J4J: Inside an Epic Victory for American Labor
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-12-11
By Javier Gonzalez / Original to ScheerPost He walked in the conference room chest high, chin high, spirits high, and confident victory was near. What had once been considered just a ragtag group of janitors chanting for " Justicia" had become an army. It was week two of the historic strike in the immigrant capital of America, Los Angeles, and the year was 2000. Before taking his seat… | Source…
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Biden Must Restore Citizenship for Black and Brown People
Manar Waheed | aclu.org | 2020-12-11
President Trump's relentless destruction of our immigration system is well documented. However, the myriad ways in which he attacked and targeted Black and Brown people seeking immigration benefits or citizenship, and even U.S. citizens is less discussed. , , There have been three substantial attacks on citizenship for Black and Brown immigrants: | Indefinite delays of immigration benefits, including citizenship, through the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), which has targeted Muslims and people from Muslim-majority countries since 2008;Blocking the expedited path to citizenship fo…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/biden-must-restore-citizenship-for-black-and-brown-people

J4J: Inside an Epic Victory for American Labor
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-12-11
By Javier Gonzalez / Original to ScheerPost He walked into the conference room chest high, chin high, spirits high, and confident victory was near. What had once been considered just a ragtag group of janitors chanting for " Justicia" had become an army. It was week two of the historic strike in the immigrant capital of America, Los Angeles, and the year was 2000. Before taking his seat… | Source…
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The Future of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the "Dual Circulation Era"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
China's new development paradigm of dual circulation is not a repudiation of its prior BRI-driven model of globalization, but is actually complementary to it. Observers shouldn't forget that many of the hundreds of billions of dollars of BRI-related loans are …
globalresearch.ca/future-belt-road-initiative-dual-circulation-era/5731954

Marx didn't invent socialism, nor did he discover it
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-11
Without aiming to tear down the legacy of Marx or to minimize his contributions to economics and history–a hopeless task that we can leave up to capitalists–we can examine the historical context in which he arose.
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Pharma Controlled FDA Panel Recommends Approval for Controversial Pfizer COVID Vaccine
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Establishment media are at the forefront in promoting potentially hazardous to human health covid vaccines they should be advising caution about instead. | The NYT headlined: "FDA Advisory Panel Gives Green Light to Pfizer Vaccine," saying: | Approval "pave(s) the way for …
globalresearch.ca/pharma-controlled-fda-panel-recommends-approval-controversial-pfizer-covid-vaccine/5731971

Biden to Mandate Mask Wearing, Mandatory Mass Vaxxing to Follow?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Porous face masks offer no protection from minuscule covid spores. | Extended wearing is potentially hazardous to human health. | Mass vaxxing could be catastrophic if ordered. | Covid is a form of seasonal flu/influenza. | Protection comes from good health habits, including proper …
globalresearch.ca/biden-mandate-mask-wearing-mandatory-mass-vaxxing-follow/5731964

Big Pharma's Hazardous to Health COVID Vaccines
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Like other corporate predators, Big Pharma prioritizes profits over human life, health and welfare. | Corporate America buys politicians like toothpaste, buying influence, assuring their interests are served over the public welfare and rule of law. | Everyone willing to be vaxxed …
globalresearch.ca/big-pharma-hazardous-health-covid-vaccines/5731884

On International Human Rights Day, Chileans demand release of political prisoners
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-11
This December 10, on International Human Rights Day, hundreds of Chileans took to the streets to demand the release of all political prisoners in the country. There was special emphasis on the demand to release the protesters arrested during the protests of October 2019 and in demonstrations in the following months as well as the Indigenous Mapuche political prisoners. | Several small demonstrations were c…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/11/on-international-human-rights-day-chileans-demand-release-of-political-prisoners/

Podcast Panel: US Meddling In Venezuela Elections, Economic Warfare & COVID-19
Mnar Muhawesh Adley | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-11
Observed by 1,500 international election observers from 34 countries, elections in Venezuela handed Nicholas Maduro a clear victory, sending a message to the US that it failed to influence the same elections that Mike Pompeo called illegitimate.
mintpressnews.com/podcast-panel-us-meddling-in-venezuela-elections-economic-warfare-covid-19/273567/

Nicolás Maduro: Despite everything, we were able to carry out elections in peace
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-11
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro gave a press conference to international media on Tuesday, December 8 to discuss the parliamentary elections held last Sunday. During the press conference, which Peoples Dispatch participated in, Maduro discussed the electoral process wherein the alliance led by his party PSUV (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) won 68%. | In the press conference, Maduro celebrated the outcome of the elections, stating that beyond the electoral victory of PSUV, they marked a victory of the Venezuelan people who not only took part peacefully but also voted to constitute a plural and diverse Na…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/11/nicolas-maduro-despite-everything-we-were-able-to-carry-out-elections-in-peace/

