2020-12-15: News Headlines

Minnie Bruce Pratt (2020-12-15). Defend Chich'il Bildagoteel! workers.org Apache clans and over 300 Indigenous nations are organizing to protect Chich'il Bildagoteel, the Oak Flat site in southeastern Arizona, from devastating copper mining extraction. Apache clan members and supporters rally to defend Chich'il Bildagoteel (Oak Flat) in December 2019.Credit: Sandra Rambler/Censored News The mining was given a federal go-ahead . . . |

John Catalinotto (2020-12-15). A look at Venezuela's National Assembly election. workers.org Venezuela's December 6 National Assembly (AN) elections overcame the prior pro-imperialist majority in that body and catapulted the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) into an overwhelming majority. President Nicolás Maduro, also of the PSUV, won big. Voting is smooth and fair in Venezuela. The imperialist politicians and corporate media, especially . . . |

RT (2020-12-15). Facebook's latest troll-hunt in Africa leads them to point to FRANCE — first NATO country to get the honor. rt.com On the latest hunt for 'trolls' in Africa and the Middle East, in addition to the usual 'Russians' Facebook for the first time banned a network of French accounts fighting for influence in former colonies. | On Tuesday, Facebook

Vanessa Beeley (2020-12-14). Evasions and Cover-ups by Western Governments over Funding of Terrorist Groups in Syria Start to Unravel. dissidentvoice.org Evidence of Dutch and British funding for extremists who've beheaded children & carried out ethnic-cleansing grows by the day. Yet most of the mainstream media — including the BBC — still try to keep this truth silent. Recently, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte effectively blocked a Parliamentary motion to allow an external independent investigation of …

Dan Cohen (2020-12-14). Corporate Media Shills For Assassination Of Iranian Scientist. mintpressnews.com Corporate media features serial liars and pundits paid by the weapons industry to discuss the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist and Defense Minister Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. Dan Cohen examines the propaganda campaign to drum up support for a war against Iran.

The Global Research Team (2020-12-14). Help Us Protect the Future of GlobalResearch.ca. globalresearch.ca Dear Readers, | We have been bringing you independent news and analysis for over 19 years. Our intention is to continue to relentlessly promote independent voices that speak out on issues too often neglected by the corporate media. There are no …

Kenny Stancil, staff writer (2020-12-14). From 'Alternative Facts' to 'Alternate Electors': Stephen Miller Pushes Absurd New Strategy in Face of Trump Loss. commondreams.org "They're actively attempting a coup. It's extremely stupid. But that is what it is and it's beyond troubling." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

David Skripac (2020-12-13). COVID-19: A Fabricated Second "Tidal Wave" of Poverty and Injustice. globalresearch.ca Here we are at the end of a year filled with upheaval, facing yet another round of lockdowns, this time ostensibly intended to fight off a supposed "second wave of COVID-19." | In the foreground, we have the completely co-opted mainstream …

Annery G Garcia-Marcinkiewicz, Pete G Kovatsis, Agnes I Hunyady, Patrick N Olomu, Bingqing Zhang, Madhankumar Sathyamoorthy, Adolfo Gonzalez, Siri Kanmanthreddy, Jorge A Gálvez, Amber M Franz, James Peyton, Raymond Park, Edgar E Kiss, David Sommerfield, Heather Griffis, Akira Nishisaki, Britta S von Ungern-Sternberg, Vinay M Nadkarni, Francis X McGowan, John E Fiadjoe, PeDI Collaborative investigators (2020-12-12). [Articles] First-attempt success rate of video laryngoscopy in small infants (VISI): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial. thelancet.com Among anaesthetised infants, using video laryngoscopy with a standard blade improves the first-attempt success rate and reduces complications.