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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-New-Parliament-Needs-To-Solve-a-Way-Out-To-Sanctions-20201209-0002.html

Is time running out for the NSW Premier?
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-09
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is facing increasing pressure, externally and internally, over her links to alleged corruption and her brazen normalisation of pork barrelling, writes Jim McIlroy.
greenleft.org.au/content/time-running-out-nsw-premier

Egypt: World Bank warned funding for Covid-19 is neglecting jailed doctors
Areeb Ullah | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-09
Egypt: World Bank warned funding for Covid-19 is neglecting jailed doctors | Human Rights Watch calls on the World Bank to condemn Egypt's arrest of medical workers who criticised Cairo's Covid-19 response | Areeb Ullah | Wed, 12/09/2020 – 10: 58 | Data collected by the Doctors' Syndicate shows Egypt to have one of the highest numbers of Covid-19 deaths among health workers in the world (AFP) | The World Bank was urge…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-world-bank-health-jailed-doctors

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/

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/

Ethiopia: UN concern mounts over shortages, child welfare, in ongoing Tigray crisis
news.un.org | 2020-12-08
The dire shortage of food, water, fuel and cash in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia is seriously affecting people there, including aid workers, the United Nations reported on Tuesday, citing its humanitarian affairs office, OCHA.
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UK deploys troops to Mali
wsws.org | 2020-12-08
Earlier this year, Mali witnessed months of protests against the French occupation, launched in 2013, and the ethnic massacres between rival militias that Paris tolerates, and uses to divide and rule the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/08/mali-d08.html

Trump Exits Somalia
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-08
These are things that might have been done earlier. During the last, flickering days of the Trump administration, activity is being witnessed across countries which have a US troop presence. Numbers are being reduced. Security wonks are getting the jitters. Is the imperium shrinking? Will President elect Joe Biden wake up and reverse the trend?
counterpunch.org/2020/12/08/trump-exits-somalia/

Turkey threatens 'grave consequences' after east Libyan forces seize its ship over alleged arms smuggling
rt.com | 2020-12-08
Ankara has condemned the seizure of a Turkish vessel in the Mediterranean by forces from east Libya, promising a robust response to the interception and calling for the ship to be allowed to continue its journey. | "Targeting Turkish interests in Libya will have grave consequences, and these elements (who target Turkish interests) will be viewed as legitimate targets," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday. | The ministry "strongly condemned" the move, stressing that the vessel should be allowed resume its planned voyage "immediately," and adding that the ship had been fined and the crew…
rt.com/news/509052-libya-forces-seize-turkish-vessel/

November 2020 the Hottest on Record, Global Warming Spiking
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-08
The European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) reported that November 2020 was the hottest on record and the second warmest in Europe. This, as heatwaves were reported in several parts of the world. | RELATED: | New Zealand's PM Ardern Set to Declare Climate Emergency | The C3S said registered heatwaves in parts of Australia as well as Malawi and Mozambique. Also, temperatures were considerably warmest in southern, central, and western Africa. | The latest data shows tha…
telesurenglish.net/news/November-2020-the-Hottest-on-Record-Global-Warming-Spiking-20201208-0020.html

French President Macron hails Egypt's dictator General al-Sisi in Paris
wsws.org | 2020-12-08
Macron's declaration of support for the butcher of Cairo is a warning to the working class of the advanced preparations for military-police dictatorships across Europe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/12/08/fran-d08.html

China to Take Countermeasures Against New US Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-08
China's Foreign Affairs Ministry Tuesday condemned the new U.S. financial sanctions against 14 Chinese lawmakers and it assured that the Asian country will take strong countermeasures. | RELATED: | China Completes Spacecraft Rendezvous, Docking in Lunar Orbit | China also summoned the top U.S. diplomat in Beijing, Fu Deen, to express a solemn protest against "these arbitrary, irrational, and malicious measures." | President Donald Trump's administration "is not stopping its wave…
telesurenglish.net/news/-China-to-Take-Firm-Countermeasures-Agains-New-US-Sanctions-20201208-0007.html

Either back Resistance or normalization, no third choice
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-12-08