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6Nov

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Mike Pompeo: Israel's Most Faithful Bitch

bY: Mahmoud El-Yousseph The outgoing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is planning to classify any criticism of Israel's war crimes as anti-Semitic. So it will be an offense to support human rights and international law. The new plan will equate any criticism of Israel with antisemitism as an attempt to silence pro-Palestinian advocates. That takes a very twisted mind to come up with such a plan.Pompeo's plan will affect NGO groups like Amenisty Internation and Human Rights Watch by cutting their funding. Other pro-Palestinian organizations abroad will also be targeted. Sec. Pompeo needs to educate himself on the U.S. Constitution because his plan infringes on people's right to freedom of expression. I am even surprised yet that there is no outcry from the defender of free speech.Ra...

Biden Underperforms and Trump Stokes Chaos by Claiming False Victory

6Nov

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Biden Underperforms and Trump Stokes Chaos by Claiming False Victory

BYAmy Goodman, Democracy Now! President Trump has prematurely declared victory and falsely accused Democrats of “major fraud,” even as millions of ballots continue to be counted across the United States amid an unprecedented wave of mail-in ballots widely believed to favor Democratic challenger Joe Biden. The two campaigns appear neck and neck in several battleground states key to winning the White House, but early results suggest Democrats performed worse than they had hoped, setting up a potential legal fight over uncounted ballots reminiscent of the 2000 election. We spend the hour discussing the results and what comes next, with Ben Jealous, president of People for the American Way and former head of the NAACP; Briahna Joy Gray, formerly the national press secretary for the ...

The Winner of the 2020 Election Won’t Be Inheriting a Genuine Democracy

5Nov

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The Winner of the 2020 Election Won’t Be Inheriting a Genuine Democracy

The U.S. Capitol as seen on October 31, 2020, in Washington, D.C. BYAlexandra Boutri, Truthout With just a few days until what is widely regarded as the most important national election in recent U.S. history, voters remain divided and polarized over what should be essentially the future of the country. Issues over racism, immigration, guns, women’s rights, police brutality and climate change are what essentially divide Republican voters from Democrats. The former, galvanized by the extreme and divisive rhetoric of a racist and reactionary president, wish to preserve the values of “traditional America” (white supremacy and patriarchy, militarism, rugged individualism and religiosity), while Democrats worry that another four years of Donald Trump in office will spell the end of democra...

5Nov

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Human Rights, Politics, USA

Climate Change and Hurricanes

BY JOHN DAVIS Photograph Source: Roosevelt Skerrit – CC BY-SA 3.0 Do you remember last summer’s gang-of-five? Known individually as Harvey, Irma, Jose, Katia and Maria, a strangely mellifluous invocation of the deluge (or a diluvian mantra), the climatological spawn of cyclogenesis (the spin cycle in the South Atlantic) they collectively represented the most powerful group of hurricanes in over a hundred years. They were part of a train of such events in 2017, which totaled, at the time of writing, eight Atlantic hurricanes – the-hateful-eight – an unprecedented cyclogenetic sequence. Their combined death toll is conservatively estimated at over five hundred people with property and infrastructure damage low-balled at 200 billion dollars. Bruno Latour, the French sociologist...

Policing the Pandemic: How the City of Albuquerque Criminalizes People Living on the Streets

5Nov

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Policing the Pandemic: How the City of Albuquerque Criminalizes People Living on the Streets

BY KEEGAN JAMES SARMIENTO KLOER – DAVID CORREIA Photograph Source: Office of Public Affairs – CC BY2.0 Instead of helping unsheltered people find support and housing, the City of Albuquerque’s Family and Community Services Department has been working closely with Albuquerque police to break up tent encampments, to check for warrants, and to identify people for police to arrest or issue criminal citations. This pattern of enforcement predates the pandemic but has intensified in recent months. It violates COVID-19 guidance published by the Centers for Disease Control, which in March advised cities against “clearing encampments [of unsheltered people]” because the practice risks increasing “the potential for infectious disease spread.” Albuquerque advocates for the unsheltered ...

