(2021-11-14). Military Situation In Yemen On November 14, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 454 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On November 13, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 15 airstrikes on the Jubah district | On November 13, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 4 airstrikes on the Sarwah district | On November 13, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 3 airstrikes on the Kataf district | On November 13, four civilian were killed…
(2021-11-14). The Book 'Letters of Alex Saab from Kidnapping' to be Given for Free to FILVEN 2021 Attendees (+ Pro-Saab Street Mobilizations Throughout North America Scheduled for Monday). orinocotribune.com The book Letters of Alex Saab from Kidnapping, which describes Saab's torture and plight during his illegal detention in Cape Verde, as well as his love for the people of Venezuela and support for its government, will be given away to attendees this Sunday, November 14, at the International Book Fair of Venezuela (FILVEN). The book fair is being held in Caracas, at the Federal Legislative Palace, which is the headquarters of the National Assembly of Venezuela. | As part of the programed activities for FILVEN 2021, Alex Saab's wife, Camilla Fabri, will attend a press conference scheduled to begin at 11: 00 a.m (Car…
(2021-11-14). En las entrañas de "Archipiélago", grupo de Facebook de los disidentes cubanos detrás del complot del 15 de noviembre. globalizacion.ca 
Introducción a la versión original en inglés, publicada en The Canada Files el 9 de noviembre | The Canada Files tiene la suerte de contar con Arnold August como columnista, aclamado desde 1997 como uno de los expertos no cubanos de…
(2021-11-14). 20 Years After Patriot Act, Surveillance of Arabs and Muslims Is Relentless. truthout.org 
The U.S. is now more than 20 years beyond the Patriot Act of October 2001. The immediate aftermath of 9/11 brought a heavy U.S. state focus on Arabs and Muslims in the U.S., rationalizing an expansion of policing and surveillance activities against them. It also inspired the convergence of shared struggles for liberation out of a growing consensus that we cannot abolish policing without abolishing U.S. militarism and empire building. | The "anything goes" context of 9/11 opened up possibilities…
(2021-11-14). With Attack On Rights Groups, Israel's Impunity Is On Full Display. popularresistance.org Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian writer, and activist, and founder of the rights group Al-Haq, talks about the recent Israeli decision to designate six organizations as terrorists. He explains the context for the Israeli move, the long history of repression of Palestinian activists, and the resistance put up by these groups and the Palestinian people.
(2021-11-14). Hundreds demonstrate against anti-trans legislation in Columbus, Ohio. liberationnews.org 
Transgender activists with PSL – Columbus organized a protest against HB 454 which would effectively outlaw gender-affirming care for Ohio minors.
(2021-11-14). Civil Society Holds People's Plenary & Leaves Climate Summit. zcomm.org As the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow concludes, activists staged a walkout Friday in response to late decisions made by negotiators to severely weaken commitments in the final agreement…
(2021-11-14). Houthis Shot Down Second US-Made ScanEagle Drone Over Ma'rib In Less Than Week. southfront.org 
AL ASAD, Iraq—ScanEagle UAV sits on the catapult prior to launch. 16 April 2005, By Gunnery Sergeant Shannon Arledge of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. | On November 13, the Houthis shot down another US-made Boeing Insitu ScanEagle drone over the central Yemeni province of Ma'rib. | In a statement, Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the Yemeni group, said that the drone was shot down with a "suitable weapon" over the district of al-Jubah. | This was the second ScanEagle dro…
(2021-11-14). 21N: The Sham Strategy Behind Carlos Ocariz's Resignation in Miranda. orinocotribune.com The announcement of Carlos Ocariz's resignation as candidate for the governorship of Miranda state has become relevant news related to the November 21 elections in Venezuela; however, this could well be a maneuver by the G4 parties directed against Fuerza Vecinal (FV) candidate David Uzcátegui. | According to journalist Madelein García, and as is apparent from the events themselves, the parties of the so-called G4 platform (Voluntad Popular, Primero Justicia, Acción Democrática, and Un Nuevo Tiempo) may have forged a strategy to discourage the rise of Fuerza Vecinal as an organization that is taking over the old…
(2021-11-14). Terrorist Plot Targeting 21N Elections Uncovered. orinocotribune.com 
Venezuela's Minister for Interior Relations, Justice and Peace, Remigio Ceballos, announced on Saturday, November 13 that intelligence services dismantled a terrorist plan that sought to sabotage the regional and municipal elections to be held on November 21. | Ceballos reported that intelligence and citizen security organizations managed to neutralize a terrorist group that was attempting to commit sabotage at the facilities of the National Electoral Council (CNE), at its main warehouse in Mariche, Miranda state. All voting machines are kept in this warehouse, and are currently being distributed all over Venezue…
