2020-12-12: News Headlines

Qiao Collective (2020-12-12). Qiao Collective on challenging U.S. aggression on China, the role of the Western left. mronline.org On the domestic front, the U.S. propaganda machine mostly works instead to position China as this great, menacing oriental Other. We've seen this during the COVID-19 pandemic in Trump's rhetoric about the "China virus" and in Biden's attempts at one-upmanship.

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.

_____ (2020-12-12). Yet Another Major Escalation In Establishment Internet Censorship. popularresistance.org YouTube, whose corporate owner Google is arguably the most powerful company on earth, is now deleting user videos which claim the US election was fraudulent. | YouTube's official statement on its decision to do this is very revealing, not so much for what it says as for what it does not say. | At no point does the video publishing platform attempt to argue that it is removing these videos because they jeopardize anyone's health or safety, as it did when it began deleting videos deemed to be spreading misinformation about Covid-19. | At no point does it attempt to argue that these videos are inciting violence, as…

Manar Waheed (2020-12-11). Biden Must Restore Citizenship for Black and Brown People. aclu.org President Trump's relentless destruction of our immigration system is well documented. However, the myriad ways in which he attacked and targeted Black and Brown people seeking immigration benefits or citizenship, and even U.S. citizens is less discussed. , , There have been three substantial attacks on citizenship for Black and Brown immigrants: | Indefinite delays of immigration benefits, including citizenship, through the Controlled Application Review and Resolution Program (CARRP), which has targeted Muslims and people from Muslim-majority countries since 2008;Blocking the expedited path to citizenship fo…

Ralph Nader (2020-12-11). Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia — You've Long Earned It. counterpunch.org All political eyes are on Georgia's runoff election on January 5th, 2021. Two Senate seats are up for grabs and will decide whether the evil Trumpster and corporatist Senator Mitch McConnell stays in total control of the U.S. Senate or not. If the Democrats win both seats, the Senate would be split, 50-50. Vice President

Stephen Lendman (2020-12-11). Pharma Controlled FDA Panel Recommends Approval for Controversial Pfizer COVID Vaccine. globalresearch.ca Establishment media are at the forefront in promoting potentially hazardous to human health covid vaccines they should be advising caution about instead. | The NYT headlined: "FDA Advisory Panel Gives Green Light to Pfizer Vaccine," saying: | Approval "pave(s) the way for …

Rod Driver (2020-12-11). "Elephants in the Room": Scary 'R' Us: The Exaggerated Threat of Terrorism. globalresearch.ca This is the sixth in a series entitled Elephants In The Room, which attempts to provide a beginners guide to understanding what's really going on in relation to war, terrorism, economics and poverty, without the nonsense in the mainstream media….

Brian Cloughley (2020-12-11). NATO Is Determined to Find Threats and Challenges to Justify Its Existence. globalresearch.ca Government and media propaganda has firmly convinced most of the citizenry of the West that Russia invaded Crimea, and the truth has dissolved in the swirling miasma that the anti-Russia movement has dubbed as history. | In March 2014 the ethnically …

Princess Harmony (2020-12-10). The value of addicts' lives. workers.org Supporters of safe injection sites in Philadelphia rallied outside this week's federal hearing. The judge's ultimate ruling will determine if the proposed "Safehouse" facility to prevent deaths from opioid overdose would violate the federal Controlled Substances Act. Philadelphia has the reputation of being a major heroin haven on the East . . . |

WSWS (2020-12-10). Detroit Free Press breaks silence on Fiat Chrysler COVID-19 deaths in effort at damage control. wsws.org While acknowledging recent COVID-19 deaths at Detroit-area plants, both the company and the union, along with the corporate media which approvingly reports their comments, blame autoworkers for the spread of the disease in the plants.

John Scales Avery (2020-12-10). Human society and the biosphere. nationofchange.org In corporate-controlled countries like the United States, the word "socialism" is an anathema; but nations everywhere in the world might benefit from the Scandinavian model of socialism.

Global Research News (2020-12-09). Selected Articles: How to Get Saved from COVID-19 Under Nuclear Bombs. globalresearch.ca By Given the outrage over what the court historians and the U.S. mainstream press have long maintained was an unprovoked attack by Japan on the United …

Project Censored (2020-12-09). Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth discuss the New Project Censored Book. projectcensored.org Today on the Project Censored Show Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth discuss the new Project Censored book, and explain its analytical approach. Project Censored's new annual volume, "State of…

Fight Back (2020-12-09). Labor to the front in the battle against COVID-19. fightbacknews.org As of December 1, 2020, the coronavirus pandemic is in an uncontrollable spread in 49 out of 50 states. Our country has over 10 million confirmed cases and over 270,000 deaths. With more than 100,000 new cases a day, hospitalizations and deaths will grow exponentially. Today over 1000 deaths are happening each day. The death rate, even with improved treatments since March, will likely grow significantly as hospitals and health care workers are already becoming overwhelmed. That is the best-case scenario in the large cities. Rural areas are entirely unprepared, lacking equipment and knowledge of the most up-to-dat…