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The Story is US imperialism
Sudip Bhattacharya | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-18
As we continue to battle the police and those who depend on their “protection” in the U.S., including the major businesses who donate to anti-racist initiatives all the while continuing to reap gargantuan profits off our labor and limited consumer choices, there are thousands of Bolivians also standing up against a far-right wing government and…
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The Story is US Imperialism
Sudip Bhattacharya | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-18
As we continue to battle the police and those who depend on their “protection” in the U.S., including the major businesses who donate to anti-racist initiatives all the while continuing to reap gargantuan profits off our labor and limited consumer choices, there are thousands of Bolivians also standing up against a far-right wing government and…
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Hours before Bolivia goes the polls, early results system suspended, military mobilization in La Paz
Zoe PC | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-18
The first elections since the coup d’état will be held on October 18 amid a tense social and political climate. This includes a military mobilization in La Paz the night before the polls and the suspension of the DIREPRE early results system…
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Bolivia militarizes on election eve: Dispatch from the capital La Paz
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-18
Hours before polls opened in Bolivia, de facto Interior Minister Arturo Murillo launched a massive military show of force, praising security forces for removing “dictator” Evo Morales from power in 2019. Max Blumenthal reports from the capital La Paz Video by Ben Norton…
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Ex-OPCW chief defends Syria whistleblowers and reveals he was spied on before Iraq war
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-18
Exclusive: former OPCW chief José Bustani defends the whistleblowers who challenged a cover-up of their Syria probe; reacts to the US and allies recently blocking his UN testimony; and reveals he was spied on before the Bush administration ousted him over the Iraq war. In a Grayzone exclusive, José Bustani, the former head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, speaks out in support of two veteran OPCW inspectors who challenged a US-backed cover-up of their investigation in …
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The Covid-19 Roadmap: Towards Global Economic Chaos and Societal Destruction
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
Minor Edits on October 16, 2020 | It is now confirmed that the Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Test (RT-PCR) used to estimate COVID-19 positive cases is questionable. It cannot detect or identify the virus. What it detects are particles or fragments …
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Towards a US-China War? The Creation of a Global Totalitarian System, A “One World Government”?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
The dominant dynamic defining world geopolitics is the appearance of a genuine irregular conflict between the 2 most formidable powers on the planet: China & the US. Only this time the aim is a universal totalitarian system. David Rockefeller called it a “one world government.”
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The War on Wombs
Laura Carlsen | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-18
Pauline Binam, an immigrant from Cameroon imprisoned in the Irwin County, Georgia detention center, was told she had to have minor surgery to remove small cysts. She was reluctant to undergo the surgery, since she had heard stories of invasive procedures, including sterilization, among other women detained in the center, but she finally agreed. When…
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Barrett Is Poised to Become the Most Radical Right-Wing Member of Supreme Court
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
During her Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Amy Coney Barrett refused to say that voter intimidation is illegal, that armed poll watchers are intimidating, that voter discrimination exists, whether the president could deny someone the right …
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Covid-19: The Great Reset — Revisited. Scary Threats, Rewards for Obedience
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
The Great Reset book is full with predictions of things that will or may happen, and threats, like the world will never be the same again, and we are just at the beginning of the Reset, worse is to come — or the Great Transformation, as the IMF calls what is coming.
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Running Out of Time… October Surprise Redux?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
There is considerable speculation in Washington about a so-called October Surprise being engineered by either party to change the outcome of the upcoming election. The original October Surprise took place in 1980, when Ronald Reagan’s campaign manager William Casey conspired …
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‘The Emails Are Russian’ Will Be The Narrative, Regardless Of Facts Or Evidence
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-18
Like the Russian hacking narrative, the Trump-Russia collusion narrative, the Russian bounties in Afghanistan narrative, and any other evidence-free framing of events that simultaneously advances pre-planned cold war agendas, is politically convenient for the Democratic party and generates clicks and ratings, the narrative that the New York Post publication of Hunter Biden’s emails is a Russian operation is going to be hammered and hammered and hammered until it becomes the mainstream consensus. This will happen regardless of facts and evidence, up to and including rock solid evidence that Hunter Biden’s emails w…
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Yemen: Conflict parties ‘have to find strength’ to end fighting, says UN humanitarian official
news.un.org | 2020-10-18
Parties to the conflict in Yemen must do more to protect civilians, a senior UN humanitarian official in the country has said, as the number of civilian deaths has witnessed a sharp rise over the last few weeks in the war-ravaged country.
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Latest UN report on Venezuela is not remotely honest (Part 2)
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2020-10-18
On September 15, UN investigators published a 411 page report about the human rights situation in Venezuela.[1] Part 1 of my analysis of the report focused on its gross dishonesty about opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez. The report reviewed his career since 2000 but never mentioned his proud participation in coup attempts, in particular the briefly Read…
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Bolivia Elections: All You Need To Know
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
Bolivia – According to the Supreme Electoral Tribunal, over 7.031.294 people are expected to vote out of the country’s estimated population of 11.428.245 citizens. | On October 18, the Plurinational State of Bolivia will carry its first presidential elections after a coup that forced former left-wing Indigenous president Evo Morales to resign on November 10, 2019. Following the coup, Bolivia has faced continued turmoil, political instability, and killings and persecution of progressive leaders promoted by the de facto government of Jeanine Àñez, who tried to change the election date several times to cling to powe…
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On Contact: Resistance And Militancy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to former Baltimore Black Panther leader Eddie Conway about the nature of resistance, white supremacy and the rise of the a new black militancy. | The book, The Brother You Choose, is a conversation between Eddie Conway and Paul Coates. Conway reflects on state repression and the hard road of resistance in a state that stops at nothing to crush resistance movements.
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How Can People In The US Support Peace In Nagorno-Karabakh?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
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 the world afflicted by 20 years of U.S.-led wars and the resulting political, humanitarian and refugee crises, we can’t afford not to pay attention to the dangerous new outbreak of war between Armenia and Azerbaijan over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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Thursday 10/22: The Archive To Come
CCBCG | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Attend the opening at: | In Social VR: hubs.mozilla.com/BRLaDhW/archive-gallery | Streaming on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/tttelematiccc | See the work on-line at www.tttelematiccc.com | And / or visit our physical gallery space | Hours: Small friend groups and individuals, by appointment | Address: ‚ÄØ323 10th St., San Francisco, CA 94103…
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Large San Francisco Counter-Protest Overwhelms Tiny Ultra-Right Rally
Bigots Forced to Flee | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
On Saturday, October 17, 2020, labor union members, anti-police brutality campaigners, advocates for release of prisoners affected by COVID-19, and leftists from Oakland and San Francisco came together to form a counter-demonstration against a rally of far-right demonstrators.
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Large San Francisco Counter-Protest Overwhelms Tiny Proud Boys Rally
Bigots Forced to Flee | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
On Saturday, October 17, 2020, labor union members, anti-police brutality campaigners, advocates for release of prisoners affected by COVID-19, and leftists from Oakland and San Francisco came together to form a counter-demonstration against a rally by the far-right Proud Boys.
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Stepping Back From the Brink
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-18
As people give up on the state, politics flow out of the system and into the streets. | William LIND | As the elections fall upon us, most people are focused on who wins, Republicans or Democrats. That is an important question, since a Democratic victory would bring a serious assault on freedom of thought and expression. What you see on campuses is what the cultural Marxists want to force on society as a whole. “Cancel” is the new synonym for “liquidate.” | There is nonetheless a more portentous question facing our country: do politics stay within the banks of the political system or do they overflow those ban…
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16th Int’l Resistance FilmFest safeguards Resistance Movement
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — The countries of the region and the Islamic Ummah consider the issue of Palestine as their main priority and will fight for the liberation of the Holy Quds and occupied Palestinian territories.
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After massacre, Iraq premier vows to protect civilians
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-18
Iraq’s prime minister on Sunday pledged to provide protection to local residents in the northern Saladin province, a day after the killing of eight civilians by gunmen.”Our message to the people of Saladin is that the state will protect them,” Mustafa al-Kadhimi said during a meeting with security and military officials in the province.”Terrorism and all criminal acts will be prosecuted under the law,” he said.On Saturday, gunmen abducted 12 civilians in the city of Balad and shot eight of them dead. Saladin’s governor said the crime was committed by a group of people in military uniform.Following the incident, a…
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Car bombing in Afghanistan province kills 20
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-18
At least 20 people were killed and over 100 others wounded in a car bombing in the central Ghor province of Afghanistan on Sunday, officials confirmed.The incident took place in Feroz Koh city, the provincial capital, at around 11: 00 a.m. (0630 GMT) when a car packed with explosives detonated near police headquarters and the department of women’s affairs, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.Although there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the Taliban are behind the attack. Most of the victims are civilians, he told Anadolu Agency.Clashes have not st…
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Nearly One Year After 2019 ‘Right-Wing Coup,’ Bolivians Head to the Polls for National Elections
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
“It is very important that each and every one of us calmly wait for each and every vote to be counted,” said Evo Morales, the nation’s ousted democratically-elected leader, from exile in Argentina. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Dear Sen. Perdue: Kamala Is the Name of Great Americans
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA). (Photo by Toni L. Sandys-Pool/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Amy Coney Barrett: Just Another Pro-Corporate Villain on the Court
William Cohn | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in on the first day of her Supreme Court confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on October 12, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Edelman-Pool/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Venezuela: Could rebellion in the ranks signal end of Maduro?
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-18
Venezuela is no stranger to protests, registering thousands of demonstrations, rallies and strikes each year, reports Federico Fuentes. However, the country is witnessing a rise in protests of the poor, driven by the difficult situation people face.
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Video: Assange Libero Per La Nostra Liberta — Camera Dei Deputati
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
Alla conferenza, tenutasi lo scorso 14 ottobre, hanno partecipato i rappresentanti del Comitato No Guerra No Nato, che sta adesso portando avanti la campagna “Assange Libero per la Nostra Libertà ” per il sostegno alla liberazione dell’editore e giornalista perseguitato per …
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Video: Azerbaijani Successes in Karabakh Conflict Come Together with War Crimes
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
The Azerbaijani Armed Forces have been developing their advance on Armenian positions in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region. As in the previous several days, the main clashes are taking place in the southern part of Karabakh. | As of October 16, Azerbaijani …
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Rail workers in South Africa return to work after union wins wage hike
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-18
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, which was representing the workers of BOC, reached an agreement for a wage hike of up to 10%. The company had earlier offered only 4%…
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Israel’s plans for thousands of new illegal settler homes condemned
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-18
Israel had earlier announced the construction of nearly 5,000 new illegal homes for settlers in the occupied West Bank. According to settlement watchdog Peace Now, this makes the total number of houses approved this year at over 12,000…
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Brilliantina and Progresso: The Roadblock in 2020
John V. Walsh | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-18
A sun-drenched day finds two lone figures strolling along a deserted beach, 10 feet apart and wearing masks, Brilliantina and her friend, Progresso. Progresso: Have you voted yet, Brilliantina? Brilliantina: No, I have not yet decided what to do. It needs a bit more thought. Progresso: I was slow to decide at first, Brilliantina, but I …
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POTUS Punk vs. Dem Dementia
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
The whole planet is enthralled, appalled, shocked and awed by the spectacle of democracy as enacted under the shadow of messianic imperialism — complete with a slew of slimy, smoking gun October Surprises. | We’re in total Frank Underwood territory. And …
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COVID19 PCR Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless
Torsten Engelbrecht | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
First published on June 29, 2020 | Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify “positive” patients, whereby “positive” is usually equated with …
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This Year’s Wellness Exam
Bill Vernon | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-18
For our flu shots, my wife and I drive eight familiar miles, basically the route to a school where she taught, and the placid, ordinary neighborhoods and business locales we’ve passed through a thousand times are no longer friendly. The habit of isolation colors what we see. It dims the glare of familiarity and reveals …
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Canada’s Anti-War Movement needs to Challenge Government
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-18
Should antiwar forces challenge power or praise government officials in the hopes of getting some crumbs for their pet issue? Douglas Roche’s recent Hill Times column suggests the latter. In an article extolling Canada’s new ambassador to the UN Roche writes: “When Canada lost its bid for a seat on the UN Security Council the …
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2020 Nobel for Economics: A prize for privatization
Tony Kurian | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-18
Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Economics for their work in auction theory. However, the development of this theory is inextricably linked to the project of neoliberalism and privatization…
