Monthly Archives: November 2021

2021-11-24: News Headlines

Ali Abunimah (2021-11-24). Apple sues Israeli spy firm NSO Group. electronicintifada.net Mercenary spyware firms "have facilitated some of the world's worst human rights abuses."

Staff (2021-11-24). Headlines for November 24, 2021. democracynow.org Jury Finds "Unite the Right" Organizers Responsible for Deadly Violence, House Cmte Subpoenas Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers Over Jan. 6 Insurrection, Georgia Jury Deliberates For Second Day In Murder Trial of Men Who Killed Ahmaud Arbery, Kevin Strickland Exonerated and Freed 43 Years After He Was Wrongfully Convicted by All-White Jury, Ethiopian State TV: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Has Gone to Battlefront in Escalating Conflict, Chun Doo Hwan, U.S.-Backed, Ex-Military Dictator in South Korea, Has Died, Portugal Shutters Last Coal-Fired Plant, U.S. and Other Nations To Tap Oil Reserves In Attempt To Lower Consum…

Staff (2021-11-24). "The War Party": Jeremy Scahill on How U.S. Militarism Unifies Democrats & Republicans. democracynow.org As Democrats in Congress struggle to pass the $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, there is large bipartisan consensus in the U.S. Congress to spend over $7 trillion over the next 10 years in military spending. The United States spends more each year on defense than China, Russia, India, the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, and Australia combined. "Democrats have to engage in theater about human rights and international law and due process, but they ultimately, at the end of the day, are just as aggressive as Republicans," says investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of the Intercept. His most recent p…

WSWS (2021-11-24). Dana Fort Wayne workers voice growing opposition as USW stonewalls on local contract. wsws.org After workers voted to reject the local contract at both the Dana Fort Wayne, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky plants, the United Steelworkers is keeping them in the dark on the status of a possible renegotiation of the agreement.

Ramzy Baroud (2021-11-24). Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders. zcomm.org Raids, Arrests and Death Threats…

WSWS (2021-11-24). Groveland Four are exonerated more than 70 years after racist frame-up. wsws.org Four young black men—Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd and Ernest Thomas—were falsely charged with the rape of a young white woman in a case that was all too typical of the Jim Crow era.

_____ (2021-11-24). A Chronicle of the Pre-election Race in ROK: Democrats Made Up their Mind, But… journal-neo.org The author continues his series of articles on the presidential race in South Korea, as both camps have made up their minds as to the leading candidates. On 31 August 2021, the ruling Toburo Democratic Party launched a campaign to elect its candidate for the 2022 presidential election. 11 rounds of preliminary regional elections were …

Staff (2021-11-23). Headlines for November 23, 2021. democracynow.org Jury to Decide Fate of Three White Men Charged With Murdering Black Jogger Ahmaud Arbery, Yemeni Protesters Condemn U.S. Support for Saudi-Led War and Blockade, Senators Move to Block Biden's Planned $650M Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia, U.S. COVID-19 Cases Surge Ahead of Thanksgiving Holiday, Israel Arrests Relatives of Palestinian Man Behind Jerusalem Attack, El Salvador President Plans "Bitcoin City" as Government Cracks Down on NGOs, Driver of SUV That Plowed into Wisconsin Parade Has Record of Domestic Violence, Trump Allies Roger Stone and Alex Jones Subpoenaed by January 6th Panel, U.S. Added to List of "Bac…

Staff (2021-11-23). 27 November, Toronto: Resistance And Solidarity Until Liberation. samidoun.net Saturday, 27 November 2 pm 2 Bloor St E Toronto, ON Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/405277304417689 The Zionist state of Israel operates with complete impunity, from its embedded legal framework to the massive military and diplomatic support it receives from Western governments, particularly, the US and Canada. Its decades-long colonization of Palestine, home demolitions and ongoing ethnic cleansing […] | The article

Yasmeen Afghan (2021-11-23). Three months of Taliban occupation: Barbarism unlimited. greenleft.org.au November 16 marked exactly three months of Taliban occupation of Kabul, reports Yasmeen Afghan. The world cannot turn its back.

