Monthly Archives: September 2020

2020-09-06: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-09-06). Video: 9/11 and the Global War on Terrorism. globalresearch.ca 9/11 marks the onslaught of the "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT), used as a pretext and a justification by the US and its NATO allies to carry out a "war without borders", a global war of conquest. A far-reaching overhaul of US military doctrine was launched in the wake of 9/11.

Michael Welch (2020-09-06). Wa Ni Ska Tan: Hydro-electricity and impacts on Indigenous and other communities. globalresearch.ca "We have no money to fight hydro so we've got to fight back with words and with words we can fight back. By telling the truth about what really is happening in these communities." | — Gerald McKay, Fisher Grand Rapids, …

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-09-06). German Politicians Want to Stop Nord Stream 2 Due to Assassination Attempt of Russian Opposition Leader. globalresearch.ca The case of the alleged assassination attempt of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has generated much controversy and discussions worldwide. In Germany, where Navalny is currently, the political controversy surrounding the case is taking on particularly large proportions. The …

Resource Center for Nonviolence (2020-09-06). Saturday 9/26: Palestine Justice Coalition Teach-In: Palestinian Future and Israeli Annexation. indybay.org Online Event | http: //bit.ly/pjcteachin…

South Front (2020-09-06). Video: Idlib Question and Prospects of New Syrian-Turkish Confrontation. globalresearch.ca The southern part of Greater Idlib remains the main point of instability in Syria. The military situation, which had temporarily stabilized after the end of the Turkish attack on the Syrian Army codenamed "Operation Spring Shield", is once again deteriorating. …

Stephen Lendman (2020-09-06). The Struggle for Belarus on Russia's Geopolitical Doorstep. globalresearch.ca Protests in Belarus since longtime President Lukashenko was legitimately reelected on August 9 were made in the USA. | Despite his authoritarian rule, most Belarusians support him over an unacceptable alternative — transformation of the country into a neo-Nazi US vassal …

Prof. Mel Gurtov (2020-09-06). The "End of Poverty" Illusion: Global and East Asian Realities in the COVID-19 Pandemic. globalresearch.ca The World Bank's Poverty Illusion | Ever tried living on $1.90 a day? That is the World Bank's "International Poverty Line (IPL)." If your income is at or below that figure, you are living in "extreme poverty." In fact, it's a …

Dr. Yossef Ben-Meir (2020-09-06). 20 Years: A Generation and a Day in Development Life. Morocco's High Atlas. globalresearch.ca As so many of us ask when we commemorate an anniversary of decades: where have all the years gone? Have we done all we can? Have we been of true service? Did we do right? | We also may wonder on …

Dirk Adriaensens (2020-09-06). Channelling EU Money to the Military industry Under the Guise of 'Industrial Policy'. globalresearch.ca On 23 July, the vast majority of the Left Group (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament approved, together with the social democratic (S&D), Green and rightist (EPP, Renew) parties, a resolution which opposes the 'European deal' of 21 July, in which …

Kate Hudson (2020-09-06). US B-52 Bombers Back in Britain: Escalating Nuclear Tension. globalresearch.ca Six US Air Force B-52 bombers arrived at RAF Fairford on Saturday. Official sources describe it as 'a long planned training mission', carrying out theatre and flight training across Europe and Africa. But local news site GloucestershireLive describes it as …

Ted Walter (2020-09-06). 9/11 News Coverage: How 36 Reporters Brought Us the Twin Towers' Explosive Demolition on 9/11. globalresearch.ca The widely held belief is that the Twin Towers collapsed as a result of the airplane impacts and the resulting fires. Among those who witnessed the event firsthand, the more prevalent hypothesis was that the Twin Towers had been brought down by massive explosions.

Dr. David Suzuki (2020-09-06). We Are Living in a Plastic World. globalresearch.ca Almost every product and material we refer to as "plastic" is made from fossil fuels. Most of it hasn't been around for long — a little over 70 years for the most common products. North American grocery stores didn't start …

John C. A. Manley (2020-09-06). Toronto Children's Hospital Recommends Back to School without Masks or Social Distancing. Detailed Report. globalresearch.ca First published by Global Research on July 21, 2020 | Toronto's

Rez Karim (2020-09-06). Do Face Masks Work? 8 Peer-Reviewed Studies. globalresearch.ca Strange though as it may seem, we feel nervous writing this report. Nervous that Google, Twitter, Facebook etc. might deem our site 'less trustworthy' or something similar. Nervous because we could very well become victims of internet censorship perpetrated by …

