Daily Archives: November 5, 2021

2021-11-05: News Headlines

Misión Verdad (2021-11-05). Poll: Nicaragua's FSLN has 70% Electoral Support for November 7 Presidential Elections. orinocotribune.com The polling firm M&R Consultores released the results of a survey in Nicaragua that places the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) far ahead of the competition for the upcoming general elections. The pollster estimated that voter intention favors the FSLN party of incumbent Daniel Ortega by 70% for the elections that will take place on Sunday, November 7. | For the vast majority of the population consulted, the most significant factor was that the people have tangible opportunities to improve their quality of life. In addition, 65.2% described the freedom of citizens to think, say, and do as they please a…

Editor (2021-11-05). Facebook does the U.S. government's censorship work in Nicaraguan elections. mronline.org A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega.

Philip Weiss (2021-11-05). Israel's secret 'evidence' against rights groups is based on torture and lies, and Europeans rejected it—Palestinian leaders tell a DC audience. mronline.org Leaders of the six Palestinian human rights organizations that Israel has declared to be "terrorist" spoke to a global audience last Friday on a webinar convened by mainstream Washington thinktanks and they repudiated the secret dossiers that Israel has circulated in seeking to ban the organizations.

Editor2 (2021-11-05). Ajamu Baraka on US Ethiopian Policy. orinocotribune.com Ledet Muleta is the host of Prime Media's "Prime Time." She spoke with Ajamu Baraka, National Organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace on October 30. The interview is Important in light of the Ethiopian government's recent declaration of a state of emergency. | Ledet Muleta: Hello Prime Media audiences. Welcome to Primelogue. I'm your host Ledet Muleta. Today I'm here with Mr. Ajamu Baraka. I'm really grateful to Mr. Ajamu for joining us today. I'm well aware of his work, but I'd like to ask him to introduce himself to our audiences, especially in Ethiopia. | Ajamu Baraka: Well, thank you for inviting me. It is…

Editor (2021-11-05). Manufacturing ignorance: keeping the public away from power. mronline.org Significant public activism and opposition to state-corporate power need to be rooted in widespread shared public knowledge.

WSWS (2021-11-05). Pseudo-left and Labor promote unions, oppose socialist perspective at University of Sydney meeting. wsws.org International Youth and Students for Social Equality (Australia) and the Committee for Public Education members called for a unified movement of students and staff on an independent socialist perspective.

Victoria Valenzuela (2021-11-05). A Staggering Number of Inmates Have Died in Louisiana Prisons. scheerpost.com By Eddie Conway / | In the state of Louisiana, 786 inmates—none of whom were ever sentenced to death—died behind bars between 2015-2019 while serving out their prison sentences. Since Black people are already incarcerated at disproportionate rates, these deaths have been disproportionately among Black inmates. This information has not been publicly available until now, because no single authority in Louisiana is required to collect such data. When law professor Andrea Armstro…

Vijay Prashad (2021-11-05). Will the people with guns allow our Planet to breathe: The Forty-Fourth Newsletter (2021). mronline.org It is perhaps fitting that United States President Joe Biden arrived in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of Parties (COP26) on the climate catastrophe with eighty-five cars in tow months after declaring 'I'm a car guy' (for details on the climate catastrophe, see our Red Alert no. 11, 'Only One Earth').

Staff (2021-11-05). "Too Little, Too Late": Global South Activists Decry 2050 "Net Zero" Goal by Wealthy Nations. democracynow.org After nearly a week of speeches, negotiations and protests at the COP26 U.N. climate summit, we speak with Meena Raman, head of programs at Third World Network, who says developing countries need more time and resources to adapt to the climate crisis and end the use of fossil fuels. Without a just transition that addresses inequality, she says, many countries will continue to suffer from both poverty and environmental devastation. "When the rich world has not been able to phase out fossil fuels, … it's really dubious to preach to the developing world that they have to get out of fossil fuels," says Raman.