We don't listen to the dying Government of Donald Trump
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-12-11
The night before the National Assembly elections in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro spoke to a group of visitors at Miraflores Palace in Caracas.
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COVID Crimes and the Violation of Fundamental Human Rights in Ontario
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Full transcript of the video below. Recorded by Mark Taliano | [00: 00: 00] He spoke in Toronto yesterday? | [00: 00: 07] Oh, our lawful excuse for being here is for safeguarding the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and …
globalresearch.ca/covid-crimes-violation-fundamental-human-rights-ontario/5731883

PDF of December 10 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-12-11
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…
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U.S. media, pols rage after Venezuelans defy U.S. empire to re-elect socialists
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-12-11
Despite the fact that the election was overseen by 1,500 international observers, U.S. pols and media pundits alike labeled it a sham before it even took place.
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Nine of the 10 Most Expensive Senate Races in US History Happened in 2020
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-11
Elections are getting far more expensive. The 2016 election alone cost around $6.5 billion, and there is only one place to get money like that: super-wealthy donors with deep pockets and high expectations.
mintpressnews.com/nine-of-the-10-most-expensive-senate-races-in-us-history-happened-in-2020/273581/

Critics Pan Time's Choice of Biden-Harris for 2020 Person of the Year Award
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-11
"This is Joe Biden's year. He not only managed to stay alive until the election, he also did other things, presumably." — YouTube creator Shaun…
mintpressnews.com/critics-time-choice-of-joe-biden-kamala-harris-2020-person-of-the-year/273557/

Capitalism and the Green New Deal
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-11
Environmental destruction— climate change, species loss, oceanic depletion, and the rendering of vast tracts of air, water and land unusable has, according to a group of recent IPCC reports, reached the point where it threatens human existence. In contrast to efforts by different constituencies to limit the scope of concern, what the IPCC makes clear is that environmental decline is a clear and present danger, and that its breadth makes a mockery of calls for simple technical fixes. In fact, many of the proposed solutions to climate change threaten to make species loss and oceanic depletion significantly worse.
counterpunch.org/2020/12/11/capitalism-and-the-green-new-deal-2/

Migrant smugglers exploiting Covid-19 pandemic, Interpol warns
rt.com | 2020-12-11
Interpol has made more than 200 arrests as part of an international operation to bring down criminal smuggling networks, and warned human traffickers are exploiting the Covid-19 pandemic. | The one-week op, named Operation Turquesa II, saw officials in 32 countries conduct more than 50,000 checks. The massive crackdown lead to the identification of around 3,500 irregular migrants and the detention of over 200 people linked to migrant smuggling and human trafficking. | Interpol Secretary General Juergen Stock warned that the operation "shows how organized crime groups continue to take advantage of vulnerable pe…
rt.com/news/509429-migrant-smugglers-coronavirus-interpol/

Yemen: food insecurity a 'ticking timebomb', warn aid agencies
news.un.org | 2020-12-11
UN humanitarians issued a fresh alert on Friday for war-torn Yemen, warning that time is running out to avoid famine in the country. Out of two million children who need treatment for acute malnutrition, 360,000 are at risk of dying if they do not receive medical care, the World Food Programme (WFP) said.
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Lynchings By Law
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
The U.S. death penalty has always been a symbol of white supremacy and a violation of human rights law. Having already executed 11 people this year, the Trump administration plans to execute five people (four of them Black) during a lame-duck session. This would be the first time a president has carried out executions during a lame-duck session since the Cleveland administration carried out the execution of an Indigenous man in 1890. | The profound anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells once said: "The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
popularresistance.org/lynchings-by-law/

The Red House And The Future Of Eviction Defense
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
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. The mainstream media's headlines will also tend to lead with the so-called violent clashes, but then they may inform us that the reasons for the confrontation have to do with folks trying to prevent the eviction of a Black and indigenous family that has lived in the Red House at 4406 North Mississi…
popularresistance.org/the-red-house-and-the-future-of-eviction-defense/

Free Elections In Venezuela Are A Blow To Regime Change
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
Venezuela held legislative elections on December 6 and, as has become the norm, the U.S. and sectors of the opposition that boycotted the election are claiming fraud without presenting evidence. The coalition of parties supporting President Maduro won 68% of the vote and a supermajority in the National Assembly. All the evidence suggests the elections were free and fair. However, turnout was only 31%, a participation rate that was hampered by a partial opposition boycott of the election. | This call to abstain was made by Juan Guaidó and his allies, but a different faction of the opposition participated fully.
popularresistance.org/free-elections-in-venezuela-are-a-blow-to-regime-change/

Roaming Charges: Negative Creep
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-11
Under Biden we're going to experience four years (if he lasts that long) of negative creep, a steady recrudescence of the same policies–economic, social, environmental and military–which led us to into the very quagmire where nearly all of us are now inexorably sinking.
counterpunch.org/2020/12/11/roaming-charges-9/

Coronavirus Scandal Breaking in Merkel's Germany. False Positives and the Drosten PCR Test
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
The widely-praised German model of the Angela Merkel regime to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic is now engulfed in a series of potentially devastating scandals going to the very heart of the testing and medical advice being used to declare …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-scandal-breaking-merkel-germany/5731891

