How can Americans support Peace in Nagorno-Karabakh?
Nicolas J.S. Davies | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-11
Americans are dealing with an upcoming general election, a pandemic that has killed over 200,000 of us, and corporate news media whose business model has degenerated to selling different versions of “The Trump Show” to their advertisers. So who has time to pay attention to a new war half way round the world? But with so much of …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/how-can-ameri…

Back on the Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Wins Over Spirit
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-11
In March, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal upheld an original jury finding that Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven did not infringe copyright in Spirit’s 1968 song Taurus. Michael Skidmore, who had filed the suit in 2014 as trustee of the estate of the late Spirit guitarist Randy Wolfe, was hoping that the US …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/back-on-the-s…

The Real News Network and Project Censored present — United States of Distraction: Fighting The Fake News Invasion A Documentary Film (64 min)
Project Censored | projectcensored.org | 2020-10-11
The Real News Network will host a screening of the new documentary film by Project Censored, the Media Freedom Foundation, and Hole in the Media Productions, followed by a panel…
projectcensored.org/the-real-news-networ…

The Trump Covid Hoax?
Dan Corjescu | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-10
Political theater is nothing new. And Trump is, arguably, a master at it. The speed with which Trump was diagnosed, “hospitalized”, and, as of now, seemingly set for early release must raise a few seasoned eyebrows. What would Trump have to gain by pretending to be sick with Covid? Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/the-trump-cov…

Trump intensifies conflict with big tech over Section 230 protections following censorship moves by Facebook and Twitter
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
After Facebook and Twitter both censored Trump for falsely comparing the coronavirus to the flu, the president called for a repeal of the law protecting social media companies from liability for content posted on their platforms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/tech…

Venezuelan National Constituent Assembly approves the Anti-Blockade Bill
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-10
The National Constituent Assembly (ANC) of Venezuela, in an extraordinary plenary session on October 8, approved the Anti-Blockade Bill presented by president Nicolás Maduro at the end of the last month. The law will provide the Bolivarian government with mechanisms to face the impacts of the commercial blockade, economic and financial persecution and other unilateral sanctions imposed by the United States against Venezuela. | “This law is an instrument to shield the economy of the…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/10/venezuela…

The Smoking Guns of a Manufactured Pandemic
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-10
Economics professor Michel Chossudovsky describes the “smoking guns” indicating that the Covid-19 pandemic is a fraud and details the devastation that already has occurred as well as what is to come with the so-called “second wave,” which he says is …
globalresearch.ca/the-smoking-guns-of-a-…

The Covid-19 Numbers Game: The “Second Wave” is Based on Fake Statistics
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-10
“Red zones”, travel bans, quarantines, “red lists”. A “Second Wave”. Millions of people are lining up for Covid-19 testing. The “Numbers Game”. How statistics and “estimates” are used by politicians to justify the closure of the national economy and the derogation of fundamental civil rights.
globalresearch.ca/the-covid-19-numbers-g…

The “Smoking Guns” of a Manufactured Pandemic
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-10
Economics professor Michel Chossudovsky describes the “smoking guns” indicating that the Covid-19 pandemic is a fraud and details the devastation that already has occurred as well as what is to come with the so-called “second wave,” which he says is …
globalresearch.ca/the-smoking-guns-of-a-…

Marxism and intersectionality
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-10
Ashley Bohrer has provided this important piece of scholarship with her new book, Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism.
mronline.org/2020/10/10/marxism-and-inte…

Israel’s man in Washington
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-10
It’s election season in the United States and one aspect of president Donald Trump’s record that is not up for debate is his role in sustaining and strengthening the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Trump has left no stone unturned to win the support of pro-Zionist groups in his country by subordinating US foreign policy interests to that of Israel. | Trump’s use of US power, including its military and financial resources, has helped Israel achieve some of its long-term diplomatic and strategic goals. This includes recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and the “normalization” of the relationship with Arab…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/10/israels-m…

Venezuela: National Constituent Assembly Passes Contentious “Anti-Blockade” Law
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-10-10
Critics claim that the law paves the way for privatizations and lack of accountability.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15020

The Gunner’s Dream Lives On: Roger Waters on war, corporate greed and finding hope
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-10
Musician Roger Waters and Vijay Prashad discuss his song, The Gunner’s Dream and its relevance in today’s world of war, inequality and greed. Roger Waters also talks about how to find hope amid all this gloom…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/10/the-gunne…

Xinjiang: A report and resource compilation
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-10
In the mid-2010s, China launched far-reaching de-radicalization and economic development programs in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.
mronline.org/2020/10/10/xinjiang-a-repor…

Iran’s rial hits new low against dollar as economy stumbles
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-10
Iran’s rial hits new low against dollar as economy stumbles | Latest US-imposed sanctions on Iran’s financial sector are another blow to the country’s economy | MEE and agencies | Sat, 10/10/2020 – 11: 46 | Iranians gather inside the capital Tehran’s Grand Bazaar in March 2020, as the Covid pandemic was starting to make an impact on the country (AFP) | The Iranian currency hit a new low against the US dollar…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-rial-new…

Life as a Domestic Worker in the U.S. Was Hard. Then COVID-19 Hit
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-10
Jerome Olivier / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] By Rosaline John Baptiste / OtherWords For all the time I’ve lived in this country, I’ve worked hard, serving others as a domestic worker. When I first came here from Dominica, a Caribbean island, I stumbled into a world where I felt like a mop bucket for wealthier white families. I had a life. I had a family, and I was working hard to support them. | Source…
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Coronavirus: Hydroxychloroquine — A Cure to be Suppressed
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-10
“In my opinion, tens of thousands are dying unnecessarily. Our current approach of waiting for these high-risk patients to become ill and then hospitalizing them is failing. The answer is early diagnosis of the high-risk individuals, and then treating them …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-hydroxychl…

Amid claims of racism, another federal execution set
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-10-10
The federal government has just set its eighth execution for 2020. U.S. Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of Orlando Cordia Hall for Nov. 19 in Tennessee. If carried out, this would place federal executions ahead of those by the states for . . . | Continue reading Amid claims of racism, another federal execution set at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/51791/?utm_source=rs…

News on China | No. 21
Dong Feng Collective | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-10
This Week’s News on China in 60 seconds.
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/news-on-china…

Wisconsin police conduct mass arrest of protesters, journalists after announcement of no charges against killer cop
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
Relatively small protests in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee, have been met with the deployment of the National Guard and overwhelming unconstitutional police violence.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/wipr…

Pelosi & husband invest up to $1 million in CrowdStrike, tech firm that launched Russiagate — report
rt.com | 2020-10-10
Newly-filed financial disclosures show House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband have invested up to $1 million in CrowdStrike, American cybersecurity technology company and the originator of ‘Russian hacking’ claims. | Financial disclosures show Pelosi (D-California) and her husband Paul buying CrowdStrike shares on September 3, according to a RealClearInvestigations report by journalist Aaron Mate. Since then, the stock went from $129.25 a share to $142.97. | New from me: Financial disclosure forms show that Nancy and P…
rt.com/usa/503111-pelosi-invests-crowdst…

Pence’s Handling of COVID Is Straight Out of the Christian Right Playbook
Amy Littlefield | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
Pence didn’t need Trump to show him how to pursue an agenda through deception. In this case, the goal is power, and it appears Pence will apply all of the tricks in his playbook in order to hold on to it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/pences-handling-of…

The GOP Is Pursuing a Public Slaughter Strategy, Known to Some as ‘Herd Immunity’
Thom Hartmann | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
People are acting shocked–shocked, I tell you!–that the Trump/GOP strategy on coronavirus is essentially one of promoting herd immunity with the possible downside of as many as 2.5 million dead Americans…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-gop-is-pursuin…

Guatemalan and Mexican governments use pandemic to turn back refugee caravan
Tamara Pearson | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
“People who are fleeing crime and searching for a better future shouldn’t be treated like this”. “But there is something that we have, as migrants. We don’t give up, we do everything to achieve our goals.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/guatemalan-and-mex…

