(2021-11-10). Getting Away With Murder — Britain to Protect its War Criminals. orinocotribune.com By Fra Hughes — Nov 8, 2021 | Every Empire is guilty of war crimes. Executing enemy combatants on the battlefield. Destroying hospitals, watercourses, and infrastructure. Carpet bombing cities. Murdering civilians. Torture. Raping men, women, and children. Starving the enemy into submission. Genocide. Mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing. | The British Empire was no different. | From North America to Australia. From New Zealand to Zimbabwe. From Ireland to Palestine, Britain has been accused of heinous war crimes against indigenous populations while extracting the wealth, minerals, and natural resources of th…
(2021-11-10). NATO "undertaking biggest adaptation since the Cold War" for "authoritarian regimes, climate change, disruptive technologies" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Military Committee discusses NATO's Deterrence and Defence at SHAPE After a short welcome by General Tod Wolters, the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), the NATO Military Representatives were ushered into their first session of the day dedicated to the Concept for the Deterrence and Defence of the Euro-Atlantic Area (DDA). Alongside NATO's Warfighting Capstone …
(2021-11-10). U.S., NATO allies' warplanes continue drills over the Black Sea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com NATO Allies cooperate across sea and air during exercise Castle Forge US F-15 Strike Eagles have successfully completed their second set of forward deployments to Bulgaria and Romania during exercise Castle Forge, returning to Greece on November 6, 2021. Two groups of US fighters forward deployed from Larissa Air Base (AB), Greece with one group …
(2021-11-10). Waiting for peace in the Khyber Pass: Why Pakistan fears instability in Afghanistan. middleeasteye.net 
Waiting for peace in the Khyber Pass: Why Pakistan fears instability in Afghanistan | The US-led invasion to topple the Taliban unleashed a brutal parallel war in the bordering tribal areas which Pakistan is still trying to end | Wed, 11/10/2021 – 16: 29 | A boy waits on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan at Torkham in October 2021 (MEE) | A silent crowd 200 strong presses up against th…
(2021-11-10). Russia and America Now Competing for Biggest Would-Be Invasion Armada. journal-neo.org 
One again, the geniuses at POLITICO need serious remediation in geography. A little help in selecting security companies the magazine should trust would go a long way toward credibility too. Somebody please tell Axel Springer SE, the new owners, that locating stuff is important? Oh, and clue CNN as well. According to the latest Russophobia …
(2021-11-10). 21N Elections: 1,895 Voting Machines Deployed in 19 States — EU Companions Work Without Restrictions. orinocotribune.com This Tuesday, November 9, a total of 1,875 voting machines were deployed across 19 of Venezuela's 24 states, for use in the upcoming regional and municipal elections to be held on November 21. | Through a press release, Venezuela's National Electoral Council (CNE) reported that for the deployment of the machines, the fifteenth day of audit of the production of voting machines was carried out, and is ongoing in the industrial warehouse of the National Electoral Council in Filas de Mariche. | CNE indicated that on Tuesday, 35 teams corresponding to four municipalities in Anzoátegui state (Bolívar, Aragua, Diego Bau…
(2021-11-10). Poland accuses Turkey of 'synchronising' refugee crisis with Belarus and Russia. middleeasteye.net 
Poland accuses Turkey of 'synchronising' refugee crisis with Belarus and Russia | Frustrated Polish prime minister says Warsaw's recent help to Ankara 'turned out to be a one-way favour' | Wed, 11/10/2021 – 11: 11 | A Syrian walks through the forest near Hajnowka, Poland, during a joint rescue operation by the Grupa Granica (Border Group) and Medycy na Granicy (Medics on the Border), on 23 October 2021 (…
(2021-11-10). New Zealand recalibrates Pacific strategy countering China. wsws.org Labour's policy shift, set against the US-drive to war, aims to push back against China's influence as the economic crisis in the Pacific intensifies amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
(2021-11-10). Imperial's commitment to action recognised with Race Equality Charter award. imperial.ac.uk The College has been granted Bronze status by Advance HE's Race Equality Charter.
