PDF of October 22 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-10-23
Download the 12-page PDF. If Trump won’t quit: Shut! It! Down! Rochester Labor Council resolution ALSO: Indigenous Peoples’ Day; Philly for Trans Lives; Up against the state: Providing water criminalized; Barrett nomination draws mass protests; Big $ militarizes police; Mumia on fascism; Elections under siege; From Nigeria to U.S., Black . . . | Continue reading PDF of October 22 issue at Workers.org…
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-10-23
Nigerian Federal airport workers stage one-day warning strike under conditions of mass unemployment, poverty and inequality in Africa’s largest country–which has fueled mass protests against state violence.
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From Texas to Nigeria, end police brutality!
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2020-10-23
Houston Hundreds of people gathered near Wazobia African Market on the southwest side of Houston on Oct. 14 to protest police brutality in Nigeria. They came together to draw attention to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, known in Nigeria for its extrajudicial killings, torture, extortion, frame-ups and blackmail. “End SARS” protests . . . | Continue reading From Texas to Nigeria, end police brutality! at Workers.org…
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Data from Bolivia’s Election Add More Evidence That OAS Fabricated Last Year’s Fraud Claims
Jake Johnston | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
The MAS Received More Votes in Almost All of the OAS’s 86 Suspect Precincts in 2020 than in 2019 On Sunday, October 20, Bolivians went to the polls and overwhelmingly elected Luis Arce of the MAS party president. Private quick counts released the night of the vote showed Arce receiving more than 50 percent of…
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Top 10 People to Blame if Joe Biden Loses (It’s Not The Left)
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
So, Joseph Biden, AKA “Kid Senile,” leads in the polls against Donald Trump, AKA “Kid Fascist Lunatic,” by such a large margin that it resembles a horse race in which one of the horses is an aged wiener dog with three legs. Right now, even though the polling does not account for the millions of voters who…
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Karl Marx’s debt to people of African descent
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-23
You do not need to be a Marxist to agree that the methodology of historical materialism is relevant to struggles on the ground in Africa and globally, not only to the European working-class.
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Marx, Engels and metabolic rift — Part Two
Mark Walsh | mronline.org | 2020-10-23
The development in 1909, by the German chemists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch of a technique for taking Nitrogen out of the atmosphere to produce ammonia (NH3) allowed for the production of synthetic fertilisers (and explosives) on an industrial scale.
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European Hypocrisy: Empty Words for Palestine, Deadly Weapons for Israel
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
In theory, Europe and the United States stand on completely opposite sides when it comes to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. While the US government has fully embraced the tragic status quo created by 53 years of Israeli military occupation, the EU continues to advocate a negotiated settlement that is predicated on respect for international…
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Ex-President Obama: Ten Ironies
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
The irony on Thursday morning cable news was too delicious not to savor. MSDNC anchor Halle Jackson could barely contain her glee over how former president Barack Obama had finally “taken the gloves off” and gone after Donald Trump by name while campaigning for Joe Biden the previous day. I have no idea if Obama really did “take the gloves off” on Wednesday. I have my doubts. But whatever he did, he may have answered the bell too late.
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Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
Political analysts of all stripes have concluded that President Trump has a base of supporters who are credulous, immovable, and unpersuadable. Allow us to briefly test that hypothesis, but to ignore the skins-shirts labels — Left-Right, Democrat-Republican — that often though not always determine how a person votes. Instead, we’d like to ask sincere Trump voters…
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The ‘Three-Legged Stool’: a Folksy, but Deceptive, Rhetorical Attack on Social Security
Richard Eskow | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
The “three-legged stool”: That phrase may not be familiar to everyone, but most people who work in public policy or private-sector insurance have heard it used to describe the U.S. retirement system. It suggests that our system for retirement security was designed to stand on three “legs”: Social Security, employer pensions, and individual savings. Subliminally,…
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The Year of Living Murderously, 1985
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
Greg Owen Is Not Going Where the Rich Are Going. He let the cancer take him before he became a too old punk rocker, his music too loud and his joy too diabolical. When I got to college in California in 1985, I came with a thick mustache and white trousers, a failed start at…
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Arrest warrant issued for MEE journalist Suadad al-Salhy in Iraq
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-23
Arrest warrant issued for MEE journalist Suadad al-Salhy in Iraq | Iraq ranked 162 of 180 countries in Reporters Without Borders 2020 Press Freedom Index | MEE staff | Fri, 10/23/2020 – 08: 07 | An arrest warrant for Middle East Eye journalist Suadad al-Salhy has been issued in Iraq over the charge of “defamation”. | A judge at Tahqiq al-Karada Court issued the warrant on Thursday, requesting Salhy be taken to al-Alawiya…
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White House Gangster Wants to Avoid Nuclear-Armed Stigma
John Laforge | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is about to win its 50th state ratification, the golden number needed for the treaty to “enter into force” or EIF. The list of 47 current signatories can be seen at ICAN.org, website of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning coalition…
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Advertising vs. Democracy: An Interview with Jean Kilbourne
Hugh Iglarsh | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
There it is, on page 56 of Jean Kilbourne’s book Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel: the graphic that stopped me cold and made me realize just how prophetic was her work (originally published in hardcover in 1999 as Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the…
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How BlackRock is on Track to Infiltrate a Biden Administration
Max Moran | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
The Democratic base, still scarred from the 2016 election, is frantic not to count its chickens before they hatch. But Wall Street and corporate America have no such qualms. As Joe Biden leads in national polls and swing states, the most powerful firms in the country are seeking assurances that his administration won’t crack down…
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COVID and the trade-off
Michael Roberts | mronline.org | 2020-10-23
Sweden has a relatively low level of urbanisation, is away from continental Europe and has a population prepared to apply social distancing with some discipline, the cumulative COVID death rate in Sweden is not far short of Italy and Spain, and is way higher than its Nordic neighbours, Denmark, Finland and Norway, which did impose …
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Mother calls for justice for son killed by police
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-23
Santa Ana, CA – A press conference was held October 20 to denounce the brutal killing of David Sullivan after a traffic stop by Buena Park Police on August 19, 2019 in Orange County. Chicano attorney Humberto Guizar called for the Orange County District Attorney to reopen the investigation and file charges of murder against the two involved officers. | After the press conference Guizar, Dianne Sullivan, her daughter Samantha and supporters gave public comments at the Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting calling for justice and charges against the police. Centro CSO organizer Carlos Montes called for a new i…
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Los ricos se vuelven más ricos, los pobres se vuelven más pobres y más enfermos
Editor | workers.org | 2020-10-23
“Los ricos se vuelven más ricos y los pobres más pobres”. El viejo cliché sigue siendo cierto, obscenamente cierto. En seis meses, de marzo a septiembre, cuando la clase trabajadora fue golpeada por COVID, el desempleo masivo y un aumento en la supremacía blanca, los ricos se hicieron más ricos. . . . | Continue reading Los ricos se vuelven más ricos, los pobres se vuelven más pobres y más enfermos at Workers.org…
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The Supine and the Ridiculous
Kathleen Wallace | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.” –Voltaire and also me. One of the criteria required to bring down power structures or individuals in government who no longer serve the people is to remove their veneer of inevitability and…
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We Can Do Better Than Capitalist Formal “Democracy”
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
