Colombian security forces massacre 10 youth protesting police murder
wsws.org | 2020-09-11
The massacre in Bogotá signals the willingness of the Colombian ruling elite to turn to authoritarian rule to crush social opposition in the midst of the uncontrolled pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/11/colo…
The U.S. is Borrowing Its Way to Fascism
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Viewing the GOP convention seemed a little like binge-watching the last several years’ parade of none-too-subtle signs of incipient fascism. We saw extreme nationalism, scapegoating immigrants and foreigners in general, white supremacy, “strong (narcissistic)-man” government, aggressive foreign policies, and hysterical red-baiting. Those signs reflect how capitalism’s deepening crisis undermines both the center-left (Democrat) and center-right…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/the-u-s-is-b…
America’s Current Jobs ‘Great Depression’
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Two well-known and highly respected mainstream economists, Carmen Reinhart, a chief economist for the World Bank, and Vincent Reinhart, chief economist for Morgan Stanley bank, have recently published an article in the widely read and influential capitalist source, Foreign Affairs, entitled ‘The Pandemic Depression’. Arguing primarily from a global perspective, the economists have concluded the…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/americas-cur…
The War on Your Mind: A Brief History of the U.S. Surveillance-Intelligence Complex
T.J. Coles | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
The recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vindicated the contractor-turned-whistleblower, Edward Snowden, by ruling that the National Security Agency’s blanket data collection was unlawful and likely unconstitutional. | After Snowden alerted the world, t…
globalresearch.ca/brief-history-us-surve…
Attack the press
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-09-11
In normal times, we often see a gradual chipping away of basic rights like we’ve seen in the trials of Julian Assange, where a narrative, some of it true, a lot of it based on character assassination and outright lies, has been built over time, denying the publisher the presumption of innocence.
nationofchange.org/2020/09/11/attack-the…
Assange’s Fourth Day at the Old Bailey: COVID in the Courtroom
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
As James Lewis QC for the prosecution, representing the US government, revealed, “I’m just saying about my charger. It’s in court and I’m going to run out of battery.” It was one of those moments that said much about the …
globalresearch.ca/assange-fourth-day-old…
Oregon Can’t Fight Wildfires Because Its Helicopters Were Sent To Afghanistan
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-11
Many of Oregon’s largest firefighting aircraft are not available because the Department of Defense has sent them to Afghanistan to fight in the 20-year-old war.
mintpressnews.com/oregon-wildfires-helic…
Why is the US Government Using Stolen Cash To Pay Doctors in Venezuela?
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-11
The US government is using cash stolen from the Venezuelan government as part of a hearts and minds campaign on behalf of opposition figure Juan Guaidó.
mintpressnews.com/juan-guaido-is-paying-…
Chile, September 11, 1973: The Inauguration of Neoliberalism,”Shock Treatment” and the Instruments of Economic Repression: The Junta’s Deadly “Economic Medicine”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
The Junta ordered a hike in the price of bread from 11 to 40 escudos. While food prices had skyrocketed, wages had been frozen. From one day to the next, an entire country had been precipitated into abysmal poverty; in less than a year the price of bread in Chile increased thirty-six fold.
globalresearch.ca/chile-september-11-197…
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Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2020-09-11
We already knew Trump didn’t have much regard for military service; we just didn’t know how awful and cruel he can be.
progressive.org/dispatches/the-trump-tro…
Outrage over death of Black trans woman in Cleveland jail
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-09-11
Cleveland Anger over the tragic death of 28-year-old Lea Rayshon Daye in Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County Jail came out forcefully in a virtual press conference held Sept. 4. Daye’s was the second jail death here in less than two months and the 11th in two years. Found unresponsive in her cell . . . | Continue reading Outrage over death of Black trans woman in Cleveland jail at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/09/51216/?utm_source=rs…
George Jackson: Marxist-Leninist, abolitionist, revolutionary!
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-09-11
As we commemorate the 49th anniversary of the Attica Uprising of 1971, the Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party is inspired to once again raise the name of our comrade George Jackson. A revolutionary philosopher and communist militant, Jackson’s writings have inspired workers on both sides of the prison . . . | Continue reading George Jackson: Marxist-Leninist, abolitionist, revolutionary! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/09/51211/?utm_source=rs…
New fires at Greek island refugee camp destroy last remaining shelters
news.un.org | 2020-09-11
Fresh fires at a Greek island centre for thousands of refugees and migrants, have destroyed all remaining accommodation for those affected by the initial blaze on Tuesday evening.
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The Myth of the “Bad” Immigrant
aclu.org | 2020-09-11
Immigrant communities are often asked to “get right with the law,” but is the law right in the first place? That’s what Alina Das asks in her new book, No Justice in the Shadows. She delves into her experience as the daughter of immigrants, an immigration attorney, and a clinical law professor to explore the intersection of immigration and the criminal justice system. , , Too often, she argues, our immigration system is used as a tool of discrimination and oppression, rather than as a tool of justice, and the consequences are dire. Our current immigration system is breaking up families, and forcing people to f…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/the-myth…
Parents, students, teachers hit Cuomo’s school cuts
Tina Nannarone | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
Parents, children, teachers and school aides gathered in front of Gov. Cuomo’s office in New York City Tuesday, September 8 to protest projected cuts to the New York State School’s budget. The rally was organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, Parents Supporting Parents NY and Make the Road, an immigrant rights group. Children and …
peoplesworld.org/article/parents-student…
The presidential election: “A 200-pound sack of concrete” vs. “the orange menace”
Norman Solomon | nationofchange.org | 2020-09-11
The entrenched system is heavily weighted — always has been — against the interests of working people, women, people of color, the poor and others deprived of power by structural inequities.
nationofchange.org/2020/09/11/the-presid…
PDF of September 10 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-09-11
Download the 12-page PDF. Anti-racists defy police, fascist terror Fight the right with united worker action! editorial ALSO: Kevin Zeese, °presente! Capitalist ‘gifts’: evictions and hunger. Battling racism on many fronts Pensacola and Greensboro; Sports focus on Black lives; Tribute to Chadwick Boseman. Labor’s militant rank and file Save the . . . | Continue reading PDF of September 10 issue at Workers.org…
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The U.S. Is Borrowing Its Way to Fascism
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-09-11
Richard D. WOLFF | Viewing the GOP convention seemed a little like binge-watching the last several years’ parade of none-too-subtle signs of incipient fascism. We saw extreme nationalism, scapegoating immigrants and foreigners in general, white supremacy, “strong (narcissistic)-man” government, aggressive foreign policies, and hysterical red-baiting. Those signs reflect how capitalism’s deepening crisis undermines both the center-left (Democrat) and center-right (GOP) and shifts politics further right and further left. Trump represents the anti-center right, Bernie Sanders the anti-center left. Most capitalists w…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/11/us…
The Truth behind 9/11: Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
At 11 o’clock, on the morning of 911, the Bush administration had already announced that Al Qaeda was responsible for the attacks. That same evening at 9.30 pm, a “War Cabinet” was formed and at 11.00 pm, the “War on Terrorism” was officially launched.
