Dr. Matthew Crosston (2021-12-10). NATO's Projectile Dysfunction: Deterring Russia and Ukrainian Bluffs. moderndiplomacy.eu The shrill lamentations over Ukraine are reaching fever pitch here in the United States: The New York Times discusses how Ukrainian commanders say a Russian invasion would overwhelm them. CNN reports that Biden promises withering sanctions if Russia invades. Military.com is devoting first page space on its site to how the US military could mobilize …

Ann Garrison, Ann Fitz-Gerald (2021-12-10). Biden Deploys National Guard: It's "Déjà Vu All Over Again" as Government Hawks and Corporate Media Play Up Ethiopian Atrocities in Tigray. covertactionmagazine.com Twelve days after a Bloomberg Nov. 11 Headline proclaimed that "Ethiopia's Civil War Is a Problem That U.S. Troops Can …

Derek Royden (2021-12-10). An axis of reaction? Lauren Boebart, Paul Gosar and the risky rhetoric of the American far right. nationofchange.org They are cynical opportunists who try to paint a picture of a perfect past and country under siege by immigrants, the left and traditionally marginalized communities demanding the same rights taken for granted by most of those who voted them into office.

Editor2 (2021-12-10). Assad, Syria and China's new Silk Road. orinocotribune.com By Matthew Ehret — Dec, 07 2021 | Count on Syria becoming an important West Asian hub in China's Belt and Road Initiative | Ever since Russia and China began challenging the Anglo-American scorched Earth doctrine in 2011 with their first vetoes against US intervention into Syria, the Gordian knots that have tied up the Arab world in chaos, division and ignorance for decades have finally begun to unravel. | Where just one decade ago the unipolar vision of the 'new American century' reigned unchallenged, by 2013 the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) had sprung into life, and the largest purges of China's deep sta…

Mark Gruenberg (2021-12-10). Corporate monopoly, other factors hamper workers economically. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—Why can't workers get ahead? Economically, that is. Median wages for the broad U.S. middle class have been virtually stagnant for at least 40 years, adjusted for inflation, even as productivity has galloped ahead. The median for the bottom 20% has actually dropped. Meanwhile, the rich, especially the top tenth, have reaped the rewards. That …

_____ (2021-12-10). "How Can They Accept An Extradition To The Country That Plotted To Kill Julian… popularresistance.org "I want to emphasize that the High Court accepted all the medical evidence and the conclusions of the magistrate that if Julian is extradited and placed under extreme conditions of isolation it will drive him to take his own life. That extradition is oppressive. | Yet the High Court decided against Julian on this occasion on the basis of political assurances—non-assurances—that the US has given to the UK government. I say non-assurances. Amnesty International says non-assurances. Amnesty International has analyzed these assurances and has said that they are inherently unreliable. They incorporate the…

Moderator (2021-12-10). Will Omicron Finally End the Covid-19 Pandemic? scheerpost.com [ By Stephen Londe, MD, FACC, FACS / Original to ScheerPost | In 1796 an English physician, Edward Jenner, observed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox were immune to smallpox. He surmised, rightly, as we now know, that the disease was related. Smallpox, which has killed hundreds of millions of people dating all the way back to prehistory, is caused by the virus variola and is related to cowpox, catpox, and several other virus-caused "poxes (Orthopoxvirus family)." Our present day mandated vaccine a…

teleSUR (2021-12-09). China, Russia: 'Summit For Democracy' Is US Propaganda As Usual. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, China and Russia denounced that President Joe Biden's "Summit for Democracy" is a propaganda event that only serves the U.S. own interests. | RELATED: | China's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin slammed the virtual meeting, saying that it has nothing to do with international justice or democracy, but rather about serving the U.S. own selfish gains and maintaining its hegemony. | "This is another example…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-09). Biden Deploys National Guard as Government Hawks and Corporate Media Play Up Ethiopian Atrocities in Tigray. libya360.wordpress.com Ann Garrison and Ann Fitz-Gerald A protester holds a banner denouncing USAID chief Samantha Power during a rally against TPLF rebels in Addis Ababa forces on August 08, 2021. [Source: africanews.com] Twelve days after a Bloomberg Nov. 11 Headline proclaimed that "Ethiopia's Civil War Is a Problem That U.S. Troops Can Help Solve," President Joe…

_____ (2021-12-09). àáa Suffit! Time for Boris to Get Tough on Macron by Turning to the Military. strategic-culture.org The migrant crisis is putting Boris Johnson under enormous pressure to hit Macron where it hurts, Martin Jay writes. | Time after time, in recent weeks, we have seen the threats and rhetoric ramped up by "weasel" French President against Boris Johnson and his government. Whether it is the rights of British fisherman to be in their own waters or more recently the migrant crisis which captured the headlines when 27 asylum seekers attempting to cross the Channel perished when their boat was unable to sustain what is believed to be a wake left by an oil tanker. | But how much longer can Boris Johnson stay at the helm…

