(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…
(2020-12-07). Ireland and U.S. Imperialism. mronline.org 
When discussing Ireland's role in imperialism today it is vital to highlight the role Ireland plays in assisting the U.S. to extract profits from 'poorer nations'. That is to say nations that have abundant natural resources that the mass of the local population do not get to reap the benefits of.
(2020-12-07). Mother whose child died of asthma calls for education on air pollution. thecanary.co 
The mother of a girl who died following a chronic asthma attack has said she would have moved house immediately had she known the effects of dangerous levels of air pollution on her daughter's health.Nine-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah died in February 2013 after suffering numerous seizures and making almost 30 visits to hospital with breathing problems over the previous three years.An inquest at Southwark Coroner's Court is investigating whether dangerous levels of air pollution in the London Borough of Lewisham, where Ella lived with her family, may have contributed to her death.Desperate: Speaking at the in…
(2020-12-07). Selected Articles: India: Largest Strike in World History. globalresearch.ca 
By The general strike occurred…
(2020-12-07). US, UK Governments Should Free Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca In Steven Spielberg's 2017 historical thriller…
(2020-12-07). Threat of More Illegal US Sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. globalresearch.ca The US under both right wings of the one-party state is waging a long war on Russia by other means — and all other nations unwilling to bow and scape to its imperial demands. | US aggression includes endless smashing of …
(2020-12-07). Deprived schools face a funding crisis as they continue to deal with coronavirus. thecanary.co Schools in poorer areas Research by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) has reported that lost income and additional coronavirus (Covid-19) expenses may leave a quarter of schools unable to meet their costs. Deprived schools were twice as likely to be affected. | The researchers suggested current government funding pro…
(2020-12-07). India: Pesticide Takeover Spells Trouble for Bees. asia-pacificresearch.com …
(2020-12-07). Final Defense Bill Denies Military Request to Expand Nevada Bombing Ranges. globalresearch.ca Congress today moved to deny the Defense Department's request to seize more than 1.7 million acres of public land in Nevada for bombing ranges, following a five-year grassroots campaign by public lands advocates to stop the land grab. | The Air …
(2020-12-07). Alabama loses two more educators to COVID-19. wsws.org A veteran teacher recalls the victims and calls for uniting workers against the deadly return to in-person schools.
(2020-12-07). Working for the 'Man': 'Getting a Job' in America. globalresearch.ca Spanning some 60 years of employment, this writer has some conclusions. Of course, these are from my own personal experiences. Yet, having spoken with a myriad of working stiffs over the years, perhaps this analysis is valid. | During those 60 …
(2020-12-07). More Scandals on Dutch Government's Involvement in Supporting Terrorism in Syria. globalresearch.ca A new chapter in the scandals of the Netherlands's involvement in supporting terrorist organizations in Syria is unfolding in front of the world public opinion after Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has recently admitted that he personally intervened to obstruct …
(2020-12-07). This week in history: December 7-13. wsws.org 25 years ago: Galileo spacecraft reaches Jupiter On December 7, 1995, the spacecraft Galileo reached Jupiter in a stable orbit around the giant plane, demonstrating the extraordinary capabilities of science and technology.
(2020-12-07). Climate change is resulting in profound, immediate and worsening health impacts, over 120 researchers say. zcomm.org If responses to the economic impacts of COVID-19 align with an effective response to climate change, we'll see immense benefits for human health, with cleaner air, healthier diets and more liveable cities…
(2020-12-07). Trump Plan to Revive the Gallows, Electric Chair, Gas Chamber and Firing Squad Recalls a Troubled History. globalresearch.ca The way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the electric chair, gas chamber and the firing squad. | Set to take effect on Christmas Eve, the new regulations
(2020-12-07). Student government delegates at the University of Michigan speak out against the administration's COVID-19 policies. wsws.org The decision to reopen the university residence halls and conduct in-person learning immediately provoked opposition from the student body, culminating in a nine-day strike in September by graduate student instructors.
(2020-12-07). New Study Claims Vaccinated Children Appear to be "Significantly Less Healthy" than Unvaccinated. globalresearch.ca What Happened:
(2020-12-07). Tens of Thousands Rally in France Against Security Law as Police and Protesters Clash Again. globalresearch.ca French protesters clashed with police in Paris and other cities including Marseille, Lyon, Rennes and Nantes yesterday as tens of thousands took to the streets in further mass demonstrations against an authoritarian new security law. | The weekly rallies each Saturday …
(2020-12-07). The Price of Publishing Independent Thought: We Need Your Support! globalresearch.ca Dear readers, | With freedom of speech continually being curtailed, running an independent counter-current news media in 2020 is no easy feat. | We have always operated on a shoestring budget, but the last year has been a financial struggle for us. …
(2020-12-07). America-prompted Color Revolution in Thailand. asia-pacificresearch.com …
(2020-12-07). Republican Senator Tries to Prevent the US from an Alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood. globalresearch.ca
(2020-12-07). COVID-19 Vaccination. "Coerced Consent"? globalresearch.ca A commonly heard presumption is that ……….the vaccines induce immediate or latent adverse reactions that sideline these first responders and frontline workers? It could be a catastrophe. And if for …
(2020-12-07). Political Crisis under the Guise of a Health Crisis: Face Masks, Social Distancing and Limit on Gatherings: Colorado Diner Defies Lockdown. globalresearch.ca It comes as no surprise that simultaneous with President Donald Trump's declaration that the voter fraud election of 2020 was a coordinated Democratic jihad, the next '
(2020-12-07). Citizen scientists help accelerate COVID-19 research with their phones. imperial.ac.uk Almost one million people around the world have helped Imperial accelerate COVID-related research by recruiting their smartphones while they sleep.
