Boycott by professional athletes expands in second day of protests against police violence
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-29
The boycott by professional athletes of scheduled games and practices expanded on Thursday for the second day. The boycotts began yesterday with professional basketball players in protest against police violence and racism, in particular, the brutal shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Sunday.
mronline.org/2020/08/29/boycott-by-profe…

Inside the hectic hours around a historic NBA boycott
Ramona Shelburne, Marc J. Spears, Adrian Wojnarowski, Malika Andrews and Zach Lowe | zcomm.org | 2020-08-29
The NBA had reached a point where it just needed to stop. To think, to feel, to plan…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/inside-the-hectic-…

Athletes Have Rekindled the Ember of Hope
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | zcomm.org | 2020-08-29
When I boycotted the 1968 Olympics because of racial inequality I was ostracized. Now white athletes are joining their black teammates in protests…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/athletes-have-reki…

The Thin Blue Line Between Violent, Pro-Trump Militias and Police
Ryan Devereaux | zcomm.org | 2020-08-29
Police in Kenosha told armed vigilantes, “We appreciate you guys. We really do.” Then one of them killed two protesters.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-thin-blue-line…

Republicans defend Kenosha gunman as nationwide protests continue
wsws.org | 2020-08-29
The Democrats and the media are covering up the direct line that can be drawn between the fascistic statements of Trump and the vigilante killings in Kenosha perpetrated by Kyle Rittenhouse.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/29/prot…

Workers, communities rise to defend the Postal Service
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-29
The catchy rhythmic beat of Washington, D.C.’s home-grown Go-Go music was cranked up loud outside U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s home in a protest against actions that weaken…
mronline.org/2020/08/29/workers-communit…

Dem Convention Made No Mention Of Russiagate Or Impeachment, Because Those Were Fake Things
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-29
Despite their dominating mainstream news cycles for years on end, at no time during the four-day Democratic National Convention was the word “impeachment” ever uttered, nor was any mention made of the Mueller investigation into allegations of collusion between Trump and the Russian government. | Politico reports: | Eight months after Democrats mounted a historic effort to remove Donald Trump from office, not a single speaker uttered the word “impeachment” during thei…
thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/dem-con…

Real life member of the Cuban Five responds to Netflix film “The Wasp Network”
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-29
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with René González, a member of the Cuban Five whose real life experience inspired the recent Netflix film “The Wasp Network”. They discuss his reaction to the film as well as what it was like for him to work as a Cuban agent in the 1990s monitoring right-wing …
thegrayzone.com/2020/08/29/real-life-mem…

Waiting for the Old Bailey: Julian Assange and Britain’s Judicial Establishment
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-29
On September 7, Julian Assange will be facing another round of gruelling extradition proceedings, in the Old Bailey, part of a process that has become a form of gradual state-sanctioned torture. The US Department of Justice hungers for their man. The UK prison authorities are doing little to protect his health. The end result, should …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/waiting-for-t…

Video: Covid-Gate, The Political Virus
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-29
The national economies of 193 countries, member states of the United Nations were ordered to close down on March 11, 2020. The order came from above, from Wall Street, the World Economic Forum, the billionaire foundations. And corrupt politicians throughout …
globalresearch.ca/video-covid-gate-the-p…

On Contact: Teaching of history as indoctrination
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-29
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the teaching of history as a form of indoctrination with Professor James W. Loewen.
mronline.org/2020/08/29/on-contact-teach…

The nonexistent peace in Colombia
Yanis Iqbal | mronline.org | 2020-08-29
In Colombia, a spate of killings has been going on amid the Covid-19 pandemic. On 13 August, 2020, Colombian armed forces killed two Indigenous people and injured two community members during an eviction operation in El Berraco village in the Cauca department. Journalists Abelardo Liz and Johel Rivera, part of the “Liberation of Mother Earth” movement, …
mronline.org/2020/08/29/the-nonexistent-…

How Trump brought us 11.1% Unemployment, lost Manufacturing Jobs, worsened Trade Deficits and Kowtowed to China
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-08-29
Trump has the worst job creation record of any modern president and far worse than even the much maligned Jimmy Carter…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/how-trump-brought-…

COVID-19 Scientific Statements Contradict Government Lockdown Policies. Fake Death Certificates
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-29
This article was first published on May 12, 2020 | *** | There exists a huge disconnect between publicly available real scientific evidence and government policy surrounding the Covid crisis. Consider the following scientific “admissions” and how they contradict government “lockdown” policies: …
globalresearch.ca/admissions-against-int…

Protesters in Oakland Decry Police Brutality During Historic Week
R. Robertson | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Moved by anger after police in Kenosha, Wisconsin shot Jacob Blake numerous times in the back, protesters demonstrated with outrage on Aug 26 in Oakland. Protests continued through the week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/29/1883624…

Regarding Postmaster General DeJoy Temporarily Suspending Some Recent Policy Decisions
In SF Bay Area Protesters Say It’s Not Enough, Hit the Streets | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Despite limited concessions by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after a public outcry against mail delaying tactics, community members and postal workers rallied to demand that Congress save the US Postal Service in protests across the US. Of course the San Francisco Bay Area was no exception. On August 19, APWU National President Mark Dimondstein issued a statement saying why concessions made to assuage concerned Americans are not enough.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/29/1883626…

Twin Imperatives: Defeat President Trump This Fall, Challenge President Biden from Day One
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
The Republican Party today is the party of white supremacy…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/27/1883620…

People Are Protesting The Desecration Of A Historic Black Cemetery
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
This summer, on an industrial and commercial section of River Road near the Capital Crescent Trail in Bethesda, you can regularly find area musician Brian Farrow in the roadway playing “Potter’s Hornpipe,” a song written by Black composer Francis Johnson in 1816 in honor of a destroyed African American cemetery. Nearby, protestors hold signs that say “Black Ancestors Matter” and “Black Lives Matter from Cradle to Grave,” while Marsha Coleman-Adebayo of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition and Macedonia Baptist Church leads chants of “Save Moses Cemetery!”
popularresistance.org/people-protest-des…

Assange ‘In A Lot Of Pain’ Says Partner After Prison Visit
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
Julian Assange’s partner has visited him in prison for the first time in almost six months, and said he looked much thinner than last time she saw him. | Stella Moris took the couple’s two young children to meet their father, who is being held in Belmarsh Prison in south-east London, awaiting an extradition hearing on behalf of the United States government. | Ms Moris and the WikiLeaks founder had to wear face masks and visors for the 20-minute meeting and were not allowed to touch each other. “We had to keep social distancing and Julian was told he would have to self-isolate for two weeks if he touched the child…
popularresistance.org/assange-in-a-lot-o…

Venezuela: Aggression In October?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
A US-sponsored military aggression against Venezuela could take place before the November 3 elections in that country. On August 22, Admiral Remigio Ceballos, chief of the strategic operational command of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB), said that “The international intelligence agencies allied to Venezuela inform us that Colombia is preparing an aggression, and the FANB will respond with force and forcefulness to any aggression against the sovereignty and independence of Venezuela, under the command of our Commander in Chief Nicolas Maduro Moros”. Coinciding with this, they met in Bogotá with Presiden…
popularresistance.org/venezuela-aggressi…

A Colombian Activist Is Killed Every 20 Hours
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
The Alliance for Global Justice is extremely concerned with the recent increase of violence in Colombia. In our June 16, 2020 action, we asked you to sign a letter asking Members of the USA Congress to act immediately to protect the lives of social leaders, peasants, indigenous and Afro Colombians victims of the violence generated by the illegal arm forces present in their communities. Unfortunately, despite our efforts, the human rights situation in Colombia has worsened to disturbing levels. | In 2020, there have been 43 massacres with most of the victims in the Colombia states of Nariño, Cauca, Valle del Cauca…
popularresistance.org/a-colombian-activi…

U.S. Sanctions Russian Research Institute That Developed Covid-19 Vaccine
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-29
The US Commerce Department blacklisted a Russian research institute that helped create the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine. | Ben NORTON | Russia won the race to develop the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus. The United States has responded by slapping sanctions on a Russian research facility involved in creating it. | The US government has blacklisted several Russian scientific institutes, including the Russian Defense Ministry’s 48th Central Research Institute, which has worked with other non-military medical centers to develop and test the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine. | In the midst of the global c…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/29/us…

Dem Convention Made No Mention of Russiagate or Impeachment, Because Those Were Fake Things
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-29
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | Despite their dominating mainstream news cycles for years on end, at no time during the four-day Democratic National Convention was the word “impeachment” ever uttered, nor was any mention made of the Mueller investigation into allegations of collusion between Trump and the Russian government. | Politico reports: | Eight months after Democrats mounted a historic effort to remove Donald Trump from office, not a single speaker uttered the word “impeachment” du…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/29/de…

