Melvin Goodman (2020-09-14). Living in the World of the Late John Frankenheimer. counterpunch.org The year 2020 is a time of high anxiety not unlike 1918 when the last year of the First World War One coincided with the first year of the Spanish Flu. Far more lives were lost in those calamities: 20 million in the case of the First World War; 50 to 100 million in the Spanish Flu. Nevertheless, the United States faced a free and fair election in 1920 that produced a new president from a different political party. The decade that followed was known as the "Roaring Twenties."

Caitlin Johnstone (2020-09-14). Let's Be Real: President Biden Would Probably Be More Hawkish Than Trump. thealtworld.com In a This is not a deviati…

Gareth Porter (2020-09-14). Dark web voter database report casts new doubts on Russian election hack narrative. thegrayzone.com A new report showing that US state-level voter databases were publicly available calls into question the narrative that Russian intelligence "targeted" US state election-related websites in 2016. A September 1 report in the Moscow daily Kommersant on a "dark web" site offering a database of personal information on millions of registered American voters undermines one of …

WSWS (2020-09-14). COVID-19 outbreak at Virginia migrant detention center caused by repression of anti-police brutality protesters. wsws.org The outbreak at the Farmville detention center demonstrates the capitalist class's disdain for democratic rights and the lives of the entire population.

Ralph Nader (2020-09-14). Trump's Broken Promises to His Voters — He Didn't Deliver! counterpunch.org Trump voters are not inclined to change their minds. Some of them are forever Republicans and will only vote the GOP ticket; they are called hereditary voters. Others can't stand the Democratic Party nominees, won't vote for the Libertarian ticket, and will only vote for Trump. Some love Trump because of his anti-immigrant stance, deregulation

Eds. (2020-09-14). The interconnectedness of everything-Capitalist contradictions and Marx's metabolic rift theory. mronline.org No person is an island. It takes a village. Circle of Life. We are stardust. Seven generations. These truisms reference connections between people and what we owe each other. Appealing to chaos theory, an action, no matter how small, dominoes around the world.

Eds. (2020-09-14). A victory for students and parents: SPLC, allies win case blocking DeVos from diverting COVID-19 relief funds away from public schools. mronline.org A federal court has sent a clear message to U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: You cannot use a national crisis as an excuse to advance your education privatization agenda by siphoning desperately needed COVID-19 relief money away from public schools.

Eds. (2020-09-14). Eyewitness testimony: Death of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl was targeted assassination. mronline.org An eyewitness has come forward to contradict official claims that Michael Reinoehl, a left-wing opponent of police violence who was killed in Lacey, Washington on September 3, died in a shootout with police.

Ben Terrall (2020-09-14). The Literary Scene in the Great Depression (and Today). counterpunch.org In The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great Depression and Today (OR Books, 2020), the journalist Jason Boog writes about the plight of writers in the United States since the stock market crash of 2008 and compares their challenges to those of poets, novelists, and journalists in the 1930s. When focusing on the

Eds. (2020-09-14). CBC owes the people of Palestine an apology. mronline.org Over 2,000 people have written to the CBC to condemn its deletion of the word "Palestine" and its subsequent apology for uttering it. Still, the broadcaster insists the word falls outside its standards.

Vijay Prashad (2020-09-14). Multinationals and Oil Companies Are Imposing Their Greed on the People of Mozambique. counterpunch.org Three years ago, on October 5, 2017, fighters with the Al Sunnah wa Jama'ah (ASWJ) entered the town of Mocímboa da Praia in northern Mozambique. They attacked three police stations, and then withdrew. Since then, this group—which has since proclaimed its allegiance to the Islamic State—has continued its battle, including capturing the port of Mocímboa da Praia in August 2020. |

WSWS (2020-09-14). Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks mailing out of absentee ballots pending ruling on Green Party ballot access. wsws.org The Democratic party has led the charge in purging third-party candidates, including the Greens, from the November ballot.

Laura Flanders (2020-09-14). Resisting Authoritarianism One Co-Op at a Time. counterpunch.org A popularly-elected republic overturned by a reactionary armed revolt—there are myriad reasons why the painful history of the Spanish Civil War might pop into one's head at this particular moment. For one thing, that conflict reminds us just how fast dictatorship can kill democracy. Backed by Hitler and Mussolini, General Francisco Franco seized power in

WSWS (2020-09-14). German Left Party preparing to enter government and support war. wsws.org In August, the Left Party's parliamentary leader Dietmar Bartsch backed the German Army's foreign deployments. Now foreign affairs spokesperson Gregor Gysi is going further.