globalresearch.ca/the-truth-behind-9-11-…
The Presidential Election: “A 200-Pound Sack of Concrete” vs. “The Orange Menace”
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
May the worst man lose…
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Barbara Smith: The U.S. “Functions with White Supremacy as Its Engine.” Here’s How We Dismantle It
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-11
Since the police killing of George Floyd in May sparked a nationwide uprising against police brutality, armed white supremacists have taken to the streets of U.S. cities in response to Black Lives Matter protests. Organizing against systemic racism has been met with apparent attempts by the Trump administration to cover up white supremacist violence. We speak to legendary Black feminist scholar Barbara Smith, founder of the Combahee River Collective, about her proposal for an antiracist program called the Hamer-Baker Plan — named for Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Baker — to eradicate white supremacy in th…
www.democracynow.org/2020/9/11/barbara_s…
What Went Wrong with AstraZeneca’s Vaccine Trial? CEO Only Shares Details with Investors
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-11
As the world races to find a COVID-19 vaccine, one of the most promising vaccine trials has hit a major roadblock. AstraZeneca paused its Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trial after a woman in the trial developed severe neurological symptoms consistent with transverse myelitis, or inflammation of the spinal cord. Details were only revealed during a CEO call with investors, and “everyone was left to guess what went wrong,” writes Ed Silverman, senior writer at the health news site STAT, which broke the story. Silverman says the halting of the U.K. trial raises several issues, including whether pharmaceutical companies ar…
www.democracynow.org/2020/9/11/astrazene…
Costs of War: After 9/11 Attacks, U.S. Wars Displaced at Least 37 Million People Around the World
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-11
As the United States marks 19 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a new report finds at least 37 million people in eight countries have been displaced since the start of the so-called global war on terrorism since 2001. The Costs of War Project at Brown University also found more than 800,000 people have been killed since U.S. forces began fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen, at a cost of $6.4 trillion to U.S. taxpayers. “The U.S. has played a disproportionate role in waging war, in launching war and in perpetuating war over the last 19 years,” says…
www.democracynow.org/2020/9/11/9_11_war_…
For Greek camp migrants, COVID-19 quarantine was spark
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
For asylum-seekers trapped in the overcrowded facility on Greece’s island of Lesbos, Moria was hell most days. But a coronavirus quarantine was the final straw.It was just before midnight on Tuesday when eight migrants who tested positive for COVID-19 were told by authorities they would be isolated to an area just beyond the gated compound, according to witnesses and government officials.Their relatives would also be moved into the fenced unit, about 40 small wooden houses on a hill inside Greece’s biggest migrant settlement set up to deal with any breakout of COVID-19, for further testing.The news did not go dow…
yenisafak.com/en/world/for-greek-camp-mi…
Children sleeping among the graves as Moria devastation mounts on Lesbos
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
Greece began setting up tents on Friday for thousands of increasingly desperate migrants left without shelter on the island of Lesbos after a fire destroyed Greece’s biggest refugee camp on Wednesday.With more than 12,000 former occupants of the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp now camping out in fields and along roadsides without food or water and threatened by a possible spread of coronavirus infections, the need for a solution has become increasingly urgent.But the Greek government has been forced to tread warily due to growing anger among residents of an island whose location a few miles (km) off the Turkis…
yenisafak.com/en/world/children-sleeping…
Trump administration seeks sweeping DNA collection of immigrants, US sponsors
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
The Trump administration on Friday formally proposed a sweeping expansion of its collection of DNA and other biometric data of immigrants, to go beyond detained migrants in order to include U.S. citizen sponsors and others.Its proposal also vastly expands the biological information that the Department of Homeland Security collects beyond genetic material to include eye scans, voice prints, and palm prints, the department’s U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said in a notice published in the Federal Register.The plan is the latest move by President Donald Trump, who won office in part with his anti-immigran…
yenisafak.com/en/world/trump-administrat…
Assange’s Fourth Day at the Old Bailey: COVID in the Courtroom
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-11
As James Lewis QC for the prosecution, representing the US government, revealed, “I’m just saying about my charger. It’s in court and I’m going to run out of battery.” It was one of those moments that said much about the fourth day of proceedings at the Old Bailey regarding one Julian Assange, publisher, Australian national …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/09/assanges-four…
Assange’s Fourth Day at the Old Bailey: COVID in the Courtroom
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
As James Lewis QC for the prosecution, representing the US government, revealed, “I’m just saying about my charger. It’s in court and I’m going to run out of battery.” It was one of those moments that said much about the fourth day of proceedings at the Old Bailey regarding one Julian Assange, publisher, Australian national…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/assanges-fou…
175 Years in a U.S. Prison? Extradition Trial of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Begins in London
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
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Roaming Charges: Under Furious Skies
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
+ I’m writing this late on Thursday afternoon. The sky is the color of rust. Neil Young’s live rust. The sun is a crimson orb that occasionally bores through the enveloping pall, then recedes. We are under evacuation orders. The fires which have steadily gnawed their way toward us since Monday have reached the upper…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/roaming-char…
Despite Increasing Trade with Chinese Yuan US Dollar Is Likely to Remain the World’s Biggest Currency Reserve
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
The Chinese currency is expected to increase its 2% share in the world market to somewhere between 5% and 10% within the next 10 years. This could mean that the Chinese yuan will become the world’s third largest currency by …
globalresearch.ca/despite-increasing-tra…
Covid-19: The Great Reset — Revisited. Scary Threats, Rewards for Obedience
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
Covid-19: The Great Reset — is the title of a book by Klaus Schwab, Executive Chairman of the WEF, and the Senior Director of the Global Risk Network at the institution, Thierry Malleret. The present analysis is based …
globalresearch.ca/great-reset-revisited/…
As Washington Retreats, Eastern Mediterranean Conflict Further Marginalizes NATO
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is an alliance in name alone. Recent events notwithstanding, the brewing conflict over territorial waters in the Eastern Mediterranean indicates that the military union between mostly Western countries is faltering. The current Turkish-Greek tension is only one facet of a much larger conflict involving, aside from the two Mediterranean…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/as-washingto…
Reject Militarism on the Anniversary of 9/11
Howie Hawkins | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-11
Nineteen years after more than 3,000 people were killed on 9/11, there remains a bipartisan commitment to fight an endless “war on terrorism,” instigate regime change coups, increase military spending, enhance US nuclear weapons, deport undocumented residents, curtail civil liberties, and militarize the police. The September 11, 2001 attacks on the US have obscured “The …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/09/reject-milita…
Sunday 9/20: Devastating Climate Change–Socialist Feminist Solutions to Save Mother Earth
Freedom Socialist Party | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Online via Zoom. | Please register in advance: http: //bit.ly/Ecosocialist_Solutions…
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Orchestrated Events Responsible for Alexey Navalny’s Illness?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
On Monday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that dubious claims about Navalny’s alleged novichok nerve agent poisoning appear to be following a “script (that) was written in advance.” | Russophobic establishment media reports about what happened have the distinct …
globalresearch.ca/orchestrated-events-re…
For Nearly Six Months, Weekly US Unemployment Claims Exceed One Million
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
Since March, weekly US claims for unemployment insurance (UI) were greater than ever before in the nation’s history for 25 straight weeks. | What seemed unimaginable when 2020 began is cold, hard reality. | Over one million jobless US workers continue to …
globalresearch.ca/nearly-six-months-week…
Distinct False Flag Aroma About Navalny Incident
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
During a Thursday Security Council session on Syria, Alexey Navalny’s alleged novichok nerve agent poisoning was discussed. | So far, Germany failed to present evidence that supports its claim about his condition. | Is it because there is none? Did Russophobic …
globalresearch.ca/distinct-false-flag-ar…
Talks between Afghan government, Taliban to begin on September 12
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-11
Representatives from nearly 35 countries have been invited to take part in the opening of the long pending intra-Afghan talks that will be held in the Qatari capital Doha…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/11/talks-bet…
Qatar set to host Afghan government-Taliban talks again
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
Qatar is set to host another round of talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban on Saturday to end the ongoing war in the country.In a statement, the Afghan Presidency said negotiations with the Taliban would begin in Qatar’s capital Doha.The Afghan delegation, headed by former chief of the intelligence service Masoom Stanikzai, includes 21 members from various political parties and groups.President of the Supreme Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah, acting Foreign Minister Hanif Atmar, Minister of State for Peace Affairs Sayed Sadat Mansoor Naderi and the president’s Special Represent…
yenisafak.com/en/world/qatar-set-to-host…
Multinationals and oil companies are imposing their greed on the people of Mozambique
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-11
Three years ago, on October 5, 2017, fighters with the Al Sunnah wa Jama’ah (ASWJ) entered the town of Mocímboa da Praia in northern Mozambique. They attacked three police stations, and then withdrew. Since then, this group–which has since proclaimed its allegiance to the Islamic State–has continued its battle, including capturing the port of Mocímboa da Praia in August 2020. | Mozambique’s military has floundered. Under
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Not just an orchard, not merely a field, we demand the whole World
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-09-11
When news of the revolution in the Tsar’s empire filtered into British-dominated India in 1917-1918, the reception was universal: if they could overthrow the Tsar, then we can overthrow the British Raj.
