‘Ecological Disaster on Massive Scale’: Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Migratory Birds in Southwest Linked to Wildfires, Climate Crisis
Julia Conley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
A combination of factors–all related to the climate crisis–is believed to be behind one of the largest mass bird die-off events in recent memory in the Southwest, according to biologists. | Scientists say thousands of dead migratory birds have been found …
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PDF of September 17 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-09-17
Download the 12-page PDF. Philly encampment: ‘Housing now!’ ALSO: COVID: Is it genocide yet? ‘Disability Visibility’; TPS workers’ Journey for Justice; New poll tax on voting; Climate crisis fires; Editorial 9/11–pretext for war. Labor Defends Black Lives Work stoppage call; Athlete strikes inspire; ‘Workers move the world’; Kenosha activist for . . . | Continue reading PDF of September 17 issue at Workers.org…
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The View from Above: How Do We Know What’s Really Burning in the Amazon?
Liz Kimbrough | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
This year’s Amazon fire season is one of the most serious ever, even though it’s not attracting near the media attention as last year. More than one thousand major fires have already been detected in the rainforest biome this year, …
globalresearch.ca/the-view-from-above-ho…

PDF of September 17 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-09-17
Download the 12-page PDF. Philly encampment: ‘Housing now!’ ALSO: COVID: Is it genocide yet? ‘Disability Visibility’; TPS workers’ Journey for Justice; New poll tax on voting; Climate crisis fires; Editorial 9/11–pretext for war. Labor Defends Black Lives Work stoppage call; Athlete strikes inspire; ‘Workers move the world’; Kenosha activist for . . . | Continue reading PDF of September 17 issue at Workers.org…
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Denying Trump’s Neo-Fascism Endangers Our Ailing Planet
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-09-17
Wolfram Burner / CC BY-NC 2.0] By Norman Solomon Spiking temperatures, melting glaciers, rising seas, catastrophic hurricanes and unprecedented wildfires are clear signs of a climate emergency caused by humans. Denying the awful reality makes the situation worse. The same can be said of denial about the current momentum toward fascism under Donald Trump. Trump’s right-wing base and leading… | Source…
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Housing Activists Make Plans to Fight Looming Mass Evictions
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
A recent moratorium issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided a window of relief to millions facing evictions due to payment arrears on their rents and mortgages. | Perhaps as an election ploy by the current …
globalresearch.ca/housing-activists-make…

Assange’s Seventh Day at the Old Bailey: Diligent Redactions and Avoiding Harm
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-17
September 16. Central Criminal Court, London. Proceedings today at the Old Bailey regarding Julian Assange’s extradition returned to journalistic practice, redaction of source names and that ongoing obsession with alleged harm arising from WikiLeaks releases. John Goetz of Der Spiegel added his bit for the defence, making an effort to set the record straight on …
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Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 10
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
The gloves were off on Tuesday as the US Government explicitly argued that all journalists are liable to prosecution under the Espionage Act (1917) for publishing classified information, citing the Rosen case. Counsel for the US government also argued …
globalresearch.ca/assange-hearing-day-10…

WikiLeaks’ Guantanamo files exposed inhumane American ‘war on terror’
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-17
The documents published by Wikileaks in 2011 revealed how top US officials were directly involved in the torture and illegal detention of many innocents. This explains the US attempt to punish Julian Assange for revealing their failures…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/17/wikileaks…

Assange’s Seventh Day at the Old Bailey: Diligent Redactions and Avoiding Harm
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
September 16. Central Criminal Court, London. Proceedings today at the Old Bailey regarding Julian Assange’s extradition returned to journalistic practice, redaction of source names and that ongoing obsession with alleged harm arising from WikiLeaks releases. John Goetz of Der …
globalresearch.ca/assange-seventh-day-ol…

The ‘Israeli’-Emirati Alliance: Geopolitical Impact on Africa
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
The misleadingly described “peace” deal between “Israel” and the UAE will enable the self-professed “Jewish State” to use the latter’s military and civilian port infrastructure in the Gulf of Aden, thus challenging recent Turkish inroads in this part of the …
globalresearch.ca/geopolitical-impact-is…

UN Report on Venezuela “Abuses” Written by Investigators Who Never Visited Venezuela
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
The Western media is touting the results of a so-called “Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” conducted through the United Nations. | AFP in an article titled, “Venezuela president behind crimes against humanity: UN probe,” would claim: …
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Twilight in the Desert for Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
It appears as if Saudi de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is on a mission to destroy the world oil giant by one after the other ill-conceived economic decisions. Now, as MBS orders yet new desperation cuts in …
globalresearch.ca/twilight-desert-saudi-…

Hope and Fear: Refugees on Greece’s Samos Island, September 2020
Chris Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Roger came by the house yesterday evening. In his early 20s Roger is from Gaza. He’s full of energy and ideas and has been like this since he arrived in Samos over a year ago. His days are full of …
globalresearch.ca/hope-fear-samos-island…

Arctic Heat Wave: Block of Ice Twice as Big as Manhattan Breaks Off Greenland’s Largest Ice Shelf, Goes into Ocean
Prof. Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
A 42 square mile block of ice has just hived off from the Arctic’s largest ice shelf, in northeast Greenland, alarming climate scientists. That is the size of Santa Barbara, California. It is ginormous. | Danish scientists are speaking ominously of …
globalresearch.ca/arctic-heat-wave-block…

Princeton president’s letter decrying ‘racism’ of institution BACKFIRES as Dept of Education announces investigation of university
rt.com | 2020-09-17
The Department of Education has announced it will investigate Princeton University after President Christopher Eisgruber wrote a letter decrying his school’s “racism” and the US’s “anti-blackness.” | A formal records request has been sent to the university to make sure they are not using racist practices and violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which says that no person “on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.” | If found…
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Legal Care For All
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
We understand that needing doctors and medical care is just a part of life. We are happy to distinguish ourselves from our southern neighbours on the grounds that we are a society that ensures a health crisis does not result in financial ruin. In the course of our lifetime, most of us will also find ourselves in a situation where we need a lawyer. Whether it’s a divorce, a car accident, a business dispute, an eviction, or a criminal matter, one time or another, we will require a lawyer to advocate and advise us as we navigate the complex judicial system.
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Assange Court Report September 16: Afternoon
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
A famous Vietnam era whistleblower, 89-year-old Daniel Ellsberg, has told a court that he feels “a great identification,” with both Julian Assange and his source Chelsea Manning, who, he said, “were willing to suffer the risk of imprisonment or even death to get information to the American public.” | Ellsberg, a former US Marine officer who served with the US State Department in Vietnam during the war years, is best known for leaking a huge tranche of US government documents on the war to the New York Times in 1970, documents that showed that the government had been lying to the American people about the conflict…
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Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
Opponents of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange often hold up Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg as an example of someone who was responsible for a good leak. They insist WikiLeaks is not like the Pentagon Papers because supposedly Assange was reckless with sensitive documents. | On the seventh day of an extradition trial against Assange, Ellsberg dismantled this false narrative and outlined for a British magistrate court why Assange would not receive a fair trial in the United States. | Assange is accused of 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act and one count of conspiracy to commit a computer crime…
popularresistance.org/good-ellsberg-bad-…

Will a Biden Foreign Policy Make a Difference for the World?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-09-17
Ajamu BARAKA | The “left” rationalization for collaborating with the neoliberal wing of the democrat party is premised on the argument that a win for the national Democrat candidate translates into better possible policy outcomes for the “people” and nation. More importantly though, they assert, Trump’s defeat will alter the rightist trajectory of U.S. politics away from what they refer to as Trump’s neofascist inclinations. | I will not attempt to address this argument here. I have dealt with this cartoonish and idealistic conception of fascism in other places. I have also raised questions with my friends in the…
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New Simón Bolívar Institute For Peace And Solidarity Among Peoples
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
The founding of the Simón Bolívar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among Peoples on September 6, 2020 marks a new political milestone. In the most difficult of circumstances, having to cope with not only the U.S. and Canadian sanctions but the pandemic as well, the Bolivarian Revolution has made this effort for the benefit of all who believe in its liberatory ideals across the planet. The goal of the Institute is to coordinate global solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution and the Venezuelan people, and the solidarity of the South American nation toward struggles for social and economic justice of peoples thr…
popularresistance.org/new-simon-bolivar-…

Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration
Abrahm Lustgarten | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become increasingly untenable in the hardest-hit areas, but if the people there move, where will everyone go?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/climate-change-wil…

Amazon heroes who don’t give up
Manuella Libardi | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
The Guardians of the Forest, a group of indigenous Guajajara in the Brazilian state of Maranhà£o, struggle to defend their land from invaders and to guarantee their survival in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/amazon-heroes-who-…

Saturday 9/19: Fundamental change of heart about eviction
David Giesen | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Join Zoom Meeting | zoom.us/j/92443585281?pwd=R0VWSXo4R3NMc1… | Meeting ID: 924 4358 5281 | Passcode: Wc7Sg9…
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Daniel Ellsberg Warns U.S. Press Freedom Under Attack in WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange Extradition Case
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-17
Legendary Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says Julian Assange’s extradition hearing in London could have far-reaching consequences for press freedoms. The WikiLeaks founder faces an ever-evolving array of espionage and hacking charges related to the release of diplomatic cables that revealed war crimes committed by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Assange faces almost certain conviction, if extradited, and 175 years in prison. “The American press has remained in kind of a state of denial for 40 years, really, since my case, that the Espionage Act has wording in it that could be aimed directly at…
www.democracynow.org/2020/9/17/daniel_el…