CIA’s Addiction to Afghanistan War
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-29
It is America’s longest overseas war and shows no clear sign of ending despite a shaky peace deal underway between the Trump administration and Taliban militants. A phased withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan over the next year could yet be derailed, resulting in continued American military operations in the South Asian country — nearly two decades after President GW Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom in October 2001. | US involvement in Afghanistan is the archetypal quagmire. Hundreds of thousands killed or maimed, trillions of dollars wasted, a failed state — despite American pretension…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/29/ci…

Wisconsin Dems Became ‘Less Approving’ of BLM Protests Before Kenosha Riots, Poll Shows
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
By throwing their support behind the cause of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and anti-racism protests, Democrats may have picked the wrong social trend trend to chase after, recent poll data suggests.
sputniknews.com/us/202008291080315872-sw…

Trump Vows to ‘Go In and Take Care’ of Portland if Mayor Wheeler ‘Doesn’t Get Control’ of City
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
Earlier, US President Donald Trump stated: “Are you listening Portland?”, when touting that the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, saw no violence after National Guard troops were deployed amid violent protests sparked after the shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer.
sputniknews.com/us/202008291080310241-tr…

‘I Hate Brussels Sprouts’: Jacob Blake’s Dad Baffles TV Host With Reply to Claim His Son Was Armed
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
Earlier this week, Jacob Blake’s father said that his son now has “eight holes” in his body and is currently paralysed from the waist down following the 23 August shooting of the African-American man by police officers in the US city of Kenosha.
sputniknews.com/us/202008291080314835-i-…

Jacob Blake Unshackled From Bed in Hospital After His Warrant Vacated
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
The incident involving local police shooting Blake several times in the back left the African-American man paralysed and sparked a spate of protests in the Wisconsin city of Kenosha, some of which turned violent and resulted in looting sprees.
sputniknews.com/us/202008291080314987-ja…

Afghan Forces Recapture Territory From Taliban, Kill 18 Militants, Local Authorities Say
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
KABUL (Sputnik) – Afghan forces on Saturday managed to recapture an area, previously held by the Taliban* movement for years, in the eastern Nangarhar province, Ahmad Ali Hazrat, head of the provincial council, said.
sputniknews.com/asia/202008291080315786-…

Trump says NBA protest will ‘destroy’ basketball
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
President Donald Trump said on Friday that what he viewed as political activity by the National Basketball Association would destroy the sport.”I think what they’re doing to the NBA in particular is gonna destroy basketball,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One. He said it would be “threatening” to the NBA.NBA players halted play for three days in a protest sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin.The league and players association said on Friday that playoffs would resume on Saturday in a deal that includes increased access to voting in the U.S. presidential election.Tru…
yenisafak.com/en/news/trump-says-nba-pro…

Why U.S. political scientists are arguing that Evo Morales should be the President of Bolivia
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-08-29
Three political scientists from the United States closely studied allegations of fraud in the Bolivian election of 2019 and found that there was no fraud. These scholars–from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane University–looked at raw evidence from the Bolivian election authorities that had been handed over to the New York Times.
mronline.org/2020/08/29/why-u-s-politica…

Mississippi bus drivers walk out as schools push ahead with unsafe reopenings
wsws.org | 2020-08-29
Deplorable working conditions and an immediate reduction of hours and pay impelled 45 percent of school bus drivers in Columbus, Mississippi to walk out on Monday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/29/miss…

Hydroxychloriquine vs. The Mask”: a herd divided
Todd Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-29
It has taken quite a while, but famous 2nd — or 3rd — iteration Fleetwood Mac lead singer, Stevie Nicks, has finally opined on the coronavirus crisis, and the 72 year old songstress of note imploringly had this to say, in a paraphrase: If I get this, I’ll never sing again! This was from a …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/hydroxychlori…

COVID-19 outbreaks continue unabated at schools, putting millions at risk
wsws.org | 2020-08-29
The past week has seen a deepening of the disastrous crisis surrounding the reopening of schools, with significant outbreaks occurring in schools across the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/29/reop…

Episode 104 — What are We Voting For? Analyzing The 2020 Conventions and Platforms
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-08-29
On today’s episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon analyze the DNC and RNC conventions and platforms. Along The Line is a non-profit, education-based podcast that…
On today’s episode, Nicholas Baham II (Dr. Dreadlocks), Janice Domingo, and Nolan Higdon host Fordam University’s Robin Andersen. Along The Line is a non-profit, education-based podcast that provides listeners with…
projectcensored.org/episode-104-what-are…

Manufacturing Jobs: MAGA Land and the Real World
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-08-29
In three of the five Midwestern swing states there were actually more manufacturing jobs created in the last three years of the Obama administration than in the first three years of the Trump administration…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/manufacturing-jobs…

MintPress Is Recognizing Our Essential Workers: Independent Journalists
Mnar Muhawesh Adley | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-29
For the next week, MintPress News will be offline and enjoying Staff Appreciation Week with bonus paid time off to celebrate one of the most underappreciated Essential Workers working tirelessly and selflessly to keep us informed about stories the mainstream establishment media ignore or under look: Independent Journalists. Here’s why…
mintpressnews.com/mintpress-recognizing-…

What should we do about QAnon now that it has gone mainstream?
Mathew Ingram | zcomm.org | 2020-08-29
How did we get here, and what should journalism be doing? Do we help or harm when we cover QAnon?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-should-we-do-…

Manufacturing a Moral Crisis: Media and Refugees
David Goessmann | zcomm.org | 2020-08-29
Today one rarely finds a report in newspapers and broadcasts about refugees. Nobody seems to care about them anymore. Why is that?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/manufacturing-a-mo…

Cyber Charter School Disasters About to Worsen
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-29
Recent news reports suggest that more parents and students are flocking to privately-owned-operated online charter schools, presumably due to concerns about the “COVID Pandemic.”1 Parents, students, teachers, and the public at large should be aware that: The overall “academic performance” of cyber charter schools is consistently abysmal, even by the admission of staunch charter school …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/cyber-charter…

The key to Viet Nam’s successful COVID-19 response : a UN Resident Coordinator blog
news.un.org | 2020-08-29
Whilst no country can claim to have beaten COVID-19, some countries have been noticeably more effective in curbing the spread of the disease. Kamal Malhotra, the UN Resident Coordinator in Viet Nam, explains why the country’s response to the pandemic has been so successful.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1…

Trump dishes up “Chicken á la Avian Leukosis”
Jim Hightower | zcomm.org | 2020-08-29
As always, the industry line is: “It’s perfectly safe… trust us!”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-dishes-up-ch…

Gloria La Riva on 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
Gloria La Riva | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-29
Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster made a thousand times worse by the criminal actions and inactions of the government at federal, state and local levels.
liberationnews.org/gloria-la-riva-on-15t…

500,000 Kashmiri have lost their jobs because of digital apartheid, says JKCCS report
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-29
A report by the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society remarks that the multi-faceted and targeted denial of digital rights is a “systemic form of discrimination, digital repression and collective punishment” for the Kashmiri population…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/29/500000-ka…

Students, teachers, parents and nursery staff in Germany oppose school reopenings
wsws.org | 2020-08-29
As the country’s various state governments rush ahead with the policy of opening schools, growing numbers are expressing their opposition to the move.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/29/germ…

Guy McPherson: Climate Change and the Debate on Near Term Extinction of Humans and all Life on Earth
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-29
globalresearch.ca/guy-mcpherson-climate-…

STC abandons power sharing deal with the Hadi govt in Yemen
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-29
The development is a serious blow to the Saudi hopes of uniting the Hadi government and the separatist Southern Transitional Council (STC) in order to strengthen the fight against the rebel Shia Houthis in Yemen…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/29/stc-aband…

New York Times Reports that 0.01 Percent of the Paycheck Protection Program was Fraudulently Spent
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-08-29
Yep, that’s its big story for the day, although people probably saw the number $62 million in the headline. The program spent a total of $525 billion to keep small businesses alive and workers being paid in the period where the economy was largely shutdown. It was a rushed program that was completely improvised, since …
cepr.net/new-york-times-reports-that-0-0…

Mississippi bus drivers walkout as schools push ahead with unsafe reopenings
wsws.org | 2020-08-29
Deplorable working conditions and an immediate reduction of hours and pay impelled 45 percent of school bus drivers in Columbus, Mississippi to walk out on Monday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/29/miss…

COVID-19 outbreaks continue unabated at US schools, putting millions at risk
wsws.org | 2020-08-29
The past week has seen a deepening of the disastrous crisis surrounding the reopening of schools, with significant outbreaks occurring in schools across the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/29/reop…

