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2020-10-26: Social Media Postees

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In Stunning Display of Popular Will, Protests in Bolivia to Chile Force Public Reckoning of “Chicago Boy” Economics
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-26
Like in Bolivia, the strength of public opinion in Chile was so immense that the government, led by Chile’s richest man Sebastian Piñera, immediately conceded.
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Obama-Era Officials Call for More Government Control of Your Facebook Feed
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-26
Writing in the Washington Post, senior Obama-era official Samantha Power has called on social media giant Facebook to do more to crush what she calls conspiracy theories and disinformation circulating on its platform. | Describing it as being “overrun with foreign disinformation,” Power demanded Mark Zuckerberg “take far more drastic steps” to “detox” the company’s algorithm. The former United States ambassador to the Unite…
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How Bolivia’s new socialist senator resisted coup terror: Meet MAS party leader Patricia Arce
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-26
The Grayzone traveled to rural Bolivia to meet Patricia Arce, a former mayor who was publicly tortured during a US-backed coup in November 2019, and is now a senator-elect from the indigenous-led Movement Toward Socialism party, which won in a historic landslide election on October 18. By Max Blumenthal Video and translation by Ben Norton Puede leer esto en español aquí. Transcript MAX BLUMENTHAL: Just a few days after the dramatic landslide victory on October 18 of the Movement Toward …
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How Bolivia’s new socialist senator resisted coup terror: Meet torture survivor Patricia Arce
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-26
The Grayzone traveled to rural Bolivia to meet Patricia Arce, a former mayor who was publicly tortured during a US-backed coup in November 2019, and is now a senator-elect from the indigenous-led Movement Toward Socialism party, which won in a historic landslide election on October 18. By Max Blumenthal Video and translation by Ben Norton Transcript MAX BLUMENTHAL: Just a few days after the dramatic landslide victory on October 18 of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party founded by Evo …
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Como la nueva senadora socialista de Bolivia resistió el terror del golpe de estado: Conozca a Patricia Arce
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-26
The Grayzone viajó al trópico de Cochabamba en Bolivia para entrevistar a Patricia Arce, la ex alcaldesa quien fue torturada durante un golpe de estado respaldado por EEUU en noviembre de 2019, y quien ahora es una senadora electa del partido Movimiento al Socialismo, que ganó las elecciones del 18 de octubre por goleada. Por Max Blumenthal Video y traducción por Benjamín Norton You can read this in English here. Transcripción MAX BLUMENTHAL: Unos días después del triunfo aplastante y …
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Humanity Has Trolled Itself Into An Awaken-Or-Die Situation
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-26
In Helen Tworkov’s Zen in America for example we are told of “the monk who sat with a stick of incense in one hand and a knife in the other and vowed to kill himself if he didn’t get enlightened by the time the incense burned out. As always — at least in the stories that are passed down — he got it just in time, pushed to the breaking point by the pain of the burning stub.” | In a very real sense, I think this is kind of what humanity is collectively doing to itself right now. | I don’t recommend taking any melod…
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There Are Anti-War Candidates
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
I don’t have any use for PEP politicians (progressive except on the Pentagon), but there are going to be serious members of the U.S. Congress next year who aren’t afraid of flags and war songs. There are going to be a lot more than (AOC+3) four of them. CORI BUSH One is going to be…
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At 75 — A U.N. of the Future in a Globalized Democracy
Jan Oberg | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
2020 marks the 75th Anniversary of the world’s most important and visionary organisation, the United Nations. Everything TFF has done during its 35 years of existence has been based on one mission — namely, to promote the UN Charter’s Article …
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Venezuela: ‘100% Effective’ Covid-19 Treatment Allegedly Discovered
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2020-10-26
The announcement came as Maduro unveiled a cabinet reshuffle and Venezuelans held an electoral dry run.
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Israeli bulldozers and settlers uproot Palestinian olive trees in West Bank
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Israeli bulldozers and settlers uproot Palestinian olive trees in West Bank | Israeli forces razed almost 60 olive trees in the town of Salfit and also demolished a house in the village of Taybeh | MEE staff | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 10: 23 | Palestinians harvest olives from their land, which lies on the Israeli side of the separation wall in the West Bank, 30 October 2019 (AFP) | Israeli bulldozers demolished a Palestinian hou…
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Lithuanian Government Impoverishes Its Own Citizens As a Means to Topple Belarus President Lukashenko
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Since the re-election of Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko on August 9, deemed a rigged election by the West, protests have persisted for nearly three months. Led by opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the protests do not only continue to persist, …
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Trump Out Now
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
I am an author, political commentator, teacher, and historian who prefers in “normal times” to spend most of my time researching, writing, and teaching. This summer and fall, however, I’ve been out protesting with Refuse Fascism raising the demand “Trump-Pence Out Now” — out immediately. That’s because these are not “normal” times. The deadly coronavirus…
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Haiti Has a Long History of Being Assaulted by Its Latin American Neighbors
Lautaro Rivara | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
Thirteen United Nations peacekeeping missions are underway in various countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Haiti has been the epicenter of the UN peacekeeping missions in Latin America and the Caribbean; there have been eight UN missions since the International Civilian Mission in Haiti (MICIVIH) was deployed in Haiti in 1993. On October…
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The relaunch of the World Socialist Web Site and the future of socialism
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
The relaunch of the WSWS and the growth of its influence reflect a process of mass political radicalization under conditions of the greatest crisis since the 1930s.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/pers…

Who is Behind “Fake News”? Mainstream Media Use Fake Videos and Images
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
The mainstream corporate media is desperate. They want to suppress independent and alternative online media, which they categorize as “fake news”. Readers on social media are warned not to go onto certain sites. Our analysis confirms that the mainstream media are routinely involved in distorting the facts and turning realities upside down.
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Sudan “Normalizes” Relations with Israel? Trump “Arranged the Deal”
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
On October 23, Sudan became the third Arab state to normalize relations with Israel. | The UAE in August and Bahrain last month took this step — what Hamas called “a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause…serv(ing) only the …
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Azeris Using Banned Cluster Munitions in Nagorno-Karabakh
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
According to reports on the ground, Azeris are using Israeli-supplied cluster munitions in Nagorno-Karabakh. | More on this below. | *** | The 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) bans production use, transfer, and stockpiling of these terror weapons that scatter submunition bomblets …
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At UN, Iranian Foreign Minister Blames US War on Terror for ‘Countless Broken Societies’
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
The Iranian foreign minister took at at the “eight violent wars that the United States initiated or joined since 2001.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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South Australia to Go 100% Solar as Sun Power Offers World’s Cheapest Energy
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
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South Australia first to be 100% solar-powered, as solar becomes cheapest form of energy
Juan Cole | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-26
On Oct. 11, all of its electricity was generated by solar power, the first time this feat was achieved by any major jurisdiction in the world.
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Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of Geopolitics, Incites Warfare Between Egypt and Ethiopia
Prof. Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Donald Trump, the Mr. Magoo of geopolitics, has shot his big mouth off again and incited warfare between Egypt and Ethiopia. | Trump said, according to the BBC, that Egypt cannot accept the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that is being …
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Senate Votes Today on Trump’s Anti-Worker, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Consumer Nominee
commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
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“They Wanted to Take My Womb Out”: Survivor of Medical Abuse in ICE Jail Deported After Speaking Out
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-26
An independent medical review team has submitted a report to Congress on a lack of informed consent and “disturbing pattern” of questionable gynecological surgical procedures at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, after an account from a nurse whistleblower in September prompted congressional and federal investigations. At least 19 women, most of whom are Black and Latina, have come forward to allege they were pressured into “unnecessary” gynecological treatment and surgeries — including procedures that left them sterile — while they were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We s…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/26/ice_irwi…

Lebanon court rejects new migrant worker contract to replace criticised kafala system
Areeb Ullah | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Lebanon court rejects new migrant worker contract to replace criticised kafala system | Officials said the new standard contract for domestic workers would be the first step needed to abolish the kafala system | Areeb Ullah | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 10: 36 | Ethiopian workers let go because of Lebanon’s economic crisis wait outside Ethiopia’s embassy in Beirut (AFP) | A court in Lebanon has suspended the implementation of a…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanon-kafal…