A Crisis Made in America: Yemen on Brink of Famine After U.S. Cuts Aid While Fueling War
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-17
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is deepening amid the pandemic and cuts to international aid from the United States and its allies, leaving millions of Yemenis facing famine after years of a brutal U.S.-backed, Saudi-led bombing campaign that has devastated the country. CNN’s senior international correspondent Nima Elbagir says what is happening in Yemen is not a natural disaster but a “man-made catastrophe” directly tied to U.S. policies. Elbagir says, “Not only is the U.S. profiting from the war by selling weapons to the UAE and Saudi Arabia,” but it is also ignoring the impact on civilians. We also feature he…
www.democracynow.org/2020/9/17/yemen_cri…

After Fire Destroys Moria Refugee Camp in Greece, Demands Grow for Relocation, Not Another Camp
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-17
We get an update on the massive fire at the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, which has left 13,000 refugees and migrants from Afghanistan, African countries and Syria without access to shelter, food or sanitation. The fire has raised concerns about a coronavirus outbreak and comes as migrants protest their living conditions during the pandemic. Some of the asylum seekers — many of them women and children — are demanding they be allowed to leave the island of Lesbos, but the Greek government is refusing to relocate most people displaced by the fire to the mainland. “The calculation of the Greek go…
www.democracynow.org/2020/9/17/greece_mo…

Julian Assange’s treatment amounts to torture — it must end
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-09-17
Democracy Sam WainwrightIssue 1281 Australia Wikileaks war crimes Our Common CauseSeptember 17, 2020After enduring more than year and hal…
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News Media Who Ignore The Assange Trial Are Admitting They Don’t Care About Journalism
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-17
The Sydney Morning Herald just published an article titled ” Julian Assange interrupts extradition hearing again” about the WikiLeaks founder’s correct interjection that he never put anyone’s lives in danger with the publication of the Manning leaks a decade ago. | It’s actually a rather shocking smear piece for the SMH, who has been one of the better Australian publications at giving Assange a fair hearing over the years. The article’s author Latika Bourke spends an inordinate amount of time waxing on about Assange’s naughty “outburst” and how he was…
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No ‘peace’ without the Palestinians
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-17
White House theatrics, Trump’s delusions and Gulf regime collusion cannot ‘end’ the Arab-Israeli conflict | The missiles fired at Israeli settlements from the Gaza Strip while the UAE and Bahraini foreign ministers were signing ‘peace treaties’ with Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House were an affirmation: these agreements are worthless, and the only people capable of ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, by peace or by war, are the people of Palestine — with the backing of their Arab and Muslim brothers and sisters and supporters of justice worldwide. | President Donald Trump, who oversaw the theatrics in the…
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Tribute To Kevin Zeese: Life And Loss In The Struggle For Liberation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
The pain of loss is immeasurable yet comrades across the globe have come to view it as an inevitable aspect of the fight for liberation. For the revolutionary, death is neither a secret nor a prophecy. The loss of life is as common as life itself for the oppressed and those who fight on the side of the oppressed. I didn’t know Kevin Zeese as well as I would have liked beyond a podcast interview and the honor of sharing a room with him at anti-war conferences. However, what I do know is that his legacy is, and will continue to be, a profound contribution to the world we are trying to build.
popularresistance.org/tribute-to-kevin-z…

US Strategist and Senior Adviser to Trump Elected President of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
The appointment of Mauricio Claver Carone (an American citizen) as president of the Inter-American Development Bank is generating many controversies across Latin America. For the first time in its more than 60 years of existence, the IDB will be chaired …
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Gorgon Stare: A “persistent eye in the sky” may be coming to a City near you
Medea Benjamin | mronline.org | 2020-09-17
The military and the drone manufacturers, principally General Atomics, are arguing that the technology has advanced far enough that flying 79-ft. wingspan, six-ton drones over populated areas and alongside commercial air traffic is safe.
mronline.org/2020/09/17/gorgon-stare-a-p…

A “Persistent Eye in the Sky” Coming to a City Near You?
Medea Benjamin, Barry Summers | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
“Gorgon Stare will be looking at a whole city, so there will be no way for the adversary to know what we’re looking at, and we can see everything.” That same persistent eye in the sky may soon be deployed over U.S. cities. At the time he made that comment about surveillance drones over Afghanistan,…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/a-persistent…

Nurse Alleges Forced Sterilizations, Medical Malpractice At Immigrant Detention Center
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
A whistleblower complaint filed on behalf of a nurse who worked at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in southern Georgia until July alleges that a number of immigrant women detained there were subjected to sterilization through hysterectomies without their consent. | In the complaint, filed by the legal advocacy group Project South, the former nurse describes conditions at the center as akin to an “experimental concentration camp.” | The complaint also details the refusal of the center’s administrators to carry out COVID-19 testing or implement protective measures, putting detainees an…
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There’s Reason for Hope
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
The Black Lives Matter movement is the biggest social movement in American history with support beyond anything that’s ever been registered in the past. It’s not alone. It’s a sign of substantial changes in popular consciousness…
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Trump’s Climate Denial Gains Strength If We’re in Denial About His Neo-Fascism
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
“There are an awful lot of reasons why it is so important for Trump to be defeated and removed from the White House, but I continue to believe that the most important one is the climate crisis”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-climate-den…

Activists occupy Elbit Systems factory in UK
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-17
The factory of the Israeli weapon company Elbit Systems in Shenstone, UK, is under occupation by protesters belonging to Palestine Action. They have demanded the shut-down of all sites of Elbit Systems in the UK.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/17/activists…

Occupation Of UK Factory Involved In Israeli Drone Manufacture
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
Direct action protests against Israel’s largest weapons company have escalated in the UK, with an occupation of a factory building engines for drones used by Israel’s army entering its third day on Wednesday. | Protests were also held outside Elbit System UK’s London headquarters and at its landlord’s main offices, as new solidarity group Palestine Action escalated its campaign to shut down the company’s operation in the UK. | Elbit Systems UK is part of the high-tech weapons group that supplies more than 80 percent of the Israeli army’s military drones, including the Hermes 900 and Hermes 450…
popularresistance.org/occupation-of-uk-f…

Palestinians slam Arab regimes’ ‘normalization’ with Zionist occupation
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-09-17
Chicago, IL – On September 15, the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine (CJP) held a press conference to reject the charade that was happening the same day in Washington, DC, where the Trump administration was holding a signing ceremony for a ‘peace’ arrangement between Israel and both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. | CJP represents all of the major Palestinian organizations in Chicago. They spoke against the Arab regimes’ ‘normalization’ with the Zionist Israeli enemy. Solidarity activists with the American Friends Service Committee and the Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy and othe…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/9/17/palestin…

The ‘Desaparecidos’ of Palestine: Gantz Escalates Israel’s War on the Dead
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-17
On September 2, the Israeli government approved a proposal that allows the military to indefinitely withhold the bodies of Palestinians who have been killed by the Israeli army. The proposal was made by the country’s Defense Minister, Benny Gantz. Gantz is the main political rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He also serves the role …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/09/the-desaparec…

Who Will Win — a Conscious People or Anti-Democratic Elites?
Paul Jay | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
Interview about the state of the peoples’ movement…
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Covid-19: The Great Reset — Revisited. Scary Threats, Rewards for Obedience
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
The Great Reset book is full with predictions of things that will or may happen, and threats, like the world will never be the same again, and we are just at the beginning of the Reset, worse is to come — or the Great Transformation, as the IMF calls what is coming.
globalresearch.ca/great-reset-revisited/…

New Ambassador Attracts the Usual Enemies: Doug Macgregor Feels the Wrath of the Jewish Lobby
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-17
As is all too often the case in the United States, the loudest voices, like ADL, are generally the ones that Congress pays attention to. | There is an old saying that allegedly came out of the French Revolution, that revolution, like the god Saturn, devours its own children. It was reportedly uttered by Georges Danton at the trial that preceded his execution and could be applied equally to the demise of Trotsky after the Russian Revolution. It meant that the leaders that drove the dramatic political developments frequently get a taste of power and become resistant to any further change. They often end up turning…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/doug-macg…

Trump Regime Illegally Imposing Snapback Sanctions and Arms Embargo on Iran
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
In defiance of world community sentiment and SC Res. 2231 — that’s binding international and US constitutional law — the Trump regime will unilaterally reimpose sanctions on Iran that were lifted when the JCPOA took effect. | According to Trump regime …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-illegally…

Continued German Support for Nord Stream 2 Completion? Towards a Shift in Russia-Germany Relations?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Construction of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany is about 94% completed. | The project is all about supplying Germany and other European countries with readily available low-cost Russian natural gas — around 30% cheaper than US liquified natural …
globalresearch.ca/continued-german-suppo…