Argentine government declares cell phone, internet and pay television as essential services
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-29
Argentine President Alberto Fernández, on August 21, announced that cell phone, internet and pay television services will be considered essential public services. He also anticipated that the rates of these services will be frozen until December 31. “In the face of the restrictions imposed by the pandemic, no one should give up a part of their income to face the increases in the prices of these services,” said Fernández. | In a tweet, Fernández announced that “Education, access to knowledge, culture and communication are basic rights that we must preserve. That is why we have ordered that from now on there are in…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/29/argentine…

Struggles in social reproduction during COVID-19: from East to West and beyond
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-29
The COVID-19 pandemic showed, more than anything, the deep interconnectedness and mutual dependence of different sectors, areas of life, and countries and regions within the global capitalist system.
mronline.org/2020/08/29/struggles-in-soc…

Mexico: First the Poor
Roger Stoll | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-29
Por el bien de todos, primero los pobres (“For the good of all, first the poor.”) — AMLO Mexico is a semi-colony with a population of 129 million. Its political, financial and business elites are bound to the US, which receives 80% of Mexican exports. International corporations feast on Mexico’s cheap labor and resources, from …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/mexico-first-…

Weekly News Review 23-29th August
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-08-29
Editors Weekly Poke It appeared that the general public was still backing the Tories all the way up to last week, then the mood suddenly changed. A new YouGov poll found the Tories have suffered a slump in the public’s confidence which the pollster said is a “massive shift” (for Labour), not that the shift …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/weekly-news-review-23-29th-august/

Saturday 8/29: The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons
Monterey Peace and Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Monterey Peace & Justice Center YouTube livestream: www.youtube.com/channel/UCP1w-ymh_t13xi8… | Or join in the event via Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_k1NG……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883624…

2020 International Juneteenth Food and Wine Festival
Khubaka, Michael Harris | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Together, we look forward to returning to Memphis, Tennessee, a birthplace of the Blues, reclaiming our ancient sacred mounds of Mississippian culture along “Ole Man River”
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/29/1883625…

Wednesday 9/16: Break the Mold: Questioning Capitalism: SUSTAINABILITY
Human Agenda | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Zoom Conference ID: 513 856 6423 | us02web.zoom.us/j/5138566423 | Call in: +1 669-900-9128…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883624…

Friday 9/18: A Tourist Tour of the Solar System
Speakeasy | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
On-line at: www.speakeasy.com/event/tourist-sights-s……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/29/1883627…

Clean Air and Fire Safety Concerns at Calpella Wood Pellet Plant
Bradley Allen | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Activists are demanding transparency from the Air Quality Management District and an investigation by the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors and Public Health Department regarding the health and environmental hazards attributable to pollution from the Calpella Wood Pellet Plant.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883621…

Stand with Anarchist Publishers Banned by Facebook
Agency | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Sign our open letter to oppose Facebook’s “both sides” narrative as they align with the Trump administration to suppress the voices of activists and media producers associated with left protest movements.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/27/1883620…

Help Pacifica- Support the New Bylaws- Do Sign the Petition!
Akio Tanaka | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/29/1883625…

Monday 9/14: Break the Mold: Questioning Capitalism: KINDNESS
Human Agenda | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Zoom Conference ID: 513 856 6423 | us02web.zoom.us/j/5138566423 | Call in: +1 669-900-9128…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883624…

8/28/20: 57th Anniversary of 1963 March on Washington
Inspired by Locomotive of American History | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Whether you remember the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous I Have A Dream speech or not, the 8/28/20 “Get Your Knee Off Our Necks” March on Washington organized by Martin Luther King, III and Al Sharpton, is well worth watching as a reminder to us all that the locomotive of American history is the Black Liberation Movement. You can see the rally and hear the wide variety of speakers at www.c-span.org/video/?475069-1/national-……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883623…

This is not a joke!
repost | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
KPFA members: | You can help! DON’T sign the new Bylaws petition!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/29/1883626…

Thursday 9/10: Break the Mold: Questioning Capitalism: COOPERATION
Human Agenda | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Zoom Conference ID: 513 856 6423 | us02web.zoom.us/j/5138566423 | Call in: +1 669-900-9128…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883624…

Wednesday 9/2: Break the Mold: Questioning Capitalism: DEMOCRACY
Human Agenda | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Zoom Conference ID: 513 856 6423 | us02web.zoom.us/j/5138566423 | Call in: +1 669-900-9128…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883624…

Car Caravan in Fresno Promotes Equity
Peter Maiden | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
In Fresno on Monday, August 24 Cars were decorated with signs promoting equity through taxing millionaires and billionaires. They then drove in a caravan through the city.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883623…

CCSF Reactionary Bd Of Trustees Send Art Supplies From Ft. Mason To Dump
repost | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
The reationary union busting CCSF Board Of Trustees including Board President Shanell Williams are sending Art supplies to a dump in the midst of a pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883623…

Working Hours: A four-day week
Heinz Bontrup | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Reducing working hours is a socio-economic investment that often brings better long-term health and more time sovereignty. A three-day or four-day workweek is the only way to ensure meaningful work to the rising generation. State or public employment is necessary to supplement private employment. Part-time workers should work more while 38-hour workers should work less.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/29/1883624…

Saturday 9/12: SFSU Workers’ Picket: No Layoffs!
SFSU Worker Defense Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Outside the SFSU Campus | 19th Avenue at Holloway | San Francisco, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883623…

Tuesday 9/8: Break the Mold: Questioning Capitalism: EQUITY
Human Agenda | indybay.org | 2020-08-29
Zoom Conference ID: 513 856 6423 | us02web.zoom.us/j/5138566423 | Call in: +1 669-900-9128…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/28/1883624…

