2022-11-30: News Headlines

WSWS (2022-11-30). Australia: Qantas moves to overturn court ruling that outsourcing 2,000 workers was illegal. wsws.org The airline is set to appeal the 2021 Federal Court ruling, promoted by the Transport Workers' Union as "a watershed moment for workers in Australia," in order to set a legal precedent for further cost-cutting operations.

Editor (2022-11-30). New York Times Fails To See Its Own Hypocritical Practices. scheerpost.com In a long and detailed Twitter thread, Scott Hechinger dives into the malpractices of the New York Times when it comes to reporting on certain criminal justice elements.

Caitlin Johnstone (2022-11-29). China Keeps Aggressively Surrounding Itself With US Bases: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix. thealtworld.com Listen to a reading of this article: | Facts: | There are Chinese people with real grievances against their government. | The US empire's propaganda machine will spin current protests in China to advance imperial agendas. | Western intelligence agencies will become more and more involved in these protests the longer they go on. | ‚ùñ | It still amazes me how many people who fancy themselves anti-establishment critical thinkers will spend all day mindlessly regurgitating mainstream media lines about China. | I cannot emphasize enough how little respect I have for anyone who parrots US empire…

WSWS (2022-11-29). Faced with CUPE propaganda campaign endorsing sellout, Ontario education support workers determined to defeat concessions-filled contract. wsws.org "I was there at the picket lines supporting my co-workers for those two strike days in early November and the anger, resentment, and at times full-blown outrage was on display. Unions missed another opportunity to galvanize that anger and demand a better collective agreement with fair and equitable wages and stronger workplace protections," said a Toronto-based teacher.

_____ (2022-11-29). By Forcing A Contract On Railworkers, Biden Betrays Workers Everywhere. popularresistance.org Which side are you on? It's the most fundamental question in politics, and President Joe Biden has given us his answer. | Last night, the White House released a statement calling on Congress to impose a contract on railway workers, with more than a week remaining before the December 9 strike deadline. Describing himself as a "proud pro-labor president" and expressing his "reluctance," Biden nonetheless indicates his intention to try and force terms on workers that many already rejected earlier this year. The rhetorical triangulation was even more glaring in the statement released by outgoing House Speaker Nancy P…

_____ (2022-11-29). International Day Of Solidarity With Palestinians: Chasm Between Action And Rhetoric. popularresistance.org The world marked the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People on Tuesday, November 29. Countries and organizations from across the world reaffirmed their solidarity with Palestinians struggling to achieve their rights and independence from Israeli occupation. | UN Secretary General António Guterres issued a statement on the occasion, reiterating that "the peace must advance — the occupation must end." He emphasized that the UN is "steadfast in its commitment to realize the vision of two states — Israel and Palestine — living side by side in peace and security with Jerusalem as the…

Anonymous103 (2022-11-29). Why Does US Insist On Peace Talks Between Kiev And Moscow? southfront.org Faced with the possibility of a catastrophe, Washington changes its discourse on Ukraine. | Written by Recently, there has been a subtle pressure from the US for Kiev to resume peace talks with Russia. Despite the Western media insisting on spreading narratives about a "Ukrainian victory", Washington still seems to prefer that the negotia…

Infobrics (2022-11-29). Why does US insist on peace talks between Kiev and Moscow. infobrics.org Faced with the possibility of a catastrophe, Washington changes its discourse on Ukraine.

Staff (2022-11-29). Abdullah Al-Arian on First Middle East World Cup & Western Media's "Orientalist Outlook" democracynow.org As the 2022 World Cup plays out in Qatar, the first Arab country to host the major sporting event, we speak with history professor Abdullah Al-Arian, who says the international media is projecting an "Orientalist outlook" in its coverage of the games. Al-Arian says despite mainstream discourse, football in the Middle East has historically been used by nationalist movements as "a means of organizing collectively on the basis of achieving their own liberation against colonial rule." His recent New York Times opinion piece is "Why the World Cup Belongs in the Middle East."…

_____ (2022-11-29). ASEAN at the center of recent international fora. journal-neo.org In the second decade of November this year, the focus of international political life turned to Southeast Asia. There, in Cambodia, Indonesia and Thailand, calendar meetings of several international associations were held with the participation of leaders from the region and beyond. The very concentration of such events in Southeast Asia is further evidence of …

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-29). US Officials Pushing for Military Intervention in Haiti. news.antiwar.com Some top Biden administration officials are pushing for an international military intervention in Haiti over concerns of a migration crisis, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. The government of acting Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been under pressure over growing gang violence in the country and from demonstrators that are demanding Henry resign. Henry …

Editor (2022-11-29). New York Times and Other Major Media Urge US to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange. scheerpost.com

WSWS (2022-11-29). Paul Krugman defines one million US Covid deaths as a victory for democracy. wsws.org Princeton economist, New York Times columnist, and Biden administration flunkey Paul Krugman has posted a column titled, "How China Lost the Covid War." It is a devastating self-exposure of the intellectual, political and moral disintegration of American liberalism.