Pennsylvania Supreme Court kicks Green Party candidate off state’s November ballot
rt.com | 2020-09-17
The Green Party’s candidate has been disqualified from the upcoming November elections in Pennsylvania after the state’s Supreme Court deemed his paperwork to have been improperly submitted. | Howie Hawkins was disqualified from the ballot on Thursday when the Supreme Court overruled an earlier decision by a lower court. | According to the top court, the Green candidate was booted from the election over improperly delivered paperwork. The minor parties have to collect signatures to nominate their candidate, and while the Green Party delivered signatures by hand by the August 3 deadline, it decided to fax in an…
rt.com/usa/500976-pennsylvania-green-par…

Venezuelan Oil Production Continues Slump as Iran Steps Up Cooperation
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-09-17
A recent Iranian condensate shipment will boost oil blending operations.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14999

New Pentagon-Google Partnership Suggests AI Will Soon Be Used to Diagnose Covid-19
Whitney Webb | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-17
Google recently teamed up with the Pentagon as part of the new, AI-driven “Predictive Health” program. Though only focused on “predictive cancer diagnoses” for now, Google and the military have apparent plans to expand the AI model for automating and predicting Covid-19 diagnoses. | At the beginning of September, Google Cloud announced that it had won a project from the Pentagon’s relatively new Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to “prototype an AI-enabled digital pathology solution at select DoD…
thealtworld.com/whitney_webb/new-pentago…

Cyprus Victim of External Efforts to Drag It into Rival East Mediterranean Orbits of Russia, US
Michael Jansen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Cyprus has become the victim of fresh external push-and-pull efforts with the aim of dragging the island republic, a European Union (EU) member, into one or other of the rival East Mediterranean orbits of Russia and the US. | Cyprus received …
globalresearch.ca/cyprus-victim-external…

Medical abuse allegations at ICE facility add to US history of forced sterilization
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-09-17
The imminent deportation of Pauline Binam, who alleges she was involuntarily sterilized in custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year, was halted on Wednesday.
therealnews.com/columns/medical-abuse-al…

Why Has the World Been Shut Down? What is the “New Normal”? Clampdown on Civil Liberties in the Name of “Fighting the Virus?
William Bowles | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
[T]he great majority of people will not die from this [virus] and I’ll just repeat something I said right at the beginning because I think it’s worth reinforcing: | Most people, a significant proportion of people, will not get this virus …
globalresearch.ca/great-scampede-iron-he…

Open Letter from Medical Doctors and Health Professionals to All Belgian Authorities and All Belgian Media
Docs4opendebate | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
We, Belgian doctors and health professionals, wish to express our serious concern about the evolution of the situation in the recent months surrounding the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We call on politicians to be independently and critically informed in …
globalresearch.ca/open-letter-medical-do…

No charges in Missouri police murder of 25-year-old Hannah Fizer
wsws.org | 2020-09-17
As another killer cop goes free, protesters against the police killing of Ricardo Munoz in Lancaster, Pennsylvania remain in jail, with bail set at $1 million.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/17/sand…

Brooklyn supply drive honors legacy of community activists Donna & Nicholas Heyward, Sr
Amanda Yee | liberationnews.org | 2020-09-17
Nicholas Heyward, Sr. became a vocal advocate against police brutality after NYPD officer Brian George shot and killed his 13-year old son, Nicholas Heyward, Jr. in 1994.
liberationnews.org/brooklyn-supply-drive…

How U.S. Response to COVID-19 Could Precipitate Second Great Depression. Massive Unemployment
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
On March 10th of this year, there were 290 daily new U.S. cases of Covid-19 (coronavirus-19). | On March 13th, U.S. President Donald Trump declared a pandemic national emergency, because the number of daily new cases was now suddenly doubling …
globalresearch.ca/how-us-response-covid-…

COVID pushes millions more children deeper into poverty, finds new study
news.un.org | 2020-09-17
The coronavirus pandemic has pushed an additional 150 million children into multidimensional poverty — deprived of education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation or water — a new UN study has found.
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Why Arab Leaders Are Suddenly Groveling at the Chance to Normalize Ties with Israel
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-17
Arab leaders understand that relations with Israel provide access to US Empire and all that comes with it, including much desired US-made weapons and other perks such as security and economic cooperation.
mintpressnews.com/why-arab-states-want-n…

Head of Libya’s Tripoli government announces he wants to resign
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-09-17
Head of Libya’s Tripoli government announces he wants to resign | Fayez al-Sarraj says he wants to quit by the end of October, citing progress by UN in a political solution to Libya’s conflict | MEE and agencies | Thu, 09/17/2020 – 08: 22 | Despite Sarraj’s defence of Tripoli, his government has since descended into political infighting (Reuters) | Libya’s internationally recognised Prime Minister Fayez al-S…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/libya-fayez-s…

How USA and Turkey Plunder and Loot Syria with Impunity
Rick Sterling | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-17
While President Trump lashes out at rioting and looting in Portland and Kenosha, half way around the world, the USA and Turkey are plundering and looting Syria on a vastly greater scale with impunity and little publicity. Turkey Loots Syria, then Disrupts Safe Water Supply Turkey has been plundering the Syrian infrastructure for years. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/09/how-usa-and-t…

The COVID-19 Vaccine. The Imposition of Compulsory Vaccination with a Biometric Health Passport?
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
The COVID-19 vaccine… Is this THE final goal of this crisis, to impose a compulsory vaccination on everyone, with a biometric health passport and without it, the impossibility to move, to buy, to eat? The near future will tell.
globalresearch.ca/the-covid-19-vaccine-t…

Yankees Going Home–MES EP.72
Marwa Osman | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-17
The top U.S. general in the Middle East Frank McKenzie confirmed plans for partial troop drawdowns in both Iraq and Afghanistan before the Nov. 3 election, as President Donald Trump seeks to fulfill a campaign promise to end what he calls “America’s endless wars”. The U.S. plans to cut the troop presence in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 by the end of September. To discuss this issue with us from London is Patrick Henningsen founder of the 21st century wire news website. | The announcement that Bahrain would establish full diplomatic relations with Israel leaves open the possibility that more Arab states will follow. B…
thealtworld.com/marwa_osman/yankees-goin…

Four centuries of infamy
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-09-17
Before Europeans arrived in America, Portuguese seafarers snatched the first Africans from their homelands to be sold and exploited in the Iberian Peninsula.
mronline.org/2020/09/17/four-centuries-o…

Spontaneous Initiative that Unites Scientists, Doctors, Lawyers and Free Citizens from All over the World
Antonietta Gatti | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
The independent studies of various scientists have highlighted several issues on the virus. Many inconsistencies have emerged from many points of view which are summarized in these two letters. The reflections start from two complementary approaches and ask for explanations …
globalresearch.ca/initiative-unites-scie…

Lies My Fuehrer Told Me
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
The President has never lied to the American public on COVID. –White House spokesperson Kayleigh McEnany It doesn’t bother me. I don’t feel like he was ever lying to anybody. — North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer I’d be careful about using the word “lie.” “Lie” implies much more than just saying something that’s false.
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/lies-my-fueh…

Aligning Ignorance With Bigotry: Trump Attempts to Rewrite History
Henry Giroux | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
In what appears to be a blatant appeal to the white supremacists in his base, President Donald Trump has made clear his attempt to both defend and rewrite the history of racial injustice in the United States while eliminating the institutions that make visible its historical roots. As Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/aligning-ign…

Police Bureaucracy and Abolition: Why Reforms Driven by Professionals will Renew State Oppression
Shakeer Rahman — Brendan McQuade | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
The demands are clear: defund and abolish police. As those calls grow, so will efforts by reformers to propose new rules and regulations that they say will “improve” and restore “legitimacy” to policing. These bureaucratic reforms reflect the failed thinking that built up the carceral state, and they will make policing harder to dismantle.
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/police-burea…

Capitalism in free fall: Six straight months of record job losses
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-09-17
For the 26th week in a row, the Department of Labor released weekly employment statistics showing massive job losses. Slightly over 1.5 million people filed for unemployment benefits over the last week — 860,000 through the traditional program and 659,000 through the newly-created Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefit. Unemployment has exploded for six months straight as …
liberationnews.org/capitalism-in-free-fa…

Why the US Can Keep Increasing its Debt and not Suffer Inflation (Part 2)
Stansfield Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-17
The US Still Dominates the World Economy The US ruling class has dominated the planet since the end of World War II. Key elements of this control include its military superiority in nuclear and conventional weapons, and the stationing of over 900 military bases around the world. In addition, the US presides over the United …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/09/why-the-us-ca…

How the pandemic undermines low income workers
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-09-17
Corporations are using COVID-19 as an excuse to treat low-wage workers as disposable…
therealnews.com/stories/how-the-pandemic…

A Huge Number of Medical Doctors Ask for a Reassessment of the Corona Measures
Docs4opendebate | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Globally, we are seeing a massive campaign of disinformation on the main stream media that sets aside all the principles of a democratic state governed by the rule of law. | While a great number of colleagues doctors present with different …
globalresearch.ca/medical-doctors-ask-re…

Aligning Ignorance With Bigotry: Trump Attempts to Rewrite History
Henry Giroux | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
As the presidential election gets closer, Trump is desperate to reassert his white supremacist and white nationalist views, even though they’ve never been hidden during his presidency. After all, his white supremacist ideology is the cornerstone of his appeal to the reactionary and bigoted elements of his base.
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/aligning-ign…