[Editorial] Research and higher education in the time of COVID-19
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the research and higher education sectors to the forefront of public attention. Laboratory capacity has been crucial for diagnostic testing; experts in infectious diseases, epidemiology, public health, mathematical modelling, and economics are central to national policy making and media coverage; clinical research has been vital to improving COVID-19 management; and our collective global future relies heavily on the development of an effective vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31818-3/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] A leap of faith for more effective mental health care
Charlotte Hanlon, Atalay Alem | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
Traditional and faith healers (TFHs) play an important, but contested, part in the response to mental health problems around the globe. Particularly for severe mental health conditions, such as psychosis, TFHs are often the first contact when help is sought by individuals and families in many countries of sub-Saharan Africa.1 In part, TFHs inhabit this privileged position due to a scarcity of accessible alternatives, but their approach might also be more acceptable to communities because of shared world views about causes of mental ill-health and processes of healing.
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[Correspondence] Predilatation and paravalvular leakage risk in TAVR — Authors’ reply
Jonas Lanz, Arnaud Kàºnzi, Stephan Windecker, Thomas Pilgrim | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
We thank Liang Yao and colleagues for their interest in our Article.1…
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[Articles] Effect of collaborative care between traditional and faith healers and primary health-care workers on psychosis outcomes in Nigeria and Ghana (COSIMPO): a cluster randomised controlled trial
Oye Gureje, John Appiah-Poku, Toyin Bello, Lola Kola, Ricardo Araya, Dan Chisholm, Oluyomi Esan, Benjamin Harris, Victor Makanjuola, Caleb Othieno, LeShawndra Price, Soraya Seedat | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
A collaborative shared care delivered by TFH and conventional health-care providers for people with psychosis was effective and cost-effective. The model of care offers the prospect of scaling up improved care to this vulnerable population in settings with low resources.
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[Correspondence] Transparency and diversity in cystic fibrosis research — Authors’ reply
Karen S McCoy, Harry Heijerman, Jennifer L Taylor-Cousar, David Waltz, Patrick R Sosnay, Bonnie W Ramsey, Steven Rowe, John Welter | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
We appreciate the opportunity to respond to Meghan McGarry’s queries about our study.1…
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[Correspondence] Transparency and diversity in cystic fibrosis research
Meghan McGarry | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
In the Article by Harry Heijerman and colleagues,1 it was surprising to find that a description of the participants’ race and ethnicity was not included.
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[Correspondence] Health and medicine cannot solve COVID-19
Amy K McLennan, Anne Katrine Kleberg Hansen, Stanley J Ulijaszek | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
Richard Horton argues that combination prevention and global health collaboration are required to address the COVID-19 pandemic.1 We agree and suggest this should incorporate further measures. Thinking closely in terms of medical solutions could create false public expectations of a return to normal, and risks closing out non-health interventions that could lead to substantial improvements.
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[Perspectives] Seven more things organisations should be doing to combat racism
J Nwando Olayiwola, Esther Choo | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
The previous The Penumbra column outlined seven steps that organisations can take to address racism. In this month’s column, we offer additional actions likely to be helpful in creating an anti-racist climate. With these suggestions, we highlight actions that fill obvious gaps in thinking and practice in our health-care environments.
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[World Report] Questions over health response to Mauritius oil spill
Sima Barmania | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
The government has denied that symptoms are a direct result of oil exposure and experts have criticised the response. Sima Barmania reports.
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[Comment] Acute coronary syndromes in older patients: does older age matter?
Bjà∏rn Bendz, Lars Aaberge | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
Ischaemic heart disease is common in people aged 80 years or older, and is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in this age group worldwide. As this patient group grows, with an increase in life expectancy of up to 10 years or more, the absolute prevalence of cardiovascular disease is expected to increase.1 According to present guidelines, medical optimisation followed by an invasive strategy–including coronary angiography and subsequent revascularisation with percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft–is recommended for eligible patients with acute coronary syndromes witho…
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[Articles] Invasive versus non-invasive management of older patients with non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (SENIOR-NSTEMI): a cohort study based on routine clinical data
Amit Kaura, Jonathan A C Sterne, Adam Trickey, Sam Abbott, Abdulrahim Mulla, Benjamin Glampson, Vasileios Panoulas, Jim Davies, Kerrie Woods, Joe Omigie, Anoop D Shah, Keith M Channon, Jonathan N Weber, Mark R Thursz, Paul Elliott, Harry Hemingway, Bryan Williams, Folkert W Asselbergs, Michael O’Sullivan, Graham M Lord, Narbeh Melikian, Thomas Johnson, Darrel P Francis, Ajay M Shah, Divaka Perera, Rajesh Kharbanda, Riyaz S Patel, Jamil Mayet | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
The survival advantage of invasive compared with non-invasive management appears to extend to patients with NSTEMI who are aged 80 years or older.
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[Obituary] Roger Stanley Williams
Geoff Watts | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
Leading influence in UK liver medicine. He was born in Bexleyheath, UK, on Aug 28, 1931, and died in Southampton, UK, from a heart attack on July 26, 2020, aged 88 years.
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[Correspondence] Transparency and diversity in cystic fibrosis research
Bennett Holman, Nicholas J DeVito, Matt Vassar | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
In the results on the safety and efficacy of a combination regimen of elexacaftor, tezacaftor, and ivacaftor for people with cystic fibrosis homozygous for the F508del mutation, presented by Harry Heijerman and colleagues1, we took notice of the authors’ disclosure statements.
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[Seminar] Gastric cancer
Elizabeth C Smyth, Magnus Nilsson, Heike I Grabsch, Nicole CT van Grieken, Florian Lordick | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer death globally. Risk factors for the condition include Helicobacter pylori infection, age, high salt intake, and diets low in fruit and vegetables. Gastric cancer is diagnosed histologically after endoscopic biopsy and staged using CT, endoscopic ultrasound, PET, and laparoscopy. It is a molecularly and phenotypically highly heterogeneous disease. The main treatment for early gastric cancer is endoscopic resection.
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[World Report] Bangladesh’s COVID-19 testing criticised
Sophie Cousins | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
Experts say that the government’s approach to testing and surveillance, including charging patients a fee, is hampering the response. Sophie Cousins reports.
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[Perspectives] Jonathan Miller: finding the considerable in the negligible
Seamus O’Mahony | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
When Jonathan Miller was a little boy, he asked his novelist mother Betty–as she sat typing–what she was doing. “Well, what I am trying to do is make the negligible considerable”, she replied. Throughout his long career in the theatre and opera, Miller did the very same. He hadn’t planned on a career as a director. After a brilliant preclinical career at Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK, Miller graduated as a doctor from University College Hospital (UCH), London, UK, in 1959, but abandoned medicine after less than 3 years because of the staggering success of Beyond the Fringe, the comedy review whi…
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[Correspondence] Predilatation and paravalvular leakage risk in TAVR
Fuxiang Liang, Xiaoqin Wang, Qi Wang, Peijing Yan, Liang Yao | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
Jonas Lanz and colleagues1 compared the effect of a self-expanding valve with a balloon-expandable valve for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. According to the results, the incidence of paravalvular leakage was higher in the group of patients using the self-expanding ACURATE neo device than in the group of patients using the balloon-expandable SAPIEN 3 prosthesis. However, we are concerned that this finding might be at least partly caused by differences in predilatation between the groups.
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[Clinical Picture] Flushing out a plasmacytoma in a patient with POEMS and AESOP syndromes
Jesus A Cardenas-de la Garza, Jorge A Esquivel-Valerio, Rosa I Arvizu-Rivera, Perla R Colunga-Pedraza, Dionicio A Galarza-Delgado | thelancet.com | 2020-08-29
A 58-year old man presented to our dermatology clinic with a 10-month history of discoloured skin patches on his chest, slowly progressive weakness and altered sensation in both legs. He also complained of chest pain, increased pigmentation of his arms, and episodic flushing of his face.
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Black Families Purchased Land To Build Their Own City
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
n Toomsboro, Georgia, a group of 19 Black families banded together to create what has the potential to be the next Black Wall Steet. | Black people are resilient, we’ve had to be to thrive under systems that weren’t built for us. This resiliency has created innovative solutions to impossible problems such as racial injustices, food insecurity, and a lack of secure and safe communities. | Ashley Scott, a realtor living in Stonecrest, Georgia, was reaching her breaking point after watching the murder of Ahmaud Arbery in her home state.
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Colombian President Duque Authorizes The Return Of US Troops
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
Colombia’s Defense Ministry Thursday informed that President Ivan Duque allowed the resumption of the U.S. Army’s cooperation work in the country after it was suspended by a court order. | In July, Cundinamarca’s Administrative Court ordered to suspend the U.S. Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) activities after several senators’ complaints. | Over 20 lawmakers claimed that Duque had violated political controls because he did not ask the Senate’s authorization to allow the transit of foreign troops in the national territory. Alternative Democratic Pole Party (PDA) Lawmaker Ivan Cepeda urged the government t…
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A Week Of Mass Layoffs
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
MGM Resorts is laying off 18,000 people as an unchecked pandemic leaves economic scars across a broad swath of U.S. industries, particularly those that rely on healthy crowds of people. | The layoffs at MGM, which amount to about a quarter of its U.S staff of about 70,000, caps a wave of job cuts and buyouts this week across a broad array of industries. | Economists warn that sizable layoffs will continue and any recovery is likely to falter as long as the virus rages and Congress doesn’t come up with additional financial aid for the unemployed, as well as desperate state and local governments.
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Kings Bay Plowshares Sentencing Delayed
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
The six remaining Kings Bay Plowshares defendants have had their sentencing dates moved from September to October 15 and 16. They had requested a continuance because they want to appear in open court in Georgia and the virus situation there is still too out of control to safely allow it. | Steve Kelly has now served almost 29 months in county jails since the action in April 2018 so has already met the guidelines for his likely sentence. The court may not want to grant him further extensions. (You can send a postcard to Steve to let him know you’re thinking of him. Directions on writing here.) | The other defendan…
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These Six Banks Have Frozen $4.6 Billion Belonging To Venezuelans
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
The looting, theft and hijacking of resources from Venezuela has been of great magnitude, six banks withhold under the excuse of US sanctions, around 4.6 billion dollars much needed by and belonging to the Venezuelans, currently facing a spike in Covid-19 cases. The website La Tabla cited the data published by the Venezuelan NGO dedicated to the study, promotion, education and defense of human rights, “Organización Sures”, which explained that this Venezuelan money is in the following banks: | Novo Banco: $ 1,547,322,175.89, | Bank of England: $ 1,323,228,162.57, | Clearstream: $ 517,088,580.00, | Citibank: $ 458…
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Democrats Are Officially Republicans
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-29
The Democratic Party has ended any debate or dispute about its true nature. It is a party representing neo-liberal interests and international gangsterism, just like their putative opposition, the Republican party. | Even a cursory observation of the recent Democratic National Convention proves that this assessment is correct. There were paeans of love to the late warmonger John McCain and even an appearance from his widow. A special segment was set aside for Republicans like John Kasich whose speech was used in part to beat down progressives and make clear that Joe Biden wants nothing to do with them. Not to be…
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Riots for Neo-Liberalism: ANTIFA & BLM Are the Global Elites’ Useful Thugs
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-29
The iconoclastic fury we have witnessed this summer in the U.S. and Europe is driven by global capitalism’s attempt to destroy everything that stands on the way of its fullest takeover of human society. Western Culture is one such thing. | The Italian writer and movie-maker Ennio Flaiano (1910-1972), who lived through fascism (1920s and 1930s), WW2 and Italy’s post-war economic miracle (1950s and 1960s), once famously remarked: | “In Italy, fascists fall into two categories: fascists and antifascists.” | He was referring to the belligere…
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The Heat: COVID-19 in the U.S
Mike Walter | america.cgtn.com | 2020-08-29
The number of new coronavirus cases in the United States fell for the fifth straight week. Could this be a turning point in the fight against the global pandemic?
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Jordan urged to free cartoonist held over UAE drawing
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Jordanian authorities to immediately release a cartoonist for drawing a satirical cartoon about a recent normalization deal between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel.Emad Hajjaj was arrested by Jordanian police on charges of insulting an Arab country.”Calling a satirical cartoon a terrorism offense only confirms that Jordan intends to muzzle citizens who speak freely,” Joe Stork, HRW’s deputy Middle East director, said in a statement.”This arrest sends the message that Jordanian authorities would rather abuse the rights of their own citizens than risk offending…
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US Secret Service Reportedly Struggling With Coronavirus Cases as Agents Work Trump Events
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, US President Donald Trump, who marked his 2016 election campaign with large-scale rallies, has reduced the number of events. He delivered a speech on the Republican National Convention and has held smaller events.
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After 10-hour Questioning, Bollywood Actor Sushant’s Ex May Face Polygraph Test, Source Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
New Delhi (Sputnik): Three Indian federal agencies are investigating different angles into the death of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput. The actor was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his apartment in India’s Mumbai city on 14 June.
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Watch Sleepyhead Golden Retriever Puppy Yawn Like a Baby
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
Did you know that golden retrievers can sleep for up to 10-12 hours a day? After seeing this beautiful bundle, the irresistible urge to cuddle the puppy will consume you.
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Lionel Messi May Reportedly Meet With Man City Boss Pep Guardiola in Barcelona
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
The two earlier talked to each other over the phone, Spanish media reported, as speculation about Lionel Messi leaving Camp Nou, where he has been playing since the onset of his career, gained momentum.
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Russia Presents Device That Detects Toxins, Pathogens Including COVID-19 in Air in Matter of Seconds
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
The device, which was first conceived back in 2015, has been perfected over the last five years — and the timing couldn’t be better, as countries are lifting their lockdowns while trying to prevent a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Venezuela Reportedly Sends Ship Full of Aluminium to Iran Following Fuel Deliveries From Tehran
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
The two countries have been actively cooperating after unilateral US sanctions started affecting their economies. Tehran has namely delivered several shipments to help Caracas restart its massive oil refining industry.
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Water Was ‘Most Likely’ Brought to Earth by Meteorites, New Study Claims
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
Water covers 70 percent of our planet’s surface and is a vital element for all life on Earth; however, scientists cannot say with certainty how it got here. When the Solar System formed, the planets were too hot to sustain ice.
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‘Game of Chicken’: US Risks War With Beijing by Stoking South China Sea Tensions With FONOPs
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
Military tensions are growing between the US and China as Washington continues to pursue a policy of attempting to dominate global affairs, Mike Wong, the vice president of the San Francisco chapter of Veterans for Peace, told Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear Friday.
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Trump’s Sis Allegedly Dubs Ivanka ‘Mini-Donald’, Rips Eric as ‘Moron’ in Leaked Talks With Niece
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
The fresh batch of leaked conversations comes on the heels of revelations last week that suggested POTUS’ 83-year-old sister Maryanne viewed her brother as a man with “no principles”. The White House instantly chalked it up to “sibling rivalry”, saying such leaks are nothing extraordinary.
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Turkey Launches Shooting Exercises in Eastern Mediterranean Amid Drilling Tensions With Greece
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
The development comes as Ankara is engaged in a bitter territorial dispute with Greece and Cyprus. The European Union has threatened to slap sanctions on Turkey if it continues with what Brussels has called “illegal drilling”.
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Gay Trump Supporter Claims He Was Assaulted by ‘BLM Protesters’ Hurling Homophobic Abuse
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
Gay social media activist Brandon Straka and his two colleagues were just the latest victims of harassment by protesters outside the Republican National Convention in Washington DC, where an elderly couple were assaulted and a podcaster and his wife were followed for a mile.
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Seven Terrorists, One Soldier Killed in India’s Jammu and Kashmir in Security Operation
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
New Delhi (Sputnik): The issue of terrorism in India’s Kashmir Valley dates back to the 1990s, when demands for independence from the country began to be made in the region. The Indian government accuses neighbouring Pakistan, which also lays claim to the region, of fuelling Kashmiri secessionism…
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US President Trump Says Feels Badly About Resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Abe
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US President Donald Trump has expressed regret over Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to leave his post due to deteriorating health condition.
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Study Suggests UK Could See Further 85,000 COVID-19 Deaths in Winter, Reports Say
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-29
LONDON (Sputnik) – A study prepared by the UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergency (SAGE) suggests that in a reasonable worst-case scenario, a further 85,000 people could die from COVID-19 in the United Kingdom this winter, the BBC reported on Saturday.
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Turkey expects ‘equity’ from EU amid East Med tension
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
The Turkish vice president Saturday called on the EU for equity amid ongoing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency, Fuat Oktay said: “Turkey expects equity from the EU, no one should expect Ankara to take a step back based on this equity.”Oktay further asked: “If the Greek attempts to expand its territorial waters isn’t a cause of war, then what is?” stressing that the country “will protect its rights on every cubic meter in the Eastern Mediterranean waters no matter what.””It is insincere for the EU to call for dialogue on the one hand and make other plans on the oth…
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Palestinians appeal for return of martyrs’ bodies
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
It has been almost 50 years since Palestinian Ali Abu Maliha went missing.His brother, Mahmoud Amr, accused the Israeli occupation of being behind his brother’s disappearance during an interview with Anadolu Agency.Amr, a resident of Dura, south of the West Bank, said he was in prison when his brother left home for a “struggle mission” against Israeli occupation in the early 1970s. It was the last time he and his family heard any news about Abu Maliha.”The occupation is responsible for the disappearance of my brother,” Amr said, adding that his family has communicated with the International Committee of the Red C…
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‘Unthinkable for Turkey to give up Aegean, East Med’
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
It is unthinkable for Turkey to give up its “historical interests” in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas, the head of a Turkish political party said on Saturday.Greece is playing with fire and is being spurred on by France, Devlet Bahceli, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), said in a written statement.He said all the countries sitting at the gambling table are familiar with each other and are trying to bet on the winner.Do not come close to a fire that will burn you, Bahceli warned the nations stoking tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean.His remarks are an extension of Ankara’s strong stance against…
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Istanbul to limit indoor gatherings over pandemic
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
The Istanbul governor’s office on Saturday issued a statement titled “Pandemic Measures for Weddings in Istanbul”, banning some indoor gatherings as of Monday.According to the statement, some events and gatherings including engagement ceremonies, and similar activities will not be allowed in any indoor areas as part of new measures to stem the spread of the virus.At the wedding and ceremony halls, seating arrangements should not exceed one-third of the total capacity, in accordance with social distancing measures, said the statement.Under the new regulations, no food or drinks will be served at these events whil…
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Saudi envoy discusses Lebanon developments with Geagea
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid Bukhari held talks Saturday in Beirut with the leader of the Lebanese Forces party, Samir Geagea.The discussions dwelt on the domestic situation in Lebanon and regional developments, the official Lebanese news agency said, without giving any further details.Saturday’s meeting comes amid a deep political crisis in Lebanon following the Aug. 4 explosion at the Beirut port, which shook the country to its core.Saudi Arabia, along with a number of Arab and foreign countries, has refrained from providing support to Lebanon as a sign of dissatisfaction with the government of Hassan Dia…
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Over 1,250 suspects held in operations across Turkey
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
At least 1,281 suspects were nabbed in simultaneous operations across Turkey over the past 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.In a statement, the ministry said 63,591 security personnel were part of the “Turkey Peace Security” operations carried out in different areas of the country.It said search operations were carried out at shopping malls, abandoned buildings, fair grounds, event and entertainment venues, bus terminals and other public transport stations, piers and ports, routes leading to airports, internet cafes, and other public places.Along with the suspects arrested for various crimes, 24…
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Four killed in Kashmir gunfight
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
Three militants and an Indian army soldier were killed in a gunfight on Saturday morning in a southern district of the Indian-administered Kashmir, an army spokesman said.This was the second gunfight in the past 24 hours. Four militants were killed and another was caught alive during an operation in the southern Shopian district on Friday, according to army spokesman Col. Rajesh Kalia.Vijay Kumar, the inspector general of police, told reporters that one of the deceased in Friday’s gunfight was the district commander of Al-Badr militant outfit.- Ongoing violenceDespite multiple calls for a cease-fire, violence in…
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Afghanistan flash floods kill 160, search for bodies continues
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-29
Thirteen provinces, mostly in the country’s north, had been affected by floods, according to the Ministry for Disaster Management.In Parwan, just north of the capital Kabul, 116 people had been killed and more than 120 injured, with 15 people still missing, national and local officials said.”Rescue teams are still in the area and searching for the missing bodies,” said Wahida Shahkar, a spokeswoman for Parwan’s governor.Flash flooding hit Parwan early on Wednesday, washing away homes and buildings. Local police spokesman Salim Noori said that the community in the worst-affected areas were mostly farmers and infor…
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Pelosi Says Biden Should Not Debate Trump!
The Jimmy Dore Show | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-29
Jimmy Dore and friend, Stef Zamorano, give their no-holds-barred take on the battle for the 2020 presidency in the one-party, two factions system.
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U.S. sanctions Russian research institute that developed Covid-19 vaccine
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-28
The US Commerce Department blacklisted a Russian research institute that helped create the world’s first Covid-19 vaccine. Russia won the race to develop the first vaccine against the novel coronavirus. The United States has responded by slapping sanctions on a Russian research facility involved in creating it. The US government has blacklisted several Russian scientific …
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Securing ‘Real Change’ for Voting Rights, NBA Players Strike Wins Use of Stadiums for Polling Stations, Other Reforms
Lisa Newcomb, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
“Don’t give into something that hasn’t happened. Keep pushing, keep working.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Boycott by professional athletes expands in second day of protests against police violence
wsws.org | 2020-08-28
The boycott among professional athletes expanded on Thursday in response to the brutal police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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Boycott by professional athletes expands in second day of protests against police violence
wsws.org | 2020-08-28
The boycott among professional athletes expanded on Thursday in response to the brutal police murder of 21-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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NBA strike explodes into a sportswide protest against police shooting of Jacob Blake
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2020-08-28
Kenosha, Wis., became the epicenter of the anti-racist struggle after a 29-year-old Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot seven times in the back at point-blank range by a white police officer on Aug. 23. Kenosha is 40 miles from Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s biggest city. A recorded video showed that the unarmed . . . | Continue reading NBA strike explodes into a sportswide protest against police shooting of Jacob Blake at Workers.org…
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White supremacist who killed two protesters in Kenosha arrested nearly 12 hours later
Peoples Dispatch | mronline.org | 2020-08-28
17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse who fatally shot two protesters in Kenosha and left the scene even as the police was arriving was arrested in the neighboring State of Illinois.
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Why Jacob Blake’s family will have to fight for justice
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-28
After his unarmed son was killed by Kenosha police, Michael Bell Sr. has fought for independent investigations of police shootings.
therealnews.com/stories/jacob-blakes-fam…

