2020-10-22: Social Media Postees

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EndSARS protests continue in Nigeria two days after killing of close to a dozen people
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
The attack on protesters in Lagos on Tuesday has led to further protests both in the country and abroad. Nigerians have been protesting for systemic changes in policing since early October…
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PDF of October 22 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-10-22
Download the 12-page PDF. If Trump won’t quit: Shut! It! Down! Rochester Labor Council resolution ALSO: Indigenous Peoples’ Day; Philly for Trans Lives; Up against the state: Providing water criminalized; Barrett nomination draws mass protests; Big $ militarizes police; Mumia on fascism; Elections under siege; From Nigeria to U.S., Black . . . | Continue reading PDF of October 22 issue at Workers.org
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How Bolivia fights fascism — It takes more than the ballot box
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-22
Anya Parampil speaks with journalist Ollie Vargas in La Paz, Bolivia about the historic victory of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party in the October 18 elections. Video by Ben Norton Parampil and Vargas discuss the role of Bolivia’s social movements in overturning the coup regime that came to power in 2019, as well as the expectations of average people as the new government of Luis Arce takes power.
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Millions salute election victory in Bolivia
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-10-22
Supporters of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in the streets Oct. 18 to celebrate the landslide victory of their candidate. Millions of people cheer with delight the landslide victory of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) in the Bolivian elections. We join them. The rightists who came together for last November’s . . . | Continue reading Millions salute election victory in Bolivia at Workers.org
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The Bolivian right: Divided, without leadership
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
here are still days of uncertainty until the new government is in office. What happened in Bolivia can be described as a counter-coup, in the face of a coup with strong international support that had not arrived to remain only one year in political power.
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It’s No Surprise Corporate Media Abhors Wealth Taxes
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-22
Neil Alexander McKee / CC BY-NC 2.0] By Alan MacLeod / FAIR The coronavirus pandemic has greatly increased wealth inequality in the United States, a key issue in the upcoming presidential election. Polls are currently looking good for the Democrats, many of whom have been murmuring about–or even demanding–a new wealth tax. Recent surveys show the idea is overwhelmingly popular with the electorate… | Source…
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“A Truly Orwellian Culture” — Amazon Removes COVID Skeptic’s Book for Violating Content Guidelines
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Around the time Twitter purged New York Post’s bombshell stories about Hunter Biden from its platform, late last week, Amazon was busy censoring any criticism against the “official” COVID-19 narrative, with the banning of at least one book from its …
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Stefania Maurizi: “This is an Unbelievable Failure of Journalism.”
Stefania Maurizi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi has worked for some of the country’s top publications including la Repubblica, l’Espresso and, now, Il Fatto Quotidiano. In 2009, she started working with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks on secret files concerning the war in Afghanistan, …
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Colombia witnesses massive national strike
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
On October 21, tens of thousands of workers, peasants, teachers, students, Indigenous and Afro-descendant people took part in a new national strike in Colombia to protest against the social and economic policies of President Iván Duque. Several peaceful demonstrations were held throughout the country in rejection of the economic crisis, rising unemployment, police repression, the increase in massacres, assassination of social leaders, armed group activity, among other issues. | In the capital Bogotá, hundreds of workers from diverse sectors hit the streets and marched towards the Plaza Bolívar, demanding a guaran…
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Indigenous Peoples Day in the time of COVID-19
Stephanie Tromblay | workers.org | 2020-10-22
“We are not your Halloween costumes! We are not your dime store Indians!” a speaker shouted from the bandstand on the Santa Fe Plaza this Indigenous Peoples Day in Santa Fe, N.M., as a colonialist obelisk was taken down by Puebloan activists To see people still celebrating Columbus in the . . . | Continue reading Indigenous Peoples Day in the time of COVID-19 at Workers.org
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Marx, Engels and Metabolic Rift — Part One
Mark Walsh | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
Despite our assumed position as Earth’s dominant species, we have seen our society effectively shut down by a virus. Friedrich Engels’s caution against hubris, written over a century and half ago, seems particularly apt.
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Will Azerbaijani Gas Compete with Russia in Southern Europe?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) will become operational in November and will deliver Azerbaijani gas from the Caspian fields to countries in southern Europe. This gives Russia a new competitor in the European energy market. This would have raised questions in …
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Moldova Could be the Next Target of Western-backed Color Revolution to Pressurize Russia
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Washington could be organizing a color revolution and mass protests in Moldova like the ones that have already gripped Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. The Moldovan elections are scheduled for November 1 and have eight presidential candidates participating. The main rivals however …
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The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
WHO has most likely received orders from “above”, from those people who also manage Trump and the “leaders” (sic) of the EU, European Union. The final decision to go ahead NOW with COVID-19 pandemic, was taken in January 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – behind very much closed doors.
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Corporate Fluffers: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-22
Still can’t get over how half of America is engaged in a giant live action role-playing game where they all pretend a dried up corporate fluffer with a small piece of functioning brain matter is a good person who they like. | ~ | Things you will eliminate by getting rid of Trump: | Trump | Things you will not eliminate by getting rid of Trump: | The factors which led to Trump | The evils that Trump facilitated | Some new evils that Trump couldn’t get away with | A system which only allows evil presidents | ~ | Do you not think it odd that the single most important civic duty you’re told you’ll ever perform is alw…
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Nigeria’s Racing Towards a Nightmare Scenario
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
The sudden outbreak of multisided violence in Nigeria’s largest city is pushing Africa’s most populous country towards the nightmare scenario of full-fledged destabilization which could have tremendous humanitarian and geopolitical consequences if it isn’t stopped before the situation spirals even …
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Part Six: The Looting of the Nation
Jeremy Scahill | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
Trump has served as the Pied Piper for the most radical GOP agenda on the economy, workers, and the poor.
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When Does Incompetence Become a Crime?
Patrick Cockburn | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
Instead of relying on experienced public health experts with a successful record in finding, containing and isolating people infected with HIV and TB, the government handed the project over to the private sector…
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Halifax Restaurants Take Lobster Off The Menu
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
Lobster is a major commodity and popular dish in Atlantic Canada, but there’s now a growing list of restaurants taking the succulent shellfish off its menu. | The removal of lobster dishes is a move to show solidarity with the Mi’kmaq and to condemn the ongoing violence stemming from the lobster dispute in Digby county. | Dartmouth cocktail and wine bar Dear Friends boasts a hyper-local menu with seafood options, but you won’t find its popular lobster rolls on the menu right now. | Co-owner Matt Boyle says lobster is off the menu as long as the ongoing lobster dispute continues between Indigenous and non-Indigeno…
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Migrant Parents Separated From Their Kids Still Can’t Be Found
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
Lawyers tasked with identifying and reuniting families separated in 2017 and 2018 under the Trump administration’s so-called “zero tolerance” border policy say they still haven’t been able to locate the parents of at least 545 migrant children, according to a Tuesday court filing from the American Civil Liberties Union. | A majority of these parents — “approximately two-thirds,” the filing said — are believed to have been deported to Central America without their children, some of whom were “just babies” at the time of the separation, ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told CNN this week.
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“We Are Asking for Justice”: #EndSARS Anti-Police Brutality Protests Grow as Nigerian Forces Kill 12
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-22
Mass protests against police brutality continue in Nigeria after security forces shot and killed 12 peaceful protesters in Lagos this week. Video widely shared on social media shows security forces firing directly into a crowd of demonstrators in Lagos singing the country’s national anthem. Authorities have imposed a curfew to clamp down on the growing demonstrations, which started as a demand to disband the notorious police unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, but which have since grown into a wider movement against police brutality and official impunity. “We are asking for justice. We are aski…
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Nagorno-Karabakh: What’s at Stake in the Conflict Between Armenia & Azerbaijan?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-22
As fighting continues between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, we look at the roots of the conflict that has already killed at least 700 people since fighting began in late September and which threatens to escalate despite two ceasefire attempts brokered by Russia. Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic Armenians, was the site of a bloody conflict in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This latest spike in violence is the worst since the 1990s and holds the risk of spiraling into a regional war, with Turkey openly supporting Azer…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/22/nagorno_…