mronline.org/2020/09/11/not-just-an-orch…
Washington Regime Ban on China’s TikTok App: A Dumb Move
Eric Sommer | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
The Washington regimes’ demand that the Chinese firm ByteDance sell the U.S. presence of its video sharing app TikTok to a U.S. tech company is not a smart move. This follows related demands that the Chinese mobile app WeChat cease …
globalresearch.ca/washington-regime-ban-…
Biden’s Transition Team Isn’t a “Team” and It’s Not Promising Much of a Transition
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
On September 5th, Joe Biden added four new members to his transition team, which was not really a team. It consisted only of Ted Kaufman, the 81-year old Democratic senator from Delaware. Considering Kaufman’s reputation as a deficit hawk and his advanced age, Biden had to cover his left flank and give the appearance of…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/bidens-trans…
Israeli prison authorities confiscate fans of Palestinian prisoners for protests
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-11
Israeli forces stormed the cells of the approximately 850 prisoners who were part of the protest against the death of Daud Al-Khatib. They confiscated fans and electrical devices…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/11/israeli-p…
Take Back The Night Like A Fresh Burning Star
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
I am, she said, though borne into demolition. –“Poem for Suheir Hammad” by Trish Salah One hundred years ago, women were risking everything to get the right to vote, including marching on Washington during the Spanish Flu epidemic, which saw millions of people drop like flies. American suffragists had been fighting since the turn of…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/take-back-th…
The War on You: How the Pentagon is Militarizing Social Control
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Neoliberalism benefits the few and makes life for the many increasingly impossible. Big data and blanket surveillance give state and corporate intelligence confidence that they can pre-empt and manage mass, social reactions to neoliberalism. This article is an excerpt from my new book, The War on You. TARGET: “EVERYONE” In 1997, the U.S. Space Command…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/the-war-on-y…
The rule of big oil causes misery in the Middle East
Conn Hallinan | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD), a mysterious plague spread out of the Nile Valley to Constantinople and finished off the Roman Empire. Appearing first in China and North India, the “Black Death” (Yersinia pestis) radiated throughout the Mediterranean and into Northern Europe. It may well have killed close to half …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-pandemic-an…
Washington Mystics’ Myisha Hines-Allen, Ariel Atkins lead efforts in WNBA’s bubble
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-09-11
The team arrived to the court in white shirts with seven gunshot wounds painted on their backs. It was a stark reminder that just days prior Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey fired the same number of shots into Jacob Blake’s back…
therealnews.com/columns/washington-mysti…
Peter Maybarduk on Covid Treatments, Kia Rahnama on the Right to Protest
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-09-11
Media…
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Nearly two decades after 9/11, military-industrial complex is stronger than ever
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
It has been almost 20 years since Al Qaeda terrorists flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and crashed another into a field in Pennsylvania after a passenger revolt. On that day, 2,977 people lost their lives, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of grieving family members, friends, co-workers, and neighbors. First …
peoplesworld.org/article/nearly-two-deca…
The human cost of school reopenings: Six teachers dead in the US in the past month
wsws.org | 2020-09-11
All of these deaths were absolutely unnecessary and are the direct result of criminal policies carried out by Democratic and Republican politicians at every level in the interest of protecting the profits of the financial oligarchy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/11/reop…
Trump Tries to Change the Subject From Covid to Violence
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
With over 185,000 covid corpses in the U.S., Trump needs to change the subject. What better way than promoting mayhem in American cities by routinely portraying Black Lives Matter protesters as violent, angry mobs intent on looting? Granted he gets a big assist on this from Fox News, which has screamed about black insurrection for…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/trump-tries-…
Over 10,500 Florida children test positive for COVID-19 after schools reopen
wsws.org | 2020-09-11
Cases of COVID-19 among school-aged children in Florida have increased by 34 percent since schools started to reopen on August 10.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/11/flor…
Overall and Core CPI Both Rise 0.4 Percent in August Driven by Reversals from Earlier Price Declines
Karen Conner | cepr.net | 2020-09-11
Rental inflation continues to slow in high-priced areas. The overall Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4 percent in August, bringing its increase over the last year to 1.3 percent. The core index also rose by 0.4 percent, bringing its increase over the last year to 1.7 percent. With both indexes, the increases were driven by …
cepr.net/prices-2020-09/
California wildfires growing bigger, moving more quickly than ever
Don Thompson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When it comes to California wildfires, it now takes days, not decades, to produce what had been seen as a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. Last weekend, a fire burning in California’s Sierra National Forest exploded in size, trapping hundreds of Labor Day holiday campers who could only be rescued by helicopters that made …
peoplesworld.org/article/california-wild…
Free college was once the norm all over America
Jamal Rich | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
WASHINGTON– When people involved in the fight to cancel student debt demand free college education they are not calling for a new, radical idea. Countless numbers of lawmakers, for example, got their educations at free colleges that they now say are out of reach to the nation’s students. One of the best examples was the …
peoplesworld.org/article/free-college-wa…
The theology of police authority: the impact of Romans 13
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-09-11
A deep dive into the inner workings of a church in Kenosha, WI that espouses the scripture of Romans 13 to imbue police authority with the power of the word of God. The department’s theology and misconduct is exposed by a former Kenosha police detective.
therealnews.com/stories/the-theology-of-…
ELECTION 2020: Everything you need to know to vote in your state
People’s World | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
Find all the information you need to know about voting in your state — deadlines, dates, and rules — at the links below. >>You have the right to vote. If anyone tries to stop you, call the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-687-8683 and check out this guide outlining your voting rights. >>If you think voting …
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From Hoovervilles to Trumpvilles: Homeless Crisis Deepens
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Nearly a century ago, when the Great Depression descended on New York in 1929, Gotham, like cities around the country, sprouted Hoovervilles, homeless encampments. In New York, a dozen or so were in Central Park and dubbed “Hoover Valley,” “Shanty Town,” “Squatters Village,” “Forgotten Men’s Gulch” and “Rockside Inn.” Other Manhattan encampments included “Hardlucksville,” the…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/from-hooverv…
Eyewitness testimony: Death of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl was police execution
wsws.org | 2020-09-11
Sought for the shooting of a fascist vigilante in Portland, Oregon, Reinoehl was walking to his car when four policemen opened fire on him without warning, riddling him with bullets.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/11/rein…
From 9/11 to the Great Reset. From Al Qaeda to Covid The Virus
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
This article was originally published on Asia Times. | 9/11 was the foundation stone of the new millennium — ever as much indecipherable as the Mysteries of Eleusis. A year ago, on Asia Times, once again I raised a number …
globalresearch.ca/911-great-reset/572355…
The South China Sea: What’s Really at Issue
Eric Zuesse | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-11
The South China Sea is basically China’s export waterway to Africa and to Europe (among other markets), but in order for China’s enemy (aspiring conqueror), America, to harm and weaken China maximally, and to use the United Nations assisting in that aggression, America and its allies have cast this vital trade-waterway as being instead basically …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/09/the-south-chi…
Why 9/11 Matters 19 Years Later. The Spinning of 9/11, “Political Trickery”
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
“The execution and spinning of 9/11 were instrumental in creating the repertoire of political trickery presently being adapted in the manufacturing and exploiting of the COVID-19 hysteria.” | — Anthony Hall, August 23, 2020 [1] | LISTEN TO THE SHOW | Click …
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The pandemic and oil
Conn Hallinan | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
During the reign of the Emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD), a mysterious plague spread out of the Nile Valley to Constantinople and finished off the Roman Empire. Appearing first in China and North India, the “Black Death” (Yersinia pestis) radiated throughout the Mediterranean and into Northern Europe. It may well have killed close to half …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-pandemic-an…
WHO warns against potential Ebola spread in DR Congo and beyond
news.un.org | 2020-09-11
Ebola is spreading in a western province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), raising fears that the disease could reach neighbouring Republic of Congo and even the capital, Kinshasa, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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It isn’t What It is … and It always Never was
Vern Loomis | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-11
President Trump and his staff of Pro-life Christians walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Every 24 hours, COVID-19 kills another thousand people.” “Not on my watch,” says the president, and everyone laughs. Get it; not on my watch? No wait, that’s not it. You see, they’re all Pro-life Christians; now do you get it? No, not …
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Spanish government demands schools reopen as COVID-19 deaths surge
wsws.org | 2020-09-11
The PSOE-Podemos government is deliberately implementing a reckless and criminal policy that will lead to an explosion of cases and many unnecessary deaths.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/11/spai…
Is German Society Becoming Fascist?
Thomas Klikauer — Norman Simms | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Without any doubt, Germany’s most successful right-wing extremist — some say neo-Nazi Neo-Nazi — party has been the AfD. The Alternative for Germany or AfD Alternative fàºr Deutschland received sufficient votes in 2017 to enter into Germany’s Federal Parl;ament, the Reichstag 12.6%. Before that, the AfD has already managed to gain seats in several regional…
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Parents, students, teachers hit Cuomo’s school cuts
Tina Nannarone | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
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Biden Next Time
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
I hesitate to attribute settled views or even consistent attitudes to Donald Trump; his mind, such as it is, isn’t up to it. Nevertheless, even as his manifest unfitness for the office he holds is, by now, beyond serious dispute, it is tempting to think that anybody who hates John McCain and thinks ill of…
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Justice for Marcus Smith!
calvin deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-09-11
Greensboro Two years after Greensboro, N.C., police officers killed Marcus Deon Smith, the Smith family, the Working-class Homeless Organizing Alliance, and their allies took to the streets of Greensboro to celebrate Marcus’s life and demand justice. “We will march until we get #JusticeforMarcusSmith and his family gets reparations; we will . . . | Continue reading Justice for Marcus Smith! at Workers.org…
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Political and Spiritual Cults: From Rapture to Complicity to Aftermath in the Shadow of 20th Century Yankeedom
Bruce Lerro | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-11
“The party is always right, even when it’s wrong” — Democratic Workers Party slogan ORIENTATION Everybody knows what cults are People who join cults are mentally unstable before they join and less educated than the general population. True or false? Cult members also define themselves as lonely. True or false? Most people who join cults …
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One in ten residents of Oregon forced to flee enormous wildfires
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-09-11
Oregon is reeling from devastation caused by over 30 wildfires that have collectively burned nearly one million acres of land in the state. As a result, 500,000 residents — over 10 percent of Oregon’s population — have been forced to flee for their lives as the fires approach their homes. While wildfires in general are …
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Eyewitness testimony: Death of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl was targeted assassination
wsws.org | 2020-09-11
Sought for the shooting of a fascist vigilante in Portland, Oregon, Reinoehl was walking to his car when four policemen opened fire on him without warning, riddling him with bullets.
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Fascism and the Quickening of History
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Over the last few months I have been revisiting research I did a long time ago on fascism. Pinochet’s Chile, Sukarno’s Indonesia, Montt’s Guatemala, Hitler’s Germany and beyond. I’ve spent time poring over the accounts of the survivors, the details of the crimes, the descriptions of the torture, of the camps, the ghettos, the dehumanization,…
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Did the end of green Sahara lead to the collapse of civilisations?
