African Asylum Seekers Jailed in Louisiana Stop Eating in Protest
Frances Madeson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-24
In the Mankon language, spoken in northwest Cameroon, mughu is a word for hell. Northwest Cameroon was home to more than a dozen of the 48 African asylum seekers now confined in Louisiana at Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center, where COVID has taken a firm grip. Along with men from Uganda, Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and Burkino…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/24/african-asylum-seekers-jailed-in-louisiana-stop-eating-in-protest/

40 Acres and a Mule: the Plight of Black Farmers
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-24
The most deleterious of the effects of the industrialization of farming in the United States is the drastic decline of the small white family farmers and the near disappearance of the black family farmers. Rise and fall In 1900, there were 746,717 black farmers in the United States. In the next ten years, by 1910,…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/24/40-acres-and-a-mule-the-plight-of-black-farmers/

Bidding for Reelection Amid Crisis and Fear
Richard C. Gross | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-24
President Donald Trump headlines his Republican Party's national convention against a backdrop of a nation in crisis and an older sister who branded him a liar and someone without principles. He plans to take the stage every four nights of the virtual gathering, true to form for the super narcissist, in the face of a…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/24/bidding-for-reelection-amid-crisis-and-fear/

The Toll of Capitalism
Luke O'Brien | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-24
While on all sides of the street the harlot, Capitalism, was decked in horrible array of all possible and impossible colours, there was projected from the windows of the SDF a transparency of five feet, giving the statistics of deaths in war, deaths in concentration camps, the numbers of paupers, the number of unemployed in…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/24/the-toll-of-capitalism/

Should We be More Worried About the Economy?
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-24
We are really in an unprecedented period where the economy is trying to recover from the shutdowns of April and May while being faced with partial shutdowns due to the resurgence of the pandemic in large parts of the country. We are struggling to make sense of data, which often has a substantial lag. We…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/24/should-we-be-more-worried-about-the-economy/

Bolivia mass mobilizations against U.S.-backed coup continue
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-24
A 12-day national Bolivian blockade led by massive social movements, students, elders, unions and farmworkers ended on Aug. 13. It had paralyzed the entire country, resulting in food/fuel shortages and in the complete instability of the Andean nation itself.
mronline.org/2020/08/24/bolivia-mass-mobilizations-against-u-s-backed-coup-continue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bolivia-mass-mobilizations-against-u-s-backed-coup-continue

The origins and evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
The COVID-19 pandemic is a once in a century event, a trigger event, that has exposed the deep contradictions and terminal decay in the capitalist organization of world resources.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/covi-a24.html

States and counties across US conceal COVID-19 outbreaks at schools
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
The policy of concealing cases has become the modus operandi across industries and serves as a mechanism for implementing the homicidal return-to-work campaign of the ruling class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/scho-a24.html

Canada's Liberal government slashes COVID-19 emergency aid
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
By reducing by 20 percent the aid given to workers rendered jobless by the pandemic, the Liberal government is trying to goad them into returning to work under unsafe conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/free-a24.html

Private schools in Massachusetts to get rapid COVID-19 testing
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
The project is being initiated by the Broad Institute in Cambridge, which is associated with the Broad Foundation, best known for its school privatization efforts around the country.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/mass-a24.html

What media moguls don't want you to know: Youtube and Google attack Cuba and Venezuela
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-24
On Aug. 20, just ahead of programming about the start of clinical trials for Cuba's COVID-19 vaccine, Soberana-01, YouTube management disabled Mesa Redonda's channel. Mesa Redonda (Roundtable) airs Monday through Friday evenings on Cuban national television.
mronline.org/2020/08/24/what-media-moguls-dont-want-you-to-know-youtube-and-google-attack-cuba-and-venezuela/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-media-moguls-dont-want-you-to-know-youtube-and-google-attack-cuba-and-venezuela

Strengthening global cooperation on counter-terrorism must remain a priority during and after pandemic
news.un.org | 2020-08-24
With Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da'esh) and other terrorist groups attempting to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic for their own ends, the international community must respond with stronger collective action and cooperation, the top UN counter-terrorism official said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1070922

'It's a death trap:' Angola inmate put in isolation for organizing against COVID-19
John McDevitt | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-24
"Because of COVID, you know, many are at risk due to pre-existing conditions…."
liberationnews.org/its-a-death-trap-angola-inmate-put-in-isolation-for-organizing-against-covid-19/

Raging wildfires worsen crisis in California
Aaron Arabian | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-24
Image from Wikimedia.org As of Aug. 24, 650 wildfires are raging across California, with over a million acres having burned in just the last month. Millions have been forced to breathe polluted air, combining with the threat posed by COVID-19 of respiratory damage and other negative health effects. Around 250,000 people have either been evacuated …
liberationnews.org/raging-wildfires-worsen-crisis-in-california/

COVID-19: Trigger for a New World Order. Economic Stagnation and Social Destruction
Patrick Henningsen | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
I can remember them saying that 'everything changed after 9/11'. It did, but certainly not for the better. I think we can all agree on that. I remember how everyone surrendered their rights and key aspects of democracy, all in …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-trigger-new-social-order/5721926

Cuba's vaccine candidate "Sovereign" is all set to enter clinical trials
Peoples Dispatch | mronline.org | 2020-08-24
Cuba's vaccine candidate is the first from the Latin America and the Caribbean region and marks a continuation of its pioneering work in combating COVID-19 across the world.
mronline.org/2020/08/24/cubas-vaccine-candidate-sovereign-is-all-set-to-enter-clinical-trials/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cubas-vaccine-candidate-sovereign-is-all-set-to-enter-clinical-trials

WHO presses for greater investment in global COVID-19 vaccine facility
news.un.org | 2020-08-24
Investing in a mechanism that will guarantee all countries have fair and timely access to a COVID-19 vaccine is the only way out of the global pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1070912

Video: Big Anti-Corona Demonstration in Berlin. Example for the Rest of the World
FreiheitsFreund | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
According to confirmation from the police of Berlin, Germany, it has been confirmed that between 500,000 and 1 million peaceful protesters (mostly without masks) demonstrate against the Corona rules. | Watch the video below. | * | Note to readers: please click the …
globalresearch.ca/video-big-anti-corona-demonstration-berlin-example-rest-world/5721935

"Comfortably Numb": Opiods Have Overwhelmed Our Nation
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
Just a little pinprick | There'll be no more, ah | But you may feel a little sick | Can you stand up? | I do believe it's working, good | That'll keep you going through the show | Come on it's time to go | There | …
globalresearch.ca/comfortably-numb-opiods-have-overwhelmed-our-nation/5721984

NATO, Hands Off Belarus!
Vladimir Krsljanin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
When NATO covered Serbia with missiles and bombs, Alexander Lukashenko was the only head of state who visited Belgrade and supported our initiative to join the Union of Russia and Belarus. | We will never forget this. | Recently, the same NATO …
globalresearch.ca/nato-hands-off-belarus/5721970

Lawsuit Claims Merck's Gardasil Papilloma Virus Vaccine Caused Severe Injuries to Teen
Robin McCall | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
It is vitally important to acknowledge that the same so-called "experts" in the medical/academic/scientific community, many of whom have serious undisclosed financial conflicts of interest at the NIH, the CDC, the NIAID, the FDA, the WHO, Medical Schools, teaching hospitals …
globalresearch.ca/lawsuit-claims-gardasil-merck-human-papilloma-virus-vaccine-caused-severe-vaccine-induced-injuries-teen/5721944

Belarus and the Lessons from Sudan. Comparative Analysis of "Color Revolutions"
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
The political development unfolding in Minsk, with high possibility to spill over and spread throughout the former Soviet republic of Belarus is sensitive and delicate. | The first information that emerged about opposition rallying against elected President Alexander Lukashenko was worrying …
globalresearch.ca/belarus-lessons-sudan/5721950

Video: The Face Mask Imposed by France's Police State. Breathing is a Fundamental Human Right
Mondialisation | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
Numerous scientific studies reveal that the face mask is detrimental to a person's health. | According to Dr. Russell Blaylock: by wearing a face mask, "the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, …
globalresearch.ca/video-the-face-mask-imposed-by-frances-police-state-breathing-is-a-fundamental-human-right/5721999

Just "Arabs killing Arabs": Israel's Inaction Over Palestinian Murders Gets Frustrated Moms Marching
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-24
In 2019, there were 138 murder cases throughout the state of Israel. Out of those, 93 were Palestinian citizens of Israel, a community that makes up only 20 percent of Israeli citizens.
mintpressnews.com/israel-police-inaction-palestinian-murders-mothers-for-life-movement/270659/

Family holds 1-year angelversary for David Sullivan in Fullerton
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-24
Fullerton, CA – On August 19, 2019, the Buena Park Police Department killed 19-year-old David Patrick Sullivan after a traffic stop in Fullerton. As body cam footage of this murder shows, Sullivan was unarmed and attempting to flee when BPPD Officers Bobby Colon and Jennifer Tran shot him seven times. In June, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer cleared Officers Colon and Tran, but Sullivan's family is fighting back. | This Wednesday, August 19, the one-year angelversary of his murder, Sullivan's family, Christian Contreras (one of their attorneys), members of Centro CSO, Carlos Montes, and other activis…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/23/family-holds-1-year-angelversary-david-sullivan-fullerton

Smoking Gun: Crisis? What Crisis?
progressive.org | 2020-08-24
A timeline of the pandemic warning signs ignored by the Trump Administration.
progressive.org/magazine/smoking-gun-crisis-timeline-200514/

UK housing rights group demands end to evictions during pandemic
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-24
Housing rights group ACORN said that despite the government's extension of the ban on evictions, landlords can still issue a Section 21 Notice of Possession to their tenants and begin the process of taking over a property…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/24/uk-housing-rights-group-demands-end-to-evictions-during-pandemic/

Meet the Candidates — Kara Eastman and Mike Siegel
Lilly Dragnev | peaceaction.org | 2020-08-24
Join Kara Eastman and Mike Siegel LIVE Wednesday 8/26 at 8pm Eastern! Meet our peace candidates from Nebraska and Texas. Despite all the unpredictability this year has presented us with, one thing remains certain: this election will be the most important in our lifetime. I invite you to join us in the next of our …
peaceaction.org/2020/08/24/meet-the-candidates-kara-eastman-and-mike-siegel/

Hundreds protest shooting of Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin
Robert Penner | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-24
Liberation News reporting from the frontlines of Kenosha protest.
liberationnews.org/hundreds-protest-shooting-of-black-man-in-kenosha-wisconsin/

Jordanian Teachers' Syndicate leaders and members released after one month in jail
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-24
The union leaders, along with other protesting teachers, were arrested last month while protesting the government's decision to go back on its promise to fulfill their demands on salary hikes and better working conditions…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/24/jordanian-teachers-syndicate-leaders-and-members-released-after-one-month-in-jail/

Trump illegally turns White House into campaign vehicle
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-24
Never in modern history has the White House been used as a prop for a president seeking re-election. Until the current president, every prior inhabitant of the "people's house" maintained space between their roles as head of state and their status as a candidate seeking office. This separation of official and campaign roles, like so …
peoplesworld.org/article/trump-illegally-turns-white-house-into-campaign-vehicle/

Uprising underway in Kenosha, WI after the police shooting of Jacob Blake
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-24
Kenosha, WI – Hundreds of people rallied at the scene of a shooting that took place around 5: 30 pm on August 23. After breaking up a fight between two women, Jacob Blake, 29, attempted to return to his vehicle. The entire time, an officer with the Kenosha Police Department had a gun pointed at him. As Blake tried to enter his car where his children were buckled in the back seat, the officer grabbed hold of the collar of his shirt and fired his gun at point blank range seven times. Blake was taken to the hospital. As of the writing of this article, he is in stable condition. | Riot police assembled at the scene of…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/24/uprising-underway-kenosha-wi-after-police-shooting-jacob-blake

The Monopoly on Racial Wealth
Thom Hartmann | progressive.org | 2020-08-24
An excerpt from radio host Thom Hartmann's new book looks at why white guys have it made.
progressive.org/dispatches/monopoly-on-racial-wealth-hartmann-200824/

Dubious Nairobi shack study sparks controversy
Dennis Webster | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-24
A recent paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private non-profit research institute in the United States, has stoked heated debate over the ethics of academic and policy research in impoverished communities. | In the paper, four leading economists attempt to establish whether the public water utilities in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi would be met with "political consequences" if they cut off services. As access to water is extended to an increasing number of people in developing countries, the authors are co…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/24/dubious-nairobi-shack-study-sparks-controversy/

Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs on Economic Elite
Kevin A. Young | zcomm.org | 2020-08-24
Interview on the limits of electoral politics to advance a more egalitarian social contract and the strategies today's social movements can employ to fight injustice…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/reforms-are-won-when-social-movements-inflict-real-costs-on-economic-elite/

Support historian Joseph Scalice against Stalinist slanders by CPP founder Jose Maria Sison!
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
Communist Party of the Philippines founder Sison launched a menacing attack on Scalice, a respected authority on the history of the Philippine left, after the announcement of his lecture that will focus on the CPP's record of betrayal.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/pers-a24.html

Memo to the Left: Winning Votes is Not 'Selling Out'
Loris Caruso | zcomm.org | 2020-08-24
We do not have to choose between "winning" or "bearing witness and representing." There is no contradiction. In order to bear witness and represent, people must put themselves forward as candidates for social and political victory…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/memo-to-the-left-winning-votes-is-not-selling-out/

A wildcat strike in 1970 solved the last crisis at USPS
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-24
Labor activist Paul Prescod gives context to the fight over the future of…
therealnews.com/stories/wildcat-strike-solved-last-crisis-at-usps

Oppose the Stalinist slanders by CPP founder Jose Maria Sison! Support Joseph Scalice!
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
Communist Party of the Philippines founder Sison launched a menacing attack on Joseph Scalice, a respected authority on the history of the Philippine left, after the announcement of his lecture that will focus on the CPP's record of betrayal.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/pers-a24.html

Corpus Christi, Texas pipeline explosion kills two workers
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
A collision between a dredging vessel and a pipeline caused an explosion and fire, injuring six crewmen and leaving two dead and two still missing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/corp-a24.html

Trump fiddles while America burns and the world turns away
Thomas Magstadt | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-24
It's up to all of us to do what we can to end this Dark Age. And to vote like America's life depends on it. Because it does.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/24/trump-fiddles-while-america-burns-and-the-world-turns-away/

First Person: fighting anti-vaccination rumours in Pakistan
news.un.org | 2020-08-24
Polio, a deadly, debilitating, yet easily curable disease, is eradicated in most countries, but is still endemic in Pakistan, partly due to a reluctance to vaccinate amongst some parts of the population. Dennis Chimenya, a health worker with the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, is part of a team trying to counter misconceptions, and save lives.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1070722

RNC caves to hate groups in attack against the SPLC
splcenter.org | 2020-08-24
splcenter.org/news/2020/08/24/rnc-caves-hate-groups-attack-against-splc

Prisoners say they were intimidated over Black lives matter movement
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-24
Black prisoners were grabbed from their bunks and corralled without masks.
therealnews.com/stories/prisoners-intimidated-over-black-lives-matter

Democrats seek a new language of working-class identity
Tim Libretti | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-24
Is Trump the 2020 candidate who best represents the American working class? Did the Democratic Party fail to encompass working-class interests, issues, and people at last week's convention? What does the working class think? Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen seems to think the working class heard nothing of interest from the Democrats and their convention …
peoplesworld.org/article/democrats-seek-a-new-language-of-working-class-identity/

Outrage in US following police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-24
The man, identified as Jacob Blake, was seen in a viral video being shot by a police officer seven times in the presence of his wife and children…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/24/outrage-in-us-following-police-shooting-of-a-black-man-in-wisconsin/

The CumEx fraud in Germany: Organised crime with government support
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
The tax authorities, government and judiciary closed their eyes as banks and shareholders helped themselves to €31.8 in public funds between 2001 and 2016.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/bank-a24.html

One step at a time: UN women's health agency helping shift dangerous social norms
news.un.org | 2020-08-24
One of the largest chiefdoms in Zambia's Eastern Province is challenging harmful social norms, including child marriage, risky initiation and impunity for perpetrators of sexual abuse, according to the UN women's health agency, UNFPA.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1070952

The Banality of Evocation
Erin L. Thompson | zcomm.org | 2020-08-24
How to Remember a Feminist Movement That Hasn't Ended…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-banality-of-evocation/

After some gains, German left gears up for coming election
Victor Grossman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-24
BERLIN — "Mirror, mirror on the wall…" Nearly every German knows the story of Snow White. Currently, the question of who is "fairest of them all" faces nearly every German political party or, in modern terms, who can attract more votes in next year's election. The U.S. equivalent question, which will seek and hopefully find …
peoplesworld.org/article/after-some-gains-german-left-gears-up-for-coming-election/

Florida court set to rule on lawsuit challenging in-person schooling
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
The court is set to decide on a challenge by the Florida Education Association to Governor Ron DeSantis's edict for face-to-face instruction.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/fled-a24.html

