2019-12-10: Social Media Postees

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Max Blumenthal: A Hero of Our Time
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-10
Even though the charges against him were just dropped, the thuggish arrest of investigative journalist Max Blumenthal by the DC police in late October on months-old charges of allegedly "assaulting" a counter-protester who forcibly prevented him and others from delivering …
globalresearch.ca/max-blumenthal-hero-our-time/5697213

Kerry's Endorsement of Biden Fits: Two Deceptive Supporters of the Iraq War
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2019-12-10
Character and Experience… in Mass Slaughter…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/07/18828714.php

Spokane vs. the Border Patrol: How Immigration Agents Stake Out a City Bus Station
Amy Martyn | theintercept.com | 2019-12-10
Border Patrol agents have arrested 71 people at the Spokane bus depot this year, part of a nationwide increase in immigration enforcement on Greyhound buses.
theintercept.com/2019/12/10/border-patrol-greyhound-buses-spokane/

Australian doctor condemns Britain's denial of adequate medical care to Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-12-10
Dr Chesterfield-Evans said that prior to the Assange case, he had "never seen governments completely wipe their hands of an individual, lock people up and refuse to give them medical treatment."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/ches-d10.html

SEP holds final UK election meeting in London
wsws.org | 2019-12-10
Opening the rally, Thomas Scripps explained that one of the central pillars of the SEP's election campaign is the fight to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/lond-d10.html

Palo Alto Youth Lead Local Protest during U.N. Climate Conference
Text: RR Photos: Leo Leung, Pro Bono Photo | indybay.org | 2019-12-10
This year is the 25th meeting of the conference under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP25. The conference is being held December 2 through the 13th in Madrid. In Palo Alto, California on December 6th, youth activists led a Climate Strike, part of a coordinated international action timed to coincide with the U.N. Conference.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/08/18828732.php

SF Climate Strike at BlackRock and March to Senator Feinstein's Office
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2019-12-10
Photos: Leon Kunstenaar, Pro Bono Photo | Message of climate urgency delivered where most needed in day of world wide protests…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/07/18828694.php

Soldiers Who Fight War
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
One of the enduring myths connected to the Vietnam War is that the U.S. military could have won the war if the politicians and protestors back in Washington didn't somehow handicap the generals. When George H. W. Bush launched the first Gulf War in 1990, for instance, he said that…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/soldiers-who-fight-war/

U.S. Sanctions Are Driving Iran to Tighten Its Grip on Iraq
James Risen | theintercept.com | 2019-12-10
Iran was the great beneficiary of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, which created an opportunity for Iraq's Shia majority to gain power in Baghdad.
theintercept.com/2019/12/10/sanctions-iran-iraq-protests/

The Dirty War on the National Health Service: John Pilger documentary "goes to the heart of the struggle for democracy today"
wsws.org | 2019-12-10
Pilger's work is a deeply passionate appeal to working people in the UK to oppose the decades-long, covert assault on the NHS by all three major parties.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/dirt-d10.html

Changing Climate: Aligning Tech, Policy, Activism, & Equity
Sunrise Movement Bay Area | indybay.org | 2019-12-10
DXLabs, 690 18th St, Oakland, CA 94612-1339…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/07/18828718.php

Climate Talks in Madrid: What Will It Take to Prevent Climate Collapse?
Brian Tokar | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
The two-week marathon of the annual UN climate conference is underway in Madrid, and the world's expectations have perhaps never been lower. The Amazon is burning and unprecedented storms are raging worldwide, but the world's climate diplomats are still mostly talking business-as-usual. Never mind that this year's 25th Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/climate-talks-in-madrid-what-will-it-take-to-prevent-climate-collapse/

Appreciative audience at Australian launch of Why Are They Back?
wsws.org | 2019-12-10
The Sydney event probed the political climate behind the re-emergence of fascism and militarism in Germany and internationally.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/book-d10.html