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O presidente doidà£o contra o democrata demente
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
O planeta inteiro está estupefato, espantado, chocado e aterrorizado com o espetáculo da democracia desvelado nas sombras do imperialismo messiânico — acrescente um monte de surpresas asquerosas tipo “bala de prata” de outubro. | Estamos dentro do território de Frank Underwood. …
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Playing Russian Roulette with a COVID-19 Vaccine
Richard Gale | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
America, we need to have a conversation. It is a very serious and dire conversation that has been intentionally ignored and swept under the rug for far too long. It concerns a dialogue that our entire mainstream media, in its …
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An Unbending Devotion to Justice, Equality, and the Well-being of All People
Ted Glick | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-18
[She led a campaign] demanding that the National Student Association pay reparations to an affiliated student group, the National Association of Black Students. Although this and other accounts from those ‘Black Power’ years are informative, even riveting, in the end the central story line is Gwen herself through the life she exercises with dedication, principle, …
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Beauty and Its Elements
Jenn Zhu | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
Everybody likes beauty, such as the beautiful things and beautiful people. It seems that humans are born to possess the ability to appreciate beauty, even though not so many people had ever thought about what it is. Obviously the sense …
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Bill Gates: ‘A Second Wave of (COVID) Vaccines Will Come Next Year’ After the First
Arjun Walia | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
What Happened: Bill Gates recently appeared on NBC news stating that after the first generation of COVID vaccines becomes available, a second wave of vaccines will then hit the market, letting the public know that the COVID vaccine will be …
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Remote work aids climate protection, fuels inequality under capitalism
Tina Landis | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-18
By the author of Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism.
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Will the Mediterranean Sea Save Lebanon from Drowning in Debt?
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
The Lebanese population faces between six to twelve hours of electricity cuts per day, and in some rural areas, there is simply no electricity provided by the government grid. Amid the backdrop of decrepit infrastructure, government corruption, devalued currency, and …
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Can’t Find My Way Home
Lee Ballinger | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-18
There are many obstacles to ending homelessness. The most fundamental one is the nature of our market-based economy, which has created an extreme polarization of wealth and poverty. A new study by the RAND Corporation shows that over the past forty years the wealthiest one percent of Americans has taken $50 trillion from the bottom…
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South Africa’s shack dwellers’ movement to protest theft of COVID-19 funds in KwaZulu-Natal
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-18
The shack dwellers’ movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, will hold a rally in Durban protesting the theft of COVID-19 funds. Almost R2 billion has been lost in the KwaZulu-Natal province alone…
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‘Disturbing’: Michigan governor blasts Trump for inciting ‘domestic terrorism’ after ‘lock her up’ chant at rally
rt.com | 2020-10-18
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has accused President Donald Trump of encouraging “domestic terrorism” after his rally in the state included supporters chanting “lock her up” days after a botched kidnapping plot against her. | At a rally in Michigan on Saturday, Trump blasted Whitmer for keeping her state on lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic, leading the crowd to chant, “lock her up.” | The president responded by saying, “lock ’em all up.” | The comment earned Trump, who has referred to Whitmer as “a dictator” in the past, criticism from many liberals considering the comments came only days after mult…
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Pelosi gives White House 48-hour deadline to agree on Covid-19 stimulus, or postpone it until after election
rt.com | 2020-10-18
After giving a deadline to the Trump administration to reach an agreement for a Covid-19 stimulus plan, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) slammed officials for wording changes she says are “unacceptable.” | In a letter sent out to House Democrats on Sunday, the House Speaker did not sound optimistic on a stimulus deal being reached anytime soon. The specific disagreement at the moment appears to come down to funding for coronavirus testing and contact tracing. | “The White House had assured Democrats that they would accept our lan…
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‘Cuomo killed my parents’: Protesters fill casket with copies of New York Governor’s book on his Covid-19 response ‘leadership’
rt.com | 2020-10-18
Dozens who have lost loved ones after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s controversial Covid-19 nursing home order gathered in Brooklyn to protest the politician, who recently wrote a book on his leadership during the pandemic. | The protesters gathered in front of the Cobble Hill Health Center, a nursing facility, and demanded an apology from Cuomo for his highly controversial March 25 order forcing nursing homes to accept Covid-positive cases, a decision many critics feel was a large factor in the 6500 deaths in nursing homes during the pandemic. | Holding signs with such messages as “Cuomo killed my parents” and…
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‘Still think Antifa is just an idea?’ Black conservative activist gets tooth knocked in clashes during free speech rally (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-10-18
Conservative protesters in San Francisco accuse Antifa activists of violently attacking their rally. Police officers were injured at the event as well. | A “free speech rally” was held at the United Nations Plaza on Saturday. Some demonstrators wore red ‘Make America Great Again’ Trump campaign hats and carried pro-police ‘Thin Blue Line’ flags, as well as US flags. The activists came to decry what they call censorship of conservative views and stories by social media giants, like San Francisco-based Twitter. | Counter-protesters rushed to the scene as well, quickly outnumbering their rivals. Carrying makeshif…
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You’re in a cult! Trump haters pile on celebrity, Scientologist & suspected QAnon believer Kirstie Alley
rt.com | 2020-10-18
With just over two weeks till the election, American society seems to be as polarized as ever. Actress Kirstie Alley was showered with vitriol on Twitter after expressing support for Donald Trump’s re-election. | Alley, who is best known for her role in the sitcom Cheers, stirred lots of anger online on Saturday after declaring that her vote this year will go to the incumbent president, because “he is NOT a politician.” | I’m voting for @realDonaldTrump because he’s NOT a politician. I voted for him 4 years ago for this reason and shall vote…
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Chicken company targeted by boycotters over Sen. Perdue’s ‘racist’ Kamala remarks despite ZERO affiliation
rt.com | 2020-10-18
Perdue Farms has struggled to distance itself from Sen. David Perdue (R-Georgia) after he ‘mispronounced’ Kamala Harris’ name in a ‘racist’ way, triggering a wave of outraged calls for a boycott of a totally unrelated firm. | Twitter users have scolded the Georgia senator for his remarks at a Friday Trump campaign rally where he appeared to mock Harris’ name, poor humor some are chalking up to racism. | “The most insidious thing that Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden are trying to perpetrate, and Bernie and Elizabeth and Kamala — Kah-ma-la or Kah-mah-la or Kamalamalamala, I don’t know…” Perdue said. | Perdue…
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‘Disaster for Joe’: As Hunter Biden’s lawyers allegedly ask for his laptop BACK, Trump calls its explosive revelations ‘REAL DEAL’
rt.com | 2020-10-18
Despite questions over the authenticity of damaging content from a hard drive allegedly belonging to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, Donald Trump has said the data is a “proven fact,” with Steve Bannon promising there is more to come. | “Hunter Biden’s laptop is a disaster for the entire Biden family, but especially for his father, Joe,” the president tweeted on Sunday. | He blasted his Democrat opponent and said the content of the hard drive, first reported on by the New York Post, “makes it impossible” for him to ever assume the office of the presidency. | “It is now a proven fact, and cannot be denied, that all of…
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18yo Chicago man arrested after teacher & classmates witness sexual assault on 7yo student during online class
rt.com | 2020-10-18
An 18-year-old man has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a minor after he was caught on a livestream abusing a seven-year-old student in the middle of an online class in Chicago. | The shocking incident occurred in West Chesterfield during a break from an online class on Thursday, when the teacher asked the students to mute themselves and turn off their cameras. The young victim’s camera, however, remained on and caught the sexual abuse act — livestreaming it to multiple students, as the teacher desperately urged them to log off immediately. | When police raided the victim’s house to…
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A Corporate Megafishery Set The Stage For Violent Conflict In Mi’kma’ki
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
Today across the country, people awoke to reeling images of violence and racism carried out against Mi’kmaq fishers. Many people are asking key questions such as why the RCMP has not pro-actively intervened and defended Mi’kmaq leadership and fishers, what are the economic realities of the fisheries in Mi’kma’ki, and what conservation considerations are at play. | There are a lot of moving parts to the conflict that is ongoing in St Mary’s Bay, Nova Scotia: It is a highly-charged situation, borne out of generations of colonialism, decades of government mishandling and neglect, and months of growing racially-motiv…
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Health Justice And Black Liberation: Dána-Ain Davis
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
It is not only that state violence is a public health issue, but what I want people to understand is that state violence bleeds into particular public health issues–specifically, reproductive health issues. It is parastatal violence as well, by which I mean those practices and institutions that work in parallel and intersecting ways with the state. Think about this: some of the research I did for my book Reproductive Injustice shows both subtle and blatant examples of state and…
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How Unions Can Lay The Ground For The Next Upsurge
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
As shown by authors like Dan Clawson in his 2003 book The Next Upsurge, unions tend to grow in spurts, as part of working-class uprisings that pose a deep challenge to the powers that be. | The upsurges in the private sector from 1934 to 1939, when the CIO organized industry-wide, with sitdowns when necessary, and the AFL tried to catch up, and in the public sector from 1962 to 1972, when a wave of illegal strikes established the right to bargain, were rooted in militant worker action. The system began to lose legitimacy and workers got a sense of their collective power. Similar dynamics played out during the 189…
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Another Apocalypse Is Possible
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
Everyone speaks about the Apocalypse as if it means “the end of the world.” But, if we really want to grasp the complexity of the contemporary threats that are leading to mass extinction, we should return to the original Greek meaning of apokalyptein as of “unveiling”, “uncovering” something. What is happening today — from the ongoing climate crisis to the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic — is luckily not the end of the world just yet, but in its horrifying destruction it is a warning, a “revelation” about the near future to come.
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‘Distraction Mechanism’: NYT’s Crocodile Tears Over Iran Sanctions
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
What seems to be a compassionate plea for mercy from Washington by a major US newspaper is actually just a furthering of the US propaganda war against Iran that’s responsible for the strangling sanctions that frustrate its ability to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, a doctor and activist told Sputnik. | An op-ed by the New York Times Editorial Board on Tuesday urged: “Iran’s Covid-19 Death Toll Is Rising. Show Mercy, Mr. Trump.” However, while the article noted the extensive and deliberate damage US President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” policies toward Tehran have had…
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Minneapolis City Council’s Attempt To Defund Police Thwarted
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
Last month, the New York Times ran an article by Astead Herndon about politics and police in Minneapolis. By ignoring important context and details, Herndon painted a misleading picture of what happened and what’s likely to happen in the near future. He wrote that the Minneapolis City Council’s idealistic attempt to change public safety, spurred by young and progressive activists, were thwarted by public opposition and legislative processes. | In truth, most of the City Council members, who ran and won by pledging to advance racial equity, tried to do the right–and popular–thing, but were stalled by a…
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What Is Needed In This Moment
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-18
The United States’ elections will occur in a few weeks and many people are concerned about what will happen. Will they be able to vote? Will their votes be counted? Will the process be prolonged? Will President Trump refuse to leave the White House if he loses? Groups are beginning to organize to protest if President Trump stays in office, whether he is re-elected or not. | What is happening now is really not very different from what happens every four years, although perhaps it’s more exaggerated.
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Justice for Aaron and Jacob Steichen
Robert Maxim | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Jacob Steichen’s family called emergency services, mandated reporters, and local police department 8 times over a 5 week period. Authorities deliberately refuse emergency psychiatric care; Jacob is charged with PC187(a) after stabbing Aaron.
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Thursday 10/22: Saving Life on Earth: Illegal Wildlife Trade & the Extinction Crisis of Africa’s Wildlife
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Online via Zoom…
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Tuesday 10/20: Rally To Oppose Oakland’s Encampment Management Policy
The United Front Against Displacement | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
In front of Oakland City Hall, Oakland California…
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S.F. School District Tax Dollars: Education or Name Changes
S.F. Taxpayer | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
The latest horror from the San Francisco School Board, with 4 open seats this election year, is that they are willing to pay tens of thousands of dollars to change the names of 44 schools while they sit empty and the workingclass who attends most of these schools fall behind sitting at home in front of a screen. Mayor Breed’s letter condemning this theft of our tax dollars is at abc7news.com/education/mayor-breed-blast…
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Curtis Reliford – Santa Cruz Peace Train
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Santa Cruz activist Curtis Reliford discusses being attacked recently and his efforts to continue providing clothes and other materials to those in need across the USA.
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Wednesday 10/21: Holding Court: Democracy Under Attack, the Role of SCOTUS, & the 2020 Election
Alliance for Justice | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Online via Zoom…
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Hunger is created
Hans Peter Vikoler | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Today we produce and waste more food – although often produced in an unsustainable way – than is actually necessary to feed all of humanity. The fact that people are starving should therefore no longer exist. Hunger is created by other, full people. In wars, hunger is deliberately used as a weapon, then one can actually speak of murder. In other cases, hunger is simply tolerated or caused by irresponsibility.
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Tuesday 10/20: Digital Town hall: How the Amy Coney Barrett SCOTUS Nomination Threatens Ours Rights
PFAWP | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Online via livestream…
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Elite Conspiracies Are Actually Credulosity Theory Plots By Elites That Oppress Plebeians
BLUES | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Plebeian conspiracies are simply prosecuted as ‘crimes’. Plebeians are shamed into regarding elite conspiracies insouciantly.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/18/1883768…