Shaoquett Moselmane, Dan Oakes and Julian Assange: What price justice?
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-26
Under the guise of a phenomenon called security, anti-democratic acts designed to instill fear are being committed, argues Stuart Rees.
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Oxford Study Challenges Israel’s Claims Concerning Palestinian Refugees
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
There needs to be a fundamental change in the way Palestinian refugees are seen, no longer as victims but as people with rights who are entitled to shape their own destiny. This assertion is made in a new study whose importance cannot be overstated. | According to international law, Palestinian refugees have a right to return to their homes and land and receive restitution and compensation for their suffering and personal and communal losses. Furthermore, the State of Israel, which is responsible for Palestine’s ethnic cleansing, must pay for the repatriation, the rehabilitation, and the rebuilding that the retur…
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Call for Prosecution of War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide Crime in DRC
Ann Garrison | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
“Congo Week,” the annual series of forums, films, and conversation organized by Washington D.C.-based Friends of the Congo was, like so much else, a virtual event this year. It concluded today with the presentation of humanitarian awards to two Congolese groups defending human rights, and to Dr. Denis Mukwege, the world renowned gynecologist and Nobel Prize Winner who founded Panzi Hospital to treat women victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In his acceptance speech, Dr. Mukwege called for prosecution of the 617 war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide crimes documented i…
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Thursday 10/29: The Virus, The Climate, The Alternative: Ecosocialist Solutions to Capitalist Crises
Haymarket Books | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
Online event…
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Coronavirus ‘feeds off instability’, disrupting Israel-Palestine peace efforts
news.un.org | 2020-10-26
The UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process reminded the Security Council on Monday of the Secretary-General’s renewed appeal for a global ceasefire to respond to COVID-19, highlighting that the “the virus feeds off instability”.
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Chomsky: OPCW Cover-Up of Syria Probe Is ‘Shocking’
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-26
Noam Chomsky says that the OPCW’s cover-up, under US pressure, of a Syria chemical weapons probe raises “very severe suspicions.” | Aaron MATÉ | In his first public comments on the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, Noam Chomsky criticizes the chemical watchdog for suppressing, under US pressure, evidence that undermined the pretext for the US-led bombing of Syria in April 2018. The censorship recently extended to the UN Security Council, where the US, UK, and France blocked former OPCW Director General José Bustani from testifying in support of the inspectors whose findings were kept from the public. | “What happene…
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Chileans Vote Up or Down for Constitutional Change
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Since the CIA elevated Augusto Pinochet to power on an earlier 9/11 day of infamy in 1973 — replacing social democracy with tyrannical fascist rule — Pinochet’s ghost still haunts most Chileans. | Billionaire Sebastian Pinera governs the country with an …
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Is the U.S. Prepared to Resist a Coup?
Stephen Zunes | progressive.org | 2020-10-26
If Trump refuses to step down, we must be ready to not cooperate.
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‘Prove Him Wrong’: Progressives Demand Democrats Accept McConnell’s Challenge, Expand Supreme Court If They Win Elections
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
Bolstered by some apparent support in the Senate Democratic caucus, progressive advocates on Monday demanded that the Democratic Party prove Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wrong about their commitment to remaking the judiciary. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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As Senate Dems Hold Talkathon in Protest, Warren Condemns GOP Vote on Barrett as ‘Last Gasp of a Desperate Party’
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
Continuing a protest on the floor of the Senate that had begun late Sunday night, Senate Democrats on Monday morning embarked on a “talkathon” to speak out against the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is expected to go ahead Monday. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Don’t Let the Supreme Court Open the Door to More Discrimination Against LGBTQ People
Gabriel Arkles | aclu.org | 2020-10-26
The Supreme Court will soon hear oral arguments in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case about whether governments can be forced to give taxpayer funding to faith-based organizations that provide government services in ways that discriminate against LGBTQ people., If that sentence took you a minute to unravel, and then you couldn’t quite believe you read it right — well, you’re not alone. But unfortunately, it’s true., , The Fulton case, which will be heard on Nov. 4, involves the foster care system. Catholic Social Services had a cont…
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Amid Staff COVID Outbreak, Democrats Call on Pence to Stop Presiding Over Senate
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-26
With multiple members of Vice President Mike Pence’s senior staff now confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus — and Senate Republicans scheduled to ram through the final confirmation vote for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett as early as Monday afternoon or evening — Democratic leaders in the Senate are calling on Pence to forgo his plans to preside over the chamber in the name of public health and out of concern for all who work there. | With at least five members…
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Argentina’s Veteran Ambassador Makes a Stand for the Sovereignty of Latin America
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
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. Castro spent eight years as a member of parliament in the Argentine National Congress, where she fought for the rights of working people.
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Impunity and Carefree Violence: Australia’s Special Forces in Afghanistan
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
In 2016, Australian Major General Jeff Sengelman approached the then chief of the Australian army Lieutenant General Angus Campbell with a nagging worry. The concern lay in allegations that Australian special forces had committed various war crimes in Afghanistan. …
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Don’t trust China’s COVID-19 science? Try surviving without it
Ian Goodrum | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-26
For as long as I can remember, I have been engaged in a practice many would consider masochistic. Get those images out of your head, I don’t mean that. Or that. No, my self-defeating habit is all too mundane to the casual observer: I read China stories in the Western media. It’s not as bad …
peoplesworld.org/article/dont-trust-chin…

Continuing wage dispute at the Berlin’s Charité hospital
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
In their fight for higher wages and safe working conditions, the employees of Charité’s subsidiary find themselves confronted by an alliance of Berlin’s “red-red-green” coalition government and the Verdi Union.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/char…

Cleveland Students Organize to ‘Ban the Box’ on College Applications
Eleanor J. Bader | progressive.org | 2020-10-26
Formerly incarcerated applicants across the country are calling on universities to change their requirements.
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Nobel Prize for a Gene Bomb
Silvia Ribeiro | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Alfred Nobel himself might see the irony. The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry — named after the inventor of dynamite and founder of one of the largest bomb factories in the world — has been awarded to researchers who developed …
globalresearch.ca/nobel-prize-gene-bomb/…

Social Media Coordinator
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-26
Two Month Contract: Social Media Coordinator (35 hours/week) | The Real News Network is seeking a temporary contractor/freelancer to assist us during the holidays. Optimum start date is Nov. 10, 2020; end date is January 10, 2021. There is some flexibility around start/end dates. | This assignment is 35 hours/week. Contractor should expect to work some evenings, weekends and holidays — but the majority of hours will take place during the hours of 10-6pm, M-F. | Required skills and experience | 1. At least one year of social media and communications work in a media, nonprofit or political context. (Graduat…
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Former CIA: Blaming Moscow for Hunter Biden’s Laptop is “Russiagate Disinformation”
Ray McGovern | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Former intelligence officials, Democratic leaders, and media outlets dismissing the Hunter Biden story as “Russian disinformation” are spreading more Russiagate disinformation, ex-CIA officer Ray McGovern says. | Media outlets are amplifying the claims of former intelligence officials, including John Brennan and …
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END SARS: The police force in Nigeria remains essentially colonial
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-26
Nigerian journalist and writer Chido Onumah talks about the END SARS protests, the atrocities of the security establishment, and the policy framework of the state over the past few decades…
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Ballots Defeat Bullets: MAS Wins Historic Mandate in Post-Coup Bolivian Election
Benjamin Dangl | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
Against all odds, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party won the October 18th elections in Bolivia with 55.1% of the vote. This is better than even Evo Morales did in 2005 with 53.75% support. It gives MAS President-elect Lucho Arce one of the biggest mandates in Bolivian history, and is in part a major endorsement of MAS policies and its 14 years in power.
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Trusted Demonologies: US Electoral Interference, the Proud Boys and Iran
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
Iran, Russia and electoral interference. It is all part of the delicious mess that any observer of US politics has come to expect. Were the US body politic capable of being examined on the clinician’s couch, historical fears, psychic disturbances, and a range of unsettling syndromes would be identified. The issue of electoral interference would…
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“Democratic” Means Social Equality
Thomas Mountain | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
Pundits in the international media and political classes twist an distort the word “democratic” until it has no resemblance to the actual meaning of the word. Start with “democracy” from which “democratic” is born. “Government by the people exercised either directly…? or by elected representatives” and later “the principles of social equality and individual rights”.
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Chileans approve drafting a new constitution
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-26
Chileans approved the drafting of a new constitution with an overwhelming majority in the national plebiscite held in the country on October 25. With 99.02% of the votes counted, Chileans decided by a resounding 78.27% of the votes to replace the current constitution that was written and imposed in 1980 under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). | Regarding the type of body that must write the new constitution, the second question that was raised in the his…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/26/chileans-…