ICC Drops Probe into Alleged UK War Crimes in Iraq Despite 'Reasonable' Evidence
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Despite finding "reasonable basis" for allegations of war crimes against British soldiers in Iraq, an International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor dropped a preliminary investigation, citing the UK's own efforts to investigate the conduct of its troops in the war. | In …
globalresearch.ca/icc-drops-probe-alleged-uk-war-crimes-iraq-despite-reasonable-evidence/5731922

John Kerry's Think Tank Calls for War With Russia Over Climate Change
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-11
"America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is." — John Kerry | Alan MACLEOD | Recently-appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has announced his intention of dealing with the pressing issue of global warming as a national security concern. "America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is," the 76-year-old former Secretary of State wrote. "I am proud to partner wit…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/11/john-kerry-think-tank-calls-for-war-with-russia-over-climate-change/

Even the opposition believes Venezuela's election was legitimate
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-11
Vijay Prashad spoke to leaders of five major opposition parties in Venezuela that participated in the elections on December 6 and rejected the boycott of the process promoted by US-backed Juan Guaidó.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/11/even-the-opposition-believes-venezuelas-election-was-legitimate/

Venezuela: Socialist election win masks deeper problems
Peter Boyle | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-11
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela's strategy has paid off, winning back control of the National Assembly in the December 6 elections. But it has come at a high price, writes Federico Fuentes.
greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-socialist-election-win-masks-deeper-problems

Silencing Black radicalism since the Cold War
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-11
Describing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as socialist and accusing them of fomenting disorder in America's urban areas invoked racial disorder for the majority white voters who cast their ballots for an avowed white supremacist.
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U.S. Recognizes Morocco's Occupation of Western Sahara in Latest Betrayal of Sahrawi People
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-11
We continue to examine the U.S.-brokered deal between Morocco and Israel to normalize relations. As part of the deal, the U.S. will become the first country in the world to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, which Morocco has occupied since 1975 in defiance of the international community. We convene a roundtable to discuss developments: Mouloud Said, a representative of the Polisario Front in Washington; Stephen Zunes, professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco; and Sahrawi journalist and activist Nazha El-Khalidi.
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/11/morocco_israel_western_sahara_sahrawi

Andrew Bacevich on Why Retired General and Raytheon Official Lloyd Austin Should Not Head Pentagon
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-11
Joe Biden's nominee for defense secretary, retired four-star Army General Lloyd Austin, would make history as the first African American to lead the Pentagon if confirmed by the Senate. But Austin can only be confirmed if he secures a waiver from Congress due to laws designed to preserve the civilian control of the military, and several leading Democratic senators have indicated they would oppose granting a waiver. Andrew Bacevich, president and co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, says he shares those concerns. "The general is not a civilian, and it seems to me if we're serious about ci…
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/11/joe_biden_lloyd_austin_pentagon

Supreme Court Weighs Corporate Liability For Child Laborers On Cocoa Farms
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
Last Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the world's largest cocoa corporations are liable for child slavery in their supply chains. For 15 years, six citizens of Mali who were trafficked as children to work on cocoa farms have sought legal damages from Cargill and Nestle USA under a 240-year-old anti-piracy law. | The plaintiffs' attorney told the court that the corporations "maintain a system of child slavery and forced labor in their Ivory Coast supply chain as a matter of corporate policy to gain a competitive advantage in the U.S. market."
popularresistance.org/supreme-court-weighs-corporate-liability-for-child-laborers-on-cocoa-farms/

"I Told You So. You Damned Fools": 75 Years of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-11
Leafing — or in this case scrolling through — the commemorative issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists after 75 years of publication is a tingling exercise of existence. The subject matter pushes you to the edge. You threaten to fall off. Death is promised; extinction contemplated. Nuclear holocaust. Your sanity is called into…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/11/i-told-you-so-you-damned-fools-75-years-of-the-bulletin-of-the-atomic-scientists/

"I Told You So. You Damned Fools"
Binoy Kampmark | zcomm.org | 2020-12-11
75 Years of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/i-told-you-so-you-damned-fools/

Irresponsible Happenings: Juukan Gorge, Rio Tinto and the "Never Again" Report
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-11
"Never Again." These words are used with boring, stage managed frequency by political and company figures who should know better. They title the interim report from the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia investigating the destruction of rock shelters at Juukan Gorge in Western Australia by Rio Tinto. This act of spectacular cultural vandalism destroyed …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/irresponsible-happenings-juukan-gorge-rio-tinto-and-the-never-again-report/