Robert F. Kennedy Jr (2020-09-06). Press in His Pocket: Bill Gates Buys Media to Control the Messaging: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. globalresearch.ca A

yenisafak (2020-09-06). Turkey: 2,400-year-old mask unearthed in ancient city. yenisafak.com A terracotta mask dating back nearly 2,400 years has been found during excavations in western Turkey, said the leader of the dig.Archaeologist Kaan Iren, who heads the excavation team in the ancient city of Daskyleion in the Balikesir province, told Anadolu Agency that a mask of the ancient Greek god Dionysus, found in the city's acropolis, is one of this year's most interesting findings. | "This is possibly a votive mask. More information will become available over time with more research," said Iren, a professor at Mugla Sitki Kocman University. | Legend has it that wearing a mask pays homage to Dionysus, the G…

yenisafak (2020-09-06). Strong, Determined, Powerful! Turkey says drilling activities in East Med continue. yenisafak.com Turkey's energy exploration ship is continuing its determined mission in the Eastern Mediterranean, said the National Defense Ministry on Sunday."Strong, Determined and Powerful! The frigates and corvettes belonging to our Naval Forces are resolutely continuing their duty of escorting / protecting the ORUC REIS research ship, which continues to work in our jurisdiction areas in the Eastern Mediterranean," the ministry posted on Twitter with a nearly two-minute video of the ships at work."No lawlessness or bullying will be allowed in the region!" the ministry added.The video also showed communication between the s…

Tony Cartalucci (2020-09-06). Navalny Poisoning — The Real Target Is Russian-German Nord Stream 2 Pipeline. globalresearch.ca US-NATO continue building "momentum" behind Navalny incident — hope to end Nord Stream 2 pipeline before facts emerge, the pipeline is completed, and as all other options have so-far failed. | *** | Alexei Navalny is the ideal opposition figure for any …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2020-09-06). Pandemic Reflexes: Lockdowns and Arrests in Victoria, Australia. globalresearch.ca Ugly. Rough. The police of the Australian state of Victoria muscling their way in. The father and children watching. It had all arisen because the pregnant mother in question had engaged in conduct defined as incitement. In a post on …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-09-05). Where was Osama bin Laden on September 11, 2001? globalresearch.ca On September 10. 2001, Osama was in a Pakistani military hospital in Rawalpindi, courtesy of America's indefectible ally Pakistan…

Michael Welch (2020-09-05). Does 9/11 Still Matter? Conversations with Richard Gage and Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca First published on September 9, 2017 | Nineteen years ago next week, people in the United States got jolted out of their complacency and sense of security when two airplanes struck the Twin Towers, resulting in the collapse of those buildings, …

RT (2020-09-05). Covid-19 tests may be detecting traces of DEAD virus, giving 'false positives' and EXAGGERATING pandemic — research. rt.com New research has discovered that coronavirus tests may be finding dead traces from weeks-old infections, resulting in false positives that inflate the scale of the pandemic. | The study was carried out by experts from the University of Oxford's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine and the University of the West of England. It found there was a risk of "false positives" because of how Covid-19 testing is being conducted. | The scientists discovered that, despite people with Covid-19 being infectious for only around a week, one test used to detect the disease can still give a positive reading weeks after the patie…

RT (2020-09-05). Russia's Covid-19 vaccine effective against any dose of virus, says developer, mass vaccination to start around New Year. rt.com The leader of the team behind Sputnik V said on Friday that the immune response documented among volunteers taking the world's first registered coronavirus vaccine is sufficient to fight any level of Covid-19 infection. | Alexander Gintsburg, head of Moscow's Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, was speaking on the same day that The Lancet reported on trials confirming that every patient who received the vaccine had developed antibodies without any significant side-effects. | The British publication, one of the oldest and best-respected medical journals in the world, confirmed that the…

RT (2020-09-05). Unexplained rock-melting forces buried deep underground cause powerful quakes along infamous San Andreas fault. rt.com Mysterious rock-melting forces buried much deeper below the Earth's crust than previously believed are the impetus for earthquakes along a notorious segment of the San Andreas fault in California, according to new research. | Experts in earthquake physics took a bottom-up approach to figuring out the cause of tremors along the infamous continental fault that runs through the Golden State. Along a particularly troublesome section of the fault they found that excitations buried much deeper than where quakes are typically monitored were the cause of major instabilities that provoke earthquakes. | "Most of Califor…

Global Research News (2020-09-05). Selected Articles: Covid-Gate, The Political Virus. globalresearch.ca By The COVID pandemic and economic collapse have highlighted the race and class inequalities in our society. With more than 35 million jobs lost, millions …

Stephen Lendman (2020-09-05). Was Alexey Navalny Incident an Anti-Russia False Flag? globalresearch.ca Was Putin critic Alexey Navalny's illness aboard a flight to Moscow a naturally occurring metabolic disorder as diagnosed by Russian doctors or something more sinister? | If the latter, was the incident manufactured to blame Russia for what no motive or …

Stephen Lendman (2020-09-05). Unprecedented US Economic Collapse and Reality Defying Market Bubble. globalresearch.ca For 24 straight weeks, over a million working-age Americans applied for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. | What's been going on since March is unprecedented in US history, likely more of the same ahead and perhaps the worst of times to come….

