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8Nov

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Politics, USA, ZIO-NAZI

Naziyahu Terrified: After hours of crying, writes Biden a ‘Deeply Flawed Note’

Netanyahu Terrified: After hours of crying, writes Biden a ‘Deeply Flawed Note’ By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor If you translate these two tweets from Nuttin’yahoo, you can see how utterly fucked Israel is going to be. https://twitter.com/i/status/1325387532411039744 Times of Israel: After a conspicuously long hiatus, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin issued statements early Sunday morning congratulating Joe Biden after his US election win. Benjamin Netanyahu@netanyahuCongratulations @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. Joe, we’ve had a long & warm personal relationship for nearly 40 years, and I know you as a great friend of Israel. I look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the U.S. and Israel.5:0...

Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’

8Nov

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Literature, Politics, United Kingdom

Guardian-Friendly Omissions – ‘This Land’

In his latest book, ‘This Land – The Story of a Movement’ (Penguin, ebook version, 2020), the Guardian’s Owen Jones charts the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn. Jones depicts Corbyn as a ‘scruffy,’ (p.8), ‘unkempt’ (p.50), thoroughly shambolic backbench MP, ‘the most unlikely’ (p.50) of contenders for the Labour leadership. In May 2015, Corbyn reluctantly dipped his toe in the water of the leadership contest, saying: ‘You better make fucking sure I don’t get elected’ (p.54), only to be swept away on a tide of popular support. As this suggests, Jones argues that while Corbyn was indeed relentlessly savaged by forces both inside and outside the Labour Party – including the ‘mainstream’ media, with ‘profound hostility’ from ‘the publicly funded, professedly impartial’ BBC (p.68) – he wa...

Postmaster General DeJoy Defies Federal Judge as Mail-In Ballots Surge for Biden

7Nov

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Politics, USA

Postmaster General DeJoy Defies Federal Judge as Mail-In Ballots Surge for Biden

BY: Harvey Wasserman, Truthout Voting Wrongs At a critical turning point in the 2020 election, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a close Trump consigliere, has defied a federal court order meant to track down and deliver some 300,000 mailed-in ballots. In turn, federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan has warned DeJoy that “someone might have a price to pay” for the postal service’s refusal to sweep some 300,000 votes stranded in swing state post offices and deliver them to election boards for counting, where they may, in fact, make a critical difference in the outcome of this astounding election. As the battle for the presidency boils down to uncounted mailed-in ballots, Trump’s deconstruction of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has taken center stage. The spread of the coronavirus long ...

Celebrations Break Out in Major Cities Across US Following Trump’s Defeat

7Nov

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Politics, USA

Celebrations Break Out in Major Cities Across US Following Trump’s Defeat

People gather at Black Lives Matter Plaza to celebrate former Vice President Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election near the White House on November 7, 2020, in Washington, D.C. BY: Igor Derysh, Salon Joe Biden has finally been elected as the 46th president of the United States, according to the Associated Press, CNN, The New York Times and other major media outlets. On Saturday morning, after the former vice president took a 34,000-vote lead in Pennsylvania — just above the 0.5% threshold that would have dictated a recount — AP called the Keystone State, and the presidential election, at 11:28 a.m. Eastern time. With that, Donald Trump’s contentious and divisive presidency apparently draws to a close. Accordin...

Progressives Helped Defeat Trump. They’re Readying Bold Demands for Biden.

7Nov

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Politics, USA

Progressives Helped Defeat Trump. They’re Readying Bold Demands for Biden.

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris leave the stage after addressing the nation at the Chase Center November 6, 2020, in Wilmington, Delaware. BYStaff, Common Dreams After days of uncertainty amid concurrent global crises, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was declared the winner of the closely-watched contest that denied President Donald Trump a second term Saturday morning, after votes tallied in the battleground state of Pennsylvania pushed Biden over the 270 electoral vote threshold. According to NBC News: “The former vice president amassed 273 Electoral College votes after winning Pennsylvania’s 20 electors, according to NBC News, surpassing the 270 needed to win the White House and defeat President D...