An article I read shortly after Jacinda Ardern’s re-election in New Zealand noted, with a touch of weariness, that Labour’s victory came after a campaign measured in “weeks.” Folks there ought to count themselves lucky — the United States has endured years of campaigning in what has proved, to the surprise of no one, its nastiest…
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Tampa students rally against cuts to education, demand defunding of USF police department
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-23
Tampa, FL – On October 20, around 40 students and community members protested against the University of South Florida’s (USF) budget cuts and demanded defunding the campus police. Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) held the protest as part of their Chop from the Top and the Cops campaign and a new demand for USF to keep the College of Education after recent news of the department’s closure. | The reason for ending undergraduate education programs, according to USF, is that attendance has been low and that ending the program will save the school about $6.8 million. This decision is the beginning of…
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This Week’s Most Popular Articles
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-23
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Iran Seeks to Confuse the United States?
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-23
Another story that is more fiction than fact | Those who have been waiting for the elusive October Surprise that will upset the apple cart on election day are admittedly running out of time. The media’s unwillingness to even consider that the antics of Hunter Biden just might constitute an embarrassment of major proportions or even something worse has done much to kill that story. And the old tried and true expedient of starting a little war somewhere is also proving to be a false hope as no one appears ready to provoke the righteously…
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European Hypocrisy: Empty Words for Palestine, Deadly Weapons for Israel
Ramzy Baroud | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
In practice, despite the seeming rift between Washington and Brussels, the outcome is, essentially, the same. The US and Europe are Israel’s largest trade partners, weapon suppliers and political advocates.
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“A Barrett Confirmation Is a Catastrophe”
Zephyr Teachout | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
What Democrats Can Do to Block Trump’s Supreme Court Pick…
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Marx and popcorn on Halloween
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-23
Karl Marx drew on horror, gothic and fantasy literature throughout his mature works, evoking the power, wonder and terror of capital through supernatural allusions writes Aleks Wansbrough.
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Why the alternative to capitalism has to be ecosocialist
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-23
The growing discussion about system change is the result of how barbarous capitalism has become, writes Peter Boyle.
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A Day in My Life in the Time of Covid
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
Find the remote and flip on CNN to check the headlines, before immediately clicking it off, recalling my vow, made at least once a week, to never watch cable news again. I’ve taken similar vows about reading the New York Times, the Guardian and the Washington Post. But you can’t avoid them. They seek you out, relentlessly track you down, enter your mind, like it or not, like some cyber-Nosferatu, sucking your soul out before you’ve had the chance to fuel yourself with the day’s first bitter cup of Arabica. I think of Eliot’s line about J. Alfred measuring his days with “coffee spoons.” Mine, I fear, will be measu…
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Video: Armenia Launches Ballistic Missiles on Azerbaijan Amid Retreat in Nagorno-Karabakh Region
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-23
On the morning of October 22, Armenian forces launched ballistic missiles at targets inside the territory of Azerbaijan. According to the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry, 3 missiles were fired in the direction of the Siyazan region, two in the direction of …
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Libyan factions sign ‘permanent’ ceasefire following talks
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-23
Libyan factions sign ‘permanent’ ceasefire following talks | UN announces signing of agreement in Geneva to end fighting | MEE staff | Fri, 10/23/2020 – 10: 35 | General view during talks between the rival factions in the Libya conflict on 20 October 2020 at the United Nations offices in Geneva (AFP) | Warring factions in Libya have agreed to a “permanent” ceasefire following talks, the United Nations said on Friday. | Th…
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50 years since Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act
wsws.org | 2020-10-23
During the October Crisis, the Canadian state, led by Trudeau, exploited two terrorist kidnappings to carry out a coup de force, jailing and intimidating left-wing government opponents amid a growing working class upsurge.
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Chicago 7: Counter Cultural Learnings of America for Make Money Glorious Nation of Post-Truthvaluestan
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
If we internalize the language and imagery of the pigs, we will forever be fucked. — Abbie Hoffman, introduction to 50th anniversary edition of Steal This Book 1968. It was the best of times; it was the worst of times — love’s feral moans and Molotov cocktails were in the air — but what the…
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Trotsky on Fascism
Kathy Deacon | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
In the many articles, essays, and pamphlets Trotsky wrote about Germany in the early ’30s while exiled on the Turkish island of Prinkipo (gathered together in a 600-page volume, The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany, Pathfinder Press), he developed what many consider to be the most comprehensive theory of fascism to date. While the term…
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Thai govt. repeals emergency order a day after march demanding PM’s resignation
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-23
Protesters had submitted an unsigned letter for prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to accept abuse of power. They also gave an ultimatum of three days to the government…
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Rússia e Unià£o Europeia ainda està£o separadas pela Cortina de Ferro
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-23
O Ministro russo de Relaàßàµes Externas, Sergey Lavrov, é o diplomata mais importante do mundo. Filho de mà£e russa e pai armênio, ele simplesmente se encontra em outro nível. Aqui poderemos ver, mais uma vez, por que razà£o. | Vamos comeàßar …
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A Common Defense: Mobilizing Veterans in Labor
Steve Early, Suzanne Gordon | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump dissed a Gold Star family that lost a son in Iraq. He called Senator John McCain, America’s most famous prisoner of war, a “loser” for being captured in Vietnam. When asked about widespread sexual assault in today’s military, he dismissed it as a problem. He had to be publicly shamed into making…
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The Scourge of Herd Immunity
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
Covid-19 kills, and its kill rate is significantly higher than the flu. Some who recover develop insufficient immunity to prevent getting infected again. Some don’t appear to recover. They are stuck with debilities that last months, maybe longer. And it’s possible that this disease is chronic and lingers in some people, like herpes, a virus…
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Early Voting, Long Lines, and Voter Suppression
Beau Peters | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-23
November 3rd, Election Day in America, is rapidly approaching. However, early in-person voting has started in several states across the country and there are some concerning issues already coming to light this election year. Videos by voters have been circulating on social media sites such as Twitter, showing extremely long lines and long waiting periods. …
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How Trump Killed 220,000 Americans: the First Three Months of Covid
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
Epidemiologists agree that early intervention is crucial for curbing the worst effects of pandemics. America’s decentralized, state-level, bureaucratic response systems needed a President willing and able to take charge. Trump did the opposite. In order to keep market confidence as high as possible, Trump kept telling the public that all was well, leaving underfunded and privatized bureaucracies to navigate through the chaos.
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A Plastic-Coated World
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
Years ago, I had an opportunity to watch the dissection of a seabird. It was not an academic venture, but one of bearing witness to the devastation that industrial society has brought to countless species on our planet. The bird’s stomach contents revealed human detritus of all manner, plastic lighters, bottle caps, pens, even a…
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Electoral defeat in Vienna for Austria’s far-right Freedom Party
wsws.org | 2020-10-23
The extreme right-wing Freedom Party (FPàñ) has suffered a major defeat in the state and municipal elections in the Austrian capital of Vienna on October 11.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/23/vien…

