Iraqis take to the streets to mark one year of anti-government protests
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-02
Protesters claim that despite the months-long protests and change of government, none of their demands have been fulfilled. They warned of a strike from October 25 if their demands were not met…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/02/iraqis-ta…

The State of Online Safety for Kids
Beau Peters | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-02
There’s no doubt that the resources of our digital age are valuable. They provide us with new development opportunities and help us to build meaningful connections with a diverse range of global communities. The past couple of decades have seen our adoption of tech grow, and as such we are seeing the first generations of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/the-state-of-…

Arabic press review: Plans for Israel-UAE canal enrage Egypt
Mohammad Ayesh | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-02
Arabic press review: Plans for Israel-UAE canal enrage Egypt | Meanwhile, Jordan expels former Palestinian prisoner Nizar al-Tamimi, and three ministers of Arab origin join new Belgian government | Mohammad Ayesh | Fri, 10/02/2020 – 15: 14 | Egypt is reportedly worried that a new canal between Israel and the UAE might threaten its crucial income from the Suez Canal (AFP/file photo, November 2019) | Canal tri…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/arabic-press-…

A Nation Divided by Racism and Hate
Randy Jurado Ertll | progressive.org | 2020-10-02
During the first presidential debate, Trump showed how far he is willing to go to stoke racial tensions for his own political advantage.
progressive.org/dispatches/nation-divide…

Video: Cheers, “Talking to a Janitor Working at a Biology Lab Making Mutant Viruses”
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
How would you react upon knowing that Chuck, whom you have sat and engaged with, is a janitor at a bio lab making mutant viruses? | This is a satire in The Cheers 1980s TV Series which bears a canny resemblance …
globalresearch.ca/video-heres-what-you-w…

How the U.S. Military Deformed Science
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
Any discussion of American science includes, perforce, the military. Physics? Nuclear weapons. Biology? Germ warfare. Chemistry? Poison gas. While the wonders of science extend far beyond these blights, the military and its money have distorted scientific inquiry, to say the least. And where the Pentagon hasn’t co-opted any given discipline, capitalism has swooped in. Just…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/how-the-u-s-…

Smoking Gun: Crisis? What Crisis?
progressive.org | 2020-10-02
A timeline of the pandemic warning signs ignored by the Trump Administration.
progressive.org/magazine/smoking-gun-cri…

Video: Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Heiko Schà∂ning on COVID-19 and the Genome-modifying Vaccine (German)
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi and Dr. Heiko Schà∂ning in conversation about Covid-19 and the genome-modifying vaccine, i.e. the real risks of new mRNA- or DNA-vaccine and the deadly danger it presents for us and the following generations. | Watch the video below….
globalresearch.ca/video-dr-sucharit-bhak…

Presidential debate: Trump and Biden bicker as COVID rages on
Nathaniel Chase | workers.org | 2020-10-02
The Sept. 30 presidential debate featured two white men throwing mud at each other in performances a fifth-grade debate team would have found embarrassing. This debate will be remembered for its continuous, cable-news-style bickering and interrupting, which prevented either candidate, and in particular Biden, from expressing themselves at length. It . . . | Continue reading Presidential debate: Trump and Biden bicker as COVID rages on at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/51643/?utm_source=rs…

The Hysteria of Identity Politics is Devolving Into Violence
David Penner | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-02
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. — Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, January 6th, 1816 As the tech monopolies, the military industrial complex, the medical industrial complex, and other powerful corporate entities accumulate unprecedented …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/the-hysteria-…

A Lesser Man: the Fight to Save Breitenbush
Tim McDevitt | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
Should you ever find yourself surrounded by flames a hundred feet high, surely you will find yourself. I was brewing an untenable third cup of coffee when two firefighters clad in Nomex brush-gear pulled up outside the kitchen window in a golf cart. I went out and wished them a good morning. According to them it was not a good morning. A fire was on its way: evacuation level two, poised to go to three.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/a-lesser-man…

The Third World War, Illustrated
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
George Grosz was an artist in Weimar Germany. His works lampooned the rich and super rich and condemned war. A Dadaist who was anti-capitalist and antifascist, he exiled himself to the United States in 1933 as the Nazi party began to rise in Germany. Although he changed the nature of his art after he moved to…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/the-third-wo…

The Supreme Male Head Unmasked
Peter C. Reynolds | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
Fascism is unique among political systems in that it treats society as a diseased body that needs to be purified. Certainly, the political left thinks that society is in need of reform, often to the point of advocating revolution, but the distinguishing feature of fascism, especially of the Nazi variety, is its organic imagery–the idea…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/the-supreme-…

Trump gets COVID-19, after months of lying about its danger
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-02
Trump has access to world class healthcare, but he and Republicans have blocked billions in funding for healthcare, COVID-19 testing and economic relief.
therealnews.com/trump-gets-covid-19-afte…

Arab-American voters could make the difference in stopping Trump in Michigan
Emile Schepers | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-02
One of the distinctive features of Michigan is that one of the largest minority populations in the state is Arab-Americans, estimated to be between 153,000 and half a million, depending on the source. They come from a variety of national and religious backgrounds. Yemenis are one of the largest Arab ethnic groups here, but there …
peoplesworld.org/article/arab-american-v…

Inside Irwin County: Letters from a notorious ICE detention center
Tim Kennedy | splcenter.org | 2020-10-02
splcenter.org/news/2020/10/02/inside-irw…

LA Sheriffs Attack Compton Protestors, Arrest KPCC Journalist
Mark Friedman | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD) has been under fire for years for violating people’s rights, struggling with corruption, and so much more. Despite proclamations of reform (Remember the Ramparts Police station beatings? How about body cams that were called for and never purchased?) Now, with two recent shootings in the city of Compton, on…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/la-sheriffs-…

