(2021-11-16). Judge dismisses gun charge against vigilante shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. wsws.org Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Schroeder—who has repeatedly sided with the fascist Kyler Rittenhouse—dismissed the sixth count of possessing a dangerous weapon as a minor, prior to closing arguments in the teenage shooter's murder trial.
(2021-11-16). Why Are Moderna's Billionaires Airbrushing Scientists Out of the Vaccine Patent Picture? scheerpost.com 
By Sam Pizzigati / Moderna, the world's hottest new Big Pharma giant, now has four of its top players sitting on the annual Forbes list of America's 400 richest. In early 20…
(2021-11-16). Historian Alfred McCoy Predicts the U.S. Empire is Collapsing as China's Power Grows. democracynow.org 
President Joe Biden's virtual summit Monday with Chinese President Xi Jinping follows the two countries' announcement just days earlier they will work together to confront the climate emergency after Xi did not attend the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow. Tension has been mounting between the two superpowers, especially over Taiwan and Hong Kong, with some speculating that a new Cold War is developing. "The United States, in the immediate future, is faced with the possibility of fighting a war over Taiwan … that it would probably lose," says Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madiso…
(2021-11-16). Autumn strike wave pits workers against the corporatist trade unions. wsws.org The resurgence of the class struggle has clearly exposed the real character of the "unions," which are better described as labor syndicates—corporatist instruments of management and the state dedicated to the suppression of working-class opposition.
(2021-11-16). New neo-Nazi weapons cache discovered in Austria. wsws.org The third such weapons cache found within a year underlines the extent of far-right terrorist activities in the Alpine Republic.
(2021-11-16). Saving Capitalism or Saving the Planet? dissidentvoice.org The UK government's Behavioural Insights Team helped to push the public towards accepting the COVID narrative, restrictions and lockdowns. It is now working on 'nudging' people towards further possible restrictions or at least big changes in their behaviour in the name of 'climate emergency'. From frequent news stories and advertisements to soap opera storylines and …
(2021-11-16). Ecosocialist Bookshelf, November. greenleft.org.au Climate and Capitalism editor Ian Angus presents five new books for reds and greens.
(2021-11-16). Video: Capitalism, the climate-change catastrophe and the fight against Australia's anti-democratic electoral laws. wsws.org IYSSE members explain that the environmental crisis is a product of the capitalist system, and its subordination of all aspects of life to the profit interests of a tiny corporate elite.
(2021-11-16). Vaccine capitalism: Moderna takes public money, demands private profit. liberationnews.org 
Despite the ongoing need for emergency action to address the pandemic, pharmaceutical giant Moderna is focused on asserting its property rights over the COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna would like to take full credit — and profit — for the vaccine's invention.
(2021-11-16). Australia Refuses to Reveal Additional Proof of Its Role in Chile's CIA-Backed Coup. strategic-culture.org Almost 50 years have passed since Pinochet took power, so what exactly is Australia afraid of? | The U.S. has declassified thousands of documents relating to its involvement in the ousting of Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende and the installing of dictator Augusto Pinochet. Australia, on the other hand, continues to guard its classified documents on the pretext of security, drawing a discrepancy between its purported democratic principles and obstructing the public's right to knowledge. As a country which welcomed Chileans fleeing the horrors of Pinochet's brutal dictatorship, as well as harbouring Chi…
(2021-11-16). Russian state prosecutors try to shut down the leading institution for research into the Great Terror. wsws.org The assault on Memorial, should it be successful, would have chilling consequences. Anyone doing historical research into the crimes of Stalinism and the history of the socialist movement will have to fear immediate state reprisals.
(2021-11-16). Video: No new anti-socialist laws! Defend the SGP! wsws.org The deputy chairman of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP, Socialist Equality Party), Christoph Vandreier, speaks about the importance of the lawsuit against the surveillance of the party by the German secret service.
(2021-11-16). The New Inflation Scare Is the Dumbest Thing Since Voodoo Economics. cepr.net Elites are sounding the alarm over threats of inflation in order to block Biden's social spending plan. We shouldn't fall for it.
(2021-11-16). Elites buy us off with trivial protections while they raid the common wealth. dissidentvoice.org In these posts I try to highlight how our social, cultural and political structures are rigged to reflect the interests of an economic elite and maintain their power. Because the forces that shape those structures are largely invisible — we mainly notice the people and buildings inside these structures — the way power operates can …
(2021-11-16). Rents skyrocket as housing bubble locks people out. greenleft.org.au Home ownership is not an option for many, especially as median house prices are now close to $1 million. Isaac Nellist reports.
