Daily Archives: December 6, 2020

2020-12-06: News Headlines

teleSUR (2020-12-06). China Completes Spacecraft Rendezvous, Docking in Lunar Orbit. telesurenglish.net The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced that the ascender of Change-5 probe successfully rendezvoused and docked with the orbiter-returner combination in lunar orbit at 5: 42 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Sunday. | RELATED: | Change-5 is one of the most complicated and challenging missions in Chinese aerospace history, as well as the world's first moon-sample mission in more than 40 years. | The Change-5 probe, comprising an or…

Dave Markland (2020-12-06). Review of Hensman's 'Indefensible'. zcomm.org Defense of the Easily Defensible By Dave Markland In 2018 Haymarket Books published Rohini Hensman's Indefensible: Democracy, Counter-revolution and Anti-imperialist Rhetoric. Its focus is on left journalists and analysts like John Pilger and the late Edward S. Herman who have committed the inexcusable sin of being overly suspicious of United States foreign policy. Many readers

Joseph Thomas (2020-12-06). China Uproots Hong Kong's US-Backed Opposition. globalresearch.ca China finalised its campaign against protests in its Hong Kong territory when it expelled opposition politicians from Hong Kong's government for endangering national security. | Following this move, opposition politicians still in office resigned in protest, leaving the territory's government firmly …

Labor Video Project (2020-12-05). Namibian Rà∂ssing Mine Workers Face Covid-19 & Attacks From State Owned China State Owners. indybay.org Namibian Rà∂ssing mine workers face the Covid-19 pandemic & attacks from state owned China National Uranium Corporation Limited. They have tried to intimidate and bribe union leaders and also have fired the Namibian Miner's Union Rà∂ssing Union branch.

WSWS (2020-12-05). New Zealand government denounces China's condemnation of Australian war crimes. wsws.org Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern did not condemn the murder of at least 39 unarmed people in Afghanistan by Australian special forces, but denounced a Chinese official's tweet that drew attention to these war crimes.

Ralph Nader (2020-12-05). The Road to a More Just Society Runs Through Congress. commondreams.org Think about all the dreams for a better world that could come to be realized if our elected officials worked for the big majority of Americans instead of for Big Business interests. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/congress_5.jpg

Tony Norfield (2020-12-05). The Mao-Roosevelt No meeting, 1945. mronline.org In January 1945, Mao Tse-tung sent a message to U.S. President Roosevelt asking to visit the U.S. and discuss future relationships with China. The message got blocked by a U.S. diplomat in China, and Roosevelt apparently did not receive it.

Kim Petersen (2020-12-05). A Comparison of Respect for the Sanctity of Mosques in France, the US, and China. globalresearch.ca France has seen a spate of attacks carried out by radicalized Muslims. The attacks and killings must be denounced. | But more so must one denounce the terrorism and killings carried out by the French state against Muslims in its wars …

_____ (2020-12-05). So We're Already at the 'Chinese Super Soldiers' Part of the Propaganda Campaign. strategic-culture.org Caitlin JOHNSTONE | "What we know is that the nation's top intelligence official says that the US has evidence that China is conducting biological experiments on its soldiers to enhance their capabilities," said "I was somewhat skeptical about this claim, but whe…