Israeli museum postpones auction of rare Middle Eastern artifacts after outrage
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Israeli museum postpones auction of rare Middle Eastern artifacts after outrage | The museum’s primary donor said it hoped postponement will ‘make it possible to reach agreements that will also be acceptable’ to government officials | MEE and agencies | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 18: 19 | A pocket watch made for French Queen Marie Antoinette by famous watchmaker Abraham Louis Breguet at the Museum for Islamic Art in…
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Time to Flee Bolivia? Jeanine àÅñez Asks U.S. for 350 Visas after Arce’s Victory
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
With the victory of the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) in the Bolivian elections on October 18, the de facto coup government presided over by Jeanine àÅñez, has requested visas from the United States for its officials according to a US-based …
globalresearch.ca/time-flee-anez-asks-us…

Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence
Swiss Propaganda Research | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
First published August 4, 2020 | 1. Studies on the effectiveness of face masks | So far, most studies found little to no evidence for the effectiveness of cloth face masks in the general population, neither as personal protective equipment nor as …
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Whatever Happened to Left Solidarity?
Howie Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
In 2004, a number of prominent progressives issued statements calling on people to vote for Democrat John Kerry in the close states and the Green Party candidate in the so-called safe states where the outcome would not be close. In 2020, many of these same people have moved further to the right and call for…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/26/whatever-hap…

Indonesian trade unions call for bigger mobilization against Omnibus law
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-26
The Confederation of Indonesia Trade Union has called for massive protests in November if president Joko Widodo approves the Omnibus job creation law which weakens labor and environmental protection provisions…
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Samuel Paty murder: France’s Muslim community first to bear brunt of iron-handed measures
Jules Cretois | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Samuel Paty murder: France’s Muslim community first to bear brunt of iron-handed measures | In its fight against terrorism and ‘radicalisation’ after teacher’s death, France’s tough response directly impacts on Muslim citizens and could affect other marginalised groups | Jules Cretois | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 15: 54 | Between 2012 and 2017, at least nine anti-terrorism laws were added to France’s criminal and administr…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-samuel…

Cuba Responds to Pandemic, Blockade and New Economic Troubles
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
Buffeted for six decades by the U. S. economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions on daily life and work due to COVID 19, Cuba’s already shaky economy is deteriorating. Government leaders recently outlined remedial steps leading to what they call a “new normal.” The UN’s Economic Commission for Latin America and…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/26/cuba-respond…

Disability, Covid and Capitalism
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-26
With phrases like “protect the vulnerable” & “underlying conditions” currently all around us, disability activist Ruth Flood looks at the horrendous treatment of disabled people under capitalism.
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Zero tolerance for truth: On tribalism, trances & Donald Trump
Thomas Magstadt | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-26
“Oh what a tangled web we weave…”
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‘This Land — the Story of a Movement’: The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Corbyn
Media Lens | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
In his latest book, ‘This Land — The Story of a Movement’ (Penguin, ebook version, 2020), The Guardian’s Owen Jones charts the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn. | Jones depicts Corbyn as a ‘scruffy,’ (p.8), ‘unkempt’ (p.50), thoroughly shambolic backbench …
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Jacobin hails New Zealand Labour government’s re-election
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
Jacobin magazine, a pseudo-left publication that supports the US Democratic Party, has joined in the international media chorus falsely portraying Jacinda Ardern’s anti-working class and pro-imperialist government as progressive.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/janz…

Thousands come out to mark anniversary of popular protests in Iraq
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-26
Protesters, who marched in several cities renewing their demands for an overhaul of Iraq’s political system and an end to corruption, were met with police repression…
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Dark Days Approach
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-10-26
Some things in our world are dependable and just like the sun rises and sets every day, light and dark mean different things to different people. Humans like the dependable and the predictable — it comforts them to know what they are dealing with. But everything today seems to be so unpredictable and we don’t …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/dark-days-approach/

New Haven activists fight racist police terror
Linh Dao | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-26
On Sept. 25, over 75 people came together in downtown New Haven, Connecticut to demand justice for anti-racist organizers in Denver recently targeted by the police and for Breonna Taylor…
liberationnews.org/new-haven-activists-f…

Mercenary group sued for hiring armed poll watchers for election day in Minnesota
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
The Council on American-Islamic Relations of Minnesota is suing Atlas Aegis for recruiting former Special Operations personnel to patrol polling places.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/minn…

Forests as Carbon Preserves
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
Record temperatures across the West, including a record 121 degrees in southern California by Los Angeles. Massive wildfires charring millions of acres including record large blazes in Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, and California, with the smoke that spread across the entire West. Half of the country is experiencing “severe drought”. Hurricanes ravage the Southeast. Do we need more evidence that climate change is real?
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Cuba’s triple troubles: Pandemic, blockade, and economic crisis
W. T. Whitney Jr. | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-26
Buffeted for six decades by the U.S. economic blockade and recently having had to cope with restrictions on daily life and work due to COVID- 19, Cuba’s already shaky economy is deteriorating. Government leaders recently outlined remedial steps leading to what they call a “new normal.” The U.N.’s Economic Commission for Latin America and the …
peoplesworld.org/article/cubas-triple-tr…

COVID’s deadly toll on people with Alzheimer’s and dementia
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
Deaths from dementia have been catastrophic as the isolation and lockdowns of nursing homes have led to cessation of vital support and treatment for this vulnerable layer of the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/deme…

How Coronavirus Exposed the Flaws of the Childcare Economy
Sonali Kolhatkar | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
The U.S. government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics finds that childcare workers in the nation have a median salary of just over $24,000 a year–below the poverty line for a family of four. The segment of our nation’s workforce that attends to the basic needs of our children is shockingly underpaid, and now during the coronavirus…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/26/how-coronavi…

Philadelphia’s MOVE and Black political culture on film at TIFF
Bill Meyer | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-26
It was over 35 years ago when Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo ordered the bombing of a townhouse in West Philly that was inhabited by dozens of militant Black revolutionaries, killing over 11 people inside the burning edifice, including women and children and the founder of the movement, John Africa. Never before or since has this …
peoplesworld.org/article/philadelphias-m…

New COVID-19 Security Measures Will Make Health a Prerequisite for Travel
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-26
As the multi-sector, global response to the coronavirus tightens the noose around civil liberties, CommonPass stands out as one of the most appalling and dangerous attacks on basic human rights in the name of public health.
mintpressnews.com/commonpass-new-covid-s…

State attorney reduces some charges; refuses diversion to Tally 19 felony arrestees
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-26
Tallahassee, FL – All spring and summer, organized groups of anti-police crimes protesters took to the streets, including the intersection in front of the historic capitol for over an hour at a time and on many occasions. Police regularly redirected traffic at least a block in every direction. Organizers would eventually announce the conclusion of street actions, at which time attendees dispersed without incident. Having spent all summer referring to these frequent street protests as “peaceful,” law enforcement agencies pivoted to making threats to crack down on “unpermitted” protesters for blocking traffic. This…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/26/state-a…

Whose Vote Counts, Explained: Netflix series examines voting rights in America
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
Like all basic democratic rights, the right to vote can only be defended through the independent political struggle of the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/itca…