(2021-11-16). Chilean Senate to Decide the Fate of President Piñera Today. telesurenglish.net On Tuesday, the Chilean Senate began the final hearing in the impeachment procedure of President Sebastian Piñera for his involvement in the Dominga mining company deal, which was denounced by the Pandora Papers. | Related | Once the Lower House approved the impeachment on Nov. 9, the Senate will analyze whether to remove Piñera and prohibit him from holding public office for 5 years. Its final decision is expected to be made a…
(2021-11-15). Censorship Is The Last Gasp Of The Liberal Class. popularresistance.org On November 8, 2021, Twitter locked my account for a period of one day for responding to corporate media darling and Russiagate fanatic Keith Olbermann's slanderous reply to journalist Wyatt Reed's coverage of the Nicaraguan election. The flagged tweet simply restated Olbermann's question, replacing "whore for a dictator" with "whoring for the American oligarchy." Twitter demanded that I delete the tweet or send a time-consuming, lengthy appeal with no assurances as to if or when my sentence in "Twitter jail" would end. This prompted me to delete the tweet and wait for the 12-hour suspension to end. Keith Olberma…
(2021-11-15). Leaked Data Shows Epik Registered Site Associated With Neo-Nazi Terror. splcenter.org In a review of leaked Epik data, Hatewatch has identified the administrator of a propaganda network linked to a white power accelerationist group that promotes neo-Nazi terrorism.
(2021-11-15). France deploys large security force ahead of New Caledonian independence referendum. wsws.org While French forces are being mobilised to suppress simmering social unrest, pro-and anti-independence factions of the local ruling elite are exploiting the referendum to channel rising class anger into rival forms of nationalism.
(2021-11-15). At COP26, the only person arrested and charged was a Communist. peoplesdispatch.org 
Amid the deepening climate crisis, it has become increasingly clear that capitalism is not only the root of the problem, but it also offers no viable solutions. Police cracked down on those that bore the clarion call "socialism or extinction"
(2021-11-15). When Scabs Are A Danger To Public Health. popularresistance.org A dozen oil workers rally in front of the United Metro Energy (UMEC) terminal in Brooklyn on their 113th day on strike August 10. They're fighting one of the largest suppliers of heating oil and motor fuels in New York. The strike began months prior, on April 19. After workers spent one of the hottest summers in decades on the picket line, the rally provided a much-needed morale boost. The workers were joined by dozens of supporters, including fellow Teamsters and some perhaps unexpected allies‚Äâ—‚Äâfour of New York City's elected democratic socialists, all of whom campaig…
(2021-11-15). Long live the Cuban Revolution! workers.org 
When on Jan. 8, 1959, a triumphant Fidel Castro entered Havana, he called on Cuban revolutionaries to "settle down to the peaceful aims of the Revolution." He spoke with a white dove on his shoulder, a symbol associated with Fidel throughout his long life. People show solidarity with socialist Cuba . . . |
(2021-11-15). Friends of Cuba: oppose U.S. intervention. mronline.org 
Seizing on small protests over shortages on the island in July, the U.S. is now trying to build anti-government feeling with worldwide protests against socialist Cuba, including one in London—we must show our support instead, writes NATASHA HICKMAN…
(2021-11-15). Thirteen theses of Marxism-Feminism. mronline.org 
The theses are a working tool and an insurance at the same time of what we are and where we want to go to, while both the path and the goal are open for joint discussion and thus for change.
(2021-11-15). Chile: Right Candidate Kast Criticized for Defending Pinochet. telesurenglish.net The presidential candidate of the Republican Party of Chile (ultra-right), José Antonio Kast, received harsh criticism on Monday from the right and left candidates for his statements in defense of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990), in the framework of the debate of the National Television Association (Anatel). | The presidential candidate for the Republican Party, José Antonio Kast, participates in the last televised debate of the campaign today, in Santiago (Chile)…
(2021-11-15). Chris Hedges and Glenn Greenwald on the Second War on Terror (Video). scheerpost.com The liberal and Democratic Party elites have seized on the January 6 mob assault on the U.S. Capital as the domestic equivalent of the attacks of 9/11. Joe Biden calls the storming of the Capitol "the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War." Rep. Liz Cheney, a right-wing Republican whose animus towards Donald Trump has seen her join forces with the Democratic Party leadership, said that the forces behind January 6 represent "a threat America has never seen before." The enabling resolution that created the Select Committee that is investigating the events of January 6 calls the mob assault as "one…
(2021-11-15). Colombia and the Pandora Papers. inequality.org
(2021-11-15). Majority of Chileans Support Impeachment Against Piñera. telesurenglish.net According to the survey by the firm Pulso Ciudadano, 64 percent of respondents said they agreed or strongly agreed that the president had to be prosecuted due to the Pandora Papers revelations on the sale of the Dominga mining project in a tax haven. | RELATED: | The survey was carried out online and comprised 1,602 people. | On November 9, the Chamber of Deputies approved the indictment against Piñera with 78 votes i…
(2021-11-15). Big Pharma, GOP Plot to Use Senate Parliamentarian to Stop Drug Price Reforms. truthout.org 
The pharmaceutical industry and its allies in the Republican Party are reportedly teaming up to craft challenges to congressional Democrats' drug price reform plan in the hopes of convincing the Senate parliamentarian — an unelected functionary — to help tank the proposal. | Earlier this month, Democrats struck a