-19 tests to Americans because it would "cost" too much, the US House of Representatives has made it clear there will be no limits on military spending.

Binoy Kampmark (2021-12-09). Backing horses: Australia's Solomon Islands intervention. greenleft.org.au The history of "humanitarian" or policing missions is one of taking sides, argues Binoy Kampmark.

Gilbert Doctorow (2021-12-08). The United States pushes Russia to the brink of war, then cries "wolf" mronline.org The Russians have plainly said that they deem the Ukrainian government to be U.S-controlled, not a free agent, and they hold Washington directly responsible for whatever may happen on the ground in their neighborhood.

Eric Zuesse (2021-12-08). Putin: Ukraine Is to Russia What Cuba Was to America in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. moderndiplomacy.eu In an almost universally ignored speech by Putin, on December 1st (titled "Ceremony for presenting foreign ambassadors' letters of credence"), he said, merely as an aside [and I here shall add clarifications in brackets]: By the way, the threat on our western border [he was referring mainly to Ukraine] is really growing, and we have …

Staff (2021-12-08). A One-Sided Narrative: U.S. Press Focuses on "Russian Aggression" While Ignoring U.S. Escalation. democracynow.org During a virtual summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Biden threatened to impose new economic sanctions and other measures if Russia invades Ukraine. The talks were held amid growing tension between the two countries over the expansion of NATO in Eastern Europe and Russia's deployment of tens of thousands troops along the border of Ukraine. Editorial director and publisher at The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel says the U.S. has a "one-sided narrative" of the Russia-Ukraine conflict that neglects to acknowledge its own role in escalating tensions. "This [t…

Editor2 (2021-12-08). "Summit for Democracy" — Enhancing Empire, Not Defending "Democracy" orinocotribune.com By Brian Berletic — Dec 1, 2021 | The very first "Summit for Democracy" will be held in early December 2021. Organized by the United States, it will include "leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector," all unilaterally picked by the United States who, by implication, has unilaterally declared itself arbiter of which nations are deemed "democratic" and by process of counting the uninvited, those deemed "undemocratic." | US-sponsored opposition movements in nations left uninvited took the opportunity to portray the summit as validation for some and a "slap in the face" to others. | Thai PB…

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies (2021-12-08). Congress Is Still Throwing Good Money After Bad Foreign Policy. fpif.org Congress is preparing to hand 65 percent of federal discretionary spending to the war machine, even as they wring their hands over a fraction of that for the Build Back Better Act.

Brittani Banks (2021-12-08). How the Build Back Better Bill Would Save Workers' Lives. independentmediainstitute.org When Ron Brady drives through highway construction zones, he makes a point of looking for safety violations that threaten workers' lives. He's seen more and more of them the past few years as employers, emboldened by the weakened state of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), grew increasingly comfortable flouting the rules. Funding …

Jason Hickel (2021-12-08). The age of imperialism is not over—but we can end it. mronline.org Capitalist accumulation has always depended on cheap labor and resources extracted from the Global South. To end this violence we need a post-capitalist transition—otherwise, as climate breakdown accelerates, the ceaseless search for profit will drive us further into barbarism.

Staff (2021-12-08). Striking Columbia Student Workers Demand Living Wage as School's Endowment Grows to $14 Billion. democracynow.org In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike. Today the student workers are calling on others to help them shut down the university. Striking student worker, Johannah King-Slutzky, accuses Columbia's administration of an "illegal form of retaliation" for threatening to replace the striking student workers who do not return to work by Friday. On Monday, many Columbia faculty members walked out of their classes in a show of solidarity. "Graduate student labor is the invisible labor of the university," s…

WSWS (2021-12-08). PSOE-Podemos government, Spanish trade unions agree to savage austerity. wsws.org The pseudo-left Podemos party is imposing attacks on the working class in close collaboration with the European Union.

Martha Grevatt (2021-12-08). Hondurans reject coup regime — °Xiomara presidente! workers.org On January 27, after nearly 13 years under a "narcodictatorship" responsible for thousands of assassinations, kidnappings and imprisonments, the people of Honduras will witness the inauguration of President-elect Xiomara Castro de Zelaya. She was the candidate of the Libre (Freedom and Refoundation) Party and is the spouse of former President . . . |

Peoples' Dispatch (2021-12-08). Honduras: Next steps after historic left victory. greenleft.org.au Following Xiomara Castro's victory in the Honduran elections, Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, Coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), spoke to Peoples Dispatch about what this means for people's movements in the country.

Progressive International Observatory (2021-12-08). Honduras rises up to reclaim its democracy. greenleft.org.au Delegates from the Progressive International Observatory witnessed the election of Xiomara Castro in Honduras on November 28.

A Guest Author (2021-12-08). Honduras: La victoria de Xiomara Castro y los grandes desafíos. workers.org Por Carlos Aznárez Después de la victoria electoral por el Partido Libre y Xiomara Castro en las elecciones en Honduras en noviembre, el redactor de Resumen Latinoamericano escribió esta entrevista. Xiomara Castro recibió más votos que ningún otro candidato en la historia de Honduras. Quién es Xiomara Castro Nos vamos . . . |

WSWS (2021-12-08). Promoters of "Wuhan lab" conspiracy theory fume as their claims fall apart. wsws.org As scientific studies continue to undermine the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a genetically engineered virus, journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being insufficiently faithful to the lab leak "theory."

scorinoco (2021-12-08). Conservative Elites Join up for Campaign to Force Canada to Violate the One-China Principle. orinocotribune.com By William Ging Wee Dere — Dec 5, 2021 | One of the pressure points now being used against China is Taiwan. | Short history of Taiwan and Canada engagement | Taiwan is a breakaway part of China.

scorinoco (2021-12-08). What You're Not Supposed to Know About Cuba and Venezuela. orinocotribune.com By Ted Snider — Dec 6, 2021 | What's changed in Venezuela and Cuba since Biden became President? Nothing. But as US foreign policy on those two great threats to America continues seamlessly on from the Trump presidency to the Biden presidency, there's something the White House and the media don't want you to know. | Venezuela | Though you'd barely know it from the media, Venezuela just had an important election. Though not a presidential election, the regional elections were significant because, since the opposition fully participated for the first time in several years, the election was an obvious referendu…

Misión Verdad (2021-12-08). Borges vs. Guaidó: US' House of Cards on Fire. orinocotribune.com By Mision Verdad — Dec 7, 2021 | We are witnessing live the unveiling of a fiction that has lasted for too long; whose protagonists belong to the most extreme of the anti-Chavismo sectors. The outcome of the unveiling is destined to propitiate the failure of the anti-Venezuela US strategy. Both the excesses of its dauphins and hitmen have worn out the age of anti-politics, and these are now being ignored because of the prevailing reality in the country, a reality in which most of the political parties are participating in the democratic arena. | Julio Borges has finally decided to depart from what Washington…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-12-08). Chilean Activists Welcome Leopoldo López with Eggs. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, December 7, a group of Chilean demonstrators received the fugitive from Venezuelan justice Leopoldo López at the former Congress of the Republic, in Santiago de Chile, with a barrage of eggs and slogans denouncing him as a criminal, murderer, and coup leader. | The Venezuelan opposition figure visited the building to meet with representatives of the Chilean extreme right participating in the Constitutional Convention, the Chilean constituent body in charge of writing the new post-Pinochet Magna Carta.[VÂDEO] Leopoldo López llega a la Convención Constitucional de Chile y lo reciben tirándole huevo…

Editor2 (2021-12-08). Crying at the Centro Fidel Castro Ruz. orinocotribune.com By Salifu Mack — Dec 2, 2021 | I recently had the opportunity to visit Cuba through a friendship Caravan with

Matt Kennard (2021-12-08). Assange Judge is 40-Year 'Good Friend' of Minister who Orchestrated his Arrest. orinocotribune.com By Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis — Dec 2, 2021 | Julian Assange's fate lies in the hands of an appeal judge who is a close friend of Sir Alan Duncan — the former foreign minister who called Assange a "miserable little worm" in parliament. | Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett, the judge that will soon decide Julian Assange's fate, is a close personal friend of Sir Alan Duncan, who as foreign minister arranged Assange's eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy. | The two have known each other since their student days at Oxford in the 1970s, when Duncan called Burnett "the Judge". Burnett and his wife attended Dunc…

Editor (2021-12-08). Unapologetic support for abortion rights must be a pillar of the Left. mronline.org This week the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization—the case that will determine the fate of Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban, and more broadly, the fate of Roe v. Wade.

The Tricontinental (2021-12-08). Dossier No. 47: New clothes, old threads: the dangerous right-wing offensive in Latin America. mronline.org The Western world lives in discontent. Progressive models have failed to maintain the levels of politicisation, mystique, capacity to question, transformative purpose, and possibilities of concrete changes for the masses.

Editor (2021-12-08). Watch "Marx is Back", Episode 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians. mronline.org "Marx is Back" a mini-series about the Communist Manifesto is now on youtube. Subtitles available.

Editor (2021-12-08). Why Amazon is terrified of Its U.S. workers unionizing. mronline.org Amazon continues to abuse its warehouse workers, both in its day-to-day treatment of them and in its thuggish, law-breaking campaign to prevent unionization in the U.S.

Editor (2021-12-08). Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, one of the great revolutionary intellectuals of the 20th century. mronline.org "Decolonization implies the urgent need to thoroughly challenge the colonial situation."

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-08). Seun Kuti: "The Oppressed People of the World Need to Organize Themselves for Political Power" libya360.wordpress.com Seun Kuti talks to Vijay Prashad about the EndSARS movement in Nigeria, the need for broadening the movement and building popular resistance in the country, Seun's father Fela Kuti and his party the Movement of the People (MOP), and more.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-08). Uganda: A Nonsensical Campaign to Tarnish China's Image. libya360.wordpress.com Vijay Prashad The Entebbe International Airport in 2009. Photo: By PetterLundkvist — Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7028754 Despite strident denials by both Ugandan and Chinese officials, an misinformation campaign is being carried out which alleges that Chinese authorities are going to take control of the Entebbe International Airport due to a loan default On…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-08). Libya: The Muslim Brotherhood Escalates Campaign Against Elections. libya360.wordpress.com The Brotherhood in Libya escalates against the elections with a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Commission Tripoli — A group of demonstrators affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya began a sit-in in front of the headquarters of the Electoral Commission in the capital, Tripoli, to demand…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-08). Supreme Council of Libyan Tribes: The Candidacy of Dr. Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi Exposed the Falsehood of February "Democracy" libya360.wordpress.com Sheikh Misbah Abu Sbeiha The head of the Supreme Council of Tribes and Cities of Fezzan, Sheikh Ali Misbah Abu Sbeiha, said that Dr. Saif al-Islam Muammar Qaddafi's candidacy for the presidential elections exposed the falsehood of February democracy and the peaceful transfer of power and its civil state, commenting on the incident of storming…

Houston Tenants Union (2021-12-08). Houston Tenants Win Back Stolen Security Deposit. itsgoingdown.org Report from Houston Tenants Union about a successful campaign that resulted in recovering a stolen security deposit. NORTH HOUSTON, TEXAS— North Houston tenants recover stolen security deposit through direct action after it was wrongfully withheld in September. On March 29, with the end of his lease term approaching, tenant Jamie notified management at Better World…

Anonymous Contributor (2021-12-08). Hundreds Take the Streets of Tucson After Police Kill Richard Lee Richards in Wheelchair. itsgoingdown.org Report-back on anti-police/anti-police brutality action on December 4th, following the police murder of Richard Lee Richards in so-called Tucson, Arizona. On Monday, November 29th, Richard Lee Richards was accused of stealing a toolbox from a Walmart. Richards, who was in a motorized wheelchair, was also accused of brandishing a knife. When Tucson Police officer Ryan…

Anonymous Contributor (2021-12-08). Call for Submissions for No More City Issue #4 in So-Called Vancouver, BC. itsgoingdown.org Call for submissions for issue #4 of the No More City publication, out of so-called Vancouver, BC. We are now taking submissions for our third issue of No More City until February 15th. We are looking for original submissions local to so-called Vancouver and so-called BC for our 4th issue! This issue will cover Fall/Winter…

rebekah (2021-12-08). A Strong Economic Case for Federal Investment in Universal Preschool. inequality.org

rebekah (2021-12-08). How Do We Fix Abusive Donor-Advised Funds? inequality.org

Fidel Castro Ruz (2021-12-08). Fidel Castro's Message against Nuclear War: "In a Nuclear War the 'Collateral Damage' would be the Life of All Humanity." globalresearch.ca A forceful message calling for World peace and the survival of humankind.

Maureen Clare Murphy (2021-12-08). Private guard kills teen at checkpoint. electronicintifada.net Video shows what may amount to extrajudicial execution.

Asa Winstanley (2021-12-08). Not guilty: Palestine Action acquitted in first trial. electronicintifada.net "Elbit Three" activists defaced Israeli drone factory in UK.

Robert Hunziker (2021-12-08). Japan's Upcoming Nuclear Waste Dump. dissidentvoice.org Nuclear waste is an interminable curse that eternally haunts the future of civilization for hundreds/thousands of years. The challenge of making nuclear power safer doesn't end after the power has been generated. Nuclear fuel remains dangerously radioactive for thousands of years after it is no longer useful in a commercial reactor.1 There are 440 nuclear …

Dean Baker (2021-12-08). NYT Hypes Coal Industry Line About Job Loss Due to Climate Change Measures. cepr.net The NYT should not be assisting the industry in its efforts to inflate jobs concerns in order to block action on global warming.

_____ (2021-12-08). Russian-Vietnamese Relations and the Joint Fight Against the Pandemic. journal-neo.org The history of relations between Russia and Vietnam goes back to Soviet times when the USSR supported the Vietnamese communists in their war for creating their state, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). After that, the Soviet Union became a major partner of the SRV for many years. The common ideology, joint opposition to the …

Adomas Abromaitis (2021-12-08). Lithuania: pensioners get ready for death. moderndiplomacy.eu Main attention of the Lithuanian media has been focused on migrant crises and security issues for several weeks. This problem has become also a good reason to once again draw the attention of the population to the need of increasing defense capabilities. This problem has become a good excuse for further increasing of the armed …

Ann Brown (2021-12-08). 12-Year Old Girl Nyla Hayes Makes $1.6 Million Selling NFT Art. moguldom.com Nyla Hayes is shaking up the non-fungible token (NFT) art world. Not only did she make $1.6 million in a few hours from her NFT collections, her NFT artwork has amassed $5.8 million in total, and she was also selected by Time magazine to be the first artist for its own NFT platform called TimePieces. And, she …

Anonymous Contributor (2021-12-08). So-Called Vancouver, BC: No More City Issue #4 Submission Callout. itsgoingdown.org Call for submissions for issue #4 of the No More City publication, out of so-called Vancouver, BC. We are now taking submissions for our third issue of No More City until February 15th. We are looking for original submissions local to so-called Vancouver and so-called BC for our 4th issue! This issue will cover Fall/Winter…

Anzy Adams (2021-12-08). Indigenous women lead march on Otay Mesa Detention Center. liberationnews.org Featured image: The crowd gathered outside the Otay Mesa Detention Center. Liberation photo…

Farrah Hassen (2021-12-08). Stop Normalizing Islamophobia. otherwords.org In her latest act of demonizing Muslims, Rep. Lauren Boebert This might be business as usual for the Colorado Republican.