Protesters clash with police in downtown Minneapolis, mayor summons National Guard
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-28
Minneapolis, MN – Three months after the murder of George Floyd, and days after the cowardly shooting of Jacob Blake in the back in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the simmering anger in Minneapolis boiled over last night, Wednesday, August 26, after dozens of people witnessed what they believed was another police murder of a Black man. | In the early evening, word spread across social media that police had shot and killed a Black man on a crowded street here. Members of Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar were on the other side of downtown, at a memorial march for Lionel “Twan” Lewis who had been killed by police year…
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Kenosha Sheriff’s Racist Rant Follows Pattern of Fraternizing with White Supremacists
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-28
In 2018, Sheriff David Beth went on a bizarre eugenics rant, claiming that the police’s job should be to stop “these males” from “getting ten other women pregnant and having small children,” among other troubling comments he made on video.
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Kenosha Shooting Spurs Social Media Surveillance
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-28
The Atlantic Council wants you to know that the armed vigilantes coming out to patrol the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin after the violent protests sparked by brutal police shooting are organizing online.
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Kenosha police ignore racist double killing, allow shooter to leave scene, arrest protesters instead
Robert Penner | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-28
Protests will continue in Kenosha and across the country, and the people of Southeastern Wisconsin will continue to demand justice for those that have been maimed and lost their lives at the hands of police and white supremacist terror.
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Kyle Rittenhouse. Senseless Violence Across America
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-28
Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t go to Kenosha to shoot protestors; he went to protect the property and lives of the people who were threatened by a rampaging mob that had already destroyed large parts of the city. That’s why he was …
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Kenosha: An American City Confronts White Supremacy and State Violence
Daniel Brown | progressive.org | 2020-08-28
Following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, and the murder of two Black Lives Matter activists by a white teenage vigilante, protesters are still taking to the streets.
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Kenosha Sheriff’s Racist Rant Follows Pattern of Fraternizing with White Supremacists
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-28
In 2018, Sheriff David Beth went on a bizarre eugenics rant, claiming that the police’s job should be to stop “these males” from “getting ten other women pregnant and having small children,” among other troubling comments he made on video. | MPN– The Kenosha Police Department has come under heavy scrutiny in recent days after one of its officers shot Jacob Blake multiple times in the back at close range. Later, after protests erupted, its officers stood shoulder-to-shoulder with local militia, one of whom — a 17-year-old boy — would go on to shoot three people, returning to police lines, where th…
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Small Towns Don’t Need Military Helicopters
Peter Gowan | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-28
In Kenosha, Wisconsin, police shot Jacob Blake up to seven times in the back in front of his children. When demonstrators protested the shooting, they were greeted by officers in riot gear and, according to one report, at least one military vehicle. The frequent police shootings of unarmed Black Americans — and the crackdowns that…
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“On a Hunting Spree”
David Bowen | zcomm.org | 2020-08-28
Cops Turned Blind Eye to White Militias in Kenosha…
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The Victims Of The Kenosha Protest Shooting
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-28
Above photo: People gather to protest Wednesday, Aug. 256 2020 in Kenosha. Anger over the Sunday shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police spilled into the streets for a fourth night. AP Photo/Morry Gash. Two men killed at a protest for Jacob Blake were a father and a skater who tried to disarm …
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The Victims Of The Kenosha Protest Shooting
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-28
Friends and family remembered two men shot dead while attending protests Tuesday night for Jacob Blake, a Black man shot in the back Sunday by a Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer. | Police arrested and charged 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse with murder in the shooting of several people at the protest. Two men were killed, and a third was seriously injured. | Here’s what we know about the victims.
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Historian Rick Perlstein on the RNC & Trump’s Dangerous Propaganda Driving People to Violence
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-28
President Donald Trump formally accepted the Republican Party’s nomination on Thursday before a crowd of about 1,500 on the South Lawn of the White House. In defiance of social distancing guidelines, attendees sat shoulder-to-shoulder with few people wearing masks. Trump spoke as the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus neared 180,000 — by far the highest total in the world — and repeatedly defended his administration’s handling of the pandemic. Trump warned of chaos and violence if Joe Biden becomes president, but made no reference to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, or the k…
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ACLU Demands Resignation of Top Cops in Kenosha for Racism & Brutal Response to Jacob Blake Protests
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-28
The ACLU of Wisconsin is calling for top Kenosha law enforcement officials to resign in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, who was left paralyzed below the waist after a white officer shot him in the back seven times. The shooting has sparked mass protests in Kenosha and around the U.S., bringing renewed attention to racism and violence in the Kenosha police force. A damning video of Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth has surfaced from a 2018 news conference, when he described Black people accused of shoplifting and crashing a stolen car as “garbage people that fill our communities that are a cancer t…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/28/kenosha_p…