(2020-12-07). Decommissioning Civil Nuclear Sites Will Take 120 Years, MPs Warn. globalresearch.ca According to a report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC), decommissioning the UK's civil nuclear sites will cost £132bn of public money, and will not be completed for a further 120 years. | *** |
(2020-12-07). What We Know So Far About U.S. Government's Plan to Track COVID Vaccine Recipients. globalresearch.ca To track COVID vaccine recipients, Operation Warp Speed has resurrected a program devised after the September 11 attacks that was quickly defunded following public backlash over privacy concerns. | *** |
(2020-12-07). Listening to the Silence with Don DeLillo. globalresearch.ca In 1997, Don DeLillo, the author of seventeen novels, published what many consider his masterpiece, Underworld. It was a prophetic book in many ways, especially with its focus on the World Trade Towers and the way the book's …
(2020-12-07). About Those Vaccine ID Cards… globalresearch.ca An idea that's simple as an abstraction—vaccine ID cards—turns out to be extremely difficult once real-world operational realities must be dealt with. | Authorities around the world have made it clear that they will do "whatever it takes" to vaccinate their …
(2020-12-07). Dr. Wodarg and Dr. Yeadon File Application for Suspension of All SARS CoV-2 Vaccine Studies and Call for Co-signing the Petition. globalresearch.ca On December 1, 2020, the ex-Pfizer head of respiratory research Dr. Michael Yeadon and the lung specialist and former head of the public health department Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg
(2020-12-07). Saturday 12/12: People Get Ready: Beating the Right, Strengthening the Left, and Building Power. indybay.org Online/virtual symposium…
(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
(2020-12-06). People's Thanksgiving 2020: The rebellion, the defeat of Trump, and #StrikeForOurLives. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Over 500 people tuned in online to the annual People's Thanksgiving awards ceremony, December 5, held by Freedom Road Socialist Organization in Chicago. The event is a fundraiser for Fight Back! and brought in more than $3000. | Award recipients included Dian Palmer, president of SEIU Local 73; Doris Carroll, president of the Illinois Nurses Association; India Jackson of Good Kids/Mad City; Tanya Lozano of Centro Sin Fronteras; Regina Russell of the Chicago Alliance; and Alexis Grant of the Black Graduate Students Association at UIC. | Helping present the awards included Stacy Davis Gates, vice…
(2020-12-06). People's Thanksgiving 2020: The rebellion, the defeat of Trump, and #StrikeForOurLives. fightbacknews.org Chicago, IL – Over 500 people tuned in online to the annual People's Thanksgiving awards ceremony, December 5, held by Freedom Road Socialist Organization in Chicago. The event is a fundraiser for Fight Back! and brought in more than $3000. | Award recipients included Dian Palmer, president of SEIU Local 73; Doris Carroll, president of the Illinois Nurses Association; India Jackson of Good Kids/Mad City; Tanya Lozano of Centro Sin Fronteras; Regina Russell of the Chicago Alliance; and Alexis Grant of the Black Graduate Students Association at UIC. | Helping present the awards included Stacy Davis Gates, vice…
(2020-12-06). Hundreds of 'threats & terrorism justification' reported in France during month of tributes to beheaded teacher. rt.com 
Tributes to slain teacher, Samuel Paty, have been marred by nearly 800 incidents ranging from threats to the outright justification of terrorism, the French education ministry has said. | The murder of the schoolteacher continues to send shockwaves through France. The killing that took place in mid-October has given rise to a whole series of disturbing incidents in various French education facilities throughout November, the nation's education ministry revealed in a recent report. | Minutes of silence held in honor of the teacher were disrupted almost 800 times in various incidents in November, the report says…
(2020-12-06). UK court ruling on trans children's care puts bigotry before science. liberationnews.org 
The court has decided it's better to force trans children to go through a puberty they don't want than to temporarily postpone puberty for questioning children.