Staff (2021-12-09). How Europe's "Shadow Immigration System" Pays Libyan Militias to Jail Migrants in Brutal Conditions. democracynow.org An explosive new investigation details how the European Union has created a shadow immigration system that captures migrants arriving from Africa before they reach Europe and sends them to brutal militia-run detention centers in Libya. "This is a climate migration story," says Ian Urbina, investigative journalist and director of The Outlaw Ocean Project, who authored the report for The New Yorker magazine. "The policy of the EU of outsourcing migration control to a failed state in Libya … is a really doomed strategy, and it's only going to get more perilous as more waves of people start trying to reach safer pl…

WSWS (2021-12-09). New York Times sponsors a debate on the racial authenticity of West Side Story. wsws.org Racialists and nationalists oppose the progressive views defended by this classic musical.

Julie Varughese (2021-12-09). What the Corporate Media Didn't Report on Nicaragua. towardfreedom.org Watch TF Editor Julie Varughese reporting back on her time covering Nicaragua's critical presidential election.

Media Lens (2021-12-09). A Christmas Tale: The Downing Street Party, Laughter And Bigger State Crimes. dissidentvoice.org Huge media coverage has been devoted to allegations, and now serious evidence, that a Christmas party was held at 10 Downing Street on 18 December 2020. London was then in a strict lockdown with social events banned, including parties. In leaked footage obtained by ITV News, senior Downing Street staff are shown four days later, …

_____ (2021-12-09). àáa Suffit! Time for Boris to Get Tough on Macron by Turning to the Military. strategic-culture.org The migrant crisis is putting Boris Johnson under enormous pressure to hit Macron where it hurts, Martin Jay writes. | Time after time, in recent weeks, we have seen the threats and rhetoric ramped up by "weasel" French President against Boris Johnson and his government. Whether it is the rights of British fisherman to be in their own waters or more recently the migrant crisis which captured the headlines when 27 asylum seekers attempting to cross the Channel perished when their boat was unable to sustain what is believed to be a wake left by an oil tanker. | But how much longer can Boris Johnson stay at the helm…

WSWS (2021-12-09). New York Times sponsors a debate on the racial authenticity of West Side Story. wsws.org Racialists and nationalists oppose the progressive views defended by this classic musical.

Media Lens (2021-12-09). A Christmas Tale: The Downing Street Party, Laughter And Bigger State Crimes. dissidentvoice.org Huge media coverage has been devoted to allegations, and now serious evidence, that a Christmas party was held at 10 Downing Street on 18 December 2020. London was then in a strict lockdown with social events banned, including parties. In leaked footage obtained by ITV News, senior Downing Street staff are shown four days later, …

Vijay Prashad (2021-12-08). There's a nonsensical propaganda campaign to make China look bad in Uganda. peoplesdispatch.org Despite strident denials by both Ugandan and Chinese officials, an misinformation campaign is being carried out which alleges that Chinese authorities are going to take control of the Entebbe International Airport due to a loan default…

Ian Goodrum (2021-12-08). U.S. 'democracy summit' a master class in hypocrisy. peoplesworld.org If you thought discourse in the United States couldn't get more childish, think again: This week, the White House is convening the geopolitical equivalent of the He-Man Woman-Haters' Club from Our Gang. The club has an official name, of course; the Summit for Democracy, wherein U.S. President Joe Biden and 110 of his closest friends …

Monica Moorehead (2021-12-08). The case of Peng Shuai and U.S. hypocrisy — a WW commentary. workers.org U.S. and Western imperialism are super-obsessed with finding any angle to demonize and smear the People's Republic of China, politically, economically and culturally. A main strategy for these anti-communist attacks on China has been accusations of so-called human rights abuses. Peng Shuai For example, President Joe Biden has gone on . . . |

Monica Moorehead (2021-12-08). The case of Peng Shuai and U.S. hypocrisy. workers.org U.S. and Western imperialism are super-obsessed with finding any angle to demonize and smear the People's Republic of China, politically, economically and culturally. A main strategy for these anti-communist attacks on China has been accusations of so-called human rights abuses. Peng Shuai For example, President Joe Biden has gone on . . . |

WSWS (2021-12-08). Biden threatens economic sanctions and a repositioning of NATO troops in meeting with Putin. wsws.org The meeting was preceded by threats against Russia from Biden and Germany's new Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and took place amidst the drum beat of war propaganda in the American and European press.

