(2021-11-03). Socialist International's Parroting of US Line on Nicaragua Shows What a Worthless Fossil It's Become. orinocotribune.com By Peter Bolton — Nov 1, 2021 | On October 25, about two weeks before Nicaragua's 2021 presidential election, the Socialist International (SI) released a statement titled Nicaragua: A Contemporary Victim of Absolute Power. Given the steady stream of tendentious twaddle about Nicaragua that's been disseminated from Washington and dutifully repeated by the corporate-owned media, one might reasonably assume that the global federation of social democratic and labor parties would at least provide some semblance of balance. | But far from adding nuance, the statement reads as if it were a press release sent direct…
(2021-11-03). On the 50th Anniversary of PRC's Membership in the UN; the Taiwan Factor. journal-neo.org 
The eve of the 50th anniversary of PRC's membership in the UN served as a pretext for another propaganda attack by Washington against its primary geopolitical opponent. Recall Resolution No. 2578, "Restoration of the lawful rights of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations," adopted by the General Assembly on October 25, 1971, …
(2021-11-03). NSO Group: US blacklists Israeli firms for harming 'national security interests'. middleeasteye.net 
NSO Group: US blacklists Israeli firms for harming 'national security interests' | US authorities say NSO Group and Candiru enable foreign governments to 'threaten the rules-based international order' | Wed, 11/03/2021 – 15: 25 | NSO Group exhibits at an international defence and homeland security expo in Tel Aviv in 2019 (Reuters) | US authorities have put NSO Group, the Israeli spyware company at the c…
(2021-11-03). No empty slogans needed in addressing climate change: China's UN envoy. ecns.cn Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), said on Tuesday that tackling climate change needs firm commitment and continued actions, not empty slogans.
(2021-11-03). Biden's 'Global Tax' And The 40-Year US Corporate Tax 'Shell Game'. popularresistance.org The corporate media in recent days has been busy resurrecting and re-reporting the deal negotiated weeks ago by Janet Yellen, US Treasury Secretary, to get 100+ other nations to sign on to and introduce a 15% global corporate alternative tax in their countries. | But why is the mainstream media bringing it up again now? Is it to soften the blow of Biden's repeal of his proposal to hike corporate taxes in the US from Trump's 21% to 26%? (It was 35% pre-Trump)? Or is there something else as well that explains why the media is running the global tax story that's already weeks old? | The global sign on to Biden's 15%…
(2021-11-02). Without U.S. interference, Nicaragua's right to sovereignty, development. workers.org 
Managua, Nicaragua The Central American country of Nicaragua will hold national elections Nov. 7. Already the U.S. bourgeois press, a mouthpiece for U.S. imperialism, has declared that the elections will be "unfair and undemocratic." For example, the New York Times ran an article Oct. 7, entitled "Democracy, or Something Like . . . |
(2021-11-02). US 'Justice' Dismisses 7 of 8 Charges Against Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab. orinocotribune.com 
On Monday, November 1, the US Department of Justice dismissed seven charges of money laundering against Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, leaving only one charge of conspiracy to commit that crime. | The motion was presented by the prosecutor Kurt Lunkenheimer, the day a hearing was scheduled in which the eight charges were to be read to Saab, a procedure that was postponed to next November 15, reported EFE news agency. | | The request was issued because the prosecution could not find sufficient evidence to prove the…
(2021-11-02). The record of the World Socialist Web Site on Trump's coup attempt of January 6. wsws.org On Sunday, the Washington Post published a three-part investigation of the January 6, 2021 insurrection detailing Trump's months-long plot to remain in power no matter the outcome of the 2020 election. Only one publication—the World Socialist Web Site—warned clearly and consistently about the existential danger posed by Trump's plot.