News 12/19

Trump says ‘we have defeated ISIS’ as US starts withdrawal from Syria
President Donald Trump has tweeted that ISIS has been defeated, as the White House announced that US has started pulling out its troops from Syria.The US has begun the withdrawal of its troops from Syria, the White House said in a statement.
rt.com/usa/446863-complete-military-withdrawal-syria/

Troops to be deployed in case of no-deal Brexit
Theresa May’s Conservative government announced yesterday that 3,500 soldiers were on standby to deal with economic disruption and to confront social unrest in the event of a no-deal Brexit.The UK faces crashing out of the European Union (EU) if no agreement can be reached by Parliament before a January 21, 2019 deadline.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/19/brex-d19.html

Anger in UK parliament as Corbyn accused of calling PM 'stupid woman'
Britain’s House of Commons erupted in anger on Wednesday when Labour opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn appeared to mouth the words “stupid woman” after a lively exchange with Prime Minister Theresa May.Corbyn’s remark was captured by television cameras during the question-and-answer session in parliament that British leaders have to endure every Wednesday.
reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-insult/anger-in-uk-parliament-as-corbyn-accused-of-calling-pm-stupid-woman-idUSKBN1OI1H4

Former Blackwater guard convicted for 2007 massacre of civilians in Baghdad
A former security guard for the US firm Blackwater has been found guilty of murder for his role in a notorious massacre of unarmed civilians in downtown Baghdad in 2007.Nicholas Slatten, 35, was convicted of first-degree murder by a federal jury in Washington on Wednesday after five days of deliberations.
theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/19/former-blackwater-guard-guilty-2007-massacre-baghdad

Guardian challenged over ‘fake’ Assange & Manafort story, as Luke Harding goes AWOL
Leading journalists have called out the Guardian for not retracting their story that claimed Wikileaks’ Julian Assange met with ex-Donald Trump operative Paul Manafort despite a lack of evidence to support the claims.Lead by ex-Guardian writer, now co-editor at the Intercept, Glenn Greenwald, various journalists and activists attacked the publication for going silent on the ‘bombshell’ story.
rt.com/uk/446873-guardian-assange-manafort-harding/

US, Mexico seek to stem migration from Central America by funding development in region
The United States and Mexico will be cooperating closely to convince thousands of potential Central American migrants to not risk the perilous journey to the U.S. border by investing money into some of the region’s poorest areas.
outline.com/uxwftb

U.S. seeks to expedite aid for North Korea amid stalled nuclear talks
U.S. officials will try to expedite humanitarian aid to North Korea, a U.S. envoy said on Wednesday, as Washington and Pyongyang struggle to find a breakthrough in stalled talks aimed at ending the North’s nuclear program.
reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-idUSKBN1OI06L

Fascist cell uncovered in German police force
On August 2, 2018, the Frankfurt-based lawyer, Seda Basay-Yildiz, received a letter evidently from far-right radicals. Using the vile language of the Nazis, the letter denounced Basay-Yildiz as a “lousy Turkish pig” and even threatened to “slaughter” her two-year-old daughter. ..
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/19/terr-d19.html

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Holy shit! Zig Forums completely and utterly BTFO!

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pamelaandersonfoundation.org/news/2018/12/18/revolt-dont-react
Revolt! Don’t React

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The Russians and the Syrian government literally took care of the vast majority of ISIS, the US is doing the "we beat ISIS, we won" schtick because they're out of excuses to stay there now, can't make up anymore arguements on why they should still be able to keep attacking Assad, and need some way of saving face that doesn't make it look like Assad won.

Court Ruling Nullifies Lula's Freedom in Brazil
The president of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil (STF), Dias Toffoli, annulled this Wednesday afternoon the precautionary measure that determined the release of all detainees convicted in the second instance with pending judicial remedies, a decision that benefited the former president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who has been detained since early April in Curitiba.
telesurenglish.net/news/Court-Ruling-Nullifies-Lulas-Freedom-in-Brazil-20181219-0025.html

Chinese Businesses Offer Discounts to Huawei Phone Owners in Solidarity with Exec Detained in Canada
Shennong Mountain Scenic Park has become the latest place in China to offer a financial perk to anyone carrying a Huawei phone by waiving the park’s entry fee completely. Why? The park wants to show solidarity with Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Huawei who was arrested in Canada at the direction of the United States earlier this month for allegedly violating sanctions against Iran.
gizmodo.com/chinese-businesses-offer-discounts-to-huawei-phone-owne-1831196153

Police, schools had no duty to protect Parkland school shooting victims, judge rules
A Florida lawyer representing 15 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High students says he is "exploring all of our options" after a federal judge ruled that law enforcement and school officials had no legal duty to protect students during a Valentine's Day rampage at the school that left 17 people dead.
outline.com/aG42B8

A Tesla Model S reportedly burst into flames twice after getting a flat tire
A Tesla Model S caught fire on Tuesday in Los Gatos, California, after getting a flat tire, multiple outlets reported.The owner was driving on the highway when the vehicle alerted him that one of its tires had experienced a rapid drop in tire pressure, ABC7 News reported. Minutes after the Model S was towed to an auto-repair shop, the front end reportedly caught fire. The vehicle reignited in the evening, the report said.
businessinsider.com/tesla-model-s-catches-fire-twice-after-flat-tire-report-2018-12

Stock market woes raise a nagging fear: Is a recession near?
Fears of a recession have been mounting with the U.S. stock market appearing to be headed for its worst December since 1931 — during the Great Depression.Wall Street’s sustained slump has been fueled by investor concerns about lower corporate profits, higher corporate debt, a festering trade war between the United States and China and a broader global slowdown.
apnews.com/545e692ad35a41638f4f6aeea0dc3db6

Who cares. The point is that the US is leaving Röjava, therefore the Zig Forums narrative of one big US military base in Syria/YPJ/SDF being a US puppet is wrong.

