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“I expect the prevailing direction of U.S. foreign policy over these last decades to continue: more lawless bombing and killing multiple countries under the cover of “limited engagement,” – Biden Biographer Branko Marcetic  by Alan Macleod    Part 2 - Building Back Better? The former vice-president’s team is also looking to be made up of extremely wealthy individuals as well. His transition task squad has been, in his website’s words, crafted to ensure they “ reflect the values and priorities of the incoming administration, ” and includes executives from Lyft, Amazon, Capital One, Uber, Visa, and JP Morgan. One name being strongly floated for a cabinet position is former mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel, a move being met with vocal opposition from the left.  Emanuel’s first tour of duty in the White House came under President Bill Clinton, where he was one of the key architects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a deal that decimated manufacturing in the Midwest, hobbled

Jonathan Cook dissects the investigation by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission into the U.K. Labour Party.  by Jonathan Cook Part 3 - Too Hasty & Aggressive The corporate media long ago styled Labour staff who delayed the complaints procedure to harm Corbyn as anti-Semitism “whistleblowers.” Many of them starred in last year’s BBC Panorama program on Labour in which they claimed they had been hampered from carrying out their work. The equalities commission’s report subtly contradicts their claims, conceding that progress on handling complaints improved after senior Labour staff hostile to Corbyn — the “whistleblowers” very much among them — were removed from their posts. Indeed, the report suggests the very opposite of the established media narrative. Corbyn’s team, far from permitting or encouraging delays in resolving anti-Semitism complaints, too often tried to step in to speed up the process to placate the corporate media and Jewish organisations. In an example of havin

The Grayzone   Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with The Grayzone's Ben Norton about his recent article investigating the Biden transition team's appointment of Richard Stengel to oversee a review of the United States Center for Global Media. They discuss his disturbing views regarding the first amendment as well as what his appointment means for alternative media and future social media censorship.

Going Underground    Dr. Helen Yaffe, co-presenter of ‘Cuba & Covid-19: Public Health, Science and Solidarity’, discusses Cuba’s Coronavirus vaccine candidates which have been developed as the Trump Administration has piled on sanctions on Cuba, the Western media accusation that Cuban doctors are being trafficked, the unique public model of Cuba’s biotech sector which has developed many widely used drugs, US sanctions on Cuba and what’s stopping the U.K. and Europe from doing business with Cuba, the difference between Cuba’s Socialist model and the Anglo-American capitalist model and why Cuba has had under 150 Coronavirus deaths. 

Sweden’s longtime refusal to impose a general lockdown has seen it portrayed as an alternative “model” for coping with the pandemic. Yet death rates in its care homes have been appalling — and as a scandal that broke last month highlighted, much of the blame lies with the breakup and privatization of the country’s once-mighty public services.   by Anton Ösgård   Part 3 - Scandalous Treatment   Part of the answer came with a scandal that broke in mid-October, as it came to the public’s attention that in Stockholm, health care providers had been instructed not to treat the “weakest” among the elderly population. Dagens Nyheter (DN), the country’s biggest right-wing newspaper, revealed how elderly care home facilities in the capital had, as per the instructions of the elected regional body, been barred from calling in a doctor if a patient exhibited symptoms of COVID-19. Updated guidelines for medical prioritization instructed the care homes to treat the patients on-site — in facilities

The Ecuadorian diplomat who gave Julian Assange political asylum reports from the extradition hearing against the WikiLeaks journalist, and explains why it is “the most important case against the freedom of expression in an entire generation.”   by Fidel Narváez, (translated by Ben Norton)   Part 8 - Assange would face inhumane conditions in the U.S.   By being accused of spying, Julian Assange would be imprisoned under “Special Administration Measures” (SAMs). He would be in solitary confinement, would not be allowed any contact with family, and would only be able to speak with lawyers, who could not be able to communicate any messages from him or would face criminal punishment. Such conditions are a sentence to a living death. For his entire trial, Assange would be imprisoned in Alexandria Detention Center (ADC), and he would later serve a life sentence in the maximum security prison ADX Florence in Colorado. The prosecution has tried to whitewash the conditions, in the written testi

When Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission announced it was investigating Labour’s treatment of its Jewish members, many of Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents claimed this as proof of his supposed antisemitism. But the inquiry is itself a political weapon — and as the Commission publishes its much-hyped, long-delayed report today, the attacks against the Left are only intensifying.   by Daniel Finn   Part 4 - Interested Parties The EHRC’s decision to investigate Labour posed no such dilemma. Indeed, it was greeted with general acclaim by the British press, including its small non-Tory component — the liberal broadsheets had invested heavily in the conventional media narrative of “Labour antisemitism” under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, and they were not about to start questioning that narrative now. As a result, there was no meaningful scrutiny applied to the groups that had solicited the inquiry in the first place. The Campaign Against Antisemitism is a grassroots campaign against antis

 by Alex Harman Part 13 - Conclusion   Price gouging is an exploitive business practice that manipulates markets and takes advantage of people at their most vulnerable and desperate. While some economic theories support price gouging as a function of supply and demand, they overlook the market manipulation that occurs when gougers contribute to scarcity by hoarding. Much of our society has decided that price gouging during an emergency is unacceptable and should be prohibited by law. Yet, despite general agreement that price gouging is wrong and a large majority of states with price gouging laws in place, the practice continues on Amazon.com. Amazon’s leadership has made clear that they do not tolerate price gouging and that they will stop third-party sellers from taking advantage of the pandemic. However, it is clear that not only are third-party sellers engaged in price gouging, but Amazon itself is selling essential products at significant price increases, and in many cases at a

Based on a handful of think tank reports and witness testimonies, Western governments have levied false allegations of genocide and slavery in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. A closer look makes clear that the politicization of China’s anti-terrorism policies in Xinjiang is another front of the U.S.-led hybrid war on China. This resource compilation provides a starting point for critical inquiry into the historical context and international response to China’s policies in Xinjiang, providing a counter-perspective to misinformation that abounds in mainstream coverage of the autonomous region.   by Qiao Collective   Part 8 - On the Nature of Unsubstantiated Allegations    The World Uyghur Congress began conducting activism based on the allegation of Xinjiang “concentration camps” in August 2017, four months after the promulgation of the Xinjiang De-radicalization Regulations. The controversy entered mainstream Western discourse a year later in August 2018 with Gay McDougall’s unsubsta