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-11
We discuss the possible relationship between the desertification of the Green Sahara and consequent climate shifts that may have led civilisations across Asia and Africa to collapse.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/11/did-the-e…
Elections and Foreign Meddling
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
There is a great brouhaha over foreign nations interfering in United States’ elections. Russia, we are told, not only interfered in the 2016 presidential election catastrophe, but is back at it again, trying to get their candidate re-elected. | How, one …
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Chile, September 11, 1973: The Horrors of ‘the First 9/11’ Are Routinely Overlooked
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
On September 11, 1973, Salvador Allende’s democratic government in Chile was ousted by US-backed forces in one of the Cold War’s defining moments. Allende himself was killed during the coup while his presidential palace, La Moneda, was extensively bombed.
globalresearch.ca/chile-september-11-197…
Trump’s Deadly Mistake
Richard C. Gross | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Donald Trump made the biggest mistake of his tumultuous presidential career in not telling the American people the coronavirus was far more dangerous than he had let on, keeping a secret that led surely to serious repercussions. He virtually ignored it, possibly being responsible for the loss of who knows how many American lives. His…
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A Daughter of Beirut Recovers the Memory of Her Father, Lost to Espionage at the Dawn of the Modern Oil Age
Michael Lebron | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Have you ever put down a Tom Clancy novel and wondered what the work of a real spy is like? Charlotte Dennett’s new book, “The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil” provides a riveting, personal glimpse of what this world was about at…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/11/a-daughter-o…
For European Chemical Giants, Brazil Is an Open Market for Toxic Pesticides Banned at Home
Pedro Grigori | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
Brazil is the world’s largest user of pesticides, including more than a dozen considered highly hazardous, thanks to permissive legislation that allows some of Europe’s biggest agrochemical companies to continue selling products that have been banned in their home market….
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Patriot Act Coauthor Michael Chertoff Touts More Election Security as Federal ID System Looms
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-11
Calls to overhaul the legacy bureaucratic systems of the U.S. with cutting-edge AI-driven mass tracking and surveillance technologies are intensifying at the top echelons of the National Security state with all eyes on the 2020 election.
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Banana Strings and the Military-Industrial Complex
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
How did we ever arrive at this unfamiliar destination with a strangely morphing reality–writhing and shifting at an ever-accelerating pace? 8 months ago, the notion that a pandemic could alter our social interactions to this extent was not really considered to be a possibility. Now it feels as if life was always this way. Added…
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Ofrendas florales en Chile en recordación a Salvador Allende
OFECERSA | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
SANTIAGO DE CHILE, 11 sep (Prensa Latina) El monumento a Salvador Allende, frente al palacio de La Moneda, se cubrió hoy de flores en homenaje al presidente mártir en el 47 aniversario del golpe de Estado contra el gobierno de la Unidad Popular. A pesar de las limitaciones en la participación a causa de las …
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ELECTION 2020: All the information you need about voting in your state
People’s World | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
Find all the information you need to know about voting in your state — deadlines, dates, and rules — at the links below. >>You have the right to vote. If anyone tries to stop you, call the Election Protection Hotline at 1-866-687-8683 and check out this guide outlining your voting rights. Alabama: Election deadlines, dates, and …
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U.S Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act Secretly Amended to Allow Pharmacists to Vaccinate Children Ages 3-18
Wayne Rohde | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
While our nation was busy spending a considerable amount of time discussing racial inequalities (as we should) or whether or not public schools and colleges were going to open or start online, or debating the upcoming national political conventions, our …
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Trump wants out — by losing the ‘rigged’ election, not by resignation, Senate conviction or frogmarched away
Robert S. Becker | nationofchange.org | 2020-09-11
Finding the least bad way to escape being cornered for another four years is exactly how a discredited but unrepentant con artist makes his last public scam.
nationofchange.org/2020/09/11/trump-want…
The NBA strike brings the counterinsurgency war on Black Liberation Movement to basketball
Danny Haiphong | mronline.org | 2020-09-11
When NBA players threatened to disrupt business as usual the ruling class deployed perhaps its most effective weapon of counterinsurgency: Barack Obama.
mronline.org/2020/09/11/the-nba-strike-b…
David Dayen: Trump Is the Sweaty Armpit of Monopoly Capitalism
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-09-11
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play Over the past several decades, the largest corporations have absorbed and destroyed all opposition–big and small–and slowly come to play a role in every aspect of Americans’ lives. That’s the central argument of journalist David Dayen’s latest book, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power. On this week’s installment of Scheer… | Source…
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Belarus: UN chief deeply concerned over use of force against peaceful protesters
news.un.org | 2020-09-11
Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday expressed deep concern over the continued use of force against peaceful protestors in Belarus and detention of those exercising their legitimate democratic rights.
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How a Senate Inquiry Revealed the Israeli Surveillance Industry’s Role in Orchestrating Russiagate
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-11
A Senate investigation reveals that a consortium of Israeli hacking and surveillance firms coordinated and facilitated meetings between Trump campaign operatives and Russia during the 2016 campaign, but they don’t really want to talk about it.
mintpressnews.com/senate-inquiry-israel-…
Why Are We Just Hearing Evidence Trump Knew Dangers of COVID Now?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-09-11
Trump said he didn’t want to cause ‘panic’ while he stokes false fears about Antifa coming to the suburbs and an election that’s rigged against him. Meanwhile author Bob Woodward has come under fire for holding onto the tapes for months despite Trump’s public denials over COVID and the growing deathtoll.
therealnews.com/columns/why-are-we-just-…
University of Illinois-Chicago nurses and support staff around state set to strike
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
CHICAGO — Short-staffing, lack of protective gear against the coronavirus, and other issues where bosses refused to budge, have forced 1,400 union nurses and 2,000 unionized support staffers to strike the University of Illinois-Chicago Hospital system in mid-September. The system’s 1,400 RNs, represented by the Illinois Nurses Association (INA), sent the legally required 10-day strike …
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California is burning because we have changed the climate
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-09-11
Climate change is making wildfires stronger while global warming makes heat waves more frequent, intense and longer-lasting. | As multiple wildfires rage across western states, including California, Oregon, and Washington, scientists warn that climate change is delaying the onset of winter rains in California, which will result in a prolonged wildfire season along the coast. | Making matters worse is the early start of the strong, extremely dry windy conditions known as the Santa Ana winds, along with back-to-back heatwaves, before California’s wildfire season arrives. | According to the California Department of…
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Why Many Police Are Barely Distinguishable From Racist Vigilantes
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Police in America, whose mottos claim to “protect and serve” us, have been openly declaring allegiance with the forces of white supremacy. It is no coincidence that this has become a hallmark of Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump defended Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old white suspect in the shooting deaths of two activists in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in…
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List of 9/11 Articles
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
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Patton and Westy Meet in a Bar: a Play of Many Parts in One Act
Andrew Bacevich | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
It’s only mid-afternoon and Army Lieutenant General Victor Constant has already had a bad day.1 Soon after he arrived at the office at 0700, the Chief2had called. “Come see me. We need to talk.” The call was not unexpected. Any day now, POTUS3 will announce the next four-star to command the war effort in Afghanistan…
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Times remain hard, especially for low-wage workers
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-09-11
The current economic crisis has hit workers hard. Unemployment rates remain high, with total weekly initial claims for unemployment insurance benefits continuing to grow.
mronline.org/2020/09/11/times-remain-har…
Americans Have Always Been “Suckers” for War
Jeff Klein | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
Trump’s reported comments about the dead soldiers of World War I as “suckers” and “losers” has caused a well-deserved uproar. We may never know whether Trump actually said those things, but the sentiments are certainly in line with the brute cruelty and lack of empathy that marks his long career in business and politics. However,…
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Housing is a right for all!
Editor | workers.org | 2020-09-11
Even before the COVID pandemic hit, the U.S. was in a deep housing crisis. Not a stock market property crisis. The crisis of hundreds of thousands of people living in grossly inadequate housing — or actually houseless, with no access at all to permanent shelter. In recent years, homelessness in . . . | Continue reading Housing is a right for all! at Workers.org…
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A Look at Two Crises: 9/11 and COVID-19
Mariah Clark | progressive.org | 2020-09-11
Why aren’t we doing a better job taking care of today’s frontline workers?
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Trump vs. the Marines: Semper Lactentum
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
We don’t really know (and probably never will) whether President Donald Trump really called America’s World War One dead “losers” and “suckers,” as Jeffrey Goldberg claims in a September 3 piece in The Atlantic. On one hand, the claim rings true. Trump has a history of publicly spitting in the faces of war veterans both…
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American Carnage From a Pandemic President
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-09-11
IoSonoUnaFotoCamera / CC BY-SA 2.0] The year was 1991 and the United States was suddenly the globe’s lone superpower, its ultimate hyperpower, the last and greatest of its kind, the soon-to-be- indispensable nation. The only one left — alone, utterly alone and triumphant atop the world. Who could have asked for more? Or better? It had been a Cold War fantasy of the first order — until that other… | Source…
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In Remembrance of Melissa Kira, 1993-2020
Taylor Goel | liberationnews.org | 2020-09-11
Melissa was the type of revolutionary many of us aspire to be and she will continue to live in our struggle.