Will r/socialism accuse Corbyn of being an ableist?

No he will get accused of sexism if anything, which will be kind funny because it will mobilise Deno in support of Corbyn against the "bloody feminists".

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Apparently he just mouthed "stupid people" so they're just trying to pander to tards.

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OH NO NO NO

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Honestly it looks like he said women: it's more I just don't give a shit. As I said, the only people who give a shit about this are Green Party supporters already.

OP/ED

The Anti-Union Justin Trudeau
Trudeau is making an illegal push to end a major series of strikes. But unions can’t count on the courts to save them — only direct action can get the goods.
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/12/canada-postal-workers-labor-movement-trudeau

1968: The Year That Will Not Go Away
Few days remain in 2018 to celebrate and recall all the events on the 50th anniversary of 1968. Comparisons with the “gilets jaunes” in France have evoked some of the memories, but for those who lived through 1968 as students there are events permanently etched in our psyches that will not go away. For Millennials and the X Generation, 1968 is pre-history, ancient dinosaur time. For those who experienced 1968, it was a year of rupture and transformation.A brief review of the major events: The Tet offensive began on January 31, leading to the first breach of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon by the Viet Cong. The February photo of the chief of the national police shooting a suspected Viet Cong officer on a Saigon street or the 1972 photo of the young girl screaming in pain from napalm consolidated in images all that was wrong with the U.S. presence in Vietnam.
counterpunch.org/2018/12/19/1968-the-year-that-will-not-go-away/

Why We Can't Have Nice Things – Like A Fighting Green Party
A faction on the Green Party's steering committee would rather silence and expel its members than build a fighting party. I explained a year or two ago why I’m in the Green party.“I never wanted to be one of those Goldilocks socialists, for whom everything is too hot, too cold, too lumpy or too smooth to be worthy of anything but withering criticism. I’m past 65 and fast running out of time waiting for Red Moses to come down the mountain with those stone tablets and present us with a ready-made socialist party of labor and its allied social and economic organizations for us to climb aboard and ride…”The Green party has lots of problems, some but by no means all of them self-inflicted… and now a faction of the GP’s national leadership is conducting a coup against its own members to lock out internal opposition and ban unauthorized discussion on party listserves about how to address the party’s many problems.
blackagendareport.com/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-fighting-green-party

The working class and the environmental crisis
Perhaps the stupidest slander among the many hurled at the Yellow Vest movement in France by the corporate media is the claim that the workers involved in militant protests over social inequality, poverty and low-wage jobs are opposed to environmental concerns because they balked at the gas tax imposed by President Emmanuel Macron.The New York Times, which has regularly circulated such smears, carried an op-ed column in its Sunday edition under the headline, “Is Environmentalism Just for Rich People?” Written by Dr. Neil Gross, a professor of sociology at Colby College in Maine, the column claims that the Yellow Vest protests “are making environmentalists nervous” and praises Macron’s gas tax as “part of an ongoing ambitious effort to combat global warming.”
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/12/19/pers-d19.html

“Progressive” City Council Member, Local Media, and Business Owners Label Solidarity Network “Terrorist”
The following statement comes from the Olympia Solidarity Network, and pushes back against the claims made by local property owners and politicians, who have attempted to label the community organizing group “terrorist.”
itsgoingdown.org/progressive-city-council-member-local-media-and-business-owners-label-solidarity-network-terrorist/

Why is bourgeois press so fucking slow to see the shitstorm that's blowing up right in their faces

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I went for a look on reddit to see what the consensus was and nobody gave a shit. Half were in agreement and half were pissed off it was clearly the media trying to slate Labour/protect the Tories.

The seal has been broken…

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No private property was damaged, thank the lord.

They need to calm down the masses, if they report the truth it will crash faster.

Is that it, or have they really gone and bought their own bullshit?

No, that was the Iraqis, The only major city they retook from ISIS was Palmyra (not even well), and when the SAA did fight isis, it was normally resolved quickly and with little bloodshed as ISIS was allowed to retreat or pass through their lines.

nearly all the major battles were uninvolved with the SAA: Mosul, Raqqa, Fallujah, Kobane, Kirkuk, Al bab, Sinjar.

I'm not being selective either, I checked the full list, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_battles_involving_ISIL#Battles

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They were/are also a Rochie op, giving them an excuse to occupy stuff.

Why not both?

Trust America? Adios to ya.

Nice alliteration.