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…
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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

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…
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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