Monday 10/12: Indigenous People’s Day March San Jose: Dia De La Raza y Dia De La Resistencia
Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
March meetup: San Jose City Hall, 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113 | NOTE: Masks and Social Distancing…
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Monday 10/12: Indigenous Peoples Day March San Jose: Dia De La Raza y Dia De La Resistencia
Centro Aztlan Chicomoztoc | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
March meetup: San Jose City Hall, 200 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95113 | NOTE: Masks and Social Distancing…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/09/1883741…

[Correspondence] Is COVID-19 being used as a weapon against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil?
Philippe Charlier, Leandro Varison | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
To corroborate the Editors’1 appeal for Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination as fundamental to ensure their health, we wish to draw attention to the dire situation faced by Indigenous populations in the Amazon, and mainly in Brazil.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32068-7/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] COVID-19: leaving no one behind in Latin America
Alice Blukacz, Baltica Cabieses | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
The pledge to leave no one behind has been essential in making the plight of refugees more visible1 and in highlighting the need to include migrants and refugees in national health-care systems.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32073-0/fulltext?rss=yes

International Students Quit: ‘This Isn’t Sweden’
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-10
International students at the Dalarna University in Borlà§nge do not want to live in the student residence which is offered to them in the immigrant suburb Tjà§rna àÑngar, also known as “Little Mogadishu”. That is what a representative for Dalarna’s student union wrote in a letter to the university’s board.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/10/in…

Rouhani, Putin discuss Nagorno-Karabakh over phone
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation on Saturday discussing the latest developments in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164537/Rouhani-Puti…

Did Deutsche Bank Leak Trump’s Tax Returns?
James McFadden | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-10
With the initial brouhaha surrounding the leak of Trump’s tax returns fading, including finger pointing at the IRS and talk of criminal charges, has anyone stopped to consider whether someone other than the IRS leaked the documents? There seems to be two criteria to consider in identifying the leaker. First, who had “access” to Trump’s …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/did-deutsche-…

Trudeau admits US heading for post-election “disturbances,” but won’t condemn Trump
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
The Canadian government, reports Reuters, is in consultations with the principal European imperialist powers about how they will respond to Trump’s coup, which has already been set in motion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/trtr…

The 2020 Nobel in Physics and finding a monster of a Black Hole in our galaxy
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-10
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was won by Roger Penrose for his work on the theoretical basis of black holes, and Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, two astronomers, for verifying the existence of such a black hole at the center of the Milky Way…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/10/the-2020-…

Amid claims of racism, another federal execution set
Gloria Rubac | workers.org | 2020-10-10
The federal government has just set its eighth execution for 2020. U.S. Attorney General William Barr directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of Orlando Cordia Hall for Nov. 19 in Terre Haute, Ind. If carried out, this would place federal executions ahead of those by the . . . | Continue reading Amid claims of racism, another federal execution set at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/51791/?utm_source=rs…

Anger as UAW rams through 12-hour, 7-day schedule for FCA Sterling Heights Assembly skilled trades workers
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
Skilled trades workers at the Fiat Chrysler Sterling Heights Assembly Plant are livid over the move by the UAW to force them into an inhuman work schedule without the formality of a vote.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/shap…

University and College Union moves to prevent strikes as COVID-19 cases surge on UK campuses
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
Northumbria University’s decision to move online prompted the University and College Union (UCU) leadership to call off strike action, while claiming a victory.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/unuk…

Democrats and corporate media cover-up Trump’s role in Michigan coup plot
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
The silence of the Democratic Party and corporate media is giving Trump an opening to move forward with his plot to use fascist militia to overturn the outcome of the election.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/pers…

Authoritarianism is creeping into classrooms
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-10
New curriculum guidance will limit critical thinking and cement a neoliberal capitalist consensus. It should be setting off alarm bells, says Remi Joseph-Salisbury…
mronline.org/2020/10/10/authoritarianism…

Keyboard virtuoso Rick Wakeman returns to outer space, progressive rock with The Red Planet
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
Wakeman has released a new progressive rock album in advance of the 50th anniversary of the first successful orbit of Mars by a man-made probe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/wake…

Pennsylvania educators, bus drivers and school workers launch rank-and-file safety committee to put an end to in-person instruction
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
Educators across Pennsylvania have formed a new rank-and-file safety committee to mobilize the working class against the unsafe reopening of the commonwealth’s schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/penn…

Oppose the $900 million cuts in retroactive pay to New York City educators!
wsws.org | 2020-10-10
The withholding of $900 million in pay owed to NYC teachers from over ten years ago is a brazen act of blackmail and wage theft.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/10/retr…

‘Demonic desecration’: Archbishop orders to BURN altar after priest allegedly held orgy with dominatrices there
rt.com | 2020-10-10
The sex act between a Catholic priest and two “dominatrices,” which allegedly happened on an altar of a Louisiana church, was nothing short of demonic desecration, the archbishop has ruled. | Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans ordered the removal and burning of the altar of the Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Pearl River, Louisiana. The move was in response to a sex scandal involving the now-former priest of the church, who was arrested on charges of obscenity last week. Travis Clark was allegedly caught filming himself having sex with two women, described as “dominatrices” by the media, o…
rt.com/usa/503134-altar-burned-priest-or…

Nearly 500,000 power outages reported across Texas & Louisiana as Hurricane Delta pummels gulf coast with 80mph gusts
rt.com | 2020-10-10
Nearly a half-million residents in Texas and Louisiana have been left without power after Hurricane Delta made landfall along the US gulf coast, battering cities with winds up to 80 miles per hour. | Delta hit land in southwest Louisiana on Friday night, inflicting widespread damage and knocking out electricity for some 379,636 people in the state and another 108,402 in neighboring Texas, according to PowerOutage.us, a project that aggregates data from utility companies around the country. | Footage circulating on social media showed powerful gust…
rt.com/usa/503114-hurricane-delta-half-m…

Actress Kirstie Alley spars with fellow celeb Rosanna Arquette after tweeting ‘radical left’ will be in charge if Biden wins
rt.com | 2020-10-10
Conservative actress Kirstie Alley became embroiled in a war of words with fellow celebrities online after blasting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as “evil” over her attempt to create a new procedure to remove a sitting US president. | “The ‘process’ EVIL NANCY PELOSI speaks of is an attempt at a presidential takeover of a President by glorified BAKER ACT,” Alley tweeted on Friday, adding “don’t believe a word that comes out of this [witch’s] mouth… and yes she gives witches a bad name.” | The “process” EVIL NANCY PELOSI speaks of is an attempt at a presidential takeover of a President by glorified BAKER ACT ..
rt.com/usa/503115-kirstie-alley-spars-ce…

COVID-19 sparks increased demand for mental health services: UNFPA
news.un.org | 2020-10-10
While the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been staggering, the full impact on health has been far greater, according to the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). The agency said fear, isolation, grief, economic stress and shuttered support services have taken a toll on the mental well-being of people around the world.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Yemen’s Ongoing Slaughter Needs to be Looked at from a Saudi Oil-Interest Perspective Says Yemeni Activist Mohamed Alzubaidi
Sondoss Al Assad | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-10
Exclusive- Impoverished Yemen has been devastated by an ongoing bloody war since March 2015, when Saudi Arabia and …
thealtworld.com/sondoss_alassad/yemens-o…

Class warfare intensifies as labor rights violated around the world
Pete Dolack | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
Capitalism promises nothing but more one-sided class warfare. We’re long past due to try something different…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/class-warfare-inte…

The Best of All Possible Worlds?
John Feffer | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
The powerlessness of positive thinking in the age of Trump…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-best-of-all-po…

#CountOnUs: Youth Organizers Have a Plan to Mobilize If Trump Tries to Steal the Election
Jessica Corbett | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
“Together, we’re going to vote and organize like our communities and planet are at stake, because they are.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/countonus-youth-or…

Republicans Know They Can’t Win If Everyone Casts a Ballot
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
The Republican Party’s voter suppression efforts ahead of the November election, aimed primarily at Black and Brown voters, amount to “surgical racism with surgical precision.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/republicans-know-t…

This Tyrant Feeds Peacocks
Radha Surya | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
India is burning. In the months from March to May the news and social media were flooded with heart rending stories and images of the trauma of out-of state workers who lost their livelihood overnight when the coronavirus lock down was imposed without adequate notice. With all modes of transportation brought to a halt they Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/this-tyrant-feeds-peaco…