Coronavirus: Crushing and Silencing Doctors of Conscience
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
“Looking back, I can see that we have a situation which I compare with the Third Reich…Joseph Goebbels, he was the Minister of Propaganda, and he said “if you repeat a message long enough, loud enough, hard enough, at the …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-crushing-a…

Police Violence: Institutionalized Terrorism
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
Last year, police killed 1,004 people and, as a recent Harvard study found, between 2013 and 2017, 5,400 were killed by the police. Going further, it found that “Black people were on average three times more likely to be killed by police than white people. Of the total fatalities, 2,353 (42.83%) of those killed were white and 1,487 (27.07%) were Black.”
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/police-viole…

Hearing Reveals US Government’s Invisible Hand in Protests Around the World
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee grilled Michael Pack, who President Trump recently appointed to head the US government’s state propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM). | Pack was appointed in June and started a big …
globalresearch.ca/us-government-invisibl…

Ecuador: Left wins key ruling on government effort to rig election
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-02
The left in Ecuador secured a crucial victory yesterday in the face of attempts by the right-wing government of President Lenín Moreno to deny progressive candidate Andrés Arauz the right to stand in next February’s presidential election. The National Electoral Council ruled that the Union for Hope alliance would be permitted to nominate a substitute …
liberationnews.org/ecuador-left-wins-key…

I’m with Susan Sarandon
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-02
“My greatest wish is two-fold: that Trump (and Pence) will no longer be in office after January 2021, and that by the end of 2021 there will be a large and united progress party, ready to run candidates in 2022 and thereafter.”
nationofchange.org/2020/10/02/im-with-su…

Communist Party election campaign says stop Trump with a #VoteAgainstFascism
C.J. Atkins | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-02
Fascism hasn’t arrived in the United States yet, but the country is closer than it’s ever been. That’s the central message of the Communist Party USA’s election campaign in the closing days of the 2020 race. Determined to see Donald Trump turned out of office, the party is mobilizing its members around the slogan “Vote …
peoplesworld.org/article/communist-party…

Sudan sending hundreds of troops to Yemen via Saudi Arabia
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-02
Sudan sending hundreds of troops to Yemen via Saudi Arabia | Sources say officers and soldiers arrived in the kingdom last week, despite Khartoum supposedly winding down its involvement in the conflict | MEE staff | Fri, 10/02/2020 – 13: 37 | Sudanese troops with a military coalition in Yemen backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates detect mines in the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah (AFP) | Hundreds of Sudanese s…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-yemen-s…

Why Far-Right Paramilitaries are Not Just “Vigilantes”
Zoltan Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
Trump’s call for the Proud Boys and other armed far-right paramilitaries to “stand by” has finally shed light on the real threat of physical intimidation around the election, to add to the threats of cyberattacks and abuses of the legal system. His call to arms is also a reminder why calling far-right domestic terrorists merely “vigilantes” minimizes and even trivializes the threat, for several reasons.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/why-far-righ…

China’s Message to Donald: What Do You Want from Us?
Lin Liangduo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
Translated from Chinese for Global Research; first published in January 2020. | Enough is enough. Enough hypocrisy for this one world. | What do you want from us, anyway? What Do You Really Want from Us? | When we were the sick man …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-message-to-dona…

France’s Macron says Islam ‘in crisis all over the world today’
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-02
France’s Macron says Islam ‘in crisis all over the world today’ | In high-profile address, French president said Islam was in crisis due to ‘an extreme hardening’ of positions | MEE and agencies | Fri, 10/02/2020 – 11: 13 | French President Emmanuel Macron wears a mask after delivering his speech (AFP) | French President Emmanuel Macron described Islam on Friday as “a religion that is in crisis all over the…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-macron…

Protest against the Bahrain’s normalization with Israel
Sondoss Al Assad | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-02
Exclusive- Ever since the Sep 15th US-brokered normalization rapprochement, and defying Manama’s trigger-ready security forces, defiant Bahrainis have taken to streets on masses to head off vociferous protest, waving Bahraini and Palestinian flags, as well as placards that condemn the deal. New massive protests are being held this Friday, this time under the title of “Friday of Collapse of the Betrayal Agreement”, stressing they will never clinch any ties with the Zionists that might trample on the interests of their fellow Palestinians and their righteous cause. | According to Bahrain News Agency (BNA), Manama y…
thealtworld.com/sondoss_alassad/protest-…

Voting by Mail is Easier and Safer than You Think. Here’s how
aclu.org | 2020-10-02
Millions of people are planning to vote by mail in this election, and for most, it will be the first time. COVID-19 has made voting by mail more popular than ever because it’s the safest way for many to cast a ballot. But some voters still have questions about the safety and security of this method, and whether their mail-in ballot will be counted. Contradictory messages from President Trump add to the confusion — even though the president, and many of his cabinet members, vote by mail themselves. , , All voters are able to make an informe…
aclu.org/news/voting-rights/voting-by-ma…

Healthcare workers in Germany strike for better work conditions
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-02
The trade union Ver.di is demanding an increase in salaries by 4.8 percent for federal and local employees, as well as a maximum of a 45-hour work week. They are also demanding a hike in trainee pay…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/02/healthcar…

Federal executions paused, racism continues
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-10-02
Houston In the previous 56 years, the U.S. government had executed just three prisoners. But in 2020, seven federal executions have already taken place since July. The most recent was Christopher Vialva, put to death Sept. 24 at the federal prison in Terra Haute, Ind. He was the first Black . . . | Continue reading Federal executions paused, racism continues at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/51638/?utm_source=rs…