Oppose the Stalinist slanders of CPP founder Jose Maria Sison! Support Joseph Scalice!
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
Communist Party of the Philippines founder Sison launched a menacing attack on Joseph Scalice, a respected authority on the history of the Philippine left, after the announcement of his lecture that will focus on the CPP's record of betrayal.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/pers-a24.html

Democratic Party leads nationwide purge of Green Party candidates from November ballots
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
State election boards and judges have issued last minute rulings blocking third party candidates from appearing on the ballot…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/gree-a24.html

Uber, Lyft, and Lessons on the Market for Megan McArdle
Dean Baker | cepr.net | 2020-08-24
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle had a piece today arguing that California is taking a big risk if it insists on requiring that Uber and Lyft treat their drivers as employees. The risk is that these companies have threatened to shut down their operations in the state, leaving their drivers out of jobs (actually Uber …
cepr.net/uber-lyft-and-lessons-on-the-market-for-megan-mcardle/

Making internet easier
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-24
The idea behind the foregoing is to make communication easier, prevent cheating, and make dispute resolution simpler and more acceptable in small cases.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/24/making-internet-easier/

How Communist 'popular front' activism built a labor-community alliance that changed Detroit
Timothy V. Johnson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-24
Historian Ryan S. Pettengill's new book, Communists and Community, is a study of the Communist Party's activities in Detroit during the early 1940s through 1956. He demonstrates that the party played a critical role in unifying the labor movement and community organizations to effectuate social, economic, and political change in the city in this crucial …
peoplesworld.org/article/how-communist-popular-front-activism-built-a-labor-community-alliance-that-changed-detroit/

Mirror mirror and politics
Victor Grossman | mronline.org | 2020-08-24
"Mirror, mirror on the wall…" Nearly every German knows the story of Snow White. Currently, the question of who is "fairest of them all" faces nearly every German political party or, in modern terms, who can attract more votes in next year's election.
mronline.org/2020/08/23/mirror-mirror-and-politics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mirror-mirror-and-politics

This week in history: August 24-30
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
25 years ago: US and NATO bomb Bosnian Serbs On August 30, 1995, the United States and NATO launched Operation Deliberate Force against Serb-inhabited regions of Bosnia. They were the largest bombing raids in Europe since WWII.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/twih-a24.html

New York University moves to implement racial segregation in student dorms
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
Calls for race-based student housing stem not from a desire to improve the lives of all students and youth, but is to advance the interests of a small layer of the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/nyur-a24.html

Police misconduct database reveals top NYPD brass guilty of abuse of authority
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea and his predecessor James O'Neill, along with other top NYPD officials and 11 percent of active cops, have substantiated abuse complaints against them.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/nypd-a24.html

Boston Teachers Union car rally demands a safe reopening
Liberation Staff | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-24
"Until we address the public health emergency we are still in, we aren't going to be able to safely reopen schools."
liberationnews.org/boston-teachers-union-car-rally-demands-a-safe-reopening/

Donald Trump Jr. Pictured at 'We Build the Wall' Event With Neo-Nazi Collaborator Jack Posobiec
splcenter.org | 2020-08-24
Donald Trump Jr., who will serve as the headline speaker at the 2020 Republican National Convention (RNC) Monday, appeared in a photograph with One America News Network (OANN) correspondent Jack Posobiec at a "We Build the Wall" event in July 2019.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/08/24/donald-trump-jr-pictured-we-build-wall-event-neo-nazi-collaborator-jack-posobiec

USA's Militarization of Latin America
Yanis Iqbal | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-24
Maj. Gen. Andrew Croft, the commander of 12th Air Force, wrote on 22 August: "I have seen an increasingly contested strategic space where Beijing and Moscow are aggressively investing time and resources in Latin America to support their authoritarian models of governance. The Air Force must reinforce the strength of our longstanding commitment to the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/usas-militarization-of-latin-america/

Hundreds of thousands displaced, six dead as 600 fires rip across California
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
The two largest fires, now the second and third largest in the state's history, are forcing hundreds of thousands to flee from deadly situation to another.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/fire-d08.html

Trump is Politicizing the Census
Gissela Moya | progressive.org | 2020-08-24
The non-political U.S. Census is being used by Trump as a political bargaining chip.
progressive.org/op-eds/trump-politicizing-census-moya-200824/

Democrats leave 20 million unemployed in the lurch
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
The House of Representatives convened for a Saturday session to vote on funding…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/unem-a24.html

National Reparations Commission Endorses Evanston as a National Model
NAARC | zcomm.org | 2020-08-24
Final Assessment and Recommendations…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/national-reparations-commission-endorses-evanston-as-a-national-model/

Trump's most catastrophic error: Running every election as if a wingnut GOP primary
Robert S. Becker | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-24
That Trump cannot shift tactics (indeed worsen as desperation grows) against a different foe in different times will do him in.
nationofchange.org/2020/08/24/trumps-most-catastrophic-error-running-every-election-as-if-a-wingnut-gop-primary/

Prosecutors Have No Place in Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commissions
Elias Rodriques, Melonie Griffiths & Ralowe Ampu | zcomm.org | 2020-08-24
We need resources directly distributed to our communities so that our communities can create safety outside the same state that targets us…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/prosecutors-have-no-place-in-truth-justice-and-reconciliation-commissions/

Iran trade with CIS hits over $3.3 bn last year
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) –The value of Iran's foreign trade with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in 2019 hit more than $3, 298, 61,946 Billion.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162687/Iran-trade-with-CIS-hits-over-3-3-bn-last-year

Muharram mourning in Jami' Mosque of Gorgan under pandemic
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
GORGAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — Preserving anti-coronavirus health protocols, people held the mourning ceremonies on the fourth night of Muharram in the Jami' Mosque of Gorgan, the capital of Golestan Province, northeast of Iran.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162678/Muharram-mourning-in-Jami-Mosque-of-Gorgan-under-pandemic

Iran to mass-produce COVID-19 rapid diagnostic device
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council, Saeed Sarkar said on Monday that Iran will mass-produce a rapid diagnostic device that can be used in public places such as airports.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162686/Iran-to-mass-produce-COVID-19-rapid-diagnostic-device

Iran welcomes gas trade with Turkmenistan: NIGC head
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — The head of the National Iranian Gas Company Hassan Montazer Torbati expressed Iran's willingness to resume gas trade with Turkmenistan.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162689/Iran-welcomes-gas-trade-with-Turkmenistan-NIGC-head

Iran condemns terrorist attack in southern Philippines
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh condemned the terrorist attack in the southern Philippine on Monday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162696/Iran-condemns-terrorist-attack-in-southern-Philippines

Swiss ready to invest in Iran: envoy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — Swiss Ambassador to Iran Marcus Leitner expressed his country's willingness to invest in the Iranian economic sector.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162682/Swiss-ready-to-invest-in-Iran-envoy

UAE cannot buy security from Tel Aviv: Zarif
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the UAE has turned to the Zionist regime to buy security, while Israel cannot even ensure its own.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162694/UAE-cannot-buy-security-from-Tel-Aviv-Zarif

No deal can legitimize the Zionist regime: Khaled al- Qaddumi
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA)– Hamas' Representative in Iran said that the Israeli regime still is in intense need of recognition by minor countries in the region despite support from super powers, the UN secretary-general and Europeans.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162679/No-deal-can-legitimize-the-Zionist-regime-Khaled-al-Qaddumi

Palestinian officials attend a meeting at MNA
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — Representative of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Tehran Khaled al-Qaddumi and the Representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement in Tehran Naser Abousharif attended a meeting At MNA on Monday.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162698/Palestinian-officials-attend-a-meeting-at-MNA

VIDEO:Firefighters extinguish gas pipeline explosion in Syria
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — The Syrian Minister of Electricity announced on Monday that the explosion in the gas pipeline in Rif Dimashq province which caused a power outage in the country has been extinguished.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162691/VIDEO-Firefighters-extinguish-gas-pipeline-explosion-in-Syria

IAEA chief arrives in Tehran for bilateral talks
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — The Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi arrived in Tehran on Monday evening according to the scheduled time to hold talk with senior officials of the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162699/IAEA-chief-arrives-in-Tehran-for-bilateral-talks

Ventilators could be adapted to help two COVID-19 patients at once
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-24
New research has shown how ventilators could be adapted to help two patients simultaneously in the event of a shortage.
imperial.ac.uk/news/202733/ventilators-could-adapted-help-covid-19-patients

Imperial artist wins award for combining physics and art
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-08-24
Leverhulme artist-in-residence, Geraldine Cox has won the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Gemant Award.
imperial.ac.uk/news/202673/imperial-artist-wins-award-combining-physics

Republican Party O.K. with COVID19 Deaths & Economy
By the Company They Keep | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Some 57% of Republicans believe 180,000 American deaths from COVID19 is acceptable and 75% of Republicans believe the USA is better than 4 years ago. This a death cult. See www.cbsnews.com/news/republicans-economy-coronavirus-opinion-poll-cbs-news-battleground-tracker/…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/24/18836076.php

Monday 8/24: Call to Action: Demand McConnell & Senate Return to Pass COVID Relief, Fund USPS, Voting!
Poor People's Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/22/18836056.php

March for the Dead, Fight for the Living at the Golden Gate
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Police prevent peaceful march at Golden Gate Bridge…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/22/18836034.php

Tuesday 9/1: Bi-Weekly Community Meeting On Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/23/18836070.php

Tuesday 9/1: Bi-Weekly Community On Police Brutality and the George Floyd Protests
Revolutionary United Front | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Willow Park | Oakland, CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/23/18836070.php

Sunday 8/30: Earle Baum Center & Balletto Vineyards' 'Tasting in the Dark'
Earle Baum Center | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Virtual event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/24/18836074.php

Thursday 8/27: Everyone Counts: Ensuring Every Community Can #GetCounted in the #2020Census
Census Counts and others | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/23/18836063.php

Battling Economic Crises, Tropical Storm Laura Slams Haiti and Dominican Republic
Zachary Conti | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Over the weekend, Tropical Storm Laura pummeled Haiti and the Dominican Republic leaving at least 13 dead, infrastructure decimated and towns isolated by landslides.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/24/18836075.php

Sunday 10/25: When An Afro-Latina Woman Ran For Vice-President And Nobody Knew Her Name
Oakland Greens | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Online ZOOM Event…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/23/18836068.php

Video: The Narcissism Epidemic, 1 hour
Jean Twenge | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
In this BookTV presentation from May 4, 2009, Jean Twenge explains how narcissism thought to be the ladder of success can lead to anti-social behavior and collective paralysis.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/24/18836072.php

HOW NATO GETS RUINED
Jacques Bearden | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
In Brussels, the old political headquarters of NATO is being demolished.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/24/18836071.php

Prosecute UBER CEO Dara Khosrawshahi For Failure To Provide Workers Compensation
Steve Zelzter | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Uber Must Provide It's Drivers Required Workers Safety Net NOW – Prosecute UBER CEO. | Despite the passage of AB5, UBER refuses to follow the law and is appealing it in the courts to stall compliance.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/24/18836073.php

Monday 8/24: DA Boudin CA AG Becerra Prosecute UBER CEO Dara Khosrowshahi On Workers Comp
United Public Workers For Action | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
UBER New World Headquarters | 1725 Third St. (in Mission Bay)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/23/18836065.php

15 Demands for Anti-Racist Bookstores
BTCEAP | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
We are the Black & Trans Pegasus Affinity Group, made up of current and former employees of Pegasus Books in Berkeley and Oakland, California. We want Pegasus and other bookstores to grapple with their ties to anti-Blackness, and start making material changes. We want bookstore owners and booksellers to implement our demands immediately. We want book shoppers to be critical of their local bookstores and only buy from bookstores that commit to anti-racist practices such as not calling the cops.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/24/18836077.php

Tuesday 8/25: Call to Action: US Mail Not For Sale! Rally Day w/ APWU & NALC Worker Unions
#USMailNotForSale Campaign: APWU & NACL | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
SF Bay Area & nationwide (events list growing)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/22/18836055.php

Yet Another Tightening of the Noose: City Council "Meets" Again Tuesday
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
City Council is slated to rubberstamp more power in City Mangler Martin Bernal's hands, a slamdown of Beach St vendors, a rise in fines for "being in a park after dark", the ability to hire more enforcement personnel, no discussion of the police (or any other part of the) budget, gentrification of Front St., and authorization of the Mayor to "respond to" the Grand Jury's critical report on homelessness.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/23/18836060.php

Tuesday 8/25: #AndStillIVote: The Incarcerated, Formerly Incarcerated & the Right to Vote in America
LCCHR | indybay.org | 2020-08-24
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/23/18836064.php

How Much Will Earth Really Warm By? Here's The Latest Research
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-24
A major new study has been published – one that gives much more certainty on the extent of future warming we might expect. | Along with many other international climate scientists, it was led by my colleague, climate scientist Steven Sherwood from the University of New South Wales in Australia. So, I asked him a few questions about it, to drill down what this means for us and the future. | We know Earth's climate warms as greenhouse gas concentrations like carbon dioxide rise in the atmosphere. From the 1950s, NASA temperature data show Earth has warmed ~0.8 ∞C up until the latest decade.The scale of future…
popularresistance.org/how-much-will-earth-really-warm-by/

How Co-operative Architecture Shaped Britain
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-24
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Britain's growing co-operative movement provided an alternative to capitalist business practices — and made its mark on cities and towns with ambitious building projects. | Co-operative forms of organization have proliferated in the UK during the pandemic, with self-organizing networks of mutual aid groups forming and thriving at street and neighborhood level to meet people's needs in a collective way. These kinds of relationships feel novel, but co-operative organization has a long history in Britain. | Throughout much of the last 170 or so years, the co-operative consumer m…
popularresistance.org/how-co-operative-architecture-shaped-britain/

Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs On The Economic Elite
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-24
In an interview over email, co-author Kevin A. Young discussed the limits of electoral politics to advance a more egalitarian social contract and the strategies today's social movements can employ to fight injustice. The challenges are formidable, especially given the Trump administration's exercise of a new and despotic federal police power in reaction to nationwide Black Lives Matter protests against police violence. As Levers of Power demonstrates through examples from the labor movement and the Civil Rights Movement, the path to enduring change requires mobilization that inflicts real costs on capitalists and…
popularresistance.org/reforms-are-won-when-social-movements-inflict-real-costs-on-the-economic-elite/

Navalny Was Not Poisoned
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-24
The doctors in the intensive care unit in Omsk had difficulties to stabilize Navalny. A number of tests were made but no poisons were found. Yesterday evening the patient had stabilized. On request of his family, he was transported to Germany where he is currently undergoing treatment. | The hospital in Omsk said that Navalny had experienced severe hypoglycemia: | The head physician of the Omsk emergency hospital, Alexander Murakhovsky, said that Alexei Navalny's condition was caused by a sharp drop in blood sugar. | Hypoglycemia is also known as diabetic shock. A diabetic shock happens when someone with diabetes…
popularresistance.org/navalny-was-not-poisoned/

Police Shoot Man; Video Shows Officer Firing Several Shots Into His Back At Close Range
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-24
Kenosha police shot a man Sunday evening, setting off unrest in the city after a video appeared to show the officer firing several shots at close range into the man's back. The shooting victim has been identified as Jacob Blake, a Black man, by Wisconsin officials. He was in serious condition at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee as of early Monday morning. | The Wisconsin Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigation said early Monday that the involved officers have been placed on administrative leave. The Kenosha News reported that neighbors said Blake was trying to break up a fight between two women.
popularresistance.org/police-shoot-man-video-shows-officer-firing-several-shots-into-his-back-at-close-range/

Responding To Voter Suppression, Understanding Manipulated Elections
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-24
Voter suppression in the 2020 election has become a topic of great concern. In reality, voter suppression has been part of US politics since the founding of the country. The oligarchs who wrote the US Constitution enabled voter suppression by not including the right to vote in it and only allowing white male property owners to vote, suppressing the votes of 94 percent of the population. | Five of 16 states had white-only voting in 1800 and after 1802, every new state, free or slave, except for Maine banned Black people from voting.
popularresistance.org/responding-to-voter-suppression-understanding-manipulated-elections/

How To Remember A Feminist Movement That Hasn't Ended
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-24
Increasing outrage from critics over what the New York Times' Brent Staples called the monument's "lily-white version of history." The proposed monument, wrote another critic in a similar vein, "manages to recapitulate the marginalization Black women experienced during the suffrage movement," as when white organizers forced Black activists to walk at the back of a 1913 women's march on Washington. Historian Martha Jones in an op-ed in the Washington Post criticized the way the planned monument promoted the "myth" that the fight for women's rights was led by Anthony's and Stanton's "narrow, often racist vision," a…
popularresistance.org/how-to-remember-a-feminist-movement-that-hasnt-ended/