What comes next is up to us
Robert Koehler | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
What we’re heading toward is a new world, and we’re the ones about to create it…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-comes-next-is…

What activists who fought the AIDS crisis can teach us about organizing during a pandemic
Loretta Graceffo | zcomm.org | 2020-10-10
More than 30 years after ACT UP was founded, their bold activism in response to the AIDS crisis offers critical lessons for those mobilizing around COVID-19…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-activists-who…

The MEC Saga Shows That Canada Needs More Co-operation
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-10
The campaign to “Save MEC” — Mountain Equipment Co-op — has rallied more than 140,000 Canadians together to save a business that is being sold to an American private equity firm. But this grassroots and groundswell campaign wasn’t about saving a retailer; it was about saving a co-op. In fighting for a member-owned, democratic business, the campaign tapped into a passion in Canadians for co-operation. | That passion, which drove thousands of people to engage on social media, sign petitions, demand support from banks and donate more than $100,000 to a legal fund to challenge the sale of the co-op, prove…
popularresistance.org/the-mec-saga-shows…

When Confronted By Hungry Bellies, Us Imperialists Reach For Their Guns
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-10
In 1965, Ghana’s Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah published a bold book, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. In this book, Nkrumah documented in great detail the way in which European and North American multinational firms — in close collaboration with their governments — continued to smother the aspirations of the new nations of Africa. As an example, Nkrumah took up his own country, Ghana, which had been known by the colonial name ‘the Gold Coast’ until 1957. | One of the old colonial companies, Ashanti Goldfields (a British company) continued to make fabulous profits from the hard labour of…
popularresistance.org/when-confronted-by…

Blacks In LA Nearly Four Times As Likely To Be Cited By Police
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-10
The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) gave 63% of its citations for “loitering while standing” to Black residents in recent years, despite African Americans making up just 7% of the city’s population, a new analysis of public records has revealed. | A report released by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights analyzed low-level infractions in California between 2017 and 2019 and found that LAPD and police agencies across the state disproportionately target Black residents.
popularresistance.org/blacks-in-la-nearl…

Tuesday 10/13: No Coal on the Richmond City Council!
Janet Johnson | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Richmond City Hall | 450 Civic Center Plaza | Richmond, CA 94804…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/10/1883743…

Friday 10/16: Community Discussion on Latinx Issues & Animal Agriculture
Direct Action Everywhere | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Online. Email me for the link.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/09/1883740…

Late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Canonized
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Celebration of Justice Ginsburg’s Life…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/10/1883741…

Tuesday 10/13: Your Right to Vote, Voice Your Choice! Webinar (Disability Rights CA)
Disability Rights CA | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Online webinar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/09/1883740…

Striking AHS SEIU 1021 & CNA Workers Hear Alameda Supervisors Promise To Fire AHS Bosses
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Hundreds of striking SEIU 1021 & CNA AHS workers rallied at the Alameda County Building to protest the union busting tactics of this group that runs the Alameda public health system. Two County supervisors promised to remove them from running the public healthcare system…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/08/1883739…

Sunday 10/18: Voting is Power Unleashed! w/ CA Poor People’s Campaign
CA Poor People’s Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/10/1883745…

More pragmatism in dealing with Corona
Hendrik Stroeck | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Pragmatic approaches are needed to find solutions to allow life without breaks. Scientists must make their contribution. It is more important than ever that we are not only stubbornly clinging to concepts, but that we are prepared to break new ground. Also new ways of communication. A Corona traffic light would make both possible as a first step.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/09/1883740…

Moms 4 Housing Announces Future of Moms House
Moms4Housing | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Moms Joined by Oakland City Council Members, Labor Council and Oakland Community Land Trust…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/09/1883740…

Tuesday 10/13: The Truth About Voting By Mail: Your Right to Vote Safely During COVID & the 2020 Election
Women’s March Action | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Online via Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/09/1883740…

Monday 10/12: MoveOn: Your Vote is Power in Action Rally!
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Online via link, you must RSVP…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/09/1883740…

League of Women Voters Launches Essential Voter Resources to Help San Franciscans Vote
LWVSF | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Online programs, events, and materials continue LWVSF’s 100-year tradition of nonpartisan voter services, despite the pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/09/1883740…

Monday 10/12: No Confirmation Before Inauguration!
ACCE | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
1 Post St. San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/10/1883745…

Real Estate PAC Backs Watkins, Brunner and Kalantari-Johnson for Santa Cruz City Council
Santa Cruz News Network | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Santa Cruz Together (SCT), the political action committee heavily financed by real estate and property development interests, has endorsed three candidates for Santa Cruz City Council: Sonja Brunner, Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson, and Martine Watkins. Santa Cruz Together has reported raising more in financial contributions than any of the individual candidates, and by contributing directly to the PAC, business professionals are able to avoid the $400 cap on individual contributions in the City Council race. Santa Cruz Together has said it intends to use the funds it raises to support the three candidates through digi…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/10/1883743…

Monday 10/12: Virtual Townhall on Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Food Access & Health Program
CDPH, Santa Clara DPH, & Alameda DPH | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Online via Zoom or FB livestream, or join by phone…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/10/1883743…

Saturday 10/24: March Against Extinction
XR America | indybay.org | 2020-10-10
Union Square, City of San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/10/1883745…

