Will America Turn Their Back on Armenians Again?
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
They say, ‘Timing is everything’. US President Trump fell ill with COVID-19 simultaneously as Armenian Prime Minister, Nicol Pashinyan, was waiting for a phone reply to his previous request for urgent help from the White House. | On Oct. 1 …
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The West’s Nagorno-Karabakh Hypocrisy Is Driven by Delusion
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-07
David Stanley / CC BY 2.0] By Maj. Danny Sjursen / Antiwar Something stands out in recent U.S. and most Western reporting on the ongoing bloodletting in Nagorno-Karabakh (NK). Well, two things actually: ignorance and hypocrisy. Having shuttered most of their foreign bureaus long ago, there’s a distinct lack of expertise in the mainstream press on this — and many other — regional hot spots. | Source…
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The Virus and Voting Will Not Suffice to Fell This Beast
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
No Sympathy for the Devil Many online liberals and lefties celebrated news that the pandemo-fascist Donald Trump contracted his own virus. I’ve held back. It’s not that I find wishing bad things for the president morally offensive. I think doing so is politically problematic, but I don’t see it as morally incorrect. Not at all.
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The Ultimate Egoist
Marshall Sahlins | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
Just the other day, when he finally got Covid -19, President Trump declared that now he really understood the disease. Now, nine months since epidemiological experts first began to explain its extreme danger and contagion, during which he had endless warnings from the WHO and CDC, when he participated in daily briefings on the course…
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The Man Who Would Be President: Mike Pence, Corporate Theocrat
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
If President Trump dies from the coronavirus that has killed more than 200,000 Americans largely due to his deliberate negligence, the man replacing him will be no less dangerous. While Mike Pence has eluded tough media scrutiny — in part because he exhibits such a low-key style in contrast to Trump — the pair has…
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OPCW Rubber-Stamps Novichok Poisoning of Navalny Hoax
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
Operating as an imperial tool, the chemical watchdog OPCW transformed itself into a pro-Western lapdog. | Abandoning its mandate for higher priorities, the organization no longer can be taken seriously. | Replacing the OPCW with an independent chemical watchdog — free from …
globalresearch.ca/opcw-rubber-stamps-nov…

Trump Halts Talks on New Economic Stimulus
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
At a time of dire economic conditions — worse than during the Great Depression with real unemployment at 26.9% and likely to rise ahead — Republicans and Dems remain at odds over federal aid to jobless Americans, small businesses, states, …
globalresearch.ca/trump-halts-talks-new-…

OPCW Syria whistleblower and ex-OPCW chief attacked by US, UK, France at UN
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-07
At the UN Security Council, the US, UK and France were confronted with testimony from OPCW whistleblower Ian Henderson and ex-OPCW chief Jose Bustani that challenged the rationale for their bombing of Syria in April 2018. They responded by attacking and silencing the witnesses. Aaron Maté recaps the extraordinary events. Ian Henderson, a veteran OPCW inspector who challenged a cover-up of his organization’s investigation of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria, recently testified before the United Nations Security Council. …
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Video: Ex-OPCW Chief Jose Bustani Reads Syria Testimony that US, UK Blocked at UN
Aaron Mate | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
At the UN Security Council, the US, UK, France and allies have blocked the testimony of Jose Bustani, the OPCW’s first Director General, on the chemical watchdog’s Syria cover-up scandal. The Grayzone has obtained Bustani’s prepared statement and is publishing …
globalresearch.ca/ex-opcw-chief-jose-bus…

Following US Pressure, Aid to Yemen Falls to Just 25 Cents Per Day
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-07
Secretary of State Pompeo successfully pressured the UN to significantly cut back aid to one of the world’s poorest countries, claiming it could fall into rebel hands.
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Flint-Linked Veolia Merger Brings Water Privatization Closer to “Global Reality”
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-07
“This lack of competition will lead to unaffordable costs for families, slack maintenance and safety procedures, loss of union jobs, and potentially rampant corruption.” – Food and Water Watch…
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The Kyrgyz Compromise: Submitting to the Color Revolution or Pragmatic Move for Peace?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
The Kyrgyz government’s decision to annul the results of the latest elections which were exploited as the “trigger event” for the preplanned Color Revolution against it might be interpreted by some as submitting to that regime change operation even though …
globalresearch.ca/kyrgyz-compromise-subm…

“None Of It Reported”: How Corporate Media Buried The Assange Trial
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-07
One of the most imposing features of state-corporate propaganda is its incessant, repetitive nature. Over and over again, the ‘mainstream’ media have to convince the public that ‘our’ government prioritises the health, welfare and livelihoods of the general population, rather than the private interests of an elite stratum of society that owns and runs all …
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COVID-19 Coronavirus: The Crisis. “You Simulate and Then You Go Live”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
On January 30th 2020, the WHO Director General declared a Public Health Emergency (PHEIC) in relation to China’s novel coronavirus. This far-reaching decision was taken without the support of expert opinion. There were 150 confirmed cases outside China, when the decision was taken. 6 in the US, 3 in Canada, 2 in the UK, etc.
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-coronavirus-c…

Cardi B branded ‘terrorism supporter’ & forced to apologize after unwittingly getting entangled in Nagorno-Karabakh politics
rt.com | 2020-10-07
Rapper Cardi B was flooded with online attacks and forced to apologize after promoting an Armenian fundraiser amid the country’s escalating conflict with the neighboring Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh territory. | The US singer, whose latest single ‘WAP’ topped UK charts in September, provoked backlash after she shared a poster for a fundraising campaign for Armenian victims of the ongoing military conflict on her Instagram on Tuesday. The deluge of reactions apparently forced the star to delete her post and…
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On the Assange Extradition and Growing Fascism
Daniel Ellsberg | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
If Assange is found guilty of the charges the U.S. government has laid against him, it means that whistleblowing and the publishing of whistleblowers revelations is dead…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-the-assange-ext…

