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Suspension of Jeremy Corbyn is an outrage: Western Daily Press, 31 October 2020, p. 26
The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn by the Labour Party is an outrage, and will likely lead to tens of thousands of principled members quitting the party in disgust.
The facts, based on objective survey evidence, are clear and unequivocal.
Anti-Semitism is much less prevalent in the Labour Party than either in other mainstream political parties or in society as a whole – and always has been.
Mr Corbyn is absolutely right that the problem of anti-Semitism in Labour has always been grossly exaggerated. Worse still, it has been disgracefully exploited and weaponised by an unholy alliance of establishment forces determined to destroy the Corbyn project by any means.
Chomsky has always been extremely pragmatic in his political analysis, diverging from some other leftists in his belief in the necessity of voting for mainstream Democrats against Republicans.Illustration by Leonardo Santamaria; Source photograph by Heuler Andrey / AFP / Getty
Noam Chomsky, the American linguist, activist, and political writer, is one of the most famous and harshest critics of American foreign policy. His critiques of Presidential Administrations from Nixon to Obama, and the stridency of his views—comparing 9/11 to Bill Clinton’s bombing of a factory in Khartoum, for example—have made him the target of much ire, as well as a hero of the global left. “Chomsky always refuses to talk about motives in politics,” Larissa MacFarquhar wrote in her Profile of him for The New Yorker, in 2003. “Like many theorists…
Two things I’ve learned over the years about John Pilger films are 1) there’s virtually no link between the film’s title and its content 2) they all include include considerable hidden history not taught in public schools. .
The main focus of this documentary is US empire building in the Pacific and its disastrous effect on US-China relations.
A good third of the film concerns the US annexation of the Marshall islands following World War II, followed by the cynical US government decisions to use residents (referred to as “savages” in classified documents) as radiation guinea pigs in atmospheric nuclear tests. .
After bombing some of the islands daily for 12 years, residents were forcibly returned to Rongelap despite dangerously high water and soil radiation levels. The US government then subjected them to repeated scans and blood tests to assess their response to the irradiated food they were eating.
It is the deadliest shipwreck recorded so far this year, according to the International Organization for Migration.
The ship caught fire just hours after setting sail and sank near Saint-Louis.
At least 140 migrants and refugees have lost their lives after the boat in which they were traveling sank off the coast of Senegal, in the deadliest shipwreck recorded so far in 2020, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM ).
The ship in question left Senegal on October 24, from the town of Mbour, bound for the Canary Islands. According to local leaders quoted by the IOM, the boat caught fire just hours after setting sail and sank near Saint-Louis, on the northwest coast of the African country.
Senegal okays Chinese boats with illegal fishing record ..October 9, 2020.Overfishing in Senegal has led to a food crisis, exacerbated by Asian and European fleets prowling the seas off West Africa This overfishing has led to a food crisis..Senegal’s fisheries ministry has issued fishing licenses to vessels of a Chinese industrial fleet involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activity in recent years, according to a new investigation by the environmental group, Greenpeace.
The wrecked boat was carrying about 200 people, but only 59 of them were rescued alive after the intervention of official ships from Senegal and Spain and fishing boats operating in the area. At least 20 bodies have been located.
Fracking can permanently poison groundwater, causes cancers and early death, and contributes badly to Climate change, through huge methane leakages and producing gas and oil for burning. Now we discover it also releases radioactivity.
Posted on October 29, 2020 by el comunista in ECOLOGY, ENVIRONMENT
Especially vulnerable are poor communities that are often found in affected areas.
A team of American scientists has discovered that people who live near the places where ‘fracking’ operations are carried out, or hydraulic fracturing, may be exposed to radioactive particles released by this oil extraction activity.
After analyzing the radiation in the vicinity of 157 sites where hydraulic fracturing is practiced, the researchers detected high levels of radiation in a radius of 19 kilometers around the wells, reaching the maximum level in the vicinity of the well.
“We found that, as the [sampling] sites get closer to these complexes, the radioactivity of the particles increases,” quoted a member of the team, Petros Koutrakis, in The Harvard Crimson.
Regarding the effects that high levels of radiation have on people living in areas near the ‘fracking’ sites, the researcher warned that, although it does not cause immediate diseases, it can increase the risk of chronic health problems , affecting the functioning of the lungs and the heart, in addition to increasing the rate of birth defects and mortality. Especially vulnerable are poor communities that are often found in affected areas.
By the time the uprising against anti-Black racism and police violence brought people into the streets in early summer, the concept of “mutual aid” had gained significant traction in the media, and it was visible on the streets as people operated street medic teams at protests, offered each other free food and water, and defended each other from cops and white supremacists.
COVID-19 mutual aid projects are ongoing, and as social movementgroupsprepare for the possibility of a contested election next week along with increasing strikes, street protests and occupations of publicspace, activists are gearing up to support each other.
“Mutual aid” is one term used to describe collective coordination to meet each other’s needs, usually stemming from an awareness that the systems we have in place are not going to meet them.
These are mutual aid projects. They directly meet people’s survival needs, and are based on a shared understanding that the conditions in which we are made to live are unjust […]
There is nothing new about mutual aid — people have worked together to survive for all of human history. But and shared everything they needed to survive. As people were forced into systems of wage labor and private property, and wealth became increasinglyconcentrated, our ways of caring for each other have become more and more tenuous.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian scientists found a detached coral reef on the Great Barrier Reef that exceeds the height of the Empire State Building and the Eiffel Tower, the Schmidt Ocean Institute said this week, the first such discovery in over 100 years.
The “blade-like” reef is nearly 500 meters tall and 1.5 kilometers wide, said the institute founded by ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt and his wife Wendy.
Australia: Great Barrier Reef.
It lies 40 meters below the ocean surface and about six kilometers from the edge of the Great Barrier Reef.
A team of scientists from James Cook University, led by Dr. Robin Beaman, were mapping the northern seafloor of the Great Barrier Reef onboard the institute’s research vessel Falkor, when they found the reef on Oct. 20.
“We are surprised and elated by what we have found,” said Beaman.
The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn by the Labour Party is an outrage, and will likely lead to tens of thousands of principled members quitting the party in disgust. 
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