[Correspondence] Study of critically ill patients with COVID-19 in New York City — Authors’ reply
Matthew J Cummings, Max R O’Donnell | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
We agree with Daniele Piovani and Stephanos Bonovas that informative censoring, if present, could represent a potential source of bias in the survival analyses in our Article.1 However, sensitivity analysis suggests that any such bias is likely to be minimal.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32067-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] COVID-19, comics, and the visual culture of contagion
Brian Callender, Shirlene Obuobi, M K Czerwiec, Ian Williams | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
The COVID-19 pandemic is inescapable. From curtailing our daily social and professional interactions, locking down or physically distancing our communities, and drawing our anxious attention to daily updates of international case and death statistics, the lived experience of the pandemic is at once personal, local, and global. It is also a shared experience that emphasises, through the pandemic’s pervasive disruption, the social interactions and behaviours that define our shared world. One cultural response to the disruption and uncertainty during an infectious disease outbreak is the construction of what Priscil…
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)32084-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Viewpoint] From race-based to race-conscious medicine: how anti-racist uprisings call us to act
Jessica P Cerdeña, Marie V Plaisime, Jennifer Tsai | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
The brutalisation of Jacob Blake and murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless others–coupled with horrifying statistics about the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 on Black and Brown communities–have forced the USA and the world to reckon with how structural racism conditions survival. Although clinicians often imagine themselves as beneficent caregivers, it is increasingly clear that medicine is not a stand-alone institution immune to racial inequities, but rather is an institution of structural racism.
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[Correspondence] Cancer and COVID-19 — Authors’ reply
Nicole M Kuderer, Elizabeth Wulff-Burchfield, Samuel M Rubinstein, Petros Grivas, Jeremy L Warner | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
We thank Dimitrios Moris and col ≠leagues and Alexandre Malek and colleagues for their insightful commentary about the CCC19 study findings.1 We value the opportunity to further characterise mortality outcomes beyond our initial report.1…
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[Editorial] Mental health: time to invest in quality
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
The theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day, on Oct 10, is increased investment in mental health. Why invest, and why now? The answer is simple. At the best of times, good mental health is needed for a society to thrive. During a pandemic, good mental health is more important than ever. Without a focus on mental health, any response to COVID-19 will be deficient, reducing individual and societal resilience, and impeding social, economic, and cultural recovery.
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[Commentary] The menacing assaults on science, FDA, CDC, and health of the US public
Scott M. Alter, Dennis G. Maki, Suzanne LeBlang, Richard D. Shih, Charles H. Hennekens | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
While health authorities sounded early warnings concerning COVID-19 [1], the United States (US) government practised “pandemic politics” and escalated menacing assaults on science, including repeated denials of epidemic principles of mitigation and containment. The first on December 31, 2019 was that the virus would not enter the US. A second on January 20, 2020 following introduction of the first US case from Wuhan, China was that “the virus would not spread.” A third on February 26 was that the 15 cases would “go away” when temperatures climbed [2].
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[Comment] Offline: Reasons for hope
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
Fatigue. Despair. Misery. Cracks are beginning to appear in our mental resilience. 10 months of this calamity. How much more can we bear? It was always so. When the Bishop of Winchester died of plague in 1626, John Milton issued a searing cry of anguish in his Elegia Tertia. The great poet was just 17 years old, “sad…with no companion, and many sorrows clung to my soul”. He sought to commemorate this “grim killing” of a revered literary figure, a “dreadful death, fearsome with her sepulchral torch”.
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[Correspondence] Cancer and COVID-19
Dimitrios Moris, Diamantis I Tsilimigras, Dimitrios Schizas | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
We read, with great interest, about the outcomes in a cohort of patients with cancer and COVID-19 by Nicole Kuderer and colleagues.1 The authors showed that among patients with cancer and COVID-19, 30-day all-cause mortality was high and associated with general and cancer-specific risk factors, with a mortality of 13 ∑3%.
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[Correspondence] Study of critically ill patients with COVID-19 in New York City
Daniele Piovani, Stefanos Bonovas | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
Cummings and colleagues1 reported the epidemiology, clinical course, and outcomes of 257 critically ill adults with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 admitted to two hospitals in New York City. The primary outcome was the rate of in-hospital death, and each patient had at least 28 days of observation. The authors report that, as of April 28, 2020, 101 (39%) of 257 patients had died, 94 (37%) remained hospitalised, four (2%) were transferred to another hospital, and 58 (23%) were discharged alive. Surprisingly, the authors show in figure 1 of their Article1 a cumulative incidence of in-hospital death of approximately…
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[Clinical Picture] C4 root compression leads to phrenic nerve palsy with shortness of breath, chest pain, and elevated hemidiaphragm
Wesley M Durand, Alan H Daniels | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
A 50-year-old man presented to our emergency department complaining of sudden onset of shortness of breath and pain in the back of his right shoulder. Notably, he did not report any neck pain, numbness, or weakness in his arms or legs; he had no abdominal pain or fever.
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[World Report] 2 ∑5 million more child marriages due to COVID-19 pandemic
Sophie Cousins | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
The COVID-19 pandemic’s damage to education and the economy could reverse decades of progress on child marriage and pregnancy. Sophie Cousins reports.
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[Correspondence] Undermining breastfeeding will not alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic
Natalie S Shenker, Aleksandra Wesolowska, Johannes B van Goudoever, Sushma Nangia, Daniel Klotz | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
Breastfeeding offers numerous immunological, developmental, and psychological advantages to the infant–mother dyad. The risks posed to infant and maternal health through any loss of support for breastfeeding mean that public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic should be careful. As academic leads of human milk banks, we are acutely aware of the importance of understanding the risks posed by novel infectious pathogens in human milk and the mitigation of risk to susceptible infants.
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[Correspondence] Undermining breastfeeding will not alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic — Authors’ reply
Ràºdiger Groàü, Carina Conzelmann, Janis A Màºller, Frank Reister, Frank Kirchhoff, Jan Màºnch | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, questions regarding possible methods of virus transmission, including the safety of breastfeeding by mothers who are infected, are of great importance. We reported1 the detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA (not viral particles, as incorrectly stated by Natalie Shenker and colleagues) in consecutive milk samples from an infected mother and interpreted our findings with the greatest caution. In particular, we did not claim that SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted via contaminated breastmilk or that breastfeeding should be discontinued by mothers with…
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[Correspondence] Cancer and COVID-19
Alexandre E Malek, Issam I Raad, Elias Jabbour | thelancet.com | 2020-10-10
Nicole Kuderer and colleagues1 identified several independent prognostic factors to be conferring an increased risk of 30-day all-cause mortality: increased age, male sex, being a former smoker, multiple medical comorbidities, high Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status score (‚â•2), and an active cancer. However, haematological malignancies, instead of increasing 30-day all-cause mor ≠tality, were associated with severe clinical outcomes, intensive care unit admissions, and meeting composite severe illness endpoints.
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America’s New Army: Turning Killers Into Coders
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-10
US suspends rule requiring new enlisted soldiers and officers to pass the Army Combat Fitness test | Dave MAKICHUK | The news came across in an e-mail, but it was no less shocking. | We all know, the times are changing, and, the US Army is changing too, but … | There it was… | The mighty US Army announced it has suspended a rule requiring new enlisted soldiers and officers to pass the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) to graduate initial military training through next year, Military.com reported. | That policy also now applied to soldiers in Basic Combat Tr…
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Middle East leaders prefer the devil they know in US presidential elections. And yet a Biden victory might be the bitter pill needed for reform in the region
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-10
There are few leaders in the Middle East who would want Joe Biden to take office in January of next year. Considered a disciple of Obama, many consider him as a potential US president who will merely replicate Obama’s policies and ostracise them from the White House as a punishment and a recalibration of US relations in the region. | Indeed, countries like Saudi Arabia — which has the most to lose — will place its defacto young leader in a pickle when faced with Iran being reinvigorated by going back to the so-called ‘Iran Deal’ and the lifting of sanctions, in particular on oil sales in a period wher…
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South America: The Escazu Agreement Requires a Change in Regional Politics
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-10
Taking into consideration the UN Sustainable Development Goals in terms of environmental matters, the Escazu Agreement, an initiative of Latin American and Caribbean countries, seeks to regulate regional standards in terms of environmental protection. Equally important is the treaty’s aim to protect environmental activists and defenders, as well as guaranteeing the inclusion of marginalised people, or communities. | The initiative was led by Chile and Costa Rica, laying the foundations for a human rights trea…
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The Heat: did the U.S. overthrow Evo Morales?
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-10-10
New and alarming questions over last year’s Bolivian election that led to the fall of former President Evo Morales. A recent investigation suggests flaws in the audit that accused Morales of rigging the vote. Was he the victim of a coup?>…
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Police seize 604 kg of narcotics in Hormozgan province
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — The police chief of Hormozgan Province, south of Iran said that police forces have confiscated 604 kilograms of illicit drugs in a joint operation.
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US Department of Justice seize al-Nujaba website
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — The US Department of Justice has issued a warrant for the seizure of the al-Nujaba website on Saturday.
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Blast in Afghanistan leaves 5 dead, 9 injured
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement that five civilians have been killed in a bomb blast in Helmand province.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164546/Blast-in-Afg…

NAM urges Zionists’ withdrawal from occupied Golan territory
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — It its latest political declaration, the 120 member-strong Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has urged the Tel Aviv regime’s withdrawal from occupied Syrian territories in the Golan Heights.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164541/NAM-urges-Zi…

Zarif names his talks with Chinese FM ‘fruitful’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — In a tweet on Saturday, Iranian FM Zarif named his held talks with Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Iran-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership as ‘fruitful’.
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China seeking to expand bilateral strategic ties with Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said that China seeks to work with Iran to deepen its bilateral comprehensive strategic partnership.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164544/China-seekin…

Iran registers 3,875 new COVID-19 infections, 195 deaths
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 3,875 COVID-19 infections and 195 deaths due to the disease in the past 24 hours.
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Mazloumi resigns as Iran U19 coach to join Esteghlal
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — Parviz Mazloumi has resigned as Iran men’s U19 head coach to act as Esteghlal’s sporting director.
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US greatest threat to global security, stability: China
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — China’s deputy permanent representative to the United Nations Geng Shuang rejected the baseless accusations made by the US representative against China on its arms control policy and COVID-19.
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VIDEO: North Korea unveils massive new ballistic missile
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) — North Korea unveiled what analysts believe to be one of the world’s largest ballistic missiles at a military parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Workers’ Party broadcast on state-run television on Saturday.
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Motocross competition in Isfahan prov
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — A local motocross competition was held in motocross track of Isfahan on Friday in cadet and veteran categories.
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US sanctions not to affect Iran-Swiss financial channel
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-10
TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) — Chaiman of Iran-Switzerland Chamber of Commerce noted, “New sanctions of the US on 18 Iranian banks will not affect the Iran-Switzerland financial channel in terms of importing of cereals and pharmaceuticals.”
en.mehrnews.com/news/164528/US-sanctions…