Jacob Blake Shooting Shines New Light on Death of Michael Bell, Killed by Kenosha Cops in 2004
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-28
In light of the police shooting of unarmed African American father Jacob Blake, we look at the past misconduct of the Kenosha police department. In 2004, Kenosha police killed white 21-year-old Michael Bell in front of his mother and sister. The Kenosha Police Department conducted its own review of the incident, and within two days completely exonerated the officers. Bell’s father, Michael Bell Sr., commissioned an independent inquiry that found the police account of the incident to be forensically impossible. “It was really hard for me to believe that a uniformed person would do that,” says Michael Bell Sr., who…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/28/michael_b…

Kenosha Expects Another Day of Protest Over Police Shooting of Jacob Blake – Video
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-28
The Wisconsin city of Kenosha saw violent protests after a video emerged online showing a white police officer shooting a black man named Jacob Blake seven times in the back. Though surviving the shooting, Blake is now said be paralyzed from the waist down.
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Suspect charged over fatal shootings amid US protests against racism and police brutality
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-28
A 17-year-old has been charged over the fatal shooting of two people and the wounding of a third amid protests against a police attack which left a Black man with severe spinal injuries.Demonstrations began in Kenosha, Wisconsin and were taken up by major sport leagues and prominent athletes across the US after Jacob Blake was shot in the back.Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly went to Kenosha from nearby Antioch, Illinois and went on a shooting rampage. He faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide, one count of first-degree reckless homicide, one count of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and two coun…
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March on Washington commemorations expected to be attended by thousands
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-28
Civil rights advocates in the US will highlight police and vigilante violence against Black people at a commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.Thousands are expected at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his historic I Have A Dream address about racial equality.They are gathering after another shooting by a white police officer of a Black man — this time 29-year-old Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on 23 August — sparking days of protests and violence that left two dead.”We’ve got to create a different consciousness and a different clim…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/08/28/ma…