Red State Governors Still Flunk Coronavirus Testing
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-10-26
A few weeks back I did a post noting that states governed by Republicans had the highest positive test rates, while the states with the lowest positive rates were mostly governed by Democrats. I argued that positive test rates are a good measure of how serious the governors are in trying to bring the pandemic …
cepr.net/red-state-governors-still-flunk…

“They Wanted to Take My Womb Out”: Survivor of Medical Abuse in ICE Jail Deported After Speaking Out
Staff | 18.224.45.15 | 2020-10-26
An independent medical review team has submitted a report to Congress on a lack of informed consent and “disturbing pattern” of questionable gynecological surgical procedures at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, after an account from a nurse whistleblower in September prompted congressional and federal investigations. At least 19 women, most of whom are Black and Latina, have come forward to allege they were pressured into “unnecessary” gynecological treatment and surgeries — including procedures that left them sterile — while they were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. We s…
18.224.45.15/2020/10/26/ice_irwin_detent…

Video: Coronavirus: Polish Police Use Tear Gas as Thousands Protest Against COVID-19 Restrictions
Global News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
This CTV Report confirms police violence in Poland directed against Covid Lockdown Protesters | Protesters gathered without face masks, saying curbs are not needed and holding up banners saying “Let us work, and let us decide on our own.” | Police …
globalresearch.ca/video-coronavirus-poli…

Houston teachers speak out on their wildcat sickout strike
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
In interviews with the WSWS, teachers denounced the return to in-person instruction and spoke in favor of building independent rank-and-file safety committees to halt in-person instruction.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/hous…

70 Years after China and the DPRK Defeated the United States in Korea
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-26
There is a piece of news on an important anniversary missing from western state and corporate news. This year, 2020, is the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV) army entering the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to help in, what the Chinese call, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/70-years-afte…

Mercenary group sued for hiring armed poll watchers for election day in Minnesota
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
The Council on American-Islamic Relations of Minnesota is suing Atlas Aegis of recruiting former Special Operations personnel to patrol polling places.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/minn…

Study of New York City transit workers spotlights pandemic’s ongoing physical and emotional toll
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
The findings were dismissed by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in an effort cover up the risk of a full-scale reopening of the city.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/tran…

Sesame Street Offers “New Normal” Brainwashing for the Very Young and Vulnerable
John C. A. Manley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
“Hello everybody! It’s your old pal Grover with some health tips…” begins the spindly blue monster in a Sesame Street PSA. | After teaching kids to wash their hands Grover transitions into some new normal brainwashing: “Another way for everyone …
globalresearch.ca/sesame-streets-offers-…

Global Research: Over Nineteen Years of Publishing Independent Voices
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Dear Readers, | As freedom of speech online continues to be curtailed, running an independent counter-current news media in 2020 is no easy feat. With recent publications appearing in the mainstream media aimed at discrediting the vital work of Global Research …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-over-n…

Social Media Coordinator
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-26
Two Month Contract: Social Media Coordinator (35 hours/week) | The Real News Network is seeking a temporary contractor/freelancer to assist us during the holidays. Optimum start date is Nov. 10, 2020; end date is January 10, 2021. There is some flexibility around start/end dates. | This assignment is 35 hours/week. Contractor should expect to work some evenings, weekends and holidays — but the majority of hours will take place during the hours of 10-6pm, M-F, Eastern. | Required skills and experience | 1. At least one year of social media and communications work in a media, nonprofit or political context.
therealnews.com/social-media-coordinator

What are Chileans voting for in Sunday’s historic constitutional plebiscite
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-26
Ahead of the Chilean national plebiscite, scheduled for October 25, we answer some of the key questions regarding the upcoming popular referendum.
mronline.org/2020/10/26/what-are-chilean…

Families demand repatriation of all foreign nationals from Syrian camps
Simon Hooper | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Families demand repatriation of all foreign nationals from Syrian camps | Western governments facing mounting legal challenges with thousands of young children among those still stranded in Kurdish-controlled camps | Simon Hooper | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 13: 00 | Girls play with a bicycle in a section of al-Hol camp for foreign families in January 2020 (AFP) | Western governments are facing growing pressure to repatriate…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/syria-kurds-c…

France recalls ambassador to Turkey over Turkish criticisms of law on Islam
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
The recalling of an ambassador is the most serious gesture taken between states short of a complete breakdown of diplomatic relations and war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/fran…

The Global Takeover Is Underway
Dr. Joseph Mercola | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
This is a controversial analysis which requires carefully debate. | The video by the World Economic Forum (WEF) is one of the architects of the “New …
globalresearch.ca/global-takeover-underw…

In rural America, resentment over COVID-19 shutdowns is colliding with rising case numbers
Lauren Hughes and Roberto Silva | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-26
The early compassionate and cohesive community responses to COVID-19 quickly gave way to growing anger and compliance fatigue.
nationofchange.org/2020/10/26/in-rural-a…

Organizing report: Dallas Stops Evictions expands tenant movement to South Dallas
Stu Becker | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-26
DALLAS–The Dallas Stops Evictions coalition started organizing tenants at the Estell Village Apartments because tenants there were furious about management implementing a new rule that tenants had to have a driver’s license in order to obtain a parking sticker to park in the apartment complex. This rule was implemented even though the law says that …
peoplesworld.org/article/organizing-repo…

Yet Another Diatribe on Patent Monopolies and How They Are Not Talked About in Polite Company
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-10-26
I had a short vacation last week, so my comments are both late and short. I will yet again take a shot at patent monopolies as a mechanism for financing the development of prescription drugs. This is because it is in the news, both with Purdue Pharma’s settlement in the opioid case and also with …
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This week in history: October 26-November 1
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
25 years ago: US orchestrates carve-up of Bosnia in Dayton talks On October 31, 1995, talks on the future of Bosnia with the Clinton administration and the presidents of Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina began at the Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. The purpose of the negotiations was to assert American imperialist domination in the Balkans at the expense of its European competitors.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/twih…

US lawmakers urge Pompeo to speak out against allies restoring Syria ties
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
US lawmakers urge Pompeo to speak out against allies restoring Syria ties | More than 30 legislators, across both major parties, have warned against the trend of establishing relations with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad | MEE staff | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 20: 40 | People wave Syrian national flags and pictures of President Bashar al-Assad as they protest against US sanctions on the country, at Umayyad Square in central Dam…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/lawmakers-urg…

COVID-19 “long-hauler” phenomenon presents in children and teens as schools reopen against expert advice
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
New data is surfacing that suggests children can be saddled with chronic and debilitating post-viral illness after even mild cases of COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/long…

White House Gangster Wants to Avoid Nuclear-Armed Stigma
John Laforge | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
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. The list of 47 current signatories can be seen at ICANw.org, website of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning coalition that helped…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/26/white-house-…

Recep Erdogan: Turkey’s Meddlesome and Mischievious Neo-Ottoman Sultan
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s recent comments regarding his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron’s mental state has led to the recall of the French ambassador from Ankara. His assertion that Macron was “in need of mental health treatment” was not his first …
globalresearch.ca/erdogan-turkey-meddles…

Clashes continue in Iraq on first anniversary of anti-government uprisings
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Clashes continue in Iraq on first anniversary of anti-government uprisings | Police fire stun grenades and tear gas at protesters on bridge across from fortified Green Zone | Alex MacDonald | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 12: 05 | Iraqi anti-government protesters clash with riot police on al-Jumhuriyah bridge, Baghdad, on 26 October 2020 (AFP) | Dozens of Iraqi protesters again clashed with security forces in Baghdad on Mon…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-proteste…

The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe
Dr. Andrew Glikson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
In his new book, “The Event Horizon: Homo Prometheus and the Climate Catastrophe”, Dr. Andrew Glikson discusses the impact of the mastery of fire, presents global climate change and its consequences and provides projections of future evolution. | About the book…
globalresearch.ca/homo-prometheus-climat…

Elect Biden, Then Give Him Power
Jacques Servin | progressive.org | 2020-10-26
Despite Biden’s surprisingly progressive platform, he will need pressure to level the economic playing field, and guarantee basic services like health care and education.
progressive.org/op-eds/elect-biden-then-…

