China's Rise and Rise Proves a Winning Formula
James O'Neill | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-09
On the second of December this year the Chinese representative to the United Nations General Assembly addressed the meeting on the topic of Palestine and more particularly on his country's view of the ongoing disasters that daily inflict the Palestinians in that country. Unsurprisingly, the speech received no coverage in the Australian media. The continued …
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Venezuelan court convicts the CITGO Six
Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2020-12-09
Venezuela's Supreme Court sentenced six top CITGO oil executives to prison for corruption, embezzlement, money laundering and conspiracy on Nov. 26. The former executives went behind the back of the Venezuelan state and signed an agreement with two U.S. based-international financial companies — for which they were detained in Nov. . . . | Continue reading Venezuelan court convicts the CITGO Six at Workers.org…
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Recognize and act on warning signs of genocide, Guterres urges, honouring victims
news.un.org | 2020-12-09
Social media platforms, technology companies, and religious and civil society leaders have a central role in combatting hate speech, "a clear warning sign" of genocide, the United Nations Secretary-General has said.
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Venezuela: New Parliament Needs To Solve a Way Out To Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-09
Over 6 million 200 thousand voters headed to the polls in Venezuela's parliamentary elections that took place under a climate of normality and total transparency as reported by international observers on December 6. | RELATED: | Venezuela: Constituent Assembly Will Cease Functions This Month | With 98.63 percent of the electoral records transmitted by the National Electoral Council (CNE) on Monday, the Great Patriotic Pole (GPP) coalition secured a majority in the new Parliame…
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Top Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi quits PLO amid rumours of rift
Sheren Khalel | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-09
Top Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi quits PLO amid rumours of rift | The politician says speculation her resignation is due to Palestinian Authority's resumption of coordination with Israel last month is 'misleading and irresponsible' | Sheren Khalel | Wed, 12/09/2020 – 18: 33 | Ashrawi served on executive committee of PLO for more than a decade (AFP) | Prominent Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi has confirm…
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Israeli 'anti-terrorism' lawyer was convicted over attacks on Palestinians
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-09
Israeli 'anti-terrorism' lawyer was convicted over attacks on Palestinians | Aviel Leitner, who works for Shurat HaDin, was jailed over 1980s attacks linked to far-right Kach party in East Jerusalem and West Bank | MEE staff | Wed, 12/09/2020 – 16: 54 | Aviel Leitner (L) pictured next to Israeli Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana (C) and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner at a Shurat HaDin conference in February 2020 (Facebook)…
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To Depose Liberalism's Own 'Prosperity Gospel': A Modest Proposal
Kim C. Domenico | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-09
Brother Mike [pastor at Shenandoah Bible Baptist Church] would say my soul is troubling me and that I need to be washed in the blood and redeemed by the grace of him who bled for our sins. I'd say that I am troubled by the distinct impression of approaching tri-horned fascism — part Christian, part…
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Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-09
How can we move beyond a mindset dictated by the logic of prison, policing and anti-Blackness? What is "abolition feminism"? And how do the politics of gender, including the criminalization of trans and nonbinary people, dovetail with our understandings of race? How can deconstructing racialized gender binaries help us move toward justice and liberation? | To confront these questions, I spoke with Che Gossett, a Black nonbinary femme writer based in Brooklyn, New York. They are a 2019-2020 Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critic…
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Azeri FM meeting with Shamkhani
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-09
TEHRAN, Dec. 09 (MNA) — Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov met and held talks with the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani in Tehran on Wednesday.
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Where's the Hitler?
C.J. Hopkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-09
All right, that's it. I've run out of patience. No more excuses. Where's the Hitler? Yes, you heard me. I'm talking to you. You respectable journalists and political pundits. You Intelligence officials and politicians. You fanatical liberals. You pseudo anti-fascists. All you members of the GloboCap "Resistance" who have been hysterically shrieking that "Trump is …
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Wednesday 12/9: Stand Together SF: Systemic Racism and How it has Affected the Asian and Black Communities
San Francisco Human Rights Commision | indybay.org | 2020-12-09
Online via Zoom…
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Obama's Memoir Offers Insights Into Major Shortcomings
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-09
We have a complicated country and Barack Obama was a complicated president. In terms of presidential performance and temperament, Obama was one of our best. His inheritance from the mediocre George W. Bush was wretched, and, in view of the ugly racist opposition that he faced, Obama played his political and economic hand better than…
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Those Who Don't Fear the Lobby
Craig Wood | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-09