Panama's President Deflates Trump's Colonial Fantasy - The Friday AM Quickie 12/27/24

By Corey Pein — Dec 27, 2024

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THE BIG NEWS

World Tour: Israeli Strike on Yemen Narrowly Misses WHO Chief

Canadian Ministers Flock to Florida to Lobby Trump on Tariffs as Panama's President Responds to Canal Threat "There's nothing to talk about," President Jose Raul Mulino told reporters yesterday. "The canal is Panamanian and belongs to Panamanians. There's no possibility of opening any kind of conversation around this reality, which has cost the country blood, sweat and tears." via the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Politico.
Finland Seizes Alleged Russian 'Shadow' Oil Tanker on Suspicion of Cutting Baltic Sea Power Cable "The Christmas Day incident appears to be the latest in a series of pipelines and cables being targeted in the Baltic Sea by foreign vessels, sparking fears of deliberate attacks on critical infrastructure between Nato countries." via the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the AP.
Azerbaijani Investigators Blame Russian Air Defenses for Downing Civilian Airline Over Kazakhstan "No one claims that it was done on purpose. However, taking into account the established facts, Baku expects the Russian side to confess to the shooting down of the Azerbaijani aircraft," a source familiar with the investigation says. via Reuters, the New York Times, and Politico.
Ukrainian Forces Capture Injured North Korean Soldier Who Was Fighting in Russia "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this week that 3,000 North Korean troops have been killed and wounded in the fighting in the Kursk region." via the Guardian and the AP.
South Korea's Acting President Will Also Face Impeachment Vote Today "The only way to normalise the country is to swiftly root out all the insurrection forces," opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung said, announcing plans to impeach Conservative acting Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who ascended after Yoon Suk Yeol's martial law decree backfired. via Reuters and the New York Times.
Kurdish Guerillas Battle Turkish-Backed Miltia in Post-Assad Syria "US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke on Tuesday with Turkish Minister of National Defense Yaşar Güler" on Tuesday about "setting the conditions to enable a more secure and stable Syria." via the Associated Press and the New York Times.
Ecologists, Human Rights Groups, and the Indian Government Are Concerned Over China's Plans for Massive Dam in Tibet The official announcement of the $127 billion hydropower project "gave little indication of how builders plan to resolve the severe engineering challenges of damming the world's highest river as it passes through Earth's largest land canyon, which reaches as deep as 17,000 feet in places." via the Washington Post.
Police in Mozambique Ask 6,000 Prisoners Who Escaped in Jail Break to Please Surrender Dozens died while fighting guards with stolen weapons; violent protests have consumed the country since last week, when the constitutional council weighed in on the disputed October election. via the Guardian.

QUICKEST QUICKIES

Trump Deportation Boss Tom Homan Says Whole Families Will Be Put in Camps "The incoming administration has refused to acknowledge the horrific damage it did to families and little children the first time around and seems determined to once again target families for gratuitous suffering," says ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt, who argued against Trump's cruel immigration policies during his first term. via the Washington Post, NBC News, and Politico.
'It's Not Great': CDC Identifies Potentially Dangerous Mutation in Bird Flu Virus That Caused Severe Human Case The US health agency says the risk to the public "has not changed and remains low." via STAT News and Reuters.
Marianne Williamson Joins Democratic National Committee Leadership Race "As DNC Chair, I will not just have a 50-state strategy; I will have a 365 days-of-the-year strategy," the on-again off-again presidential candidate writes. "We will create a surge of patriotic fervor, and a connectedness of the American heart to the great historical legacy of this country." via the New York Times and Politico.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Arkansas Law Threatening Librarians With Prison US District Judge Timothy Brooks, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled that the 2023 law signed by Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders violated the First Amendment and "deputize[d] librarians and booksellers as the agents of censorship." via the Washington Post.

SOME NUMBER

$75 billion

That's the estimated total fine to be paid to the state of New York by corporate polluters over the next 25 years under a new "climate superfund" law signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul yesterday. Big Oil and business interests lobbied for Hochul to veto the law and now plan to challenge it in court, Gothamist reports.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

12/27: It's Day 4 of the Majority Report Best Ofs of 2024! Today you'll hear Sam and Emma speak with Manisha Sinha, Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, to discuss her recent book The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920.

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PARTING WORDS

"There's been many ways in which Harris chose the path of Liz Cheney and the donor class on a range of issues, and abandoning working families in places like Dearborn, who make up the people Democrats claim to be fighting for. And I think at the same time, Trump came in and fed a community that was grieving and in despair with lies and false promises. ...

"We provided the warning signs on a silver platter."

-- Uncommitted National Movement co-founder Layla Elabed, the sister of Michigan Squad Rep. Rashida Tlaib, speaking to NBC News about one of the failures of the Kamala Harris presidential campaign, which helped Donald Trump carry the Arab American-majority city of Dearborn. The Biden administration this week pressured the US-funded Famine Early Warning System, "which is meant to reflect the data-driven analysis of unbiased experts," to withdraw a new report warning of famine in Gaza due to Israel's "near-total blockade."

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