Tony Cartalucci (2020-09-05). Lies of Omission: China's Xinjiang "Internment Camps", Extremist Terrorist Groups in Uighur-Xinjiang. globalresearch.ca For years now Western media and governments have maintained an almost ceaseless barrage against China over what they claim are networks of "internment camps" built and used in China's western Xinjiang region to persecute the Uyghur ethnic minority. | These claims …

Pepe Escobar (2020-09-05). Ândia implode a própria Nova Rota da Seda. globalresearch.ca Houve época em que a Ândia vendia orgulhosamente a noàßà£o de que estabelecia uma Nova Rota da Seda só dela — a qual, partindo do Golfo de Om࣠para a intersecàßà£o da àÅsia Central e do Sul, permitiria acesso de …

Target Liberty (2020-09-05). My Hospital Experience and What the Nurses Told Me About COVID-19. globalresearch.ca JB reports in: | I just got home from back surgery where I spent 4 days in the hospital to start the recovery process. I was able to have some really good conversations with the nurses that were caring for me. …

CJ Hopkins (2020-09-05). Demonstrations against "New Normal" in Berlin: The Storming of the Reichstag Building on 29 August, 2020. globalresearch.ca image Berlin August 1 protest | On March 21, 1933, the Nazi-controlled Reichstag passed a law making it a crime to speak out against the government. The "Regulations of the Reich President for Defense from Treacherous Attacks against the Government of …

WSWS (2020-09-05). Florida parent denounces Osceola County public school system's unsafe reopening. wsws.org This letter was sent to the WSWS Educators Newsletter to expose the atrocious conditions facing educators, students and parents in Ocseola County, which stands adjacent to Disney World but has the worst-funded education system in Florida.

WSWS (2020-09-05). SUNY Oneonta orders thousands of students to return home after more than 500 test positive for COVID-19. wsws.org As of Thursday night, a staggering 507 people had tested positive for COVID-19 on the campus, nearly 17 percent of the on-campus student body.

Dean Baker (2020-09-05). New York Times Again Forgets to Mention the Fool Proof Way to Prevent Foreign Governments from Stealing Vaccine Research. cepr.net Of course that would be having open research that was freely shared. That would immediately make theft impossible, since there would be nothing to steal. This simple and obvious point is not mentioned once in a piece describing efforts by Russia and China to gain access to vaccine research being done at U.S. universities and …

teleSUR (2020-09-05). Iran: Schools Reopen Amid Strict COVID-19 Health Measures. telesurenglish.net Iran's President Hassan Rouhani Saturday officially announced the opening of the new school year this, after a seven-month delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | RELATED: | During the school's opening ceremony via videoconference, Iran's head of state stressed the importance of education despite the pandemic. | "It is very important for us to continue with the knowledge learning and education system while trying to safeg…

Fight Back (2020-09-05). Tampa students protest for more Black faculty at university. fightbacknews.org Tampa, FL – On September 2, students at the University of South Florida (USF) and concerned members of the Tampa community gathered at the house of Steve Currall, the current president of the USF, for a car protest demanding an increase in hiring Black faculty, specifically, professors and counselors. The protest was hosted by Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). | Gareth Dawkins, a member of Tampa Bay SDS, discussed the new campaign to increase Black professors and counselors, which is coupled with a campaign to increase Black student enrollment: "USF needs to hire more Black faculty to not only i…

MST (2020-09-05). Economy, education and politics. zcomm.org The pandemic has accelerated the consequences of the crisis on people, the forms of labor exploitation and natural goods…

David K Evans, Amina Mendez Acosta (2020-09-05). [Correspondence] Lifting bans on pregnant girls in school. thelancet.com The debate about whether to permit girls to attend school after becoming pregnant has been in the headlines in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and elsewhere.1 Advocates for permitting girls to remain in school affirm that education is a human right.2 Critics propose that permitting girls to return might encourage more adolescent pregnancy, even as countries seek to reduce adolescent childbearing.3 Evidence on the consequences of girls returning to school after they become pregnant is limited, and identifying the effect on subsequent outcomes can be challenging.

Geoff Watts (2020-09-05). [Obituary] Maria Angela Brito de Sousa. thelancet.com Immunologist and leader in science. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, on Oct 17, 1939, she died there of COVID-19 on April 14, 2020, aged 80 years.

