Monthly Archives: December 2021

2021-12-11: News Headlines

Udani Samarasekera (2021-12-11). [Perspectives] Zarlasht Halaimzai: striving to provide a better future for refugees. thelancet.com When Zarlasht Halaimzai was 11 years old, she and her family were forcibly displaced from Kabul, Afghanistan, as the civil war in the early 1990s escalated. "When we left it was very sudden, done in a moment when everything was very insecure and hopeless. In Kabul, food was difficult, it was difficult to get water, there were militias everywhere. Normal life had completely collapsed", she recalls. Their displacement continued for 4 years, during which time the family became separated and Halaimzai missed out on much education.

WSWS (2021-12-11). Meeting of the Network of Action Committees for Safe Education in Germany: "We are at the beginning of great mass struggles of the working class" wsws.org At the meeting, nurses, educators, workers and students presented a terrible picture of the consequences of the official coronavirus policies.

William M Arkin (2021-12-11). Inside the Military's Secret Undercover Army. globalresearch.ca Below are excerpts of …

Global Research (2021-12-11). Bombshell Document Dump on Pfizer Vaccine Data. globalresearch.ca What is contained in Pfizer's confidential report is detailed evidence on the impacts of the "vaccine" on mortality and morbidity. This data which emanates from the Horse's Mouth can be used to confront as well formulate legal procedures against Big Pharma, the governments, the WHO and the media.

Michael Welch (2021-12-11). Sincere Devotion to the Vaccine. Encounters with a COVID Believer. globalresearch.ca

Samer Jabbour (2021-12-11). [Perspectives] The healer as the enemy: attacking health care in war. thelancet.com Violence against health care in war has shocked the global public conscience over the past decade. Images of attacks on hospitals from my home country, Syria, have been especially disturbing. Documentaries such as The New Barbarianism, For Sama, and The Cave, the latter two from Syria, provide gripping accounts of the plight of hospitals and health workers under attack. Scholarship on health-care attacks has not been extensive. For instance, three fairly recent authoritative edited volumes on conflict and health—Ilkka Taipale's 2001 War or Health: A Reader, Barry Levy and Victor Sidel's 2007 War and Public…

Coral Wynter (2021-12-11). School strikers protest NAB's support for fossil fuel corporations. greenleft.org.au School students protested outside National Australia Bank headquarters calling on it to stop funding fossil fuels. Coral Wynter reports.

WSWS (2021-12-10). Anger erupts over COVID-19 death of Chicago Public Schools educator as cases spike. wsws.org Parents and teachers called for a return to remote instruction after Jonl Bush, a special education classroom assistant in Chicago, died on November 26, and cases throughout the district increase dramatically.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-10). Right-Wing Authoritarianism and the Crisis of Education. libya360.wordpress.com Henry Giroux In the age of nascent fascism, it is irresponsible to insist on a politically neutral world where pedagogy is a banal transmission of noncontroversial facts. Image: Truthout The future of democracy in the United States will not be determined by the malignant decisions made by a reactionary group of Supreme Court Justices. Nor…

rebekah (2021-12-10). Amazon Can't Bust Unions Forever. inequality.org

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-10). "Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II. globalresearch.ca According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, "the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas.

Global Research News (2021-12-10). This Week's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca Dr. Ariyana Love, December 5 , 2021

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-10). Fake Science, Invalid Data: There is No Such Thing as a "Confirmed Covid-19 Case". There is No Pandemic. globalresearch.ca Approximately 260 million people Worldwide have been categorized as "confirmed Covid-19 cases". The alleged pandemic is said to have resulted in more than 5 million Covid-19 related deaths. Both sets of figures: morbidity and mortality are invalid.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-10). Video: #Yes, It's a "Killer Vaccine": Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.

Peter Koenig (2021-12-10). Video: Digital Tyranny and the Rockefeller-Gates WHO "Vaxx-Certificate Passport": Towards a World War III Scenario. globalresearch.ca It's an electronic ID-program using the Covid-19 "vaccine as a platform for digital identity, linking everything to everything of each individual (records of health, banking, personal and private, etc.), managed by a state agency or in extremis, by the private sector.