Alt-right Richard Spencer is 'on team Joe' now: Sabotage or strange bedfellows, people wonder
rt.com | 2020-08-24
Notorious right personality Richard Spencer has declared he will be voting for the "more competent" Democrat ticket in November, getting a rebuke from team Biden and mass disbelief in response. Yet he has a record of voting blue. | Spencer, a popular speaker with hard-right ideology, was a vocal supporter of Donald Trump in 2016, but this time around his sympathies may be on the other side. He said on Twitter that he plans to vote for the Democrats in November, because "the liberals are clearly more competent people". | I plan to vote for Biden and a straight democratic ticket. It's not based on "accelerationi…
rt.com/usa/498863-alt-right-spencer-endorces-biden/

'Indoctrination': Republicans reveal plan to 'teach American exceptionalism' if Trump re-elected, critics slam idea's bankruptcy
rt.com | 2020-08-24
President Donald Trump's second term agenda includes a list of 50 points covering a variety of topics, but the goal to "teach American exceptionalism" has his critics especially outraged. | In a bullet-point press release put out just before the Republican National Convention, where Trump will officially accept his party's nomination, education is actually the least focused with only two goals, compared to the many that accompany other areas like "Drain the Swamp" and "End Our Reliance on China." | The two points that will be the administration's objectives for education are: "provide school choice to every ch…
rt.com/usa/498903-donald-trump-agenda-american-exceptionalism/

57% of Republicans think US Covid-19 death toll of 175,000 is 'acceptable', 68% of Democrats say it is underreported, poll finds
rt.com | 2020-08-24
A majority of Republicans — as opposed to only ten percent of Democrats — said the Covid-19 death toll in the US is at "acceptable" levels, according to a new poll, exposing a deep partisan rift over the handling of the pandemic. | …
rt.com/usa/498841-us-coronavirus-death-toll-acceptable/

125 National Guard troops deploying to Kenosha following rioting & looting over police shooting
rt.com | 2020-08-24
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has announced that scores of National Guard troops will be deployed to the city of Kenosha by Monday evening as violent riots continue over the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake seven times. | "This is a limited mobilization of the National Guard focused on supporting the needs of local first responders to protect critical infrastructure, such as utilities and fire stations, and to ensure Kenoshians are able to assemble safely," Evers said. | Following the shooting of Blake, which was caught on a cellphone camera and said to be over a "domestic incident," protesters took…
rt.com/usa/498924-kenosha-nation-guard-black-lives-matter/

'We simply have no choice': TikTok officially sues Trump administration over ban threat
rt.com | 2020-08-24
TikTok has responded to Donald Trump's looming threat of a ban with a lawsuit against the government, arguing it has been denied due process as the president has deemed the company a national security risk. | The short-form video app, which has approximately 100 million users in the US, officially moved forward with the lawsuit on Monday, having announced its intention of litigation on Sunday. The company said that the administration has not given them a choice in the matter. | "We far prefer constructive dialogue over litigation," TikTok said in a statement. | "With the Executive Order threatening to bring a…
rt.com/usa/498918-tik-tok-trump-ban-lawsuit/

Atlantic writer Jemele Hill fails at history discourse as her 'US-Nazis' comparison incites online uproar
rt.com | 2020-08-24
Twitter posts from the Atlantic writer Jemele Hill caught fire from the online community after she unfavorably compared the United States to Nazi Germany without citing any specifics. | Hill prefixed her controversial Sunday tweet by saying that she has been reflecting on a racial history book called 'Caste' by Isabel Wilkerson. The pundit said that via this text she reached the conclusion that people who are "of the opinion that the United States wasn't nearly as bad as Nazi Germany" are "wrong." | Been reading Isabel Wilkerson's new book, "Caste," and if you were of the opinion that the United States wasn't…
rt.com/usa/498876-jemele-hill-fails-history/

Tropical Storm Laura forecast to strengthen into hurricane by Tuesday after trashing the Caribbean (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-24
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) is forecasting that Tropical Storm Laura could strengthen into a hurricane by early Tuesday, having wreaked havoc across several parts of the Caribbean. | The storm is currently located roughly 255 miles (415 km) off the shore of Cuba with maximum wind speeds of 65 mph (100 kph) and is expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico between late Monday and early Tuesday, where it will likely strengthen greatly, eventually reaching hurricane force, the NHC warned. | Laura has al…
rt.com/usa/498859-tropical-storm-laura-caribbean-destruction/

'China Owns Joe Biden': Trump Warns Beijing Hatching Plan to Meddle in November Polls
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
After the US Democratic Convention officially nominated former vice-president Joe Biden to take on Donald Trump in the November election, Trump is reportedly set to travel to Charlotte, North Carolina on Monday to attend in person as delegates to the Republican National Convention renominate him for US president.
sputniknews.com/us/202008241080258297–china-owns-joe-biden-trump-warns-beijing-hatching-plan-to-meddle-in-november-polls/

RNC 2020: How Trump Will Reinvigorate and Entertain His Base to Narrow & Nix Biden's Lead
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
After the virtual Democratic National Convention (DNC) came to an end with Joe Biden formally accepting the party's nomination for president, the Republican event is kicking off on 24 August. American observers have discussed how the RNC show will differ from the one streamed by its competitors.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202008241080258175-rnc-2020-how-trump-will-reinvigorate-and-entertain-his-base-to-narrow–nix-bidens-lead/

Republicans and Democrats Clash for Funds of Wealthy Indian Americans, Professor Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
New Delhi (Sputnik): After the Democratic National Convention ended with former vice-president Joe Biden formally accepting the nomination last week, the Republican Convention began on 24 August, with Donald Trump again leading the GOP charge. The 2020 elections are seeing a strong presence of Indian-Americans.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202008241080264285-republicans-and-democrats-clash-for-funds-of-wealthy-indian-americans-professor-says/

Analysis of Black Boxes Reveals Downed Ukraine Jet Struck by Iranian Missiles 25 Seconds Apart
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
Analysis of the black boxes of the Ukrainian passenger plane downed on January 8 by Iranian forces shows that it was hit by two missiles 25 seconds apart and that passengers were alive for some time following the first blast, Iran's Civil Aviation Organization revealed on Sunday.
sputniknews.com/science/202008241080267584-analysis-of-black-boxes-reveals-downed-ukraine-jet-struck-by-iranian-missiles-25-seconds-apart/

Watch Iran's Defence Minister Get Acquainted With S-400 During Arms Expo in Russia
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
With the United Nations arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October, US officials and media have speculated that Tehran may buy Russian military hardware, including the S-400, once restrictions run out. Iran already has some advanced air defence capabilities of its own, including a system which downed a $220 million US drone in 2019.
sputniknews.com/military/202008241080262251-watch-irans-defence-minister-get-acquainted-with-s-400-during-arms-expo-in-russia/

Iranian, French Foreign Ministers Discuss Developments Around Nuclear Deal – Tehran
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
TEHRAN (Sputnik) – Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, have discussed developments related to the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), during phone talks in the wake of US's attempts to revive sanctions against Tehran, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008241080267450-iranian-french-foreign-ministers-discuss-developments-around-nuclear-deal—tehran/

Belarusian Opposition's Own Election Monitoring Appears to Show Lukashenko Won 61% of the Vote
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
Belarus was engulfed in a wave of protests following the August 9th presidential election in which incumbent Alexander Lukashenko comfortably secured a sixth term. Opposition candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya refused to accept the results, accused Lukashenko of fraud, and demanded that he begin negotiations on a 'peaceful transition of power'.
sputniknews.com/europe/202008241080265411-belarusian-oppositions-own-election-monitoring-appears-to-show-lukashenko-won-61-of-the-vote/

Congress Politicians Clarify Rahul Gandhi Falsely Attributed With 'Colluding with BJP' Remark
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
New Delhi (Sputnik): The Congress party is facing a crisis of leadership after interim president Sonia Gandhi is said to have declared that she wants to resign. Her decision is said to have come after key Congress party leaders demanded an overhaul at the top of the party, complaining about policy drift.
sputniknews.com/world/202008241080260395-congress_bjp_colluding_rahul_gandhi_clarify/

Postmaster General Denies Democrat Allegations of Slowing Postal Service to Disrupt Mail-in Voting
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
The reforms faced by the United States Postal Service have received criticism from Democrats over allegations of "incompetence at best, criminality at worst" by the Trump-appointed postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, accused of deliberately slowing the work of the federal agency in attempts to disrupt voting by mail in the presidential election.
sputniknews.com/us/202008241080267197-postmaster-general-denies-democrat-allegations-of-slowing-postal-service-to-disrupt-mail-in-voting/

Watch Indian Soldiers Dance, Beat Drums in the Himalayas to Welcome Lord Ganesha
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
New Delhi (Sputnik): The annual "Ganesh Chaturthi" festival is usually celebrated in a spectacular fashion across India. During the 11-day birthday celebrations of the revered elephant-headed Hindu god Lord Ganesha, hundreds of thousands worship Him, singing His praises to the sound of drumbeats and stage processions to celebrate the occasion.
sputniknews.com/viral/202008241080259223-watch-indian-soldiers-dance-beat-drums-in-the-himalayas-to-welcome-lord-ganesha-/

Brother of Harry Maguire to Stand Trial After Brawl with 'Albanian Thugs' Who 'Stabbed' Sister
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
Harry Maguire and members of his family were arrested on the Greek Island of Mykonos on Friday. Maguire currently plays for Manchester United after leaving Leicester in an £80 million deal last year.
sputniknews.com/europe/202008241080265110-brother-of-harry-maguire-to-stand-trial-after-brawl-with-albanian-thugs-who-stabbed-sister/

ARMY-2020: Developers Reveal Mission, Capabilities of Three Brand New Russian Drones
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
Several new Russian drone designs were presented at the ongoing ARMY-2020 arms expo outside Moscow this week.
sputniknews.com/military/202008241080266320-army-2020-developers-reveal-mission-capabilities-of-three-brand-new-russian-drones/

Memes Hit Twitter Amid Speculations That Rahul Gandhi Will Take Over as Congress Party Chief Again
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
New Delhi (Sputnik): Soon after the 2019 general election results, India's Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi resigned from…
sputniknews.com/india/202008241080259025-memes-hit-twitter-amid-speculations-that-rahul-gandhi-will-take-over-as-congress-party-chief-again/

Videos: US Gulf Coast Braces for One-Two Punch From Powerful Twin Tropical Storms
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
As two major storms are forecast to bring inches of rainfall and dangerous storm surges to the US Gulf Coast, thousands of residents have started making preparations ahead of what many weather experts are referring to as a "one-two punch" from Mother Nature.
sputniknews.com/environment/202008241080266684-videos-us-gulf-coast-braces-for-one-two-punch-from-powerful-twin-tropical-storms/

Free Trade Agreement Between UK and EU is Unlikely and 'That's a Good Thing', UKIP Leader Believes
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-24
Britain has been urged to leave the EU without a free trade deal after negotiations between Brussels and London stagnated. Last week both sides entered a seventh round of trade talks, however little to no progress has been made; with both sides still failing to agree on concessions for trade, sovereignty, and access to fishing waters.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202008241080265387-free-trade-agreement-between-uk-and-eu-is-unlikely-and-thats-a-good-thing-ukip-leader-believes/

The Seven Dangerous Paradoxes of Kamala Harris
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-24
A lot of theoretical nonsense is already being talked about the multiple meanings of Joe Biden's pick of California Senator Kalama Harris as his vice-presidential running mate: She will be a tool for Israel, she will be an opening for reform, she will signify a new era, she will cunningly allow the neo-conservatives to infiltrate the Democratic Party. | All of it is nonsense, especially the last conspiracy theory. The neo-conservatives have no chance of penetrating either Harris or any possible Biden administration because their rival neoliberals — who hold identical views anyway but genuinely think they ar…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/24/the-seven-dangerous-paradoxes-of-kamala-harris/

The Quiet American Reset
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-24
The great de-coupling is here. The U.S. now has plan a to purge Chinese tech companies fully from America's internet, creating what the Trump administration has dubbed the Clean Network. It mirrors the White House's existing 5G Clean Path initiative to remove all Chinese components from systems 'everywhere', and which now extends it to everything tech on the 'net. | China fears a financial 'Iron Curtain' is about to fall — a complete expulsion from the dollar sphere. In fact, soft capital control is already birthing, with Bloomberg reporting that the U.S. is now asking colleges and universities to divest fr…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/24/the-quiet-american-reset/

People Who Are in Denial About Coronavirus
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-24
There are basically two different policy-approaches to the coronavirus problem: One is the passive approach, waiting for 'herd immunity' to develop naturally. And the other is the active approach, in which the Government does take action — not just wait while the most-vulnerable individuals die off from the disease. The "herd immunity" approach is libertarian; it assumes that "let nature take its course" is always best; it is "laissez faire." The "take action" approach is the exact opposite — very restrictive (including strong disincentives — "punishment" — for individuals' misbehaviors th…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/24/people-who-are-in-denial-about-coronavirus/

Democracy — We've Had the Russia Report, Now Where Is the America Report?
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-24
Rob WOODWARD | The long-awaited Russia report was published with a call for "immediate action" by the government and intelligence services to tackle the threat from just one country — Russia. The reality was that while Russia may have been meddling at the edges of Britain's democracy, America has been actively involved in centrally funding the breakdown of democracy, the rule of law and the British way of life. So where is the America Report? | The Russia Report cited 'open source' studies which pointed to "pro-Brexit or anti-EU stories on RT and Sputnik, and the use of 'bots' and 'trolls', as evidence of R…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/24/democracy-weve-had-russia-report-now-where-is-america-report/

Coronavirus test booking system under fire as some face 350-mile round trip for a test
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
The NHS Test and Trace system has faced fresh criticism for a flaw in its online booking system which tries to direct people to test centres more than 100 miles away.Some people with coronavirus (Covid-19) symptoms who try to book a test online are directed to centres which would take them more than three hours to reach by car.Off-putting: A person from Ilfracombe in Devon who has symptoms of coronavirus — including a persistent cough, fever or loss of sense of taste or smell — is directed to a test centre in Swansea when they try to book a test online. This would see them drive past centres in T…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/24/online-booking-system-under-fire-as-some-face-350-mile-round-trip-for-coronavirus-test/

How does the Covid-19 vaccine work?
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
President Donald Trump's administration is considering fast-tracking an experimental coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccine from the UK for use in America ahead of the presidential election, it has been reported.Human trials of the coronavirus vaccine candidate being developed at the University of Oxford suggest it is safe and induces an immune response to Covid-19.Early results indicate the jab could provide double protection — generating an immune response which stimulates the body to produce both an antibody and T-cell response. | But what is the US president considering, what does the vaccine do and how does it…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/24/how-does-the-covid-19-vaccine-work/

Deputy chief medical officer calls for 'fair distribution' of a Covid-19 vaccine
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
England's deputy chief medical officer has advocated for "fair distribution" of any Covid-19 vaccine after it was reported that Donald Trump is considering fast-tracking a UK Covid-19 vaccine candidate before the US election. | According to reports, the White House is considering granting emergency authorisation for a vaccine being developed by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. | Meanwhile Trump also announced the emergency authorisation of convalescent plasma for Covid-19 patients…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/24/deputy-chief-medical-officer-calls-for-fair-distribution-of-a-covid-19-vaccine/

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is an Iranian 'hostage', documentary claims
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is a "hostage" in Iran and was on the brink of being freed from jail in Iran almost two-and-a-half years ago until a planned deal collapsed, according to a new documentary.The mother-of-one's husband Richard Ratcliffe said the family had even been given a date of 28 December 2017 for his wife's return to the UK.It is unclear why the deal fell through.The revelations were made during a BBC Panorama investigation into the detention of British and other western citizens in Iran, which airs on 24 August on BBC One at 7.30pm.It has long been claimed Zaghari-Ratcliffe is being held in order to…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/08/24/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-is-an-iranian-hostage-documentary-claims/

Belarus detains three leading opposition activists amid continuing protests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
Belarusian authorities have detained three leading opposition activists who've helped spearhead a wave of protests demanding the resignation of the country's authoritarian ruler.The opposition's Co-ordination Council said its members Sergei Dylevsky and Olga Kovalkova were detained by police in the capital, Minsk. Later in the day, the opposition also reported the detention of Alexander Lavrinovich, the leader of striking workers at a major industrial plant.Show of force: The move signals president Alexander Lukashenko's determination to stifle the massive demonstrations that have entered their third week.
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2020/08/24/belarus-detains-three-leading-opposition-activists-amid-continuing-protests/

Protests erupt after racially-charged police shooting in US state
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
Officers deployed tear gas in an effort to disperse hundreds of people who took to the streets following a police shooting in a US town. | The governor of Wisconsin pointed out that the victim was Black and was not the first to be "shot or injured or mercilessly killed" by individuals in law enforcement. | A video posted on social media appeared to show officers shoot at a Black man's back seven times as he leaned into a vehicle. | A person was taken to hospital in a serious condition following a shooting by officers at about 5pm on 23 August as officers were responding to a "domestic incident", the Kenosha Polic…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/08/24/protests-erupt-after-racially-charged-police-shooting-in-us-state/