Milwaukee: People's Climate Coalition marches on Wells Fargo, Chase Bank
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-10
Milwaukee, WI — Several hundred people gathered on the morning of December 6 in downtown Milwaukee at Zeidler Park to demand that the big banks like Wells Fargo, Chase and other corporations divest from the fossil fuel industry. | Several classrooms worth of children from local public schools attended the event in support of a safe and livable planet for their futures. The People's Climate Coalition, consisting of local climate justice groups, put out the call and organized the event. | All representatives from the coalition and its allies were given an opportunity to speak. Each highlighted in different wa…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/12/9/milwaukee-people-s-climate-coalition-marches-wells-fargo-chase-bank

China Orders Removal of U.S. Computers from Government Offices
teleSUR, jg | telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-10
China has ordered that all hardware and software from the United States be removed from government offices and public institutions within three years. | RELATED: | US, China Trade Deal Likely After 2020 Elections: Trump | After little progress in the negotiations between the two countries, the government directive is likely to be a blow to U.S. multinational compan…
telesurenglish.net/news/china-orders-to-remove-us-computers-from-government-offices-20191209-0011.html

Thousands of children in New Jersey found to have elevated blood lead levels
wsws.org | 2019-12-10
The New Jersey Department of Health's annual report shows that scandalous levels of lead contamination in public water are not limited to the city of Newark, where local officials' criminal response made headlines this year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/lead-d10.html

American Culture Loves a Good Killer
John Grant | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
Donald Trump's narcissistic, authoritarian instincts and the man's clear admiration of Vladimir Putin's gangster-capitalist leadership style makes me think of archetypal killers. During his campaign for president he spoke often of killing; he would anonymously refer to some of his business friends as "real killers," which was meant as a compliment on their skills and effectiveness. There was the remark he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. Lately, it's his public intervention in military discipline issues lionizing Seal Team Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, who's accused of being an ov…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/american-culture-loves-a-good-killer/

Paris summit in Ukraine overshadowed by inter-imperialist conflicts
wsws.org | 2019-12-10
The escalation of warfare within the US ruling class and the intensification of the conflicts between the imperialist powers occur amid the unraveling of the strategy that US imperialism has pursued in the region since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/ukra-d10.html

The "Afghanistan papers": the criminality and disaster of a war based upon lies
wsws.org | 2019-12-10
The documents published by the Washington Post constitute a damning indictment of both major parties as well as the media for lying to the American people for two decades.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/pers-d10.html

I Knew the War in Afghanistan Was a Lie
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-12-10
A new bombshell report from The Washington Post merely confirms what those of us who served in Kandahar could see with our own eyes.
truthdig.com/articles/the-delusion-behind-the-war-in-afghanistan/

Experience of four-year-old Jack example of what is happening in NHS — Corbyn
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-10
Jeremy Corbyn has insisted the experience of a four-year-old boy lying on a pile of coats to keep warm while he waited for a hospital bed is a political issue.A photograph of Jack Williment-Barr, who was waiting for treatment for suspected pneumonia at Leeds General Infirmary, was widely circulated on social media.Boris Johnson came in for heavy criticism on Monday when he initially refused to look at the photo on an ITV reporter's phone before taking the phone and putting it in hi…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/12/10/experience-of-four-year-old-jack-example-of-what-is-happening-in-nhs-corbyn/

Self-Defense in the Civil Rights Movement: the Lessons of Birmingham, 1963
Michael Barker | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
Hope is the fuel upon which working-class movements for social change draw their core strength. But hope divorced from solid organizing leads no-where. So, if we are to continue to propel our class forward it is vital that we learn the full lessons of how our sweetest victories are seized from the hands of our…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/self-defense-in-the-civil-rights-movement-the-lessons-of-birmingham-1963/

Turkish government blocks care of Kurdish HDP's jailed ex-leader Demirtaş
wsws.org | 2019-12-10
Ankara is broadly cracking down on Kurdish politicians, including Kurdish mayors elected this year, amid growing ethnic conflicts linked to the imperialist war in Syria.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/10/turk-d10.html

