US Elections 2020: Why the Record Vote Turnout May Not Matter
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
Mainstream media is pounding out an incessant drumbeat: ‘Get Out and Vote! Mail in Your Ballot! Do It Now! Vote Early!’ | But what may well determine the outcome of the election on November 3 may not be the current record …
globalresearch.ca/why-record-vote-turnou…

Wealthy areas switched support to Labour Party in New Zealand election
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
Some of the richest areas of the country switched their support to Labour, seeing it as a more reliable option than the rival National Party to deepen the assault on working class living standards and boost the profits of the business elite.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/nzel…

Federal court reverses Post Office head DeJoy’s attack on voting rights, but is it too late?
Hajira Asghar | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-29
This week a federal judge ruled to reverse the U.S. Postal Service’s decision to limit mail collections just days away from the presidential election.
liberationnews.org/federal-court-reverse…

Ganstagrass’ album ‘No Time for Enemies’ is a companion to their activism
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-29
Few organizations look to inspire young voters by examining the intersection of culture and politics. Brian E. Farrow’s band Gangstagrass, an unlikely fusion of hip-hop and bluegrass, is looking to change that for the 2020 election with their Get Out the Vote campaign.
therealnews.com/ganstagrass-album-no-tim…

UAE police chief’s bid to head Interpol sparks ‘deep concerns’ among rights groups
Rayhan Uddin | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-29
UAE police chief’s bid to head Interpol sparks ‘deep concerns’ among rights groups | Emirati general Ahmed Nasser al-Raisi would ‘damage’ international police organisation’s reputation, joint letter says | Rayhan Uddin | Thu, 10/29/2020 – 12: 52 | The election of Interpol’s next president will be held on 7-8 December in Abu Dhabi (AFP/File photo) | The appointment of the United Arab Emirate’s security chief as presi…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-interpol-…

Trump vs Biden: Big businesses pump in big money in costliest ever US Election
Subodh Varma | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-29
The Center for Responsive Politics estimates that the current election cycle will consume some $11 billion, which is way more than any other US election cycle even after adjusting for inflation…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/29/trump-vs-…

Right-wing Bolivian protesters refuse to accept election loss
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-29
The Grayzone reported from a opposition protest in La Paz, Bolivia, where right-wing activists said they would refuse to let the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party take power after winning the October 18 election, shouting vulgar chants and alleging fraud. Video shot by Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed Video edited and translated by Ben Norton…
thegrayzone.com/2020/10/29/bolivia-prote…

Trump and Biden: Cold-War Dinosaurs
Julia Kassem | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-29
If Americans have a modicum of memory, it is clear that baseless, warmongering accusations have time and time again been the precursor for winning consent over upcoming imperialist hostility. Accusing Iraq of harboring “weapons of mass destruction” in 2003, those that care to remember the administration of former President George W. Bush recalled the widespread condemnation from the left over how a lie cost over 1 million lives.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/trump-and-bi…

How a Key Pentagon Official Turned China Policy over to Arms Industry and Taiwan Supporters
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
The “Fortress Taiwan” arms deal overseen by ex-Assistant Secretary of Defense Randall Schriver is one of the most provocative U.S. moves against China in years — and a big win for his think tank’s arms industry and Taiwanese patrons. | When …
globalresearch.ca/how-pentagon-official-…

China imposes sanctions on US arms companies over Taiwan arms deals
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-29
The announcement of sanctions comes in response to arms deals signed by Taiwan and the US worth billions of dollars. Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Space & Security will be among the companies to be sanctioned…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/29/china-imp…

Humanity’s Madness Would Not Be Possible Without Extensive Marketing
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-29
Without extensive marketing it would never have occurred to people that inhaling cigarette smoke into their lungs all the time is a nice thing to do. | Without extensive marketing it would never have occurred to people that Mountain Dew is something they should put into their bodies. | Without extensive marketing it would never have occurred to people that Madonna should be famous. | Without extensive marketing it would never have occurred to women that they should always feel somewhat to severely uncomfortable with the way they look. | Without extensive marketing it would never have occurred to women that slicin…
thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/humanit…

We Need To Build A Movement That Heals Our Nation’s Traumas
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-29
As we head into what may be the most chaotic election in our lifetime, many people on all sides of the political aisle are reeling from anxiety and responding from a place of panic. With many of us on the left organizing for mass mobilizations and actions in…
popularresistance.org/we-need-to-build-a…

Deception 2020: It’s Not Propaganda When We Do It
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-29
In this fourth installment of the Deception 2020 Series, we dig into the cesspool of propaganda — the red, white and blue kind. Joined by Mickey Huff, Director of Project Censored, we turn the camera towards the corporate media and discuss some of the things you won’t hear in this election run up, and why media literacy is so vital now and especially moving forward.
popularresistance.org/deception-2020-its…

3 Day Tex Biden Bus Tour, Wis Hand-In Ballots,11/4/20 Protect Results
7 Days to Go | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
This last week before Election Day and Beyond are filled with campaign activity to Dump Trump. There is a 3-day Texas Biden Bus Tour, a Wisconsin Hand-In Mail-In Ballots this week campaign, and 11/4/20 Nationwide Protect the Vote Rallies.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/27/1883791…

Saturday 11/14: The Elections are Over — But the Problems Remain
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Online meeting, see website for details…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883793…

The Political System in Historical Crisis
Friedrich Steinfeld | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
In his inaugural speech in 2017, Donald Trump emphasized that his presidency would return political power to the people. He sees himself as the only legitimate representative of the interests of the supposedly true people and, according to the logic of this political self-understanding, he cannot actually lose any election. Should he lose it, however, this could only be the result of election manipulation.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883792…

Why Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg Are So Adamant About the Need to Defeat Trump
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
The potential for democratic governance is at stake…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/29/1883794…

The Supreme Court Has Never Been on the Side of Working People
D.D. Guttenplan, The Nation | thenation.com | 2020-10-29
The Supreme Court Has Never Been on the Side of Working People…
thenation.com/article/politics/supreme-c…

The World Is Burning, but the Political Press Insists It’s a Horse Race
Mark Hertsgaard, Andrew McCormick | thenation.com | 2020-10-29
The World Is Burning, but the Political Press Insists It’s a Horse Race…
thenation.com/article/environment/electi…

The GOP’s Education Extremism Is Alienating Moderate Voters
Jennifer C. Berkshire | thenation.com | 2020-10-29
The GOP’s Education Extremism Is Alienating Moderate Voters…
thenation.com/article/politics/republica…

Jeremy Corbyn suspended from Labour following antisemitism report
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-29
Jeremy Corbyn suspended from Labour following antisemitism report | Former leader said he did not accept all of EHRC’s findings, prompting suspension ‘pending investigation’ | MEE staff | Thu, 10/29/2020 – 11: 06 | Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn looks on during a general election campaign visit at Whitby Leisure Centre in northern England (AFP) | Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the United Kingdom’s Labour Party f…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-jeremy…

China: “Nuclear ‘Sword of Damocles’ Jeopardizes the Survival of Humanity”. Entry In Force of Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Carla Stea | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
Background: An Auspicious October | October 2, 2020: United Nations High Level Meeting Commemorating and Promoting the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: This Meeting Was Boycotted by United Kingdom, United States and France, AGAIN! | For many years …
globalresearch.ca/letter-us-attempts-sab…

Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on GOP’s Supreme Court Power Grab
Alicia Garza | zcomm.org | 2020-10-29
The rushed confirmation shows that the Supreme Court “is not a neutral body — it is incredibly political.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/black-lives-matter…

This election can’t contain the rage of young Americans
Aaron White | zcomm.org | 2020-10-29
In the most important election in my lifetime, who speaks for my generation?
zcomm.org/znetarticle/this-election-cant…

Plutocrat Violence and Election-Night Horror: Marxian Analysis Shows That Antifa Is Fascist
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-29
“When fascism comes to America, it will be called antifascism” — Huey Long (misattributed) | Antifa’s fascist violence will return on election night. That’s why it’s important to understand their fraudulence and fascism, and reject the politics of plutocrat-contrived violence. Perhaps strangely, Marxian analysis itself is best suited to communicate this point to the radical left. | This is because at the root of Marxian analysis are not self-declarations, nor definitions based in superstructural manifestations, but rather the material relationship between base and superstructure. | In layman’s terms this b…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/29/pl…