California wildfires burn on as death toll rises
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
Three deadly wildfires are spreading through northern California as firefighters brace for more of the lightning that sparked the huge blazes.There were hundreds of other wildfires burning on Sunday 23 August across the state. And nearly 250,000 people were under evacuation orders and warnings.Latest casualty: The death toll from the fires reached seven, after authorities battling a big fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of San Francisco, announced the discovery of the body of a 70-year-old man in a remote area called Last Chance. | He had been reported missing and police had to use a helicopter to re…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/24/california-wildfires-burn-on-as-death-toll-rises/

Pelosi Warns Trump Against "Cutting Corners" on New Unproven Vaccine From UK
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
A new report suggests President Donald Trump may push for an unproven vaccine for coronavirus from the United Kingdom to be made available in the United States just one month before voters are set to decide if he deserves another term in office. | The Financial Times reported on Monday that Democrats in Congress were briefed in July about the administration's considerations for the vaccine, a person familiar with the…
truthout.org/articles/pelosi-warns-trump-against-cutting-corners-on-new-unproven-vaccine-from-uk/

Judges Are Buying the GOP's Lie That Mail-In Voting Causes Fraud
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
The Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee filed lawsuits recently against New Jersey and Nevada to prevent expansive vote-by-mail efforts in those states. | These high-profile lawsuits make the same argument that Republicans have made in many lesser-known lawsuits that were filed around the country during the primary season. In all of these lawsuits, Republicans argue that voting by ma…
truthout.org/articles/judges-are-buying-the-gops-lie-that-mail-in-voting-causes-fraud/

Progressive Group Projects Photos of Jobless Workers Onto Hotel Near RNC
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
On the eve of the 2020 Republican National Convention, a progressive advocacy group representing 15,000 unemployed workers on Sunday projected onto a Charlotte, North Carolina hotel the photos and stories of jobless workers struggling to meet basic needs after the GOP allowed the $600-per-week unemployment benefit boost to expire last month, slashing the i…
truthout.org/articles/progressive-group-projects-photos-of-jobless-workers-onto-hotel-near-rnc/

Postmaster DeJoy Has Undermined Faith in Election, Postal Historian Says
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
The battle over the future of the United States Postal Service is intensifying, with a record number of mail-in ballots expected to be cast in the 2020 presidential election, and Democrats and Republicans locked in a fight over the future of the agency. Historian Philip Rubio, who teaches at North Carolina A&T State University and worked as a mail carrier for two decades before that, says decades of political interference have caused a "manufactured crisis" at the U.S. Postal Service. "The damage has…
truthout.org/video/postmaster-dejoy-has-undermined-faith-in-election-postal-historian-says/

Black Workers Face Higher Joblessness, But Are Less Likely to Get Unemployment
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
Record numbers of Americans are receiving unemployment insurance during the pandemic. That's because of the enormous scale of jobs lost — but also because Congress greatly expanded the number of workers eligible for benefits. For the first time, thanks to the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, part-timers, independent contractors and gig workers qualify for unemployment payments. Black workers are overrepresented in these nontraditional positions, which in the past has contribut…
truthout.org/articles/black-workers-face-higher-joblessness-but-are-less-likely-to-get-unemployment/

Protests Erupt After Wisconsin Police Shoot Unarmed Black Man Seven Times
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
Warning: The following article contains a link to a graphic video detailing a police shooting of an unarmed individual. | Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man from Kenosha, Wisconsin, was shot seven times in the back by police officers on Sunday evening as he attempted to enter his own car. | A video circulating on social media shows Blake walking toward his car while officers follow him with their guns drawn. Blake opens…
truthout.org/articles/protests-erupt-after-wisconsin-police-shoot-unarmed-black-man-seven-times/

Republican Convention Takes on the Weighty Task of Boosting Trump's Bruised Ego
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
The Republican National Convention (RNC) begins tonight, and I honestly don't know how to complete this sentence. Many will watch, many more will not, and I'll be fixated on this four-day failapalooza for one reason only: to see if the Audience of One phenomenon rears its orange head and burns the whole project to the ground. I very strongly suspect it will. | The "Audience of One" media phenomenon is perhaps the most vivid, daily available evidenc…
truthout.org/articles/republican-convention-takes-on-the-weighty-task-of-boosting-trumps-bruised-ego/

Border Town Links Fight Against Trump's Wall to the Black Lives Matter Movement
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
Under a sweltering August sun, just blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border, four local activists busily stage-direct the movements of about 100 residents of Laredo, Texas, who are lined up, fists raised, along the street in front of the city's George P. Kazen federal courthouse. | The four are standing on a 30-foot high scissor lift, making sure the crowd below is placed just perfectly along the giant street mural they have planned for weeks and just finished painting that Sunday morning, August 16.
truthout.org/articles/border-town-links-fight-against-trumps-wall-to-movement-to-defund-police/

Meet the Activist Who Is Driving the Push to Reclaim Nature for Black People
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-24
Nature and wild spaces are appreciated by many, but they can sometimes be rendered inaccessible or dangerous to people of color, as a recent incident in Washington State shows. But it doesn't have to be that way. As the founder of the national organization Outdoor Afro, Rue Mapp has devoted her life to encouraging Black American…
truthout.org/articles/meet-the-activist-who-is-driving-the-push-to-reclaim-nature-for-black-people/

From Protecting Voting Rights to Honoring Veterans, The Post Office Is An Essential Service
Brian Trautman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-24
The capacity of the United States Postal Service (USPS) to provide mail services that generations of Americans have relied on has been severely weakened by the Trump administration. The assault on…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/24/from-protecting-voting-rights-to-honoring-veterans-the-post-office-is-an-essential-service/

House passes postal aid bill as thousands protest to #SaveThePostOffice
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-24
WASHINGTON–Sally Abrahamson wants Congress to save our democracy by saving the U.S. Postal Service from GOP President Donald Trump and his hand-picked Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy. And so does her 18-month-old son, even if he was too shy to talk. So Abrahamson's son, carried by his mother in a frontal "baby bag," wore a sign …
peoplesworld.org/article/house-passes-postal-aid-bill-as-thousands-protest-to-savethepostoffice/

Trump's push to privatize the USPS is a direct threat to democracy
Lauren Regan | mronline.org | 2020-08-24
My maternal grandfather was born in 1914 and served in the Army during World War II. When he returned from the war in 1944, he took a job with the U.S. Postal Service as a "mailman." He worked as a letter carrier, eventually becoming a supervisor, and was an active member of the Association of …
mronline.org/2020/08/24/trumps-push-to-privatize-the-usps-is-a-direct-threat-to-democracy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trumps-push-to-privatize-the-usps-is-a-direct-threat-to-democracy

Postmaster General testifies before a Senate Committee on mail crisis
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
Louis DeJoy spoke before a Senate Committee on the bipartisan manufactured crisis of the United States Postal Service and possible election fraud.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/post-a24.html

Police officer fired after tasing woman on video
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-08-24
"Each member of this department shall consider it his or her duty to be of service to the general public and to render that service in a kind, considerate, and patient manner."
nationofchange.org/2020/08/24/police-officer-fired-after-tasing-woman-on-video/

China will step up technology innovation to drive growth, says President Xi
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
China will step up technology innovation to drive high-quality growth through mobilising national resources and bringing in world class research teams, President Xi Jinping said on Monday, according to the state TV.China will further open up its economy and actively take part in reforming the global economic governance to push for a more equal and reasonable system of governance, Xi told a seminar of economists and scholars, China Central Television reported.
yenisafak.com/en/world/china-will-step-up-technology-innovation-to-drive-growth-says-president-xi-3537513

China supports TikTok's legal battle against US
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
China Monday put its weight behind social media app TikTok's move to mount a legal case against the US government. | Addressing a news conference in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said: "US politicians' attempts to kill Chinese firms such as TikTok, WeChat, and Huawei by forcibly putting ideological labels on them under the guise of national security show they are full of lies and slander; their nature is to bully the market through deception." | Zhao, however, said the Chinese government supports the companies' "decisions to take up legal weapons in order to safeguard their legitimate ri…
yenisafak.com/en/world/china-supports-tiktoks-legal-battle-against-us-3537531

Fenerbahce player tests positive for coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
The Turkish Super Lig club Fenerbahce confirmed on Monday that one of its players tested positive for coronavirus.With the name of the player withheld, the Istanbul powerhouse said his treatment has started.The infected player has been isolated at home.
yenisafak.com/en/sports/fenerbahce-player-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-3537508

What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now: Plasma treatment authorisedU.S. President Donald Trump hailed the Food & Drug Administration's authorisation of a coronavirus treatment that uses blood plasma from recovered patients, a day after accusing the agency of impeding the roll-out of vaccines and therapeutics for political reasons.The FDA, explaining its decision, cited early evidence suggesting blood plasma can decrease mortality and improve the health of patients when administered in the first three days of their hospitalization.Equity markets gained for a second straight session on Monday a…
yenisafak.com/en/life/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-coronavirus-right-now-3537506

Hong Kong documents man twice infected by COVID-19
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Researchers in Hong Kong Monday claimed to have proved that a man was infected by COVID-19 for a second time after having recovered from the illness. | It is the first such case documented by a team of researchers at the University of Hong Kong. The man, 33, an IT worker, recovered from coronavirus and later was released from hospital in April, according to rthk.com. However, he again tested positive for the virus when he returned from Spain the following month. | According to the university research team, the "genetic sequencing showed the virus strains contracted by him in April and August were clearly differen…
yenisafak.com/en/world/hong-kong-documents-man-twice-infected-by-covid-19-3537537

Pandemic claims more lives in Libya, Oman, Qatar
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Local health authorities in Libya, Oman and Qatar on Monday confirmed additional fatalities due to the coronavirus pandemic, while the United Arab Emirates (UAE) reported only fresh infections. | In a statement, Libya's National Center for Disease Control said 11 people had died from COVID-19 and 572 others tested positive, while 11 patients had recovered. | The country's tally now rose to 11,009 confirmed cases, including 199 deaths, and 1,096 recoveries. | In Oman, 28 deaths and 740 infections were recorded as well as 526 recoveries over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said in a statement. | The Gulf sta…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pandemic-claims-more-lives-in-libya-oman-qatar-3537530

France reports highest daily rise in coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
France confirmed on Monday a spike of 4,897 new coronavirus cases over the last 24 hours, the highest single-day figure since the start of the outbreak.The death toll in France currently stands at 30,513 with overall cases at 242,899, according to the Health Ministry.A total of 4,709 people remain in hospital — 383 of those in intensive care.Health Minister Olivier Veran said in a statement that France has achieved the ability to test 700,000 people per week — roughly 1% of the French population."We have just exceeded our objective of 700,000 tests carried out each week, precisely 725,000," Veran told Le Journa…
yenisafak.com/en/world/france-reports-highest-daily-rise-in-coronavirus-cases-3537509

Putin, Lukashenko discussed Belarus crisis on phone
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Russian President Vladmir Putin and Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko spoke by telephone on Monday and discussed the situation in Belarus, the Belta news agency reported.The Belarusian state-run agency also reported the two leaders had agreed that Belarusians would take part in Phase Three trials of Russia's coronavirus vaccine.Belarus would be the first foreign country to receive deliveries of the vaccine, Belta added.
yenisafak.com/en/world/putin-lukashenko-discussed-belarus-crisis-on-phone-3537534

Turkey arrests 35 FETàñ-linked terror suspects
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
At least 35 people were arrested on Monday for their alleged links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETàñ), the terror group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey.The Istanbul prosecutor's office carried out an investigation into the infiltration of FETàñ members in the Naval Academy and Vocational Schools in 2013.The suspects took an exam for the navy and their candidate numbers were determined as those belonging to members of the terror group.Candidates with the said number were awarded high passing grades by FETàñ members in the examination board.The prosecutors issued warrants fo…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-arrests-35-feto-linked-terror-suspects-3537535

Italy begins testing potential COVID-19 vaccine on volunteers
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Italy kicked off human trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, joining a global effort to develop a response to the virus which has shown signs of resurging in Europe.Rome's Lazzaro Spallanzani institute, a hospital specializing in infectious diseases will conduct trials on 90 volunteers over the coming weeks, with the hope a vaccine may be available by spring of next year.Francesco Vaia, health director of the Spallanzani hospital, told Reuters the first patient will be monitored for four hours before being allowed to go home where he will be kept under observation for 12 weeks."We will see if it produ…
yenisafak.com/en/world/italy-begins-testing-potential-covid-19-vaccine-on-volunteers-3537511

WHO urges countries to join forces in vaccine plan
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
The World Health Organization on Monday urged countries to join its plan to ensure equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines so they can work together in a coordinated manner.Bruce Aylward, senior adviser to the WHO director-general, told a news briefing that "the critical thing is to ensure that some vaccine gets to all countries as early as possible".
yenisafak.com/en/life/who-urges-countries-to-join-forces-in-vaccine-plan-3537512

Turkey delivers 12 off-road vehicles to Somalia
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Turkey has delivered 12 off-road vehicles to Somalia as part of bilateral military and financial cooperation agreements, the National Defense Ministry said on Monday.In a statement, it said the vehicles, which are meant for use over rough terrain, were supplied for the Somali 3rd (Eagle) Infantry Battalion.They were handed over to Somalia's chief of defense force on Aug 22.The two countries are longstanding partners, engaging in close cooperation in different fields.
yenisafak.com/en/world/turkey-delivers-12-off-road-vehicles-to-somalia-3537532

Christchurch attacks: Victims tell court stories of pain
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
The victims of Christchurch mosques shootings told stories of pain inside the High Court room in New Zealand on Monday as the white supremacist attacker is set to be sentenced.With tears rolling down her cheeks, Janna Ezat, mother of a victim, told the court that she received the body of her son when it was her birthday, and Mother's Day in the Middle East.Hussein Al-Umari, 35, is one of the victims murdered by Brenton Tarrant, 29, a terrorist who admitted killing 51 Muslims in Christchurch as they were preparing for Friday prayers on March 15, 2019."Hussein Al-Umari used to give me flowers for my birthday but in…
yenisafak.com/en/news/christchurch-attacks-victims-tell-court-stories-of-pain-3537503

Netanyahu, Pompeo discuss Arab-Israeli normalization
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks Monday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who arrived in Israel as part of a regional tour. | The talks dwelt on the normalization of ties between Israel and other Arab states following this month's US-sponsored deal to normalize relations between Tel Aviv and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). | "I discussed with Secretary of State Pompeo the possibility of normalizing additional countries' relations with Israel, and I hope that there will be good news in the near future," Netanyahu told a joint press conference. | He said the Israel-UAE deal "opened a new p…
yenisafak.com/en/news/netanyahu-pompeo-discuss-arab-israeli-normalization-3537525

Protests gather over 20,000 people in Minsk
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Over 20,000 people took part in weekend's protests in Belarusian capital of Minsk, the Interior Ministry said Monday. | "Citizens gathered in Minsk and other regional centers to participate in the previously announced protest action. The maximum number of participants was recorded in the capital — about 20,000 people. In Brest and Grodno – no more than 3,000 people," ministry's spokeswoman Olga Chemodanova said in a post on Telegram. | According to Chemodanova, "some individuals and Internet resources" actively encouraged citizens to organize mass events without mentioning that some of them are punishable u…
yenisafak.com/en/world/protests-gather-over-20000-people-in-minsk-3537526

Putin, Netanyahu discuss UAE-Israel deal over phone
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged views on the controversial "n…
yenisafak.com/en/news/putin-netanyahu-discuss-uae-israel-deal-over-phone-3537538

Turkey's floods death toll hits seven
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
The death toll from flooding in Turkey's Black Sea province of Giresun rose to seven, said the country's interior minister Monday.Answering the questions of journalists in the disaster area, Suleyman Soylu said search and rescue teams are still searching for nine missing people, including two gendarmerie personnel.Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), in a statement, said some 988 personnel and 288 vehicles were deployed in the rescue efforts.According to reports, 157 people have been rescued so far. At least 12 people have been injured due to the heavy flooding.The floodwaters demolished 1…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkeys-floods-death-toll-hits-seven-3537505

Twin blasts kill 12, hurt 40 in southern Philippines
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Two explosions hit Jolo in Sulu province of autonomous Bangsamoro region in southern Philippines early this morning, Philippines military officials said. The slain people included six soldiers. More than 40 people, including civilians, were injured.According to GMA News Online, the Philippines army Lt. Col. Ronald Mateo confirmed the deaths, adding that nearly 18 soldiers and 22 civilians were injured.The Philippines police spokesman Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac said the first blast occurred around mid-day in the vicinity of Paradise Food located at Barangay Walled in Jolo. The second blast took place around one hour…
yenisafak.com/en/world/twin-blasts-kill-12-hurt-40-in-southern-philippines-3537514