Saddam Hussein’s right-hand man dead, announces Iraq’s Baath Party
Alex MacDonald | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Saddam Hussein’s right-hand man dead, announces Iraq’s Baath Party | After evading capture for 17 years, circumstances of Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri’s death remain unknown | Alex MacDonald | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 14: 30 | Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri reviews a military honour guard during a ceremony marking Martyrs’ Day in Baghdad, December 1999 (AFP) | One of the last surviving senior figures in the government of former Iraq…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-ezzat-do…

Oshkosh, WI: Protesters safely brave COVID-19 to continue demanding justice for Isaiah Tucker
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-10-26
Oshkosh, WI – Over a dozen protesters from many parts of eastern Wisconsin answered a call put out by United Action Oshkosh (UAO). People rallied on October 24 to demand justice for Isaiah Tucker and community control of the police. | Community members participated in a motorcade through an area of Oshkosh that typically does not see protests outside the standard political campaign yard signs. The area of town chosen to meet up was picked specifically to help bring confidence to the Black and brown residents who lived in that area. | Despite local COVID-19 cases spiking, making the northeastern part of Wisconsin…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/10/26/oshkosh…

Ontario’s reckless reopening of workplaces and schools producing disastrous conditions in child care facilities
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
At big business’ behest, governments across Canada and of every political stripe have starved child care of public funds for decades.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/chil…

Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
Ian Angus | mronline.org | 2020-10-26
Since 1987 the ocean has warmed 4.5 times as fast as in the previous three decades. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects that even if emissions are substantially reduced, by 2100 the ocean will heat 2 to 4 times as much as it has since 1970–and if emissions are not cut, it will …
mronline.org/2020/10/26/triple-crisis-in…

Modern Monetary Theory and the crisis of capitalism: Part two
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
Modern Monetary Theory is the latest in a long line of attempts by “left” theorists to maintain that capitalism can be made to work for society if only outmoded thinking about the monetary system is abandoned.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/kelt…

Right-wing press in Germany steps up attacks on pianist Igor Levit
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
The Sàºddeutsche Zeitung editorial board’s initial defence of its article, as well as subsequent articles in Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Neue Zàºrcher Zeitung, reveal that these leading newspapers share essentially the same line as the far right Alternative for Germany.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/levi…

Campaign launched on social media to boycott French goods across MENA
Yasmina Allouche | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Campaign launched on social media to boycott French goods across MENA | The French Foreign Ministry has declared that ‘calls for a boycott are baseless’ and demanded it end ‘immediately’ | Yasmina Allouche | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 12: 09 | A list of French brands to boycott was circulated on Twitter, with users encouraged to avoid buying products like Lancà¥me, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Gi…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-boycot…

FDA Lets Pfizer Test Experimental COVID-19 Vaccine on U.S. Children
Children’s Health Defense | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Americans have been following COVID-19 vaccine trial developments for weeks, watching companies jockey for frontrunner status like contestants in a reality TV show. And though participants in some of the studies (by Moderna, Oxford, Johnson & Johnson and …
globalresearch.ca/fda-pfizer-test-experi…

ICE uses torture to pressure African asylum seekers to agree to deportation
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
In a blatant violation of international law and the US constitution, ICE officials in the privately run detention center in Mississippi have been forcing asylum seekers from Cameroon to sign their own deportation forms and quickly shipping them back on secret flights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/tort…

Jacobin hails New Zealand Labour government’s re-election
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
Jacobin Magazine, a pseudo-left publication that supports the US Democratic Party, has joined in the international media chorus falsely portraying Jacinda Ardern’s anti-working class and pro-imperialist government as progressive.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/janz…

Slovenian left party Levica protests government’s refusal to hold referendum on military purchases
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-26
The Slovenian government refused a demand by Levica to hold a referendum on a proposal to procure weapons worth USD 925.28 million. Levica plans to challenge the decision in the constitutional court…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/26/slovenian…

Pan-Canadian Day of Action Opposes Plan to Buy Fighter Jets, Drones
Ed Lehman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
On October 2 Canadian peace activists held their second pan-Canadian Day of Action against the purchase of 88 new fighter jets. At some locations activists also underscored their objections to the purchase of 12 armed drones at a projected cost …
globalresearch.ca/pan-canadian-day-actio…

50 Years Ago: The Assassination of René Schneider, Chile’s Constitutionalist General
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
The assassination of Chilean General René Schneider who died on October 25th 1970 from wounds sustained in an an attack three days earlier is worth recalling because of his stand in protecting the constitutional process in his country, as well …
globalresearch.ca/rene-schneider-constit…

Debt disaster with no escape
Michael Roberts | mronline.org | 2020-10-26
According to the IMF, about half of Low Income Economies (LIEs) are now in danger of debt default. ‘Emerging market’ debt to GDP has increased from 40% to 60% in this crisis.
mronline.org/2020/10/26/debt-disaster-wi…

Metropolitan Police arrest first person in relation to Grenfell inferno after 40 months
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
It was reported in January that the police’s own study of the Grenfell Inquiry’s final report may take until 2025– eight years after the fire. Given this situation, it is possible that a decade will have passed since the fire before the police make any decisions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/gren…

Prisons are COVID-19 cluster sites, but this federal law denies recourse for the incarcerated
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-26
The Litigation Reform Act makes it harder for prisoners to file lawsuits–Including over unsafe conditions that could put them at risk of COVID-19.
therealnews.com/prisons-are-covid-19-clu…

Iran’s Zarif accuses France’s Macron of fuelling ‘extremism’
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
Iran’s Zarif accuses France’s Macron of fuelling ‘extremism’ | Foreign minister said insulting Muslims over ‘abhorrent crimes of extremists is an opportunistic abuse of freedom of speech’ | MEE staff | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 20: 04 | Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, and several other Iranian officials and politicians, accused Macron of Islamophobia (Reuters/File photo) | Iran’s foreign minister has accused France of fanning the f…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/irans-fm-accu…

Chile referendum: People’s uprising smashes dictatorship-era constitution
Walter Smolarek | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-26
By a massive margin, Chileans voted on Sunday to scrap the country’s constitution and elect a convention to write a new framework for the country’s government. Hundreds of thousands of Chileans last night packed Plaza Dignidad — the iconic center of the protest movement that swept the country a year ago — to celebrate the …
liberationnews.org/chile-referendum-peop…

Massive protests continue in Poland after court ban on abortions in case of fetal defects
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-26
The Polish constitutional court has ruled that abortions in the case of foetal defects are unconstitutional. The ruling has been supported by conservative right-wing sections in the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/26/massive-p…

Australia: New COVID-19 infections follow reopening of Melbourne schools
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
The infection clusters underscore the dangers of reopening schools amid continued community transmission of COVID-19.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/vics…

‘Grossly disturbing’: Australia refers invasive search of women at Qatar airport to police
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
‘Grossly disturbing’: Australia refers invasive search of women at Qatar airport to police | Australian women were taken off plane and examined after the discovery of a newborn baby abandoned in the terminal | MEE and agencies | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 07: 37 | Hamad International Airport said the newborn found abandoned on 2 October had not been identified and was receiving medical care (AFP) | An incident at Doh…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/australia-qat…

Break in Relations With the EU? — ‘If This Is the Way They Want It, So Be It’
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-26
Wolfgang Munchau of Euro Intelligence has been suggesting recently that the EU is making mistakes born from listening only to its own (like-minded) echo chamber. Munchau was referring to how — when Boris Johnson had sought for a deal “to be in sight” by this month’s EU summit, he was met with disdain. The Council said not only was there ‘no deal in sight’, but that there would be no acceleration of negotiations, and furthermore stuck rigidly to its three red-line, ‘non-negotiables’. | Macron haughtily afterwards stated that the UK had to “submit” to the bloc’s “conditions” — “We didn’t choose Brexit”.
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/26/br…