MK Bhadrakumar (2021-11-23). US stance on Ukraine, Taiwan uniting China, Russia. asiatimes.com The "feel-good" from the virtual meeting on November 16 between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping is declining like that after the US-Russian summit in Geneva in June. Biden's talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently sought to create a "stable and predictable" relationship with Russia, but there is talk of war now. On …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-23). NAM: How the Military-Industrial Complex Sidelined Peace and Disarmament. libya360.wordpress.com ND Jayaprakash The untiring efforts of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesian President Sukarno, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, salvaged the objects and purpose of the Bandung Conference in 1961. That year, 25 countries—eleven each from Asia and Africa and Yugoslavia, Cuba, and Cyprus—formed the Non-Aligned Movement…

Tania Siddiqi (2021-11-23). Victory for farmers in India!! workers.org On Nov. 19, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, leader of the fascist Bharatiya Janata Party, declared that he would concede to protesting farmers' demands to repeal three pro-capitalist farm laws. For over a year, farmers have engaged in coordinated acts of resistance across India. Farmers in India celebrate victory on . . . |

A Guest Author (2021-11-23). Orgullo, poder y protesta indígenas: Más fuertes que nunca en el Día Nacional del Duelo. workers.org Por K. James øCuáles son los mitos fundacionales de Estados Unidos? øQuién los creó, y a quiénes borran y perjudican? Durante los últimos 51 años, United American Indians of New England (UAINE) y sus partidarios se han reunido en el llamado Día de Acción de Gracias en Plymouth, Massachusetts, . . . |

_____ (2021-11-23). World Misses Israel's Hebrew-Language Incitement Against Palestinians. popularresistance.org Zionist incitement against Palestinians is at an all-time high but you wouldn't know it by reading the international press because it is all done in Hebrew. The violent, racist-supremacist discourse that takes place in the Israeli media and among Israeli politicians is also done in Hebrew and so it gets little or no attention. And so, as the world remains comfortably numb, the Zionist apartheid state is wiping Palestine — or what remains of it — off the face of the earth. The intent is to push Palestinians out of their homes, to take their land, to erase their history, and eventually, to come to the m…

_____ (2021-11-23). World Misses Israel's Incitement Against Palestinians. popularresistance.org The Naqab – Zionist incitement against Palestinians is at an all-time high but you wouldn't know it by reading the international press because it is all done in Hebrew. The violent, racist-supremacist discourse that takes place in the Israeli media and among Israeli politicians is also done in Hebrew and so it gets little or no attention. And so, as the world remains comfortably numb, the Zionist apartheid state is wiping Palestine — or what remains of it — off the face of the earth. The intent is to push Palestinians out of their homes, to take their land, to erase their history, and eventually, to c…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-23). Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders. libya360.wordpress.com Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a socialist political group that Israel considers, along…

Zoe Alexandra (2021-11-23). Violence and intimidation leave bloody imprint on Honduran elections. peoplesdispatch.org Ahead of Sunday's elections in Honduras, Olivia Zúniga Cáceres, congresswoman of the Libre Party, talks about the violence, hate and intimidation suffered by candidates and members of the opposition…

_____ (2021-11-23). Details of the Economic Relations Between PRC and South Korea in 2021. journal-neo.org The economic interaction between the ROK and the PRC during the reviewed period represented several overlapping trends. On the one hand, Beijing continues to act against companies involved in deploying US missile defense in South Korea. It restrains the penetration of South Korean cultural content into the country (mainly as part of the overall strategy …

WSWS (2021-11-23). Enthusiastic support for SEP's forthcoming public meeting on Sri Lankan government's austerity budget. wsws.org Teachers, health employees, port workers, export processing zone employees and farmers, denounce Rajapakse government's brutal austerity budget.

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-11-23). US base in Syria targeted by rockets. en.mehrnews.com According to local sources in Syria, the US base in eastern Syria has been targeted by four rockets which caused massive explosions.

_____ (2021-11-23). Washington's Neo-Colonial Policy in Syria. journal-neo.org The use of armies and mercenaries to support colonial commercial projects has become the standard of US behavior. And this is particularly evident due to the actions of Washington in Syria. The US, supported by its army and its many thousands of private military companies (PMCs), continues to loot the country, its energy resources, artifacts, …

Staff (2021-11-23). US destroyer sails through Taiwan Strait. rt.com An American warship has again sailed through the disputed Taiwan Strait, a move sure to enrage Beijing after repeat warnings over previous transits, which Washington deems "routine" missions to ensure a "free and open" Pacific. | A US guided-missile destroyer made its way through the strait on Tuesday local time, the Navy's 7th Fleet announced in a

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-11-23). Sino-Russian collusion over Taiwan, Ukraine seems improbable but isn't. mronline.org U.S. has whipped up war hysteria over satellite image of Russian military camp in Yelnya, over 500 kms from Ukraine border, to allege Moscow's invasion plans and to justify NATO involvement.