If You Could Save a Million Lives, Would You Do It?
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-10-02
The Hill See article on original site If you had the opportunity to save a million people from preventable death, would you do it? People who would otherwise fall victim to the global pandemic and deep recession that most of the world is experiencing. This is not merely a rhetorical question, but one that members …
cepr.net/if-you-could-save-a-million-liv…

Continued Covid Disparities in Native Country
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-02
Stir Crazy! Episode 93: Today we are joined by journalist, organizer, and founding executive director of Crushing Colonialism Jen Deerinwater, Miwok journalist and community organizer Desiree Kane, and journalist and community builder Johnnie Jae. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/continued-covid-disparit…

Sugar workers in Iran striking for wages and public ownership
CFDIPR | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-02
September 2 marked the 80th day since workers of the Haft-Tappeh Sugarcane complex in the south of Iran came out on strike, on June 15. They are demanding their unpaid wages, medical insurance, reinstatement of dismissed colleagues, return of the industrial giant to the state sector, and the return to the workers of funds embezzled …
peoplesworld.org/article/sugar-workers-i…

Trump Can’t Do That, Can He?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
Notwithstanding his gift for self-deception, even Donald Trump knows that he would now lose anything like a free and fair election. He would lose the popular vote more soundly than four years ago, and he would lose in the Electoral College as well. But he could still succeed in disrupting the election and delegitimating its…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/trump-cant-d…

Could Americans possibly reelect a president who acts in this sordid, reprehensible manner?
Michael Payne | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-02
When Trump loses the election, and he will, he will immediately face various investigations, some of which will lead to criminal charges and, best of all, jail time. And he knows it.
nationofchange.org/2020/10/02/could-amer…

Major wildfires force tens of thousands to evacuate in Northern California
wsws.org | 2020-10-02
Two more rapidly growing wildfires have torn across Northern California since Sunday, in what has already been an unprecedented and devastating fire season across the US West Coast.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/01/cali…

The Long Overdue Alaska-Canada Railway Takes One Step Closer to Reality
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
In the early hours of September 26, President Trump sent out the announcement on Twitter that a gigantic continental project long through dead and buried will be revived: The 2570 km Alaska Canada Rail connection which will move freight, oil, …
globalresearch.ca/alaska-canada-railway-…

Je n’ai pas échoué, dit Macron : Raisons de son échec
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-02
L’on ne s’attendait pas à ce que l’initiative du président franàßais Emmanuel Macron au Liban n’aboutisse, ni maintenant ni dans les prochaines semaines. Le président franàßais ne peut s’ancrer solidement au Liban ni unir les Libanais, et il n’a même pas convaincu les Européens de soutenir son initiative et d’injecter de l’argent dans l’économie libanaise qui s’effondre. Macron a des amis au Liban qui veulent bien maintenir de bonnes relations avec la France dans l’espoir qu’elle puisse proposer des solutions à l’insoluble crise libanaise actuelle. Mais en jetant le blâme sur les autres, en n’admettan…
thealtworld.com/elijah_magnier/je-nai-pa…

UN chief reiterates call for global ceasefire, marking International Day of Non-Violence
news.un.org | 2020-10-02
The UN Secretary-General repeated his call for a global ceasefire on Friday, commemorating the International Day of Non Violence, which is taking place this year in the shadow of the devastating human and socio-economic impacts resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Guterres: Only way to remove nuclear risk, ‘completely eliminate nuclear weapons’
news.un.org | 2020-10-02
The elimination of nuclear weapons is vital to the “survival of life on this planet”, the UN chief told the final major event of the General Assembly’s high level week on Friday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Weekly News Review 27th Sept to 3rd October
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-10-02
Editors Weekly Poke There have been some incredible political U-turns in the last few decades. Who could forget George Osborne’s ‘Pastygate,’ Gordon Brown’s 10pence tax debacle and Nick Clegg’s reversal of his manifesto pledge as leader of “student party” to ramp up tuition fees. Perhaps the biggest was in 1970 when the Tories’ general election …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/weekly-news-review-27th-sept-to-3rd-october/

Worse to come as layoffs continue
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-02
San José, CA – The latest report by the Department of Labor on unemployment insurance applications shows that the tide of layoffs continues. But this week, major U.S. corporations announced even more layoffs to come as the economy tilts on the edge of a ‘double-dip’ recession. | The Labor Department report released on Thursday, October 1 showed that there was no letup in the pace of layoffs. While the number of regular state unemployment insurance claims for the week ending September 26 fell by 36,000 from a week earlier, the number of new applications for the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA progr…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/2/worse-co…

Mossad chief holds talks with Bahrain as ties with Israel deepen
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-02
Mossad chief holds talks with Bahrain as ties with Israel deepen | Yossi Cohen reported to have discussed ‘mutual interests’ with his Bahraini counterparts following normalisation deal | MEE and agencies | Fri, 10/02/2020 – 11: 16 | Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pictured in 2017 (AFP) | Israel’s top spy chief Yossi Cohen has held talks with Bahrain’s intelligence services following the two countries recent normal…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/mossad-chief-…

Something Far Out of the Norm is Liable to Happen
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one ‘episteme’ that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.” A great deal far out of the norm has already happened in Donald J. Trump’s presidency. Norms seem to be in…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/something-fa…

Coronavirus: Crushing and Silencing Doctors of Conscience
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
“Looking back, I can see that we have a situation which I compare with the Third Reich…Joseph Goebbels, he was the Minister of Propaganda, and he said “if you repeat a message long enough, loud enough, hard enough, at the …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-crushing-a…