WSWS (2022-11-29). Press reports claim Liz Cheney blocks probe of FBI, Pentagon in January 6 attack. wsws.org The reports by NBC News and the Washington Post suggest that the House Select Committee is covering up key aspects of Trump's attempted coup d'etat.

Staff (2022-11-29). Hablar de las UMAP desde la Cuba de hoy. cubadebate.cu El silencio en torno a elementos históricos de la Revolución Cubana, siendo algunos de ellos poco mencionados y apenas explicados, ha tenido efectos muy negativos. Sobre las Unidades Militares de Apoyo a la Producción (UMAP), como de otros temas, es necesario hablar, investigar, debatir, publicar de forma esclarecedora y crítica en medios de comunicación para fomentar su conocimiento objetivo. No hacerlo permite su utilización como un mero elemento de propaganda.

WSWS (2022-11-29). What took them so long? New York Times, Guardian finally call for Assange's freedom. wsws.org Ten years after Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange was forced to seek refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and three years after he was arrested and subjected to solitary confinement, the editors and publishers of the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel have issued an open letter calling on US President Joe Biden to end his prosecution.

Mac Slavo (2022-11-28). Facebook (Meta) Confirms It Has Ties to a U.S. Military Propaganda Campaign. globalresearch.ca

Staff (2022-11-28). Pro-NATO opposition's rhetoric fuels anti-Christian pogroms: Georgian prelate. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Civil GeorgiaNovember 28, 2022 Media Partly to Blame for Attack on Nunnery, says Archpriest Jagmaidze See also: U.S. escalates coup/war plans for Georgia NATO-standard special operations base being built in Georgia Georgia: American Alecto excoriates non-NED/Soros NGO/CSO Archpriest Andria Jagmaidze, Head of the Public Relations Department of the Georgian Orthodox Church, authored a Facebook post …

WSWS (2022-11-28). Anthony Fauci gives aid and comfort to COVID "lab leak" conspiracy theory. wsws.org Fauci's aim in lending credence to the conspiracy theory, which he knows to be a lie, is to distract attention from the antiscientific policies carried out under the Trump and Biden administrations that led to the deaths of over a million Americans.

WSWS (2022-11-28). Anthony Fauci gives aid and comfort to COVID-19 "lab leak" conspiracy theory. wsws.org Fauci's aim in lending credence to the conspiracy theory, which he knows to be a lie, is to distract attention from the antiscientific policies carried out under the Trump and Biden administrations that led to the deaths of over a million Americans.

Areeba Shah (2022-11-28). Trump Demands Election Loser Kari Lake Be "Installed" as Arizona Governor. truthout.org Former President Donald Trump called for Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake to be installed as governor after falsely claiming that the elections in Arizona were a "criminal voting operation." | Lake, who repeatedly refused to say she would accept the results of the governor's race in Arizona if she lost, still hasn't conceded to Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs. Still, several of her allies, including Trump, are claiming that the election was fraudulent despite no evidence of voter fraud. | "Massive numbers of 'BROKEN' voting machines in Republican Districts on Election Day. Mechanics sent in to 'FIX' th…

John Perry (2022-11-28). US sanctions and economic conditions drive Nicaraguan migration, while Washington blames repression. thegrayzone.com Blaming migration on "repressive dictatorships" allows Washington to pretend that its policies are helping Nicaraguans, when in fact they are impoverishing them. This article was originally published on November 23, 2022 by COHA. Why are more Nicaraguans heading north to the United States looking for jobs? Until July 2020, numbers were tiny. But in the last 1 Ω years numbers have increased sharply. Suddenly this has become a story, and government detractors argue, with little evidence, that people are fleeing political …

____ (2022-11-28). China rejects Canada's attack and smear in its newly released Indo-Pacific strategy: Embassy. ecns.cn Some Western countries, who at will undermine the international order and other countries' sovereignty, are the true disruptive force to global peace, security and development.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2022-11-28). The New York Times' Report: NATO's Military-Industrial Limitations. libya360.wordpress.com Andrew Korybko NATO's Anglo-American core evidently didn't expect that Russia would militarily react to their crossing of its national security red lines in Ukraine, instead predicting that it would strategically capitulate. This explains why they didn't scale up their military-industrial complex in advance nor advise their "junior partners" to do the same in preparation of…

Jake Johnson (2022-11-28). Because 'Publishing Is Not a Crime,' Major Newspapers Push US to Drop Assange Charges. commondreams.org "This indictment sets a dangerous precedent, and threatens to undermine America's First Amendment and the freedom of the press," The Guardian, The New York Times, and other media outlets warned.

Contributing Writers (2022-11-28). The mRNA Vaccine Is a Killer: According to the Washington Post the Vaccinated Account "For a Majority of Americans Dying from the Coronavirus"/ By Prof Michel Chossudovsky. marktaliano.net

Dave DeCamp (2022-11-28). Major News Organizations Finally Urge US to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange. news.antiwar.com Five major Western news organizations have finally spoken out for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and are calling on the US government to drop the charges against him. In a letter to the US government, the editors and publishers of The New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, DER SPIEGEL, and El País said that "publishing …

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