(2020-09-19). Six teacher deaths at start of fall semester heighten public health concerns. liberationnews.org 
Reopening schools is by and large not a response to the needs of young people in the United States.
(2020-09-19). As infection rate climbs, PM confirms second wave but still says no to national lockdown. thecanary.co 
Boris Johnson says the second wave of the pandemic has now reached the UK. | By | Ministers are considering tough new coronavirus (Covid-19) restrictions as Boris Johnson said the long-feared second wave of the pandemic has arrived in the UK.With new cases of the disease in England estimated to have doubled over the past week, the prime minister said they were keeping "everything under review"."Transmission at a faster rate" with deaths expected to rise: Meanwhile, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said its latest estimate "shows…
(2020-09-19). Trump Had Contemplated Ordering the Assassination of Bashar al-Assad. globalresearch.ca Donald Trump
(2020-09-19). Argentinians commemorate the 44th anniversary of the Night of the Pencils. peoplesdispatch.org The night of September 16, 1976, was one of the bloodiest night of the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina, when a group of high school students were kidnapped and tortured by the state security forces…
(2020-09-19). Casualties of "herd immunity": Three new teacher deaths in one week as US schools reopen. wsws.org The deaths are a direct result of the criminal actions by Democratic and Republican governors, as well as the Trump administration.
(2020-09-19). White House Announces Puerto Rico Disaster Relief on Hurricane Anniversary. indybay.org The Federal Emergency Management Administration will award $13 billion in Puerto Rico disaster aid to rebuild the power grid and education facilities, announced the White House. The announcement comes near the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria slamming the island, taking 3000 lives and causing more than $100 billion in damage.
(2020-09-19). [Correspondence] Brazil's COVID-19 response. thelancet.com Partisan politics during the COVID-19 pandemic has hindered any efforts of working together with science for the greater good of Brazil. As a Brazilian who values life, I do not know what scares me more: contracting COVID-19, or Bolsonaro's Government trying to belittle the disease, forcing us out of the door to confront it, even when they know that we have not done enough as a country to make it safe for us to do so. Although COVID-19 is showing us all that we still have a long way to go to overcome this crisis, which, at the time of writing, has killed approximately 1000 people a day over the past 3 months, the…
(2020-09-19). [Editorial] COVID-19: a stress test for trust in science. thelancet.com Peer Review Week is the annual celebration of the importance of peer review, running Sept 21—25. The theme this year is trust in peer review, a particularly appropriate focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Trust in research and its role in political decision making and policy changes have never been more at the forefront of public discussion and scrutiny than during the current public health crisis. But what is everyone's role in strengthening this trust?
(2020-09-19). [Comment] Preprints with The Lancet are here to stay. thelancet.com We started our collaboration with the freely accessible preprint platform SSRN in June, 2018.1 From then on, we asked all authors of research papers across Lancet journals at submission stage whether they would like to post their paper as a preprint. We started this as a trial to learn more about uptake and the perceptions of the medical and health community, particularly as a latecomer to the preprint concept.
(2020-09-19). The Reason Why Italy Deploys Its Fighters in Lithuania. globalresearch.ca In Europe civil air traffic is expected to drop by 60% this year compared to 2019, due to Covid-19 restrictions, putting more than 7 million jobs at risk. On the other hand, military air traffic is growing. | On Friday, August …
(2020-09-19). With the onset of a second wave, university staff speak out about their fears. thecanary.co The restart of university teaching across UK campuses will see students and staff travelling for face-to-face learning that risks compromising public health. Teaching unions … | By | The restart of university teaching across UK campuses will see students and staff travelling for face-to-face learning that risks compromising public health. | Teaching unions and scientific groups have e…
(2020-09-18). Good Ellsberg, Bad Assange: At Extradition Trial, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Dismantles False Narrative. globalresearch.ca Opponents of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange often hold up Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg as an example of someone who was responsible for a good leak. They insist WikiLeaks is not like the Pentagon Papers because supposedly Assange was reckless …
(2020-09-18). Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 12. globalresearch.ca A less dramatic day, but marked by a brazen and persistent display of this US Government's insistence that it has the right to prosecute any journalist and publication, anywhere in the world, for publication of US classified information. This explicitly …
(2020-09-18). Trump Calls Howard Zinn's Work "Propaganda." Hear the Legendary Historian in His Own Words. democracynow.org 
This week President Trump described the work of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, who died in 2010, as "propaganda" meant to "make students ashamed of their own history." But Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom. We air excerpts from a 2009 interview with Zinn in which he explained his approach to education. "We should be honest with young people; we should not deceive them. We should be honest about the history of our country," Zinn said.
(2020-09-18). Trump doesn't Understand History any more than he Understands Epidemics. zcomm.org Professional historians have always been skeptical and the very tools of their profession are seditious, because history teaches us that things could have been different (contingency) and can still be different…
(2020-09-18). Denialism: Not Just For Climate Change Anymore! progressive.org Not only is Trump anti-science, he is clearly anti-empathy.