Morales’ Socialist Party Wins Election
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-22
Ron RIDENOUR | A victory for the majority of Bolivians, a victory for the world’s poor, the indigenous, and supporters of equality, world peace, bread and land for all. October 19 exit polls show that the majority’s leader, Luis Arce, and running mate David Choquehuanca Céspedes, won the election. | With around a quarter of the votes counted, exit polls showed them ahead of rightest opponents with 52-53% of the vote. No runoff election wil…
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America Has No Allies, Only Hostages
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-22
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.
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MAS Returns to Power in Bolivia One Year After US-backed Coup
Arnold August | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
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 (MAS) secured a resounding victory on October 18 for candidate Luis Arce, Morales’s former finance minister.
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Bolivia: The people defeat the coup
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
Bolivians have overwhelmingly voted the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) back into office in a resounding reversal of last year’s coup, writes Federico Fuentes.
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Bolivia: The people defeat the coup
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
Bolivians have overwhelming voted the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) back into office in a resounding reversal of last year’s coup, writes Federico Fuentes.
greenleft.org.au/content/bolivia-people-…

Toronto Schools push Students to join Israeli Military
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-22
Canadian law makes it illegal to recruit soldiers for a foreign state. But, the line between enticing impressionable young people to oppress Palestinians and formal recruitment is unclear. Today an open letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters, filmmaker Ken Loach, author Yann Martel, former MP Jim Manly, poet El Jones and more than 150 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/toronto-schoo…

International outrage grows following the killing of peaceful protesters in Nigeria
Sophia Purdy-Moore | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
Nigeria’s notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was officially disbanded on 11 October. The Nigerian government pledged to investigate acts of police brutality and human rights violations. But state-sanctioned violence continues. Youth-led protests against police brutality and impunity have been taking place across Nigeria and beyond since 8 October. | Lekki toll gate massacre: | On 20 October, national polic…
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Britain’s role in training the army behind the Nigerian protestor killings
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
Britain’s relationship with former colony Nigeria is under the spotlight after the alleged shooting dead of unarmed protestors by the country’s security forces. | Protests against police brutality have been underway across the country. According to Amnesty International, police and soldiers shot dead at least 12 protesters on 20 October. | The Nigerian Army responded to reports of violence against p…
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American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a major crisis going on the …
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American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-22
Washington’s aggression directed against much of the world continues with a national election less than two weeks away but no one is talking about it. | Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a major crisis going on the cover it provides permits one to do all sorts of things under the radar that would otherwise be unacceptable. That aphorism is particularly true in the current context as there are multiple crises taking place simultaneously, all of which are…
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Selected Articles: American Militarism Marches On
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World | By Philip Giraldi, October 22 2020 | One of the more interesting stories carefully hidden by the smoke being generate by civil unrest, plague and | …
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US Presidential Campaign Spectacle: Distracts from Essential Issues while Playing the Race Card
Roger Harris | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
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.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/us-president…

Sri Lankan SEP to hold online meeting on a socialist program to fight COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
The event will discuss the policies necessary for workers, the rural poor and youth to combat the coronavirus disaster and the Rajapakse administration’s austerity and anti-democratic measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/slmt…

Video: Azerbaijan-Armenia War: Counter-offensive in the South and the “Iranian Factor”
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
On the evening of October 20, the Armenian Defense Ministry declared that they had launched a large-scale counter-offensive against the advancing Azerbaijani forces in the Khudaferin Reservoir area, in the southern part of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenian sources claimed that …
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Trump Regime Maximum Pressure on Iran a Crime Against Humanity
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
On Sunday, the UN arms embargo on Iran its ruling authorities voluntarily accepted ended. | Iran is now once again free to buy and sell conventional arms — what many other countries do unrestrained. | Key to understand is that the Islamic …
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Russia and Iran US 2020 Election Meddling?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
It was just a matter of time before another claim of Russian US election meddling officially surfaced. | On Wednesday, it included Iran — despite no credible evidence ever showing foreign interference in the US electoral process. | What could a foreign …
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Trump Regime Exerts Maximum Pressure on Iran: A Crime Against Humanity
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
On Sunday, the UN arms embargo on Iran its ruling authorities voluntarily accepted ended. | Iran is now once again free to buy and sell conventional arms — what many other countries do unrestrained. | Key to understand is that the Islamic …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-maximum-p…

