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.

_____ (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,…

Asa Winstanley (2021-11-04). Scottish college censors Israel's critics. electronicintifada.net Anti-Palestinian blogger takes credit for apology by Glasgow university.

WSWS (2021-11-04). W. Eugene Smith Memorial Grant winner Jane Evelyn Atwood opposes MGM's Minamata censorship. wsws.org "It is outrageous that the film isn't screened in the US… This is a movie that exposes an unconscionable tragedy few people know about but everyone should."

Anonymous669 (2021-11-04). Russia To Deploy S-400 Long-Range Air-Defense System In Northeastern Syria Airport — Reports. southfront.org S-400 systems. FILE IMAGE: Alexey Malgavko / Sputnik | The Russian military is planning to deploy an S-400 long-range air-defense system in Syria's northeastern region which is mostly controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), several Syrian and Russian sources reported on November 3. | The advanced air-defense system will allegedly be deployed at al-Qamishli Airport which is located right on the border with Turkey. | The S-400 system can detect airborne targets more than 600 kilometers away and fire a…