Bolivia Resoundingly Chooses Socialism in Wake of Military Coup
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-20
OECD Development Centre / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] By Jake Johnson / Common Dreams Following socialist candidate Luis Arce’s resounding victory in Bolivia’s high-stakes and closely watched presidential election, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday applauded the people of the South American nation for persisting in their “difficult, year-long fight to restore democracy” in the wake of last year’s military… | Source…
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The eviction crisis is making surviving the pandemic harder. Here’s how we fight back
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-20
Evictions are happening all across the United States, and COVID-19 has only made it worse. We look at the data surrounding evictions and what people are doing to solve this crisis. We also talk about the recent Bolivian elections.
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Decisive Victory of MAS in Bolivia: A Blow to Anti-Indigenous and Anti-Socialist Coups in the Americas
William Camacaro | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
Caracas. The decisive electoral victory of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in Bolivia may be a point of inflection on the continent that advances the construction of a new South American socialist bloc. After having been removed from power by a military coup with fascist, anti-Indigenous, and neoliberal elements a year ago, ex-president Evo Morales,…
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Abby Martin and Eleanor Goldfield
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-10-20
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Amazonia: In the Flames, They See Money
Sà¥nia Guajajara | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
Sà¥nia Guajajara delivered this speech to accept the 2020 Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award on behalf of the Association of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). The Association is standing up to powerful corporations, backed by an oppressive government, to protect indigenous rights and lands — all while fighting a deadly pandemic. On October 15, award-winning author…
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Video: The “Smoking Guns” of a Manufactured Pandemic
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
“Closing down the Global Economy as a means to combating the Killer Virus. That’s what they want us to believe. If the public had been informed that Covid-19 is “similar to Influenza”, the fear campaign would have fallen flat…”
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America’s “Corona 2020 Great Depression”: US Federal Budget Deficit Hits $3.1 Trillion
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
On March 11, the governments of 193 member states were ordered to close down their national economies as a means to combating V-The Virus. | Corporate bankruptcies, mass unemployment and poverty: The closure of the planet’s real economy has triggered a …
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On Indigenous Peoples Day 2020: Junipero Serra statue bites the dust
Dave Welsh | workers.org | 2020-10-20
Mission San Rafael, Calif. Some 60 people responded to a call by members of the Coast Miwok of Marin for a Red Paint Rally on Indigenous Peoples Day at the Mission San Rafael. The crowd gathered Oct. 12 at the statue of Junipero Serra outside the mission, which is one . . . | Continue reading On Indigenous Peoples Day 2020: Junipero Serra statue bites the dust at Workers.org…
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What is Needed in this Moment
Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-20
Are you or do you know an emerging activist who needs support? Popular Resistance and the Kevin Zeese family are launching the Kevin Zeese Emerging Activists Fund with an online celebration on his birthday, October 28, from 7: 30 to 9: 00 pm Eastern. Learn more and buy tickets here. We will begin accepting applications after October …
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The Expiry of The Iranian Arms Embargo
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
The 13-year-long anti-Iranian arms embargo expired on the 18th of October, which creates opportunities for the Islamic Republic to strengthen its national defense capabilities and cultivate even deeper relations with its top strategic partners such as China and Russia, possibly …
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Chomsky: from nuclear weapons to Iran, Trump’s worst threats are dangerously ignored
The Alternative World | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-20
New @PushbackShow : Noam Chomsky warns that the Trump admin poses a unique threat to humanity, but its most reckless policies — from killing nuclear weapons accords with Russia to imposing new sanctions on Iran — are receiving far too little attention. | Chomsky on OPCW scandal: “US & its allies want evidence provided by some of the top inspectors to be banned… they want to ensure it’s not discussed, meaning they have no confidence in their own conclusions, meaning the US bombing of Syria was undertaken on fal…
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Bolivians Return Evo Morales’s Party to Power One Year After a U.S.-Applauded Coup
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
Right-wing forces cheered by the U.S. tried to destroy one of Latin America’s most vibrant democracies. Voters just restored it…
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Chavismo and the Left
Reinaldo Iturriza | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
A Chavista author and former minister talks about the Bolivarian Revolution’s innovations and internal tensions…
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The New York Times Guild Once Again Demands Censorship of Colleagues
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
The union demanded “sensitivity readers” for their colleagues. Now they’re angry that a columnist wrote about a major controversy…
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A Short History of the ‘On Again, Off Again’ Fiscal Stimulus Negotiations
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
Trump wants to announce a deal before the next presidential debate with Joe Biden this Thursday, only 72 hrs away…
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Afghanistan, Black Lives Matter, and Antiwar Activism
Kathy Kelly | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
Interview on a variety of topics…
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Trump Administration Is Paying Big Pharma Billions in Rush for Vaccine
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
His vaccine campaign is named “Operation Warp Speed” and there is a real danger that its speed will warp the results.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-administrati…

How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
But there is another path leading away from this crossroads, one that Joe Biden should embrace, which involves redirecting our country’s resources and energies away from unsustainable imperial power through a peaceful transition to a sustainable, prosperous post-imperial future…
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Bolivia: People Power Prevails Over US-Backed Coup
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-20
Last October following the re-election of indigenous president Evo Morales in Bolivia, the United States backed a coup that successfully forced him out of power. The coup regime reversed many of the gains made under Morales and waged violent and austerity policies against the people. A new presidential election was held this past weekend largely because of massive popular mobilizations over the summer that demanded them. I speak with Camila Escalante of Telesur English and Kawsachun News about the coup, the protests and the recent election.
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Why a Former Green Party Candidate Is on a Very Long Fast
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Seeking to stop a huge threat to the world…
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“A Blow Against Neoliberalism”: Socialist Wins Bolivian Election a Year After Coup Ousted Evo Morales
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-20
Former Bolivian President Evo Morales’s political party MAS has claimed victory in the country’s presidential election, with Morales’s handpicked successor Luis Arce securing over 50% of the vote, according to exit polls. If confirmed, the result will put the socialist party back in power almost a year after a right-wing coup that ousted Morales and installed Jeanine àÅñez as president. The election was postponed twice, and protests rocked Bolivia for months leading up to the vote, calling out the government’s use of military and police repression and violence against Indigenous communities. “It’s an extrao…
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“A Fire That Has Spread Across the Country”: Jelani Cobb on Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-20
As tens of millions of people across the U.S. cast their ballots in early voting ahead of the November 3 election, we look at voter suppression efforts with journalist and academic Jelani Cobb. His new “Frontline” documentary “Whose Vote Counts” examines the long lines, record number of mail-in ballots and the legal fights that have marked voting during the pandemic, with a focus on Wisconsin. “This is a state where the presidency was essentially decided in the last election,” says Cobb, a professor of journalism at Columbia University and a contributor to The New Yorker. He describes voter suppression as “a fire…
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Bolivia Shows Why Imperialists Work To Keep Populations Propagandized
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-20
Bolivia has reversed the US-backed coup which saw its leftist president Evo Morales ousted from the lithium-rich nation after a landslide victory last year. Another landslide victory for a previous member of Morales’ cabinet named Luis Arce has restored power to the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party after a year of rule by the coup regime.
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Liberalism’s Fear Of Shelby Steele
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-20
You might have heard that Amazon has refused to add a new documentary, What Killed Michael Brown?, to its streaming service. The documentary was written by and stars the conservative black scholar Shelby Steele, and was directed by his son Eli Steele. In it, the elder Steele examines the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson a few years back, and its place in the larger story of race in America.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/20/li…

Zarif felicitates victory of Bolivia against US conspiracies
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister congratulated the Bolivian people on their victory against US conspiracies on Tuesday.
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Julian Assange and the fight against digital capitalism
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-20
Julian Assange imagined a future where digital technologies would be used for collective projects of humanisation and anti-imperialist resistance, writes Yanis Iqbal. He is being brutally punished by the United States for disrupting the drive for profits from surveillance and militarism.
greenleft.org.au/content/julian-assange-…

How do we defend reproductive justice?
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-10-20
It appears likely that the Trump wing of the ruling class will ram through the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, who is racist, pro-patriarchy, anti-woman, anti-LGBTQ2S+ and anti-worker. The Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the nomination Oct. 22, and the full Senate vote is expected before the . . . | Continue reading How do we defend reproductive justice? at Workers.org…
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Chomsky: from nuclear weapons to Iran, Trump’s worst threats are dangerously ignored
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-20
Noam Chomsky warns that the Trump administration poses a unique threat to humanity, and its most reckless policies are receiving far too little attention. Noam Chomsky discusses the White House’s threats to the New START treaty, the last remaining accord limiting the US and Russia’s nuclear weapons arsenals; its latest round of crippling sanctions and threats against Iran; the bipartisan US refusal to accept a Middle East Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone, which would terminate Israel’s nuclear weapons program; and the silencing of …
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Chomsky: OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is ‘shocking’
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-20
Noam Chomsky says that the OPCW’s cover-up, under US pressure, of a Syria chemical weapons probe raises “very severe suspicions.” In his first public comments on the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, Noam Chomsky criticizes the chemical watchdog for suppressing, under US pressure, evidence that undermined the pretext for the US-led bombing of Syria in April 2018. The censorship recently extended to the UN Security Council, where the US, UK, and France blocked former OPCW Director General José Bustani from testifying …
thegrayzone.com/2020/10/20/chomsky-opcw-…

Selected Articles: How the Global Media Lost Its Way
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
America’s “Corona 2020 Great Depression”: US Federal Budget Deficit Hits $3.1 Trillion | By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, October 20 2020 | Corporate bankruptcies, mass unemployment and poverty: The closure of the planet’s real economy ha…
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Internet Resources Become Weaponized
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-20
High Tech Oligarchs threaten democracy | The current electoral campaign differs from that of 2016 in that the media, both conventional and online, has realized its power and has been openly playing a major role in what might well prove to be a victory across the board for the Democratic Party. At least that is the expectation, bolstered by a flood of possibly suspect opinion polls that appear to make the triumph of Joe Biden and company inevitable while at the same time denigrating President Donald Trump and covering up for Democratic Party missteps. | Most Americans no longer trust what is being reported in the…
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US Presidential Campaign Spectacle
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-20
With the seemingly interminable US presidential campaign season mercifully drawing to a close, the buzz is about a possible coup. That would make the US one of the few countries in recent history to experience regime change not masterminded by a US embassy, because there is no US embassy in Washington. | There are other reasons why a coup is unlikely. Namely, most of the politically active public believe that they live in an exceptional democracy. This conviction is held despite the abysmal candidate choices they are given and the obscene mountains of money backing them.
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Troops Coming Home from Afghanistan? Depends on Who You Ask
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
There is a lot to cheer about when it comes to most of President Trump’s foreign policy statements. He regularly tells us he is ending foreign wars and bringing troops home. But do the people who work for him even …
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US Seeks to Prolong Terrorism in Syria, Not Defeat It
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
Recent attacks on Syrian positions from terrorists of the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” (ISIS) and the release of thousands of prisoners in US-occupied eastern Syria illustrate how Washington is demonstratably prolonging instability in Syria as part of its promise to transform …
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Commitment and Authority
Dan Corjescu | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-20
The great Italian writer, Ignazio Silone, often described himself as a “Socialist without a party, a Christian without a church”. With this, he expressed his belief in commitment outside of authority and all forms of hierarchy. Because Silone, as a historical witness of both Stalinism and Fascism, knew the dangers inherent in organized belief. Group …
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Amy Coney Barrett, Constitutional Precedent, and the Problem of Originalism
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
Supreme Court Justice nominee Amy Coney Barrett is a threat to many constitutional precedents, including Roe v. Wade (abortion rights), National Federation of Business v. Sebelius, (Obamacare), and Obergefell v. Hodges (marriage equality). It may not simply be her ideology or pre-judged opinions that pose the problem, it is her constitutional interpretive method of Originalism that is the issue.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/20/amy-coney-ba…

Dying laughing: Facebook demonetizes satirical website Babylon Bee for ‘inciting violence’ with Monty Python joke
rt.com | 2020-10-20
Facebook has demonetized Christian satire site the Babylon Bee, saying even after a manual review that an article which used a popular Monty Python bit to skewer Senate questioning of Trump’s Supreme Court pick “incites violence.” | The social media behemoth told Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon that it “stood by” the decision to not only remove the article but demonetize the Bee’s entire page on Tuesday, insisting the piece — headlined “Senator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against a Duck To See if She Is a Witch” — “incites violence,” Dillon revealed on Twitter. | So after a manual review, Facebook says…
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Violence continues to threaten Afghan peace process
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-20
2020 marked the beginning of what some have hailed as “historic” peace talks between Afghanistan’s US-backed government and the Taliban. But despite the Qatar based negotiations, this week has seen renewed violence in the country. | The US special envoy to Afghanistan has warned that “distressingly high” levels of violence threaten to derail ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. | Zalmay Khalilzad’s comments come as days of renewed fighting have plagued Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province, a long-time Taliban stronghold. The US launched airstrikes in Helmand Province on 12 October…
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US to remove Sudan from list of states sponsoring terror
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-20
US president Donald Trump made the announcement after the Sudanese transitional government agreed to pay a compensation of USD 335 million to the victims of attacks on US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998 and the USS Cole in 2000…
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Fighting Racism in the US Marine Corps
Kim Scipes | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
By 1971, the Marine Corps had suffered racial outbreaks at every major Marine base in the world, except one. In Vietnam, some units were disarmed after coming out of the bush, as there had been firefights between white and Black Marines. A celebration of Martin Luther King’s life by Black Marines at Chu Lai in April 1969, one year after his assassination, had been surrounded by tanks. Racial “relations” were terrible. (As was true in all the other branches, in Vietnam, the US and on bases in Europe.)…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/20/fighting-rac…

Neoliberal ‘Omnibus Law’ sparks rebellion in Indonesia
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-20
A major protest movement is underway in Indonesia against the neoliberal, authoritarian-populist regime of Joko Widodo and his collaborators in the House of Representatives. Frans Ari Prasetyo explains the so-called ‘Omnibus Law’ that sparked the protest, and reports on the clashes now unfolding in Bandung and many other cities.
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Oregon prisoners resist denial of Covid-19 protocol
Johnnie Lewis | workers.org | 2020-10-20
Portland, Ore. On four successive days in late September, four prisoners in Oregon state prisons died of Covid-19. On Oct. 17, two more prisoners died of the virus. Family members protest Covid conditions in Oregon prisons, Pendleton, July. Credit: Bob Lonergan In mid-September more than 3,000 prisoners, including over 1,000 . . . | Continue reading Oregon prisoners resist denial of Covid-19 protocol at Workers.org…
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This system is sick
Editor | workers.org | 2020-10-20
The COVID-19 crisis is shedding a glaring light on the contradictions and failures of capitalism. Millions of lives are at risk — and it doesn’t have to be this way. Here in the United States — a country that for more than a century has been in the forefront of . . . | Continue reading This system is sick at Workers.org…
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Will ‘Nones’ Bring a Progressive Future?
James Haught | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
Someday, the coronavirus tragedy will be gone, wiped out by scientific vaccines. And Donald Trump will be just an unpleasant memory, an absurd reminder of what can happen when bigotry contaminates democracy. This part of the 21st century will be remembered chiefly, I predict, as the era when supernatural religion died among intelligent western people. I think it…
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CPS pushes to reopen: Parent solidarity says, ‘Keep children, teachers and administrators safe!’
Ana Santoyo | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-20
The following is re-posted from Reds in Ed website. The unelected school board of Chicago Public Schools and mayor of our city, at every stage of the pandemic, have pushed for reopening and in-person learning despite unsafe conditions in the midst of a global pandemic. On October 15, a record setting day with 4,015 new …
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Sine QAnon: the Publishers Clearing House of Conspiracy Theories
Todd Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-20
What, precisely, is QAnon? The Second Coming of, I don’t know — Jesus Christ? No, no, no! Try Jerry Springer, or Jimmy Swaggart, even. QAnon appears to be more of a likeness than an actual thing; provisionally, we could describe it as a peculiar conspiracy theory that aggregates all the other conspiracy theories… Now, looking …
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New Book: The Prospect of a Kamala Harris Presidency
Max Parry | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
With the 2020 U.S. presidential election less than a month away, there is widespread speculation concerning Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s mental and physical fitness at 77 years of age if he were to defeat incumbent Donald Trump on November | …
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2020-10-20
Health care sector worker in Buenos Aires, Argentina march to the city government offices to press demands for nurses to attain permanent professional status, emergency raises and additional staffing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/20/wrkr…

Turkey arrests Jordanian on suspicion of spying for UAE
Ragip Soylu | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-20
Turkey arrests Jordanian on suspicion of spying for UAE | Sources tell MEE Ahmed al-Astal posed as a Muslim Brotherhood supporter to spy on Arab dissidents | Ragip Soylu | Tue, 10/20/2020 – 10: 06 | Turkish police officers patrol in front of Hagia Sophia on 11 July 2020 in Istanbul (AFP) | Turkey’s intelligence agency has arrested a Jordanian national on accusation of spying for the United Arab Emirates. | Turkish int…
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$18 Billion COVID Vaccine Gold Rush Threatens Horseshoe Crabs, Ocean Ecosystem
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
The annual spring congregation of egg-laden horseshoe crabs on the east coast provide a vital food source for annual migrations of millions of shore birds. | The $18 billion gold rush for liability free COVID vaccines now threatens that ancient Atlantic …
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Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
Twenty-five percent (25%) of the Northern Hemisphere is permafrost. By all appearances, it is melting well beyond natural background rates, in fact, substantially! Making matters much, much worse, new research has identified past warming events of large-scale permafrost thaw in the Arctic that may be analogous to today, thus spotting a parallel problem of large-scale…
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Nuclear War Makes a Comeback
Carol Polsgrove | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
On websites where policy makers, scholars, and military leaders gather, concern about the possibility of nuclear war has been rising sharply in recent months as China, the United States, and Russia develop new weapons and new ways of using old ones. On War on the Rocks, an online platform for national security articles and podcasts,…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/20/nuclear-war-…

Poughkeepsie march against violence facing Black women and Black trans women
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-20
Poughkeepsie, NY – More than 100 people gathered in Poughkeepsie in upstate New York for a vigil and protest march, October 17, centered on the endemic violence facing Black women and Black trans women in the United States. | Protesters came from across the Hudson Valley, a popular tourist destination 90 minutes north of New York City. The Hudson Valley is noted for its spectacular fall foliage, its apple orchards, microbreweries, rock climbing and hiking trails. But the Hudson Valley is also a prison economy with nine of the largest prisons in the state of New York. Many of the towns suffer economic underdevelop…
fightbacknews.org/2020/10/19/poughkeepsi…

Nigerian protesters stay on the streets defying armed thugs as army begins 2-month-long exercise
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-20
Reports of armed thugs being on the prowl and even attacking protesters have come from many cities. The protests in Nigeria began on October 8 demanding the abolition of the infamous SARS police units…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/20/nigerian-…

What Are the Pharmaceutical Industry’s Connections to Schools of Public Health?
Prof. Bill Willers | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
Dr. Eric Rubin, an adjunct professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) since 2019. On October 8, 2020, an editorial in the Journal, “Dying in a …
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Room temperature superconductor reported to have worked for first time
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-20
This could have a big technological impact, as it raises the possibility of the development of electronic equipment that is much faster and does not overheat…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/20/room-temp…

The Communist Party of China: Putting the People First
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-20
Wherever we lift one soul from a life of poverty, we are defending human rights. And whenever we fail in this mission, we are failing human rights. — Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General Among other items “proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,” the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights …
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One hundred years of Indian communism
Prabhat Patnaik | mronline.org | 2020-10-20
The economic programme suggested for such a front included the right to strike, banning reductions of wages and dismissals of workers, an adequate minimum wage and 8-hour day, a 50 per cent reduction in rents and banning the seizure of peasant land against debt by imperialists, native princes, zamindars and money lenders.
mronline.org/2020/10/20/one-hundred-year…

America’s New Policy of Demoting Democracy
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
In November 2000, the battle between George W. Bush and Al Gore for the U.S. presidency was deadlocked over the status of a few thousand votes in Florida. Gore had won the popular vote, but the margin of victory in the Electoral College depended on Florida. In that state, Bush held a very slim lead…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/20/americas-new…

Anti-fascists across the UK honor volunteers of the International Brigade
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-20
Around 2500 volunteers from Britain and Ireland participated in the Spanish Civil War supporting the Spanish Left and Republican forces against the fascist forces led by Francisco Franco…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/20/anti-fasc…

Nigerian anti-police protests continue and garner international support
wsws.org | 2020-10-20
The dire social conditions are the product of colonial and neocolonial oppression by the imperialist powers on behalf of their banks and corporations, exacerbated by the venal and corrupt rule of the national bourgeoisie.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/20/nige…

How the Global Media Lost Its Way
Megan Sherman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
Herman and Chomsky call it the age of manufactured consent. Surrounded by propaganda, unable to determine motives behind selective presentation of content on an illusory spectrum of media choice, we yet depend on mainstream news to edify, inform our knowledge …
globalresearch.ca/how-global-media-lost-…

Poughkeepsie march against violence facing Black women and Black trans women
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-20
Poughkeepsie, NY – More than 100 people gathered in Poughkeepsie in upstate New York for a vigil and protest march, October 17, centered on the endemic violence facing Black women and Black trans women in the United States. | Protesters came from across the Hudson Valley, a popular tourist destination 90 minutes north of New York City. The Hudson Valley is noted for its spectacular fall foliage, its apple orchards, microbreweries, rock climbing and hiking trails. But the Hudson Valley is also a prison economy with nine of the largest prisons in the state of New York. Many of the towns suffer economic underdevelop…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/19/poughke…

Putting the ‘e’ in revolution
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-20
In 2020, it’s the unadorned ‘S’ word–‘socialism’–that could be impeding the move to a socially-just transformation to an economically-fairer and ecologically-sustainable world.
mronline.org/2020/10/20/putting-the-e-in…

Google and Justice Department headed for legal showdown over monopoly practices
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-20
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against tech giant Google today, claiming the company was functioning as an illegal monopoly. The DoJ claims that Google is “a monopoly gatekeeper for the internet” through its dominance in the field of online search and related businesses. The case against Google is based on antitrust law — …
liberationnews.org/google-and-justice-de…

Global Research: An Antidote to Isolation?
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
Dear Readers, | As the modern day world grows more and more isolated in both a literal and a figurative manner, the view points we put forth are not selected in the interest of pushing a specific narrative, but rather in …
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Competing with Nature: COVID-19 as a capitalist virus
Ashley Smith | mronline.org | 2020-10-20
He’s turned it into a political propaganda unit to the point that it is unable to deal even with a major outbreak within our own borders. The U.S. is beginning to exhibit the features of a failed nation state.
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Sloppy Methodology: Social Media, Censorship and New York Post’s Hunter Biden Story
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
It was highly probable. Given the howls of concern that social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook nurse and nurture a bias (every choice on content entails one), a gift was made to critics to show just that. Last …
globalresearch.ca/social-media-censorshi…

Participants of the Minga continue to wait for a meeting with Colombian President Iván Duque
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-20
The organizations of the Social Minga are demanding protection for social leaders, right to defend their land, right to democracy and the construction of peace in the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/20/participa…

Policies Targeting Arabs and Muslims Did Not Just Start with Donald Trump
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
Donald Trump is not the first politician to use demonisation of foreigners, whether Arabs or Muslims, as a campaign tactic. And his administration is not the first to implement policies that have adversely affected these communities. But while we have …
globalresearch.ca/policies-targeting-ara…

Portland protesters leave ‘Kill the president’ message on police union building & set fire to pro-cop billboard (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-10-20
Demonstrators in Portland vandalized the office of the local police union and torched a billboard that expressed support for law enforcement, amid ongoing unrest in the Oregon city that has stretched for months. | Protesters marched to the Portland Police Association (PPA) building on Monday night as they chanted “No justice, no peace.” The building, which had been boarded up after being repeatedly attacked by rioters during previous demonstrations, was then defaced with graffiti. Messages spray-painted on the wood panels included: “Burn this,” “Cops are murderers,” and “Kill the president.” | #PortlandProtest…
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Trauma surgeons decry UNDERREPORTING of US gun violence & cherry-picking media coverage in damning new report
rt.com | 2020-10-20
A new study led by trauma surgeons has decried US media coverage of gun violence, claiming that the disproportionate emphasis placed on fatal and multiple shootings negatively impacts survivors and broader public policy. | The researchers fear a skewed perspective on gun violence dominates the media narrative in the US and paints a somewhat unrealistic picture of the everyday tragedies which occur, influencing public policy and perception to the detriment of survivors and their families. | “I am particularly saddened when I find there was no media reporting on the shootings that have caused injury and death to…
rt.com/usa/503995-surgeons-decry-gun-vio…

‘I don’t care Trump doesn’t like black people’: Rapper 50 Cent says ‘Vote Trump’ reacting to Biden’s tax hike plan
rt.com | 2020-10-20
Rapper 50 Cent has become an unlikely supporter of Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, with the hip hop artist reacting in horror to Joe Biden’s tax plan, which hikes rates on high earners, and calling on fans to “vote for Trump.” | The ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’ star threw his weight behind the president in an Instagram post on Monday, sharing a screencap from a news broadcast showing the top combined state and local tax rates under Biden’s proposal along with an outraged caption. | “WHAT THE F**K! (VOTE for TRUMP) I’M OUT. F**K NEW YORK The KNICKS never win anyway,” he wrote, adding “I don’t care Trump doesn’t…
rt.com/usa/503962-50-cent-endorses-trump…

‘Won’t happen under Kamala-Biden ticket’: Fox Sports duo caught mocking military flyover in apparent hot mic moment (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-10-20
Fox Sports casters Joe Buck and Troy Aikman have caused quite a controversy among conservative circles in the US after they were apparently caught on a hot mic poking fun at military flyovers before sports events. | The hot mic moment happened during Fox Sports’ coverage of Sunday’s NFC game between the Packers and Buccaneers. In a video published by Defector (who said it got it from an unnamed “tipster”), the pair is heard mocking pregame military flyovers, a regular occurrence at US sporting events, as a waste of taxpayer money. | t.co/0IZL6GhmZy pic.twitter.com/…
rt.com/usa/503980-military-flyover-hot-m…

Televangelist Pat Robertson predicts Trump will win re-election and bring about THE END TIMES
rt.com | 2020-10-20
Christian Broadcasting Network founder Pat Robertson has predicted that President Donald Trump will secure re-election, which he says will then lead to the end of the world. | “…The next thing is the election that’s coming up in just a few weeks, at which time, according to what I believe the Lord told me, the president is going to be re-elected,” Robertson prophesized during his show on Tuesday. The preacher then added that Trump’s victory is “going to lead to civil unrest, and then a war against Israel and so forth…” | According to Robertson, the war’s outcome has also already been pre-determined. “There…
rt.com/usa/504056-pat-robertson-trump-20…

Portland protesters leave ‘Kill the president’ message on police union building & set fire to pro-cop billboard (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-10-20
Demonstrators in Portland vandalized the office of the local police union and torched a billboard that expressed support for law enforcement, amid ongoing unrest in the Oregon city that has stretched for months. | Protesters marched to the Portland Police Association (PPA) building on Monday night as they chanted “No justice, no peace.” The building, which had been boarded up after being repeatedly attacked by rioters during previous demonstrations, was then defaced with graffiti. Messages spray-painted on the wood panels included: “Burn this,” “Cops are murderers,” and “Kill the president.” | Some of the new…
rt.com/usa/503983-portland-billboard-pol…

‘Won’t happen under Kamala-Biden ticket’: Fox Sports duo caught mocking military flyover in apparent hot mic moment (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-10-20
Fox Sports casters Joe Buck and Troy Aikman have caused quite a controversy among conservative circles in the US after they were apparently caught on a hot mic poking fun at military flyovers before sports events. | The hot mic moment happened during Fox Sports’ coverage of Sunday’s NFC game between the Packers and Buccaneers. In a video published by Defector (who said it got it from an unnamed “tipster”), the pair is heard mocking pregame military flyovers, a regular occurrence at US sporting events, as a waste of taxpayer money. | Even Joe Buck and Troy Aikman find pregame flyovers to be a little much these…
rt.com/usa/503980-military-flyover-hot-m…

Melania Trump cancels campaign event with Donald over ‘lingering cough’ following Covid diagnosis
rt.com | 2020-10-20
The return of Melania Trump to the US campaign trail has been delayed, with the first lady cancelling her trip to Pennsylvania with her husband due to an ongoing cough, as she continues to recover from her Covid-19 infection. | Melania will not now travel together with President Donald Trump on Tuesday night “out of abundance of caution,” said Stephanie Grisham, her chief of staff. | The first lady “continues to feel better every day following her recovery from Covid-19,” Grisham added, but she said her “lingering cough” remained an issue. | The campaign rally in Erie, Pennsylvania was expected to be Melania’s…
rt.com/usa/504054-melania-trump-cancels-…

US Justice Department & 11 states file antitrust lawsuit against Google, say giant pays ‘billions each year’ to sideline rivals
rt.com | 2020-10-20
Google has been hit by a lawsuit which alleges that the internet giant engaged in anticompetitive behavior, giving its search engine an unfair advantage over rival services. | The US government has accused Google, a unit of the tech giant’s umbrella company Alphabet Inc., of paying “billions” each year to distributors, including mobile phone companies and web browser developers, to secure default status for its search engine. | For years, Google has entered into exclusionary agreements, including tying arrangements, and engaged in anticompetitive conduct to lock up distribution channels and block rivals. | T…
rt.com/usa/504020-google-antitrust-lawsu…

#MeToobin trends on Twitter as CNN legal analyst enters the pantless pantheon, after ‘jerking off’ on Zoom call
rt.com | 2020-10-20
CNN analyst and New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin is being slated online for masturbating during a Zoom call with colleagues. As #MeToobin trends on Twitter, Toobin enters the pantless pantheon of public figures caught in the act. | Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended from his job at the New Yorker magazine and been given leave from CNN, after exposing his genitals on a Zoom call with co-workers. According to Vice News, which broke the story on Monday, “Toobin was masturbating” during the teleconference, with his fellow journos saying they saw him “jerking off.” | “I thought I had muted the Zoom video,” the liber…
rt.com/usa/504033-metoobin-jeffrey-toobi…

‘LGB… QIA… Plus’? Tiffany Trump slammed for ‘disaster’ appearance at ‘Trump Pride’ event
rt.com | 2020-10-20
First daughter Tiffany Trump has received rare social media attention, but for all the wrong reasons, after bungling a speech at a pro-LGBT ‘Trump Pride’ campaign event in Florida. | Donald Trump’s daughter addressed what appeared to be a small scattering of supporters in an echoey hall in Tampa, Florida on Saturday, where she was to address LGBT Trump supporters. | The viral-video making moment came when Tiffany attempted to use the ‘LGBTQIA’ acronym, but stopped abruptly midway and botched it by leaving out the ‘T’. | “I know what my father believes in. Prior to politics he supported gays, lesbians, the L-G-…
rt.com/usa/504013-tiffany-trump-pride-sp…

Bahrain’s Mounting Anger over the Monarchy’s Official Formalization of Ties with Tel Aviv
Sondoss Al Assad | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-20
A joint delegation, head by US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, headed to Manama on Sunday, hoping to ink a communique that officially bolster the US-brokered normalization deal and establish the embassies in the two capitals. | According to the US Treasury, the trip focused on inking memorandums of understanding that cover trade, aviation services, telecommunications, finance as well as economic cooperation, tourism, science and technology. | Public Outrage: | Streams of citizens, from different backgrounds and affiliations, flood the streets across Bahrain in huge peaceful push to vehemently denounce the visit…
thealtworld.com/sondoss_alassad/bahrains…

Bahrain’s Mounting Anger over the Monarchy’s Official Formalization of Ties with Tel Aviv
Sondoss Al Assad | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-20
A joint delegation, led by US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, headed to Manama on Sunday, hoping to ink a communique that officially bolster the US-brokered normalization deal and establish the embassies in the two capitals. | According to the US Treasury, the trip focused on inking memorandums of understanding that cover trade, aviation services, telecommunications, finance as well as economic cooperation, tourism, science and technology. | Public Outrage: | Streams of citizens, from different backgrounds and affiliations, flood the streets across Bahrain in huge peaceful push to vehemently denounce the visit.
thealtworld.com/sondoss_alassad/bahrains…

The New York Times Is Anti-White and Anti-American
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-20
The vast majority of the New York Times’s subscribers are white people. These are people who apparently are so emotionally and mentally weak and so full of guilt and self-loathing that they support a rabid anti-American propaganda organization that brands its readers “racists” and delegitimises the founding principles of the United States. | The US Defense Secretary, Espy, distracts us with the “Russian and Chinese enemies,” while the worst enemy that the United States has ever had–The New York Times–carries on its deadly attack of deconstructing America. The New York Times’ position is that America i…
thealtworld.com/paul_craig_roberts/the-n…

A Bunch of Union Organizers Explain What’s Wrong with Unions
Hamilton Nolan | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
We asked the real experts about the gap between public enthusiasm for unions and the lack of actual union members…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-bunch-of-union-o…

Trump Will Never Admit Error. His Lack of Self-Accountability Is Deadly
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
Trump is still breathing because of the medical data gathered from people he allowed to die…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-will-never-a…

Can’t Find My Way Home
Lee Ballinger | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
The American people have paid for all of these empty housing units through our taxes, public services, and subsidies to banks. We should be able to stay in them if we need to because, by any logical or moral standard, they belong to us…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/cant-find-my-way-h…

Honor the Warrior, Not the War
Kim Scipes | zcomm.org | 2020-10-20
Honor your loved ones and the ones who served for their personal ideals and attributes. They deserve that…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/honor-the-warrior-…

New Global Campaign — Nestle’s Troubled Waters
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-20
Evart is taking center stage in North America’s “water wars” as local advocates demand that Nestlé Waters North America revert its claimed rights to the White Pine Springs back to the public trust. These springs, a source for Ice Mountain’s bottled water brand, have long been subject to community opposition due to the company’s legacy of broken promises, ecological harm, and removal of our most precious public resource: our water. | Nestlé Waters’ announcement last summer that it is considering the sale of its bulk bottled water business…
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Base Contaminates Maryland Waters With Toxic Chemicals
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-20
The Air Force has contaminated the groundwater at Joint Base Andrews with 39,700 parts per trillion of PFAS chemicals according to report released by the Air Force in May, 2018. This is not exactly “Breaking News” although few know about it. | The base pollutes the Patuxent and Potomac rivers. Groundwater from numerous sites on base where PFAS-laden foams were used move east toward the Patuxent as well as west toward the Potomac. Meanwhile, surface water from the base travels to Piscataway Creek, Cabin Branch Creek, Henson Creek, and Meetinghouse Branch, emptying waters to both rivers.
popularresistance.org/base-contaminates-…

Houston Racist KPFT Coupster Bill Crosier & Supporters at KPFA & Pacifica
SRACC | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Former Pacifica interim executive director Bill Crosier called the police on the Black staff at KPFT and now wants to institute corporate bylaws. He has opposed community Black and Brown programming at Houston and supported racist programmers. He and his corporate racist agenda is being supported by KPFA programmers and other programmers in Pacifica as well as “liberals” like Code Pink leader Jodie Evans. While these people complain about the corporatization of the state, they are supporting the corporatization of the Pacific bylaws and ending democratic governance to a hand picked corporate team that supported t…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/1883771…

Saturday 10/24: Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis: Poverty & Policy Solutions Virtual Conference (Day 2)
Kairos Center, PPC, and partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Online/virtual conference (FREE)…
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Saturday 10/24: Meetup: Stories from the Community
Direct Action Everywhere | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Online…
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Friday 10/23: Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis: Poverty & Policy Solutions Virtual Conference (Day 1)
Kairos Center, PPC, and partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Online/virtual conference (FREE)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/1883770…

Corona vaccine development – they prefer not to ask about risks and side effects
Jens Berger and Tobias Riegel | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Thousands or even millions could be vaccinated on the basis of “emergency approval.” We will probably have to live with the virus. The current strategy of damaging measures until a vaccine is available is a bumpy path with incalculable risks, side effects and already visible collateral damage. Jens Berger and Tobias Riegel are German journalists who publish regularly on nachdenkseiten.de.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/20/1883772…

Saturday 10/24: Your Vote, Your World: #GOTV Virtual Rally for Climate, Racial, & Social Justice
Climate Reality Project and partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/1883770…

Tuesday 10/20: Secrets don’t make friends: mastering Freedom of Information requests
Direct Action Everywhere | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Online…
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Wednesday 10/21: Feinstein school protest: Resign from Senate!
Michael Petrelis | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Feinstein Elementary School | 2550 – 25th Avenue | Btwn Ulloa & Vincente Streets…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/20/1883772…

The complementary reality
Roland Rottenfusser | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Where we cannot completely displace the mainstream, we should first try to supplement it with our own more humane concepts.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/1883771…

Tuesday 10/20: “Surviving Autocracy”: Jounalist Masha Gessen on the Destruction of America Under Trump
Haymarket Books | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/1883769…

Welcome to the new normality!
Tobias Riegel | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Contradiction is demonized in general. A state of emergency becomes the new normality. Corona criticism creates “strange bedfellows.”
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/20/1883772…

Sunday 10/25: Mass Public Assembly to Protest & Demand: Trump/Pence Out Now!
Refuse Fascism Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-10-20
Civic Center Plaza, Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/1883770…

Instability, Poverty and Nuclear Weapons
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-20
The President of the United States has the power to fire off thousands of nuclear weapons and destroy the world. As succinctly explained by William Perry and Tom Collina in the New York Times, “Mr. Trump has the absolute authority to start a nuclear war. Within minutes, the president could unleash the equivalent of more than 10,000 Hiroshima bombs. He does not need a second opinion. The defense secretary has no say. Congress has no role.” | This is the Trump who contracted the Covid 19 virus and on October 2 was tak…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/20/in…

The Heat: China’s economy
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-10-20
China’s economy is surging ahead. We will take a look at the numbers and how China’s experience can drive the world’s recovery.
america.cgtn.com/2020/10/20/the-heat-chi…

We can choose peace, security, stability for all: Zarif
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister said that countries can choose peace, security, stability, and prosperity for all.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164977/We-can-choos…

Foreign drone crashes in NW Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — A foreign drone has crashed in Khoda Afarin county, East Azarbaijan province, amid military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164961/Foreign-dron…

End of Iran arms embargo should be implemented: China
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Referring to Washington’s obstruction of arms deals with Iran, Permanent Mission of China in Vienna said that the end of Iran arms embargo should be faithfully implemented.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164948/End-of-Iran-…

1st phase of UNSCR 2231 completed on Oct. 18: Chinese FM
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Chinese Foreign Minister emphasized the need for maintaining and implementing Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action and UN Security Council Resolution 2231, adding that the first phase of the resolution was completed on Oct. 18.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164975/1st-phase-of…

Termination of UNSC arms embargo to entail economic benefits
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Tuesday that the removal of the UNSC arms embargo will bring Iran positive economic consequences and benefits.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164952/Termination-…

Iranian COVID-19 vaccine to enter human phase in mid-Nov
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki said that the Iranian coronavirus vaccine has passed animal test and will enter the human test phase in mid-November 2020.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164955/Iranian-COVI…

VIDEO: Miraculous rescue of woman from an accident in Ukraine
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — A woman was miraculously rescued from a deadly accident with a loader in Ukraine.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164973/VIDEO-Miracu…

Iran’s export going on stably despite tough sanctions
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Executive of Tehran Province Industrial Townships said that export of country’s products remains stable despite all tough and illegal sanctions imposed against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164976/Iran-s-expor…

Foreign exchange rates on negative track
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Foreign exchange rates started Tuesday on a negative track.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164966/Foreign-exc…

133 countries in intl. sections of Resistance film fest
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Head of the Public Relations and Information Centre of the 16th Resistance International Film Festival, Seyyed Ahad Mikaeilzadeh, said so far over 133 countries have participated in the international section of the event.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164957/133-countrie…

Agricultural Min. hosts Intl. Day for Rural Women Celebration
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — A ceremony to commemorate ‘International Day of Rural Women’ was held at the Research Center of Ministry of Agriculture on Monday in the presence of First Vice President Es’hagh Jahangiri.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164932/Agricultura…

Iran’s defense power based on deterrence: Gen. Rashid
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Commander of Khatam-al Anbiya Central Headquarters said on Tuesday that Iran’s military power is meant to deter the threats.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164954/Iran-s-defen…

Muslims not to accept disdain of compromising with Zionists
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that Muslim nations will not accept the humiliation of compromising with the Zionist regime in any way.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164979/Muslims-not-…

Iran, Pakistan hold Virtual Coproduction Panel at ICFF Fest
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — The virtual joint production panel between Iran and Pakistan was held on Monday evening, October 19.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164970/Iran-Pakista…

12 Afghan police officers killed in Nimruz Province
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — Twelve members of Afghan local police forces were killed in two blasts in Nimruz Province on Tuesday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164978/12-Afghan-po…

Iran Covid-19 update: 322 deaths in past 24 hours
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-20
TEHRAN, Oct. 20 (MNA) — The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 5,039 new COVID-19 infections and 322 deaths due to the disease in the past 24 hours.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164958/Iran-Covid-1…

UK researchers to explore human challenge studies for COVID-19
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-20
Researchers are set to explore a human challenge study with the virus that causes COVID-19, the first such study anywhere in the world.
imperial.ac.uk/news/206893/uk-researchers-explore-human-challenge-studies

“Our art should reflect who we are today” – Imperial artworks group formed
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-20
Imperial is to review the artwork displayed on its campuses in a drive to better represent the diversity of its community.
imperial.ac.uk/news/206933/our-should-reflect-today-imperial-artworks

NSPCC under fire for accepting donations from UK company implicated in the demolition of Palestinian homes
Tom Anderson | thecanary.co | 2020-10-20
Campaigners are calling on the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to stop accepting donations from UK company JCB. | JCB equipment used to demolish Palestinian homes: | Last week, The Canary reported: JCB equipment is regularly used by Israeli forces to demolish Palestinian homes. Over 600 Palestinian homes and structures were demolished in 2019…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/20/nspcc-un…

Devastating survey of rape survivors shows need for systemic change
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-20
Fewer than one in seven alleged rape victims feels confident they can obtain justice by reporting the matter to police, a survey has suggested.Disbelief: The vast majority (95%) of those who decided against reporting the matter to police said they did not do so because of the fear of being disbelieved. The figures were based on nearly 500 women and men responding to a survey by the victims’ commissioner Vera Baird who said the results “reveal the extent of the crisis within our justice system”. | The study is unlikely to allay current fears over the path to justice for victims following a sharp fall in rap…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/20/devastat…

Britannic Impunity: Torture and the UK Overseas Operations Bill
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-20
It was praised by Michael Clarke, former Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute, as “clear and entire laudable” — at least up to a point. The UK Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill would “give [British] troops serving overseas much-needed extra protection against fraudulent or frivolous claims against them of criminal behaviour.” It…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/20/britannic-im…

Russia’s daily coronavirus cases hit record high of 16,319
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
Russia recorded a record high 16,319 new cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, including 4,999 in the capital Moscow, to take the national total to 1,431,635.Authorities reported 269 deaths in the last 24 hours, taking Russia’s official death toll to 24,635….
yenisafak.com/en/world/russias-daily-cor…

Bread crisis deepens in regions under Assad control
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
The Bashar al-Assad regime, which is incapable of meeting the basic needs of the people living in the regions it controls in Syria, cannot prevent a bread crisis from worsening.The bread crisis has deepened in the last two weeks and turned into an endless ordeal to the people in regime-held areas.Due to the ongoing fuel crisis, some bakeries in crowded cities such as the capital Damascus, Aleppo, Homs and Hama have come to a standstill.The regime, which is trying to maintain its power by killing hundreds of thousands of civilians in the country, cannot provide flour for bakeries in the regions under its control.F…
yenisafak.com/en/world/bread-crisis-deep…

‘China’s potential vaccines show no adverse reaction’
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
China claimed on Tuesday that its experimental vaccines for protection against COVID-19 have shown “no adverse reaction.” “So far, none of those who have received the ’emergency use’ vaccine have shown severe adverse reactions,” Zheng Zhongwei, a top official at China’s National Health Commission, was quoted as saying by the state-run Global Times newspaper.Pharma giants in many countries have resisted the idea of taking a shortcut in rolling out an antigen for the novel virus.China and Russia, however, have started vaccinating a select group of people with experimental shots, prompting a debate on risks of admin…
yenisafak.com/en/world/chinas-potential-…

Iran reports record 5,039 new daily COVID-19 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
Iran’s health ministry on Tuesday reported 5,039 new coronavirus infections in the previous 24 hours, the highest ever daily tally, pushing the national total to 539,670.Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari told state TV that 322 people had died from the disease in the previous 24 hours, bringing the official death toll to 31,034 in Iran, one of the worst-hit countries in the Middle East.
yenisafak.com/en/world/iran-reports-reco…

Bosnia commemorates 1st president Izetbegovic’s death
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
Bosnia and Herzegovina this week commemorates the 17th death anniversary of Alija Izetbegovic, independent Bosnia’s first president and one of the most important Muslim thinkers of the last century.Izetbegovic — a politician, writer, lawyer, and philosopher who came to international prominence during the bitter 1992-1995 Bosnian War — is commemorated every year on the anniversary of his death.Having struggled against fascism and Chetnik nationalists during World War II and later communism, Izetbegovic fought for the independence of Bosnia Herzegovina from Yugoslavia in the 1990s as well as to raise the religiou…
yenisafak.com/en/news/bosnia-commemorate…

India: 20 Muslims cleared of flouting virus rules
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
A court in western on India Tuesday acquitted 20 members of a Muslim group who had been charged with violating the nationwide lockdown in April.The members of the Tablighi Jamaat, including 10 from Kyrgyzstan and 10 from Indonesia, were booked in the state of Maharashtra for attempted murder and culpable homicide not amounting to murder.The police also charged them under laws against spreading diseases and preventing disasters.Ruling in the case, Metropolitan Magistrate RR Khan said: “There was no iota of evidence with prosecution to show any contravention of order by accused persons beyond all shadow of doubt. D…
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Spanish govt agrees 5.79 bln euro plan to lift job market
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
The government will include the plan in next year’s budget to be debated and approved in the coming weeks in parliament, Montero said following a weekly cabinet meeting. ($1 = 0.8468 euros)…
yenisafak.com/en/world/spanish-govt-agre…

Hashd al-Shaabi head decries attack on KDP office
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
The leader of the Hashd al-Shaabi militia in Iraq has decried an attack on the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) branch office in Baghdad as a criminal act.Falih Alfayyadh told state television that 15 people who stormed the headquarters of the party were arrested.He said that al-Hashd al-Shaabi was not responsible for the occasional missile attacks against the US and other foreign missions in Baghdad.”Those who attack foreign representatives are illegal groups that have nothing to do with us,” Alfayyadh stressed.Supporters of the Hashd al-Shaabi militia ransacked the KDP headquarters in Baghdad and set it on fi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/hashd-al-shaabi-h…

Coronavirus cases in Eurasia up by 7,376
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
Coronavirus infections and deaths continued their upward trend across Eurasia and Central Asia on Tuesday.- UkraineUkraine’s Health Minister Maksim Stepanov announced 5,469 new cases over the past 24 hours, bringing the tally on 309,107.The death toll in the country rose to 5,786 as 113 people died from COVID-19, while 3,044 more patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 126,489, Stepanov said.Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelenskiy met with religious leaders in his country and asked for their support amid the rising number of virus cases.Zelenskiy said that if the number of daily cases reach 9…
yenisafak.com/en/world/coronavirus-cases…

Mass grave of Daesh victims found in Iraq’s Kirkuk
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-20
A mass grave of dozens of Iraqis killed by the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group was unearthed in the northern Kirkuk province, according to a local security officer on Tuesday.The grave in the town of Dawood al-Alouka contains the remains of 45 people killed by Daesh/ISIS terrorists, the officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.He said forensic authorities will exhume the bodies for DNA tests to identify them.Daesh/ISIS terrorists gained full control in Mosul, Salahadin and Anbar provinces and seized territories in Diyala and Kirkuk in 2014. But Iraqi security forces ma…
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Amnesty International condemns Johnson government
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-10-20
By TruePublica: Amnesty International has catalogued how the actions of Boris Johnson’s Conservative government led to the deaths of thousands of elderly people in care homes during the first stage of the coronavirus pandemic. Amnesty’s report was largely ignored by the media or relegated to inside pages. Yet it presents evidence that the government’s policy …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/amnesty-international-condemns-johnson-government/

Epidemiological Evidence: The “Pandemic” is Over. No “Second Wave” will Follow
Dr. Stephen Malthouse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
October 2020 | Dr. Bonnie Henry, | British Columbia Provincial Health Officer, | Ministry of Health, | Victoria, BC V8W 3C9 | Dear Dr. Henry, | I am a physician who has been in family medical practice in BC for more than 40 years and …
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Anger as public funds extend life of dirty Vales Point power station
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-20
The federal government has given the ageing privately-owned Vales Point coal fired power station on the NSW Central Coast a public funding boost, reports Margaret Gleeson.
greenleft.org.au/content/anger-public-fu…

From Rebel Teas to marching bands: A year of protest culture in Chile
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-20
October 18 marked one year of mass protests for systemic change in Chile, and one year of brutal repression, writes Sandra Cuffe. It has also been a year filled with a resurgence of protest art and music, neighbourhood organising, feminist influences, city-specific forms of protest, local experiments in direct democracy, and mutual aid.
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From Rebel Teas to marching bands: A year of protest culture in Chile
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-20
October 18 marked one year of mass protests for systemic change in Chile, and one year of brutal repression, writes Sandra Cuffe.
greenleft.org.au/content/rebel-teas-marc…

Thai democracy movement supported in Brisbane
Alex Bainbridge | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-20
Alex Bainbridge reports on a rally outside the Thai consulate in Brisbane on October 20 to express support for the democracy movement in Thailand.
greenleft.org.au/content/thai-democracy-…

Anger as public funds extend life of dirty Vales Point power station
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-20
The federal government has given the ageing privately-owned Vales Point coal fired power station on the NSW Central Coast a public funding boost, writes Margaret Gleeson.
greenleft.org.au/content/anger-public-fu…

Parliament set to push through new attack on universities
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-20
Federal parliament looks set to approve the government’s latest attack on higher education, which will hike up fees and cut funding overall, reports Leo Crnogorcevic.
greenleft.org.au/content/parliament-set-…

Nuovo comando Usa per la battaglia navale Nato in Europa
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-20
A Norfolk in Virginia (Usa) è nato un nuovo comando Nato: il Joint Force Command Norfolk, definito ´Comando Atlantico ª, un clone del Joint Force Command Naples con quartier generale a Lago Patria (Napoli). La sua costituzione era stata approvata dal …
globalresearch.ca/nuovo-comando-usa-per-…

The death penalty protested in Texas for the 21st year
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-10-20
Houston The incredible depth and breadth of capital punishment was brought out very clearly on Oct. 10, as the 21st Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty was held. Even though it was a virtual event this year, the passions, emotions, dedication and love shared by all participants were empowering . . . | Continue reading The death penalty protested in Texas for the 21st year at Workers.org…
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Zuckerberg quietly hid left-wing news from you, it’s just been revealed
Jasmine Norden | thecanary.co | 2020-10-20
Facebook intentionally curbed the visibility of left-leaning news outlets from its algorithm in 2017, limiting their readership, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has reported. | According to WSJ, when Facebook engineers altered the newsfeed algorithm to reduce political news, changes had a larger impact on left-wing sites. The WSJ reported that Mark Zuckerberg personally approved the changes. | T…
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Sunak’s latest plan will ‘cut families adrift’, warn campaigners
Jasmine Norden | thecanary.co | 2020-10-20
MPs are due to vote on the amount of Universal Credit families will receive next year in November. | The extra £20 uplift in Universal Credit that began in April is currently planned to be cut. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) estimated this would add up to 16m people losing over £1,000 a year. | Many organisations, including JRF and End Child Poverty (ECP) coalition wrote t…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/20/sunaks-l…

Baseball’s Race Problem
Gene Seymour | thenation.com | 2020-10-20
Baseball’s Race Problem…
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Why Are People Watching Less Sports?
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-10-20
Why Are People Watching Less Sports?
thenation.com/article/society/sports-cor…

Trump Is Butchering Our Regulatory Infrastructure
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2020-10-20
Trump Is Butchering Our Regulatory Infrastructure…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-env…

First-Time Voters Want to Have a Say in Our Country’s Future
Laila Annmarie Stevens | thenation.com | 2020-10-20
First-Time Voters Want to Have a Say in Our Country’s Future…
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Socialists win big in Bolivia; Morales expected to return from exile
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-19
Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca, presidential and vice-presidential candidates, respectively, for Bolivia’s Movement Toward Socialism Party (MAS), scored an overwhelming first-round election victory on Oct. 18. They won 53% of the vote, showing strength in cities and rural areas alike. MAS was formerly headed by deposed President Evo Morales. The Supreme Election Tribunal certified the …
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Bolivia: Political Figures Acknowledge Arce’s Victory In The Polls
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-19
Several important voices of the Latin American’s political landscape Monday acknowledged Luis Arce’s victory in the Bolivian presidential elections. | RELATED: | Luis Arce: ‘We Recovered Democracy and Took Back Our Country’ | Citizens Community Alliance (CCA) presidential candidate Carlos Mesa acknowledged the victory of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) and said that “the difference between the first candidate and the CCA is wide and it is up to us who believe in democracy to r…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-several-…

Socialist Presidential Candidate Arce Wins Bolivia’s Elections
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-19
After midnight on Sunday, Bolivian authorities allowed the results of the exit polls to be known. The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) presidential candidate Luis Arce obtained 52.4 percent of the votes, the Citizen Community (CC) candidate Carlos Mesa got 31.5 percent, and the “We Believe Alliance” candidate Luis Fernando Camacho reached 14.1 percent of the votes. | RELATED: | The Long Wait for Official Results Disconcerts Bolivia | Bolivia’s president-elect Arce thanked th…
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We have regained hope, says Luis Arce as estimates show MAS victory in Bolivian presidential polls
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-19
The Unitel-Ciesmori estimate showed the Luis Arce-David Choquehuanca ticket of the MAS winning over 52% of the vote. Shortly after, the president of the coup regime, Jeanine Añez, acknowledged the victory of the MAS…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/19/we-have-r…

Latin American Leaders Congratulate Arce On MAS Victory
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-19
Numerous elected leaders and heads of state in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, congratulated Bolivian President-elect Luis Arce as the winner in Sunday’s elections. | RELATED: | Socialist Presidential Candidate Arce Wins Bolivia’s Elections | In a message published on Twitter, López Obrador praised this result and congratulated the Bolivian people for resolving the country’s conflict…
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Bolivia: Arce’s First Measure: Anti-Hunger Bonds For Poor
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-19
Pending the official results of the elections in Bolivia, Arce is already preparing a team to organize the transition and restore the state apparatus. | The candidate for the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS), Luis Arce, who, according to the quick count of the votes, was the winner of the elections in Bolivia, expressed that the first thing he will do is give anti-hunger bonds to the poor. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Political Figures Acknowledge Arce’s Victory In The Polls | Arce sai…
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Luis Arce: ‘We Recovered Democracy and Took Back Our Country’
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-19
The winner of Bolivia’s elections Luis Arce Monday celebrated the unofficial results of the quick vote-counting as he said, “we will govern for all, we will redirect the change without hate.” | RELATED: | Socialist Presidential Candidate Arce Wins Bolivia’s Elections | On Sunday night, Bolivian authorities allowed the results of the exit polls to be presented to the public. There it was observed that the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) won the elections with 53 percent of the v…
telesurenglish.net/news/Luis-Arce-We-Rec…

Venezuela Welcomes ‘Return to Democracy’ in Bolivia
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-10-19
Progressive Luis Arce won the elections, putting an end to the de facto presidency of the Washington-backed Jeanine Añez.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15026

In Bolivia, a mood of watchful celebration prevails
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-19
We talk to Zoe PC of Peoples Dispatch, who is in Bolivia as part of an election observation team, on the situation on the ground as exit polls and the main opposition candidate have acknowledged the victory of the Luis Arce-David Choquehuanca ticket of MAS…
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Socialists claim major victory in Bolivia, one year after US-backed coup
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-19
Evo Morales’ party has claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential election. Exit polls giving the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party over 50% of the vote.To win in the first round, a candidate needs more than 50% of the vote, or 40% with a lead of at least 10 percentage points over the second-placed candidate.The election was marked by tension after Morales was deposed in a US-backed coup in November 2019. Electoral monitors reported threats and harassment from Bolivian security forces.With a private quick count of sampled polling stations favouring MAS candidate Luis Arce by a wide margin, even unelected inte…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/10/1…

Socialists claim major victory in Bolivia, one year after US-backed coup
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-19
Evo Morales’ party has claimed victory in Bolivia’s presidential election. Exit polls give the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party over 50% of the vote.To win in the first round, a candidate needs more than 50% of the vote, or 40% with a lead of at least 10 percentage points over the second-placed candidate.The election was marked by tension after Morales was deposed in a US-backed coup in November 2019. Electoral monitors reported threats and harassment from Bolivian security forces.With a private quick count of sampled polling stations favouring MAS candidate Luis Arce by a wide margin, even unelected interi…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/10/1…

Venezuela congrats Bolivia’s Arce as he claims victory
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-19
Venezuela’s president on Monday congratulated the Bolivian left-wing presidential hopeful Luis Arce as he claimed victory in Sunday’s poll.”Great victory! The united and conscious Bolivian people defeated the coup against our brother [former President] Evo [Morales] with their votes,” Nicolas Maduro said on Twitter.”Congratulations to President-elect Luis Arce, Vice President David Choquehuanca and our South Indian Chief @evoespueblo. Jallalla Bolivia!” he added.Jallalla, or long live, is an expression for jubilation in Aymara — an indigenous nation to which Morales belongs.Exit polls showed that the Movement fo…
yenisafak.com/en/news/venezuela-congrats…

Bolivia’s Mesa accepts election defeat after rapid vote count indicates solid victory for socialist Arce
rt.com | 2020-10-19
The Bolivian presidential centrist candidate Carlos Mesa conceded the election on Monday after an unofficial rapid vote count signaled a decisive victory for the socialist candidate Luis Arce. | “The result of the quick count is very strong and very clear,” Mesa, the leader of the centrist Comunidad Ciudadana coalition, said during a press conference. | “The difference between the first candidate and the Comunidad Ciudadana is wide and it is up to us, those of us who believe in democracy, to recognize that there has been a winner in this election.” | The Movement for Socialism (MAS) candidate, Luis Arce, recei…
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Exiled Bolivian President Morales vows to return to country ‘sooner or later’ after socialists’ election win
rt.com | 2020-10-19
Former President Evo Morales has announced his intention to return to Bolivia after his socialist ally Luis Arce secured a decisive victory in the country’s presidential election. | Speaking during a press conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Monday, Morales said he would be glad to return to his home country. | “Sooner or later we are going to return to Bolivia, that is not in debate,” Morales said, without giving any timeframe for his potential return. | My great desire is to return to Bolivia and enter my region. It is a matter of time. | The announcement follows Sunday’s presidential election in Boliv…
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‘Democracy Has Won’: Year After Right-Wing Coup Against Evo Morales, Socialist Luis Arce Declares Victory in Bolivia Election
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-19
“Brothers and sisters: the will of the people has been asserted,” Morales declared from exile in Argentina. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Bolivia Elections Live Blog
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-19
Bolivians go to the polls today, Sunday, October 18, in the first general elections since the last democratically elected president, Evo Morales, was forced out in a military coup last November, two months before his term had ended and despite election results showing he had won another term in a first-round election victory. Today’s elections had been postponed twice: first from May to September, and then from September to October. While Jeanine àÅñez, whose party had received just 4 percent of the vote last year, had taken office vowing to be a caretaker president until…
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Evo Morales: ‘MAS Fulfilled Its Promise, It Became Millions’
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-19
Bolivia’s former president Evo Morales Monday assured from Buenos Aires (Argentina) that “sooner or later” he will return to his country as he thanked the support of the Latin American progressive governments over the last year. | RELATED: | Socialist Presidential Candidate Arce Wins Bolivia’s Elections | “Bolivia was never alone. The governments of Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, and Cuba were a great support in these months of democratic absence in the country. Thanks to them, I…
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“We’ve recovered our democracy”: Bolivian coup regime humiliated as socialist wins landslide election
Adan Plascencia | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-19
The Bolivian people stood up to vote for sovereignty and regain their democracy. This is a humiliating blow to the far-right regime of coup-installed president Jeanine àÅñez and is being celebrated by the left across Latin America.
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MAS election victory in Bolivia generates wide repercussion
Prensa Latina | mronline.org | 2020-10-19
The victory in first round of the Movement towards Socialism (MAS) party in Bolivia, according to an exit poll, has generated several reactions on Monday after surpassing what was expected in the polls.
mronline.org/2020/10/19/mas-election-vic…

Media Responds With Apathy, Disappointment as US-Backed Coup Gov’t Concedes Defeat in Bolivia
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-19
Across the spectrum, corporate media has endorsed last year’s rightwing takeover of Bolivia, refusing to label it as a coup. Coverage of Sunday’s historical elections hasn’t been much better.
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October 1967: Che Guevara Is Executed
History.com Editors | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-19
This article was first published on History.com in November 2009. | On October 9, 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army. The U.S.-military-backed Bolivian forces captured Guevara on October 8 while …
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Hours before Bolivia goes the polls, early results system suspended, military mobilization in La Paz
Zoe PC | mronline.org | 2020-10-19
The first elections since the coup d’état will be held on October 18 amid a tense social and political climate. This includes a military mobilization in La Paz the night before the polls and the suspension of the DIREPRE early results system.
mronline.org/2020/10/19/hours-before-bol…

Media Responds With Apathy, Disappointment as US-Backed Coup Gov’t Concedes Defeat in Bolivia
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-19
Across the spectrum, corporate media has endorsed last year’s rightwing takeover of Bolivia, refusing to label it as a coup. Coverage of Sunday’s historical elections hasn’t been much better. | MPN– Bolivia’s Movement to Socialism (MAS) party is celebrating what appears to be a crushing, landslide victory in Sunday’s elections. Although official vote counting is far from over, exit polls show an overwhelming triumph for the socialists, and a repudiation of the right-wing military government of Jeanine Añez, wh…
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Socialism Wins in Bolivia, Corruption is Brought to Light in France
sputniknews.com | 2020-10-19
After being forced out of power, former Bolivian President Evo Morales’ party returns with over 50% of the people’s vote.
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Former OPCW Chief Says His Office Was Bugged While USA Pushed Iraq War
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-19
important new interview with The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté, the first Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has revealed new insights into the way the US exerted control over the Organisation in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion and the suspicious way pro-US narratives appear to be dominating controversies in the supposedly impartial OPCW to this day. | The most significant piece of new information revealed in this interview with the acclaimed former OPCW chief José Bustani is his assertion that while the US wa…
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Former OPCW Chief Says His Office Was Bugged While USA Pushed Iraq War
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-19
In an important new interview with The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté, the first Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has revealed new insights into the way the US exerted control over the Organisation in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion and the suspicious way pro-US narratives appear to be dominating controversies in the supposedly impartial OPCW to this day. | The most significant piece of new information revealed i…
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Why Big Tech’s monopoly power needs to be urgently checked
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-19
Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple are in the dock for their monopoly practices worldwide. While Facebook has been profiting off hate speech on its platforms, Google has been exploiting content creators for advertising revenue. Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha sheds more light on the malpractices of big tech companies.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/19/why-big-t…

Indigenous Women to Financial CEOs: Stop Abetting ‘Climate-Wrecking’ Tar Sands Sector or Expect More Resistance
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-19
“Join us putting the proverbial nail in the coffin of these dying unneeded industries.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The Expiration Of The Iranian Arms Embargo Opens Up Exciting Opportunities
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-19
The 13-year-long anti-Iranian arms embargo expired on Sunday, which creates exciting opportunities for the Islamic Republic to strengthen its national defense capabilities and cultivate even deeper relations with its top strategic partners such as China and Russia, possibly even playing them off against one another in a “friendly competition” so as to derive the greatest benefit. | The End Of The Embargo | The US is enraged that the UN let the 13-year-long anti-Iranian arms embargo expire on Sunday without e…
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Chavismo and the Left: A conversation with Reinaldo Iturriza (Part II)
Cira Pascual Marquina | mronline.org | 2020-10-19
A Chavista author and former minister talks about the Bolivarian Revolution’s innovations and internal tensions.
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Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-19
Art by Mr. Fish / Original to Scheerpost A Talk by Chris Hedges / Video and Text The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former… | Source…
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Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
Chris Hedges | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-19
Princeton, New Jersey ( Scheerpost) — The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former Yugoslavia. Voices from the past, Aristotle, Cicero, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Roth and Milovan Djilas, warned us. But blinded by self-d…
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Chris Hedges: The Politics Of Cultural Despair
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-19
The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former Yugoslavia. Voices from the past, Aristotle, Cicero, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Roth and Milovan Djilas, warned us. But blinded by self-delusion and hubris, as if we are somehow exempt from human experience and human nature, we refuse to listen.
popularresistance.org/chris-hedges-the-p…

Military Bases Never Go Unused
David Swanson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-19
If, like me, you have the unfortunate habit of pointing out the dishonesty of the cases made for various wars, and you begin to persuade people that the wars are not actually for the eradication of the weapons of mass …
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Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s “Homicidal” Pandemic Response & What’s at Stake in November Election
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-19
As President Trump campaigns in swing states that are also coronavirus hot spots, The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill argues he is directly responsible for the poor U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed almost 220,000 people in the country so far and sickened millions. “I don’t know how else to describe what Trump has done except homicidal,” says Scahill, host of a new seven-part audio series that examines the Trump era.
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Jeremy Scahill: Trump’s Xenophobia Is Horrific, But U.S. Immigration Policy Has Always Been Racist
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-19
In Part 2 of our discussion of the Trump era with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill about his new seven-part audio documentary “American Mythology,” he examines how Trump’s xenophobic immigration policies have been a “methodical, surgical operation” to make life miserable for both current and prospective immigrants, including asylum seekers fleeing violence. He also notes that while Trump’s policies have been particularly vicious, “this country has had a racist immigration policy for a very long time, and it’s bipartisan.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/19/jeremy_s…

Jeremy Scahill: Trump Has Incited White Supremacists & Emboldened Police to Act Outside the Law
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-19
As the 2020 presidential campaign enters its final two weeks, we look at the past four years of the Trump presidency with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept. His podcast “Intercepted” has just released the fourth chapter in a seven-part audio documentary titled “American Mythology,” which critically examines the Trump presidency and places it within a larger historical context. Scahill says Trump has empowered white supremacist vigilantes and given permission to law enforcement to act extrajudicially to enforce a racist status quo, but he cautions that “Donald Trump is not an aberration of U…
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Jeremy Scahill: “Trump Is Not the Root of the Problem, He Is a Product of American Imperial History”
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-19
Donald Trump ran for president in 2016 with a mixed message of attacking the legacy of the Iraq War and U.S. military adventurism, while simultaneously pledging to commit war crimes and promote imperialism. As we look back at Trump’s record, Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept, says his flouting of international norms and bullying of other countries is in keeping with how U.S. presidents have long behaved. “Donald Trump is not the root of the problem. Donald Trump is a product of American imperial history,” Scahill notes.
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/19/jeremy_s…

Diana Johnstone’s Memoir: Circle in the Darkness
Dr. Galina Litvinov De Roeck | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-19
Diana Johnstone’s memoir Circle in the Darkness is immensely absorbing. It recounts events one is familiar enough from reading the papers or watching the news, but then it takes you from what you think you know to what you …
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Nagorno-Karabakh Ceasefire 2.0?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-19
An October 9 Russia-brokered ceasefire between Armenia and Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh (NK below) failed to take hold. | On Saturday, warring sides again agreed to halt fighting, effective Sunday, citing humanitarian reasons. | An Azeri Foreign Ministry statement said the following: | “The …
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Burkina Faso ‘one step short of famine’, warns UN food relief agency
news.un.org | 2020-10-19
Unless access is urgently granted to humanitarian organizations, thousands in the Central Sahel will be “pushed into further destitution”, the UN emergency food relief agency warned on Monday.
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Colombia: Duque Still Not Responding to Social Minga’s Request
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-19
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque has not yet confirmed whether he will meet with representatives of the Indigenous Minga, which arrived in Bogota on Sunday. | RELATED: | Colombia: Indigenous Minga Arrives in Bogota to Meet with Duque | Duque assured that he does not rule out the possibility of dialogue with the social movement, which began its journey to the capital on October 14. However, he still does not define the date or place of the meeting. | “No one has to make ultimatum…
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Massive Rally In Support Of Sipekne’katik Harvesters, Treaty Rights
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-19
Halifax, Nova Scotia – About a thousand people gathered in Grand Parade on Sunday, singing, drumming and voicing their support for Indigenous harvesters on Nova Scotia’s southwestern shore, who are exercising their right to fish — outside the commercial season. | It’s an assertion of treaty, constitution and court-protected rights that has cost Sipekne’katik fishers dearly since their launch of a moderate livelihood fishery in mid-September. This week, they were the target of assault, arson, vandalism, threats and intimidation.
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Indigenous Women Leaders Warn Global Financial Companies to Stop Support for Tar Sands Oil
commondreams.org | 2020-10-19
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Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s “Homicidal” Pandemic Response & What’s at Stake in November Election
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-10-19
As President Trump campaigns in swing states that are also coronavirus hot spots, The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill argues he is directly responsible for the poor U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed almost 220,000 people in the country so far and sickened millions. “I don’t know how else to describe what Trump has done except homicidal,” says Scahill, host of a new seven-part audio series that examines the Trump era.
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Jeremy Scahill: Trump’s Xenophobia Is Horrific, But U.S. Immigration Policy Has Always Been Racist
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-10-19
In Part 2 of our discussion of the Trump era with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill about his new seven-part audio documentary “American Mythology,” he examines how Trump’s xenophobic immigration policies have been a “methodical, surgical operation” to make life miserable for both current and prospective immigrants, including asylum seekers fleeing violence. He also notes that while Trump’s policies have been particularly vicious, “this country has had a racist immigration policy for a very long time, and it’s bipartisan.”
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Jeremy Scahill: “Trump Is Not the Root of the Problem, He Is a Product of American Imperial History”
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-10-19
Donald Trump ran for president in 2016 with a mixed message of attacking the legacy of the Iraq War and U.S. military adventurism, while simultaneously pledging to commit war crimes and promote imperialism. As we look back at Trump’s record, Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept, says his flouting of international norms and bullying of other countries is in keeping with how U.S. presidents have long behaved. “Donald Trump is not the root of the problem. Donald Trump is a product of American imperial history,” Scahill notes.
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Jeremy Scahill: Trump Has Incited White Supremacists & Emboldened Police to Act Outside the Law
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-10-19
As the 2020 presidential campaign enters its final two weeks, we look at the past four years of the Trump presidency with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept. His podcast “Intercepted” has just released the fourth chapter in a seven-part audio documentary titled “American Mythology,” which critically examines the Trump presidency and places it within a larger historical context. Scahill says Trump has empowered white supremacist vigilantes and given permission to law enforcement to act extrajudicially to enforce a racist status quo, but he cautions that “Donald Trump is not an aberration of U…
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Trump Has Stoked White Supremacy and Led Police to Act Outside the Law
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-19
As the 2020 presidential campaign enters its final two weeks, we look at the past four years of the Trump presidency with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept. His podcast “Intercepted” has just released the fourth chapter in a seven-part audio documentary titled American Mythology, which critically examines the Trump presidency and places it within a larger historical context. Scahill says Trump has empowered white supremacist vigilantes and given permission to law enforcement to…
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