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Amid all the forces that are pulling people and nations apart, it may be that only films are bringing people together. 

Once upon a time, if you wanted to see a foreign language film and get a taste of other cultures and their stories, unless you happened to live in New York or Los Angeles or San Francisco or Boston, you wound up in the smallest theater in the multiplex, or in a little art theater in a college town.

On orders of President Biden, the United States has launched an airstrike on a facility in Syria. As of this writing the exact number of killed and injured is unknown, with early reports claiming “a handful” of people were killed.

Rather than doing anything remotely resembling journalism, the western mass media have opted instead to uncritically repeat what they’ve been told about the airstrike by US officials, which is the same as just publishing Pentagon press releases.

Comma attendu, nous constatons cette semaine une reprise des contaminations. L’épidémie reste à des niveaux inquiétants, 400 personnes meurent chaque jour depuis plus de 100 jours, et les variants progressent toujours, nouveau signe de la gestion plus que calamiteuse du gouvernement.

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You knew it was coming when the NYT set the stage yesterday with its latest anti-Assad hit piece titled “Having Won Syria’s War, al-Assad Is Mired in Economic Woes” (which makes only a passing reference just why Syria is mired in economic woes namely that “most of the country’s oil fields and much of its agricultural land are in the northeast, which is controlled by Kurdish-led forces backed by the United States”) and sure enough, just over a month since his in

In today’s video, we break down the insanity happening in public schools across the United States and the future of education.

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The Coronavirus Is Here To Stay — Here’s What That Means (Dana)

From Nature: “In January, Nature asked more than 100 immunologists, infectious-disease researchers and virologists working on the coronavirus whether it could be eradicated.

 By Gilad Atzmon

The election may be over, but the fight over election integrity is going strong. Congress will soon be wrestling with multiple voting rights bills, some of them restrictive and others expansive. While Democrats unite on a bill to increase voting rights, Republican members of the 117th Congress have begun introducing legislation that continues to call into question the integrity of the November election and would suppress future votes.

Source : Consortium News, Vijay Prashad

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Vijay Prashad et Noam Chomsky appellent à une enquête quant à l’échec des gouvernements de Boris Johnson, Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modri et d’autres quand il aurait fallu briser la chaîne de contamination.

Source : Marianne, Sébastien Grob

Social media giant Twitter announced yesterday that it has deleted 373 accounts it claims were linked to Russia, Iran, and Armenia. In a blog post entitled “Disclosing networks of state-linked information operations,” it claimed that it had taken the decision to remove 69 Russian accounts primarily because they were “undermining faith in the NATO alliance and its stability.”

In today’s video, we break down the big lie about government’s response to the sickness as well as other major ways high level politicians have been deceiving the public.

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Palestinian voices are excluded in Washington Post’s coverage of Michael Che controversy.

The Federal Reserve’s critical system for interbank payments which serves as the backbone of virtually all money transfers in the US, went down Wednesday afternoon as trillions in payments suddenly ground to a halt.  The outage, similar to two significant disruptions suffered by the Fed in 2019, was widespread across all payment systems maintained by the central bank, including the vital automated clearinghouse system known as FedACH, and the Fedwire Funds interbank transfer service.

Ahmad Erakat was denied medical care and his body treated in a degrading matter.

Hospital officials in Finland are grappling with a surge in COVID-19 cases, as the spread of new and more contagious strains spread throughout the country – including one new variant which may not show up on tests, according to the Helsinki Times.

The Supreme Court Is About to Hear Two Cases That Could Destroy What Remains of the Voting Rights Act (DonkeyHotey)

From Vox: “Next Tuesday, the Supreme Court will hear two cases that could shred much of what remains of the right to be free from racial discrimination at the polls.

A company called MSCHF has been responsible for the most absurd viral stunts and products throughout the internet. Their products range from a squeaking rubber chicken bong for smoking weed to Nike sneakers filled with Holy Water to a YouTube channel dedicated to a man eating mayonnaise.

MSCHF’s latest stunt debuts Wednesday, Feb. 24, beginning at 1300 ET. The company allegedly bought a Boston Dynamics Spot robot and mounted a paintball gun to it.

In November 2018, US border guards fired tear gas into Mexico. Their targets: men, women, and children from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador who had come to the border to voice their frustrations after weeks of waiting in a purposefully prolonged asylum application process. 

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Multiple news sources including The Drive and The Daily Mail are detailing a mysterious encounter between an American Airlines flight and what the pilot has described as a mysterious, “long cylindical object” which was fast-moving over New Mexico on Sunday.

In today’s video, we explain how population decline is expected across much of the world and what countries are doing about it.

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Source : Scheerpost, Chuck Collins

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Un compte rendu de la façon dont la pandémie a accru les inégalités à un rythme incroyable.

David Miller has done extensive research into Israel lobby groups.