A Global Green New Deal Project
CJ Polychroniou | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
Why a Global Green New Deal Project is the only way to address climate change…
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Mary Trump: My Uncle Is Responsible for 210,000 Deaths and Is Now “Willfully Getting People Sick”
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-07
As President Trump compares the deadly COVID-19 outbreak to the flu despite being hospitalized for the virus, we speak to his only niece, Mary Trump, about his increasingly erratic behavior in the final weeks of the election season and how his family views illness as a weakness. “To be treated for something is to admit that you need the treatment, and I don’t see him having any self-awareness,” she says. “Clearly the people closest to him don’t care about his well-being. If they did, he’d still be at Walter Reed.” She also warns that the “worst-case scenario” would be for President Trump to overcome his illness r…
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Greensboro Massacre: City Apologizes 41 Years After Cops Allowed Klan, Nazis to Kill 5 Antiracists
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-07
Nearly 41 years after Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis shot dead five antiracist activists in the town of Greensboro, North Carolina, the City Council there has passed a resolution apologizing for the attack and the police department’s complicity in the killings. We speak with two survivors of the 1979 attack, Reverend Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson, who say the city’s apology acknowledges “the police knew and chose to do nothing. In fact, they facilitated what we name now as a North American death squad.”
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Putin calls for immediate ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Russian President Velademir Putin on Wednesday called for an immediate ceasefire as fighting raged between Armenian and Azerbaijani Republic forces over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Parl. consultation peaceful way to resolve Karabakh conflict
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — The Chairman of the Executive Council of the World IPU in Iran’s Parliament, in his letter to the IPU President, named Parliamentary consultations as a proper way for a peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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Nagorno-Karabakh conflict cannot be resolved through war
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — President’s Chief of Staff said the principle in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict must be based on negotiation and mutual understanding, the territorial integrity of both states must be respected and the occupation must end.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164451/Nagorno-Kara…

2020 Vice Presidential Debate Recap
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-07
Trump’s battle with COVID-19 has raised the stakes for the VP debate between Kamala Harris and Mike Pence.
therealnews.com/2020-vice-presidential-d…

Pence takes on Harris in high stakes vice presidential debate
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-07
With Trump infected with COVID, Wednesday’s sole presidential debate could be the most important of all time. Real News will recap it live at 11PM Est on 10/7.
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Pence takes on Harris in high stakes vice presidential debate
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-07
With Trump infected with COVID-19, Wednesday’s sole vice presidential debate could be the most important of all time. Real News will recap it live at 11PM EST on 10/7.
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Pence takes on Harris in high stakes vice presidential debate
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-07
With Trump infected with COVID, Wednesday’s sole presidential debate could be the most important of all time. Real News will recap it live at 11PM Est on 10/7.
therealnews.com/pence-takes-on-harris-vi…

UK Court Decision on Venezuela Gold Deals, Blow to Regime Change Efforts. One Billion Dollars of Country’s Gold to be Released
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
A UK court ruled that the administration of Boris Johnson’s position that Juan Guaidó is the legitimate ruler of Venezuela is far from equivocal, paving the way for over $1 billion of the country’s gold to be released. | *** | A…
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George Monbiot’s Excuses for Not Speaking out Loudly in Defence of Assange Simply Won’t Wash
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-07
Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, the Guardian’s supposedly fearless, left-wing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over the past month, as the Wikileaks founder has endured extradition hearings in a London courtroom. The …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/george-monbio…

George Monbiot’s Excuses for Not Speaking Out Loudly in Defence of Assange Simply Won’t Wash
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, the Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over …
globalresearch.ca/george-monbiot-excuses…

How to Cope With Daily Life During a Pandemic
Frida Berrigan | thenation.com | 2020-10-07
How to Cope With Daily Life During a Pandemic…
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Protesters Block Highway Near Border Wall Construction
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-07
Tucson – Activists and allies of two O’odham groups protesting the construction of a border wall along ancestral tribal lands in southern Arizona temporarily blocked the highway leading to construction sites in the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. | Members of the two groups, the O’odham Anti Border Collective and Defend O’odham Jewed, and non-Indigenous allies set up early Monday morning what they described as a “soft blockade” of State Route 85, using caution tape and canopy tents to stop traffic, some of which also was headed to the Lukeville border crossing with Mexico.
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Drop All Charges Against Activists And Protestors
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-07
I add my voice to the millions here in our country and throughout the world who call for an end to fascist-driven police violence and repression in Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities. | Whether we call for community control, defunding, or ultimate abolition of the police, we are united in our demand for an immediate end to the state-sanctioned racist violence that routinely claims the lives of so many of our people. | Although many of us have protested, demonstrated, and organized over the decades to end racism and all its inequalities, injustices and collective pain, we have never experienced anything like…
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Trump Scuttles A Fiscal Stimulus Deal–Again
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
Trump has already begun moving his political chess pieces to challenge the election and refuse to leave office…
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Trump Scuttles a Fiscal Stimulus Deal…Again!
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
This past Tuesday, October 6, Trump pulled the plug once again–a second time–on negotiations on a fiscal stimulus between House speaker, Pelosi, and his Treasury Secretary, Steve Mnuchin. This past week Pelosi and Mnuchin had reportedly been quietly negotiating toward a compromise fiscal stimulus package and were making progress while Trump was in the hospital…
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Trump Scuttles a Fiscal Stimulus–Again!
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
This past week Pelosi and Mnuchin had reportedly been quietly negotiating toward …
globalresearch.ca/trump-scuttles-fiscal-…

Trump’s turn from immigration to the enemy within
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-07
Trump’s shift from demonizing immigrants to targeting leftists is straight out of the fascist playbook.
mronline.org/2020/10/07/trumps-turn-from…

Neo-McCarthy Policies: US Bans Communist Immigrants from Ever Becoming US Citizens
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
New guidance on immigration laws released Friday by the United States Citizens and Immigration Services (USCIS) makes it almost impossible for members of a Communist or similar party to be granted permanent residence or U.S. citizenship. | *** | In a policy …
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Gates, Kissinger and Our Dystopian Future. The Political Side of Covid
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” George Orwell | Can we agree that there are two types of Covid-19? | The first type, is Covid-19 ,”The Virus”, which is a fairly …
globalresearch.ca/gates-kissinger-dystop…

Noam Chomsky: Internationalism or Extinction
Noam Chomsky | mronline.org | 2020-10-07
PI Council Member Noam Chomsky’s keynote speech at the Progressive International’s inaugural summit.
mronline.org/2020/10/07/noam-chomsky-int…

NATO Increased Warship Presence in Black Sea by 33% Compared to 2019
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
By strengthening the presence of warships from non-Black Sea NATO members in the Black Sea, the military bloc is attempting to demonstrate its dominance in the region and the Alliance’s desire to neutralize and pressurize Russia’s influence in the area. …
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Netanyahu’s Dirty Laundry Tells All
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
Staff in Washington D.C.’s Blair House, where the U.S. president houses his V.I.P. foreign guests, report that they have begun counting towels and robes after visitors depart. Soap and shampoo resupply is also being closely monitored and a metal detector …
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Eco-socialism and/or De-growth
Michael Là∂wy | mronline.org | 2020-10-07
Ecosocialism and the de-growth movement are among the most important currents of the ecological left. Ecosocialists agree that a significant measure of de-growth in production and consumption is necessary in order to avoid ecological collapse.
mronline.org/2020/10/07/eco-socialism-an…