WSWS (2021-12-08). Author Peter Ross Range discusses his new book, The Unfathomable Ascent: How Hitler came to Power, with David North. wsws.org In this video, Peter Ross Range speaks with WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North about his new book on Hitler's rise to power and its contemporary relevance.

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-12-08). Chilean Activists Welcome Leopoldo López with Eggs. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, December 7, a group of Chilean demonstrators received the fugitive from Venezuelan justice Leopoldo López at the former Congress of the Republic, in Santiago de Chile, with a barrage of eggs and slogans denouncing him as a criminal, murderer, and coup leader. | The Venezuelan opposition figure visited the building to meet with representatives of the Chilean extreme right participating in the Constitutional Convention, the Chilean constituent body in charge of writing the new post-Pinochet Magna Carta.[VÂDEO] Leopoldo López llega a la Convención Constitucional de Chile y lo reciben tirándole huevo…

WSWS (2021-12-08). Promoters of "Wuhan lab" conspiracy theory fume as their claims fall apart. wsws.org As scientific studies continue to undermine the conspiracy theory that SARS-CoV-2 is a genetically engineered virus, journalist Glenn Greenwald has accused the New York Times and Washington Post of being insufficiently faithful to the lab leak "theory."

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Berry Craig (2021-12-07). Republican glorification of gun violence is the real 'war on Christmas'. peoplesworld.org Nazis were notorious for perverting Christmas. No longer were Germans to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace. They were to glorify Hitler and military might. Instead of teddy bears and toy trains, parents were urged to give their little boys toy weapons, including pistols, rifles, and machine guns. U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., …

Tom Coburg (2021-12-07). Disinformation, subterfuge, and the Guardian's campaign against Julian Assange. thecanary.co A ruling is reported to be " In the wider contex…

Staff (2021-12-07). As Noam Chomsky Turns 93, He Urges Young People to Create a "Much Better World" Through Activism. democracynow.org Today marks the 93rd birthday of world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky, who spoke with Democracy Now! from his home in Tucson, Arizona, and said he finds hope in the activism of young people "to create a much better world than the one we have." | Chomsky is among the special guests for Democracy Now's 25th anniversary event airing Tuesday evening, alongside Angela Davis, Arundhati Roy and many more. The virtual celebration begins at 8 p.m. ET. Watch it live "here": www.democracynow.org/live/celebrate_25_years_of_democracy_now.

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-12-07). Fact Check: Homeschooled Black Children Score Much Better On Standardized Tests. moguldom.com Black children that are homeschooled score significantly higher than their public school counterparts on standardized tests, a study shows. "Black homeschool students score 23-42 percentile points above Black public school students across all standardized tests," Classic Learning Test CEO Jeremy Tate tweeted on Dec. 4. "No wonder homeschooling among Black families has grown faster than …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-12-07). Eighty Years of Lies: President Franklin Roosevelt Told Public Pearl Harbor Was A Surprise Attack—However There Is Considerable Evidence Demonstrating Government Foreknowledge. covertactionmagazine.com "The war that we have carefully for yearsprovokedCatches us unprepared, amazed and indignant.Our warships are shotLike sitting ducks and …

WSWS (2021-12-07). The Omicron COVID-19 variant and the reckless endangerment of children. wsws.org Despite the deepening wave of infections, hospitalizations and deaths among children, which Omicron threatens to intensify, the entire political establishment, corporate media and the teachers unions insist that schools must stay open.

Lauren Smith (2021-12-06). Nicaragua's Evidence-Based Democracy Threatens U.S. Oppression Domestically and Abroad. covertactionmagazine.com Despite Washington's best effort to derail Nicaragua's electoral process through hybrid warfare, strong voter turnout resulted in a decisive victory …

Staff (2021-12-06). "Crisis of Accountability": Pentagon Reopens Probe of Syrian Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians. democracynow.org Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a new investigation into one of the deadliest U.S. airstrikes in recent years after the New York Times exposed an orchestrated cover-up by U.S. military officials to conceal the attack. The March 2019 airstrike killed dozens of women and children during a bombing of one of the last strongholds of the Islamic State of Syria. Evidence has shown that U.S. military officials spent two-and-a-half years covering up the attack by downplaying the death toll, delaying reports, and sanitizing and classifying evidence of civilian deaths. "This is not the case of one little mistake,…