(2020-09-18). Nature, Science and Revolutionary Struggle. counterpunch.org 
Working my way through John Bellamy Foster's magisterial "The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology," it dawned on me that there was a gap in my knowledge. I knew that Marx and Engels were consumed with ecological problems, even though the word wasn't in their vocabulary. To a large extent, my awareness came from reading
(2020-09-18). French MP leads assembly walkout over student representative wearing hijab. middleeasteye.net 
French MP leads assembly walkout over student representative wearing hijab | Anne-Christine Lang, of Macron's En Marche party, criticised after saying she viewed the hijab as a 'symbol of submission' | Fri, 09/18/2020 – 12: 40 | Maryam Pougetoux is the spokesperson of the National Union of Students in France (AFP) | An MP from French President Emmanuel Macron's La Republique En Marche part…
(2020-09-18). Underground Railroad to Mexico: The other escape route from slavery. peoplesworld.org 
HOUSTON (AP)—While researching U.S. Civil War history in South Texas, Roseann Bacha-Garza came across the two unique families of the Jacksons and the Webbers living along the Rio Grande. White men headed both families. Both of their wives were Black, emancipated slaves. But Bacha-Garza, a historian, wondered what they were doing there in the mid-1800s. …
(2020-09-18). Arctic Tensions Rise as Britain Leads Show of Force Against Russia in the Barents Sea. globalresearch.ca In the first such operation of its kind in 20 years, the British Navy were joined by American, Danish and Norwegian forces to supposedly demonstrate freedom of navigation against "Russian attempts" to control the Barents Sea in the Arctic, the …
(2020-09-18). New US Ambassador to Germany Attracts the Usual Enemies: Doug Macgregor Feels the Wrath of the Pro-Israeli Lobby. globalresearch.ca There is an old saying that allegedly came out of the French Revolution, that revolution, like the god Saturn, devours its own children. It was reportedly uttered by Georges Danton at the trial that preceded his execution and could be …
(2020-09-18). Novichok in Navalny's Water Bottle? globalresearch.ca Alice's "curiouser and curiouser" remark in Lewis Carroll's Adventures in Wonderland applies to dubious twists in the Navalny novichok poisoning hoax. | No evidence or motive links Russia to what happened to him. | Was the August 20 Tomsk, Russia incident made-in-the-USA?…
(2020-09-18). Weekly for Six Months, US Unemployment Claims Exceeded One Million. globalresearch.ca The economic state of the US is worse than during the depths of the 1930s Great Depression. | Economic collapse grips the country. Tens of millions of working-age Americans are unemployed, most others way underemployed earning poverty wages. | The Economic Collapse …
(2020-09-18). The Debate over 5G in Switzerland. globalresearch.ca The prospect of adverse However, …
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(2020-09-18). Military research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. wsws.org As Germany again takes up aggressive great power politics, German universities are once more serving the needs of war and dictatorship, just as they did before the First and Second World Wars. A major centre of German weapons research is the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
(2020-09-18). COVID-19 "long-haulers" publish patient-led research paper drawing attention to chronic illness. wsws.org COVID-19 survivors who continue to experience symptoms weeks to months after initial infection have organized themselves online, seeking to understand the phenomenon of their extended illness.
(2020-09-18). Governments Will Impose New Lockdowns if They Think They Can Get Away with It. globalresearch.ca This year's stay-at-home orders and lockdowns imposed by governments on their populations represent a watershed moment in the history of the modern state. | Before March 2020, it is unlikely that many politicians—let alone many ordinary people—thought it would be feasible …
(2020-09-18). Oppose the unsafe reopening of UK schools and universities! Attend Online Educators Rank-and-File Committee meeting. wsws.org We urge educators and students in Britain to register and participate in the online forum being held on Saturday, September 19 at 2 p.m.
(2020-09-18). Truth and Nonviolence, Tolstoy and Gandhi: Light as Darkness Approached. globalresearch.ca "We possess a single infallible guide, the Universal Spirit that lives in men as a whole, and in each one of us, which makes us aspire to what we should aspire: it is the Spirit that commands the tree to …
(2020-09-18). Brazilian teachers call strikes against back-to-school drive. wsws.org Brazil's fascistic President Bolsonaro declared: "We are the country with the highest number of days of lockdown of schools. This is absurd."
(2020-09-18). What Does WWII Have To Do With Military Spending. popularresistance.org "I'm going to perform a magic trick by reading your mind," I tell a class of students or an auditorium or video call full of people. I write something down. "Name a war that was justified," I say. Someone says "World War Two." I show them what I wrote: "WWII." Magic![i] | If I insist on additional answers, they're almost always wars even further in the past than WWII.[ii] If I ask why WWII is the answer, the response is virtually always "Hitler" or "Holocaust" or words to that effect. | This predictable exchange, in which I get to pretend to have magical powers, is part of a lecture or workshop that I typically b…
(2020-09-18). Sustainable Development goals are 'the future' Malala tells major UN event, urging countries to get on track. news.un.org The Global Goals represent the future for millions of girls who want education, women who fight for equality, and youth fighting for clean air, UN Messenger of Peace Malala Yousafzai said on Friday, at a side event of the General Assembly, challenging Member States, "when are you planning to do the work"?