Wednesday 12/16: Online Study Group: The State and Revolution
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Zoom (Registration links in description)…
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Socialist councillor says care work must not be privatised
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-07
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Transracial Adoption Concerns are Warranted and Beyond Amy Coney Barrett
Mirah Riben | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-07
SCOTUS Nominee, Amy Coney Barrett and Family In recent days there have been accusations of a political “witch hunt” attacking Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett with “repulsive” comments about her adoptions from Haiti. These claims are a red herring intended to dismiss the very real and warranted apprehensions about transnational and transracial adoptions that have …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/transracial-a…

UK’s pro-hunting group drops its members right in the sh*t after ‘savage’ video emerges
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-10-07
The UK’s pro-hunting group rushed to defend its members after a ‘savage’ video of a deer hunt emerged. Unfortunately for hunters, the Countryside Alliance’s defence of the horrifying scene that unfolded in the video has only dropped its members further in the shit. | “Blatant cruelty”: | As the Times reported, the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS) captured the incident on 1 October. The video shows hunters from the Devon and Somerset Staghounds (DSSH) pursuing…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/10/07/uks-pro…

UN Human Rights Council Passes Dual Venezuela Resolutions
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-10-07
One resolution extends UN cooperation and has Caracas’ consent, while the other extends a controversial Washington-backed mission.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15017

Why America’s economic war on China is failing
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-10-07
U.S. President Donald Trump–supported by most of the U.S. establishment–deepened the U.S. government’s assault on the Chinese economy.
mronline.org/2020/10/07/why-americas-eco…

A Closer Look at the First and Second round Grant Recipients
splcenter.org | 2020-10-07
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Lenin150 (Samizdat): A Lenin birthday book
Paul Le Blanc | mronline.org | 2020-10-07
2020 is the birthday year of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, whom most of us know as Lenin. If still alive, he would be 150 years old.
mronline.org/2020/10/07/lenin150-samizda…

Why a DC Public Relations Firm Pretended to Be Bolivian on Facebook
Brett Heinz | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
The Americas Blog featured a post last week about the growing wave of election interference and misinformation campaigns sweeping Latin America, especially as a tool of right-wing governments and political movements. As these digital operations have grown in popularity, so has the market for firms to organize them. In particular, new details about the recent…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/07/why-a-dc-pub…

Confronting a Tyrant: Lessons From Chile
Ariel Dorfman | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
Can you recognize this country? In a momentous election, a narcissistic president–who has never won the popular vote–unleashes the full force of his executive powers in order to avoid defeat. At frenzied rallies, he accuses his democratic opponents of being puppets of dark foreign interests, captives of radical revolutionaries bent on spreading chaos and violence,…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/07/confronting-…

COVID19 PCR Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless
Torsten Engelbrecht | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
First published on June 29, 2020 | Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify “positive” patients, whereby “positive” is usually equated with …
globalresearch.ca/covid19-pcr-tests-scie…

Nazis dealt major blow in Greece
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-07
Concluding a five year-long trial, a Greek court ruled today that the fascist outfit Golden Dawn was operating as a criminal organization and its leaders were therefore guilty of functioning as organized crime bosses. This could be a fatal blow to what was until recently perhaps the most institutionally powerful openly Nazi organization in the …
liberationnews.org/nazis-dealt-major-blo…

History Teachers and “Patriotic Education”
Paul Bentley | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
We might wonder what would happen if a teacher took a knee during the daily playing of the national anthem in schools? Colin Kaepernick could afford the repercussions of his action, but the high school history teacher can only take so many reprimands before she loses her job. How is she to defend against this assault on her professional integrity and livelihood?
counterpunch.org/2020/10/07/history-teac…

What does South Africa’s general strike mean for ANC-COSATU alliance?
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-07
COSATU, which has called for a national strike on October 7, is a traditional ally of the ruling African National Congress. The strike raises questions about the future of this alliance…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/07/what-does…

Hypoxia Experiment: Do Face Masks lower our Blood Oxygen Levels?
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
Do face masks lower our blood oxygen levels? I decided to put it to the test. | But first, let me state my bias: I disagree with face mask mandates. I’ve reviewed randomized controlled trials and find no evidence that masks …
globalresearch.ca/hypoxia-experiment-run…

On Jamil Al-Amin’s birthday, Atlanta calls for his release
Dianne Mathiowetz | workers.org | 2020-10-07
Atlanta Oct. 4 — Supporters of a new trial for Imam Jamil Al-Amin (the former H. Rap Brown) gathered in the West End Park today to mark his 77th birthday and to declare this will be the last birthday he spends unjustly held behind prison bars. Through the initiative of . . . | Continue reading On Jamil Al-Amin’s birthday, Atlanta calls for his release at Workers.org…
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Further Betrayal of Palestinians
The Muslim News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
The old idiom says, “possession is nine-tenths of the law”, but in the case of the dispossessed Palestinians, occupation represents one hundred per cent of the law after their land was usurped due to Israel’s creation some 82 years ago. …
globalresearch.ca/further-betrayal-pales…

Greek court declares fascist Golden Dawn party a criminal organization
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-07
A Greek court convicted the leadership of Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party of running a criminal organization. Its members were also convicted for their role in the murder of Greek musician Pavlos Fyssas and other hate crimes…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/07/greek-cou…

Egyptian journalist Basma Mostafa released on bail after international uproar
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-07
Mostafa was on an assignment for the news website Al-Manassa to cover the killing of a protester by the police during anti-government demonstrations in the south of the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/07/egyptian-…

Lunar Lunacy: Competition, Conflict and Mining the Moon
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
The discussion about mining the Moon resembles that of previous conquests: the division of territory; the grabbing of resources; language of theft and plunder. All of this is given the gloss of manifest destiny and human experiment. Such language is also self-perpetuating: the plunderer is only as good as the amount taken; success is dependent on…
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Technical workers strike at two Twin Cities hospitals
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-07
Minneapolis, MN – Around 200 technical workers from Allina’s Abbot Northwestern and Saint Francis Hospitals began a two-day strike at 6 a.m. on Monday, October 5. The workers on strike include diagnostic imaging technicians, medical lab technicians, surgical technicians and others. | The techs are demanding to be paid and receive benefits to stay home and quarantine if needed due to COVID-19 exposure. They work in medical settings where being exposed at work is a serious everyday risk and they deserve to be able to quarantine without loss of pay and benefits, especially given the nature of their jobs, but current…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/6/technica…