(2021-11-10). After CIA "warning" to Putin, Biden-Zelensky meeting, Blinken and Ukraine FM meet on "Russian aggression" antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Blinken, Kuleba to discuss Russia's actions on Ukrainian border Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is going to discuss the announcement of a new increase in Russian military power near the border with Ukraine with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, November 10, head of the press service of the …
(2021-11-10). Blacklisting the merchants of spyware. greenleft.org.au The US Department of Commerce revealed on November 3 that it would be adding Israeli-based spyware developers NSO Group and Candiru to its blacklist, reports Binoy Kampmark.
(2021-11-10). Student occupation at Howard University fights for the right to safe and clean housing. wsws.org
(2021-11-10). Warsaw and Brussels intensify attacks on refugees at Polish-Belarusian border. wsws.org The Polish government, with the support of the European Union and NATO, is waging a veritable war against refugees.
(2021-11-10). Russian military detects "strike coordination plane" accompanying U.S. nuclear bombers, interceptor missile destroyer in Black Sea. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The following report is from today's Sputnik news. The B-1 Lancer long-range bomber entered service as a nuclear bomber in 1986 under Strategic Air Command. In recent days it has been engaging in war games over the Black Sea in conjunction with NATO fourth- and fifth-generation multirole combat aircraft, the U.S. Sixth Fleet flagship USS …
(2021-11-10). Woodward and Costa's Peril: An inside account of Trump's coup d'etat. wsws.org The recent book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reconstructs Trump's efforts to overthrow American democracy, leading up to the attack on the Capitol last January 6.
(2021-11-09). How Imperialist Propaganda Weaponizes Genocide to Justify War. orinocotribune.com By Rainer Shea — Nov 8, 2021 | The imperialists have a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb. It's called propaganda. The type of propaganda that's been fine tuned by decades of practice in false flags, fabricated atrocity stories, and glorifications of militarism. With the onset of the new cold war, and its correlating advancements in the high-tech sector, the U.S. empire's cognitive warfare has taken on unprecedented scope and subtlety. Should aspiring U.S. revolutionaries succumb to the deceptions this manipulation matrix is laying down for us, the movement towards proletarian revolution in the imperi…
(2021-11-09). U.S. bans Communist journalist from traveling to Nicaragua for elections. peoplesworld.org 
MEXICO CITY—"Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" U.S. authorities infamously asked those entering the country during the Cold War. Nowadays, the questions may have changed, but the intention is the same—to keep out undesirables. It seems that I am one of those undesirables—as well as a Communist—finding myself …
(2021-11-09). Vladimir Acosta Discusses his New Book 'Leaving the Colony' at Venezuela's National Book Fair. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan intellectual Vladimir Acosta was honored at the 17th International Book Fair of Venezuela (FILVEN), where he explained the content of one his four books, Leaving the Colony. | Acosta, speaking on the role of Catholicism both during colonialism and now under US imperialism, commented that "today we can see how a religion was used to impose culture and language on us. They took our consciousness from us. In three years we will be celebrating the bicentennial anniversary of the battle of Ayacucho, which was the decisive moment in the fight against Spanish colonialism, but we have to keep fighting. Now we…
(2021-11-09). The Laura Flanders Show: "The Way Forward" with AOC & Noam Chomsky. roarmag.org In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY Representative 14th District) and MIT professor emeritus Noam Chomsky — for the first time ever — to discuss the way forward for people, politics and the planet. From labor strikes to racial uprisings to climate action to the Great Resignation, they reflect on the renewed power of collective organizing and the changing tide in economic thinking and electoral politics. | Their insights demand that we think differently about everything from our nation's history and…
(2021-11-09). Poland's eastern border: 1939, WWII; 2021… antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Though the geography is the same, the causality is reversed. Kindly record for future reference the plethora of self-described peace, anti-war, disarmament, alternative, radical, anti-imperialist, etc. organizations and news sites that are conscientiously ignoring this crisis and indeed everything that is and has been occurring for the past twenty years along what NATO defines as …
(2021-11-09). First draft of COP26 decision text slammed as 'love letter' to fossil fuel industry. nationofchange.org "To keep 1.5 alive," said the head of Greenpeace, "fossil fuels phase-out" must be added, and "countries must come back next year to close the gap."