Tuesday 10/20: Immigration & Environment: Building Upon Our Roots for a Just Future
League of Consv. Voters and partners | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Online via livestream…
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Women March in SF for Rights and to Protest Trump
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Women protest in cities throughout US…
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Newsom Administration approves 6 more fracking permits, bringing the total to 54 this year
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
“Gov. Newsom sacrifices our health, food, water and climate while dodging criticism when he issues new fracking permits on a Friday night,” said Alexandra Nagy, California Director of Food & Water Watch and Food & Water Action. “Newsom’s concern over climate change is a deceptive mirage as his actions reveal a strong adherence to the status quo.
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Report Card On SF Community College Board Of Trustees
HEAT | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
San Francisco City College HEAT and The SF City College Collective have issued a Report Card on the San Francisco City College Board of Directors…
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Thursday 10/22: Immigration, Equal Protection, and the Promise of Racial Justice (Day 1)
NAACP LDF & CHRGJ NYU | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Virtual conference (FREE)…
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Friday 10/23: Immigration, Equal Protection, and the Promise of Racial Justice (Day 2)
NAACP LDF & CHRGJ NYU | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Virtual conference (FREE)…
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Manu Koenig and Trail Now PAC Apologize for Anti-Semitic Cartoons Featuring John Leopold
Linda Pierce, Santa Cruz News Group | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Manu Koenig, candidate for Santa Cruz County Supervisor in District 1, has apologized to the Jewish community following the public outcry over the publication of a series of cartoon caricatures considered to be anti-Semitic of his opponent incumbent Supervisor John Leopold, who is Jewish. In an email interview conducted on October 16, Manu Koenig stated: “I was so horrified to realize that the cartoon we had used in our campaign ad about the rail corridor could be considered anti-Semitic. That was not our intention but I now understand how it could be perceived that way given the catalogue of the artists’ work. W…
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the con-vid hoax
ALETH | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
there is no “covid” and bill gates is its propheteer…
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Security Resources for Anarchists and Activists
SpyBuster | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Federal regulations state that government agencies “May not investigate U.S. persons or collect or maintain information about them solely for the purpose of monitoring activities protected by the First Amendment or the lawful exercise of other rights secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States”. – But the Joint Base Lewis-McChord Anti-Terrorism Office (JBLMATO) is ignoring the law and still spying on you!
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/17/1883761…