Police investigate Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes over controversial David Starkey interview
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-10
A police investigation has been launched into Brexit campaigner Darren Grimes over a controversial interview he published in which historian David Starkey said slavery was not genocide because there are “so many damn blacks” still around.In a statement, Metropolitan Police confirmed that “on 4 July, the Metropolitan Police Service was passed an allegation from Durham Police of a public order offence relating to a social media video posted online on 30 June.”The matter is currently being investigated.”No arrests have been made, the force added.Dr David Starkey faced significant backlash over his comments in the in…
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‘I can’t breathe’ UK police restraint contributed to Kevin Clarke’s death, inquest finds
Sophia Purdy-Moore | thecanary.co | 2020-10-10
An inquest released on 9 October concluded that excessive use of force by Metropolitan Police Officers and “serious failures” by public service providers contributed to Kevin Clarke’s death in police custody. | ‘I can’t breathe’: | Clarke, a 35-year-old Black man, died following restraint by Metropolitan Police officers in Lewisham on 9 March 2018. On body camera footage, Clarke can be heard telling officers: “I can’t breathe” and “I’m going to die”. | According to INQUEST, the medical cause of Clarke’s death was “Acute Behavioural Disturbance…
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What ex-BBC Allegra Stratton’s new job proves about the ruling class
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2020-10-10
The establishment revolving door is turning again. This time it’s former BBC and ITV journalist Allegra Stratton who is benefitting. Stratton, as has been announced, is taking up a new role as spokesperson for number 10. | Stratton’s appointment as press secretary to arguably the most right-wing government in my lifetime (I’m a child of Thatcher, by the way) captures some bleak truths about Britain today. Not least is Stratton’s demonstrable contempt for working-class people. Although that does make her an ideal fit for her job as a Tory spokesperson.
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Anxiety Mindfulness and the Natural Unity of Life
Graham Peebles | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-10
Depression and anxiety are commonplace in contemporary societies, part of everyday life; celebrities and public figures, British Royalty even, talk openly about their struggles with conditions that were hidden and dismissed just a few years ago. Most of us either suffer from one of these debilitating diseases or know someone who does; for huge numbers …
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Solidarity sent to Indonesian workers taking action against new law
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-10
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Aged care royal commission calls for more staff
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-10
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Undercover soldiers: how the spy cops bill could bring the war on terror home
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2020-10-10
Most of the debate around what’s been dubbed the Spy Cops bill has focused on the UK police and security services. The covert human intelligence sources (CHIS) bill will allow state security agencies to break the law. | This focus is entirely justified given the human cost of undercover cops operating with relative impunity in political movements over the years. But it isn’t the whole story. Less comm…
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Why America’s Economic War on China is Failing
Vijay Prashad — John Ross | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
After Trump announced the tariffs against a wide range of Chinese imports, the Chinese government formally took up the matter through the WTO’s dispute mechanism. After considerable study, the WTO came back with a verdict. On September 15, 2020, a three-person WTO panel found that the U.S. had violated the provisions of the 1994 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the treaty that established the WTO. This was a serious defeat for the United States.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/why-americas…

We’re Still Fighting the Multinationals Who Drove the Coup
Evo Morales | zcomm.org | 2020-10-09
The period since the military coup in November has been marked by repression, massacres of dozens of trade unionists and indigenous activists, and attempts to ban MAS from standing in the presidential election…
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Armenia and Russia Are Sending Each Other Strong Signals Through the CSTO
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-09
OneWorld is publishing the original English-language version of Andrew Korybko’s analysis on the titular topic that was first released in Russian at the Moscow-Baku information portal. | *** | Armenia’s decision to skip next week’s CSTO drills in Belarus and the bloc’s | …
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Russian, Armenian, Azerbaijani FMs hold talks in Moscow
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-09
TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) — A meeting of the Russian, Azerbaijani, and Armenian Foreign Ministers – Sergey Lavrov, Jeyhun Bayramov, and Zohrab Mnatsakanyan – has started in Moscow on Friday.
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Baku, Yerevan Agree to Ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh After Negotiations in Moscow
sputniknews.com | 2020-10-09
Amid the ongoing conflict in the unrecognized republic of Nagorno-Karabakh, the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan were invited to Moscow to hold negotiations regarding a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and the bodies of those killed.
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President Superspreader’s ‘Blessing From God’
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2020-10-09
Now that Trump is a COVID-19 patient, he is even more of a scientific expert than when he ignored science and social distancing and caught coronavirus in the first place.
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The Cuckoo’s Nest
Richard C. Gross | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
The state of the union is sick. We have a president who is literally ill with COVID-19 but apparently thinks he conquered it, whose medication may saddle him and us with unknown after-effects and who cruelly and unreasonably canceled talks for another virus rescue package. Donald Trump’s apparent spontaneous, heartless decision to end the discussions…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/the-cuckoos-…

Evidence-free ‘lab leak’ speculation boosts Trump’s Xenophobic approach to Coronavirus
Joshua Cho | mronline.org | 2020-10-09
Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China has been the target of relentless hostile and racist media coverage, depicting the country as a uniquely nefarious source of disease (FAIR.org, 3/24/20, 5/7/20).
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US Labor Unions File UN Complaint Accusing Trump Administration of ‘Outrageous’ Violations of Workers’ Rights
Kenny Stancil | zcomm.org | 2020-10-09
Covid-19 “has demonstrated that not only is the U.S. violating workers’ rights, but those violations are resulting in people dying.”
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US Stocks Increase as Trump, Democrats Revive Talks on Latest COVID-19 Relief Package
sputniknews.com | 2020-10-09
NEW YORK (Sputnik) – Stocks increased on Friday with the technology stocks having a third straight weekly gain, after President Donald Trump said he wanted a bigger COVID-19 relief bill than previously negotiated with Democrats, reversing course on talks he canceled earlier this week.
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‘Data Speaks’: Dr Fauci Calls Supreme Court Nomination Event at White House COVID-19 ‘Superspreader’
sputniknews.com | 2020-10-09
On 2 October, US President Donald Trump announced that just a few days following a White House event where the president revealed his Supreme Court nominee, he and the first lady, Melania Trump, had contracted the coronavirus disease. At least 37 White House staffers and “other contacts” have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19.
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Citing Trump’s COVID Diagnosis, Pelosi Plans Discussion of His Possible Removal
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-09
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Thursday that she and Democrats in the House of Representatives would begin discussing issues related to the 25th Amendment of the Constitution, which pertains to how the president of the United States can be removed from power if the commander in chief is deemed unfit to serve. | Pelosi said the issue was being raised because of concerns among Democratic lawmakers that President Donald Trump may not be fit to discharge his duties in office due to the…
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‘Blatant Hypocrisy’: Trump Heralds Covid-19 Drugs He Took Made Possible by Fetal Cell Research His GOP Actively Works to Ban
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-09
The use of fetal cells “has led to immense medical breakthroughs, including the development of vaccines for polio, measles, and rubella,” and critical understanding of other diseases, said one leading researcher. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Second Presidential Debate Canceled After Trump’s Battle With Covid-19 Spurs Fight Over Safety Protocols
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-09
The Commission on Presidential Debates “will turn its attention to preparations for the final presidential debate scheduled for October 22.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Weekend for Trump, Who Has Covid-19, Now Includes On-Air ‘Sham Medical Exam’ Friday and In-Person White House Event Saturday
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-09
“No proof he’s not contagious yet,” said epidemiologist Eric Feigl-Ding. “Dangerous.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Critics Say New Iran Sanctions Designed To “Choke off Humanitarian Exports” Amid Pandemic
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-09
The Trump administration’s new sanctions on Iran are so wide-reaching that many fear they are meant to directly harm the Iranian people as they struggle to cope with the coronavirus pandemic.
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Critics Say New Iran Sanctions Designed To “Choke off Humanitarian Exports” Amid Pandemic
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-09
The Trump administration’s new sanctions on Iran are so wide-reaching that many fear they are meant to directly harm the Iranian people as they struggle to cope with the coronavirus pandemic. | MPN– Yesterday the State Department announced the beginnings of yet more sanctions on Iran, this time targeting the country’s financial industry. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed the move was necessary to “further deprive the Islamic Republic of Iran of funds to carry out its support for terrorist activities…
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Trump Plans to Have On-Air Medical Evaluation on Fox News
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-09
In his first video interview since being diagnosed with coronavirus over a week ago, President Donald Trump will reportedly receive a medical evaluation by Fox News’s medical expert Marc Siegel during “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” | It’s not clear what the evaluation will entail, or whether it will alleviate concerns that many Americans have regarding Trump’s health status. The White House…
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US Sanctions: Weapons of War by Other Means on Targeted Nations
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-09
When unilaterally imposed by one nation on others, sanctions have no legal validity. | Along with color revolutions, old-fashioned coups, and assassinations, US sanctions are a favored tactic. | When imposed, they’re all about seeking to weaken nations economically. | They also aim …
globalresearch.ca/us-sanctions-weapons-w…