Western media claims Russian missile tests mean Moscow preparing for NUCLEAR WAR… as US fires Tomahawks from warship (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-12-11
A colossal military drill supervised by President Vladimir Putin has sent Western commentators scrambling to their underground bunkers. But as the fiery footage is beamed around the globe, US & UK rocket tests have gone unnoticed. | Britain's Daily Mail reported on Thursday that Moscow was "practising for nuclear war," while the Daily Express told its readers that Russian "sabre-rattling risked reigniting World War 3 fears as global tensions remain high." | However, some observers took to the internet to point out that they must have missed the reports of imminent annihilation in response to similar Western ex…
rt.com/russia/509423-western-media-russian-missile-tests/

'Long Live the (Dead) Peace Process'
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-12-11
Abbas Prioritizes US Ties over Palestinian National Unity…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/long-live-the-dead-peace-process/

My Take on the US Elections: Voting for Corporate Figureheads is not Democracy
Alfred de Zayas | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Interview with Prof. Dr. iur. et phil. Alfred de Zayas, international law expert and former UN mandate holder | *** | Thomas Kaiser: Zeitgeschehen im Fokus Professor de Zayas, you are an American citizen. What do you think about the course of …
globalresearch.ca/take-us-elections-interview-swiss-german-journal-zeitgeschehen-im-fokus/5731907

Capitalist crimes against seniors in nursing homes
Jim McMahan | workers.org | 2020-12-11
As we are hit by a second wave of the pandemic, the causes of the 266,000 U.S. deaths of COVID-19 must be exposed. It is not because of the virus alone that the U.S. has become the world's leader in number of deaths. It is the capitalist system and its . . . | Continue reading Capitalist crimes against seniors in nursing homes at Workers.org…
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Friday 12/11: Solidarity Rally! Support Bookshop Santa Cruz Union!
Support Bookshop Santa Cruz Union | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
Pacific Avenue and Locust Street, Santa Cruz…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838896.php

Which Middle Eastern and North African countries have normalised relations with Israel?
Areeb Ullah | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-11
Which Middle Eastern and North African countries have normalised relations with Israel? | Morocco joins a handful of countries in the region to have made official diplomatic relations with Israel | Areeb Ullah | Fri, 12/11/2020 – 14: 30 | Egypt under President Anwar Sadat – pictured here left, shaking hands with then-Israeli Premier Menachem Begin in front of US President Jimmy Carter – became the first Arab country i…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-middle-east-normalisation-deals-countries-which

Choice in Health Care Plans and Medicare: It's More Complicated
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-12-11
Margot Sanger-Katz had a very good NYT piece on the difficulty of choosing among health insurance plans. The gist of the piece is that people have a very difficult time choosing among plans, and even well-educated people often make choices that are bad for them. (The highlight is that Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman …
cepr.net/chose-in-health-care-plans-and-medicare-its-more-complicated/

Stockholm schools send pupils home amid warnings of overstretched intensive care wards due to Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-12-11
Schools in Stockholm will send home all pupils aged 14-16 for remote learning until 2021 in a bid to hold back a second wave of coronavirus. The Swedish capital had issued a call for help over its strained intensive care capacity. | …
rt.com/news/509421-sweden-schools-warning-covid/

Israeli politicians trying new Arab-Jewish partnerships in bid for success
Lily Galili | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-11
Israeli politicians trying new Arab-Jewish partnerships in bid for success | On the left and right, parties are making overtures to the country's Palestinian community in anticipation of a fourth election in Israel – but can the gap be bridged? | Lily Galili | Fri, 12/11/2020 – 12: 25 | A Palestinian citizen of Israel arrives at a polling station decorated with portraits of Israeli politicians to cast his ballot for t…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-elections-jewish-palestinian-politics-partnerships

A Tipping Point for the Defeat of Fossil Fuels?
Richard Lachmann | zcomm.org | 2020-12-11
How to Stop Big Energy in Its Tracks (Quite Literally)…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-tipping-point-for-the-defeat-of-fossil-fuels/

'Communication Is a Human Right' Ecuadorean Lawmakers Say
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-11
Ecuador's National Assembly on Thursday approved legal provisions to transform "communication" into a "human right.". | RELATED: | Ecuador: Union for Hope's Candidates Certified To Run Elections | By doing so, they invalitated the definition of communication as a"public good", which was defended by former President Rafael Correa (2007-2017). | In 2019, President Lenin Moreno proposed that "social communication" be conceived as a human right rather than a public service. | After…
telesurenglish.net/news/Communication-Is-a-Human-Right-Ecuadorean-Lawmakers-Say-20201211-0005.html

Soccer league players announce partnership with Communications Workers of America
Special to People's World | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-11
The United Soccer League Players Association (USLPA), the union representing all of the United Soccer League's Championship and League One players, and the Communications Workers of America (CWA), a labor union representing hundreds of thousands of working people across many different sectors, have signed a partnership agreement to build solidarity, increase collaboration, and provide collective …
peoplesworld.org/article/soccer-league-players-announce-partnership-with-communications-workers-of-america/

Sea of Plastic
GIO | thenation.com | 2020-12-11
Sea of Plastic…
thenation.com/article/environment/sea-of-plastic/