Giancarlo Elia Valori (2021-12-08). The crisis of international law. moderndiplomacy.eu The idea of promoting the human rights agenda in the image and likeness of the Western countries' principles — as the repositories of Absolute Truth — is counterproductive and directly harmful in the Near and Middle East and Central Asia, as it does not consider the historical experience of these geopolitical regions. Moreover, many experts …

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-12-08). Nick Cannon's Youngest Child, Zen Cannon, Passes Away From Brain Tumor at 5 Months. moguldom.com Nick Cannon and his youngest son's mother Alyssa Scott are mourning the loss of their 5-month-old son, Zen Cannon, who died Sunday, Dec. 5, from a cancerous brain tumor. Cannon, 41, announced the sad news on Tuesday, December 7, on his namesake weekly television program "The Nick Cannon Show." "Today is a special one y'all …

Katie Prout (2021-12-08). Mental Health Care Is Hard to Come By — Especially If You're Low-Income. otherwords.org During the first wave of the pandemic in April 2020, my boyfriend asked, not unkindly, if I've ever been diagnosed with anything besides generalized anxiety disorder. | I was relieved that somebody had finally asked about my mental health. | All spring and summer 2020, I kicked the ball of my fritzing brain down the field to some imaginary goal of "things" getting better in the world, or at least more stable. Plainly, that didn't happen. | And so, like many others, I went back to therapy. Or tried to. | I'm on Medicaid, and while the insurance I receive through the program is accepted by many dentists and primary…

Kevin Mwanza (2021-12-08). How Much Money Does it Take to Manipulate The Bitcoin Price 1%? How Thin Liquidity Is Exploited. moguldom.com It takes inflows of only $93 million to move the Bitcoin price by one percent, according to the Bank of America. Bitcoin is twice as volatile as gold per dollar in-flows despite the asset existing for nearly a dozen years, with Bitcoin's nearly $ 1.1 trillion market cap equating to roughly 10 percent of golds. …

Kris Hamel (2021-12-08). Detroiters decry World Economic Forum. liberationnews.org Speakers called the WEF's new project the "Global Center for Urban Destruction" and said Detroit was picked as host because the city is the epicenter of austerity in the United States.

New Atlas (2021-12-07). The real reason for US aggression against China (opinion). newatlas.report December 7, 2021 (Angelo Giuliano — DotDotNews) — In 1945, the world woke up to a new reality, a new world order. The US had escaped World War II unscathed while Europe and Asia were completely destroyed. Throughout the war the US developed a massive industrial base to supply the war effort and its share of …

Editor2 (2021-12-07). 'Surreal': Biden Invites Venezuelan Coup Leader Juan Guaidó to US 'Summit for Democracy'. orinocotribune.com By Kenny Stancil — Dec 1, 2021 | Critics slammed Biden's decision to invite the leader of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Venezuelan president to an ostensibly pro-democracy gathering. | U.S. President Joe Biden was nearly the victim of a

Editor (2021-12-07). The Ukraine: The USA is responsible of the escalation, and must stop it before provoking a world war. mronline.org Today, the Ukraine is not only the epicenter of a new cold war, but also one of the three most dangerous points on Earth, along with Iran and Taiwan, where a nuclear conflict could be ignited, leading to the end of mankind.

_____ (2021-12-07). Hunger and Food Shortages are On the Rise. journal-neo.org Although according to the information voiced by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 88 million people were starving in the world at the end of 2020, numerous media and public organizations indicate that the number of hungry people on our planet is many times greater. According to the UN specialized agencies alone, about three billion people on …

_____ (2021-12-07). New Study Finds The US Military Is Spreading Disease Around The World. popularresistance.org A new study out of York University in Toronto, Canada finds that the US military plays a large role in the spread of diseases globally, including past and present pandemics. Clearing the FOG speaks with one of the lead authors, K J Noh, an expert analyst on the geopolitics of the Asian-Pacific region and health, about the study. Important factors in the spread of disease are Status Agreements that the US military makes with local and national governments that exempt members of the military from being required to follow public health measures and a culture of impunity within the military that leads to members defy…

Brittani Banks (2021-12-07). Why Biden Shouldn't Use the 'Summit for Democracy' to Start More Cold Wars. independentmediainstitute.org On December 9 and 10, President Biden will host a virtual "Summit for Democracy." The gathering will bring together leaders from 110 countries who work in government, civil society and the private sector, with the officially declared purpose of developing an agenda to renew democratic government and keep democracy's ideals strong. (The guest list includes …

teleSUR (2021-12-07). Iran Says US Seeks a New Crisis In Region After ISIS Fall. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Iran's Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Shamkhani accused the United States of seeking "a new crisis" in the region after the fall of the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group. | RELATED: | "The United States is very angry about the collapse of ISIS in Syria and Iraq as well as the victory of the resistance front… and is looking for a new crisis," Shamkhani said at a meeting with visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal…

Adri Nieuwhof (2021-12-07). Dutch court upholds war crimes immunity for Israel's Benny Gantz. electronicintifada.net "In Gaza we are subjected to military slaughter and in The Hague we are subjected to a legal slaughter."

David Swanson (2021-12-07). Opposition to AUKUS Should Inspire Global Opposition to U.S. Empire. warisacrime.org By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, December 7, 2021 At World BEYOND War we are inspired by the organization of events in Australia against the USUKA, er AUKUS, alliance and in agreement with the statement released by Australians for War Powers Reform. Our sympathies for the French weapons industry are nonexistent. U.S. and UK weapons …

Brittani Banks (2021-12-07). Why Poorer Nations Aren't Falling for Green-Washed Imperialism. independentmediainstitute.org Fighting global warming is not just about providing a path to net-zero carbon emissions for all countries. It is also about figuring out how best to meet the energy needs of people across the world while working toward net-zero emissions. If fossil fuels have to be given up, which has now become an urgent need …

WSWS (2021-12-07). Honduran "leftist" president-elect bows to Washington over Taiwan. wsws.org Xiomara Castro's ditching of her campaign pledge to establish diplomatic ties to Beijing is a signal of the incoming government's subordination to US imperialism.

teleSUR (2021-12-07). Russia Calls For Agreements to Prevent Expanding NATO Eastward. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova pointed out that the reduction of military tensions in Europe requires credible agreements to prevent the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) towards her country's borders. | RELATED: | "Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has received repeated assurances that NATO jurisdiction and troops will not move an inch to the…

Anonymous Contributor (2021-12-07). LA Art and Music Festival Benefiting Mutual Aid Project A Success Despite Threats from Far-Right and Police. itsgoingdown.org Report on successful anarchist art and music festival in the so-called Los Angeles area. To support the Autonomous Anarchist Revolutionary Front's ongoing mutual aid project, go here. In October, the Autonomous Anarchist Revolutionary Front (AARF) reached out to LA Crust Printing (who is known to help mutual aid groups raise funds) for collaboration on an…

WSWS (2021-12-07). Labor Party enforcing Australian ruling elite's criminal response to Omicron variant. wsws.org Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews declared: "We will not be pursuing an Omicron zero here… It might already be here."

Matthew Rozsa (2021-12-07). Sit-down strikes revolutionized the labor movement — could it happen again? zcomm.org At the height of American labor, seizing control of the means of production was a strategy — not just a slogan…

WSWS (2021-12-07). Australian Labor Party leader makes pro-business election pitch. wsws.org With the Liberal-National government disintegrating, Albanese presented Labor and the unions as the force that could best enforce the requirements of the Australian capitalist class.

Shagul Othman (2021-12-07). Understanding the student protests in Iraqi Kurdistan. zcomm.org Countless student protesters took to the streets of Iraqi Kurdistan to demand better living conditions and denounce political corruption among the ruling elites…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-07). Bertha Zúniga Cáceres on next steps in recovering democracy in Honduras after historic left victory. peoplesdispatch.org Following Xiomara Castro's victory in the Honduran elections, Bertha Zúniga Cáceres, Coordinator, COPINH, spoke to Peoples Dispatch about what this means for people's movements in the country…

Guest Contributor (2021-12-07). Unorthodox Covid Views and Medical Regulation — Richard Smith. ukhumanrightsblog.com White v General Medical Council [2021] EWHC 3286 (Admin) (03 December 2021) A case in which the High Court reminds the regulator of requirements for imposing curbs on free speech. Dr Samuel White is a GP. Earlier this year he posted a seven minute video on Instagram explaining that he had resigned from his job …

IGD Worldwide (2021-12-07). International Call For New Year's Eve Noise Demonstrations — in English, Español, Português, ŒïŒªŒªŒ∑ŒΩŒπŒ∫Œ¨, Franàßais & Deutsch. itsgoingdown.org English — Español — Português — Ελληνικά — Français — Deutsch Call from New York City Anarchist Black Cross for yearly New Year's Eve noise demonstrations outside of jails, detention centers and prisons. This is a call for a night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state. Historically, New Year's Eve is…

Brittani Banks (2021-12-07). There's a Nonsensical Propaganda Campaign to Make China Look Bad in Uganda. independentmediainstitute.org On November 25, 2021, an article appeared in Uganda's national newspaper the Daily Monitor with the headline: "Uganda surrenders airport for China cash." The article pointed to "toxic clauses" in the loan agreement signed by the Ugandan government with the Export-Import (Exim) Bank of China on March 31, 2015. The loan—worth $207 million at 2 …

Brittani Banks (2021-12-07). Progressives Sweep 2021's Municipal Elections Across Georgia. independentmediainstitute.org Georgia's 2021 municipal runoff elections saw dozens of progressives elected as new mayors, city council members and local officials in a wave that challenges the political narrative that only centrists can win in Southern battleground states, according to several organizers of voter outreach efforts. "Last night proves two things," said Ray McClendon, the Atlanta NAACP's …

_____ (2021-12-07). The Fate of Russian Literature in the Arab World. journal-neo.org Russia recently took part in the Sharjah International Book Fair, the largest one in UAE. The exposition featured books published in the Russian Federation, which included Arabic. Russian representatives held talks with the Emiratis to launch a major joint project, translating and publishing a series of Russian classical and modern literature into Arabic. There was …

Ann Brown (2021-12-07). 5 Reasons Why Some Say Neoliberalism Is At The Root of America's Problems. moguldom.com To many, the U.S. seems in chaos. The economy is spiraling out of control, and inflation keeps rising. Race relations have been strained to the breaking point, and the atmosphere is just tense. So why now? "The current state of chaos and confusion is because the "policies of the past have failed," said Felicia Wong …

Ann Brown (2021-12-07). Where is Marcus Garvey's Pardon? Garvey's Family Takes Case to President Joe Biden. moguldom.com Descendants of Pan-African activist Marcus Garvey want President Joe Biden to issue a posthumous pardon for Garvey. The bold and vibrant leader led a Black nationalist movement that spanned the globe. Garvey spearheaded a "back to Africa" movement in the U.S. in 1923. His son, Julius Garvey, is leading the call for the presidential pardon. …

Berry Craig (2021-12-07). Republican glorification of gun violence is the real 'war on Christmas'. peoplesworld.org Nazis were notorious for perverting Christmas. No longer were Germans to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace. They were to glorify Hitler and military might. Instead of teddy bears and toy trains, parents were urged to give their little boys toy weapons, including pistols, rifles, and machine guns. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., …

Binoy Kampmark (2021-12-07). Punishing the Unvaccinated: Europe's COVID-19 Health Experiment. dissidentvoice.org Forget any notions of juicy carrots; the stick approach of savage punishment is in vogue with the Greek government in pushing vaccination rates. It is far from the only one. Across a number of countries in Europe, governments wishing to drive up levels of COVID-19 vaccination have decided to abandon suasion and the generous supply …

Claudia Andrade (2021-12-07). Korean workers struggle for democracy: Eyewitness report from a PSL delegate to the People's Democracy Party. liberationnews.org International solidarity can help force the United States out of Korea. The conditions that South Korean workers face are similar to the conditions that workers suffer around the world and particularly in the United States.

Dr. Anjum Sarfraz (2021-12-07). Importance of Analysis of Major Events of Pakistan. moderndiplomacy.eu Pakistan in the past 74 years of independence has gone through events some of which have even changed its geography as well as demography but thorough, honest, unbiased and transparent analysis have either not been carried out and if done recommendations have not been implemented in letter and spirit and defaulters have not been awarded …

Dr.Nadia Helmy (2021-12-07). Democracy Summit and the fall of American-backed Muslim Brotherhood. moderndiplomacy.eu The world was surprised by the American arrangements for the American administration, led by "Joe Biden" and the American Democratic Party, to organize the "World Democracy Conference", which will bring together all the democratic countries in the world with a purely American choice, during the days of December 9 and 10, 2021, with the participation …

Dr.Nadia Helmy (2021-12-07). Israeli competition against Egypt in the energy and natural gas sector. moderndiplomacy.eu Since the success of the (June 30th revolution and the departure of the Muslim Brotherhood's rule in Egypt), then the establishment of the (new republic in Egypt), then to the changes brought about by the policy of building and construction, and then the international conferences that the Egyptian leadership is keen to attend or host, …

Dr.Nadia Helmy (2021-12-07). The failure of the US-backed Israeli peace agreements and its normalisation with the Gulf states. moderndiplomacy.eu Egyptian diplomacy has always played a (positive mediation role to consolidate the ceasefire between the Palestinians and the Israelis, especially in the recent events in Gaza 2021, and Egypt was ready to work with everyone and Israel), in order to promote an early, comprehensive, just and lasting settlement of the Palestinian issue on the basis …

Edward Yudelovich (2021-12-07). Protest demands full access, equal rights on International Day of People with Disabilities. workers.org New York City The worldwide struggle by people with disabilities for equal rights led the United Nations to establish the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3, 1992. The IDPD website stresses that this holiday in 2021 should be used to recognize that people with disabilities are amongst . . . |

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-12-07). Fact Check: Homeschooled Black Children Score Much Better On Standardized Tests. moguldom.com Black children that are homeschooled score significantly higher than their public school counterparts on standardized tests, a study shows. "Black homeschool students score 23-42 percentile points above Black public school students across all standardized tests," Classic Learning Test CEO Jeremy Tate tweeted on Dec. 4. "No wonder homeschooling among Black families has grown faster than …

Jenny Farrell (2021-12-07). Abdulrazak Gurnah, the 2020 Nobel Laureate for Literature. peoplesworld.org Wole Soyinka was the first Black African writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Other Nobel Prize winners from the African continent are Nagib Mahfuz (Egypt), Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee (both South Africa). The Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who died in 2013, and who is considered one of the fathers …

Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza (2021-12-07). MUD and Democratic Alliance Announce Candidates for Barinas Re-Election. orinocotribune.com Caracas, December 6, 2021 (Special for OrinocoTribune.com)—Opposition politician Freddy Superlano announced today that the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD) has registered Sergio Garrido as its candidate for the governorship of the state of Barinas in the controversial re-election scheduled for January 9. | Superlano's recent electoral victory was declared invalid by a Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) ruling last week. The TSJ did acknowledge that he received the most votes, but declared Superlano ineligible for the public position, despite the fact that he was recognized as candidate by the National Electora…

Joe Piette (2021-12-07). Philadelphia rally defends abortion justice. workers.org On Dec. 1 as the U.S. Supreme Court was hearing arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization — the most consequential abortion rights case since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 — women, other gender-oppressed people and allies rallied at Temple University in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Dec. 1. WW . . . |

Karen Conner (2021-12-07). PREVIEW: What to Look for in the November Consumer Price Index. cepr.net The argument that the rise in the inflation rate we have seen this year will be transitory depends largely on the belief that the price increases in cars and many other durable goods will be reversed in the months ahead.