(2021-11-14). Nov 15 Nationwide Actions To Demand Let Cuba Live! NO To CIA Plots! popularresistance.org The State Department, the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and other U.S. agencies are working to organize anti-government protests in Cuba on Monday, November 15. The organizers of the November 15 demonstrators are the same players who led violent attacks on people and public facilities on July 11. One such person, Yunior García Aguilera, has been exposed in recent weeks as having direct links with notorious Miami-based terrorist Ramón Saúl Sánchez, and CIA plots to try to create conflict within Cuba. The ANSWER Coalition is calling on people to show their support for the right of Cuba to retain i…
(2021-11-14). Reasons to Love Cuba, its People and its Leadership. libya360.wordpress.com Stella Calloni Cuba has been the heart and beacon of Latin America since the beginning of 1959, when we saw those who some called the bearded "angels" come down from the Sierra Maestra mountain range, who had accomplished the greatest feat in our history, defeating the imperial power in the middle of the 20th century,…
(2021-11-14). El Sistema Prepares to Break World Record — Largest Orchestra Ever in Venezuela (Video and Photos). orinocotribune.com Caracas, November 13, 2021 (special for OrinocoTribune.com)—This Saturday, November 13, the courtyard of the military academy of Venezuela in Caracas was the setting for more than 12,000 young musicians from the Venezuelan orchestra system, internationally known as El Sistema, to come together from more than 400 El Sistema nodes from all over Venezuela, to try for the Guinness World Record as "The Largest Orchestra in the World." | The official ceremony began with the words of Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, who highlighted the perseverance and dedication of the musicians and the faculty of El Sistema as we…
(2021-11-13). Military Situation In Yemen On November 13, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | The Liaison and Coordination Officers' Operations Room (loyal to Ansar Allah) reported 144 ceasefire violations in al-Hudaydah during the past 24 hours | On November 12, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Jubah district | On November 12, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted 21 airstrikes on the Sarwah district | On November 12, Saudi-led coalition warplanes conducted an airstrike on the Haradh district | On November 12, Saudi-led coalition warp…
(2021-11-13). Regime Change In Belarus — Following The Same Script Used In Syria. popularresistance.org Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and his Russian counterpart and key ally, Vladimir Putin, have come in for much criticism from the Western media since coverage of the crisis began, with both leaders being accused of 'orchestrating' the current situation, allegedly in a bid to destabilise the EU, and also as a retaliatory measure taken by Minsk in response to EU sanctions imposed as a result of it successfully repelling a Western-backed colour revolution launched against it last August following the re-election of Lukashenko — again, the warmongers who actually created the refugee crisis in the fi…
(2021-11-13). Nicaragua Has a Public Relations Problem, Not a Democracy Problem. dissidentvoice.org 
US President Joe Biden hectored Nicaragua about their November 7 elections accusing them of "a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic." Three days earlier, the US lavished a $650mil arms deal on Saudi Arabia, a monarchy where they don't even pretend to have elections for higher office. Clearly …
(2021-11-13). Guantánamo trial exposes brutality of CIA torture. themilitant.com In testimony before a sentencing jury of eight senior military officers Oct. 28, Majid Khan read a statement in court detailing his personal experiences being tortured by the CIA. Khan has been imprisoned for 15 years by the U.S. government at its notorious military facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which it occupies against the will of the Cuban people. | "I thought I was going to die," Khan said, describing the various torture techniques he was subjected to, including beatings, sexual assaults, being chained naked from a ceiling beam for long periods, starved, doused repeatedly with ice water to keep him awake…
(2021-11-13). Free Alex Saab, Venezuela Diplomat, Jailed by U.S. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR). | The Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR) is calling on people to join a rally to "Free Alex Saab Now!" on Monday, November 15. Alex Saab is a good man who has done nothing wrong, only opposed U.S. sanctions and aggression against Venezuela. It is the U.S. government and President Joe Biden who should be put on trial for their ongoing harassment of Venezuela's democratic and popular Bolivarian Revolution. | Rally, Monday, Nov. 15, 9: 30 a.m. EST | Miami Federal Courthouse, 400 North Miami Ave | Miam…
(2021-11-13). True Amerikkkan History: Settler-Colonialism, Capitalism, Imperialism and Fascism. anchor.fm In this episode I try to make an argument for the true nature of "Amerikkka", what we know as "the United States" as a Colonial, Capitalist enterprise, a settler-State, an oppressive regime, a Nationalist and sometimes even Fascist Imperialist Empire. Now, that's a lot of words. If you want to know what that means to me, please give this episode a listen! FUCK FASCISTS! FUCK EMPIRES! FUCK CAPITALISTS!