Wednesday 12/16: NAACP Town Hall: Slowing Pandemic Spread, #COVID19 Vaccine, & Health of Black Community
NAACP | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
Online town hall…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/11/18838910.php

This Week's Most Popular Articles
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
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Flying through a comet's tail and fighting fluorine: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-11
Here's a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/210513/flying-through-comets-tail-fighting-fluorine

Canada: Alberta's open-pit coal mining plan must be stopped!
Corinne Benson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-11
Australian mining corporations are already preparing to open-pit mine in the Bighorn area of the Rocky Mountains. Since 1976 Alberta's Coal Development Policy has guided land use over many aspects of coal development, including open-pit coal mining and coal exploration in some of Alberta's most environmentally sensitive areas. This policy was developed with extensive public …
peoplesworld.org/article/canada-albertas-open-pit-coal-mining-plan-must-be-stopped/

Titular Protocolos CO:VID-19 / Receta para desastre en las prisiones de Pensilvania
Bryant Arroyo | workers.org | 2020-12-11
Los trabajadores encarcelados en Pensilvania exigen que el secretario del Departamento de Correcciones, John Wetzel, revoque su desastrosa decisión de comenzar los traslados masivos de prisioneros en medio de la pandemia de COVID-19. El siguiente comentario es del organizador de compañeros en la cárcel y ambientalista Bryant Arroyo, recluido en . . . | Continue reading Titular Protocolos CO: VID-19 / Receta para desastre en las prisiones de Pensilvania at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/12/53176/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=titular-protocolos-covid-19-receta-para-desastre-en-las-prisiones-de-pensilvania

How Australia Sabotaged Its Own Interests in Relations with China
Tony Kevin | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2020-12-11
asia-pacificresearch.com/how-australia-sabotaged-own-interests-relations-china/5629584

Iran's 'Corpse Bride' Angelina Jolie look-alike sentenced to 10 YEARS in prison for 'corrupting the youth,' says journalist
rt.com | 2020-12-11
Claiming that the Instagram model whose heavily edited snaps made her world-famous as an Angelina Jolie lookalike was sentenced to a decade in prison by morality police, an Iranian journalist begged the actress for assistance. | Fatemeh Khishvand from Tehran, who goes by Sahar Tabar on Instagram, was just sentenced to ten years in prison for "promoting public corruption," journalist Masih Alinejad claimed on Friday. | I call on Angelina Jolie to help an Iranian 19-year-old girl who received 10 years prison sentence for using makeup & Photoshop to turn herself into Angelina. | Islamic Republic has a history of…
rt.com/news/509440-iran-angelina-corpse-bride-jailed/

Big Pharma Strikes Back
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-12-11
On Monday, Achal Prabhala, Arjun Jayadev, and I had a column in the New York Times arguing in support of a resolution put forward before the WTO by India and South Africa, which would suspend intellectual property rights related to vaccines and treatments related to the pandemic. The main point is that these rights are …
cepr.net/big-pharma-strikes-back/

General strike: Greek workers respond to government's attacks
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-12-11
In big cities like Athens and Thessaloníki, and smaller ones like Larissa and Patras, workers in Greece struck and marched by the thousands Nov. 26 to defend workers' wages and benefits. Their actions defied government restrictions, made under the pretext of responding to COVID-19, which limit gatherings of more than . . . | Continue reading General strike: Greek workers respond to government's attacks at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/12/53204/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=general-strike-greek-workers-respond-to-governments-attacks

Israel normalisation: What Morocco gets in return
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-11
Israel normalisation: What Morocco gets in return | As Morocco becomes the fourth Arab country to normalise ties with Israel, MEE looks at the likely gains for the North African nation | MEE and agencies | Fri, 12/11/2020 – 13: 07 | Moroccan and Israeli flags. Recognition of Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara has been described as a 'gift' to the North African country from the outgoing US administrati…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-morocco-normalisation-what-gets-return

How the Safe Bet Lost in North Carolina
Drew Millard | thenation.com | 2020-12-11
What doomed Cal Cunningham may have been the same thing that made him appealing in the first place: He never took a firm position on anything, even himself.
thenation.com/article/politics/how-the-safe-bet-lost-in-north-carolina/

McConnell's virus lawsuit ban far worse than advertised
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-11
WASHINGTON–Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell's ban on lawsuits through 2024 against firms that don't protect workers and consumers from the coronavirus is even worse than advertised, the National Council on Occupational Safety and Health reports, and an inspection of the measure's underlying text confirms. The GOP Majority Leader's bill is actually S4317, introduced July 27 by …
peoplesworld.org/article/mcconnells-virus-lawsuit-ban-far-worse-than-advertised/

Sunday 12/13: CA Poor People's Campaign Chapters Town Hall: PPC Demands for First 100 Days
BAPPCLP | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
Online town hall, please join us!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838893.php