Todos con Biden-Harris: Latinos no deben dejar que nada los detenga de votar
David Trujillo | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-02
Dilo fuerte, dilo con orgullo. No sereÃÅ negado. Yo voy a votar por Biden-Harris. Es tiempo para todo los Latinos que hablen con miembros de la comunidad sobre esta eleccioÃÅn. Es tiempo para dice, “No maÃÅs.” °Ha sido suficiente! Es tiempo que la comunidad latina pare de ser amigable y callada. Los latinos se deben …
peoplesworld.org/article/todos-con-biden…

Billionaires Love Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-02
From the very beginning, more than 35 years ago, the idea and practice of charter schools was conceived and gradually executed by those with abundant cultural, social, political, and economic capital. Charter schools are not the product of grass-roots forces, as the public has often been led to believe. They never have been. Charter schools …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/billionaires-…

In a Time of Mortal Crisis, Rabbi Michael Lerner Prophesies a Caring Society
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-02
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play There’s no denying there’s been a renewed wave of interest in socialism in the United States, thanks in large part to Bernie Sanders. While the Vermont senator gained support across the country for his rallying cry against inequality and for promoting equitable policies like Medicare for All, Rabbi Michael Lerner, a lifelong progressive and… | Source…
scheerpost.com/2020/10/02/in-a-time-of-m…

UN Venezuela Report Omits US Human Rights Violations
Leonardo Flores | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-02
On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela’s oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an attempt by a UNHRC fact-finding mission to erase people who were “lynched, burned alive, decapitated and murdered by extremist sectors of the Venezue…
mintpressnews.com/un-venezuela-report-om…

Healthcare workers in Germany strike for better work conditions
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-02
The trade union Ver.di is demanding an increase in salaries by 4.8 percent for federal and local employees, as well as a maximum of a 45-hour work week. They are also demanding a hike in trainee pay…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/02/healthcar…

I did not fail, Macron said; but why did he indeed fail-and could not have succeeded?
Elijah Magnier | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-02
The French initiative President Emmanuel Macron has taken towards Lebanon is not expected to succeed, now or in the coming weeks unless new elements are introduced. The French President is far from finding a solid foothold in Lebanon or uniting the Lebanese and has not even convinced the Europeans to join his initiative and inject sums of money into the crumbling Lebanese economy. Macron has friends in Lebanon who do not mind preserving a good relationship with France as long as it can offer solutions to solve this intractable Lebanese crisis. As for blaming others, not admitting his mistakes, and not realising t…
thealtworld.com/elijah_magnier/i-did-not…

Gold Is Doing It Again?
Hubert Moolman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
Historically gold in US dollars often clears significant all-time highs only some time after significant currencies like the …
globalresearch.ca/gold-is-doing-it-again…

UN Report on Venezuela Omits the Greatest Violation of Human Rights: US Aggression
Leonardo Flores | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
On September 23, María Eugenia Russián, president of Fundalatin, Venezuela’s oldest human rights organization, testified to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and decried an attempt by a UNHRC fact-finding mission to erase people who were “lynched, burned alive, …
globalresearch.ca/un-report-venezuela-om…

Can ‘Beat Trump, Battle Biden’ coalition really stop the right?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-02
More than fifty progressives, activists and writers signed a petition calling to beat Trump, then battle Biden. Marc Steiner talks with three of these thinkers who signed the petition about the internal conflict involved in supporting a centrist capitalist with a problematic past on race and crime and the reasons why it’s necessary.
therealnews.com/can-beat-trump-battle-bi…

The War On Pot Isn’t Over, Just Ask This Doctor Arrested for His Research
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-02
Retired cardiac surgeon Dr. David Allen discusses being targeted for asset forfeiture because he supports legal marijuana and medical research into cannabis.
therealnews.com/the-war-on-pot-isnt-over…

France’s Macron says Islam ‘in crisis all over the world today’
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-02
France’s Macron says Islam ‘in crisis all over the world today’ | In high-profile address, French president also said Paris would seek to ‘liberate’ Islam in France from foreign influences | MEE and agencies | Fri, 10/02/2020 – 11: 13 | French President Emmanuel Macron wears a mask after delivering his speech (AFP) | French President Emmanuel Macron described Islam on Friday as “a religion that is in crisis…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-macron…

Gold Is Doing It Again?
Hubert Moolman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
Historically gold in US dollars often clears significant all-time highs only some time after significant currencies like the …
globalresearch.ca/gold-is-doing-it-again…

‘Stars and Strife’ wants unity but falls short of demanding systemic change
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-02
The new documentary Stars and Strife wants you to know that the world, and particularly the United States, is in trouble. It presents a compelling argument regarding the ills of society like poverty, racism, and political corruption. Where it falls short is in its presentation of a solution. Stars and Strife seemingly has good intentions …
peoplesworld.org/article/stars-and-strif…

California becomes first US state to ban 24 toxic chemicals found in cosmetics
Amanda Mills | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-02
“Every day, Californians are exposed to hazardous chemicals hiding in their cosmetics and personal care products.”
nationofchange.org/2020/10/02/california…

China’s Message to Donald: What Do You Want from Us?
Lin Liangduo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
Translated from Chinese for Global Research; first published in January 2020. | Enough is enough. Enough hypocrisy for this one world. | What do you want from us, anyway? What Do You Really Want from Us? | When we were the sick man …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-message-to-dona…