Removing Trump from Office Attempt 2.0?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-09
In December 2019, Pelosi-led House Dems showed contempt for the rule of law. | Two articles of impeachment to oust Trump from office were spurious. | Accusing him of abuse of power, they falsely claimed he sought foreign interference from Ukraine in …
globalresearch.ca/removing-trump-office-…

Surviving the Pandemic In a Broken Country
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-09
The National Guard / CC BY 2.0] By Frida Berrigan / TomDispatch After all these months and 210,000 deaths, you’d think I’d be used to it all, but I’m not. It doesn’t seem even a little normal yet. I’m still full of absences, missing so much I used to take for granted: hugs and handshakes, rooms crowded for funerals and weddings, potluck dinners and house parties. I miss browsing the stacks at the… | Source…
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Four Years Ago, US Bombs Killed Hundreds at a Yemeni Funeral. Those Bombs Are Still Used Today
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-09
The bombing of the Al Kubra Funeral Hall was the deadliest single attack in Yemen’s six-year war, but it wasn’t the first Saudi attack on a civilian target using American weapons, nor was it the last.
mintpressnews.com/us-mk82-killed-hundred…

World Bank: Up to 150 Million More People Will Live in Extreme Poverty by 2021
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-09
The convergence of the coronavirus, combined with global conflict and climate change has put the goal of ending global poverty by 2030 virtually out of sight.
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World Bank: Up to 150 Million More People Will Live in Extreme Poverty by 2021
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-09
The convergence of the coronavirus, combined with global conflict and climate change has put the goal of ending global poverty by 2030 virtually out of sight. | MPN– A new report from the World Bank estimates that the number of people living in extreme poverty around the world will increase by between 88 and 150 million by 2021, thanks in part to the COVID-19 pandemic. This represents an increase in the number, calculated as those living on less than $1.90 per day, for the first time in 20 years, ac…
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Netflix’s “American Murder” misses story of Indigenous women murdered in oil fields
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-09
In this week’s Climate Crisis News Roundup, a closer look at a popular Netflix movie. And while Mike Pence downplayed climate change in the debate, Indiana faces dire climate threats as the Amazon turns into a savanna.
therealnews.com/netflixs-american-murder…

Amazon’s Men in Black
Paulina Siegień | zcomm.org | 2020-10-09
Not so long ago, Amazon was looking for new recruits with experience in intelligence work whose job description, among other things, included “to track risks arising from trade unions.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/amazons-men-in-bla…

Amazon Expects Employees To Operate Like Fast-Moving Machines
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-09
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‘Be Afraid—Be Very Afraid’: Methane Ruling Seen as Ominous Sign With Barrett Poised to Join Supreme Court
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-09
The judge delivered a “puzzling and unsupported conclusion that the Bureau of Land Management can’t limit methane waste because that would reduce greenhouse gas pollution.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Trump’s USDA sued over mass killing of native wildlife
Andrea Germanos | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-09
Days after federal data revealed taxpayers funded the killing of 1.2 million native animal species in 2019, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program was sued Thursday over what conservation advocates decry as a cruel and misguided annual extermination spree. “Wildlife Services is infamous for the scope and cruelty of its killing campaigns across …
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‘Maybe We Should Be’: Rebuke and Ridicule After Mike Lee Says ‘We Are Not a Democracy’
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-09
“Some of us are fighting to build a true representative democracy, and then some are Mike Lee.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Mary McCord on Unlawful Militias, Chip Gibbons on Assange Extradition
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2020-10-09
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After the Assange hearing–the fight against imperialism
wsws.org | 2020-10-09
What took place at London’s Old Bailey was a process of vicious retribution against a journalist who exposed the barbarism of the ruling class before the world.
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Greg Barnes: ‘The government must act to help Julian Assange’
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-09
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George Monbiot’s Excuses for Not Speaking Out Loudly in Defense of Assange Simply Won’t Wash
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
Faced with a barrage of criticism from some of his followers, George Monbiot, the Guardian’s supposedly fearless, leftwing columnist, offered up two extraordinarily feeble excuses this week for failing to provide more than cursory support for Julian Assange over the past month, as the Wikileaks founder has endured extradition hearings in a London courtroom. The…
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Tuesday 11/10: Chris Hedges: The Culture of Despair
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM | indybay.org | 2020-10-09
Online webinar…
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U.N. World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Tackling Hunger Amid War, Pandemic & Climate Crisis
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-09
As the World Food Programme wins the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger around the world, we speak with Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, who says the United Nations body is doing vital work around the world. “I couldn’t be happier that the World Food Programme won the Nobel Prize for peace, because this hunger pandemic is paralyzing perhaps 2.7 billion people,” he says.
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FBI Foils Right-Wing Plot to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Months After Trump Urged “Liberation” of State
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-09
Just months after President Trump tweeted for his supporters to “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!” the FBI has foiled an alleged plot to kidnap and take hostage Democratic Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer. Authorities arrested six men Thursday involved in the kidnapping plot, and seven others who were said to be planning to storm the state Capitol in Lansing with the intent of starting a civil war. “It came as a surprise to many, but not necessarily here in Michigan, because the state has a long history of militia and white nationalist ties,” says Russ McNamara, a reporter at WDET, Detroit’s NPR affiliate. We also speak w…
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Despite Ambiguity in International Law, Palestinians are Winning the ‘Legitimacy War’
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-09
‘International law’ remains one of the most discussed terms in the context of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. It is almost always present, whether the discussion pertains to the Israeli wars and siege on Gaza, the expansion of illegal Jewish settlements in the West Bank or the encroaching apartheid throughout Israel and the Occupied Territories. …
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Damn It, Kamala
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
It seems like forever ago, but once upon a time, the electoral circus was not given over entirely to retrogrades; Republicans were very nearly as loathsome as they now are, long before Donald Trump turned them into a cult, but within the Democratic fold, there was talk of Medicare for all, the Green New Deal,…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/damn-it-kama…

The Great Voter Purge: a Wisconsin Story
Charlotte Dennett | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
Greg Palast, long-time investigative journalist and fearless vote protector, is at it again…or rather, he’s still at it, exposing Republican vote theft right up to the November 3 election, now just a month away. His latest book, How Trump Won 2020, is his major wake-up call about the myriad ways “billionaire bandits” and their Republican…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/the-great-vo…

