(2020-12-31). Victories For Palestine Continued On US Campuses In 2020. popularresistance.org Despite the challenges of online/remote learning, campus activism has not stopped over the past year. National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) is currently planning their 2021 conference, celebrating 10 years of this annual reunion of SJP chapters from around the nation. And many student chapters have passed significant resolutions around some major issues, from censorship, to the International Holocaust Remembrance Association (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, to divestment and, most recently, the training of campus police by the Israeli military. As we wrap up 2020, here is a representative sample of…
(2020-12-31). Homemade End Times and Our Charismatic Trance. counterpunch.org There's a mystery buried inside an analysis. We might start this exploration by saying the Left doesn't have a Rush Limbaugh or a Sean Hannity on its propaganda squad. (And propaganda may be less about taking over one's thought process—slogans endlessly repeated can achieve that end—than it is the fine tuning of emotional tensions.) Or,
(2020-12-31). Why Lockdowns Don't Work and Hurt the Most Vulnerable. Bankruptcies, Poverty, Despair. globalresearch.ca In a December 9, 2020, Twitter thread,1 Michael P. Senger, an attorney and author of the September 2020 article,2 "China's Global Lockdown Propaganda Campaign," reviewed the largely hidden impacts of global lockdowns. Ivor Cummins' video also reviews …
(2020-12-30). An exclusive look inside Iran's supermarket in Venezuela. thegrayzone.com Red Lines host Anya Parampil visits Megasis, an Iranian supermarket which recently opened in Caracas, Venezuela, and explores cooperation between Tehran and Caracas against the US economic blockade. The Grayzone's Anya Parampil provides an exclusive look inside a superstore which the US government and corporate media have condemned and attempted to link to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. She also speaks with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza about how increased cooperation between Tehran and Caracas is improving the material …
(2020-12-30). International Red Cross worker killed in Yemen airport attack, 2 missing. rt.com 
At least one staff member with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) was killed in an attack at Aden airport in Yemen on Wednesday, the agency has confirmed. Two other ICRC workers are unaccounted for. | Explosions and gunfire broke out at the airport shortly after a plane carrying the newly formed cabinet for the government-controlled parts of the country touched down. More than 20 casualties have been reported. | A second explosion was reportedly heard close to the presidential palace, where members of the cabinet were taken to safety after fleeing the airport assault. The attacks took place af…
(2020-12-29). Workers Struggles: The Americas. wsws.org Air traffic controllers in Peru held a three-day strike over the Christmas holiday to protest lack of COVID protection, while Ecuador police attacked workers occupying the Explocen mining explosives plant south of Quito.
(2020-12-29). 'Woke rubbish': Hundreds complain to UK media watchdog over Channel 4's deepfake Queen on Christmas Day. rt.com 
British broadcaster Channel 4 has been hit with hundreds of complaints over its Christmas Day message starring a 'deepfake' Queen, who danced on a table and joked about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle ditching the royal family. | Ofcom said it had received at least 214 complaints over the broadcast of the digitally-altered monarch, which Channel 4 described as intended to provide a "stark warning" about the use of technology for "fake news in a digital age." | The four-minute film starred English actress and impressionist Debra Stephenson, whose image was enhanced using 'deepfake' technology from Oscar-winning…
(2020-12-29). Unanswered questions in the SolarWinds Orion hack. wsws.org As more details about the unprecedented hack of SolarWinds become available, questions continue to mount about the nature of the "supply chain attack" and how it is being presented by the corporate media and the US political establishment.
(2020-12-29). At Least 1 Killed, 3 Soldiers Injured After 'Israeli Aggression' in Damascus Airspace – SANA. sputniknews.com On Wednesday, state-controlled Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) reported that explosions were heard in Damascus area as Syrian air defenses were responding to what was described as "Israeli aggression".
(2020-12-28). A More Honest Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic. globalresearch.ca Since the first cases of the new coronavirus strain outside of China, every aspect of the pandemic's ever-changing amoebic narrative has been carefully controlled by the World Health Organization and major government health agencies. | High officials within a syndicate of …
(2020-12-28). One Year After First COVID-19 Report, Wuhan Doctor Who Filed Discovery Rejects 'Cover-Up' Narrative. sputniknews.com While the US government and mainstream media have attempted to rewrite the history of the opening stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to pin the blame for the outbreak on China, one of the central figures of that period has reaffirmed the speed and accuracy of the medical response in Wuhan.
(2020-12-28). Year-end insights galore, but what will we, can we learn from calamity? nationofchange.org On display: full combat between the forces of ignorance, bigotry, deception and propaganda vs. knowledge, understanding, wisdom and besieged aspirations of justice and equality.