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The War on Terror Presaged Covid Mania
James Bovard | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
This week is the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. America never recovered politically from those attacks, and government responses to the Covid pandemic are repeating many of the same follies …
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Lawyers’ Committee on Jason Goodman’s Crowdsource the Truth Streamed Live
David Meiswinkle | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
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State University of New York scapegoats students for COVID outbreaks, prepares repressive measures
wsws.org | 2020-09-11
Refusing to take any responsibility for this catastrophe, the SUNY system is on a crusade to punish groups of students for gathering and lay the ground for further police repression on campuses.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/11/suny…
Pilot who witnessed infamous declassified UFO says object committed ‘act of war’ during encounter
rt.com | 2020-09-11
One of the former fighter pilots who encountered a mysterious flying object off the coast of California in 2004 says the unidentified phenomena committed an “act of war” in the unexplained encounter. | Commander David Fravor witnessed the Tic Tac-shaped object perform extraordinary aerial maneuvers that no known human technology is capable of in November 2004. The former US Navy pilot said the UFO was unlike anything else he ever encountered. | Commander Fravor was dispatched to investigate the area after radar anomalies were detected. He was followed by other pilots who successfully recorded footage of the st…
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Netflix breaks silence on ‘Cuties’ after massive backlash over sexualization of children, defends movie as ‘powerful story’
rt.com | 2020-09-11
Netflix has addressed a wave of condemnation directed at its new release ‘Cuties,’ defending the film as a “powerful” social commentary while hitting back at irate critics who say the movie sexualizes young girls. | Released on the platform internationally earlier this week, the movie immediately stoked controversy, sending #CancelNetflix into the trends on Twitter as thousands denounced the film for wildly inappropriate depictions of children. After days of silence, Netflix attempted to speak to the criticism on Thursday, urging detractors to give the film a chance. | “Cuties is a social commentary against th…
rt.com/usa/500427-netflix-defends-cuties…
Search autocomplete rejigged by Google for political queries, as tech giants become the election meddlers they claim to fight
rt.com | 2020-09-11
Google is tightening its autocomplete feature on searches, vowing to remove predictions that support or oppose any political party, and any voting info — even if true. If anyone else did this, it would be called election meddling. | The tech behemoth is clamping down on election-related searches, announcing in a blog post on Thursday it will remove all autocomplete entries that “could be interpreted as claims for or against any candidate or political party.” Statements about “voting methods, requirements, or the status of voting locations” will also be axed — even if they’re 100 percent accurate.
rt.com/usa/500485-google-autocomplete-po…
Pelosi ridiculed from left and right after saying ‘angry Mother Earth’ caused California wildfires
rt.com | 2020-09-11
Top US Democrat Nancy Pelosi was bombarded with online mockery after saying that massive ongoing wildfires raging in California were the result of “Mother Earth” and her displeasure with humans. | The house speaker addressed the blazing wildfires that have engulfed her home state on Friday in an interview with MSNBC. “Mother Earth is angry,” Pelosi said. “She’s telling us … with hurricanes on the Gulf Coast, fires in the west, whatever it is … the climate crisis is real and has an impact.” | “Mother Earth is angry,” Speaker Pelosi says, discussing wildfires burning in California. “She’s telling us with hur…
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LA health director accused of ‘playing politics’ after saying schools won’t reopen ‘until after the election’ in leaked audio
rt.com | 2020-09-11
LA County’s public health chief has come under fire after saying that local schools would not reopen until after the 2020 presidential election, prompting criticism that officials are putting politics ahead of science. | The county’s health director, Barbara Ferrer, recently told local educators that schools would remain shuttered until the beginning of November, repeatedly referring to the upcoming election, according to leaked audio obtained by LA radio station KFI AM 60. | “We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving t…
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Judge rules voters can’t abolish Georgia county police dept over ex-cop’s slaying of black jogger Ahmaud Arbery
rt.com | 2020-09-11
Georgia citizens will not be able to vote on abolishing the Glynn County Police Department after a former officer and his son were charged with murder for killing black jogger Ahmaud Arbery, a Superior Court judge has ruled. | Only local officials have the authority to abolish the police department, the judge ruled on Friday, effectively squelching a bill passed last month that would have put the question before voters in November. The Glynn County Board of Commissioners had filed a lawsuit in August seeking to stop the proposed referendum, arguing that under the state’s constitution, only the commissioners ha…
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NYT columnist Paul Krugman ripped after claiming Americans reacted ‘calmly’ to 9/11 & didn’t blame Muslims
rt.com | 2020-09-11
Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman reckons post-9/11 America was a simpler time, when George W. Bush did his best to “calm prejudice” and nothing too bad happened to American Muslims. He was swiftly torn apart on Twitter. | The New York Times columnist commemorated the 19th anniversary of the most deadly attack on US soil in spectacular fashion. In a tweet on Friday morning, he claimed that “overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly,” that “there wasn’t a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence,” and that then-president Bush “tried to calm prejudice, not feed it.” | Overall, Americans too…
rt.com/usa/500505-paul-krugman-handled-9…
California sheriff’s deputy filmed burglarizing home following resident’s death (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-09-11
A sheriff’s deputy in Orange County, California has been caught on camera robbing a recently deceased pensioner’s home, just weeks after attending the scene in response to the emergency call reporting the man’s death. | Orange County Sheriff’s Department confirmed it is investigating 12-year force veteran Steve Hortz, who is accused of burglarizing the unoccupied home and helping himself to the dead man’s two safes, ceiling fans, a rifle case, and other miscellaneous items. | An attorney for the deceased contacted the sheriff’s department to report the missing items and shared the security camera footage.
rt.com/usa/500452-sheriffs-deputy-filmed…
#AllBuildingsMatter hashtag sends Twitter into meltdown on 9/11 anniversary
rt.com | 2020-09-11
Trending only behind 9/11-related commemorative hashtags, the offbeat #AllBuildingsMatter has stirred anger online, with people accusing those advancing it of mocking tragedy to prove a point about the All Lives Matter slogan. | The three words in question made it to the top of US Twitter trends earlier on Friday, conspicuously overlapping with the 19th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks in which nearly 3,000 perished. | The AllBuildingsMatter hashtag — an explicit evocation of the ongoing US debate — was used to ridicule flaws in the slogan ‘All Lives Matter’. Those trying to prove their poin…
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‘Reducing Troops Not The Same As Ending Wars’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-11
The U.S. military’s announcement Wednesday that thousands of troops will soon withdraw from Iraq was met with skepticism by peace activists, who were quick to note that a reduction in troop strength is not the same thing as ending the war. | U.S. Central Command (CETCOM) commander Gen. Frank McKenzie said Wednesday that the number of U.S. troops in Iraq will be reduced from 5,200 to 3,000 during the month of September, but critics said this should not be seen as President Donald Trump fulfilling his campaign promise in 2016 to end the nation’s wasteful overseas wars.
popularresistance.org/reducing-troops-no…
Why Does the Right-Wing Support Cross-Border Office Holders?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-09-11
Among the phrases that are guaranteed to trigger right-wing backlash are “global governance” and “world government.” However, when it comes to appointing foreign citizens to high government posts, conservative governments are at the forefront of such “global governance.” When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed former Australian Prime Minister (and fellow right-winger) Tony Abbott as an official adviser to the British Board of Trade, including a role in advising on the United Kingdom’s Brexit implementation, alarms were triggered in London and Canberra. | Questions were raised in Canberra about Abbott’…
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Biden Amplifies Anti-Sandanista Propaganda
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-11
A clever trick of propaganda is to introduce false information as a precept to an argument with what seems like a valid conclusion. Those who agree with the conclusion will likely accept the false precept without even questioning it. This tactic was used for a recent series of articles in the Washington Post aiming to discredit the government of Nicaragua led by the Sandinista Party.
popularresistance.org/biden-amplifies-an…
Poll: Financial Pain From Coronavirus Pandemic ‘Much, Much Worse’ Than Expected
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-11
In America’s four largest cities, at least half of people say they have experienced the loss of a job or a reduction in wages or work hours in their household since the start of the coronavirus outbreak. That’s the finding of a new poll published Wednesday by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. | Many of these problems are concentrated among Black and Latino households in the four cities, according to the poll, which gathered responses from July 1 through Aug 3.
popularresistance.org/poll-financial-pai…
US Cancels Over 1,000 Visas For Chinese Nationals
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-11
The United States has revoked visas for more than 1,000 Chinese nationals under a May 29 presidential proclamation to suspend entry from China of students and researchers deemed security risks, according to the US Department of State. | The acting head of the US Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, said earlier that Washington was blocking visas “for certain Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to China’s military fusion strategy, to prevent them from stealing and otherwise appropriating sensitive research.”
