2020-12-11: News Headlines

RT (2020-12-11). Western media claims Russian missile tests mean Moscow preparing for NUCLEAR WAR… as US fires Tomahawks from warship (VIDEO). rt.com A colossal military drill supervised by President Vladimir Putin has sent Western commentators scrambling to their underground bunkers. But as the fiery footage is beamed around the globe, US & UK rocket tests have gone unnoticed. | Britain's Daily Mail reported on Thursday that Moscow was "practising for nuclear war," while the Daily Express told its readers that Russian "sabre-rattling risked reigniting World War 3 fears as global tensions remain high." | However, some observers took to the internet to point out that they must have missed the reports of imminent annihilation in response to similar Western ex…

Eds. (2020-12-11). Silencing Black radicalism since the Cold War. mronline.org Describing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as socialist and accusing them of fomenting disorder in America's urban areas invoked racial disorder for the majority white voters who cast their ballots for an avowed white supremacist.

Global Research News (2020-12-11). Selected Articles: What Happens if Something Goes Wrong after You Receive a COVID Vaccine? globalresearch.ca By Government and media propaganda has firmly convinced most of the citizenry of the West that Russia invaded Crimea, and the truth …

Binoy Kampmark (2020-12-11). "I Told You So. You Damned Fools": 75 Years of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. counterpunch.org Leafing — or in this case scrolling through — the commemorative issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists after 75 years of publication is a tingling exercise of existence. The subject matter pushes you to the edge. You threaten to fall off. Death is promised; extinction contemplated. Nuclear holocaust. Your sanity is called into

_____ (2020-12-11). John Kerry's Think Tank Calls for War With Russia Over Climate Change. strategic-culture.org "America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is." — John Kerry | Alan MACLEOD | Recently-appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has

Brian Cloughley (2020-12-11). NATO Is Determined to Find Threats and Challenges to Justify Its Existence. globalresearch.ca Government and media propaganda has firmly convinced most of the citizenry of the West that Russia invaded Crimea, and the truth has dissolved in the swirling miasma that the anti-Russia movement has dubbed as history. | In March 2014 the ethnically …

John Goss (2020-12-11). Six Dead from Pfizer Trials: Shares Down, Pfizer CEO Makes a Killing. globalresearch.ca There is a good old Russian word "yerunda" which I've started using instead of "nonsense" and "bullshit" to describe the scaremongering COVID-19 narrative blasted at us from morning to night, not because it says anything different but because it gives …

teleSUR (2020-12-10). Argentina Signs Deal With Russia To Acquire COVID-19 Vaccines. telesurenglish.net Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez on Thursday announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Russian-produced COVID-19 vaccines in order to undertake a national vaccination campaign next year. | RELATED: | The contract includes the purchase of "sufficient doses" to vaccinate 10 million Argentines between January and February. | People at risk will be the first group to be vaccinated, among them health services, armed and sec…

imperial.ac.uk (2020-12-10). Nuclear scientist awarded prestigious Schwarzman scholarship to study in China. imperial.ac.uk An Imperial physics graduate has been awarded a prestigious Schwarzman scholarship to study in China next year.

Alan Macleod (2020-12-09). John Kerry's Think Tank Calls for War With Russia Over Climate Change. mintpressnews.com Recently-appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry has The announcement drew praise from many prof…

Andrew Korybko (2020-12-09). Is Washington Trying to Ruin Shinzo Abe's Legacy of Japan's Rapprochement with Russia? globalresearch.ca Recent reports from Japanese media alleging that US immigration authorities there consider Russian nationals in some of the Kuril Islands to legally be Japanese represent an attempt by the fading unipolar superpower to ruin former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's legacy …

sputniknews (2020-12-09). Magnitude 5.5 Earthquake Registered in Russian Republic of Buryatia. sputniknews.com IRKUTSK, Russia (Sputnik) — A 5.5 magnitude earthquake was registered on Thursday in Russia's Republic of Buryatia, the Emergencies Ministry's regional department in the neighboring Irkutsk Region said.

Mehr News Agency (2020-12-09). Russia making constructive efforts to counter US sanctions. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Dec. 09 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker's Special Aide for International Affairs said that Russia and China are making constructive efforts to counter US unilateral sanctions.

Manlio Dinucci (2020-12-09). Como salvar-se da Covid-19 perante as bombas nucleares. globalresearch.ca A FEMA — Agência Federal para a Gestà£o de Emergências, dependente do governo dos Estados Unidos — actualizou as instruàßàµes para a populaàßà£o, sobre como se comportar em caso de ataque nuclear. As novas instruàßàµes têm em consideraàßà£o a Covid-19, …

Joshua Hanks (2020-12-08). China replacing U.S. as world's leading scientific power. workers.org The first day of December saw two major scientific events: the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico collapsed, and China's Chang'e 5 spacecraft landed on the moon. These two events are the latest developments in the ongoing conflict between the U.S. and China — a new Cold War being fought on . . . |

Media Lens (2020-12-08). Stuck in a Lift with John Pilger: News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger. dissidentvoice.org Noticing the way journalists seemed unable to resist commenting on our work, even if it was just to slag us off, Glenn Greenwald tweeted us in 2012: 'You are really deeper in the heads of the British establishment-serving commentariat than anyone else — congrats.' ((Greenwald, Twitter, 12 September 2012.)) If that was true then, our relationship …