WSWS (2020-09-14). University of Illinois at Chicago workers go on strike against low wages and unsafe conditions. wsws.org Workers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have gone on strike against low wages and unsafe conditions as the COVID-19 pandemic spreads rapidly through college campuses.

WSWS (2020-09-14). Greece buys billions in French arms amid war tensions with Turkey. wsws.org The purchase of a squadron of fighter jets and four warships marks a major escalation in the military standoff between Greece, backed by France, and Turkey.

Subhankar Banerjee (2020-09-14). Species in Peril: Loss, Love and Protection. counterpunch.org Human calamities abound. The unrelenting coronavirus pandemic has already claimed more than 900,000 lives worldwide. The images of exploding wildfires from the American Southwest—California, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington—look apocalyptic. Racial injustice and inequity in the United States marches on. And, the economic suffering?—painful. In this moment of so much death and suffering—do we even have

WSWS (2020-09-14). Trump, Roger Stone call for violence and repression after Election Day. wsws.org The US president and his oldest political crony called for a police-military crackdown to back his continued rule.

WSWS (2020-09-14). University of Illinois Hospital nurses strike over staff shortages, unsafe conditions. wsws.org UIH nurses in Chicago walked out Saturday to demand patient limits and safe work environments.

Juan Cole (2020-09-14). Climate Emergency Overdrive. zcomm.org Our Age of Compound Disasters as 10% of Oregon is Evacuated, California Burns and Louisiana Sinks…

Stop The Money Pipeline, Amazon Watch, others (2020-09-14). Wednesday 9/23: Virtual Protest: BlackRock Stop Forest Destruction Now! indybay.org Online via Zoom…

The Canary (2020-09-14). Ex-prime ministers line up to protest Johnson's moves to override EU Brexit deal. thecanary.co Boris Johnson is attempting to push through the Internal Market Bill amid strong criticism. | By | Former Tory prime minister David Cameron has joined other ex-PMs in expressing "misgivings" about prime minister Boris Johnson's proposal to override the Brexit 'divorce' deal. Johnson is attempting to push through the

Adam Rissien (2020-09-14). Trump's Forest Service Sidesteps Environmental Safeguards. counterpunch.org How the Agency Uses Legal Loopholes to Avoid Analysis and Public Involvement The other day when my son and I were at Fort Missoula looking at the line of mountains in the distance, he innocently asked why one didn't have any trees on it. He was pointing to where old forest roads cut stark lines

yenisafak (2020-09-14). Greece resettling stranded migrants to tent camp on Lesbos. yenisafak.com Greece has resettled hundreds of migrants in a temporary new tent facility after a fire destroyed their overcrowded refugee camp on the island of Lesbos and hopes to have moved all of them this week, government officials said on Monday.More than 12,000 people, mostly refugees from Afghanistan, Africa and Syria, are without shelter and are having to sleep out in the open without proper sanitation after the fire tore through the Moria migrant camp last Wednesday.Greece is now registering the migrants and testing them for the COVID-19 disease before channeling them into the temporary tent camp, government spokesman…

Esmeralda Chang (2020-09-14). The Second Installment of The Confessions and Polemics of Esmeralda "The Red" Chang. dissidentvoice.org In this segment of my confessions and polemics I discuss the following topics: Attending the Jimmy Dore Show, The 2020 Democratic Convention, and Daoist Anarchism. Attending the Jimmy Dore Show As someone in her early 70s I don't get out much, especially during the COVID quarantine. But last February before the stay-at-home orders my cousin, …

WSWS (2020-09-14). Australian government, Labor opposition silent on sadistic British show-trial of Julian Assange. wsws.org The Australian political and media establishment has largely responded to the vicious attacks on Assange's legal and democratic rights by pretending that they are not occurring.