Trump Regime Threatens New Sanctions on Firms Involved in Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Construction
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany will be completed and become operational in early 2021. | On Wednesday, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced the following: | “Nord Stream 2 will go operational by the end of 2020.” | “One of | …
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The Assistance, Not the Resistance
Erin McCarley and Birrion Sondahl | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-22
As Amy Coney Barrett is expected to be confirmed today as the next Justice to the Supreme Court, one might expect to see more news coverage of the multiple ways Congressional Democrats have tried to block her confirmation. Given the massive groundswell of anguish and fury over her nomination to replace the legendary Ruth Bader …
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Racism, democracy in the ‘land of the free’
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
The racism and lack of democracy that underpins the institutions of the United States has been exposed thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement and President Donald Trump’s rush to confirm a new Supreme Court justice ahead of the election, writes Barry Sheppard.
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Racism, democracy in the ‘land of the free’
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
The racism and lack of democracy that underpins the institutions of the United States has been exposed thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement and President Donald Trump’s rush to confirm a new Supreme Court, writes Barry Sheppard.
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Argentina’s veteran ambassador makes a stand for the sovereignty of Latin America
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
Alicia Castro does not shy away from her views. She came to diplomacy from the trade union movement, where she was a leader when she was a flight attendant with Aerolíneas Argentinas.
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Argentina’s veteran ambassador makes a stand for the sovereignty of Latin America
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
For veteran Argentine ambassador Alicia Castro, resigning over her government’s vote against Venezuela at the UN Human Rights Council was not a difficult decision, for as she wrote in her letter, “Anti-colonialism is… an ethical imperative”
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An End to the Fog. Understanding the World We Live In
Nora Fernandez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Understanding the world we live in seems more confusing than ever, and, advanced technology is part of the problem, presenting information not always reliable and bringing to the front real and fake conspiracies. Our attention, often hostage of social media, …
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“Second Wave” Covid-19 Cases, With Face Masks
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Dr. Gary Magdar, a dentist in Ontario, and founder of Gold tent TA Paradise, created the following graph to show how helpful masks have been in slowing the second wave in the United States: | . | . | ….
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Warehouse workers organize for COVID-19 safety at Mars Wrigley
Mike Kuhlenbeck | workers.org | 2020-10-22
Chicago — The Warehouse Workers for Justice, Mars Workers for Justice, the Foodchain Workers Alliance and the HEAL Alliance are organizing a rally at Mars Wrigley headquarters on Oct. 27. It will be part of a Halloween week of actions protesting the candy company’s retaliation against warehouse workers in Joliet, . . . | Continue reading Warehouse workers organize for COVID-19 safety at Mars Wrigley at Workers.org
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Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times
Henry Giroux | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
Something sinister and horrifying is happening to liberal democracies all over the globe. The global thrust towards democratization that emerged after World War II is giving way once again to authoritarian tyrannies. As alarming as the signs may be, the public cannot look away and allow the terrors of the unforeseen to be given free rein. For those who believe in democratic socialism we cannot allow the power of dreams and militant hopes to turn into ashes.
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Voter Suppression and Right-wing Threats Fail to Keep Millions Away from the Polls
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Efforts aimed at thwarting the fundamental bourgeois democratic rights of the majority of people in the United States are well underway. | President Donald J. Trump has said repeatedly that mail-in voting and early opportunities to cast ballots are inherently fraudulent …
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Ignoring history to our detriment
Mumia Abu-Jamal | workers.org | 2020-10-22
These lightly edited remarks were made by Mumia Abu-Jamal in a prerecorded message that aired on October 14 during “Conversations with Trudy,” an online interview program hosted by Trudy Knockless. The full episode is available at tinyurl.com/y3pscmjr and includes commentary by Workers World Party member Ted Kelly. Why did I . . . | Continue reading Ignoring history to our detriment at Workers.org
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Guns, Germs, and Smoke
Rebecca Gordon | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
“Look, folks, the air quality is in the red zone today. The EPA says that means people with lung or heart issues should avoid prolonged activity outdoors.” That was J.R. de Vera, one of two directors of UNITE-HERE!’s independent expenditure campaign to elect Biden and Harris in Reno, Nevada. UNITE-HERE! is a union representing 300,000…
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“Justice Rising”: 9/11 Truth ‘Pioneers’ Griffin, Harrit, and Jones
Craig McKee | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
The second day of Justice Rising brought the 9/11 Truth Movement back to its roots in a powerful way. | The day, dubbed “Science Saturday,” began with “Lights, Camera, Building 7,” a panel discussion on the historic documentary SEVEN, which AE911Truth …
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COVID-19 is raging in prisons. Why are America’s aging political prisoners still behind bars?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-22
Ericka Payne discusses the struggle to get her uncle Ed Poindexter released, and how political prisoners are left out of the conversation about protecting aging prisoners from the pandemic.
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Tallahassee: Candidate from for Superintendent of Leon County Schools
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-22
Tallahassee, FL – On Saturday, October 10, the Progressive Parent Teacher Student Alliance (PPTSA), a subcommittee of Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) hosted an online candidate forum for Superintendent of Leon County Schools, with the aim of giving the viewing public an opportunity to learn where the candidates stand in relation to the progressive platform put forth by TCAC. | The event was hosted on Zoom and broadcast on Facebook Live. Although TCAC put on the forum, moderator Dawn Orocio opened the event by clarifying, “TCAC does not endorse candidates but we encourage candidates to endorse our p…
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Israeli NGOs demand government allow UN rights monitors
Joe Dyke | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Israeli NGOs demand government allow UN rights monitors | Prominent rights groups write to Israel’s foreign minister following MEE revelation that OHCHR workers had stopped receiving visas | Joe Dyke | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 08: 55 | Visitors on a tour held by NGO “Breaking the Silence” walk down Shuhada Street in the West Bank city of Hebron (Reuters) | Major Israeli rights organisations have written to the country’s foreign mi…
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Working to End Human Violence in the Time of COVID-19
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
At what is arguably the most important time in human history, with Homo Sapiens confronted by an enormous range of violent challenges that threaten our very survival, the only question of any genuine importance is this: Can we craft and …
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Iranian press review: Lifting of UN arms embargo celebrated by reformists
MEE correspondent | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Iranian press review: Lifting of UN arms embargo celebrated by reformists | Meanwhile, hardline lawmakers increase pressure on President Hassan Rouhani, and Iranians shocked by suicide of young student | MEE correspondent | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 11: 11 | A missile being fired out to sea from a mobile launch vehicle, southern coast of Iran, 18 June 2018 (AFP/HO/Iranian Army Office) | Political factions divi…
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Israeli government accused of shielding police officers who shot dead Iyad al-Hallaq
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
32-year-old Iyad al-Hallaq, a Palestinian man with autism, was shot dead at an Israeli police checkpoint on May 30. The police officer who shot him has been charged with only reckless homicide…
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Divest / Invest
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
The US today spends more than $80 billion a year incarcerating 2.3 million people in state and federal prisons, local jails, youth facilities and deportation centers. That’s $80 billion that comes out of public coffers and goes into public confinement. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many were shocked to see woman, children and…
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Lebanon: Hariri again tasked with forming new government
Kareem Chehayeb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Lebanon: Hariri again tasked with forming new government | Future Movement leader secures enough nominations to become prime minister-designate but faces tricky task to build coalition | Kareem Chehayeb | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 12: 01 | Saad Hariri delivers a statement after the president named him to form a new cabinet, at the presidential palace in Baabda (AFP) | One year after being turfed out of office by mass…
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Video: The Moment for Change Is Now. Medical Doctors Speak Out
ACU | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
On October 10, 2020, ACU2020.org announced the world doctors’ alliance in Berlin, Germany. | It is an alliance of medical doctors, scientists and peace activists who together claim that this COVID-19 affair is just not true. | And as medical doctors, it …
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Explained: The antitrust case against Google
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha examines the reasons for the US justice department filing a landmark antitrust lawsuit against Internet giant Google. He talks about how Google has achieved a near monopoly and the risks of such an approach.
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Indonesia’s return to an authoritarian developmental state
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
With the passing of the anti-worker Omnibus Law, President Jokowi’s administration follows the path of Indonesia’s dark past.
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Yemen: Prisoner Swap and What May be Behind It
Press TV | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-22
Transcript of an Interview with Press TV Background The fourth batch of Yemeni detainees has arrived in Sana’a as part of the largest prisoner swap between the country’s warring sides. The residents in the capital received 112 prisoners after their plane landed in the Sana’a international airport. 1,081 men will be released in two days. …
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Transforming Our Food Systems is the Only Way to Nourish the World
Katharine Early | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
The way we produce our food is under pressure like never before. And with the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic now posing the greatest challenges to nourishing the expanding global population, our precious and fragile food system is fast reaching breaking point. So do we intensify the current system of farming or is there…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/transforming…

Tallahassee: Candidate from for Superintendent of Leon County Schools
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-22
Tallahassee, FL – On Saturday, October 10, the Progressive Parent Teacher Student Alliance (PPTSA), a subcommittee of Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) hosted an online candidate forum for Superintendent of Leon County Schools, with the aim of giving the viewing public an opportunity to learn where the candidates stand in relation to the progressive platform put forth by TCAC. | The event was hosted on Zoom and broadcast on Facebook Live. Although TCAC put on the forum, moderator Dawn Orocio opened the event by clarifying, “TCAC does not endorse candidates but we encourage candidates to endorse our p…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/21/tallaha…

Major Oil Discovery Puts Suriname in Global Spotlight Amid Venezuela Crisis and US-China Trade War
Uriel Araujo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Although Guyana’s newly discovered oil reserves and US interests in the region have been the focus of attention, not many analysts have been noticing neighboring Suriname, one of Latin America’s poorest countries. | Guyana’s prospects have certainly changed tremendously — its …
globalresearch.ca/major-oil-discovery-pu…

Rethinking Our Relationship With Fire
Dave McWethy — Cathy Whitlock | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
During this fire season, millions of acres of land have burned throughout the western U.S., with over 4 million acres burned in California alone, and the fire season is not over. Fires have destroyed thousands of homes, dozens of lives have been lost, and persistent smoke from these fires has created hazardous air quality across…
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Three Antifa Poems to Get Me Through
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
Three Antifa Poems To Get Me Through by John Kendall Hawkins I. In the fascist playgrounds of yesteryore where fey made monsters held court and fought turf wars for our twinkies, our little packaged sugar shacks, our souls — while their future wives snapped gum and smoked at the same time — we were presented…
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Protests against government’s economic plan continue in Costa Rica
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
Since September 30, Costa Ricans have been mobilizing in rejection of the government’s possible deal with the IMF, which will force the government to implement a number of austerity measures…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/22/protests-…