Cuba Says: Doctors, Not Bombs
Fidel Castro Ruz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
In a letter sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the World Peace Council formally registered the candidacy of Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Contingent of Doctors Specialized in Disaster Situations and Serious Epidemics for the Nobel Peace Prize. | Emphasizing the great …
globalresearch.ca/cuba-says-doctors-not-…

Republican operatives indicted in voter suppression scheme in Michigan
wsws.org | 2020-10-07
Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl are alleged to have orchestrated a mass robo-call voter suppression campaign that targeted minority voters in Detroit.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/07/vote…

The Worst Part of Trump Paying Zero in Taxes? It’s Probably Entirely Legal
Chuck Collins | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
Donald Trump’s tax returns are a stark illustration of what’s broken with the US tax system: the tax code has one set of rules for the richest 0.1% and another for everyone else. For the vast majority of taxpayers, the rules are straightforward. If you earn a paycheck from an employer, odds are the majority…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/07/the-worst-pa…

Philly protesters demand ‘Stop racist police murders!’
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2020-10-07
Hundreds of activists gathered at the “Rocky Steps” in Philadelphia on Oct. 3 to hear speakers from Black Lives Matter Philly, Black Philly Radical Collective, Black Alliance for Peace and Mobilization4Mumia condemn the racist police murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Mya Hall and countless others. March leaders used the . . . | Continue reading Philly protesters demand ‘Stop racist police murders!’ at Workers.org…
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Youth in Brazil’s peripheries in the era of CoronaShock
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2020-10-07
Across the world, youth have become important political actors, especially since the 1960s. Along with workers, women, and people of colour, youth have been main protagonists in the fight for national, anti-colonial, anti-imperialist liberation in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
mronline.org/2020/10/06/youth-in-brazils…

Decision expected in the police murder of Alvin Cole
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-07
Milwaukee, WI – On the afternoon of October 7, it is expected that Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm will make a decision on the killing of Alvin Cole. The decision comes over eight months after Cole’s murder. Milwaukee and Wauwatosa – the suburb where Cole was shot by Wauwatosa police – have been gripped by protests and actions of varying size and intensity since the resurgence of the movement for Black lives at the end of May. | While the initial local demonstrations largely centered around out-of-state cases like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, the focus quickly shifted when the…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/7/decision…

Faculty strike looms at Youngstown State University after trustees reject fact-finding report
wsws.org | 2020-10-07
If the strike vote passes it would be the first strike called by the YSU-OEA in 15 years…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/07/ysus…

Car bomb in northern Syrian city of Al-Bab leaves many dead and injured
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-07
Car bomb in northern Syrian city of Al-Bab leaves many dead and injured | UN condemns ‘indiscriminate attacks’ on civilians after Turkish-controlled city struck | MEE and agencies | Wed, 10/07/2020 – 07: 40 | A picture shows an aerial view of the town of al-Bab in a rebel-held area in the north of Aleppo province (AFP) | A suspected car bomb in the Turkish-controlled Syrian town of Al-Bab has killed at least…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/deaths-and-in…

Alleged Islamic State ‘Beatles’ executioners set to face trial in US, says report
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-07
Alleged Islamic State ‘Beatles’ executioners set to face trial in US, says report | El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey face charges in the US over the alleged beheading of a number of journalists and aid workers | MEE staff | Wed, 10/07/2020 – 09: 34 | Pictures of El Shafee Elsheikh and Alexanda Kotey released shortly after their capture by Syrian Kurdish-led forces (AFP) | Two alleged members of an Islamic State (IS)…
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French intervention in Lebanon reveals colonial approach
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-07
Deep political and economic turmoil has engulfed Lebanon for over a year now. The country’s political class has failed to form a credible and stable government and undertake reforms necessary to win back popular confidence in the system. This has resulted in growing economic distress for the common Lebanese citizens, who have taken to the streets against their corrupt politicians. The Beirut blast in early August this year, which killed more than 190 people and displaced thousands, has compounded the Lebanese crisis. Under the circumstances, France, Lebanon’s old colonial master (Lebanon was a French mandate, 191…
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Bangladesh erupts against repeated incidents of sexual abuse against women
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-07
On October 5, Monday, hundreds of people protested in Shahbag area of Bangladeshi capital Dhaka after a video of a woman being gangraped and tortured by at least nine men went viral on social media. The incident reportedly took place in Noakhali district’s Begumganj upazila on September 2. The victim’s 65-year-old father was also assaulted by some of the alleged rapists at his house in Jagannathpur upazila of Sumangunj, as per reports. | Protesters on Monday carried banners demanding the resignation of home minister Asadduzzam Khan for the government’s failure to stop sexual violence against women in the country.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/07/banglades…

Some 3,500 U.S. Companies Sue over ‘Unlawful’ Tariffs on Chinese Goods
CGTN | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
About 3,500 U.S. companies, including Tesla Inc, Ford Motor Co, Target Corp, Walgreen Co and Home Depot have sued the Trump administration in the last two weeks over the imposition of tariffs on more than 300 billion U.S. dollars | …
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Hearts on Fire for the 43 of Ayoztinapa
Kent Paterson | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
Six years after the Night of Iguala, the case of the 43 perhaps stands as the litmus test in determining the nature of the Mexican State. What will prevail? A viable State committed to human rights, justice and democracy or an endlessly corrupted and brutal version of it?
counterpunch.org/2020/10/07/hearts-on-fi…

November 2020: Reflections on “White Elections”
Dr. T. P. Wilkinson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
In less than four weeks a nation that loves nostalgia will be entertaining an election not unlike those a century ago. The election on 3 November 2020 will be fundamentally a “white man’s election”, the penumbra of protest notwithstanding. | Donald …
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The climate crisis is here–how are city planners preparing for an uncertain and dangerous future?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-07
American families across the country are witnessing their fortunes reduced to ashes or torn down by hurricanes and storms.
therealnews.com/the-climate-crisis-is-he…

Voting rights: ‘Capitalist charity’ vs workers’ democracy
Editor | workers.org | 2020-10-07
During this U.S. election season, many people are still fighting to get access to the universal bourgeois right to vote, supposedly a cornerstone of capitalist “democracy.” It’s been an uphill struggle since 1776 when only propertied white men who were Protestants could legally vote. Everyone else was denied — Catholics, . . . | Continue reading Voting rights: ‘Capitalist charity’ vs workers’ democracy at Workers.org…
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SEIU Local 73, Illinois Nurses Association reach deals with University of Illinois
Laura Nadine | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-07
On Oct. 1, INA co-chief steward at UI Health Paul Pater announced that a supermajority of nurses voted to approve the contract, which guarantees safe patient limits.
liberationnews.org/seiu-local-73-illinoi…