Life in Cancer Alley
Robert Koehler | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
Shut up and let corporate America — and also, for that matter, corporate Taiwan — get on with its business. We have ethane to crack and plastic to produce. We dare not let America run out of shopping bags! Environmental racism? Don’t be ridiculous. This is the message the activists of Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” –…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/life-in-canc…

“Mass Sterilization”: Kenyan Doctors Find Anti-fertility Agent in UN Tetanus Vaccine?
Brian Shilhavy | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Global Research Editor’s Note | In October 2014, the conference of Catholic bishops in Kenya released a statement regarding the tetanus vaccine programme implemented under UN auspices. (see the statement below) | The issue was subsequently addressed by Kenya’s Catholic Doctors Association. …
globalresearch.ca/mass-sterilization-ken…

The strategic aspects of the Great AgroVenezuela Mission
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-09-17
The Great AgroVenezuela Mission was born on January 25, 2011 under the leadership of President Hugo Chávez, and was launched from the Agricultural Social Property Unit “La Productora” in the municipality of Ospino in the state of Portuguesa, with the aim of promoting food security and sovereignty in the country.
mronline.org/2020/09/17/the-strategic-as…

Could the Days of the Conventional Office Be Over?
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
The COVID-19 lockdown left many people the world over with no alternative but to work away from their offices, generating a rapid growth in working from home (WFH) as a result. This has produced radical, and some say irreversible, changes to work practices and their attendant locations, as well as the hitherto characteristic ways people had of travelling to work.
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/could-the-da…

Libya’s Government of National Accord to step down as peace negotiations likely to conclude soon
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-17
GNA prime minister Fayez Al-Sarraj said in a televised speech on September 16 that the UN-sponsored peace negotiations have succeeded in the rival sides entering a ‘new preparatory phase’…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/17/libyas-go…

I Watched “Cuties” So You Wouldn’t Have to (But You Should)
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
A brigade of pearl-clutching, virtue-signaling, cancel-culture keyboard warriors wants you to know that Cuties (Mignonnes — it’s actually a French film) is a bad, bad movie that no one should watch and that Netflix should immediately remove from its lineup.
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/i-watched-cu…

Alleged custodial killing triggers protests in northern Kashmir
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-17
The family of 23-year-old Irfan Ahmad Dar said he was killed in cold blood while in police custody even as the police claim he escaped. The alleged custodial killing triggered protests in northern Kashmir…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/17/alleged-c…

Logging Will Do Nothing to Help Us Out of This Mess
Dominick Dellasala | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
As I write this, my hometown of Talent, Oregon is a disaster area, and I am in tears over the destruction of my neighborhood. Lives have been forever changed by this tragedy that could have been avoided with better planning. Our elected officials have neglected to take action on community safety, focusing mostly on backcountry…
counterpunch.org/2020/09/17/logging-will…

Trump repeats threats of post-election military repression as Barr calls for charging protesters with “sedition”
wsws.org | 2020-09-17
While Trump and his political aides and advisers openly speak of civil war and martial law, the Democrats are largely ignoring and covering up the moves toward dictatorial forms of rule.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/17/elec…

Senate Democrats want $350 billion to prepare for war with China
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-09-17
Democrats in the Senate announced September 17 a massive spending bill aimed at stepping up U.S. hostility towards China to the tune of $350 billion. Introduced by leading imperialist war hawks Chuck Schumer and Bob Menendez, the legislation is intended to shore up U.S. dominance in strategic sectors of the world economy through huge government …
liberationnews.org/senate-democrats-want…

Six months of pandemic: Why India lost the battle
Subodh Varma | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-17
A brief timeline of the Narendra Modi Government’s action (and inaction) in India from the time World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 a ‘pandemic’ on March 11…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/17/six-month…

US considering ‘appointing’ Mohammed Dahlan as next Palestinian president: Friedman
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-09-17
US considering ‘appointing’ Mohammed Dahlan as next Palestinian president: Friedman | US ambassador to Israel also says freeze on West Bank annexation is temporary and Arab-Israeli conflict will be over within a year | MEE staff | Thu, 09/17/2020 – 10: 55 | David Friedman predicted that the normalisation deals marked the beginning of the end of the Arab-Israeli-conflict (AFP) | The United States is considering supporting…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-mohammed-d…

COVID-19: Why do some patients suffer brain damage?
Sandipan Talukdar | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-17
A debate continues to rage about whether the brain damage due to COVID-19 in some patients is because of the attack of the virus, or due to an immune response…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/17/covid-19-…

A DARPA-Funded Implantable Biochip to Detect COVID-19 Could Hit Markets by 2021
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-17
An experimental new vaccine developed jointly with the US government claims to be able to change human DNA and could be deployed as early as next year through a DARPA-funded, injectable biochip.
mintpressnews.com/darpa-covid-19-vaccine…

Protect health workers to save patients, WHO reiterates on World Patient Safety Day
news.un.org | 2020-09-17
COVID-19 has reminded the world of the vital role health workers play in relieving suffering and saving lives, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said, underlining the need to ensure their safety and protection.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/09/1…

House report on Boeing 737 Max crashes: Corporate criminality, FAA complicity, but no accountability
wsws.org | 2020-09-17
Despite the incriminating evidence, the Democrats propose no actions to hold either Boeing or the FAA accountable for the deaths of 346 men, women and children.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/09/17/boei…

Gas pipeline explosion creates giant bright ball of flame near roadway in Oklahoma (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-09-17
Police and firefighters were deployed to tackle a major fire produced by a gas pipeline blast near the town of Piedmont, Oklahoma. The blaze is so intense that crews are forced to work in shifts to tackle it. | A 12-inch pipeline blew up, leaving a major crater across the roadway, local media reported. | Videos circulating on social media show a bright massive blaze raging alongside a country road. | WOW! Massive fire in Piedmont. Joe and Jenise Culp tell me they were driving to check on cattle when they felt some heat… then the ground rumbled. | A high-pressure gas line ruptured near Piedmont Rd. and Waterl…
rt.com/usa/500900-oklahoma-gas-pipeline-…

Does it feature a Benghazi chapter? Obama’s supposed ‘honest account’ memoir is both hailed & derided online
rt.com | 2020-09-17
‘A Promised Land’ will apparently reveal Barack Obama’s professional “highs and lows,” according to the man himself. Though fans are delighted, some online users doubt the memoir will touch on Obama’s many controversies. | “There’s no feeling like finishing a book, and I’m proud of this one,” Obama wrote on Thursday, announcing his memoir via a tweet. In ‘A Promised Land’ Obama “tries to provide an honest accounting of [his] presidency” and finally reveals how to “make [American] democracy work for everybody.”
rt.com/usa/500941-obama-new-memoir-twitt…

‘Abject incompetence’: NYC mayor postpones school opening at last minute AGAIN, triggering parental rage
rt.com | 2020-09-17
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has postponed school reopening for most students a second time, just days before kids were set to return. Parents and teachers who already planned their lives around the schedule aren’t happy. | Instead of returning to the classroom on Monday, elementary school students will come back on September 29, de Blasio announced in a Thursday press briefing, enraging parents and teachers alike with the eleventh-hour delay. Middle and high school students won’t return until October 1 under the new schedule. | It’s not the first time de Blasio has pushed school reopening dates forward.
rt.com/usa/500983-deblasio-postpones-sch…

New Ambassador Attracts the Usual Enemies: Doug Macgregor Feels the Wrath of the Jewish Lobby
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-09-17
There is an old saying that allegedly came out of the French Revolution, that revolution, like the god Saturn, devours its own children. It was reportedly uttered by Georges Danton at the trial that preceded his execution and could be applied equally to the demise of Trotsky after the Russian Revolution. It meant that the leaders that drove the dramatic political developments frequently get a taste of power and become resistant to any further change. They often end up turning on their own former followers who have different ideas on how to run the country. | Nearly all the top-level political appointees that have…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/17/ne…

Study: As Many As 59 Million Displaced by America’s War on Terror
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-09-17
The report caused the establishment to throw a tantrum ‘symptomatic of the reflexive defensiveness’ of the blob. | Barbara BOLAND | In the nineteen years since 9/11, the U.S. has waged ceaseless wars in dozens of countries around the world. A new study finds that those wars have exacted a heavy human toll on local populations–at least 37 million people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya and Syria have fled their h…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/17/st…

Protests And Rockets As Gulf States Sign Deals With Israel
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
At a White House ceremony on Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain officially established diplomatic relations with Israel. | The signing of the US-brokered Abraham Accords formalizes decades of clandestine relations between Israel and the two Gulf states. | US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Emirati foreign minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani all spoke before the signing. | Al Nahyan and Alzayani also signed separate treaties with Trump and Netanyahu.
popularresistance.org/protests-and-rocke…

Trump’s Caudillismo Support Among Wealthy Latin American Expatriates
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-09-17
The U.S. political class of pundits, pollsters, columnists, and endless cable news blathering talking heads are currently putting forth the notion that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is having a problem with support from the Hispanic community. This argument is based on a disingenuously false premise that the Hispanic community is a political monolith that is gravitating, as it has in recent years, to Republican candidates. To be sure, there is a conservative base to the Hispanic vote among the mostly white European exiles in South Florida, who came to the United States to flee, along with their offs…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/17/tr…