A Beautiful but Deceptive Documentary: "For Sama"
Rick Sterling | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-10
The documentary movie "For Sama" has won a host of awards in Europe and North America. Its producers and protagonists, Syrians Waad Kateab and her husband Dr. Hamza Kateab plus English film-maker Edward Watts, have received gushing praise. And the awards will probably keep coming. Unfortunately, behind a human interest story, the movie "For Sama" …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/a-beautiful-but-deceptive-documentary-for-sama/

50 Years of Resistance
Mike Rhodes | indybay.org | 2019-12-10
This is a radio show I produced about the 50 Years of Resistance event held in Fresno in June 2019. The show features several speakers, including David Harris, Vince Lavery, Sandra Iyall and Don Teeter talking about the anti-war/Draft Resistance movement in Fresno in the late 1960's and early 70's.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/07/18828715.php

Trump vs. Democracy
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
The US House of Representatives marked a milestone on November 6, 2019, as it decided to report out articles of impeachment on Trump. But there's a bigger picture to consider. The impeachment represents a new stage in the political 'food fight' between the two wings of the political-economic elite in the USA. It also represents…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/trump-vs-democracy/

The politics of Hollywood & the Trump impeachment parties
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2019-12-10
As the impeachment of Donald J. Trump in the House of Representatives excites people across the nation and inspires people to party down with some impeachment parties in celebration, it appears that the GOP and the Republican Party has gone totally insane with their lies and feeble attempts to defend Trump from himself!
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/09/18828764.php

"The Oppressive State is a Macho Rapist" Chilean flashmob dance comes to San Francisco
Impeach Piñera | indybay.org | 2019-12-10
The viral anti-state, anti-femicide dance flashmob from Chile has come to San Francisco.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/07/18828719.php

What's the Matter With America?
Thomas M. Magstadt | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
To impeach or not to impeach. A lot of decent voters don't know what to think. Kansas is no exception, but Kansas has a number of exceptional role models for our troubled times, leaders who demonstrated that it's okay to change one's mind in politics. In fact, it's a mark of true character. Changing Sides: Emporia's…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/whats-the-matter-with-america/

Was Trump Looking for Corruption or a Personal Favor?
Nick Licata | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
Congress's first round of impeachment hearings wound up largely focused on whether President Trump had offered a quid pro quo for receiving a favor from Ukraine, i.e. Trump would release held up military aid and other signs of US support only after Ukraine investigated a particular company that employed Joe Biden's son, and the former…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/was-trump-looking-for-corruption-or-a-personal-favor/

Afghanistan: a Pentagon Paradise Built on Lies
Jacob Hornberger | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
The Pentagon cannot be pleased with the Washington Post. That's because…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/afghanistan-a-pentagon-paradise-built-on-lies/

Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
Walden Bello | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
China's experiment with socialism was chaotic and failed to produce the much-desired transition to development and prosperity. When the country broke with socialism and cautiously ventured into market-led development in the countryside in the late 1970s, China was one of most equal societies on earth. It was also quite poor, with over 30 percent of…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/capitalism-with-chinese-characteristics/

US Army Prepares Biggest Deployment to Europe in 25 Years
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-12-10
In 2020, the US Army will be carrying out its biggest deployment in 25 years into Europe.
theantimedia.com/us-army-prepares-biggest-deployment-to-europe-in-25-years/

Uranium Contaminated Site Collapsed into the Detroit River During the Thanksgiving Holiday
Kevin Reed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-10
The shoreline of a Detroit, Michigan property contaminated by uranium and other chemicals dating back to the 1940s collapsed into the Detroit River during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. The public was not alerted to the existence of the toxic spill …
globalresearch.ca/uranium-contaminated-site-collapsed-detroit-river-during-thanksgiving-holiday/5697194

Fish All Gone! Gulf of Alaska Fishery to Close for the First Time Ever: No More Cod: Salmon All but Gone: Millions of Small Sea Birds Died Since 2015
The Big Wobble | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-10
November 2019, thousands of short-tailed shearwaters birds migrating from Alaska were washing up dead on Sydney's iconic beaches. | Extremely low cod numbers have lead feds to close the Gulf of Alaska fishery for the first time ever. In an unprecedented …
globalresearch.ca/gulf-alaska-fishery-close-first-time-ever-no-more-cod-salmon/5697199