Kester Kenn Klomegah (2021-12-07). Putin Stresses Broadening Economic Cooperation With African States. moderndiplomacy.eu Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated some aspects of Russia's foreign policy agenda when he received letters of credence from 20 foreign ambassadors, including seven from Africa, who had arrived in the country to begin their duty tour. The seven new African ambassadors are from Republics of Angola, Benin, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Mauritania and Somalia. …

Mark Gruenberg (2021-12-07). Postal Workers tell Congress to deliver postal reform before year's end. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—…

Newsroom (2021-12-07). 5 Resume Website Mistakes to Avoid. moderndiplomacy.eu First impressions are crucial, and a poorly designed personal website can put employers off. Sadly, too many candidates fall prey to pitfalls like information overload or poor grammar. These mistakes have far-reaching implications for your career. Discover the biggest errors to avoid in 2022. 1. Overwhelming Layout The common wisdom is that a resume should …

Newsroom (2021-12-07). Sahel Leaders Commit to Ambitious Reforms to Support Access to Quality Education. moderndiplomacy.eu The summit on education in the Sahel under the theme of "Shaping the Sahel's future in today's schools," just concluded today. The summit brought together President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger, heads of delegations of the Sahel and the Vice President of the World Bank for …

Newsroom (2021-12-07). World Bank Supports Cabo Verde to Build a Sustainable and Equitable Recovery. moderndiplomacy.eu The World Bank approved a $30 million Development Policy Financing Operation on December 6 to support the Government's efforts to strengthen policies for a sustainable, equitable, and greener recovery from the COVID-19 crisis in Cabo Verde. "As Cabo Verde is recovering from the largest economic contraction in history and leveraging the moment to embark in …

Nicolas Frank Bà∂hmer (2021-12-07). Lithium in Afghanistan: Gold or Dust? moderndiplomacy.eu With Lithium being much in focus due to the increasing demand for the electrification of many areas on the planet, expectations and dreams around the delicate metal grow by the day. Many electronics devices, most devices with rechargeable batteries, modern electric vehicles in particular, but also in storage and balancing battery systems for the electric …

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-07). Killings during Great March of Return protests in Gaza whitewashed by Israel, report reveals. peoplesdispatch.org The report reveals "how Israel worked to whitewash the truth and protect the political and military officials responsible, instead of taking action against the individuals who devised and implemented the unlawful open-fire policy, which resulted in the killing of more than 200 Palestinians"

Sandipan Talukdar (2021-12-07). Pendant found in Poland could be the oldest surviving jewellery made by humans. peoplesdispatch.org Carbon dating has established that the pendant found in southern Poland inside the Stajnia cave is thousands of years older than artifacts decorated similarly and found in other sites…

Shriya Singh (2021-12-07). Solidarity march shows rising strength of student movement in Pakistan. peoplesdispatch.org The annual Student Solidarity March, which was held on November 26, sought the withdrawal of the ban against student unions, as well as the reversal of fee hikes and an increase in the education budget…

Staff (2021-12-07). Venezuela's Oil Production Reaches 930,000 Barrels per Day Peak in December's First Week. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's state oil company Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) achieved a total oil production of 930,000 barrels per day (bpd) in the first week of December. The level approaches PDVSA's forecast of one million bpd by the end of the year, as detailed in an internal PDVSA report. The nation's oil industry, in addition to millions of Venezuelan citizens, have seen their livelihoods damaged by illegal coercive measures (or "sanctions") issued by the United States and Europe in an attempt to oust President Nicolas Maduro. | The level of production was reached due to the efforts of exploration and production workers…

Tamanna Islam (2021-12-07). Blue Economy and the opening of new horizons in Bangladesh. moderndiplomacy.eu The sea is called the lungs of the earth. The land beneath the sea is a world full of diversity and abundance of life. Professor Gunter Pauli, an Australian citizen, gave the first idea of the huge economic potential. In 2010, at the invitation of the United Nations, the idea of formulating an environmentally friendly …

William Manson (2021-12-07). "Niche Marketing" (or The Algorithm of Closed Minds). dissidentvoice.org A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather, it is a question of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions!!! — Friedrich Nietzsche, Critique of Religion and Philosophy, Walter A. Kaufmann, 1958, page 34 Is it necessary to say that this article is not about critical thinking and intellectual integrity …

_____ (2021-12-06). In the US, Homicide has Now Become Endemic. journal-neo.org The US homicide rate rose by a record 30% from 2019 to 2020, reports CNN citing a paper from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The number of deaths due to homicide in 2020 was the highest in the modern history of the United States. The Gun Violence Archive (GVA), a research group, estimates …

Editor (2021-12-06). The ecosocialist imperative. mronline.org Thirty years ago, climate modeling scientists predicted exactly the global events—massive wildfires, intensified tropical storms, flooding and droughts—that we're seeing right now.

Lauren Smith (2021-12-06). Nicaragua's Evidence-Based Democracy Threatens U.S. Oppression Domestically and Abroad. covertactionmagazine.com Despite Washington's best effort to derail Nicaragua's electoral process through hybrid warfare, strong voter turnout resulted in a decisive victory …

Yader R. Lanuza (2021-12-06). Sandinistas won a landslide victory not through fraud but because they uplifted Nicaragua's poor. mronline.org Do not believe them when they tell you the left is divided. There is no division. The (anti-imperialist) Left is standing with the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua. The rest are either confused or advocating an imperialist political project.

Tanya Wadhwa (2021-12-06). Over 1.5 Million Bolivians March in Defense of Democracy. zcomm.org Over 1.5 million workers, women, students and peasants from across Bolivia joined the rally in the capital and expressed their approval of the national government of the ruling Movement Towards Socialism party…

Margaret Kimberley (2021-12-06). China is not colonizing Africa. mronline.org International media cannot be trusted to give accurate information. Skepticism is especially warranted when China is the topic and allegations of colonizing Africa make headlines.

Adri Nieuwhof (2021-12-06). Roger Waters: Why I support war crimes case against Israel's Benny Gantz. electronicintifada.net Ismail Ziada will learn this week if he can get justice in a Dutch court.

Aaron Maté (2021-12-06). Corrupting Science: shunning forensic expertise, OPCW left Douma murders unsolved. thegrayzone.com In its probe of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, the OPCW shunned the critical investigative area of forensic pathology and censored a recommendation to pursue it. The Douma killings remain unsolved. Part two of a Grayzone series. Read part one here. In its probe of an alleged chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) shunned the critical investigative area of forensic pathology, leaks obtained by The Grayzone reveal. Forensic …

Aaron Maté (2021-12-06). Corrupting science: Shunning forensic expertise, OPCW left Douma, Syria murders unsolved. thegrayzone.com In its probe of an alleged chemical attack in Syria, the OPCW shunned the critical investigative area of forensic pathology and censored a recommendation to pursue it. The Douma killings remain unsolved. (This is part two of a Grayzone series. Read part one here.) In its probe of an alleged chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) shunned the critical investigative area of forensic pathology, leaks obtained by The Grayzone …

Moderator (2021-12-06). Ralph Nader: Critical Exposés Everywhere as the Corporate State Worsens. scheerpost.com [ By Ralph Nader | Within a span of five years, there were three books in th…

Staff (2021-12-06). Pedro Castillo Warns of Peruvian Media Scheming to Oust Him. orinocotribune.com Peruvian President Pedro Castillo warned of a media plan to attack him, indicating that a television station will show edited videos and audios with the intention of discrediting him. | "I'm sure they are up to a lot of things," the president said. "There will be audios, videos, and many edited ones, but what they cannot do is shut us up, and alter the efforts" of the government. | Regarding this media operation against him, Castillo mentioned that the multimedia material will…

Victoria Torres (2021-12-06). Julio Borges Resigns and Guaidó Staggers: 'Interim Government Must Disappear'. orinocotribune.com This Sunday, December 5, Venezuelan opposition leader Julio Borges took to his Twitter account to express his disagreement with the "management" of Juan Guaidó and his fictitious "government." Through a Twitter thread, Borges described what he will do starting this Tuesday. All this comes two weeks after the crushing defeat that the hard right opposition suffered in the November 21 regional elections. | This move represents a separation of Borges from what the opposition used to call "interim government" headed by Guaidó. Now a number of those involved in that imaginary government classify it as not very transpar…

WSWS (2021-12-06). DSA National Political Committee rejects calls to expel Jamaal Bowman for supporting Israeli war crimes. wsws.org The entire episode exposes the real character and political function of the DSA as a faction of the Democratic Party.

Staff (2021-12-06). "Crisis of Accountability": Pentagon Reopens Probe of Syrian Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians. democracynow.org Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a new investigation into one of the deadliest U.S. airstrikes in recent years after the New York Times exposed an orchestrated cover-up by U.S. military officials to conceal the attack. The March 2019 airstrike killed dozens of women and children during a bombing of one of the last strongholds of the Islamic State of Syria. Evidence has shown that U.S. military officials spent two-and-a-half years covering up the attack by downplaying the death toll, delaying reports, and sanitizing and classifying evidence of civilian deaths. "This is not the case of one little mistake,…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-12-06). Omicron and the Travel Ban Itch. dissidentvoice.org Stick to the script: owe that duty of care to your population, so the legal experts in government tell you. Self-interest pays, if in small amounts. These rigid, formulaic assumptions have done wonders to harm and deter any spirit of cooperation regarding dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. History's record of humanity's response to plagues, pandemics …

Editor (2021-12-06). Omicron variant exposes danger of global vaccine apartheid. mronline.org A new, heavily mutated Coronavirus variant, Omicron, is causing alarm around the world as scientists race to discover more about this new type of the virus and its potential resistance to vaccines.

Staff (2021-12-06). Headlines for December 6, 2021. democracynow.org International Travelers Face Tightened Restrictions as Omicron Variant Spreads Worldwide, More Protests Erupt as European Countries Tighten Vaccine Mandates, Parents of Michigan High School Shooting Suspect Arrested After Manhunt, Burmese Court Sentences Deposed Leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 4 Years in Prison, Biden Expected to Announce U.S. Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics, 15 Dead, Dozens Missing as Indonesian Volcano Erupts, Funerals Held for 15 Civilians Killed by Security Forces in India's Nagaland State, Pope Francis Voices Support for Refugees in Trip to Greek Island of Lesbos, Voters in The Gamb…

Owen Fairclough (2021-12-06). U.S. changes traveling rules in attempt to contain Omicron. america.cgtn.com New rules for anyone flying into the U.S took effect this Monday as authorities tried to contain the spread of Omicron.

WSWS (2021-12-06). WHO says that Omicron could become the dominant variant globally. wsws.org At least 38 countries have detected the Omicron variant inside their borders. The current surge of infections in South Africa has shown the new strain is even more transmissible than Delta. However, little is being done to coordinate a global strategy to contain and end the pandemic.

Jim Spellman (2021-12-06). U.S. attempts to contain Omicron. america.cgtn.com With the discovery of a new COVID-19 variant, and cases already reported in several states, the U.S. is trying to contain the spread of the virus.

WSWS (2021-12-06). Sri Lankan government eases COVID-19 restrictions ignoring scientists' warnings about Omicron. wsws.org The working class must oppose the murderous policy of the government and the entire ruling class, which has let the coronavirus run rampant, taking the lives of tens of thousands and infecting hundreds of thousands.

WSWS (2021-12-06). Germany: Federal and state governments give the pandemic free rein. wsws.org Despite record infection rates and the spread of the highly contagious Omicron mutation, the policy of "profits before lives" continues, sacrificing tens of thousands more human lives in the interest of the financial markets.

WSWS (2021-12-06). Striking NSW teachers must fight for school shutdown to stop the spread of Omicron in Australia! wsws.org The cutting edge of the fight for all of the rights of educators is to close the schools for the year so that no more teachers or students are infected with a disease that could claim their lives or leave them with dire medical issues.

Rick Rozoff (2021-12-06). NATO threat to redeploy nuclear arms led to Belarus to moot basing Russian nuclear weapons — analyst. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Lukashenko's suggestion to host Russian nuclear weapons seen as response to Western threats By suggesting to host Russian nuclear weapons Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has responded to the West's threats to deploy its nuclear capabilities in Poland and the Baltic countries, editor-in-chief of the Russian magazine Natsionalnaya Oborona [National Defense] and military expert Igor Korotchenko …

Rick Rozoff (2021-12-06). Poland coordinating military response with Ukraine, consulting with NATO. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Poland seeks closer ties with Ukraine amid migrant crisis: defence minister [Polish Defense Minister] Mariusz B≈Çaszczak said that intelligence obtained from Kiev suggested migrants might be redirected by Belarus authorities to Ukraine…. B≈Çaszczak also told the interview that "Poland, together with its allies, is closely monitoring the situation in the conflict area between Russia and …

Anonymous Contributor (2021-12-06). Why Anarchists Can't Be Absent From the New Wave of Labor Militancy. itsgoingdown.org Anarchists must push for self-organization, direct action and mutual aid in the midst of a wave of mass strikes, workers walking off the job, and growing anger at rising inequality. The month of October was the start of what has been called "Striketober" a massive wave of labor strikes across the so called United States….

W.T. Whitney Jr. (2021-12-06). Libre Party and Presidential Candidate Xiomara Castro Win Big in Honduras Elections. orinocotribune.com By W.T. Whitney — Dec 2, 2021 | Xiomara Castro, candidate of the Freedom and Refoundation Party ("Libre") prevailed in presidential elections in Honduras on November 28. Her term begins in January, 2022; she replaces two-term president Juan Orlando Hernández, who with ex-President Porfirio Lobo (2010-2014), account for 12 years of National Party rule following the June 2009 military coup that removed progressive President Manuel Zelaya. He is Xiomara Castro's husband. | With a 70 percent voter turnout, Castro accumulated almost 54 percent of the total, leaving National Party candidate Nasry Asfura with 34 pe…

_____ (2021-12-06). Yemen: Is There a Silver Lining to This Country's Bleak Future? journal-neo.org The United Nations has warned that if the war in Yemen continues through the end of 2021, the death toll of the conflict will have reached 377,000 people, with 154,000 succumbed to direct hostilities and violence while 223,000, or almost 60%, will be indirectly caused by it. The report says that of the total deaths, 259,000, …

Joris Leverink (2021-12-06). The Laura Flanders Show: How Radical Self-Love Can Heal the World. roarmag.org How Radical Self-Love Can Heal the World: | It's that time of year when we all need resilience: elections, holidays, the change of seasons. Many of us need fortitude to get through. Reverend Dr. Jacqui Lewis would add that we need "fierce love" too. | Reverend Jacqui is senior minister of Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan's East Village. A year ago, the building burnt to the ground, but the story didn't stop there. In this far-ranging conversation, Laura and Rev. Jacqui talk about mutual aid, colonial baggage and the Reverend's new book, Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking…

Joris Leverink (2021-12-06). Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Monopolistic Competition. roarmag.org Season 3, Episode 26 — Monopolistic Competition: | In this episode of ACC, Prof. Harvey speaks about monopolistic competition and its impact on market pricing and location. All monopolistic competition is spacial competition that creates a highly unstable economy and has a tendency to produce conglomerations in rich locations. | You can support this podcast on

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-06). Governments buy more weapons in first year of COVID-19 boosting global arms trade. peoplesdispatch.org Data published by SIPRI for the year 2020 shows the world's top 100 weapons manufacturers increase their overall sales in comparison to previous years as governments chose to increase arms procurement despite COVID-19-related economic hardships…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-06). Academic staff across the UK protest cuts in salaries and pension. peoplesdispatch.org Tens of thousands of academic workers in around 58 universities across the UK joined a three-day strike called by the University and Colleges Union (UCU) between December 1-3…

Staff (2021-12-06). Jorge Arreaza PSUV Candidate for Barinas Re-Election. orinocotribune.com With the battle-cry "Long live Chávez!", Jorge Arreaza Montserrat assumed, on Sunday, December 5, the candidacy for governorship in Barinas state, after being so designated by the national leadership of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV). | Arreaza declared that he was moved, and thanked, from the heart, President Nicolás Maduro, for the confidence in him to undertake this new battle in the state where Hugo Chávez was born and that has great ideological significance for the Bolivarian Revolution. | "If you trust this son of Chávez, this brother of Nicolás Maduro, to lead the reins of Barinas for the n…

Editor2 (2021-12-06). Diego Sequera Discusses the Underpinnings of Venezuelan Election and Huge Maduro/Socialist Victory. orinocotribune.com Sunday's result underscores the notion that the Venezuelan people blame the U.S. sanctions for their suffering, rather than purely pointing the finger at the government. | The United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) is celebrating as, with almost all votes counted, they appear to have won 20 out of the country's 23 states in Sunday's regional "mega elections." More than 70,000 candidates stood for one of 3,082 public positions, including local mayorships, councillors, regional legislators and state governors — the vast majority of candidates affiliated with opposition parties. | The landslide victory was…

Editor (2021-12-06). SVR — United States push Ukraine to relaunch Donbass conflict, while accusing Russia of wanting to attack. mronline.org The head of the SVR, Sergey Naryshkin, told a journalist from the Rossia 1 channel that behind the reports that Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine lies Washington's desire to push Kiev to attack the Donbass.

