France Fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for Placing Cookies
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-10
France's National Commission for Informatics and Freedoms (CNIL) Thursday announced fines of US$120 million for Google and US$42 million for Amazon for their online advertising trackers (cookies). | RELATED: | US Justice Department Sues Google For Being An Illegal Monopoly | French authorities said that Google and Amazon were fined for the non-consensual introduction of advertisements on users' computers. | "These types of cookies cannot be installed without the users having e…
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Anti-imperialists around the world extend solidarity for Assange
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-10
Anti-imperialist movements from around the world have extended their solidarity to the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange. The call for action was made in a joint statement, released on December 10, by a global coalition part of the International Week of Anti-Imperialist Struggle. In the call for action, scheduled to fall on International Human Rights Day, movements have demanded an end to the "inhuman conditions" that Assange has been subjected to in Belmarsh prison in the United Kingdom. | Activists are encouraged to sign an open letter to the Britis…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/10/anti-imperialists-around-the-world-extend-solidarity-for-assange/

OPCW executives praised whistleblower and criticized Syria cover-up, leaks reveal
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-12-10
Documents obtained by The Grayzone show that OPCW executives privately criticized the manipulation of a Syria chemical weapons probe, and supported a dissenting veteran inspector. One official, however, feared helping the "Russian narrative." These private admissions further expose the public whitewash of the Douma cover-up, and undermine the ongoing attacks on the whistleblowers who challenged it.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/12/10/opcw-executives-praised-whistleblower-and-criticized-syria-cover-up-leaks-reveal/

PDF of December 10 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-12-10
Download the 12-page PDF. Capitalist COVID catastrophe FIGHT or DIE! Message from Peltier; Reparations now! Justice for Breonna denied again; Disability rights; Workers demand justice; DEA surveillance; Editorial: New president — same wars; Commentary: Becoming a cadre; GLOBAL: China: global vaccines, science; India: worker & farmer uprising; Cuba; France; Palestine; Venezuela. . . . | Continue reading PDF of December 10 issue at Workers.org…
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WFP chief uses Nobel speech as call for action to avert 'hunger pandemic'
news.un.org | 2020-12-10
With 270 million people — more than the entire population of Western Europe — "marching toward starvation", the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) called for greater action to avert a "hunger pandemic", in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the UN agency on Thursday.
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Libya's Haftar releases detained Turkish ship
Ragip Soylu | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-10
Libya's Haftar releases detained Turkish ship | The cargo ship was released after paying a fine to the eastern Libya commander's forces following threats by Turkey | Ragip Soylu | Thu, 12/10/2020 – 14: 50 | In this file photo taken on 19 October,2020 in Istanbul shows Turkey's third drilling ship 'Kanuni' as it enters the Bosphorus near Haydarpasa port (AFP) | Forces loyal to renegade general Khalifa Haftar have relea…
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'I share your weariness': French PM reveals curfew & continued closure of cultural venues as Covid rates still too high
rt.com | 2020-12-10
France will replace its current stay-at-home lockdown with a curfew of 8pm, including on New Year's Eve, and keep cultural venues closed from December 15, amid unshakably high Covid-19 infections, PM Jean Castex has said. | The government had earlier said that the ban on theaters, museums and cinemas re-opening and orders for people to stay home — in place since October — would be lifted next week. | But the planned partial relaxation of restrictions was on the condition that the daily number of new Covid-19 cases did not climb above 5,000, which has not been met, as at least 10,000 people in France…
rt.com/news/509292-france-curfew-covid-lockdown/

The long struggle for a post-capitalist society
Klaus Wagener and Hermann Klenner | indybay.org | 2020-12-10
The (Corona) crisis has relentlessly exposed the inability of neoliberal capitalism and its political personnel to meet the elementary needs of the people. Even if it is not felt to the same extent in Germany due to the depressing political conditions: the neoliberal offensive is in a deep existential crisis after 40 years in which it was able to achieve global hegemony.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/12/09/18838862.php

Activists Fight Voter Suppression in Georgia Runoffs
Terrell Jermaine Starr | zcomm.org | 2020-12-10
Groups go to court to reverse wrongful purge of 200,000 voters that could have significant impact on the election's outcome…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/activists-fight-voter-suppression-in-georgia-runoffs/

Lawsuit Filed to Halt Voter Suppression in the Runoff Senate Elections in Georgia
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-10
After the third certification of the results of the presidential elections in the state of Georgia, efforts are underway to ensure equal access to the franchise leading up to the pivotal race to determine the composition of the United States …
globalresearch.ca/lawsuit-filed-halt-voter-suppression-runoff-senate-elections-georgia/5731766

France: New wave of worker protests
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-12-10
Demonstration opposing the so-called "Global Security Act." Responding to a call from the General Confederation of Labor (CGT), a major confederation of French trade unions, tens of thousands of people in over 80 localities came out into the streets on Dec. 5 to demand an end to part-time and temporary . . . | Continue reading France: New wave of worker protests at Workers.org…
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Polish authorities seek to ban communist party
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-12-10
The Polish Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro has filed a submission in the Constitutional Tribunal seeking a ban on the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) accusing it of adhering to a totalitarian ideology…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/12/10/polish-authorities-seek-to-ban-communist-party/

President FIRST to be vaxxed: Argentina signs deal for 10 million doses of Russia's pioneering 'Sputnik V' anti-Covid vaccine
rt.com | 2020-12-10