We Don't Listen to the Dying Government of Donald Trump
Vijay Prashad | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-10
Madhuri Shukla (USA), Wring, 2020 The night before the National Assembly elections in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro spoke to a group of visitors at Miraflores Palace in Caracas. He recounted how he had been a member of the Constituent Assembly, which was formed in 1999 and set up the legal framework for Venezuela's political system. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/we-dont-listen-to-the-dying-government-of-donald-trump/
Evo Morales: In Venezuela there was a Democratic 'Fiesta' on December 6
Orinoco Tribune | mronline.org | 2020-12-10
"There is peace, tranquility and yesterday there was a great democratic 'fiesta'," the former president of Bolivia and international observer of Venezuela's elections, Evo Morales, emphasized this Monday.
mronline.org/2020/12/10/evo-morales-in-venezuela-there-was-a-democratic-fiesta-on-december-6/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=evo-morales-in-venezuela-there-was-a-democratic-fiesta-on-december-6
SCOTUS Showdown Over Stolen Election 2020
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
Well planned in advance brazen fraud decided US Election 2020 — not voters. | The manipulated outcome for Biden/Harris over Trump was the latest example of US fantasy democracy, the real thing prohibited throughout the country's history by its ruling class….
globalresearch.ca/scotus-showdown-over-stolen-election-2020/5731794
Will Joe Biden Stop Funding the Saudi-UAE War on Yemen?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
Pro-Yemeni activists hope that Biden will stay true to his prior promise to stop funding the GCC's War on Yemen, but even if he does what's arguably the morally right thing, he'll probably be doing it for geopolitical reasons even …
globalresearch.ca/biden-yemen-will-he-do-right-thing-wrong-reasons/5731784
La clase trabajadora se une en toda la India °Huelga de 250 millones de personas!
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-12-10
Las mujeres jugaron un papel destacado en la huelga de toda la India, el 26 de noviembre. Por segunda vez este año, una movilización global en una "huelga de toda la India" sacó a 250 millones de trabajadores. Con una de cada cuatro personas en edad de trabajar en la . . . | Continue reading La clase trabajadora se une en toda la India | °Huelga de 250 millones de personas! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/12/53151/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=la-clase-trabajadora-se-une-en-toda-la-india-huelga-de-250-millones-de-personas
Imperfect Releases: Andrew Hastie, War Crimes Reports and Australia in Afghanistan
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-10
If one were to get into the head of Australian government MP Andrew Hastie, a security tangle of woe would no doubt await. Having been a captain with the Special Air Services and having also served in Afghanistan, he has been none too thrilled by the publicity soldiers he served with have received. The report…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/10/imperfect-releases-andrew-hastie-war-crimes-reports-and-australia-in-afghanistan/
Julian Assange: Covid Risks and Campaigns for Pardon
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-10
Before the January 4 ruling of District Judge Vanessa Baraitser in the extradition case of Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher will continue to endure the ordeal of cold prison facilities while being menaced by a COVID-19 outbreak. From November 18, Assange, along with inmates in House Block 1 at Belmarsh prison in south-east London, were …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/julian-assange-covid-risks-and-campaigns-for-pardon/
On Human Rights Day, a global call to #FreeAssange
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-10
Organizations and militants across the world are writing to the UK government with the demand to free Julian Assange who has been lodged in Belmarsh prison for months…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/10/on-human-rights-day-a-global-call-to-freeassange/
France Fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for Placing Cookies
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-10
France's National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (CNIL) Thursday announced fines of US$120 million for Google and US$42 million for Amazon for their online advertising trackers (cookies). | RELATED: | US Justice Department Sues Google For Being An Illegal Monopoly | French authorities said that Google and Amazon were fined for the non-consensual introduction of advertisements on users' computers. | "These types of cookies cannot be installed without the users having e…
telesurenglish.net/news/France-Fines-Google-120M-and-Amazon-42M-for-Placing-Cookies-20201210-0001.html
Toward a critique of political economy
David Ruccio | mronline.org | 2020-12-10
There is no necessary trajectory to Marx's writings, no reason his earlier writings had to lead to or culminate in Capital. However, as we look back from the vantage point of his critique of political economy, we can see the ways his thinking changed and how the elements of that critique emerged.
mronline.org/2020/12/10/toward-a-critique-of-political-economy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=toward-a-critique-of-political-economy
PDF of December 10 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-12-10
Download the 12-page PDF. Capitalist COVID catastrophe FIGHT or DIE! Message from Peltier; Reparations now! Justice for Breonna denied again; Disability rights; Workers demand justice; DEA surveillance; Editorial: New president — same wars; Commentary: Becoming a cadre; GLOBAL: China: global vaccines, science; India: worker & farmer uprising; Cuba; France; Palestine; Venezuela. . . . | Continue reading PDF of December 10 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/12/53165/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pdf-of-december-10-issue
Building a better and fairer economy
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-10
Despite all the arguments in our own society against socialist systems, this sort of system could include the best parts of capitalist systems.