David Mattson (2020-09-14). Cowboys, Ranchers and Hedge Fund Managers…Oh My! counterpunch.org (To protect the guilty and for fear of retribution, this essay does not use real names. Rich land owners in this part of the world tend to keep us common folk intimidated and quiet through liberal deployment of lawyers. Other than proper names, everything else is factual.) Yesterday and today I watched a cow farmer

pip.hinman (2020-09-14). S11 blockade of the World Economic Forum: Reflections of a participant. greenleft.org.au

pip.hinman (2020-09-14). S11 World Economic Forum blockade: Reflections of a participant. greenleft.org.au

pip.hinman (2020-09-14). A school in 'How to Win' with a strategy of deep organising. greenleft.org.au

WSWS (2020-09-14). Tens of thousands in southwest Louisiana remain without power two weeks after Hurricane Laura. wsws.org With Tropical Storm Sally on track to hit Louisiana early this week the social and ecological crisis wrought in the wake of the last major storm is still coming into focus.

WSWS (2020-09-14). University of Michigan graduate students vote to extend strike as opposition erupts at campuses throughout the US. wsws.org The reopening of campuses is driving an expansion of the coronavirus pandemic, with 19 of the 25 largest outbreaks in communities with colleges that have started in-person learning.

WSWS (2020-09-14). Tennessee law seeks to criminalize protests on public property. wsws.org Protests on Tennessee state property could mean up to six years in prison under a new law.

WSWS (2020-09-14). Millions in the US choke on hazardous air as West Coast fires continue to rage. wsws.org With 33 dead and over 4.6 million acres burned, the unprecedented fires in California, Oregon and Washington have quickly spiraled into a catastrophe affecting the lives of millions.

WSWS (2020-09-14). The California wildfires, climate change and capitalism. wsws.org The wildfires ripping through California and Oregon have exposed yet again the dangers posed by climate change and the inability of capitalist governments to deal with it.

WSWS (2020-09-14). Wildcat strike over COVID-19 at Lear auto parts plant in Indiana. wsws.org Lear workers refused to work for several hours Friday night after learning of potential COVID-19 cases in the facility, halting production also at the nearby Ford Chicago Assembly Plant.

WSWS (2020-09-14). Stop the dangerous "routine operation" of schools in Germany! Prepare a nationwide general strike! wsws.org The completely unsafe routine operation of schools threatens the health and lives of millions of educators, parents, children, young people and their families.

WSWS (2020-09-14). In fascistic Independence Day speech, Brazil's Bolsonaro condemns "strikes, social disorder" wsws.org Bolsonaro's rant rooted Brazil's national identity in "fear of god, respect for the family" and the struggle for "liberty" against "communism."

WSWS (2020-09-14). Floods inundate Sudan amid escalating economic crisis. wsws.org The hardest hit has been the capital Khartoum, where the Blue and White Nile Rivers meet, as the Nile burst its banks, demolishing everything in its way.

Dr. Russell Blaylock (2020-09-14). Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to the Healthy. globalresearch.ca First published by GR on May 26, 2020 | "By wearing a mask, the exhaled viruses will not be able to escape and will concentrate in the nasal passages, enter the olfactory nerves and travel into the brain." — Russell Blaylock, …

WSWS (2020-09-14). Three postal workers test positive at UK Royal Mail's Medway Mail Centre. wsws.org The outbreak at the "state-of-the-art" delivery office demonstrates that workers' health is being imperilled in an ongoing scramble for profit.

WSWS (2020-09-14). Congressional investigation opened into deaths of 27 soldiers this year at Fort Hood, Texas. wsws.org The military newspaper Stars and Stripes has dubbed the base the US Army's "most crime ridden post."

WSWS (2020-09-14). UK firms announce hundreds of thousands of redundancies. wsws.org There is a fear among some bourgeois commentators and political representatives that a sudden end to the Jobs Furlough scheme could lead to social upheaval.

WSWS (2020-09-14). Dr. Joseph Scalice responds to Jose Maria Sison's Stalinist lies and slanders. wsws.org Sison hails "Stalin's great achievements," and Anakbayan prints this statement without any attempt to distance itself from such an assertion.

WSWS (2020-09-14). Autoworkers support University of Michigan strikers. wsws.org Like the herding of workers into the auto factories, the drive to reopen schools and colleges even as the pandemic continues to rage is entirely driven by profit interests.