Facebook Choked Traffic to Mother Jones & Other Sites While Amplifying Right-Wing Misinformation
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-29
Big Tech CEOs were grilled Wednesday about how they moderate election disinformation and extremist content, and were accused by Republicans of censoring conservatives. Overlooked were reports that Facebook designed changes to its news feed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of left-leaning news sites like Mother Jones. Mother Jones editors wrote in 2019 that the site had seen a sharp decline in its Facebook audience, which translated to a loss of around $600,000 over 18 months. “The fact that we are trying to do everything we can to get the truth out and Facebook is deliberately sabotaging our readership…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/29/ari_berm…

Pandemic Poverty: The CARES Act Kept Millions from Going Hungry. Why Won’t the Senate Renew It?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-29
The massive $2 trillion CARES Act — which sent households one-time payments and boosted unemployment checks with an additional $600 a week through July — helped keep millions afloat, but more than 8 million people have been forced into poverty since the aid ended. “The relief was temporary, and much of it has now expired, so now we’re seeing poverty rise again,” says Megan Curran, a researcher at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. “We know that families can be protected again, but it does require action at the federal level.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/29/megan_cu…

The World Is Burning, but the Political Press Insists on its Horserace
Mark Hertsgaard, Andrew McCormick | commondreams.org | 2020-10-29
In the few days that remain before the election and in the months that will follow, journalists must ask themselves if they’re truly conveying the gravity of the climate crisis to their audiences, as well as all the challenges and opportunities it entails. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/29/world-…

The World Is Burning, but the Political Press Insists on its Horserace
Mark Hertsgaard, Andrew McCormick | commondreams.org | 2020-10-29
This election, regardless of who wins, marks an opportunity for news outlets to recommit to the climate story, which will only become more important and all-encompassing in the years ahead. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images News / Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/29/world-…

Why Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg are so adamant about the imperative of defeating Trump
Norman Solomon | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-29
The potential for democracy in the United States will largely hinge on whether Trump gains re-election.
nationofchange.org/2020/10/29/why-noam-c…

The Scourge of Islamophobia in France
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
US-led Western states promote Islamophobia. | It’s part of seeking dominance over other nations — notably by endless preemptive wars and related hostile actions against nonbelligerent states threatening no one. | It’s the wrong time to be Muslim in the West, notably …
globalresearch.ca/islamophobia-france/57…

Ending Regime Change — in Bolivia and the World
Medea Benjamin | zcomm.org | 2020-10-29
Please Help ZNet Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power. In the long history of U.S.-backed “regime changes” in Read…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/ending-regime-chan…

On the federation of economic communes: Engels and Dàºhring
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-29
Those who “go beyond” Karl Marx’s programme of economic liberation based on the socialisation of the means of production and “reach” a programme based on the federation of economic communes remind me of this promise of Sartre.
mronline.org/2020/10/29/on-the-federatio…

The Disappearing America: Progressives Want a Revolution, Not Just Change
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
In any given news cycle it is sometimes the lesser articles that are more illuminating in terms of where everything in a country as vast as the United States is heading. This is particularly true in terms of what the …
globalresearch.ca/america-progressives-w…

Twitter suspends Palestinian accounts shortly after Israeli ministry report on ‘phony’ profiles
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-29
Twitter suspends Palestinian accounts shortly after Israeli ministry report on ‘phony’ profiles | Social media giant says accounts were ‘amplifying the dissemination of information’ that violated its terms of service | MEE staff | Thu, 10/29/2020 – 12: 24 | Sada Social has been recording and monitoring the suspension of Palestinian content and accounts on Twitter and Facebook since September 2017 (AFP) | Twitter has suspe…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/twitter-pales…

Friday 10/30: Online Forum – La Riva/ Freeman 2020: Building the movement for socialism!
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Register now for the forum! | bit.ly/vote-socialist…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/29/1883794…

Saturday 10/31: The socialist impulses of Faux Free-marketeers
David Giesen | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Join Zoom Meeting | zoom.us/j/91504059746?pwd=b3N4UDJpRGNobV……
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883793…

The World Socialist Web Site and the defense of historical truth
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
The remarks below were given by historian Joseph Scalice.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/scal…

The World Socialist Web Site, the fight against imperialism and for socialism in the Middle East
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
The remarks below were delivered by Ula≈ü Ate≈üàßi, a leading member of Sosyalist E≈üitlik Grubu in Turkey.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/turk…

Poland Wants New “Marshall Plan” to “Save” Belarus
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
Poland is currently experiencing one of the most difficult periods in its recent history. The effects of the new coronavirus pandemic have been devastating in the country, considering that it has effectively reduced Polish industrial production — which decreased by …
globalresearch.ca/poland-wants-new-marsh…

How Venezuela has held back COVID-19 in spite of the US sanctions stranglehold on its economy
Vijay Prashad | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-29
María Lourdes Urbaneja Durant tells Viijay Prashad that despite sabotage by the US, Venezuela has been able to curb the spread of COVID-19 through “participation of the people”
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/29/how-venez…

Johnson government’s war on migrants turns English Channel into a “graveyard for children”
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
Driven from their homes by British imperialism’s wars of aggression across the Middle East, these persecuted people have become the latest victims of the Johnson government’s xenophobic “deterrence” regime against immigrants and refugees.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/refu…

Bolivia Needs to Guard Itself Against Further U.S. Intervention
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-29
Bolivia has managed to overturn the neoliberal agenda which the U.S. attempted to force upon the nation in the 2019 coup, which ousted former President Evo Morales to instal the far-right wing Jeanine Añez as president, or dictator. While Chile was dealing with its state violence, the Bolivian coup was out in the streets exerting its vengeance on the country’s indigenous population. For months, Bolivians protested against state violence and police repression. It is now the new government’s obligation to bring the perpetrators to justice, while retracing Bolivia’s path to its revolutionary progress. | Mainstream p…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/29/bo…

Google meets the Sherman Act
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-29
“Ambition is the subtlest Beast of the Intellectual and Moral Field,” wrote John Adams to his son, John Quincy Adams, in January, 1794. “It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner.” Father Adams was thinking of Thomas Jefferson in penning these words, that sly devil of a man who sought to gain power …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/google-meets-…

Nuclear Weapons Will Soon Be Illegal Under International Law
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-29
Flash! Nuclear bombs and warheads have just joined landmines, germ and chemical bombs and fragmentation bombs as illegal weapons under international law, as on Oct. 24 a 50th nation, the Central American country of Honduras, ratified and signed a UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Of course, the reality is that despite this outlawing of…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/nuclear-weap…

Video: Armenian-Azerbaijani War — One Month After
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
After a month of war, the Turkish-Azerbaijani bloc continues to keep the initiative in the conflict, exploiting its advantage in air power, artillery, military equipment and manpower. The coming days are likely to show whether Ankara and Baku are able …
globalresearch.ca/video-armenian-azerbai…

Presidential candidate Gloria La Riva: Justice for Walter Wallace Jr.!
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-29
We stand with the people of Philadelphia and people all across the country who have taken to the streets to protest this outrage.
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Why Marylanders Must Test The Water Near Military Bases
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-29
Last month, independent testing of oysters in the St. Mary’s River and St. Inigoes Creek was performed on behalf of the St. Mary’s River Watershed Association and financially supported by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, PEER. | Oysters in the St. Mary’s River and in St. Inigoes Creek were found to contain more than 1,000 parts per trillion (ppt) of the highly toxic chemicals. Oysters were analyzed by Eurofins, a world leader in PFAS testing. | The Harvard School of Public Health and leading scientific institutions around the world tell us not to consume more than 1 ppt of these substances daily…
popularresistance.org/why-marylanders-mu…

Turkey accused of shipping jihadist mercenaries into Azerbaijan-Armenia war
Steve Sweeney | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-29
Jihadist groups are believed to have been present in Azerbaijan since at least February, it was claimed on Oct. 27, with Turkey accused of shipping in militia, including a Uyghur Muslim terror group, the Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP). The Islamist fighters are thought to have been mobilized from their bases in Syria to join Azeri …
peoplesworld.org/article/turkey-accused-…

PSL statement: Solidarity with the Statue Girl Keepers: Japanese reparations to Korea now!
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-10-29
The Party for Socialism and Liberation sends its unconditional solidarity to the “Statue Girl Keepers” and to the People’s Democracy Party of South Corea in their relentless struggle against Japanese imperialism and pro-Japanese right-wing forces in their country.
liberationnews.org/psl-statement-solidar…

The Palestinians must try to win over disillusioned Israelis to their cause
Hamada Fara’na | zcomm.org | 2020-10-29
Winning over those Israelis who are disillusioned with the way that their government is going ever more to the extreme right can help to tip the balance in the Palestinians’ favour. When that starts to happen, anything is possible…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-palestinians-m…

