Daily Archives: November 16, 2021

2021-11-16: News Headlines

Staff (2021-11-16). Rittenhouse defense accuses prosecution of defaming teen in closing arguments. rt.com Defense attorneys for Kyle Rittenhouse have accused the prosecution of lying to jurors in their closing statements, saying the state's lawyers played "fast and loose" with the evidence to smear the teen as a murderer. | The defense and prosecution both made their final arguments before the jury on Monday, following eight days of testimony from dozens of witnesses and the screening of nearly 20 videos from the night of August 25, 2020 — when Rittenhouse, then 17, shot and killed two men and wounded a third during a violent bout of protests and rioting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He faces charges including first…

Binoy Kampmark (2021-11-16). Manufactured Cruelties: Belarus, Poland and the Refugee Crisis. dissidentvoice.org Refugee crises are often manufactured by governments. They can be done at the source: war, famine, rapacious institutions. They can also be manufactured by the refusal of governments to accept those seeking asylum, sanctuary and refuge. The latter is very much in evidence in Europe: governments of the European Union are staring down desperate humans …

_____ (2021-11-16). US Sends Clear Message To African Nations As It Turns Its Back On Ethiopia. popularresistance.org The corporate media in the United States is waging a misinformation campaign as part of the hybrid warfare being used to try to subjugate Ethiopia. Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace states there "is a coordinated effort to criminalize and delegitimize the Ethiopian state in order to cripple or balkanize it, maybe even to provide the political will for a direct military intervention." For 27 years, the United States-backed Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) ruled Ethiopia until it was overthrown by a popular movement in 2018. Ethiopians then elected their Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, who refuses to…

_____ (2021-11-15). Censorship Is The Last Gasp Of The Liberal Class. popularresistance.org On November 8, 2021, Twitter locked my account for a period of one day for responding to corporate media darling and Russiagate fanatic Keith Olbermann's slanderous reply to journalist Wyatt Reed's coverage of the Nicaraguan election. The flagged tweet simply restated Olbermann's question, replacing "whore for a dictator" with "whoring for the American oligarchy." Twitter demanded that I delete the tweet or send a time-consuming, lengthy appeal with no assurances as to if or when my sentence in "Twitter jail" would end. This prompted me to delete the tweet and wait for the 12-hour suspension to end. Keith Olberma…

WSWS (2021-11-15). Survey reveals one in three Texas children have had COVID-19. wsws.org The Texas CARES report exposes the lies of the state government, in line with the entire political establishment and corporate media, which have covered up the scope of child infections and deaths.

Ann Brown (2021-11-15). Anti-ADOS Reparations Group NBCIT Is Funded By Billion-Dollar Philanthropy Fund: Is Grant Money Used To Undermine And Police ADOS? moguldom.com Back in July, the National Black Cultural Information Trust Inc. (NBCIT) was awarded a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to help the organization correct cultural disinformation, advance reparatory justice, and share cultural information with stories and resources that uplift the collective freedom of Black communities. But some reparations advocates are …

teleSUR (2021-11-15). Young Cubans Take Part In Sit-In To Reject US Blockade. telesurenglish.net On Sunday, over 70 young Cubans took part in a sit-in at Havana's Central Park to reject the U.S. blockade, recent destabilization attempts, and smear campaigns in social media against Cuba. | RELATED: | "These actions are part of the strategy of unconventional war against our people. We deserve to live in peace and without the obstacles imposed by unilateral coercive measures," President Miguel Diaz-Canel stated. | The initiative known as "Red Sc…

RT (2021-11-15). US Military Defends Strikes on "Armed" Women and Children. dissidentvoice.org A US military spokesperson has defended a series of strikes on civilians in Syria, which killed 80 people including women and children, claiming they were in self-defense and that no disciplinary measures were necessary. The US military found itself at the center of controversy after the New York Times reported that it had covered up …

Staff (2021-11-15). Republicans gain edge in 2022 elections — media. rt.com The 2022 midterms are shaping up badly for the ruling Democrats, the New York Times claims, identifying the culprit: the "highly distorted congressional map" and Republican gerrymandering. | Democrats currently have an eight-seat majority in the House of Representatives, but all 435 seats will be up for re-election in November 2022. With the congressional maps being redrawn to match the 2020 census, the US paper of record points to Republicans "gerrymandering" the districts in states where they control the legislatures. | Republicans' upper hand in the redistricting process, combined with plunging approval rat…

Andy Lee Roth (2021-11-15). Corporate Media Harms Not Only Through Omission, But Also by Distortion. truthout.org From The Washington Post's investigation of the

Andrew Emett (2021-11-15). State trooper charged with stealing heroin from evidence room. nationofchange.org Brian Rickard allegedly stole heroin from the Troop R, Honesdale evidence room before ingesting the narcotic at work and at home.

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