_____ (2021-11-05). France Has A Nuclear Habit It Just Cannot Kick. popularresistance.org On July 28, French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Tahiti and said that France owed a "debt" to French Polynesia. The debt was related to approximately 200 nuclear tests France conducted in the 118 islands and atolls that comprise this part of the central South Pacific, which France has controlled since 1842. These tests were conducted between 1966 and 1996. Macron did not apologize for the environmental and human damage caused by these tests. He remained stoic, acknowledging that the tests were not "clean." "I think it's true that we wouldn't have done these same tests in the Creuse or in Brittany," he said,…

_____ (2021-11-05). Nutrionless Fakes about a Coup D'etat in North Korea. journal-neo.org On October 24, 2021, South Korea's National Intelligence Service stated that media reports about the North Korean leader's sister committing a coup against her brother were fundamentally untrue. The primary source of the 'hype' is the October 23 report of the American tabloid magazine Globe about the coup d'etat in North Korea. It turns out …

Fight Back (2021-11-05). Join the FRSO General Members meeting. fightbacknews.org The Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is hosting another meeting for general members this coming Thursday, November 11 at 8 p.m. Eastern time. We will use Zoom to again to welcome the scores of new members who chose to join the FRSO over the past four months. | Tracy Molm, an environmental justice activist, and Masao Suzuki, chair of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) Joint Nationalities Commission, will speak on how capitalism destroys the environment to achieve ever greater profits. This also harms the working class and puts the greatest burden on oppressed nationality communities. This inc…

Staff (2021-11-05). Attorney General Saab: ICC Agreement a Victory for Venezuelan Democratic Institutions. orinocotribune.com "Venezuela has solidly advanced all the work that the ICC will be informed about," said Tarek William Saab, attorney general of Venezuela, referring to the government's signing, this Wednesday, November 3, of a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Criminal Court (ICC). Saab characterized the agreement as a success for the nation. | "This memorandum is a victory for the Venezuelan democratic institutions, with an international body with which we have worked," said Saab. | "The ICC prosecutor trusts the Venezuelan justice system and this is established in the memorandum," added the Venezuelan prosecut…

Staff (2021-11-05). Has Fuel Distribution in Venezuela Improved? This is what Venezuelans Say. orinocotribune.com A tour made of service stations in Caracas and its surroundings this Thursday, November 4, by Laiguana.tv's team of reporters, led by the journalist Mirelvis Gutiérrez, found two contrasting realities. On the one hand, at the pumps that sell fuel at international prices, queues are practically non-existent and the supply is constant. Alternately, where subsidized gasoline is sold, long lines persist. | On Victoria Avenue in Caracas an interviewee told Gutiérrez that, although they still have to wait several hours to refuel, the situation has improved in comparison to previous months. | Since June 1, 2020, Venezue…

Staff (2021-11-05). Inauguration of FILVEN 2021, Venezuela's International Book Fair: 100 New Books to be Launched. orinocotribune.com Thursday, November 4, the President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced that during the 17th Venezuelan International Book Fair (FILVEN), 100 new books will be launched and issued to readers. President Maduro made the statements during the inauguration of FILVEN 2021, which takes place this year at the Federal Legislative Palace in Caracas, headquarters of the National Assembly. | "100 books will be christened within the framework of FILVEN 2021," said President Maduro from the National Assembly, "and we are going to deliver them to the people, to the readers, so that they can come to refresh their reading li…

Staff (2021-11-05). Jorge Rodríguez: ICC Chief Prosecutor Visited in Order to Recognize Venezuela's Government. orinocotribune.com The president of Venezuela's National Assembly (AN), Jorge Rodríguez, highlighted this Thursday, November 4, that International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan came to Venezuela to recognize the Venezuelan government, at the invitation of Attorney General Tarek William Saab. | "The government has always wanted to investigate any improper action in the country against human rights—that is nothing new—but when the truth is known, Venezuela will be able to continue telling the world: we have never knelt and we will never kneel in front of any action of any de facto power that exists on t…