Jonah Furman (2021-12-06). Auto Workers win direct Democracy in referendum. mronline.org It's a historic win for reformers in one of the nation's most important unions, where members have pushed for this change for decades.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-06). Unmasking the "Orient's" White Masks: Remembering Fanon. libya360.wordpress.com Karim Sharara Colonialism perpetuates itself by keeping the colonials on an inferior basis, ever-striving to "rise" to the level of the colonizers. Frantz Fanon's life was transformed due to the damaging effect of French colonialism on his home country and on Algeria, which led him to conduct a psychoanalytical study on its effects, and how…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-06). The Quetzal and the Condor Will Fly Together. libya360.wordpress.com Ollantay Itzamná Assembly of the Xinca people. Jutiapa. Receives the delegation of the Andean peoples. … we are witnessing the dawn in which, sooner rather than later, the indomitable Quetzal will fly together and in complicity with the majestic Condor in search of plurinational freedom. And these two will unite with the Eagle… And then,…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-06). China Deepens Cooperation with CELAC States. libya360.wordpress.com Kawsachun News Foreign Minister of Mexico, Marcelo Ebrard and President of China Xi Jinping. December 3, 2021. Chinese President Xi Jinping made a call to promote cooperation between China and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, in a speech via video conference during the third Meeting of Ministers of the China-CELAC Forum. The…

Canadian Tire Fire (2021-12-06). Canadian Tire Fire #22: #AllOutForWedzinKwa updates, Migrant Workers Take on Cargill, Brampton Workers Fight Wage Theft. itsgoingdown.org This week we provide updates on the situation on the Wet'suwet'en Yintah as well as on the ongoing #ShutDownCanada solidarity actions across the country. We also cover the Cargill strike in the context of fatal Covid-19 outbreaks linked to the meatpacking plant. Naujawan (youth) Support Network in the Greater Toronto Area continues to successfully put…

Anonymous Contributor (2021-12-06). Report Back from Disruption of Heartland Alliance's Holiday Brunch. itsgoingdown.org Report back on recent mobilization and disruption of the Heartland Alliance, a non-profit which imprisons migrant children in so-called Chicago. For a deeper dive, go here. On Sunday, December 5 at 10 AM, demonstrators gathered outside the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Chicago to confront donors arriving at Heartland Health's annual holiday brunch. While Heartland…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-06). Covid and Social Engineering: The Impact of Fear and Anxiety on the Human Immune System. libya360.wordpress.com Carina Harkin "The enemy is fear. We think it is hate, but it is really fear". ‚ÄçGandhi (1) We live in the age of anxiety. We who see, see clearly this is a pandemic of fear. One of the central emotional responses during a pandemic is fear. Fear comprises both an emotional and physical response…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-06). Josu Landa: National Autonomous University of Mexico Reactivates the Simón Bolívar Chair. libya360.wordpress.com Yoselina Guevara The reactivation of the Simón Bolívar Chair at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was a precise moment to talk to the Venezuelan philosopher Josu Landa, professor at that university, who together with Dr. Ambrosio Velasco, a Mexican academic with a distinguished career, have taken on the task of resuming the study…

Aaron Maté (2021-12-06). War in Ukraine? NATO expansion drives conflict with Russia. thegrayzone.com Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Richard Sakwa joins Pushback. Russia is seeking a legally binding pledge that NATO will stop expanding east, including to Ukraine. If the US refuses, is war next? Scholar and author Richard Sakwa analyzes the growing Russia-Ukraine conflict and how Russiagate fueled it. Guest: Richard Sakwa. Professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. His …

Max Binder (2021-12-06). Protesters sleep in tents outside Rhode Island State House, demand housing. liberationnews.org "I'm out here because the state of Rhode Island has decided for yet another winter that some people should freeze to death."

Rick Rozoff (2021-12-06). New paradigm shift: NATO demonstrates heightened interest in Turkish arms. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com FM: NATO shows great interest in Turkey's defence products Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said that NATO member countries show great interest in Turkey's defence products… Cavusoglu made the remarks at the Global Strategies in Defence and Aerospace Industry Conference 2021 organized by the Defence and Aviation Industry Exporters' Association (SSI) in Antalya… "Currently, …

Rick Rozoff (2021-12-06). Three Brothers, 30 brothers: NATO headquarters to host Pakistani foreign minister. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Visit to NATO by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan On Tuesday, 7 December 2021, the NATO Secretary General, Mr. Jens Stoltenberg will meet with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan, Mr. Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, at NATO Headquarters. Relations with Pakistan…

Rick Rozoff (2021-12-06). Turkey's provision of combat drones for war in Donbass has nothing to do with war in Donbass — official. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The claim will be dutifully duplicated in the Russian press. The Ukrainian government said in June that when the Bayraktar drones arrived they would be used in the Donbass. Kiev also prominently displayed one of the drones in July's U.S./NATO thirty-nation Sea Breeze war games. But neither Ankara nor Moscow had the faintest idea they …

Rick Rozoff (2021-12-06). U.S. ambassador: Ukraine, Georgia will join NATO, Russia be damned. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com It is for Georgia to decide what alliances it wants to be part of to protect its own territory — Kelly Degnan It is for Georgia to decide what alliances it wants to be part of to protect its own territory. Such a statement [was] made today [by] the U.S. Ambassador to Georgia. "NATO Secretary …

Rick Rozoff (2021-12-06). U.S. Senator Murphy warns/threatens Russia of/with "next Afghanistan" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com US Senate warns Russia about possibility of repetition of 'Afghan lesson' in Ukraine Democratic United States Senator for Connecticut and a member of the Foreign Relations Committee Chris Murphy on December 5 warned Russia that "Ukraine can become the next Afghanistan for Russia." Murphy said this on Sunday program of Fareed Zakaria on CNN. Warning …

_____ (2021-12-05). Will Ethiopia Become Biden's Libya 2.0 or a Driver for an African Renaissance? strategic-culture.org The situation in Ethiopia is rather simple to understand as long as you don't believe western media spin doctors, Matthew Ehret writes. | Many westerners trying to make sense of the events in the "dark continent" of Africa have many barriers standing in the way of their minds and reality. This must be the case, for without such filters of spin proclaiming Africa's problems to be self-induced (or the consequence of Chinese debt slavery), we in the west, might actually feel horrified enough to demand systemic change. We might come to recognize that the plight of Africa has less to do with Africa and more to do with…

Mnar Adley (2021-12-05). Camila Saab Speaks Out: Wife of Venezuelan Diplomat "Kidnapped" by US Gov't Talks to MintPress. orinocotribune.com While Washington cannot choose the president of Venezuela, it can make life impossible for officials, such as Alex Saab, who attempt to defy its sanctions regime. | On Wednesday, November 24, MintPress News Editor in Chief Mnar Adley sat down to speak with Camila Saab, the wife of imprisoned Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab. | Saab was on a diplomatic mission to Iran in June 2020, where he was tasked with securing deals for food, medicine and personal protective equipment. His plane stopped off in Cabo Verde — a group of islands off the west coast of Africa — for a routine refueling. | He would never fin…

Hamilton Nolan (2021-12-05). Which Side Are You Democrats On? zcomm.org Even the friendliest Democratic officials are cowards. The labor movement needs to save itself…

_____ (2021-12-05). Totally Exhausted US and EU Hit China With Sanctions. journal-neo.org The growing contradictions between China and the West, which received an ideological coloring after the speech of Mike Pompeo in 2020, who called the confrontation between Beijing and Washington a struggle between the Free World and the Marxist-Leninist Regime, is increasingly acquiring the character of a complex conflict between the parties. Washington and its Western …

Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel (2021-12-05). The Vaccinated vs. The Unvaccinated: Peaceful Citizens Are Being Set Against One Another. globalresearch.ca Written with foresight, …

Eric Zuesse (2021-12-05). How Israel's Actions Against Iran Are Rooted in Cecil Rhodes's 1877 Plan. dissidentvoice.org There has been much speculation about why Israel was allowed in 1967 to intentionally bomb the USS Liberty and slaughter 34 American soldiers on that ship which the U.S. Government has covered-up. And there also is much speculation about why, as reported to Congress by the Congressional Research Service on 7 August 2019, "Israel is …

Ethan Huff (2021-12-05). If You Take the COVID Vax, You Can Never Achieve Full Immunity Again — Government Stats Unveil the Horrifying Truth. globalresearch.ca

F. William Engdahl (2021-12-05). Is Gene Editing the New Name for Eugenics? "Enter Bill Gates" globalresearch.ca A major new technology known as Gene Editing has gained significant attention in recent months. Its advocates claim it will revolutionize everything from agriculture production to disease treatment. Is this technology a stealth way to introduce GMO genetic manipulation by way of another technique.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-05). Amid protests, Polish parliament rejects anti-abortion bill. peoplesdispatch.org Hundreds of people protested in Poland on December 1 while the parliament was proceeding with the first reading of a draft anti-abortion law. The bill was rejected in the parliament with 361 votes against and 48 in favor of it on December 2.

Staff (2021-12-05). New US Military Provocation: Colombia Gets US Armored Vehicles. orinocotribune.com Colombian Defense Minister, Diego Molano, received from the US Ambassador to Colombia, Phillip Goldberg, the keys to 20 armored vehicles of model ASV M1117 Guardian which, the minister assured, will be deployed at Colombia's border with Venezuela. | These 20 vehicles make up the first batch of 145 military vehicles that Washington is donating to the Colombian army. | "This effort allows us to have more equipped troops, soldiers who fulfill their mission to face threats," said Molano at the Buenavista Military Cantonment in La Guajira, about 30 kilometers from the border with Venezuela's Zulia state, in a clear ac…

Staff (2021-12-05). White supremacists left out in the cold in DC, literally. rt.com A hundred-strong group of white supremacists has stomped through downtown Washington, DC, with unexpected logistical issues ultimately raining on their parade. | Donning uniform of white neck gaiters, sunglasses and khaki pants, and holding plastic shields, members of the 'Patriot Front' marched in the US capital on Saturday evening, under the motto "reclaim America." The demonstrators were carrying American flags and banners, with drummers setting the rhythm to the procession. Some social media users have also claimed the group set off a smoke bomb at one point, with photos appearing to show the aftermath. A…

Staff (2021-12-05). Covid outbreak on cruise ship with over 3,000 passengers. rt.com Ten people have tested positive for Covid on board a Norwegian Cruise Line ship bound for New Orleans, despite the strict rules in place that required that all passengers and crew be vaccinated. | The vessel had departed the same city on November 28, and was scheduled to return there this weekend. On its route, the Norwegian Breakaway called at a number of ports in Belize, Honduras, and Mexico, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. More than 3,200 people are believed to be on board. Officials said in a statement that the cruise line "has been adhering to appropriate quarantine and isolation protocol…

_____ (2021-12-05). New Orleans Has A Trash Problem. Thanks To Climate Change, Your City Probably Will, Too. popularresistance.org Dealing with tons of trash isn't out of the ordinary for the City of New Orleans. By the end of Carnival season, city clean-up crews and paid volunteers collect about 900 tons of garbage on average each year. Onlookers have called the efforts "mesmerizing" to watch. More than a century of Mardi Gras celebrations have refined the city's approach to bulk garbage collection down to a science. A "parade" of sanitation workers, tractors, trucks, and street sweepers mobilize to collect the trash and clean the city after Fat Tuesday.

_____ (2021-12-05). What Can Organizers At Amazon Learn From Walmart? Part 2. popularresistance.org "Amazon is the epoch-defining corporation of the moment in a way that Walmart was two decades ago," said Howard W, an Amazon warehouse worker and organizer with Amazonians United, a grassroots movement of Amazon workers building shop-floor power. What can organizers at Amazon learn from the Walmart campaigns in the 2000s? And what can these two efforts teach us about organizing at scale? Unions haven't successfully organized an employer with more than 10,000 workers in decades, so getting to scale is one of the most pressing challenges for the social justice movements.

Misión Verdad (2021-12-05). How Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates and Big Pharma Destroyed US Public Health. orinocotribune.com A country's success or failure in managing the COVID-19 pandemic is measured by the number of infections and deaths from the disease. Although it was expected that the crisis would generate a change in the relationship dynamics between nations, even in their internal management, what the outcome has shown is the overall dominance of a barbarism which was the product of the logic of capitalism. | In the case of the United States, the country that so far leads the death count worldwide, the handling of the pandemic has been catastrophic and its effects have influenced and upset global dynamics. Who was in charge of…

Dr. Peter McCullough (2021-12-05). Video: The Vaccine is More Dangerous than COVID-19: Dr. Peter McCullough. globalresearch.ca

Makia Freeman (2021-12-05). Ten Things You Need to Know about the Experimental COVID mRNA Vaccines. globalresearch.ca With foresight, this article was published on January 13, 2021 at the very outset of the Vaccine program. Experimental COVID Vaccines are coming to town, being rolled out worldwide as the transhumanistic New World Order (NWO) agenda dictates. This …

Staff (2021-12-05). Minister Plasencia to Washington: 'You Cannot Torpedo Mexico Talks and Then Urge Its Resumption. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's Foreign Affairs Minister, Félix Plasencia, responded this Friday, December 3, to the US Undersecretary of State, Victoria Nuland, that it has been the government of President Nicolás Maduro that has repeatedly promoted dialogue with the opposition, even at times of greatest political tension that was fostered by the Venezuelan extreme right supported precisely by Washington. | On Thursday, December 2, in a new interventionist act, Washington urged the administration of Nicolás Maduro to return to the negotiating table in Mexico. "Met yesterday with Venezuela's Unitary Platform to reaffirm US support f…

MAMER (2021-12-05). Study on Electromagnetism of Vaccinated Persons. globalresearch.ca First published by Global …

Dakotah Lilly (2021-12-05). The Socialist Leader America Loves to Hate Wins Again. What now? orinocotribune.com By Dakotah Lilly — Nov 26, 2021 | Recent elections in Venezuela saw Nicolás Maduro's leftist ruling party win 20 out of 23 governorships. The US predictably cries foul, but I witnessed voting that was perfectly free and fair. | Western This smear is in direct contradict…

Tyler Walicek (2021-12-05). Recall Campaign Against Socialist Kshama Sawant Is Backed by Billionaires. truthout.org An unusual special election in Seattle's District 3 on December 7 will decide whether avowedly socialist City Councilor Kshama Sawant will be recalled from her position. The fact that Sawant's seat is under dire threat is indicative of the contempt that Seattle's business interests hold for her and her policies: The considerable victories Sawant has won for working people have made her the target of some of Seattle's most powerful forces. | Despite protestations to the contrary, it's eminently c…

Jonathan Cook (2021-12-05). How Starmer's Labour Reversed 40 Years of Progress on Israel and Palestine. dissidentvoice.org British politics is lurching backwards when it comes to Israel. Gains won over many decades that made it possible to critique Israel and its belligerent rule over Palestinians are being undone almost overnight — and on both sides of the supposed political divide. A rash of recent incidents illustrate how quickly the rot has set …

Andrea Germanos (2021-12-05). Progressive Lawmakers to Biden: 'Cancel Student Loan Debt.' All of It. Now. zcomm.org "Student loan payments resume in 61 days. Borrowers are NOT ready or able to restart them," said Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal…

Rod Driver (2021-12-05). The World's Richest People: Excessive Wealth Disorder Is Destroying Our Societies. globalresearch.ca Incisive and timely article first published by Global Research on March 29, …

Jon Queally (2021-12-05). Sanders Calls on Congress to End Filibuster If Needed to Protect Abortion Rights. truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday called it unacceptable to sit back and watch the U.S. Supreme Court possibly end the right of women to access abortion care and said his colleagues in the Senate should act urgently to end the filibuster and codify into federal law the protections afforded by Roe v. Wade — the historic ruling now under the most severe threat since it was first decided in 1973. | In an email to supporters, the Independent from Vermont and former presidential candidate…

WSWS (2021-12-05). Workers' anger mounts at trade union sell-outs of strikes across Spain. wsws.org Opposition is growing among workers across Spain to the continual betrayals of these pro-corporate, anti-worker organisations.