Luca Valera, Paulina Ramos, Marcelo Barrientos, Fernando Altermatt, Sergio Ruiz, Rommy von Bernhardi, Mauricio Cuello (2020-09-05). [Correspondence] Clinical research in Chile: do not block the way of inquiry. thelancet.com Clinical research in Chile has grown rapidly during the past 20 years because of various research studies that were conceived and done by Chilean researchers, or through multicentre clinical trials. Nevertheless, clinical research in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases, dementia, or those involving people with mental disabilities has been impeded by the enactment of Law 20.584 in 2012.1 This law regulates people's rights and duties concerning actions associated with their health care. Article 28 of this law states: "No person with a mental or intellectual disability, and who cannot express his or her will, ma…

Mehr News Agency (2020-09-05). Schools in Hamedan start education year amid pandemic. en.mehrnews.com HAMEDAN, Sep. 06 (MNA) — Along with other Iranian provinces, the western province of Hamedan started the new education year on Saturday taking into account the special considerations due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Staff (2020-09-05). Official Statistics Show Wage Growth, But That's Due to Low-Wage Job Losses. truthout.org The spike in wage growth amid the coronavirus pandemic is an "illusion" driven by disproportionate job losses amid low-wage workers, according to a study by the Earnings have

Staff (2020-09-05). NYC Teachers Say Union Leadership Made Unsafe Reopening Plan With City Officials. truthout.org For the past several months, New York City public school teachers have been terrified of what the reopening plans for September will look like. NYC is one of the only school districts of a major city in the country planning on re-opening: others have been pushed online due to a combination of rising cases and

WSWS (2020-09-05). Germany's trade unions and municipalities prepare to slash wages of public service workers. wsws.org The same politicians who were gushing in their praise for nurses, teachers, bus drivers and other public service employees who worked through the pandemic are now going to cut their already miserable wages.

yenisafak (2020-09-05). Iran schools re-open despite concerns over spread of virus. yenisafak.com Schools in Iran re-opened to 15 million students on Saturday after a seven-month closure despite concerns over increased spread of the novel coronavirus in the country."This year, we shoulder a heavier burden of responsibility toward our students," said President Hassan Rouhani, who oversaw the opening of schools in a video conference broadcast live on state television.Education and health are equally important to society, he said, but added that parents would not be forced to send their children back to school.Iranian media said that seminaries also reopened on Saturday to about 50,000 students.Several medical p…

Gordon Duff (2020-09-05). Intel Drop:The Biggest Intelligence Leak in US History, and VT Has done it Silently. thealtworld.com VT has, over the past 72 hours, leaked more classified information, up to real 'Q' level, not fake 'Qanon' crap, than in US history. However, all material has been reviewed and redacted for real national security reasons. | What is here? Real UFO information, real nuclear weapons facts, the ones you are never supposed to see, and physics that have been classified. Do governments, collectively, have the right or ability to alter natural laws and basic equations? | They think so, we don't. | The articles are now processing through VT and will reside under the tag "VT Nuclear Education" which is linked to every arti…

Andrew Korybko (2020-09-04). Is the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) (US, Australia, India, Japan) Intent on Provoking Proxy War with China in the Solomon Islands? globalresearch.ca The leader of the Solomon Islands province of Malaita announced earlier this week that his region will seek independence from the central government due to its disagreement with the capital over the latter's recognition of Beijing last year as the …

Andrew Korybko (2020-09-04). Is the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) (Australia, India, Japan, US) Intent of Provoking Proxy War with China in the Solomon Islands? globalresearch.ca The leader of the Solomon Islands province of Malaita announced earlier this week that his region will seek independence from the central government due to its disagreement with the capital over the latter's recognition of Beijing last year as the …

Ted Kelly (2020-09-04). Prison-industrial complex: Harvard students demand divestment. workers.org A student-led organization called the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign is fighting to dismantle the prison-industrial complex, starting with their own school's administration. Research has exposed that portions of Harvard University's $39 billion endowment are invested in the notorious prison profiteers GEO Group and Core Civic. The website of the campaign, . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2020-09-04). Biden's platform for workers: Labor law-breakers to jail. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —A $15 federal minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, no trade pacts like the job-losing old NAFTA, support for public schools and teachers, repeal of so-called "Right To Work" laws. And enacting the Protect the Right to Organize Act with a twist: Real tough penalties for labor law-breakers, including "criminal penalties" for repeat …

2020-09-05: News Headlines

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-09-05). Where was Osama bin Laden on September 11, 2001? globalresearch.ca On September 10. 2001, Osama was in a Pakistani military hospital in Rawalpindi, courtesy of America's indefectible ally Pakistan…