Climate Change Will Force A New American Migration
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
August besieged California with a heat unseen in generations. A surge in air conditioning broke the state’s electrical grid, leaving a population already ravaged by the coronavirus to work remotely by the dim light of their cellphones. By midmonth, the state had recorded possibly the hottest temperature ever measured on earth — 130 degrees in Death Valley — and an otherworldly storm of lightning had cracked open the sky. From Santa Cruz to Lake Tahoe, thousands of bolts of electricity exploded down onto withered grasslands and forests, some of them already hollowed out by climate-driven infestations o…
popularresistance.org/climate-change-wil…

Less Than Two Minutes to Midnight — and Getting Closer
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-09-17
On January 23 this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set their famous “Doomsday Clock” at 100 seconds to midnight — midnight signifying the outbreak of thermonuclear world war. In the 73 years since the famed and fearful symbol was first created in 1947, this setting was — and remains — the closest to Armageddon this supreme symbol of warning to the world has ever been set. | Yet were the Doomsday Clock to be reset today, eight months after that last announcement, the time gap to midnight would have to be further reduced, perhaps to a little more than one minute, but not by much [mdash…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/17/le…

The Economy Of Sharing Is Alive during Nicaragua’s Independence Celebration
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-17
This week is very important in Central America, especially in Nicaragua. On September 15, the region celebrates the signing of its declaration of Independence from Spain in 1821. On September 14, another historic milestone is celebrated: The defeat of US filibuster William Walker and his troops by Nicaraguan forces in 1856. Walker had repealed laws prohibiting slavery in an attempt to get the support of US southern states. US President Franklin Pierce recognized Walker’s as the legitimate government of Nicaragua an endeavor to bring Nicaragua under US control that failed over and over again with the Nicaraguan pe…
popularresistance.org/the-economy-of-sha…

Is Repealing Section 230 the Way to Fix Facebook?
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
We should never be in the position of having to rely on the goodwill of a billionaire to allow democracy to work…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-repealing-secti…

A Progressive Prosecutor Faces Off With Portland’s Aggressive Police
Alice Speri | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
Portland’s new district attorney said he wouldn’t prosecute most protesters. Police kept arresting them anyway.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-progressive-pros…

“Mass Voter Disenfranchisement”
Ari Berman | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
GOP Ramps Up Assault on Voting Rights Across U.S. Ahead of Election…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/mass-voter-disenfr…

Meet the Students Trying to Organize the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union
Indigo Olivier | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
Inside the groundbreaking student organizing drive at Kenyon College…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/meet-the-students-…

In and against, and outside, the party
Joe Guinan | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
Following major defeats, the left on both sides of the Atlantic must urgently get stuck into community organising, movement building and political education…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/in-and-against-and…

Which Way, Germany?
Victor Grossman | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
ore working-class muscles, politically speaking, might, like those ferrymen long ago, help the divided party to move and grow. It will be needed…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/which-way-germany/

Taking the Next Knee
Robert Lipsyte | zcomm.org | 2020-09-17
Is this Athletic Revolt For Real and Is It a Danger to Donald Trump?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/taking-the-next-kn…

Lawsuit Challenges Logging Threat to Endangered Wildlife in Northern California Redwoods
Friends of Gualala River | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
The proposed logging, on 342 acres of private land in Sonoma County, would remove mature redwoods from the lower Gualala River watershed.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/16/1883667…

Monday 9/21: March Against Death, Lies, and Fascism, and for Humanity!
Refuse Fascism Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Rally 24th and Mission, San Francisco | March, with bodybags, to the Federal Building on 7th Street…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883671…

Saturday 9/19: Caregivers Count 10th Annual Conference – Virtual Event (4 Part Series)
Aging Services Collaborative | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883670…

Wednesday 9/16: Emergency Action: Forced Sterilizations in ICE Detention Centers (urgent webinar)
Families Belong Together | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Online via zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/16/1883667…

Wednesday 10/14: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to obtain Zoom meeting access info.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883670…

Saturday 9/26: Acting Decisively in Uncertain Times
UUSF Forum Committee | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Join Zoom Meeting | zoom.us/j/2200241232?pwd=aCt1dWI0OGxUdUx……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883669…

Monday 9/21: #SheWillRise Virtual Campaign Kickoff for a First Black Womxn Justice on SCOTUS
Demand Justice | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883670…

Monday 9/21: We Want to Live — San Francisco
XR Oakland | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Folsom Avenue and Beale Street, San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/16/1883668…

More Anti-Democratic Nonsense By KPFA LSB Board Majority & KPFA LSB Secretary Carol Wolfle
Repost | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
The KPFA LSB board majority and their LSB secretary Carol Wolfley are working to prevent democratic participation in the LSB meetings. Their corporatist operation of the station local board is connected to their failure to do any evaluations of the manager Quincy McCoy or Program Director They have been rubber stamps to the unilateral of programs at KPFA and support by the station management.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883670…

Monday 9/28: Election 2020 Meetup: Electing Pro-Environment Leaders, Voting During COVID, #GOTV
Green Change | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/16/1883667…

Saturday 9/19: Build Back Better with Justice, Equality, Reform, Democracy, Truth
Build Back Better | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
San Mateo Community College, Upper Hillside Parking Lot…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883670…

Profit Over Lives At JBS: Covid, OSHA and Life & Death With UFCW 7 President Kim Cordova
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Kim Cordova, president of UFCW 7 talks about the deaths of eight JBS meat plant workers in Greeley, Colorado from Covid-19. She discusses the failure of OSHA to protect the workers and why her union, the workers and community are protesting at the Denver OSHA office.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883668…

Build Back Better with Reform, Justice, Equality, Democracy, Truth
Build Back Better | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Want reform, equality, justice, liberty? Want Black Lives to Matter?Learn about how you can help Biden and Harris Build Back Better.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883669…

Thursday 9/24: Virtual Speak Out: Tell UC Health System to Protect LGBTQ+ and Reproductive Healthcare
ACLU Northern California | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883671…

Wednesday 9/23: Your Vote Matters! Voter Information Webinar by San Francisco Department of Elections
SDESPL | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/15/1883667…

Build Back Better with Reform, Justice, Equality, Democracy, Rights
Build Back Better | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Want reform, equality, justice, liberty? Want Black Lives to Matter? Learn about how you can help Biden and Harris Build Back Better.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883670…

Thursday 9/17: Saving Life On Earth: A Discussion on Environmental Success Stories & Strategies
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-09-17
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/09/17/1883670…

The Heat: United Nations turns 75
Mike Walter | america.cgtn.com | 2020-09-17
The United Nations turns 75 at a time of significant global challenges – from COVID-19 to the economic crisis and climate change.
america.cgtn.com/2020/09/17/the-heat-uni…

US COVID-19 transmission driven by ages 20-49, research finds
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-09-17
Resurging COVID-19 transmission in the US is being driven by ages 20-49 and targeted measures are needed to control the epidemic as schools re-open.
imperial.ac.uk/news/204473/us-covid-19-transmission-driven-ages-20-49

Investment in high-polluting firms is key to achieving 2050 emissions targets
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-09-17
Investment in companies which do not fit existing “green” definitions is needed for a greener global economy according to new report released today.
imperial.ac.uk/news/204413/investment-high-polluting-firms-achieving-2050-emissions

Size determines how nanoparticles affect biological membranes
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-09-17
Imperial researchers have tested whether gold nanoparticles could be toxic to cells, finding how they affect lipid membranes depends on their size.
imperial.ac.uk/news/204433/size-determines-nanoparticles-affect-biological-membranes

Physiotherapy ‘gaming’ platform could help patient recovery
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-09-17
An Imperial medical student has created a new platform that gamifies physiotherapy and helps patients to recover.
imperial.ac.uk/news/204393/physiotherapy-gaming-platform-could-help-patient

Tory MP must apologise after lobbying for a company that gave him £10k
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-09-17
The report by the parliamentary commissioner for standards also criticised David Morris’s conduct during the inquiry. | By The Canary
Tory MP David Morris has been ordered to apologise to the Commons after he breached parliamentary rules on paid advocacy. | Last year Morris asked a question and sent a follow-up email to the business secretary relating to a firm which had given him a £10,000 donation the previous month. | The Committee on Standards ruled that Morris had breached the code of conduct for MPs on two occasions. | Falling short of r…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/09/17/tory-mp-must-…

Boris Johnson admits his ‘world-beating’ coronavirus test, track and trace system is not ‘ideal’
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-09-17
It’s nearly four months since Boris Johnson told MPs that the government’s test, track and trace operation for coronavirus (Covid-19) would be “world-beating”.But in the … | Read more | By The Canary
It’s nearly four months since Boris Johnson told MPs that the government’s test, track and trace operation for coronavirus (Covid-19) would be “world-beating”.But in the Commons Liaison Committee on Wednes…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/09/17/boris-jo…

