2021-12-30: News Headlines

Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-12-30). FBI is Recklessly Misusing Trump-Era Espionage Policy to Create "Climate of Fear" Among Scientists—Terrorizing Families and Ruthlessly Destroying Careers. libya360.wordpress.com Jeremy Kuzmarov [Source: justice.gov] The Justice Department's China Initiative Was Established by the Trump Administration to Crackdown on Chinese Economic and Scientific Espionage.However, its primary targets have been academics prosecuted for failing to properly disclose their connection to Chinese universities on grant forms and it has led to numerous miscarriages of justice On the Tuesday…

Editor (2021-12-30). A red under every bed? Canada, racial profiling, and the Five Eyes. mronline.org Amid the wreckage of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and its allies have turned their sights on China. University of Victoria professor emeritus and historian John Price examines the rise of the coalition of Anglo settler colonial states of Canada, the United Kingdom, the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand, and how they are today fomenting conflict in the Asia Pacific.

_____ (2021-12-29). Diplomatic Boycott of the Beijing Olympics is Washington's Self-inflicted Wound. journal-neo.org The confrontation with China taken by Washington in recent years is being pursued not only on the economic front, with numerous sanctions against Chinese companies, but in politics as well, with the US creating various anti-Chinese blocs, such as AUKUS, provoking Taiwanese separatism, launching an information campaign criticizing alleged human rights violations in the Xinjiang …

_____ (2021-12-29). American Gulag: Inside The US' Massive Prison System. popularresistance.org For a supposedly developed, democratic nation, the United States locks up an extraordinary number of its citizens. Close to one quarter of the world's prison population is in the United States. Even on a per capita basis, only El Salvador and Turkmenistan come close to America's preponderance for incarceration. | In a country with a rising population and a falling demand for labor, the government decided to solve this problem by simply locking up millions of its poorest citizens, in the process allowing corporate America to make billions from their suffering. The prison industry is booming: between 1990 and 2005,…

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