Daily Archives: December 22, 2020

2020-12-22: News Headlines

Dean Baker (2020-12-22). Getting Serious About Repealing Section 230. counterpunch.org Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act has been getting considerable attention lately for almost all the wrong reasons. Donald Trump has been yelling that he wants the provision repealed, and even threatened to veto the main military spending bill for next year if it does not include the repeal of Section 230. (It

Global Justice Now (2020-12-22). Big Pharma Business Model Is Serious Obstacle to Wiping Out COVID-19: Report. globalresearch.ca New research released today by Global Justice Now examines the history of some of the leading corporations producing coronavirus medicines, warning that their business model is likely to make controlling the pandemic more difficult, despite the rapid production of vaccines….

Alison Weir (2020-12-22). U.S.-Israel Security Assistance Authorization Act: US Congress Votes $4 Billion to Israel for 2021. globalresearch.ca Congress just voted billions of dollars of U.S. tax money to Israel, No mainstream US media appear to have told Americans that both houses of Congress just voted massive aid to Israel, a tiny country with a long record …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-12-22). Former Kurdish parliamentarian Leyla Gàºven sentenced to over 22 years in jail. peoplesdispatch.org Leyla Gàºven, a former member of parliament, was tried and sentenced for her alleged membership of the banned Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and on the charge of disseminating "terrorist propaganda"

MEE staff (2020-12-21). Egypt to open diplomatic mission in Western Sahara's Laayoune. middleeasteye.net Egypt to open diplomatic mission in Western Sahara's Laayoune | Cairo follows Bahrain, the UAE and the United States by opening consulate in disputed Morocco-controlled territory | Mon, 12/21/2020 – 15: 29 | Moroccans celebrate in Rabat after the US adopted a new official map of Morocco that includes the disputed territory of Western Sahara, 13 December 2020 (AFP) | Egypt is planning to open a general consulat…

Dan Cohen (2020-12-21). Propaganda Pandemic: The Craziest COVID Claims Of The Year. mintpressnews.com No matter how many Americans die, corporate media is desperate to shore up support at home and attempt to discredit foreign countries for handling the pandemic properly. Behind The Headlines' Dan Cohen reviews the most absurd COVID propaganda of the year.

_____ (2020-12-21). Ex-UK Ambassador On Syria And Propaganda. popularresistance.org Former UK ambassador to Syria Peter Ford on how the US and its allies continue to wage war on Syria via sadistic sanctions, an illegal US military occupation, the OPCW cover-up, and media propaganda that masks the brutality. | Syria and its allies prevented regime change, but the US and its allies are continuing to squeeze Syria's population with crippling sanctions on all aspects of civilian life and a US military occupation in Syria's northeast breadbasket. Peter Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria, analyzes the state of the Syria proxy war and the ongoing propaganda campaign to whitewash it.

teleSUR (2020-12-21). Chile Opens New Investigation Into Corruption in The Army. telesurenglish.net Chile's Public Ministry and the Investigation Police opened an investigation against nearly 800 serving and retired army officials on corruption charges. | RELATED: | Over 500 retired officials and 270 in practice have been subjected to an investigation into alleged fraud to the treasury committed from 2007 until 2017 after the Mutual Aid Fund (FAM) was closed. | The Comptroller's and the Prosecutor's Offices are se…

Aaron Maté (2020-12-20). Ex-UK Ambassador: war on Syria continues with US occupation, sanctions, propaganda. thegrayzone.com Peter Ford, the former UK Ambassador to Syria, on how the US and its allies continue to wage war on Syria via sadistic sanctions, an illegal US military occupation, the OPCW cover-up, and media propaganda that masks the brutality. Syria and its allies prevented regime change, but the US and its allies are continuing to squeeze Syria's population with crippling sanctions on all aspects of civilian life and a US military occupation in Syria's northeast breadbasket. Peter Ford, the former …

Prof. Nolan Higdon (2020-12-20). The H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic: Manipulating Data to Enrich Drug Companies. globalresearch.ca This Project Censored Review by Prof. Nolan Higdon and William Smith on the H1N1 "pandemic" and vaccine scandal was originally published in 2010 following the 2009 H1N1 virus outbreak. | Below is the link to Michel Chossudovsky's detailed article which was …

Rod Driver (2020-12-19). Scary 'R' Us 3 — The Exaggerated Threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction. zcomm.org The term WMD is propaganda to confuse chemical weapons with nuclear weapons, in order to exaggerate a threat…