Can ‘Beat Trump, Battle Biden’ coalition really stop the right?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-02
More than fifty progressives, activists and writers signed a petition calling to beat Trump, then battle Biden. Marc Steiner talks with three of these thinkers who signed the petition about the internal conflict involved in supporting a centrist capitalist with a problematic past on race and crime and the reasons why it’s necessary.
therealnews.com/can-beat-trump-battle-bi…

Bt Cotton in India is a GMO Template for a “monumental irreversible catastrophe”
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-02
Cotton is the only genetically modified (GM) crop that has been officially approved in India and has been cultivated (illegally then legally) in the country for more than 20 years. Although GM mustard has been approved for commercial cultivation by India’s apex regulatory body for GM crops (the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, GEAC), a public …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/bt-cotton-in-…

Dragging Lebanon toward normalisation
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-02
Lebanese politicians browbeaten into agreeing a deal with Israel ahead of US elections | After the Beirut Port explosion destroyed half the Lebanese capital, killed and injured thousands of people and made 300,000 homeless; and after a contrived banking crisis caused the collapse of the Lebanon’s currency and drove more than 60% of the population below the poverty line; Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced on Thursday that, as a result of US mediation, a ‘framework agreement’ had been reached with Israel to demarcate the maritime boundary. | Direct talks on delineation are to be conducted by Lebanese army chi…
thealtworld.com/abdel_bari_atwan/draggin…

Comment: The Death of Truth
Bill Lueders | progressive.org | 2020-10-02
The November election will not bring truth back to life. But the election can prescribe consequences for its killers, or let them off the hook. The jury is about to convene.
progressive.org/magazine/death-of-truth-…

Northwestern food workers ‘die-in’ for COVID protections
Roberta Wood | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-02
EVANSTON, Ill. — Is it too much to ask for an institution sitting on an $11 billion dollar endowment to provide sick pay for 14 days for an employee under a coronavirus quarantine? “Dying in” for health and safety, scores of cooks and housekeepers employed at Northwestern University’s leafy lakeside campus here put their bodies …
peoplesworld.org/article/northwestern-fo…

Mossad chief holds talks with Bahrain as ties with Israel deepen
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-02
Mossad chief holds talks with Bahrain as ties with Israel deepen | Yossi Cohen reported to have discussed ‘mutual interests’ with his Bahraini counterparts during visit | MEE and agencies | Fri, 10/02/2020 – 11: 16 | Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pictured in 2017 (AFP) | Israel’s top spy chief Yossi Cohen has held talks with Bahrain’s intelligence services following the two countries recent normalisation of relat…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/mossad-chief-…

The Tuesday night travesty: Three things media experts are getting wrong
Thomas Magstadt | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-02
In sum, there was no debate on Tuesday night because Donald Trump willed it to be a brawl instead. In a battle of wits, he is unarmed.
nationofchange.org/2020/10/02/the-tuesda…

Iraq urged to investigate attacks on women human rights defenders
news.un.org | 2020-10-02
UN-appointed independent rights experts have urged the Iraqi authorities to investigate the murder of a female human rights defender, and the attempted killing of another, targeted “simply because they are women”.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Trump down with coronavirus; his Pennsylvania acolytes prepare a coup
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-02
The news that President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have been infected with COVID-19 spread rapidly across the nation and around the world early this morning. While commentators are saying the entire election is now upended, a key part of the unfolding election process–the attempt by Trump and his GOP to hijack the …
peoplesworld.org/article/trump-down-with…

Worse to come as layoffs continue
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-02
San José, CA – The latest report by the Department of Labor on unemployment insurance applications shows that the tide of layoffs continues. But this week, major U.S. corporations announced even more layoffs to come as the economy tilts on the edge of a ‘double-dip’ recession. | The Labor Department report released on Thursday, October 1 showed that there was no letup in the pace of layoffs. While the number of regular state unemployment insurance claims for the week ending September 26 fell by 36,000 from a week earlier, the number of new applications for the federal Pandemic Unemployment Assistance or PUA progr…
fightbacknews.org/2020/10/2/worse-come-l…

Steve Wamhoff on Trump’s Taxes
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-10-02
Media…
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Trump is a Hoax, Fake News
Richard C. Gross | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-02
Donald Trump finally collided with something bigger than he thinks he is: the IRS. The self-identified billionaire’s mere $750 federal tax payments in 2016 and 2017, his tax avoidance schemes, his mishandling of the pandemic plus his ugly aggressive performance debate performance could cost him his re-election. Trump’s rival for the presidency, Joe Biden, revealed…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/02/trump-is-a-h…

Parkland shooting victim’s parents reanimate son’s image via AI urging viewers to vote for gun control – ‘because he can’t’
rt.com | 2020-10-02
The parents of Parkland school shooting victim Joaquin Oliver have reanimated their son on video using AI to urge people to vote for pro-gun-control politicians, but many viewers have disputed the ethics behind such move. | The 17-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim was brought back to life digitally via artificial-intelligence software on Friday to promote voting for politicians who support gun control legislation, with the help of his parents – a reincarnation some felt was in questionable taste. | In 2018, Joaquin Oliver was shot and killed in the Parkland school shooting. | His pa…
rt.com/usa/502419-parkland-gun-control-v…

Parkland shooting victim’s parents reanimate son’s image via AI urging viewers to vote for gun control – ‘because he can’t’
rt.com | 2020-10-02
The parents of Parkland school shooting victim Joaquin Oliver have reanimated their son on video using AI to urge people to vote for pro-gun-control politicians, but many viewers have disputed the ethics behind such move. | The 17-year-old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting victim was brought back to life digitally via artificial-intelligence software on Friday to promote voting for politicians who support gun control legislation, with the help of his parents – a reincarnation some felt was in questionable taste. | In 2018, Joaquin Oliver was shot and killed in the Parkland school shooting. | His pa…
rt.com/usa/502419-parkland-gun-control-v…