Unemployment Day rally calls for Illinois to reprioritize budget, support working class
Shabbir Manjee | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-07
The main demand was for Local, State and Federal budgets to defund various war efforts, policing and other wasteful spending and instead invest in safety nets.
liberationnews.org/unemployment-day-rall…

Trump Brought a Whole New World of Corruption to Washington
John Feffer — Jim Lardner | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-07
Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington, DC. Instead, he not only brought his own corruption and that of his family to the nation’s capital. He also opened the door of his administration to a whole slew of influence-peddlers, scam artists, and sleazy lobbyists. Here are just a few of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/07/trump-brough…

Morning in Hell
John Steppling | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-07
It’s the proper morning to fly into Hell. ‚Äï Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953 One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death’s prisoner. — Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair, 1934 Increasingly, I think, the American public operates in a mild dissociative state. I wrote about …
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Video: “Crimes Against Humanity”: The German Corona Investigation. “The PCR Pandemic”
Reiner Fuellmich | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
The German Corona Investigative Committee has taken testimony from a large number of international scientists and experts since July 10, 2020. | Scroll down for the Video and Full Transcript of Dr. Reiner Fuellmich’s presentation. | . | …
globalresearch.ca/video-crimes-against-h…

Marc Steiner is asking for your help
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-07
We need you to become part of our Real News community.
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Video: Covid-19, We Are Being Lied to! Here Is How… The PCR Test
Spiro Skouras | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
As we approach the one year anniversary of the novel coronavirus outbreak, we find ourselves facing many unanswered questions. | We find ourselves worse off in many ways, in comparison to when the outbreak just began, as we receive signals from …
globalresearch.ca/video-we-being-lied-he…

Challenging incarceration of women and trans people
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-10-07
The following are slightly edited opening remarks given during the Sept. 24 webinar Women & Gender Oppressed Prisoners, Survival & Resistance. In our global struggle for liberation from capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy and patriarchy, we cannot waver in our determination to ‘Tear Down the Walls’ of human cages. Since the . . . | Continue reading Challenging incarceration of women and trans people at Workers.org…
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The Covid Crisis: A Brief History of the Pandemics of the 21st Century (2000-2020)
Hans-Jàºrgen Steinhagen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
First published on September 10, 2020 | In times of great confusion and anxiety, when it feels like everything is going down the drain, like everyone is stumbling down a steep road, driven by a supposedly unstoppable disaster, it might be …
globalresearch.ca/brief-history-2000s-pa…

‘Former staff’ of disgraced Rep. Katie Hill use ex-lawmaker’s Twitter account to accuse her of ‘workplace abuse’
rt.com | 2020-10-07
A series of messages posted to the verified Twitter account of former Rep. Katie Hill accused her of abusing her congressional staff. Hill, who resigned following a salacious sex scandal, claims that the account was hacked. | Hill, a Democrat who vacated her seat in October 2019 following allegations that she had extramarital affairs with multiple members of her staff, once again found herself in the spotlight after it was announced on Tuesday that her memoir would be turned into a film. The Handmaid’s Tale star Elisabeth Moss will play Hill in the movie, which is being produced for a streaming service. | Alt…
rt.com/usa/502764-katie-hill-twitter-hac…

Wisconsin opens field hospital outside Milwaukee to handle Covid-19 hospitalization spike
rt.com | 2020-10-07
After hospitalizations for Covid-19 nearly tripled over the past month, straining Wisconsin’s healthcare system, Governor Tony Evers has announced the state will open a field hospital outside Milwaukee to handle the surge. | Speaking alongside health officials on Wednesday, Evers announced the field hospital would open next week on the state fairgrounds outside Milwaukee. Built months ago, in anticipation of an expected surge in infection, the facility had sat disused until now. | According to the state Department of Health Services, just 16 percent of Wisconsin’s hospital beds were available as of Tuesday aft…
rt.com/usa/502864-wisconsin-field-hospit…

UN chief urges greater investment in universal health coverage, starting now
news.un.org | 2020-10-07
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of strong public health systems and emergency preparedness for communities and economies globally, the UN Secretary-General said on Wednesday, calling for greater investments in universal health coverage.
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How Dangerous Conspiracy Theories Like QAnon Find a Home in Anti-Choice Politics
Lindsay E. Beyerstein | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
QAnon is a powerful recruiting mechanism for the extreme right, seducing previously apolitical people into an emotionally charged ideology that validates any conspiratorial beliefs they already have and seeds new ones…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-dangerous-cons…

Pope’s Post-COVID Encyclical Envisions a Less Populist, Less Capitalist World
Joshua J. McElwee | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
zcomm.org/znetarticle/popes-post-covid-e…

A Rock and a Hard Place, Reform and/or Revolution
Michael Albert | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
How do we conduct activism seeking limited gains with the personalities and means we have at hand, yet in ways that lead toward comprehensive transformation?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-rock-and-a-hard-…

The Long Haul
Frida Berrigan | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
Or Living Through Pandemic-Plus…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-long-haul/

Trump’s Hospitalization Hasn’t Diminished the Threat of Election Theft
Bob Fitrakis | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
Trump and his backers have made clear their intent to denigrate and then defy the popular will in the November 3 vote count…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-hospitaliza…

A Message From the Future II: The Years of Repair
Naomi Klein | zcomm.org | 2020-10-07
Can we imagine a better future? If we stop talking about what winning actually looks like, isn’t that the same as giving up?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-message-from-the…

Anatomy Of A Counter-Insurgency
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-07
While the initial uprising was ferocious in its explosive anger and militancy, within just three weeks the protests seem to have been channeled largely into the decidedly less militant demand of “Defund the police.” What happened? I largely agree with what Kandist Mallett wrote in a brilliant article in Teen Vogue, in which she argued that: “those in power…are working tirelessly to destroy this wave of unrest before it becomes a tsunami they cannot control…. They are trying to kill this movement.”2 The defanging of the George Floyd Uprising was not accidental but was rather a deliberate attempt…
popularresistance.org/anatomy-of-a-count…

Ex-OPCW Chief Jose Bustani Reads Syria Testimony Blocked At UN
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-07
Jose Bustani was invited to brief the Security Council on the OPCW’s cover-up of an investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria in April 2018. The US, UK, and France bombed Syria after accusing the Syrian government of dropping toxic gas in Douma. OPCW inspectors later found evidence that undermined the official narrative, but were censored by their superiors under US pressure. | As the OPCW’s first Director General, Bustani experienced first-hand the costs of challenging pro-war narratives.
popularresistance.org/ex-opcw-chief-jose…