Staff (2021-11-05). Venezuela's 21N Regional Elections: 56% of Voting Machines Ready, CNE says. orinocotribune.com Venezuela's National Electoral Council has readied 56% of its voting machines for the regional elections to be held on November 21, said the president of the electoral body, Pedro Calzadilla. | "We have completed 56% of the machines," Calzadilla said. "We are doing pretty well. We are complying precisely with our schedule." | In this sense, he explained that the voting machines have already arrived in 13 states of the country, and that details are being refined to begin deployment in capitals and municipalities for the electoral day, when new governors, mayors, state legislators, and city counselors will be elect…

Staff (2021-11-05). "Please Open Your Hearts": Kenyan Activist Elizabeth Wathuti Urges Leaders to Act on Climate Crisis. democracynow.org Youth activists are taking to the streets outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow to demand world leaders do more to avert a climate catastrophe. The protest is being organized by Fridays for Future, an international movement of students which grew out of Greta Thunberg's climate strike outside the Swedish parliament in 2018. We hear from Elizabeth Wathuti of Kenya. "Over 2 million of my fellow Kenyans are facing climate-related starvation," Wathuti said earlier this week. "The decisions you make here will determine whether the children will have food and water."

The Global Research Team (2021-11-05). Protect Our Children Against the COVID Jab, Support the Constitutional Rights of Parents. globalresearch.ca Big Pharma with the support of national governments is waging a Worldwide crusade to enforce the inoculation of our children, despite ample evidence that the Covid-19 experimental "vaccine" is resulting in a wave of injuries and deaths. | Global Research has …

teleSUR (2021-11-04). Six Candidates Compete For The Nicaraguan Presidency On Sunday. telesurenglish.net On Nov., the Nicaraguan people will elect president, vice president, 90 lawmakers, and 20 representatives to the Central American Parliament. | RELATED: | The parties competing for the presidency are the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), Nicaragua's Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC), Christian Road (CCN), Liberal Alliance Party (ALN), the Independent Liberal Party (PLI), and the Alliance for the Republic Party (APRE). Below are the profiles of the politic…

Staff (2021-11-04). How a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Can Guide a Global Just Transition & Emission Cuts. democracynow.org We speak with Harjeet Singh, senior adviser with the Climate Action Network, who is at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow. Activists like Singh are pressuring world leaders to join the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, which would supplement the Paris Agreement by directly targeting the fossil fuel industry and outlining clear actions that every country could take to drastically decrease carbon emissions. "This treaty talks about ending fossil fuel expansion, phasing out, and also just transition," says Singh. He also speaks about his home country of India, which has only recently become one of the world's la…

Staff (2021-11-04). Headlines for November 4, 2021. democracynow.org Global Carbon Emissions Near Record High as Nations Meet for Crucial Climate Summit, NJ Gov. Phil Murphy Narrowly Wins Reelection, in Ominous Sign for Democrats Ahead of 2022 Midterms, Socialist Candidate India Walton Concedes Hard-Fought Mayoral Race in Buffalo, NY, Senate Republicans Filibuster Voting Rights Legislation Again, U.S. COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 750,000, White House Warns of Vaccine Misinformation, Urges Parents to Get Children Vaccinated, Russia Records Another Record Daily COVID-19 Death Toll, WHO Approves Emergency Use of India's 2-Shot Coronavirus Vaccine Covaxin, U.S. Blacklists Israel's NSO G…

C.M. Lewis (2021-11-04). India Walton's Mayoral Defeat in Buffalo Sets Dangerous Precedents for the Left. zcomm.org Brown has now proven that, for candidates defeated in a primary, an ascent to power can be continued unbroken — if they're willing to run against their own party line…

Raymond Nat Turner (2021-11-04). Fighting for Oak Flat/Chi Chil Bildagoteel. mronline.org "Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do little." —Edmund Burke…

Victoria Valenzuela (2021-11-04). His Mysterious Death Made National Headlines, so Why are the Police Ignoring the Case? scheerpost.com When Rey Rivera's body was found in an empty conference room of Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel, a hole in the roof prompted police to conclude he committed suicide. But TRNN reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis obtained the homicide case files and there are a lot of details in the investigation that don't add up.