_____ (2021-12-06). Thousands Of Brazilians Shout 'Bolsonaro Never Again!'. popularresistance.org On Saturday, thousands of Brazilians took to the streets to demand the removal of President Jair Bolsonaro, who is being investigated by the Supreme Court for crimes related to the dissemination of fake news about COVID-19 and vaccines. This happened in a country that has counted over 615,000 deaths since the pandemic began. | The mobilizations against the far-righ President were summoned by organizations such as the Brazilian Women Articulation (AMB), the Women's World March (MMM), the Unified Black Movement (MNO), the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST), the Union of Blacks for Equality (UNEGRO), the Workers'

teleSUR (2021-12-06). 'Bolsonaro Never Again!' Thousands of Brazilians Shout Out. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, thousands of Brazilians took to the streets to demand the removal of President Jair Bolsonaro, who is being investigated by the Supreme Court for crimes related to the dissemination of fake news about COVID-19 and vaccines. This happened in a country that has counted over 615,000 deaths since the pandemic began. | RELATED: | The mobilizations against the far-righ President were summoned by organizati…

WSWS (2021-12-06). With robust police escort, fascist paramilitary group stages Saturday night march on Lincoln Memorial. wsws.org In a disgusting spectacle, over a hundred fascists with the Patriot Front group, formerly Vanguard America, marched on the Lincoln Memorial while chanting fascist slogans as police provided protection.

Ann Brown (2021-12-06). Fact Check: Smoking Weed Makes The Vaccinated More Vulnerable to Breakthrough Covid Cases. moguldom.com Marijuana use has increased in the U.S. over the last few years. Nearly 50 percent of adults have tried weed, according to a Gallup poll. Another Gallup poll found that 12 percent of U.S. adults said they regularly smoked marijuana in 2019. Now, it seems heavy weed smokers may be at a greater risk of contracting one of …

teleSUR (2021-12-06). Myanmar Junta Sentences Suu Kyi To Four Years In Prison. telesurenglish.net On Monday, the Myanmar dictatorship sentenced Nobel Peace Prize Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison, accusing her of incitement against the Military and violation of COVID-19 regulations. | RELATED: | Using the Penal Code to justify the accusation of "incitement", the accusing court held that her political party, the National League for Democracy (LND), issued several public statements against the recognition of the Military Junta that took the po…

_____ (2021-12-06). Tulalip Flag Soars At Every Marysville School District Campus. popularresistance.org For the first time ever, the red, white and black colors of the Tulalip flag are soaring over every Marysville School District campus. Tulalip's iconic orca was raised up at each elementary, middle school, high school, and even District headquarters during the week of November 17th. | In each instance, the 3 foot by 5 foot cloth signifying the Tulalip Tribes as a sovereign nation was raised by a proud student representative and young Tulalip culture bearer. | "About a decade ago, my coworker Ricky Belmont and I started asking the schools we work at to fly the Tulalip Tribes flag out of recognition for the tribe b…

Lauren Smith (2021-12-06). Nicaragua's Evidence-Based Democracy Threatens U.S. Oppression Domestically and Abroad. covertactionmagazine.com Despite Washington's best effort to derail Nicaragua's electoral process through hybrid warfare, strong voter turnout resulted in a decisive victory …

Staff (2021-12-06). "Crisis of Accountability": Pentagon Reopens Probe of Syrian Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians. democracynow.org Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a new investigation into one of the deadliest U.S. airstrikes in recent years after the New York Times exposed an orchestrated cover-up by U.S. military officials to conceal the attack. The March 2019 airstrike killed dozens of women and children during a bombing of one of the last strongholds of the Islamic State of Syria. Evidence has shown that U.S. military officials spent two-and-a-half years covering up the attack by downplaying the death toll, delaying reports, and sanitizing and classifying evidence of civilian deaths. "This is not the case of one little mistake,…

WSWS (2021-12-06). With robust police escort, fascist paramilitary group stages Saturday night march on Lincoln Memorial. wsws.org In a disgusting spectacle, over a hundred fascists with the Patriot Front group, formerly Vanguard America, marched on the Lincoln Memorial while chanting fascist slogans as police provided protection.

Dakotah Lilly (2021-12-05). The Socialist Leader America Loves to Hate Wins Again. What now? orinocotribune.com By Dakotah Lilly — Nov 26, 2021 | Recent elections in Venezuela saw Nicolás Maduro's leftist ruling party win 20 out of 23 governorships. The US predictably cries foul, but I witnessed voting that was perfectly free and fair. | Western This smear is in direct contradict…

Dakotah Lilly (2021-12-05). The Socialist Leader America Loves to Hate Wins Again. What now? orinocotribune.com By Dakotah Lilly — Nov 26, 2021 | Recent elections in Venezuela saw Nicolás Maduro's leftist ruling party win 20 out of 23 governorships. The US predictably cries foul, but I witnessed voting that was perfectly free and fair. | Western This smear is in direct contradict…