Joe Biden Declared Winner of 2020 Presidential Election

7Nov

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Politics, USA

Joe Biden Declared Winner of 2020 Presidential Election

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden addresses the nation at the Chase Center November 06, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. BY: Chris Walker, Truthout Former Vice President Joe Biden has officially been declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election, surpassing the 270 Electoral College votes necessary to secure victory over incumbent President Donald Trump. Biden was declared the winner after the Associated Press announced he had won Pennsylvania, securing the additional electoral votes that he needed to win the race. The night prior, Biden had stopped short of declaring an official victory, but said he expected to win. He called for bridging political divides in the U.S. in his remarks. “We have to remember the purpose of our politics isn’t total unrele...

Tens of millions locked out of U.S. “democracy”

7Nov

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Politics, USA

Tens of millions locked out of U.S. “democracy”

Kaleigh O'Keefe Download PDF flyer Tens of millions of residents of the United States and its colonial territories are legally or practically barred from voting every year. People experiencing homelessness, living with felony convictions, non-citizen immigrants, disabled people, and residents of U.S. territories are all denied the basic democratic right to participate in elections. All disenfranchised people are equal members of the communities they live and work in, expected to pay taxes and follow state and federal laws just like everyone else. They suffer the consequences of laws passed by politicians they have no legal power to vote for or against.Disenfranchisement through racist criminal “justice” system More than five million people in the United States — 2.3 perce...

Trump goes all-in on racist voter disenfranchisement after indecisive election night

7Nov

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Politics, USA

Trump goes all-in on racist voter disenfranchisement after indecisive election night

Party for Socialism and Liberation Download PDF flyer After last night’s indecisive result, a massive effort is underway by the Trump campaign and Republican Party apparatus to prevent hundreds of thousands if not millions of votes from being counted. This effort has a clear racist character — hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots concentrated in cities with majority or near-majority Black populations have yet to be tabulated, and the final outcome of the election hangs in the balance. The struggle for the right to vote has historically been a central feature of the movement for Black freedom in the United States. The ongoing effort at large-scale voter disenfranchisement recalls the tactics of paramilitary and judicial repression used to enforce Jim Crow apartheid. Many other...

PSL statement: The defeat of Donald Trump

7Nov

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Politics, USA

PSL statement: The defeat of Donald Trump

Download PDF flyer More than 70 million people voted to oust Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 election. This was not a vote for Joe Biden, a truly uninspiring candidate who only became the nominee when the Democratic Party ruling class establishment united to stop Bernie Sanders from getting the nomination in early March. Nor did the historic voter turnout for Biden signify support for his pro-Wall Street, pro-war positions and his role as an architect of the current system of policing and mass incarceration. In the last few minutes, the major corporate-owned media networks all announced that Joe Biden had sufficient electoral college votes to become the next president of the United States. It is noteworthy that Fox News, which has been so vociferously cheerleading for Dona...

Declaración de PSL: La derrota de Donald Trump

7Nov

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Politics, USA

Declaración de PSL: La derrota de Donald Trump

Download PDF flyer Más de 70 millones de personas votaron para sacar a Donald Trump en las elecciones del 3 de noviembre. Este no fue un voto para Joe Biden, un candidato poco inspirador que solamente logró ser el nominado cuando la clase dominante del Partido Demócrata se coordinó para detener a Bernie Sanders y no permitir que fuera el candidato a principios de marzo. La histórica participación electoral para Biden no significa el apoyo a Wall Street, o su postura pro guerras, ni a su rol como arquitecto del sistema actual de vigilancia policial y encarcelación en masa. En los últimos minutos, los principales medios de comunicación controlados por las empresas, anunciaron que Biden tenía los suficientes votos electorales para ser el próximo presidente de los Estados Unidos. Es im...