Gold and Crypto: Is this How Charts Look Before a Monetary Collapse?
Hubert Moolman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-23
It is the the massive debt. It cannot be serviced. It will collapse the whole system. | The gold, silver and cryptocurrencies charts are showing signs of going parabolic. The US dollar is close to confirming a massive breakdown. | Gold, silver …
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Community Investment Must Supplement Racial Integration
John O’Kane | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
While we await what impact the BLM-spawned protests will have on race relations, one immediate result is clear. Major corporations have gotten out front of the issue and tried to kickstart change from the top. Companies like Walmart have opened their coffers, giving millions to the cause. And mainstream media organizations have included more people…
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Video: Rocco Galati Rocks Toronto’s Freedom Rally
Rocco Galati | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-23
Watch the video below where Rocco Galati, Constitutional Lawyer, spoke at Toronto Freedom Rally on October 17, 2020. | “What I quickly learned in the past month and a half is that mainstream media and social media are really no different. …
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Fractal Sites of Resistance
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-23
Mussolini’s Italy in its undisciplined, messy totalitarianism couldn’t effectuate the kind of state and personal transformations that Hitler’s national socialism did. The Italians just couldn’t subordinate themselves either to the State or to a demagogue leader to the same degree that Hitler could conflate a Deutchland uber alles with his own will to power mania.
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Iraq’s lost boys: Former Islamic State child soldiers left without help
Tom Westcott | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-23
Iraq’s lost boys: Former Islamic State child soldiers left without help | Tom Westcott | Fri, 10/23/2020 – 08: 10 | Hundreds of Iraqi boys, many of them Yazidis, were forced to become child soldiers by IS, but few are getting any support to help them move on from their experience | Before his rescue from the Islamic State group, Hani, a kidnapped Yazidi boy, had been sheltering for months in a tunnel in Mosul’s old…
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Biden claims he never said he’d ban fracking, despite video, admits he wants to ‘transition’ away from oil industry
rt.com | 2020-10-23
Joe Biden said he wants to “transition” away from oil and have all industries at “net zero emissions” by 2035. He also claimed he’s never said he would ban fracking, despite video evidence of him saying just that. | “Would he close down the oil industry?” President Donald Trump asked of Biden at Thursday’s presidential debate. “Would you close down the oil industry?” | “I would transition from the oil industry, yes,” Biden admitted, a statement Trump called “big” and critics latched onto on social media, taking it as an admission he would destroy an industry vitally important to the economies of many states.
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Biden called out for ‘lying’ that Republican Congress obstructed criminal justice reforms under Obama
rt.com | 2020-10-23
Presidential candidate Joe Biden claimed at the final debate with Donald Trump that the Democrats couldn’t pass criminal justice reform as the GOP controlled Congress, prompting online posters to point out it wasn’t the case. | President Trump took a jab at his electoral challenger during the Thursday debate, asking, “Why didn’t you get [criminal justice reform] done? … You know why, Joe? Because you’re all talk and no action.” | Biden was quick to defend the former Democratic administration’s supposed inaction on the issue, saying he and former president Barack Obama’s “had a Republican Congress,” which hin…
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‘We had a good relationship with Hitler’: Biden slams Trump for meeting Kim Jong-un, compares North Korea to Nazi Germany
rt.com | 2020-10-23
Slamming President Donald Trump’s “good relationship” with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, Joe Biden confused debate viewers by referring to a “good relationship” between the US and Adolf Hitler. | Calling Kim a “different kind of guy” during a discussion on North Korea, Trump touted his ability to talk to the controversial leader and said his civil relationship with him has helped the two countries avoid a nuclear war. | “We’re not in a war. We have a good relationship… Having a good relationship with leaders of other countries is a good thing,” Trump said during the Thursday night debate. Biden slammed th…
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Biden calls Rudy Giuliani ‘Russian pawn’ as he & Trump accuse each other of taking over foreign money in debate
rt.com | 2020-10-23
Democratic hopeful Joe Biden has alleged that Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s lawyer, is working as a “Russian pawn” to help his client win the 2020 race, as both candidates accuse each other of taking foreign cash. | Also on rt.com | | WATCH LIVE: Trump and Biden face off for final presidential debate in Nashville | “[Trump’s] own national security adviser told him that what is happening with his buddy — oh, I shouldn’t… well, I will — his buddy Rudy Giuliani. He’s being used as a Russian pawn. He’s being fed information that is Ru…
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Hariri’s costly comeback
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-23
If Lebanon’s reappointed premier wants to fight corruption, he could start by admitting his own and his family’s share of responsibility | Even by Lebanese and Arab standards, President Michel Aoun’s reappointment of Saad al-Hariri as prime minister was bizarre. Never in the history of ‘Arab revolutions’ has a head of government been forced to resign due to mass anti-corruption protests only to be reinstated a year later, under a French initiative and heavy American pressure, in the guise of a reformer. | The stage was set for Hariri’s comeback — or reimposition — by a contrived financial crisis that…
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A New Democracy Movement in Thailand
Ureerat Wilson | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
Thailand’s conservative middle classes are now joining populists in a movement against their military-backed system…
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‘We Didn’t Go Far Enough’
Jeremy Corbyn | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
Interview on his tenure, its controversies and its lessons…
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Rochester AFL-CIO Calls for General Strike if Trump Steals Election
Mike Elk | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
This week, the 70,000 member Rochester AFL-CIO Labor Council became the first regional AFL-CIO body in the United States to call for a General Strike if Trump does not respect the outcome of this year’s election.
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Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed at Fifty
Liza Featherstone | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire’s book, first published in English 50 years ago, urges viewing students as interlocutors or partners in the learning process…
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Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times
Henry A. Giroux | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
In the end, there is no democracy without informed citizens and no justice without a language critical of injustice…
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Chileans mobilize in advance of a historic plebiscite
Bree Busk | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
After seven months in quarantine, protesters have returned to the streets to reawaken the uprising they initiated the previous October…
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The Biden Tax Plan: The More Progressives Look, the More Progressives Like
Sam Pizzigati | zcomm.org | 2020-10-23
This package of serious tax-the-rich proposals will have no easy road through Congress…
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Saturday 10/24: “Us Kids”: Film Sneak Preview on Parkland Gun Violence Survivors & March for Our Lives
Us Kids | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Online screening (on demand for free)…
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Saturday 10/24: The perils of Judge Barrett’s “originalism”
David Giesen | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Join Zoom Meeting | zoom.us/j/98214579358?pwd=ME9XdWV6azMrdH… | Meeting ID: 982 1457 9358 | Passcode: tSm4Wb…
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Will the 2020 Election be Stolen? Webinar October 25th
Allan Rees | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Online webinar with 4 election integrity experts will discuss how the 2020 Election could be stolen. You are invited to participate in the Q&A. 3 hours.
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Green Voter Guide paper and online versions
Green Party | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Here is info about Voter Guides and endorsements by the Green Parties of Alameda, San Francisco, Santa Clara, and Sonoma counties:…
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Oakland’s new Encampment Management Policy (EMP) threatens the unhoused
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Black, Asian, & Latino Adults Have The Most Trouble Paying The Rent During The Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic:…
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Justice Ginsburg’s example helped mitigate bad outcomes for women globally
Ramona du Houx | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Climate change exasperates violence against women worldwide — Justice Ginsburg’s example helped mitigate bad outcomes. Elected officials say if Barrett is confirmed systemic injustices, women’s rights and climate issues will get worse.
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Eight Black workers sue S.F. health department for racial discrimination
repost | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Eight Black workers in the City and County of San Francisco filed suit against the city for systemic racism and bullying.
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Saturday 10/24: VOTE WITH US! Massive Virtual Rally to #GOTV of Youth Across America
Future Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Online rally…
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Tuesday 10/27: Images, Memory and Justice with Bryan Stevenson
Institute of the Arts and Sciences, UCSC | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
Online Event | ias.ucsc.edu/events/2020/images-memory-a……
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HEAT CCSF Collective Gives a “Report Card” That Flunks the CCSF Board of Trustees
HEAT | indybay.org | 2020-10-23
San Francisco HEAT Higher Education Action Team and the CCSF Collective present their | Report Card on the performance of the San Francisco City | College Board of Trustees.
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[Research Paper] Gun violence in the U.S.: It is past time we listen to the voices of women and black communities
Anita Raj | thelancet.com | 2020-10-23
The United States (U.S.) presidential election is upon us at a time when the nation faces increasing polarization on many issues, including guns and violence, and our presidential candidates reflect this polarization. The incumbent Republican Nominee, Donald Trump, warns voters that his opponent will “take away your guns (and) destroy your Second Amendment,” which secures the right of the people to keep and bear firearms [1]. Democratic nominee and former Vice President under Barack Obama, Joe Biden, in fact includes in his platform a commitment to effective gun control policies, including banning assault weapons…
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Imperial academics share insights on Environment Bill with parliamentarians
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-23
Imperial and LSE academics held a roundtable with members of the House of Lords to share insights on the Environment Bill.
imperial.ac.uk/news/207033/imperial-academics-share-insights-environment-bill