popularresistance.org/us-cancels-over-10…
The Heat is Definitely On
Evaggelos Vallianatos | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
Outside America’s air conditioned homes the world is burning and the billionaires of TV and newspaper media are filling the brains of hundreds of millions with gossip and thousands of advertising images.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-heat-is-defini…
Standing Up to Trump . . . and Biden
Robert Koehler | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
In a crazy sense, Trump’s unwillingness to concede or acknowledge defeat could wind up pushing real democracy forward, by forcing citizens to vote not just with their ballots but with their bodies and souls…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/standing-up-to-tru…
The U.S., China, and the New Cold Warriors
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
The U.S.-China confrontation is a game for the elites. The rest of us would be best served by sitting this one out…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-china-and-…
We Need a People’s Bailout as Inequality Worsens Amid COVID-19
Travis Schirmer | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
The time for an emergency refund is now — all money acquired through price-gouging and loopholes needs to be returned. The choice is between collapse and giving people what is rightfully theirs…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-need-a-peoples-…
Trump’s United States of Lies
Thomas Klikauer | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
What right-wing conspiracy theorists achieve when peddling conspiracy theories is that it decreases political engagement because people are left feeling powerless…
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The Sunrise Movement, a Growing Electoral Force, Faces “Painful Moment”
Eoin Higgins | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
Sunrise feels growing pains amid a slew of electoral victories, raging arctic wildfires, and a vanishing ice sheet…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-sunrise-moveme…
Rolling Up Our Sleeves to Beat Trump
Paul Krehbiel | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
We must work hard, including calling millions of voters in battleground states daily until November 3, to deliver a crushing electoral defeat to Trump and all the Trumpists — so massive that it will be impossible for Trump and his supporters to force their will on the American people…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/rolling-up-our-sle…
It’s OK to Mourn When “Back to School” Means Staying at Home
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
The experts and their statistical models are forecasting more than 410,000 COVID fatalities by the New Year…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/its-ok-to-mourn-wh…
Mutual Aid and Survival as Resistance in Puerto Rico
Isa Rodríguez Soto | zcomm.org | 2020-09-11
Faced with an onslaught of disasters and the injustices of colonialism, Puerto Rican communities have bet on their own survival. Their mutual aid efforts testify to both the power of grassroots organizing and the scale of state neglect…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/mutual-aid-and-sur…
19 Years Since 9/11 Inside Job
9 | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
This year, 19 years after the 9/11 Inside Job of 9/11/01, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth has taken the lead in pursuing the reversal of the NIST false decision that fires supposedly caused the collapse of the 110 Story Twin Towers and a 47 Story building, based on the massive evidence provided by commercial TV coverage on 9/11/01 where reporters described the demolition explosives they heard and witnessed. In addition, on September 10, 2020, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance presents the 16th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival Virtual Film Festival. See sf911truth.org/blog/ and nolie…
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New Orleans Sanitation Workers Strike, Union Busting, Convict Labor & Labor Solidarity
Pacifica | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
A panel was held on the strike of New Orleans striking sanitation workers who went out in May for PPE, health and safety and $15.00 an hour. Included on the panel were strikers and also supporters in Seattle and Tacoma who have been picketing the corporate owner of the contractor Metro which employed the workers. This company brought in convict labor to bust the strike.
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Sunday 9/13: Sharat G. Lin on the Rise and Fall of U.S.-China Relations
San Mateo Peace Action | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Zoom teleconference | Send e-mail to: smpa@sanmateopeaceaction.org | for Zoom link…
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Postponed: Memorial for People Killed by Police/Vigilantes since the George Floyd Uprising
Memorial Committee | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Due to unhealthy air quality, this memorial event is postponed until next Thursday.
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A Response to Pacifica in Exile article ‘Bad Bylaws Take 2’
Akio Tanaka | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
9-3-20 Pacifica in Exile (PIE) article ‘Bad Bylaws Take 2’ critiques the proposed New Day Pacifica (NDP) Bylaws. Following is a response to the article, giving the reasons why you should sign the petition for the new Bylaws.
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Monday 9/14: It’s Time to Defend Democracy: Voting Is Power Unleashed!
Poor People’s Campaign and partners | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Online via Livestream…
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Trump has no concrete strategy for restoring economic growth or for defeating CoViD19
R Nutting | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Trump is faking it on the economy, just as he’s faking it on the pandemic, just as he’s faked everything his whole life…
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Sunday 9/13: Race, Police, and Prisons: The American Gulag
Humanist Community in Silicon Valley | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Zoom teleconference ID: 314 247 393 | us04web.zoom.us/j/314247393 | Dial in: +1 669-900-6833 | Live streaming: www.echoplexmedia.com/humanist…
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Friday 9/11: Online Socialism Forum – Fight the war machine at home and abroad!
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Register: bit.ly/stop-the-wars…
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Trump’s time is running out!
Detlef Umbach | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
His record as president is modest. The economy is in crisis, unemployment is at record levels, and longer-term projects such as the reduction of large foreign trade deficits and the Great Wall at the border have not progressed beyond initial stages. Trump’s foreign and trade policy is so fickle and unclear that it is hard to find anything positive from it for the election campaign.
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How the US government and the media suppressed the truth about the COVID-19 pandemic
WSWS repost | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Recorded conversations between Donald Trump and reporter Bob Woodward make clear that the White House made a calculated decision to suppress information about the COVID-19 pandemic. Why are these recordings being released only now after almost 200,000 people in the United States have died?>…
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2020 Juneteenth National Holiday Convention
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
Globally, Juneteenth is poised help expand a year round expression of Freedom marked by a new official United States of America, Federal Holiday that could begin on Saturday, June 19, 2021, as we stand on the shoulders of many ancestors preparing for an amazing new beginning.
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Still 42% Support for Nazi Trump
Who Are the 42%? | indybay.org | 2020-09-11
42% support for Nazi Trump despite admissions on tape that he knew at the beginning of February 2020 that the virus was 5 times worse than the flu but said nothing.
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The Heat: China’s economic recovery
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-09-11
In yet another sign China is open for business, Beijing hosts its first international economic and trade event since the coronavirus pandemic.
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FM Zarif thanks St. Vincent FM for rejecting US illegal move
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-09-11
TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister expressed his thanks to Louis Hilton Straker Foreign Minister of Saint Vincent over rejecting illegal US provocations regarding the UN Security Council Resolution 2231.
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1st Friday prayers held in Gorgan in current year amid COVID
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-09-11
GORGAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) — The first Friday prayers, led by Ayatollah Seyyed Kazem Nour-Mofidi Representative of Leader in Golestan prov., was held in Gorgan Mosalla by fully observing of anti-coronavirus and social-distancing protocols.
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Pompeo should look in mirror: FM spox
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-09-11
TEHRAN, Sep. 12 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo should look in mirror, adding that hypocrisy is ugly but it’s never too late to change the track.
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Preserving territorial integrity, main mission of Iran’s Army
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-09-11
TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) — Deputy Coordinator of Iran’s Army Ground Forces said that safeguarding territorial integrity and preserving security of borders are the main mission of Army Ground Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Iran’s Army Air Defense intercepts one US plane, two drones
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-09-11
TEHRAN, Sep. 11 (MNA) — During the Zolfaghar-99 military exercise on Fri., one US plane and two drones, that had violated the law and entered Iranian Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ) illegally, were intercepted by homemade Karrar drone.
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Operation ceremony of 11 natl. projects on Kish Island
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-09-11
KISH, Sep. 12 (MNA) — A number of 11 national projects were become operational on Thu. in the presence of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani through vide conference.
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Studying coronavirus transmission in children could help cut COVID spread
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-09-11
Imperial researchers are set to begin a study exploring how the virus causing COVID-19 is transmitted by children.