Trump Administration Imposes Crushing New Sanctions On Iran
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-09
The Trump administration on Thursday imposed a new, crushing round of sanctions that virtually blacklists Iran’s entire financial sector – raising concerns it will cut off the country’s ability to import humanitarian goods like food and medicine. | Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said in a statement that the sanctions, which target 18 banks and penalize foreign institutions that do business with them, are part of efforts to cut down on “illicit access to U.S. dollars” and won’t stifle humanitarian efforts.
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US sanctions complicate import of humanitarian items for Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-09
TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) — German Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that new US sanctions against Iran will further complicate the import of humanitarian items for the country.
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With Crushing Sanctions on 18 Iranian Banks, Is Trump Trying to Leave a War Behind for Biden?
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-10-09
So Iran gave up most of its latent nuclear deterrence and not only got nothing in return, it got the most crippling sanctions ever applied to one country by another in peacetime. (Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Right wing fuses anti-Semitism with anti-communism in its conspiracy theories
Amiad Horowitz | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-09
It’s hard for anyone reading any reactionary publication to avoid the name George Soros. Many right-wingers claim that Soros, a billionaire Jewish businessman, is funding radical leftists. They claim that Soros pays Black Lives Matter protesters, and some say he helps coordinate leftist activities around the world. Of course, anyone who does the slightest bit …
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“For Che, the revolution was intrinsically international”
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-09
Marxist intellectual Aijaz Ahmad talks to Vijay Prashad of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research about Che Guevara, the iconic revolutionary. He talks about his internationalism and his role as an emissary of the revolution across the world. Professor Ahmad also reflects on Che’s idea of what a revolution does, and his pursuit of a society which overcomes the distortions capitalism introduces to human nature. | On October 9, 2020, the anniversary of Che Guevara’s assassination, nearly 20 publishers across the world are releasing a free e-book with two of Che’s iconic works, Socialism and Man in Cuba (1965…
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Learn About the Charleston County Sheriff Candidates
aclu.org | 2020-10-09
The election for Charleston County Sheriff on Nov. 3 can help shape the county’s policies on the role of policing in our community, immigrants’ rights, and law enforcement accountability. The Charleston County sheriff can adopt policies that will make our community safer and more just for all. | CAST AN INFORMED VOTE | Make sure you know the candidates’ positions on key civil liberties and civil rights issues. The ACLU does not endorse or oppose candidates but urges you to cast an informed vote. | IssueKristin GrazianoAl Cannon (Inc) | Commits to end 287(g), a program working with the Trump administration t…
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Fascism’s Twisted Take on Climate Change
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
The climate catastrophe has caught fascism’s evil eye. First it spawned eco-fascism, a creed founded on lies about immigrants and population control. More people migrating to first world countries, eco-fascists say, means more people with outsized carbon footprints. Better for those immigrants to stay home, having less climate impact, than coming here to indulge in…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/fascisms-twi…

Israel’s school demolition order leaves Palestinian children in limbo
Shatha Hammad | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-09
Israel’s school demolition order leaves Palestinian children in limbo | The EU-supported project in Ramallah has seen daily intimidation by settlers and serves 50 students | Shatha Hammad | Fri, 10/09/2020 – 10: 03 | Palestinian children from the primary school in Ras al-Tin, eastern Ramallah, that is facing demolition (Shatha Hammad) | An Israeli court rejected on Thursday an appeal against the demolition of an E…
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Black Lives Should Always Matter: Delinking Social Justice from Seasonal US Politics
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
After viewing the first US Presidential debate on September 29, one is left with no doubt about the degenerating political discourse among America’s ruling elites. Following the debate between US President, Donald Trump, and Democratic Presidential nominee, Joe Biden, most analyses focused mainly on the personal insults and name-calling, which, deservedly, earned the event the…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/black-lives-…

Foreign Correspondent: Rightwing Populism Will Make You Sick–Really
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2020-10-09
The world’s worst outbreaks are occurring in nations with authoritarian leaders, like Trump.
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Che Guevara and the building of socialist consciousness
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-09
Helen Yaffe, the author of the book, Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution,talks about Che’s role in building institutions in Cuba following the revolution. She looks at how he grappled with the question of building a new consciousness and changing the way people think. She talks about the innumerable experiments Che and his comrades undertook in the process of developing a model that liberated people from capitalism. | On October 9, 2020, the anniversary of Che Guevara’s assassination, nearly 20 publishers across the world are releasing a free e-book with two of Che’s iconic works, Socialism and Man in Cuba (…
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For an egalitarian, cooperative road to an ecosocialist future
Green Left | zcomm.org | 2020-10-09
The time to stop capitalism from destroying our common future is running out. The need to build this mass movement for change means we urgently need to build ecosocialist organisations and global networks that can unite their impact.
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For An Egalitarian, Cooperative Road To An Ecosocialist Future
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-09
We are in the midst of a climate emergency and there is no way out without radically changing the way society is organized. If humanity does not free itself from the capitalist drive for ever greater profits and ever-expanding economic growth, rising global temperatures alone will make the planet uninhabitable for humans and millions of other living species. | We urgently need to find a collective road to a new way of living that is based on human solidarity and ecological sustainability.
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Nixon’s Ghost Stalks the White House
Lawrence Reichard | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
On Thursday President Trump called Fox Business News and ranted for an hour, during which time he twice called Senator and vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris a monster and four times called her a communist. No one calls anyone a communist anymore. The accusation du jour is socialist, not communist. The accusation of communism has…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/09/nixons-ghost…

Texas Supreme Court denies mail-in ballot application request form Houston
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-09
“It is disappointing that the Court has sided with political forces seeking to limit voter access this November.”
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The Constitutional Reckoning of State Lockdown Orders
Ethan Yang | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-09
On October 3rd NPR reported that the Michigan Supreme Court struck down Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s state of emergency and the powers it granted. NPR writes | In a 4-3 majority opinion, the state’s high court said she did not | …
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Will Amy Coney Barrett Stand by Her Man? He’s Betting a Second Term On It
Bill Moyers, Lisa Graves | commondreams.org | 2020-10-09
Amy Coney Barrett (R), President Donald Trump’s nominee for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, listens as Trump speaks during an announcement ceremony at the White House on September 26, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Warning Fundamental Rights and American Lives at Stake, 5,000+ Lawyers Urge Senate to Reject Barrett
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-09
“Rushing to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett will cause irreparable damage to the public’s faith in the Supreme Court, the rule of law, and our democracy.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Amy Coney Barrett Has No Business Ruling on This Election
Rev. Susan K. Williams Smith | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
Well before Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the United States Supreme Court, every step in the frenzied process had seemed terribly amiss. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his party are playing by two sets of rules, ramming through Donald Trump’s nomination to fill a Supreme Court vacancy during an election year, despite McConnell’s…
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What does it take to portray Che today?
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-09
Vijay Prashad talks to Tings Chak on the iconography of Che Guevara. Tings, who designed the cover of the book ‘Che’, talks about the process of portraying the revolutionary today…
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When confronted by us hungry bellies, the imperialists reach for their guns
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-10-09
The United States government was furious about the ‘irresponsible extravagances’ in Nkrumah’s book and decided to punish him by refusing to allow $300 million in short-term aid to cover the costs of importing food.
mronline.org/2020/10/09/when-confronted-…

U.N. World Food Programme Wins Nobel Peace Prize for Tackling Hunger Amid War, Pandemic & Climate Crisis
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-10-09
As the World Food Programme wins the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger around the world, we speak with Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, who says the United Nations body is doing vital work around the world. “I couldn’t be happier that the World Food Programme won the Nobel Prize for peace, because this hunger pandemic is paralyzing perhaps 2.7 billion people,” he says.
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As COVID-19 infection rates skyrocket, hundreds of Missouri schoolchildren quarantined
wsws.org | 2020-10-09
October 10 is the last day residents of the state qualify for extended unemployment benefits.
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Protests rage in Indonesia against anti-worker “omnibus law”, hundreds arrested
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-09
An alliance of trade unions, environmental groups and students’ movements have launched an indefinite protest across against the sweeping changes to labor and environmental laws…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/09/protest-r…

HRW calls on UN states to vote against Saudi Arabia’s bid for rights council
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-09
HRW calls on UN states to vote against Saudi Arabia’s bid for rights council | New York-based group warns that lack of candidates running for UN Human Rights Council will likely result in ‘problematic’ countries winning seats | MEE staff | Fri, 10/09/2020 – 16: 53 | Bandar bin Mohammed al-Aiban, a representative of Saudi Arabia, delivers televised speech before UNHRC on 5 November 2018 (AFP/File photo) | Human Rights Watc…
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Weekly News Review: 3rd — 9th October
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-10-09
Editors Weekly Poke We are now inside the last three months of 2020 and Britain sits on the precipice of an almighty cliff that will forever change the nature and character of our country if bad decisions are made. Unfortunately, these decisions are in the hands of people with a track record of moral bankruptcy, …
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Shocking Link Found Between Air Pollution and Alzheimer’s
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-09
sanpani / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0] Environmental Research has published a new study carried out Lilian Calderón-Garcidueña at the University of Montana and a team of international researchers that sheds light on the possible damage dirty air can have on our brains. The researchers found copious amounts of nanoparticles linked to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s… | Source…
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America wants to put the brakes on Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination. Senate leadership should listen
splcenter.org | 2020-10-09
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SUNY Cortland pauses in-person instruction after outbreak of COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-10-09
After recording 101 positive cases of coronavirus in less than two weeks, SUNY Cortland became the third SUNY school to temporarily switch to online instruction for two weeks.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/09/suny…

