Daily Archives: December 5, 2021

2021-12-05: News Headlines

_____ (2021-12-05). Totally Exhausted US and EU Hit China With Sanctions. journal-neo.org The growing contradictions between China and the West, which received an ideological coloring after the speech of Mike Pompeo in 2020, who called the confrontation between Beijing and Washington a struggle between the Free World and the Marxist-Leninist Regime, is increasingly acquiring the character of a complex conflict between the parties. Washington and its Western …

Jon Queally (2021-12-05). Sanders Calls on Congress to End Filibuster If Needed to Protect Abortion Rights. truthout.org Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday called it unacceptable to sit back and watch the U.S. Supreme Court possibly end the right of women to access abortion care and said his colleagues in the Senate should act urgently to end the filibuster and codify into federal law the protections afforded by Roe v. Wade — the historic ruling now under the most severe threat since it was first decided in 1973. | In an email to supporters, the Independent from Vermont and former presidential candidate…

Elisha Brown (2021-12-05). The South's Last Three Abortion-Safe States Are Bracing for a Post-Roe Future. truthout.org The U.S. Supreme Court this week heard

Marjorie Cohn (2021-12-05). For the First Time, Supreme Court Is Poised to Retract a Fundamental Right. zcomm.org While Chief Justice John Roberts may not be prepared to squarely overturn Roe and Casey, he signaled his readiness to uphold the Mississippi law, gutting the right of women to choose abortion…

_____ (2021-12-04). Assange's Judge Is Longtime Friend Of Minister Who Oversaw Arrest. popularresistance.org Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett, the judge who will soon decide Julian Assange's fate, is a close personal friend of Sir Alan Duncan, who as foreign minister arranged Assange's eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy. The two have known each other since their student days at Oxford in the 1970s, when Duncan called Burnett "the Judge." Burnett and his wife attended Duncan's birthday dinner at a members-only London club in 2017, when Burnett was a judge at the court of appeal. Now the most powerful judge in England and Wales, Burnett will soon rule on Assange's extradition case. The founder of WikiLeaks faces life impr…

_____ (2021-12-04). This Is How the Russia-Ukraine War Will Unfold. strategic-culture.org Russian troop movements earlier this year have prompted speculation that Moscow might consider a military attack on the neighboring Ukraine. Head of the Ukrainian military intelligence announced the date of the Russian offensive, saying it will take place in late January 2022. Strategic Culture obtained details of this secret plan to present them in this exclusive infographic.

Kenn Orphan (2021-12-04). Censorship, the Myth of Free Data and the False Solutions on the Table. zcomm.org Social media has never been a free service for any of us. But it has certainly given a lot of advertisers, wealthy investors, intelligence agents and politicians a free ride…

Liberation Staff (2021-12-04). Defenders of abortion rights rally as Supreme Court hears arguments. liberationnews.org Around the U.S., advocates for reproductive justice rallied in cities large and small in support of the fundamental right to abortion care…

Leon Kunstenaar (2021-12-04). Rally for Reproductive Justice at the Federal Courthouse in San Francisco. indybay.org Supreme Court justices, one an accused harasser, the other an accused rapist, are expected to eviscerate Row v Wade…

Author Blank (2021-12-04). Build support for women's right to have an abortion! themilitant.com As the Militant goes to press, the Supreme Court was hearing arguments over a Mississippi law that poses a direct challenge to a woman's legal right to choose whether to have an abortion. | Organizing to win a strong majority of working people to support women's right to choose is crucial both for women's fight for emancipation from second-class citizenship and for the struggles of the entire working class against oppression and exploitation. | A woman's decision about whether and when to bear a child, must be hers alone. Controlling her own body is crucial if women are to plan and control their own lives. It is…

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