Cannabis pain insights and kidney disease discoveries: News from the College
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-23
Here’s a batch of fresh news and announcements from across Imperial.
imperial.ac.uk/news/207093/cannabis-pain-insights-kidney-disease-discoveries

Scottish activists block gates at oil refinery in pollution protest
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-23
Climate activists have blocked the gates of the Ineos oil refinery at Grangemouth with boats in a protest against pollution.Extinction Rebellion Scotland claims Ineos is Scotland’s biggest climate polluter. And the group is staging the blockade as part of a programme of action.Small groups of no more than six people have locked themselves together at the gates. They aim to remain there all day on 23 October.Two boats are being used to block the entrances to the refinery and the headquarters.Activists plan to remain at the scene all day (Extinction Rebellion Scotland/PA)”We are running out of time”: Annie L…
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One in 10 asked to work by bosses while furloughed
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-10-23
Nearly one in 10 workers whose wages were covered by the government have said their bosses asked them to work during furlough, which was against the rules of the scheme. At the same time, criminal gangs have syphoned off nearly £2bn in taxpayer funds allocated to help businesses and furloughed workers, according to a new report. | Review: | The revelations come in a review of the furlough scheme by the National Audit Office (NAO) which praised civil servants for pushing through employment support schemes at high speed. But the NAO said that, in their haste, they might have left some doors open for f…
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German health minister expects COVID-19 vaccine in early 2021
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-23
Germany’s health minister expects a COVID-19 vaccine to be available early next year and believes a large proportion of Germans who want the shot could be vaccinated within six to seven months of enough doses being available.Jens Spahn was quoted as saying in Der Spiegel on Friday that a vaccine could be available in January, or maybe in February or March, or even later, but said there would be no compulsory vaccination.”Of course, it would be best if a vaccine could prevent new infections. But it would also be a benefit if it makes the course of the disease milder,” said Spahn, who tested positive for coronaviru…
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Swiss report 10 more coronavirus deaths, 6,634 new infections
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-23
Coronavirus infections rose by 6,634 confirmed cases, Swiss health authorities said on Friday, as the nation considers tightening restrictions meant to slow the accelerating spread of COVID-19.The total confirmed cases in Switzerland and tiny neighbouring principality Liechtenstein topped 100,000, rising to 103,653, and the death toll rose by 10 to 1,877.The numbers come as Germany has put Switzerland on its risk list for coronavirus hot spots and as the government in Bern considers tightening restrictions on public life if case numbers keep rising.
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Libya’s warring sides sign ‘permanent’ cease-fire deal
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-23
The UN special envoy on Libya on Friday announced the signing of a cease-fire agreement between the delegations of both main warring parties in Libya.Stephanie Turcos Williams, who heads the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), said the Libyan parties reached an agreement for a “permanent” cease-fire in all areas of the country.”Today is good day for the Libyan people,” said Williams at a news conference.As the parties were signing the agreement, UNSMIL released a statement, saying: “Good news for Libyans.””The 5 5 Joint Military Commission talks in Geneva today culminate in a historic achievement as Libyan team…
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Russia registers record number of daily COVID-19 cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-23
Russia has registered a new record in the daily coronavirus cases on Friday — 17,340 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past day. The total number of people, who have been exposed to the infection, exceeded 1.48 million, meaning over 1% of the Russian population has already contracted the virus. According to Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, the active cases stand at 335,870 and the situation has a tendency to further deteriorate.The virus has already claimed 25,525 lives in Russia, including 283 over the last 24 hours.Recoveries increased by 11,263 since Thursday to reach 1.11 million.Since the beginn…
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1MDB scandal: Goldman Sachs to pay Singapore $122M
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-23
Goldman Sachs will pay $165 million Singapore dollars ($122 million) to Singapore for its role in Malaysia’s 1MBD money laundering scandal, local media reported on Friday.The American multinational investment bank entered a deferred prosecution agreement with the US Justice Department on Thursday, according to Channel News Asia.Under terms of the deal, Goldman agreed to pay a $2.3 billion fine for breaking anti-bribery laws and to disgorge $600 million of ill-gotten gains, read the report.Singapore’s Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) has given Goldman Sachs Singapore a 36-month conditional warning in place of p…
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Turkish forces arrest 12 FETàñ suspects
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-23
At least 12 suspects were arrested on Friday for their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETàñ), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup.This came after prosecutors in the southeastern Diyarbakir issued arrest warrants for 15 suspects for being in contact with senior members of the terror group, said a security source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.A total of 12 out 15 suspects, including an active-duty soldier, were arrested by the police’s anti-terrorism branch. A hunt for the remaining three suspects is underway.FETO and its US-based leader…
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Over 1.3M coronavirus patients recover in Africa
yenisafak.com | 2020-10-23
Africa continued to maintain a more than 80% recovery rate with 1,387,022 patients having recovered as of Friday, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).At least 40,690 people have died of the virus across the continent, revealed the latest update by the Africa CDC. The number of confirmed cases has reached 1,685,589.Southern Africa is the hardest hit region with 785,600 cases and 20,300 deaths; however, it also has the most recoveries that currently stand at 702,500.North Africa recorded 454,100 cases, East Africa 199,800, West Africa 186,600 and Central Africa 59,500.Sou…
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Australian universities pseudo-left “network” postpones forum at NTEU’s behest
wsws.org | 2020-10-23
The NHEAN is opposed to any action that would threaten the role of the unions that have presided over the destruction of 90,000 university jobs since March.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/23/unis…

Australia, Tarnished Crown: Finding the Thorns of a Gambling Empire
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-23
The Crown Resorts Annual General Meeting last year, held inside the company’s now flagging flagship Melbourne casino, was an ill-tempered matter. Members of the board were in no mood to please shareholders, many of whom have occupied the barricades of …
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Thailand’s Free Youth movement defies regime with nightly mobilisations
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-23
A week after the Thai regime issued an emergency decree banning gatherings of more than five people, Peter Boyle reports the Free Youth student-led democracy movement has been staging nightly mass gatherings around the country.
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Trial of the Chicago Seven through a liberal lens
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-23
The Trial of the Chicago Seven retells the story of the 1969 show trial of seven high-profile activists, while stripping away much of the period’s radicalism in the process, writes Alex Salmon.
greenleft.org.au/content/trial-chicago-s…

The China syndrome
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-23
There has never been a better demonstration of how corrupt, complicit and hypocritical government institutions have become in their dealings with China than what has gone down with Crown Casinos, writes Suzanne James.
greenleft.org.au/content/china-syndrome

Bondi beach must not be privatised
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-23
The community is incensed about a private club’s proposal to privatise a section of the iconic beach, reports Jim McIlroy.
greenleft.org.au/content/bondi-beach-mus…

New US Command for NATO Naval Battle in Europe
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-23
A new NATO command was born in Norfolk (Virginia, USA): the Norfolk Joint Force Command, called “Atlantic Command,” is a clone of the Naples Joint Force Command with headquarters in Lago Patria (Naples). Its constitution was approved by the North …
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Watch the Last 2020 Presidential Debate With ‘The Nation’
The Nation | thenation.com | 2020-10-23
Watch the Last 2020 Presidential Debate With ‘The Nation’…
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Dianne Feinstein Demonstrates Why Democratic Challenges to Democratic Incumbents Are Necessary
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2020-10-23
Dianne Feinstein Demonstrates Why Democratic Challenges to Democratic Incumbents Are Necessary…
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Corporate Consultants Set Their Targets on American Universities
Jaskiran Dhillon, Cinzia Arruzza, AAUP-TNS Media Collective | thenation.com | 2020-10-23
Jaskiran Dhillon, Cinzia Arruzza, AAUP-TNS Media Collective Corporate Consultants Set Their Targets on American Universities…
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What Would Hell Be Like for Donald Trump?
Ariel Dorfman | thenation.com | 2020-10-23
What Would Hell Be Like for Donald Trump?
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-hel…

The ‘Dark Winter’ of Covid-19 Overshadows the Debate
Jeet Heer | thenation.com | 2020-10-23
The ‘Dark Winter’ of Covid-19 Overshadows the Debate…
thenation.com/article/politics/trump-bid…

EndSARS protests continue in Nigeria two days after killing of close to a dozen people
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
The attack on protesters in Lagos on Tuesday has led to further protests both in the country and abroad. Nigerians have been protesting for systemic changes in policing since early October…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/22/endsars-p…

PDF of October 22 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-10-22
Download the 12-page PDF. If Trump won’t quit: Shut! It! Down! Rochester Labor Council resolution ALSO: Indigenous Peoples’ Day; Philly for Trans Lives; Up against the state: Providing water criminalized; Barrett nomination draws mass protests; Big $ militarizes police; Mumia on fascism; Elections under siege; From Nigeria to U.S., Black . . . | Continue reading PDF of October 22 issue at Workers.org…
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“We Are Asking for Justice”: #EndSARS Anti-Police Brutality Protests Grow as Nigerian Forces Kill 12
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-10-22
Mass protests against police brutality continue in Nigeria after security forces shot and killed 12 peaceful protesters in Lagos this week. Video widely shared on social media shows security forces firing directly into a crowd of demonstrators in Lagos singing the country’s national anthem. Authorities have imposed a curfew to clamp down on the growing demonstrations, which started as a demand to disband the notorious police unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, but which have since grown into a wider movement against police brutality and official impunity. “We are asking for justice. We are aski…
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Nigeria’s Racing Towards a Nightmare Scenario
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
The sudden outbreak of multisided violence in Nigeria’s largest city is pushing Africa’s most populous country towards the nightmare scenario of full-fledged destabilization which could have tremendous humanitarian and geopolitical consequences if it isn’t stopped before the situation spirals even …
globalresearch.ca/nigeria-nightmare-scen…

“We Are Asking for Justice”: #EndSARS Anti-Police Brutality Protests Grow as Nigerian Forces Kill 12
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-22
Mass protests against police brutality continue in Nigeria after security forces shot and killed 12 peaceful protesters in Lagos this week. Video widely shared on social media shows security forces firing directly into a crowd of demonstrators in Lagos singing the country’s national anthem. Authorities have imposed a curfew to clamp down on the growing demonstrations, which started as a demand to disband the notorious police unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, but which have since grown into a wider movement against police brutality and official impunity. “We are asking for justice. We are aski…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/22/nigeria_…

Nigerian Forces Kill 12 as Anti-Police Brutality Protests Grow
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-22
Mass protests against police brutality continue in Nigeria after security forces shot and killed 12 peaceful protesters in Lagos this week. Video widely shared on social media shows security forces firing directly into a crowd of demonstrators in Lagos singing the country’s national anthem. Authorities have imposed a curfew to clamp down on the growing demonstrations, which started as a demand to disband the notorious police unit known as the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or SARS, but which have since grown int…
truthout.org/video/nigerian-forces-kill-…