(2021-11-13). Mendeleyev, Witte and the Revival of Russia's Lost Revolutionary Potential of 1905. strategic-culture.org 
The biosphere's limits only dominate humanity's destiny when we permit the law of the jungle, rather than the law of civilization, to shape our world… as all empires demand be so. | My primary intention in that location was to demonstrate…
(2021-11-13). [Comment] Offline: Decolonisation and the demand for a just memory. thelancet.com According to Kehinde Andrews in The New Age of Empire, the deceit of modern science is its claim to stand for a set of universal values in the service of human progress. Andrews is the UK's first Professor of Black Studies. In his view "Whiteness is at the heart of Enlightenment thinking". The values that science affirms are not based on the universal but, instead, on a purely white particular. Today's western descendants of the Enlightenment "are fundamentally incapable of even naming the racism that is the basis of the global political and economic system".
(2021-11-13). As Activists sue, Judges are not waiting on Politicians to rule against Carbon Emissions. juancole.com 
By Isabel Sutton | — ( Clean Energy Wire) — A string of landmark rulings forcing governments to step up emission cuts have turned the courts into a new and powerful line of defence in the fight against climate change. An increasing number of judges now consider global warming a human rights issue, and therefore …
(2021-11-13). Greater Idlib: Syrian Army Shelled Militant Positions With Laser-Guided Artillery Rounds (Video, Photos). southfront.org 
Illustrative image. | On November 13, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) shelled the northwestern region of Greater Idlib with Russian-made 2K25 Krasnopol guided artillery rounds. | The pinpoint artillery strikes targeted militants' positions in the outskirts of the town of Taftanaz in the eastern countryside of Idlib. Al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the de-facto ruler of Greater Idlib, maintains a large presence in this area. | Syrian opposition activists shared video footage of the shelling as wel…
(2021-11-13). Thursday 11/18: The Costs of War At Home w/ United for Peace & Justice and CODEPINK. indybay.org Online event…
(2021-11-13). Saudi fighter jets heavily bomb Yemen's Ma'rib prov. en.mehrnews.com Saudi-led coalition fighter jets on Saturday heavily bombed Yemeni city of Ma'rib to prevent the advance of Yemeni Resistance forces in the city.
(2021-11-13). Iran: Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ends 21-day hunger strike. middleeasteye.net 
Iran: Husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ends 21-day hunger strike | Richard Ratcliffe ends latest attempt to persuade UK to secure wife's release, saying their daughter "needs two parents" | Sat, 11/13/2021 – 13: 55 | Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of jailed British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, ends his hunger strike outside the UK Foreign Office on 13 November, 2021 after 21 days (Reuters)…
(2021-11-13). In Video: Iranian Navy Helicopter Makes Bold Pass Near US Carrier In Persian Gulf. southfront.org 
Screen grab from Tasnim's video. | On November 13, the Tasnim News agency published a video showing an AB-212ASW helicopter of the Islamic Republic of Iran Navy making a bold low pass a few meters away from the US Navy USS Essex (LHD-2) landing helicopter dock in the Persian Gulf. | According to the Iranian news agency, the helicopter was conducting a "reconnaissance flight" over the large US warship. | At the time of the encounter, USS Essex was carrying four AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters, four UH-1Y Venom utility hel…
(2021-11-13). US should lift all sanctions imposed in context of JCPOA. en.mehrnews.com Russia will insist on the resumption of full implementation of the JCPOA on the Iranian nuclear program and on lifting sanctions off Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
(2021-11-13). Nicaragua Has A Public Relations Problem. popularresistance.org Managua, Nicaragua – US President Joe Biden hectored Nicaragua about their November 7 elections accusing them of "a pantomime election that was neither free nor fair, and most certainly not democratic." Three days earlier, the US lavished a $650mil arms deal on Saudi Arabia, a monarchy where they don't even pretend to have elections for higher office. Clearly more than democracy is at issue with the US offensive against Nicaragua. | At issue is what Biden described as "the arbitrary imprisonment of nearly 40 opposition figures since May, including seven potential presidential candidates." An objective investigati…
(2021-11-13). Houthis Secure Most Of Al-Hudaydah As Saudi-Backed Forces Rush To Justify Surprise Withdrawal. southfront.org 
File image. | Saudi-backed forces have announced that their In a statement released on November 12, the Joint Forces-Western Coast said that their troops will be redeployed to halt the Houthis (Ansar Allah) ongoing of…
(2021-11-13). Why is the US fueling the November 15 Cuba protests? peoplesdispatch.org On September 20, letters began to arrive at eight Cuban municipal or provincial government headquarters announcing the
(2021-11-13). Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US. orinocotribune.com By Ajamu Baraka — Nov 11, 2021 | Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare. | One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua, the second poorest nation in the Americas, universal healthcare and education are guaranteed to the population as a human right, while in the U.S. those kinds of basic human rights are distant dreams. | The day after the so-called progressive block of legi…
(2021-11-13). Qué dolor que dolor que pena… (recuerda una vieja canción popular). cubadebate.cu Las redes "sociales" y sus algoritmos, utilizados como drones teledirigidos por las fuerzas del imperio, intentan lograr al peor estilo de Joseph Goebbels que las mentiras tantas veces repetidas se conviertan en verdades. Esto de intentar vulnerar a guayabazo limpio las neuronas hoy ansiosas del pueblo cubano, o al menos de una parte de este, es otro intento de una política fallida.