Israeli delegation travels to Sudan to discuss normalisation: Report
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Israeli delegation travels to Sudan to discuss normalisation: Report | Israel’s Kan radio gave no further details about the talks as a minister predicted a possible diplomatic breakthrough | MEE and agencies | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 08: 27 | Israeli public broadcaster Kan radio said the discussions were held in Khartoum (AFP) | An Israeli delegation made a rare visit to Sudan on Wednesday to discuss normalising t…
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Is Biden Campaign Buying Republicans Through Patronage?
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Megan Cassella and Alice Miranda Ollstein reported for the Politico [1] yesterday that Joe Biden’s transition team is vetting renegade Republicans for potential cabinet positions. The report didn’t name the names but identified Biden’s prospective national security team after …
globalresearch.ca/biden-campaign-buying-…

Rejecting community oversight of police, Chicago’s mayor embraces the ‘royal we’
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-22
Chicago, IL – During the October 20 meeting of the City Council Public Safety Committee, it was announced that Mayor Lori Lightfoot will introduce her own legislation on ‘civilian police oversight.’ This will mark the absurd yet predictable culmination to Lightfoot’s journey as a ‘police reformer.’ It is absurd because Lightfoot’s legislation on ‘community oversight’ comes on the heels of her thorough rejection of any and all community-based demands for police reform and will undoubtedly include no substantive role for communities whatsoever. Predictable because as a former prosecutor, member and defender of the…
fightbacknews.org/2020/10/21/rejecting-c…

Ending Corporate Impunity is at the Heart of a Sustainable Post-Pandemic Global Recovery
Makbule Sahan — Ruwan Subasinghe | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
The Covid-19 pandemic has once again exposed the fragility of global supply chains and business models built on non-standard forms of employment and informality. Following the global drop in demand as a result of the pandemic, many companies resorted to abruptly ending the procurement of goods and services and even to defaulting on prior commitments made –…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/ending-corpo…

Rejecting community oversight of police, Chicago’s mayor embraces the ‘royal we’
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-22
Chicago, IL – During the October 20 meeting of the City Council Public Safety Committee, it was announced that Mayor Lori Lightfoot will introduce her own legislation on ‘civilian police oversight.’ This will mark the absurd yet predictable culmination to Lightfoot’s journey as a ‘police reformer.’ It is absurd because Lightfoot’s legislation on ‘community oversight’ comes on the heels of her thorough rejection of any and all community-based demands for police reform and will undoubtedly include no substantive role for communities whatsoever. Predictable because as a former prosecutor, member and defender of the…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/21/rejecti…

Russia and the EU: “Business as Usual” Is Over
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
This article was originally published on Asia Times. | Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, is the world’s foremost diplomat. The son of an Armenian father and a Russian mother, he’s just on another level altogether. Here, once again, we …
globalresearch.ca/russia-eu-business-ove…

Follow the Money: Banking, Criminality and the FinCEN Files
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
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 just that. Centre stage: international banking misbehaviour. And my, was there much to go on.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/follow-the-m…

What’s at stake in the final presidential debate?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-22
Join us live at 12pm EST on Friday, Oct. 23 for a recap of the second and final presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
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Korea-Japan Relations in the Post-Abe Era
Prof. Joseph H. Chung | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
One of Shinzo Abe’s legacies inherited by Suga Yoshihide is the Korea bashing. Korea bashing is essentially a by-product of Abe’s racism; it is closely related to Abe’s refusal to admit wartime crimes committed by Japan against Koreans. Korea bashing …
globalresearch.ca/korea-japan-relations-…

Hunter’s business partner CONFIRMS authenticity of laptop email, claims Joe Biden was part of Chinese deals
rt.com | 2020-10-22
A former associate of Hunter Biden’s has said that an email addressed to him concerning potentially shady deals with a Chinese firm is genuine and that Hunter’s father was also involved in the scheme, and got a 10 percent cut. | A tranche of emails, text messages and photos, allegedly taken from a hard drive that belonged to the former vice president’s son and published by the New York Post, have been dismissed by many media outlets as “unverified” and potentially even “Russian disinformation.” Twitter even blocked the link to the original story. But now a man claiming to be a recipient of one of the leaked em…
rt.com/usa/504204-biden-email-china-deal…

FDA formally approves pricey antiviral remdesivir as Covid-19 treatment
rt.com | 2020-10-22
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Gilead Sciences’ expensive antiviral drug remdesivir to treat Covid-19, expanding its earlier emergency use authorization and guaranteeing huge profits for the company. | Remdesivir has become the first and only drug to be officially approved in the US for treating infection with the novel coronavirus after the FDA issued its decision on Thursday. The move expands on a May emergency use authorization, which allowed doctors to use it to treat hospitalized Covid-19 patients. | Gilead has issued a statement confirming the drug will be used for Covid-19 patien…
rt.com/usa/504312-remdesevir-approved-tr…

Trump to bring Hunter Biden’s business partner to debate as guest
rt.com | 2020-10-22
President Donald Trump has a surprise guest for his final debate with Joe Biden: Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden who said the emails describing the Biden family’s alleged shady dealings are genuine. | Bobulinski came forward on Wednesday, claiming he can confirm the authenticity of the documents published by the New York Post last week. The emails, supposedly obtained from a Delaware computer repair shop, show Hunter trading access to his father with Ukrainian energy tycoons, making deals for his family in China, and kicking a share of his foreign profits up to Joe, all while the sen…
rt.com/usa/504311-trump-biden-debate-gue…

Close encounters of the blurred kind: Popstars Miley Cyrus and Demi Lovato report contact with ALIENS
rt.com | 2020-10-22
During a recent interview, popstar Miley Cyrus claimed she had a close encounter with a UFO, and even locked eyes with its extraterrestrial pilot. She’s not the only pop star to have had recent, otherworldly experiences either. | Speaking with designer Rick Owens, 27-year-old Cyrus claims she was traveling through Southern California with a friend when they were pursued by a “flying snowplow.” | “I was driving through San Bernardino with my friend, and I got chased down by some sort of…
rt.com/usa/504245-miley-cyrus-demi-lovat…

US federal judge says Trump’s tweet calling to release Russiagate docs with ‘no redactions’ was NOT official order amid FOIA suits
rt.com | 2020-10-22
A US judge has ruled that a tweet sent by President Donald Trump earlier this month did not constitute an order to declassify material linked to the Russiagate probe, as CNN and Buzzfeed press for the docs in ongoing lawsuits. | US District Judge Reggie Walton said on Wednesday that, while the tweet appeared to order the release of new material free of any redactions, a clarification from White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows qualified as a reversal of the move. The judge was also critical of the administration for a lack of clarity on the question. | “It is unfortunate that we are in this situation because,…
rt.com/usa/504201-judge-trump-tweet-not-…

Conservatives accuse Twitter of selectively ignoring own policies on REVENGE PORN, misleading content in Borat prank on Giuliani
rt.com | 2020-10-22
Conservatives blasted Twitter for ignoring and even promoting what they called a misleading revenge-porn attack on Rudy Giuliani after censoring reporting on alleged influence-peddling by Joe Biden’s family. | At issue was a picture posted on Twitter on Wednesday showing Giuliani laying back on a bed with his hand reaching inside his pants while a woman stands nearby. The image was taken from the new ‘Borat’ sequel, in which Giuliani, a personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, believed himself to be doing an interview on the Covid-19 pandemic with a female Russian reporter. After the interview, Giuliani and…
rt.com/usa/504198-giuliani-borat-twitter…