Ireland: ‘Draconian’ Restrictions Around COVID-19 Condemned by Health Service Executive Doctor
Paul Cullen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Covid-19 is “much less severe” than the average annual flu and current “draconian” restrictions are no longer justified, according to a senior Health Service Executive doctor. | People at low risk from the virus should be exposed to it so they …
globalresearch.ca/draconian-restrictions…

Sign of Things to Come: Biden Patronizes Britain over Brexit
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Besides former President Obama’s supposed “goodwill,” Joe Biden has nothing to show for his performance as former vice president, except for frequent gaffes and fake dentures. He is the weakest Democratic presidential candidate in decades and doesn’t stand a chance …
globalresearch.ca/sign-things-come-biden…

Romania receives Patriot missiles from US to boost defences
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
The Romanian army received its first shipment of U.S. Raytheon Patriot surface-to-air missiles on Thursday, part of an effort to bolster its defences that has annoyed Russia.”Romania has just become a safer nation by hosting these Patriot missiles on its territory. Romanian citizens are now better protected,” Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said at the receiving ceremony at a firing range on the Black Sea shore.The missiles will form part of an integrated air defence system comprising newly acquired F-16 fighter jets as Romania brings its obsolete military equipment up to NATO standards and phases out outdated commu…
yenisafak.com/en/world/romania-receives-…

Africa sees 82% COVID-19 recovery rate for 3rd week
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
For the third week in a row, Africa has registered an 82% recovery rate among coronavirus patients, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday.”We are excited about that,” John Nkengasong said at a weekly briefing, adding that the overall infection rate across the continent has gone down by 6.9%.However, two regions, Central Africa and North Africa, saw spikes of 49% and 7.7%, respectively, over the past week.According to Africa CDC’s latest figures, more than 1.12 million (1,127,034) patients have recovered across the continent.The overall case count is above 1.37 mi…
yenisafak.com/en/world/africa-sees-82-co…

WHO says more than 170 countries have joined COVAX vaccine facility
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
“More than 170 countries have joined the COVAX facility, gaining guaranteed access to the world’s largest portfolio of vaccine candidates,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in pre-recorded comments in a webinar ahead of Friday’s deadline to join the facility.
yenisafak.com/en/life/who-says-more-than…

Stage is set for stronger Turkey-Bangladesh ties: Top diplomat
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
The current level of bilateral relations between Ankara and Dhaka is ready for takeoff, said Bangladesh’s top diplomat on a visit to Turkey, stressing that a slight push by the two governments is needed to get things going.In an inclusive interview with Anadolu Agency in Ankara during his four-day visit to Turkey, Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said the economy and trade will be the key focus of bilateral relations.He also talked about the Rohingya refugee crisis, Dhaka’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and plan to revive the economy.On the normalization agreements with Israel and Arab states, Mo…
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France, Lebanon at stalemate over proposed deadline
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed disappointment Wednesday over Lebanon’s failure to form a new government by mid-September in accordance with a schedule laid out by both countries.The agreement on Sept. 1 came in the wake of a colossal explosion at the main port in the capital Beirut on Aug. 4 after 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate left untended for years ignited in a warehouse there. The chemical compound is often used in making bombs and fertilizer.The explosion, felt for miles, left 190 dead, 6,500 injured — including 19 French citizens — and 300,000 displaced.Macron visited Beirut two days after the…
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UK testing problems due to huge spike in demand, says minister
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Thursday that a huge spike in demand for coronavirus testing from people who do not have symptoms was creating challenges in the system.”Those with symptoms do come forward, but those without symptoms do not, because it’s that huge spike in demand that is the challenge,” Hancock told parliament on Thursday.
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Sony says PlayStation 5 launches Nov. 12
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
The PlayStation 5 home video game console is set to be released on Nov. 12, Sony has announced. | It will first be available in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. Sales in the UK and elsewhere will begin on Nov. 19. | The PS5 Digital Edition – which does not have a disc drive – will cost $399.99 while the “regular” version with an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc drive will be available for $499.99. | Pre-orders have begun at select retailers.Sony’s first console was released as the PlayStation in Japan in December 1994, and has since sold millions of units worldwide. Its top competitors…
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Turkey fights for justice as region demands it, says Erdogan
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
Critics of Turkish foreign policy should stop accusing Ankara and instead oppose the conditions in the region that make it necessary for Turkey to champion peace and justice, said the nation’s president on Thursday.”They say, ‘Why is Turkey involved in Syria, Libya, the Eastern Mediterranean, Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia?” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a group of ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party’s provincial heads at party headquarters in the capital Ankara.But, he added, “If Turkey retreats, will Syria enjoy peace and freedom?…”If Turkey turns its back to what is happening in Libya,…
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TikTok won’t sell its US operations, says owner
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is not selling its US base but is in talks for a possible cooperation in operations, state-run media said on Thursday.In a statement to Global Times newspaper, TikTok owner ByteDance said it is in talks with US software giant Oracle, which beat Microsoft in a bidding war to buy the popular app, but any agreement would require an approval of relevant authorities in both Beijing and Washington.”Plans under discussion don’t involve sales of its business or technology, and a final deal hasn’t been signed yet,” the company said.US national security officials fear the firm could provide…
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Turkey sends tent to North Cyprus to help fight virus
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-17
The Turkish Red Crescent sent its inflatable air tent to a hospital in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) on Thursday.The tent, which the Guzelyurt Cengiz Topel Hospital urgently needed due to the novel coronavirus, was set up in cooperation with the Turkish Red Crescent and the Turkish Red Crescent of Northern Cyprus.Thanks to the 56-square meter (602.7-square feet) tent, locals coming for polyclinic services will be prevented from contacting COVID-19 patients and hospital doctors as well as managers will be able to work more efficiently in the fight against the virus.As of Wednesday, TRNC reported f…
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The devil you know
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-09-17
Democracy Suzanne JamesIssue 1281 Australia Section 18C Racial Discrimination Act religious discrimination billSeptember 17, 2020Australia’s Religious Freedom Bill…
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Ombudsman appalled by treatment of Wayne Fella Morrison’s family
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-09-17
Anti-racism Rachel EvansIssue 1281 Australia Aboriginal death in custody spit hoods prison officersSeptember 17, 2020Almost…
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Video: “Australians Must Know the Truth — This Virus Is Not a Pandemic”‘: Alan Jones
Alan Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Sky News host Alan Jones says he has warned time and time again the political leaders who are the architects of this coronavirus response will not be able to escape the criticism that is now finding its way into the …
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“The Music Never Stopped” | Grateful Shred
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-17
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The Battle for Pandemic Sanity: Hydroxychloroquine Efficacy vs. Its Suppression
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
Covid-19 cases are on the rise again in the U.S. | Why are Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID, the FDA, and the CDC so blind to the real-world success of HCQ+azithromycin? | If this combination is the simple, cheap, safe way to prevent …
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Israeli firm provided phone-hacking services to Saudi Arabia: Report
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-09-17
Israeli firm provided phone-hacking services to Saudi Arabia: Report | The report by The Marker says that Cellebrite was also active in the kingdom at the time of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in October 2018 | MEE staff | Thu, 09/17/2020 – 11: 02 | Cellebrite says its technology serves 154 countries and that it has been used to make convictions in 5 million cases of serious crime (AFP) | A controversial Israeli security firm…
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Selected Articles: Medical Doctors and Health Professionals: The Truth About COVID-19
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-17
We hope that by publishing diverse view points, submitted by journalists and experts dotted all over the world, the website can serve as a reminder that no matter what narrative we are presented with, things are rarely as cut and …
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The latest unemployment figures paint a devastating picture for young people
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-09-17
Parliament has revealed the latest youth unemployment figures. They paint a worrying picture for the future of hundreds of thousands of people. Because the … | Read more | By Steve Topple
Parliament has revealed the latest youth unemployment figures. They paint a worrying picture for the future of hundreds of thousands of people. B…
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A ‘greedy’ landlord threatens bailiffs on student for property left empty due to pandemic
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-09-17
A student had to move back to her parents because of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. But her “greedy” student accommodation landlord still forced her … | Read more | By Steve Topple
A student had to move back to her parents because of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. But her “greedy” student accommodation landlord still forced her to pay over £2,000 for a place she wasn’t living in. Her s…
thecanary.co/feature/2020/09/17/a-greedy…