(2021-11-09). Students Are Pushing Colleges To Sever Ties With Military-Industrial Complex. popularresistance.org The violence wreaked by U.S. wars since 9/11 has been immense — more than 929,000 total deaths, including an estimated 380,000 civilian deaths. And the U.S. has spent a staggering $14 trillion in Pentagon expenditures since the Afghanistan War in 2001, up to one-half of which went directly to defense contractors like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon. | While these facts are outrageous, they aren't surprising in a country built on colonial violence — a country whose power and expansion are derived from war-making, with such militarism being grounded in every inst…
(2021-11-09). Congress Can't Discriminate Against Puerto Rico Residents Just Because They Live There. aclu.org In 2012, José Vaello-Madero, a U.S. citizen born in Puerto Rico but living in New York, applied for and received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits because severe health problems left him unable to support himself. A year later, he moved to Puerto Rico to rejoin his family and care for his ailing wife. He continued to receive SSI benefits, unaware that federal law excludes Puerto Rico residents from the program, simply because they live in a U.S. territory rather than a state. In 2016, the federal government sued Vaello-Madero to collect over $28,000 it claimed it "overpaid." On Tuesday, the Supreme C…
(2021-11-09). Talk Show Host Joe Madison Goes On Hunger Strike Until Biden Passes Voting Rights Bill. moguldom.com Talk Show Host Joe Madison is frustrated that voting rights bills have yet to be passed so he's taking matters into his own hands to raise awareness of the issue. The host of SiriusXM Urban View's podcast "Joe Madison The Black Eagle " has announced he is on a hunger strike until President Joe Biden …
(2021-11-09). COP26 warned on fossil fuels: 'We're investing in our own demise'. peoplesworld.org 
"You may as well bomb our islands instead of making us suffer, witnessing our slow and fateful demise," Palau President Surangel S. Whipps, Jr., told the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow. In those few words, Whipps summed up the desperation felt by small Pacific Islands and a number of other developing countries. The rich G20 …
(2021-11-09). Should Humans Try to Modify the Amount of Sunlight the Earth Receives? independentmediainstitute.org Click here for photos that you may use to accompany the article (captions and credits can be found in each image's description field). Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. As scientists, policymakers and politicians keep one increasingly startled eye on climate change's ticking clock and the other on the ongoing, upwardly …
(2021-11-09). Chilly winter due to global warming: Expert. ecns.cn Massive snowstorms and a blast of chilly air swept across northern China over the weekend, leaving many people shivering in the freezing cold.
(2021-11-09). Political Thinker Irami Osei-Frimpong: The US Government Made Black Americans Broke, That's Why Howard Infrastructure Is Poor. moguldom.com Political thinker Irami Osei-Frimpong said he had to get something off his chest about the condemnation facing Howard University as students continue a month of protests against unsanitary living conditions in their campus dorms. Students have been occupying the Blackburn University Center on Howard's campus since Oct. 12, complaining that their dorms are infested with …
(2021-11-09). PREVIEW: What to Look for in the October Consumer Price Index. cepr.net Thus far, inflation in the rent components has been relatively restrained, although that may be changing as rents begin to follow house sales prices upwards.
(2021-11-09). Israeli spyware targeted Palestinian human rights workers. electronicintifada.net Totalitarian population surveillance revealed in occupied West Bank.
(2021-11-09). Podcast Ep 46: Israel declares war on Palestinian civil society. electronicintifada.net Blacklisted groups fight back.