Yves Engler (2021-12-04). Claims of Russian Interference in Ukraine Reek of Hypocrisy. dissidentvoice.org The Russians are up to no good and we must prepare to protect Ukraine. Moscow interferes in US and Canadian elections. That's what Washington, Ottawa and their media sycophants claim. But is this just another case of accusing others of doing the things you do? An age-old propaganda technique designed to deflect attention away from …

_____ (2021-12-04). An Obscure Agency Is Threatening To Hand Medicare Over To Wall Street. popularresistance.org In the face of massive support for Medicare for All and the failure of the U.S.'s for-profit health care system, the inevitable fall of the medical-industrial complex can be predicted, if not with precision, with certainty. Everyone is aware of the impending demise, none more so than those in charge of the for-profit health care system and their supporters in Congress, as evidenced by the frenetic activity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to transfer the traditional Medicare program to the insurance industry as fast as humanly possible. Given this urgency, physicians representing Physicians…

scorinoco (2021-12-04). Xiomara Castro and the Rebirth of Honduras. orinocotribune.com By Ilka Oliva Corado — Nov 29, 2021 | The humiliations suffered by undocumented Central American migrants who try to cross Mexico to reach the United States, seeking to save themselves from the institutional violence of the narco-state, in the case of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, have hurt a lot. The famous northern triangle that is so much present here and there in discourses of politicians, in the discourse of transnational corporations that in exchange for a crumb that they throw from the rocking chair where they rock, placid and pompous; they take the entrails of the land that they are drying, be…

Wei-Guang Li, Bin Zhou (2021-12-04). [Correspondence] Enabling physical activity for people living with disabilities. thelancet.com We agree with Kathleen Martin Ginis and colleagues1 that theory-based interventions are needed to increase both the quantity and quality of physical activity participation of people living with disabilities (PLWD), and that investing and appropriately resourcing are necessary steps. To date, there has been no considerable progress in physical activity promotion at PLWD level. The distributional effect of broad environmental interventions2 should be given greater emphasis to increase the opportunities of achieving adequate levels of physical activity, thus contributing to increasing social equality for PLWD.

Janine Jackson (2021-12-04). Inflation Is Bad for Those Who Profit From Your Mortgage Debt and Student Loans. truthout.org Janine Jackson: A New York Times That framing is echoed and adumbrated everywhere…

United Health Professionals (2021-12-04). The Covid Outbreak: "Biggest Health Scam of the 21st Century." Report by 1500 Health Professionals. globalresearch.ca We say : STOP disproportionate measures to fight SARS-CoV-2 (lockdown, blocking the economy and education, social distancing, wearing of masks for all, etc.) because they are totally unjustified, are not based on any scientific evidence and violate the basic principles of evidence-based medicine.

Editor2 (2021-12-04). Russian Foreign Ministry Statement on the Planned US 'Summit for Democracy'. orinocotribune.com In connection with the so called summit for democracy to be held on December 9-10 at the initiative of the US administration, we consider it necessary to make the following statement. | The organisers and enthusiasts behind this strange event claim to lead the world in advancing the cause of democracy and human rights. However, the track record and reputation of the United States, Great Britain, and the EU member states in terms of respecting democratic rights and freedoms at home, as well as in the international arena, are, to put it mildly, far from ideal. | The evidence suggests that the United States and its…

Yves Engler (2021-12-04). Claims of Russian Interference in Ukraine Reek of Hypocrisy. dissidentvoice.org The Russians are up to no good and we must prepare to protect Ukraine. Moscow interferes in US and Canadian elections. That's what Washington, Ottawa and their media sycophants claim. But is this just another case of accusing others of doing the things you do? An age-old propaganda technique designed to deflect attention away from …

sputniknews (2021-12-04). Israeli 'Pegasus' Spyware Used to Hack Phones of 11 US Diplomats – Reports. sputniknews.com WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The Pegasus spyware developed by Israeli company NSO Group was used to hack the iPhones of 11 US diplomats in recent months, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing alerts from Apple to the impacted individuals.