Anis Chowdhury (2021-11-04). Will Glasgow fix broken climate finance promises? mronline.org SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Current climate mitigation plans will result in a catastrophic 2.7 ∞C world temperature rise. US$1.6—3.8 trillion is needed annually to avoid global warming exceeding 1.5 ∞C.

Moderator (2021-11-04). Left Coalition Sees McAuliffe Campaign as an Object Lesson for 2022. scheerpost.com By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams A coalition of progressive advocacy organizations warned Wednesday that conservative Democrat Terry McAuliffe's failed gubernatorial bid in Virginia offers a cautionary lesson for the rest of the party ahead of next year's midterms: Either excite voters with a bold agenda or risk losing power to the GOP. As corporate Democrats …

Editor (2021-11-04). Richard Lewontin, dialectical materialism, the relationship between evolutionary biology and Marxism. mronline.org Dialectical materialism combines two philosophical traditions: historical materialism formulated by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and dialectics, an idealist philosophy formulated by German philosopher Georg Willhelm Friedrich Hegel.

Siddiq Khan (2021-11-04). Abahlali baseMjondolo Responds to 'We Carry a New World in Our Riots' by Siddiq Khan. mronline.org Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over …

John Pilger (2021-11-04). Why Julian Assange's inhumane prosecution imperils justice for us all. mronline.org The damage done to the Wikileaks co-founder in his decade of incarceration and uncertainty, including more than two years in Belmarsh is beyond doubt. But so, too, is his courage beyond doubt.

Victoria Valenzuela (2021-11-04). A Week of Really Bad News — Now, Let's Get to Work. scheerpost.com By Scott Tucker / Original to Scheerpost | So much bad news in one week. When political illusions die hard, however, the ground is also being cleared for class-conscious resistance. | Now let's get to work: | Joe Manchin held the Congressional Democrats hostage, and of course blamed the mildest social democrats in Congress for being the hostage takers. Manchin demands that the progressives in Congress must support the infrastructure bill, but remains uncommitted to a reconciliation bill which has already been drastically reduced in both funding and sane public policies. Yet, Manchin dares to give press confere…

Editor (2021-11-04). Should one stand up for Western values? mronline.org What are western values? One often hears a representative of a western country praising its western values. In a 2017 statement Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau adumbrated Canadian values as "openness, compassion, equality, and inclusion."

Alan MacLeod (2021-11-04). The United States is organizing a color revolution in Cuba for November 15. mronline.org It remains an open question as to how successful the upcoming action against the Cuban government will be. But who is behind the protests is hardly in doubt.

imperial.ac.uk (2021-11-04). New climate pledges significantly more likely to prevent worst of global heating. imperial.ac.uk If fulfilled, climate pledges made in the last six years have a much better chance of reaching globally agreed temperature goals.

Gideon Polya (2021-11-04). Climate Change-impacted Island Nations, Tropical Countries and Indeed the World Will Punish Climate Criminal Australia. dissidentvoice.org The corrupt, mendacious, racist, anti-science, and climate criminal National Party-Liberal Party Coalition that rules climate criminal Australia has succeeded in sabotaging the COP26 Climate Change Conference (as it has all previous climate conferences) in 10 key ways: (1). Racist ignoring of the right of Developing Countries with relatively low "GDP per capita" and "GHG pollution …

Helen Yaffe (2021-11-04). July 11 Protests in Cuba: A Personal Narrative of Events. orinocotribune.com By Helen Yaffe — Nov 2, 2021 | Abstract: On Sunday July 11 anti-government protests took place simultaneously in towns and cities throughout Cuba; the first violent protests there for 27 years. The international media depicted mass opposition to the Cuban government, police repression of peaceful protests and a regime in crisis. Cuban American leaders and US politicians called for US intervention, while President Biden labeled Cuba a "failed s…

José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-11-04). ICC Chief Prosecutor's Visit to Venezuela Ends with Signing of Memorandum of Understanding. orinocotribune.com The visit to Venezuela by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Ahmad Khan, concluded with the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the ICC. During a three-day stay in the country, Khan pursued a busy schedule. | In this sense, the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, mentioned that it was three days of work, and of frank and direct dialogue which he considered favorable and positive for the work carried out by the ICC. For this reason, the president added that the debate demonstrated the legal, doctrinal, and constitutional str…

