US Media, Pols Rage After Venezuelans Defy US Empire to Re-elect Socialists
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-13
President Nicolas Maduro and his United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) are celebrating today, after a clear victory in yesterday's National Assembly elections. The elections, boycotted by many major right-wing opposition groups, but still participated in by over 100 …
globalresearch.ca/us-media-pols-rage-venezuelans-defy-us-empire-re-elect-socialists/5732055

Foreign Minister Arreaza To US 'Ambassador'
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-12
Venezuela scoffed at the presentation of credentials by the person in charge of the US "virtual embassy" in Colombia, pointing out that his office in Caracas awaits him. | James Story, assigned as the supposed US ambassador to Venezuela, delivered his credentials to the fugitive Venezuelan opposition politician Julio Borges, "envoy" of the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, coup leader Juan Guaidó, on Monday in Bogotá, the Colombian capital, reflecting the White House's commitment to the opposition and to regime change in Venezuela.
popularresistance.org/foreign-minister-arreaza-to-us-ambassador-your-office-in-caracas-awaits-you/

Go Vote Yourself a Raise, Georgia—You've Long Earned It
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-12-12
Candidates should be pushed to say if they stand with the super-rich profiteering, callous Big Business tycoons or with the people who work for pitiful wages, on the rugged frontlines, and keep our society running. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/georgia_primary.jpg …
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[Correspondence] One Health or Planetary Health for pandemic prevention? — Authors' reply
John H Amuasi, Andrea S Winkler | thelancet.com | 2020-12-12
One Health recognises the fundamental interconnectedness and complex interdependence of all living species and their shared environment.1 Thus, a view that One Health is focused on human–animal interaction alone, primarily addresses the risk of zoonotic events, and that these events occur as a result of urbanisation, land usage, and increasing human population density, therefore suggesting that One Health is sufficient to address pandemic risks, is flawed. Nevertheless, there is abundant evidence that disease agents of zoonotic origin account for over half of all emerging or re-emerging human infectious dis…
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UN climate report calls out global elite as cause of the crisis
Tina Landis | liberationnews.org | 2020-12-12
The report takes a surprisingly class perspective by pointing out that the one percent richest people on the planet are responsible for emissions equal to that of the poorest 50 percent of the world's population.
liberationnews.org/un-climate-report-calls-out-global-elite-as-cause-of-the-crisis/

World must invest in strong health systems that protect everyone — now and into the future
news.un.org | 2020-12-12
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed just how important it is for all countries to have strong health systems that provide the entire population with quality services when and where they need them, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has stressed.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/12/1079902

Two in three students do not think government is acting in their best interests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-12-12
Nearly two in three students do not think the government is acting in their best interests and it has not adequately considered the difficulties they may face as a result of coronavirus (Covid-19), a survey suggests. | Political awakening: | A growing proportion (52%) of students say they feel more political due to coronavirus, according to the poll by the National Union of Students (NUS). | Larissa Kennedy, the NUS national president, said the government's failures were "politicising a generation" and prompting rent strikes across the country as anger grows among the student population. She said: Whether…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/12/12/two-in-three-students-do-not-think-government-is-acting-in-their-best-interests/

[Correspondence] Cardiovascular preventive strategies are not conflicting
Rod Jackson, Sue Wells, Anthony Rodgers | thelancet.com | 2020-12-12
We agree with Michael Brainin and Karen Sliwa1 about the urgent need to improve the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease but would like to correct some other points they raise. Brainin and Sliwa suggest that we2 promoted high-risk approaches over population-based approaches; however, we stated that "Too often debate about prevention of cardiovascular disease is polarised between opposing evangelists for the high-risk and population-wide approaches. An agnostic approach based on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness is preferable.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32587-3/fulltext?rss=yes

OAS's New Attempt To Interfere In Venezuela Rejected
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-12
On Wednesday, the representatives of Argentina, Mexico, and Bolivia to the Organization of American States (OAS) rejected a new resolution that disregards Venezuela's Sunday elections and calls for a transitional government. | The representatives condemned the new attempts of destabilization against Venezuela, noting the belligerent strategy promoted by the OAS resolution that claimed the elections did not observe International Law's guarantees. | Argentina's ambassador to the OAS Carlos Raimundi rejected both the calls to not recognize the elections' results and the imposition of conditions to the Venezuelan gov…
popularresistance.org/oass-new-attempt-to-interfere-in-venezuela-rejected/

PDF of December 10 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-12-11
Download the 12-page PDF. Capitalist COVID catastrophe FIGHT or DIE! Message from Peltier; Reparations now! Justice for Breonna denied again; Disability rights; Workers demand justice; DEA surveillance; Editorial: New president — same wars; Commentary: Becoming a cadre; GLOBAL: China: global vaccines, science; India: worker & farmer uprising; Cuba; France; Palestine; Venezuela. . . . | Continue reading PDF of December 10 issue at Workers.org…
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Free Elections In Venezuela Are A Blow To Regime Change
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-11
Venezuela held legislative elections on December 6 and, as has become the norm, the U.S. and sectors of the opposition that boycotted the election are claiming fraud without presenting evidence. The coalition of parties supporting President Maduro won 68% of the vote and a supermajority in the National Assembly. All the evidence suggests the elections were free and fair. However, turnout was only 31%, a participation rate that was hampered by a partial opposition boycott of the election. | This call to abstain was made by Juan Guaidó and his allies, but a different faction of the opposition participated fully.
popularresistance.org/free-elections-in-venezuela-are-a-blow-to-regime-change/

Former Presidential Candidate Capriles Calls on US to End 'Interim Presidency'
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-12-11
Capriles claimed that currently "the opposition has no leadership."
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15076

We don't listen to the dying Government of Donald Trump
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-12-11