Thom Hartmann (2020-09-14). How big money controls the stories the media tells. zcomm.org Investing in political media can produce a huge return on investment and transform the politics of the nation…

Badri Raina (2020-09-14). Is It a Crime To Peacefully Protest Against the Government's Policies? zcomm.org With several eminent activists and academics named in the Delhi Police's supplementary chargesheet, it is best to be told in black and white who may speak and who may not…

Barbara Smith (2020-09-14). The U.S. "Functions with White Supremacy as Its Engine" zcomm.org Here's How We Dismantle It…

ROAR Collective (2020-09-14). Remembering the many lives of our friend David Graeber. zcomm.org You lived your many lives as a true revolutionary, lighting little fires in our collective imagination as you playfully weaved your way through this twisted world of ours…

Anonymous (2020-09-14). Universities are being forced to lie about being COVID safe. zcomm.org Universities know they will become infection hot-spots. But shutting before the government tells them to will leave them bankrupt…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2020-09-14). Why Many Police Are Barely Distinguishable From Racist Vigilantes. zcomm.org Under Trump, the collaboration of armed white supremacist Trump supporters and police is an explosive mix of violence aimed at communities of color.

Ryan Grim (2020-09-14). Rhode Island's Progressive Wave Was Four Years in the Making. zcomm.org In 2016, a WFP-backed candidate unseated Rhode Island's House majority leader. Insurgents have been making progress ever since…

Adrian Bardon (2020-09-14). Faith and politics mix to drive evangelical Christians' climate change denial. zcomm.org Fundamentalist religious traditions are defined by their fixed doctrines. Political conservatives by definition favor the preservation of the traditional social and economic order…

LEON (2020-09-14). Proof: ICE San Francisco Still Has Bloody Hands. indybay.org Photo taken August 8 shows demonstrators placing bloody hand prints on the building that houses Immigration and Customs Enforcement at 630 Sansome St. in San Francisco. See what remains of their handiwork one month later. | Photos by Leon Kunstenaar.

Piedmont Diversity Film Series (2020-09-14). Thursday 9/17: 'Suppressed 2020: The Fight to Vote'. indybay.org Zoom from your own home…

Uhuru Solidarity Movement (2020-09-14). Saturday 10/17: San Diego March for Reparations to African People. indybay.org We will start the March at Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Highway and march to 6th and Laurel, Balboa Park.

KQED (2020-09-14). Thursday 9/17: Dear Beloved: Music & Storytelling with SOL Development & BE-IMAGINATIVE. indybay.org Online/Virtual Event…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (2020-09-14). Tuesday 10/6: Frank Wilderson III: Afropessimism. indybay.org Online webinar…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (2020-09-14). Tuesday 9/29: Juan Felipe Herrera & Naomi Shihab Nye: Every Day We're More Illegal. indybay.org Online webinar…

KPFA Radio 94.1 FM (2020-09-14). Wednesday 9/23: Obi Kaufmann: The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas. indybay.org Online webinar…

Follow the Money (2020-09-14). 9/14/20 Trump Fund Raises in Cal While Learning of Fire Damage. indybay.org On 9/14/20, Republican Trump plans to land in Sacramento to be briefed on fire damage which has caused most of us to choke on the smoke for 28 days. Since he is cutting his staff's salaries, this can only be a fundraising trip to a wealthy state where he has no chance of winning Electoral College votes. See abc7news.com/trump-to-visit-fire-ravaged-california-monday/6420211/…

KQED (2020-09-14). Wednesday 9/23: Imagine Freedom: Art Works for Abolition. indybay.org Online/Virtual Event…

Dolores Perez Heilbron (2020-09-14). Sunday 9/13: The Racial Wealth Gap in the U.S. indybay.org Zoom lecture online from First Unitarian Unviersalist Society of San Francisco – Humanist & Non-Theist group.

David Andersson (2020-09-14). California: The Center of the White-West is Burning. indybay.org First we need to send all our best wishes of well-being to our friends, brothers and sisters in California who are confronting an unprecedented disaster. The fires there are absolutely ferocious.