‘Bias, hatred & rudeness’: Trump releases VIDEO of ’60 Minutes’ interview he walked out on
rt.com | 2020-10-22
US President Donald Trump has released a video of his aborted interview with CBS News’ Lesley Stahl that he claims shows her “constant interruptions and anger.” | Filmed on Tuesday, Trump’s sit-down with Stahl stoked controversy from the start. Rumors flew as he walked out of the hour-long interview after 45 minutes, and he confirmed things had gone badly when he later promised to release a recording of it “so that everybody can get a glimpse of what a FAKE and BIASED interview is all about.” The president followed through and released the footage on Thursday, three days before its scheduled airing. | https://…
rt.com/usa/504305-trump-60minutes-interv…

Thailand Meets US-funded Mob Demands to Lift Emergency Decree — Mob Complains
Anthony Cartalucci | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-22
Another illustration of the true agenda behind anti-government protesters organized by Thailand’s billionaire-led opposition and funded by the US government — emerged when the Thai government met one of the protesters’ demands today by lifting the current emergency decree — only to be met by condemnation and complaining by the opposition. | Mobs demanded end for emergency decree | Thailand’s government announced last night a “step back” from confrontation | Protesters then attacked police and attempted to storm Government House | Thai government announced today end of emergency decree as additional com…
thealtworld.com/anthony_cartalucci/thail…

In politicizing intelligence, America is blaming everyone but itself for its self-inflicted woes
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-22
In the latest episode in the US’ single-minded crusade toward self-destruction, Russia and Iran are being fingered for election interference based on intelligence that doesn’t pass the smell test. | You would be justified in thinking that the various news conferences put on by US law enforcement and intelligence officials in which foreign actors — Russia, China and Iran are the usual suspects — are accused of meddling in all things American are little more than a giant practical joke, a parody of how a government should behave, instead of the damning indictment of reality that they are. | The most rec…
thealtworld.com/scott_ritter/in-politici…

As U.S. Tensions Soar With China, Taiwan Fears Cannon Fodder Risk
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-22
After 40 years of “strategic ambiguity” in its partnership with the United States, Taiwan has taken the unprecedented move of calling Washington for “clarity” on whether it would be defended in the event of armed conflict with China. | The Washington Post reported last week…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/22/as…

Understanding American Jewish Philanthropy
Sam Bahour | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
Throughout history, the American Jewish community has had a lot to be rightfully proud of. Their dedication to Jewish communal life, their commitment to education, their organizing and lobbying skills, and their sustained investment in Jewish-focused media outlets, are just a few. Much of the individual and institutional successes across a myriad of domains can…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/understandin…

When Trump And Steven Miller Tried To Kill My Father, California And Stanford Tried To Save Him
Karthik Ramanathan | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
The ongoing pandemic, just like cancer in a family, is ruthless, but is also a truth teller that doesn’t hide anything uncomfortable we prefer to avoid. It doesn’t hide the cruelty and ignorance of our elected national leadership either, that is now there for all to see…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/when-trump-and-ste…

Dear President-Elect Biden, please start with the easiest problem to solve
Alan Robock | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
Your presidency is an unprecedented opportunity for positive change in the world. Reducing the threat of nuclear war and nuclear winter will make the United States safer and richer, and cement your status as a world leader…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/dear-president-ele…

Divest / Invest
Laura Flanders | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
Especially after Covid, the most contentious election in living memory and the most layoffs since the 1930s, we need to invest in what closes our killer wealth gap and makes our society whole…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/divest-invest/

Trump and the Rise of Artificial News
Thomas Klikauer | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
For years, journalism has been increasingly replaced by the Internet, IT, algorithms, and even AI or artificial intelligence…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-and-the-rise…

How Workers Can Help Defeat a Trump Coup
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
If the demands of the movement are clear and unambiguous, everyone should be able to tell whether they have been met and there will be no opportunity for leadership sellout. Democracy is not negotiable…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-workers-can-he…

I Was in the Room Where It Happened: One Woman’s Perspective on “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
Nancy Kurshan | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
The missing element in the film was the rest of us, by which I mean the thousands of anti-war activists who came to the trial and waited out in the cold for hours to get into the trial.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/i-was-in-the-room-…

Can America survive the re-election of Donald Trump?
Henry A. Giroux | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
Americans can survive Trump — and even a second term of Trump — if they resurrect a language of critique and possibility, and develop a mass movement that draws from history and provides the economic, cultural and political conditions to lift the U.S. out of the present-day socio-political morass…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/can-america-surviv…

U.S. Billionaires Wealth Surges $931 Billion since Beginning of Pandemic
Chuck Collins | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
An Unseemly Juxtaposition: 220,000 Dead and Millions Lose their Health, Wealth and Livelihoods…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/u-s-billionaires-w…

An Originalist Reading of Public Schools and the Absurdity of Amy Coney Barrett
Steven Singer | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
The GOP is now the the party of plutocrat neofascist Christian fundamentalism…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/an-originalist-rea…

A Glimmer of Hope: Mortality Rate Is Improving for Hospitalized COVID Patients
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
Less death means that we are learning, ever so slowly and in the face of massive anti-science disruptions pushed from the highest echelons of government. It is further proof that if we let science be science, we will come out of this nightmare someday…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-glimmer-of-hope-…

OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma To Plead To Three Criminal Charges
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
Washington – Drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts say helped touch off an opioid epidemic, will plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. | The deal does not release any of the company’s executives or owners — members of the wealthy Sackler family — from criminal liability, and a criminal investigation is ongoing. Family members said they acted “ethically and lawfully,” but some state attorneys general said the agreement fails to hold the Sackle…
popularresistance.org/oxycontin-maker-pu…

Chairman Pai Doubles Down On Open-Internet Repeal
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
Washington – On Tuesday, Free Press filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission that responded to the agency’s attempt to fix problems in its order that repealed Net Neutrality rules and tossed away its broadband-oversight authority. The proposal, scheduled for a vote at the FCC next week, responds to the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit that remanded portions of the unpopular repeal to the agency for further consideration. | Earlier this month, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai circulated his proposal to address three issues the court of appeals raised in 2019.
popularresistance.org/chairman-pai-doubl…

Israeli Weapons Fuel The Violence In Azerbaijan
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
The latest iteration of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, which has already claimed the lives of dozens of people, had been largely forgotten by the world before hostilities reignited in September. Only the collapse of the Soviet Union was able to bring about the end of the last war between these entrenched enemies in the 1980s and 1990s. Now, almost a quarter of a century later, the still contested region claimed under international law by Azerbaijan and de facto controlled by its ethnic Armenian majority has fallen under a new spell of violence thanks in large part to external actors vying for a larger war with an…
popularresistance.org/israeli-weapons-fu…

Nagorno-Karabakh Talks Again Fail
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
As we had expected the ceasefire in the war on Nagarno-Karabakh did not hold. Armenian troops have left the hard to defend lower grounds and retreated towards the mountains. For Azerbaijahn to proceed onto higher ground will be much harder than the previous fighting. | The low ground also offered little protection for the Armenians from the massive aerial attacks by the Turkish and Israeli drones that Azerbaijahn is using. Armenian units had big losses of tanks and other equipment to aerial attacks.
popularresistance.org/nagorno-karabakh-t…

Top Ten People To Blame If Joe Biden Loses
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
So, Joseph Biden, AKA “Kid Senile,” leads in the polls against Donald Trump, AKA “Kid Fascist Lunatic,” by such a large margin that it resembles a horse race in which one of the horses is an aged wiener dog with three legs. | Right now, even though the polling does not account for the millions of voters who have been unceremoniously booted from the voter rolls, many people believe Biden is going to become the next drunken pilot of the American Empire — a position which has less power than most people imagine as the Military Industrial Complex and Wall Street roll on undeterred due to their unimaginable iner…
popularresistance.org/top-ten-people-to-…