UK government refuses to publish evidence behind Eid lockdown measures
Rayhan Uddin | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-26
UK government refuses to publish evidence behind Eid lockdown measures | Government’s own Islamophobia adviser pressed for data to support lockdown in Muslim-populated areas in July | Rayhan Uddin | Mon, 10/26/2020 – 13: 16 | UK mosques re-opened in July with strict social distancing in place, after four months of closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic (AFP/File photo) | The British government has refused to publish e…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-manchester…

Watchdog Fights Back as Facebook Attempts to Shut Down Research Exposing ‘Political Disinformation’ in Ad Practices
Kenny Stancil, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
“Rather than combat the rampant disinformation and hate on its platform, Facebook has decided to go after the people who are helping voters understand who is trying to influence their votes.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/26/watchdo…

With Covid-19 Rife Among VP Staffers, Democrats Says Pence Presiding Over Senate a ‘Violation of Common Decency’
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
“Your presence alone could be very dangerous to many people—not just Senators, but to all the truly essential staff—both Democratic and Republican—who must be physically present inside the U.S. Capitol for it to function.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/26/covid-1…

Despite CDC Moratorium—and With Help From White House—Corporate Landlords Have Gone on Eviction Spree
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a moratorium on evictions during the coronavirus last month wealthy corporate landlords have blatantly ignored the order, issuing eviction notices to thousands of tenants across five states, according to a watchdog report. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/26/despite…

Half a Million Chickens Will Be Boiled Alive This Year
David Coman-Hidy | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
The level of suffering the vast majority of chickens in our nation’s food supply chain endure is unimaginable to most—and it’s cruelty that shouldn’t exist. (Photo: Food & Water Watch) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/26/half-m…

Nuclear Weapons Banned—Illegal at Last
Robert Dodge | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons delivers a clear message from nations across the globe that nuclear weapons threaten the survival of all of humanity and must be eliminated before they eliminate us. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/26/nuclea…

350.org on Senate Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett
commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
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NIAC Statement on Latest Politically-Motivated Iran Sanctions
commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
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120+ Organizations Call on CDC to Issue Nationwide Water Shutoff Moratorium During Pandemic
commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
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GM and Ford Knew, Too: Reporting Reveals Auto Giants Recognized Looming Climate Crisis in 1960s—and Helped Bury Reality
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
“Like the major oil and gas companies, leading car companies took a calculated risk that they—and the world—could delay action to address the drivers of climate change. We are all paying for that gamble.” | | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/26/gm-and-…

Chile, Bolivia, El Salvador Lead On Decolonial Constitutional Change
Simon Davis-Cohen | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
People gather to celebrate the victory of the referendum, in Santiago, Chile, on October 25, 2020 that will replace its 40-year-old constitution, written during the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, in Santiago, Chile. (Photo by Felipe Vargas Figueroa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/26/chile-…

Removing Sudan From the Terror List Is Welcome; Yes to Assistance No to Extortion
Michael Beer, Mubarak Elamin | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
Sudan is one of the world’s poorest countries and its people just last year ousted the first Islamist dictatorship to ever be defeated by nonviolent people power. (Photo by JEAN MARC MOJON/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/26/removi…

The Postmaster General’s Manufactured Mail Slowdown and Racial Inequality
Taryn MacKinney | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
For nearly 250 years, USPS has been a cherished giant of public life. (Photo: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/26/postma…

Because We Don’t Have a Right to Vote…
Thom Hartmann | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
Republicans can’t win elections on their “ideas” of tax cuts for billionaires and eliminating protective regulations on polluting corporations. (Photo: Leigh Vogel/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/26/becaus…

“I’m Gonna Die in Here”: Investigation Shows How Jails’ Privatized Healthcare Places Profit Over Prisoners, With Deadly Results
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
A Reuters report found that inmates in jails with contracted medical services were more likely to die and suffer substandard care than those in facilities with publicly managed care. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/26/im-gonn…

Facebook Demands End to NYU Program That Has Exposed Social Media Giant’s Failures to Uphold Commitments to Safeguard Democracy
commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
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Jared Kushner Eviscerated as ‘Face of White Privilege and Nepotism’ After Mocking Racial Justice Protesters
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law—some of whose wealth comes from being what one user called “the highest-ranking slumlord in the country”—also implied that Black people do not want to succeed. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/26/jared-k…

International Study Finds US Republican Party Heading Towards Becoming One of World’s Most Authoritarian Factions
Brett Wilkins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
“Disrespect of political opponents, the encouragement of violence, and also the violation of minority rights… they have all clearly increased with the Republican Party in recent years,” said one of the lead authors. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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As Congress Drags Feet on Covid-19 Relief, 120+ Groups Urge CDC Director to Issue National Water Shutoff Moratorium
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
“Water is essential for disinfecting and controlling the spread of Covid-19. This is a basic matter of public health.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/26/congres…

PFAW: Barrett Cloture Vote Reflects Wrong Priorities
commondreams.org | 2020-10-26
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Iran considers anti-HR report, a part of maximum pressure
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (MNA) — Iran’s representative in the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly said that Islamic Republic of Iran considers anti-human rights report ‘a part of maximum pressure against the Iranian people’.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165200/Iran-conside…

Largest Iranian containership docks at Shahid Rajaee Port
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — The director general of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organization announced that the largest Iranian containership has docked at Shahid Rajaee Port in south Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165161/Largest-Iran…

US spent 220 years of its history in war: Zarif
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister said that the UN should contain its host which has spent 220 years of its history in war.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165188/US-spent-220…

European troika still call for maintaining JCPOA: German FM
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — German Foreign Minister revealed the continuation of effort of European troika (UK, France and Germany) to maintain nuclear deal, JCPOA, with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165197/European-tro…

VIDEO: Demonstrations in front of French embassy in Baghdad
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — Iraqis demonstrated on Monday in front of the French embassy in Baghdad, to protest against insulting the Prophet Muhammed by French President Emmanuel Macron.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165193/VIDEO-Demons…

‘113’ wins award at ReadingFilmFEST in US
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 27 (MNA) — Iranian short film, ‘113’ by Neda Asef, has won an ward at the 6th edition of the Reading Film Festival in the US.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165176/113-wins-awa…

Over 87 tons of narcotics seized in S Iran in 6 months
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — Police forces of the Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeastern Iran, have seized over 87 tons of illicit drugs in the first six months of the year.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165158/Over-87-tons…

US Withdrawal from INF grave mistake: Putin
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — Russian President Vladimir Putin Says US exit from Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was a “grave mistake” which creates the risk of a renewal of the nuclear arms race.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165182/US-Withdrawa…

‘Careless Crime’ to go on screen at Tokyo Filmex
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — Iranian film, ‘Careless Crime’ directed by Shahram Mokri will be screened at the Tokyo Filmex International Film Festival in Japan.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165152/Careless-Cri…

Islamophobia to accelerate decline of US, Zionist regime
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — IRGC strongly condemned the French president’s remarks in support of insulting the Prophet of Islam (PBUH).
en.mehrnews.com/news/165194/Islamophobia…

US imposes new sanctions on Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — The US has imposed new sanctions on Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum and a number of top Iranian officials.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165199/US-imposes-n…

Removing banking barrier activates Iran-Iraq border capacity
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — First Deputy Speaker of the Iranian Parliament said that removal of banking barrier will activate border capacities between Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165195/Removing-ban…

Western governments seeking to attribute terrorism to Islam
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-26
TEHRAN, Oct. 26 (MNA) — Chief of General Staff of Iranian Armed Force said that Western governments are seeking to attribute brutal acts of terrorism to Islam, while they themselves have created terrorist groups.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165198/Western-gove…

Black Lives Matter rally as NSW parliamentary inquiry begins
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-26
About 200 people rallied in rain at the Sydney Domain on October 26, just before the NSW Parliamentary inquiry into Aboriginal deaths in custody began, reports Peter Boyle.
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Week Of Action Starting November 4, 2020
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
The federal government is failing us. By now we’re all well aware of the tax cuts and record-breaking profits accumulated by the wealthy while the rest of this country struggles to survive the pandemic; their failure to address the fundamentally corrupt institution of policing responsible for destroying black and brown lives and communities; their indifference to the climate crisis. We know we’ve been given a choice between one presidential candidate who emboldens the US’ spiraling undercurrent of far-right hate and one who will do nothing to stop it.
popularresistance.org/week-of-action-sta…