Sunday 10/18: Your Vote is Power in Action! w/ Cast Members from “Hamilton” & MoveOn
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Online via livestream…
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Sunday 10/25: Virtual 26th Annual El Día de los Muertos w/ Oakland Museum of California
Oakland Museum of California | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Online celebration (FREE)…
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Friday 10/23: Anthea Butler on Scholars and Activism
Revolution Books | indybay.org | 2020-10-18
Revolution Books 2444 Durant Ave. Berkeley CA 94704…
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Pure Idiocy: UN Is Sure an Uninhabitable Hell Can Be Averted by Taxation
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-18
strategic-culture.org/wp-content/uploads… | Apparently, according to UN researchers our world is going to become ” an uninhabitable hell for millions of people” due to big names in business and politics not taking action to stop…

Whose Great Reset? The Fight for Our Future — Technocracy vs. the Republic
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-18
People living in the western world are in the greatest fight for the future of pluralist and republican forms of governance since the rise and fall of fascism 75 years ago. As then, society had to be built up from a war. Today’s war has been an economic war of the oligarchs against the republic, and it increasingly appears that the coronavirus pandemic is being used, on the political end, as a massive coup against pluralist society. We are being confronted with this ‘great reset’, alluding to post-war construction. But for a whole generation people have already been living under an ever-increasing austerity regim…
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Enemy seeking to foment internal strife, conflicts: Rouhani
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that enemies of the country are seeking to spread strife and conflict in the country, so that conspiracies of enemies must be foiled.
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Two exciting challenges to be organized by children at ICFF
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 19 (MNA) — Two exciting challenges called “Me: Leading Role”, and “In My Opinion” are going to be organized by children and young adults alongside the 33rd International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults (ICFF).
en.mehrnews.com/news/164857/Two-exciting…

VIDEO: US police pepper sprays protesters in Portland
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Using pepper spray, US Police Officers clashed with anti-racist protesters who marched in the streets in Portland.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164854/VIDEO-US-pol…

US ignoring progress, security of Islamic countries
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that the US pursues its goals and does not care about the progress and security of Islamic countries.
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Experts reacts to Trump’s skepticism over bin Laden’s death
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — US military experts have reacted to Trump’s comments about the survival of the al-Qaeda commander, Osama bin Laden.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164863/Experts-reac…

Iran’s Zarif, Afghanistan’s Abdullah hold meeting in Tehran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh announced in a tweet that Foreign Minister Zarif has begun talks with Head of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah.
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FM Zarif meeting with Abdullah in Tehran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Head of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah met and held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran On Sunday.
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VIDEO: Trump’s niece names him selfish, reckless
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — In an interview with the Skynews, the 55-year-old Mary Trump, the niece of the US President Donald Trump, calls his uncles selfish, reckless, and a person with psychological disorders that have never been treated.
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Iran to export, import weapons based on its defense policy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Iranian Ambassador to UK Hamid Baeedinejad said that as of today, Iran will export and import weapons based on its defense policy principles.
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Iran registers 3,890 new COVID-19 infections, 252 deaths
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 3,890 COVID-19 infections and 252 deaths due to the disease in the past 24 hours.
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Russia emphasizes developing defense coop. with Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Russian officials on Sunday announced that they will expand technical-military cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran in…
en.mehrnews.com/news/164864/Russia-empha…

Holy Prophet (S) Shrine reopened in Medina
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — After a hiatus that Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) Shrine had been closed due to the outbreak of coronavirus global pandemic, doors of the holy shrine were reopened as limited by fully observing of health protocols.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164824/Holy-Prophet…

US strategy regarding Iran produced no ‘positive result’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Former US National Security Adviser John Bolton said that the Trump administration’s foreign policy with respect to Iran has had no ‘positive results’ for Washington.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164825/US-strategy-…