Michael Welch (2020-09-05). Does 9/11 Still Matter? Conversations with Richard Gage and Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca First published on September 9, 2017 | Nineteen years ago next week, people in the United States got jolted out of their complacency and sense of security when two airplanes struck the Twin Towers, resulting in the collapse of those buildings, …

RT (2020-09-05). Unexplained rock-melting forces buried deep underground cause powerful quakes along infamous San Andreas fault. rt.com Mysterious rock-melting forces buried much deeper below the Earth's crust than previously believed are the impetus for earthquakes along a notorious segment of the San Andreas fault in California, according to new research. | Experts in earthquake physics took a bottom-up approach to figuring out the cause of tremors along the infamous continental fault that runs through the Golden State. Along a particularly troublesome section of the fault they found that excitations buried much deeper than where quakes are typically monitored were the cause of major instabilities that provoke earthquakes. | "Most of Califor…

Global Research News (2020-09-05). Selected Articles: Covid-Gate, The Political Virus. globalresearch.ca By The COVID pandemic and economic collapse have highlighted the race and class inequalities in our society. With more than 35 million jobs lost, millions …

MST (2020-09-05). Economy, education and politics. zcomm.org The pandemic has accelerated the consequences of the crisis on people, the forms of labor exploitation and natural goods…

Luca Valera, Paulina Ramos, Marcelo Barrientos, Fernando Altermatt, Sergio Ruiz, Rommy von Bernhardi, Mauricio Cuello (2020-09-05). [Correspondence] Clinical research in Chile: do not block the way of inquiry. thelancet.com Clinical research in Chile has grown rapidly during the past 20 years because of various research studies that were conceived and done by Chilean researchers, or through multicentre clinical trials. Nevertheless, clinical research in the areas of neurodegenerative diseases, dementia, or those involving people with mental disabilities has been impeded by the enactment of Law 20.584 in 2012.1 This law regulates people's rights and duties concerning actions associated with their health care. Article 28 of this law states: "No person with a mental or intellectual disability, and who cannot express his or her will, ma…

David K Evans, Amina Mendez Acosta (2020-09-05). [Correspondence] Lifting bans on pregnant girls in school. thelancet.com The debate about whether to permit girls to attend school after becoming pregnant has been in the headlines in Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and elsewhere.1 Advocates for permitting girls to remain in school affirm that education is a human right.2 Critics propose that permitting girls to return might encourage more adolescent pregnancy, even as countries seek to reduce adolescent childbearing.3 Evidence on the consequences of girls returning to school after they become pregnant is limited, and identifying the effect on subsequent outcomes can be challenging.

Geoff Watts (2020-09-05). [Obituary] Maria Angela Brito de Sousa. thelancet.com Immunologist and leader in science. Born in Lisbon, Portugal, on Oct 17, 1939, she died there of COVID-19 on April 14, 2020, aged 80 years.

yenisafak (2020-09-05). Iran schools re-open despite concerns over spread of virus. yenisafak.com Schools in Iran re-opened to 15 million students on Saturday after a seven-month closure despite concerns over increased spread of the novel coronavirus in the country."This year, we shoulder a heavier burden of responsibility toward our students," said President Hassan Rouhani, who oversaw the opening of schools in a video conference broadcast live on state television.Education and health are equally important to society, he said, but added that parents would not be forced to send their children back to school.Iranian media said that seminaries also reopened on Saturday to about 50,000 students.Several medical p…

Andrew Korybko (2020-09-04). Is the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) (Australia, India, Japan, US) Intent of Provoking Proxy War with China in the Solomon Islands? globalresearch.ca The leader of the Solomon Islands province of Malaita announced earlier this week that his region will seek independence from the central government due to its disagreement with the capital over the latter's recognition of Beijing last year as the …

Andrew Korybko (2020-09-04). Is the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) (US, Australia, India, Japan) Intent on Provoking Proxy War with China in the Solomon Islands? globalresearch.ca The leader of the Solomon Islands province of Malaita announced earlier this week that his region will seek independence from the central government due to its disagreement with the capital over the latter's recognition of Beijing last year as the …

Ted Kelly (2020-09-04). Prison-industrial complex: Harvard students demand divestment. workers.org A student-led organization called the Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign is fighting to dismantle the prison-industrial complex, starting with their own school's administration. Research has exposed that portions of Harvard University's $39 billion endowment are invested in the notorious prison profiteers GEO Group and Core Civic. The website of the campaign, . . . |

Mark Gruenberg (2020-09-04). Biden's platform for workers: Labor law-breakers to jail. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —A $15 federal minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, no trade pacts like the job-losing old NAFTA, support for public schools and teachers, repeal of so-called "Right To Work" laws. And enacting the Protect the Right to Organize Act with a twist: Real tough penalties for labor law-breakers, including "criminal penalties" for repeat …