_____ (2021-12-04). An Obscure Agency Is Threatening To Hand Medicare Over To Wall Street. popularresistance.org In the face of massive support for Medicare for All and the failure of the U.S.'s for-profit health care system, the inevitable fall of the medical-industrial complex can be predicted, if not with precision, with certainty. Everyone is aware of the impending demise, none more so than those in charge of the for-profit health care system and their supporters in Congress, as evidenced by the frenetic activity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to transfer the traditional Medicare program to the insurance industry as fast as humanly possible. Given this urgency, physicians representing Physicians…

scorinoco (2021-12-04). Xiomara Castro and the Rebirth of Honduras. orinocotribune.com By Ilka Oliva Corado — Nov 29, 2021 | The humiliations suffered by undocumented Central American migrants who try to cross Mexico to reach the United States, seeking to save themselves from the institutional violence of the narco-state, in the case of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, have hurt a lot. The famous northern triangle that is so much present here and there in discourses of politicians, in the discourse of transnational corporations that in exchange for a crumb that they throw from the rocking chair where they rock, placid and pompous; they take the entrails of the land that they are drying, be…

Wei-Guang Li, Bin Zhou (2021-12-04). [Correspondence] Enabling physical activity for people living with disabilities. thelancet.com We agree with Kathleen Martin Ginis and colleagues1 that theory-based interventions are needed to increase both the quantity and quality of physical activity participation of people living with disabilities (PLWD), and that investing and appropriately resourcing are necessary steps. To date, there has been no considerable progress in physical activity promotion at PLWD level. The distributional effect of broad environmental interventions2 should be given greater emphasis to increase the opportunities of achieving adequate levels of physical activity, thus contributing to increasing social equality for PLWD.

Staff (2021-12-04). Twitter's new censorship policy backfires. rt.com A new policy on personal information has apparently backfired, with the platform claiming it had resulted in a large number of "malicious" and "coordinated" reports against users, some of whom were suspended by "accident." | Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy said a new rule barring "the misuse of media" such as photos and videos "to harass or intimidate private individuals" had led it to suspend accounts in error, the Washington Post reported on Friday night. | Read more | | The platform ha…

United Health Professionals (2021-12-04). The Covid Outbreak: "Biggest Health Scam of the 21st Century." Report by 1500 Health Professionals. globalresearch.ca We say : STOP disproportionate measures to fight SARS-CoV-2 (lockdown, blocking the economy and education, social distancing, wearing of masks for all, etc.) because they are totally unjustified, are not based on any scientific evidence and violate the basic principles of evidence-based medicine.

Juan Cole (2021-12-04). Urgent UN Action needed on Yemen Atrocities to end "Pandemic of Impunity" juancole.com Human rights Watch — (New York) — The United Nations General Assembly should act swiftly to establish an investigative mechanism to gather and preserve evidence of serious human rights abuses and violations of the laws of war in Yemen, a coalition of more than 60 organizations said. Failure to act would not only be a …

teleSUR (2021-12-03). Puebla Group Rejects US Harsh Policy Against Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Cuba's Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed that the Puebla Group condemned the U.S. smear campaign and economic blockade against his country. | RELATED: | "We appreciate the solidarity of the Puebla Group with our people, who suffer the consequences of coercive policies that go against international conventions and obey the anachronistic logic of the Cold War," Rodriguez stated. | The forum also condemned th…

_____ (2021-12-03). Two Fake Stories about the DPRK in November 2021. journal-neo.org Anti-Pyongyang propaganda periodically delights the world with horror stories in the DPRK, which circulate well in the media and which now must be clarified. It happened twice in the second half of November. On November 16, Radio Free Asia, a private non-profit news service funded by the US government, told the world the heartbreaking story …

WSWS (2021-12-03). US and NATO ramp up anti-Russia war drive. wsws.org US and NATO representatives are pressing ahead with hysterical anti-Russian rhetoric and threats of war.

WSWS (2021-12-03). Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party to continue right-wing agenda in German state of Berlin. wsws.org Leaving aside the noncommittal rhetoric and empty phrases of the 152-page document, the coalition agreement clearly shows that the three parties are preparing a direct confrontation with the working class.

teleSUR (2021-12-03). Xinjiang Refutes Western "Cultural Genocide" Fabrications. telesurenglish.net Residents in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region spoke out at a press conference Thursday, using their own stories to debunk so-called "cultural genocide" and "oppression of ethnic minorities" in the region, which was fabricated by anti-China forces in the United States and some other Western countries. | People dance to music during Corban Festival celebrations in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 11, 2019.

teleSUR (2021-12-03). Puebla Group Rejects US Harsh Policy Against Cuba. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Cuba's Foreign Affairs Minister Bruno Rodriguez welcomed that the Puebla Group condemned the U.S. smear campaign and economic blockade against his country. | RELATED: | "We appreciate the solidarity of the Puebla Group with our people, who suffer the consequences of coercive policies that go against international conventions and obey the anachronistic logic of the Cold War," Rodriguez stated. | The forum also condemned th…

Ana Malinow (2021-12-03). An Obscure Agency Is Threatening to Hand Medicare Over to Wall Street. truthout.org In the face of massive support for Medicare for All and the failure of the U.S.'s for-profit health care system, the inevitable fall of the medical-industrial complex can be predicted, if not with precision, with certainty. Everyone is aware of the impending demise, none more so than those in charge of the for-profit health care system and their supporters in Congress, as evidenced by the frenetic activity at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to transfer the traditional Medicare p…

WSWS (2021-12-03). Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party to continue right-wing agenda in German state of Berlin. wsws.org Leaving aside the noncommittal rhetoric and empty phrases of the 152-page document, the coalition agreement clearly shows that the three parties are preparing a direct confrontation with the working class.