Trump’s Taxes: A Thousand Scandals in One
Jon Schwarz | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
The president’s leaked taxes are an explosion of many different scandals, like a huge fireworks display on the Fourth of July…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-taxes-a-tho…

Questions without answers in Trump’s COVID diagnosis
Jon Allsop | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
There’s plenty to be said about Trump’s diagnosis that we know for sure: that he knowingly played down the threat of the virus for months; that he repeatedly blocked public-health measures; that Trump and those in his orbit have much better access to testing than most Americans…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/questions-without-…

Can we make Facebook and Google “democratic utilities?”
Mathew Ingram | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
Is there another path we could take that might allow us to harness the benefits of these huge services, while also blunting their negative effects?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/can-we-make-facebo…

Trump and the lost country
Robert Koehler | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
It wasn’t like I’d expected much from this debate. But I did expect Trump’s narcissism to remain a little more quietly in the background, expressing itself not as raw reality but hiding behind right-wing platitudes…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-and-the-lost…

The madness of King Donald
Bill Fletcher | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
What he demonstrated, perhaps more than anything else, is that he is the President who wishes to herald the reemergence of the “white republic,” the construct around which the USA was originally founded…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-madness-of-kin…

A Thousand Times Worse
William J. Astore | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
Or How to Nuke History…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-thousand-times-w…

Race, class and Covid-19
Notes from Below | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
The inextricable links between race, poverty and exploitation have been highlighted by the Covid-19 pandemic…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/race-class-and-cov…

Why far-right paramilitaries are not just “vigilantes”
Zoltan Grossman | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
In the upcoming election, we need to be “vigilant” not so much against unorganized “vigilantes,” but against organized domestic terrorists who could intimidate voters before, on, or after Election Day…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-far-right-para…

The Next Steps in Eviction Defense
David Rovics | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
To state what is abundantly clear to anyone involved with either one, if Black lives matter, then the working class matters, and affordable housing matters…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-next-steps-in-…

Toronto protesters fight off eviction
Mira Miller | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
“Landlords and tenants are not equal here. For working class tenants an eviction means life or death. For corporate landlords it means flipping the unit for profit. Working class tenants unite, no covid evictions.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/toronto-protesters…

A New Party of the Left in Serbia
Ivan Velisavljević | zcomm.org | 2020-10-02
The Social Democratic Union’s 12th congress in Belgrade marked its transformation into a new left-wing party–the Party of the Radical Left (PRL)…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-new-party-of-the…

Nebraska: Working To Break Up Meat Monopolies
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-02
While most of us have recently witnessed empty shelves and higher price tags from the aisles of our local supermarkets, 2019 Fixer Graham Christensen has been fighting for solutions to our fractured food system from the fields. A fifth-generation farmer, Christensen founded the consulting company GC Resolve to help his home state of Nebraska establish more ethical and sustainable agricultural practices. | According to Christensen, corporate greed is to blame for major meatpacking-plant shutdowns — brought on by a surge of coronavirus cases among workers — that have led to nationwide shortages of pork…
popularresistance.org/nebraska-working-t…

The Politics That Led To The ‘Worst Debate’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-02
The rich man’s media are calling it “the worst debate in modern American history,” but that’s because the truth is often painful to watch. The Biden-Trump confrontation revealed, with crystalline clarity, that the real “genius” of the American electoral process is its total imperviousness to popular demands for a healthier, more just and less economically precarious society and a peaceful, ecologically stable world. Instead, the Democratic alternative to the white supremacist Republican in the White House is — another lifelong racist, mass-incarcerating, corporate-serving, warmongering old white man.
popularresistance.org/the-politics-that-…

Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid The Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-02
Boise, Idaho – It was rain ≠ing light ≠ly June 29 when Geo Eng ≠ber ≠son, own ≠er of the Pie Hole pizze ≠ria, con ≠vened an emer ≠gency staff meet ≠ing. He had intend ≠ed a quick con ≠fer ≠ence in the park ≠ing lot behind the restau ≠rant, known for its steady stream of week ≠end bar-goers. Giv ≠en the weath ≠er, Eng ≠ber ≠son fer ≠ried the hand ≠ful of work ≠ers into his trailer. | Ear ≠li ≠er that month, work ≠ers at the piz ≠za joint peti ≠tioned for an hourly wage bump. Wor ≠ried that Pie Hole was pre ≠pared to replace them…
popularresistance.org/restaurant-workers…

Two Years After Khashoggi’s Murder
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-02
Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered on October 2, 2018 by agents of Saudi Arabia’s despotic government, and the CIA concluded they killed him on direct orders from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS). Eight Saudi men have been convicted of Khashoggi’s murder by a Saudi court in what the Washington Post characterized as sham trials with no transparency. The higher ups who ordered the murder, including MBS, continue to escape responsibility.
popularresistance.org/two-years-after-kh…

Why Anarchism Is Dangerous
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-02
Anarchists frighten privileged elites and their authoritarian followers not simply because the primary goals of the movement have been to abolish the sources of elite power — the state, patriarchy, and capitalism — but because anarchism offers a viable alternative form of social and political organization grounded in workplace collectives, neighborhood assemblies, bottom-up federations, child-centered free schools, and a variety of cultural organizations operating on the basis of cooperation, solidarity, mutual aid, and direct, participatory democracy.
popularresistance.org/why-anarchism-is-d…