Jeremy Corbyn’s shocking suspension is met with an outpouring of solidarity on social media
Sophia Purdy-Moore | thecanary.co | 2020-10-29
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended, “in light of his comments” in response to an investigation into antisemitism in the Labour Party. The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s investigation, published on 29 October, found Labour responsible for “unlawful acts of discrimination and harassment” in its handling of allegations of antisemitism. | In his statement following the release of the report, Corbyn said he regrets it took “longer to deliver that change than it sho…
thecanary.co/uk/2020/10/29/jeremy-corbyn…

My San Quentin Death Row Coronavirus Experience
Steve Champion | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-29
In late January 2020, President Donald Trump was fully aware of the potential danger and present threat of Coronavirus, even as it would take the WHO until March 11 to declare a pandemic. In that same month, San Quentin prisoners received an administrative notification that one of the guards tested positive. At the time, I was not overly concerned because I was healthy and in good shape, but of course viruses, pathogens with the sole aim of wreaking havoc on healthy cells, don’t care about that.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/my-san-quent…

“The Attention Economy” in Our Lives: Memory Failure Predicted by Attention Lapsing and Media Multitasking
Kevin P. Madore | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
Abstract | With the explosion of digital media and technologies, scholars, educators and the public have become increasingly vocal about the role that an ‘attention economy’ has in our lives[1]. | The rise of the current digital culture coincides with longstanding scientific …
globalresearch.ca/memory-failure-predict…

‘It’s Not Just That You’re a Crook’: Watch Jon Ossoff Eviscerate Sen. Perdue Over Insider Trading, Covid Lies, and Healthcare Attacks
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-29
“You’re attacking the health of the people that you represent,” the Democratic challenger said to Georgia’s incumbent GOP senator. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/29/its-not…

COVID-19 deaths: Infection fatality ratio is about 1% says new report
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-29
The COVID infection fatality ratio is around 1% in high-income countries, but substantially lower in low-income countries with younger populations.
imperial.ac.uk/news/207273/covid-19-deaths-infection-fatality-ratio-about

Elephants in the Room: US Military and CIA Interventions since World War II
Rod Driver | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
globalresearch.ca/elephants-room/5727944

Free Ant Smith! Drop the charges now! Defend the Philly rebellion!
Workers World Philadelphia bureau | workers.org | 2020-10-29
Ant Smith leading chants in Philadelphia at the Oct. 3rd “Fists Up! Fight Back! Rally & Teach In” in honor of Breonna Taylor and in solidarity with Louisville and all communities mobilizing in defense of Black lives. Workers World Party strongly condemns the outrageous arrest of Anthony “Ant” Smith, a . . . | Continue reading Free Ant Smith! Drop the charges now! Defend the Philly rebellion! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/10/52073/?utm_source=rs…

We need to fight for 2030 climate targets
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-29
As support grows for meaningful climate action, the major parties double down on support for their fossil fuel mates. Alex Bainbridge argues that there needs to be united effort to force them to agree to 2030 emission targets.
greenleft.org.au/content/we-need-fight-2…

Curfew imposed in Philadelphia after days of protests over fatal police shooting of Black man
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-29
The police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. while he was reportedly suffering a mental breakdown on Monday, has prompted widespread protests and demonstrations across the city of Philadelphia…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/29/curfew-im…

UN strongly condemns knife attack inside Nice church which left three dead
news.un.org | 2020-10-29
The UN Secretary-General on Thursday strongly condemned a knife attack inside a French church in the southern French city of Nice, which reportedly left three worshippers dead.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Priceless artefacts vandalised in Berlin museums
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
While the police investigate “in all directions,” there is considerable evidence to indicate the involvement of far-right forces in the attacks.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/perg…

Bad Leadership Is Plunging Public Schools Into a Crisis
Jeff Bryant | progressive.org | 2020-10-29
COVID-19 exposed how important teachers are to students and families–it’s a shame that school leaders still won’t listen to them.
progressive.org/public-school-shakedown/…

Exposed: Special Procurement Channels for ‘VIPs’ and UK Cabinet Contacts
Good Law Project | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
Leaked documents seen by Good Law Project set out special pathways by which “VIP” and “Cabinet Office” contacts could be awarded lucrative PPE contracts at the height of the pandemic — and at inflated prices. | Lord Bethell, a junior …
globalresearch.ca/special-procurement-ch…

Trump Left Workers Behind
Dave Green | progressive.org | 2020-10-29
Contrary to Pence’s lies, Ohio lost jobs in 2019 — the state’s worst year since the Great Recession.
progressive.org/op-eds/trump-left-worker…

Human Rights, Terrorism and Organized Crime
Stephen Sefton | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
An outstanding characteristic of the Western human rights industry has long been the way it politicizes its production to serve the foreign policy needs of its countries’ governments. To that end corporate and government investors fund leading industry producers like …
globalresearch.ca/human-rights-terrorism…

Hariri is Back in the Game–MES EP.78
Marwa Osman | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-29
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri who was toppled in a popular uprising nearly one year ago, has been tasked with forming the crisis-plagued country’s next government. Hariri’s dramatic return was enabled by the votes of 65 MPs from across the country’s political spectrum. Hariri now faces the grueling task of forming a cabinet in a country still reeling from the aftermath of a massive explosion that ripped through the capital in August. The country is mired in a financial meltdown, political infighting and widespread anger at Beirut’s ruling elite. | To discuss this issue with us from Beirut is Dr. Dani…
thealtworld.com/marwa_osman/hariri-is-ba…

Steichen Declared Incompetent to Stand Trial
Robert Maxim | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Jacob Steichen’s Criminal Proceedings Suspended; Declared Mentally Incompetent…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883792…

Keir Stalin has launched a purge of all left-wing MPs from the Labour Party
Kerry-anne Mendoza | thecanary.co | 2020-10-29
Keir Starmer has suspended Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour party, despite a 17-month investigation by the EHRC finding no evidence of antisemitism attributable to the former leader. But even worse, Sir Keir appears to have launched a full Stalinist purge of left-wing MPs from the Labour party.Starmer’s List: No…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/10/29/keir-sta…

Russian government issues mask mandate, opposes shutdown as COVID cases spike
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
With coronavirus cases far outpacing their May peak, outbreaks are hitting medical facilities and cultural institutions across the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/ruco…

Turkey faces ‘real’ risk of sanctions for testing Russian S-400 missile system: US
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-29
Turkey faces ‘real’ risk of sanctions for testing Russian S-400 missile system: US | Turkey confirmed the first test of the S-400 earlier this month, despite repeated warnings from the United States | MEE staff | Thu, 10/29/2020 – 14: 49 | Following the delivery of the first battery of missiles last year, Turkey was excluded from an F-35 fighter jet training programme (AFP/File photo) | A US State Department official has…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-sancti…

Beto, El Escritor de las cartas de los Braceros
Gil Villagran, MSW | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
The Bracero Program, based upon a U.S.-Mexico Treaty imported | Mexican laborers for year-long contract during WWII. My father came to the California San Joaquin Valley Southern Pacific RR.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/29/1883793…

Toward a Small Farm Future
Chris Smaje | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-29
Chris Smaje has coworked a small farm in Somerset, southwest England, for the last fifteen years. Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey and the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College on aspects of social policy, social identities and the environment. Since switching focus to the practice and politics of agroecology, he’s written for various publications such as The Land, Dark Mountain, Permaculture Magazine and Statistics Views, as well as academic journals such as Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and the Journa…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/toward-a-sma…

Some Advice for White People on Halloween
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-10-29
Some Advice for White People on Halloween…
thenation.com/article/society/halloween-…

Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul relaunches hunger strike
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-29
Loujain al-Hathloul, who has been in prison since may 2018, launched a hunger strike against prison officials’ decision to deny her regular contact with her family. She had undertaken a similar strike in September…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/29/saudi-wom…

Iranian press review: Tehran’s Baghdad ambassador ‘happy’ to be on US sanctions list
MEE correspondent | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-29
Iranian press review: Tehran’s Baghdad ambassador ‘happy’ to be on US sanctions list | Meanwhile, Iran deploys ground forces to its borders with Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Tehran and Washington accuse each other of destabilising Afghanistan | MEE correspondent | Thu, 10/29/2020 – 14: 34 | Iran’s ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi has been blacklisted in the latest round of US sanctions (AFP) | Iran’s Bag…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/iran-press-ir…

Trump regime falsely claims it ended coronavirus covid-19 pandemic
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
White House Statement Falsely Claiming Trump Has Ended Coronavirus Covid-19 Pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883793…

