Daily Archives: December 7, 2020

2020-12-07: News Headlines

Alan Macleod (2020-12-07). US Media, Pols Rage After Venezuelans Defy US Empire to Re-elect Socialists. mintpressnews.com Despite the fact that the election was overseen by over 4,500 international observers, US pols and media pundits alike labeled it a sham before it even took place.

Alan MacLeod (2020-12-07). US Media, Pols Rage After Venezuelans Defy US Empire to Re-elect Socialists. thealtworld.com Despite the fact that the election was overseen by over 4,500 international observers, US pols and media pundits alike labeled it a sham before it even took place. | MPN— 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 N…

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies (2020-12-07). Why Jeh Johnson Would Be a Better Defense Secretary Than Mich√®le Flournoy. commondreams.org Flournoy has repeatedly demonstrated throughout her career, both in her official Pentagon positions in the Clinton and Obama administrations and in her published writings and statements, that she actually believes in the normalization of war. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

David Edwards (2020-12-07). Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger — 'News And How To Use It' by Alan Rusbridger. zcomm.org Pilger tells the unfiltered, uncompromised truth about the foundations of power. His focus is on speaking up for the victims of power, not on serving power…

Staff (2020-12-07). Obama slams 'Defund the Police,' but his failed reforms fueled the movement. therealnews.com Activists fired back at former President Obama's claim that 'Defund the Police' is politically ineffectual, noting that his reforms failed to stop police violence or address the root causes of it.

MEE staff (2020-12-07). Israeli envoy and UK Jewish group slammed for 'racist' Nakba comments. middleeasteye.net Israeli envoy and UK Jewish group slammed for 'racist' Nakba comments | Activists condemn Board of Deputies for inviting Tzipi Hotovely to event, after she calls the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians a 'very popular Arab lie' | Mon, 12/07/2020 – 14: 57 | Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely gives a press conference (AFP) | Activists have criticised the UK's main Jewish community organisation for host…

Dave Markland (2020-12-06). Review of Hensman's 'Indefensible'. zcomm.org Defense of the Easily Defensible By Dave Markland In 2018 Haymarket Books published Rohini Hensman's Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-revolution and Anti-imperialist Rhetoric. Its focus is on left journalists and analysts like John Pilger and the late Edward S. Herman who have committed the inexcusable sin of being overly suspicious of United States foreign policy. Many readers

MEE and agencies (2020-12-06). Egypt's Sisi arrives in France for controversial visit. middleeasteye.net Egypt's Sisi arrives in France for controversial visit | The Egyptian leader will discuss 'strategic partnership' with French President Emmanuel Macron during his three-day visit to Paris | Sun, 12/06/2020 – 10: 33 | Macron has faced criticism for hosting Sisi after Egypt jailed three rights activists after briefing diplomats from Europe and America on the state of human rights in Egypt (A…

_____ (2020-12-06). The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire. strategic-culture.org Tom ENGELHARDT | We're now living in an age of opacity, as Rudy Giuliani pointed out in a courtroom recently. Here was "'It means you can't,' said U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann. | "'Big words, your honor,' Giuliani said." | Big words…

Ralph Nader (2020-12-05). The Road to a More Just Society Runs Through Congress. commondreams.org Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials worked for the big majority of Americans instead of for Big Business interests. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Staff (2020-12-05). Water Protectors Launch Direct Action Against Enbridge Pipeline in Minnesota. truthout.org Indigenous-led water protectors on Friday engaged in multiple direct actions against Enbridge's highly controversial Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota, on the same day that state regulators denied a request from two tribes to stop the Canadian company from proceeding with the project. | Water protectors blocked pipeline traffic and climbed and occupied trees as part of Friday's actions. Urging other Indigenous peoples and allies to "take a stand," the Anishinaabe activists at one of the…

Project Censored (2020-12-01). #24. Silenced in Savannah: Journalist Abby Martin Challenges Georgia's BDS "Gag Law" projectcensored.org Journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin, a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that aims to end support for Israel's oppression of Palestinians, was scheduled to give a…

Project Censored (2020-12-01). #2. Monsanto "Intelligence Center" Targeted Journalists and Activists. projectcensored.org The agricultural giant Monsanto—which the German pharmaceutical corporation Bayer acquired in 2018—created an "intelligence fusion center" in order to "monitor and discredit" journalists and activists, Sam Levin reported for the Guardian…

Project Censored (2020-12-01). #11. New Green Scare: Law Enforcement Crackdown on Environmental Activism. projectcensored.org As scientists warn of imminent climate change, environmental welfare activists in the United States are facing growing legal penalties and a crackdown by law enforcement agencies designed to counteract environmental…