2020-11-27: News Headlines

John Pilger (2020-11-27). Britain's Class War on Children. globalresearch.ca In this abridged article published by the London Daily Mirror & based on his 1975 film, Smashing Kids, John Pilger describes class as Britain's most virulent disease, causing record levels of child poverty. | *** | When I first reported on child …

John Pilger (2020-11-27). Britain's Class War on Children. counterpunch.org When I first reported on child poverty in Britain, I was struck by the faces of children I spoke to, especially the eyes. They were different: watchful, fearful. In Hackney, in 1975, I filmed Irene Brunsden's family. Irene told me she gave her two-year-old a plate of cornflakes. "She doesn't tell me she's hungry, she

Michael Payne (2020-11-27). STUNNING NEWS! Trump experiences an Enlightenment, takes actions to end his term with positive endeavors. nationofchange.org If you believed that Trump had had an enlightenment and had become a completely changed man. If you were suckered into buying into that, then I have to tell you this: it was all a huge hoax, nothing more than fake news.

Timothy Alexander Guzman (2020-11-27). Lies, "Yellow Journalism" and the Death of the Mainstream Media. globalresearch.ca During the era of Yellow Journalism in the U.S. which defined the type of journalism that existed before the start of Spanish-American War in 1898. The term, 'Yellow Journalism' was associated with various major newspapers that held no journalistic principals …

WSWS (2020-11-26). Meet the Censored: Andre Damon. wsws.org Increased content moderation has been sold as a tool to control the far right, but the World Socialist Web Site was among the first to sound the alarm.

Stephen Lendman (2020-11-26). US Propaganda War on China. globalresearch.ca US trade, legislative and propaganda war rage against China. | Will it turn hot after hawkish interventionists infesting the Biden/Harris regime's national security team take over in January? | Is what's unthinkable possible? What's gone on since the Obama/Biden regime's 2013 Asia …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-26). Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to face trial in a terrorism court. peoplesdispatch.org Saudi Arabian women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul appeared in court and her body was shaking uncontrollably, her voice very soft and shaky, according to her sister…

Tim Anderson (2020-11-26). Australia's federal court endorses 'academic cancel culture', by Tim Anderson. thealtworld.com Statement in response to the Federal Court decision in NTEU and Anderson vs University of Sydney and others (attached below), 26 November 2020. | In a case brought against the University of Sydney by the National Tertiary Education Union of Australia (NTEU) and myself the Federal Court has decided to endorse 'academic cancel culture' where, after trolling by outside lobbies, university managers can give secret directions to academics to withdraw or modify not only their public comments but also their teaching and research materials. | Academic cancel culture works this way: (1) powerful lobbies use media allies t…

teleSUR (2020-11-26). TeleSUR Signal Returns to Bolivian Television. telesurenglish.net Bolivia's Vice President David Choquehuanca announced that as of Wednesday teleSUR multi-media platform's signal will return to the Bolivian television after a year of being off the air by order of the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez. | RELATED: | "The signal of Latin America's most important multi-media is back. Censorship is not the path to people's democracy. Today we celebrate freedom of expression," Choquehuanca…

Mary Elizabeth Williams (2020-11-26). TikTok teens trolling Trump in Tulsa: A high point in an otherwise low year. salon.com In this otherwise terrible year, Gen Z scored a small victory by landing a blow to Trump's MAGA delusion…

teleSUR (2020-11-26). Trump Announces Pardon for Ex Security Adviser Who Lied to FBI. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he has pardoned Michael Flynn, his former National Security Adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). | RELATED: | "It is my Great Honor to announce that General Michael T. Flynn has been granted a Full Pardon," Trump tweeted, congratulating the retired Army lieutenant general while wishing him "a truly fantastic Th…

Alan Macleod (2020-11-25). "Superheroes" and "Nice" Guys: Coverage of Biden's Hawkish Cabinet Picks is Predictably Lacking. mintpressnews.com Just as they failed to hold power to account in the run-up to the disastrous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, corporate media is refusing to ask the hard questions about Biden's hawkish cabinet picks.

Betsey Piette (2020-11-25). Trump pushes ANWR drilling — what will Biden do? workers.org Defend the Sacred Alaska — Arctic Refuge rally, Fairbanks, Alaska, March 7, 2018. Since Nov. 7, corporate media has focused on President Donald Trump's refusal to accept his election defeat, labeling his actions "damaging to [the myth of bourgeois] democracy." Yet one of Trump's few concrete actions since the election . . . |

G. Dunkel (2020-11-25). Growing threats to workers' homes. workers.org A rent-controlled apartment building, Washington, DC. In March and April, over 22 million workers in the United States lost their jobs. So far, the stumbling economic recovery has brought 12 million back, but 10 million workers — 90% of them in the low-paid service sector — still do not have . . . |

Andrea Germanos, staff writer (2020-11-24). With Just 1% of Farms Controlling 70% of Global Farmland, Study Reveals 'Shocking' Level of Land Inequality. commondreams.org "A transformative agenda… is urgent and is in the interests of all humanity." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

South Front (2020-11-24). Video: Armenia Is Trolling Russia, Digging Its Own Grave Around the Clock. globalresearch.ca As of November 23, the Russian peacekeeping force has finished its deployment in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, that included the sending 1960 personnel and 552 units of equipment. The total number of observation posts currently kept by Russian forces in …

Anthony Cartalucci (2020-11-24). Thailand: Hiding Sedition Behind "Free Speech" thealtworld.com As the US has done around the globe, it is backing groups engaged in propaganda and disinformation aimed at undermining Thailand's leadership including its 700+ year old monarchy, an institution's whose head — the King of Thailand — also serves as the nation's head of state. | US-funded fronts posing as "human rights" advocates claim this propaganda and disinformation — amounting to defamation under the laws of any other nation on Earth — is simply "free speech." | I explain how this is absolutely wrong and how US-funded sedition in Thailand is merely hiding behind "free speech," not "fight…

jamanetwork (2020-11-24). Ecology and Medicine. jamanetwork.com "All life is controlled by two great forces, heredity and environment, and ecology is the science dealing with the environment." Ecology has generally been considered as the special concern of botanists and zoologists; at least they have been the ones who have most used the term as applying to a distinct department of their sciences; but obviously, from the definition, it is related to every science that touches life. Physicians have always recognized environment as of fundamental importance in all problems of medicine, and hence have unconsciously been ecologists, much like the man who, on taking up in his later…

VINS (2020-11-24). European Demand for Biomass Energy Propels Destruction of US Forests. projectcensored.org Driven by demand in European Union countries, the southern US is now the world's largest producer and exporter of the wood pellets used to produce biomass energy, Dana Smith reported…

WSWS (2020-11-24). Zoom cancels meetings at several universities on Zoom censorship. wsws.org Zoom's dramatic escalation of censorship has major implications as schools, academic institutions as well as political organizations have become increasingly dependent on the platform to conduct classes, conferences and meetings.