40% discount on Chabahar-India cargo movement extended
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — The director-general of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department said the 40% discount on the movement of cargo between the port Chabahar and India has been extended.
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Border guards aiding deprived areas under pandemic
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — The Iranian border guards in South Khorasan Razavi province have been providing the people living in the deprived regions of the province with help under the pandemic.
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Army Political-Ideological Dept. warding off enemy threats
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — The Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) said Iran’s Army Political-Ideological Department has not allowed enemies to abuse and managed to thwart plots waged against the country.
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Grounds are provided for selling arms: defense minister
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Defense said that negotiations have taken place and there are grounds for selling arms and meeting the needs of customers after Iran’s arms embargoes were automatically lifted on Sunday.
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Iran “Resistance” strategy defeats US ” Maximum Pressure”
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Ali Rabiei noted, “Pushing back sanctions, reducing the effects of sanctions and increasing social resistance were the strategies of the Islamic Republic of Iran to overcome the US policy of maximum pressure.”
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VIDEO: Mustsee Tang-e Kāfarī in W Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-18
TEHRAN, Oct. 18 (MNA) — Tang-e KƒÅfarƒ´ which is located in Ilam Province, west of Iran enjoys unique tourist attractions. It can be considered one of the most important habitat settlements of the Neolithic era up to now.
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Former head of MI5 to lead electoral review. We need accountability
Maryam Jameela | thecanary.co | 2020-10-18
In the latest for The Canary’s series on the review of electoral regulation, we turn to the reviewers. | Lord Jonathan Evans is leading the committee carrying out the review into how election finances are run. Evans is the committee chair as well as former head of MI5. However, he also has questionable business links that potentially impact his ability to review our elections. | The people carrying out the review: | The Committee on Standards in Public Life has a chairperson (Evans himself), 4 independent members, and 3 political members. The committee is tasked with carrying out a public consultation and…
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Government adviser on Islamophobia calls for unity in the wake of France attack
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-18
Everyone should “work together” to counter extremism following an attack on a history teacher in France, the government’s Islamophobia adviser has said. | History teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded near Paris on Friday 16 October. Paty had previously been threatened for discussing caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed with his class, according to French police. | The suspect, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee unknown to intelligence services, was shot dead by police. | “We must not play into their hateful rhetoric”: | Qari Asim MBE, imam of Makkah Mosque and government adviser on Islamophobia, spoke out agai…
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Outsourced contact tracing service fails to contact 250,000 people, analysis says
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-18
The outsourced Test and Trace system has failed to reach nearly a quarter of a million close contacts of people who have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a new analysis.Failure: Private firms Serco and Sitel failed to contact 245,481 contacts in England, either online or from call centres over four months. Meaning they missed nearly 40% of contacts, the figures show. Labour said the figures show Test and Trace is “on the verge of collapse”. The party also said these figures highlight the need for a short national lockdown to allow the government to fix the system.(PA Graphics)Poor contact…
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MPs slam government for paying £7k a day to private sector Test and Trace consultants
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-18
Opposition MPs have slammed the government for paying £7k day rates to private sector consultants who’re helping the government to set up and run its testing system. Michael Gove has defended the practice. | Sky News has reported that it had seen documents revealing Boston Consulting Group (BCG) was paid about £10 million for around 40 consultants to provide 4 months’ work. This was between the end of April and late August. | The broadcaster said the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) received a 10 to 15% discount from BCG. Its day rates for public sector work reportedly range from £2,4…
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Burnham blames Sunak in Manchester lockdown row as he calls for Labour party support
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-18
Mayor Andy Burnham has blamed chancellor Rishi Sunak for being “the problem” in the row over a lockdown for Greater Manchester. It comes alongside confusion over talks with Downing Street.The feud between No 10 and the Labour mayor continued on 17 October. Downing Street said fresh talks had been set up for the weekend, only for Burnham’s office to deny this. Talks between him and Downing Street are reportedly now set to resume later on Sunday 18 October.Blame Sunak: Burnham has called for a return to the generosity of the original furlough scheme that saw the Treasury pay 80% of workers’ wages. But Sunak…
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Britannic Impunity: The UK Overseas Operations Bill
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-18
It was praised by Michael Clarke, former Director-General of the Royal United Services Institute, as “clear and entire laudable” — at least up to a point. The UK Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill would “give [British] troops serving overseas much-needed extra protection against fraudulent or frivolous claims against them of criminal behaviour.” It …
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France: Horrific decapitation unfolds as act of terror
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-18
“It is at the same time a teacher who was assassinated but it is also the freedom of thought, of expression, which were infringed,” Ricard said at a news conference in which he said an anti-terror probe was opened with charges of “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” and “criminal terrorist association.” | The killing of the history and geography teacher in the commune of Conflans-Saint-Honorine on Friday has caused upset for the continued terror threats in France and at the same time produced an outpouring of support about the tragedy.The attack occurred just after 5.30 p.m. (1500GMT) in the…
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Young US poll workers brace for Election Day as virus fears keep elders home
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-18
After scrambling to replace an aging force of poll workers most at risk from the coronavirus, U.S. election officials face the challenge of running the Nov. 3 voting with untested volunteers tasked with following strict health protocols in an intensely partisan environment.A nationwide drive that recruited hundreds of thousands of younger poll workers – the people who set up equipment, check in voters and process ballots – means most battleground states will not be understaffed, a Reuters review of Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin found.In nearly all of those states, mo…
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France’s Le Maire says to propose more controls on some ‘Islamist’ groups
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-18
French finance minister Bruno Le Maire said on Sunday he would propose reinforcing controls on the financial flows of some Islamist associations, after the beheading of a teacher by a suspected Islamist attacker.”There is a problem of financing a number of Islamist associations on which I think we can and must do better,” he told France 3 Television.
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Spanish republicans take to streets to call for prosecution of former king
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-18
Waving red, purple and yellow republican flags, demonstrators in 24 Spanish cities on Sunday called for the prosecution of the former king Juan Carlos who left Spain embroiled in controversy.The 82-year-old former monarch has been living in the United Arab Emirates since leaving Spain in August to avoid further embarrassing his son, King Felipe VI.”We are here to call for the corrupt former king to be prosecuted and to demand a republic,” said Juan Morillo, 74, a retired teacher, who joined hundreds of demonstrators in Seville.While not formally under investigation, Juan Carlos could become a target in two inquir…
yenisafak.com/en/world/spanish-republica…

Malaysia reports 871 new coronavirus cases and seven more deaths
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-18
Malaysian health authorities reported 871 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, a record daily count, raising the country’s total infections to 20,498.The Southeast Asian country, which imposed targeted lockdowns this month as infections surged, also recorded seven new deaths, bringing the total number of fatalities to 187.Health Ministry Director-General Noor Hisham Abdullah told reporters the infection rate had dropped since a third wave of infections in the country began four weeks ago.”We expect this third wave of infections to be more challenging. Although we are more prepared in terms of medical equipment, manpo…
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Dropped Prosecutions: The Afghan Files, Public Interest Journalism
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
In July 2017, two journalists working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Dan Oakes and Sam Clark, wrote of a stash of incriminating documents, running into hundreds of pages. They were “secret defence force documents leaked to the ABC”. These documents …
globalresearch.ca/afghan-files-public-in…

UAE minister of tolerance accused of sexual assault by Hay books festival worker
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-18
UAE minister of tolerance accused of sexual assault by Hay books festival worker | British woman says Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan sexually assaulted her at a villa on an island in the emirates | MEE and agencies | Sun, 10/18/2020 – 11: 26 | Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, 69, has denied the accusations (AFP) | A British woman has accused a senior Emirati royal of sexually assaulting her while sh…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-minister-…

‘We’ve Had Enough’: Women-Led Marches and Rallies in US Cities Nationwide Call for Trump’s Ouster and GOP Defeat
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
“His presidency began with women marching and now it’s going to end with women voting,” said head of the Women’s March. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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From ‘Twelve More Years!’ to ‘Lock Her Up!’ Trump Whips Proto-Fascist Michigan Crowd Into Frenzy
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
“Trump held a Nazi rally in Michigan. There is no other way to describe it.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Judge Trump’s Worthiness by Either Past or Future
Robert Freeman | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
The president encourages white supremacist groups and rationalizes right-wing terrorism when it is carried out against peaceful, legitimate protests of police brutality. (Photo: Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/18/judge-…

An Originalist Reading of Public Schools and the Absurdity of Amy Coney Barrett
Steven Singer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
Just imagine if we interpreted everything like people living in the 18th Century! (Photo: Astrid Riecken/The Washington Post via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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To Avoid Cleaning Up ‘Dumpings of This Elephant,’ Pelosi Gives White House 48 Hours to Agree on Covid-19 Relief Package
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
The two-day deadline, which means by the end of day Tuesday, said the Democratic House Speaker, “relates to if we want to get it done before the election, which we do.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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‘As American as Apple Pie’: #MyNameIs Hashtag Celebrates Beauty of Diversity After David Perdue’s Racist Attack on Kamala Harris
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
“Let’s build an inclusive America,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wa.). | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Leading Scientists Urge Voters to Dump Trump
Sara Reardon | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
President Donald Trump looks on as he departs a rally at Toledo Express Airport in Swanton, Ohio, on September 21, 2020. (Photo: Mandel Ngan Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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This Crisis Makes Clear: We Need a Four-Day Work Week, Now
Anna Bian ≠ca Roach | commondreams.org | 2020-10-18
Workers at an outdoor furniture manufacturer in Illinois make personal protective equipment. For some workers, the demand for their labor has skyrocketed during the pandemic and for others the opposite has happened. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Nurses protest NSW wage freeze
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-18
Mental health nurses from the Waratah Mental Health Centre branch protested the NSW government’s effective wage freeze outside their hospital, reports Niko Leka.
greenleft.org.au/content/nurses-protest-…

Thais want Coalition gov’t to sanction Thai dictatorship
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-18
Thai democracy activists took to streets after the violent police attack on a peaceful mass democracy protest in Bangkok, reports Peter Boyle.
greenleft.org.au/content/thais-want-coal…

Trinta biliàµes do ‘Recovery Fund’ destinados aos militares
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-18
Enquanto a “crise do Coronavirus” continua a provocar consequências socio-económicas devastadoras, também em Itália, uma grande parte do “Fundo para a Recuperaàßà£o” é destinada nà£o aos sectores económicos e sociais mais atingidos, mas aos sectores mais avanàßados da indústria bélica….
globalresearch.ca/trinta-bilioes-do-reco…

Marr just let Gove turn lying into a ‘new art form’
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-10-18
Michael Gove was on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday 18 October. And its host just let him twist coronavirus (Covid-19) facts, “unchallenged”. Or as one MP put it, Gove simply ‘ lied’. | Gove: turning lying into a “new art form”: | Cabinet Office minister Gove was talking about a range of issues. But as Green MP Caroline Lucas summed up, he turned “lies and prevarication into new art form”: | @AndyBurnhamGM,…
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Children used as spies by UK police continue to be put in harm’s way
Sophia Purdy-Moore | thecanary.co | 2020-10-18
Charity Just for Kids Law has warned that children who are used as spies by police in criminal investigations are still at risk. This is despite revised Home Office guidance stating that children should only be used in “exceptional circumstances”. | Child spies: | In a House of Lords debate held on October 2018, baroness Susan Williams shared evidence demonstrating that in some cases,…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/10/18/children…