Santa Cruz News Network (2020-09-14). Monterey Bay Central Labor Council Endorses Brown, Hill and Kumar for Santa Cruz City Council. indybay.org One of the Monterey Bay area's largest labor organizations, Monterey Bay Central Labor Council AFL-CIO, has endorsed Sandy Brown, Kelsey Hill, and Kayla Kumar for Santa Cruz City Council in the November 2020 election. The Monterey Bay Central Labor Council (MBCLC) is the local body of the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), representing more than 39,000 union members and their families from the Monterey Bay Area.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). World must boycott those who only pretend to favor peace. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) —The Commander of Iran Army's University of Command and Staff said that the world should move towards peace, and in this regard, those who are are making a pretense of being adherent to peace should be boycotted.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). 'All the Time' to go on screen at Busan Intl. FilmFest. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Iranian short film, 'All the Time' directed by Shadi Karamroudi, has been accepted into the competition program of the 25th edition of Busan International Film Festival in South Korea.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). Iran shining in world for achieving isotope enrichment tech. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — The head of the Atomic Energy Organization stated that despite sabotages of the arrogant powers, today, Iran is one of the few countries that have acquired the technology of the enriching the stable isotopes.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). Hashd al-Sha'abi repels ISIL attack in Iraq's Samarra. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units, also known as Hashd al-Sha'abi forces repelled the ISIL's terrorist attack in southern Samarra.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). Iran summons German ambassador over meddlesome remarks. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the German Ambassador over meddlesome tweets of the embassy.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). UAE, Bahrain traitors must wait for Resistance's revenge. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Addressing traitorous rulers of UAE and Bahrain, the Head of Ideological-Political Organization of the Ministry of Defense warned all compromisers to wait for the anger and revenge of the Islamic Ummah and the Resistance Axis.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). IAEA to inspect second location in Iran later this month. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said that a complementary access at the second specified location in Iran will take place later this month.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). WAIA to address UAE, Bahrain normalizations with Tel Aviv. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — The World Assembly of Islamic Awakening (WAIA) will hold an extraordinary session on Wednesday to discuss the recent normalization of ties by some Arab states with the Israeli regime.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). Observe diplomatic etiquette! en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) — Ali Bagheri, deputy of international affairs of the Judicial System of Iran, strongly condemned the interference of European embassies in Iran's internal affairs and urged them to observe the diplomatic etiquette.

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-14). Iran COVID-19 update: 2,619 cases, 156 deaths in 24 hours. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) — The daily count of COVID-19 infections in Iran reached 2,619 on Monday, bringing the total cases to 404,648, according to the Health Ministry.

imperial.ac.uk (2020-09-14). £10m Trinity Challenge to protect future generations from pandemics. imperial.ac.uk Imperial has joined a global coalition focused on protecting the world from future health emergencies in the wake of COVID-19.

yenisafak (2020-09-14). Armed men attack Nigerian village, kidnap 21. yenisafak.com Armed men abducted 21 people in a raid on a village in northwestern Nigeria's Kaduna city, local media reported Monday.The unknown assailants attacked the Udawa village late on Sunday, kidnapping 21 residents, including children, and leaving several injured.Kaduna State Police spokesman Muhammad Jalige confirmed the incident and said the Nigerian authorities had sent reinforcements to the village after the attack.He added that the authorities moved the injured to hospitals and were searching for the kidnapped villagers.The country's northwestern region sees occasional clashes between the herder Fulani people — o…

yenisafak (2020-09-14). Israel to demolish mosque in Jerusalem. yenisafak.com Israel on Monday issued a demolition order for a mosque in the town of Silwan in east Jerusalem for "lack of a construction permit," according to local residents.Israeli authorities gave the curators of the Qaqaa Bin Amr mosque 21 days to challenge the order.Built in 2012, the two-floor mosque accommodates hundreds of worshippers.A similar demolition order was issued in 2015, but was never enforced.In recent years, Israeli settlers have seized control of dozens of Palestinian homes in Silwan, which is close to the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.Israeli settlement organization Elad says it seeks to turn Silwan…

yenisafak (2020-09-14). Facebook allows users to watch videos together online. yenisafak.com Facebook Inc said on Monday that its users will now be able to watch videos with their friends online using the social media company's Messenger app, enabling them to see reactions in real time.The "Watch Together" feature will allow a user to add up to eight people through a video call and up to 50 people through its videoconferencing tool Messenger Rooms.The company launched the tool in July as it looks to take on Zoom Video communications inc that became a household name driven by the coronavirus-driven boom in demand for its platform.Facebook joins a crowded field of companies rushing to dominate the stay-at-…

yenisafak (2020-09-14). Belarusian leader Lukashenko begins talks with Putin in Russia's Sochi. yenisafak.com Embattled Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko began talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in the Black Sea region of Sochi, the TASS news agency cited the Kremlin as saying.Lukashenko flew to Russia earlier on Monday to try to win Putin's help to survive weeks of mass protests against his 26-year-rule.

