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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.

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

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Une revue de presse aux horizons variés grâce à nos contributeurs auxquels nous adressons encore un grand merci. Bonne lecture.

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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.

The post Even Climate Change Denial Is Bigger in Texas appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.

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Ann Wright explique que Blinken, plutôt que de reconnaître le caractère dangereux de ces exercices, a critiqué leur suspension comme étant un geste d’apaisement envers Pyongyang.

Source : Global Climat, Johan Lorck

Celebrity immunologist treats Palestinian rights as “political question.”

In today’s video, we cover a huge new development in the Ghislaine Maxwell saga as it connects to two past presidents. We also cover major weather and financial news.

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Sexual violence and threats against detainees have been documented for years.

How Some Frustrated COVID-19 Vaccine Hunters Are Trying To Fix a Broken System (Reader Steve)

From the Seattle Times: “As everyone discovers, there isn’t one or a couple of places to hunt vaccine, but rather … hundreds, many with their own interfaces. … The obvious thought is: Shouldn’t there be an app for this?

The rolling blackouts that plunged up to 15 million Texans into darkness amid a historic cold snap are diminishing by the end of the week. About 188k customers were without power in the state on Friday morning.

à Don et Ève...

Qui vivra verra le passage de la disgrâce à la Grâce… ou ne vivra pas.

De grâce… ne me parlez pas de disgrâce… car de la Grâce, je ne m’en lasse pas…

Sans elle, je bats de l’aile quoi que je fasse.

Avec elle, j’embrasse la cause de l’effet qui m‘embarrasse ; pour me débarrasser de toute culpabilité.

La Grâce

C’est quand vous vous verrez en face de la plus sublime des fleurs, et que vous vous réjouirez de son bonheur sans avoir envie de la cueillir…

There’s a growing pushback against what is seen as a tool for censorship.

After five years of the Trump-Russia conversation, what do we really know?

Reading Time: < 1minute Social media exploded yesterday when photos of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) taking his family on a trip to Cancun, Mexico, were shared by fellow travelers. Cruz returned on his own, making excuses and generally trying to deflect criticism.

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Finkelstein comments: After the Civil War, a debate ensued in the United States whether to grant newly emancipated slaves the right to vote.  Here’s an excerpt from a speech delivered in Congress by one of the leading Abolitionists of the day, Thaddeus Stevens.  Substitute “Jewish” for “white” and you capture the supremacist essence of Jewish defenders of the Jewish supremacist state of Israel:

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Chronique parue dans L’Express du 24 janvier 2021.

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Des piétons passent devant un magasin GameStop sur la 14ème rue à Union Square, le 28 janvier 2021, dans le quartier de Manhattan à New York.

Since its inception 14 years ago, Politico has risen to become an internet news giant. Now employing over 700 people and reaching 50 million people per month, the website and newspaper has become one of the most trusted sources of information on political issues in the United States. Key to this is its range of influential newsletters, which reach millions every day.

In today’s video, we break down how Bill Gates is getting involved in everything all over the world. Plus we cover sickness news as well as what is happening in Australia and Texas.

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The pushback and reaction to Facebook’s drastic ‘retaliation’ on the Australian government has been fierce from both officials and the broader public in the hours following the Wednesday decision of the US-based social media platform to block all news sharing on the continent. Australian officials are warning that Facebook’s actions are severely damaging the ability to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Portland Police Officers ‘Guarding’ Fred Meyer Dumpsters as Residents Seek Discarded Food (Reader Steve)

From the Oregonian: “Roughly a dozen Portland police officers faced off with a small group at a Northeast Portland Fred Meyer on Tuesday after people tried to take food that had been thrown away.

Elbit Systems investment “fell out” of portfolio after review, says council.

Role of weapons makers in destroying Gaza gets magicked away by Brussels officials.

Between her full-time job as a caretaker for a special needs adult, attending to her mother who was battling kidney failure, raising her son, and hemming pants to make ends meet, Marquita Bradshaw ran for a seat in the US Senate. 