Labour’s support for Rashford is a sham. Here’s why
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-10-18
If there’s a bandwagon to be jumped on, you can be sure that Keir Starmer’s Labour Party will be first in the queue. But its support for footballer Marcus Rashford’s campaign over free school meals is actually a sham. | Marcus Rashford: | Rashford has become a prominent anti-poverty campaigner. Most recently, he launched a petition calling on the government to end child food poverty. The petition has three asks: | “Expand free school meals to all under-16s where a parent or guardian is in receipt of Universal Credit or…
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Workers of Volkswagen Group subsidiary stage protests over closure of plant in Austria
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-18
Workers of the commercial vehicle manufacturing plant of MAN Truck & Bus àñsterreich AG (MTBàñ) in Steyr staged a protest following the announcement on closing their plant, which will put nearly 2,000 jobs at risk…
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Unelected Bolivian govt detains, doxxes, threatens international observers on eve of election
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-17
Bolivia’s unelected transitional administration has repeatedly threatened international electoral observers, detained monitors from Argentina in the airport, and shared the private information of Spanish supervisors with a far-right activist. By Ben Norton LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — On the eve of Bolivia’s first election since a violent November 2019 military takeover that removed President Evo Morales from office, the unelected de facto government has detained, doxxed, and threatened international electoral observers. On October 16, Bolivia’s migration department shared the private information …
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Unelected Bolivian govt detains, doxxes, threatens international observers on eve of election
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-17
Bolivia’s unelected transitional administration has repeatedly threatened international electoral observers, detained monitors from Argentina in the airport, and shared the private information of Spanish supervisors with a far-right activist. By Ben Norton LA PAZ, BOLIVIA — On the eve of Bolivia’s first election since a violent November 2019 military takeover that removed President Evo Morales from office, the un-elected de facto government has detained, doxxed, and threatened international electoral observers. On October 16, Bolivia’s migration department shared the private information …
thegrayzone.com/2020/10/16/bolivia-detai…

Will free and fair elections be held in Bolivia?
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-17
As Bolivia heads for a historic election, we look at the situation on the ground, the harassment of electoral observers from other countries and concerns regarding the system for early announcement of results…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/17/will-free…

Alberto Fernandez Rejects Argentinean Lawmaker’s Arrest in Bolivia
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-17
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez Friday denounced the arrest of Lawmaker Federico Fagioli by police agents upon his arrival in Bolivia to observe and guarantee the transparency of next Sunday’s presidential elections. | RELATED: | Argentina: Alberto Fernández Reassures Economy | Through a message on Twitter, the head of state held the coup-born regime’s leader Jeanine Añez responsible for the integrity of his country’s delegation of lawmakers who arrived in Bolivia to observe the Octobe…
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Bolivia: MAS Will Have Its Own Vote-Counting System
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-17
Bolivia’s Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) binomial Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca Friday presented to the international electoral observation missions the quick vote-counting system that the Party will use in the elections. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Violent Pro-Coup Extremists Assault MAS Canvassers | According to the MAS Electoral Control Direction, the quick count will provide real-time reports structured by observers at the local, departmental, and national levels. | The aim is…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-The-Left…

Bolivia: TSE Suspended The Quick-Vote Count
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-17
The Bolivian Supreme Electoral Court (TSE) Saturday decided to withdraw the new quick-count system, the Preliminary Results Dissemination System (Direpre) to avoid mistrust and confusion during Sunday’s elections. | RELATED: | Argentinean Lawmaker Released After Being Arrested in Bolivia | TSE President Salvador Romero said that the Electoral Court has carried out tests and simulations for Direpre over the last few weeks, but he “wants to inform the country that the results of t…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolivia-tse-susp…

Bolivian security forces detain Argentine deputy Federico Fagioli
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-17
The deputy from Frente de Todos coalition in Argentina was detained at the airport in El Alto by immigration officials, police and unidentified individuals and taken to a detention center in the airport…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/17/bolivian-…

Argentinean Lawmaker Released After Being Arrested in Bolivia
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-17
Lawmaker Federico Fagioli, who is part of the Argentine delegation to observe the presidential elections in Bolivia, was released this Saturday hours after being detained upon his arrival at the airport in El Alto. | RELATED: | Alberto Fernandez Rejects Argentinean Lawmaker’s Arrest in Bolivia | Fagioli, is safe at the Argentine embassy in La Paz after being mistreated by Bolivian police. | Political actors denounced on social media the arrest of Fagioli and the mistreatment…
telesurenglish.net/news/Argentinean-Lawm…

Will free and fair elections be held in Bolivia?
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-17
We talk to Zoe PC who is part of an election observation team from CODEPINK in Bolivia on the latest in election procedures, threats to election observers, the concerns with the DIREPRE system (which has since been suspended) and complaints of voter suppression…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/17/will-free…

Bolivia: First Election Since US-Backed Coup Creates Divisions
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-17
Eleven months after a U.S-backed military coup overthrew the democratically elected Evo Morales and his Movement to Socialism (MAS) party, Bolivians will go to the polls on Sunday, offering them a chance to repudiate the coup government of Jeanine Añez, who has ruled the country since last November. | The last year has been a period of constant political struggle, as the self-described “interim government” has fought to impose its rule on a rebellious population, attempting to bring sweeping changes to the Andean state.
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Senator Markey and Congressman McGovern Demand Fair Elections in Bolivia
commondreams.org | 2020-10-17
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US border police attack Native American protest against Arizona border wall
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
Thirty protesters were shot with rubber bullets and teargassed during a ceremony Monday held at a border checkpoint on O’odham lands in southern Arizona.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/trib…

Trump Got the Best COVID Treatment. For the Rest of Us He Wants “Herd Immunity”
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-10-17
Trump is alive because he got the best treatment science can deliver, buttressed by data gathered from the corpses he has already caused…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trump-got-the-best…

Kansas man arrested for threatening to ‘kidnap’ and ‘slash’ the throat of Wichita mayor over Covid-19 restrictions
rt.com | 2020-10-17
Wichita, Kansas Mayor Brandon Whipple has revealed a man was placed under arrest on suspicion of plotting to kidnap and kill the politician over frustrations with Covid-19 restrictions across the city. | Meredith Dowty, 59, was booked on Friday evening and could face a charge of a criminal threat over a series of text messages threatening the mayor. | “He said he was going to kidnap me and slash my throat and he needed my address because I needed to see the hangman — me and everyone who, something about tyranny,” Whipple told reporters. | The mayor said the suspect expressed his outrage over “mask mandat…
rt.com/usa/503815-wichita-mayor-covid-ki…

The “Non-Aligned” Nations Realign
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-17
In 1955 the US and the Soviet Union were in the midst of the Cold War. Both countries were pressuring Asian and African countries to align with them. In April of 1955, twenty-nine of these countries met in Bandung, Indonesia for the first Bandung (Asian-African) Conference. Most of the countries that attended were in the process of emerging from the shackles of colonial rule. | They met to address their common problems; sovereignty, political self-determination, non-aggression and equality.
popularresistance.org/the-non-aligned-na…

Agribusiness Interests Hijack 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-17
Oakland, CA -This World Food Day (October 16) amidst the ongoing pandemic and the devastating impact of the climate crisis, a Food Systems Summit is being planned a year from now by the United Nations, to fulfil the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals. As the Summit takes shape, it is obvious that it does not intend to trigger the deep systemic changes necessary to address the massive challenges that we face. The Summit will do more of the same — green and poor wash — to preserve and perpetuate interests of agribusiness and agro-chemical corporations at the expense of people and the plane…
popularresistance.org/agribusiness-inter…

Thursday 10/22: The Archive To Come
CCBCG | indybay.org | 2020-10-17
Attend the opening at: | In Social VR: hubs.mozilla.com/BRLaDhW/archive-gallery | Streaming on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/tttelematiccc | See the work on-line at www.tttelematiccc.com | And / or visit our physical gallery space | Hours: Small friend groups and individuals, by appointment | Address: ‚ÄØ323 10th St., San Francisco, CA 94103…
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No Real Change Can Come If Speech Is Restricted By Monopolistic Oligarchs
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-17
In a solid new article titled ” Facebook and Twitter Cross a Line Far More Dangerous Than What They Censor” on the cross-platform silencing of The New York Post’s publication of Hunter Biden’s emails, The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald writes the following: That is always how it will work: it is exclusively the voices on the fringes and the margins, the dissidents, those who reside outside of the factions of power who will be subjected to this silencing. Mainstream political and media voices,…
thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/no-real…

In Afghanistan, American Troops Patrol the Same Routes Their Fathers Did
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-17
Thousands of US soldiers continue to pace and patrol exactly the same routes as their predecessors did in 2001, fighting a seemingly endless conflict that both the American and Afghan public have long since soured on. | *** | Nineteen years …
globalresearch.ca/afghanistan-american-t…