The Way Forward For NYU Graduate Students
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-07
Since July, the Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC), which is affiliated with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union and has over 2,000 graduate workers as members at New York University, has been involved in contract negotiations with the university administration. The previous contract, negotiated by GSOC and the university in 2015, expired on Aug. 31. GSOC has agreed to a second extension of the contract, which includes a no-strike clause, until Oct. 13. | GSOC is affiliated with the UAW Local 2110, an amalgamated union that has repeatedly negotiated concessionary contracts for workers throughout New Yor…
popularresistance.org/the-way-forward-fo…

Judgment Day For Greek Fascism
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-07
Golden Dawn is the political organisation that was founded during the early ’90s, started its criminal activity in 1992, gained political clout in 2010 and managed to elect 18 MPs in June 2012. Over this span of three decades, it committed dozens of crimes — for which, mostly, it had never been prosecuted. | The political system saw the Neo-Nazi organisation as a marginal group of far-right extremists. They might have loved Hitler, but they were too small to matter. However, when the economic crisis broke out in Greece, the never-ending impoverishment of the people along with…
popularresistance.org/judgment-day-for-g…

What To Do If Someone Threatens You At The Polls
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-07
On this episode of As the South Votes, Anoa breaks down voter intimidation and steps you can take to safeguard yourself and others during the election process. This is the first presidential election where the GOP is not restricted by a consent decree banning ballot security activities and the second presidential election without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act. Documenting and reporting voter intimidation efforts is important to protecting the rights of voters and the political process as a whole.
popularresistance.org/what-to-do-if-some…

Dirty tricks of the autocrats
Mark Leonard | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Donald Trump tries to get re-elected with partly illegal tricks. This is undemocratic and dangerous for the USA and its allies. Trump’s role models, however, are already further along: they decompose and weaken democracy until there is nothing left of it. Defending it is becoming the challenge of our time.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/06/1883732…

Tuesday 10/13: Authoritarianism: U.S. vs Peoples Republic of China
Peoples Alliance | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Online. Please use this registration link to get your login information: | us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrde-……
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Monday 10/12: Level the Playing Field Tour: Unity Rally for Prop 16
YPOFA | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
North Steps of California State Capitol building, 315 10th St, Sacramento, CA 95814 | Masks and social distancing required…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/1883735…

Saturday 10/10: Recognizing Prison Resistance : From George Jackson to the Agreement to End Hostilities
No Justice Under Capitalism | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
San Quentin State Prison – West Gate, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Meet at the Larkspur Ferry Terminal at 4: 30pm and we will march up to the West Gate at 5pm.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/1883734…

Wednesday 10/14: Swing Left SF October General Meeting
Swing Left San Francisco | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Online…
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Monday 10/12: Yes on 15 Rally in San Francisco at Bank of America Building
Yes on Prop 15 | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Bank of America building, 555 California St, San Francisco 94104 (Trump’s SF Property)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/1883735…

Wednesday 10/7: Juneteenth SPT Actions against privatization/outsourcing -From New Orleans to AHS East Bay
SPTESR | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Peoples Ready/Labor Ready | 2648 International Blvd, Oakland, CA 94601-1512, United States…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/05/1883730…

Unwelcome Party at Palantir’s New Denver HQ
DDAPAGP | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Protesters gathered outside Palantir’s new headquarters at 1555 Blake Street in Denver for an “unwelcome party” on September 22, one day after demonstrators staged a “good riddance party” for the data-mining company in front of its previous HQ in Palo Alto.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/06/1883733…

Saturday 10/10: Landless Not Voiceless an exhibition
C & C Unhoused Artists Collective | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Pro Arts Gallery & Commons | 150 Frank H Ogawa Plz / Oscar Grant Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/05/1883732…

Small but Mighty Sunnyvale Demonstration for Black Lives Matter
Residents Show Up, Speak Out | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
October 3 Black Lives Matter protest in Sunnyvale, California…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/05/1883727…

Poor People’s Caravan Targets Senators Feinstein and Harris
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Political action as applied morality…
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Wednesday 10/21: Speaker Series: Whale Entanglements in the Monterey Bay
Save Our Shores | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Online Event | www.eventbrite.com/e/120564739381…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/1883735…

Tuesday 10/13: Defend Against Illegal Evictions at Wood Street!
The United Front Against Displacement | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
West Oakland Wood Street encampment. We are meeting at West Grand and Wood St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/06/1883734…

Saturday 10/10: The SF and California ballots, a property tax perspective
David Giesen | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Join Zoom Meeting | zoom.us/j/92178489086?pwd=eXBpa1dTV1BUVj… | Meeting ID: 921 7848 9086 | Passcode: x5DAPb…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/1883734…

Green Party local, state, and national Endorsements
Green Party | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
In addition to the San Francisco Green Party and the Green Party of Alameda County endorsements that are listed below, the Green Party of Santa Clara County endorsements can be found here: sccgreens.org/elections/2020-nov-voter-g……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/06/1883733…

Let’s boycott AJINOMOTO! Japan’s largest food manufacturer
ABOCT | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Ajinomoto is the most successful Japanese food manufacturer since before World War II. | Animal experiments have supported and continued the success of the hemother. | Let’s boycott this food company. Send an e-mail to the president.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/06/1883734…

Friday 10/9: No Confirmation Before Inauguration: #WeDissent Digital Rally
PFAW & partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Online via livstream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/06/1883734…

A.G. Becerra Slams Trump Shasta Dam Raise Plan – As Newsom Fast-Tracks Delta Tunnel
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
In a major conflict of interest, David Bernhardt, Trump’s Secretary of Interior, is a former lobbyist for the Westlands Water District, the main proponent of the Shasta dam raise proposal.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/1883735…

Wednesday 10/7: Defund Militarism, Invest in Communities, & the Racial Justice Movements Making It Happen
United We Dream & partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/05/1883732…

Monday 10/12: In the Land of My Ancestors: Film and Conversation
Oakland Asian Cultural Center | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Zoom…
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Thursday 10/15: Yes On Prop 16! Black Women for Affirmative Action Virtual Rally
YPOFA | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/07/1883735…

Sunday 10/11: Sit. Walk. Listen. Because Black Lives Matter
Sit.Walk.Listen. | indybay.org | 2020-10-07
Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park. Oakland, California. | (19th Street/Rashida Muhammad)…
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The Race Tilts to Biden
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-07
Pundits of Right and Left alike would always prefer to stick to their dead clichés rather than bothering an even switching on a TV or a podcast, let alone going anywhere to see things for themselves. In the current U.S. presidential election it is happening again. Anyone who has bothered to actually sit through any of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign speeches over the past week since his nationally televised debate with President Donald Trump should have seen several obvious points immediately. | First, Biden was energetic, confident and punched his speeches home. A lifelong national-level o…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/07/th…