Prison Staff Force Prisoners to Accept Liability For Their Own Deaths
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
Prisoners at San Quentin State Prison are reporting that, over the past week, San Quentin medical staff have been pressuring prisoners to sign waiver forms accepting legal responsibility for their own deaths from COVID-19. | That, despite more than 10 months of continuous neglect and Eighth Amendment violations by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) which has, so far, killed 28 prisoners at the prison. | Multiple prisoners — many are refusing to cooperate — at San Quentin tell the same story.
popularresistance.org/prison-staff-force-prisoners-to-accept-liability-for-their-own-deaths/

UAE arms deal: Critics turn to Biden as Senate fails to block $23bn sale
Ali Harb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-11
UAE arms deal: Critics turn to Biden as Senate fails to block $23bn sale | US Senate narrowly votes against measure to halt enormous arms deal with Abu Dhabi; activists want Biden to cancel or revise sale | Ali Harb | Fri, 12/11/2020 – 00: 13 | Deal includes advanced F-35 jets and killer drones (AFP/File photo) | After the US Senate failed to block an enormous arms deal with the United Arab Emirates, opponents of the sale a…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-arms-deal-critics-turn-biden-senate-fails-block-23bn-sale

The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Preface : | The fear campaign has served as an instrument of disinformation. | In the course of the last eleven months starting in early January, I have analyzed almost on a daily basis the timeline and evolution of the Covid crisis. From …
globalresearch.ca/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset/5730652

PW Podcast: Rev. Liz Theoharis talks voter suppression and poverty
Chauncey K. Robinson, Matt Bernico | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-11
Beyond the Page is a companion podcast to the award-winning publication People's World. With every episode, we'll take you deeper into the topics covered at PeoplesWorld.org. Our program brings you in-depth interviews with journalists and activists on the most pressing stories in progressive politics, labor, and the struggle for socialism in the United States. As …
peoplesworld.org/article/pw-podcast-rev-liz-theoharis-talks-voter-suppression-and-poverty/

Volunteer SCPD Homeless-Harasser Deb Elston's Ticketing Record
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
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

2020 National Juneteenth Holiday Bill still in process
US Senate, Senator Johnson Objection | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
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

US B-52 bombers threaten Iran for second time in three weeks
wsws.org | 2020-12-11
These massive warplanes used to devastate Vietnam half a century ago have been deployed amid mounting US and Israeli war threats and provocations against Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/11/iran-d11.html

Saturday 12/12: SC1.5NCE Not SILENCE: Five-year Anniversary of Paris Agreement Climate Emergency Forum
March for Science | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
Online via livestream or Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/11/18838906.php

Tibetan Delek Children's Foundation: Helping Poor Kids in the Himalayan Mountains
Mike Kinney | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
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

What Happens if Something Goes Wrong after You Receive a COVID Vaccine?
Dr. Meryl Nass | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
The bottom line is that if you are injured by a vaccine or other "countermeasure" designated by the DHHS Secretary as intended for a pandemic or bioterrorism threat (Covid-19, Pandemic Flu, Anthrax, Smallpox) your options for receiving any financial benefit …
globalresearch.ca/what-happens-something-goes-wrong-after-receive-covid-vaccine/5731896

Now in print and available:'Capitalism on a ventilator: The Impact of Covid-19 in China & the U.S.'
| workers.org | 2020-12-11
"Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S." is a new anthology contrasting the effective Chinese response to COVID-19 with the disastrous response here in the U.S. It pushes back against the racist anti-China campaign in the media. Due to the growing hostility of the . . . | Continue reading Now in print and available: 'Capitalism on a ventilator: The Impact of Covid-19 in China & the U.S.' at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/12/53207/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=now-in-print-and-availablecapitalism-on-a-ventilator-the-impact-of-covid-19-in-china-the-u-s

New claims for unemployment insurance jump almost 20% in one week
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-12-11
San José, CA – On Thursday, December 10, the U.S. Department of Labor reported that new claims for regular state unemployment went up by 137,000, or 19.1% for the week ending December 5. This is the biggest increase in applications for unemployment since the first week of April. In addition, new claims for the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA also increased by almost 140,000. The total of almost 280,000 applications by jobless Americans in a week was the second largest jump during the entire recession, raising the danger of a 'double-dip' recession, where the economy goes downhill a second time.
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/12/11/new-claims-unemployment-insurance-jump-almost-20-one-week

Apocalypse Cow: The Future of Life at Point Reyes National Park
Peter Byrne | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-11
Sixty million years ago a chunk of granite located near Los Angeles began moving northwards. Propelled by the energy of earthquakes over eons, Point Reyes slid hundreds of miles along the San Andreas fault at the divide between two colliding tectonic plates. During the last Ice Age, 30,000 years ago, much of the Earth's waters…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/11/apocalypse-cow-the-future-of-life-at-point-reyes-national-park/

My year as a Workers World candidate — a commentary
Olujimi Alade | workers.org | 2020-12-11
Alade with lead banner at Philadelphia United Front march, Nov. 7. WW photo: Joe Piette== The year 2020 conjures up a variety of feelings and emotions for people. Some view it as the year of the apocalypse, others have a more optimistic option. Count me in the latter category. I am . . . | Continue reading My year as a Workers World candidate — a commentary at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/12/53185/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-year-as-a-workers-world-candidate-a-commentary