What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins | thenation.com | 2020-10-29
What We Call Freedom Has Never Been About Being Free…
thenation.com/article/culture/annelien-d…

Saudi Arabia: Man arrested after attacking French consulate guard ‘with sharp tool’
MEE and agencies | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-29
Saudi Arabia: Man arrested after attacking French consulate guard ‘with sharp tool’ | The attack in Jeddah comes as tensions rise in the aftermath of French President Macron’s comments defending the right to publish satirical images of Prophet Muhammad | MEE and agencies | Thu, 10/29/2020 – 11: 13 | Saudi Arabia on Tuesday condemned cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad (AFP/file photo) | A Saudi citizen w…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-arabia-…

Sunday 11/1: Sit. Walk. Listen. Because Black Lives Matter
Sit. Walk. Listen | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/27/1883791…

The Virus-story: Breaking the Chains of Medical Civilization. “Mind Control par Excellence”
Jon Rappoport | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
In the same way the CIA invented foreign enemies which required us to go to war, there are people who have invented stories of fearful germs that demand medical treatment and prevention. The story tellers know that among the public, …
globalresearch.ca/virus-story-breaking-c…

Friday 10/30: Art is Essential: 10th Annual San Francisco Youth Arts Summit
Youth Art Exchange | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Online event from November 30 – December 4…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/29/1883794…

Three Imperial academics win Institute of Physics awards
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-10-29
Experts in particle, fundamental, and polymer physics at Imperial have all been recognised in this year’s awards.
imperial.ac.uk/news/207553/three-imperial-academics-institute-physics-awards

Record 33.1 Percent Surge Still Leaves GDP 3.5 Percent Below Pre-Pandemic Level
Karen Conner | cepr.net | 2020-10-29
The trade deficit reached a record in the third quarter. GDP grew at a record 33.1 percent annual rate, as the economy bounced back from the pandemic-driven shutdowns in the second quarter. However, even with this record growth, the economy was still 3.5 percent below its pre-pandemic level. If we assume a modest 2.0 percent …
cepr.net/gdp-2020-10/

Germany’s Verdi union stabs public sector workers in the back
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
The deal struck by Verdi is scandalous, involving a minimal increase from the provocative initial offer made by the employers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/verd…

Video: Government by Decree — COVID-19 and the Constitution
Lord Sumption | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
On 27 October 2020 Lord Sumption delivered the 2020 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled “Government by decree — Covid-19 and the Constitution”. | The disputes over Brexit last year saw an attempt to make the executive, not Parliament, the prime source of …
globalresearch.ca/video-government-decre…

Thursday 12/3: California’s Equitable Carbon Neutral Future
City of Sunnyvale | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Register for free at carbonneutralca.eventbrite.com…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883792…

How Donald Trump is putting American workers at risk
Tom Conway | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-29
The federal government long ago created various agencies to protect workers’ rights and safety, but Trump turned them into appendages of corporate America.
nationofchange.org/2020/10/29/how-donald…

University of Michigan students denounce administration’s reckless COVID-19 policies
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
University of Michigan Students speak out against deadly reopening policies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/univ…

What Can Americans Learn from New York’s Shrewd Governor, Andrew Cuomo? Managing Covid-19
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
Day 240 of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US; anxious New Yorkers are again invited to hear about changing conditions in their state and what the governor’s doing to protect them. Monday’s press briefing must be his 150th review …
globalresearch.ca/what-americans-learn-n…

On Trump’s Megalomania
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-29
I have been observing Trump since 2016. He is a despot in a business suit. He is undermining the government and the health of Americans and the natural world. He says he’s a billionaire and proud of it. And to prove how far he stands from the wishes and aspiration of Americans, he filled his cabinet mostly with billionaires.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/on-trumps-me…

Injustice for all while corporate crime flourishes
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-29
Deregulation and weak regulations allows greed and dishonesty to continue in Australia’s financial sector, argues Suzanne James.
greenleft.org.au/content/injustice-all-w…

Keir Starmer’s foolish decision to suspend Corbyn is a gift to the Tories. And racists everywhere
Joe Glenton | thecanary.co | 2020-10-29
Keir Starmer’s foolish decision to suspend former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is a huge gift for the Tory government. And it will help racists everywhere. | The suspension, following the publication of the EHRC report into antisemitism in the Labour Party, will be debated for months. But some things are beyond doubt. | The suspension has immediately,…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/10/29/keir-sta…

Islamic Unity Conf. should pursue new ways for solidarity
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-29
TEHRAN, Oct. 29 (MNA) — Top Iranian jurisprudent Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi warned of enemies’ efforts to find new ways to divide the world of Islam calling on the Islamic Unity Conference to find new ways to boost solidarity among Muslims.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165322/Islamic-Unit…

Policing the poor and minorities as counter-insurgency
Justin Podur | mronline.org | 2020-10-29
Here are seven counterinsurgency features of policing and the inequities in the criminal justice system.
mronline.org/2020/10/29/policing-the-poo…

Scientists at two of America’s giant automaker companies knew about car emission climate effects back in the 1960s
Marlee Kokotovic | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-29
“Another cog in the climate denial machine rattles loose.”
nationofchange.org/2020/10/29/scientists…

Steichen Declared Mentally Unfit to Stand Trial (Update)
Robert Maxim | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Jacob Steichen, 34, is currently in custody for the September 21 stabbing and homicide of his brother, Aaron. Conflict counsel Owen Tipps and Judge Canning vaguely discuss documents under subpoena from Arcata Police Department…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883792…

Monday 11/2: Calm in the Storm: Vespers with Skyline Church
Skyline Church UCC | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Skyline Church, 12540 Skyline Blvd is hosting via zoom: | zoom.us/j/716026467, Meeting ID: 716 026 467…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883792…

Thursday 10/29: Mobilize to Defend Democracy to GOTV & Protect the Results w/ Sierra Club
Sierra Club | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Online via livestream | (Livestream being hosted from Sierra Club National Headquarters in Oakland, CA)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883793…

By suspending Jeremy Corbyn the Labour party has once again shown that it isn’t the party of anti-racists
Maryam Jameela | thecanary.co | 2020-10-29
Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the Labour Party. The suspension follows his reaction to an Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report on antisemitism in the party.In getting rid of Corbyn, a lifelong anti-racist, the Labour Party has once again shown that it is not the party of anti-racists.Starmer’s decision to suspend Corbyn and remove the whip has caused fury…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/10/29/by-suspe…

Putin Offers NATO Inspections to Prevent Deployment of INF-Banned Missiles
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin offered mutual inspections of each other’s military bases to NATO to prevent the deployment of missiles banned under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. | The INF was signed between the US and the Soviet …
globalresearch.ca/putin-offers-nato-insp…

EPA approves use of herbicides linked to cancer and crop cross contamination
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-29
Dicamba, the main ingredient in the three herbicides, is “highly volatile and can easily drift onto unprotected neighboring fields from fields of crops genetically engineered to withstand it.”
nationofchange.org/2020/10/29/epa-approv…

US warns of possible Houthi missile strikes on Saudi capital
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-29
US warns of possible Houthi missile strikes on Saudi capital | Saudi coalition spokesman said bomb-laden Houthi drones were launched toward the capital ‘deliberately and systematically to target civilians’ | MEE staff | Thu, 10/29/2020 – 15: 25 | Brian Hook, then-US special representative on Iran, on 21 June 2019 checks what Saudi officials said were Iran-made Houthi missiles and drones intercepted over Saudi territory (A…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-warns-miss…

After Covid: Will the Recession Become a Depression?
David Rosen | zcomm.org | 2020-10-29
More ominous, a greater economically structured and unequal system — a postmodern caste system — may come to define the next new normal…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/after-covid-will-t…

The Heat: COVID-19 surge in the United States
Mike Walter | america.cgtn.com | 2020-10-29
A dangerous surge of coronavirus cases in the United States. What’s behind the increase and why are so many hospitals being pushed to their limit?
america.cgtn.com/2020/10/29/the-heat-cov…

Panic over ‘Cancel Culture’ is another example of right-wing projection
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-10-29
The Republican National Convention this year made fighting “cancel culture” a priority for the party. Former Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch wrote in the Wall Street Journal (7/27/20) that cancel culture was at the heart of the crisis facing academic freedom in the nation.
mronline.org/2020/10/29/panic-over-cance…

Macron’s Attack on Islam Reveals “Intolerance and Hatred,” Says Nobel Peace Laureate
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
The beheading of a teacher in France elicited inflammatory remarks from President Emmanuel Macron, which in turn has been met with an Arab boycott of French goods and outrage by the Muslim world. | Macron is accusing Muslims of separatism…
globalresearch.ca/macron-attack-islam-re…