RT (2020-09-04). THAT's racist: California professor suspended, students offered emotional 'support' to remedy 'harmful impact' of CHINESE word. rt.com A communications professor at the University of Southern California has been reassigned after using a common Chinese filler word during a lecture, which black students complained sounded like a racial slur in English. | During a recent online lecture at the USC Marshall School of Business, Professor Greg Patton was explaining that Mandarin Chinese uses "that" the same way Americans use "like" or "um," as filler. | The word in Mandarin is "nega," and Patton's lecture prompted someone to complain that it sounded too much like an English derogatory term for people of African descent. | I cannot believe this is re…

RT (2020-09-04). On the road to herd immunity? Nearly 3 million people in England have coronavirus antibodies. rt.com Health officials announced a positive development in the UK's battle against Covid-19 on Friday, as new statistics revealed that almost three million people in England have developed coronavirus antibodies. | The fresh analysis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found that, if everyone in the country was tested, around one in every 17 people in England would have antibodies for the virus that has claimed over 40,000 lives in the UK, according to official figures. | The latest household infection survey suggests that about 2.7 million people in England have developed some degree of immunity to Covid-19…

Betsey Piette (2020-09-04). Break the City Line education divide in Philadelphia. workers.org Philadelphia Inspired by their collective experiences during June protests for justice for George Floyd, high school students from both sides of the "City Line Divide" are challenging the education inequity between city and suburban schools here. City Line Avenue has historically served as a dividing line between West Philadelphia and . . . |

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-09-04). France Aims to Counter Turkish Influence in the Middle East by Gaining a Foothold in Lebanon. globalresearch.ca French President Emmanuel Macron has visited Lebanon for the second time in less than a month following the terrible blasts that destroyed Port Beirut. Macron first visited Lebanon on August 6, two days after a warehouse with 2,750 tons of …

_____ (2020-09-04). Scheer Intellience: The 1918 'Spanish Flu' Was A US Export. popularresistance.org Don't say we weren't warned. As President Trump's subversion of science wreaks havoc with American society, the reappearance on bestseller lists of John Barry's 2004 classic work, "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History," is a reminder that presidential irrationality is not unprecedented. On this week's installment of "Scheer Intelligence," Barry joins host Robert Scheer to compare the two pandemics and the United States' response to each. | Back in 1918, Woodrow Wilson was deprived of the jingoism card played by Trump in labeling the current worldwide scourge "the China virus" becaus…

WSWS (2020-09-04). For a general strike against the reopening of schools! wsws.org The Parti de l'égalité socialiste calls on teachers, youth and workers in France and internationally to oppose the reopening of schools.

South Front (2020-09-04). Video: Israeli Forces Rain Down Missiles on Syria. globalresearch.ca The Israeli Air Force conducted a second round of missiles strikes on Syria in less than a week. | Late on September 2, Israeli warplanes launched missiles at the T4 airport in the province of Homs. According to Syria's state media, …

Nauman Sadiq (2020-09-04). Will Trump Administration Abandon NATO Alliance if Re-elected? globalresearch.ca Michael Crowley "This summer, Mr. Trump's former national security …

teleSUR (2020-09-04). US COVID-19 Deaths Projected to Double to 400,000+ By January. telesurenglish.net Deaths could be reduced by 30% if Americans wore face masks, as epidemiologists advise. Yet, mask-wearing is declining, and due to seasonality and the public's lower risk perception, the current death rate of 850 per day could more than triple, the independent research institute noted. | RELATED: | Previously projecting 317,697 deaths by December 1, the institute, whose model has been cited by the White House Coronavirus Task…

Carol Brouillet (2020-09-04). The 16th Annual 9/11 Truth Film Festival. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-09-04). South Korean doctors end strike after deal with government. peoplesdispatch.org The Democratic Party government in South Korea signed a deal with the Korea Medical Association (KMA) on September 4, Friday, ending a two-week long doctors' strike in the country. A crucial part of the deal was the government agreeing to put on hold its controversial healthcare reforms during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Thousands of doctors, medical interns and trainees and medical students in South Korea went on strike from August 23, protesting the Democratic Party's healthcare reform plan introduced earlier this year. The uproar over the proposed reforms came at a time when the nation was grappling…

teleSUR (2020-09-04). Global Warming Could Make Viruses More Lethal, Study. telesurenglish.net Switzerland's Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology on Friday said that global warming could make viruses more lethal and harder to control. The American Chemical Society's Environmental Science and Technology journal published the study. | RELATED: | "This implies that microbial water quality may be worse in warm regions, and the health risks posed by viruses will be greater," said environmental chemistry prof…

WSWS (2020-09-04). Quebec teachers denounce unions for their complicity in reckless school reopening. wsws.org Across the province, workers, parents and medical experts have expressed deep concern about the government's school reopening plans.