Restaurant Workers Are Building Solidarity Amid The Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-02
Boise, Idaho – It was rain ≠ing light ≠ly June 29 when Geo Eng ≠ber ≠son, own ≠er of the Pie Hole pizze ≠ria, con ≠vened an emer ≠gency staff meet ≠ing. He had intend ≠ed a quick con ≠fer ≠ence in the park ≠ing lot behind the restau ≠rant, known for its steady stream of week ≠end bar-goers. Giv ≠en the weath ≠er, Eng ≠ber ≠son fer ≠ried the hand ≠ful of work ≠ers into his trailer. | Ear ≠li ≠er that month, work ≠ers at the piz ≠za joint peti ≠tioned for an hourly wage bump. Wor ≠ried that Pie Hole was pre ≠pared to replace them…
popularresistance.org/restaurant-workers…

Sunday 10/11: “Dazed And Confused” Cast Reunion Reading w/ Voto Latino & March for Science
Voto Latino & March for Science | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
Online event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/02/1883723…

Climate Advocates Criticize Newsom’s Executive Order for Not Addressing Oil Drilling
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
“If your climate leadership does not include relief for hundreds of thousands of Californians — the majority people of color — living with oil drilling in their neighborhood, then you are not serious about climate justice and creating healthier, more resilient communities,” said Martha Arguà´llo executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles and co-chair of STAND-L.A.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/01/1883722…

Thursday 10/1: All Rise for Justice: No Confirmation Until After Inauguration! w/ Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Action & partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
Online via livestream or Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/01/1883721…

IMF Calls for New Global Debt Policies to Confront COVID Financial Crisis
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
IMF head Kristalina Georgieva warned that developing countries could face a second wave of economic crises just as they are recovering from the coronavirus pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/02/1883723…

San Leandro Hospital CNA Nurses Fight Covid, For PPE & Conditions For Nurses & Patients
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
San Leandro Hospital nurse and chief CNA rep talks about the conditions at the hospital and the effect of Covid-19 on the workers and patients. She also discusses the role of the Alameda Board of Supervisors in supporting the union busting operations of Alameda Health Services which was set up by the Board to run the public health system.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/01/1883720…

Save Willard Park!
Foxy the dog | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
Plans in the works by the city government of Berkeley to overhaul a popular local park with near zero public notice…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/01/1883720…

Monday 10/5: People’s Park Gardeners tour
DARIN | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
Come to People’s Park. Enjoy the garden tour. Find out what you can do to prepare for the rain in the garden.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/01/1883721…

Chile: Acerca del Proceso Constituyente
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
Chile: | Acerca del Proceso Constituyente | Entrevista al profesor Gabriel Salazar, Premio Nacional de Historia.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/02/1883723…

Sunday 10/4: March Against White Supremacy #TrumpPenceOutNow
Xochitl | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
Lake Merritt Pillars…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/01/1883721…

A Plea for Help from the County’s Benchland Containment Camp
posted by Norse | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
I received the following letter earlier this week immediately before our Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom (Greg’s a member). I’m forwarding it for community info and in response to his wishes.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/02/1883723…

Treading in Deep Water
Greg Godels | indybay.org | 2020-10-02
As one good reason for voting for Biden: should he win, Democrats will not be able to continually blame all of our sorry politics and capitalism’s contradictions on Trump. And the experience of a Biden government might well hasten the defection from a moribund Democratic Party.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/02/1883723…

Sarilumab use in severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia
Elisa Gremese, Antonella Cingolani, Silvia Laura Bosello, Stefano Alivernini, Barbara Tolusso, Simone Perniola, Francesco Landi, Maurizio Pompili, Rita Murri, Angelo Santoliquido, Matteo Garcovich, Michela Sali, Gennaro De Pascale, Maurizio Gabrielli, Federico Biscetti, Massimo Montalto, Alberto Tosoni, Giovanni Gambassi, Gian Ludovico Rapaccini, Amerigo Iaconelli, Lorenzo Zileri Del Verme, Luca Petricca, Anna Laura Fedele, Marco Maria Lizzio, Enrica Tamburrini, Gerlando Natalello, Laura Gigante, Dario Bruno, Lucrezia Verardi, Eleonora Taddei, Angelo Calabrese, Francesco Lombardi, Roberto Bernabei, Roberto Cauda, Francesco Franceschi, Raffaele Landolfi, Luca Richeldi, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Massimo Fantoni, Massimo Antonelli, Antonio Gasbarrini, GEMELLI AGAINST COVID-19 Group | thelancet.com | 2020-10-02
IL-6R inhibition appears to be a potential treatment strategy for severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia and intravenous Sarilumab seems a promising treatment approach showing, in the short term, an important clinical outcome and good safety.
thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PI…(20)30297-2/fulltext?rss=yes

The Brezhnev Doctrine Comes Alive in Montenegro
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-02
Remember the Brezhnev Doctrine? The informally named foreign policy put forth by Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1968 following the Prague Spring, by which no communist country was to be allowed to abandon communism or even leave its sphere of influence, at the cost of armed intervention by other communist countries? It was supposed to have been relegated to the ash heap of history with the disappearance of the Warsaw Pact and Soviet Union. But maybe not.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/02/th…

Why Is the British Press Sexing Up Stories on Hezbollah, Iran and China?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-02
strategic-culture.org/wp-content/uploads… | The British press seem to be doing a rancorous business of late of fabricating stories about Iran, Hezbollah and China. It’s almost as though these subjects are fair game for the old newsroom saying, once repeated often by hacks at the Daily Express in the 80s “make it sing, make it dance, b…