The US Safety Net Is Degrading by Design
Mimi Abramovitz, Deepak Bhargava, Tammy Thomas Miles | thenation.com | 2020-09-17
Mimi Abramovitz, Deepak Bhargava, Tammy Thomas Miles The US Safety Net Is Degrading by Design…
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What Is Critical Race Theory and Why Is Trump Afraid of It?
Cheryl Harris | thenation.com | 2020-09-17
What Is Critical Race Theory and Why Is Trump Afraid of It?
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The Political Use and Misuse of ‘Mulan’
Han Zhang | thenation.com | 2020-09-17
The Political Use and Misuse of ‘Mulan’…
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The Military’s Role in a Contested Election
Andrew J. Bacevich | thenation.com | 2020-09-17
The Military’s Role in a Contested Election…
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Of Course Republicans Want to Suppress the Youth Vote
Asiah Williams | thenation.com | 2020-09-17
Of Course Republicans Want to Suppress the Youth Vote…
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Western Wildfires Could Worsen Inequality
Melissa Jones | progressive.org | 2020-09-16
As new threats compound old injustices, too many Americans are consigned to poverty and poor health.
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Smoke and Mirrors in a World of Pain
Oscar Zambrano | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-16
The wild fires of Western United States are smoking out a huge portion of the country. And the Covid-19 pandemic, under Trump’s criminal abdication of responsibility, has turned our nation’s public health into a deadly hall of mirrors where state-level and federal-level policies reflect each other back and forth in an infinite regression of distorted…
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Capitalism sets the world on fire
calvin deutschbein | workers.org | 2020-09-16
As of Sept. 13, at least 100 wildfires are raging in ten U.S. states. The situation could not be more dire. On Sept. 8 in western Oregon, forestry workers with the Idanha-Detroit Rural Fire Protection District and evacuees faced hurricane-force winds, coupled with infrastructure failures and temperatures hot enough to . . . | Continue reading Capitalism sets the world on fire at Workers.org…
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The True Facts About the Oregon Fires, With a Video Proving It
Kevin Matthews | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-16
Okay, this flood of forest BS is pissing me off. Hear me: The national reporters helicoptering in have not got this right. NPR, Reveal tonight, etc., even the fine Pro Publica. By coincidence, I flew over the Holiday Farm Fire burn area six weeks before it burned. Take a look at the clip on YouTube,…
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Kamala Harris’ Timberland boots make unlikely headlines as Biden campaign struggles to create excitement
rt.com | 2020-09-16
Footage of Democratic VP candidate Kamala Harris sauntering out of a plane in Timberland boots has Biden campaign supporters all aflutter — but even many on the Left are rolling their eyes at the brand name fetishism. | “Kamala Harris may have made Timberland boots cool again,” gushed a Yahoo! News headline, one of several touting the VP pick’s footwear as she alighted from a plane to visit firefighters and those displaced by the devastating wildfires in Fresno, California. | Called “Timbs” for short, the boots were ubiquitous during the 1990s and early 2000s, worn by men and women and especially popular…
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These explosive fires are our climate change wakeup call
Peter Gleick | zcomm.org | 2020-09-16
Scientists have been warning of the growing threat of climate change, and now those projections are a reality…
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The West Coast is burning, and capitalism is the blame
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-09-16
Freedom Road Socialist Organization stands with working people on the West Coast who are threatened by the massive wildfires that have taken scores of lives. Dozens more are missing and feared dead and thousands of homes were destroyed. We encourage FRSO members in California, Oregon and Washington to assist in whatever way possible in efforts that ensure the safety of your neighbors and contribute to pro-people recovery efforts. It is important to combat the fear mongering around the fires that is happening in the service of a cynical right-wing political agenda. | There is nothing natural about the disaster tha…
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The West Coast is burning, and capitalism is the blame
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-09-16
Freedom Road Socialist Organization stands with working people on the West Coast who are threatened by the massive wildfires that have taken scores of lives. Dozens more are missing and feared dead and thousands of homes were destroyed. We encourage FRSO members in California, Oregon and Washington to assist in whatever way possible in efforts that ensure the safety of your neighbors and contribute to pro-people recovery efforts. It is important to combat the fearmongering around the fires that is happening in the service of a cynical right-wing political agenda. | There is nothing natural about the disaster that…
fightbacknews.org/2020/9/15/west-coast-b…

‘Ecological Disaster on Massive Scale’: Hundreds of Thousands of Dead Migratory Birds in Southwest Linked to Wildfires, Climate Crisis
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-09-16
A combination of factors—all related to the climate crisis—is believed to be behind one of the largest mass bird die-off events in recent memory in the Southwest, according to biologists. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Philadelphia houseless activists demand ‘Housing now!’
Ted Kelly | workers.org | 2020-09-16
As Philadelphia city officials and cops threaten eviction, hundreds of people come out to defend #HousingNow encampment, here Sept. 9. Philadelphia Sept. 14 — For over three months, “BLACK LIVES MATTER” was shouted in hand-painted white letters across a massive banner on 21st St. at the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, near . . . | Continue reading Philadelphia houseless activists demand ‘Housing now!’ at Workers.org…
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Half Of The US Lacks Adequate Protections Against Evictions
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-16
In the aftermath of the 2008 housing market collapse, I spent many months reporting on the “collateral damage” caused by a systemic failure. I remember going into campgrounds in California’s Central Valley, where homeless people crowded in the communal bathrooms, prepping for work. I remember huge homeless encampments alongside railway tracks and dotting the sides of freeway embankments. | I also remember going into towns like Stockton and Las Vegas and seeing entire neighborhoods suddenly vacant, the original owners and tenants foreclosed on or evicted.
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Assange on Trial: Supermax Prisons and Special Administrative Measures
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-16
DAY FIVE Having had a coronavirus scare towards the end of last week, necessitating a brief suspension of proceedings for September 11, the extradition proceedings for Julian Assange resumed with Eric Lewis. The chairman of the board of Reprieve, who has cut his teeth on representing Afghan detainees in US custody and those in Guantánamo,…
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London bus drivers resolve to fight for Assange’s freedom
wsws.org | 2020-09-16
The first action of the newly formed London Bus Drivers Rank-and-File Safety Committee was to pass a resolution calling for the defence of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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“A Disgrace”: Amnesty International Blocked From Monitoring Trial of Julian Assange
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-16
Amnesty International’s Europe Director described the hearings against Assange as an “assault on the right to freedom of expression” that would have a “chilling effect on media freedom.” | MPN– The high profile extradition hearing of publisher and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange continued in Central London today. But it did so without oversight from international human rights groups. Julia Hall, an expert on criminal justice and human rights for Amnesty International, revealed that her organization was again d…
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Assange will not get a fair trial in US, says Pentagon Papers publisher in testimony
Anish R M | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-09-16
In the recent set of testimonies, Assange’s defense team dismantled the prosecution’s argument that Assange caused any harm by publishing classified names…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/09/16/assange-w…

“A Disgrace”: Amnesty International Blocked From Monitoring Trial of Julian Assange
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-16
Amnesty International’s Europe Director described the hearings against Assange as an “assault on the right to freedom of expression” that would have a “chilling effect on media freedom.”
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Assange’s Sixth Day at the Old Bailey: US Prison Conditions and Politicised Prosecutions
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-16
September 15. Central Criminal Court, London. Today, witnesses appearing in the extradition trial of Julian Assange fleshed out some points touched upon the previous day: the fate awaiting the WikiLeaks publisher in the US prison system, and the political nature of process. Before commencing, Judge Vanessa Baraitser was a touch peeved. She noted that one …
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Assange’s Sixth Day at the Old Bailey: US Prison Conditions and Politicised Prosecutions
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-16
September 15. Central Criminal Court, London. Today, witnesses appearing in the extradition trial of Julian Assange fleshed out some points touched upon the previous day: the fate awaiting the WikiLeaks publisher in the US prison system, and the political nature …
globalresearch.ca/assange-sixth-day-old-…

Assange Would Not Have Fair US Trial, Witness Tells Old Bailey
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-16
Julian Assange’s extradition hearing resumed yesterday morning after a coronavirus test for a member of the prosecution’s legal team came back negative. | Mark Summers QC, one of Assange’s lawyers, asked District Judge Vanessa Baraitser to give a direction mandating the use of masks for the remainder of the hearing. She responded that government guidance on wearing masks in public places in the Old Bailey “does not include the well of the court,” before saying, “those that wish to wear masks in the well of the court are welcome to do so” but “there is no obligation to do so, and I make no direction.”
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Day Nine: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-09-16
Things became not merely dramatic in the Assange courtroom today, but spiteful and nasty. There were two real issues, the evidence and the procedure. On the evidence, there were stark details of the dreadful regime Assange will face in US jails if extradited. On the procedure, we saw behaviour from the prosecution QC that went well beyond normal cross examination and was a real attempt to denigrate and even humiliate the witness. I hope to prove that to you by a straightforward exposition of what happened today in court, after which I shall add further comment.
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Chomsky, Walker and Ellsberg Defend Julian Assange
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-09-16
Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, and Daniel Ellsberg oppose the extradition of Julian Assange to the US to face charges under the Espionage Act…
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Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg testifies in Assange’s defense, says WikiLeaks exposed ‘war crimes’ in ‘public interest’
rt.com | 2020-09-16
Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg — whose ‘Pentagon Papers’ leak exposed illegal US bombing during the Vietnam War — said Julian Assange would not see a fair trial if extradited to the US, comparing the publisher’s case to his own. | Testifying at Assange’s extradition hearing on Wednesday, Ellsberg said the WikiLeaks co-founder would be denied a chance to defend himself if sent to the US for a trial, noting that, like in his own case, Assange would not be permitted to argue his publications were in the ‘public interest.’ | “I observe the closest of similarities to the position I faced, where the expos…
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Daniel Ellsberg Tells UK Court That US Seeks Both ‘Revenge’ Against Julian Assange and to ‘Crush’ Future Whistleblowers
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-09-16
The Pentagon Papers leaker previously called Assange’s prosecution the most “significant attack on freedom of the press” since his 1971 case. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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VIDEO — Con Assange Messa a Processo la Libertà di Tutti
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-16
Julian Assange si trova rinchiuso in un carcere di massima sicurezza in Gran Bretagna dove attende di essere giudicato. Nel caso dovesse essere estradato negli Stati Uniti rischierebbe fino a 175 anni di carcere. In questo focus speciale di #Byoblu24…
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Greta Thunberg champions the plight of climate refugees
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-09-16
“Climate crisis could displace 1.2 billion people by 2050,” says Greta Thunberg…
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From Ego To Empire, All Our Problems Stem From The Impulse To Control
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-16
The human organism arrives in this world squishy, defenseless and easily startled, which it turns out is really starting things off on the wrong foot. | Because of the size of our newly-evolved brains relative to the birth canal, humans have to give birth to what are essentially fetuses, far more helpless for a much longer time than the offspring of our animal cousins. While we are slowly completing our post-natal gestation and learning to move and walk as most mammals can do right out of the womb, we are in a very frightening stage of helplessness which inevitably leaves us scarred with psychological trauma. | O…
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From Ego To Empire, All Our Problems Stem From The Impulse To Control
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-16
Because of the size of our newly-evolved brains relative to the birth canal, humans have to give birth to what are essentially fetuses, far more helpless for a much longer time than the offspring of our animal cousins. While we are slowly completing our post-natal gestation and learning to move and walk as most mammals can do right out of the womb, we are in a very frightening stage of helplessness which inevitably leaves us scarred with psychological trauma. | Our formative impressions of the world are that it’s an unpredictable land of giants who make unexpected loud noises and sudden movements, where we have t…
thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/from-eg…