Saturday 10/31: Trick or Treat for Rent Relief
Tenant councils | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Piedmont Park | Highland Ave and Mountain Ave | Piedmont, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883793…

White House moving forward with sale of F-35 jets to UAE, top Democrat says
MEE staff | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-29
White House moving forward with sale of F-35 jets to UAE, top Democrat says | Representative Eliot Engel said the Trump administration notified Congress of its intent to sell as many as 50 F-35 fighter jets to the UAE | MEE staff | Thu, 10/29/2020 – 17: 48 | The F-35 had long been denied to Arab states due to Washington’s guarantees of Israel’s regional military superiority (AFP/File photo) | The White House has agreed to…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/white-house-n…

Tennessee educator speaks out against unsafe conditions and lack of resources
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
While COVID-19 continues to spread throughout Tennessee, educators are left with little resources and a deliberate lack of information about outbreaks at their schools.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/tenn…

Red State Governors Still Flunk COVID Testing
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-29
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/red-state-go…

World Cities Day: Value communities, today and for the future
news.un.org | 2020-10-29
Top UN officials have highlighted the “extraordinary” contributions of grassroots communities in towns and cities across the world in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, and urged that their unique efforts be built on, during recovery.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

COVID19 Rips Through Michigan K-12 Schools
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-29
The spread of COVID-19 through Michigan’s K-12 schools is rapidly accelerating, with the number of new outbreaks rising for the third week in a row, according to data released by the state yesterday. Last week, there were 29 separate outbreaks affecting 107 students, teachers and school workers, making it the most infectious week in Michigan since the school year began. | The 29 new outbreaks last week are in addition to 70 other “ongoing” outbreaks, defined as outbreaks that have been reported more than a week ago, but which have at least one new associated case in the last 28 days.
popularresistance.org/covid19-rips-throu…

America’s Imperial Expenditures and Escapades Are Stranger Than Fiction
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-29
Danny SJURSEN | Who needs dystopian novelists or absurd satirists when otherwise banal bureaucrats of the U.S. national security state do the job for them? It’s an old story with a new tech-savvy twist. The late great Joseph Heller knew a thing or two about war’s foundational farce. He joined the army air corps at age 19 and flew 60 combat missions as a bombardier on World War II’s Italian front. | In his classic 1961 novel Catch-22, his wounded protagonist lamented that “outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad a…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/29/am…

More Than 8 Million Have Been Forced Into Poverty Since COVID Relief Ended in US
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-29
The massive $2 trillion CARES Act — which sent households one-time payments and boosted unemployment checks with an additional $600 a week through July — helped keep millions afloat, but more than 8 million people have been forced into poverty since the aid ended. “The relief was temporary, and much of it has now expired, so now we’re seeing poverty rise again,” says Megan Curran, a researcher at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. “We know that famili…
truthout.org/video/more-than-8-million-h…

Wednesday 11/4: Protect The Results
Patty Hoyt | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
1000 4th Street | City Plaza | San Rafael CA 94901…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883791…

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Anarchy Is Being Loosed Upon the Nation
John W. Whitehead | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-29
Every day I ask myself the same question: How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination. — Philip Roth, The Plot Against America, 2004, Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/something-wic…

Thursday 10/29: Mobilze to Defend Democracy to GOTV & Protect the Results w/ Sierra Club
Serria Club | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Online via livestream | (Livestream being hosted from Sierra Club National Headquarters in Oakland, CA)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883793…

Indonesian protests mark re-emergence of social movements, civil society
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-29
Academic and activist Robertus Robet, talks about the wave of protests in Indonesia against the Omnibus Law, the key role played by the trade unions, and the challenges to democracy in the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/29/indonesia…

FBI Raids Home Of Activist, Teacher Anthony Smith, Arrests Him
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-29
An activist and West Philadelphia teacher is facing federal charges related to rioting surrounding the George Floyd protests in Philadelphia this past June. Eyewitness News has learned that Anthony Smith, of West Philadelphia, has been arrested and faces multiple federal charges related to the civil unrest. | Law enforcement sources confirmed Smith’s arrest, along with the community group he represents, Philly for Real Justice. | “Early Wednesday morning Federal agents raided the West Philadelphia home of Anthony Smith, an outspoken community activist and a leader in the movement for Black lives in Philadelphia..
popularresistance.org/fbi-raids-home-of-…

Iranian animation goes to German film festival
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-29
TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (MNA) — Iranian animation ‘Autumn Winds, Spring Winds, and Two Doves’ by Sadegh Javadi, will take part in the 63rd edition of DOK Leipzig festival in Germany.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165281/Iranian-anim…

Reduce risk to avert ‘era of pandemics’, experts warn in new report
news.un.org | 2020-10-29
Unless there is a “seismic shift” in how countries collectively deal with infectious diseases, future pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, cause greater damage to the global economy and kill more people than COVID-19, international experts warned in a UN-backed report published on Thursday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Revista Descolonialidad del Poder y Autogobierno Social
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
La Red Descolonialidad del Poder y Autogobierno Social, presenta la tercera edición de su revista…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/29/1883793…

The Politics of Hunger Strikes
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2020-10-29
The inspirational example of the Irish hunger strikers who did not abandon their quest for elemental justice at the doorstep of death was not lost on the Palestinians…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-politics-of-hu…

Traditional goldsmithing in Yazd
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-29
Yazd, Oct. 28 (MNA) — Traditional goldsmithing is one of the popular arts in Yazd Province that the craftsmen and artists of this city have been working in this field for many years.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/165285/Traditional…

Neo-Conservative Ghoul Stephen Suleyman Schwartz Runs for the S.F. Board of Supervisors
Kevin Keating | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Ever hungry for attention, a dose of bad news from the Reagan eighties is now challenging Aaron Peskin for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors seat in District 3.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883793…

FBI warns of ‘imminent cybercrime threat to US HOSPITALS,’ sending media & pundits into overdrive to blame ‘Russian hackers’
rt.com | 2020-10-29
Federal agencies have warned of an impending wave of cyber attacks on US hospitals they say could affect operations amid the Covid-19 pandemic, as corporate media outlets race to find ways to blame Moscow free of any evidence. | The FBI, CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and the Department of Health and Human Services issued a joint statement on Wednesday sounding alarms over the “imminent” hacking operations, assessing that “malicious cyber actors are targeting the [Healthcare and Public Health] Sector…
rt.com/usa/504860-hospital-cybersecurity…

As COVID-19 surges in Europe, governments protect profits over lives
wsws.org | 2020-10-29
If the resurgence of COVID-19 across Europe is not halted, it is a matter of only a few weeks before hospitals are overrun and masses of people cut off from treatment.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/29/pers…

PW Podcast: Coalitions, right-wing populism, and voting for one another
Matt Bernico, Chauncey K. Robinson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-29
Beyond the Page is a companion podcast to the award-winning publication People’s World. With every episode, we’ll take you deeper into the topics covered at PeoplesWorld.org. Our program brings you in-depth interviews with journalists and activists on the most pressing stories in progressive politics, labor, and the struggle for socialism in the United States. What …
peoplesworld.org/article/pw-podcast-coal…

COVID-19 robs children in poor countries of nearly four months of school
news.un.org | 2020-10-29
The COVID-19 pandemic has robbed children in the poorest countries of nearly four months of schooling, compared to six weeks of lost education for their counterparts in high income countries, according to a report published on Thursday by the UN educational and cultural organization, UNESCO; the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Bank.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Tuesday 11/3: Sit. Walk. Art. Because Voting Matters
Sit. Walk. Listen | indybay.org | 2020-10-29
Bill Graham Auditorium (City Hall Voting Center) | Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/27/1883791…

Guterres to Security Council: Women leaders ‘essential to peace and progress for all’
news.un.org | 2020-10-29
Women continue to be under-represented in key decision-making over the battle against COVID-19, the chief of the UN gender empowerment agency said on Thursday, addressing the Security Council, adding that the situation is even “worse for women in conflict areas”.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

Is Pharma Our Covid Savior?
Martha Rosenberg | zcomm.org | 2020-10-29
Pharma has already eceived $1 billion of our hard earned tax dollars to develop Covid vaccines…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-pharma-our-covi…

Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges Plans to Log Grizzly Habitat
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-29
Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the Lolo National Forest on Oct. 23 to stop the Soldier-Butler timber sale in the Ninemile Ranger District over wildlife habitat destruction from the project’s extensive logging and road-building. We filed a separate 60-day Notice of Intent to Sue because the Forest Service did not obliterate roads it previously…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/alliance-for…