Ramzy Baroud (2021-11-04). Words without Action: The West's Role in Israel's Illegal Settlement Expansion. dissidentvoice.org The international uproar in response to Israel's approval of a massive expansion of its illegal settlement enterprise in the occupied Palestinian West Bank may give the impression that such a reaction could, in theory, force Israel to abandon its plans. Alas, it will not, because the statements of 'concern,' 'regrets', 'disappointment' and even outright condemnation …

WSWS (2021-11-04). Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa. wsws.org Danish nurses continue one-hour wildcat stoppages over pay and staff shortages, begun in August; French transport workers continue strike wave over pay and conditions while unions prevent national strike; UK bus strikes planned in Wales and England at different companies over pay, while Unite union agrees below-inflation deals; Workers in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria defy court order and continue strike for minimum wage begun October 12…

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-04). NATO targets Belarus in favor of members Poland, Latvia and Lithuania. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Nato calls on Belarus to observe international law Nato headquarters in Brussels told PAP [Polish Press Agency] on Wednesday the alliance was concerned about the escalation on the Polish-Belarusian border and called on Minsk to observe international law. Nato HQ's press office told PAP the alliance had observed a wave of migrants trying to enter …

David Sirota (2021-11-04). "Trump Zombie Sale" Threatens Montana National Forest. dailyposter.com

Rick Rozoff (2021-11-04). European Commission's Joseph Borrell presiding, Georgia attends arms fair; holds talks with Spanish defense ministry. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com The Deputy Minister of Defense of Georgia Zurab Azarashvili paid a working visit to Spain, the largest exhibition of the largest military equipment FEINDEF Deputy Minister of Defense of Georgia Zurab Azarashvili and the Director of Delta International Ltd. Zurab Javelidze visited the International Exhibition of the Largest Military Equipment FEINDEF in Madrid within the framework of a working visit to …

Anonymous007 (2021-11-04). Israeli Spyware Company NSO Group Blacklisted By U.S. Commerce Department. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Israeli company NSO Group was put on a This happened after it was determined that the Israeli spyware maker acted "contrary to the foreign policy and national security interests of the US". | U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo released the following s…

Staff (2021-11-04). Meet the Climate Lawyer Who Helped Write 2015 Paris Agreement & Superglued Herself at Shell's U.K. HQ. democracynow.org We speak to Farhana Yamin, one of the most prominent climate lawyers in Britain, who has been deeply involved in international climate negotiations for decades, including the landmark 2015 Paris Agreement, and has also engaged in direct action to effect change. Yamin is currently working with the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a group that represents 48 of the countries most threatened by the climate crisis, at the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow. We last spoke with Farhana in 2019 after she was arrested for supergluing her hands to the ground outside Shell's headquarters in London as part of an Extinction Rebellion ac…

teleSUR (2021-11-04). Nigeria: Death Toll From Building Collapse Rises To 36. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Coordinator Ibrahim Farinloye announced that the death toll from a building collapse in Lagos City rose to 36 after more bodies were retrieved by rescuers from the debris. | RELATED: | Between Wednesday and Thursday morning, over 10 dead bodies were pulled out of the rubble of the 21-story building under construction in the Ikoyi area of Lagos which c…

teleSUR (2021-11-04). The Moon Trip Drill 'SIRIUS-21' Kicks Off in Moscow. telesurenglish.net On Thursday, Russia's Institute of Medical and Biological Problems (IMBP) began a new phase of the Scientific International Research In Unique Terrestrial Station (SIRIUS), a project which will simulate a round trip to the Moon with six volunteers. | RELATED: | "Let the isolation experiment begin," the SIRIUS Co-Director Sergei Ponomarev ordered and explained that the volunteers will be locked up for eight months in a special modu…

WSWS (2021-11-04). Sri Lankan power, port and petroleum workers protest against privatisation. wsws.org State-sector unions are desperately seeking to tie workers' rising anger over the government's privatisation agenda to the parliamentary opposition.

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