Monthly Archives: November 2020

2020-11-06: News Headlines

Pepe Escobar (2020-11-06). Banana Follies: the mother of all color revolutions. thealtworld.com In this gaming exercise the incumbent president, Buffoon, was painted red; the challenger, Corpse, blue | A gaming exercise of the perfect, indigenous color revolution, code-named Blue, was leaked from a major think tank established in the imperial lands that first designed the color revolution concept. | Not all the information disclosed here about the gaming of Blue has been declassified. That may well elicit a harsh response from the Deep State, even as a similar scenario was gamed by an outfit called Transition Integrity Project. | Both scenarios should qualify as predictive programming — with the Deep…

Oscar Grenfell (2020-11-06). New Documents Show Mueller Investigation Unable to Concoct Charges Against Assange and WikiLeaks. globalresearch.ca Previously redacted portions of the Mueller report into supposed Russian interference in the US, released this week, have shown that despite every effort, the Justice Department was unable to concoct evidence of any criminal wrongdoing on the part of WikiLeaks …

Ralph Nader — Bruce Fein (2020-11-05). How Trump, Hannity and Limbaugh Violated Election Law. counterpunch.org Conservative media celebrities Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh have flagrantly violated the federal election law prohibition of donating anything of value exceeding $2,800 to a presidential candidate. The ongoing strategic collaboration between Trump, Hannity and Limbaugh is obvious and has been widely documented in newspapers and books. Both Hannity and Limbaugh have collaborated with President

Staff (2020-11-05). Hope and havoc in Baltimore politics. therealnews.com From progressive insurgents and petty tyrants to Kim Klacik, TRNN Baltimore Editor and Managing Editor Lisa Snowden-McCray speaks with Maryland State Senator Jill Carter and local musician DDm about the wild world of Baltimore politics.

Gloria Rubac (2020-11-04). Indigenous nations in Oklahoma win Supreme Court ruling. workers.org A surprisingly progressive Supreme Court decision found that over one-third of Oklahoma still falls into "Indian Country" under federal law for the Muscogee Creek Tribe and other Oklahoma tribes. The court ruled July 9 in McGirt v. Oklahoma that under treaties dating back two centuries, much of eastern Oklahoma is . . . |

2020-11-05: News Headlines

_____ (2020-11-05). Imperial Overstretch Arrives: Americans Do Not Need the American Empire. strategic-culture.org This piece is being written as voters are going to the polls on election day in the United States. While it has been useful to consider how things might change, possibly for the worse, one must also recognize that much of what happens in the U.S. and in its far-flung empire operates by virtue of its own internal dynamics and rules, something that is often referred to as the "Deep State" or perhaps more accurately as the Establishment. | Witness for example the occasional possibly sincere but unsuccessful White House attempts over the past four years to withdraw or reduce the numbers of U.S. troops embroiled in va…

_____ (2020-11-03). Understanding the Tri-fold Nature of the Deep State. strategic-culture.org Not that long ago the United States came close to total dissolution. | The financial system was bankrupt, speculation had run amok, and all infrastructure had fallen into disarray over the course of 30 years of unbroken free trade. To make matters worse, the nation was on the verge of a civil war and international financiers in London and Wall Street gloated over the immanent destruction of the first nation on earth to be established not upon hereditary institutions, but rather on the consent of the governed and mandated to serve the general welfare. | Although one might think that I am referring now to today's A…

RT (2020-11-03). UK raises terrorism threat to 'severe' after attacks in Austria & France. rt.com The UK has raised the country's terrorism threat level from "substantial" to "severe", meaning that British intelligence and security agencies now see an attack as "highly likely". | The decision, taken by the UK's Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC), moves the terrorism threat back to its second highest level, having lowered it in November 2019 after the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. | The update comes less than 24 hours after an Islamist extremist killed four people in a shooting in Vienna, Austria before being killed by police, and in the wake of a series of deadly terrorist attacks in Franc…

RT (2020-11-03). In major rule change, Russian intelligence officers to be allowed to take foreign citizenship & residency as part of missions. rt.com Russia's State Duma has moved to roll back rules that prevented many of the country's intelligence and security officers from holding residence permits, and even the citizenship, of other countries as part of their service. | Until now, employees of these agencies, like military personnel, federal civil servants, and other senior officials, had been banned from possessing these documents, and being a foreign resident or citizen constituted official grounds for dismissal. | However, a new bill introduced earlier this year by President Vladimir Putin would allow agents of the FSB and SVR, Russia's domestic and o…

_____ (2020-11-03). 'The Coming War On China' — Watch John Pilger's Powerfully Relevant Documentary. strategic-culture.org Caitlin JOHNSTONE | "The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which "In a few years China has become the world's second-biggest economic power," Pilger's introduction continues. "The United States is the world's biggest military power, with bases and missiles and ships covering ever…

teleSUR (2020-11-03). US Elections: Most Expensive Elections in History. telesurenglish.net The United States election taking place this year will be the most expensive in history, with costs exceeding 14 billion dollars, according to experts from the Center for Responsive Politics. | RELATED: | The Center previously estimated the election would reach nearly $11 billion in total spending. But an extraordinary influx of political donations in the final months — driven by a Supreme Court battle and closely…

Eliza Egret (2020-11-03). Victims of police spying have 'no hope of getting to the truth' as public inquiry finally starts. thecanary.co Monday 2 November finally saw the Undercover Policing Inquiry begin, after five years of delays. The inquiry will examine the disgusting actions of police units that According to

sputniknews (2020-11-03). US Cyber Command, NSA Undertook Ops Against Iran Prior to US Election – Report. sputniknews.com The head of US Cyber Command (CYBERCOM) and the National Security Agency (NSA) told reporters Tuesday the US had carried out cyber ops against Iran to ensure it did not interfere with the US elections.

sputniknews (2020-11-03). Terrorist Threat in Switzerland High, No Data About Possible Attacks, Intelligence Service Says. sputniknews.com GENEVA (Sputnik) – A terrorist threat in Switzerland remains high, but there is no information regarding an actual attack, Isabelle Graber, a spokeswoman for the country's Federal Intelligence Service (FIS), told Sputnik.

sputniknews (2020-11-02). US Election's Effect on Assange Case Unclear as Trump, Biden Never Debated on Free Press – Journo. sputniknews.com WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange's British extradition trial won't be decided until January, but the effect of the US presidential election on his ultimate fate is hard to predict, since his case and the dangers posed to freedom of the press was never a topic for the candidates to debate, a journalist told Sputnik.

Mukund Rathi (2020-11-02). Social Movements Can Win Even With a Hostile Supreme Court. zcomm.org Mass upheaval and initiatives to reform or pack — if not abolish — the Supreme Court will be necessary.

Lauren Smith (2020-11-02). If the Deep State Wants Biden to Win, He Will. globalresearch.ca Even without a crystal ball, it's predicted that presidential candidate and former Vice-President Joe Biden will win the 2020 United States presidential election. However, this forecast is not based on record voter turnout or the magnitude of bad press generated …

WSWS (2020-11-02). Brazilian armed forces conduct unprecedented military exercises amid US threats to Venezuela. wsws.org Bolsonaro's Foreign Ministry last Friday classified as "secret" cables about Pompeo's trip to Brazil, which took place during war games in Brazil and Colombia.