The Curse of Game Theory: Why It’s in Your Self-Interest to Break the Rules of the Game
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-07
Game theory, the mathematical theory of games of strategy, was developed by John von Neumann in several successive stages in 1928 and 1940-41, according to his book “Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour” which he co-authored with Oskar Morgenstern. | The crux of the theory is that an individuals’ behaviour will always be motivated towards achieving an optimal outcome, which is determined by self-interest. An assumption made is that the players in such a game are rational, which translates to, “will strive to maximize their payoffs in the game”. In other words, it is assumed they are motivated by selfish self-in…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/07/cu…

Britain Is Once Again on the Ropes
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-07
The current UK system for processing asylum seekers is already fraught with problems, but the crackpot proposals just mentioned will have costs detrimental to the environment (big ships such as ferries are major sources of pollution) as well as being a huge drain on the public purse–maintaining a refugee camp on a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic, or Moldova (which hasn’t as yet been consulted), or PNG, will cost much more than processing asylum applications in a humane way in the UK.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/07/br…

The Heat: Palestinian Elections
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-10-07
Last month the two largest Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, agreed on a deal to hold elections for the first in almost 15 years. After years of unrest with Israel, and the on-going Israeli occupation of the West Bank, could these elections offer a new …
america.cgtn.com/2020/10/07/the-heat-pal…

Saudi Arabia biggest buyer of UK arms in West Asia: report
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — A new report by the British government indicates that the UK is the second-largest arms exporter over the past decade and the biggest buyer of these weapons is West Asia, especially Saudi Arabia.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164466/Saudi-Arabia…

23 export brokers serving Iran’s knowledge-based firms
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 06 (MNA) — An official in Vice Presidency for Science and Technology noted that 23 export brokers have been launched in more than 18 countries to pave the way for Iranian knowledge-based firms to export their products.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164435/23-export-br…

Despotic rulers not able to stop Arbaeen Mourning ritual
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Resistance Movement Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah said nothing, including tyrant rulers, can stop believers from holding Arbaeen mourning rituals.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164471/Despotic-rul…

Imam Ali (PBUH) Holy Shrine in Najaf Ashraf on eve of Arbaeen
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
NAJAF, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Although Arbaeen March will not be attended by Shiites around world this year due to outbreak of corona pandemic and restrictions on travel of foreigners to Iraq, Iraqi Shiites have gathered in Imam Ali Shrine to hold ceremony.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164474/Imam-Ali-PB…

Iran has a straight line to Antarctica: Roads min
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development said that Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the rare countries in the region in terms of accessing to the sea and a straight line to Antarctica.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164448/Iran-has-a-s…

Video mapping on Azadi Tower in “Tehran Week”
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — On the occasion of the Week of Tehran, a series of symbolic images of the most significant events of contemporary Tehran in the past century video mapped on Azadi Tower on Tuesday evening…
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164429/Video-mappi…

COVID-19 Children’s Art Competition winners announced
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — The Ministry of Interior and UNICEF announced the winners of the joint COVID-19 Art Competition for children called “We Are All Champions” on Children’s Day and Week.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164441/COVID-19-Chi…

US keeps repeating empty offers of aid: FM spox
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said that the US keeps repeating empty offers of aid and urged Washington to stop blocking Iranian people’s right to use their own money frozen in Korea, Iraq, and Japan.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164468/US-keeps-rep…

Relating Yemen war to Iran, another American fallacy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — The chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen dismissed the speculations relating the Yemen war to the US’ pressure campaign on Iran, saying this is transparently another fallacy by the Americans.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164442/Relating-Yem…

‘Preserving JCPOA strategic to EU security’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday that preserving Iran nuclear deal (JCPAO) is strategic to EU security.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164467/Preserving-J…

Asalem to Khalkhal, spectacular forest road in Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
KHALKHAL, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Asalem to Khalkhal Road in northern Iran’s Gilan province is a spectacular and eye-catching road which enjoys a beautiful nature attracting many enthusiasts every year.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164430/Asalem-to-K…

Iran records highest COVID-19 death toll since outbreak
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Deaths from the coronavirus pandemic in Iran hit a high record on Wednesday as 239 new deaths were registered over the past 24 hours, the highest since the virus outbreak in the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164452/Iran-records…

Video mapping on Azadi Tower in “Tehran Week”
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — On the occasion of the Week of Tehran, a series of symbolic images of the most significant events of contemporary Tehran video mapped on Azadi Tower on Tuesday evening.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164429/Video-mappi…

Agreement between Iran, IAEA, ‘a shining moment in diplomacy’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — The Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said that recent agreement made between Iran and IAEA is a shining and brilliant moment in diplomacy.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164469/Agreement-be…

Shias in Karbala holding Arbaeen rituals
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
KARBALA, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Shias in Iraq have started holding Arbaeen ceremonies to commemorate the Martyrdom of Imam Hussein(PBUH), the third Shia Imam in the battle of Karbala.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164449/Shias-in-Ka…

Astonishing scenery of autumn in Hyrcanian forests
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
GORGAN, Dec. 04 (MNA) — As the autumn comes, Hyrcanian forests in Golestan province, northern Iran, reveal part of their impressive beauties in a festival of colors.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164366/Astonishing…

Iran futsal team defeats Uzbekistan in friendly
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-07
TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — Iran national futsal team beat Uzbekistan in a friendly match on Wednesday evening in the capital city Tashkent.
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Watershed moment to tackle widening health inequalities as a result of COVID-19
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-07
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that there is limited time to address fundamental health inequalities in the UK, said an Imperial expert.
imperial.ac.uk/news/206033/watershed-moment-tackle-widening-health-inequalities

Lockdown not ‘a trade-off between health and the economy’ says Imperial academic
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-07
Consumer concerns over the rise in the UK infection rate is likely to hit social spending regardless of whether a lockdown is put in place.
imperial.ac.uk/news/206133/lockdown-trade-off-between-health-economy-says

Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party guilty of operating as crime organisation
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-07
A Greek court has ruled that the far-right Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organisation, delivering a landmark verdict in a marathon five-year trial. | The court delivered guilty verdicts against several of the party’s former legislators for participating in a criminal organisation, and deemed others guilty of leading a criminal organisation. | Security tight was tight at the Athens courthouse with more than 15,000 people gathered for an anti-fascist rally outside. | The 68 defendants in the trial included 18 former legislators from the party that was founded in the 1980s as a neo-Nazi organization…
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Concerns over coronavirus testing kits following supply chain breakdown
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-07
Concerns have been raised over the supply of vital testing materials for a range of conditions, including coronavirus (Covid-19), following a supply chain problem with pharmaceutical giant Roche.Significant drop: On 6 October, Roche said it had experienced a “very significant drop” in its processing capacity due to a problem with its Sussex distribution centre, the only one in the UK. It’s been reported that the shortage includes vital reagents, screening kits, and swabs.In addition to providing these chemicals and parts used in coronavirus tests, Roche also provides materials for a wide range of procedure…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/07/concerns…