John Bellamy Foster (2021-12-05). Marxism, Ecology and the Climate Crisis—John Bellamy Foster. mronline.org In the week before the COP26 international summit, John Bellamy Foster analyzed the climate emergency and how we can achieve climate justice.

Christine Massey (2021-12-05). The Identity of the Virus: Health/ Science Institutions Worldwide "Have No Record" of SARS-COV-2 Isolation/Purification. globalresearch.ca First published by GR …

Ben Manski (2021-12-05). Building the Global Movement. zcomm.org The question we must take up is that of how to engage hundreds of millions of our fellow human beings in a mass constitution-making process from below…

Dr. Vandana Shiva (2021-12-05). Video: "The Way You Design the World in Your Mind is the Way you Relate to It in the Real World": Dr. Vandana Shiva. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on April 23, 2021 Vandana Shiva…

Marjorie Cohn (2021-12-05). For the First Time, Supreme Court Is Poised to Retract a Fundamental Right. zcomm.org While Chief Justice John Roberts may not be prepared to squarely overturn Roe and Casey, he signaled his readiness to uphold the Mississippi law, gutting the right of women to choose abortion…

Jonathan Cook (2021-12-05). We Are Living Through a Time of Fear — Not Just of the Virus, but of Each Other. globalresearch.ca This incisive and timely article by award winning author Jonathan Cook was …

David Skripac (2021-12-05). What Are the Truly Verifiable Facts Surrounding COVID-19? globalresearch.ca Incisive and carefully researched article by David Skripac, first published on Global Research on August 14, 2020 "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that …

Jonathan Chait (2021-12-05). If Trump Voters Lived in Germany, They'd Be in the Fascist Party. zcomm.org There is a deep desire within the political Establishment to believe control of the Republican party remains in the hands of responsible small-d democrats. But every day provides fresh evidence to the contrary…

Mike Whitney (2021-12-05). The Killer in the Bloodstream: the "Spike Protein" globalresearch.ca First published …

Elisha Brown (2021-12-05). The South's Last Three Abortion-Safe States Are Bracing for a Post-Roe Future. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court this week heard

Dave DeCamp (2021-12-04). At Democracy Summit, US Will Urge Countries to Use Sanctions. news.antiwar.com At the upcoming Summit for Democracy hosted by President Biden, the US will urge other countries to start using sanctions against government officials Washington deems to be "corrupt," Citing unnamed Biden administration officials, the report said the US will slap sanctions on foreign-government officials and other people the US accuses of corruption and human rights abuses ahead of the virtual summit that will be held on Thursday and Friday. | "Over the course of the week, Treasury will take a series…

Editor2 (2021-12-04). Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on the Planned US 'Summit for Democracy'. orinocotribune.com In connection with the so called summit for democracy to be held on December 9-10 at the initiative of the US administration, we consider it necessary to make the following statement. | The organisers and enthusiasts behind this strange event claim to lead the world in advancing the cause of democracy and human rights. However, the track record and reputation of the United States, Great Britain, and the EU member states in terms of respecting democratic rights and freedoms at home, as well as in the international arena, are, to put it mildly, far from ideal. | The evidence suggests that the United States and its…

WSWS (2021-12-04). Florida governor proposes state military force under his direct control. wsws.org Governor Ron DeSantis' call for the revival of a military force at his sole command is consistent with the fascistic strategy pursued by the governor.

_____ (2021-12-04). 2021: Political Turning Point In Central America And The Caribbean. popularresistance.org With the background noise of migration to the United States and the recent victory of Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Central America and the Caribbean are at a turning point that will play an important role in the years to come in Latin America and the Caribbean. The region comes from processes of civil wars, historical colonization and systematic impoverishment; however, the facts are woven with this historical thread in which democracy and human rights are used in the interest of the hegemonic narrative to intervene and capture geostrategic resources. Three of the multiple processes taking place are described below.

Robert Hunziker (2021-12-04). Burned-out Forests Are Not Re-Growing. dissidentvoice.org Trees are not re-growing in burned-out forests. This strange occurrence is becoming more frequent as global warming turns verdant flora into flammable tinder, causing more and bigger wild forests fires. This article will examine the science behind failure of trees to regrow in burned-out forests. Additionally, and as a collateral issue, this puts one more …

Staff (2021-12-04). Twitter Removes 277 Venezuelan Accounts for Supporting Nicolás Maduro (Social Media Censorship). orinocotribune.com Twitter is back at the center of the global controversy over freedom of expression. On this occasion, the US company undertook the task of censoring thousands of accounts for their supposed security violations and breach of regulations and for an alleged "disclosure of state-linked information." | Hay un dataset de 277 cuentas de Venezuela.

Editor (2021-12-04). White supremacy, Nazism and fascism R U.S. mronline.org Despite many criticisms, white supremacy remains not only well and strong, but is also recognized and hailed by the United States on the world stage as an acceptable and legitimate ideology.

Yves Engler (2021-12-04). Claims of Russian Interference in Ukraine Reek of Hypocrisy. dissidentvoice.org The Russians are up to no good and we must prepare to protect Ukraine. Moscow interferes in US and Canadian elections. That's what Washington, Ottawa and their media sycophants claim. But is this just another case of accusing others of doing the things you do? An age-old propaganda technique designed to deflect attention away from …

sputniknews (2021-12-04). Israeli 'Pegasus' Spyware Used to Hack Phones of 11 US Diplomats – Reports. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Pegasus spyware developed by Israeli company NSO Group was used to hack the iPhones of 11 US diplomats in recent months, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing alerts from Apple to the impacted individuals.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Parents of Michigan high school shooter charged with manslaughter. wsws.org James and Jennifer Crumbley were being sought by a fugitive task force late Friday after they failed to appear to face manslaughter charges for the killing of four students by their son on Tuesday.

_____ (2021-12-04). An Obscure Agency Is Threatening To Hand Medicare Over To Wall Street. popularresistance.org In the face of massive support for Medicare for All and the failure of the U.S.'s for-profit health care system, the inevitable fall of the medical-industrial complex can be predicted, if not with precision, with certainty. Everyone is aware of the impending demise, none more so than those in charge of the for-profit health care system and their supporters in Congress, as evidenced by the frenetic activity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to transfer the traditional Medicare program to the insurance industry as fast as humanly possible. Given this urgency, physicians representing Physicians…

Jason Ditz (2021-12-04). Airstrikes Kill Over 90 Houthis in Yemen's Maarib. news.antiwar.com The Saudi-led coalition reported Friday that airstrikes launched in 13 operations have The statement claims eight pieces of military equipment were destroyed in the attacks. They are vague on that point, but this usually refers to random destroyed vehicles that they've decided has some military use. | The Houthis have surrounded Maarib City, though there has as of yet been no siege. Despi…

Staff (2021-12-04). Bitcoin drops nearly $10,000 in an hour. rt.com The world's crypto pioneer, bitcoin, saw a sharp decline of nearly $10,000 in roughly an hour to as low as $42,000 before bouncing back to $45,000, extending the latest downtrend amid the emergence of the Omicron Covid-19 strain. | The price of bitcoin has dropped around $15,000 over the past 24 hours. It was trading at nearly $47,580 as of 08: 16 GMT, down 16.14% day over day, having dropped by 31.6% from the year's high of $69,000, which it reached on November 10. | Read more | | Meanwhile, ether, the sec…

WSWS (2021-12-04). Omicron outbreak in Sydney school as Australian governments reject safety measures. wsws.org Omicron already may be circulating widely in the working-class suburbs of western Sydney, given the known community transmission.

Jason Ditz (2021-12-04). Airstrikes Kill Over 90 Houthis in Yemen's Maarib. news.antiwar.com The Saudi-led coalition reported Friday that airstrikes launched in 13 operations have The statement claims eight pieces of military equipment were destroyed in the attacks. They are vague on that point, but this usually refers to random destroyed vehicles that they've decided has some military use. | The Houthis have surrounded Maarib City, though there has as of yet been no siege. Despi…

Staff (2021-12-04). Bitcoin drops nearly $10,000 in an hour. rt.com The world's crypto pioneer, bitcoin, saw a sharp decline of nearly $10,000 in roughly an hour to as low as $42,000 before bouncing back to $45,000, extending the latest downtrend amid the emergence of the Omicron Covid-19 strain. | The price of bitcoin has dropped around $15,000 over the past 24 hours. It was trading at nearly $47,580 as of 08: 16 GMT, down 16.14% day over day, having dropped by 31.6% from the year's high of $69,000, which it reached on November 10. | Read more | | Meanwhile, ether, the sec…

WSWS (2021-12-04). Video: Workers must oppose Australian ruling elite's homicidal response to Omicron variant. wsws.org SEP Assistant National Secretary Max Boddy warns: "There is no viable way to stop the pandemic and save lives, other than a strategy of global elimination."

WSWS (2021-12-04). Omicron outbreak in Sydney school as Australian governments reject safety measures. wsws.org Omicron already may be circulating widely in the working-class suburbs of western Sydney, given the known community transmission.

TASS (2021-12-04). Belarus ready for end of confrontation with West — top diplomat. tass.com We have made concrete proposals," he said…

Sharmila Devi (2021-12-04). [World Report] Calls for international solutions to EU—Belarus border crisis. thelancet.com Humanitarian organisations warn that thousands of migrants are stuck, with many unable to access medical care, food, and water. Sharmila Devi reports.

Fight Back (2021-12-04). Presidential victory in Honduras represents another loss for U.S. imperialism. fightbacknews.org Tucson, AZ – In the early hours of June 28, 2009, Honduran soldiers snatched President Manuel "Mel" Zelaya from his home and removed him from power in a coup d'état with tacit support from the U.S. What followed was a brutal dictatorship that murdered, disappeared and oppressed Hondurans. In close collaboration with criminal cartels, the Honduran power elite implemented neoliberal policies, while violence and drugs plagued the country. It should come as no surprise that waves of Hondurans poured out into caravans headed north to seek asylum in the U.S. only to be met by the cruel denial of President Trump and U.S…

Middle East Monitor (2021-12-04). Even Israel's Labor Party President signals that the Occupation of Palestinians in Permanent. juancole.com By Ashraf Al-Ajrami | — ( Middle East Monitor) — Israeli President Isaac Herzog chose to celebrate the Jewish Hanukkah holiday — the "Festival of Lights" — at the Ibrahimi Mosque in occupied Hebron, accompanied by a group of settler leaders. "The historical affinity of the Jewish people to Hebron, to the Cave of the …

WSWS (2021-12-04). Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021), giant of American musical theater. wsws.org An inventive lyricist, a collaborator and mentor to many, he created 19 full-length musicals.

Editor2 (2021-12-04). Backed by AFRICOM, Corporations Plunder DR Congo for "Climate-Friendly" Materials and Blame China. orinocotribune.com By T.J. Coles — Nov 30, 2021 | Cobalt, a key metallic element used in lithium batteries and other "green" technology, is sourced from slave labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As the West points the finger at China, the US Africa Command is indirectly policing mining operations that profit US corporations. | Ever since Belgium's King Leopold II (1835-1909) established the Congo Free State in 1885, international powers have exploited the region's vast resources. Leading a regime that went on to kill an

WSWS (2021-12-04). Australian government in "chaos" as pandemic intensifies political disarray. wsws.org The Liberal-National government is in tatters, yet there is low popular support for the Labor Party and rising distrust in the entire parliamentary establishment.

Joris Leverink (2021-12-04). Understanding the student protests in Iraqi Kurdistan. roarmag.org Students protesting in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Photo via On November 21, 2021, hundreds of students from the University of Sulaymaniyah, one of the largest public universities in Iraqi Kurdistan, walked out of their classes in protest to demand better living conditions. The student demonstrations are a response to decades of endemic corruption,

Dave DeCamp (2021-12-04). At Democracy Summit, US Will Urge Countries to Use Sanctions. news.antiwar.com At the upcoming Summit for Democracy hosted by President Biden, the US will urge other countries to start using sanctions against government officials Washington deems to be "corrupt," Citing unnamed Biden administration officials, the report said the US will slap sanctions on foreign-government officials and other people the US accuses of corruption and human rights abuses ahead of the virtual summit that will be held on Thursday and Friday. | "Over the course of the week, Treasury will take a series…

Editor2 (2021-12-04). 2021: Political Turning Point in Central America and the Caribbean. orinocotribune.com By Mision Verdad — Dec 1, 2021 | With the background noise of migration to the United States and the recent victory of Xiomara Castro de Zelaya, Central America and the Caribbean are at a turning point that will play an important role in the years to come in Latin America and the Caribbean. | The region comes from processes of civil wars, historical colonization and systematic impoverishment; however, the facts are woven with this historical thread in which democracy and human rights are used in the interest of the hegemonic narrative to intervene and capture geostrategic resources. Three of the multiple pro…

Staff (2021-12-04). Twitter's new censorship policy backfires. rt.com A new policy on personal information has apparently backfired, with the platform claiming it had resulted in a large number of "malicious" and "coordinated" reports against users, some of whom were suspended by "accident." | Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy said a new rule barring "the misuse of media" such as photos and videos "to harass or intimidate private individuals" had led it to suspend accounts in error, the Washington Post reported on Friday night. | Read more | | The platform ha…

Kenn Orphan (2021-12-04). Censorship, the Myth of Free Data and the False Solutions on the Table. zcomm.org Social media has never been a free service for any of us. But it has certainly given a lot of advertisers, wealthy investors, intelligence agents and politicians a free ride…

_____ (2021-12-04). Central Asian and Middle Eastern Countries Step Up Cooperation. journal-neo.org On November 28, the 15th Summit of the Leaders of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Member-States was held in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, with the participation of the heads of state and governments of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan, the countries that are members of the organization. The ECO summit …

Ana Perdigón (2021-12-04). Venezuela Supports CELAC-China Cooperation — President Maduro Calls CELAC Vanguard of Patria Grande. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Félix Plasencia ratified Venezuela's commitment to strengthening bi-regional cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean, to face current post-pandemic challenges. | During his speech at the Third Meeting of Ministers of the CELAC-China Forum this Friday, December 3, Plasencia highlighted the Asian giant's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a promoter of cooperation of China with Latin America and the Caribbean. | The Venezuelan foreign affairs minister stressed that it is essential to translate into concrete projects the special declaration of the Third Minist…

Ana Perdigón (2021-12-04). Washington Cartel: Clíver Alcalá No Longer a Drug Trafficker According to OFAC. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, December 2, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) withdrew from its list of drug traffickers the name of Clíver Alcalá Cordones, fugitive from Venezuelan justice, despite the fact that he is allegedly detained in the US on charges related to drug trafficking. | Clíver Alcalá was inserted into the OFAC list in 2011, after being accused of abusing his position in the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB) to exchange arms for drugs with Colombian paramilitary and drug traficking gangs. | The US government had offered $10 million for the capture of Alcalá, who finally had to turn h…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-12-04). Backing Horses: Australia's Solomon Islands Intervention. dissidentvoice.org The history of humanitarian or policing missions is a history of taking sides, disruptive partiality and the forfeiture of the very object powers claim when intervening in another country. Things become particularly absurd when the individual or government pleading for such help to an outside force is struggling to survive yet making grand statements about …

Editor2 (2021-12-04). Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on the Planned US 'Summit for Democracy'. orinocotribune.com In connection with the so called summit for democracy to be held on December 9-10 at the initiative of the US administration, we consider it necessary to make the following statement. | The organisers and enthusiasts behind this strange event claim to lead the world in advancing the cause of democracy and human rights. However, the track record and reputation of the United States, Great Britain, and the EU member states in terms of respecting democratic rights and freedoms at home, as well as in the international arena, are, to put it mildly, far from ideal. | The evidence suggests that the United States and its…

Editor (2021-12-04). 'They want us dead': another year of devastating overdoses in Baltimore. mronline.org Little legislative movement in Maryland over the past two years has left people who use drugs more vulnerable and even less safe.