International Criminal Court (2020-09-04). International Criminal Court (ICC) Condemns US Economic Sanctions. Washington's Interference in ICC Judicial and Prosecutorial Independence. globalresearch.ca The International Criminal Court ("ICC" or "Court") condemns the economic sanctions imposed by the US earlier today on the Court's Prosecutor and a member of her Office. | The new measures, announced pursuant to the US Executive Order 13928 dated 11 …

Maria Cheng (2020-09-04). UN Says New Polio Outbreak in Sudan Caused by Oral Vaccine. globalresearch.ca These are excerpts of a an AP Report | The World Health Organization says a new polio outbreak in Sudan is linked to an ongoing vaccine-sparked epidemic in Chad — a week after the U.N. health agency declared the African continent …

Vyshakh T (2020-09-04). South African health workers demand safe working conditions. peoplesdispatch.org The National Education, Health and Allied Workers' Union of South Africa warned that its 200,000 public workers will strike on Sept. 10 if their concerns are not addressed.

Tomoyuki Tachikawa (2020-09-04). Focus: Fears Grow over China's Possible Massive Sales of U.S. Debt as Weapon. globalresearch.ca With Sino-U.S. tensions escalating over several security and economic issues, fears are mounting in the financial markets that China may massively sell U.S. government debt it holds as a weapon to choke the world's biggest economy. | If Beijing, which owns …

WSWS (2020-09-04). Coronavirus assistance for university students in Germany—a calculated fraud. wsws.org Since June, angry and indignant posts have been mounting on social media accusing the government of ignorance and inaction, disregarding the needs of roughly a million students in need of assistance.

Mubbasheer Ahmed, Shailesh Advani, Axel Moreira, Sarah Zoretic, John Martinez, Kevin Chorath, Sebastian Acosta, Rija Naqvi, Finn Burmeister-Morton, Fiona Burmeister, Aina Tarriela, Matthew Petershack, Mary Evans, Ansel Hoang, Karthik Rajasekaran, Sunil Ahuja, Alvaro Moreira (2020-09-04). [Research Paper] Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: A systematic review. thelancet.com Multisystem inflammatory syndrome is a new pediatric disease associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that is dangerous and potentially lethal. With prompt recognition and medical attention, most children will survive but the long-term outcomes from this condition are presently unknown.

Staff (2020-09-04). Less Than Half of Jobs Lost at Start of Pandemic Have Been Recovered. truthout.org The August employment report showed the economy again adding back jobs at a strong rate. The reported gain of 1,371,000 somewhat overstates underlying strength since it includes the addition of 238,000 temporary Census jobs. However, even without these jobs, the gain would still be over 1.1 million. The unemployment rate dropped 1.8 percentage point to 8.4 percent, while the employment-to-population ratio (EPOP) rose 1.4 percentage point to 56.5 percent. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics warns that due…

yenisafak (2020-09-04). Coronavirus pandemic smashes tourism sector in EU. yenisafak.com The tourism services sector in the EU fell by 75% in June on a yearly basis, while the total services sector posted a decrease of 16.4% due to the COVID-19 crisis, the 27-member bloc's statistical office said on Friday."Among the detailed sectors within the tourism sector, travel agencies and tour operators fell the most (-83.6%), followed by air transport (-73.8%), accommodation (-66.4%) and restaurants (-38.4%)," Eurostat noted.Recovery was seen in June versus April, the peak period of the pandemic, due to the reopening of economic activities.Since originating in China last December, the pandemic has infected m…

yenisafak (2020-09-04). US economy gains 1.4M jobs; unemployment falls to 8.4%. yenisafak.com The unemployment rate in the US dropped to 8.4% in August as the economy added 1.4 million jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday.Data reflected the continued resumption of economic activity that was curtailed due to the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to contain it, which pushed job losses to the Great Depression-era levels.The unemployment rate declined by 1.8% from 10.2% in July and the number of jobless Americans fell by 2.8 million to 13.6 million.August marks four consecutive months of the decline in both areas.The unemployment rate fell below 10% for the first time since March."In August, an inc…

WSWS (2020-09-04). Australia: International students and foreign visa holders face major social crisis. wsws.org Some 61 percent of international students and other foreign visa holders were relying on savings which they said would be exhausted in a matter of weeks.