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2021-12-10). Columbia U. student workers set up picket line. workers.org The view from a Barnard College dorm room shows Columbia University's main gate at 116th St., where striking student workers of UAW Local 2110 set up their picket line Dec. 8. 3. Credit: Judy Goldstein Striking Student Workers of Columbia University in New York City set up a picket line . . . |

Amy Goodman (2021-12-10). "Your Debt Is Someone Else's Asset": Calls Grow to Keep Student Loan Moratorium. truthout.org Image Credit: The Intercept | As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective's Astra Taylor and feature her new film for The Intercept, "Your Debt Is Someone Else's Asset," animated by artist Molly Crabapple. The $15 trillion in U.S. household debt is "a form of wealth transfer" from the poor to the rich, Taylor says. "People are in debt by design." | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOOD…

Ann Brown (2021-12-10). No Jab, No Job or School: Close to 500 LA County School System Employees Fired 34,000 Students Kicked Out System. moguldom.com It promises to be a chaotic school semester in Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has fired 500 unvaccinated employees. In addition to this, 34,000 students have reportedly missed the district's vaccine deadline. The unvaccinated students will either be forced to enroll in independent study or will have to leave the …

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2021-12-10: News Headlines

WSWS (2021-12-10). Anger erupts over COVID-19 death of Chicago Public Schools educator as cases spike. wsws.org Parents and teachers called for a return to remote instruction after Jonl Bush, a special education classroom assistant in Chicago, died on November 26, and cases throughout the district increase dramatically.

rebekah (2021-12-10). Amazon Can't Bust Unions Forever. inequality.org

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-10). "Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map", 204 Atomic Bombs against 66 Major Cities, US Nuclear Attack against USSR Planned During World War II. globalresearch.ca According to a secret document dated September 15, 1945, "the Pentagon had envisaged blowing up the Soviet Union with a coordinated nuclear attack directed against 66 major urban areas.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-10). Video: #Yes, It's a "Killer Vaccine": Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to precipitate the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.

Global Research News (2021-12-10). This Week's Most Popular Articles. globalresearch.ca Dr. Ariyana Love, December 5 , 2021

Amy Goodman (2021-12-10). "Your Debt Is Someone Else's Asset": Calls Grow to Keep Student Loan Moratorium. truthout.org Image Credit: The Intercept | As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective's Astra Taylor and feature her new film for The Intercept, "Your Debt Is Someone Else's Asset," animated by artist Molly Crabapple. The $15 trillion in U.S. household debt is "a form of wealth transfer" from the poor to the rich, Taylor says. "People are in debt by design." | TRANSCRIPT: | This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. | AMY GOOD…

Ann Brown (2021-12-10). No Jab, No Job or School: Close to 500 LA County School System Employees Fired 34,000 Students Kicked Out System. moguldom.com It promises to be a chaotic school semester in Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has fired 500 unvaccinated employees. In addition to this, 34,000 students have reportedly missed the district's vaccine deadline. The unvaccinated students will either be forced to enroll in independent study or will have to leave the …

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies (2021-12-09). Ten Contradictions That Plague Biden's Democracy Summit. dissidentvoice.org Protest by students in Thailand. AP President Biden's virtual Summit for Democracy on December 9-10 is part of a campaign to restore the United States' standing in the world, which took such a beating under President Trump's erratic foreign policies. Biden hopes to secure his place at the head of the "Free World" table by …

Mark Gruenberg (2021-12-09). AFT takes lead on push to increase state and local tax deduction. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON (PAI)—With Democratic President Joe Biden's Build Back Better Act still hung up in the Senate, the Teachers (AFT) took the lead in pushing one element: A larger itemized personal income tax deduction for state and local tax (SALT) payments. "We're fighting for it," AFT President Randi Weingarten told an outdoor press conference December 8, …

