Daily Archives: December 10, 2020

2020-12-10: News Headlines

_____ (2020-12-10). Reuters Looks Away As Ecuador Tries To Outlaw Opposition Parties. popularresistance.org Reuters routinely buries information that would badly damage the reputation of US allies in the Americas. Whether those allies are bureaucrats from the Organization of American States and the dictatorship they helped install in Bolivia (FAIR.org, 12/17/19), violent protesters in Nicaragua (FAIR.org, 8/23/18) or Venezuelan politicians who support lethal US sanctions on their own country (FAIR.org, 6/14/19), the London-based news service can be counted on to cover for them. | In the case of Ecuador, a servile US ally since President Lenín Moreno took office in 2017, Reuters has ignored efforts to prevent Moreno's s…

Ralph Nader (2020-12-08). Action for Change Starts in Congress. counterpunch.org We know their names! We've given immense power to Five Hundred and Thirty-Five People to do good or bad. One Hundred Senators and Four Hundred and Thirty-Five Representatives. Unfortunately, some 1500 corporations control most Members of Congress. Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials

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 …

teleSUR (2020-12-08). USAID and Terrorist Gutiérrez Boronat Against Cuban Tourism. telesurenglish.net The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a Florida non-profit organization $97,321 for a program called "The Truth about Exploitation in Cuban Tourism." | RELATED: | USAID awarded the grant to the Cuban Democratic Directorate, or Dirección Democrática Cubana, on November 5 of this year. | The organization CDD was founded in Miami in 1990. It promotes itself as an organization that promotes democracy…

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Reuters Looks Away As Ecuador Tries To Outlaw Opposition Parties
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-10
Reuters routinely buries information that would badly damage the reputation of US allies in the Americas. Whether those allies are bureaucrats from the Organization of American States and the dictatorship they helped install in Bolivia (FAIR.org, 12/17/19), violent protesters in Nicaragua (FAIR.org, 8/23/18) or Venezuelan politicians who support lethal US sanctions on their own country (FAIR.org, 6/14/19), the London-based news service can be counted on to cover for them. | In the case of Ecuador, a servile US ally since President Lenín Moreno took office in 2017, Reuters has ignored efforts to prevent Moreno's s…
popularresistance.org/reuters-looks-away-as-ecuador-tries-to-outlaw-opposition-parties/

Action for Change Starts in Congress
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-12-08
We know their names! We've given immense power to Five Hundred and Thirty-Five People to do good or bad. One Hundred Senators and Four Hundred and Thirty-Five Representatives. Unfortunately, some 1500 corporations control most Members of Congress. Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials…
counterpunch.org/2020/12/08/action-for-change-starts-in-congress/

Stuck in a Lift with John Pilger: News and How to Use It by Alan Rusbridger
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-08
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/stuck-in-a-lift-with-john-pilger-news-and-how-to-use-it-by-alan-rusbridger/

USAID and Terrorist Gutiérrez Boronat Against Cuban Tourism
telesurenglish.net | 2020-12-08
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded a Florida non-profit organization $97,321 for a program called "The Truth about Exploitation in Cuban Tourism." | RELATED: | Cuba Rejects US Interference In Its Internal Affairs | USAID awarded the grant to the Cuban Democratic Directorate, or Dirección Democrática Cubana, on November 5 of this year. | The organization CDD was founded in Miami in 1990. It promotes itself as an organization that promotes democracy…
telesurenglish.net/news/USAID-and-Terrorist-Gutierrez-Boronat-Against-Cuban-Tourism-20201208-0016.html