California Tribes Oppose Proposed Water Tunnel
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
In early March, just weeks before California shut down due to COVID-19, more than 200 tribal citizens, environmentalists and others gathered in the city of Redding to protest a proposed massive water tunnel in the state. | Members of the Yurok, Hoopa Valley, Karuk, Pit River, Winnemem Wintu, Pomo and Miwok nations held an outdoor rally before speaking at a meeting on the Delta Tunnel Conveyance project, saying it would destroy water quality and devastate the state’s salmon population and other important fish species in the San Joaquin Delta estuary.
popularresistance.org/california-tribes-…

Anti-Racist Activists Brutally Arrested In Michigan
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
On Saturday, an anti-racist demonstration in Shelby Township, Michigan was brutally repressed by the police. According to a video posted online several dozen police turned out in full riot gear and riot shields and beat and assaulted protesters before arresting several of them. Many of those arrested were thrown to the ground and there are reports that officers reportedly kneeled on their necks while they were being restrained. One woman, a photographer, was stripped down to her underwear in the middle of the street before being searched and arrested.
popularresistance.org/anti-racist-activi…

The Supremely Undemocratic Court
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
In this first installment of the Deception 2020 Series, we dig into that most supreme of undemocratic courts – just as Amy Coney Barrett looms over a smooth confirmation. Could the Democrats have stopped her? Then, we sit down with Dan Kovalik, human rights lawyer and author, for his take on the court, RBG, and…
popularresistance.org/the-supremely-unde…

Capitalism Is Double-Billing Us
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
Here is a word that risks deterring you from reading on much further, even though it may hold the key to understanding why we are in such a terrible political, economic and social mess. That word is “externalities”. | It sounds like a piece of economic jargon. It is a piece of economic jargon. But it is also the foundation stone on which the west’s current economic and ideological system has been built. Focusing on how externalities work and how they have come to dominate every sphere of our lives is to understand how we are destroying our planet — and offer at the same time the waypost to a better future.
popularresistance.org/capitalism-is-doub…

Chile: Approval For A New Constitution Wins Massive Mandate
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020 – Chileans today overwhelmingly approved, at the polls, the doing away of the Constitution drafted and approved under the military regime of Augusto Pinochet and gave the green light to the creation of a Constitutional Assembly. | According to official data by Chile’s official electoral body, with 45.24% of the vote counted, 77.85% percent of the voters checked the Approval box, an overwhelming figure in contrast to the 22.15% percent who chose to legitimize the current Constitution, which was supported by a majority of right-wing parties.
popularresistance.org/chile-approval-for…

Ocean Seismic Blasting Halted
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
Florida – After years of advocacy and legal back-and-forth, environmental conservation groups are celebrating a victory: The government will prohibit the use of sonic blasts in the ocean this year, which could help save the lives of critically endangered North Atlantic right whales. | During an Oct. 1 conference, officials from the seismic blasting industry announced they won’t pursue efforts to employ seismic blasting to search for offshore oil, a move that dozens of environmentally-focused conservation groups and coastal communities, including New Smyrna Beach and Flagler County, have signed resolutions against…
popularresistance.org/ocean-seismic-blas…

Learning The Lessons From Bolivia
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
I want to pass on my congratulations to new President Luis Arce, to Evo Morales and to the whole Movement Towards Socialism (MAS). | And I would like to pay special tribute to the heroic struggle and resistance put up by the Bolivian people over the past year since the military-led coup. | These elections were won in the face of widespread repression. Since last year’s coup and in the run-up to the elections there’s been violence and intimidation including against the Movement Towards Socialism.
popularresistance.org/learning-the-lesso…

Why We Need To End Capitalism To Defeat Fascism
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-26
With the presidential election coming up, there is a lot of focus on how the election will go and who will win. One thing is certain, no matter which corporate candidate wins, the people and the planet will lose. To understand where we are and how we got here, I speak with Gabriel Rockhill, a philosopher, author and activist. He explains the connections between our governance structure and capitalism and how both liberal democracy and fascism in a sort of good cop/bad cop relationship are used to protect the profits of the few while exploiting the many.
popularresistance.org/to-defeat-fascism/

Monday 10/26: Our Court, Our Voices: Rally Against SCOTUS Confirmation Vote for Amy Coney Barrett
PFAWMP | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
Online via livestream…
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Trump’s Body Count: Failed Brutal Wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen
Al Carroll | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
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Sit-in on SF Market Street by March For Democracy
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
Rally at Mission High School steps, | followed by a march to San Francisco City Hall…
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Thursday 10/29: Saving Life On Earth: Defending ‘Scary’ Creatures from Frightening Attacks Halloween Talk
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
Online via Zoom…
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Coronavirus covid-19 pandemic invades the White House
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
Coronavirus Covid-19 Memorial In Washington D.C.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/25/1883787…

15 Artsakh War Myths Perpetuated By Mainstream Media
Lucine Kasbarian | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
From peddling false equivalence, to selectively reporting the facts, to committing sins of omission, to cherry-picking so-called experts to support a desired argument, to concluding news coverage with biased policy recommendations, these actions taken by mainstream media about the facts on the ground reveal the handiwork of master purveyors of fake news.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/1883788…

Chile: Ana Tijoux, una voz en la revuelta
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
Ana Tijoux, una voz en la revuelta chilena. Su música y sus letras son banda de sonido de la calle en rebeldà¨a.
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Wednesday 10/28: Strength Thru Unity: Multicultural Election Special on COVID, Racism, & Human Rights
KPFK: Strength Thru Unity Program | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
Watch online via website livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/26/1883788…

Wednesday 11/18: EV 101: An Introduction to Owning Electric Vehicles
City of Sunnyvale | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
Webinar…
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Police Frequencies in Greece
ELLIN | indybay.org | 2020-10-26
How is it possible to aquire or scan police frequencies?>…
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Can Georgia’s Jon Ossoff Finish the Job This November?
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2020-10-26
Can Georgia’s Jon Ossoff Finish the Job This November?
thenation.com/article/politics/jon-ossof…

Can Georgia’s Jon Ossoff Finish the Job This November?
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2020-10-26
Can Georgia’s Jon Ossoff Finish the Job This November?
thenation.com/article/politics/jon-ossof…

Capitalism Is Double-billing Us: We Pay from Our Wallets Only for Our Future to be Stolen from Us
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Here is a word that risks deterring you from reading on much further, even though it may hold the key to understanding why we are in such a terrible political, economic and social mess. That word is “externalities”. | It sounds …
globalresearch.ca/capitalism-double-bill…

Selected Articles: Capitalism Is Double-billing Us
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-26
Capitalism Is Double-billing Us: We Pay from Our Wallets Only for Our Future to be Stolen from Us | By Jonathan Cook, October 26 2020 | As we shall see, externalities mean someone other than the company itself pays the true | …
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Capitalism is double-billing us
Jonathan Cook | zcomm.org | 2020-10-26
We pay from our wallets only for our future to be stolen from us…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/capitalism-is-doub…

Capitalism is double-billing us
Jonathan Cook | zcomm.org | 2020-10-26
We pay from our wallets only for our future to be stolen from us…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/capitalism-is-doub…

LGBTQ, homelessness, family, prison at 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
LGBTQ, homelessness, family, prison at 2020 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-26
In what is likely my final report from this year’s Festival, here are more capsule reviews of short films from Hawaii being screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which is taking place through Oct. 31. The topics include LGBTQ, homelessness, family, and prison. Gimme shelter: Strangers in their own homeland Writer/director Kimi …
peoplesworld.org/article/lgbtq-homelessn…

This is Why Israel’s Mass Protest Movement Will Never Lead to Change
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-10-26
Though seldom reported in the US, thousands are taking to the streets every week in Israel demanding that Netanyahu step down, but carefully crafted coalition agreements and the political reality in the country promise to keep him in the PM’s seat for the foreseeable future.
mintpressnews.com/why-israel-mass-protes…