Mark Gruenberg (2021-12-09). AFGE gets legal win vs. ex-Pres. Trump's Education Department. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Union-hating former GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump and his Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, may both be gone, but workers keep racking up wins against them. The latest came December 3, when David Welch, the administrative law judge for the Federal Labor Relations Authority, found DeVos's agency guilty of 14 counts of unfair labor …

teleSUR (2021-12-09). Cuba Hosts the Anti-Imperialist Forum In Defense Of The Peoples. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the Anti-imperialist Forum in Defense of the Peoples started a virtual session to demand that the international community fight interference, colonialism, foreign occupation, and discrimination. | RELATED: | Broadcast through social networks, this event analyzes issues related to gender equity, the situation of Latin American children and youth, and access to health, education, and decent jobs. | Conve…

Kevin Mwanza (2021-12-09). New BIS Research Paper: DeFi Is 'Decentralization Illusion', Favors Concentration of Power. moguldom.com Decentralized finance (DeFi) could be an illusion with a centralized problem that could make it susceptible to regulation, according to a quarterly review by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS). DeFi is an umbrella term for a financial system that functions without third-party intermediaries like banks — one that is geared toward disrupting the traditional finance …

Peter Koenig (2021-12-09). The Farce and Diabolical Agenda of A "Universal Lockdown" globalresearch.ca First published on May 1, 2020 | First comes the farce, an (almost) universal government lie around the globe about a deadly virus, WHO named COVID-19. The decision for a global lockdown — literally for the collapse of the world economy …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-12-09). Video: "The Storming of The Bastille 2021". "Danser Encore"… Breaking the Covid Consensus. globalresearch.ca La : …

_____ (2021-12-09). Students Rally To Support Prison Moratorium. popularresistance.org Massachusetts – Smith College students marched through the streets of downtown Northampton backed by a chorus of honking cars as they chanted, "We don't want a prison nation, stop mass incarceration!" on Saturday, Dec. 4. | This march was in support of a moratorium on prison and jail construction within Massachusetts that was introduced in the Massachusetts state legislature. The bill was written by Families for Justice and Healing and the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, who, along with Massachusetts Peace Action, sponsored the walk. Smith students and volunteers from…

Monica Cruz (2021-12-09). Despite threats, biggest strike in the US continues at New York City's Columbia University. peoplesdispatch.org The biggest strike in the US continues at the prestigious Columbia University, where over 3,000 graduate student workers have entered their 6th week on Alex Jensen, a PhD studen…

Sharon Zhang (2021-12-09). Report: Borrowers Will Lose $85 Billion Yearly If Student Loan Payments Resume. truthout.org If student loan payments are allowed to resume without mass debt cancellation, borrowers will lose out on billions of dollars monthly, according to a new report done on behalf of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts). | The Roosevelt Institute

Staff (2021-12-09). "Your Debt Is Someone Else's Asset": Calls Mount to Cancel Debt & Halt Wealth Transfer to the Rich. democracynow.org As calls grow for Biden to extend the moratorium on student debt, we speak with the Debt Collective's Astra Taylor and feature her new film for The Intercept, "Your Debt Is Someone Else's Asset," animated by artist Molly Crabapple. The $15 trillion in U.S. household debt is "a form of wealth transfer" from the poor to the rich, Taylor says. "People are in debt by design."

Johannah King-Slutzky (2021-12-09). Striking Columbia Student Workers Demand Living Wage. zcomm.org In the largest strike happening right now in the United States, 3,000 student workers at New York City's Columbia University are on their fifth week of strike…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-09). Sri Lankan public section workers stage strike seeking salary hike. peoplesdispatch.org After teachers and health workers, public sector workers in Sri Lanka struck working demanding higher wages in the face of repeated price hikes and an economic crisis…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-12-09). Multiple strikes bring Australia's most populous State to a standstill. peoplesdispatch.org Thousands of teachers, bus drivers and railway workers protested against the "anti-worker approach" of the New South Wales government by holding parallel strikes in the State…

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