House Backs Decriminalizing Pot
Ronald Newman | zcomm.org | 2020-12-11
Voters OK Legalization Ballot Initiatives…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/house-backs-decriminalizing-pot/

Yuma Hospital Fires ER Doctor For Talking About COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
Dr. Cleavon Gilman, a well-known emergency-medicine physician, has been asked not to return to his work at Yuma Regional Medical Center for his social media posts about the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Arizona, according to him and his staffing agency. | "What I don't understand about this is I have been advocating for Arizona; I have been calling for a mask mandate, the closure of schools and indoor dining," Gilman told The Arizona Republic. "I did all of this because we are seeing an unprecedented number of cases. This is my third surge — I know how this ends."
popularresistance.org/yuma-hospital-fires-er-doctor-for-talking-about-covid-19/

Nineteen Tragic Facts About COVID-19
Bill Quigley | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-11
87 million. 87 million workers will lose federally mandated COVID sick leave at the end of December unless Congress acts to extend the law. 50 million. 50 million people are now facing hunger at least once a month, including 1 in 4 children. The rate of adults who sometimes or often do not have enough…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/11/nineteen-tragic-facts-about-covid-19/

Saudi Arabia Sends Joe Biden Mixed Messages
James M. Dorsey | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Saudi Arabia appears to be drawing lines in the sand as the kingdom prepares for a new era in relations with the United States once President-elect Joe Biden assumes office in January. | In doing so, the kingdom is seemingly signaling …
globalresearch.ca/saudi-arabia-sends-joe-biden-mixed-messages/5731957

Charity which supported Grenfell victims found to be 'institutionally racist'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-11
A charity which has supported Grenfell victims has been and remains institutionally racist, a review has found.Westway: The Westway Trust has a "legacy of institutional racism" and has failed to "understand, identify and address racial disparity" over the years, a report by the Tutu Foundation concluded.The trust was set up almost 50 years ago to manage the 23 acres of land under the Westway — an overhead motorway — in west London with the aim of working to benefit the local community.The organisation commissioned the review in July 2018, acknowledging that "serious" allegations of institutional…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/12/11/charity-which-supported-grenfell-victims-found-to-be-institutionally-racist/

The Empire Doubles Down: Open Society Foundations Will Now Be Run by Lord Malloch Brown
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-11
The hubris of empire has always struck me with shock and awe. | I mean it really takes balls to get caught with a prostitute and instead of apologizing to your wife, to instead buy the hooker a new fur coat and parade her publicly at a public event. | Such has been the case with George Soros' long time bosom buddy Lord Mark Malloch Brown who after being revealed as a leading force behind the software used by the infamous Dominion Voting systems via Smartmatic (which transferred its operating systems to Dominion via Sequoia Inc), has now been made the president of Soros' global Open Society Foundations. | What is…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/11/empire-doubles-down-open-society-foundations-will-now-run-lord-malloch-brown/

Charter Schools Bully Teachers
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-11
It is no accident that fewer than three percent of the nation's roughly 7,300 charter schools are operated by teachers and that 90% of charter schools do not have a teachers union. So much for the narrative that charter schools started nearly 30 years ago to empower teachers. Some states even allow charter schools to …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/charter-schools-bully-teachers/

Britain & EU may still strike Brexit trade deal that both 'can live with' — Irish FM
rt.com | 2020-12-11
A no-deal Brexit is not in the European Union's strategic interests, Ireland's foreign minister said on Friday, as his German counterpart claimed UK-EU talks may go beyond the deadline set for Sunday. | Ireland's FM Simon Coveney warned that if London and Brussels fail to sign a post-Brexit trade accord, it would not strengthen Brussels' position in any future talks. | "Anybody who thinks no deal now is in the EU's strategic interests because in six or 12 months time, when we start talking to the UK about putting in place a new agreement, that somehow the EU's hand will be strengthened, I don't think that show…
rt.com/uk/509422-uk-eu-deal-coveney/

Friday 12/18: "Riffing for the Georgia Runoffs" Live Virtual Comedy w/ Patton Oswalt & Sarah Silverman
RushTix | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
Live Virtual Show…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838871.php

NATO Is Determined to Find Threats and Challenges to Justify Its Existence
Brian Cloughley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
Government and media propaganda has firmly convinced most of the citizenry of the West that Russia invaded Crimea, and the truth has dissolved in the swirling miasma that the anti-Russia movement has dubbed as history. | In March 2014 the ethnically …
globalresearch.ca/nato-determined-find-threats-challenges-justify-existence/5731916