(2020-12-06). The Collector, Non-profit, Painter and Teacher. dissidentvoice.org 
There's a tremendous power in this place, in this land, and I think that power really changes people's lives. — Frank Boyden, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. A large number of the most creative, skilled, and savvy people in the country are out of jobs simultaneously. How can we harness that resource and develop …
(2020-12-06). Two-thirds of Britons say UK bungled 2nd wave of Covid-19, over half call govt's response to crisis 'NATIONAL HUMILIATION' — poll. rt.com 
The majority of people in the UK do not trust the government to control the spread of Covid-19 and say officials have failed to prepare for a second wave, a new survey shows. | The survey by King's College London and Ipsos MORI was based on 2,244 interviews with people aged 16-75 that were conducted between November 20-24. | The research revealed that 57 percent do not trust the government to control the spread of Covid-19. Nearly two-thirds — 64 percent — specifically stated they thought officials failed to properly prepare for a second wave of infections. | The proportion of those distrusting the g…
(2020-12-06). Graduate Student Labor Organizing Is Rising — and So Is Retaliation. zcomm.org The battles playing out at UCSC are emblematic of a larger struggle. In response to neoliberal university policies and increasingly unaffordable housing, graduate student-worker labor organizing has exploded over the past several years…
(2020-12-06). Covid Mideast Updates: Iran – Turkey – Morocco – Kuwait. telesurenglish.net Iran's COVID-19 cases surged to 1,040,547 on Sunday with 11,561 new infections. Meanwhile, Turkey registered 195 more deaths from the coronavirus, the highest daily record in the country. | Iran, the hardest-hit country in the Middle East region, reported 294 new deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 50,310, said Sima Sadat Lari, spokeswoman for the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education, during her daily briefing. | A total of 730,798 people have recovered from the disease and been discharged from hospitals, while 5,809 remain in intensive care units. | Followi…
(2020-12-06). Remember Pearl Harbor: Provoking Japan, Provoking North Korea. globalresearch.ca Featured image: A destroyed December 7, 1941. Seventy-nine years ago. incisive …
(2020-12-06). "Stay of Action" Filed Against FDA to Stop Approval of COVID Vaccine for Using Faulty PCR Tests in Trials. globalresearch.ca An It is widely …
(2020-12-06). Britain Sent Saudi Arabia Thousands of Spare Parts for Warplanes Amid Arms Embargo. globalresearch.ca The UK military supplied 2,323 spare parts for Tornado fighter jets to an arms company in Saudi Arabia last year, despite a court order against exporting weapons for use in the Yemen war, Declassified UK has found. | *** | Saudi planes …
(2020-12-06). UK First to Approve Pfizer COVID Vaccine as Former Head of Pfizer Research Says Vaccine Can Make Females Infertile. globalresearch.ca In breaking news today, the U.K. became the first country to issue emergency authorization for Pfizer's new COVID vaccine, with the first doses being delivered "immediately" and injections expected to begin in the U.K. next week. | Pfizer and BioNTech have …
(2020-12-06). Racism and Lawfare in the United States. globalresearch.ca And the first thing the American power structure doesn't want any Negroes to start is thinking internationally. Malcolm X — Autobiography | Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality. James Baldwin, The Fire …
(2020-12-06). India: Largest Strike in World History : Over 200 Million Workers and Farmers Protest against Poverty and Unemployment Triggered by Covid Lockdown. globalresearch.ca The general strike occurred in the context of the devastation brought about by the coronavirus pandemic in India. Added to this are the millions of people who have lost income and who now face increased poverty and hunger, in a …
(2020-12-06). China Uproots Hong Kong's US-Backed Opposition. globalresearch.ca China finalised its campaign against protests in its Hong Kong territory when it expelled opposition politicians from Hong Kong's government for endangering national security. | Following this move, opposition politicians still in office resigned in protest, leaving the territory's government firmly …
(2020-12-06). University, student sources of fundamental changes in society. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 06 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that universities and students are the sources of fundamental and original changes in society.
(2020-12-06). Losing Jobless Benefits Is Not Only Stressful. popularresistance.org The coronavirus pandemic has thrown millions of Americans out of work — and over the past nine months, up to 20 million have filed for unemployment. Supplemental federal unemployment benefits of $600 per week — a lifeline for many — expired in July and more are set to go away at the end of the year if Congress doesn't act. | But beyond the economic consequences, not having that financial safety net can lead to serious health problems for those affected, according to new research. Dr. Seth Berkowitz, a professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine who co-authored some of that r…
(2020-12-06). Trump's Waning Weeks in the White House Could be the Most Dangerous. globalresearch.ca Donald Trump has, once again, demonstrated that the waning weeks of his tour in the White House could be the most dangerous during his residency at the executive mansion in the US capital. Free of all constraints and wise council, …
(2020-12-06). Fall 1941: Pearl Harbor and The Wars of Corporate America. globalresearch.ca Washington knew a Japanese fleet was on its way to Pearl Harbor, but welcomed the attack since a Japanese aggression would make it possible to "sell" the war to an anti-war American public.