The new-style pop histories making socialism cool again
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-12-09
Online and on social media, popular historians are helping young Chinese reframe the country's leftist past in a more positive light.
mronline.org/2020/12/09/the-new-style-pop-histories-making-socialism-cool-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-new-style-pop-histories-making-socialism-cool-again

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)…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-anti-terrorism-lawyer-shurat-hadin-convicted-attacks-palestinians

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.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1079592

Khaf-Herat railway significant for Tehran, Kabul & region
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-09
TEHRAN, Dec. 09 (MNA) — In a tweet on Wednesday, Iranian FM Zarif highlighted the importance of the Khaf-Herat railway noting that its significance is not only for Iran & Afghanistan but for the greater region.
en.mehrnews.com/news/166979/Khaf-Herat-railway-significant-for-Tehran-Kabul-region

Thursday 12/10: Human Right's Day Virtual Gathering w/ National Union of the Homeless & NWRU
National Welfare Rights Union, NUH, partners | indybay.org | 2020-12-09
Online via livestream: YouTube & FB…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838859.php

Stuck in a Lift with John Pilger: News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-08
Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: 'You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else — congrats.' ((Greenwald, Twitter, 12 September 2012.)) If that was true then, our relationship …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/stuck-in-a-lift-with-john-pilger-news-and-how-to-use-it-by-alan-rusbridger/

Black Mom Swarmed & Beaten by Philly Riot Police with Toddler in Car Demands Officers Be Fired
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-12-08
A Black mother who was attacked by a horde of Philadelphia police officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia Young was driving an SUV with her 2-year-old son and teenage nephew on October 27 as the city was engulfed in protest over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. earlier that day. Officers descended on the vehicle, broke its windows, assaulted and arrested her and separated her from her child. Young's arrest went viral due to a shocking video of the police swarming her vehicle, and after the National Fraternal Order of Police — the country's largest police union — posted…
www.democracynow.org/2020/12/8/rickia_young_philadelphia_police_assault

Action for Change Starts in Congress
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-08
We know their names! We've given immense power to Five Hundred and Thirty-Five People to do good or bad. One Hundred Senators and Four Hundred and Thirty-Five Representatives. Unfortunately, some 1500 corporations control most Members of Congress. Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/08/action-for-change-starts-in-congress/

France will build nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to replace Charles de Gaulle flagship, says Macron
rt.com | 2020-12-08
President Emmanuel Macron has unveiled plans for France's new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, which will replace the navy's current flagship, the Charles de Gaulle, by 2038. | "Nuclear power will remain the cornerstone of our strategic autonomy," Macron said on Tuesday, as he visited the Framatome nuclear reactor construction plant in the eastern town of Le Creusot. | France's new carrier — its 11th in total — will boast speeds of up to 27 knots (50 km/h), weigh in at around 75,000 tons, and run some 300 meters long — about 1.5 times the size of the Charles de Gaulle. | pic.twitter.com/Js9uQfD…
rt.com/news/509058-france-nuclear-powered-aircraft-carrier/

US Sanctions Have Caused Iranians Untold Misery — And Achieved Nothing
Negar Mortazavi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-08
"My young cousin passed away last week," an Iranian Twitter user recently lamented. "She needed medication for her cancer that doctors said can't be found." | The tweet tragically went on: "Maybe she'd be alongside her little daughter now if she …
globalresearch.ca/us-sanctions-caused-iranians-untold-misery-achieved-nothing/5731604

After Uber and Lyft's Prop 22 Win, Big Tech Could Push Wave of Anti-Worker Laws
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-12-08
Image Credit: Facebook/Gig Workers Rising | Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft scored a major victory with the passage of Proposition 22 in California, and worker rights advocates fear they will push similar measures in other states. Prop 22 will exempt companies in the so-called gig economy from having to classify their workers in the state as employees rather than as independent contractors. Uber, Lyft and other companies that rely on gig workers spent more than $200 million to promote Prop…
truthout.org/video/after-uber-and-lyfts-prop-22-win-big-tech-could-push-wave-of-anti-worker-laws/

US Congress And Corporate Media Claim Venezuela's Government Threatened To Starve Non-Voters
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-07
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US corporate media declared Venezuela's legislative elections a "sham" before results were even announced, opening a new front in the propaganda war on the besieged country and its leftist government. | Among the most blatant distortions deployed against President Nicolas Maduro's United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) was a claim first advanced by Leopoldo López, the far-right, US-backed opposition leader who recently fled to Spain. | On Twitter, López tweeted a deceptively edited clip of Constituent Assembly President Diosdado Cabello addressing an election rally, and accu…
popularresistance.org/us-congress-and-corporate-media-claim-venezuelas-government-threatened-to-starve-non-voters/

'Trolling to another level': Palestinians pose as Emiratis in Tel Aviv
Nur Ayoubi | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-07