AirAsia CEO: Asian Nations 'Won't Let Anyone in Without a Vaccination'
Steve Watson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes told an aviation conference Wednesday that Asian countries may soon demand that anyone crossing their borders has received a Covid-19 jab. | "I foresee in Asia, anyway, I think they won't let anyone in without a vaccination | …
globalresearch.ca/airasia-ceo-asian-nations-wont-let-anyone-without-vaccination/5731948

COVID-19 shows 'urgent need' for solidarity, UN chief tells Nobel forum
news.un.org | 2020-12-11
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for global solidarity and greater international cooperation, and must be turned into an opportunity for fundamental change, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a keynote address to the Nobel Peace Prize Forum on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1079802

Moonanum James, °presente!
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-12-11
Special to Workers World Moonanum James speaks at National Day of Mourning, Plymouth, Mass., 2016.Credit: Hannah Kirschbaum Moonanum James, co-leader of United American Indians of New England, died of cancer on Dec. 4 at the age of 70. A member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag nation, he fought to continue the . . . | Continue reading Moonanum James, °presente! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/12/53192/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=moonanum-james-presente

Europe's Anti-Russia Sanctions a Stupendous Act of Self-Harm and Loathing
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-11
New data out this week indicates that the European Union has suffered aggregate economic losses amounting to over ‚Ǩ120 billion due to its policy of imposing sanctions against Russia. That's according to figures released by the Dusseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry. | Yet European leaders at an EU summit this week again called for the extension of sanctions on Russia, which will ro…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/11/europes-anti-russia-sanctions-stupendous-act-self-harm-and-loathing/

Ethiopia: UN refugee agency calls for 'unfettered access' to Tigray
news.un.org | 2020-12-11
Amidst "disturbing reports" from Ethiopians fleeing to Sudan, the UN refugee agency called on Friday for "unfettered access to Tigray in order to reach people in need".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1079852

Bolivia: Lower Chamber Passes a Bill Taxing Large Fortunes
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-11
Bolivia's Lower Chamber Thursday approved a bill that seeks to establish a tax on large fortunes in order to support social programs. | RELATED: | Bolivia Reopens its Diplomatic Office in Venezuela | The tax will be applied to citizens who have fortunes exceeding US$4.3 million. Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) lawmaker Omar Yujra noted that it will reach around 150 citizens who currently have those fortunes. | Also, a quota of US$86,200 will be applied to fortunes between US$5.7 million…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Lower-Chamber-Passes-a-Bill-Taxing-Large-Fortunes-20201211-0001.html

British Government And Other Warnings Re Pfizer Covid Vaccine
AVFN | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
Warnings from UK health officials, CNN, NPR and other | sources re the covid vaccine.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/10/18838897.php

State repression focus of Detroit Will Breathe/PSL webinar
Brandon Stout | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-11
Detroit Will Breathe organizers Tristan Taylor and Lloyd Simpson in Detroit joined PSL members Shabbir Manjee in Chicago, and Joel Ibrahim and Lillian House in Denver for an online forum Dec. 5. They discussed state repression of the anti-racist movement and how to effectively counter it. The event was organized by the Detroit PSL. In …
liberationnews.org/state-repression-focus-of-detroit-will-breathe-psl-webinar/

Fighting From Federal Death Row in My Friend Brandon Bernard's Memory
Billie Allen | thenation.com | 2020-12-11
Fighting From Federal Death Row in My Friend Brandon Bernard's Memory…
thenation.com/article/society/brandon-bernard-execution/

Hunger rising in mountain regions due to biodiversity loss, climate change
news.un.org | 2020-12-11
Although many of the world's most important crops and livestock species originate in mountain regions, hunger is rising in these areas due to biodiversity loss and climate change, according to a joint study published on Friday by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and partners.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1079812

No debt relief during COVID-19 crisis
Peter Boyle | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-11
Rather than provide debt relief to developing countries struggling to bring COVID-19 under control, global financial institutions are continuing to impose neoliberal structural adjustment measures, write Eric Toussaint, Emilie Paumard, Milan Rivié.
greenleft.org.au/content/no-debt-relief-during-covid-19-crisis

Selected Articles: What Happens if Something Goes Wrong after You Receive a COVID Vaccine?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11
NATO Is Determined to Find Threats and Challenges to Justify Its Existence | By Brian Cloughley, December 11 2020 | Government and media propaganda has firmly convinced most of the citizenry of the West that Russia invaded Crimea, and the truth | …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-what-happens-if-something-goes-wrong-after-you-receive-a-covid-vaccine/5731988

From senseless working to senseless learning
Erich Ribolits | indybay.org | 2020-12-11
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

The Sociopathy Contagion
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-11
Anyone reading CounterPunch likely knows and accepts that the colonization of the Americas was not successful due to any inherent superiority of European ideals of consumption or expansion. It was successful because up to 95% of the population simply died off from the pestilence carried by the new arrivals. Europeans had been living with their…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/11/the-sociopathy-contagion/

'Defacto Human Experiment:' Mary + Polly Discuss Rollout of Pfizer Vaccine in UK, Danger of Vaccinating Elderly + More
Children's Health Defense | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-11