nationofchange.org/2020/12/09/building-a-better-and-fairer-economy/
Law Prof: I Nominated Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed for the Nobel Peace Prize. Then He Started a Civil War
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-10
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for ending the two-decade "state of war" between Ethiopia and Eritrea, with many hailing a new era of peace in the region. Just one year later, Ahmed's military has displaced tens of thousands of civilians in an ongoing military campaign in the northern Tigray region. Thousands have died since Ethiopia declared war on the Tigray People's Liberation Front in early November, and at least one massacre has been reported. Ethiopia has admitted federal troops fired at and detained U.N. workers in the northern Tigray region for attempting to e…
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/10/ethiopia_abiy_ahmed
US Media, Politicians Rage After Venezuela Defies US Empire
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
President Nicolas Maduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are celebrating today, after a clear victory in yesterday's National Assembly elections. The elections, boycotted by many major right-wing opposition groups, but still participated in by over 100 political parties, ended with the PSUV and its allies receiving an estimated 67.6% of the votes cast, meaning they will control a two-thirds supermajority of the 277-seat National Assembly, the only major body that was controlled by anti-government forces.
popularresistance.org/us-media-politicians-rage-after-venezuela-defies-us-empire/
Socialist Alliance Victory In Venezuela's National Assembly Is A Failure Of US Regime Change Policy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
The victory of Maduro's political alliance in Sunday's parliamentary election means that despite the Covid pandemic, economic hardships and sanctions by the US, Venezuelans voted for the continuation of the Chavista Revolution. | A little over a year ago, we were told by the US government and the always-compliant OAS (Organization of American States) that Evo Morales' re-election in Bolivia was the product of election fraud. No proof was ever given, and eventually, even the New York Times, which had initially been happy to spread the fraud claims, was forced to admit that there appeared to be no evidence that the…
popularresistance.org/socialist-alliance-victory-in-venezuelas-national-assembly-is-a-failure-of-us-regime-change-policy/
Elections And The Path To Socialism In Venezuela
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
On December 6, Venezuelans elected a new National Assembly with a left political majority. This election, which was well-run and legitimate despite what the imperialist media and countries say, reconstitutes the Venezuelan parliamentary body with participation from both the ruling and opposition parties. It marks the end of an era during which the National Assembly was a tool of the right wing agenda and US regime change efforts. To facilitate understanding of the current election and political climate in Venezuela, Vijay Prashad of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Paul Dobson of Venezulanalysis…
popularresistance.org/elections-and-the-path-to-socialism-in-venezuela/
$1.44 billion plan to respond to Venezuela refugee and migrant needs
news.un.org | 2020-12-10
In a $1.4 billion appeal launched on Thursday, the UN migration organization IOM and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned that the pandemic has strained the capacity of Latin American and Caribbean countries to look after Venezuelan nationals.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1079782
Gangsterism as Foreign Policy
Patrick Cockburn | zcomm.org | 2020-12-10
Assassinations are Becoming the New Norm…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/gangsterism-as-foreign-policy/
Six times the ICC says British forces committed war crimes in Iraq
Areeb Ullah | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
Six times the ICC says British forces committed war crimes in Iraq | Despite not pursuing its own investigation, court says there is 'reasonable basis' to believe British forces committed murder, rape and torture | Areeb Ullah | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 16: 00 | An Iraqi youth looks at a British soldier pointing his machinegun while conducting a security operation in the Iraqi southern city of Basra, 16 February 2006 (AFP)…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/six-times-icc-british-forces-committed-war-crimes-iraq
Amnesty criticises Airbnb for West Bank settlement listings ahead of IPO
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
Amnesty criticises Airbnb for West Bank settlement listings ahead of IPO | Rights group says US company failed to inform investors of its business activities in illegal Israeli settlements | MEE and agencies | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 08: 19 | The San Francisco-based booking company is holding an initial public offering on the Nasdaq on Thursday (AFP) | Amnesty International has accused Airbnb of acting in bad fait…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/airbnb-palestine-israel-west-bank-settlements-amnesty-criticises
As Food Insecurity Surges, Leading Scientist Says Hunger Is a Deliberate Choice by Those in Power
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-10
As the World Food Programme accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, we look at the growing global hunger crisis amid the pandemic, the climate crisis and war. In the United States, as many as 50 million people could experience food insecurity before the end of the year — including one in four children. "It's important to remember that hunger does not always happen because of natural disasters," says Ricardo Salvador, director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. "It is often the result of things that we do to each other deliberately."