(2020-09-18). Boston-area colleges and universities report COVID cases and outbreaks despite testing programs. wsws.org Colleges and universities across the Greater Boston area have made the reckless, profit-driven decision to reopen their campuses, endangering the lives of not only university students, faculty and staff, but area residents.
(2020-09-18). Iran, Russia stress promoting scientific, technological coop. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Iran's Vice President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari held talks with Head of Russian Academy of Sciences Aleksandr Sergeyev late on Thursday through videoconference.
(2020-09-18). Human rights violations against Bahraini women. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 18 (MNA) — Elham Shakeri, researcher at BFHR stressed that the Bahraini authorities' claims and demand for peace, security and peaceful coexistence in the region contradicts its approach to the systematic persecution of Bahraini women.
(2020-09-18). Toxic Wildfire Haze Leaves Damage Long After It Clears. truthout.org Seeley Lake, Montana — When researchers arrived in this town tucked in the Northern Rockies three years ago, they could still smell the smoke a day after it cleared from devastating wildfires. Their plan was to chart how long it took for people to recover from living for seven weeks surrounded by relentless smoke. | They still don't know, because most residents haven't recovered. In fact, they've gotten worse. | Forest fires had funneled hazardous air into Seeley Lake, a town of fewer than 2,000 people, for…
(2020-09-18). Trump Accused Howard Zinn of "Propaganda." But Zinn Was Right About US History. truthout.org This week President Trump described the work of the legendary historian Howard Zinn, who died in 2010, as "propaganda" meant to "make students ashamed of their own history." But Zinn believed the opposite, that teaching the unvarnished truth about history was the best way to combat propaganda and unexamined received wisdom. We air excerpts from a 2009 interview with Zinn in which he explained his approach to education. "We should be honest with young people; we should not deceive them. We should…
(2020-09-18). Schools Reopen — And Teachers Fight For Their Lives… popularresistance.org As schools begin to reopen, within teacher unions around the country, teachers have been coming together to discuss the risks they're willing to take — both to protect public health in the short term, and to protect public education in the long run. | The starting place for the unions, noted Stacy Davis Gates, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union, is that the push to reopen schools as if they could wish the pandemic away, whether it was coming from President Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos or from Chicago's mayor Lori Lightfoot, "was wrong and dangerous."
(2020-09-18). British government and universities pursue reckless return to higher education under pandemic conditions. wsws.org Students now face a limit on socialising under the government's arbitrary limiting of gatherings to six, yet can go to work and to campuses.
(2020-09-18). 'Resign Immediately' says NEA President to Azar, DeVos. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-09-18). Trump Blasted for 'McCarthy-Like' Call for 'Patriotic Education' and Attack on Howard Zinn, 1619 Project. commondreams.org Zinn, the renowned historian and author of A People's History of the United States, often said that being "honest about the history of our country" is the best way to combat propaganda. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-09-18). The Dark Side of 5G: Military Use. globalresearch.ca The September 12 demonstration "Stop 5G" in Rome rightly focuses on the possible electromagnetic consequences for health and environment, in particular on the decree that prevents mayors from regulating the installation of 5G antennas in the municipal area. | However, the …
(2020-09-18). Israel, the UAE, & Bahrain Didn't Sign Peace Deals, They're Military Alliances to Counter Iran. globalresearch.ca Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signed agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in Washington on Tuesday. Brokered by the Trump administration, these deals represent two of the most broadly popular developments for both Trump and Netanyahu in many …
(2020-09-17). The View from Above: How Do We Know What's Really Burning in the Amazon? globalresearch.ca This year's Amazon fire season is one of the most serious ever, even though it's not attracting near the media attention as last year. More than one thousand major fires have already been
(2020-09-17). The 'Israeli'-Emirati Alliance: Geopolitical Impact on Africa. globalresearch.ca The misleadingly described "peace" deal between "Israel" and the UAE will enable the self-professed "Jewish State" to use the latter's military and civilian port infrastructure in the Gulf of Aden, thus challenging recent Turkish inroads in this part of the …
(2020-09-17). Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 10. globalresearch.ca The gloves were off on Tuesday as the US Government explicitly argued that all journalists are liable to prosecution under the Espionage Act (1917) for publishing classified information, citing
(2020-09-17). UN Report on Venezuela "Abuses" Written by Investigators Who Never Visited Venezuela. globalresearch.ca The Western media is touting the results of a so-called "Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela" conducted through the United Nations. | AFP in an
(2020-09-17). Twilight in the Desert for Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman? globalresearch.ca It appears as if Saudi de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is on a mission to destroy the world oil giant by one after the other ill-conceived economic decisions. Now, as MBS orders yet new desperation cuts in …
(2020-09-17). Hope and Fear: Refugees on Greece's Samos Island, September 2020. globalresearch.ca Roger came by the house yesterday evening. In his early 20s Roger is from Gaza. He's full of energy and ideas and has been like this since he arrived in Samos over a year ago. His days are full of …