_____ (2021-11-23). Erdogan's Policies Lead to Failure. journal-neo.org General elections in Turkey are scheduled for June 18, 2023, but due to the initiative of political forces opposed to Erdogan, it may occur earlier. Voters will elect a new president and 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, each for a five-year term. Therefore, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is already actively …

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2021-11-23: News Headlines

Staff (2021-11-23). Headlines for November 23, 2021. democracynow.org Jury to Decide Fate of Three White Men Charged With Murdering Black Jogger Ahmaud Arbery, Yemeni Protesters Condemn U.S. Support for Saudi-Led War and Blockade, Senators Move to Block Biden's Planned $650M Weapons Sale to Saudi Arabia, U.S. COVID-19 Cases Surge Ahead of Thanksgiving Holiday, Israel Arrests Relatives of Palestinian Man Behind Jerusalem Attack, El Salvador President Plans "Bitcoin City" as Government Cracks Down on NGOs, Driver of SUV That Plowed into Wisconsin Parade Has Record of Domestic Violence, Trump Allies Roger Stone and Alex Jones Subpoenaed by January 6th Panel, U.S. Added to List of "Bac…

Yasmeen Afghan (2021-11-23). Three months of Taliban occupation: Barbarism unlimited. greenleft.org.au November 16 marked exactly three months of Taliban occupation of Kabul, reports Yasmeen Afghan. The world cannot turn its back.

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-23). NAM: How the Military-Industrial Complex Sidelined Peace and Disarmament. libya360.wordpress.com ND Jayaprakash The untiring efforts of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Indonesian President Sukarno, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, salvaged the objects and purpose of the Bandung Conference in 1961. That year, 25 countries—eleven each from Asia and Africa and Yugoslavia, Cuba, and Cyprus—formed the Non-Aligned Movement…

MK Bhadrakumar (2021-11-23). US stance on Ukraine, Taiwan uniting China, Russia. asiatimes.com The "feel-good" from the virtual meeting on November 16 between President Joe Biden and President Xi Jinping is declining like that after the US-Russian summit in Geneva in June. Biden's talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin apparently sought to create a "stable and predictable" relationship with Russia, but there is talk of war now. On …

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-23). Raids, Arrests and Death Threats: Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders. libya360.wordpress.com Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo On October 21, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced the issuance of a military order designating six prominent Palestinian human rights groups as 'terrorist organizations'. Gantz claimed that they are secretly linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a socialist political group that Israel considers, along…

WSWS (2021-11-23). Enthusiastic support for SEP's forthcoming public meeting on Sri Lankan government's austerity budget. wsws.org Teachers, health employees, port workers, export processing zone employees and farmers, denounce Rajapakse government's brutal austerity budget.

_____ (2021-11-23). Washington's Neo-Colonial Policy in Syria. journal-neo.org The use of armies and mercenaries to support colonial commercial projects has become the standard of US behavior. And this is particularly evident due to the actions of Washington in Syria. The US, supported by its army and its many thousands of private military companies (PMCs), continues to loot the country, its energy resources, artifacts, …

Marzieh Rahmani (2021-11-23). US base in Syria targeted by rockets. en.mehrnews.com According to local sources in Syria, the US base in eastern Syria has been targeted by four rockets which caused massive explosions.

Staff (2021-11-23). US destroyer sails through Taiwan Strait. rt.com An American warship has again sailed through the disputed Taiwan Strait, a move sure to enrage Beijing after repeat warnings over previous transits, which Washington deems "routine" missions to ensure a "free and open" Pacific. | A US guided-missile destroyer made its way through the strait on Tuesday local time, the Navy's 7th Fleet announced in a

M. K. Bhadrakumar (2021-11-23). Sino-Russian collusion over Taiwan, Ukraine seems improbable but isn't. mronline.org U.S. has whipped up war hysteria over satellite image of Russian military camp in Yelnya, over 500 kms from Ukraine border, to allege Moscow's invasion plans and to justify NATO involvement.

_____ (2021-11-23). Erdogan's Policies Lead to Failure. journal-neo.org cGeneral elections in Turkey are scheduled for June 18, 2023, but due to the initiative of political forces opposed to Erdogan, it may occur earlier. Voters will elect a new president and 600 members of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, each for a five-year term. Therefore, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is already actively …

_____ (2021-11-22). The US is Preparing a Biological Time Bomb in Kazakhstan. journal-neo.org The Open Regulations website and the website of the Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development of the Republic of Kazakhstan recently published information on the Kazakh government's intention to build a "BSL-4 laboratory and underground storage facility for a collection of dangerous and highly dangerous strains" in the south of the country in the Korday …

Editor2 (2021-11-22). After a Year of Struggle by Farmers, Indian Government Forced to Withdraw Farm Laws. orinocotribune.com Editorial Note: Since the three Farm Laws were already passed in the Parliament (by unconstitutional means) and signed by the president of India, they can only be withdrawn by the Parliament, that is, the government has to bring another bill stating that the laws are being withdrawn, the MPs will vote on it, then the resolution is to be sent to the president. Long process. | Movements across India celebrated the struggle by the farmers during which they faced great repression and vilification. Around 750 people are believed to have died during the agitation which saw thousands camp on the borders of Delhi | After…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-11-22). European Court of Human Rights holds Croatian authorities responsible for death of migrant child. peoplesdispatch.org An Afghan migrant family was forcefully pushed back from the border by the Croatian authorities in 2017. A six-year-old child in the family was later hit and killed by a train while walking on foot near the Serbian border…