After nearly a decade away, La Niña weather system is back
news.un.org | 2020-10-29
Many will be familiar with El Niño — the ocean-warming phenomenon that affects global weather patterns — but how about La Niña, which is linked to cooler sea temperatures?
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/10/1…

OTI Condemns ‘Unhinged’ FCC, Urges Restoration Of Net Neutrality
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-29
Washington, DC – On October 27, 2020, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to reaffirm its 2017 repeal of net neutrality. The vote is a response to Mozilla v. FCC, a 2019 court ruling that found the FCC’s decision to repeal net neutrality was “unhinged from the realities of modern broadband service” and ignored the government’s duty to protect public safety, digital equity, and broadband competition. | In February 2020, the FCC abruptly announced a short public comment period to address the ruling and the court-ordered remand, or do-over, of the net neutrality proceeding.
popularresistance.org/oti-condemns-unhin…

Selected Articles: Human Rights, Terrorism and Organized Crime
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-29
More Advanced Weapons and Nukes for Italy: Defense Minister Guerini on St. Francis’s Footsteps | By Manlio Dinucci, October 29 2020 | At the NATO Defense Ministers meeting on October 23, Minister Guerini confirmed Italy’s participation in a new NATO Space | …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-huma…

Policing the Pandemic: How the City of Albuquerque Criminalizes People Living on the Streets
KJSKDC | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-29
Instead of helping unsheltered people find support and housing, the City of Albuquerque’s Family and Community Services Department has been working closely with Albuquerque police to break up tent encampments, to check for warrants, and to identify people for police to arrest or issue criminal citations.
counterpunch.org/2020/10/29/policing-the…

Gov’t uses Australia Post scandal to push for full privatisation
Pip Hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-10-29
Scott Morrison’s indignation over Australia Post CEO gifting Cartier watches to senior executives was crafted to deflect mounting pressure for a federal integrity commission, reports Jim McIlroy.
greenleft.org.au/content/govt-uses-austr…

Incensed Over Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation? Don’t Mourn—Organize and Vote
Jules Lobel | commondreams.org | 2020-10-28
Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 14, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst-Pool/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/28/incens…

After Installing Barrett, McConnell Adjourns Senate for Recess Sans COVID Relief
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-28
After installing right-wing judge Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court just days ahead of the November presidential election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell summarily adjourned his chamber for recess late Monday without approving any additional coronavirus relief, effectivel…
truthout.org/articles/after-installing-b…

Colorado’s Sen. Bennet: Barrett on High Court good for the exploitative 1%
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-28
WASHINGTON–Elevation of federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court is not just bad news for workers, Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., says. It’s good news–and another chapter–in the crusade of the 1% and the corporate/political elite that has schemed to rule the republic, and the rest of us, ever since the U.S. was …
peoplesworld.org/article/colorados-sen-b…

Incensed Over Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation? Don’t Mourn—Organize and Vote
Jules Lobel | commondreams.org | 2020-10-28
For the past half century or so, the progressive movement has often relied on the courts, not the political branches to win and protect rights. It’s time for that to change. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/10/28/incens…

Senate tossups: Maine was predicted; Iowa, Kansas and Alaska weren’t
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-28
PORTLAND, Maine–U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh has, unintentionally, put veteran Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in the race of her life. That was predicted and predictable. Collins, seeking her fifth six-year term, blew her carefully cultivated independent image out of the water by providing the key vote last year to confirm Kavanaugh, GOP Oval Office …
peoplesworld.org/article/senate-tossups-…

SCCR slams Macron’s blasphemy to Prophet Mohammad
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-28
TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (MNA) — The secretary of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution has condemned an insult of the French president to Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
en.mehrnews.com/news/165293/SCCR-slams-M…

US 2020 Election to Cost Record $14Bln, 2-Times More Than in 2016
sputniknews.com | 2020-10-28
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Spending in the US 2020 election is expected to approach $14 billion, making it the most expensive election in history by a long shot, according to Open Secrets, a group that monitors federal campaign contributions.
sputniknews.com/us/202010281080906712-us…

“To sustain this process we need to repoliticize the people”
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-10-28
The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) has won a landslide victory in the Bolivian elections. The elections were held on October 18, and were the first elections in the country since former president Evo Morales was ousted from power last year in a coup. We spoke to Juan Carlos Pinto Quintanilla, sociologist and former director of Citizen Strengthening of the Vice-Presidency of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, about this victory and the challenges that lie ahead for this government.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/10/28/to-sustai…

Michigan judge accused of jeopardizing safety and democracy with reversal of open carry ban at polling places
Brett Wilkins | nationofchange.org | 2020-10-28
“There are voters who are afraid, there are election workers who are afraid.”
nationofchange.org/2020/10/28/michigan-j…

Healthcare, Police Brutality, Racism to Shape the Latinx Vote
Leonardo Flores | telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-28
This year, 32 million people of Latin American descent are eligible to vote, representing 13 percent of the electorate and surpassing the number of Black voters for the first time. That represents just over half of the 60 million Latinx people in the United States. | RELATED: | US Election: A Feminist Foreign Policy Hasn’t Been Discussed | In 2016, voter turnout in the Latinx community was less than 50 percent; Clinton won the vote by 66 to 28 percent. | Nationally, Latinx voters a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Healthcare-Polic…

Unleashing the Power of Poor Voters
Margot Rathke, Sarah Anderson | commondreams.org | 2020-10-28
Low-income voters could decide this election. These neighborhood activists are working to make it happen. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Pandemic Transforms People Into Voting Rights Activists
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-28
For Regina Root, 53, the journey to suing Virginia’s election officials began during the state’s nomination contest in June when the university professor cast her ballot in person before the voting day to avoid potential crowds at her polling place. | The brain surgery that saved Root’s life left her with impaired vision and her election office lacked a machine that would allow her to cast her vote without relying on her husband. | “I thought wait, this doesn’t make sense. I can vote on my own. I have a PhD,” said the Williamsburg, Virginia, resident.
popularresistance.org/pandemic-transform…

Can Iran and the US re-engage after the election?
Pepe Escobar | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-28
Asia Times hosts a webinar with Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi and Pepe Escobar talking about all things Iran — past, present and future. | And about: can Iran and the US re-engage after the election?
thealtworld.com/pepe_escobar/can-iran-an…

Tanzanians Attend Elections To Decide on Their Future
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-28
Over 29 million Tanzanians are taking to some 80,000 polling stations to cast ballots for the elections of president, members of parliament, and councilors on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Tanzania s COVID Free by ‘God’s Will’: President Maghufuli | The elections have attracted 15 presidential candidates from 15 political parties, but the race is tight between incumbent President John Magufuli of the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi and Tundu Lissu from leading opposition Chama Cha De…
telesurenglish.net/news/Tanzanians-Atten…

Racial Justice Demands That Every Vote Is Counted
Lucia Tian | aclu.org | 2020-10-28
This year, ensuring every mail-in ballot is counted is more important than ever. While the share of voters casting ballots by mail has grown steadily in recent years, the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a surge in mail-in voting during primaries that has continued in the lead-up to Election Day. Already, 90.7 million ab…
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Trump Makes One More Desperate Bid to Frack the Election
commondreams.org | 2020-10-28
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In ‘Extraordinary Step,’ International Crisis Group Issues Report Warning of US Election Violence
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-28
The report serves as “a testament to the erosion of U.S. democracy and the persistence of minority rule, of which the current presidency is a malignant symptom,” wrote one observer. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/10/28/extraor…

The Political System in Historical Crisis
Friedrich Steinfeld | indybay.org | 2020-10-28
In his inaugural speech in 2017, Donald Trump emphasized that his presidency would return political power to the people. He sees himself as the only legitimate representative of the interests of the supposedly true people and, according to the logic of this political self-understanding, he cannot actually lose any election. Should he lose it, however, this could only be the result of election manipulation.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/28/1883792…

Ending Regime Change in Bolivia and the World
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-28
Bolivian woman votes in October 18 election Less than a year after the United States and the U.S.-backed Organization of American States (OAS) supported a violent military coup to overthrow the government of Bolivia, the Bolivian people have reelected the Movement for Socialism (MAS) and restored it to power. In the long history of U.S.-backed …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/ending-regime…

Is the left organized enough to fight neofascism?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-28
This election, voters have a choice between neoliberalism and neofascism. Marc Steiner talks to Norman Solomon about what’s at stake on November 3.
therealnews.com/is-the-left-organized-en…

