2021-11-06: News Headlines

Assata Shakur (2021-11-06). Assata Shakur: 'Fight tooth and nail to save Mumia's life and free him'. workers.org Note: This statement was recorded at Radio Havana in Cuba in 1998 and featured on "All Things Censored: Vol. 1, 1998" by Mumia Abu-Jamal. "The first time I heard a tape of one of Mumia's radio broadcasts, it was the first time I fully understood why the United States government . . . |

oneworld.press (2021-11-06). The World Burns While The Elites Enjoy The Great Climate Show. oneworld.press This week the elites from large parts of the world were gathered in Glasgow, Scotland for the COP 26 UN Climate Change Conference, mainly Western leaders, MainStream Media (MSM) journalists and CEOs were present. Joe Biden was in Rome, for the G20 meeting and a meeting with Pope Francis, he drove around with his 85-car motorcade (petrol or diesel).

Editor (2021-11-05). Facebook does the U.S. government's censorship work in Nicaraguan elections. mronline.org A few days before the Nicaraguan presidential elections on November 7, Facebook and other social media companies began closing down many of the pages used by Sandinista supporters in their campaign to re-elect President Daniel Ortega.

Philip Weiss (2021-11-05). Israel's secret 'evidence' against rights groups is based on torture and lies, and Europeans rejected it—Palestinian leaders tell a DC audience. mronline.org Leaders of the six Palestinian human rights organizations that Israel has declared to be "terrorist" spoke to a global audience last Friday on a webinar convened by mainstream Washington thinktanks and they repudiated the secret dossiers that Israel has circulated in seeking to ban the organizations.

Betsey Piette (2021-11-05). Supply chain crisis: Driven by deregulation. workers.org Corporate media and the Biden administration have focused on major West Coast ports, specifically Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., as the pivot points in the global supply chain crisis impacting the U.S. But the problem is far more complex. It involves points of production, methods of global transport, points . . . |

_____ (2021-11-05). France Has A Nuclear Habit It Just Cannot Kick. popularresistance.org On July 28, French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Tahiti and said that France owed a "debt" to French Polynesia. The debt was related to approximately 200 nuclear tests France conducted in the 118 islands and atolls that comprise this part of the central South Pacific, which France has controlled since 1842. These tests were conducted between 1966 and 1996. Macron did not apologize for the environmental and human damage caused by these tests. He remained stoic, acknowledging that the tests were not "clean." "I think it's true that we wouldn't have done these same tests in the Creuse or in Brittany," he said,…

MEE staff (2021-11-05). UK more than halves donations to UN Palestinian refugee agency. middleeasteye.net UK more than halves donations to UN Palestinian refugee agency | UNRWA boss warns of a total collapse after the funding cuts, which are hitting health and educational services to Palestinian refugees | Fri, 11/05/2021 – 14: 00 | A Palestinian volunteer pushes a trolley of food rations outside an aid distribution centre run by UNRWA at the al-Shati camp for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City, 2 October 2021 (AFP…

MEE staff (2021-11-05). Israel to build surveillance system along Cyprus green line. middleeasteye.net Israel to build surveillance system along Cyprus green line | Republic of Cyprus says new system will aim to crack down on immigration and smuggling | Fri, 11/05/2021 – 09: 54 | A woman walks her dog on the Turkish side of the green line, a UN controlled buffer zone separating the divided Cypriot capital Nicosia, on 13 January 2017 (AFP) |

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