In Defense of Liberation! (2021-12-04). Fight, Resist, Stand Up, and Organize! anchor.fm In this episode I go into a bit of a discussion intended to show how the class struggle takes many different forms and how active resistance to the capitalist Bourgeoisie system looks different, takes different forms, organizes itself in different ways at different points in times during the struggle. This is how a revolutionary mass movement is built, through struggle, through learning and growing, through expanding into new realms of society and organizing more people than have ever been organized for such a thing before. And we must do it on the basis of revolution, not asking for reforms as an end, but a mean…

Liberation Staff (2021-12-04). Defenders of abortion rights rally as Supreme Court hears arguments. liberationnews.org Around the U.S., advocates for reproductive justice rallied in cities large and small in support of the fundamental right to abortion care…

Robert Hunziker (2021-12-04). Burned-out Forests Are Not Re-Growing. dissidentvoice.org Trees are not re-growing in burned-out forests. This strange occurrence is becoming more frequent as global warming turns verdant flora into flammable tinder, causing more and bigger wild forests fires. This article will examine the science behind failure of trees to regrow in burned-out forests. Additionally, and as a collateral issue, this puts one more …

Staff (2021-12-04). China wants its casino paradise to become tech Mecca. rt.com The Chinese government plans to transform its largest casino den, Macau, into a regional technology hub, the South China Morning Post reported, citing technology industry executives and officials. | This comes as the Venetian Macao Convention and Exhibition Centre this week hosted a big technology-themed trade fair, which is expected to give rise to new industries and revitalize the regional economy. | The event's website portrayed Macau as "the new centre of international technologies" to connect the Asia Pacific tech ecosystem with the rest of the world. | "The Guangdong-Macau in-depth cooperation zone in He…

Staff (2021-12-04). US strike may have killed Syrian civilians, Pentagon says. rt.com The US military said it would open an investigation into the possibility a recent drone strike caused civilian casualties, with Pentagon officials claiming the attack had been intended to target a "senior al-Qaeda leader." | US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees military operations across the Middle East, announced the upcoming probe on Friday, hours after an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle bombed an unspecified location in Idlib province in what CENTCOM described as a "precision strike." | "We abhor the loss of innocent life and take all possible measures to prevent them. The possibility of a civil…

teleSUR, jaa, MER (2021-12-04). Comisión de la Verdad repudia desaparición de dos líderes en Colombia. telesurtv.net Los líderes comunitarios fueron vistos por última vez el pasado 28 de noviembre.

WSWS (2021-12-04). "We should all do this together. We could close Kaiser down!" Operating engineers speak out on two-month strike at Kaiser Permanente. wsws.org There is enormous support for engineers from nurses and other health care workers, but the strike has been systematically isolated by the health care unions.

teleSUR, jaa, MER (2021-12-04). China exigirá PCR negativa al público para los Juegos de Invierno. telesurtv.net Desde enero próximo se implementará el mecanismo de burbuja para delegaciones, prensa y personal de apoyo.

WSWS (2021-12-04). UK: Striking workers at B&Q distribution centre in Worksop determined to fight pay restraint. wsws.org The Unite union, with over 1 million members, has not organised any form of solidarity action—even at the other major B&Q hubs in Swindon and Doncaster in England and Cambuslang in Scotland—in defence of their co-workers in Worksop.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Australia's under-funded healthcare system confronts major nursing shortages. wsws.org After decades of attacks against working conditions, accelerated by the pandemic, 20,000 nurses have resigned this year.

California Nurses Association (2021-12-04). Watsonville Community Hospital nurses to hold press conference to demand hospital remain open. indybay.org Nurses who work at Watsonville Community Hospital will hold a press conference on Friday, Dec. 3, to demand that the hospital remain open, announced California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA/NNU) today. The event is being held in response to a recent letter from the hospital to employees citing plans to sell the facility as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization process.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Global vaccine inequality: "A policy decision by the rich countries" wsws.org African Union officials estimate the COVAX global vaccine distribution scheme will deliver just 470 million doses to African countries by the end of December, less than a quarter of the 2 billion needed to deliver two shots to its entire adult population.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Biden administration resumes Trump's "Remain in Mexico" immigration policy. wsws.org The White House announced a deal with Mexico to reinstate a former Trump-era policy whereby asylum seekers will be forced to stay in that country until their US immigration court date.

Tom Shakespeare (2021-12-04). [Perspectives] The many worlds of disability. thelancet.com Jan Grue is a phenomenon in the disability world: a 40-year-old with a congenital muscular atrophy, who is an author of fiction for adults and children and is also Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Oslo, Norway. In this eagerly awaited book, I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir, he tells the story of his life and his daily existence. Grue is expert at capturing sights, sounds, and even smells. The stories he relates are likely to represent the reality for many educated people in high-income countries with lived experience of disability who have stumbled, fallen, and wheeled through school, clin…

WSWS (2021-12-04). Chile's election: Boric and pseudo-left offer no defense against threat of fascism. wsws.org International and historical experience demonstrates that once in power, the pseudo-left abandons all pretense of reform, bowing to the international financial and corporate elite.

Mickey Z. (2021-12-04). Meet the "Godfather of Vaccines" dissidentvoice.org "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns." (Vito Corleone) Vaccinologists consider the Stanley A. Plotkin Award to be the equivalent of a Nobel Prize in their lucrative field. To qualify for this accolade, the nominee should be "an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of …

Rita Charon (2021-12-04). [Perspectives] Knowing, seeing, and telling in medicine. thelancet.com Today, we are witnessing a new permeability between the arts and the sciences. Scientists are urged to promote transformative creativity in their trainees. Nobelists credit surprise and the imagination for their insights. The health professions have incorporated the humanities, social sciences, and arts into their curricula to teach relational, cultural, and creative dimensions of health care. Whether artists or scientists, investigators strike out from what is known to brave the unknown in acts of creative discovery.

WSWS (2021-12-04). At online town hall, Kaiser union officials praise "joint" approach to cost-cutting in tentative agreement. wsws.org At Wednesday's meeting, the first since the deal was announced more than two weeks ago, no rank-and-file workers were allowed to speak or ask questions, a clear indication of the unions' nervousness about opposition to the deal among health care workers.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Indian courts continue to sanction open-ended imprisonment without trial. wsws.org The 15 surviving victims of the Indian state's Elgar Parishad terrorism frame-up case are being subjected to cruel and life-threatening punishment. They have been imprisoned for years without trial.

Richard Horton (2021-12-04). [Comment] Offline: Is democracy good for your health? thelancet.com What is the best political system to protect and advance health? In 2019, Thomas Bollyky, who directs the Global Health Program at the US Council on Foreign Relations, and colleagues reported evidence in The Lancet suggesting that democracies are better than autocracies for delivering gains in health. Advantage America, he seemed to be saying. The argument is superficially convincing. Democracies sharpen the accountability of governments to their citizens. Free and fair elections create incentives for political leaders to pay serious attention to the wellbeing of voters.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Berlin primary school teacher describes new contract as "simply ridiculous!" wsws.org In this interview, a Berlin teacher describes the mass infection taking place in schools. Her conclusion: "We need a lockdown until at least the New Year."

Kathleen A Martin Ginis, Hidde van der Ploeg, Brett Smith, Byron Lai, Gregory W Heath (2021-12-04). [Correspondence] Enabling physical activity for people living with disabilities — Authors' reply. thelancet.com With interest, we read the Correspondence in response to our recent Series paper,1 all of which raise excellent points regarding the need for greater efforts to advance physical activity participation in children, youth, and adults with disabilities and provide suggestions for doing so.

sputniknews (2021-12-04). Colorado Store Shooting Suspect Found Incompetent to Stand Trial – Reports. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A US judge ruled that the Colorado man charged with a mass shooting that killed 10 individuals at a King Soopers store was not competent to stand trial, the Denver Post reported.

David Swanson (2021-12-04). Reflecting on the Dawn of Everything. zcomm.org The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow is a terrific contribution to human knowledge and guide to pursuing more of the same…

John R. Platt (2021-12-04). Feeling hopeless about the climate? Try our 30-day action plan. nationofchange.org Doing something every day will help to change your attitude and create momentum for change.

teleSUR, mcs, MER (2021-12-04). Pdte. mexicano agradece apoyo de China en lucha contra Covid-19. telesurtv.net El agradecimiento fue realizado de forma virtual durante la III Reunión Ministerial del Foro Celac – China.

teleSUR, lvm, MER (2021-12-04). Pdte. boliviano alerta sobre rechazo a los pueblos originarios. telesurtv.net El jefe de Estado boliviano indicó que hay sectores que pretenden mantener un país discriminador y racista.

WSWS (2021-12-04). Parents of Michigan high school shooter charged with manslaughter. wsws.org James and Jennifer Crumbley were being sought by a fugitive task force late Friday after they failed to appear to face manslaughter charges for the killing of four students by their son on Tuesday.

_____ (2021-12-03). Why We Should Oppose The Democracy Summit. popularresistance.org The exclusion of certain countries from the U.S. "democracy summit" is not a side issue. It is the very purpose of the summit. And excluded countries have not been excluded for failing to meet the standards of behavior of those that were invited or the one doing the inviting. Invitees didn't even have to be countries, as even a U.S. backed failed coup leader from Venezuela has been invited. So have representatives of Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, DRC, Zambia, Angola, Malaysia, Kenya, and — critically — pawns in the game: Taiwan and Ukraine.

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-03). Saudi Arabia extensively lobbied to derail war crimes probe in Yemen, says report. peoplesdispatch.org A report by The Guardian said that an extensive Saudi lobbying effort was one of the reasons behind the defeat of a resolution to extend the term of an independent war crimes investigation into human rights violations in Yemen…

teleSUR (2021-12-03). Puebla Group Rejects US Harsh Policy Against Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Cuba's Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed that the Puebla Group condemned the U.S. smear campaign and economic blockade against his country. | RELATED: | "We appreciate the solidarity of the Puebla Group with our people, who suffer the consequences of coercive policies that go against international conventions and obey the anachronistic logic of the Cold War," Rodriguez stated. | The forum also condemned th…

WSWS (2021-12-03). Canadian Armed Forces providing military training to Ukrainian neo-Nazis. wsws.org The Canadian military has been training and collaborating with neo-Nazi groups active in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with the knowledge and tacit approval of successive Canadian governments.

Editor (2021-12-03). The American prison system's war on reading. mronline.org This April, the Iowa Department of Corrections issued a ban on charities, family members, and other outside parties donating books to prisoners.

Stavroula Pabst (2021-12-03). Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor? How Covid lockdowns obliterate human rights and crush the most vulnerable. thegrayzone.com Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they're back with a vengeance. In October 2021, it seemed as though the lockdowns that still paralyzed societies from Australia to New Zealand and Singapore were coming to an end, as these countries threw in the "Zero-COVID" towel following a year and a half of rolling restrictions and closures. But with COVID-19 cases rising …

Ana Malinow (2021-12-03). An Obscure Agency Is Threatening to Hand Medicare Over to Wall Street. truthout.org In the face of massive support for Medicare for All and the failure of the U.S.'s for-profit health care system, the inevitable fall of the medical-industrial complex can be predicted, if not with precision, with certainty. Everyone is aware of the impending demise, none more so than those in charge of the for-profit health care system and their supporters in Congress, as evidenced by the frenetic activity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to transfer the traditional Medicare p…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-03). Rights organizations call for renewed probe into possible war crimes in Yemen. peoplesdispatch.org The call by rights organizations comes a day after The Guardian revealed that Saudi Arabia had used a mixture of threats and inducements to persuade countries to vote down an extension of the probe into possible war crimes in Yemen…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-12-03). Government will stay open — for now. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—As the coronavirus pandemic's Omicron variant landed in the U.S., right-wing Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, wanted to make sure more people are exposed to the modern-day plague. They failed, as lawmakers—with union backing—also voted to keep the federal government going. The three just didn't say so, but exposure …

Newsclick (2021-12-03). 'Omicron' the new Covid-19 variant: What is it all about? peoplesdispatch.org Immunologist Dr. Satyajit Rath and NewClick's Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkayastha discuss the new variant, Omicron. They talk about its origin and the possible spread in the world, threats it poses to the people of the world and whether it can this lead to a third wave in India and other waves in other countries of the world. They also discuss the precautions to contain the new variant.

WSWS (2021-12-03). Biden offers platitudes while Omicron coronavirus variant spreads in US. wsws.org CDC data indicates that the Omicron variant is at least partially resistant to even a triple-dose of the existing vaccine regimens.

Global Research News (2021-12-03). Selected Articles: Omicron Variant Sends Vaccine Makers' Stocks Soaring. globalresearch.ca By In total, 92% of the scientific studies published on the toxicity or ecotoxicity of the world's most widely used pesticid…

_____ (2021-12-03). Documents Reveal Biden Admin Not Fighting For A Covid Vaccine Patent Waiver. popularresistance.org On November 26, as news of the new Omicron variant of Covid-19 stoked alarm around the world, the White House released a statement calling on countries to support an intellectual property waiver for Covid-19 vaccines. However, this public statement, which garnered numerous headlines, stands in stark contrast with what the Biden administration did‚Äâ—‚Äâor did not do‚Äâ—‚Äâbehind closed doors at the WTO on November 29.

WSWS (2021-12-03). ECDC warns Omicron variant to become dominant in Europe in a "few months" wsws.org European governments are refusing critical social distancing measures and relying exclusively on vaccinations, which the Omicron variant may largely evade.