Concord D2 Residents Can Vote Out Caviar Carlyn
Concord Author | indybay.org | 2020-10-28
In the lead up to the election during the economic and Covid crisises, Carlyn Obringer is promoting caviar on Twitter and Facebook. Caviar Carlyn is out of touch when it comes to the struggles that so many Concord residents are facing.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/27/1883791…

Bolivia: Arce Repudiates Right-Wing Requests for a New Coup
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-28
Bolivia’s President-elect Luis Arce and former President Evo Morales Tuesday repudiated minority groups which do not accept the result of the elections and demand the intervention of a Military Junta to rule the country. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Parliament’s Committee Seeks To Prosecute Jeanine Añez | While Arce ratified his respect for the institutionality of the Armed Forces, he rejected those who asked for a military intervention before the imminent arrival of the Movement Towar…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Arce-Rep…

Ableism and voter suppression: struggles are intertwined
| workers.org | 2020-10-28
Kristin Turgeon By Kristin Turgeon This is a lightly edited version of a talk given on the Oct. 22 Workers World Party webinar, “Voter suppression and COVID and their impact on disabled people.” Voting has always been a hot topic, and in the 2020 election many people see it as . . . | Continue reading Ableism and voter suppression: struggles are intertwined at Workers.org…
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What is Left of American Democracy on the Eve of the 2020 Elections?
wsws.org | 2020-10-28
The event, hosted by San Diego State University’s Department of Political Science, is taking place Wednesday, October 28 at 7: 00 pm Eastern, 4: 00 pm Pacific.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/10/28/sdsu…

Across America, Police Brutality and Racist Violence Intensifies Leading Up to Contested Elections
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-28
As millions of people in the United States cast early ballots for the upcoming presidential and Congressional elections, tensions are escalating over the future of racial politics inside the country. | On October 26, the police killing of an African American …
globalresearch.ca/police-brutality-racis…

Tuesday’s Down-Ticket Elections Are the Most Important in Generations
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-10-28
Presidential contests have a quadrennial way of sucking all the oxygen out of the room, to the detriment of the local races which matter as much, if not more, as the one atop the ticket. The media enjoy covering big shiny things, and covering the nearly 500 House and Senate elections happening on the federal level alone involves encompassing a vast array of details that don’t squeeze well into the two-minute dollops of wisdom proffered by the networks. | This year, of course, it isn’t even a fight. F…
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Resurgence of Socialism in Bolivia
Yanis Iqbal | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-10-28
In Bolivia, the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) — a major leftist political force — has returned to power following a thumping victory in the 2020 elections. The MAS presidential candidate Luis Arce obtained 55.09% of the votes, decisively ahead of the neoliberal candidate Carlos Mesa and the right-wing extremist Luis Fernando Camacho who garnered 28.83% …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/10/resurgence-of…

3 Day Tex Biden Bus Tour, Wis Hand-In Ballots,11/4/20 Protect Results
7 Days to Go | indybay.org | 2020-10-28
This last week before Election Day and Beyond are filled with campaign activity to Dump Trump. There is a 3-day Texas Biden Bus Tour, a Wisconsin Hand-In Mail-In Ballots this week campaign, and 11/4/20 Nationwide Protect the Vote Rallies.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/10/27/1883791…

‘One Word for This: Vandalism’: Six Days Before Election, Trump Finalizes Plan for ‘Catastrophic’ Attack on Largest National Forest
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-10-28
“Destructive development in the country’s largest national forest—such as extractive logging and expansive road building—will be catastrophic for generations to come,” warned Greenpeace. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Bolivia: Mining Leader Orlando Gutierrez Dies Due To Injuries
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-28
The Union Federation of Mining Workers of Bolivia (FSTMB) Secretary Orlando Gutierrez died on Wednesday after being hospitalized for several days because of the physical injuries he suffered after the general elections held on October 18. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Arce Repudiates Right-Wing Requests for a New Coup | “I express my deep regret for the physical departure of Brother Orlando Gutierrez. He was a great mining leader who always defended the interests of the Bolivian people. My…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Mining-L…

Wednesday 10/28: 2020 Election Protection in California w/ CA Common Cause
California Common Cause | indybay.org | 2020-10-28
Online via Livestream…
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So Trump Loses, What Happens Then?
Rajan Menon | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-28
Donald Trump isn’t just inside the heads of his Trumpster base; he’s long been a consuming obsession among those yearning for his defeat in November. With barely more than a week to go before the election of our lifetime, those given to nail biting as a response to anxiety have by now gnawed ourselves down…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/28/so-trump-los…

If Biden Wins, Russiagate Will Magically Morph Into Chinagate
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-10-28
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | The same exact low rumble, slowly rising toward the same fever pitch crescendo. First you get a few unexpected comments showing up in your notifications, then a few more, then a lot more, then a whole lot more. It’s one news story, then it’s ten, then it’s a hundred, then it’s completely dominating half of US political discourse. | The increasingly shrill shrieking from rightists about China having leverage over Joe Biden is alarmingly similar to what I experienced from liberals at this exact point in time in 2016 about Russia having leverage over Donald Trump. When I point out these similarit…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/10/28/if…

Ten Ways to Call Something “Russian Disinformation” Without Evidence
Matt Taibbi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-28
How do you call something “Russian disinformation” when you don’t have evidence it is? Let’s count the ways. | We don’t know a whole lot about how the New York Post story about Hunter Biden got into print. There are some …
globalresearch.ca/10-ways-call-something…

Biden in Hiding After Bobulinski Bombshells
sputniknews.com | 2020-10-28
On today’s episode of The Backstory, host Lee Stranahan discussed current events, including rioting & looting in Philadelphia, the LA Dodgers’ winning the 2020 World Series, stocks plunging 900 points, and Patrisse Cullors signing a five-project animation deal with Warner Bros.
sputniknews.com/radio-the-backstory/2020…

The Biden Lies Exposed
sputniknews.com | 2020-10-28
Tony Bobulinksi, formerly a business associate of Hunter Biden, said in an interview that he once told the Biden family he was concerned Hunter’s business deals could negatively impact a Joe Biden presidential campaign.
sputniknews.com/radio_the_critical_hour/…

What do billionaires like Tom Steyer mean for progressive politics and the climate movement?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-10-28
In an interview with Real News Network, climate philanthropist Tom Steyer presents his case on whether Joe Biden’s plan on climate change is really progressive and, if elected, whether Biden can get the United States back in the global leadership role on climate issues.
therealnews.com/what-do-billionaires-lik…

VIDEO: US Trump threatened to assassinate his rival Joe Biden
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-10-28
TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (MNA) — At a presidential campaign held in Michigan, US President Trump claimed that Joe Biden might be in power for just three weeks if he became president and would be assassinated and replaced by his deputy, Kamala Harris.
en.mehrnews.com/news/165301/VIDEO-US-Tru…

The Heat: U.S. Presidential Race
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-10-28
In the home stretch. | United States President Donald Trump and Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden hit key swing states in the campaign’s final week. Will it be four more years of Trump or a new Biden administration?
america.cgtn.com/2020/10/28/the-heat-u-s…

The Significance Of The Nuclear Ban Treaty
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-28
The NPT has been lived up to to a surprising extent by the non-nuclear powers. It is amazing that more countries have not gone the nuclear path. The world is fortunate that more haven’t made that leap at a time when, according to El Baradei, at least 40 countries have the technological capability of doing so. The ones who are guilty of violating it are the five original signatories–the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, and France. They have completely ignored Article 6, which requires the nations possessing nuclear arsenals to reduce and eliminate those arsenals.
popularresistance.org/the-significance-o…

China Sets Its Sights on Global Electric Vehicle (EV) Dominance
Tsvetana Paraskova | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-28
The world’s largest automotive market, China, is looking to become a dominant player in the rising global electric vehicle market. Chinese EV manufacturers are expected to start expanding overseas, while Beijing already controls a large part of the global EV …
globalresearch.ca/china-sets-sights-glob…

Indian Communist Parties Denounce Military Alliance with US
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-28
The parties described the alliance as a threat to peace and stability in the region and national autonomy and sovereignty. | Specifically, the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation criticized the Basic Exchange Cooperation Agreement (BECA), signed at the third 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue on defense and foreign policy, held recently in New Delhi between India and the United States. | | RELATED: | China Duplicates Its Military Presence on the Indian Border | A final d…
telesurenglish.net/news/Indian-Communist…