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/10/ricardo_salvador_world_hunger
Food Is the Pathway to Peace: World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize & Warns of Hunger Pandemic
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-10
The World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organization dealing with hunger and food security, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today, with its executive director David Beasley warning that the combination of conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 could push 270 million people to the brink of starvation. In his acceptance speech, Beasley said, "Because of so many wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon, and a global health pandemic that makes all of that exponentially worse, 270 million people are marching toward starvation. Failure to address their needs…
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/10/2020_nobel_prize_world_food_programme
Anti-imperialists around the world extend solidarity for Assange
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-10
Anti-imperialist movements from around the world have extended their solidarity to the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. The call for action was made in a joint statement, released on December 10, by a global coalition part of the International Week of Anti-Imperialist Struggle. In the call for action, scheduled to fall on International Human Rights Day, movements have demanded an end to the "inhuman conditions" that Assange has been subjected to in Belmarsh prison in the United Kingdom. | Activists are encouraged to sign an open letter to the Britis…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/10/anti-imperialists-around-the-world-extend-solidarity-for-assange/
Hunger Pandemic Will Surpass COVID Impact, Warns World Food Programme
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-10
The World Food Programme, the world's largest humanitarian organization dealing with hunger and food security, accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today, with its executive director David Beasley warning that the combination of conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 could push 270 million people to the brink of starvation. In his acceptance speech, Beasley said, "Because of so many wars, climate change, the widespread use of hunger as a political and military weapon, and a global health pandemic that makes al…
truthout.org/video/hunger-pandemic-will-surpass-covid-impact-warns-world-food-programme/
OPCW executives praised whistleblower and criticized Syria cover-up, leaks reveal
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-10
Documents obtained by The Grayzone show that OPCW executives privately criticized the manipulation of a Syria chemical weapons probe, and supported a dissenting veteran inspector. One official, however, feared helping the "Russian narrative." These private admissions further expose the public whitewash of the Douma cover-up, and undermine the ongoing attacks on the whistleblowers who challenged it.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/10/opcw-executives-praised-whistleblower-and-criticized-syria-cover-up-leaks-reveal/
Spilling Ink and Spilling Blood: Fighting and Writing Against America's Forever Wars
William Astore — Danny Sjursen | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-10
If you have a moment, how about joining two retired officers, Bill Astore and me, Danny Sjursen, as we think about this country's catastrophic forever wars that, regardless of their deadly costs and lack of progress, never seem quite to end? Recently, in a podcast chat about our very different but somehow twin journeys through…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/10/spilling-ink-and-spilling-blood-fighting-and-writing-against-americas-forever-wars/
Low Turnout, but Free, Elections in Venezuela Are a Blow To Regime Change
Leonardo Flores | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-10
After four years of sanctions, sabotaged industries, attempted coups, an assassination by drone attempt, a mercenary incursion and paramilitary attacks, among others, Venezuela managed to survive the Trump administration's maximum pressure.
mintpressnews.com/low-turnout-free-elections-venezuela-blow-regime-change/273522/
Shunned by Trump, Mahmoud Abbas Looks to Biden to Revive a Long Dead "Peace Process"
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-10
When all hope seemed lost, where Abbas found himself desperate for political validation and funds, Biden arrived like a conquering knight on a white horse and swept the Palestinian leader away to safety.
mintpressnews.com/mahmoud-abbas-hopes-joe-biden-revive-long-dead-peace-process/273508/
"Long Live the (Dead) Peace Process": Abbas Prioritizes US Ties over Palestinian National Unity
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-10
No one seemed as excited about the election of Joe Biden being the next President of the United States as Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas. When all hope seemed lost, where Abbas found himself desperate for political validation and funds, Biden arrived like a conquering knight on a white horse and swept the Palestinian leader …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/long-live-the-dead-peace-process-abbas-prioritizes-us-ties-over-palestinian-national-unity/
Brasil: Somos como semillas
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Brasil: Somos como semillas | Sin Territorio, no hay vida…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838882.php
Monday 12/21: Annual National Homeless Virtual Memorial & Teach-in w/ National Union for the Homeless
National Union of the Homeless | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838863.php
DOJ files lawsuit against Alabama for unconstitutional prison conditions
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-10
"The United States Constitution requires Alabama to make sure that its prisons are safe and humane."