International outrage grows following the killing of peaceful protesters in Nigeria
Sophia Purdy-Moore | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
Nigeria’s notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was officially disbanded on 11 October. The Nigerian government pledged to investigate acts of police brutality and human rights violations. But state-sanctioned violence continues. Youth-led protests against police brutality and impunity have been taking place across Nigeria and beyond since 8 October. | Lekki toll gate massacre: | On 20 October, national polic…
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Britain’s role in training the army behind the Nigerian protestor killings
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2020-10-22
Britain’s relationship with former colony Nigeria is under the spotlight after the alleged shooting dead of unarmed protestors by the country’s security forces. | Protests against police brutality have been underway across the country. According to Amnesty International, police and soldiers shot dead at least 12 protesters on 20 October. | The Nigerian Army responded to reports of violence against p…
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Millions salute election victory in Bolivia
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2020-10-22
Supporters of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) in the streets Oct. 18 to celebrate the landslide victory of their candidate. Millions of people cheer with delight the landslide victory of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) in the Bolivian elections. We join them. The rightists who came together for last November’s . . . | Continue reading Millions salute election victory in Bolivia at Workers.org…
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How Bolivia fights fascism — It takes more than the ballot box
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-22
Anya Parampil speaks with journalist Ollie Vargas in La Paz, Bolivia about the historic victory of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party in the October 18 elections. Video by Ben Norton Parampil and Vargas discuss the role of Bolivia’s social movements in overturning the coup regime that came to power in 2019, as well as the expectations of average people as the new government of Luis Arce takes power.
thegrayzone.com/2020/10/21/bolivia-fasci…

The OAS Helped Facilitate Last Year’s Coup Against Evo Morales. Now It’s Observing Today’s Bolivian Elections
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-10-22
Jacobin See article on original site Today, nearly one year after Evo Morales was ousted in a coup facilitated by the Organization of American States (OAS), Bolivia will finally vote in new elections. With Luis Arce, the candidate of Morales’s Movement for Socialism–Political Instrument for the Sovereignty of the Peoples (MAS) party leading in polls, …
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Morales’ Socialist Party Wins Election
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-22
Ron RIDENOUR | A victory for the majority of Bolivians, a victory for the world’s poor, the indigenous, and supporters of equality, world peace, bread and land for all. October 19 exit polls show that the majority’s leader, Luis Arce, and running mate David Choquehuanca Céspedes, won the election. | With around a quarter of the votes counted, exit polls showed them ahead of rightest opponents with 52-53% of the vote. No runoff election wil…
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MAS Returns to Power in Bolivia One Year After US-backed Coup
Arnold August | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
Despite a year of unbridled state repression, including massacres committed against supporters of former Bolivian President Evo Morales, who was deposed just weeks after being declared the victor in the country’s October 2019 election, the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) secured a resounding victory on October 18 for candidate Luis Arce, Morales’s former finance minister.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/mas-returns-…

Bolivia: The people defeat the coup
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
Bolivians have overwhelming voted the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) back into office in a resounding reversal of last year’s coup, writes Federico Fuentes.
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Bolivia: The people defeat the coup
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
Bolivians have overwhelmingly voted the left-wing Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) back into office in a resounding reversal of last year’s coup, writes Federico Fuentes.
greenleft.org.au/content/bolivia-people-…

El MAS recibió más votos en 2020 en casi todos los 86 recintos sospechosos según la OEA en 2019
Matt Sedlar | cepr.net | 2020-10-22
In English El domingo 20 de octubre, los bolivianos acudieron a las urnas y, por abrumadora mayoría, eligieron como presidente a Luis Arce del partido MAS. Los conteos rápidos privados publicados la noche de la votación mostraron que Arce recibió más del 50% de los votos y tenía una ventaja de más de 20 puntos …
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America Has No Allies, Only Hostages
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-22
The new president-elect of Bolivia, Luis Arce, has told the Spanish international news agency EFE that he intends to restore the nation’s relations with Cuba, Venezuela and Iran. This reverses the policies of the US-backed coup regime which immediately began closing embassies, kicking out doctors and severing relations with those nations after illegally seizing power last year.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/22/am…

The Bolivian right: Divided, without leadership
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
here are still days of uncertainty until the new government is in office. What happened in Bolivia can be described as a counter-coup, in the face of a coup with strong international support that had not arrived to remain only one year in political power.
mronline.org/2020/10/22/the-bolivian-rig…

Foreign Correspondent: What Bolivia Can Teach the United States About Fair Elections
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2020-10-22
The South American nation sets an example of how to undo an attempted coup.
progressive.org/dispatches/bolivia-teach…

Corporate Fluffers: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-22
Still can’t get over how half of America is engaged in a giant live action role-playing game where they all pretend a dried up corporate fluffer with a small piece of functioning brain matter is a good person who they like. | ~ | Things you will eliminate by getting rid of Trump: | Trump | Things you will not eliminate by getting rid of Trump: | The factors which led to Trump | The evils that Trump facilitated | Some new evils that Trump couldn’t get away with | A system which only allows evil presidents | ~ | Do you not think it odd that the single most important civic duty you’re told you’ll ever perform is alw…
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It’s No Surprise Corporate Media Abhors Wealth Taxes
Editor | scheerpost.com | 2020-10-22
Neil Alexander McKee / CC BY-NC 2.0] By Alan MacLeod / FAIR The coronavirus pandemic has greatly increased wealth inequality in the United States, a key issue in the upcoming presidential election. Polls are currently looking good for the Democrats, many of whom have been murmuring about–or even demanding–a new wealth tax. Recent surveys show the idea is overwhelmingly popular with the electorate… | Source…
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“A Truly Orwellian Culture” — Amazon Removes COVID Skeptic’s Book for Violating Content Guidelines
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Around the time Twitter purged New York Post’s bombshell stories about Hunter Biden from its platform, late last week, Amazon was busy censoring any criticism against the “official” COVID-19 narrative, with the banning of at least one book from its …
globalresearch.ca/orwellian-culture-amaz…

AOC to Join Jane Fonda for Fire Drill Friday Focused on Planetary Imperative of November Victory
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
“This is one of our most important calls in the lead-up to Election Day.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Former Google CEO: Social Networks Serving as ‘Amplifiers for Idiots and Crazy People’
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
Eric Schmidt said regulation should be directed toward “the excesses in the social-networking space.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Stefania Maurizi: “This is an Unbelievable Failure of Journalism.”
Stefania Maurizi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi has worked for some of the country’s top publications including la Repubblica, l’Espresso and, now, Il Fatto Quotidiano. In 2009, she started working with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks on secret files concerning the war in Afghanistan, …
globalresearch.ca/stefania-maurizi-unbel…

10 Years After Iraq War Logs, It’s Impunity for War Criminals, War on Whistleblowers
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and whistleblower Chelsea Manning have both paid a tremendous price for revealing U.S. and allied war crimes while the planners and perpetrators face no consequences. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Nagorno-Karabakh: What’s at Stake in the Conflict Between Armenia & Azerbaijan?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-22
As fighting continues between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, we look at the roots of the conflict that has already killed at least 700 people since fighting began in late September and which threatens to escalate despite two ceasefire attempts brokered by Russia. Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies inside Azerbaijan but is controlled by ethnic Armenians, was the site of a bloody conflict in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union. This latest spike in violence is the worst since the 1990s and holds the risk of spiraling into a regional war, with Turkey openly supporting Azer…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/22/nagorno_…

Video: Israeli Forces Strike Gaza Strip After Iron Dome Intercepts Rocket
sputniknews.com | 2020-10-22
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli Air Force (IAF) have conducted several strikes on targets in eastern and central areas of the Gaza Strip.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/2020102210808…

Indigenous Peoples Day in the time of COVID-19
Stephanie Tromblay | workers.org | 2020-10-22
“We are not your Halloween costumes! We are not your dime store Indians!” a speaker shouted from the bandstand on the Santa Fe Plaza this Indigenous Peoples Day in Santa Fe, N.M., as a colonialist obelisk was taken down by Puebloan activists To see people still celebrating Columbus in the . . . | Continue reading Indigenous Peoples Day in the time of COVID-19 at Workers.org…
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Colombia witnesses massive national strike
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
On October 21, tens of thousands of workers, peasants, teachers, students, Indigenous and Afro-descendant people took part in a new national strike in Colombia to protest against the social and economic policies of President Iván Duque. Demonstrations were held throughout the country in rejection of the economic crisis, rising unemployment, police repression, the increase in massacres, assassination of social leaders, armed group activity, among other issues. | In the capital Bogotá, hundreds of workers from diverse sectors hit the streets and marched towards the Plaza Bolívar, demanding a guaranteed basic income…
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Colombia witnesses massive national strike
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
On October 21, tens of thousands of workers, peasants, teachers, students, Indigenous and Afro-descendant people took part in a new national strike in Colombia to protest against the social and economic policies of President Iván Duque. Several peaceful demonstrations were held throughout the country in rejection of the economic crisis, rising unemployment, police repression, the increase in massacres, assassination of social leaders, armed group activity, among other issues. | In the capital Bogotá, hundreds of workers from diverse sectors hit the streets and marched towards the Plaza Bolívar, demanding a guaran…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/22/colombia-…