Finkelstein comments: At the end of his classic study, Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois meditates on what caused poor whites in the American South to unleash a reign of terror after the Civil War against the newly freed slaves.  His explanation is as if not more relevant today:

‘I Want to Choose My COVID Vaccine.’ Strong Opinions Emerge in the UK (Russ)

The author writes, “It’s the ultimate first-world problem.

Standing before a packed auditorium at the annual conference of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 2019, Nathan Myhrvold readied his pitch to revive a dying industry: “I’m gonna talk about boosting innovation in nuclear energy.” 

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Source : Jacobin Mag, Michael G. Vann

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Le massacre de la gauche indonésienne en 1965-66, soutenu par Washington, a été l’un des grands crimes du XXe siècle. Une nouvelle génération d’universitaires a découvert l’histoire longtemps occultée du massacre de près d’un million de personnes au nom de l’anticommunisme.

Source : L’Humanité, Julia Hamlaoui, 15-02-2021

In today’s video, we cover how social justice has gone really wrong in society and in corporate culture.

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Australia’s 18 million Facebook users woke up last week to find that, without warning, local and global news sites were unavailable, meaning that they could not view or share news at all. Facebook users across the world were also unable to read or access any Australian news publications. The tech giant had taken the step of essentially shutting down its site and “unfriending” an entire nation in response to the government’s proposals to tax them.

The Supreme Court on Monday denied former President Trump’s request to halt the release of tax and other financial records to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance.

In their ruling, the justices refused to block a subpoena to Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars USA, while he continues to push for a Supreme Court appeal, according to Bloomberg.

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Israel says God gave the whole of the Land of Israel to the Jews.

Every major Israeli political party says the whole of the Land of Israel belongs to the Jews.

Every major political party has pledged not to withdraw from any of the Land of Israel.  

Israel has controlled the whole of the Land of Israel for more than a half century.

Israel has vaccinated about half the residents living in the Land of Israel.

Perry Says Texans Willing to Suffer Blackouts to Keep Feds Out of Power Markets (Dan)

From the Houston Chronicle: “Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state’s power grid.

Millions of Palestinians under Israeli rule are being denied vaccines.

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Le magazine russe « Ekspert », qui est l’hebdomadaire de référence en Russie, publie ce lundi 22 février un article de votre serviteur sur le débat actuel concernant l’annulation d’une partie des dettes souveraines.

Ce débat, on le sait, a pris une résonance particulière en France mais aussi en Europe. Un appel international a été publié, auquel je ne me suis pas associé. Nombreux ont été ceux qui se sont demandé pourquoi ; ils trouveront, dans ce texte, une partie des réponses.

« Tout bien, toute entreprise, dont l’exploitation a ou acquiert les caractères d’un service public national ou d’un monopole de fait, doit devenir la propriété de la collectivité. » Ce principe, inscrit dans le préambule de la Constitution de 1946, a toujours valeur constitutionnelle, puisqu’il a été repris dans les premières lignes de l’actuelle loi fondamentale.

Source : Mediapart, Youtube

Pourquoi ne pas faire du vaccin contre le Covid-19 un bien public ? Échange dans « À l’air libre » entre François Ruffin, député de la France insoumise, et la docteure Sophie Crozier, neurologue, membre du Conseil national d’Ethique.

Source : Mediapart, Youtube – 09/02/2021

Finkelstein comments:  Recently, many correspondents have wondered why I was a Maoist in my youth.  That’s not so simple to explain and, anyhow, I still have ambivalent thoughts about Chairman Mao.  But that’s for another day.  Here’s an anecdote from one of my correspondents.  As it happened, he made it to China before me.  I never got to see The Promised Land.

The post Two of my favorite people, together: Mao and W. E. B. Du Bois appeared first on Norman G. Finkelstein.

The Trump administration spent four years denying the reality of climate change, eviscerating environmental regulations, promoting the fossil fuel industry, and ultimately left the Paris Agreement days after the November election. 

Now, as the US rejoins the international accord, the Biden administration faces politically difficult but urgent work ahead. 

Republicans like Lindsey Graham are all for bipartisan government now that they’re no longer in power, even as the South Carolina senator becomes the latest GOP leader to travel to Mar-a-Lago hoping Donald Trump can repair his fractured party.

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Source : Consortium News, Caroline Wagner

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Caroline Wagner réagit à l’arrestation de Gang Chen, professeur d’ingénierie au MIT, au début du mois de janvier.

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Another week, another restaurant doomsday story.

According to the latest NYC Hospitality Alliance survey, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for restaurants across the metro area to pay their rent in full and on time. The return of indoor dining couldn’t come soon enough as struggling eateries cling on for dear life.

If you are anxiously waiting for the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines to become available to you, know that manufacturers continue to work out how to deliver in a timely manner.

Reading Time: < 1minute While Sen. Ted Cruz vacations in Cancun, Gov. Greg Abbott blames wind turbines, and ex-Energy Secretary and ex-Gov. Rick Perry claims Texans prefer blackouts to federal energy regulation amid record cold and snow.

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