Posts that I especially recommend today: Friday, December 13, 2019

Early news and commentary on yesterday's British elections

• How Boris Johnson’s election gamble paid off by Elizabeth Piper from Reuters (a news service mostly owned by the British ruling class).

• Jeremy Corbyn: ‘I will not lead Labour at next election’ from BBC.

• Campaigners demand law banning political lies as think-tank warns 'disinformation is becoming normalised' in elections by Cahal Milmo from Inews.

• National (counter) Revolution wins over Radical Reformism, Neocons win over Globalisers, War wins over Peace from Defend Democracy Press.

• Someone Interfered In The UK Election, And It Wasn’t Russia by Caitlin Johnstone from her weblog.

• Corbyn’s Defeat has slain the Left’s Last Illusion by Jonathan Cook from his weblog. (The best analysis in my opinion.)

• UK's Johnson wins parliamentary majority, Corbyn to stand down from PressTV (Iran).

• Corbyn Is the Lesser Evil from Russia Insider.

Other commentary and news:

• In its anti-‘Medicare for All’ push, the health insurance industry pulls from an old playbook from The Conversation. 

• Award-Winning Journalist Vanessa Beeley Faces “Deplatforming” at Six Canadian Venues by Michael Welch from Global Research (based in Canada). 

• Media bias: Why Putin-Ukraine deal gets no coverage from Rick Sanchez's show on RT America.