WSWS (2021-12-03). US and NATO ramp up anti-Russia war drive. wsws.org US and NATO representatives are pressing ahead with hysterical anti-Russian rhetoric and threats of war.

_____ (2021-12-02). Revival of Class Politics in the U.S…. Will It Be Socialism or Fascism? strategic-culture.org The U.S. empire, like the USSR, is imploding out of its own corruption, says Harriet Fraad in an interview with Finian Cunningham. | Over the past year, the massive upheaval in the United States from workers going on industrial strike and walking off jobs signifies an increasing awareness of class politics. In the following interview, Harriet Fraad says that American workers are overcoming decades of suppression from anti-communist propaganda as well as a betrayal by the two main political parties. | Workers are becoming aware of their rights and their conditions of exploitation under the corporate capitalist sys…

_____ (2021-12-02). Is the World On the Brink of DEFCON 1? journal-neo.org The looming apocalypse is shaping up nicely as Russia and China expand strategic cooperation to offset the NATO war planes apparently in the works. The propaganda war having already begun with fear mongering over false claims Russia intends invasion, now the "accident scenario" takes shape in the skies over Russia's frontiers. We've addressed the so-called …

WSWS (2021-12-02). Titian: Women, Myth & Power at the Gardner Museum in Boston: The great Renaissance painter comes in for "moral scrutiny" from the New York Times. wsws.org The exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (until January 2) must be counted as one of the most significant art shows today.

Andy Kroll (2021-12-02). Countdown to World War III? tomdispatch.com When the Department of Defense released its annual report on Chinese military strength in early November, one claim generated headlines around the world. By 2030, it suggested, China would probably have 1,000 nuclear warheads — three times more than at present and enough to pose a substantial threat to the United States. As a Washington Post headline put it, typically enough: "China accelerates nuclear weapons expansion, seeks 1,000 warheads or more, Pentagon says." The media, however, largely ignored a far more significant claim in that same report: that China would be ready to conduct "intelligentized" wa…

The Socialist Program (2021-12-02). China and Africa: The Real Story of Western Hypocrisy. liberationnews.org What is the true nature of China's economic and diplomatic engagement with Africa, and how does the corporate media try to twist reality?

WSWS (2021-12-02). Titian: Women, Myth & Power at the Gardner Museum in Boston: The great Renaissance painter comes in for "moral scrutiny" from the New York Times. wsws.org The exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (until January 2) must be counted as one of the most significant art shows today.

Dana Sanchez (2021-12-01). CDC: Omicron Variant Confirmed In California. moguldom.com The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified the first U.S. case of the heavily mutated omicron variant in California. Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the White House, said a fully vaccinated person had just returned from traveling in South Africa to the San Francisco area on Nov. 22 and tested …

Staff (2021-12-01). Headlines for December 1, 2021. democracynow.org Omicron Detected in Europe Days Before South Africa Reported Variant; FDA Endorses Merck COVID Pill, Michigan High Schooler Kills 3 Other Students in Shooting Rampage, Mark Meadows to Testify Before House Jan. 6 Cmte, Panel Pursues Jeffrey Clark Contempt Charges | , U.S. Removes FARC From Terror Blacklist, HRW: Taliban Have Killed or Disappeared 100+ Ex-Afghan Security Forces Since August, German Court Convicts Ex-Member of Islamic State For Genocide of Iraq's Yazidi Community, France Inducts Josephine Baker into Pantheon As Far-Right, Racist Pundit Announces Presidential Bid, Rep. Ilhan Omar Shares Violent, Isla…

WSWS (2021-12-01). Australian governments respond to Omicron with homicidal "herd immunity" policies. wsws.org Government officials and sections of the corporate media have said they hope the new mutation spreads, based on unsubstantiated assertions that it "may be" less lethal.

Jonathan Cook (2021-12-01). The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right. zcomm.org The biggest problem is not just that our thoughts are likely to be someone else's (often Rupert Murdoch's), it is that we don't even know that they belong to somebody else. That is how propaganda works.