Kalamata City Council Blocks 5G Pilot Program Due to Health Risks
Greek City Times | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-10
Kalamata Council has decided to block further development and operation of the 5G network program, which is currently being piloted in the Peloponnesian city. | The council held a meeting and considered the radiation of the mobile network upgrade to be …
globalresearch.ca/kalamata-city-council-blocks-5g-pilot-program-due-health-risks/5697197

Willingness to Compromise Puts Wilderness at Risk
Howie Wolke | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
Many wilderness advocates would be surprised to learn that some well-known conservation organizations that purport to protect wild nature, actually facilitate the destruction of wild nature. Specifically, the Greater Yellowstone Coalition, The Wilderness Society and the Montana Wilderness Association, via the "Gallatin Forest Partnership" (GFP), support mechanized transportation and resource extraction for many of the…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/willingness-to-compromise-puts-wilderness-at-risk/

A Troubled Family: NATO Turns 70
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
Summit anniversaries are not usually this abysmally interesting. While those paying visits to Watford, England on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are supposedly signatories to the same agreement, a casual glance would have suggested otherwise. This was a show of some bickering. France, never the most comfortable member,…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/a-troubled-family-nato-turns-70/

Citizens Are Never Trusted
Brian Horejsi | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-10
My personal impression of Canada is that of a tattered nation where social cohesiveness based on equality of all citizens in the eyes of the law and within our political system, and with a common-good agenda, has been in continuous decline since…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/10/citizens-are-never-trusted/

"The Victory of Syria over Global Terrorism Will Benefit Humanity": Vanessa Beeley on Syria War
Vanessa Beeley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-10
Mark Taliano: Why is the truth about Syria important? Vanessa Beeley: It is important because in Syria the "humanitarian" hybrid war strategy of the Globalist powers in the so-called civilised "global north" is being exposed real time as Syria …
globalresearch.ca/victory-syria-global-terrorism-benefit-humanity-vanessa-beeley-syria-war/5697217

NATO Summit Strengthens the 'War Party'
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-10
French President Macron spoke of the "brain death" of NATO, others called it "moribund." Is this military alliance, without a head of its own, crumbling as a result of internal fractures? The disputes at the [Dec. 3-4] London Summit seem …
globalresearch.ca/nato-summit-strengthens-war-party/5697207

Real climate action requires cutting coal exports
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-12-10
climate emergency Zane AlcornIssue 1248 Australia coal exports Adani Carmichael coal mineDecember 10, 2019On December 9, Labor leader Anthony Albanese reaffirmed his party's support f…
greenleft.org.au/content/real-climate-action-requires-cutting-coal-exports

Duterte to lift martial law in S. Philippines by year's end — aide
rt.com | 2019-12-10
President Rodrigo Duterte will lift martial law in the southern Philippines by year's end, his spokesman said on Tuesday. | Duterte put the Mindanao region under military rule in May 2017, hours after gunmen flying the black Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) flag seized the mainly Muslim city of Marawi, sparking a five-month battle that left 1,200 people dead, AFP said. | The presidential palace "is confident on the capability of our security forces in maintaining the peace and security of Mindanao without extending martial law" beyond December 31, presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said. Duterte's securit…
rt.com/newsline/475459-duterte-lift-martial-philippines/

Seoul says N. Korea's recent test was 'of rocket engine'
rt.com | 2019-12-10
South Korea's defense minister said on Tuesday that Pyongyang's recent unspecified test at a launch site was of a rocket engine, amid speculation that the North was making preliminary steps toward a prohibited long-range rocket launch, AP reported. | Jeong Kyeong-doo said during a visit to Sydney that Seoul expressed its "deep concerns" over the engine test and North Korea's recent ballistic missile launches into the sea, according to his office in Seoul. | It was the first official outside assessment of what North Korea called "a very important test" at its Tongchang-ri rocket launch site. The North's Academy…
rt.com/newsline/475466-korea-test-rocket-engine/