‘We are in a truly Orwellian culture’: Amazon yanks Covid-19 skeptic’s book for ominously vague ‘content violations’
rt.com | 2020-10-17
Amazon has joined its Big Tech fellows in ramping up censorship of any criticism of the “official” Covid-19 narrative, deploying obfuscatory excuses to justify removing journalist James Perloff’s latest book, he told RT. | After selling a respectable 3,500 copies over the last two months, Perloff’s book on the coronavirus pandemic and its weaponization by world governments, ‘Covid-19 and the Agendas to Come: Red-Pilled,’ was suddenly “banned” by Amazon.com, the writer revealed on Twitter on Thursday. | t.co/MCvENktgr4 & I offer it in bulk quantities t.co/Fl
rt.com/usa/503778-perloff-amazon-censors…

‘We are in a truly Orwellian culture’: Amazon yanks Covid-19 skeptic’s book for ominously vague ‘content violations’
rt.com | 2020-10-17
Amazon has joined its Big Tech fellows in ramping up censorship of any criticism of the “official” Covid-19 narrative, deploying obfuscatory excuses to justify removing journalist James Perloff’s latest book, he told RT. | After selling a respectable 3,500 copies over the last two months, Perloff’s book on the coronavirus pandemic and its weaponization by world governments, ‘Covid-19 and the Agendas to Come: Red-Pilled,’ was suddenly “banned” by Amazon.com, the writer revealed on Twitter on Thursday. | BAD NEWS. After selling over 3,500 copies for Amazon since publication on August 20, Amazon has banned my boo…
rt.com/usa/503778-perloff-amazon-censors…

Trump, Occultism and the Cabbalistic Roots of Evangelical Christianity
Gordon Duff | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-17
Five hundred years ago, European Christians believed Talmudic Jews murdered Christian children to gather blood. This blood was used in making crackers (matzah). This is called “blood libel” and is a predominant belief among many Europeans, or was, and the basis of much of what is poorly named anti-Semitism. You see, very few European Jews are Semites, the most common race in the Middle East and much of North Africa. | To catch your attention early on, we include this comment from a review of a banned book on Amazon. The book is banned but the comment remains: | Nazism was a Sabbatean-Frankist Jewish creation, and…
thealtworld.com/gordon_duff/trump-occult…

Meet the Warehouse Worker Who Took On Amazon Over Inhumane Conditions
Michelle Chen | zcomm.org | 2020-10-17
Hibaq Mohamed organized her community in a fight against Amazon, protesting working conditions at a fulfillment center with one of the highest rates of injury…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/meet-the-warehouse…

Why Wasn’t There Any Post-Election Turmoil in Tajikistan?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-17
Unlike fellow former Soviet Republics Belarus and even neighboring Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan’s latest elections didn’t result in any turmoil even though one might have expected it to have due to some similarly discernible risk factors, but that wasn’t the case (at …
globalresearch.ca/why-wasnt-post-electio…

Persecuting Assange Is A Blow To Reporting And Human Rights Advocacy
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-17
If it were not for a tiny handful of journalists–ShadowProof’s Kevin Gosztola preeminent among them–Americans might be utterly unaware that a London magistrate, for the last month, has been considering nothing less than whether journalists have a right to publish information the US government doesn’t want them to. Not whether outlets can leak classified information, but whether they can publish that information on, as in the case of Wikileaks, US war crimes and torture and assorted malfeasance to do with, for instance, the war on Afghanistan, which just entered its 19th year, with zero US corporate me…
popularresistance.org/persecuting-assang…

Democratic Socialists of America goes all in for Biden
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
The decision to campaign for Biden violates the decision at the DSA’s own convention to not campaign for any Democratic Party candidate other than Bernie Sanders.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/dsoc…

War On Journalism w/ Eva Bartlett & Vanessa Beeley
Vanessa Beeley | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-17
Guests: | Vanessa Beeley | Eva Bartlett | Guest Co-Hosts: | Elizabeth Vos: | Co-Hosts: | Andrew Smith | Steve Poikonnen | Kendra Christian (Denver Free Asssange)…
thealtworld.com/vanessa_beeley/war-on-jo…

VIDEO: Gaza fires rocket to Zionist town
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-17
TEHRAN, Oct. 17 (MNA) — The Palestinian Information Center (PIC), on Twitter, released footage illustrating the moment when a rocket was fired from Gaza to the adjacent Zionists town.
en.mehrnews.com/news/164797/VIDEO-Gaza-f…

Amid Climate Crisis, Many Americans Still Don’t Know What the Green New Deal Is
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-17
Americans could be forgiven if the first time they heard about the Green New Deal was during the October 7 vice-presidential debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence. Viewers of Fox News may have heard about the Green New Deal, but the coverage on Fox, according to Media Matters, has, for the last two years, focused on tying it to radical socialism and issuing warnin…
truthout.org/articles/amid-climate-crisi…

Indigenous Defenders Are Front-Line Essential Workers
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-17
Canada – Expect to work 24/7 on-site. There are no benefits, no days off, and shelter is not provided. You will likely face threats, violence, criminalization, and arrest. | So, why are some of the most passionate, informed, brilliant, and resourceful people in Canada dedicating themselves to work that is insecure, dangerous, and unpaid? | Indigenous cultures are distinct but we share values of community, holistic understandings of all life, and a deep connection to the land and water. We know that colonial definitions of livelihood are incomplete and that our role is to live in harmony with the land that sustain…
popularresistance.org/indigenous-defende…

Lobster Pound Used By Mi’kmaw Destroyed By Fire
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-17
Nova Scotia, Canada – Early this morning, a fire destroyed a lobster pound (building/facility) used by Mi’kmaw fishers in the fishing village of Middle West Pubnico, Nova Scotia. | Global News reports: “The lobster pound is the same one that was swarmed, vandalized and ransacked by a large crowd of non-Indigenous commercial fishers and their supporters Tuesday night.” | That article notes that Mi’kmaw fisher Jason Marr said that non-Indigenous fishers had threatened on Tuesday night to “burn” his group out of the building if they didn’t leave and allow them to take the lobsters they had caught.
popularresistance.org/lobster-pound-used…

At Townhall, Biden Promises Big Green Infrastructure and Jobs
Juan Cole | zcomm.org | 2020-10-17
Spain’s Example Suggests he is Right…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/at-townhall-biden-…

America Is Complicit, as Yemen Spirals Toward Mass Starvation
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-10-17
Huthi rebel fighters inspect the damage after a reported air strike carried out by the Saudi-led coalition targeted the presidential palace in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on December 5, 2017. Saudi-led warplanes pounded the rebel-held capital before dawn after the rebels killed former president Ali Abdullah Saleh as he fled the city following the collapse of their uneasy alliance, residents said. (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP via Getty Images). | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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One hundred years of Indian communism
Prabhat Patnaik | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-17
(October 17, 2020 marks 100 years of the founding of the Communist Party of India. The party was formed in 1920 in Tashkent. On this occasion, we bring you an analysis of the history of the Indian communist movement by noted Marxist intellectual Prabhat Patnaik) | A theoretical analysis of the prevailing situation, from which the proletariat’s relationship with different segments of the bourgeoisie and the peasantry is derived, and with it the Communist Party’s tactics toward other political forces, is central to the party’s praxis. A study of this praxis over the last one hundred years of the existence of com…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/17/one-hundr…

Minneapolis protest demands legalization for immigrants
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-17
Minneapolis, MN – Around 100 people marched through downtown Minneapolis, October 14, from Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office to the Hennepin County Jail. The march was part of an ongoing campaign by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) demanding legalization for all immigrants including those eligible for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), TPS (Temporary Protected Status), and DED (Deferred Enforced Departure) status. More than a million immigrants that hold these statuses are in increasing danger of deportation because of recent court rulings that open the door to the Trump administra…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/17/minneap…

Minneapolis protest demands legalization for immigrants
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-17
Minneapolis, MN – Around 100 people marched through downtown Minneapolis, October 14, from Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office to the Hennepin County Jail. The march was part of an ongoing campaign by the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) demanding legalization for all immigrants including those eligible for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), TPS (Temporary Protected Status), and DED (Deferred Enforced Departure) status. More than a million immigrants that hold these statuses are in increasing danger of deportation because of recent court rulings that open the door to the Trump administra…
fightbacknews.org/2020/10/17/minneapolis…

Twelve migrants dead, others missing off the coast of Djibouti: IOM
news.un.org | 2020-10-17
Twelve migrants have died and others are missing after being thrown off a boat by smugglers off the coast of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported.
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The President, the Pandemic & the Election
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-10-17
The urgent problem of overcoming the existential crises–global warming, nuclear war, pandemics–has to be done within the general framework of existing institutions. We can improve them. But you won’t be able to overcome them in the relevant time frame…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-president-the-…

War in Nagorno-Karabakh Is a Gamechanger in Russian-Turkish Relations
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-17
After Turkey downed a Russian jet operating in Syria in late 2015, there was a major risk that the Syrian War could explode into a greater conflict between the two Eurasian countries. The Turkish attack resulted in the death of …
globalresearch.ca/war-nagorno-karabakh-g…