WSWS (2021-12-03). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Danish nurses organise wildcat stoppage and mass resignation in protest at pay and working conditions in defiance of government and unions; French transport workers, including bus, tram and train drivers, continue wave of strikes over pay and conditions; South African gold miners at Sibanye-Stillwater poised to join strikes of Clover dairy and Massmart store workers over pay; protests in Lebanon over continuing economic crisis plunging six million into poverty…

Dean Baker (2021-12-03). Marginalized Workers Facing Labor Market Discrimination See Largest Jobs Gains. truthout.org The unemployment rate fell 0.4 percentage points in November, even though the economy added just 210,000 jobs. The drop in the unemployment rate went along with an increase in the employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) of 0.4 percentage points, corresponding to a rise in employment of more than 1.1 million in the household survey. The unemployment rate had not fallen this low following the Great Recession until September 2017. | The 210,000 job growth in the establishment survey is slower th…

Staff (2021-12-03). Haitian Asylum Seekers Held Under Del Rio Bridge Now Face Inhumane Conditions in New Mexico ICE Jail. democracynow.org The world was shocked by images of Haitians whipped by U.S. Border Patrol agents on horseback as they sought refuge. Thousands were soon deported, but dozens are now detained in an ICE jail in New Mexico where they face inhumane conditions and lack access to legal services. We speak with a lawyer who describes medical neglect, deteriorating mental and physical health, and poor treatment by the staff. "They cannot get the basic tools and have the basic human contact that they need to save their own lives," says immigration attorney Allegra Love of the El Paso Immigration Collaborative.

Sam Wainwright (2021-12-03). WA Labor's electoral reforms: one step forward, two steps back. greenleft.org.au Under the cover of applying "one vote, one value" to elections for the Legislative Council, last month WA Labor also pushed through legislation that disadvantages smaller political parties, writes Sam Wainwright.

Derek Royden (2021-12-03). "Only the people can save the people!" Xiomora Castro's presidential win in Honduras. nationofchange.org "I believe firmly that the democratic socialism I propose is the solution to pull Honduras out of the abyss we have been buried in by neo-liberalism, a narco-dictator and corruption."

Mario Gaona (2021-12-03). Muncie, Indiana, students protest censorship of BLM in school. zcomm.org Students at Muncie Central High School marched from the school to Muncie City Hall Nov. 23 after their school's administration commanded a class to take down student posters that mention the Black Lives Matter social movement…

_____ (2021-12-03). South Korean Dictator Dies, Western Media Resurrects A Myth. popularresistance.org General Chun Doo Hwan was the corrupt military dictator that ruled Korea from 1979-1988, before handing off the presidency to his co-conspirator General Roh Tae Woo. Chun took power in a coup in 1979, and during his presidency he perpetrated the largest massacre of Korean civilians since the Korean war. He died on November 23rd, in pampered, sybaritic luxury, impenitent and arrogant to the very last breath. | Many western media outlets have written censorious, chest-beating accounts of his despotic governance and the massacres he perpetrated (here, here, here, and here)– something they rarely bothered to do when…

VINS (2021-12-03). College Degrees Less Beneficial for First-Generation Grads. projectcensored.org First-generation college graduates have more trouble finding jobs and earn substantially less than their classmates whose parents also finished college, according to a September 24, 2021 article for the Hechinger…

VINS (2021-12-03). COVID-19 Concerns Overshadow Pre-Existing Inequalities in Education. projectcensored.org In March 2021, Kate Way reported in Truthout that the urgency to reopen schools ignores fundamental educational inequalities across the United States that existed before the onset of the COVID-19…

VINS (2021-12-03). Ohio State Board of Education Fails to Condemn "White Supremacy Culture" projectcensored.org On October 11, 2021, the Intercept reported on an Ohio State Board of Education member who has refused to condemn white supremacy. Board member Diana Fessler criticized Resolution 20—an anti-racism…

VINS (2021-12-03). Student Affairs "Shadow Curriculum" Undermines Higher Education. projectcensored.org The blurring of academic and social skills is reshaping university and college curricula as higher education institutions across the country place increasing importance on student affairs programs to enhance students'…

_____ (2021-12-03). Russian-Indian Relations amid the "Radical Transformation of the World Order" journal-neo.org The visit of the Russian President Vladimir Putin to India scheduled for December 6, is poised to become a significant event which will undoubtedly have a serious impact not only on the development of the bilateral relations, but also on the ongoing "radical transformation of the world order." Such an assessment of the upcoming trip …

_____ (2021-12-03). Battle Over Jordan Cove Energy Project Is Over After Developers Pull Plug. popularresistance.org The bitter and protracted battle over the Jordan Cove Energy Project has finally come to a close. The Calgary-based Pembina company formally asked federal energy regulators Wednesday to withdraw authorizations for the proposed pipeline and liquified natural gas export terminal in southwest Oregon. Pembina's plan called for a 229-mile-long natural gas pipeline that would have run from Malin, Oregon, on the California border, over the Coast Range to Coos Bay. The gas would then have been super-cooled into a liquified form (LNG), loaded onto ships and exported to Asia.

_____ (2021-12-03). China is Not Colonizing Africa. popularresistance.org International media are reporting that the Ugandan government has turned over Entebbe airport to a Chinese bank in order to make payment on a loan. "Museveni to surrender Uganda's only international airport over Chinese loan," claimed The Guardian . Similar headlines have appeared widely and all repeat as fact an allegation that Uganda will lose its airport to Exim bank. Uganda has not defaulted on the $200 million loan yet the false bad news continues to be reported. Despite denials from China and Uganda the story continues to circulate and is now accepted as being true.

_____ (2021-12-03). COP26: On The Outside, Always Looking In. popularresistance.org "It wasn't long until I realized why this was the case: even if I came from a country that is continuously being ravaged by the climate crisis, I wasn't the target audience of this conference. I wasn't white, I did not come from a position of power or wealth, and I wasn't significant enough to be let inside the negotiations. I did not belong in this theater of performative climate "action". So much for COP26 being the most inclusive COP ever."

_____ (2021-12-03). International Call For New Year's Eve Noise Demonstrations. popularresistance.org This is a call for a night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state. Historically, New Year's Eve is one of the noisiest nights of the year. This year, most of which has been consumed by a global pandemic, we encourage folks to take whatever measures are necessary to insure individual and community well-being, in response to both the virus and the state, understanding the balance each of us must strike for ourselves. Given our current reality, on New Year's Eve gather your crew, collective, community, organization, or just yourself to raise a racket and remind those on the inside that they are not…

_____ (2021-12-03). It's Time To Free Leonard Peltier, America's Longest Serving Political Prisoner. popularresistance.org Too few have heard of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist who has been imprisoned for 44 years based on accusations that were never proven and a trial that was appallingly mishandled. Based on his mere presence in South Dakota's 1975 Pine Ridge Reservation shoot-out, where one Native American activist and two FBI agents were killed, Peltier has spent the better part of his life behind bars. As the website FreeLeonard.org points out, this gross miscarriage of justice has been condemned by everyone from by Amnesty International and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights to Archbish…

_____ (2021-12-03). We Have to Stand on Our Ground, the Best Ground from Which to Reach the Stars. popularresistance.org The geographical distribution of low and high-income countries reveals the same old divides. This was the main focus of dossier no. 43 (CoronaShock and Education in Brazil: One and a Half Years Later, August 2021), summarised in our seven theses on the present and future of education in Brazil. These regional and gender inequalities predated the pandemic but have been exacerbated because of the lockdowns. Signs of improvement are not yet visible. Earlier this year, the World Bank and UNESCO noted that, since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, two-thirds of developing countries have cut their education budget…

Ana Perdigón (2021-12-03). 21N Elections: Scrutiny of Vote Count for Indigenous Representatives Concludes. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, December 2, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) announced that it had concluded the tabulation of the voting minutes issued in the elections to choose Indigenous representatives for legislative councils and municipal councils. | The voting minutes were issued in each of the 74 authorized voting centers in eight states of the country. | "The Ad Hoc commission for the 2021 elections…

Anonymous Contributor (2021-12-03). Awesome Update on Antifascist Prisoner Alex. itsgoingdown.org Update on the case of Alex "Beta Cuck 4 Lyfe," an antifascist prisoner who faced charges stemming from an antifascist mobilization in Portland in 2019. The black school bus with mesh screens over the windows looked right out of Mad Max: Fury Road as it drove up to counter-protestors who had just successfully confronted fascists…

Anonymous (2021-12-03). Palestine in Pictures: November 2021. electronicintifada.net A monthly roundup of photographs documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, and international solidarity with Palestine.

Bruce Lerro (2021-12-03). The House of Cards of Clinical Psychology. dissidentvoice.org Why is anger a motivation for writing this book? Because the rapid growth and professionalization of my field…has led it to abandon a commitment it made at the inception of that growth. That is to establish mental health base on research findings The practice would ignore the research…Instead, too many mental healthcare professionals rely on …

Cristen Hemingway Jaynes (2021-12-03). In Arctic, rain might replace snow decades sooner than previously thought. peoplesworld.org

David L. Wilson (2021-12-03). Media don't factcheck right-wing migration myths. mronline.org Increases and declines in unauthorized immigration mostly correlate with changes in job opportunities and other economic conditions in the United States and in nearby countries.

Editor2 (2021-12-03). Libya: Protesters Gather in Sebha in Support of Saif Gaddafi, Demanding Free and Fair Elections and an Impartial Judiciary. orinocotribune.com The people of Ghat confirmed that there are those who want to occupy the country and restore colonialism again, and who threaten to divide the country according to the interests of the international powers. | This came during a protest organized by the people of the city of Ghat in front of the Sebha Court of First Instance to support the demonstrators against the closure of the court by force. The people added that it is the duty of all of us to unite to save the country from division and refraction, and what is happening in front of the court complex in Sebha, and to prevent them from considering the appeals su…

Editor (2021-12-03). Supreme Court launches frontal assault on right to abortion. mronline.org Two generations of Americans have no experience of the world before Roe v. Wade, during which obtaining an abortion was a surreptitious, often criminalized process, sometimes ending in physical mutilation and even death, and the right of women to make such decisions was subordinated to the reactionary ministrations of police, priests and politicians.

Editor (2021-12-03). Kevin Sharp: It's Time to Free Leonard Peltier, America's Longest Serving Political Prisoner. scheerpost.com Leonard Peltier. [Gary Stevens] | Click to subscribe on: Too few have heard of Leonard Peltier, an American Indian Movement activist who has been imprisoned for 44 years based on accusations that were never proven and a trial that was appallingly mishandled. Based on his mere presence in South Dakota's 1975 Pine Ridge Reservation shoot-out, where one Native Ameri…

Ivan Stoiljkovic (2021-12-03). 'It was once our home': Socialist Yugoslavia before the breakup. peoplesworld.org On November 29, 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, a beautiful, big, and strong socialist Yugoslavia was established in the town of Jajce in central Bosnia. It was established by the Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), at its second session, as a state of equal nations and peoples …

Kameron Damaska (2021-12-03). Lawsuit filed in Ohio over mass non-compliance with training by police officers. liberationnews.org The lawsuit demands officers who do not comply with their continued professional training requirements cease functioning as police.

Katie Miernicki (2021-12-03). Supreme Court prepares to decimate abortion rights — Here's why it's not too late. liberationnews.org This attack could have been prevented had the Democrats taken any of its many opportunities over the decades to definitively legalize abortion through an act of Congress. There is no reason why the legality of abortion has to be left up to SCOTUS…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-12-03). First Amazon, now Starbucks: Workers demanding unions at low-paying firms. peoplesworld.org BUFFALO —First it was—and still is—Amazon in Alabama. Now it's Starbucks in Buffalo. Welcome to the era of large, low-paying firms being targets of organizing, by fed-up workers themselves, with unions coming in to aid them. In the Starbucks case, baristas and other workers at Starbucks stores in the metro Buffalo area are voting by …

Martha Grevatt (2021-12-03). Progressives sweep Teamsters election ‚àí time to organize! workers.org In a major setback for top-down, corporate-model business unionism, Teamsters United candidate Sean O'Brien defeated Steve Vairma — the chosen successor to Teamsters President James Hoffa Jr. — by a two-to-one margin. The results were announced Nov. 18, with Fred Zuckerman, Teamsters United candidate for Secretary-Treasurer, and the entire "OZ" . . . |

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-03). Pakistani parliament member and Pashtun leader Ali Wazir gets bail but to remain behind bars. peoplesdispatch.org On November 30, Ali Wazir was granted bail by the Supreme Court but remains in jail as a case is pending against him. He was accused of insulting a state institution in a speech in December 2020 and has been incarcerated for close to a year…

Phillip Smith (2021-12-03). How Oregon is turning the page on America's disastrous drug war. nationofchange.org "Our immediate focus is to ensure every Oregonian knows these critical harm reduction and recovery services are being invested in and expanded so that they will be available to anyone who wants and needs them, and that they can feel comfortable and safe accessing them."

Staff (2021-12-03). Opposition Deputy José Brito Asks CNE to Repeat Elections in Pariaguán, Anzoategui State. orinocotribune.com This Thursday, December 2, José Brito, a deputy representing Justice First in Venezuela's National Assembly, asked the National Electoral Council (CNE) to repeat the regional and municipal elections in Pariaguán (Anzoátegui State) after the disqualification of the victor Tomás Bello. | In the company of the candidate for the Democratic Alliance for mayor of the Miranda municipality of Pariaguán, Tomás Bello, Brito went to the headquarters of the CNE to challenge the electoral process of that jurisdiction. He denounced that, following the disqualification of the elected candidate, a substitution of candidates was…

Staff (2021-12-03). Opposition's Presumed Candidate for Barinas State Re-election. orinocotribune.com With the opening of the new electoral process in the state of Barinas, following the controversial decision issued by the Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) that confirmed the disqualification of Freddy Superlano as the opposition (MUD) candidate—even when Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) forecast his victory—it is presumed that they will nominate his wife, Aurora Silva de Superlano, to run as candidate for governor. | The CNE authorities have already announced that the period for political organizations to present their offers is underway. For their part, regional media reported on the possib…

Brasil de Fato (2021-12-02). Latin America and the Caribbean is the region where hunger has grown the most in the world, says the UN. peoplesdispatch.org Food insecurity affects 4 out of 10 people in the region and hunger is a reality for 59.7 million…

The Socialist Program (2021-12-02). Why China Succeeded and the U.S. Failed to Beat COVID. liberationnews.org What can we learn about how different countries have handled the pandemic, and the radically different outcomes they produced?>

Andrew Perez (2021-12-02). How Lobbyists Are Protecting The Corporate Court. dailyposter.com Lobbying groups are fighting to protect the GOP's Supreme Court majority, which is great for business.

Emir Sader (2021-12-02). Latin America: Why the Elections in Chile, Brazil and Colombia are Crucial. orinocotribune.com By Emir Sader — Nov 29, 2021 | Latin America has become the epicenter of the greatest political struggles of the 21st century because it was the epicenter of neoliberalism in the world. It was the region with the most neoliberal and radical governments. Therefore, it became the region where the anti-neoliberal governments developed, thus becoming the fundamental scenario of the most important disputes in the world in the 21st century. | The first decade of the century in Latin America was marked by the emergence of anti-neoliberal governments, which implemented a set of measures that attacked the main factor…

Staff (2021-12-02). àìmicron se desparrama en las principales ciudades brasileñas. cubadebate.cu El secretario de Salud de la Alcaldía de San Pablo, Edson Aparecido, dijo hoy que "no se descarta" la posibilidad de que la variante Omicron haya comenzado a dispersarse por esa metrópolis de 12 millones de habitantes. Ante el riesgo de un rebrote de la pandemia San Pablo determinó que dos hospitales sean preparados para recibir sólo enfermos de coronavirus con esta cepa.