Democrats Ignore U.S. Military’s Refutation of ‘Russian Bounties’ Story
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-09-16
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | NBC News reports the following: | Two months after top Pentagon officials vowed to get to the bottom of whether the Russian government bribed the Taliban to kill American service members, the commander of troops in the region says a detailed review of all available intelligence has not been able to corroborate the existence of such a program. | “It just has not been proved to a level of certainty that satisfies me,” Gen. Frank McKenzie, comm…
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Will a Biden Foreign Policy Make a Difference for the World?
Ajamu Baraka | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-16
The “left” rationalization for collaborating with the neoliberal wing of the democrat party is premised on the argument that a win for the national Democrat candidate translates into better possible policy outcomes for the “people” and nation. More importantly though, they assert, Trump’s defeat will alter the rightist trajectory of U.S. politics away from what …
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Will a Biden Foreign Policy Make a Difference for the World?
Ajamu Baraka | counterpunch.org | 2020-09-16
The “left” rationalization for collaborating with the neoliberal wing of the democrat party is premised on the argument that a win for the national Democrat candidate translates into better possible policy outcomes for the “people” and nation. More importantly though, they assert, Trump’s defeat will alter the rightist trajectory of U.S. politics away from what they refer to as Trump’s neofascist inclinations.
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As Venezuela Foils CIA “Terror Plot” Pompeo Tours Its Neighbors To Talk Regime Change
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-16
The State Department’s silence has been deafening following the arrest of a US citizen and former CIA operative allegedly caught plotting an on a Venezuelan oil refinery.
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As Venezuela Foils CIA “Terror Plot” Pompeo Tours Its Neighbors To Talk Regime Change
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-16
The State Department’s silence has been deafening following the arrest of a US citizen and former CIA operative allegedly caught plotting an on a Venezuelan oil refinery. | MPN– Venezuela’s government has announced it has foiled a potential terror attack, arresting a former CIA operative while he was on a stakeout near the country’s largest oil refining facility. | Matthew John Heath was arrested with three other Venezuelans outside the Amuay and Cardon refineries in Falcon state in the west of the country, reportedly carrying a submachine gun, a grenade launcher, four blocks of C4 explosives, a satellite ph…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/as-venezuel…

Guo Wengui: So Anti-Chinese that even U.S. Establishment cannot stomach him
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-09-16
In some very rare cases, it is better to read British conservative, right-wing press, like The Economist or the Telegraph, instead of the mainstream liberal sheets like The Independent or The Guardian. That is if one wants to come somehow closer to the truth. The Economist is extremely biased; it is pre-historically conservative, anti-Russian, anti-Chinese, …
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‘Now, Before It Is Too Late’: Parents and Teachers Nationwide Call on Congress to Urgently Provide $250 Billion to Save Generation of Students
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-09-16
“In a world turned upside down by a global pandemic, these backbone institutions need ample financial resources and support to continue serving this generation, the next generation, and their families in ways that keep everyone safe.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The US-Brokered Mideast ‘Peace’ Deals Aren’t Really What They Seem
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-16
The loud applause that followed the US-brokered Mideast “peace” deals between “Israel” on one hand and the UAE & Bahrain on the other is misplaced since there was never any real state of war between the “opposing” sides to begin …
globalresearch.ca/us-brokered-mideast-pe…

The US-Brokered Mideast ‘Peace’ Deals Aren’t Really What They Seem
Andrew Korybko | thealtworld.com | 2020-09-16
The loud applause that followed the US-brokered Mideast “peace” deals between “Israel” on one hand and the UAE & Bahrain on the other is misplaced since there was never any real state of war between the “opposing” sides to begin with, but presenting these accords as a “breakthrough for peace” is meant to pressure those remaining countries that refuse to recognize the self-professed “Jewish State” by portraying them as “obstacles to peace” so that they too consider abandoning their principled support for Palestine in exchange for positive media coverage and other perks such as economic support. | There’s No “Peace…
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Video: Covid-Gate, The Political Virus
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-16
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 …
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COVID-19 Coronavirus: The Crisis. “You Simulate and Then You Go Live”
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-09-16
On January 30th 2020, the WHO Director General declared a Public Health Emergency (PHEIC) in relation to China’s novel coronavirus. This far-reaching decision was taken without the support of expert opinion. There were 150 confirmed cases outside China, when the decision was taken. 6 in the US, 3 in Canada, 2 in the UK, etc.
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Noura Erakat: Trump’s Bahrain-UAE-Israel Deal Won’t Advance Palestinian Peace & Will Up Repression
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-16
As the Trump administration celebrates deals establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, we speak with Palestinian American legal scholar Noura Erakat, who says Trump’s “peace” agreements are a sham. “This is not about advancing any kind of meaningful, enduring peace, but instead about entrenching a geopolitical alliance that would otherwise increase oppression for people of the Middle East,” says Erakat, assistant professor at Rutgers University and author of “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/9/16/noura_era…

Continue to Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor’s Family Wants Cops Arrested After Historic $12M Settlement
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-16
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay a historic $12 million settlement to the family of Breonna Taylor, more than six months after police shot and killed the 26-year-old Black emergency room technician in her own apartment and Taylor became a household name as part of the nationwide uprising in defense of Black lives. It is one of the largest payouts ever for a police killing of a Black person in the U.S. The city will also institute major reforms to the police department responsible for Taylor’s death. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced the settlement at a press conference, where he was joined by memb…
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Mychal Denzel Smith on Breonna Taylor, Defunding Police, Systemic Racism & His Trump-Era Depression
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-09-16
Journalist and author Mychal Denzel Smith joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on the uprising against racist police, the upcoming presidential election and why he says a Biden win won’t cure his Trump-era depression, and his new book, “Stakes Is High: Life after the American Dream.” Denzel Smith questions whether arresting and charging the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor, a core demand of many protests in the wake of her death, represents justice, despite the historic settlement between Louisville and her family. “The only way to prevent another instance of the situation that took Breonna Taylor’s li…
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Hamas warns Israel of escalation following air strikes on Gaza
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-09-16
Hamas warns Israel of escalation following air strikes on Gaza | Tensions coincide with Israel’s signing of normalisation deals with the UAE and Bahrain in Washington | MEE and agencies | Wed, 09/16/2020 – 08: 19 | Israeli air strikes against Gaza took place in the early hours of Wednesday after rocket fire from Gaza (AFP) | Hamas warned Israel it would face a military escalation on Wednesday after its warpl…
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Life Under Seige: The Blockade on Gaza Turns Fourteen and Is Still as Illegal as Ever
Kathryn Shihadah | mintpressnews.com | 2020-09-16
With no foreseeable end in sight, Israel’s blockade on Gaza not only runs afoul of international law, but it has also already been on the radar of the United Nations and human rights groups for well over a decade.
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Zionist enemy to pay for aggression: al-Qassam Brigades
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-09-16
TEHRAN, Sep. 16 (MNA) — Ezzedeen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas Movement, has issued a statement on Wednesday in reaction to the aggressions of the Israeli regime against the Gaza strip.
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Nearly 3,500 Palestinians killed during Netanyahu era
yenisafak.com | 2020-09-16
During the prime ministry of Benjamin Netanyahu, who signed an agreement with the UAE and Bahrain to normalize relations, nearly 3,500 Palestinians, including many women and children, were martyred and thousands of others injured in the attacks of Israeli forces.Netanyahu, shown as one of the chief architects of Israel’s oppression and violations against Palestine, served as the prime minister during the two bloody attacks on the Gaza Strip under the blockade by the Israeli army.According to the data of the Israeli rights group B’Tselem, nearly 3,500 Palestinian Palestinians have been martyred in the attacks of t…
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