Corporatist Judge Barrett–Two More Senate Abstentions Needed to Stop Trump
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-10-17
The hearings were truly a travesty. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman – Pool/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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New Zealand pseudo-lefts support Labour and Greens in election
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
The International Socialist Organisation and Socialist Aotearoa support the re-election of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government, which is carrying out a historic assault on the living standards of the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/nzpl…

Tom Henehan: A revolutionary life
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the assassination of Tom Henehan, a member of the Political Committee of the Workers League–the predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party in the US. We are republishing here a tribute delivered by David North at a meeting in 1997.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/16/hene…

Saturday 10/17: Socialist and Labor Contingent to Protest Proud Boys
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-10-17
Mission High School steps (3750 18th St. near Dolores), San Francisco…
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The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-17
Gabriel ROCKHILL”The U.S. has established itself as the mortal enemy of all people’s government, all scientific-socialist mobilization of consciousness everywhere on the globe, all anti-imperialist activity on earth.” | — George Jackson | One of the founding myths of the contemporary Western European and American world is that fascism was defeated in WWII by liberal democracies, and particularly by the United States. With the subsequent Nuremburg trials and the patient construction of a liberal world order, a bulwark was erected–in fits and starts, and with the constant threat of regression–agai…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/17/th…

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/labo…

Supreme Court: A superstore for the super-rich?
Thomas Magstadt | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-17
This is America, after all, where rich white men can buy whatever they want, including members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.
nationofchange.org/2020/10/17/supreme-co…

Democrats let Amy Coney Barrett sail through Supreme Court confirmation hearings
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
In the course of the hearings, the Democrats deliberately downplayed the connection between the rush to confirm and install Barrett on the Supreme Court and Trump’s conspiracy to carry out an election coup.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/barr…

Members Of Secwépemc Unity Camp Shut Down Trans Mountain Pipeline
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-17
Canada – Several people were arrested on Thursday (Oct. 15) at the Trans Mountain construction site on Mission Flats in Kamloops. | Members of the We, the Secwépemc Unity Camp to Stop the Trans Mountain Pipeline walked across Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and onto the Trans Mountain site. There, at least two protesters sat on an excavator and called for others opposed to the pipeline expansion project to help stop the work being done. | When Trans Mountain employees told protesters they were violating a B.C. Supreme Court injunction prohibiting the obstruction of access to Trans Mountain’s worksites and that th…
popularresistance.org/members-of-secwepe…

Black Civil Rights Leaders Fear Barrett “Invites a Return to a Racist Past”
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-17
After four days of confirmation hearings, Black leaders of five major civil rights organizations are lining up in opposition to the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme court and the “deeply flawed” process Senate Republicans are using to secure her confirmation just weeks ahead of a contentious presidential election. | Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Kristen Clarke, president of the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, said Barrett…
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Dianne Feinstein Was Harder on Preteen Climate Activists Than She Was on Amy Coney Barrett
Mariah Kreutter | commondreams.org | 2020-10-17
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks as the Senate Judiciary Committee hears from legal experts on the final day of the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, on October 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Beirut protests mark a year since Lebanon’s mass uprising
Kareem Chehayeb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-17
Beirut protests mark a year since Lebanon’s mass uprising | Amid the crippling economic crisis and Covid-19 pandemic, and with no functioning government, there is little optimism change in Lebanon will happen anytime soon | Kareem Chehayeb | Sat, 10/17/2020 – 16: 55 | Protesters take to the streets of Beirut on 17 October to mark the first anniversary of the Lebanon uprising (Kareem Chehayeb) | Over a thousand…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/beirut-protes…

Mobilize the working class against the European Union’s “herd immunity” policies!
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
As Europe emerges as an epicenter of a global resurgence of COVID-19, the EU is pursuing a policy leading to deaths on an unprecedented scale, far surpassing the 200,000 deaths this spring.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/euro…

UK retailers ban glitter from store brand products this holiday season
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-17
As the movement against glitter brings awareness about microplastics, Morrisons, Waitrose and John Lewis’ store brand holiday products will be glitter-free for 2020.
nationofchange.org/2020/10/17/uk-retaile…

Fishermen oppose release of contaminated water from Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-17
The company which operates the plant, Tokyo Electric Power, has collected over 1.23 million tons of contaminated water since the collapse of the nuclear plant in 2011…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/17/fishermen…

7,000 new infections in 24 hours: Germany’s highest COVID numbers since beginning of pandemic
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
The German chancellor and leaders of the federal states are maintaining their policy of herd immunity despite the eruption of a second wave of coronavirus cases.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/germ…

Trump Says He May Leave the US If Biden Wins
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-17
U.S. President Donald Trump Saturday suggested that he would “have to leave the country” if he loses against the Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the upcoming November election. | RELATED: | US: Trump Plays Down COVID-19’s Impact on July 4th Celebrations | Trump made that statement amid a campaign event in Macon, Georgia, where he mocked the social distancing and face masks that Biden urges to his campaign events’ attendees. | “Running against the worst candidate in the history…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Says-He-Ma…

Twitter and Facebook censor New York Post report on Hunter Biden
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
The social media platforms Twitter and Facebook blocked and suppressed the sharing of links to a news article from the New York Post on Wednesday in a blatant act of online censorship.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/cens…

UK’s local lockdown system in disarray as COVID-19 cases surge out of control
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
This dispute been the local Labour authorities and central government confirms that combating the spread of this deadly disease cannot be left in the hands of any faction of the ruling elite, and their political representatives.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/couk…

Alarming spike of COVID-19 infections in Michigan amid ruling class push for “herd immunity”
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
Several Republican state senators in the Michigan Senate held an online meeting last Saturday, where they discussed steps towards the lifting of mandates to wear masks indoors despite a clear resurgence of the disease.
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Nine arrested over France teacher beheading
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-17
Nine arrested over France teacher beheading | The 47-year-old history teacher Samuel Paty was killed after showing his pupils cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad | MEE and agencies | Sat, 10/17/2020 – 15: 56 | The suspect was shot and killed by police near the school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northwest of Paris (AFP) | French police have arrested nine people over the beheading of a teacher near his school in…
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When Eastern Art Meets Western Arts
Jenn Zhu | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-17
However beautiful an art piece might be, or however delicious the food could serve the gourmet, people never stopped to change their taste on things. It is because the human’s nerves tend to gain fatigue easily when focusing on the …
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US condemns Turkey over reported test of Russian S-400 missile system
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-17
US condemns Turkey over reported test of Russian S-400 missile system | Ankara refuses to confirm or deny reports that it has tested the controversial air defence system near the Black Sea | MEE and agencies | Sat, 10/17/2020 – 10: 32 | Washington fears the S-400 could be used to gain intelligence on US weaponry (Reuters) | The United States condemned Turkey on Friday after reports emerged that Ankara had te…
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Trump administration reverses decision to not send $350 million in federal aid to fight California fires
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
As wildfires continue to destroy millions of acres throughout the US West Coast, the social and economic crisis continues to deepen in the region.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/fire…

Brazil’s COVID-19 deaths pass 150,000 mark amid back-to-school campaign
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
After reaching the grim milestone, state governments are following Bolsonaro’s homicidal back-to-school policies with the support of the unions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/17/braz…

Former correctional officer sentenced to 10 years in federal prison
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-17
“As a correctional officer, Lakesia Harden knew what she was doing when she engaged in drug trafficking and associated with Tremayne Linder, a convicted felon.”
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Thai students continue protests in face of government repression
wsws.org | 2020-10-17
The demonstrators have three core demands: the prime minister’s resignation, a new constitution, and an end to the suppression of government critics; as well as the reform of the monarchy.
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France: Authorities Identify Man Who Beheaded A Teacher
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-17
French authorities Friday identified the attacker who beheaded a history teacher in a Paris suburb after the professor had shown a caricature of Muhammad in a classroom. | RELATED: | One Dead And Several Injured After Uk’s Stabbing Incident | The crime was committed after a father of a student posted a video on social networks denouncing that the murdered 47-year-old teacher, Samuel Paty, had shown a caricature of Muhammad in a class on freedom of expression. | France’s National Anti…
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Colombia: New Scandal Links Politicians With Narcotraffic
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-17
The Colombian Prosecutor’s Office Saturday withdrew a pre-agreement reached with Laureano Martinez, former butler of the farm owned by the family of Colombian ex-ambassador to Uruguay Fernando Sanclemente, where authorities found a narcotics processing laboratory. | RELATED: | Former Mexican Defense Secretary Arrested in US On Drug Charges | This statement comes after it became known that Sanclemente did know about the drug business and tried to get his employee to plead guilt…
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