US Sanctions Directed against Turkey For Its Acquisition of Russia's S-400 Air Defense System
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
The recently imposed targeted sanctions against Turkey and the impending National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) 2021 ones mandating similar measures against it for its acquisition of Russia's S-400 air defense systems, while illegal in terms of international law and a …
globalresearch.ca/us-anti-turkish-sanctions-strengthen-target-sovereignty/5732357

Aleppo's Liberation Three Years Ago Today: Anybody Ashamed?
Jan Oberg | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
December 12, 2017, marks the anniversary of the liberation — the West called it fall — of Aleppo in Syria. What happened is conveniently forgotten today by the West. | Some of us can't and won't forget what was both world, …
globalresearch.ca/aleppo-liberation-one-year-ago-today-anybody-ashamed/5732317

'Grossly insufficient': ExxonMobil lambasted over emissions reduction plan that pledges no reduction in absolute emissions
Andrea Germanos | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-15
"Any company that fails to keep pace with what science demands threatens its future while endangering the rest of us with escalating climate impacts and systemic risks to the global economy."
nationofchange.org/2020/12/15/grossly-insufficient-exxonmobil-lambasted-over-emissions-reduction-plan-that-pledges-no-reduction-in-absolute-emissions/

Trump Still Contesting Stolen Election 2020
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
"We wuz robbed" applies to US Election 2020 — decided by brazen fraud for losers Biden/Harris over winner Trump. | An illegitimate process prevailed over an open, free and fair one — the latter prohibited in all US federal elections for …
globalresearch.ca/trump-still-contesting-stolen-election-2020/5732292

The Most Lethal Virus is Not COVID. It is War
John Pilger | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-15
In the midst of the greatest health emergency in modern times, with more than 4 million surgical procedures delayed by the National Health Service, Boris Johnson has announced a record increase of £16.5 billion in so-called defence spending — a figure that would restore the under-resourced NHS many times over.
counterpunch.org/2020/12/15/the-most-lethal-virus-is-not-covid-it-is-war/

Nature under settler colonialism in Palestine
| workers.org | 2020-12-15
By Rana Baker This slightly edited presentation was given by Rana Baker, a Palestinian PhD student at Columbia University, during the online Palestine Writes Festival, Dec. 5. Baker's research focuses on infrastructure and environmental resources as micro-sites of political struggle in colonial and anti-colonial contexts. A Palestinian incendiary kite crosses . . . | Continue reading Nature under settler colonialism in Palestine at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/12/53226/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nature-under-settler-colonialism-in-palestine

Transparency as a Trust-Building Practice in Physician Relationships With Patients
Montgomery T, Berns JS, Braddock CH, III. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-12-15
This Viewpoint describes transparency practices that could help physicians build trust with patients and model professionalism for students and trainees: clear and consistent disclosure of financial relationships, conflicts of interest, credentials, disciplinary actions, performance metrics, and personal information or experiences oriented toward improving patient outcomes.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774060

Boko Haram in charge of kidnapping Nigerian students
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-15
TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) — Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of over three hundreds of schoolboys in the northwestern state of Katsina.
en.mehrnews.com/news/167219/Boko-Haram-in-charge-of-kidnapping-Nigerian-students

Iraq to Sue US over Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons: Official
Tasnim News Agency | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
An adviser to the Iraqi parliament's foreign affairs committee said the Baghdad government is planning to lodge an international lawsuit against the US for using internationally-banned munitions in civilian areas. | Hatif al-Rikabi told Arabic-language al-Maalomah news agency in an interview | …
globalresearch.ca/iraq-sue-us-use-depleted-uranium-weapons-official/5732321

Behind the Curve
Jeffrey Zaiser | realprogressives.org | 2020-12-15
Please explain to me how and why this perverted version of economic reality persists. | This trickle down, supply side economic policy based on a curve sketched on a bar room napkin (The Laffer Curve) that David Stockton distended into economic pseudoscience embedded into our national economic policy. | The efficacy never determined to be self-evident, never to be re-evaluated, and never to be rescinded. | If the basis of the nation's economic performance can be attributed to an imaginary trickle of investment from on high […
realprogressives.org/behind-the-curve/

Imperial's research through a poetic lens
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-12-15
Poet and spoken word artist Dan Simpson has come to the end of his innovative public engagement residency at Imperial College London.
imperial.ac.uk/news/210833/imperials-research-through-poetic-lens

The 2020 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'État and the "Great Reset"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
We are at the crossroads of one of the most serious crises in modern history. We are living history, yet our understanding of the flow of events since January 2020 has been blurred. Worldwide, people have been misled both by their governments and the media as to the causes and devastating consequences of the Covid-19 "pandemic".
globalresearch.ca/the-2020-worldwide-corona-crisis-destroying-civil-society-engineered-economic-depression-global-coup-detat-and-the-great-reset/5730652

'Buy It or Else': Inside Monsanto and BASF's Moves to Force Dicamba on Farmers
Johnathan Hettinger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15