(2021-11-09). Should Humans Try to Modify the Amount of Sunlight the Earth Receives? | Take Action Tuesday @EarthFoodLife. independentmediainstitute.org 
Managing solar radiation through technology is possible, but there are ethical and political concerns. By Daniel Ross, Independent Media Institute 8 min read Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes. As scientists, policymakers and politicians keep one increasingly startled eye on climate change's ticking clock and the other on the ongoing, upwardly …
(2021-11-09). Headliner of deadly Astroworld concert was warned about 'public safety concerns' — police. rt.com 
Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said he had a meeting with Travis Scott to express his public safety concerns to him ahead of the rapper's sold-out show on Friday, which ended in eight people being killed in a crowd surge. | The meeting was "brief and respectful," Finner said in a statement on Twitter, adding that the head of security of the Astroworld Festival, which Scott founded in 2018, was also present. | "I expressed my concerns regarding public safety and that in my 31 years of law enforcement experience I have never seen a time with more challenges facing citizens of all ages, to include a global pand…
(2021-11-09). COPOUT 26 Left Out the Topics and People It Needed. warisacrime.org 
By David Swanson, Labour Hub, November 9, 2021 I'm not sure what we should have expected from a 26th UN climate meeting after 25 previous meetings had generated the opposite of the purportedly intended result. What we got was a festival of greenwashing that included in the meetings more fossil fuel lobbyists than the delegates …
(2021-11-09). Talk World Radio Debate: Reform War or Abolish It? warisacrime.org 
Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm (except when it doesn't work, and then Zoom is used). Here is this week's video and all the videos on Youtube. This week on Talk World Radio, we're going to hold a bit of a respectful and civil debate. I'm going to take the …
(2021-11-09). Could Vaccine Requirements For Truck Drivers Blow Up US Supply Chain And Economy? moguldom.com A lobbying association for truckload carriers warns that the new federal covid-19 vaccine mandate requiring businesses with 100 or more employees to be fully vaccinated, wear masks and submit to tests, will be "disastrous" for the already strained supply chain and it could ruin Christmas. From manufactured goods to retail products, about 70 percent of all …
(2021-11-09). Ex CIA analyst on hidden realities of Syria war and new novel 'Damascus Station'. thegrayzone.com Former CIA analyst David McCloskey, who covered Syria from 2008 to 2014, on the roots of Syria's war, the US role, and his new novel set during the conflict's early years, "Damascus Station." As a CIA analyst, David McCloskey covered Syria from 2008 to 2014. He draws on his experience for his new spy thriller, "Damascus Station," set during the early years of the Syrian war. David McCloskey joins Aaron Maté to discuss "Damascus Station"; the early years of the …
(2021-11-09). Military Situation In Syria On November 9, 2021 (Map Update). southfront.org 
Click to see full-size image | On November 8, Russia reported that Idlib militants violated the ceasefire regime in Greater Idlib 4 times: 2 — in Idlib province, 2 — Aleppo province | On November 8, Israeli warplanes attacked several targets in Homs and Tartus province. Two SAA soldiers were wounded | On November 8, SAA artillery shelled positions of Turkish-backed forces in Atarab area | On November 8, infighting erupted between Turkish-backed armed factions in Tal Abyad city | On Nove…
(2021-11-09). Julian Assange's Fiancée Stella Moris: WikiLeaks Helped Expose Climate Change Hypocrisy & War Crimes. democracynow.org 
Britain's High Court is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison under espionage charges for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes. We get an update from Assange's partner, Stella Moris, who is in Glasgow as part of her campaign to free Julian and to highlight how WikiLeaks has also revealed evidence of how corporations and states have undermined the goals of prior climate summits. Moris says WikiLeaks is an "extraordinary tool … to understand the relationships between the states…
(2021-11-09). Saharawi human rights defenders condemn Moroccan war crimes. peoplesdispatch.org The report published by CODESA on the atrocities committed by the Moroccan forces blames UN agencies and other human rights organizations for failing to intervene and investigate the cases of human rights violations…
(2021-11-09). US nuclear sub accident warns of potential for catastrophe. asiatimes.com 
The US nuclear-sub accident last month demonstrated operator incompetence, government hypocrisy and the environmental threat posed by such operations in the South China Sea. On October 7, the US Navy announced that five days earlier, on October 2, its Seawolf-class nuclear-powered and nuclear-weapons-capable submarine USS Connecticut had hit an unidentified object in the South China Sea. According …
