Name: 12.01.21 / Republican Lawmakers Say Government Won't Shut Down by pacificanetwork
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Description: Republican lawmakers say government won't shut down, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says consumers can expect high inflation well into next year, and an FDA panel greenlights the first pill to treat COVID-19.

Hunger and homelessness plague America's veterans, President Biden is set to sign the infrastructure bill Monday, and Florida's governor considers legal action over migrant flights.

11.11.21 / Hunger and Homelessness Plague America's Veterans

Republican lawmakers say government won't shut down, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell says consumers can expect high inflation well into next year, and an FDA panel greenlights the first pill to treat COVID-19.

12.01.21 / Republican Lawmakers Say Government Won't Shut Down

Biden says he'll fight for the filibuster; McConnell seeks an eighth term; and Fauci fires back at GOP senators.

01.12.22 / Biden Says He'll Fight for the Filibuster

Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was resoundingly boo'ed at a Somali singer's concert on July 2nd in Minneapolis, and media outlets are still abuzz about it. 

Many Somali American residents of Congresswoman Omar’s district feel she has pursued an aggressive interventionist policy in Somalia and helped to engineer the defeat of their hugely popular president Mohammed Abdullahi Mohammed, aka Farmaajo.

Ilhan Omar Booed Onstage in Minneapolis

Marcelline Nduwamungu, from the Women's International Network for Democracy and Peace, on how Paul Kagame is Behind M23 Terror in East Congo.

Taylor Report

Kagame must withdraw his M-23 gang from Congo

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UK nurses go on strike, African refugees accuse Europe of racist immigration policies, and Steven Were Omamo, former World Food Program Director in Ethiopia, reports that the Tigray famine story was a false, politicized narrative during the Ethiopian civil war.

KPFK Non-NATO News

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza prize for peace and democracy goes to John Williams Ntwali(journalist, deceased) and Kambale Musavuli, who has exposed the crimes of M-23 in East Congo.

Victoire Ingabire Prize for Peace and Democracy

Pacifica reporter and host Ann Garrison spoke to Michelle Witte of Sputnik Radio's "Political Misfits" about the US in Somalia, the drought and famine narrative, and South Africa's dilemma regarding Putin's visit for the BRICS conference while under indictment by the ICC.

Sputnik's "Political Misfits" on the US in Somalia and the Horn, and South Africa's ICC dilemma

Scholar, author, and activist Dr. Cornel West recently announced his 2024 presidential campaign. He discussed his platform and decision to be a candidate for the Green Party nomination.

Cornel West Discusses His Presidential Campaign

Black Agenda Report co-founder Glen Ford transitioned on July 28, 2021. This week I’m reporting from Caracas, Venezuela where I’m part of an International Peoples Tribunal on US Imperialism and fact finding mission which will hold a hearing on the issue of US economic coercive measures, commonly known as sanctions, which have been waged against Venezuela by the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. In honor of Glen’s memory, I will read from a 2019 article he wrote when Donald Trump began his maximum pressure campaign against Venezuela. He titled this piece, “The Racist, Imperialist War Against Venezuela.”

Glen Ford on the U.S. War Against Venezuela

Despite warnings, the Toronto Eritrean Festival was attacked by thugs.

Police came late, did little, and the media jump all over the victims. 

Eritrean events were attacked by the same organization in US, Germany, and Sweden. 

In Toronto the police decision to cancel the rest of the festival, which has been a traditional and popular even for more that 20 years, has handed the attackers a victory on a platter. Be aware, the neo-colonialists have blood in their eyes.

Attack on Eritrean Festival was a classic pogrom

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12.01.21 / Republican Lawmakers Say Government Won't Shut Down

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