Kenny Stancil, staff writer (2020-09-04). Trump Mocks Biden Mask-Wearing Just as New Research Shows Stricter Compliance Could Save 120,000 Lives in US Over Next 4 Months. commondreams.org "These are not numbers or statistics but family members, friends, and loved ones." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-09-03). Amazon Rainforest and Brazil's Pantanal May Disappear Due to Illegal Deforestation and Arson. globalresearch.ca In Brazil, a serious environmental crisis is approaching. The Amazon Forest and the Brazilian Pantanal are suffering the direct consequences of deforestation and irregular exploitation of their natural resources, which are already beginning to threaten the very existence of these …

Andrew Korybko (2020-09-03). Putin Didn't Fall for Lukashenko's Claim that Poland Intends to Annex Belarus' Grodno Region. globalresearch.ca Lukashenko's entirely speculative claim last week about Poland's supposed intention to annex Belarus' Grodno region was nothing more than an attempt to trick Putin into "pulling a Crimea" by compelling him to comply with Russia's CSTO mutual defense obligations to …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-09-03). Video: Covid-Gate, The Political Virus. globalresearch.ca The national economies of 193 countries, member states of the United Nations were ordered to close down on March 11, 2020. The order came from above, from Wall Street, the World Economic Forum, the billionaire foundations. And corrupt politicians throughout …

Special to People's World (2020-09-03). Perry Mason and the Case of the Careless Remake. peoplesworld.org Dennis Broe, noted film critic from New York and now writing from Paris, recently reviewed the new Perry Mason HBO series set in 1930s Los Angeles. As a special presentation with the author, the Marxist Education Project and Institute for the Radical Imagination present an extended discussion on the politics of the Perry Mason phenomenon …

PAI (2020-09-03). 1 of every 5 U.S. workers on jobless benefits, millions likely uncounted. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—More than 29 million people received jobless benefits in the week ending August 15, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported, some 2.2 million more than the week before. That increase includes state-provided benefits and recipients of federal checks. But in the following week, ending August 22, actual new claims for state-only benefits rose from 825,761 …

Jake Johnston — Kira Paulemon (2020-09-03). State Department Awarded Haiti Contract to Politically Connected Security Firm. counterpunch.org Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. | Kira Paulemon is an International Program Intern at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C.

RT (2020-09-03). Athens & Ankara agree to talks, Stoltenberg says, amid maritime tensions between NATO allies. rt.com Greece and Turkey will meet for talks to reduce the likelihood of clashes in the Eastern Mediterranean and to establish deconfliction mechanisms, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has announced. | The two states are NATO allies, but have been locked in a naval standoff for a month, after Ankara sent a research vessel into disputed waters near Cyprus. The vessel was launched after Greece signed a drilling agreement with Egypt, a move Ankara claims is designed to force it out of the energy-rich waters of the Eastern Mediterranean, even though Turkey signed a similar agreement with Libya last year. | With the Turkish N…

RT (2020-09-03). Extensive Russian research project suggests you CANNOT get Covid-19 twice unless you have a serious underlying medical condition. rt.com After claims of double infections added to the prevailing anxiety around Covid-19, Russian scientists say it's not possible to be sick twice from the virus if you have no comorbidities, such as allergies, diabetes, and obesity | As reported by business daily Kommersant, researchers at the private DNKOM laboratory examined 1,512 people from the Russian cities of Moscow, Ryazan, Kursk, and Nizhnevartovsk, and concluded that, after 74 days of observation, there is no chance of most people becoming sick again from Covid-19. | The study showed that a second infection could only affect patients with underlying issue…

Staff (2020-09-03). The pandemic is reshaping our sex lives. Is cybersex our future? therealnews.com As school sex education programs have been cut back and replaced with an abstinence-only standard under the Trump-Pence administration, the LGBTQI community has picked up the slack developing curricula and resources to guide young adults into sex-positive and safe sex life choices.

Ben Sears (2020-09-03). Elected officials and unions urge HEROES Act passage; blast Trump and McConnell. peoplesworld.org PHILADELPHIA—Lowell Elementary School resembles many of the over 200 public schools in Philadelphia—brick and mortar surrounded by cracked sidewalks and an urban neighborhood, where in some cases, generations of family members have attended. Lowell, however, happens to be the school where Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Penn., started his education and where his mother worked for years …

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-09-03). Power Rivalry in the East Mediterranean Continues Despite COVID-19 Pandemic. globalresearch.ca The summer of 2020 will certainly be remembered for many events, and most of them unrelated to the 21st century's first pandemic. In the East Mediterranean, four key events stand out among others this summer — tensions and hostilities between …

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-09-03). Lifting Embargo on American Non-lethal Arms to Cyprus Is Aimed Against Russia. US Militarization of the Eastern Mediterranean. globalresearch.ca Washington announced the lifting of the embargo to sell American-made non-lethal equipment to the Republic of Cyprus. US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, told Cypriot President Nikos Anastasiadis over the phone on Tuesday that Washington decided to lift the …

Philip Giraldi (2020-09-03). Pompeo in Jerusalem: And the Walls Came Tumblin' Down. globalresearch.ca There has been