Eight Black workers sue S.F. health department for racial discrimination
repost | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
Eight Black workers in the City and County of San Francisco filed suit against the city for systemic racism and bullying.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/21/1883778…

Justice Ginsburg’s example helped mitigate bad outcomes for women globally
Ramona du Houx | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
Climate change exasperates violence against women worldwide — Justice Ginsburg’s example helped mitigate bad outcomes. Elected officials say if Barrett is confirmed systemic injustices, women’s rights and climate issues will get worse.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/22/1883778…

Federal Juneteenth Holiday Bill Lacks Congressional Budget Office Cost Analysis
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/20/1883772…

At Women’s March in Petaluma, GOP Called Out for Assault on Women
Stronger Together | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
“This Presidency is the Worst Period Woman’s Ever Had” and other messages from the North Bay.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/21/1883773…

WILL THE 2020 ELECTION BE STOLEN? Webinar October 25th
Allan Rees | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
Online webinar with 4 election integrity experts will discuss how the 2020 Election could be stolen. You are invited to participate in the Q&A. 3 hours.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/22/1883778…

Saturday 11/7: Virtual Harvest Benefit
Turning Green | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
Online only; Zoom link shared after ticket purchase…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/20/1883772…

Tuesday 10/27: Images, Memory and Justice with Bryan Stevenson
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UCSC | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
Online Event | ias.ucsc.edu/events/2020/images-memory-a…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/22/1883778…

Sunday 10/25: The Value of a Black Woman’s Vote Rountable w/ NAACP
NAACP | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
Online roundtable…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/21/1883776…

Wednesday 10/21: Voting Plan, CA Ballot Info, & Voting Rights During COVID-19 Webinar w/ ACLU
ACLU NorCal | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
Online voter webinar and online volunteering opportunities…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/21/1883777…

Castro Valley: Women’s March
Edited by LK | indybay.org | 2020-10-22
Photos from march.
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American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-22
Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a major crisis going on the cover it provides permits one to do all sorts of things under the radar that would otherwise be unacceptable. That aphorism is particularly true in the current context as there are multiple crises taking place simultaneously, all of which are being exploited to various degrees by interested parties. | One of the more interesting stories carefully hidden by the smoke being generate by civil un…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/22/am…

The Heat: U.S.-Iran Tensions
Mike Walter | america.cgtn.com | 2020-10-22
Iran hits back at a U.S. threat to impose sanctions, after a United Nations arms ban on the Islamic Republic expires.
america.cgtn.com/2020/10/22/the-heat-u-s…

Iran joins club of countries with long-range radars
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — Islamic Republic of Iran joined the world club of countries which have long-range radars on Thursday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165059/Iran-joins-c…

“Mounted Police Horse” parades on Tehran’s Vali-e Asr Ave
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — On the fourth day of the Police Week, special unit of “Mounted Police Horse” marched from Tehran’s Vanak Square to Mellat Park on Thursday.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/165055/Mounted-Pol…

Iran able to be among top 10 defense equip. supply countries
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — The Deputy Ministry of Defense for International Affairs said that Iran enjoys high capacity to be among top 10 supplying countries of defense products.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165051/Iran-able-to…

“Defenders of Veleyat Skies” Military Drill wrapped up
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) –The Iranian army’s air defense wrapped up its annual drills dubbed ‘Modafean Aseman Velayat 99 (The Defenders of Velayat Skies) successfully in Semnan on Thursday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165060/Defenders-of…

Russia expresses regret on US claims of meddling in election
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — The Kremlin regrets new groundless allegations that Russia is interfering in the US presidential election, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165056/Russia-expre…

Nagorno-Karabakh crisis must be resolved via negotiations
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that conflict erupted between Azerbaijan Republic and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh region must be resolved through negotiations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165063/Nagorno-Kara…

US better to end its crimes, malign presence in region: FM
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said that the United States is better to end its crimes and malign presence in the region.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165062/US-better-to…

VIDEO: 2.7 tons of illicit drugs destroyed in Mazandaran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
GHAEMSHAHR, Oct. 22 (MNA) — On the occasion of the Police Week, some 2,700 kilograms of various kinds of narcotic drugs, psychedelics and psychotropic were destroyed in Ghaemshahr, Mazandaran province.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165054/VIDEO-2-7-to…

3rd joint Book Fair of Iran, Afghanistan to be held in Nov
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-22
TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) — The 3rd joint Book Exhibition of Iran and Afghanistan will be inaugurated in Kabul on Nov. 2 in the presence of the 1st Vice President of Afghanistan Amrullah Saleh.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165053/3rd-joint-Bo…

Imperial and Twig join forces to contribute to UNICEF’s Learning Passport
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-22
Imperial and Twig today announced a new initiative to create science content for UNICEF’s Learning Passport, a digital personalised learning platform.
imperial.ac.uk/news/207013/imperial-twig-join-forces-contribute-unicefs

We need an evidenced-based space strategy, academics tell policymakers
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-22
Space safety and security in the 2020s was the focus of a briefing event run by Imperial academics and partners, supported by The Forum.
imperial.ac.uk/news/206993/we-need-evidenced-based-space-strategy-academics

Liverpool hospitals treating more coronavirus patients than at peak of pandemic
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
Hospitals in Liverpool are treating more coronavirus patients than they were during the peak of the first wave of the pandemic, the medical director has said. | Dr Tristan Cope, medical director of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the Royal, Aintree and Broadgreen hospitals in the city, said the numbers were continuing to rise. | Writing on Twitter, he said: “Sadly we are now treating more patients in hospital with Covid-19 @LivHospitals than we did in April at the peak of the first wave and numbers continue to rise. | “So important that people in #liverpool and @LivCityRegion adhere to social…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/22/liverpoo…

Tory MPs face barrage of criticism after voting to let over a million children ‘go hungry’
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
Opposition figures have savaged the government after Tory MPs voted against footballer Marcus Rashford’s bid to have free school meals for eligible children extended through the coming holidays. | Labour’s motion, which called for the scheme to be extended over school holidays until Easter 2021, was defeated by 261 votes to 322. | Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said the Conservatives had voted to let the more than 1.4 million children eligible for free school meals go hungry through the holidays. | Tonight I voted to feed our country’s vulnerable and needy children. | The Tories voted to let them go hungry.
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/22/tory-mps…

Thailand cancels state of emergency in bid to calm pro-democracy protests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
Thailand’s government has cancelled a state of emergency it declared last week for Bangkok in a gesture offered by the embattled prime minister to cool massive student-led protests seeking democracy reforms.The decree had banned public gatherings of more than four people and allowed censorship of the media, among other provisions. It was challenged in court by an opposition party and a group of university students.The revocation of the emergency decree declared that the situation had been mitigated and could now be dealt with by existing laws.Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has faced calls to step down (Governme…
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Welsh government announces nationalisation of rail service
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
The Welsh government has decided to nationalise its railways following a significant drop in passenger numbers because of coronavirus (Covid-19). | The country’s transport minister Ken Skates said bringing day-to-day rail services for its Wales and Borders franchise under public control would help secure the future of passenger services and protect jobs. | Private firm KeolisAmey, a joint venture between French transport giant Keolis and Amey, has run the franchise in Wales for just two years after taking it over from Arriva Trains Wales. | Following today’s announcement on the future of rail in Wales, all custo…
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Justice for Eric Briceno, killed by ELA Sheriffs
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-22
Los Angeles, CA – Family, neighbors, supporters and Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) attended an October 16 press conference, rally and celebration of the life of Eric Briceno, who was killed by East LA Sheriffs in Maywood, California. Other families who have lost loved ones to police killings also joined the Briceno family. Well-known civil rights attorney Samuel Paz had asked Centro CSO to help the Briceno family. | Briceno was killed on March 16 after his parents called 911 for help with a mental health crisis. Briceno was beaten and tased to death in his bedroom, after he woke up to sheriffs shouti…
fightbacknews.org/2020/10/21/justice-eri…

EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s Khamenei ordered end to Iraqi attacks on US interests
Suadad al-Salhy | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s Khamenei ordered end to Iraqi attacks on US interests | Fearful of a ferocious response from Trump, the Iranian leader listened to British advice and told Iraq’s paramilitaries to stand down | Suadad al-Salhy | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 08: 15 | Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told his Iraqi allies to halt their attacks in person (AFP) | The order for Iraqi armed factions to halt their attacks on…
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Trump Takes a Beating…in Montana
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
Montana’s Gov. Steve Bullock just chalked up another great win with a victory over Donald Trump’s corrupt puppet, Louis DeJoy, who heads the U.S. Postal Service and has crippled that agency with Draconian measures such as dismantling sorting machines, removing postal boxes and generally slowing down delivery of the mail. Thanks to Bullock’s legal initiative, DeJoy…
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Trump Takes a Beating…in Montana
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
Montana’s Gov. Steve Bullock just chalked up another great win with a victory over Donald Trump’s corrupt puppet, Louis DeJoy, who heads the U.S. Postal Service and has crippled that agency with Draconian measures such as dismantling sorting machines, removing postal boxes and generally slowing down delivery of the mail. Thanks to Bullock’s legal initiative, DeJoy…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/trump-takes-…

Justice for Eric Briceno, killed by ELA Sheriffs
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-22
Los Angeles, CA – Family, neighbors, supporters and Centro Community Service Organization (CSO) attended an October 16 press conference, rally and celebration of the life of Eric Briceno, who was killed by East LA Sheriffs in Maywood, California. Other families who have lost loved ones to police killings also joined the Briceno family. Well-known civil rights attorney Samuel Paz had asked Centro CSO to help the Briceno family. | Briceno was killed on March 16 after his parents called 911 for help with a mental health crisis. Briceno was beaten and tased to death in his bedroom, after he woke up to sheriffs shouti…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/21/justice…

Turkey neutralizes 3 YPG/PKK terrorists in N.Syria
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-22
“Three PKK/YPG terrorists, who tried to infiltrate the [Operation] Peace Spring area to disrupt the peace and security environment, were neutralized by our heroic commandos,” the ministry said on Twitter.Turkish officials often use the word “neutralize” to imply the terrorists in question surrendered or were killed or captured.Since 2016, Turkey has launched a trio of successful anti-terror operations across its border in northern Syria to prevent the formation of a terror corridor and enable the peaceful settlement of residents: Euphrates Shield (2016), Olive Branch (2018), and Peace Spring (2019).In its more th…
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Thailand lifts state of emergency in capital
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-22
Thailand on Thursday ended the state of emergency in the capital Bangkok.The week-long measure was imposed amid ongoing anti-government protests and barred large gatherings.The state of emergency was officially lifted at 12 p.m. local time (0500GMT).”The move follows a de-escalation in the situation that allows authorities to use existing laws to manage protests,” read a notification in the Royal Gazette signed by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.Demonstrations have continued in some parts of the country demanding the premier’s resignation, dissolution of the parliament, reforms to the monarchy, and freedom to cr…
yenisafak.com/en/world/thailand-lifts-st…

Turk-German restaurateurs suffer amid new virus curbs
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-22
Hoteliers and restaurateurs in Germany are badly affected by tougher new restrictions on public life to stem the spread of coronavirus.Last week, the European country, which has devolved the management of the virus and restrictions to regional leaders within its 16 states, announced new measures including limits on the number of people at private gatherings, and cafes and restaurants to close by 11 p.m. in areas classified as hotspots.As Cologne exceeded its coronavirus threshold of 50 new infections per 100,000 people over a seven-day period, its mayor, Henriette Reker, banned alcohol consumption in public after…
yenisafak.com/en/world/turk-german-resta…

British Airways jumbo saved from scrap heap by film deal
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-22
A British Airways jumbo jet has found a new role as a film set, saving it from the scrap heap where dozens of BA’s other retired jumbos have ended up.British Airways said that one of its 747s will fly to Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, southern England, later on Thursday, where the airport will preserve it as a commercial TV and film set.Blaming the coronavirus pandemic, BA said in July it would have to retire its entire jumbo jet fleet, a source of huge regret for aero-geeks and fans of the “Queen of the Skies”, the aircraft which brought long-haul flights to the masses.The pandemic has brought financial ruin to t…
yenisafak.com/en/world/british-airways-j…

Muslim women suffer knife attack near Eiffel Tower
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-22
Two Muslim women were left injured after being stabbed near Paris’ Eiffel Tower by two white female assailants, local media reported on Thursday.The attack took place amid heightened tension after French President Emmanuel Macron said in an Oct. 2 speech that Islam was “in crisis,” a claim critics charged would fuel Islamophobia.As reported by franceinfo and other outlets, the incident happened on Sunday under the iconic landmark as the Muslim women were out for a walk, when a dog ran up and frightened their children.When the Muslim women asked the dog’s owners — described as white women “of European appear…
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Top Belgian diplomat in intensive care with COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-22
Belgium’s foreign minister has been hospitalized in intensive care for treatment of the coronavirus.A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman on Thursday confirmed Sophie Wilmes had been in hospital since last night.Wilmes announced Saturday on Twitter that she had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, adding: “An infection that probably occurred in the family circle, given the precautions I have taken outdoors.” She was in self-quarantine since Friday.In the past few days, Belgium has recorded a steep rise in the infections. With the country’s health minister warning of a “tsunami” of infections, the government has or…
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‘Best goal EVER’: Rangers star Kemar Roofe sends social media wild with OUTRAGEOUS goal from inside his own half (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-10-22
Rangers star Kemar Roofe sent social media into meltdown as he scored a guaranteed Puskas contender with an incredible strike from inside his own half during the Europa League game against Standard Liege. | With the match into injury time and the Scottish visitors 1-0 to the good thanks to James Tavernier’s first-half penalty, Roofe showed no ambition to play things safe when he won up the ball deep in his own half. | Instead, the 27-year-old, who had only come on as a 74th-minute substitute for Steven Gerrard’s men, danced his way past three opposition players before unleashing a long-range drive from inside…
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Chief cleric of Damascus murdered in bomb attack — Syrian state media
rt.com | 2020-10-22
Sheikh Muhammad Adnan Al-Afyouni, the Mufti of Damascus, has been killed in a “terrorist explosion” near the Syrian capital, the SANA news agency reported. Al-Afyouni was one of the region’s most prominent Islamic scholars. | Sheikh Al-Afyouni died in the town of Qudsaya, near Damascus, on Thursday evening. Government sources told SANA that an “explosive device” had been planted on his car. | Also on rt.com | | Syria repels Israeli attack on Aleppo as missiles shot down before reaching their targets — state media | No terrorist group has as y…
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Putin says Germany & China are emerging superpowers, US can’t ‘dominate’ anymore, and UK’s & France’s roles have ‘transformed’
rt.com | 2020-10-22
The era when world affairs were decided between Moscow and Washington is long gone, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, adding that other countries, such as China and Germany, are on their way to becoming superpowers. | “In terms of its economic weight and political influence, China is actively moving towards the status of a superpower. Germany is moving in the same direction,” Putin said, addressing a meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club think tank via a video link. | The role of the UK and France in international affairs has also been significantly transformed, he added. | The US, which enjoyed absolute…
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16 Glaring Parallels Between the 9/11 and COVID Ops
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
There are numerous 9/11 COVID similarities to be seen and understood as the world goes ever deeper into Operation Coronavirus. | Many nations around the world, including Canada and Australia, are making moves to roll out the next phase …
globalresearch.ca/16-glaring-parallels-9…