The Canary’s five-year anniversary
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-10-07
The Canary published its first article on 6 October 2015. Five years later, editor-at-large Kerry-Anne Mendoza takes us on a rollercoaster ride through all the ups and downs, the tragedies and the triumphs. She shows us that The Canary is now stronger and more determined than ever to create a world that works for everyone. | By Steve Topple…
thecanary.co/video/2020/10/07/the-canary…

The Tight Rope Live: With Cornel West, Prof. Tricia Rose, Rep. Barbara Lee, Matt Gonzalez
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-07
Cornel West and Tricia Rose host a live Vice Presidential Debate After Party featuring special guests Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Matt Gonzalez, and Tricia Zunker.
therealnews.com/vpdebate-after-party-cor…

France records all-time daily high in new Covid-19 cases of almost 19,000, as authorities eye new restrictions
rt.com | 2020-10-07
A total of 18,746 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in France over the latest 24-hour recording period, an all-time daily high for the country, the nation’s health authorities announced on Wednesday. | The amount of new cases almost doubled compared to Tuesday when 10,489 infections were registered. The overall number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic has now reached 653,509. | An additional 80 people had succumbed to the disease during the previous day, according to Wednesday’s update, putting the cumulative death toll at 32,445. | Meanwhile the number of Covid-19 patients bein…
rt.com/news/502862-france-coronavirus-re…

PMQs just exposed Starmer’s complete lack of principles
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-10-07
It’s fair enough if you’ve given up watching Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) recently. Because the previous few weeks have been dire to say the least. But a question from Keir Starmer to Boris Johnson over the 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants cast a light on another big story. And it shows the Labour leader is devoid of principles. | PMQs: Starmer rebelling?: | As BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg tweeted, Starmer might be about to ‘rebel’ against Johnson: | Getting tricky for govt — fair number of Tory MPs might…
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The lie that gas is ‘cleaner’
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-07
greenleft.org.au/content/lie-gas-cleaner

NSW public sector pay ‘rise’: 60 cents a day
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-07
greenleft.org.au/content/nsw-public-sect…

Russia and China Both Subject to Unrelenting Economic and Social Warfare
James O’Neill | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-07
It is no secret that the United States government has been bitterly opposed to the Nord Stream 2 project that will provide reliable, cheap and necessary oil supplies from Russia to Germany. It is tempting to view this opposition as based on economic self-interest. The substitute for Russian energy to Europe is American liquid natural …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/russia-and-ch…

Greek workers tell Pompeo: ‘Go home’!
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-10-07
Protest against austerity by Greek union confederations in Thessaloníki on Sept. 5. Students and teachers at over 700 schools and universities throughout Greece walked out the first week of October. Thousands of workers marched in Thessaloníki, both at the beginning and at the end of September. Workers and other progressives . . . | Continue reading Greek workers tell Pompeo: ‘Go home’! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/51740/?utm_source=rs…

Selected Articles: From Great Lockdown to Great Transformation. The COVID Aftermath
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-07
Why Canadians Should Support the Cross-Canada Campaign to Free Meng Wanzhou | By Ken Stone, October 07 2020 | Selected Articles: From Great Lockdo…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-from…

Without study abroad, I would have struggled to make it through third year
Aaliyah Harris | thecanary.co | 2020-10-07
I recently expressed the words above to friends as we reminisced about our four-year degree journey.For many students, these past few months have involved countless overnight study sessions, hours of self-teaching as lecturers took part in strikes, and now a ceremonial-less graduation due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. Study abroad was the break that I thought I needed. But I now know it was critical for my degree, career, and mental health.I won’t lie. Applying to spend a WHOLE yea…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/10/07/without-…

Dimbleby’s silencing on The One Show sums up the mindless programme perfectly
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-10-07
Former Question Time host David Dimbleby used to get flack over butting-in when his guests were speaking. Sadly for him, the shoe was on the other foot on Tuesday 6 September. As a host royally shut him down on The One Show. | You can’t say THAT, Dimbleby!: | Kevin Pascoe tweeted a clip from the show. It shows Dimbleby going on one about the Tory government. H…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/10/07/dimbleb…

’60 Minutes,’ ‘The Guardian,’ and Game-Changing New Climate Science
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-10-07
’60 Minutes,’ ‘The Guardian,’ and Game-Changing New Climate Science…
thenation.com/article/environment/60-min…

John Luther Adams’s Songs for a Vanished World
Rumaan Alam | thenation.com | 2020-10-07
John Luther Adams’s Songs for a Vanished World…
thenation.com/article/culture/john-luthe…

Israeli-made cluster bombs used by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, says Amnesty
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-06
Israeli-made cluster bombs used by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, says Amnesty | The rights group says widely-banned weaponry has been fired on residential areas of breakaway region | MEE staff | Tue, 10/06/2020 – 14: 10 | A picture shows an unexploded rocket in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region’s main city of Stepanakert on 6 October 2020 (AFP) | Israeli-made cluster bombs are being used by Azerbaijan against civili…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/azerbaijan-ar…

Armenian-Azerbaijan war turns Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia into a powder keg
wsws.org | 2020-10-06
The Kremlin’s central fear is that the war could reignite long-simmering regionalist, ethnic and religious conflicts on its southern borders.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/06/cauc…

UN chief condemns continuing escalation of violence in Nagorno-Karabakh
news.un.org | 2020-10-06
The United Nations Secretary-General has condemned the continuing escalation of violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, reminding all sides of their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure.
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Will Artsakh (Karabagh) be the tomb of Erdogan ?
Thierry Meyssan | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-06
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict certainly had its origins in the dissolution of the USSR, but it was revived by the will of the Turkish president. It is unlikely that he took this initiative without first referring it to Washington. This is also what President Saddam Hussein did before invading Kuwait, falling by ambition into the trap set for him and causing his downfall. | A very ancient conflict, frozen for the past 30 years: | The Turkish people define themselves as descended from the “children of the wolf of the steppes”, i.e. as descendants of the hordes of Genghis Khan. It is composed of both “one pe…
thealtworld.com/thierry_meyssan/will-art…

L’Artsakh (Karabagh) sera-t-il le tombeau d’Erdogan ?
Thierry Meyssan | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-06