Colombia Covid Lockdown: Collapse of Healthcare, Social Crisis, Poverty
Yanis Iqbal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-09
As the confirmed Coronavirus cases in Colombia reach more than 880,000, the healthcare infrastructure in Bogota is crumbling and according to the president of the Bogota College of Medicine Herman Bayona, “We are close to collapse.” Bogota’s Intensive Care Units …
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Did Someone at Deutsche Bank Leak Trump’s Tax Returns?
James McFadden | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
With the initial brouhaha surrounding the leak of Trump’s tax returns fading, including finger pointing at the IRS and talk of criminal charges, has anyone stopped to consider whether someone other than the IRS leaked the documents? There seems to be two criteria to consider in identifying the leaker. First, who had “access” to Trump’s…
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Trump says Iran is on notice not to ‘f**k around’ with US
Ali Harb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-09
Trump says Iran is on notice not to ‘f**k around’ with US | President Donald Trump says ‘you don’t see terror’ in Middle East because of his sanctions against Iran | Ali Harb | Fri, 10/09/2020 – 22: 36 | Atlantic Council’s Barbara Slavin says sweeping sanctions against Iran show lack of imagination and ‘real sadistic streak’ (AFP/File photo) | US President Donald Trump talked up his Iran policy in a profanity-laden tirade o…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-iran-ru…

“Totalitarian” Anti-Communism: Loaded Language Straight Out of CIA, Neo-Con Playbook
Bruce Lerro | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-09
ORIENTATION Forms of language manipulation As most of us know, verbal language is both a tool and a weapon. Verbal language allows our species to talk about the past and the future. It allows us to label mental and physical illnesses and provides us with diagnosis and prognosis. It allows us to communicate more precisely …
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Gavin Newsom Just Vetoed a Bill That Would Protect Domestic Workers
Dennis J Bernstein | progressive.org | 2020-10-09
By spiking the health and safety bill, the California governor has left 300,000 workers in the lurch.
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‘The New Corporation’ at TIFF: No such thing as corporate social responsibility
Bill Meyer | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-09
Another most fitting film to premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival is the Canadian “unfortunately necessary” sequel to Mark Achbar’s The Corporation, the 2 Ω hour blockbuster doc released back in 2003 at TIFF. It went on to win several awards and become the ultimate filmic analysis of the most dominant institution in modern …
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Breaking: Another cop charged with assault, another example of a broken system
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-09
The latest charges against a Baltimore police officer for assault and misconduct highlight the inability of police to police themselves. And we analyze the exceptional privileges afforded to officers by a special set of laws: the Law Enforcement Officers’ Bill Of Rights.
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Kentucky A.G. Cameron seeks to silence jurors in Breonna Taylor case
Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-09
Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron claimed weeks ago, when announcing the grand jury’s decision in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death, that justice only answered “to the facts and to the law.” Cameron’s recent motion to keep jurors who ruled on the case from speaking publicly about the proceedings, however, has many wondering whether the “facts” he …
peoplesworld.org/article/kentucky-a-g-ca…

Why Are Police the Wrong Response to Mental Health Crises?
aclu.org | 2020-10-09
Over the last months on our podcast, At Liberty, we’ve explored different conversations on the subject of policing: abolition, violence and accountability, protest, and activism. This week, we dug into a topic that has gained more attention in the wake of Daniel Prude’s death in March at the hands of the Rochester Police Department: the startling connection between mental health-related 911 calls and police brutality. , , Studies show that nearly 50 percent of victims of police brutality are living with a disability, predominantly a mental health disability. In many ways, 911 has become the only option for peo…
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Mental Health Treatment is on the Ballot: Cast an Informed Vote for Montana Governor
aclu.org | 2020-10-09
More than 90 percent of Montanans with substance use disorders do not receive treatment. In fact, lack of treatment and services is a big reason that people on probation or parole return to jail instead of to their family, jobs, and communities. Providing access to treatment for mental health or a substance use disorder is less expensive than p…
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In Lebanon, students hit by coronavirus, Beirut blast and continuing economic woes
Kareem Chehayeb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-09
In Lebanon, students hit by coronavirus, Beirut blast and continuing economic woes | Organisations warn of increased risk of school dropouts, as the country reels from the effects of the explosion | Kareem Chehayeb | Fri, 10/09/2020 – 14: 10 | A Lebanese pupil at Our Lady of Lourdes school in the Lebanese city of Zahle on 30 June 2020 (AFP) | “I asked you to call me at this time because that’s when my son has…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-beiru…

Over 6000 Scientists, Doctors Sign Anti-lockdown Petition
Steve Watson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-09
Over six thousand scientists and doctors have signed a petition against coronavirus lockdown measures, urging that those not in the at risk category should be able to get on with their lives as normal, and that lockdown rules in both …
globalresearch.ca/6000-scientists-doctor…

Chicago: Now is the time for real community control of police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-09
Chicago, IL – Mayor Lori Lightfoot has made it official: she will not support any form of police reform that takes any power from her office. She declared the “negotiations have broken down” with aldermen who supported a proposal called the Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability (CCPSA) because they insisted on giving it the power to set policy for the Chicago Police Department. The CCPSA would add a convoluted layer of bureaucracy over the already broken system of ‘oversight.’ | Desmon Yancy, staff coordinator of the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA), the author of the CCPSA…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/9/chicago-…

The Michigan conspiracy, Trump, and the 2020 election
wsws.org | 2020-10-09
Donald Trump is engaged in a plot to deploy fascist militia to overturn the outcome of the election. The working class must demand answers in order to expose and stop the conspiracy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/09/pers…

Joe Biden, Emgage and the muzzling of Muslim America
Azad Essa | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-09
Joe Biden, Emgage and the muzzling of Muslim America | Azad Essa | Fri, 10/09/2020 – 03: 21 | Emgage’s rise to prominence during the 2020 US election is not a story of a group that advocates for Muslim communities, but rather of one that has served to mute their voices | What if he wins again? | As early voting gets underway in what has ceremoniously been dubbed the most important election in recent memory, liberal talk s…
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John Lennon at 80: One Man Against the Deep State “Monster”
John W. Whitehead | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-09
You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control. — John Lennon (1969) John Lennon, born 80 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon. …
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“Reimagine and Reset Our World”: “COVID-19, The Great Reset” by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
Catherine Austin Fitts | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-09
“In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.” ~ Yakov Smirnoff | Professor Klaus Schwab founded and runs the World Economic …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-great-reset-k…

The Right to Abortion is on the Ballot in Colorado This November
Denise Maes | aclu.org | 2020-10-09
When Justice Ginsburg embarked on her legal career at the ACLU, there were hundreds of laws on the books that discriminated on the basis of sex. But Justice Ginsburg changed that, and she changed history, driven by the then-radical belief that laws steeped in gender stereotypes hurt both women and men. Significantly, she viewed reproductive freedom as a necessary component of true ge…
aclu.org/news/reproductive-freedom/the-r…

Is it time to talk about armed-self defense for Black people?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-09
Is there a place for armed self-defense among Black freedom fighters today? Jacqueline Luqman talks history and strategy with Dr. Akinyele Umoja.
therealnews.com/is-it-time-to-talk-about…

Robey Theatre Company releases nine scripts by Black playwrights in publishing venture
Special to People’s World | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-09
For 26 years, the Robey Theatre Company has made its mission to tell the stories of the Black global diaspora on stage. It is now also doing so in print. The Robey Theatre Company Playwriting Series currently has nine play scripts in publication, available in paperback edition and also in Kindle format. These plays, all …
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This Week’s Most Popular Articles
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Nukes and North Korea: a New Direction
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-09
North Korea’s acquisition of nuclear weapons has changed the nuclear balance in Northeast Asia. But it hasn’t altered the way politicians and diplomats approach the question of arms control and disarmament in the region. The debate among influencers continues to revolve around two versions of “more of the same.” Containment advocates argue that North Korea…
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Our world is burning
John Scales Avery | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-09
“We must change almost everything in our current societies. The bigger your carbon footprint, the bigger your moral duty. The bigger your platform, the bigger your responsibility.”
nationofchange.org/2020/10/09/our-world-…