Germany says protection of Kremlin critic Navalny is necessary
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Personal protection of Alexei Navalny is necessary since the Russian opposition politician was possibly the target of a poison attack, a German government spokesman said on Monday."Because there is a certain probability of a poison attack, protection is necessary", Steffen Seibert said at a regular news conference.Navalny, a long-time opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on Thursday after what his allies believe was a poisoning and was airlifted to Germany for treatment on Saturday.
yenisafak.com/en/news/germany-says-protection-of-kremlin-critic-navalny-is-necessary-3537510

Turkish, Azerbaijani parliament heads talk over phone
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-24
Turkey's Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop Monday held a phone talk with his Azerbaijani counterpart Sahibe Gafarova.According to the Turkish Parliament Speaker's Office, Gafarova congratulated Sentop on Turkey's recently announced discovery of major natural gas reserves in the Black Sea."I conveyed, on my own behalf and on behalf of all members of Milli Majlis [Azerbaijan's parliament], the sincere congratulations to Mr. Sentop and all Turkish people on the discovery of a large gas field in Black Sea," Gafarova said on Twitter.Last Friday Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that Turkey has found som…
yenisafak.com/en/news/turkish-azerbaijani-parliament-heads-talk-over-phone-3537536

How a False Hydroxychloroquine Narrative Was Created. "Dangerous" When Used for Covid-19
Dr. Meryl Nass | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
First published on June 29, 2020 | It is remarkable that a series of events taking place over the past 3 months produced a unified message about hydroxychloroquine, and produced similar policies about the drug in the US, Canada, Australia, NZ …
globalresearch.ca/how-false-hydroxychloroquine-narrative-created/5717275

Australia's two major airlines axe thousands of jobs
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
Qantas and Virgin, like their global rivals, are using COVID-19 to slash costs by eliminating thousands of jobs.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/virg-a24.html

Australian universities unveil job cuts of up to 30 percent
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
There was outrage at the University of Sydney last week after all departments were asked to plan scenarios to cut thousands of full-time jobs.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/unis-a24.html

Gluttons for Change
Extinction Rebellion | zcomm.org | 2020-08-24
News of planned Rebellions all over the world. From Poland to Australia, through September and into early October,…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/gluttons-for-change/

British think tank fronts right-wing "academic freedom" campaign–Part 1
wsws.org | 2020-08-24
Policy Exchange argues for a combined intervention into both academia and student politics on campus to suppress left-wing protest and give free rein to far-right ideologues.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/24/aca1-a24.html

New documents raise serious questions about the British army's knowledge of the McGurk's bar bombing
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
On 4 December 1971, the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF) blew up McGurk's bar in Belfast killing 15 innocent people and injuring more than 16. The victims' relatives and justice campaigners believe the British army and police have a lot more questions to answer about this attack.
thecanary.co/investigation/2020/08/24/new-documents-raise-serious-questions-about-the-british-armys-knowledge-of-the-mcgurks-bar-bombing/

ACLU Statement on Police Shooting of Jacob Blake
commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
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commondreams.org/newswire/2020/08/24/aclu-statement-police-shooting-jacob-blake?cd-origin=rss

It Is Time for a One-Time Pandemic Wealth Tax on Billionaires' Windfall Gains
Chuck Collins, Frank Clemente | commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
People participate in a "March on Billionaires" event on July 17, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/marchonbillionaires.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/24/it-time-one-time-pandemic-wealth-tax-billionaires-windfall-gains?cd-origin=rss

The Triumph of Monopoly Capitalism is Hurting American Workers' Life Expectancy
John Buell | commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
"Monopoly power and concentrated wealth do immense harm to the bottom third of the wealth spectrum," writes Buell. (Cartoon: Khalil Bendib/OtherWords) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/where-billionaires-come-from-cartoon_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/24/triumph-monopoly-capitalism-hurting-american-workers-life-expectancy?cd-origin=rss

Report shows OPIC's energy portfolio still investing billions in fossil fuels
commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
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Public Health Experts Watch 'In Horror' as FDA Approves Narrowly Tested Covid-19 Treatment Amid Pressure From Trump
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
Public health experts on Monday raised alarm over President Donald Trump's overstating of the efficacy of convalescent plasma and his suggestion that the Food and Drug Administration purposefully held up approval of the potential Covid-19 treatment just before the agency authorized its expanded use. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-1210677513_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/24/public-health-experts-watch-horror-fda-approves-narrowly-tested-covid-19-treatment?cd-origin=rss

Mining the Depths of Corruption: New Report Exposes Omissions and Misrepresentations in Nevada-based Mining Company's Claims in $400 Million Suit against Guatemalan Government
commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
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Politicizing a Pandemic and Rigging an Election—Trump's 2020 Re-election Campaign
John Ripton | commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
"Trump has been laying the groundwork to fix the 2020 election results ever since deceit and treachery helped produce victory for him in 2016," writes Ripton. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_davos_entitlement_cuts.jpg …
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'Unprecedented and Wrong': Pompeo Slammed for Plans to Address GOP Convention From Jerusalem
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
Critics accused the secretary of state of "using Judaism as a political prop" and suggested his speech may violate the Hatch Act. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/pompeo_10.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2020/08/24/unprecedented-and-wrong-pompeo-slammed-plans-address-gop-convention-jerusalem?cd-origin=rss

University Administrations Should Take Responsibility for Potential Campus Outbreaks
Michael Kelly | commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
Residents of the Somerville and Medford communities protest outside of Tufts University President Anthony Monaco's house in Medford, MA on Aug. 18, 2020. (Photo: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/collegereopeningprotest.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2020/08/24/university-administrations-should-take-responsibility-potential-campus-outbreaks?cd-origin=rss

Ending Trump's Sabotage of the Postal Service
commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
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Lawsuit Aims to Block Drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
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The Banality of Evocation
Erin L. Thompson | commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
Demonstrators chant during the 2020 Women's March on January 18, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/womensmarch2020.jpg …
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In Major Reversal, Trump Administration Stalls Pebble Mine
commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
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Environment America joins lawsuit challenging Trump administration's push to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
commondreams.org | 2020-08-24
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RIP, Justin Townes Earle — Harlem River Blues
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-24
counterpunch.org/2020/08/24/rip-justin-townes-earle-harlem-river-blues/

"Chasing the Light" by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
Like the wandering and rascally Odysseus upon whom he models his life, Oliver Stone is "double-minded" in the most profound and illuminating ways. The title of his fantastic new memoir is a case in point. "One of the first basic …
globalresearch.ca/chasing-light-oliver-stone/5721945

Where Is #MeToo when All of Us Are About to Be Raped by Forced Vaccination?
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-24
The United States and the Western World fared poorly in responding to Covid for two main reasons. One reason is Big Pharma and associated public health organizations such as NIH saw big profits in the virus. The response to the virus was not to protect public health but to create a mass market for a profitable vaccine. | The other reason is that liability and sanctions have stopped most doctors from thinking on their own when the safest course is to follow officially approved treatments. Those few who did think discovered that the combination of HCQ/azithromycin/zinc dramatically reduced the death rate and severi…

Where Is #MeToo when All of Us Are About to Be Raped by Forced Vaccination?

Selected Articles: US Elections and the Fall of the American Empire
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
If you look to Global Research as a resource for information and understanding, to stay current on world events, or to experience honesty and transparency in your news coverage, please consider making a donation or becoming a member. Your …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-us-elections-fall-american-empire/5721990

Video: Corona Madness! This is What the Pandemic Makes People Do… The Face Mask and Social Distancing
FreiheitsFreund | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-24
THE FACE MASK | Ample scientific literature. Medical consensus (shared by Dr. Fauci) until it was repealed by government directives. | By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter …
globalresearch.ca/video-corona-madness-what-happening-you-cant-believe-it/5721922

Anti-goldmine protesters take a stand against 'corporate policing'
Peadar O'Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-08-24
As the continued and growing opposition to the proposed goldmine in County Tyrone continues, community campaigners believe they're battling police as well as the goldmine company. This follows a number of incidents in the community between anti-goldmine campaigners and supporters of the mine.Camp…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/08/24/anti-goldmine-protesters-take-a-stand-against-corporate-policing/

The Color of Contagion
Patricia J. Williams | thenation.com | 2020-08-24
The Color of Contagion…
thenation.com/article/society/covid-race-disparity/

Eric Posner's Democracy for the Few
Samuel Moyn | thenation.com | 2020-08-24
Eric Posner's Democracy for the Few…
thenation.com/article/culture/eric-posner-demagogues-playbook/

Iowa's Derecho Signals It's Time to Ban Utility Monopolies
Emily Berch | thenation.com | 2020-08-24
Iowa's Derecho Signals It's Time to Ban Utility Monopolies…
thenation.com/article/environment/iowa-derecho-electricity/

The Democrats Just Showed Us a Weakness in Their 2020 Strategy
Robert L. Borosage | thenation.com | 2020-08-24
The Democrats Just Showed Us a Weakness in Their 2020 Strategy…
thenation.com/article/politics/convention-democrats-strategy/

How Yale Became the Latest Target in the Plot to Kill Affirmative Action
Elie Mystal | thenation.com | 2020-08-24
How Yale Became the Latest Target in the Plot to Kill Affirmative Action…
thenation.com/article/society/yale-affirmative-action/

USPS Out of Sorts
Peter Kuper | thenation.com | 2020-08-24
USPS Out of Sorts…
thenation.com/article/politics/usps-out-of-sorts/

The Border Patrol Considered Accepting a Donation From We Build the Wall
Ken Klippenstein | thenation.com | 2020-08-24
The Border Patrol Considered Accepting a Donation From We Build the Wall…
thenation.com/article/politics/bannon-wall-border-patrol/

Iran-Venezuela trade coop. going ahead despite US sanctions
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Venezuela announced the finalization of trade agreements with the Bolivarian country of Venezuela despite US sanctions imposed against the two countries.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162621/Iran-Venezuela-trade-coop-going-ahead-despite-US-sanctions

Towards a US-China War? The Creation of a Global Totalitarian System, A "One World Government"?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
The dominant dynamic defining world geopolitics is the appearance of a genuine irregular conflict between the 2 most formidable powers on the planet: China & the US. Only this time the aim is a universal totalitarian system. David Rockefeller called it a "one world government."
globalresearch.ca/remake-1941-hitler-stalin-great-war/5720769

Pressure on Netanyahu mounts at home and abroad as Israel bombs Gaza again
Steve Topple | thecanary.co | 2020-08-23
Embattled Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been facing pressure at home and abroad amid his government's continued bombing of the Gaza strip. With protests in both Jerusalem and the UK, Israel's bombardment of Gaza has continued. And the Israeli PM is refusing to back down on all fronts.Netanyahu: pressure at home: The PA news agency reported that on Saturday 22 August, thousands of protesters marched on Netanyahu's residence in central Jerusalem. Th…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/08/23/pressure-on-netanyahu-mounts-at-home-and-abroad-as-israel-bombs-gaza-again/

Samir Amin: Marx and Living Marxism are More Relevant Today than Ever
Samir Amin | mronline.org | 2020-08-23
On 7 May 2018, Professor Samir Amin gave a lecture entitled "Marx and Living Marxism are More Relevant Today Than Ever" at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
mronline.org/2020/08/23/samir-amin-marx-and-living-marxism-are-more-relevant-today-than-ever/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=samir-amin-marx-and-living-marxism-are-more-relevant-today-than-ever

Wednesday 8/26: Fighting to Include Immigrants in COVID Relief and Defeating White Supremacy webinar
United We Dream | indybay.org | 2020-08-23
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/23/18836059.php

Echo Chamber US Politics: The "All About Trump" Democratic National Convention
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
It was hard to stomach. The usual suspects, the usual scripts tatty from overuse. The 2020 Democratic National Convention was a prolonged display of avoidance, evasion and theatrical amnesia. There were moments of formality masquerading as promise: Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez…
globalresearch.ca/all-about-trump-democratic-national-convention/5721841

The World Economic Forum (WEF) Knows Best — The Post-Covid "Great Global Reset"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has just made a grandiose discovery and declared (21 July 2020) under the alarming title "This is now the world's greatest threat — and it's not coronavirus". The superb discovery is listed as "Affluence is …
globalresearch.ca/wef-knows-best-great-global-reset/5719627

Senate Voting Record of Kamala Harris. Pro-Big Money, Pro-Israel, Pro-War Dem Foot Soldier
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
The US political season never ends. It'll be in high gear post-conventions this month. | According to the Center for Responsive Politics, US 2020 presidential aspirants, groups working on their behalf, "leadership PACs, super PACs, dark money outlets," and other sources …
globalresearch.ca/senate-voting-record-kamala-harris/5721829

Obscene Pandemic Profiteering: Largest Consolidation of Wealth in American History
David DeGraw | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
According to the Institute for Policy Studies: "Since March 18, the beginning of the pandemic," the 12 richest Americans "have seen their combined wealth increase $283 billion, an increase of almost 40 percent." | Those 12 people primarily benefited from the …
globalresearch.ca/obscene-pandemic-profiteering-largest-consolidation-wealth-american-history/5721834

Nuclear Complacency and the Dangerous Drift Toward a New Cold War with China
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2020-08-23
For relations among states having nuclear weaponry, stability is achieved by relying on various forms of deterrence combined with the implementation of the nuclear apartheid regime…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/nuclear-complacency-and-the-dangerous-drift-toward-a-new-cold-war-with-china/

Washington's Role in Thailand's "Student Protests", Destabilize Thailand, Undermine Thai-Chinese Relations
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
Virtually every aspect of "student protests" in Thailand are funded and backed by the US and aimed at destabilizing a key partner of China, reversing Thai-Chinese relations, and advancing Washington's Beijing containment policy. | Thailand is a key partner of China's | …
globalresearch.ca/complete-guide-us-government-role-thailand-student-protests/5721616

Permitted Unlawfulness: The New Zealand Coronavirus Lockdown
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-23
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. — Lord Acton, It is a study both troublesome and perplexing. To what end can a state trample on human rights ostensibly to preserve such objects a public health? The coronavirus lockdowns have become a feature of global politics and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/permitted-unlawfulness-the-new-zealand-coronavirus-lockdown/

Coronavirus: Why Everyone Was Wrong. It is Not a "New Virus". "The Fairy Tale of No Immunity"
Beda M Stadler | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
So: Sars-Cov-2 isn't all that new, but merely a seasonal cold virus that mutated and disappears in summer, as all cold viri do — which is what we're observing globally right now. Flu viri mutate significantly more, by the way, and nobody would ever claim that a new flu virus strain was completely novel.
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-why-everyone-wrong/5718049

COVID19 PCR Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless
Torsten Engelbrecht | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
First published on June 29, 2020 | Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify "positive" patients, whereby "positive" is usually equated with …
globalresearch.ca/covid19-pcr-tests-scientifically-meaningless/5717253

The 2020 Covid Global Economic Meltdown: "Political Trickery" and the Relevance of 9/11
Anthony Hall | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
The world economic crisis of 2020 is creating the context for large-scale repeats of some key aspects of the bailout of 2007-2010. The bailout of 2007-2008 drew, in turn, from many practices developed in the period when the explosive events …
globalresearch.ca/the-2020-covid-global-economic-meltdown-political-trickery-and-the-relevance-of-911/5721860

If Trump Had Followed Vietnam's Lead on COVID, US Would Have Fewer Than 100 Dead
Robert Pollin | zcomm.org | 2020-08-23
35 percent of the entire U.S. labor force filed unemployment claims between March and August.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/if-trump-had-followed-vietnams-lead-on-covid-us-would-have-fewer-than-100-dead/

Protecting people from conflict, cyclones and COVID-19 in Mozambique: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
news.un.org | 2020-08-23
The COVID-19 disease has added to longstanding challenges in Mozambique which have threatened the southern African country's most vulnerable people. In this blog, the UN Resident Coordinator Myrta Kaulard, with IOM Chief of Mission, Laura Tomm-Bonde, and Samuel Chakwera, UNHCR Resident Representative, explain how the United Nations is supporting national efforts to protect the people of Mozambique from multiple threats…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1070762

Protecting people from conflict, cyclones and COVID-19 in Mozambique: a UN Resident Coordinator blog
news.un.org | 2020-08-23
By the UN Resident Coordinator Myrta Kaulard, Laura Tomm-Bonde, IOM Chief of Mission and Samuel Chakwera, UNHCR Resident Representative, all based in Mozambique.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1070762

The Carney/Freeland "Green Reset" Shapes Canada's 'New Normal'
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
Surprising ruptures have shaken the Canadian political landscape this week as Trudeau's Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that she would add "Finance Minister" to her portfolio the day after scandal-ridden Bill Morneau stepped down from the position on the …
globalresearch.ca/carney-freeland-green-reset-shapes-canada-new-normal/5721843

Video: "Human 2.0"? Humans Melding with Artificial Intelligence. A Wake-Up Call to the World
Dr. Carrie Madej | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
What does "Human 2.0" mean? | According to Dr. Carrie Madej, it is transhumanism where humans are melding with artificial intelligence, like in the movie Matrix. | Transhumanism has a bearing on the Future Of Humanity. | It is happening right in …
globalresearch.ca/video-human-2-wake-up-call-world/5721733

The 16th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival
Carol Brouillet | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
2020 is an unusual year; weddings have been cancelled, schools closed, almost all large public gatherings banned, the global economy dismantled; the middle class and Main Street's small and medium sized businesses are struggling to survive. In California, the film …
globalresearch.ca/16th-annual-911-truth-film-festival/5721359

US Threatens Fresh Sanctions Against Iran, JCPOA Members
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-23
The US withdrew from the JCPOA or the Iran nuclear deal in 2018. However, it is now trying to get sanctions imposed on Iran claiming violations of a deal it is not even part of…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/23/us-threatens-fresh-sanctions-against-iran-jcpoa-members/

Hezbollah brings down Israeli drone in south Lebanon
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-23
The news outlet Al-Manar is reporting Hezbollah announced Saturday, August 22 that it downed an Israeli drone in the southern town of Ayta Al-Shaab. | According to a statement from Hezbollah "The drone is now in the hands of Islamic Resistance fighters." | In September, 2019, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said that every Israeli drone which violates the Lebanese airspace will be a target for the resistance, after an attack by Israeli drones laden with explosive materials on the Beirut media office belonging to the Lebanese party. | Israel occupies Lebanese territory and frequently enters the…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/23/hezbollah-brings-down-israeli-drone-south-lebanon

Breakthrough in Libya?
Abdel Bari Atwan | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-23
Much work will be needed to turn the tentative cease-fire deal into a success on the ground | Suddenly, with a military showdown looming on all fronts in Libya, the sound of beating war-drums was halted and replaced by paeans of peace. Both sides in the conflict announced a comprehensive cease-fire and began talking about power-sharing, fresh elections and designating the city of Sirte — birthplace, what irony, of the late Col. Muammar al-Qadhafi' — as headquarters of an interim administration and a new national capital. | The cessation of hostilities was declared simultaneously by Fayez al-Sarraj, he…

Breakthrough in Libya?