2021 — As China’s Golden Ox Rises the U.S. Bald Eagle Will Crash
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-02
Egon von GREYERZ | The Chinese understand the long game and they have infinite patience. They have always known that they never needed to attack the US, financially or militarily. Because China has invariably understood that the US would self-destruct. | POLITICS AND PRINCES DON’T MIX: | The Duchess of Sussex who has dragged her poor husband, Prince Harry, into the US election has declared that this will be the most important election in history. She will most probably be right but for the wrong reason. Meghan Markle believes a Biden victory is the only way that the US can be saved, primarily because sh…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/02/20…

Why Is the British Press Sexing Up Stories on Hezbollah, Iran and China?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-02
The British press seem to be doing a rancorous business of late of fabricating stories about Iran, Hezbollah and China. It’s almost as though these subjects are fair game for the old newsroom saying, once repeated often by hacks at the Daily Express in the 80s “make it sing, make it dance, but above all, make it up”. | But the culprits are not red top tabloids who one naturally assumes have an estranged relationship with facts at the best of times. But the Times and the Telegraph, stalwart champions of journalism and pillars of British society no less. | Somebody has really let the dogs out on Hezbollah, the Leba…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/02/wh…

The Heat: UN Biodiversity Summit
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-10-02
The United Nations Summit on Biodiversity. What are today’s global challenges?
america.cgtn.com/2020/10/02/the-heat-un-…

Two Imperial ‘research visionaries’ win Academy Chairs in Emerging Technologies
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-02
The Royal Academy of Engineering has appointed two Imperial engineers as Chairs in Emerging Technologies.
imperial.ac.uk/news/205553/two-imperial-research-visionaries-academy-chairs

Comet insights and new honours: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-02
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/205613/comet-insights-honours-news-from-college

Two Imperial ‘research visionaries’ win Academy Chairs in Emerging Technologies
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-02
The Royal Academy of Engineering has appointed two Imperial engineers as Chairs in Emerging Technologies.
imperial.ac.uk/news/205553/two-imperial-research-visionaries-academy-chairs

Comet insights and new honours: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-02
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/205613/comet-insights-honours-news-from-college

‘I will stay in this tree’ — HS2 protesters stand firm as eviction bid restarts
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-02
Tensions are building between treehouse protesters obstructing HS2 construction in a forest and evictions officials, as a second day of removals got under way.A number of environmental activists remained camped up trees at Jones’ Hill Wood in Buckinghamshire through lashing wind and rain overnight, after HS2 officials with chainsaws and Thames Valley Police ceased removals on Thursday evening.Roald Dahl wrote his stories in the nearby town of Great Missenden, and classics like Fantastic Mr Fox are said to have taken inspiration from the forest.An anti-HS2 sign on a farmer’s gate in the Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghams…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/20…

Young Progressives Running for Office Pledge to “Stop Police Killings”
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-02
After months of sustained resistance in the wake of several high-profile police killings of Black and Brown people, a new generation of progressive candidates are running for state and local office across the country on pledges to confront systemic racism in the criminal legal system. While most such pledges remain cautious compared to the liberatory calls for police abolition that have filled the streets, there’s no doubt that the Black Lives Matter movement has profoundly impacted candidates’ platf…
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Texas Governor Cuts Ballot Drop-Off Sites to Only One Per County
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-02
In a last-minute move that voting rights groups and Democratic officials decried as a desperate and ” blatant voter suppression tactic,” the Republican governor of Texas on Thursday issued a proclamation ordering that a…
truthout.org/articles/texas-governor-cut…

Economy Adds an Abysmal 661,000 Jobs as Further Layoffs Loom
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-02
The September employment report showed a sharp slowing in the rate of job growth, with the economy adding 661,000 jobs, less than half of its August rate. The unemployment rate fell by 0.5 percentage points to 7.9 percent, but most of this was due to people leaving the labor force. The employment to population ratio (EPOP) only rose by 0.1 percentage point. At 56.6 percent, it is still 4.4 percentage points below its year-ago level. | With jobs remaining in short supply, many people may permanentl…
truthout.org/articles/economy-adds-66100…

Will COVID Knock Out Trump’s Campaign?
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-02
F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” The entirety of the Trump administration to date has been the unceasing experience of being simultaneously astonished and not at all surprised. | These two phenomena, like twirling planes in the air show of the mind, finally clipped wings in midair early this morning and went pinwheeling to the ground in a ball of fire and dus…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-diagnosis-c…

Venezuela Is 1st LATAM Country to Receive Russia’s Vaccine
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-02
Venezuela’s Vice President Delcy Rodriguez Friday announced that the country received the first batch of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and that the nation is ready to begin phase 3 of its clinical trials. | RELATED: | Russia to Start the Production of Its COVID-19 Vaccine in Cuba | “Our country just became the first nation in the Western Hemisphere to join the studies for the first COVID-19 vaccine registered in the world,” Rodriguez recalled. | The first batch…
telesurenglish.net/news/-venezuela-becom…

Cover Up: Fauci Approved Chloroquine, Hydroxychloroquine 15 Years Ago to Cure Coronaviruses; “Nobody Needed to Die”
True Pundit | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-02
This article was first published in May 2020. | Dr. Anthony Fauci, whose “expert” advice to President Trump has resulted in the complete shutdown of the greatest economic engine in world history, has known since 2005 that chloroquine is an …
globalresearch.ca/cover-up-fauci-approve…

Russian journalist dies after setting herself on fire: local media
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-02
A Russian journalist died on Friday after setting herself on fire in front of the local branch of the interior ministry in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, a day after her apartment was searched by police, according to local media.Prior to her self-immolation, Irina Slavina wrote on her Facebook page: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.”
yenisafak.com/en/world/russian-journalis…