Small Towns Don’t Need Military Helicopters
Peter Gowan | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
A SWAT police officer watches as demonstrators protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake outside the Kenosha County Courthouse on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Photo: Joshua Lott for The Washington Post via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Video Shows Officers in Unmarked Vehicles Surround, Arrest Activists in Kenosha for the Crime of… Trying to Serve Free Food
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
When traveling from out of state with an AR-15 is not treated as a crime, but “filling up gas cans for your food truck” leads to immediate arrest. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Racialized Austerity: The Case Of CUNY
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-28
In the aftermath of the covid outbreak and in a moment of Black Lives Matter national organizing in response to police brutality the issue of racial justice has lit up cities and towns across the country. Racist policing practices have had a huge impact on public opinion, with polling data showing that even more white suburban voters favor policy reforms. The shift has been public, sudden, and potentially electorally-decisive during this political season. | What remains less visible are racialized and racist choices to deepen state disinvestment in institutions critical to the health and welfare of Black and brow…
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600+ Groups Representing Over Half of Jewish People in US Sign Full-Page Ad in NYT to ‘Say Unequivocally: Black Lives Matter’
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
“By supporting this movement, we can build a country that fulfills the promise of freedom, unity, and safety for all of us, no exceptions.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Trump and DeJoy’s main objective: To incapacitate the US Postal Service
Michael Payne | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-28
What we need now is to see a plethora of other states joining in these lawsuits that are charging Trump and DeJoy with deliberate voter suppression.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/28/trump-and-…

Mail-In Voting’s Difficulties Extend Beyond DeJoy’s Gutting of USPS
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-28
While much of the recent attention on mail-in voting has focused on the U.S. Postal Service or on the likelihood of voter fraud, there is a lesser-known, looming problem for the November elections: The burden of mail-in voting does not just fall on…
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Some Dare Call It Treason
George Ochenski | zcomm.org | 2020-08-28
“The attempted dismantling of our United States Postal Service is beyond political malpractice. It is treasonous.”
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Normal Has Failed. Be As Weird As You Like
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-28
Consumerism is unsustainable. Competition is unsustainable. Imperialism is unsustainable. | Our species is standing on the brink of an extinction-level event due to ecosystemic collapse or nuclear war, and it is because of the way that we have lived on this planet up until this point. If we keep moving in this direction we will go the way of the dinosaur in the not-too distant future and take most terrestrial life with us. Maybe even all of it. | The imperfect and immature nature of our newly evolved capacity for language and abstract thought, combined with our social nature as primates, has caused our species to…
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The Modern U.S. War Machine Kills More Like a Python Than a Tiger
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-28
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | Forbes has published two back-to-back articles about the analysis of retired Navy captain and political scientist Bradford Dismukes titled ” To Defeat China In War, Strangle Its Economy” and ” If Russia Invades Europe, NATO Could Sweep The Seas Of Russian Merchant Ships”. | The articl…
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China’s Project to Create A “Digital Yuan”
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-28
The topic of cryptocurrencies has gained prominence among specialists in international trade in recent months. With the global economic crisis generated by the new coronavirus pandemic, this need has become even more evident. The world powers enter a new race, …
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Massive Ansar Allah Operation in Central Yemen Reveals Alliance Between al-Qaeda and Islamic State
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-28
A recent operation carried out in Yemen’s al-Badya province by Ansar Allah revealed an active alliance between al-Qaeda and IS forces who, documents reveal, were hoping to recreate a Mosul or Raqqa-like scenario in central Yemen.
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Decades Later, America’s Meddling in Colombia is Still Costing Lives
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-28
From the drug war to Plan Colombia to support for right-wing paramilitary groups, decades of US interference in Colombia has caused so much instability that to this day, the country is still reeling from it.
mintpressnews.com/decades-later-untied-s…

“This is How Armed Gangs Operate” Israel Admits its Troops Planted IEDs in a Palestinian Town
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-28
The IDF admitted that they put the explosives on the commonly used road, doing it to “create a deterrence,” because “riots have regularly occurred” in the area.
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“This is How Armed Gangs Operate” Israel Admits its Troops Planted IEDs in a Palestinian Town
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-28
The IDF admitted that they put the explosives on the commonly used road, doing it to “create a deterrence,” because “riots have regularly occurred” in the area. | MPN- A seven-year-old Palestinian boy was walking with his mother just outside the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum a few miles to west of the city of Nablus. Seeing a strange orange and black package held down with some rocks, the boy approached, thinking it was a toy. His mother quickly stopped him, summoning a relative to investigate. Foolishly, the man shook the package and it exploded, injuring his face and hands. | Along the popular path they foun…
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Decades Later, America’s Meddling in Colombia is Still Costing Lives
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-28
From the drug war to Plan Colombia to support for right-wing paramilitary groups, decades of US interference in Colombia has caused so much instability that to this day, the country is still reeling from it. | MPN– On a warm Tuesday morning earlier this month in Llano Verde, an eastern suburb of the city of Cali, five Afro-Colombian children decided to leave their homes to take advantage of the fine weather to spend some time outside. They would never return. Only a few hours later, they were found dead; their bodies burned, cut to pieces with machetes and riddled with bullets, dumped in public for all to se…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/decades-lat…

Sadistic Facebook shuts down Gaza health ministry page
Ali Abunimah | zcomm.org | 2020-08-28
Things are difficult enough for Palestinians in Gaza. Facebook must stop contributing to their misery by censoring vital health information.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/sadistic-facebook-…

‘American Capitalism Is Off the Rails’: Bezos Now Worth $200 Billion as Millions Struggle to Afford Essentials
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
Protesters rally outside Bezos’ D.C. to demand $30/hr minimum wage for Amazon workers after world’s richest man sets new wealth record. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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As Amazon and California Burn, New Analysis Warns Human Activity Driving Global Wildfire Surge
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
Given estimates that humans are responsible for around 75% of fires, “this means solutions are in our grasp too.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Trump Rebuked for ‘Breathtakingly Vicious’ Plan for Fossil Fuel Lease Sales in California Amid Historic Wildfires
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
“More oil wells mean more greenhouse gases, more air pollution, and more destroyed habitat.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Waiting for the Old Bailey: Julian Assange and Britain’s Judicial Establishment
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-28
On September 7, Julian Assange will be facing another round of gruelling extradition proceedings, in the Old Bailey, part of a process that has become a form of gradual state-sanctioned torture. The US Department of Justice hungers for their man. …
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Julian Assange receives first visitors in six months: “He is in a lot of pain”
wsws.org | 2020-08-28
The visit has underscored the brutal conditions in which Assange is imprisoned and has sparked renewed fears that his health is continuing to deteriorate.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/28/assa…

Reporters Without Borders petition against Assange’s extradition, raise concern over his health
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-28
Reporters Without Borders has called on the British government to respect press freedom and human rights in Assange’s trial and not comply with the US extradition request…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/28/rsf-assan…

Hurricane Laura Devastates Gulf Coast, Laying Bare Climate Crisis, Environmental Racism
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-28
Hurricane Laura has slammed ashore as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, bringing sustained winds of 150 miles per hour to the Gulf Coast. The strongest storm to hit Louisiana in over a century, Laura made landfall near the border of Louisiana and Texas. At least six people have been killed. Residents near Lake Charles were told to stay indoors with windows and doors shut when a chemical fire broke out at a Biolab plant. Hilton Kelley, the executive director of the Community In Power and Development Association, says local communities are dealing with multiple crises amid the devastation of the hurricane. ”
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/28/hurricane…

Occupation accentuates COVID-19’s impact in Gaza
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-28
The COVID-19 lockdown, which has been in place in Gaza since Monday, was extended for three more days on August 26. Gaza has also suffered continuous attacks by Israel in the past month…
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Better To Launch Balloons Than Die In Silence
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-28
In recent weeks, the tension between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel’s forces of occupation has increased. Israel has used the launching of incendiary balloons by Palestinian youths as a pretext to bomb Gaza once again. | The release of the balloons is a gesture of protest against how the Israeli occupation has procrastinated in abiding by its previous agreements with the Palestinian resistance. Under those agreements, Israel had committed to easing the siege on Gaza. | This procrastination has caused the continued deterioration of Gaza’s health and public services and its economy.
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The Israel-UAE Deal Isn’t About Peace at All
Phyllis Bennis | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
Palestinian demonstrators burn pictures of US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest against a US-brokered deal between Israel and the UAE to normalize relations, in the northern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Jabalia, on August 15, 2020. (Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Netanyahu vs Gantz: Gaza Escalation as Reflection of Israel’s Political Rivalry
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-28
Only recently, the Palestinian group, Hamas, and Israel seemed close to reaching a prisoner exchange agreement, where Hamas would release several Israeli soldiers held in Gaza while Israel would set free an unspecified number of Palestinian detainees held in Israeli prisons. Instead of the much-anticipated announcement of some kind of a deal, on August 10,…
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New Yorkers Demand NY Gov. Cuomo Tax The Rich for a Green New Deal
commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
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Planting Trees Can Reduce Poverty and Slow Climate Change
Jacqueline Skalski-Fouts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-28
Humanitarian crises have recently been declared in Yemen, Mali, and Somalia–affecting at least 450,000 people–due to flash floods and landslides. Areas with low tree coverage and poor soil quality are more likely to …
globalresearch.ca/planting-trees-reduce-…