Thunberg, other activists tell Merkel to 'abandon fossil industry contracts'
Benjamin Wehrmann | zcomm.org | 2020-08-23
Thunberg said the activists were looking to find leaders who "prioritise the future over the past" and argued that the letter merely describes "the very minimum" of what needs to be done to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/thunberg-other-activists-tell-merkel-to-abandon-fossil-industry-contracts/

Tapping the Enormous Electoral Potential of Low Income Voters
Frances Madeson | zcomm.org | 2020-08-23
What impact could 34 million poor nonvoters make if they started participating in elections? According to a new report commissioned by the Poor People's Campaign, it could be massive and warrants the deployment of significant 2020 campaign resources.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/tapping-the-enormous-electoral-potential-of-low-income-voters/

S. Korea offers medical equipment for clearing debt to Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — Hossein Tanhayi, head of the Iran-South Korea chamber of commerce said on Sunday that South Korea has made an offer to clear part of its $7.5-billion debt to Iran via selling medical equipment to the country.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162631/S-Korea-offers-medical-equipment-for-clearing-debt-to-Iran

Iran registers 2,113 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 2,113 people and claimed 141 lives in Iran in the past 24 hours, a senior health official said.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162639/Iran-registers-2-113-COVID-19-cases-in-24-hours

US resort to snapback is out of 'frustration': ex-diplomat
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — A former Iranian diplomat notes that the US resort to JCPOA provisions is due to their frustration and doomed to failure.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162646/US-resort-to-snapback-is-out-of-frustration-ex-diplomat

Tehran not allow others to manage IAEA-Iran relationship
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Kazem Gharibabadi said that Tehran will not allow other countries to manage the IAEA-Iran relationship.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162633/Tehran-not-allow-others-to-manage-IAEA-Iran-relationship

Natanz nuclear facility incident, act of sabotage: AEOI spox
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — Spokesman of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Sunday that last month's incident at Natanz nuclear enrichment facility was an act of sabotage.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162660/Natanz-nuclear-facility-incident-act-of-sabotage-AEOI-spox

Memorial ceremony of Ayatollah Taskhiri held in London
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — The memorial ceremony of the Late Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri, a member of Iran's Expediency Council and the senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, was held at the Islamic Center of England.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/162626/Memorial-ceremony-of-Ayatollah-Taskhiri-held-in-London

Iran defense industry progresses at IntI. level : MP
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — A lawmaker said with the efforts of Iranian elites the Defense Ministry has gone through reverse engineering of military equipment and today Iran is among the top 10 countries in the world regarding the defense industry.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162653/Iran-defense-industry-progresses-at-IntI-level-MP

Police seize over 570 kg of narcotics in SE Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — The police force of Iran's Sistan and Baluchestan province have seized over 570 kg of illicit drugs in Sarbaz County.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162657/Police-seize-over-570-kg-of-narcotics-in-SE-Iran

Promoting economic resilience axis of all gov't efforts
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that promoting economic resilience and implementing resistive economy policies have been the axis of all activities and efforts of the government.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162637/Promoting-economic-resilience-axis-of-all-gov-t-efforts

'The Ocean Behind the Window' to vie at ZLIN FilmFest
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — Iranian film 'The Ocean Behind the Window' directed by Babak Nabizadeh will take part at the 60th International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlin, Czech Republic.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162644/The-Ocean-Behind-the-Window-to-vie-at-ZLIN-FilmFest

Iran is Russia's strategic partner: Russian Defense Min
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — The Russian Defense Min. Sergey Shoygu referred to the join strategical, regional and international goals and interests between Tehran and Moscow, underlining the developing mutual defense cooperation between the two sides.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162636/Iran-is-Russia-s-strategic-partner-Russian-Defense-Min

1st Iranian marine, aircraft lubricant oil unveiled
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — Iran's Pars Oil company unveiled the first domestically-produced oil-based lubricant to be used in the Iranian maritime and aviation industry.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162647/1st-Iranian-marine-aircraft-lubricant-oil-unveiled

Anger of Islamic Ummah to engulf UAE rulers: Iranian Parl
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 23 (MNA) — Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission in a statement on Sun. reiterated that anger of Islamic Ummah will engulf rulers of the United Arab Emirates for normalizing ties with the Israeli regime.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162656/Anger-of-Islamic-Ummah-to-engulf-UAE-rulers-Iranian-Parl

$82mn of carpets, kilims & gabbehs exported to 57 countries
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-23
TEHRAN, Aug. 24 (MNA) — Iran exported $82.57 million of carpets, kilims, and gabbehs to 57 countries in the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year to July 21), the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration announced.
en.mehrnews.com/news/162643/82mn-of-carpets-kilims-gabbehs-exported-to-57-countries

Monday 8/24: Call to Action: Demand McConnell & Senate Return to Pass COVID Relief, Fund USPS, Voting!
Poor People's Campaign | indybay.org | 2020-08-23
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/22/18836056.php

March for the Dead, Fight for the Living at the Golden Gate
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-08-23
Police prevent peaceful march at Golden Gate Bridge…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/22/18836034.php

Tuesday 8/25: Bayview Hunters Point A25 "We Can't Breathe" Protest Caravan
Greenaction for Environmental Justice | indybay.org | 2020-08-23
MLK Park in the Bayview District of San Francisco @ 3rd St. and Carroll Ave. We'll caravan to the corrupt Lennar development company "Welcome Center" at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, and from there to City Hall.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/21/18836027.php

DNC Featured Native Speakers But Their Issues Remain Under-addressed
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-23
The various caucus meeting speakers repeatedly stated that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be good for Indian Country. Some Native people are skeptical, though. Harris has a record of going against the sovereign interests of California tribal nations. Many Native people haven't forgotten the broken promises made by the Obama-Biden administration. Not only did the administration advance the Keystone XL Pipeline, but it also sat silently for months as Native people, accomplices and media were arrested, brutalized, and physically and sexually assaulted while trying to defeat the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
popularresistance.org/dnc-native-speakers-but-their-issues-remain-under-addressed/

New FOIA Docs Expose Conditions In Private Immigration Prison
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-23
New documents shed light on what activists are calling "a dark pattern of abuse" at a privately-run, for-profit prison in Virginia used by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Obtained by the civil rights group the Advancement Project under the Freedom of Information Act, the documents describe a long pattern of abuse, neglect and mismanagement of detainees at Immigration Centers of America (ICA) Farmville — a facility where almost everyone has coronavirus. | In 2015, for instance, one detainee was pepper sprayed in the face while in full restraints.
popularresistance.org/new-foia-docs-expose-conditions-in-private-immigration-prison/

Catapulting Russian-Meddling Propaganda
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-23
The fresh orgy of anti-Russian invective in the lickspittle media (LSM) has the feel of fin de siècle. The last four reality-impaired years do seem as though they add up to a century. And no definitive fin is in sight, as long as most people don't know what's going on. | The LSM should be confronted: "At long last have you left no sense of decency?" But who would hear the question — much less any answer? The corporate media have a lock on what Americans are permitted or not permitted to hear. Checking the truth, once routine in journalism, is a thing of the past.
popularresistance.org/catapulting-russian-meddling-propaganda/

Haudenosaunee Land Defenders Call For Peace And Safety
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-23
On August 20, the land defenders at 1492 Land Back Lane tweeted: "We call on our allies to continue to amplify our demand for peace and safety." | These Six Nations land defenders began a re-occupation of their territory on July 19 to uphold their right to free, prior and informed consent and in opposition to the construction of the McKenzie Meadows housing development on unceded lands near the city of Caledonia in the province of Ontario in central Canada. | The 1492 Land Back Lane tweet further notes: "We fear that instead of engaging with us in good faith, [settler politicians including Ontario Premier Doug Fo…
popularresistance.org/haudenosaunee-land-defenders-call-for-peace-and-safety/

Today Is Earth Overshoot Day, Here's What It Means
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-23
From today onwards, we have used every last bit of natural resources that Earth can provide within one calendar year and are now living on ecological credit. | This year, Earth Overshoot Day occurs on August 22. It marks the imaginary point when humanity's demand exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year. | The international research organization Global Footprint Network, which has been calculating this date since 1970, estimates 1.6 planets are required to support our population's way of life.
popularresistance.org/today-is-earth-overshoot-day-heres-what-it-means/

Biden campaign team assures everyone that he does not have Covid-19…but has also not been tested
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Joe Biden's Deputy Campaign Manager Kate Bedingfield left many scratching their heads after she insisted he does not have Covid-19, but has also not been tested — despite members of the press being required to. | "He has not had the virus," Bedingfield told ABC's George Stephanopolous on Sunday. "We have put in place really strict protocols as, I think, all of your journalists who attended our convention in Delaware this week saw." | Despite saying with certainty that the 77-year-old Biden does not have coronavirus, she said he has yet to be tested. Part of those "strict protocols" for the press though m…
rt.com/usa/498790-joe-biden-coronavirus-test/

Americans criticizing Biden may be 'unwittingly' spreading 'Kremlin disinformation', top Russiagate peddler warns
rt.com | 2020-08-23
US citizens may "unwittingly" become Russian agents and spread "disinformation" about Joe Biden, Senator Mark Warner has warned, urging the intelligence community to be more vocal and tell the public what to do. | According to the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, one should be particularly vigilant about the Russian trolls, lurking around the social media feeds, as Kremlin is allegedly once again seeking to prop up President Donald Trump and help him secure re-election in November. | Speaking to NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, the Senator warned that if one is not careful enough, he can…
rt.com/usa/498839-russiagate-disinformation-biden-warner/

Trump praises operation 'Warp Speed' as FDA issues emergency authorization for 'convalescent plasma' treatment for Covid-19
rt.com | 2020-08-23
The Food and Drug Administration has issued an emergency authorization for convalescent plasma as a 'promising' coronavirus treatment in the US, concluding that the known and potential benefits of the therapy "outweigh the risks." | "The FDA has made the independent determination that the treatment is safe and very effective," US President Donald Trump said at a press conference on Sunday, amid criticism that his administration 'forced' the approval of 'untested' treatment. | The plasma transfusion therapy has been around for decades and involves treating sufferers with a liquid made from the blood of people w…
rt.com/usa/498835-fda-convalescent-plasma-covid-trump/

WATCH: Lukashenko makes dramatic landing at Minsk residence carrying ASSAULT RIFLE & in tactical gear, as protesters line streets
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Just when you thought things in Belarus couldn't get anymore surreal, they did. As crowds of protestors gathered near his residence in Minsk on Sunday evening, a defiant Alexander Lukashenko landed by helicopter, ready for action. | The bizarre footage, posted by a Telegram channel close to Lukashenko's press service, shows the President dressed in a tactical vest and carrying an AK assault rifle. It appears that Lukashenko – in power for 26 years – is channelling Salvador Allende, the former Chilean President deposed in a 1973 CIA-backed coup. | In one video, Lukashenko is seen flying over Minsk while speakin…
rt.com/russia/498791-belarus-lukashenko-assault-rifle/

WATCH heroic Indian doctor rescue Covid-19 patient who attempted to jump FOUR FLOORS down from hospital building
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Video shows an Indian doctor in full protective gear risking his own life as he climbed out of the window to save a distraught Covid-19 patient who wanted to jump to their near-certain death after escaping from the hospital. | The incident took place at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College Hospital in the central city of Jabalpur. According to the hospital's social media account, a Covid-19 patient had crawled out of the fourth-floor window and "tried to jump." | Police were quickly called in, and people brought out a cloth with which to try and catch the man. However, after a conversation with doct…
rt.com/news/498775-india-doctor-saves-patient/

13 die in stampede at Peru nightclub after police take action to enforce Covid-19 party ban
rt.com | 2020-08-23
A police crackdown at a nightclub in Lima turned horribly wrong after partygoers rushed to escape and got trapped in a deadly stampede. The tragedy has claimed 13 lives and left six others injured. | The police raid at the Thomas Restobar nightclub in Peru's capital Lima was launched to enforce a freshly reimposed ban on weekend night entertainment, which was meant to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country. Law enforcement were alerted by residents of Los Olivos district in northern Lima that a party was planned at the club in defiance of the lockdown, with some 120 people in attendance, the Interior Minis…
rt.com/news/498771-peru-stampede-nightclub-covid/

WATCH 'Give 'Em Hell' protesters smash windows & set fires across Denver, try to breach Colorado State Capitol fence
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Dozens of anti-police protesters have been swarming around downtown Denver, Colorado, setting fires and smashing windows, with authorities seemingly struggling to contain the hit-and-run violence. | Police officers in riot gear were seen guarding the Denver Police Department on Saturday night, but elsewhere across downtown Denver, local reporters described "ugly scenes" of arson and vandalism. | Agitators are now trying to rip down a fence surrounding the state Capitol building @KDVR pic.twitter.com/XbHlOkes0q[mdas…
rt.com/usa/498757-denver-protest-peacefulness-intensifies/

Louisiana cops shoot & kill black man as he 'walks away', tries to enter gas station 'armed with a knife' (DISTURBING VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Police officers in Lafayette, Louisiana have shot and killed a man who resisted arrest and tried to walk into a gas station store "armed with a knife," triggering a new wave of outrage over police brutality and "systemic racism." | Lafayette Police Department officers responded to a disturbance call, involving a man with a knife at a Shell gas station around 8pm Friday. When they tried to apprehend the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Trayford Pellerin, he allegedly ignored repeated orders to surrender as well as several taser shots fired at him. | Several cops surrounded a Black man and fatally shot him 10+…
rt.com/usa/498754-lafayette-police-shoot-black-man/

Trump says federal agents will 'solve problem fast' if mayors of Dem-run cities ask for help with 'antigovernment' riots
rt.com | 2020-08-23
President Donald Trump has offered federal assistance to the mayors of cities dealing with violent "antigovernment" protests, saying he can "solve [the] problem fast" if they can't properly police their own communities. | "These riots are an antigovernment movement from the Left that are all in Democrat run cities," the president tweeted on Sunday. "The mayors have got to let their police do what they know how to do. Would be very easy to suppress or, call in the Federal Government. We will solve problem fast!" | These riots are an antigovernment movement from the Left that are all in Democrat run cities. The…
rt.com/usa/498787-trump-blm-federal-government-tweet/

Moscow protest leader Navalny made 'guest of Merkel' in Berlin, transported to hospital by military – German media report
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Prominent Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexey Navalny was officially made "the guest of the chancellor" when he was airlifted to Berlin for medical treatment and transported in a military ambulance truck. | The motorcade carrying Navalny, whom Bild newspaper described as "the patient the world is watching," included several emergency vehicles, police buses and patrol cars. | The activist, who remained in a medically induced coma during the journey, was transported to Berlin's renowned Charite hospital inside a Bundeswehr intensive care ambulance truck. The vehicle had military markings and a special lice…
rt.com/russia/498769-navalny-arrival-germany-details/