(2021-11-09). Headlines for November 9, 2021. democracynow.org Climate Activists Blast COP26 Draft Statement for Failing to Phase Out Fossil Fuels, Police Raid Glasgow Squat Housing Climate Activists Protesting COP26, Coronavirus Cases Surge to Record Highs Across Some European Nations, As U.S. Opens Borders to Vaccinated Travelers, Asylum Seekers Remain Trapped in Mexico, Poland Mobilizes Thousands of Troops to Belarus Border to Bar Entry to Refugees, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Wins Fourth Term After Arresting Opponents, Crushing Dissent, Israeli Spyware Found on Phones of Six Palestinian Human Rights Activists, Justice Department Brings New Charges Against Ransomwa…
(2021-11-09). Russia's Defense Ministry reacts to U.S. nuclear-capable bombers, interceptor warship off its Black Sea coast. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com US setting up multinational group of forces close to Russian border — top brass The United States is setting up a multinational group of armed forces close to the Russian border, Russia's Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday. Currently, the US Navy's guided missile destroyer [USS] Porter, tanker John Lenthall and command ship Mount Whitney are …
(2021-11-09). "Polymutant" Spike Points Way Toward More Durable COVID-19 Vaccine. jamanetwork.com Researchers at The Rockefeller University previously found that people who recover from COVID-19 and subsequently are vaccinated appear to have protection for at least a year, including against variants of concern. In the team's latest study, participants with a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection who received 2 mRNA vaccine doses produced polyclonal antibodies capable of neutralizing a spike protein engineered with a suite of antibody-resistant mutations. The findings suggest that plasma antibodies from "infected-then-vaccinated" individuals may be even more potent and broad than previously known.
(2021-11-09). The Migrant Tug Of War At The Belarus-Poland Border. southfront.org 
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(2021-11-09). US Holocaust Museum warns China 'may be committing genocide' against Uighurs. middleeasteye.net 
US Holocaust Museum warns China 'may be committing genocide' against Uighurs | Report says Beijing could be moving beyond forced assimilation of the Muslim minority as it tries to 'biologically destroy the group' | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 20: 14 | Protesters with the Stanton Public Policy Center's Purple Sash Revolution hold a rally outside the White House on 27 May, 2021 in support of Uighur women and call for a bo…
(2021-11-09). US: Appeals court rules WhatsApp can sue Israeli firm NSO Group. middleeasteye.net 
US: Appeals court rules WhatsApp can sue Israeli firm NSO Group | Federal appeals court rejected NSO's claims that it has foreign sovereign immunity from the civil court case | Tue, 11/09/2021 – 17: 03 | The Israeli firm has sparked outrage after an investigation revealed its Pegasus spyware was used by security forces and governments in several countries (AFP/File photo) | A United States federal appeals cour…
(2021-11-09). War Helps Fuel the Climate Crisis as U.S. Military Carbon Emissions Exceed 140+ Nations. democracynow.org 
Climate activists protested outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow Monday spotlighting the role of the U.S. military in fueling the climate crisis. The Costs of War project estimates the military produced around 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions between 2001 and 2017, with nearly a third coming from U.S. wars overseas. But military carbon emissions have largely been exempted from international climate treaties dating back to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol after lobbying from the United States. We go to Glasgow to speak with Ramón Mejía, anti-militarism national organizer of Grassroots Global Justice Allian…
(2021-11-09). Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Capital in the Attic. roarmag.org Season 3, Episode 24 — Capital in the Attic: | In this episode of ACC, Prof. Harvey talks about the real players in our capitalist society who operate outside of the market system and are accumulating massive amounts of wealth. Players like Carlos Slim, the Koch brothers, Stephen A. Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, reside in the "attic," where real wealth and real power are being assembled, argues Harvey. | You can support this podcast on
(2021-11-09). Indigenous-Led Action In Memory Of MMIW And Relatives. popularresistance.org As climate chaos rages forward, Indigenous communities and land defenders continue to remain on the frontlines challenging the continued expansion of major contributors to the climate crisis. According to the Front Line Defenders 2020 report, the three most targeted sectors of human rights defence were: land, environmental and Indigenous Peoples' rights (21%), LGBTIQ+ rights (14%), and women's rights (11%). Of the 331 human rights defenders killed in 2020, 26% were working on Indigenous Peoples's rights. | In 2016, the international community was horrified when Berta Caceres, a Lenca Indigenous rights fighter, co…