Russian military delivers first humanitarian aid to Raqqa, left in ruins by US-led coalition (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-12-10
Russian military forces have delivered food and provided medical assistance to the residents of Raqqa in the first such humanitarian mission aimed at helping civilians who are struggling to survive in the city scarred by war. | The first column of Russian military trucks loaded with food and medical supplies entered the capital of Syria's northern province on Monday. | Once designated as the unofficial capital of the notorious Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), the city was recaptured by the US-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in 2017 after spending three years under extremist rule. However, what wa…
rt.com/news/475439-russian-military-humanitarian-aid-raqqa/

World's entire history, every revolution, every war, is shaped by taxation — RT's Keiser Report
rt.com | 2019-12-10
The most innovative societies in history were always low-tax civilizations, according to British author and co-host of Money Pit Dominic Frisby. He joins Keiser Report to discuss the history of taxation. | A big believer in low taxes, Frisby says labor should be taxed far less than it is now, noting that 50 percent of governments' revenue is derived from income tax. | "The ultimate form of taxation is, of course, slavery, where you lose all ownership of your labor," he says, adding that throughout history taxes had unintended consequences. | "The entire history of the world, the entire history of civilizati…
rt.com/business/475482-world-history-shaped-by-taxation/

'Guided by prejudices & biases': India hits back at US after it threatened sanctions over citizenship bill
rt.com | 2019-12-10
New Delhi slammed the US state-run religious freedom watchdog after it claimed that India's new citizenship bill is discriminatory towards the country's Muslims and threatened India with sanctions. | The criticism of the citizenship bill by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) is "neither accurate nor warranted," India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement on Tuesday. | The position articulated by USCIRF is not surprising given its past record. It is, however, regrettable that the body has chosen to be guided only by its prejudices and biases on a matter on which it clea…
rt.com/news/475484-india-us-citizenship-bill/

Shooting at Czech hospital leaves at least 6 killed, suspect on the run
rt.com | 2019-12-10
Six people have been killed in a hospital shooting in Ostrava, Czech Republic. The police are on the hunt for the suspected perpetrator and have ramped up security in other places. | The shooting happened on Tuesday morning at University Hospital Ostrava in the northeastern part of the country. The Czech police initially said four people were killed and two others were seriously injured. Those two succumbed to their wounds, Prime Minister Andrej Babis confirmed. | The shooting reportedly happened in the traumatology ward of the hospital. | Policisté p≈ôijali oznámení o st≈ôelbƒ&oti…
rt.com/news/475462-ostrava-shooting-hospital-dead/

'It sent me into a mini coma!' Russian Slapping Champion 'Dumpling' KO'd & hospitalized in defeat (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-12-10
Russia's slapping champion behemoth Vasiliy 'Dumpling' Khamotiskiy, who shot to fame as the vicious viral star of a crazy new Russian sport, has been sensationally slapped unconscious in a recent shocking defeat. | READ MORE: 'We need this in the Olympics ASAP!': Russian 'male slapping championships' proves huge hit (VIDEO) | Dumpling, a farmer from the small Siberian village of Ilansky, became a viral hit when footage of him knocking out rivals on his way to winning the inaugural 'Russian Slapping Ch…
rt.com/sport/475374-slapping-champion-dumpling-ko-knockout/

Georgian killed in Berlin was a murderer & terrorist, but 'I don't know what happened to him' — Putin
rt.com | 2019-12-10
The Georgian national killed in Berlin was a murderous terrorist, but Russia had nothing to do with his death, President Vladimir Putin said. He was commenting on Germany's expulsion of two Russian diplomats. | Last week, the German government banished two Russian diplomats for insufficient cooperation with the police probe into the death of Tornike K, also known as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian national gunned down in Berlin's Tiergarten Park in August. | Asked about it after the 'Normandy Four' meeting in Paris on Monday, Putin said that to call the man a "Georgian" is not quite right, as he is not an e…
rt.com/news/475447-putin-georgian-berlin-terrorist/