Huge crowds gather on streets of Minsk as Belarus opposition keeps up pressure on Lukashenko to leave office (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-23
A huge demonstration is underway in Minsk, marking the third week of anti-government rallies. Protestors are demanding the resignation of Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko, saying his re-election was rigged. | Sources on the ground say the crowd numbers in the tens of thousands, with the opposition estimating there are over 100,000 participants. Protesters gathered earlier in the city's Independence Square for a minutes silence in memory of those killed during clashes with law enforcement agencies during earlier rallies. | pic.twitter.com/y2ekqeHNpG– &ndash…
rt.com/russia/498779-belarus-protests-continue/

Israeli police officer caught violently punching protesters in 'self-defense', Interior Ministry launches investigation (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-08-23
A senior Israeli police officer is in hot water after he was filmed violently punching people during mass protests in Jerusalem. The officer, however, claims he was defending himself from rowdy protesters. | The Justice Ministry launched an investigation into the conduct of Jerusalem District Police Chief Superintendent Nisso Guetta on Sunday. | The high-ranking officer was filmed overnight punching and throwing protesters to the ground during a demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | ◊&iuml…
rt.com/news/498780-israel-police-officer-violence/

Shock & dismay in UK as BBC considers excluding patriotic hits from Proms 'over BLM protests'
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Conservative Britons were shocked to learn that patriotic anthems Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory, which are traditionally performed on the last night of BBC Proms concert season, may be axed from this year's program. | The Proms are among the oldest yearly performances of classical music in the UK, culminating with the Last Night, a concert leaning towards popular numbers. An unwavering feature of this part are the British national anthem and other patriotic songs. | But this year the patriotic mood of the Last Night of the…
rt.com/uk/498782-bbc-proms-rule-britannia/

Russian FM Lavrov says some Belarus opposition figures seek 'bloodshed,' want to turn country into second Ukraine
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Some within the Belarusian opposition want to see "bloodshed" in the country, Sergey Lavrov has claimed, adding that exiled candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya appears to be appealing more to a Western audience than a domestic one. | Speaking at an educational youth forum on Sunday, the Russian Foreign Minister touched upon the ongoing unrest in neighboring Belarus. The country is enduring a wave of mass protests triggered by contested elections. | "The Belarusian people will decide for themselves how to get out of this situation," Lavrov said, adding that there are "clear signs" that the situation there is "stab…
rt.com/russia/498784-lavrov-belarus-bloodshed-opposition/

CNN's Stelter says network will do live 'fact-checks' of Republican convention, gets blasted for not doing same with Democrats
rt.com | 2020-08-23
The news channel's media critic Brian Stelter says CNN will have live "fact-checks" for the RNC, leaving many to wonder where those fact-checks were during the respective Democratic event. | Warning about a possible "stream of disinformation" at the RNC, scheduled to take place from August 24 through August 27, Stelter promised CNN will "fact-check" and "cut away" from the event as needed. | He also blasted rival Fox News network for their coverage of the Democratic National Convention and their conservative bias. | "There is an asymmetry in our media…where Fox is off there on the right in ways that other ne…
rt.com/usa/498821-cnn-stelter-fact-check-rnc/

Anything goes to spite GOP? Popular British historian draws fire by cheering on hurricanes about to batter 'Trump voting states'
rt.com | 2020-08-23
Two potentially devastating hurricanes hitting the United States may actually be a good thing, since they would disrupt next week's Republican convention and stick it to Donald Trump, British historian Dan Snow said. | Tropical Storms Laura and Marco are moving through the Gulf of Mexico towards Texas and Louisiana and are projected to make landfall on Monday and Tuesday, less than 24 hours apart. One might think the destruction and loss of life they could cause is bad news, but not so for Dan Snow, a popular British media personality famous for his historical films. | Snow managed to find dark irony in the po…
rt.com/usa/498770-two-hurricanes-trump-convention/

What Underlies Joe Biden's Promise of New –°OVID-19 Lockdown?
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-23
President Donald Trump has sought to free the US from pandemic-caused lockdowns, however concerns have mounted that employees could be sent back home again amid a spike of infections over the summer.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202008231080255440-what-underlies-joe-bidens-promise-of-new-sovid-19-lockdown/

'Absolutely': Biden Says He Could Serve Two Terms Amid Trump's Jabs Over His Mental Fitness
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-23
The president and members of his campaign have repeatedly asked whether the Democratic nominee for president is fit to serve, pointing to alleged signs of mental decline and his refusal to take a cognitive test.
sputniknews.com/us/202008231080255517-absolutely-biden-says-he-could-serve-two-terms-amid-trumps-jabs-over-mental-fitness/

UK Care Homes Were 'Pressed' to Take In COVID-19, Untested Patients During Flare-up, Study Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-23
A fresh study by the Queen's Nursing Institute, one of the oldest British social care charities, has cited a number of insiders sharing the nitty-gritty details of the nation's battle with the coronavirus, as well as updated figures on the heavy toll it has had on the NHS.
sputniknews.com/uk/202008231080254695-uk-care-homes-were-pressed-to-take-in-covid-19-untested-patients-during-flare-up-study-says/

Israel on the Brink of Unprecedented Fourth Consecutive Elections as Cabinet Meeting Canceled
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-23
The current Likud/Blue and White unity government was created in May after three elections between April 2019 and March 2020 failed to allow either major party or its allies to form a majority. In June, the coalition's members got into a battle over the budget amid the coronavirus emergency, with neither side wanting to back down.
sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008231080254794-israel-on-the-brink-of-unprecedented-fourth-consecutive-elections-as-cabinet-meeting-canceled/

Trump's Chief of Staff Says President Wants FDA to 'Feel the Heat' to Quicken Vaccine Development
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-23
The US Food and Drug Administration, the government body responsible for the control and regulation of pharmaceutical drugs and medicine, is currently undergoing clinical trials for a potential vaccine for the coronavirus.
sputniknews.com/us/202008231080256642-trumps-chief-of-staff-says-president-wants-fda-to-feel-the-heat-to-quicken-vaccine-development/

'Rule Britannia' and Other Patriotic Songs Could be Dropped from Proms Over BLM Protests, Media Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-23
Patriotic songs are a favourite on Last Night of the Proms, which is organised and broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). However, this staple of classical music culture in the UK may soon see some of the nation's favourites removed from the line-up.
sputniknews.com/uk/202008231080254028-rule-britannia-and-other-patriotic-songs-could-be-dropped-from-proms-over-blm-protests-media-says/

Iran's Zarif Posts Clip of Trump, Pompeo Explaining Why US Can't Trigger UN 'Snapback Sanctions'
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-23
On Thursday, 13 of the United Nations Security Council 15 members expressed opposition to a US push to trigger the so-called snapback sanctions provision to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, pointing out that Washington is no longer a party to the agreement.
sputniknews.com/world/202008231080255182-irans-zarif-posts-clip-of-trump-pompeo-explaining-why-us-cant-trigger-snapback-sanctions/

Leaked dossier reveals chaotic worst-case scenario if no-deal Brexit and coronavirus coincide
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-23
The military may be drafted in to airdrop food to the Channel Islands under emergency plans drawn up by the government to protect the UK if a second coronavirus wave coincides with a no-deal Brexit. | A Cabinet Office "reasonable worst-case scenario" document, leaked to the Sun newspaper, also discusses using the Navy to stop British fishermen clashing with illegal European fishing boat incursions. | No-deal chaos: | The document says parts of the UK may face power and petrol shortages if thousands of lorries are stranded in Dover. Meanwhile, shortages of medicines caused by port blockages could lead to a…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/23/leaked-dossier-reveals-chaotic-worst-case-scenario-if-no-deal-brexit-and-coronavirus-coincide/

Trump plans to veto House-approved bill to protect US Postal Service amid election row
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-23
Legislation that would reverse recent changes in US Postal Service operations has been approved by the House of Representatives in a rare Saturday session. The legislation would also send 25bn USD (£19bn) to shore up the agency ahead of the November election.Speaker Nancy Pelosi recalled lawmakers to Washington over objections from Republicans dismissing the action as a stunt."It is all designed to suppress the vote": President Donald Trump urged a no vote, including in a tweet on Saturday 22 August, railing against mail-in ballots expected to surge in the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. He has said h…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/08/23/trump-plans-to-veto-house-approved-bill-to-protect-us-postal-service-amid-election-row/

Care homes were bullied into accepting coronavirus patients, research reveals
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-23
Care homes were pressured into accepting patients with coronavirus (Covid-19) while simultaneously being refused treatment for residents by hospitals and GPs, research has revealed. | A report by the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) found homes were told that hospitals had a blanket "no admissions" policy at the height of the pandemic. | The QNI, a charity which focuses on the improvement of nursing care of people in their own home, found care home residents were regularly refused treatment in April and May. | Published by the Independent, the research also found that GPs and local managers in some homes had place…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/08/23/care-homes-were-bullied-into-accepting-coronavirus-patients-research-reveals/

New Tennessee Law Will Disenfranchise Protesters Who Camp on State Property
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-23
Tennessee protesters will face harsh penalties, including losing the right to vote, as punishment for participating in protests under a law enacted by the Tennessee GOP-dominant General Assembly. Right-wing Governor Bill Lee quietly signed off on the bill Thursday, AP reports. | Under the new law, demonstrators who camp on state property can now be charged with a Class E felony, punishable by up to six…
truthout.org/articles/new-tennessee-law-will-disenfranchise-protesters-who-camp-on-state-property/

Reforms Are Won When Social Movements Inflict Real Costs on the Economic Elite
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-23
There's a tendency in U.S. progressive politics to focus on rehabilitating capitalism for working people. Elizabeth Warren's campaign for president had the patina of an "anti-corruption" crusade, giving a populist spin to technocratic fixes that would update the embedded liberalism of…
truthout.org/articles/reforms-are-won-when-social-movements-inflict-real-costs-on-the-economic-elite/

Trump Administration Erases LGBTQ People From Major Foreign Aid Policy
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-23
The draft policy released by the U.S. Agency for International Development on Wednesday was billed as an update and replacement to the original 2012 policy, released under the Obama administration. Though written subtly, the agency's gender policy…
truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-erases-lgbtq-people-from-major-foreign-aid-policy/

Erasure of Black History in Favor of White Narratives Isn't Limited to the US
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-08-23
In the midst of violent polarization in the political landscape of the United States, one fact many people can agree on is that monuments are a part of history. Tearing down white bronze casts of dead white men will not erase enslavement and war in the past. But it can be a step towards making room for the stories these men fought to erase — not only in the U.S.
truthout.org/articles/erasure-of-black-history-in-favor-of-white-narratives-isnt-limited-to-the-us/

Lebanon's challenge: Prioritize reforms or keep peace
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-23
More than two weeks after devastating explosion here, the situation in the Lebanese capital remains critical, with a pervasive culture of negligence, corruption and complacency by rulers becoming more visible.The destruction of the Port of Beirut on Aug. 4 left more than 170 dead, greater than 6,000 injured and 300,000, or 5% of residents homeless.Once considered the Paris of the Middle East, Beirut now looks like a scene from a horror movie, with collapsed buildings, unsurpassable roads and broken glasses scattered everywhere.The damage caused is estimated at more than $7 billion, equivalent to 14% of the countr…
yenisafak.com/en/world/lebanons-challenge-prioritize-reforms-or-keep-peace-3537443

Indonesia reports 2,037 new coronavirus cases
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-23
Indonesia reported 2,037 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, bringing its total tally to 153,535, data from the country's COVID-19 taskforce showed.The Southeast Asian country also added 86 new deaths on Sunday, taking the total number to 6,680, the highest COVID-19 death toll in Southeast Asia.
yenisafak.com/en/world/indonesia-reports-2037-new-coronavirus-cases-3537436

Russia plans COVID-19 vaccine output at 6 mln doses a month
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-23
Russia expects to produce between 1.5 million and 2 million doses per month of its potential COVID-19 vaccine by the year end, gradually ramping up production to 6 million doses a month, the RIA news agency cited industry minister Denis Manturov as saying on Sunday.Large-scale testing of the vaccine, developed by Moscow's Gamaleya institute, is due to start in Russia next week.
yenisafak.com/en/world/russia-plans-covid-19-vaccine-output-at-6-mln-doses-a-month-3537444

Saudi-led coalition intercepts rebel drone from Yemen
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-23
The Saudi-led coalition said on Sunday it had intercepted an explosives-laden drone fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels towards Saudi Arabia.Coalition spokesman Col. Turki al-Maliki said the drone was shot down over Yemen, without giving any further details, according to the Saudi SPA news agency.On Saturday, the coalition said it had destroyed a bomb-laden drone ballistic missile fired by Houthi rebels towards the kingdom.Meanwhile, the Houthi group accused the Saudi-led coalition of dropping cluster bombs over the Bajil district in the western al-Hudaydah province.The news was carried by the Houthi-run Al-Masira tel…
yenisafak.com/en/world/saudi-led-coalition-intercepts-rebel-drone-from-yemen-3537446

Christchurch attacker set to be sentenced
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-23
The sentencing of the terrorist responsible for Christchurch mosque attacks, New Zealand's deadliest shooting, will be…
yenisafak.com/en/world/christchurch-attacker-set-to-be-sentenced-3537447

Erdogan offers condolences to families of Turkey after deadly floods
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-23
The Turkish president offered condolences to families of those who lost their lives in floods in the country's northeast.Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued directives to mobilize all means to heal the wounds of affected people and to take necessary steps to prevent such incidents from happening again, the Turkish Communications Directorate said in a statement.Erdogan also received information about the latest developments in the region and the status of search and rescue operation from Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu and Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli, who arrived at the scene.The death toll from fl…
yenisafak.com/en/world/erdogan-offers-condolences-to-families-of-turkey-after-deadly-floods-3537442

From Lockdown to Police State: The "Great Reset" Rolls Out
Ellen Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-23
Mayhem in Melbourne | On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: "People are entitled to think there is an 'agenda to destroy western …
globalresearch.ca/lockdown-police-state-great-reset-rolls-out/5721845

From Lockdown to Police State: The "Great Reset" Rolls Out
Ellen Brown | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-23
Mayhem in Melbourne On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News: "People are entitled to think there is an 'agenda to destroy western society.'" The gist of an August 13th article on the Melbourne lockdown is captured in the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/from-lockdown-to-police-state-the-great-reset-rolls-out/

Two Cheers for Biden/Harris
Robert Freeman | commondreams.org | 2020-08-23
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris may defeat Trump and that, in itself, will be a goodness, indeed, an existential imperative. But they will not defeat Trumpism. That task will be left to less conventional but more courageous, and imaginative leaders still yet to come. Harris and Biden at the end of the third day of the Democratic National Convention at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware on August 19, 2020. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/biden-harris-9…
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Stop Adding (Fossil) Fuels to the Fire
Jamie Henn | commondreams.org | 2020-08-23
Fire season isn't new to the West, but it's getting worse. And scientists are clearly pointing the finger at climate change and our ongoing use of fossil fuels. (Photo: Pixabay/CC) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/wildfire-california.jpeg …
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Massive Crowd in Minsk Tells Belarus Dictator: Resign Now!
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2020-08-23
Hundreds of thousands flood the streets of Minsk, Belarus Sunday to demand the resignation of president Lukashenka for stealing last week's election. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/minsk-08232020-955px.jpg …
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Colleges are Still in Uncharted Territority
Jill Richardson | commondreams.org | 2020-08-23
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Trump 2020: 'Get Your Guns, The Blacks Are Coming'
Max Elbaum | commondreams.org | 2020-08-23
Mark and Patricia McCloskey drawing their firearms on the crowd marching toward St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson's house Sunday, June 28, 2020, in the Central West End of St. Louis. (DANIEL SHULAR/via REUTERS, File) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/mark-and-patricia-mccloskey.jpg …
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After two years of school strikes, the world is still in a state of climate crisis denial
Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Anuna De Wever and AdélaàØde Charlier | zcomm.org | 2020-08-22
We can have as many meetings as we like, but the will to change is nowhere in sight. Society must start treating this as a crisis…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/after-two-years-of-school-strikes-the-world-is-still-in-a-state-of-climate-crisis-denial/

Kamala Harris, 'pranked' by Russian comedians posing as Greta Thunberg, 'accepts' hoax kompromat on Trump
rt.com | 2020-08-22
It seems pranksters Vovan and Lexus have successfully duped another politician, with audio suggesting Democrat VP nominee Kamala Harris was eager to accept a fake recording of Donald Trump, believing the caller was Greta Thunberg. | Vovan and Lexus, whose real names are Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, posed as the teenage climate activist and her father Svante to make a phone call in January to Harris, just months before she became Joe Biden's running mate. | "Congratulations on all your leadership. I'm so inspired by your courage and your voice," Sen. Harris (D-California) tells the pranksters, in th…
rt.com/news/498748-kamala-harris-greta-thunberg-prank-call/

On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-22
I personally find the idea of fighting with indie media in a world that is dominated by murderous globe-spanning power structures absurd, so I won't make this about them, but since their attacks are getting more heated now I'm going to try to spell out my own position on the matter here as clearly as possible. I don't expect this essay to have any effect on this online mobbing behavior's primary drivers, who appear to operating in bad faith; this is more for my longtime readers who've been expressing bafflement that I haven't made Covid-related abuses a primary focus of my writing. | To sum up the gist of my posi…