nationofchange.org/2020/12/10/doj-files-lawsuit-against-alabama-for-unconstitutional-prison-conditions/
Stand with Bookshop Santa Cruz Workers as they Organize a Union
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Bookshop Santa Cruz booksellers and other non-managerial staff have asked that store owner Casey Coonerty Protti voluntarily recognize their union with the Communication Workers of America Local 9423. Sign this petition in support: Stand with Bookshop Santa Cruz Workers as they Organize a Union!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838895.php
Jobless workers urge lawmakers to act on big economic aid measure
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-10
WASHINGTON–To lighting designer Stephanie Freed of New York, tenant organizer Juan Nunez of the Bronx, caregiver Ingrid Vaca of D.C., and millions of jobless workers, the continuing battle over when, whether and how much more aid will go to workers who physically and financially suffer from the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic depression is …
peoplesworld.org/article/jobless-workers-urge-lawmakers-to-act-on-big-economic-aid-measure/
Spoiled Meat: the Beef Industry in the United States
Joseph Grosso | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-10
In his 1909 short story, A Piece of Steak, originally published in the Saturday Evening Post, Jack London, America's first prominent and still greatest boxing writer, tells the tale of Tom King. King is a fighter well past his athletic prime with features that bear the scars of past battles: 'A nose, twice broken and…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/10/spoiled-meat-the-beef-industry-in-the-united-states/
The Blockade: Qatar and Saudi Arabia Approach Historic Breakthrough
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
Since June 5, 2017, Saudi Arabia ordered a land, air, and sea blockade on Qatar and severed diplomatic ties, along with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, and Bahrain. The self-styled "Anti-Terror Quartet" issued Doha 13 demands, including closing media …
globalresearch.ca/the-blockade-qatar-and-saudi-arabia-approach-historic-breakthrough/5731755
From senseless working to senseless learning
Erich Ribolits | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Today, the education system is seen almost exclusively as a supplier to the economic process. The traditional ideological superstructure of schools, universities and adult education, the orientation toward 'comprehensive education', has receded far into the background.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838885.php
Saturday 12/12: Root Division Presents: Family Matters
Renée Rhodes | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Online Virtual Reception…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/08/18838852.php
Brasil: Somos como semillas
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Brasil: Somos como semillas | Sin Territorio, no hay vida…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838882.php
World Economic Forum 2021 Moved to Singapore Due to COVID-19
Jewel Stolarchuk | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-12-10
asia-pacificresearch.com/world-economic-forum-2021-moved-singapore-covid-19/5629568
US Observers Endorse Venezuela's Election Legitimacy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
U.S. political actors observing Venezuela's parliamentary elections Sunday ratified the process' legitimacy, despite the U.S. administration's attempts to discredit it. | After visiting several voting centers in Caracas, New York Public University professor Danny Shaw highlighted the people's massive turnout on Election Day. | Taking part as an observer in these elections "has been an interesting experience. I was in the Parish Coche, in Liberator municipality, and what I found there was massive participation, very prepared authorities, and sophisticated technologies," Shaw assured.
popularresistance.org/us-observers-endorse-venezuelas-election-legitimacy/
Autumn of a thousand colors in northern Golestan prov
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-10
GORGAN, Dec. 10 (MNA) –The magic of colors in northern province of Golestan has doubled the beauty of autumn in this province with breathtaking views. "Autumn is a thousand colors" has been named by nature lovers to the autumn of this province.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/167018/Autumn-of-a-thousand-colors-in-northern-Golestan-prov
Israel's Honeymoon with the United Arab Emirates Is Grotesque
Belén Fernández | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
Since normalizing relations in September, Israel and the United Arab Emirates have teamed up to do what both do best: trample on democratic freedoms, commit atrocities, and whitewash occupation. | *** | Back in 2010, the New York Times' Thomas Friedman …
globalresearch.ca/israel-honeymoon-united-arab-emirates-grotesque/5731821
[Commentary] We have to get it right: Ensuring success
Ali H. Mokdad, Peter J. Hotez, Walter A. Orenstein | thelancet.com | 2020-12-10
Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Life is like a parachute jump; you've got to get it right the first time." With a spate of Covid-19 vaccines on the horizon, we must prepare to jump.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30434-X/fulltext?rss=yes
The shirkers united will never be defeated
Nic Murray | zcomm.org | 2020-12-10
We need collective solidarity and organizing among welfare claimants as Covid-19's economic fallout threatens to render thousands jobless…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-shirkers-united-will-never-be-defeated/
Limiting Criticism of Israel, Britain Is Closing Down Academic Freedom?
Sai Englert | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
In October, British Education Secretary Gavin Williamson ordered universities in the country to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)'s working definition of antisemitism. They are to do so by Christmas or face government sanctions. | It is worth remembering that …
globalresearch.ca/flawed-antisemitism-definition-britain-closing-down-academic-freedom/5731805
An icy rally with burning demands
Victor Grossman | mronline.org | 2020-12-10
The survival of polar bears, we know, is sadly threatened. The survival of a more colorful bear species seems assured. HARIBO (an acronym of HAns RIegel BOnn), which makes those little "gold bears" sweets, was founded in a laundry room in 1920.
mronline.org/2020/12/10/an-icy-rally-with-burning-demands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=an-icy-rally-with-burning-demands
To the Barricades: The Red House and the Future of Eviction Defense
David Rovics | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-10
Portland, Oregon has been in the headlines again over the last few days, and this trend will continue. The reasons for the headlines will vary depending on who you ask. If you ask the far right they will say something about Antifa terrorists having violent confrontations with the police because they hate law and order.