Nous constatons cette semaine une baisse des contaminations, probablement multifactorielle, comme nous allons le voir. Cependant, 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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Source : SCMP, Laura Zhou

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Peu après sa prestation de serment, le secrétaire à la défense des États Unis Lloyd Austin invite les alliés asiatiques à renforcer leurs liens militaires

Les manœuvres maritimes américaines en ts méridionale se poursuivent malgré le changement d’administration aux États-Unis

Reading Time: < 1minute Rush Limbaugh, the vitriolic right-wing radio host who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump, died Wednesday at age 70.

The post Rush Limbaugh at the Pearly Gates appeared first on WhoWhatWhy.

In today’s video, we break down Joe Biden repeating Chinese Communist Party talking points and how this impacts geopolitics.

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Daily violence by occupation forces and settlers aims to drive Palestinians off their land.

Extremists and QAnon Supporters Are Organizing on Message Boards to Take Over the Republican Party (Reader Steve)

From Media Matters: “Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s recent interview with a local Republican Party committee member on how Trump supporters might be able to take control of the party at the grassroots level is n

Ever since the Great Recession of 2008, Wall Street’s name has been mud with the American public. One recent poll showed that 64 percent of those surveyed believe “the stock market is rigged against amateur investors in favor of large, professional investors.” No doubt the recent GameStop drama helped shape this view.

Millions of Americans are without power Wednesday morning as winter storms and freezing temperatures batter the country. At least 20 people are dead due to weather-related incidents. As for Texas, the state with the most power outages, millions are still without power heading into the fourth day.

Newton’s third law of motion says that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The American story of the struggle for racial equality seems subject to a similar law.

Just as America’s founding gave way to the Civil War, and reconstruction to Jim Crow and segregation, the civil rights struggle of the 1960s gave way to repressive incarceration and Richard Nixon, and the election of our first Black president was followed by Donald Trump.

If you are starting to feel like forces controlling the governments of the west are out to get you, then it is likely that you are either a paranoid nut job, or a stubborn realist.

Either way, it means that you have some major problems on your hands.

Source : SCMP, Kunal Purohit and Sarah Zheng

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After the West African country of Guinea reported its first confirmed Ebola deaths since 2016, prompting the declaration of an “epidemic situation,” the World Health Organization (WHO) has alerted six countries to watch out for further spread of the disease, according to Reuters.

Donald Trump has some choice words for Senate Mitch McConnell (R-KY), after the Senate Minority Leader voted to acquit the former president, only to go on a tirade on the Senate floor (followed by a Wall Street Journal interview) in which he blamed Trump for the Jan. 6 incursion into the US Capitol by Trump supporters.

How is it that California enacted draconian COVID lockdown measures, yet had nearly identical results to Florida – a state which went out of its way to avoid shackling residents with small business-killing prohibitions and mentally unhealthy isolation?

Collective punishment measures undercut Palestinian COVID-19 efforts.

In today’s video, we cover how there’s a light at the end of the tunnel with the sickness but there are major troubling changes to the economy that could be coming.

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A top court in The Hague issued a “shock” ruling that curbs the power of civic authorities to impose sweeping coronavirus-related curfews which should have significant reverberations legally for similar scenarios in other countries.

After Hundreds of Meatpacking Workers Died From COVID-19, Congress Wants Answers (Reader Steve)

From ProPublica: “A key congressional panel launched an investigation … into the wave of COVID-19 infections that killed hundreds of workers at meatpacking plants nationwide last year and highlighted longstanding hazards in the industry.

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Steve McCurry earned his fame as a photographer who produced some of the most exquisitely beautiful color images in the past several decades. McCurry’s critics, and there have been many, ask whether his photographs aren’t too beautiful. 

For most of recorded history, domination by brute force has been the norm for human civilization. Someone claws their way into a position of power over the other humans, and you obey and respect him or he’ll have his goons attack you.

Last week’s second impeachment trial of former President Trump should serve as a warning that something is very wrong in US politics. Far from a measured, well-investigated, rock-solid case against the former president, America was again abused with day after day of character assassination, innuendo, false claims, and even falsified “evidence.”