Global Research News (2021-12-02). Selected Articles: Doctor Who First Discovered Omicron Variant Says It's "Mild," Hasn't Caused Uptick in Hospitalizations. globalresearch.ca By For no good reason, the world is cringing at the news of the OMICRON mutation of the Covid-19 coronavirus even though data on its infectiveness …

Peter Boyle (2021-12-02). Omicron a reminder that global solidarity is needed to overcome COVID-19. greenleft.org.au We are now seeing blowback from global vaccine apartheid in the form of a new COVID-19 variant, writes Peter Boyle, but once again, the world's richest countries are responding by shutting their doors to poorer nations.

WSWS (2021-12-02). Omicron COVID-19 variant detected in the United States. wsws.org The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed an individual residing in San Francisco who recently returned from South Africa was positive for the Omicron variant.

Staff (2021-12-02). Headlines for December 2, 2021. democracynow.org Supreme Court's Conservatives Signal Support for Mississippi Anti-Abortion Law , U.S. Detects Omicron Coronavirus Variant in California, U.N. Chief Blasts "Travel Apartheid" as Nations Deny Entry to Africans Over Omicron Variant, Russia Expels Some US Ambassadors as Blinken Warns Russia Against Invading Ukraine, Burmese Military Helicopters Attack Villagers in Region Where Resistance to Coup Remains Strong, Women's Tennis Association Suspends Tournaments in China Over Peng Shuai Case, 15-Year-Old Suspect in Michigan High School Shooting to be Tried as an Adult, Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams to Run for Governor i…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-02). The Covid-19 Omicron Variant: Towards a Fourth Wave Lockdown? Pretext to Introduce New Repressive Policy Measures. globalresearch.ca Global Research is the object of censorship. | Please forward this article to friends and colleagues, post on your blog and on social media. *** | Both the governments and the media in chorus are now engaged in a …

WSWS (2021-12-02). National Labor Relations Board orders new union election at Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama. wsws.org The Biden administration is intervening not to defend workers' democratic rights, but to impose a labor police force over this decisive section of the working class…

Atilio A. Boron (2021-12-02). Xiomara Castro inaugura una nueva era. globalizacion.ca La aplastante victoria de Xiomara Castro en las elecciones presidenciales de Honduras pone un broche de oro a un mes políticamente excepcional de Nuestra América. Queda aún pendiente el balotaje chileno, pero el triunfo de la candidata de LIBRE tiene…

WSWS (2021-12-02). Washington hails victory of Honduran opposition candidate. wsws.org The victory of Xiomara Castro brings to an end a dozen years of rule by the National Party, which consolidated its grip on power through a US-backed coup in 2009.

Editor2 (2021-12-02). Honduras: 12 Years Later, Defeat of the Coup d'état Regime. orinocotribune.com By Ollantay Itzamná — Nov 29, 2021 | According to the preliminary computation of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal on the results of the 2021 general elections, after 40% of the vote tallies, Xiomara Castro, candidate of the Libre party, obtained more than 53% of the votes, followed by Nasry Asfura, of the National party, with 34%. Nearly 20 points difference that will be very difficult to reverse. | More than 5 million Hondurans were eligible to elect the President and 3 presidential appointees (vice presidents), 120 deputies, 20 representatives to PARLACEN and 298 municipal governments. More than 3 million Ho…

WSWS (2021-12-02). "The laws are ultimately censorship"—SEP electoral members support campaign against Australia's anti-democratic legislation. wsws.org "The government does not care about the health and wellbeing of the population; they just want to keep the economy 'healthy'"

WSWS (2021-12-02). US seeks to block Spanish investigation into CIA operation against Assange as British ruling on extradition appeal is "imminent" wsws.org As a British court prepares to hand down its ruling on a US appeal seeking Assange's extradition, the American authorities are stymying a Spanish investigation into their illegal spying and other dirty tricks against the WikiLeaks founder.

_____ (2021-12-02). Biden is Trying to Make an Anti-Chinese Stand on the Olympics. journal-neo.org China will host the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, from 4 to 20 February 2022. Beijing became the first city in history to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics. The competitions will be held at the new facilities and the existing arenas built for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The official Olympic mascot will be a …

Ana Perdigón (2021-12-02). CNE's Roberto Picón Issues Statement on Electoral Ruling in Barinas. orinocotribune.com One of the five rectors of Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE), Roberto Picón, issued a statement regarding the ruling that ordered new elections to be held in the state of Barinas. According to Picón, the electoral authority was not made aware of the disqualification of the opposition candidate Freddy Superlano at the time of his registration. | Through a statement published on his Twitter account, Picón wrote that the CNE was unaware of Freddy Superlano's ineligibility condition, pursuant to a resolution of the comptroller general dated August 17, 2021. | "I put on record that the disqualification of c…

Anis Chowdhury (2021-12-02). Profiting from the carbon offset distraction. mronline.org Carbon offset markets allow the rich to emit as financial intermediaries profit. By fostering the fiction that others can be paid to cut greenhouse gases (GHGs) instead, it undermines efforts to do so.

Binoy Kampmark (2021-12-02). Where there are Tailings, No Grass Grows: Serbians Protest against Rio Tinto. dissidentvoice.org Another fault line has opened in the mining wars. In Serbia, resistance is gathering steam against various deals made between Belgrade and companies that risk environmental degradation and lingering spoliation. In this regard, the globe's second largest metals and mining corporation, features prominently. Rio Tinto, bruised in reputation but determined in business, finds itself in …

Cecilia Hammond (2021-12-02). Biden breaks UN COP26 pledge with record-breaking fossil fuel auction. liberationnews.org On Nov. 17, the Biden administration set out to auction off over 80 million acres of land off the Louisiana coastline.

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2021-12-02). Fear… Again and Always Fear. "Prepare Ourselves for a Fourth Wave" globalresearch.ca **** | "Errare humanum est, …

Editor (2021-12-02). How to picket stores that sell your employer's products. mronline.org Note: Consumer picketing can be directed against all products that a struck employer manufactures, processes, distributes, transports, or otherwise enhances in value.

In Contempt (2021-12-02). In Contempt #11: 2021 Comes to a Close. itsgoingdown.org Welcome! It's December! In this month's column, we've got lots of updates on political prisoners, George Floyd uprising defendants, and prison rebels. As we get closer to the new year, remember there is a call for noise demos outside of jails, detention facilities, and prisons and also take time to write to prisoners and keep…

It's Going Down (2021-12-02). Calling All Antifascist Bands! itsgoingdown.org Call for submissions from antifascist bands for a compilation record benefiting prisoners and the Torch network. Do you dream of creating a culture of resistance to fascism — in the streets and every day? The Torch Antifascist Network is with you! We are a national network of antifascist crews in the US who have been…

Matt Sedlar (2021-12-02). La bataille d'HaàØti n'est pas finie. cepr.net Le Monde diplomatique | A priori, tout sépare HaàØti et l'Afghanistan, à commencer par plusieurs océans. Mais le fléau des interventions étrangères a transformé ces deux nations en jumelles. Le 7 juillet 2021, le président de la République d'HaàØti, Jovenel MoàØse, était assassiné par un commando probablement composé d'anciens officiers de l'armée colombienne. Après plusieurs mois d'enquête et l'incarcération d'une quarantaine de personnes, les cerveaux de l'opération n'ont toujours…

NYC Anarchist Black Cross (2021-12-02). International Call For New Year's Eve Noise Demonstrations. itsgoingdown.org Call from New York City Anarchist Black Cross for yearly New Year's Eve noise demonstrations outside of jails, detention centers and prisons. This is a call for a night of strong solidarity with those imprisoned by the state. Historically, New Year's Eve is one of the noisiest nights of the year. This year, most of…

Staff (2021-12-02). Opposition Governors Describe Meeting with President Maduro as Positive. orinocotribune.com On Tuesday night, November 30, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, held a meeting with newly elected opposition governors and municipal opposition authorities. | Through their social media networks, Zulia's governor-elect Manuel Rosales, Nueva Esparta's governor-elect Morel Rodríguez, and Cojedes' governor-elect Alberto Galindez described the meeting with the head of state as positive. The gathering was convened in order to present and address the problems of the representatives' respective states. | On his Twitter account, Rosales thanked the president for his "receptivity to what was raised" and describ…

The Socialist Program (2021-12-02). Two Verdicts: Racist Violence & American Capitalism. liberationnews.org The three men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery have been convicted of murder in a major victory for the struggle against racism, but at the same time the Rittenhouse verdict reveals a grave danger.

Jennifer Morgan (2021-12-02). Climate Justice Doesn't Start With Politicians. It Starts in the Streets. zcomm.org The only reason we got where we did in Glasgow was because the youth, Indigenous leaders, activists and countries on the climate frontline forced concessions that were grudgingly given…

Jessica Glenza (2021-12-02). A Timeline of US Abortion Rights Since Roe v Wade. zcomm.org When the all-male supreme court ruled to protect abortion rights in 1973, activists didn't foresee the fight that lay ahead…

Juan Cole (2021-12-02). Israel Squatter Violence toward Palestinians is Escalating. zcomm.org UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, delivered alarming remarks about the dangers of an outbreak of further violence on the part of the Israeli state…

Staff (2021-12-02). Abortion Under Attack: Supreme Court Hints It Will Uphold Mississippi's Ban, Threatening Roe v. Wade. democracynow.org On Wednesday, the Supreme Court indicated it would uphold a restrictive Mississippi law that bans abortion starting at just 15 weeks of pregnancy. The case threatens to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. We feature excerpts from the two hours of oral arguments and speak with lawyer and bioethics professor Katie Watson. "The statute itself simply says abortion after 15 weeks is 'barbaric.' What's barbaric, in my opinion, is forced child bearing," says Watson. "There's no explanation why, at any point, the potential interest of the fetus or the state's interest in that…

WSWS (2021-12-02). SEP meeting discusses the socialist policies needed to fight Sri Lankan government's budget. wsws.org The speakers urged workers to reject all nationalist programs and fight for international socialist policies in order to defeat the austerity budget.

Peter Certo (2021-12-02). Greed Is Prolonging the Pandemic. fpif.org Stop me if this sounds familiar. | It's been kind of a hard year, but I felt optimistic about the holidays. My wife and I had just scheduled our COVID-19 boosters. Even better, we'd been able to get our young child vaccinated. | We imagined a cautious return to simple family pleasures like indoor dining — and maybe playdates at indoor play centers during the long Midwestern winter. Maybe we'd even test our kid's appetite for air travel and visit relatives in different parts of the country. | Then — another COVID-19 variant. Possible breakthrough infections. Travel bans and tumbling stock markets. And…

Fra Hughes (2021-12-02). Sinn Fein from Revolutionary Party to Constitutional Nationalists. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Nov 28, 2021 | Sinn Fein went from being a revolutionary party supporting a legitimate armed struggle against Britain's illegal imperialist military occupation of Ireland and aiming to build a socialist republic, to becoming a business-oriented party, focused on acquiring more seats in the parliament. | Where did it all go wrong? | Once the vanguard of Irish republicanism and claiming to be fighting for a free sovereign socialist 32 county Irish republic SF is now a parody of its previous incarnation. | From a revolutionary party supporting a legitimate armed struggle against Britain's illega…

Chloe DS (2021-12-02). Three more Black deaths in custody: How a failing system enables injustice. greenleft.org.au Three more deaths in recent weeks have taken the number of First Nations people who have died in custody since the 1991 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody to 485. Chloe DS reports.

PSL Asheville (2021-12-02). Activists bring message of climate justice to Asheville Holiday Parade. zcomm.org "Today, we marched for peace and a future for our children; what could be more in the spirit of the season than that?"

WSWS (2021-12-02). Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz and Germany's federal states reject necessary pandemic restrictions. wsws.org All the parties in the new coalition government to be headed by Scholz are aggressively pursuing the "profits before lives" policies that have already resulted in more than 100,000 deaths in Germany alone and are creating an ever-expanding catastrophe.

Kim Petersen (2021-12-02). Have British Politicians No Shame? dissidentvoice.org Members of the Devon Regiment round up local people in a search for Mau Mau fighters in Kenya in 1954. Photograph: Popperfoto/Popperfoto/Getty Images The UK government is considering boycotting China's winter Olympic Games to be held in Beijing. The British foreign office cites "international efforts to hold China to account for its human rights violations …

John W. Whitehead, Nisha Whitehead (2021-12-02). The War Over Life, Liberty, and Privacy Rights. dissidentvoice.org Abortion on demand is the ultimate State tyranny; the State simply declares that certain classes of human beings are not persons, and therefore not entitled to the protection of the law. The State protects the 'right' of some people to kill others, just as the courts protected the 'property rights' of slave masters in their …

WSWS (2021-12-02). Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows begins "engaging" with House committee investigating January 6 coup. wsws.org Meadows is the highest-ranking former Trump official to begin handing over documentation and agree to testify before the Committee.

Ibram X. Kendi (2021-12-02). The Mantra of White Supremacy. zcomm.org The idea that anti-racist is a code word for "anti-white" is the claim of avowed extremists…

WSWS (2021-12-02). New Zealand opposition picks new right-wing leader. wsws.org The National Party's leadership turmoil reflects pressure from the ruling class to ditch all COVID-19 restrictions and conflicts over how closely to align with US war preparations against China.

WSWS (2021-12-02). Anger among Mississippi Ingalls shipbuilders on eve of contract extension vote. wsws.org Workers want higher wages and safer conditions at the giant military shipbuilding facility, located on Mississippi's Gulf Coast…

Steve O'Brien (2021-12-02). Newcastle socialist candidate: It's time to put people before profit. greenleft.org.au Community-minded people can successfully challenge powerful interests, and the governments that serve them, to create communities that are sustainable, affordable, socially just and inclusive, writes Steve O'Brien.

Walter Mignolo (2021-12-02). Argentina — Mauricio Macri y la "nueva era" globalizacion.ca A raíz de una frase que pronunció el ex presidente Mauricio Macri, amigues me contactaron sorprendidos por la similaridad con la expresión "cambio de era," de la que hablamos y analizamos en conversaciones y análisis decoloniales. La frase reciente del…

Staff (2021-12-02). Planned Parenthood CEO: If SCOTUS Restricts Abortion Access, Marginalized People Will Be Hurt Most. democracynow.org We speak to Alexis McGill Johnson, President and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, about the Supreme Court hearing Wednesday, in which the conservative majority on the court seemed to indicate that they support upholding the restrictive Mississippi law that bans abortion starting at just 15 weeks of pregnancy, and potentially overturn Roe v. Wade. Justice Amy Comey Barrett suggested during questioning that giving up children for adoption would resolve the pro-choice argument that anti-abortion laws force women into motherhood. "Our very right to determine when and if we become pregnant, our sel…

Dick Nichols (2021-12-02). Cadiz metal strike ends: a Spanish revolt defused … for now. greenleft.org.au A 9-day strike by 22,000 metalworkers in the Bay of Cadiz looked certain to continue dominating media coverage, writes Dick Nichols. Yet within 24 hours, the two sides announced they had reached an agreement.

WSWS (2021-12-02). US admiral calls for "six, seven or eight" aircraft carriers in the Pacific. wsws.org Following another major joint naval exercise in the Pacific, Vice Admiral Karl Thomas declared that while the war games represented "an incredible amount of power," US allies needed to go further.