2021-11-21: News Headlines

Staff (2021-11-21). European Union Election Observation Mission Meets with Right-Wing Politicians: Guaidó, Capriles, Machado, Evans and Figuera. orinocotribune.com On Thursday, November 18, representatives of the European Union (EU) Elections Observation Mission (EOM) that is in Venezuela reported via Twitter on several meetings they held with spokespersons of Venezuela's extreme right, such as former deputy Juan Guaidó and the coordinator of the Vente Venezuela movement, María Corina Machado, in the hours before of the regional and municipal mega-elections. | In this regard, the international observers is maintaining their work schedule while the National Electoral Council's (CNE) schedule for the November 21 mega-elections advances with the objective to materialize the de…

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-11-21). Indigenous Communities Brave Police Violence to Block Pipeline Project. libya360.wordpress.com Peoples Dispatch Royal Canadian Mounted Police forcibly clearing an indigenous checkpoint near Coyote Camp on Wet'suwet'en land on November 18. (Photo: Gidimt'en Checkpoint/Twitter) Police cracked down on a blockade by members of the Wet'suwet'en tribe and arrested over a dozen people but failed to end the blockade of the drill site. The tribe has been resisting…

Fight Back (2021-11-20). Freedom Road Socialist Organization condemns the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. fightbacknews.org FRSO strongly condemns the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on all charges. This verdict is another example of how the police and courts work hand in hand with racist vigilantes to kill and injure African Americans, other oppressed nationalities, and all who try to fight to end police crimes. | In August of 2020, Jacob Blake, a young African American man, was shot in the back four times and three times in the side in by a white police officer Kenosha, Wisconsin. Coming less than two months after the killing of George Floyd, another uprising took place, with the African American community and supporters battling poli…

_____ (2021-11-20). Briefing: Venezuelan Elections November 2021. popularresistance.org Venezuela goes to the polls again on N21ovember in 'mega elections.' The dialogue that began in late summer between the Venezuelan government and sections of the hard right-wing opposition had been going well, with some definite outcomes. These include the decision by some right-wing opposition parties that have boycotted elections for years to take part in the elections. But the US's illegal extradition from Cape Verde of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, who was en-route to Iran to broker a trade deal to bring fuel, food and medicines to Venezuela, has threatened to sabotage both the talks, as the US did before in…

Anonymous669 (2021-11-20). Remains Of Turkish Laser-Guided Munition Found In Disputed Western Sahara (Photos). southfront.org File image. | On November 20, activists from the disputed Western Sahara region shared photos showing the remains of a Turkish-made MAM-L munition. | The MAM-L, which was developed by defense giant Roketsan, is a light-weight munition guided by semi-active laser. The munition has a range of 8 to 14 kilometers. | According to Western Sahara activists, the munition was fired by one of Morocco's newly-acquired Bayraktar TB2 combat drones. The Kingdom ordered 13 drones of this type from Turkey earlier this year. The…

MEE, agencies (2021-11-20). Sudan coup: Death toll of anti-coup protests rises to 40. middleeasteye.net Sudan coup: Death toll of anti-coup protests rises to 40 | Protests have been violently suppressed since the military took power in a coup last month | Sat, 11/20/2021 – 11: 29 | Sudanese anti-coup protesters gather in "Street 40" of the capital's twin city of Omdurman on 17 November 2021 (AFP) | The death toll in

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