Bruce Cumings (2021-11-22). Korea, A Unique Colony: Last to be Colonized and First to Revolt. asia-pacificresearch.com

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-22). NAM and India's Attempts to Nurture Asian-African Ties. libya360.wordpress.com ND Jayaprakash After the ceasefire agreement came into force in Korea on 27 July 1953, the United States shifted its attention to Indo-China to prevent the defeat of France in its colonial war of over seven years. On 18 May 1953, United States Secretary of State John Dulles had already expressed alarm. He said, "…all…

Colin Todhunter (2021-11-22). A Rock and a Hard Place in India. dissidentvoice.org Prior to the COVID-related restrictions and lockdowns, I had spent a substantial part of every year in India since 1995 (25 consecutive years). Much has happened in that time and I have been observing, analysing and commentating extensively on developments there, especially the devastating agrarian crisis. While veteran rural affairs reporter P Sainath has described …

WSWS (2021-11-22). After year of protests, Modi says three pro-agribusiness laws will be repealed. wsws.org The far-right Modi government is withdrawing the farm bills only so as to better prepare and prosecute its class war offensive against India's workers and toilers.

Staff (2021-11-22). Anti-Chavismo Comes Out to Vote and Calls for Participation in 21N Regional Elections. orinocotribune.com From very early on this Sunday, November 21, candidates and politicians of the Venezuelan opposition exercised their right to vote to elect future state governors, mayors, state legislators and city councilors of the country. | Opposition politicians detailed their experience at the polls with images and messages to motivate the participation of citizens in the elections. One such politician was David Uzcátegui, Fuerza Vecinal candidate for the governorship of the state of Miranda, who, through his Twitter account, reported that he had already exercised his right to vote in the company of his family. | "People of…

_____ (2021-11-22). The Middle East: Who is Setting Fire to the Entire Region? journal-neo.org Representatives of Iran and the G4+1 (Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia) are expected to hold the seventh round of discussions on lifting US sanctions against the Islamic Republic in Vienna on November 29. Negotiations were suspended in June when the Islamic Republic held presidential elections. Since then, the new Iranian administration has reviewed the details …

John Feffer (2021-11-22). The Problem of Sanctions against North Korea. fpif.org North Korea is one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world. It has been subject to U.S. and international sanctions for more than 70 years. Those sanctions have come in three overlapping waves, first as a result of the Korean War, then in response to its development of nuclear weapons, and finally to roll back that nuclear program as well as activities such as counterfeiting and cyberterrorism. | These sanctions have contributed to isolating North Korea from the rest of the world. The country has not entirely welcomed this isolation. Despite longstanding suspicions of outside influences, Pyongyang h…

Dan Williams (2021-11-22). Qatar prepares for World Cup 2022. america.cgtn.com The countdown to the 2022 World Cup is on.

Staff (2021-11-22). Trump awarded a black belt. rt.com Donald Trump has been awarded an honorary black belt in taekwondo by a South Korean academy due to his interest in the martial art. The belt marks the former US president as a 'Ninth Dan', the highest attainable level. | The coveted belt and certificate were given to Trump on Friday by Lee Dong-seop, president of the Seoul-based Kukkiwon, also known as the World Taekwondo Headquarters. The handover ceremony was held at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. | "It is my pleasure and honor to receive this honorary certificate. Taekwondo is a great martial art for protecting oneself in these times," Trump said,…

Editor (2021-11-22). UN Commission objects to OPCW report on Syria. mronline.org The UN Commission on Syria does not consider as proven the alleged chemical weapons attack in April 2018.

Aaron Maté (2021-11-22). Corrupting Science: in Syria probe, OPCW erased experts' inconvenient findings. thegrayzone.com Early in the OPCW's Douma investigation, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the victims' cause of death. Leaks expose how senior OPCW officials censored this explosive finding — and then targeted the inspector who raised the alarm. In the early days of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' investigation of an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria, expert toxicologists ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of death for the more than 40 civilians reported at the …

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-11-22). Prestigious Weaponry Expert Censored After Demonstrating that a Deadly Poison Gas Attack—Blamed on the Syrian Government—Was Really a False-Flag Operation by U.S.-Funded Terrorists. covertactionmagazine.com Top MIT Scientist Was Subject to Defamatory Attacks and Had Article Exposing Truth About Alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Attacks Pulled …

Tom Engelhardt (2021-11-22). Tomgram: Andrea Mazzarino, Our Needs Versus the Pentagon's. warisacrime.org This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Don't you wonder sometimes why officials in Washington have never paid the slightest attention to that famous old Vietnam-era song lyric, "War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!"? After all, two decades of the American "Global War …

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