Halifax Restaurants Take Lobster Off The Menu
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
Lobster is a major commodity and popular dish in Atlantic Canada, but there’s now a growing list of restaurants taking the succulent shellfish off its menu. | The removal of lobster dishes is a move to show solidarity with the Mi’kmaq and to condemn the ongoing violence stemming from the lobster dispute in Digby county. | Dartmouth cocktail and wine bar Dear Friends boasts a hyper-local menu with seafood options, but you won’t find its popular lobster rolls on the menu right now. | Co-owner Matt Boyle says lobster is off the menu as long as the ongoing lobster dispute continues between Indigenous and non-Indigeno…
popularresistance.org/halifax-restaurant…

Part Six: The Looting of the Nation
Jeremy Scahill | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
Trump has served as the Pied Piper for the most radical GOP agenda on the economy, workers, and the poor.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/part-six-the-looti…

Venezuela: Trump Administration Pushed Regime Change in Secret Meeting
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-10-22
The White House wanted Maduro to step down before the US presidential elections.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/15031

Marx, Engels and Metabolic Rift — Part One
Mark Walsh | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
Despite our assumed position as Earth’s dominant species, we have seen our society effectively shut down by a virus. Friedrich Engels’s caution against hubris, written over a century and half ago, seems particularly apt.
mronline.org/2020/10/22/marx-engels-and-…

Colombia: National Strike Joins The Minga As Mobilization Grows
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
Colombia woke up on Wednesday with a new national strike in the country’s main cities, amidst the coronavirus crisis and the increase in the numbers of massacres and murders of social leaders and former members of the then Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP). | The president of the Central Workers Union (CUT), Diógenes Orjuela, explained that the strike would clarify the position of absolute rejection of the massacres and murders that have occurred in the country in recent months, as well as the repression exercised by the police.
popularresistance.org/colombia-national-…

Hundreds of migrant children torn from their families under Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy yet to be reunited with parents
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
More than 500 children who were taken away by the Trump administration as part of its brutal crackdown on undocumented immigrants three years ago are yet to be reunited with their families.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/chil…

Say Racism’s Name, And Fight It With Solidarity
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
The instability of Trump’s presidency and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement have upset the U.S. power structure. White supremacist groups such as the Proud Boys and the Boogaloo Movement have increased in number and visibility to protect the right of white America to the historic spoils of stolen land and stolen labor. These groups have found their Great White Hope in Donald Trump and his many appeals to keep them safe from Black Americans, immigrants, and oppressed nations all over the world.
popularresistance.org/say-racisms-name-a…

Migrant Parents Separated From Their Kids Still Can’t Be Found
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-22
Lawyers tasked with identifying and reuniting families separated in 2017 and 2018 under the Trump administration’s so-called “zero tolerance” border policy say they still haven’t been able to locate the parents of at least 545 migrant children, according to a Tuesday court filing from the American Civil Liberties Union. | A majority of these parents — “approximately two-thirds,” the filing said — are believed to have been deported to Central America without their children, some of whom were “just babies” at the time of the separation, ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told CNN this week.
popularresistance.org/migrant-parents-se…

Toronto Schools push Students to join Israeli Military
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-22
Canadian law makes it illegal to recruit soldiers for a foreign state. But, the line between enticing impressionable young people to oppress Palestinians and formal recruitment is unclear. Today an open letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters, filmmaker Ken Loach, author Yann Martel, former MP Jim Manly, poet El Jones and more than 150 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/toronto-schoo…

When Does Incompetence Become a Crime?
Patrick Cockburn | zcomm.org | 2020-10-22
Instead of relying on experienced public health experts with a successful record in finding, containing and isolating people infected with HIV and TB, the government handed the project over to the private sector…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/1039648/

Moldova Could be the Next Target of Western-backed Color Revolution to Pressurize Russia
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Washington could be organizing a color revolution and mass protests in Moldova like the ones that have already gripped Belarus and Kyrgyzstan. The Moldovan elections are scheduled for November 1 and have eight presidential candidates participating. The main rivals however …
globalresearch.ca/moldova-could-be-the-n…

Will Azerbaijani Gas Compete with Russia in Southern Europe?
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) will become operational in November and will deliver Azerbaijani gas from the Caspian fields to countries in southern Europe. This gives Russia a new competitor in the European energy market. This would have raised questions in …
globalresearch.ca/will-azerbaijani-gas-c…

Haiti has a long history of being assaulted by its Latin American neighbors
Lautaro Rivara | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
A 15-year peacekeeping mission by the UN in Haiti that ended one year ago still has unanswered questions about how Latin American nations came to participate in the occupation against a small, unarmed and impoverished Caribbean nation.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/22/haiti-has…

Little progress on disputed Abyei region between Sudan and South Sudan
news.un.org | 2020-10-22
Despite the strengthening of the relationship between Sudan and South Sudan, little progress has been made regarding the disputed Abyei region, the head of UN Peacekeeping told the Security Council on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020”
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
WHO has most likely received orders from “above”, from those people who also manage Trump and the “leaders” (sic) of the EU, European Union. The final decision to go ahead NOW with COVID-19 pandemic, was taken in January 2020 at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos – behind very much closed doors.
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-causes-eff…

American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a major crisis going on the …
globalresearch.ca/american-militarism-no…

American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-22
Washington’s aggression directed against much of the world continues with a national election less than two weeks away but no one is talking about it. | Nearly everyone has heard the comment attributed for former Clinton consigliere Rahm Emanuel that one should never let a good crisis go to waste. The implication of the comment is that if there is a major crisis going on the cover it provides permits one to do all sorts of things under the radar that would otherwise be unacceptable. That aphorism is particularly true in the current context as there are multiple crises taking place simultaneously, all of which are…
thealtworld.com/philip_giraldi/american-…

Selected Articles: American Militarism Marches On
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
American Militarism Marches On: No Discussion or Media Coverage of Washington’s War Against the World | By Philip Giraldi, October 22 2020 | One of the more interesting stories carefully hidden by the smoke being generate by civil unrest, plague and | …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-amer…

Wrecking America: How Trump’s Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
Trump has been caught in 20,000+ falsehoods or lies in the past four years alone—telling an average of 22 a day—including several that led to thousands of deaths. (Photo: Rhys A./flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/22/wrecki…

US Presidential Campaign Spectacle: Distracts from Essential Issues while Playing the Race Card
Roger Harris | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
With the seemingly interminable US presidential campaign season mercifully drawing to a close, the buzz is about a possible coup. That would make the US one of the few countries in recent history to experience regime change not masterminded by a US embassy, because there is no US embassy in Washington.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/us-president…

Sri Lankan SEP to hold online meeting on a socialist program to fight COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
The event will discuss the policies necessary for workers, the rural poor and youth to combat the coronavirus disaster and the Rajapakse administration’s austerity and anti-democratic measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/slmt…

Video: Azerbaijan-Armenia War: Counter-offensive in the South and the “Iranian Factor”
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
On the evening of October 20, the Armenian Defense Ministry declared that they had launched a large-scale counter-offensive against the advancing Azerbaijani forces in the Khudaferin Reservoir area, in the southern part of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armenian sources claimed that …
globalresearch.ca/video-azerbaijani-arme…

Trump Regime Maximum Pressure on Iran a Crime Against Humanity
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
On Sunday, the UN arms embargo on Iran its ruling authorities voluntarily accepted ended. | Iran is now once again free to buy and sell conventional arms — what many other countries do unrestrained. | Key to understand is that the Islamic …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-maximum-p…

Trump Regime Exerts Maximum Pressure on Iran: A Crime Against Humanity
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
On Sunday, the UN arms embargo on Iran its ruling authorities voluntarily accepted ended. | Iran is now once again free to buy and sell conventional arms — what many other countries do unrestrained. | Key to understand is that the Islamic …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-maximum-p…

Russia and Iran US 2020 Election Meddling?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
It was just a matter of time before another claim of Russian US election meddling officially surfaced. | On Wednesday, it included Iran — despite no credible evidence ever showing foreign interference in the US electoral process. | What could a foreign …
globalresearch.ca/russia-iran-us-2020-el…

Trump Regime Threatens New Sanctions on Firms Involved in Russia’s Nord Stream 2 Construction
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany will be completed and become operational in early 2021. | On Wednesday, Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced the following: | “Nord Stream 2 will go operational by the end of 2020.” | “One of | …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-threatens…