(2021-11-13). No nos robarán la felicidad ni los colores (+ Texto canción). cubadebate.cu Nadie nos robará nuestra felicidad y tampoco los colores. Nos nos quitarán el blanco que está en nuestra bandera y en su estrella solitaria; el blanco que simboliza la paz que defendemos. El lunes 15 nuestros niños irán felices a sus escuelas con sus camisas blancas de uniforme; nuestros médicos y científicos llevarán sus blancas batas…
(2021-11-13). Pdte. Díaz-Canel: Cuba está preparada para defender la revolución. telesurtv.net El mandatario cubano aseguró que se encuentran alertas para enfrentar cualquier intento de desestabilizar al país.
(2021-11-13). Cuba's 2020 Containment of COVID-19. orinocotribune.com 
By Charles McKelvey — Nov 5, 2021 | Cuba was as prepared for COVID-19 as any nation could be. It formulated a comprehensive plan, with various institutions working together to formulate and implement a plan, prior to the arrival of the virus on the island. As a result, the virus was effectively contained in 2020, with two relatively mild peaks. But in 2021, due to various external and internal factors, there occurred an explosion of cases. This high third peak reached its highest level in August 2021, which now appears to be under control. In both stages of the struggle against COVID, Cuba has demonstrated t…
(2021-11-13). Díaz-Canel: Somos una nación de paz y solidaridad, y defendemos nuestra Revolución socialista (+ Video). cubadebate.cu "En paz hemos logrado las primeras vacunas latinoamericanas, en paz hemos inmunizado casi al ciento por ciento de nuestra población, incluyendo nuestros niños y niñas; en paz las escuelas funcionan, y en paz iniciaremos el día 15 otra etapa del curso escolar; en paz nuestra economía se recuperará; en paz continuaremos avanzando con la estrategia económica y social; tranquilos, atentos y seguros. En paz, en el presente y en el futuro, Cuba vive y vivirá".
(2021-11-13). Vuelta a la Patria Program Returns 250 Venezuelan Migrants from Peru. orinocotribune.com 
A total of 250 additional Venezuelans returned to their homeland from Peru through the Vuelta a la Patria program, in an Airbus 340-200 flight of the Venezuelan Consortium of Aeronautical Industries and Air Services (CONVIASA), under strict COVID-19 biosecurity measures. | This was reported by the Foreign Ministry through its Twitter account and through a press release. |
(2021-11-13). 21N Regional Elections: Smear Campaign Activated — EFE Takes the Initiative. orinocotribune.com The mega-elections to be held on November 21 in Venezuela have a significance beyond the fact of electing candidates for regional and municipal authorities, as they are the first event in several years that will include the participation of a political sector of the country that had preferred to take the path of sabotage of the elections to damage the national institutions. | In this sense, it is not surprising that there are still attempts to sabotage the elections by creating mistrust among the population and playing the abstention card, even though there are only a few days remaining until the event itself, an…
(2021-11-13). Venezuela: Youth Orchestra Plays To Achieve World Record. telesurenglish.net On Saturday, musicians from Venezuela's System of Youth and Children's Orchestras and Choirs gathered in the courtyard of the Military Academy of Fuerte Tiuna to reach the Guinness World Record for the "largest orchestra in the world". | RELATED: | Opening the concert with "Te Deum" by the composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 12,000 musicians played for 12 continuous minutes the Marche Slave by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaiko…