Critics Pan Time's Choice of Biden-Harris for 2020 Person of the Year Award
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-12-11
"This is Joe Biden's year. He not only managed to stay alive until the election, he also did other things, presumably." — YouTube creator Shaun…
mintpressnews.com/critics-time-choice-of-joe-biden-kamala-harris-2020-person-of-the-year/273557/

Yuma Hospital Fires ER Doctor For Talking About COVID-19
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
Dr. Cleavon Gilman, a well-known emergency-medicine physician, has been asked not to return to his work at Yuma Regional Medical Center for his social media posts about the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic in Arizona, according to him and his staffing agency. | "What I don't understand about this is I have been advocating for Arizona; I have been calling for a mask mandate, the closure of schools and indoor dining," Gilman told The Arizona Republic. "I did all of this because we are seeing an unprecedented number of cases. This is my third surge — I know how this ends."
popularresistance.org/yuma-hospital-fires-er-doctor-for-talking-about-covid-19/

Trustbusters target Facebook, but anti-monopoly effort shores up capitalism
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-12-11
Coming on the heels of a Justice Department lawsuit against Google filed in October, social networking giant Facebook is now in the crosshairs of the trustbusters at the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of more than 48 state and territorial governments. Anti-monopoly momentum is picking up as regulators, long regarded as asleep at the …
peoplesworld.org/article/trustbusters-target-facebook-but-anti-monopoly-effort-shores-up-capitalism/

'Spurious charges': Women's activist Loujain al-Hathloul appears before Saudi terror court
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
'Spurious charges': Women's activist Loujain al-Hathloul appears before Saudi terror court | UN expert following trial says she is 'extremely alarmed' by Hathloul's prosecution in terror court, which she says is based on false charges | MEE staff | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 22: 05 | Undated handout picture released on Facebook page of Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul shows her at beach (AFP/file photo) | Imprisoned Saudi women'…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/spurious-charges-womens-activist-loujain-al-hathloul-appears-terror-court

Consumer Price Index: Rental Inflation Has Slowed Sharply Since the Pandemic
Karen Conner | cepr.net | 2020-12-10
(This is a compilation of Dean Baker's quick-take analysis over Twitter. Follow @DeanBaker13 on Twitter to get his quick-take analysis of government data immediately upon release.) Overall and core CPI both rose 0.2 percent in November. Overall CPI is up 1.2 percent year-over-year. Core CPI is up 1.6 percent year-over-year. Store bought food prices fell …
cepr.net/prices-2020-12/

Al Jazeera anchor files lawsuit against Saudi, UAE rulers over alleged phone hacking
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
Al Jazeera anchor files lawsuit against Saudi, UAE rulers over alleged phone hacking | The lawsuit was brought against Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed over alleged operation against Oueiss because of her reporting on Gulf states | MEE staff | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 12: 25 | Prominent Al Jazeera TV anchor Ghada Oueiss says she was hacked in the operation (Facebook) | Prominent Al Jazeera TV anchor Ghada Oueiss has fi…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/qatar-saudi-arabia-uae-al-jazeera-anchor-lawsuit-hacking

"Wrath of Mark": Antitrust lawsuits against Facebook accuse Zuckerberg of stifling competition
Matthew Rozsa | salon.com | 2020-12-10
48 attorneys general joined the federal government in antitrust lawsuits against Facebook…
salon.com/2020/12/10/wrath-of-mark-antitrust-lawsuits-against-facebook-accuses-zuckerberg-of-entering-destroy-mode/

Stop Government Attack On COVID-19 Whistleblower
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
Florida state police barged into Jones' home Monday with guns aimed at her and her family. They seized her phone, computer and several hard drives, preventing her from continuing to publish data on COVID-19 outbreaks. After the raid Jones tweeted: "They pointed a gun in my face. They pointed guns at my kids… This was DeSantis. He sent the gestapo." | Jones tweeted Friday that she has learned that Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes was appointed by Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis in September, and one of his first acts as a judge was to sign the search warrant that led to the seizure of her technology.
popularresistance.org/stop-government-attack-on-covid-19-whistleblower/

Federal and state lawsuits brought against Facebook calls for an end to BigTech's predatory practices
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-12-10
"[Facebook] used its monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition, all at the expense of everyday users."
nationofchange.org/2020/12/10/federal-and-state-lawsuits-brought-against-facebook-calls-for-an-end-to-bigtechs-predatory-practices/

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

The Dogies Bawl and Bawl and Bawl
sputniknews.com | 2020-12-09
On today's episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan discussed current events, such as Texas filing a lawsuit to the Supreme Court against Pennsylvania, YouTube announcing removal of videos of electoral fraud in the 2020 election, and 48 states joining a lawsuit against Facebook for antitrust.
sputniknews.com/radio-the-backstory/202012091081413235-the-dogies-bawl-and-bawl-and-bawl/

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

Bipartisan Accountability for Facebook's Anticompetitive Tactics
commondreams.org | 2020-12-09