counterpunch.org/2020/12/10/to-the-barricades-the-red-house-and-the-future-of-eviction-defense/
2020 National Juneteenth Holiday Bill still in process
US Senate, Senator Johnson Objection | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Texas Republican Senator Cornyn. As in legislative session, I ask unanimous | consent that the Senate Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration and the Senate now proceed to S. 4019; Juneteenth National Holiday; that the bill be considered read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838881.php
The MORE Act Is A Step Toward Unraveling The War On Drugs
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
For decades, many people have been subjected to criminal prosecution for the possession of marijuana. Some people that are impacted by this end up going to prison with people that have serious criminal backgrounds, which I find quite frightening and unjust, wondering if there will ever be a law that can tackle these unfortunate circumstances. | Then along came the MORE Act. | On Friday, The House of Representatives voted to pass the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Engagement (MORE) Act, an H.R. 3884 bipartisan legislation set to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level.
popularresistance.org/the-more-act-is-a-step-toward-unraveling-the-war-on-drugs/
Nuclear scientist awarded prestigious Schwarzman scholarship to study in China
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-10
An Imperial physics graduate has been awarded a prestigious Schwarzman scholarship to study in China next year.
imperial.ac.uk/news/210253/nuclear-scientist-awarded-prestigious-schwarzman-scholarship
2009 H1N1 Vaccine Caused Brain Damage in Children. Dr. Anthony Fauci on "Vaccine Safety" Issues
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
A lawsuit against the Trudeau Government for its handling of the COVID-19 Crisis has been launched. What is at stake is the violation of fundamental rights of Canadians. | "The mass and indiscriminate containment of citizens, the restriction of access to …
globalresearch.ca/video-dr-anthony-fauci-on-the-2009-h1n1pandemic-the-2009-h1n1-vaccine-caused-brain-damage-in-children/5711540
Palm Oil Giant Wilmar Unfazed as Watchdogs Cry Foul over Papua Deforestation
Hans Nicholas Jong | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-12-10
asia-pacificresearch.com/palm-oil-giant-wilmar-unfazed-watchdogs-cry-foul-over-papua-deforestation/5629569
Children's Health Defense (CHD): Life-Threatening Allergic Reactions to Pfizer COVID Vaccine
Lyn Redwood | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
In August, CHD asked regulators to investigate the use of polyethylene glycol (PEG) in COVID mRNA vaccines, which could have caused the severe allergic reactions reported this week by two of the first UK recipients of Pfizer's vaccine. | *** | Media …
globalresearch.ca/chd-responds-news-life-threatening-reaction-pfizer-covid-vaccine/5731793
Thursday 12/10: Human Right's Day Virtual Gathering w/ National Union of the Homeless & NWRU
National Welfare Rights Union, NUH, partners | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Online via livestream: YouTube & FB…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838859.php
Thursday 12/10: A Public Reading of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the SF Gray Panthers
Art Persyko | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838868.php
Italy to indict Egyptian security officers in Giulio Regeni murder case
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
Italy to indict Egyptian security officers in Giulio Regeni murder case | Italian prosecutors gave the four men 20 days to respond to the charges before asking a judge to begin a trial | MEE and agencies | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 16: 18 | An Egyptian activist in Cairo holds a poster calling for justice to be served in the case of the recently murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni, 15 April 2016 (Reuters) | Italia…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/italy-indict-egypt-security-officers-torture-and-death-regeni
So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine?
Gregg Gonsalves | thenation.com | 2020-12-10
So When Can I Get the Covid Vaccine?
