OPCW Executives Praised Whistleblower and Criticized Syria Cover-up, Leaks Reveal
Aaron Mate | globalresearch.ca | 2020-12-08
Exclusive: Documents obtained by The Grayzone show that OPCW executives privately criticized the manipulation of a Syria chemical weapons probe, and supported a dissenting veteran inspector. One official, however, feared helping the "Russian narrative." These private admissions further expose the …
globalresearch.ca/opcw-executives-praised-whistleblower-criticized-syria-cover-up-leaks-reveal/5731594

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/

Why Jeh Johnson Would Be a Better Defense Secretary Than Michèle Flournoy
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-12-08
CODEPINK protests killer drones at DC home of Jeh Johnson (Credit: CODEPINK) President-elect Biden's choice for Secretary of Defense has turned out to be one of the most controversial and difficult of his Cabinet appointments. The early front-runner, Michèle Flournoy, was originally seen as a shoo-in and was touted as a great breakthrough for women, …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/12/why-jeh-johnson-would-be-a-better-defense-secretary-than-michele-flournoy/

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/

When Progressives Put Up a Fight
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-12-08
By challenging Flournoy while posing those questions — and answering them in the negative — activism succeeded in changing "Defense Secretary Flournoy" from a fait accompli to a lost fantasy of the military-industrial complex.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/when-progressives-put-up-a-fight/

Exporting weapons is a clear and present danger
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-12-08
Former PM Malcolm Turnbull was keen for Australia to become a top military equipment exporter and committed billions to a loan scheme for arms manufacturers. Suzanne James investigates.
greenleft.org.au/content/exporting-weapons-clear-and-present-danger

Stuck In A Lift With John Pilger — 'News And How To Use It' by Alan Rusbridger
David Edwards | zcomm.org | 2020-12-07
Pilger tells the unfiltered, uncompromised truth about the foundations of power. His focus is on speaking up for the victims of power, not on serving power…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/stuck-in-a-lift-with-john-pilger-news-and-how-to-use-it-by-alan-rusbridger/

France's weapons sales to Egypt won't be conditioned on human rights, says Macron
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-12-07
France's weapons sales to Egypt won't be conditioned on human rights, says Macron | Despite criticism from rights groups for hosting Sisi, the French leader said the two countries were 'united' in building 'a space of civilisation' | MEE and agencies | Mon, 12/07/2020 – 13: 30 | French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Elysee Palace in Paris on 7 December 2020…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-france-macron-sisi-visit-weapons-sales-human-rights

A Brief History Of US Military Poisoning Of Hawai'i
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-12-07
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange, a new book by Japan-based journalist Jon Mitchell, is a detailed investigation and documentation of U.S. and Japanese military chemical and biological poisoning and pollution across the Pacific, Asia and South East Asia. Mitchell's work doesn't cover the U.S. military poisoning of Hawai'i as that would require a separate volume due to the concentration of the U.S. military bases and their pollution in the state.
popularresistance.org/a-brief-history-of-us-military-poisoning-of-hawaii/