Africa climate change report reveals heat rising north and south, Sahel getting wetter
news.un.org | 2020-10-26
Africa needs to prepare better for climate change by responding to a wide range of potential risks, a multi-agency report led by the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Monday, the first in a series of continent-by-continent assessments.
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UN shocked and outraged over horrific attack on school in Cameroon
news.un.org | 2020-10-26
The United Nations has strongly condemned Saturday’s attack on a school in southwestern Cameroon, which claimed the lives of eight children, and wounded another twelve.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Libya ceasefire: UN relaunches inclusive political forum, amid growing ‘sense of hope’
news.un.org | 2020-10-26
The UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has announced the launch of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum, following the signing of a permanent ceasefire agreement in the strife-torn country.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Catch-up, ‘get ahead and stay ahead’ of coronavirus, urges UN health agency chief
news.un.org | 2020-10-26
Global COVID-19 cases spiked to their highest level yet during last week, with many northern hemisphere countries seeing “a concerning rise in cases and hospitalizations”, the UN health agency chief said on Monday, urging countries to “get ahead and stay ahead” of the virus.
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UN’s mission ‘more important than ever’, Secretary-General says at UN Day ceremony
news.un.org | 2020-10-26
Seventy-five years after world leaders united to promote global peace and progress through cooperation, representatives from the international community stood in the UN General Assembly Hall on Monday to reaffirm their commitment to this promise.
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Exported used cars ‘dumped’ on developing nations, driving up pollution, UN warns
news.un.org | 2020-10-26
Used vehicles exported from richer countries are contributing to increased air pollution in developing nations and hindering efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change, according to a report published on Monday by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP).
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Adding More Dust onto a Threadbare Empire
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-26
Barbara Lee: I’m very terrified with regard to what we see taking place. And the signs are there. When you talk about shutting down the media, putting out their alternative facts, banning dissent and opposition, criticizing people who are exercising their First Amendment rights; trying to get people to believe, really, the distortions that they’re …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/adding-more-d…

What happened to redemption? Sarah Silverman says cancel culture turns people ‘to the DARK SIDE,’ gets cancelled (again)
rt.com | 2020-10-26
Comedian Sarah Silverman has come out swinging against ‘cancel culture’ for supposedly denying people “redemption” and leading them into the embrace of “the dark side,” earning herself both praise and scorn on social media. | Silverman gave her take on the ‘cancel culture’ phenomenon in a segment on her podcast at the weekend. | “When you take someone, you found a tweet they wrote seven years ago … you expose it and you say, ‘This person should be no more. Banish them forever.’ They’re going to find some place where they are accepted,” Silverman mused. | That place, she added, “is the motherf**king dark side…
rt.com/usa/504605-sarah-silverman-cancel…

Man BURNS ballot box in Boston, gets arrested, as authorities insist most of the votes inside were fine
rt.com | 2020-10-26
A Boston man was arrested for allegedly using an incendiary device to torch a ballot dropbox after he was spotted in the vicinity hours after the votes caught fire. State officials have demanded increased security for the boxes. | Worldy Armand, 39, was arrested and charged with “willful and malicious burning” on Sunday evening after police connected him to the apparent arson attempt on the box outside the main branch of the Boston Public Library. The blaze was discovered around 4am on Sunday morning when smoke was seen coming from the early voting ballot box. Firefighters filled the box with water to extingui…
rt.com/usa/504629-boston-arrest-ballots-…

Washington approves sale of 400 ANTI-SHIP missiles worth $2.37bn to Taiwan after Beijing vows sanctions for US arms dealers
rt.com | 2020-10-26
The US State Department has given the nod for the sale of 100 Harpoon anti-ship missile systems to Taiwan, the latest in a series of massive weapons transfers to the island as Beijing warns it will retaliate with sanctions. | The $2.37 billion deal, announced by the Defense Security Cooperatio…
rt.com/usa/504633-harpoon-missiles-sale-…

Intersex Activists Push Hospitals to Ditch Nonconsensual Surgeries on Children
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-26
When Marissa Adams was a toddler, she underwent surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital to make her genitalia look more like a doctor’s idea of “normal.” Like as many as 1.7 percent of people, Adams is intersex, born with some combination of hormonal, chromosomal or anatomical differences that put her outside of the textbook definition of female or male. And like a growing number of intersex people, she has spoken out about how surgery performed when she was too young to understand it left he…
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Why 2020 Is the Year of Black Holes
Prabir Purkayastha | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-26
The Nobel Prize in physics for 2020 has been shared by Roger Penrose, the mathematical physicist, for his work on the theoretical basis of black holes, and astronomers Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, who led independent teams, for verifying the existence of such a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. Penrose…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/26/why-2020-is-…

Sri Lankan parliament boosts president’s autocratic powers
wsws.org | 2020-10-26
The move towards dictatorship in Sri Lanka coincides with the drive by the ruling classes in every country towards fascist and autocratic rule.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/26/sril…

Early Leaders of India and Pakistan Ignored Religious Extremism Warnings
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-26
Indian Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi and various Muslim extremist political leaders of Pakistan represent the sum of all fears expressed by leaders of princely states and their governments at the dawn of India and Pakistan in the late 1940s. Secular political leaders, including the Indian National Congress (INC) leader Jawaharlal Nehru and All-India Muslim League leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah, claimed there was nothing to worry about since both majority Hindu India and majority Muslim Pakistan would be secular republics governed by leaders committed to democratic rule, not by dictates from Hindu nat…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/26/ea…

If you ‘love’ politics, there’s something wrong with you. Let me explain what
Wilson Belshaw | thecanary.co | 2020-10-26
Politics watching has hit the sort of highs you only see when things are going very, very badly. While engagement is a good thing, there is one group that’s suffering — namely the weirdoes and pundits who treat politics like some drab combination of Game of Thrones and the snooker.For them, the constant reminder that parliamentary drama has real life consequences harshes their buzz. It doesn’t harsh it as much as it harshes the lives of those who experience said consequences, but still, it has made their Twitter interactions some 27% more disagreeable.The question is who are these people and what’s wrong wit…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/10/26/if-you-l…

Communities rally to feed hungry children as ministers leave them high and dry
Claud Fullwood | thecanary.co | 2020-10-26
After a shocking 320 Tory MPs voted to prevent children living in poverty from receiving free school meals during the holidays, local businesses, authorities and community groups are stepping in to plug the gap in duty-of-care. Meanwhile, ministers face a damaging grassroots Tory revolt over the issue. | Dozens of people from a range of organisations have stepped in to help their local communities. Health secretary Matt Hancock, who voted against the motion to feed hungry children, has leapt at the chance to praise their “absolutely wonderful” efforts. Meanwhile, he insists that the government has already provide…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/10/26/communi…

The Tories plan to cut a vital learning fund for workers
Jasmine Norden | thecanary.co | 2020-10-26
The Conservative Party has announced plans to cut one a key education programme for workers. Unions have warned cutting the Union Learning Fund (ULF) will limit worker opportunities. | The Department for Education (DfE) contacted unions earlier in October to announce it would no longer run the ULF. The DfE will stop the fund in March 2021. | In response, unions and employers have urged the government to reverse the decision, citing concerns that workers will be left unable to pursue qualifications. Nearly 30,000 people have sign…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/10/26/the-…

The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers
Gwen Florio | thenation.com | 2020-10-26
The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers…
thenation.com/article/society/local-news…

‘The Nation’ Launches ‘System Check,’ A New Podcast With Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren
Press Room | thenation.com | 2020-10-26
‘The Nation’ Launches ‘System Check,’ A New Podcast With Melissa Harris-Perry and Dorian Warren…
thenation.com/article/society/system-che…

Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey
Bryce Covert | thenation.com | 2020-10-26
Lack of Paid Leave Makes Our Economy So Fragile: A Q&A With Heather Boushey…
thenation.com/article/economy/paid-leave…