thenation.com/article/society/covid-vaccine-mask-relief/
The Politics of COVID Vaccinations: Who Will Get Them and When?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-10
The first thing to understand is that there will not be enough COVID-19 vaccine to go around for many months to come, so the process of who comes first will essentially be a political decision since governments at various levels will inevitably be managing the distribution process. And there will be considerable confusion when the vaccination process starts as there might be a lot of different versions to choose from. The World Health Organization is currently monitoring the development of no less than "163 candidate vaccines [that are] in preclinical evaluation." | There are legitimate concerns that the vaccine…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/10/the-politics-of-covid-vaccinations-who-will-get-them-and-when/
2020 National Juneteenth Holiday Bill still in process
US Senate, Senator Johnson Objection | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Texas Republican Senator Cornyn. As in legislative session, I ask unanimous | consent that the Senate Judiciary Committee be discharged from further consideration and the Senate now proceed to S. 4019; Juneteenth National Holiday; that the bill be considered read a third time and passed; and that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838881.php
Human Rights Day
Jos Sances | thenation.com | 2020-12-10
Human Rights Day…
thenation.com/article/activism/human-rights-day/
Why Biden's Cliches May Benefit Latin America
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-10
Already, with more than a months still to go before his scheduled inauguration, Presumptive President-Elect Joe Biden has made clear that he is determined continue the catastrophically incompetent, ignorant and suicidal foreign and national security policies of the Obama administration, in which he happily served as the figurehead Number Two position for eight years. | Biden's selection of Anthony Blinken as his first secretary of state and Jake Sullivan as National Security Adviser may even achieve the impossible: He may make the world long nostalgically for the Lost Golden Age of those intellectual giants Mike…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/10/why-biden-cliches-may-benefit-latin-america/
Saturday 12/12: Root Division Presents: RD Makes: Root Division Studio Artist Exhibtion
Renée Rhodes | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Virtual Online Reception…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/08/18838853.php
Colombia closes airspace to international observers to Venezuela elections
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-10
Caracas, Venezuela – 60 international observers of the Venezuelan election were stuck at the airport December 8, for a flight to Mexico. The flight kept getting delayed and delayed. After six hours of waiting, people were sleeping on the floors, tables and couches. Then the head of Conviasa's national flights spoke to the observers in the airport and said that Venezuela asked Colombia permission to have observers fly over Colombia to return home. Colombia approved it. Two hours before the flight was going to leave, they denied the flight route. He said, "This has happened many times. They do this to try to contro…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/12/10/colombia-closes-airspace-international-observers-venezuela-elections
Michigan Restaurant Owner Calls For Popular Uprising Against Hypocritical Covid Policy
Michael K. Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-10
As U.S. death tolls from Covid 19 spiral towards three or four thousand a day, health officials urge us to stop breathing on each other while saying nothing about the vast majority being dependent employees or small entrepreneurs, not free agents, thus unable to cheerfully comply with draconian public health orders that torpedo our jobs …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/michigan-restaurant-owner-calls-for-popular-uprising-against-hypocritical-covid-policy/
Net Worth of US Billionaires Has Soared by $1 Trillion to Total of $4 Trillion Since Pandemic Began
Americans for Tax Fairness | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
The collective wealth of America's 651 billionaires has jumped by over $1 trillion since roughly the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to a total of $4 trillion at market close on Monday, December 7, 2020. Their wealth growth since March …
globalresearch.ca/net-worth-us-billionaires-soared-1-trillion-total-4-trillion-since-pandemic-began/5731746
The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-rt-pcr-how-to-mislead-all-humanity-using-a-test-to-lock-down-society/5728483
Take What You Need and Give What You Can: A Mutual Aid Portrait
John Washington, Tracie Williams | thenation.com | 2020-12-10
Take What You Need and Give What You Can: A Mutual Aid Portrait…
thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-mutual-aid/
Al Jazeera anchor files lawsuit against Saudi, UAE rulers over alleged phone hacking
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
Al Jazeera anchor files lawsuit against Saudi, UAE rulers over alleged phone hacking | The lawsuit was brought against Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed over alleged operation against Oueiss because of her reporting on Gulf states | MEE staff | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 12: 25 | Prominent Al Jazeera TV anchor Ghada Oueiss says she was hacked in the operation (Facebook) | Prominent Al Jazeera TV anchor Ghada Oueiss has fi…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/qatar-saudi-arabia-uae-al-jazeera-anchor-lawsuit-hacking
Genocidal monarchy set to receive $23 billion in U.S. weapons after Senate resolution fails
Patricia Gorky | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-10
Two resolutions in the Senate to block the sale of $23 billion in advanced fighter jets and drones to the United Arab Emirates failed yesterday in close votes.
liberationnews.org/genocidal-monarchy-set-to-receive-23-billion-in-u-s-weapons-after-senate-resolution-fails/
Farmers Reject Shah's Offer; Give Another 'Delhi Chalo' Call for Dec 14
Ronak Chhabra | zcomm.org | 2020-12-10
The plan to intensify the agitation also includes: nationwide protests at district headquarters, an ultimatum to block Delhi-Jaipur highway, and boycotting of Reliance products…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/farmers-reject-shahs-offer-give-another-delhi-chalo-call-for-dec-14/
UN makes progress on 'greening the blue'
news.un.org | 2020-12-10
In 2019, the UN system continued to make steady progress towards reducing its environmental footprint, recording decreases in emissions and implementing advanced environment management systems.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1079732
In Paris, soccer players lay down 'marker' in fight against racism
Rob Harris | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-10
AP–Players have taken a knee, unfurled slogans and demanded tougher action only to find soccer — their working environment — remains infected with racism. The tipping point might just have come, with elite players in Paris taking the extraordinary step of refusing to continue playing. At the end of a year of striking gestures against …
peoplesworld.org/article/in-paris-soccer-players-lay-down-marker-in-fight-against-racism/
Tibetan Delek Children's Foundation
Mike Raccoon Eyes Kinney | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Non Profit helps Tibetan children with health care & education…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/08/18838849.php
President FIRST to be vaxxed: Argentina signs deal for 10 million doses of Russia's pioneering 'Sputnik V' anti-Covid vaccine
rt.com | 2020-12-10
Argentina is the latest country to order a large batch of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine to tackle the coronavirus. Buenos Aires is getting 10 million doses of the drug after signing a contract with Russian Direct Investment Fund. | RDIF, which finances the development of Sputnik V, announced the deal on Thursday. The vaccine for Argentina is going to be produced by the fund's international partners in India, China, South Korea and other countries. | The contract would allow the South American nation, which has seen some 1,480,000 Covid-19 cases and more than 40,000 deaths, to "secure a diversified portfolio of va…
rt.com/russia/509284-argentina-buys-sputnik-vaccine/
Australia sabotaged its own interests in China relations
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-10
The destruction over the past five years of Australia's mutually beneficial diplomatic and trade relationship with China was probably a successful "Five Eyes" information warfare operation, writes Tony Kevin.