Here are the jaw-dropping Tory links to the ex-banker who could be the next chair of the BBC
Maryam Jameela | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
Ex-banker Richard Sharp appears to have donated just under half a million to the Conservative party since 2001. Now, however, he’s reportedly in the running to be chair of the BBC. This should raise serious questions in light of the BBC’s duty to impartiality. | new BBC chair candidate Richard Sharp appears to have given nearly half a million to the Conservative party according to Electoral Commission website pic.twitter.com/v4WuY8LAPa | — Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) October 22, 2020…
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Lisa Montgomery: A Victim of Incest, Child Prostitution and Rape Faces Execution
Sandra Babcock | commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
Lisa herself was a victim of terrible crimes, and her actions are inextricably linked to her own history of trauma, mental illness, and brain damage. (Photo: Lisa Montgomery on death row) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Council grant scandal increases pressure on Berejiklian
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
After being grilled by ICAC, questions are now raised about Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s involvement in other shonky decisions, write Jim McIlroy and Pip Hinman.
greenleft.org.au/content/council-grant-s…

Indonesia: New rebels, new movement, new hope
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
Since Indonesia’s parliament secretly signed the Omnibus Job Creation bill into law, more than 100,000 people have protested across the country, writes Wagimanto. This movement is involving scores of civil society, labour, student and political groups and masses of young people fed up with President Joko Widodo’s betrayal of hope.
greenleft.org.au/content/indonesia-new-r…

Revolution in Sudan: Where to now?
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
For eight months in 2018-19, Sudan was gripped by an unprecedented mass movement to overthrow the 30-year dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. Green Left spoke to Khalid Hassan about the achievements of the Sudanese people and the difficult challenges ahead.
greenleft.org.au/content/revolution-suda…

Indonesia: New rebels, new movement, new hope
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
Since Indonesia’s parliament secretly signed the Omnibus Job Creation bill into law, more than 100,000 people have protested across the country, writes Wagimanto.
greenleft.org.au/content/indonesia-new-r…

Revolution in Sudan: Where to now?
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
For eight months beginning in December 2018, Sudan was gripped by an unprecedented mass movement determined to overthrow the 30-year dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir. Sam Wainwright spoke to Khalid Hassan about the immense achievement of the Sudanese people and the difficult challenges ahead.
greenleft.org.au/content/revolution-suda…

Council grant scandal increases pressure on Berejiklian
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
After being grilled by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption, questions are now being asked about Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s involvement in other shonky decisions, write Jim McIlroy and Pip Hinman.
greenleft.org.au/content/council-grant-s…

Sri Lankan workers must rally the rural poor against Rajapakse’s “herd immunity” policies
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
The true situation was hidden from the outset because the government refused to implement rigorous anti-COVID-19 measures when the virus first impacted on the country in late January.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/seps…

Statements from Canada, India and Sri Lanka in support of Dr. Scalice
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
“Dr. Scalice has thoroughly exposed the politically criminal role played by the Stalinist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in paving the way for the anti-working class dictatorial regimes of Marcos and Duterte.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/scal…

Biden, Use This Debate to Prosecute Trump’s Covid Crimes
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-10-22
Biden, Use This Debate to Prosecute Trump’s Covid Crimes…
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It’s ‘Court Reform,’ Not Court Packing
Marshall Auerback | thenation.com | 2020-10-22
It’s ‘Court Reform,’ Not Court Packing…
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The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity
Sara Luterman | thenation.com | 2020-10-22
The Disabled Community Doesn’t Want Your Pity…
thenation.com/article/culture/telethon-j…

What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation
Sophia Steinert-Evoy | thenation.com | 2020-10-22
What the Berlin Wall Means to a New Generation…
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Mauritian PM labels UK and U.S. ‘hypocrites’ over Chagos Islands dispute
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
The Prime Minister of Mauritius, Pravind Jugnauth, has labeled the United Kingdom and the United States “hypocrites” and “champions of double talk” over their former colonial master’s refusal to hand over the Chagos Islands.
mronline.org/2020/10/22/mauritian-pm-lab…

UN chief calls for end to reported police brutality in Nigeria
news.un.org | 2020-10-21
The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday said he was closely following recent developments across Nigeria, in the wake of reports that protesters had been shot dead and wounded, and called for “an end to reported police brutality and abuses.”
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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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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…
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Demanding Investigation, Amnesty International and UN Official Condemn Killing of #EndSARS Protesters by Nigerian Forces
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-21
“There need to be immediate, independent, transparent, and thorough investigations, not just into last night’s killings, but also into all the previous violations committed by security forces.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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350.Org Expresses Solidarity With Nigeria’s #Endsars Movement While Condemning the Injustices Being Meted on Nigerian Nationals
commondreams.org | 2020-10-21
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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-…

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…
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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…
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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…

Data from Bolivia’s Election Add More Evidence That OAS Fabricated Last Year’s Fraud Claims
Jake Johnston | cepr.net | 2020-10-21
The MAS Received More Votes in Almost All of the OAS’s 86 Suspect Precincts in 2020 than in 2019 On Sunday, October 20, Bolivians went to the polls and overwhelmingly elected Luis Arce of the MAS party president. Private quick counts released the night of the vote showed Arce receiving more than 50 percent of …
cepr.net/data-from-bolivias-election-add…

Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy
Brett Heinz | cepr.net | 2020-10-21
The Nation See article on original site The overwhelming MAS election victory is a repudiation of the racist coup regime as well as the Trump administration and the OAS, which helped install it. On Sunday, October 18, Luis Arce won the presidency of Bolivia, in a pronounced repudiation of last year’s military coup, which had …
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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…
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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…

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…

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…

Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy
Mark Weisbrot | thenation.com | 2020-10-21
Bolivians Reclaim Their Democracy…
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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…

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…

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…

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…

DEA’s “Project Safeguard” Latest Salvo in Failed US War on Drugs
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-21
“It is astonishing that in the midst of a pandemic and calls for police reform, the DEA is using the same old heavy-handed tactics to address a public health issue.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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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-…

“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…

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…

“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…

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…

As teachers fight deadly return to school, the DSA runs to the defense of the unions and Democrats
wsws.org | 2020-10-21
A recent article in Jacobin magazine makes it clear the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is trying to prevent educators from drawing the necessary conclusion that the fight against unsafe school openings must be organized independently of and in opposition to the unions and the Democratic Party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/21/reds…

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…

Trump State Department Plan to Declare Human Rights Groups ‘Anti-Semitic’ Slammed as ‘Desperate,’ ‘Obscene’
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-21
The designation would target humanitarian organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam, sources said. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/21/trump-s…

More capsule reviews from 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Ed Rampell | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-21
The first installment of reviews from this year’s 36th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival can be found here. Further shorts, documentaries, animation, and features by and about the Pacific Islands’ Indigenous peoples are available online through Oct. 31. ‘Liliu’: Samoa’s decolonization struggle When I lived in Tafitoala, Upolu, the village’s high chief, Ale …
peoplesworld.org/article/more-capsule-re…

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…

The Case for Restoring California Indigenous Burning Practices
Juliana Clark | progressive.org | 2020-10-21
In order to decrease California’s wildfire destruction, scientists must fight fire with fire.
progressive.org/dispatches/restoring-ind…

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…

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…