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
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
Moroccan authorities use force to prevent pro-Palestine rally
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-15
The protesters were trying to take out a march opposing Morocco's deal to normalize its ties with Israel. In exchange for the deal, the US has agreed to recognize Moroccan sovereignty over the occupied Western Sahara…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/15/moroccan-authorities-use-force-to-prevent-pro-palestine-rally/
Starmer's purge turns against Palestine solidarity
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-15
The ongoing attack on the left in Labour is increasingly targeting those who are vocal in support for Palestine, writes Sybil Cock.
mronline.org/2020/12/15/starmers-purge-turns-against-palestine-solidarity/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=starmers-purge-turns-against-palestine-solidarity
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…
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The Most Lethal Virus Is Not COVID. It Is War
John Pilger | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
John Pilger describes the invisible weapon of past and current wars, and the threat of nuclear war, under cover of the Covid pandemic. This is propaganda, aided by censorship by omission. | Watch Pilger's 2010 film The War You Don't See…
globalresearch.ca/most-lethal-virus-not-covid-war/5732310
Western Sahara Is the "Reward" to Morocco for Recognizing Israel
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
President Donald Trump announced on December 10 that Morocco had joined UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan in recognizing Israel, with plans to reopen its liaison office in Tel Aviv, and joint overflight rights for airlines. The US, Israel, and Morocco triangle | …
globalresearch.ca/western-sahara-reward-morocco-recognizing-israel/5732299
Outgoing Syria Envoy James Jeffrey Reflects on "What Everyone Got Wrong"
James Jeffrey | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-15
In a long-ranging interview with Al-Monitor, James Jeffrey looks back on his efforts to incorporate fragments of Obama-era initiatives into a cohesive Middle East policy. | *** | In August 2016, former US Ambassador to Iraq and Turkey James Jeffrey signed a …
globalresearch.ca/outgoing-syria-envoy-reflects-turkey-kurds-what-everyone-got-wrong/5732346
Russia Begins COVID-19 Vaccination Throughout Its Territory
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-15
Russia's Health Minister Mikhail Murashko on Tuesday announced the start of COVID-19 vaccination throughout the country, adding that his institution has settled a national network for the transportation of the Sputnik V vaccine. | RELATED: | Russian Vaccine Sputnik V Has Over 90 Percent Effectiveness | Besides announcing that President Vladimir Putin's administration will seek to attract new companies for the production of the vaccine, he explained that the conservation of Sputnik V will b…
telesurenglish.net/news/Russia-Begins-COVID-19-Vaccination-Throughout-Its-Territory-20201215-0006.html
New data expose catastrophe of Turkey's "herd immunity" policy
wsws.org | 2020-12-15
One of the world's biggest cover-ups of the pandemic is taking place in Turkey as part of a global, criminal "herd immunity" policy in the interests of the ruling class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/15/turk-d15.html
India's Farmer Revolt
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-15
The farmers' struggle taking place now on the borders of Delhi and its neighbouring states is one of the most important mass agitations that India has seen in its three decades of neoliberal reforms. | Since 26 November, hundreds of thousands of farmers have congregated on the borders of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. At the beginning, most of them were from the state of Punjab, located about 200 km from Delhi, but many more have since joined from the state of Haryana, which abuts Delhi on three sides, and then from Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh as well. With their caravans, the farmers ha…
popularresistance.org/indias-farmer-revolt/
Soleimani entered Gaza to repel Israeli attacks, blockade
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-15
TEHRAN, Dec. 15 (MNA) — Firas Al Najim, a Canada-based human rights activist, points to the role of Martyred Lieutenant General Ghasem Soleimani in the fight against terrorism in West Asia, and his support for Palestinian resistance.
en.mehrnews.com/news/167213/Soleimani-entered-Gaza-to-repel-Israeli-attacks-blockade
Yemeni army foils Saudi aggression in Dhale province
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-15