imperial.ac.uk/news/203933/studying-coronavirus-transmission-children-could-help
PM facing open revolt from Tory backbenchers over new lockdown restrictions
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-09-11
Boris Johnson is facing open revolt from some Tory backbenchers over new lockdown restrictions, with one former minister declaring: It is time for us to actually start living like a free people, not subjecting ourselves to constantly shifting legal requirements.It comes as coronavirus rates continued to increase across parts of the UK with Leeds and Birmingham among areas at risk of further lockdown measures.Revolting: Ministers are allegedly divided over new social distancing rules in England that will limit social gatherings to groups of just six people both indoors and outside from Monday.The Daily Teleg…
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Crucial Testing for Child Lead Poisoning Has Plummeted During Pandemic
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-09-11
Families skipping or delaying pediatric appointments for their young children because of the pandemic are missing out on more than vaccines. Critical testing for lead poisoning has plummeted in many parts of the country. | In the Upper Midwest, Northeast and parts of the West Coast — areas with historically high rates of lead poisoning — the slide has been the most dramatic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In states such as Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota, test…
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The NYPD Repeatedly Promoted Cop Accused of Racist, Invasive Strip Searches
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-09-11
This story includes reporting and analysis done by THE CITY. | But his ascension started three decades earlier, when he was a rookie cop patrolling drug-infested Washington Heights. “He was always the first guy out of the car,” said Joseph Esposito, his precinct commander at the time. “Always the tip of the spear.” He would earn the nickname ” Red Rage” for his ginger hair, fiery temperam…
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Beyond White Supremacist Groups, We Must Eradicate Systemic White Supremacy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-09-11
Image Credit: E. Mackey | Since the police killing of George Floyd in May sparked a nationwide uprising against police brutality, armed white supremacists have taken to the streets of U.S. cities in response to Black Lives Matter protests. Organizing against systemic racism has been met with apparent attempts by the Trump administration to cover up white supremacist violence. We speak to legendary Black feminist scholar Barbara Smith, founder of the Combahee River Collective, about her proposal fo…
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Universities Should Learn Lessons of 9/11 and Transform in the Face of Pandemic
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-09-11
Nineteen years ago, I (Sepehr Vakil) was wrapping up my last summer before college visiting my dad in South Carolina. I was getting ready to enter the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a freshman to study engineering. I was the stereotype, the “American dream” realized, the successful culmination of an Iranian family’s journey to the United States. We had immigrated from Iran when I was a small child, in the midst of the deadly Iraq-Iran War. | The summer of 2001 was an excit…
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Trump Campaign Boots NYT Reporter After She Remarks on Lack of Masks at Rally
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-09-11
A New York Times reporter covering a rally for President Donald Trump in Freeland, Michigan, was kicked out of the event Thursday by the president’s campaign staff as she was detailing in real-time how individuals in the crowd were ignoring social distancing standards. | Kathy Gray, the Times reporter who attended the event, entered the crowd of Trump supporters to get a first…
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The NYPD Repeatedly Promoted Cop Accused of Racist, Invasive Strip Searches
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-09-11
This story includes reporting and analysis done by THE CITY. | Christopher McCormack is one of the New York Police Department’s highest-ranking officers. As an assistant chief, he helps oversee drug enforcement and organized crime investigations throughout the city. He was hand-picked for the promotion two years ago by his old friend James O’Neill, who was police commissioner. | But his ascension started three decades earlier, when he was a rookie cop pat…
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Trump Is Conveniently Ignoring the Climate-Fueled Fires Raging in the West
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-09-11
On Thursday morning, as deadly wildfires fueled by drought and climate change caused power outages and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes across three Western states, President Trump was tweeting about anything else. | New Mexico would not be “GREAT” unless President Trump is reelected, the president warned, and, he claimed, “America’s suburbs” will be “OVERRUN” with protesters and low-income housing projects. Trump attacked political rivals, including President Obam…
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US Wars Displaced at Least 37 Million People Since 9/11 Attacks
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-09-11
As the United States marks 19 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, a new report finds at least 37 million people in eight countries have been displaced since the start of the so-called global war on terrorism since 2001. The Costs of War Project at Brown University also found more than 800,000 people have been killed since U.S. forces began fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen, at a cost of $6.4 trillion to U.S. taxpayers. “The U.S. has played a…
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Germany to take in 150 refugee children from Greece
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and EU Commission’s Vice President Margaritis Schinas held an online news conference to discuss the latest situation in the Moria Camp.Seehofer said that France and Germany will take in most of the 400 unaccompanied children that were relocated to the city of Thessaloniki.Germany did not give an exact number as the negotiations are still continuing, Seehofer stated.Germany aims to bring the children to the country until the end of this year, he said.Finland, Luxembourg, Slovenia, the Netherlands, Croatia, Portugal, Switzerland and Belgium are among the countries that accept…
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Germany to take in 150 refugee children from Greece
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
Germany has agreed to take in over a hundred children from a Greek refugee camp which was destroyed in a blaze, the country’s interior minister said Friday.German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and EU Commission’s Vice President Margaritis Schinas held an online news conference to discuss the latest situation in the Moria Camp.Seehofer said that France and Germany will take in most of the 400 unaccompanied children that were relocated to the city of Thessaloniki.Germany did not give an exact number as the negotiations are still continuing, Seehofer stated.Germany aims to bring the children to the country until…
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Elections and the Problem of Politics
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-11
For most readers of political commentary, the human consequences of deindustrialization, the 1994 Crime Bill, the bailouts of Wall Street, etc., are abstractions. Deindustrialization left capable adults with the choice of taking low-wage, low-status service jobs or muddling through in the informal economy. The 1994 Crime Bill built out the infrastructure of policing and prisons…
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Turkey’s current account balance sees $1.8B gap in July
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
Turkey’s current account balance registered a deficit of $1.8 billion in July, the Turkish Central Bank said on Friday.The figure deteriorated from $1.9 billion surplus in July 2019 and down from $2.9 billion this June, the bank said. Bringing 12-month rolling deficit to $14.9 billion as of this July, current account deficit mainly stemmed from outflow in services.An Anadolu Agency survey on Thursday showed that economists had forecast a deficit of $1.9 billion.Projections of a group of 24 economists ranged from $800 million to $2.8 billion for the month.The survey also showed the end-2020 current account balance…
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China, India agree to disengage troops on contested border
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
China and India said they had agreed to de-escalate renewed tensions on their contested Himalayan border and take steps to restore “peace and tranquillity” following a high-level diplomatic meeting in Moscow.Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi and Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar met in Moscow on Thursday and reached a five-point consensus, including agreements the current border situation is not in their interests and that troops from both sides should quickly disengage and ease tensions, the two countries said in a joint statement.The consensus, struck on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation m…
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Trump says there will be no extension of TikTok deadline
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the deadline set for Chinese company ByteDance to sell its popular short-video app TikTok’s U.S. assets would not be extended.”It’ll either be closed up or they’ll sell it,” Trump told reporters before leaving for Michigan. “There will be no extension of the TikTok deadline.”TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.ByteDance has been looking to pick a buyer so it can finalize a deal by mid-September and comply with Trump’s order to divest TikTok’s assets.TikTok is best known for videos of people dancing, which go viral among teenagers. But U.S. officials…
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India, China agree to ‘quickly disengage, ease tensions’ at border
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
India and China agreed to quickly disengage their troops at the disputed border amid months-long ongoing faceoff, a joint statement said early Friday.Top diplomats of New Delhi and Beijing agreed at a meeting in the Russian capital Moscow on Thursday that the border troops of both sides “should continue their dialogue, quickly disengage, maintain proper distance and ease tensions,” said the statement released by the Indian Foreign Ministry.The Asian giants are witnessing a heightened faceoff along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), a de facto border near the Himalayan region of Ladakh in the disputed Jammu and Kas…
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US to cut Iraq troops to about 2,000 in ‘very short’ time, says Trump
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that U.S. troop numbers in Iraq would be down to about 2,000 in a very short period of time.At a White House news conference, Trump went further than a U.S. official speaking last month, who said the United States would go down to about 3,500 troops in Iraq in the next two to three months.”Iraq will be down to about 2,000 soldiers in a very short period of time,” Trump said.
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-to-cut-iraq-tr…
Somalia: Suicide attack outside mosque kills 3
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
At least three people, including a security guard and two civilians, were killed and seven others wounded in a suicide attack outside a mosque in southern Somalia on Friday, an official said.The deceased include Jubaland Chamber Of Commerce Chairman Shafi’i Rabi Kahin, according to Ahmed Mohamed Islam, Jubaland’s state president.”Today’s terrorist attack in Kismayo killed Jubaland chamber of commerce chairman Shafi’i Rabi Kahin. We extended our condolences to families and friends of those lost their lives in the attack,” Islam said in a statement.No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but Somali-b…
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Trump applauds major bank for resuming work from office
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
US President Donald Trump applauded Friday the decision of banking giant JPMorgan Chase to resume work from office for some senior employees.”Congratulations to JPMorgan Chase for ordering everyone BACK TO OFFICE on September 21st. Will always be better than working from home!” he tweeted.The US bank ordered earlier in the day senior sales and trading personnel to return to offices after months of working from home due to the novel coronavirus.Senior managers in sales and trading departments of the company, who are viewed as critical for training new employees, will be returning to work in the New York and London…
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Pakistan, Uzbekistan eye regional links, trade boost
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
Pakistan and Uzbekistan on Friday held discussions on establishing a trade corridor and providing Central Asian countries access to Pakistani seaports.Special terminals for Central Asian goods and a dedicated shipping fleet to handle exports from these countries were among the proposals discussed in a meeting between Sardor Umurzakov, Uzbekistan’s deputy prime minister for investment and foreign trade, and Ali Haider Zaidi, minister for Pakistan’s maritime affairs.Pakistan’s ports are the “cheapest route” for Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries to send exports to Gulf countries, Southeast Asia, Europe, a…
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Earthquake of magnitude 6.5 strikes northern Chile
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck near the coast of Northern Chile, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said.The quake was at a depth of 44 km, it added.