China Is Tackling New COVID-19 Outbreak in Xinjiang Region
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-28
China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is dealing with a new COVID-19 outbreak in its Kashgar prefecture, where authorities have confirmed 22 cases and 161 asymptomatic patients so far. | RELATED: | China Launches Mobile COVID-19 Testing Lab | The alarm was sounded on Saturday when one asymptomatic case was reported in Kashgar. A 17-year-old female villager from Shufu County, tested positive for the virus during the county’s routine nucleic acid testing, a measure introduced in August to improve…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Is-Tacklin…

China’s Foreign Ministry Responds to Hostile US Actions and Rhetoric
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-28
US war on China by other means risks direct confrontation between two superpowers if things are pushed too far — what’s been happening since before Trump took office. | On Tuesday, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin addressed unacceptable US regional …
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The World is Changing: China Launches Campaign for Superpower Status
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-28
The outdated notion that China ‘just wants to do business’ should be completely erased from our understanding of the rising global power’s political outlook. Simply put, Beijing has long realized that, in order for it to sustain its economic growth unhindered, it has to develop the necessary tools to protect itself, its allies and their…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/28/the-world-is…

Modern-day China through Chinese eyes: reviews from Toronto International Film Festival
Bill Meyer | peoplesworld.org | 2020-10-28
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China on New Journey for High-Level Reform, Opening Up
telesurenglish.net | 2020-10-28
China on Wednesday celebrated the 40th anniversary of the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Guangdong Province. President Xi Jinping hails Shenzhen’s development as “a miracle in the world development history.”
telesurenglish.net/news/China-on-New-Jou…

“A Desire Rooted in Revolt”: Chileans Vote Overwhelmingly to Rewrite Pinochet-Era Constitution
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-28
We get an update from Chile, where an overwhelming majority have voted to rewrite the country’s Pinochet dictatorship-era constitution and tens of thousands poured into the streets to celebrate, just one year after mass protests against social and economic inequalities rocked the country and set it on a path to social reform. Javiera Manzi, a spokesperson for Chile’s largest feminist advocacy group, Coordinadora Feminista 8M, says the referendum is the result of people doing what politicians had refused to do for decades. We also speak with journalist Pablo Vivanco, who says Chile’s neoliberal model has long been…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/28/chile_co…

Breonna Taylor Grand Jurors Say Police Actions Were “Criminal”; Never Given Chance to Indict Cops
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-28
Two members of a Kentucky grand jury convened after the Louisville police killing of Breonna Taylor have spoken on camera for the first time, calling the actions of the Louisville officers responsible for Taylor’s death “criminal” and saying the state’s Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron never gave them the option to consider murder or manslaughter charges against the police officers involved. “From the very beginning, we have seen a campaign of prevarication, of dishonesty, of outright neglect of any semblance of justice for Breonna Taylor or for her family,” responds Marc Lamont Hill, professor of media…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/28/marc_lam…

Care Not Cops: Marc Lamont Hill Makes Case for Abolition After Philadelphia Police Kill Walter Wallace Jr
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-10-28
Protesters in Philadelphia mark a second night of calling for the abolition of police after two Philadelphia police shot and killed Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man, while he was having a mental health crisis. The shooting reflects decades of defunding of social services, including for mental health, while police departments have continued to grow, says author and activist Marc Lamont Hill, who argues, “If all you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.” Lamont Hill is professor of media studies and urban education at Temple University and author of “We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, P…
www.democracynow.org/2020/10/28/walter_w…

Chomsky: OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is ‘shocking’
Aaron Maté | mronline.org | 2020-10-28
Noam Chomsky says that the OPCW’s cover-up, under U.S. pressure, of a Syria chemical weapons probe raises “very severe suspicions.”
mronline.org/2020/10/28/chomsky-opcw-cov…

Draft debacle: Bellingcat smears OPCW whistleblower, journalists with false letter, farcical claims
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-28
Bellingcat claimed to have uncovered a letter that disproves OPCW inspectors and journalists who challenged the censorship of a Syria chemical weapons probe. But in one of many falsehoods, Bellingcat’s “letter” was in fact only a draft that was never sent — and only further exposes the cover-up. Bellingcat, the NATO state-funded website that has participated in a propaganda effort to accuse Syria of a chemical weapons attack in April 2018 and justify the US-led bombing that followed, has published …
thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/draft-debacle…

Draft debacle: Bellingcat smears OPCW whistleblower, journalists with false letter, farcical claims
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-28
Bellingcat claimed to have uncovered a letter that disproves OPCW inspectors and journalists who challenged the censorship of a Syria chemical weapons probe. But in one of many falsehoods, Bellingcat’s “letter” was in fact only a draft that was never sent — and only further exposes the cover-up. Bellingcat, the NATO member state-funded website that has participated in a propaganda effort to accuse Syria of a chemical weapons attack in April 2018 and justify the US-led bombing that followed, has …
thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/draft-debacle…

Israel normalisation with Sudan ‘deals blow’ to Hamas in Gaza
Adam Khalil | middleeasteye.net | 2020-10-28
Israel normalisation with Sudan ‘deals blow’ to Hamas in Gaza | Palestinian sources claim movement’s procurement of weapons affected, though others say arms route dried up long ago | Adam Khalil | Wed, 10/28/2020 – 12: 22 | Ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir (R) meeting with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at the Nur mosque in Khartoum on 30 December 2011 (AFP) | The normalisation agreement between Israel and Sudan…
www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-sudan-…

Manufactured Pandemic and Economic Collapse a Boon for Billionaires
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-28
There’s nothing natural about US-engineered coronavirus and economic collapse that made the dismal state of the nation much worse. | Things are unlikely to return to their former state when the current storm passes that won’t happen any time soon. | Improvement …
globalresearch.ca/manufactured-pandemic-…

US versus Russia in Syria. “A Fake ‘Revolution’ Using Islamic Gangs”
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-10-28
At the request of Syria’s government in September 2015, Russia intervened in the country to combat ISIS and other US/NATO/Israeli-backed jihadists. | Moscow’s freedom-fighting operations turned the tide of battle, enabling Syrian forces to liberate most parts of the country. | Most …
globalresearch.ca/us-russia-syria/572784…

Stop the Massacres in Haiti! End U.S. and UN Support for the Criminal Regime of Jovenel Moise
Haiti Action Committee | counterpunch.org | 2020-10-28
The human rights crisis under the US-backed dictatorship of Jovenel Moise has continued to widen and deepen with the proliferation of “Tonton Macoutes” style death squad repression across the country. On October 2nd, 2020, university student leader, law student, and teacher-in-training Gregory Saint-Hilaire was shot in the back inside of the university by Jovenel Moise’s special security unit within the Haitian police that had illegally invaded…
counterpunch.org/2020/10/28/stop-the-mas…

UK Universities Reject Israel Lobby’s Anti-Semitism Definition
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-10-28
Only a minority of UK universities have adopted the misleading and politically motivated definition of anti-Semitism promoted by Israel and its lobby. | Despite repeated British government threats, fewer than 22 percent of higher education establishments have adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s “working definition” of anti-Semitism. | The IHRA definition has been repeatedly condemned by free speech defenders, Palestinians, Jewish activists, Palestine solidarity, Black and Asian groups.
popularresistance.org/uk-universities-re…

Bolivia calls to investigate OAS for fraud and coup: Interview with Evo’s Foreign Minister Diego Pary
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2020-10-28
The Grayzone briefly spoke with Bolivia’s former foreign minister under Evo Morales, Diego Pary Rodríguez. He called for an investigation into the OAS for fraud and backing a coup, rejected Juan Guaidó, and expressed solidarity with Palestine. By Anya Parampil and Ben Norton We spoke with Bolivia’s former foreign minister under Evo Morales, Diego Pary. He called for an investigation into the OAS for fraud and backing a coup, rejected Juan Guaidó, and expressed solidarity with Palestine. Interview by @AnyaParampil …
thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/bolivia-oas-f…

Palestinian Maher Al-Akhras Demands: Freedom or Death
Sally Abed | thenation.com | 2020-10-28
Palestinian Maher Al-Akhras Demands: Freedom or Death…
thenation.com/article/world/palestine-ma…

Bolivia’s Hardline Christian Govt Charged with Massacring Protesters as Morales Returns from Exile
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-10-28
In her last days in office, US-backed strongwoman Jeanine Añez is attempting to push through judicial reforms that could help her in the coming months should she face trial for her crimes. | MPN– Almost exactly one year after he was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup, former Bolivian president Evo Morales is set to return to his homeland. Earlier this week, a Bolivian court threw out terrorism charges leveled by Jeanine Añez’s coup government against Morales. Today Senator-Elect Andronico Rodrigu…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/bolivias-ha…