The Assistance, Not the Resistance
Erin McCarley and Birrion Sondahl | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-22
As Amy Coney Barrett is expected to be confirmed today as the next Justice to the Supreme Court, one might expect to see more news coverage of the multiple ways Congressional Democrats have tried to block her confirmation. Given the massive groundswell of anguish and fury over her nomination to replace the legendary Ruth Bader …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/the-assistanc…

Supreme Court Upholds Alabama’s Ban on Curbside Ballot Drop-Off
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-22
Offering no explanation for their ruling, the five conservative justices who hold the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Alabama state officials Wednesday night in a decision banning curbside voting in the state. | The ruling will bar counties including Democratic-leaning Montgomery and Jefferson from allowing voters with disabilities or who are at risk of severe, pot…
truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-upho…

To Fix ‘Out of Whack’ US Judiciary and Supreme Court, Biden Says He’ll Create Commission to Study Reforms
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
“There’s a number of alternatives that… go well beyond packing,” Biden asserted. “The last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into just a political football.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/22/fix-out…

Saying Quiet Part ‘Really Loud,’ Trump Admits He Hopes Supreme Court Kills ACA as Barrett Moves Closer to Confirmation
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
“Senate Republicans who claim this was never about gutting healthcare are lying to you and Donald Trump just proved it.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/22/saying-…

America Can’t Afford Another Climate Denier on the Supreme Court, Barrett Backers Will Pay a Price with Voters
commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/10/22/ame…

Rushed Judicial Confirmation Poses Severe Threat to Civil Rights, Damages Legitimacy of the Supreme Court
commondreams.org | 2020-10-22
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/10/22/rus…

Racism, democracy in the ‘land of the free’
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
The racism and lack of democracy that underpins the institutions of the United States has been exposed thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement and President Donald Trump’s rush to confirm a new Supreme Court, writes Barry Sheppard.
greenleft.org.au/content/racism-democrac…

United States: Racism, democracy in the ‘land of the free’
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
The racism and lack of democracy that underpins the institutions of the United States has been exposed thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement and President Donald Trump’s rush to confirm a new Supreme Court, writes Barry Sheppard.
greenleft.org.au/content/united-states-r…

Racism, democracy in the ‘land of the free’
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-22
The racism and lack of democracy that underpins the institutions of the United States has been exposed thanks to the Black Lives Matter movement and President Donald Trump’s rush to confirm a new Supreme Court justice ahead of the election, writes Barry Sheppard.
greenleft.org.au/content/racism-democrac…

Argentina’s veteran ambassador makes a stand for the sovereignty of Latin America
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
For veteran Argentine ambassador Alicia Castro, resigning over her government’s vote against Venezuela at the UN Human Rights Council was not a difficult decision, for as she wrote in her letter, “Anti-colonialism is… an ethical imperative”
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/22/argentina…

Argentina’s veteran ambassador makes a stand for the sovereignty of Latin America
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
Alicia Castro does not shy away from her views. She came to diplomacy from the trade union movement, where she was a leader when she was a flight attendant with Aerolíneas Argentinas.
mronline.org/2020/10/21/argentinas-veter…

COVID-19 is raging in prisons. Why are America’s aging political prisoners still behind bars?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-22
Ericka Payne discusses the struggle to get her uncle Ed Poindexter released, and how political prisoners are left out of the conversation about protecting aging prisoners from the pandemic.
therealnews.com/covid-19-is-raging-in-pr…

Yemen: Prisoner Swap and What May be Behind It
Press TV | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-22
Transcript of an Interview with Press TV Background The fourth batch of Yemeni detainees has arrived in Sana’a as part of the largest prisoner swap between the country’s warring sides. The residents in the capital received 112 prisoners after their plane landed in the Sana’a international airport. 1,081 men will be released in two days. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/yemen-prisone…

Why does Jacobin Magazine downplay the danger of fascist violence?
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
A recent Jacobin article on the Michigan coup plot is aimed at reassuring its readers that there is “nothing to see here.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/jaco…

Korea-Japan Relations in the Post-Abe Era
Prof. Joseph H. Chung | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
One of Shinzo Abe’s legacies inherited by Suga Yoshihide is the Korea bashing. Korea bashing is essentially a by-product of Abe’s racism; it is closely related to Abe’s refusal to admit wartime crimes committed by Japan against Koreans. Korea bashing …
globalresearch.ca/korea-japan-relations-…

Smoking Gun: Donald Trump’s Transformative Powers
progressive.org | 2020-10-22
How does one go from being widely recognized as a dangerous fraud who is unfit to hold office to a celebrated incumbent who deserves four more years?
progressive.org/magazine/trumps-transfor…

Trump administration plan to label human rights groups ‘antisemitic’ provokes outrage
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Trump administration plan to label human rights groups ‘antisemitic’ provokes outrage | Amnesty International accuses US government of trying to ‘silence and intimidate’ rights groups and stop criticism of Israeli policy | MEE staff | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 13: 59 | Amnesty International stages a demonstration outside the UK headquarters of US travel company Tripadvisor in London (AFP) | A number of human rights organisations…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-trump-plan…

Judge vacates Trump SNAP rule that would remove thousands off food stamps
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-22
The proposed rule change by the USDA “radically and abruptly alters decades of regulatory practice, leaving States scrambling and exponentially increasing food insecurity for tens of thousands of Americans.”
nationofchange.org/2020/10/22/judge-vaca…

Chilean Communists call for replacement of Pinochet constitution in Sunday vote
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-22
The Communist Party of Chile (CPC) has urged progressives in the country to unite behind calls for a new constitution ahead of the Oct.25 referendum on the issue. Victory in the poll would mark a decisive break with the current constitution, which was controversially introduced in 1980 under the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. He …
peoplesworld.org/article/chilean-communi…

No to police-state rule after the terrorist killing of French teacher Samuel Paty!
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
The bankruptcy of communal terrorism is once more exposed. The state uses such atrocities as opportunities to whip up support for authoritarianism and nationalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/fran…

Protests against government’s economic plan continue in Costa Rica
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
Since September 30, Costa Ricans have been mobilizing in rejection of the government’s possible deal with the IMF, which will force the government to implement a number of austerity measures…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/22/protests-…

“Justice Rising”: 9/11 Truth ‘Pioneers’ Griffin, Harrit, and Jones
Craig McKee | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
The second day of Justice Rising brought the 9/11 Truth Movement back to its roots in a powerful way. | The day, dubbed “Science Saturday,” began with “Lights, Camera, Building 7,” a panel discussion on the historic documentary SEVEN, which AE911Truth …
globalresearch.ca/911-truth-pioneers-gri…

Is Biden Campaign Buying Republicans Through Patronage?
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Megan Cassella and Alice Miranda Ollstein reported for the Politico [1] yesterday that Joe Biden’s transition team is vetting renegade Republicans for potential cabinet positions. The report didn’t name the names but identified Biden’s prospective national security team after …
globalresearch.ca/biden-campaign-buying-…

Transforming Our Food Systems is the Only Way to Nourish the World
Katharine Early | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
The way we produce our food is under pressure like never before. And with the climate crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic now posing the greatest challenges to nourishing the expanding global population, our precious and fragile food system is fast reaching breaking point. So do we intensify the current system of farming or is there…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/transforming…

Indonesia’s return to an authoritarian developmental state
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-22
With the passing of the anti-worker Omnibus Law, President Jokowi’s administration follows the path of Indonesia’s dark past.
mronline.org/2020/10/22/indonesias-retur…

Florida voters face intimidation by armed men and alleged Iranian email threats
Sheren Khalel | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Florida voters face intimidation by armed men and alleged Iranian email threats | Iran summons Swiss envoy in Tehran to protest ‘baseless’ US accusations, as Florida election authorities scramble to protect voting in key swing state | Sheren Khalel | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 19: 52 | Supporter of US President Donald Trump wears Proud Boys T-shirt prior to arrival at NBC News town hall event in Miami on 15 October (AFP/Fi…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/florida-voter…

Rethinking Our Relationship With Fire
Dave McWethy — Cathy Whitlock | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
During this fire season, millions of acres of land have burned throughout the western U.S., with over 4 million acres burned in California alone, and the fire season is not over. Fires have destroyed thousands of homes, dozens of lives have been lost, and persistent smoke from these fires has created hazardous air quality across…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/rethinking-o…

Israeli government accused of shielding police officers who shot dead Iyad al-Hallaq
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-22
32-year-old Iyad al-Hallaq, a Palestinian man with autism, was shot dead at an Israeli police checkpoint on May 30. The police officer who shot him has been charged with only reckless homicide…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/22/israeli-g…