On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses

On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-22
Over the last few months there's been a clique of indie media who've been urging their respective followings to bully and cajole other indie media into focusing on Covid-19, lockdowns, mask laws and Covid-related authoritarian agendas in their coverage of world events. | I personally find the idea of fighting with indie media in a world that is dominated by murderous globe-spanning power structures absurd, so I won't make this about them, but since their attacks are getting more heated now I'm going to try to spell out my own position on the matter here as clearly as possible. I don't expect this essay to have an…

On Covid-19 And Authoritarian Abuses

Crushing US sanctions devastate Syria's people and post-war reconstruction
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-08-22
Leading Syria scholar Joshua Landis on how crippling US sanctions are devastating Syria's people and hindering post-war reconstruction. In a new article for Foreign Affairs, scholar Joshua Landis and former Obama administration official Steve Simon write that US sanctions on Syria "further immiserates the Syrian people, blocks reconstruction efforts, and strangles the economy that sustains …
thegrayzone.com/2020/08/21/crushing-us-sanctions-devastate-syrias-people-and-post-war-reconstruction/

Global Capitalism, "World Government" and the Corona Crisis
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-22
The COVID-19 crisis is marked by a public health "emergency" under WHO auspices which is being used as a pretext and a justification to triggering a Worldwide process of economic, social and political restructuring.
globalresearch.ca/global-capitalism-world-government-and-the-corona-crisis/5712312

Does the Face Mask Protect You From Covid? Ask Dr. Anthony Fauci. When He Spoke against the Mask, It Was Categorized as "Fake News"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-22
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) described as one of the world's leading experts on infectious diseases was until recently categorically against wearing the face mask. | He offered advice and provided specific …
globalresearch.ca/does-the-face-mask-protect-you-from-covid-ask-dr-anthony-fauci-when-he-spoke-against-the-mask-it-was-categorized-as-fake-news/5721808

New York lawmakers denounce DSA as antisemitic after group challenges junkets to Israel
Michael Arria | mronline.org | 2020-08-22
At the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) convention in 2017, the group endorsed the BDS movement by an overwhelming majority. That resolution asserted that "socialists have a responsibility to side with the oppressed and are committed to their unconditional liberation."
mronline.org/2020/08/22/new-york-lawmakers-denounce-dsa-as-antisemitic-after-group-challenges-junkets-to-israel/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-york-lawmakers-denounce-dsa-as-antisemitic-after-group-challenges-junkets-to-israel

UK Muslim Charity Board to Resign as Director Calls Designated Terrorists 'Great Men', Media Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-22
The organisation bills itself as an international aid agency that provides humanitarian relief to over 40 countries in the world irrespective of gender, race, or religious belief. Former Foreign Secretary David Miliband once described the organisation as representing "the values that bind Britain together as a liberal democracy."
sputniknews.com/uk/202008221080248639-Board-UK-Muslim-Charity-to-Resign-After-Director-Praises-Terrorists-on-Facebook-Report-Says/

Venezuela Receives Humanitarian Aid To Fight Covid-19
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
Venezuela's Vice Minister for Europe Yvan Gil Saturday announced the arrival of a 73 tons' Humanitarian aid bound from Spain and Portugal, in order to face COVID-19 in the country. | RELATED: | Guaido Taps Frozen Venezuelan Assets To Fund Opposition Plans | "This shipment is a contribution made by the European Union (EU) and the governments of Spain and Portugal to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. We are talking about 73 tons of medical supplies," Gil said. | Gil pointed out…
telesurenglish.net/news/venezuela-receives-humanitarian-aid-to-fight-covid-19-20200822-0010.html

Brazil Calls for COVID-19 Plan to Protect Indigenous People
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Judge Luis Roberto Barroso Friday ordered President Jair Bolsonaro's administration to present a new version of the plan to halt the COVID-19 in the Indigenous communities. | RELATED: | Brazil: Health Workers Protest Against Bolsonaro | The original plan was requested last July, following a request from the Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) and several political parties. | The new order requires the document to be reworked and sub…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-calls-for-covid19-plan-to-protect-indigenous-people-20200822-0006.html

Three Massacres in Colombia in 24 Hours
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
The government of Colombia's Nariño department has confirmed a new massacre in the area of La Guayacana, a rural area of the municipality of Tumaco. | RELATED: | New Massacre Leaves Six People Dead in Cauca Valley | There, six young people were murdered and two more are missing, according to preliminary information. | It's not yet known who was behind this latest massacre. | The incident occurred just hours after President Ivan Duque traveled to Samaniego, where last weekend eight people, b…
telesurenglish.net/news/three-massacres-in-colombia-in-24-hours-20200822-0005.html

Colombia: New Massacre Leaves Six People Dead in Cauca Valley
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
The Ombudsman's office of Cauca Friday denounced a new massacre in that Colombian department in which six people were killed by armed groups. | RELATED: | Colombia: Protests Against Duque's Attack on Workers' Rights | "The massacre took place in the Uribe village. We are waiting for a Colombian Army's delegation to arrive in the area," Mayor Carlos Vela said. | The six people were taken by an illegal armed group. Afterward, they were found dead between the Uribe and Ortega Llanos se…
telesurenglish.net/news/colombia-six-people-dead-in-new-massacre-in-cauca-20200822-0001.html

Vandals scribble Holocaust-denying graffiti on WWII monument to French village massacred & torched by Nazis (PHOTO)
rt.com | 2020-08-22
Unknown vandals have defaced a memorial wall in French village of Oradour-Sur-Glane, that saw the country's largest massacre of civilians by the Nazis during World War II. French authorities vowed to bring the vandals to justice. | The offensive graffiti was discovered on the memorial wall at the entrance to the Center for Remembrance late on Friday. | The vandals crossed out the inscription 'Martyr Village', spraying 'Liar Village' instead. The graffiti also reads "Reynouard is right", in an apparent tribute to Vincent Reynouard, a prominent French revisionist, Holocaust denier and neo-Nazism proponent, repea…
rt.com/news/498730-france-martyr-village-vandals/

Greece denying pushbacks despite evidence: Rights group
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-22
In a recent interview with CNN, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis denied the accusations, saying: "They are an insult to the Greek Coast Guard that has saved tens of thousands of migrants and refugees."However, evidence and reports describing the abuses are too many to be ignored, Eva Cosse, a researcher at Human Rights Watch, said in a report.Cosse, after interviewing victims and witnesses, said that Greek authorities have been seen forcibly pushing back migrants and asylum seekers from Rhodes, Samos, and Symi islands in small inflatable boats.A victim from Syria, who used the pseudonym of Marwan, describ…
yenisafak.com/en/news/greece-denying-pushbacks-despite-evidence-rights-group-3537402

Global campaign frees Mahmoud Nawajaa
Kathy Durkin | workers.org | 2020-08-22
Mahmoud Nawajaa is free! An international campaign pressured Israel to release the general coordinator of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement from detention. Armed Israeli forces charged into Nawajaa's home near Ramallah in occupied Palestine on July 30 and brutally seized him. He was illegally held without charges until . . . | Continue reading Global campaign frees Mahmoud Nawajaa at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/08/50748/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=global-campaign-frees-mahmoud-nawajaa

Palestine, Azerbaijan hail Turkey's natural gas find
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-22
Palestine and Azerbaijan congratulated Turkey on Saturday for the discovery of major natural gas reserves in the Black Sea.Palestine's President Mahmoud Abbas congratulated Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a phone call, Turkey's Communications Directorate said in a statement.He hailed Turkey's success as Palestine's success, while Erdogan reiterated Ankara's support for the Palestinian cause.The two leaders also discussed bilateral ties and regional developments, the statement said.Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov phoned his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu to congratulate him on the sig…
yenisafak.com/en/news/palestine-azerbaijan-hail-turkeys-natural-gas-find-3537399

Democratic Convention: New Faces, Similar Policies but Sharp Contrast with Trumpism
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-08-22
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, his wife Dr. Jill Biden, Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff raise their arms on stage outside the Chase Center after Biden delivered his acceptance speech on the fourth night of the Democratic National Convention from the Chase Center on August 20, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/dncc-nader-955px.jpg …
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Lukashenko calls Belarus protests 'Color Revolution,' accuses foreign countries of meddling
rt.com | 2020-08-22
President Alexander Lukashenko has likened recent events in Belarus to color revolutions, saying protesters are trying to follow a similar, foreign-backed template to overthrow the government. | "Everything is clear. As we expected, everything is following the plan of color revolutions by whipping up domestic political tensions in the country," Lukashenko said. | The embattled leader, who has headed Belarus for 26 years, also accused foreign countries of interfering with its internal affairs and of seeking "regime change." | 'Color Revolution' is a term used to describe anti-government movements throughout the…
rt.com/russia/498734-belarus-color-revolution-foreign-meddling/

Californian court passes injunction on gig workers' law, after threats from Uber and Lyft
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-22
In a major setback to gig economy workers' struggle in the United States, an appellate court judge in California passed an injunction against an earlier court ruling on ride-sharing drivers, on Thursday, August 20. The injunction came within hours of ride-sharing corporations such as Uber and Lyft had threatened to suspend all operations in the state. Following the injunction they retracted their threats. | In April 2018, the state supreme court passed down a judgement that would have forced ride-sharing companies to reclassify their drivers, and others working in the gig economy as workers, instead of independen…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/22/californian-court-passes-injunction-on-gig-workers-law-after-threats-from-uber-and-lyft/

Tell the People That the Struggle Must Go On
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-08-22
You would think that amid a pandemic, when employment has collapsed and hunger has risen, social wealth would be diverted from the police to erase starvation, but that is not how the society of entrenched class hierarchy works…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/tell-the-people-that-the-struggle-must-go-on/

The verdict on Rafik Hariri's assassination
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-22
The UN-backed International Special Tribunal for Lebanon said it found no evidence of Hezbollah or Syria's involvement in the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri. However, this verdict may not mark the end of the issue…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/22/the-verdict-on-rafik-hariris-assassination/

2020 Election Is a Fight Against Trump, Authoritarianism, Greed, Oligarchy & Bigotry
Bernie Sanders | zcomm.org | 2020-08-22
In his speech to the Democratic National Convention, Sanders urged people to fight "against greed, oligarchy and bigotry" by voting President Trump out of office in November…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/2020-election-is-a-fight-against-trump-authoritarianism-greed-oligarchy-bigotry/

The Biden campaign and the attempt to "rescue" American hegemony
wsws.org | 2020-08-22
The factions of the state backing the Biden campaign have set out to "reclaim America's place in the world" by "getting tough" with Russia and China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/22/pers-a22.html

US Elections: Dissecting the Democrats in 2020
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-22
"There's a term: 'Good Cop. Bad Cop.' And Trump is the 'bad cop.' Biden is the 'good cop.'" | -Mark Robinowitz, from today's interview. | LISTEN TO THE SHOW | Click to download the audio (MP3 format) | The race that …
globalresearch.ca/dissecting-the-democrats-in-2020/5721801

US: Top Medical Association Prohibits Use of Hydroxychloroquine
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has revised its guidelines for the use of hydroxychloroquine advising hospitals to stop using the drug to treat COVID-19 patients. | RELATED: | Brazil Stores Millions of US Hydroxychloroquine Doses | On Friday, the IDSA updated its guidelines on COVID-19 patients, recommending not to use hydroxychloroquine in hospitals by itself or along with the antibiotic azithromycin. The IDSA had previously advised for a limited use of hydroxychloroqu…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-top-medical-association-prohibits-use-of-hydroxychloroquine–20200822-0008.html

Venezuela Receives 73 Tons of Supplies & Equipment from Europe
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
Seventy-three tons of donated supplies Saturday arrived in Caracas, Venezuela, from Europe to assist in the fight against COVID-19. | RELATED: | Another Brigade of Cuban Doctors Arrives in Venezuela | The shipment includes equipment and supplies such as medicine, vaccines, PPE, water purification equipment and family hygiene kits. | The two flights which came from Madrid, were received by Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister for Europe, Yvan Gil, in the company of Jan Harfst, representative…
telesurenglish.net/news/venezuela-receives-73-tons-of-supplies–equipment-from-europe-20200822-0009.html

China & the US: 21st Century's "Great Game"
Conn Hallinan | zcomm.org | 2020-08-22
The U.S. has dominated the Pacific Ocean–sometimes called an "American lake"–since the end of World War II. Suddenly Americans have a competitor, although it is a rivalry that routinely gets overblown.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/china-the-us-21st-centurys-great-game/

US Smears Those Questioning Latest Claims vs. China
Anthony Cartalucci | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-22
The Coda Story — a media front funded and created by and for the US government, its "Atlanticist" partners, and the corporate interests driving the vast majority of Western foreign policy — recently ran a smear against alternative media figures questioning the US-led "Uyghur-Xinjiang" narrative. | The smear is part of a wider campaign aimed at anyone questioning Washington's Uyghur-Xinjiang narrative and the US' attempt to use it to undermine China. | These smears follow a very specific playbook. Step one — deny there is a terrorism problem in Xinjiang, China. Step two — cite reports based ent…

US Smears Those Questioning Latest Claims vs. China

Fiat Chrysler, UAW conspire to keep workers on the job after exposure to coronavirus
wsws.org | 2020-08-22
In order to cut costs and boost profits, management and the UAW are seeking to eliminate the limited and inadequate safety protocols put in place in May.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/22/auto-a22.html

Educators Demand Virtual Schools as 'Least Bad' but Safe Option
Barbara Madeloni | zcomm.org | 2020-08-22
As the coronavirus continues to spread, teachers and school employees are being handed reopening plans that require them to be in their classrooms at the bell–and they are resisting.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/educators-demand-virtual-schools-as-least-bad-but-safe-option/

Coronavirus testing remains at reduced levels in the US
wsws.org | 2020-08-22
To fully map spread of the pandemic, and contain the disease, the US should be doing 6–10 million tests per day. It currently does about 700,000.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/22/test-a22.html

Cornell residential advisors hold one-day strike over coronavirus safety as school reopens
wsws.org | 2020-08-22
The strike action was spontaneously organized in response to the university's reckless reopening plans that left RAs with larger workloads than in pre-pandemic semesters.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/22/corn-a22.html

Over 800,000 People Have Died From COVID-19 in the World
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
Worldometers website Friday warned that the COVID-19 deaths worldwide Friday exceeded 800,000, while new infections reached 23 million. | RELATED: | Cuba: 20 Days Without Critically Ill Covid-19 Patients | "The COVID-19 has caused so far 803,374 deaths and 23,130,443 infections," the website assured. | The numbers of coronavirus infections and deaths "have been rising amidst a relaxation of measures to prevent the spread and rebound of the virus in Europe," Wordometers added. | The most…
telesurenglish.net/news/over-800000-people-have-died-in-the-world-from-covid19-20200822-0002.html

Jamaica's Election Campaigning Affected by COVID-19 Measures
teleSUR, ce | telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
With Jamaica's elections less than two weeks away, campaigning is looking a bit different under the current COVID-19 restrictions. | RELATED: | Jamaica to Lift States of Emergency Ahead of Elections | On Friday, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced that political motorcades have been prohibited in a bid to contain the spread of the coronavirus. | …
telesurenglish.net/news/jamaicas-election-campaigning-affected-by-covid-19-measures-20200822-0007.html

Nearly 300 workers infected in COVID-19 outbreak at Northampton sandwich factory
wsws.org | 2020-08-22
Northampton, already on a coronavirus watchlist, has the highest rate of new cases in England and could be subjected to a local lockdown.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/22/gren-a22.html

Cuba's vaccine candidate "Sovereign" is all set to enter clinical trials
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-22
Cuba's vaccine candidate is the first from the Latin America and the Caribbean region and marks a continuation of its pioneering work in combating COVID-19 across the world…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/22/cubas-vaccine-candidate-sovereign-is-all-set-to-enter-clinical-trials/

Call the Victory Women
Sophia Paslaski | zcomm.org | 2020-08-22
In a small city in northern New England, one local nonprofit mobilizes to meet the Covid-19 crisis in its New American community…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/call-the-victory-women/

Defeat COVID-19 and put an end to hate and discrimination: UN chief
news.un.org | 2020-08-22
In a message published on the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Violence Based on Religious Belief, which falls on 22 August, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned of a rise in racism since the spread of COVID-19 across the world.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/08/1070802

'A Vaccine Will Not End the Pandemic on Its Own' WHO Warns
telesurenglish.net | 2020-08-22
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Friday warned that a COVID-19 vaccine creation does not mean the pandemic will end on its own. | RELATED: | Russia to Start the Production of Its COVID-19 Vaccine in Cuba | "Although a vaccine will be a vital tool, we know little about the long-term effects it may have," Adhanom said. | Most countries that have reopened their economies are experiencing new outbreaks after a period of little or no transmission. "Thi…
telesurenglish.net/news/a-vaccine-will-not-end-the-pandemic-on-its-own-who-warns-20200822-0003.html