mronline.org/2020/12/10/australia-sabotaged-its-own-interests-in-china-relations/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=australia-sabotaged-its-own-interests-in-china-relations
A Guide to Giving: Worst Year Ever Edition
Katha Pollitt | thenation.com | 2020-12-10
A Guide to Giving: Worst Year Ever Edition…
thenation.com/article/society/holiday-hope/
Will Joe Biden "Revise" U.S Agenda in Syria? Use Terrorism Pretext to "Keep Boots on the Ground"?
Ahmad Salah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
The mayhem of the presidential elections left the American policy-makers locked in heated arguments about the future of the US domestic and foreign policy alike. One of the most pressing issues on the agenda is the Middle East developments, especially …
globalresearch.ca/will-washington-review-double-standards-syrian-file/5731783
Volunteer SCPD Homeless-Harasser Deb Elston's Ticketing Record
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
For those seeking more information regarding the questionable ticketing behavior of the SCPD towards those whose only home is their vehicle, check out the record of Santa Cruz Neighbors organizer and Nextdoor boss Deborah Elston below.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838889.php
Over 200 million workers and farmers protest against poverty and unemployment triggered by COVID Lockdown
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-10
The general strike occurred in the context of the devastation brought about by the coronavirus pandemic in India. Added to this are the millions of people who have lost income and who now face increased poverty and hunger, in a country where even before the pandemic 50 percent of all children suffered malnourishment.
mronline.org/2020/12/10/over-200-million-workers-and-farmers-protest-against-poverty-and-unemployment-triggered-by-covid-lockdown/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=over-200-million-workers-and-farmers-protest-against-poverty-and-unemployment-triggered-by-covid-lockdown
No Time to Waste on Whining, Absent Politicians
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-10
The United States is facing what medical professionals call the most serious public health threat in the history of the nation. The coronavirus pandemic is raging fully out of control, which is exacerbated by a near total lack of leadership at the national level and pitifully little on the state or local level. In the meantime,…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/10/no-time-to-waste-on-whining-absent-politicians/
The long struggle for a post-capitalist society
Klaus Wagener and Hermann Klenner | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
The (Corona) crisis has relentlessly exposed the inability of neoliberal capitalism and its political personnel to meet the elementary needs of the people. Even if it is not felt to the same extent in Germany due to the depressing political conditions: the neoliberal offensive is in a deep existential crisis after 40 years in which it was able to achieve global hegemony.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838862.php
Beirut explosion: Judge charges PM, ex-ministers over August port blast
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
Beirut explosion: Judge charges PM, ex-ministers over August port blast | Outgoing premier Hassan Diab and three former ministers charged with 'negligence and causing death to hundreds and injuries to thousands more' | MEE and agencies | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 17: 57 | Lebanese protesters gather on 17 October in front of Beruit's devastated port, marking the one year anniversary of the beginning of a nationwide a…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/beirut-explosion-judge-charges-pm-ex-ministers
Advocates Fear New Wave of Anti-Worker Laws Pushed by Big Tech
Cherri Murphy | zcomm.org | 2020-12-10
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft scored a major victory with the passage of Proposition 22 in California, and worker rights advocates fear they will push similar measures in other states…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/advocates-fear-new-wave-of-anti-worker-laws-pushed-by-big-tech/
Thousands hold vigil outside Argentine Congress during the vote on abortion bill
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-10
This Friday, the Chamber of Deputies will vote on the IVE bill that legalizes abortion in Argentina, a right that hundreds of thousands of women have been demanding for decades…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/10/thousands-hold-vigil-outside-argentine-congress-during-the-vote-on-abortion-bill/
How to change
Vincent Emanuele | zcomm.org | 2020-12-10
An interview about change — how it's made, how it's thwarted, and what to do about those it terrifies…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-to-change/
On Participatory Economics, Pt. 1
Michael Albert | zcomm.org | 2020-12-10
'What do you want?' is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation, and degradation…
zcomm.org/zvideo/on-participatory-economics-pt-1/
Ecuador's electoral council approves candidacy of Andrés Arauz for upcoming general elections
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-10
Five different appeals were presented by various right-wing political parties to prevent the participation of the progressive UNES alliance, led by former president Rafael Correa…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/10/ecuadors-electoral-council-approves-candidacy-of-andres-arauz-for-upcoming-general-elections/