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Israel, Bahrain fully normalize diplomatic relations
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
The latest agreement was finalized during a telephone call between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahrain King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, according to a joint US-Bahrain-Israel statement published on Twitter by US President Donald Trump.The statement hailed the agreement as a “historic breakthrough” that it said would further peace in the region.”Opening direct dialogue and ties between these two dynamic societies and advanced economies will continue the positive transformation of the Middle East and increase stability, security and prosperity in the region,” it said.Addressing reporters in the Oval…
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US West wildfires kill 16; in Oregon 500,000 flee
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
Around half a million people in Oregon evacuated as dozens of extreme, wind-driven wildfires scorched U.S. West Coast states on Friday, destroying hundreds of homes and killing at least 16 people, state and local authorities said.Since Monday 11 people have died from fires in California, while four were killed in Oregon and a 1-year-old boy died in Washington state, police reported.In Oregon alone the number of people under evacuation orders climbed to some 500,000 – about an eighth of the state’s total population – as Portland suburbs came under threat from the state’s biggest blaze, the state Office of Emergenc…
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Lebanese firefighters douse remains of Beirut port fire
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
Lebanese firefighters and army helicopters on Friday put out the remains of a huge fire at Beirut’s port that had flared up a day earlier, barely a month after a massive blast devastated the port and the surrounding area.Thursday’s fire, which officials said was sparked by welding during repair work after last month’s port explosion, covered several districts of Beirut in a huge cloud of black, acrid smoke, causing panic in a city still on edge after the blast.The Aug. 4 port blast exacerbated challenges in a nation that is grappling with a deep economic crisis and facing the biggest threat to its stability since…
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Woodward book: Trump’s virus, Saudi leader revelations
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
President Donald Trump intentionally played down the novel coronavirus and called it “deadly stuff,” according to audio recordings from some of Bob Woodward’s interviews with the president for his forthcoming book Rage.Trump said in early February that he knew coronavirus was dangerous, highly contagious, airborne, “deadly” and maybe five times “more deadly” than the flu, according to recordings obtained by CNN.”This is more deadly. This is five per- you know, this is five percent versus one percent and less than one percent. You know? So, this is deadly stuff,” Trump said in the audio, which is recorded 19 days…
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Sterling bobs above $1.28 after worst week since March
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-11
The pound rose against the dollar on Friday, bobbing above the $1.28 mark after a week in which new Brexit friction between Britain and the European Union put the currency on track for its worst week since March’s coronavirus-led market selloff.1-month implied volatility on the pound, an options market gauge of expected future price swings in the currency, remained elevated near 5-month highs at 11.5%.Brexit has returned to dog the pound this week as Britain introduced new draft legislation that it acknowledged would be inconsistent with international law, angering the EU.Investors fear this may derail trade talk…
yenisafak.com/en/economy/sterling-bobs-a…
Alexei Navalny’s Case Matters to the Kremlin
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
The global call for an objective investigation that will inevitably establish facts into the alleged “poisoning” of opposition leader and a Russian citizen, Alexei Navalny, in August has started yielding results. President Vladimir Putin has decided, as the first …
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Climate Emergency: Records Tumble as 2 Million Acres of California Burn
Andy Rowell | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
The signs are ominous as yet another climate record is broken. California is once again burning. From near the southern Mexico border, to San Diego and the forests of the Sierra Nevada, over two million acres of the Golden state …
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NSW Coalition staves off koala crisis
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-09-11
Environment Jim McIlroyIssue 1280 Australia koala protection NSW National Party Greenpeace Australia Pacific
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Solidarity with frontline workers
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-09-11
When Philadelphia city officials banned all large parades due to COVID-19, AFL-CIO officials cancelled their annual Labor Day parade, opting for a virtual event and telling workers to “stay home and watch it on TV.” Rank-and-file workers, however, made other plans. As a result, Labor Day 2020 will go down . . . | Continue reading Solidarity with frontline workers at Workers.org…
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EU Could Sue UK over Neglect of Brexit Withdrawal Agreement
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
It’s being widely reported that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to circumvent certain parts of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with the EU last year. The internal market bill, published on Wednesday, effectively negates the legal force of parts …
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From 9/11 Terrorists to 2020 Viruses: Dystopian Progress
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
For anyone old enough to have been alive and aware of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and of so-called COVID-19 in 2020, memory may serve to remind one of an eerie parallel between the two operations. However, if memory …
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Bob Woodward: Trump Saved Saudi Crown Prince after Khashoggi Murder
Nauman Sadiq | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-11
Besides the admission that Trump knew coronavirus was deadly yet he deliberately downplayed the outbreak, Bob Woodward has made several other startling revelations in his book Rage set to be released on September 15. President Donald Trump boasted that he protected Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman from congressional scrutiny after the brutal assassination …
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“Serbia and Kosovo” Go to Washington: Aleksandar Vuƒçiƒá Meets Up With “The Donald”
Stephen Karganovic | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
Unfortunately, this time around Serbia was not lucky to have a guileless but unquestionably upright public servant like James Stewart ( playing the role of the endearing Mr. Smith) to represent it in Washington. (image left). | Referring to the …
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McConnell writes off the almost 1.7M more jobless workers forced to seek benefits
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-09-11
WASHINGTON–Labor Day, September 7, was an unhappy holiday for almost 1.7 million more workers, who were forced to file for federal or state jobless benefits the week before. The data, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, show 857,148 people filed initial claims for state-paid jobless benefits in the week ending September 5. That was 20,140 …
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The 19th Anniversary of the Deep State Attack On America
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-11
Most anniversaries of September 11, 2001, I have written an article presenting yet again the enormous evidence that the official story of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are so obviously false as to be unbelievable. Yet Americans believed the transparent lie. | The military/security complex was desperate for enemies. In 2001 Russia was under the US thumb. China’s rise was predicted to be 50 years away. Where were the enemies to keep the military/security budget and power growing? | The neoconservitives who dominated the Cheney/Bush government identified the Arab Middle East as the enemy and…
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Selected Articles: 19 Years After 9/11
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-11
If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transparency in your news coverage, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. Your …
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Moria refugee camp has burned to the ground. Never forget the UK’s role in creating this tragedy
Eliza Egret | thecanary.co | 2020-09-11
On 9 September, Europe’s largest refugee camp burned to the ground after a second fire engulfed the area. Moria, which has been described as the ‘worst refugee camp on Earth’, housed around 13,000 people on the Greek island of Lesbos. It had a capacity of less than 3,000. People were forced to flee the flames,…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/09/11/moria-re…
Trump’s Tromperie Plumbs New Depths
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-09-11
Trump’s Tromperie Plumbs New Depths…
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Tom Seaver’s Major League Protest
Kelly Candaele, Peter Dreier | thenation.com | 2020-09-11
Tom Seaver’s Major League Protest…
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We Can’t Dismiss Young Voters. Here’s Why
Sherri Williams | thenation.com | 2020-09-11
Young voters are often perceived as ambivalent. But history shows us that young people led the nation’s most significant movements, including the fight for voting rights.
thenation.com/article/politics/vision-20…
The ‘Disposable Populations’ of Sports
Dave Zirin, Jules Boykoff | thenation.com | 2020-09-11
The ‘Disposable Populations’ of Sports…
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Freakish, Horrifying, and Sometimes Wondrous Alternative Histories
Stuart Klawans | thenation.com | 2020-09-11
Freakish, Horrifying, and Sometimes Wondrous Alternative Histories…
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The War on Your Mind: A Brief History of the U.S. Surveillance-Intelligence Complex
T.J. Coles | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-10
The recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit vindicated the contractor-turned-whistleblower, Edward Snowden, by ruling that the National Security Agency’s blanket data collection was unlawful and likely unconstitutional. After Snowden alerted the world, the Obama administration claimed that the dragnet was necessary to catch terrorists, specifically Issa Doreh, Basaaly Saeed Moalin, Ahmed Nasir …
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‘Nothing nefarious at all’: Backlash as ex-NSA chief, involved in mass surveillance revealed by Snowden, joins Amazon board
rt.com | 2020-09-10
General Keith Alexander, ex-director of the National Security Agency, who oversaw illegal mass spying on Americans, has been appointed to Amazon’s board of directors, drawing the ire of privacy advocates, including Edward Snowden. | Amazon announced that Alexander, who served as NSA director from 2005 up to his retirement in March 2014, will join the company’s board on Wednesday. | “We’re thrilled to elect a new member to our Board of Directors this month. Welcome, General Keith Alexander!” the tech giant said in a statement on Twitter. | However, some, including the ex-CIA contractor Edward Snowden, were less…
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As COVID spreads: Epidemic of evictions goes viral
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-09-10
Houston — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a federal eviction moratorium on Sept. 1 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Coming several months into the pandemic, it may help keep many in their homes — but only until Dec. 31. This is very much a case . . . | Continue reading As COVID spreads: Epidemic of evictions goes viral at Workers.org…
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PDF of September 10 issue
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-09-10
Download the 12-page PDF. Anti-racists defy police, fascist terror Fight the right with united worker action! editorial ALSO: Kevin Zeese, °presente! Capitalist ‘gifts’: evictions and hunger. Battling racism on many fronts Pensacola and Greensboro; Sports focus on Black lives; Tribute to Chadwick Boseman. Labor’s militant rank and file Save the . . . | Continue reading PDF of September 10 issue at Workers.org…
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Your Man in the Public Gallery — Assange Hearing Day 8
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-10
The great question after yesterday’s hearing was whether prosecution counsel James Lewis QC would continue to charge at defence witnesses like a deranged berserker (spoiler — he would), and more importantly, why? | QC’s representing governments usually seek to radiate calm …
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