Maxximilian Seijo (2021-12-01). The Metaphysics of Accounting with Paolo Quattrone. mronline.org Paolo Quattrone (@PaoloQuattrone) joins Money on the Left to discuss the metaphysics of accounting and the significance of accounting's repressed history for political economy today. Professor of Accounting, Governance & Society at The University of Manchester, Quattrone insists that, while often seen as a positivist and merely technical skill for recording extant data, accounting in truth represents a rhetorical and quite generative engagement with the "mystery of value."

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-01). Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad: We stand with the residents of the Marielle Vive Camp in Valinhos (Brazil). peoplesdispatch.org In response to the order to evict 450 families of the Marielle Vive camp, Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad manifest their solidarity and call for the evictions to be halted.

Staff (2021-12-01). Headlines for December 1, 2021. democracynow.org Omicron Detected in Europe Days Before South Africa Reported Variant; FDA Endorses Merck COVID Pill, Michigan High Schooler Kills 3 Other Students in Shooting Rampage, Mark Meadows to Testify Before House Jan. 6 Cmte, Panel Pursues Jeffrey Clark Contempt Charges | , U.S. Removes FARC From Terror Blacklist, HRW: Taliban Have Killed or Disappeared 100+ Ex-Afghan Security Forces Since August, German Court Convicts Ex-Member of Islamic State For Genocide of Iraq's Yazidi Community, France Inducts Josephine Baker into Pantheon As Far-Right, Racist Pundit Announces Presidential Bid, Rep. Ilhan Omar Shares Violent, Isla…

WSWS (2021-12-01). Australian governments respond to Omicron with homicidal "herd immunity" policies. wsws.org Government officials and sections of the corporate media have said they hope the new mutation spreads, based on unsubstantiated assertions that it "may be" less lethal.

Jonathan Cook (2021-12-01). The tribal left's a mirror image of the tribal right. zcomm.org The biggest problem is not just that our thoughts are likely to be someone else's (often Rupert Murdoch's), it is that we don't even know that they belong to somebody else. That is how propaganda works.

Maxximilian Seijo (2021-12-01). The Metaphysics of Accounting with Paolo Quattrone. mronline.org Paolo Quattrone (@PaoloQuattrone) joins Money on the Left to discuss the metaphysics of accounting and the significance of accounting's repressed history for political economy today. Professor of Accounting, Governance & Society at The University of Manchester, Quattrone insists that, while often seen as a positivist and merely technical skill for recording extant data, accounting in truth represents a rhetorical and quite generative engagement with the "mystery of value."

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-01). Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad: We stand with the residents of the Marielle Vive Camp in Valinhos (Brazil). peoplesdispatch.org In response to the order to evict 450 families of the Marielle Vive camp, Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad manifest their solidarity and call for the evictions to be halted.

_____ (2021-11-30). 'Believing The Propaganda That The Government Follows The Law'. popularresistance.org Whistleblower David McBride faces life in prison for revealing war crimes in Afghanistan to the media. | Watch his story here. | David McBride, a former Australian military lawyer, tells journalist Michael West about alleged war crimes and a cover-up in Afghanistan. He faces trial for leaking hundreds of pages of defense force information to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (whose offices were then raided by federal police), offering insight on clandestine operations of Australia's elite special forces, including incidents of troops killing unarmed men and children.

Editor2 (2021-11-30). North Korea: Beyond US Propaganda. orinocotribune.com By Charles McKelvey — Nov 26, 2021 | The DPRK's struggle for independence and unification | The International Manifesto Group sponsored on November 21 a Webinar on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, seeking to look beyond the Western stereotypes of the East Asian nation as totalitarian, economically bankrupt, and a threat to world peace. | The International Manifesto Group, panelist Derek Ford observed, is indicative of a trend in the academic left, which he characterized as the emergence of "anti-Marxist Marxists." He noted that when neoliberalism emerged, Marxists and other leftists looked at neoli…

Isheka N. Harrison (2021-11-30). Barbados Officially Leaves Her Colonial Slavemaster Britain, Dumps The Queen And Becomes Republic. moguldom.com Barbados has officially become a Republic. The island nation removed Queen Elizabeth II as its head of state in a midnight ceremony on Nov. 30 and swore in its first president, Dame Sandra Mason. "Today, debate and discourse have become action," Mason, 72, said during a speech. "Today we set out compass to a new …

teleSUR (2021-11-30). 'Barbados Sets Its Compass In A New Direction': Sandra Mason. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, Governor Sandra Mason swore as the first Barbadian president and officially ended her country's association with the British Crown, which had been ruling even though Barbadians gained their independence in 1966. | RELATED: | "Today, we set our compass in a new direction. Debate and discourse have finally turned into actions," Mason stated, stressing that Barbadians will be able to make the most of their soverei…