5Nov

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On Trump’s Megalomania

BY EVAGGELOS VALLIANATOS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I have been observing Trump since 2016. He is a despot in a business suit. He is undermining the government and the health of Americans and the natural world. He says he’s a billionaire and proud of it. And to prove how far he stands from the wishes and aspiration of Americans, he filled his cabinet mostly with billionaires. It’s as if, with Trump competing for the presidency, the country went into a frenzy: turning down Hillary Clinton, the first woman seeking the country’s highest office, and electing Trump the billionaire. Naturally, Trump lived up to his money reputation and opened the national treasury to fellow oligarchs. Americans naively thought nothing of it. Economists rushed to excuse tax cuts and subsidies t...

Nuclear Weapons Will Soon Be Illegal Under International Law

5Nov

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Nuclear Weapons Will Soon Be Illegal Under International Law

BY DAVE LINDORFF Photograph Source: MAPW Australia – CC BY 2.0 Flash! Nuclear bombs and warheads have just joined landmines, germ and chemical bombs and fragmentation bombs as illegal weapons under international law, as on Oct. 24 a 50th nation, the Central American country of Honduras, ratified and signed a UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Of course, the reality is that despite this outlawing of landmines and fragmentation bombs by the UN, the US still uses them routinely and sells them to other countries, has not destroyed its stockpile of chemical weapons, and continues with controversial research on weaponized germs which critics say has a potential dual defensive/offensive utility and purpose (the US is known to have used illegal ge...

5Nov

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Trump and Biden: Cold-War Dinosaurs

BY JULIA KASSEM Photograph Source: Phillip Pessar – CC BY 2.0 The first time foreign policy was mentioned in the entire 2020 election campaign began with a question premised upon allegations that Russia, Iran, and China were interfering in US elections. Thus far, the presidential and vice presidential debates have steered clear of foreign policy, despite the US’s age-long meddling representing a major problem globally and the source of growing opposition domestically. The claim was sourced from a report that alleged that Iranian hackers had sent out threatening emails to Floridian voters to vote for Trump, posing as the Proud Boys. The report, published in a Tweet by the Twitter account of the House Homeland Security Committee Wednesday, October 21st, originated from an ...

Trump Baselessly Claims Victory Despite Over a Million Uncounted Votes

5Nov

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Trump Baselessly Claims Victory Despite Over a Million Uncounted Votes

President Trump speaks on election night in the East Room of the White House in the early morning hours of November 4, 2020, in Washington, D.C. BYSharon Zhang, Truthout Early in the morning on Wednesday, President Donald Trump declared victory from within the White House, despite the fact that there are still over a million votes yet to be counted in key states he claimed to have won. “We will win this,” Trump said, without evidence, at 2:21 a.m. “As far as I am concerned we already have won it.” And, even though battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan still have over a million ballots still to be counted, Trump says that his campaign is “winning” both states. But the ballots tell a different story. Though Michigan was a tight race Tuesday nigh...

Donald Trump, the Cannibal King, Has Eaten the Republican Party

5Nov

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Donald Trump, the Cannibal King, Has Eaten the Republican Party

President Trump arrives with Vice President Pence for a rally at Cherry Capital Airport in Traverse City, Michigan, on November 2, 2020. BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout Dirge /derj/ noun: A lament for the dead; music accompanying a funeral rite Whatever the outcome of this election, no matter what happens from right now unto the final breaking of the world, one thing is certain: The Republican Party is dead, and Donald Trump done did the killin’. Oh, they will shamble about for a while like extras on The Walking Dead, of course. Trump has made it clear that he’s not going anywhere if he loses this election, and has been talking about running for president again in 2024 “to see media, Democrats, and RINO heads explode,” according to The Daily Beast. ...