Major Oil Discovery Puts Suriname in Global Spotlight Amid Venezuela Crisis and US-China Trade War
Uriel Araujo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Although Guyana’s newly discovered oil reserves and US interests in the region have been the focus of attention, not many analysts have been noticing neighboring Suriname, one of Latin America’s poorest countries. | Guyana’s prospects have certainly changed tremendously — its …
globalresearch.ca/major-oil-discovery-pu…

“Second Wave” Covid-19 Cases, With Face Masks
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Dr. Gary Magdar, a dentist in Ontario, and founder of Gold tent TA Paradise, created the following graph to show how helpful masks have been in slowing the second wave in the United States: | . | . | ….
globalresearch.ca/laboratory-created-pan…

Democrats urge US to boycott G20 summit in Saudi Arabia
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Democrats urge US to boycott G20 summit in Saudi Arabia | Forty-five House Democrats urge government to boycott next month’s G20 summit in Riyadh over kingdom’s human rights violations | MEE staff | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 16: 08 | Sixty-five members of the European Parliament have also signed letter calling for EU to downgrade attendance at G20 (AFP/File photo) | A group of 45 Democratic lawmakers urged the Trump administratio…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/democrats-urg…

Divest / Invest
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
The US today spends more than $80 billion a year incarcerating 2.3 million people in state and federal prisons, local jails, youth facilities and deportation centers. That’s $80 billion that comes out of public coffers and goes into public confinement. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many were shocked to see woman, children and…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/divest-inves…

Tallahassee: Candidate from for Superintendent of Leon County Schools
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-22
Tallahassee, FL – On Saturday, October 10, the Progressive Parent Teacher Student Alliance (PPTSA), a subcommittee of Tallahassee Community Action Committee (TCAC) hosted an online candidate forum for Superintendent of Leon County Schools, with the aim of giving the viewing public an opportunity to learn where the candidates stand in relation to the progressive platform put forth by TCAC. | The event was hosted on Zoom and broadcast on Facebook Live. Although TCAC put on the forum, moderator Dawn Orocio opened the event by clarifying, “TCAC does not endorse candidates but we encourage candidates to endorse our p…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/21/tallaha…

Three Antifa Poems to Get Me Through
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
Three Antifa Poems To Get Me Through by John Kendall Hawkins I. In the fascist playgrounds of yesteryore where fey made monsters held court and fought turf wars for our twinkies, our little packaged sugar shacks, our souls — while their future wives snapped gum and smoked at the same time — we were presented…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/three-antifa…

Follow the Money: Banking, Criminality and the FinCEN Files
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
It was all a fitting reminder of Bertolt Brecht’s remark that bank robbery lies in the province of amateurs. The real professionals of plunder establish banks. Last month, the labours of Buzzfeed and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists revealed just that. Centre stage: international banking misbehaviour. And my, was there much to go on.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/follow-the-m…

Video: The Moment for Change Is Now. Medical Doctors Speak Out
ACU | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
On October 10, 2020, ACU2020.org announced the world doctors’ alliance in Berlin, Germany. | It is an alliance of medical doctors, scientists and peace activists who together claim that this COVID-19 affair is just not true. | And as medical doctors, it …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-moment-for-c…

Woman died from COVID-19 on Spirit Airline flight in July
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
The case was just confirmed this weekend, meaning that the whole cabin, medical crews and many people in the airport were, unbeknownst to themselves, potentially exposed to the deadly pathogen.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/texa…

Rejecting community oversight of police, Chicago’s mayor embraces the ‘royal we’
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-22
Chicago, IL – During the October 20 meeting of the City Council Public Safety Committee, it was announced that Mayor Lori Lightfoot will introduce her own legislation on ‘civilian police oversight.’ This will mark the absurd yet predictable culmination to Lightfoot’s journey as a ‘police reformer.’ It is absurd because Lightfoot’s legislation on ‘community oversight’ comes on the heels of her thorough rejection of any and all community-based demands for police reform and will undoubtedly include no substantive role for communities whatsoever. Predictable because as a former prosecutor, member and defender of the…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/21/rejecti…

Save the world, defeat Trump: Thoughts from a fellow worker in Canada
Darrell Rankin | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-22
The choice facing U.S. voters on Nov. 3 is between the remnants of bourgeois democracy and an open terrorist dictatorship of billionaires, and it is heartening to hear the U.S. labor movement is choosing sides. A general strike in case of interference in the election–not by Russia but by Trump-led reactionaries–is starting to become the …
peoplesworld.org/article/save-the-world-…

Voter protection victory in N.C. as court upholds mail-in ballot deadline extension
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-22
With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Nov. 3, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals gave North Carolina voters a much-needed win by allowing absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day to be accepted and counted by the N.C. elections board for a week afterward. On Tuesday, Oct. 20, the appellate court declined …
peoplesworld.org/article/voter-protectio…

On the brink: A photographic examination of social cleansing in London
wsws.org | 2020-10-22
“My aim is to focus on existing council properties that have been neglected due to the lack of maintenance. It’s imperative to showcase the decay of these buildings as it’s been a deliberate strategy to run them down.”–photographic artist Sarah Douglas…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/22/doug…

Ending Corporate Impunity is at the Heart of a Sustainable Post-Pandemic Global Recovery
Makbule Sahan — Ruwan Subasinghe | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-22
The Covid-19 pandemic has once again exposed the fragility of global supply chains and business models built on non-standard forms of employment and informality. Following the global drop in demand as a result of the pandemic, many companies resorted to abruptly ending the procurement of goods and services and even to defaulting on prior commitments made –…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/22/ending-corpo…

An End to the Fog. Understanding the World We Live In
Nora Fernandez | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Understanding the world we live in seems more confusing than ever, and, advanced technology is part of the problem, presenting information not always reliable and bringing to the front real and fake conspiracies. Our attention, often hostage of social media, …
globalresearch.ca/end-fog/5727236

Iranian press review: Lifting of UN arms embargo celebrated by reformists
MEE correspondent | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Iranian press review: Lifting of UN arms embargo celebrated by reformists | Meanwhile, hardline lawmakers increase pressure on President Hassan Rouhani, and Iranians shocked by suicide of young student | MEE correspondent | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 11: 11 | A missile being fired out to sea from a mobile launch vehicle, southern coast of Iran, 18 June 2018 (AFP/HO/Iranian Army Office) | Political factions divi…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-press-ar…

Top Senate Democrat slams Trump’s foreign policy record
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Top Senate Democrat slams Trump’s foreign policy record | In 74-page report, Senator Bob Menendez says US president has ‘profound affinity for dictators and autocrats’ | MEE staff | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 21: 12 | Senator Bob Menendez is poised to assume chairmanship of Foreign Relations Committee if Democrats win control of Senate (AFP/File photo) | The top Democrat on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee launched a blis…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/senate-democr…

Warehouse workers organize for COVID-19 safety at Mars Wrigley
Mike Kuhlenbeck | workers.org | 2020-10-22
Chicago — The Warehouse Workers for Justice, Mars Workers for Justice, the Foodchain Workers Alliance and the HEAL Alliance are organizing a rally at Mars Wrigley headquarters on Oct. 27. It will be part of a Halloween week of actions protesting the candy company’s retaliation against warehouse workers in Joliet, . . . | Continue reading Warehouse workers organize for COVID-19 safety at Mars Wrigley at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/51975/?utm_source=rs…

Voter Suppression and Right-wing Threats Fail to Keep Millions Away from the Polls
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-22
Efforts aimed at thwarting the fundamental bourgeois democratic rights of the majority of people in the United States are well underway. | President Donald J. Trump has said repeatedly that mail-in voting and early opportunities to cast ballots are inherently fraudulent …
globalresearch.ca/voter-suppression-righ…

Ye are many, they are few!
John Scales Avery | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-22
How do elites keep their monopoly on wealth and power?>…
nationofchange.org/2020/10/22/ye-are-man…

Israeli NGOs demand government allow UN rights monitors
Joe Dyke | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Israeli NGOs demand government allow UN rights monitors | Prominent rights groups write to Israel’s foreign minister following MEE revelation that OHCHR workers had stopped receiving visas | Joe Dyke | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 08: 55 | Visitors on a tour held by NGO “Breaking the Silence” walk down Shuhada Street in the West Bank city of Hebron (Reuters) | Major Israeli rights organisations have written to the country’s foreign mi…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-ngo-go…

Lebanon: Hariri again tasked with forming new government
Kareem Chehayeb | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-22
Lebanon: Hariri again tasked with forming new government | Future Movement leader secures enough nominations to become prime minister-designate but faces tricky task to build coalition | Kareem Chehayeb | Thu, 10/22/2020 – 12: 01 | Saad Hariri delivers a statement after the president named him to form a new cabinet, at the presidential palace in Baabda (AFP) | One year after being turfed out of office by mass…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-harir…