Four Viral Claims Spread by Journalists on Twitter in the Last Week Alone That Are False
By Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept.
Photo: Joe Raedle/AP
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New Mass Resistance as Spanish State Jails Catalan Ministers
By Dick Nichols / Socialist Project.
Judge Carmen Lamela of Spain's National High Court – direct descendant of the fascist Franco-era Court of Public Order – took the war of the Spanish state against the Catalan pro-independence government to a new level of judicial violence on November 2.
50,000 march in Bilbao, Basque country, in solidarity with Catalonia and political prisoners.
Getting the Saudi fight against corruption right
By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
Kuwaiti billionaire Maan al-Sanea should have seen it coming after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman vowed to root out corruption.
One Year of Demonetization’s Failure in India
Last year, just a few days before the dreaded November 8, the day on which Modi’s decree on demonetization came into effect, I was so tired and exhausted of being myself that I decided to quit the overcrowded city in which I live and plunge headlong into the wilderness of the countryside.
AFL-CIO Must Shine Light on Past Foreign Policy, Activists Say
By Larry Sillanpa / Portside.
Delegates to the Duluth AFL-CIO Central Labor Body passed a resolution calling on the national AFL-CIO to release sealed documents on its history with AIFLD, the American Institute for Free Labor Development. In 1992, workers at a Ford assembly plant in Mexico were attacked after a strike, leaving 12 workers wounded and one dead. Questions remain that have not been answered about AIFLD's role in what happened.
Newsletter - From Neoliberal Injustice To Economic Democracy
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance.