Freedom Triumphs Over Fascism in Bolivia if It Sticks
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
In November, US orchestrated fascism replaced freedom in Bolivia. | President Evo Morales’ legitimate reelection was overturned by a cadre of US recruited traitors. | Generals and others were bribed to betray their country for the right price. | Fascism tied to US …
globalresearch.ca/freedom-triumphs-fasci…
The Bolivian people broke all barriers to vote in hope
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-21
Juan Carlos Pinto Quintanilla, sociologist and former government official during the term of Evo Morales, talks about the massive turnout during the Bolivian elections, the hopes of the people and the plans of right-wing forces…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/21/the-boliv…
Bolivia: Arce’s Victory Does Not Represent a Return to Morales’ National Project
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
The great victory of the Movement to Socialism (MAS) — Evo Morales’ party — in Bolivia opens the way for a new era of change in the South American country. The positions on the Bolivian national political scene are currently …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-arces-victory-…
Media responds with apathy, disappointment as U.S.-backed coup Gov’t concedes defeat in Bolivia
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-10-21
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.
mronline.org/2020/10/21/media-responds-w…
Labour Under Keir Starmer
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
Keir Starmer, an MP since 2015, won the April 2020 Labour leadership contest after Jeremy Corbyn lost the 2019 general election. Starmer beat rivals Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy with 56.2% of the vote in the first round, and therefore also became Leader of the Opposition. In his acceptance speech Starmer said he planned to…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/labour-under…
Defense Sectary Visits Hawkish Atlantic Council to Announce US Troop Buildup on Russia Border
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-21
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper visited the notorious Atlantic Council, funded by a who’s who of weapons makers and despotic regimes, to announce that the US would not, indeed, be withdrawing troops from Germany but sending them to Russia’s border instead.
mintpressnews.com/defense-sectary-mark-e…
Protests Against Greed and Inequality Are Spreading Like Wildfire Through Latin America
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-21
Historic protests are taking place across Latin America as people take to the streets to voice their displeasure at the IMF, government corruption, and the spread of fascism.
mintpressnews.com/protests-against-greed…
Daniel Ellsberg on the Assange extradition and growing fascism
Paul Jay | mronline.org | 2020-10-21
The week of hearings has heard evidence that exposes the charges against Assange as trumped-up and even ridiculous.
mronline.org/2020/10/21/daniel-ellsberg-…
Top 12 Reasons Biden Is Not My Fault
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
When the Democratic Party decided it preferred Trump to Bernie and would rather nominate to run against Trump a more corporate-friendly candidate who was polling more weakly against Trump, there were — in theory — at least two choices. First, millions of people could have publicly announced that they would not vote for either rotten…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/top-12-reaso…
8,000 Colombians march to Bogotá demanding to meet with president Duque
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-21
Nearly 8,000 Indigenous and Afro-descendant people, peasants, students and women from southwestern Colombia arrived in Bogotá on October 18 to meet President Iván Duque. They are still waiting for a response. Meanwhile, four indigenous leaders were killed in other parts of the country as mobilizations took place in Bogotá.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/21/8000-colo…
A Short History of the ‘On Again, Off Again’ Fiscal Stimulus Negotiations
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
It’s been more than three months since the March-April economic rescue package, called the Cares Act, expired at the end of July. Since then both political parties, Republican and Democrat, have played a ‘hot potato’ bargaining game: i.e. “here’s my offer, the ball’s in your court…Here’s mine, now it’s your turn”. This week the game…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/a-short-hist…
The 2020 Great Recession 2.0: The ‘On Again, Off Again’ U.S. Fiscal Stimulus Negotiations
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
It’s been more than three months since the March-April economic rescue package, called the Cares Act, expired at the end of July. Since then both political parties, Republican and Democrat, have played a ‘hot potato’ bargaining game: i.e. “here’s my …
globalresearch.ca/the-2020-great-recessi…
A Short History of the ‘On Again, Off Again’ Fiscal Stimulus Negotiations
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
It’s been more than three months since the March-April economic rescue package, called the Cares Act, expired at the end of July. Since then both political parties, Republican and Democrat, have played a ‘hot potato’ bargaining game: i.e. “here’s my offer, the ball’s in your court…Here’s mine, now it’s your turn”. This week the game…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/a-short-hist…
Brazil Chooses US as Its Partner in 5G Technology, Refusing China
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
After months of controversy and discussions, Brazil has chosen to prioritize the US as a partner in 5G technology. The decision contradicts the opinion of the greatest experts on the subject, who see the choice as Brazil’s alignment to Washington …
globalresearch.ca/brazil-chooses-us-part…
Trump Administration Is Paying Big Pharma Billions in Rush for Vaccine
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
Desperate to distract the national discourse from his criminal mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump is promising that a vaccine will be available before Election Day. His vaccine campaign is named “Operation Warp Speed” and there is a real …
globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-p…
Guilty Verdict in the Massacre of Jesuits Marks a “Milestone of Justice” for El Salvador
Carmen Rodríguez | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
Inocente Montano, a former deputy defense minister of El Salvador, retired military man, and ex-member of one of the bloodiest commando units operating during that Central American country’s civil war of the 1980s, has become the first Salvadoran convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/guilty-verdi…
Defense Sectary Visits Hawkish Atlantic Council to Announce US Troop Buildup on Russia Border
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-21
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper visited the notorious Atlantic Council, funded by a who’s who of weapons makers and despotic regimes, to announce that the US would not, indeed, be withdrawing troops from Germany but sending them to Russia’s border instead. | MPN– The United States was supposed to be sending thousands of troops home from Germany. But Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced yesterday…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/defense-sec…
The New York Times Guild Once Again Demands Censorship of Colleagues
Glenn Greenwald | zcomm.org | 2020-10-21
The union demanded “sensitivity readers” for their colleagues. Now they’re angry that a columnist wrote about a major controversy…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-new-york-times…
Is it an accident that Iran and the US, two Theocracies, are Coronavirus Basket Cases?
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-10-21
One clue to why the two countries are doing so badly with regard to basic public health strategy may lie in the importance of religion to both of these societies…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-it-an-accident-…
America Has No Allies, Only Hostages
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation’s relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran. This reverses the policies of the US-backed coup regime which immediately began closing embassies, kicking out doctors and severing relations with those nations after illegally seizing power last year. | Arce also spoke of warm relations with Russia and China. | “We are going to reestablish all relations,” he told EFE. “This government has acted very ideologically, depriving the Bolivian people of access to Cuban medicine, to Russian med…
popularresistance.org/america-has-no-all…
Bolivia Is A beacon Of Light For Latin America
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
After suffering a coup d’état that cost more than 33 lives, left thousands of people injured, and forced important political figures like President Evo Morales to go into exile to survive, official exit polls say that the Movement for Socialism (MAS) will return to power, in a way previously unheard of in Latin America, through democratic elections! | Unlike what OAS, the EU Commission and other international observers have said about the election being peaceful, in reality journalists were beaten, militant supporters of MAS were detained without justification, and many international observers were openly threate…
popularresistance.org/bolivia-is-a-beaco…
Media Responds With Apathy, Disappointment As Coup Government Concedes Defeat
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
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, who has ruled since the coup last November. At the same time, the corporate press appears less than pleased about the return to democracy for the Andean country. | In order to win outright in the first round, the top candidate needs at least 40 percent of the popular vote and a lead of 10 points over thei…
popularresistance.org/media-responds-wit…
Holding General Mills Accountable For Profiting From Occupation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
Earlier this fall, we launched our No Dough for the Occupation campaign to pressure General Mills to stop producing Pillsbury products in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. Last month, our campaign coalition–which includes the Palestinian Boycott National Committee, Jewish Voice for Peace, and others–held its first day of action to coincide with General Mills’ annual shareholder meeting. | The day before the meeting, on the United Nations International Day of Peace, protesters gathered in front of General Mills’ headquarters in Minneapolis, chanting “No Dough for the Occupation”…
popularresistance.org/holding-general-mi…
Ex-Mexican Military Head Arrested in U.S. on Drug Charges. Should He Be Tried for Massacres, Too?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-21
We speak with legendary Mexican investigative journalist Anabel Hernández about a case that has sent shockwaves throughout Mexico: the U.S. arrest of Mexico’s former defense secretary for allegedly working with a major drug cartel while heading Mexico’s military. General Salvador Cienfuegos served as secretary of defense from 2012 to 2018 in the former government of President Enrique Peña Nieto and has long been accused of human rights abuses, including refusing to allow investigators to interview soldiers who may have been involved in the 2014 disappearance and likely massacre of 43 students from a teachers’ col…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/21/mexico_s…
“Break ‘Em Up”: As DOJ Targets Google, Zephyr Teachout Urges Breakup of More Big Tech Monopolies
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-21
The Department of Justice and 11 states have filed a major antitrust lawsuit against Google in a move that could lead to the breakup of the company’s business and holds major implications for other tech giants. The lawsuit accuses Google of engaging in illegal practices to maintain a monopoly on the search market, which fuels its dominance in online advertising. Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout, who has long advocated for breaking up Big Tech monopolies, says it’s “an incredibly important lawsuit” that should be the start of a wave of legal and legislative action to tackle “this incredible democratic crisis…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/21/zephyr_t…
“A Barrett Confirmation Is a Catastrophe”: What Democrats Can Do to Block Trump’s Supreme Court Pick
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-21
Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout says Senate Democrats can still block the confirmation of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, if they use every possible procedural method available to them to slow and frustrate the process. “A Barrett confirmation is a catastrophe,” Teachout says. “A 6-3 majority on the court is basically a bomb coming at what is left of our protections against corruption in politics, against corporate money, against what is left of the Voting Rights Act.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/21/zephyr_t…
At Last, a Small Ray of Hope for Bolivia
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-21
To no one’s real surprise, Bolivia’s deposed President Evo Morales was resoundingly vindicated in last Sunday’s election. The bleached blond European usurper woman, Jeanine àÅñez, who in November of 2019 was installed as interim President by the junta regime which replaced Morales, will have to step down. She has conceded defeat at the hands of the Aymara natives that she obviously loathed. Needless to say, the sentiment was heartily mutual. | The new President of Bolivia will be…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/21/at…
MAS Returns to Power in Bolivia One Year after US-backed Coup
Arnold August | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
Despite a year of unbridled state repression, including massacres committed against supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales, who was deposed just weeks after being declared the victor in the country’s October 2019 election, the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism …
globalresearch.ca/mas-returns-power-boli…
“The Guardian’s Silence has let the UK trample on Assange’s Rights in Effective Darkness”
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-21
WISE Up, a solidarity group for Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning, is due to stage a demonstration outside the Guardian offices on October 22 to protest the paper’s failure to support Assange as the US seeks his extradition in an unprecedented assault on press freedom. The date chosen for the protest marks the tenth anniversary of the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/the-guardians…
Selected Articles: The 2020 Great Recession 2.0
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
The 2020 Great Recession 2.0: The ‘On Again, Off Again’ U.S. Fiscal Stimulus Negotiations | By Dr. Jack Rasmus, October 21 2020 | Both political parties have played a ‘hot potato’ bargaining game: i.e. “here’s my offer, the ball’s in your | …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-the-…
How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
Most of our leaders are still hell-bent on preserving America’s imperial power at any cost: endless wars, climate catastrophe, mass extinctions, and the terrifying risk of a final, apocalyptic mass-casualty war–most likely a nuclear war. | Toward the end of Joe …
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How Biden Flubbed Town Hall Foreign Policy Question
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
Toward the end of Joe Biden’s October 15 town hall session, a Trump supporter asked Biden the only foreign policy question of the night. “So peace is breaking out all over the world,” the questioner claimed.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/how-biden-fl…
Proveer agua para migrantes y aliados es un crimen para EE.UU
Teresa Gutierrez | workers.org | 2020-10-21
Trump no solo continúa llevando a cabo una vil diatriba antiinmigrante casi a diario, sino que los agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas llevaron a cabo recientemente un siniestro ataque SWAT en Arizona. Y en la ciudad de Nueva York, los agentes de ICE están arrestando a . . . | Continue reading Proveer agua para migrantes y aliados es un crimen para EE.UU. at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/51947/?utm_source=rs…
VIDEO: US not abiding by intl obligations, says Chomsky
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — American scholar Noam Chomsky believes the assassination of Lt. General Soleimani indicated that the US does not abide by international obligations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165031/VIDEO-US-not…
Is the European Union Qualified to Broker Peace Between Israel and Palestine?
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-21
In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the tragic status quo created by 53 years of Israeli military occupation, the EU continues to advocate a negotiated settlement that is predicated on respect for international law. | In practice, however, despite the seeming rift between Washington and Brussels, the outcome is, essentially, the same. The US and Europe are Israel’s largest trade pa…
mintpressnews.com/european-union-arms-sa…
European Hypocrisy: Empty Words for Palestine, Deadly Weapons for Israel
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-21
In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the tragic status quo created by 53 years of Israeli military occupation, the EU continues to advocate a negotiated settlement that is predicated on respect for international …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/european-hypo…
When Does Incompetence Become a Crime?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-21
Patrick COCKBURN | I was in Baghdad in 1998 during US airstrikes, watching missiles explode in great flashes of light as they hit their targets. There was some ineffectual anti-aircraft fire, the only result of which was pieces of shrapnel falling from the sky and making it dangerous to step outside the building we were in. | To my sur…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/21/wh…
US Failed to Turn the Philippines Against China Despite Maritime Demarcation Issues
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
Cooperation between China and the Philippines could easily be hindered by U.S. interference in territorial disputes in the South China Sea. Washington wants to exploit Chinese-Filipino contentions in their demarcation claims over the South China Sea in an attempt to …
globalresearch.ca/us-failed-turn-philipp…
Internet Resources Become Weaponized
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
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 …
globalresearch.ca/internet-resources-bec…
A hideous act of ‘vandalism’ in an English village sums up the state of the country right now
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-10-21
On 20 October, HS2 cut down a 250-year-old award-winning pear tree to make way for its high speed railway. While the iconic tree certainly isn’t the only victim of the project, the reaction to its destruction does sum up perfectly the state of the country right now. Because it exposes how divorced the country’s leadership is from its own citizens’ needs and desires. | A national treasure: | The ancient tree, which had stood tall near the village of Cubbingt…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/10/21/a-hideo…
Venezuela: PDVSA to Offload Crude from Offshore Facility
Manuela Solé | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-10-21
The Nabarima floating facility has been inoperative since January 2019 and is at risk of an oil spill.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15028
A step forward over war crimes in Afghanistan
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-21
Serious criminal charges against ABC journalist Dan Oakes for reporting leaked material on Australian elite troops committing atrocities in Afghanistan have been dropped, on public interest grounds. Pip Hinman argues this is an important win.
greenleft.org.au/content/step-forward-ov…
Hopes rise of extension of New START arms control treaty as Russia offers to freeze arsenal
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-21
Russia on Tuesday offered to freeze its current arsenal, and proposed an extension of the treaty by one year. The treaty signed in 2010 capped the number of nuclear warheads by the two countries and its deployment…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/21/hopes-ris…
“French oil giant Total’s projects in East Africa violate human rights, environmental safeguards”
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-21
A report by Amis de la Terre France (Friends of the Earth) and Survie (Survival) says that the company’s projects have threatened more than 100,000 people’s livelihoods and created conditions for their displacement without proper compensation…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/21/french-oi…
If Trump won’t quit — SHUT! IT! DOWN!
Larry Holmes | workers.org | 2020-10-21
Larry Holmes is the First Secretary of Workers World Party The Rochester Labor Council passed a very forward-thinking resolution on Oct. 8, calling on the AFL-CIO to call a general strike if President Donald Trump refuses to leave office. Soon after, the Central Wisconsin Area Labor Federation passed a similar . . . | Continue reading If Trump won’t quit — SHUT! IT! DOWN! at Workers.org…
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Tunisian journalists and activists protest proposed bill on media
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-21
A protest was staged on October 20, Tuesday, in front of the Tunisian parliament in the capital Tunis against a newly proposed bill that significantly relaxes licensing rules for media operations in the country. Over 300 journalists and activists participated in the protest and raised slogans against the proposed media bill. The bill includes provisions for removing the requirement for television and radio channels to obtain official licenses to operate in the country. Protesters also opposed another clause in the bill which stipulates that the parliament can appoint new members to the media regulatory body by a…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/21/tunisian-…
WHO mega trial results out: Remdesivir, Interferon fail to prove effective
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-21
None of the four drug/drug combinations that were deployed in the WHO’s SOLIDARITY trial were found to be effective in reducing mortality, not even the much-hyped anti-viral drug Remdesivir…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/21/who-mega-…
Iran Now Free to Buy and Sell Weapons Legally
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
The UN Security Council arms embargo on Iran from 2007 has expired Sunday, which will allow the nation to buy weapons. While Iran has repeatedly stated it has no intention of buying weapons of mass destruction, and WMD had no …
globalresearch.ca/iran-free-buy-sell-wea…
Two White Men
John Davis | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
The U.S. Constitution of 1787 began as a document that permitted slavery under State law and confirmed the continuation of the slave trade until 1816. The notorious compromise that resulted in the inclusion of the Fugitive Slave Clause (Article IV, Section2, Clause 3), made all Americans of that time a party to the dehumanization of African Americans as fungible economic objects, obliging them to return fleeing slaves to their lives of enslavement. It made all Americans a party to the crass reduction of Black men to three-fifths of their headcount in order to provide states in which they were held the political c…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/two-white-me…
Don’t Vote for a Psychopath: Tyranny at the Hands of a Psychopathic Government
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
globalresearch.ca/tyranny-hands-psychopa…
Washtenaw County issues stay-at-home order at University of Michigan campus in the wake of campus COVID outbreak
wsws.org | 2020-10-21
The rise in cases at the University of Michigan follows the shutdown of the graduate student strike last month, which was waged in opposition to the university’s unsafe reopening policy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/21/umic…
Nukes on the Moon?
Linda Pentz Gunter | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
Not content to desecrate our terrestrial landscape with hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste — much piled up with nowhere to go, the rest released to contaminate our air, water and soil — humankind, in all its folly, now plans to do the same to the Moon. And, eventually to Mars. While our…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/nukes-on-the…
‘Fake news’ and what’s missing from the presidential debates
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-21
Corporate media has some responsibility for the explosion of disinformation argues Nolan Higdon, author of “The Anatomy of Fake News.”
therealnews.com/fake-news-and-whats-miss…
Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19: Europe’s Top Health Officials
Jon Miltimore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
This article was first crossposted in August. | Denmark boasts one of the lowest COVID-19 death rates in the world. As of August 4, the Danes have suffered 616 COVID-19 deaths, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. | That’s less than …
globalresearch.ca/europe-top-health-offi…
‘Paradise lost’: How Israel turned the West Bank into a sewage dump for its settlements
Shatha Hammad | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-21
‘Paradise lost’: How Israel turned the West Bank into a sewage dump for its settlements | Untreated wastewater has destroyed the soil of Palestinian villages, causing their often ancient oilve trees to die | Shatha Hammad | Wed, 10/21/2020 – 09: 14 | Residents and farmers say increasing quantities of sewage are being pumped onto their lands from the illegal settlements (MEE/Supplied) | Abdullah Maarouf typically t…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-west-b…
Yemen’s Never Ending War
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
Recently, US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden released a statement on his promise to end his country’s support for Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen saying that “under Biden-Harris Administration, we will reassess our relationship with the [Saudi Arabia] Kingdom, end …
globalresearch.ca/western-hegemony-gulf-…
Zero Covid: Our way out
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-21
As cases continue to rise, Eoghan àì Ceannabháin argues that the only way to avoid a winter crisis and future rolling lockdowns is an All-Ireland Zero Covid strategy which protects workers and puts public health first.
mronline.org/2020/10/21/zero-covid-our-w…
Operation Moonshot: UK Says Weekly COVID Tests Could Offer “Passport to Freedom”
Robert Wheeler | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
Those who have watched the police state grow over decades have known that as the UK goes, so does the rest of the Western world. | Unfortunately, the UK population the testing grounds for intrusive and totalitarian policies that will be …
globalresearch.ca/operation-moonshot-uk-…
Candidate Accountability: Demand a Commitment to a Peace and Human Rights Agenda
Black Alliance for Peace | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
The novel coronavirus pandemic both revealed and accelerated the irreversible crisis of the global capitalist system and, consequently, the domestic conditions shaping the 2020 U.S. presidential election and every level of U.S. governance. | The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) asserts …
globalresearch.ca/demand-commitment-peac…
Brennan’s Nuremberg Defense: One More Whitewash of the CIA’s Torture Program
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
With his disingenuous memoir, Brennan has now joined forces with former CIA directors and deputy directors such as Tenet, McLaughlin, Goss, and Michael Morell who refuse to recognize the CIA created a sadistic program that went far beyond DoJ guidelines, and then lied about the extent of the torture and the fact that nothing was learned that stopped terrorist activity.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/brennans-nur…
Nukes on the Moon?
Linda Pentz Gunter | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
Not content to desecrate our terrestrial landscape with hundreds of thousands of tons of nuclear waste — much piled up with nowhere to go, the rest released to contaminate our air, water and soil — humankind, in all its folly, now plans to do the same to the Moon. And, eventually to Mars. While our…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/21/nukes-on-the…
MintPress Is Going Behind The Headlines
Mnar Muhawesh Adley | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-21
That is why as part of our effort to continue reporting on stories you won’t find anywhere else, we have teamed up with Behind the Headlines, a new, non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of journalism that dares to challenge official narratives and bucks party lines.
mintpressnews.com/mintpress-going-behind…
Rochester Labor Council resolution: General strike if Trump won’t go
Editor | workers.org | 2020-10-21
EDITOR NOTES: On Oct. 8, the Rochester [N.Y.] Labor Council passed a resolution supporting a general strike if Trump refuses to leave office after a November election defeat. Council President Dan Maloney is also president of United Auto Workers Local 1097, which, after a six-week strike, overwhelmingly rejected the 2019 . . . | Continue reading Rochester Labor Council resolution: General strike if Trump won’t go at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/51938/?utm_source=rs…
From Assassinations to Sanctions: Emergency Powers and the Rise of the Imperial Presidency
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-21
A decades-long push to concentrate power in the Oval Office through emergency response legislation has made the Office of the President more powerful than ever.
mintpressnews.com/trump-suspended-consti…
Hennepin County AFSCME fights to protect workers and community services
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-21
Minneapolis, MN — On October 20, Hennepin County workers gathered at the Government Center in downtown Minneapolis to demand, “Protect our workers, protect our community services: don’t balance the budget on our backs.” | | The event was sponsored by the Hennepin County AFSCME Policy Committee, representing six AFSCME unions and over 5000 county workers. | | The gathering was scheduled one day before Hennepin County Board of Commissioners were slated to authorize layoffs, mandatory furloughs, and other cuts to Hennepin County worker benefits. | | These measures were delayed but will likely…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/21/hennepi…
New memorial for Dominic Smith, killed by ABQ cops in 2009
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-21
October is both the month of Smith’s birth and his brutal, senseless killing at the hands of Albuquerque police.
liberationnews.org/new-memorial-for-domi…
If Trump won’t quit: GENERAL STRIKE!
Larry Holmes | workers.org | 2020-10-21
Larry Holmes is the First Secretary of Workers World Party The Rochester Labor Council passed a very forward-thinking resolution on Oct. 8, calling on the AFL-CIO to call a general strike if President Donald Trump refuses to leave office. Soon after, the Central Wisconsin Area Labor Federation passed a similar . . . | Continue reading If Trump won’t quit: GENERAL STRIKE! at Workers.org…
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‘Exhausted, angry and worried sick!’: French health workers protest
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-21
French health and social care workers stage mass protests for better staffing, pay and conditions as a second wave of COVID-19 engulfs the country, writes Susan Ram…
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OECD shields corporations from due taxes in Covid gripped world
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-10-21
Blueprints published by the OECD last week on how it plans to tackle tax havens do not come close to the reforms needed, the Tax Justice Network has warned. Hundreds of billions in corporate tax is lost to tax havens every year under current international rules, and the costs of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic make …
truepublica.org.uk/global/oecd-shields-corporations-from-due-taxes-in-covid-gripped-world/
Reframing America’s Role in the World
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-21
The National Guard / CC BY 2.0] By Andrew Bacevich / TomDispatch The so-called Age of Trump is also an age of instantly forgotten bestselling books, especially ones purporting to provide the inside scoop on what goes on within Donald Trump’s haphazard and continuously shifting orbit. With metronomic regularity, such gossipy volumes appear, make a splash, and almost as quickly vanish… | Source…
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European MPs tell Egypt’s Sisi to release prisoners of conscience
MEE correspondent | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-21
European MPs tell Egypt’s Sisi to release prisoners of conscience | Egyptian president facing mounting calls by lawmakers from the US and Europe to end his government’s rights violations | MEE correspondent | Wed, 10/21/2020 – 11: 17 | Egypt’s President Sisi has been accused by international rights groups of presiding over the country’s worst crackdown on human rights in its modern history (AFP/file photo)…
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When will there be a COVID-19 vaccine?
Kaleigh O’Keefe | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-21
A dramatic increase in COVID-19 infection rates across the country has confirmed a grim reality: the United States is entering a new resurgence of the pandemic.
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Breonna Taylor grand jury was never given option to indict killer cops
wsws.org | 2020-10-21
Jurors have begun to come forward to dispute Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s characterization of the grand jury deliberations.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/21/tayl…
An Open Letter to Biden: 5 Easy Steps to Reduce the Threat of Nuclear War
Alan Robock | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
Here is a letter I intend to mail in November. But I want you know about it now, to bring up an issue that is crucial to consider before you vote, and which has not received enough attention. Dear President-Elect Biden, I’m so happy that you were elected because in January you can start to…
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Does this CDC Report Actually Show that Mask Wearers Are 17x More Likely to Get COVID-19?
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
I’m afraid I’m going to be the fact-checking party, again. I must call foul on those claiming that a recent CDC study shows mask wearers are more likely to get COVID-19 than non-mask wearers. | I hate face masks, but I …
globalresearch.ca/does-cdc-report-show-m…
Indian beedi workers struggle due to pandemic
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-21
Workers in the beedi sector in the Indian State of Tamil Nadu are facing a deep crisis as the pandemic has affected the industry and severely reduced their incomes…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/21/indian-be…
Follow the Money: Banking, Criminality and the US FinCEN Files
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
It was all a fitting reminder of Bertolt Brecht’s remark that bank robbery lies in the province of amateurs. The real professionals of plunder establish banks. Last month, the labours of Buzzfeed and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed …
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Critical Increase in the National Debt Triggered by Covid Crisis
Justinas Baltrusaitis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
The debt-to-GDP ratio has emerged as a vital metric for determining economic prospects for a given country. Most countries usually strive to put in place measures to keep their ratio as low as possible. | Data presented by Buy Shares indicates …
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Millions of garment workers face job losses in Bangladesh
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-21
According to a recent study conducted by the Center for Global Workers Rights, “millions of workers are at greater risk of losing their jobs” due to global brands “demanding price cuts and delaying payments to suppliers”
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/21/millions-…
Sloppy Methodology: Social Media, Censorship and the New York Post’s Hunter Biden Story
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-21
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 Wednesday, Twitter prevented users from posting links to a New York Post story. The story,…
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Capitalism, slavery, and economic white supremacy
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-21
What is at stake when we talk about the economics of North American slavery? Over the last 75+ years it has been whether capitalism superseded slavery or whether capitalism and slavery were co-constituted, capitalism to some extent relying on slavery.
mronline.org/2020/10/21/capitalism-slave…
Missouri coronavirus infection rates spike, creating havoc in schools, economy
wsws.org | 2020-10-21
As in the Midwest more generally, Missouri hit another record level number of COVID-19 infections over the last week, driven by the White House’s “herd immunity” policy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/21/miss…
All Power to the Imagination: Remembering John Lennon
Megan Sherman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
In 1971, early one morning on a Steinway piano on his resplendent Berkshire estate, John Lennon reflected on the seismic uprising of a peaceful counterculture, of united students and workers, which could have scared a thousand kings by reviving the …
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Don’t Vote for a Psychopath: Tyranny at the Hands of a Psychopathic Government
John Whitehead | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-21
Studies have shown that despite clear evidence of the damage that has already been inflicted on our nation and its citizens by a psychopathic government, voters continue to elect psychopaths to positions of power and influence.
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Video: Mike Pompeo About CIA: We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
This video was first published in April 2019. | * | Note to readers: please click the share buttons above or below. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc….
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Eco activists sue federal govt., alleging ‘grave’ environmental impact of ‘excessive’ tear gas used amid Portland protests
rt.com | 2020-10-21
The ACLU and five environmental groups have taken the DHS to court over what they deemed an “excessive” use of chemical munitions against protesters in Portland, arguing the substances may inflict a dire ecological toll. | The Oregon branch of the ACLU filed a suit against the DHS on Tuesday alongside a series of green groups, who allege the agency has used “an unprecedented amount of dangerous chemical weapons” without regard for their impact on the health of residents or the en…
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Protesters hurl firecrackers at police after black moped rider allegedly hit by cop car in Providence, RI (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-10-21
Police in Providence, Rhode Island have made more than a dozen arrests after a demonstration, sparked by a black moped rider being slammed by a cop car, descended into mayhem. One officer was injured. | Hundreds of people marched through the state’s capital on Tuesday night in solidarity with Jhamal Gonsalves, a 24-year-old black man who was knocked off his motorized scooter after allegedly being hit by a Providence police cruiser. Footage of the event was widely shared online. The incident, which occurred while pol…
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Covid-19 patients FIVE TIMES more likely to die in hospital than those with flu, are at higher risk for 17 complications — CDC
rt.com | 2020-10-21
The risk of dying from the coronavirus is five times higher than that of seasonal flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a new report, based on the records of 9,000 hospital patients. | “Compared with patients with influenza, those with COVID-19 had a more than five times higher risk for in-hospital death and approximately double the ICU admission risk and hospital length of stay, and were at higher risk for 17 acute respiratory, cardiovascular, hematologic, neurologic, renal and other complications,” the CDC said in a new report released on Tuesday. | The study found that while 21 percent…
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Breonna Taylor juror says prosecution did not provide homicide option, as officer involved argues raid was ‘not a race thing’
rt.com | 2020-10-21
A grand juror in the Breonna Taylor case has claimed the panel was split on whether the police shooting was justified, contrary to claims made by Kentucky’s AG, but an officer involved argues the deadly drug raid was by the book. | …
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3 killed & 1 seriously wounded as gunman opens fire in Houston club
rt.com | 2020-10-21
Three men were shot and killed and one other individual was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after a shooting at a club in Houston, Texas. | According to local media, at around 10pm on Tuesday, a gunman pulled a weapon and started to shoot at the crowd inside DD Sky Club, located near downtown. | Three men died at the scene while a fourth was transported to the hospital with serious injuries, the Houston Police said in a tweet. | The gunman reportedly fled the bar. Police have not yet made any arres…
rt.com/usa/504082-houston-3-killed-shoot…
‘Our account was hacked!’ Fort Bragg, home of US Special Operations, nukes account after posting sexually explicit tweets
rt.com | 2020-10-21
Fort Bragg, the massive US military base in North Carolina, has deleted its official Twitter account after first claiming it had been hacked to explain a string of embarrassing sexually explicit messages. | The messages were “not the work of our admins,” the base said in a now-deleted tweet on Wednesday afternoon. “Our account was hacked. We apologize to our followers.” The entire account disappeared shortly thereafter. | Someone from Fort Bragg’s social media staff didn’t realize they were logged into the wrong account. Whoops! | (Fort Bragg has since nuked their twitter after seemingly lying about being hack…
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Court sets DEADLINE for Epstein associate Maxwell’s deposition unsealing after her lawyers urged to keep ‘sensitive’ info secret
rt.com | 2020-10-21
A 400-page document Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell has fought to keep secret must be published no later than Thursday morning, a judge has demanded. The content reportedly includes proof Maxwell perjured herself. | The lengthy deposition, which includes transcripts of interviews with Maxwell said to include lurid details about her sex life, must be made public no later than 9am on Thursday morning, Senior US District Judge Loretta Preska ordered on Tuesday. | Preska gave Maxwell the option to make “minimal redactions” blocking personally identifiable information of individuals not involved in the ca…
rt.com/usa/504172-ghislaine-maxwell-rele…
Too Many Apologists, Time to Silence Trump’s Proven Pedo-Rapist Bullshit
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-21
Let’s begin with some quotes from a legal document in a lawsuit dropped after Michael Cohen has someone’s family threatened. This is just a few highlights, the accusations are made against Donald Trump. The victim was 13 years old. The full legal document is below. VT has considerable corroborating evidence that everything here is true and that the rape parties such as those described below took place in New York, by both Epstein and Trump, many times. | Why was Jeffrey Epstein placed in an unguarded cell at the orders of Attorney General William Barr, where he was murdered after camera’s were turned off and staf…
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On the road to Damascus
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-21
Slowly but surely, Syria’s enemies have been beating a path to its door | Syria may not have returned to the Arab League. But it is clear that the countries that suspended its membership of the organization a decade ago at the behest of the US are slowly but surely returning to Damascus — if not on the orders of, then at least without opposition from, Washington. | Three recent developments illustrate an important change of attitudes towards Syria and the government of President Bashar al-Assad. | First, it was revealed that President Donald Trump sent two high-level aides — counterterrorism advisor K…
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State Department gives green light for $1.8bn arms deal to Taiwan after Beijing threatens countermeasures
rt.com | 2020-10-21
The US State Department has approved a sale of advanced weaponry worth over $1.8 billion to Taiwan, the Pentagon said, leaving Congress to give final authorization as Beijing slams the deal as provocative and warns of retaliation. | The proposed arms transfer was certified by the State Department on Wednesday, according to the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which notified lawmakers of the deal. The sale includes Lockheed Martin’s truck-mounted rocket launcher, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMAR…
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The Police System That Terrorizes the Poor and Minorities Is Rooted in the Colonial Past
Justin Podur | zcomm.org | 2020-10-21
The default counterinsurgency mode is a consequence of being ruled by an elite that sees the whole population as the enemy…
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Preparing for a Contested Election
Andrew Moss | zcomm.org | 2020-10-21
One message from all of this planning is clear: if the election is contested, it won’t be sufficient for people to be passive spectators as a struggle is played out by others…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/preparing-for-a-co…
Trump Will Never Admit Error. His Lack of Self-Accountability Is Deadly
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-10-21
Trump is still breathing because of the medical data gathered from people he allowed to die…
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New poll reveals the disturbing extent of the delusional QAnon cult
Alex Henderson | zcomm.org | 2020-10-21
“The fact that we have so many political candidates who are public adherents of QAnon and a president who himself has refused to disavow the theory (amounts to) a tacit endorsement of a different set of facts. That’s what’s really worrisome about it.”
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Guns, Germs, and Smoke UNITE-HERE!
Rebecca Gordon | zcomm.org | 2020-10-21
UNITE-HERE! Canvassers Take on Trump in Nevada…
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Suburban women are on a mission to save America, and it may not stop at ousting Trump
Kerry Eleveld | zcomm.org | 2020-10-21
From politically apathetic to pants on fire urgency, Lori Goldman of Troy, Michigan, is among the ranks of suburban women who have felt called to duty by the existential threat to America that is Donald Trump.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/suburban-women-are…
Communities Of Color Hurt The Most By Postal Service Attack
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
With just weeks until the 2020 election, the USPS is racing to prepare for a historic surge in mail-in voting. Our recent analysis of USPS records, which we received via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, suggests that the number of mail-delivery complaints has risen since March, especially in communities of color. | For nearly 250 years, the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been a cherished giant of public life. Its reach is immense: In 2019, postal workers traveled 1.34 billion miles to deliver nearly 143 billion pieces of mail around the globe.
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Chile: Left-Wing Forces Seek New Start With The Plebiscite
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
Chile’s Communist Party (PC) will do everything it can to guarantee a victory in the upcoming referendum on Sunday 25, as the country gets ready to decide whether it remains with the current constitution created by Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship or starts a brand new chapter of its history instead. | The CP President Guillermo Teillier told local media outlet El Siglo that his party will support mobilization until the last day of permitted propaganda and encourage social organizations to do the same.
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With Evictions Looming, US Cities Seek Legal Help For Renters
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
Washington – When Shalonda Glascoe fell behind on her rent as she struggled to find a job amid the coronavirus outbreak this spring, her landlord tried to kick her out of her Baltimore home – twice. | Eventually, Glascoe, 47, sought free legal help, a decision she says was key in allowing her to stay in her home in the northeastern U.S. city. | Without legal assistance, “I don’t think I would be here right now. I think I would have lost the fight,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. | Over the past few months, bans on evictions during the pandemic have been enacted at the city, state and federal levels, yet…
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Free Speech Under Attack In Australia
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
Journalists and advocacy groups could face compulsory questioning by Asio as part of a proposed expansion of the spy agency’s powers, according to external legal advice prepared by leading barristers. | With senior officials of Asio due to give evidence to Senate estimates hearings on Tuesday, the new advice seen by Guardian Australia argues a bill before parliament to extend the reach of questioning powers could have a “chilling effect” on the willingness of people to speak to journalists. | It also argues some of the work of civil society organisations — especially those involved in environmental and huma…
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Grand Jury Member Breaks Silence On Breonna Taylor Case
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, announcing last month that no police officers would be charged with homicide for killing Breonna Taylor, claimed members of a grand jury agreed with him in finding that cops “were justified” in opening fire. | “My job is to present the facts to the grand jury and the grand jury then applies those facts to the law,” Cameron explained, suggesting those facts informed the decision to indict only one officer on three counts of first-degree “wanton endangerment.”
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A Debt Reckoning Is Unavoidable
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-21
The late anthropologist David Graeber, who wrote about the 5,000-year history of debt, spoke about a strange paradox of being indebted. “The first effect of debt is to create isolation, shame, humiliation, a fear of even talking about it. On the other hand, if you look at history, the vast majority of revolts and insurrections are about debt. So in a sense it’s incredibly effective, ideologically, at isolating people. But once people overcome that isolation, the results are always explosive.” | We may be heading towards such a moment.
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At Women’s March in Petaluma, GOP Called Out for Assault on Women
Stronger Together | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
“This Presidency is the Worst Period Woman’s Ever Had” and other messages from the North Bay.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/21/1883773…
Saturday 10/24: Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis: Poverty & Policy Solutions Virtual Conference (Day 2)
Kairos Center, PPC, and partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Online/virtual conference (FREE)…
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Federal Juneteenth Holiday Bill Lacks Congressional Budget Office Cost Analysis
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Juneteenth our agreed upon date of a National Day to celebrate Freedom awaits a cost analysis by the “Non-Partisan” Congressional Budget Office during the election cycle for oue President, US Senate and US House of Representatives. Freedom is never free.
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Wednesday 10/21: Voting Plan, CA Ballot Info, & Voting Rights During COVID-19 Webinar w/ ACLU
ACLU NorCal | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Online voter webinar and online volunteering opportunities…
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Women’s March in Petaluma
Stronger Together | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
“This Presidency is the Worst Period Woman’s Ever Had” and other messages from the North Bay.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/21/1883773…
Wednesday 10/21: Feinstein school protest: Resign from Senate!
Michael Petrelis | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Feinstein Elementary School | 2550 – 25th Avenue | Btwn Ulloa & Vincente Streets…
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Corona vaccine development – they prefer not to ask about risks and side effects
Jens Berger and Tobias Riegel | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
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.
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Welcome to the new normality!
Tobias Riegel | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
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…
Houston Racist KPFT Coupster Bill Crosier & Supporters at KPFA & Pacifica
SRACC | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
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…
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The complementary reality
Roland Rottenfusser | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Where we cannot completely displace the mainstream, we should first try to supplement it with our own more humane concepts.
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Saturday 10/24: XR Welcome Call
Extinction Rebellion Silicon Valley | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
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Castro Valley: Women’s March
Edited by LK | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Photos from march.
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Saturday 11/7: Virtual Harvest Benefit
Turning Green | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Online only; Zoom link shared after ticket purchase…
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Sunday 10/25: The Value of a Black Woman’s Vote Rountable w/ NAACP
NAACP | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Online roundtable…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/21/1883776…
Friday 10/23: Moral Policy in a Time of Crisis: Poverty & Policy Solutions Virtual Conference (Day 1)
Kairos Center, PPC, and partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-21
Online/virtual conference (FREE)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/19/1883770…
The impact of cancer and chemotherapy during pregnancy on child neurodevelopment: A multimodal neuroimaging analysis
J. Blommaert, A. Radwan, C. Sleurs, C. Maggen, M. van Gerwen, V. Wolters, D. Christiaens, R. Peeters, P. Dupont, S. Sunaert, K. Van Calsteren, S. Deprez, F. Amant | thelancet.com | 2020-10-21
Prenatal exposure to maternal cancer and its treatment might affect local grey and white matter structure, but not functional connectivity or global organization. While platinum-based therapy was identified as a potential risk factor, this was not the case for chemotherapy in general.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(20)30342-4/fulltext?rss=yes
Win-Win vs Lose-Lose: The Time Has Come for the World to Choose
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-21
It is a tragedy of our age that society has been locked in a zero-sum operating system for so long that many people living in the west cannot even imagine a world order designed in any other way… even if that zero sum system can ultimately do nothing but kill everyone holding onto it. | Is this statement too cynical? | It is a provable fact that if one chooses to organize their society around the concept that all players of a “great game” must exist in a finite world of tension as all zero-sum systems presume, then we find ourselves in a relatively deterministic trajectory to hell. | You see, this world of tens…
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The Heat: Right-Wing U.S. Militias
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-10-21
Right-wing militias on the rise in the United States. What do they want? And, what sort of threat do they pose?>…
america.cgtn.com/2020/10/21/the-heat-rig…
Iran Armed Forces’ joint air defense exercise
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Iran’s Air Defense units launched ‘Guardians of Velayat Sky-99’ wargames on Wednesday.
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PGCC Sec. Gen. accuses Iran of creating tension in region
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — On baseless and repetitive allegations, Secretary-General of the PGCC accused Iran of creating tensions in countries in the region such as Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165001/PGCC-Sec-Gen…
Pressure on Iran to continue regardless of election outcome
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — The US Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela claimed that Washington’s so-called ‘maximum pressure’ policy against Iran will continue regardless of the upcoming presidential elections.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165000/Pressure-on-…
Iran, Azerbaijan discuss expansion of bilateral relations
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Iran’s Ambassador to Baku and the Minister of Economy of Azerbaijan conferred on the economic relations between the two countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165034/Iran-Azerbai…
Virtual Iranian-Armenian coproduction panel held at 33rd ICFF
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — The Virtual Panel of co-production between Iran and Armenia was held on Tuesday, the 33rd ICFF Public Relations Office reports.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165018/Virtual-Iran…
Iran seeking to release nationals held by Mozambique Pirates
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — President’s Chief of Staff said Iran is doing its best to release some of its nationals held by Mozambique Pirates.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165002/Iran-seeking…
Martyr Soleimani global figure of West Asia
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — Head of the Public Relations and Information Centre of the 16th Resistance International Film Festival said that Martyred Soleimani created a new version of Western Asia.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165029/Martyr-Solei…
Eurasian Union able to improve Iran’s economy amid sanctions
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Top military Aide to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution said that Eurasian Union is able to resolve the economic problems of Iran amid sanctions.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165030/Eurasian-Uni…
Boosting relations with Iranians, a priority for Turkey
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Hailing the great volume of relations between Iranians and Turkish people, a Turkish official called boosting relations with Iran as one of the priorities of his government.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165003/Boosting-rel…
New decisions made about forex supply, exports & imports
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Parliament Speaker announced that the body has made new decisions about the swap of goods, supply of foreign exchange as well as improving imports and export procedures.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164997/New-decision…
Domestic defense systems destroy all hostile targets in drill
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — A spokesman for a large-scale air defense war game in Iran said all of the flying objects designed to mirror capabilities of hostile targets were brought down by homegrown missile systems on the first day of the exercise.
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“Night of Zaven” virtually held on third day of 33rd ICFF
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — “Night of Zaven” — Zaven Ghokasian’s commemoration — was virtually held on the third day of the 33rd ICFF.
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Iranian FM sympathizes with flood-stricken Vietnamese nation
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Following the occurrence of flood and landslides in Vietnam, the Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman expressed sympathy with the government and people of the country.
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Zionist Regime, US have no place in future of region
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker’s Special Aide for International Affairs said that the Persian Gulf littoral states have always welcomed Iranian initiatives on regional cooperation.
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People shot dead in public protest in Lagos, Nigeria
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — A number of people have reportedly been shot dead or wounded at a protest against police brutality in Nigeria’s biggest city, Lagos.
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Coronavirus cases climb toward a new peak in Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — The coronavirus outbreak has been worsening in Iran, as the number of infections, hospitalizations and fatalities due to the respiratory disease has been increasing in the past days.
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Motorcycle racing on occasion of Police Week
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-21
TEHRAN, Oct. 21 (MNA) — On the occasion of the Police Week, a motorcycle racing was held at Azadi Sports Complex on Tuesday evening. The Traffic Police Chief Seyed Kamal Hadianfar attended the event.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/164999/Motorcycle-…
Imperial and TUM launch joint PhD programme in AI, robotics and healthcare
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-21
Imperial and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have launched a joint PhD programme that will initially focus on AI, robotics and healthcare.
imperial.ac.uk/news/206934/imperial-tum-launch-joint-phd-programme
Podcast: Pandemic mental health, hidden strengths and severe morning sickness
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-21
In this edition: Exploring pandemic mental health, comparing spaceflight and frontline NHS work, and linking severe morning sickness with depression.
imperial.ac.uk/news/206973/podcast-pandemic-mental-health-hidden-strengths
SAGE scientist says UK can expect ‘tens of thousands’ of deaths in the second wave
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-21
The UK can expect tens of thousands of deaths from the second wave of coronavirus in what is a “bleak” situation, a government scientist has said.”Gloomy”: Professor John Edmunds, a member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) and from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told MPs that immediate action was needed — and not just regionally — to stem the rising tide of coronavirus (Covid-19) cases.Asked for his view on current government measures and what the trajectory looked like in terms of the number of cases, deaths and pressure on the NHS, Prof Ed…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/21/sage-sci…
Business leaders describe a ‘pointless’ call with Boris Johnson and Michael Gove over Brexit
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-21
Business leaders on a call with the prime minister Boris Johnson and cabinet minister Michael Gove on Brexit have described the meeting as “pointless”.The virtual meeting was scheduled on the morning of 20 October for 3pm the same day. It was organised to discuss how the government aims to support businesses after the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December”A wasted 23 minutes of my life”: According to the government, 250 businesses were on the call. Although it had been scheduled for an hour, it only lasted 23 minutes, with Johnson and Gove discussing their levelling up agenda.One leader told t…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/21/business…
South Yorkshire to be placed in Tier 3 coronavirus restrictions
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-21
South Yorkshire will be the latest region placed into Tier 3 coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions. | Sheffield City Region mayor Dan Jarvis said the restrictions will come into force on the morning of Saturday 24 October. They’ll cover around 1.4 million people in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. The government will give the region a £41m support package. | With the number of people in hospital with coronavirus having doubled over the past 10 days, Jarvis said that leaders had to take the decision. He said: We all recognise the gravity of the situation and have taken the responsible route to ensu…
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Met Police urged to withdraw ‘misleading and unlawful’ advice to pubs
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-21
Scotland Yard is being urged to withdraw the “misleading and unlawful” advice that pubs should ask for photo ID to stop households mixing.The Metropolitan Police sent a letter telling business licence holders they should take steps to ensure groups were only from one household or part of a support bubble.This could include asking for photo ID with names and addresses, Met Police added.”Erroneous advice and enforcement activity”: But Michael Kill, chief executive of the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) said that following legal advice it was urging the Met to withdraw its “misleading and unlawful” a…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/21/met-poli…
Medical staff struggle against coronavirus in Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-21
Healthcare workers in Iran are struggling against the novel coronavirus as the country has seen a rising trend in infections and deaths in October. | A total of 164 Iranian medical personnel have died due to COVID-19, Iranian Health Minister Saeed Namaki said in a statement on Aug.22. | Since late August, a large number of health workers have tested positive for the coronavirus, while many others lost their lives due to the pandemic. | In Iran, especially in the capital Tehran, hospitals allocated to COVID-19 patients have reached their maximum capacity. Therefore, newly diagnosed patients are treated at their ho…
yenisafak.com/en/world/medical-staff-str…
Mosques in two French cities under police protection after threats, says minister
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-21
French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Wednesday he had asked local authorities to put mosques in the cities of Bordeaux and Beziers in southwestern France under police protection following threats or acts of violence.”Such actions are unacceptable on the soil of the Republic” the minister said in a tweet.
yenisafak.com/en/world/mosques-in-two-fr…
Air pollution added over 6.6M deaths to toll in 2019
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-21
Air pollution, the fourth leading risk factor for early death, added 6.67 million deaths to the global toll last year, according to a new study published on Wednesday.”Air pollution is the leading environmental risk factor for early death, with its total impact exceeding only by high blood pressure (10.8 million), tobacco use (8.71 million), and dietary risks (7.94 million),” State of Global Air 2020 report highlighted.On newborn deaths, the report stated that lack of air quality also led to almost 500,000 deaths worldwide last year among babies in their first month of life.”[Due to unprecedented COVID-19 restric…
yenisafak.com/en/life/air-pollution-adde…
Shakhtar shocker: Real Madrid suffer nightmare Champions League start against Covid-ravaged Ukrainian rivals
rt.com | 2020-10-21
Real Madrid suffered a second home defeat in five days as they slumped to a shock loss against Champions League opponents ravaged by players ruled out by positive coronavirus tests, conceding three times in 14 first-half minutes. | The 13-time European champions were heavy pre-match favorites against the Ukrainian side, whose coach, Luis Castro, had described his squad’s preparations as a “nightmare”. | Castro was without several key players after Covid-19 ripped through his squad, including star striker Junior Moraes, but his patched-up side raced into a 3-0 half time lead at the Alfredo Di Stefano. | “It’s a…
rt.com/sport/504179-madrid-shakhtar-cham…
Nigerian president appeals for ‘calm’ after soldiers fire on protesters amid chaos in the capital
rt.com | 2020-10-21
President of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari called for “understanding and calm” a day after soldiers opened fire on police-brutality protesters against the now dissolved Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Lagos on Tuesday night. | “The Presidency appeals for understanding and calm across the nation, as the implementation of the reforms, gathers pace at Federal and State levels,” a statement delivered via the president’s spokesman, Femi Adesina, and published on the Nigerian Television Authority website on Wednesday, said. | It did not address the previous day’s shooting at protesters and focused largely on to the…
rt.com/news/504162-nigeria-shooting-sars…
Greece, Egypt and Cyprus jointly condemn Turkey’s ‘aggression’ in Eastern Mediterranean
rt.com | 2020-10-21
Turkey’s natural gas exploration and military activities in the disputed waters of the Eastern Mediterranean have been roundly condemned by its neighbors, who also criticized the recent reopening of a beach area in North Cyprus. | In a joint statement issued on Wednesday at a one-day summit, the leaders of Egypt, Cyprus and Greece rebuked what they termed Ankara’s “illegal drilling” and “aggression” in the region. The trio called on Ankara to cease its activities in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off Cyprus, the outer border of which runs close to Turkey. | It is the latest exchange in a terse war of words…
rt.com/news/504186-greece-turkey-cyrpus-…
Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko investigated for plotting coup
rt.com | 2020-10-21
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has launched a criminal case into an alleged coup plot by former President Petro Poroshenko and his associates, an opposition MP has announced, publishing scans of the relevant documents. | “I publish documents … about launching an investigation into the facts of illegal seizure of state power, large-scale embezzlement and legalizing ‘dirty’ money by an organized criminal group” which Poroshenko was allegedly part of, Renat Kuzmin, an MP for the ‘Opposition Platform — For Life’ political party, wrote on Facebook. | The deputy listed Ukraine’s former Acting Presi…
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Gyms 1 – Government 0: Major win as Liverpool’s gyms get green light to reopen because restrictions weren’t working out
rt.com | 2020-10-21
Liverpool’s fitness community has won a hard-fought victory against the government as gyms will now reopen on Friday morning in spite of the Tier 3 lockdown restrictions in place in the region. | The city was among the first in the UK to re-enter lockdown amid a spike in Covid-19 cases in the north of England, however, local gym owners remained defiant throughout. | Nick Whitcombe, owner of Bodytech Fitness in Moreton, defied the government’s rules and remained open, prompting a visit from armed police who issued him with a £1,000 fine for breach of coronavirus restrictions, following an anonymous tip.
rt.com/uk/504100-victory-liverpools-gyms…
Spain tops 1 million Covid-19 cases & UK sets daily record for positive tests as second wave surge continues
rt.com | 2020-10-21
Spain has become the first Western European nation to exceed 1 million coronavirus cases, while the UK reported 26,688 new infections on Wednesday – a record for the country. | With 16,973 confirmed cases in the last 24 hours, the overall number of infected in Spain has reached 1,005,295 people, according to data from the country’s health ministry. | The tally has doubled in just six weeks despite restrictions introduced by the government, including a two-week state of emergency in Madrid. | The death toll increased by 156, according to figures released on Wednesday, reaching 34,366 people in total to date. Th…
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Kaepernick’s “Abolition for the People” series to include essay by Mumia
Betsey Piette | workers.org | 2020-10-21
Former National Football League player Colin Kaepernick made history in August 2016 when, during the playing of the national anthem, he refused to stand, in order to protest brutal police killings of Black people across the U.S. Kaepernick, then a 28-year-old quarterback with the San Francisco 49ers, had led his . . . | Continue reading Kaepernick’s “Abolition for the People” series to include essay by Mumia at Workers.org…
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WA unions rally for new industrial manslaughter law
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-21
Up to 2000 people marched in support of Unions WA’s call on the Legislative Assembly to pass a new industrial manslaughter law, reports Alex Salmon.
greenleft.org.au/content/wa-unions-rally…
Whatever happens … it’s the end of the world as we know it
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-21
If carbon continues to be pumped into the atmosphere, we may see the end of complex societies and the extinction of most species, writes Shawn Hattingh. But, we can still avoid climate catastrophe and build a radically democratic, egalitarian and caring society.
greenleft.org.au/content/whatever-happen…
WA unions rally for and win new industrial manslaughter law
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-21
Up to 2000 people marched in support of Unions WA’s call on the Legislative Assembly to pass a new industrial manslaughter law, which it did. Alex Salmon reports.
greenleft.org.au/content/wa-unions-rally…
Media union calls for urgent reform after charges against Oakes dropped
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-21
After charges against ABC reporter Dan Oakes were dropped, Jim McIlroy reports on the media union campaign to reform laws which criminalise journalism.
greenleft.org.au/content/media-union-cal…
Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19 Inferred from Seroprevalence Data
Dr. John P.A. Ioannidis | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-21
Abstract | Objective: To estimate the infection fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from seroprevalence data. | Methods: I searched PubMed and preprint servers for COVID-19 seroprevalence studies with a sample size ‚â• 500 as of 9 September, 2020. I also | …
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Statements from China and Sri Lanka in defence of Dr. Scalice against the attacks by the Stalinist CPP
wsws.org | 2020-10-21
“The working class from all over the world must take seriously the threats and slanders unleashed by Sison against Dr. Scalice and come forward to defend him.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/21/scal…
Amy Coney Barrett Gets That Covid Is Infectious–but Not That Climate Change Is Real
Mark Hertsgaard | thenation.com | 2020-10-21
Amy Coney Barrett Gets That Covid Is Infectious–but Not That Climate Change Is Real…
thenation.com/article/environment/suprem…
Labor, Land, and Legacy: What New Might We Grow in the Shell of the Old?
Nadia Maria Mohamed | thenation.com | 2020-10-21
Labor, Land, and Legacy: What New Might We Grow in the Shell of the Old?
thenation.com/article/society/covid-rent…
We Can’t See Young Progressive Voters as a Monolith
Petruce Jean-Charles, James Lepinsky | thenation.com | 2020-10-21
We Can’t See Young Progressive Voters as a Monolith…
thenation.com/article/politics/diverse-y…
Will Union Workers Flip Nevada?
Rebecca Gordon | thenation.com | 2020-10-21
Will Union Workers Flip Nevada?
thenation.com/article/politics/will-unio…
The Pandemic Sent Americans’ Health Care Coverage Into Free Fall
Bryce Covert | thenation.com | 2020-10-21
The Pandemic Sent Americans’ Health Care Coverage Into Free Fall…
thenation.com/article/society/covid-heal…
A Dilemma of Intimacy
Anne Anlin Cheng | thenation.com | 2020-10-21
A Dilemma of Intimacy…
thenation.com/article/culture/essay-inte…
Earth to Biden: Stop Talking About Fracking
Julian Brave NoiseCat, Danielle Deiseroth | thenation.com | 2020-10-21
Earth to Biden: Stop Talking About Fracking…
thenation.com/article/politics/biden-pol…
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.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/20/bo…
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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“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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Coup regime in Bolivia concedes electoral victory to MAS
wsws.org | 2020-10-20
The ruling class sees a MAS administration as necessary to politically disarm growing workers’ struggles against its devastating response to the coronavirus pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/20/boli…
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,…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/20/decisive-vic…
Two Interviews on the Bolivian Coup and Its Aftermath
Dan Beeton | cepr.net | 2020-10-20
In interviews recorded for a new podcast, “While We were Sleeping,” host Francesca Emanuele investigates overlooked cases of state violence and the human stories behind them. Two new interviews offer useful context for the October 18 general elections just carried out in Bolivia. In the first, Emanuele interviews Jhocelin Caspa, an Indigenous Aymara woman from …
cepr.net/two-interviews-on-the-bolivian-…
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.
therealnews.com/the-eviction-crisis-is-m…
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…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/bolivians-return-e…
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.
popularresistance.org/bolivia-people-pow…
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.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164972/Zarif-felici…
‘A Source of Inspiration’ for Egalitarians Everywhere: Progressive International Celebrates Triumph of Democracy in Bolivia
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-20
“Bolivia’s election not only showed the world how to defeat authoritarianism and its imperialist allies. It also revealed the power of international solidarity to defend democracy around the world.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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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 …
thegrayzone.com/2020/10/20/chomsky-from-…
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-…
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/20/amazonia-in-…
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…
‘Long Overdue’: Justice Department Sues Google in Antitrust Case
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-20
The filing, announced Tuesday morning, accuses the tech giant of violating law to stifle competition. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/20/long-ov…
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 …
globalresearch.ca/expiration-iranian-arm…
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-…
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…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/chavismo-and-the-l…
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 …
globalresearch.ca/americas-corona-2020-g…
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…”
globalresearch.ca/the-smoking-guns-of-a-…
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…
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-how-…
“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…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/20/jelani_c…
Israeli takes its attacks on UNRWA schools to the United Nations
Aseel Jundi | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-20
Israeli takes its attacks on UNRWA schools to the United Nations | Israeli ambassador to the UN accuses its Relief and Works Agency of using curricula inciting against Israel, the latest move in a long campaign against the body | Aseel Jundi | Tue, 10/20/2020 – 19: 12 | Palestinian children fly kites at a school belonging to UNRWA in Gaza City on 12 March 2018 as a protest against US aid cuts (AFP) | Israel’s am…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palest…
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…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-new-york-times…
UN chief appeals for urgent action to reverse ‘downward spiral’ in Central Sahel
news.un.org | 2020-10-20
The world must act now to reverse the situation in Africa’s central Sahel region, where humanitarian needs are at “a breaking point”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told a high-level conference on Tuesday to address the burgeoning crisis.
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Ilhan Omar says Trump’s attacks are posing a threat to her life
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-20
Ilhan Omar says Trump’s attacks are posing a threat to her life | ‘Every time the president has invoked my name, it has incited violence against me,’ the congresswoman said | MEE staff | Tue, 10/20/2020 – 22: 13 | Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has received hundreds of death threats since being elected to office (AFP/File photo) | Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has said US President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks and insults are pos…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/ilhan-omar-tr…
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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