Thoughts on the Silence of Republican Lawmakers
Heather Cox Richardson | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Coronavirus continues to devastate the country, with official deaths topping 281,000 today, but it turns out that the Trump administration did not actually have a plan for distribution of vaccines. Federal officials have drastically slashed the amount of vaccine they promised to states before the election. Instead of the 300 million doses, the plan is currently to distribute 35 to 40 million doses.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838892.php
McConnell bill could force localities to defund police
Roberta Wood | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-10
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peoplesworld.org/article/mcconnell-bill-could-force-localities-to-defund-police/
Non-communicable diseases killing more people than ever before: UN health agency
news.un.org | 2020-12-10
Non-communicable diseases account for 7 of the world's top 10 causes of death, a sharp increase from two decades ago, and heart disease remains the leading cause of death globally, a new UN World Health Organization (WHO) study has found.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1079722
Nigerians call for a "second wave" of protests after police officer kills a young man
Sophia Purdy-Moore | thecanary.co | 2020-12-10
On 10 December, a Nigerian police officer shot and killed a young keke (tricycle taxi) rider in Port Harcourt. Nigerians are now calling for a 'second wave' of End SARS protests. On 8 October, young Niger…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/12/10/nigerians-call-for-a-second-wave-of-protests-after-police-officer-kills-a-young-man/
The Electoral College Invites Fraud
Alan Hirsch | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-10
As a straightforward historical fact, the Electoral College produces squeakers far more often than does the national popular vote. In 1948, for example, a flip of just 31,000 votes in four states would have made Thomas Dewey president — despite the fact that Harry Truman won the national vote handily. To change the latter, election thieves would have needed to flip well over one million Truman votes to Dewey's column.
counterpunch.org/2020/12/10/the-electoral-college-invites-fraud/
The Vanishing Queer Underground of Los Angeles
Kate Wolf | thenation.com | 2020-12-10
The Vanishing Queer Underground of Los Angeles…
thenation.com/article/culture/reynaldo-rivera-photography-review/
'I share your weariness': French PM reveals curfew & continued closure of cultural venues as Covid rates still too high
rt.com | 2020-12-10
France will replace its current stay-at-home lockdown with a curfew of 8pm, including on New Year's Eve, and keep cultural venues closed from December 15, amid unshakably high Covid-19 infections, PM Jean Castex has said. | The government had earlier said that the ban on theaters, museums and cinemas re-opening and orders for people to stay home — in place since October — would be lifted next week. | But the planned partial relaxation of restrictions was on the condition that the daily number of new Covid-19 cases did not climb above 5,000, which has not been met, as at least 10,000 people in France…
rt.com/news/509292-france-curfew-covid-lockdown/
Improving elective care planning could extend life for thousands of patients
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-10
Optimizing hospital scheduling for treatment of tumours, diseases of the digestive system and injuries & poisoning will result in notable gains.
imperial.ac.uk/news/210534/improving-elective-care-planning-could-extend
Make the Corn Belt a Carbon Belt
Daniel Imhoff | progressive.org | 2020-12-10
The fact is, the billions spent on the farm sector today are neither protecting the future of U.S. agriculture nor preserving the traditional family farm.
progressive.org/op-eds/make-corn-belt-carbon-belt-imhoff-201210/
It's time to fight for alternatives to the 'gas-led recovery' fraud
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-10
Several detailed studies have now shown up the "gas-led economic recovery" plan as a fraud. Peter Boyle argues that the corporate sector cannot be trusted to make the urgently-needed shift to decarbonise.
greenleft.org.au/content/its-time-fight-alternatives-gas-led-recovery-fraud
Tibetan Delek Children's Foundation: Helping Poor Kids in the Himalayan Mountains
Mike Kinney | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
Delek Children's Foundation helps with healthcare & education to the poor children in the isolated villages of Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and Indian in the Himalayan Mountains…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838875.php
The Agony of Bernard Harcourt
Michael Welton | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-10
Critique and Praxis (2020) is Bernard Harcourt's recent mountainous book. Entering, one climbs hills, descends into valleys, crosses some rough, boulder-strewn rivers, ducks into mysterious caves and traverses some strange and slippery terrain. Browsing through historic Kingston, Ontario's best bookstore, Novel Ideas, on a sultry Covid-19 morning, I discovered Harcourt's tumbling and boisterous 684 page…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/10/the-agony-of-bernard-harcourt/
Saturday 12/12: Virtual Vigil Supporting Healthcare Workers & Abolishing Healthcare Profiteering
Put People First and partners | indybay.org | 2020-12-10