Roaming Charges: Great Balls of Ire at the RNC
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-28
Day One + The Republican convention began, as all conventions should from now on, by deplatforming its platform. The stale ideologies of the pre-Trump party were replaced over the course of four days by a parade of the ridiculous and the repugnant, gun-slingers and fetus-worshippers, conspiracies and histrionics, white grievance, fake piety and unabashed money-grubbing.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/28/roaming-char…

We Gawk at Nonsense Political Theater While the Real Enemies Go Unnoticed
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-28
Donald Trump speeches. Celebrity tweets. Corporate news repetition. Chaos. Vapidity. Manufactured dissent. Graphic fighting sports. This is what fills our field of vision. It consumes our thoughts, overflows our brains with anti-intellectual mud. Yet most of these things are the bug splatter across the windshield. They are not the actual highway, the path forward, actually…
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Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2020-08-28
If President Trump can scare people away from voting, he just might have a chance of pulling off a victory.
progressive.org/dispatches/nominating-tr…

Brief Interview with Mark Weisbrot on the US Election, the Trump Presidency, and the Impact of Protests
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-08-28
The Instituto para Reforma das Relaàßàµes entre Estado e Empresa (IREE), based in Brazil, interviewed CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot about the upcoming US elections. The Portuguese version is on the IREE’s website here. IREE: The protests in the United States motivated by the death of George Floyd arrived in Washington with the demonstrations calling for …
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Life in the Ultra Resistance: A Tale of the Catholic Left
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-28
Like many other adolescents of my generation, I attended many protests against the US war in Vietnam. Like many antiwar protesters, I was inspired by many different writers, philosophies and other protesters. Among those inspirations–amidst the youthful rebels in SDS and the Yippies, the writings of Karl Marx and Jean Paul Sartre, and the militant…
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UN rights chief urges DR Congo to protect Nobel laureate Mukwege amid death threats
news.un.org | 2020-08-28
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has condemned death threats made against Congolese Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege and called for his protection.
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MIRAC demands Minnesota divest from border militarization corporation Elbit Systems
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-28
Saint Paul, MN – At the State Board of Investments (SBI) meeting on August 26, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) member Mari Mansfield spoke out, demanding that Minnesota divest its funds from the border militarization corporation Elbit Systems. | This was part of an ongoing campaign to press the State Board of Investments on this issue. Activists from MIRAC, the Anti-War Committee and other organizations have spoken at several previous SBI meetings, have presented thousands of petitions, and have protested in front of Governor Walz’s mansion to demand divestment from Elbit System because of the…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/27/mirac-de…

Former DHS Official Claims Trump “Wanted to Maim” Migrants at US-Mexico Border
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-28
Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief of Staff Miles Taylor claimed in a podcast earlier this week that President Donald Trump told administration officials he wanted to “maim” and “shoot” migrants at the southern border. | Taylor, who served as chief of staff to former DHS Kirstjen Nielsen before departing the agency with her in April 2019, made the remarks Monday on an episode of “The New Abnormal” podcast from The Daily Beast. | Taylor said he could not get through a meeting w…
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Banksy’s Migrant Rescue Boat: Not Just To Save Their Souls, But Our Own
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
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Immigrant Children in the US Are Still In Cages
Tom Arie Donch | thenation.com | 2020-08-28
Immigrant Children in the US Are Still In Cages…
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Time to defeat Trump — without make-believe about Biden
Norman Solomon | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-28
“With another Trump presidency, the left would have few options and could face new levels of government repression.”
nationofchange.org/2020/08/28/time-to-de…

Twin Imperatives: Defeat President Trump This Fall, Challenge President Biden from Day One
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-08-28
The Republican Party today is the party of white supremacy…
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Phyllis Bennis on Foreign Policy Visions
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-08-28
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The F-Word: No Other Way to Describe Trump’s Fascism 2.0
Mark Green, Ralph Nader | thenation.com | 2020-08-28
The F-Word: No Other Way to Describe Trump’s Fascism 2.0…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-fas…

Foreign Correspondent: Biden’s Troubling Foreign Policy
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2020-08-28
An important behind-the-scenes battle is being fought over the Democratic nominee’s conservative positions.
progressive.org/dispatches/biden-troubli…

Biden’s Troubling Foreign Policy
Reese Erlich | commondreams.org | 2020-08-28
“Biden’s record on foreign policy is checkered,” writes Erlich. “As a leading member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for many years, he supported the US occupations of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003.” (Photo: Ron Adar / Echoes Wire / Barcroft Media via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Scheer Intelligence: The Revolt Of The Black Athlete
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-28
Howard Bryant is a senior writer for ESPN.com and appears regularly on the sports network and NPR. His most recent book “The Heritage: Black Athletes, A Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism” is about the responsibility often placed upon professional black athletes from Jackie Robinson to LeBron James to be role models for social justice. In their conversation, Bryant tells host Robert Scheer that black athletes often come up against the conflict between their corporate sponsors and their desire for social justice and action.
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-08-28
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute http: //www.wsws.org/wsws/dd-formmailer/dd-formmailer.php to this regular feature.
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Second Trump term would mean disaster for U.S. and the whole world
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-28
Socialists around the world are recognizing the danger posed by the re-election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency. Despite reservations about Democratic nominee Joe Biden, the fascist turn of the Trump administration is prompting a recognition that Trump must be defeated at all costs. On this topic, People’s World presents the following guest editorial …
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On socialist Vietnam’s response to COVID-19
| workers.org | 2020-08-28
By Dr. Ngo Thanh Nhan and Merle Ratner This slightly edited co-written article was presented as a talk by Dr. Ngo Thanh Nhan on Aug. 20 to a Workers World Party webinar on “COVID can be defeated: Cuba, China, Venezuela & Vietnam lead the way.” The presentation began with a . . . | Continue reading On socialist Vietnam’s response to COVID-19 at Workers.org…
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Class Reductionism and Environmental Racism
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-28
On August 14th, the N.Y. Times reported on the clash between Adolph Reed Jr. and the Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus in DSA. The caucus advocates stepped up support for BLM protests while Reed views them as tools of corporate America. Naturally, when the event organizers scheduled a Zoom lecture for Reed, the caucus…
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On socialist Vietnam’s response to COVID-19
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2020-08-28
By Dr. Ngo Thanh Nhan and Merle Ratner This slightly edited co-written article was presented as a talk by Dr. Ngo Thanh Nhan on Aug. 20 to a Workers World Party webinar on “COVID can be defeated: Cuba, China, Venezuela & Vietnam lead the way.” The presentation began with a . . . | Continue reading On socialist Vietnam’s response to COVID-19 at Workers.org…
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Trump runs for Fàºhrer
wsws.org | 2020-08-28
Trump delivered a fascistic tirade from the White House lawn Thursday night, painting his reelection as the last bastion against “agitators” and “socialists.”
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Video: US-Russia “Road War” in Northeastern Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-28
Four US service members were slightly injured during a standoff with the Russian Military Police near the border-town of Al-Malikiyah in the Syrian province of al-Hasakah. According to reports, the US troops received “mild injures” after their MaxxPro MRAP vehicle …
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Mandating Mass Compulsory Covid Vaccine Violates the Nuremberg Code? Hazardous Health Toxins
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-28
If ordered by federal, state, or local authorities, businesses or other entities in the US or elsewhere, mandating mass-vaxxing against COVID-19 will violate the Nuremberg Code. | All vaccines contain hazardous to human health toxins and are unsafe to use — …
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Only the Struggle of the People Will Free the Country
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-08-28
Source: Tricontinental On 18 August, soldiers from the Kati barracks outside Bamako (Mali) left their posts, arrested president Ibrahim Boubacar Kà´ita (IBK) and prime minister Boubou Cissé, and set up the National Committee for the Salvation of the People (CNSP). In effect, these soldiers conducted a coup d’état. This is the third coup in Mali, Read…
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