yenisafak (2020-09-14). Turkey hails Bangladesh for hosting Rohingya refugees. yenisafak.com Turkey's top diplomat praised Bangladesh on Monday for its efforts to host Rohingya refugees.In a joint news conference following a meeting with his Bangladeshi counterpart AK Abdul Momen, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu thanked Dhaka for their hosting of millions of Rohingya refugees."We know that this is a huge burden and huge responsibility for Bangladesh. More than 4 million refugees are actually hosted by Bangladesh in total, so this is a huge responsibility on their shoulders. We appreciate their efforts," he told reporters in the Turkish capital Ankara.Cavusoglu pointed out that Turkey, with its all orga…

yenisafak (2020-09-14). Kosovo-Serbia 'Agreement': Lots of noise, little substance. yenisafak.com On September 4, the Trump Administration hosted Kosovo and Serbia's delegations in the White House to culminate a normalization process between the two countries, which has been crooked since the very beginning. In the glitzy signing ceremony held at the Oval Office, Serbia and Kosovo agreed to move forward with "economic normalization" by signing up to a number of undertakings. However, there was not a single document that both sides signed, but actually two fairly similar separate documents which Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo's Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti signed individually. Equally important…

yenisafak (2020-09-14). 'Turkey will not compromise on rights in E.Med'. yenisafak.com The Turkish defense minister said on Monday that "sacrificing our rights in the Eastern Mediterranean is out of question"."We have rights, concerns, and interests in the Eastern Mediterranean. Some countries are making counter moves and taking actions against them. We follow them with great patience," Hulusi Akar said following the Distinguished Observer Day activities of the Mediterranean Storm — a five-day military exercise.Stressing that Turkey will resolutely continue to do what is necessary to protect its rights, Akar said it is out of question to sacrifice and give up rights in the region."We are in favor…

WSWS (2020-09-14). Australian government exploits family funeral to push for end to coronavirus border restrictions. wsws.org The government aims to shift public opinion against border restrictions, which corporate Australia now wants scrapped.

Binoy Kampmark (2020-09-14). Rio Tinto turns Cultural Vandal: The Destruction of the Juukan Gorge Caves. dissidentvoice.org It was a calamity in cultural terms likened to the destruction of the Buddhist statues of Bamyan and the ancient city of Palmyra. The explosive eradication of two Aboriginal sites in West Australia's Juukan Gorge in May, said to be 46,000 years old, moved Peter Stone, the UNESCO chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace, …

WSWS (2020-09-14). Australia: Unions silent as dozens of New South Wales schools are affected by COVID-19. wsws.org Even teachers over the age of 70, or with serious health conditions, have been forced back to front-line teaching since late May.

Justin Podur (2020-09-14). Can We Address That British Eugenics Scandal? counterpunch.org British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been known to have an interestin eugenics, but despite the persistence of support for this discredited idea over the years, eugenics is a scientific and moral failure. In February, an adviser to Johnson resigned when some old racist posts he wrote in 2014 emerged. The contractor, Andrew Sabisky, called

_____ (2020-09-14). The greatest loss of democracy and liberty in modern Britain. truepublica.org.uk At TruePublica, we believe in social cohesion, the rule of law, civil liberty, human rights and of course, democracy. Recent events, both Brexit and Covid-19, have given this government, in particular, an opportunity to act in bad faith and create a space for emergency legislation used to abuse the normal workings of representative and parliamentary …

Paul Craig Roberts (2020-09-14). What Hath White Liberals Wrought? thealtworld.com A black walked up to a police car in which two Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs were sitting and shot both multiple times. Both officers are in intensive care fighting for their lives. Black Lives Matter, called "protesters" by the presstitute media, blocked entries and exists to the hospital chanting "we hope they die." | A black female onboard an airliner refused to cooperate with a white female flight attendant, telling the white female that her "white privilege was over" a…

John Bowe (2020-09-14). The Immokalee Way: Protecting Farmworkers Amid a Pandemic. thenation.com The Immokalee Way: Protecting Farmworkers Amid a Pandemic…

Kristen Yoonsoo Kim (2020-09-14). Éric Rohmer's Most Underrated Masterpiece. thenation.com Éric Rohmer's Most Underrated Masterpiece…

Alexandra Ellerbeck (2020-09-14). Why Are We Still Ignoring Former Foster Children's Votes? thenation.com Why Are We Still Ignoring Former Foster Children's Votes?

Wilfred Chan (2020-09-14). Did US Lobbying Efforts Backfire for Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Movement? thenation.com Did US Lobbying Efforts Backfire for Hong Kong's Pro-Democracy Movement?