(2021-11-17). Deere workers denounce UAW sellout deal and call for continued strike action. wsws.org Despite intense pressure and intimidation by Deere, the UAW and the corporate media, there remains broad opposition among workers to the proposed contract, which is virtually identical to one they voted to reject two weeks ago.
(2021-11-17). Cubans Say They Are More Excited About School Reopening Than Regime Change. popularresistance.org Dissidents on the island, with their U.S. backers, had been working feverishly for months to turn the unprecedented July 11 protests into a crescendo of government opposition on November 15. They built a formidable structure, with sophisticated social media (including an abundance of fake news), piles of cash from Cuban Americans and the U.S. government, and declarations of support from a bipartisan Congress and all the way up to the White House.
(2021-11-17). Fake 'shoplifting surge' is just the latest in crime wave propaganda. mronline.org 
The issue has become one of the key fronts in the development of law and order rhetoric. It is part of the backlash from pro-police elements of society to prevent any changes at all to the country's hyper militarized, mainly ineffective, racist, and brutal system of policing and the accompanying system of mass incarceration.
(2021-11-16). US Sends Clear Message To African Nations As It Turns Its Back On Ethiopia. popularresistance.org The corporate media in the United States is waging a misinformation campaign as part of the hybrid warfare being used to try to subjugate Ethiopia. Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace states there "is a coordinated effort to criminalize and delegitimize the Ethiopian state in order to cripple or balkanize it, maybe even to provide the political will for a direct military intervention." For 27 years, the United States-backed Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) ruled Ethiopia until it was overthrown by a popular movement in 2018. Ethiopians then elected their Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, who refuses to…
(2021-11-16). USAID's Attempts To Challenge Russia With $20 Million Grant To Georgia Will Achieve Little. southfront.org 
Illustrative ImageDespite the grant being unlikely to achieve much, it demonstrates the US' intentions to continue pushing Georgia away from Moscow. | Written by Paul Antonopoulos, independent geopolitical analyst | The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) plans to allocate millions of dollars to Tbilisi again, this time for the deep integration of ethnic and religious minorities into mainstream Georgian society. According to USAID's announcement, the new $20 million grant is about supporting the integra…
(2021-11-16). NATO air, missile deployments expanded from West German to Russian border. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com Germany as a special case in the history of NATO Air Policing NATO Air Policing over Germany — now a standard task carried out by German controllers and fighters in an Allied context — started as a special arrangement involving the Tripartite Powers. *** From the start, NATO's Air Policing has been an integral part …
(2021-11-16). Cuba Enters New Normal With Mask Mandates. telesurenglish.net Bernardo Sosa, a Cuban national residing in the United States, was happy to be back on the island after 20 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | He was among passengers who arrived at Havana's Jose Marti International Airport as Cuba has entered a new normal period following the government's announcement of its success in controlling the spread of the disease. | RELATED: | Sosa, who lives in Florida with his family, t…