(2020-10-25). The Battle to Suppress Hydroxychloroquine as a Cheap and Effective Drug for the Treatment of Covid-19. globalresearch.ca The campaign against HCQ is carried out through slanderous political statements, media smears, not to mention an authoritative peer reviewed "evaluation" published on May 22nd by The Lancet, which was based on fake figures and test trials.
(2020-10-25). Will the Next Head of the WTO Impose a Gates-Davos "Great Reset" Agenda? globalresearch.ca It is all but certain that the next head of the influential World Trade Organization (WTO) will be an African by birth and a woman. But neither is what makes the all-but certain naming of Nigerian-born Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala cause for …
(2020-10-25). "Democracy" vs. COVID: A No-Go. The Great Reset is the Antidote of Democracy. globalresearch.ca On 21 October 2020, the German Press Agency (dpa) reports that Germany pledges NATO soldiers for possible Covid-19 operations: | "German soldiers could be sent on crisis missions to other NATO and partner countries during the second wave of the Corona …
(2020-10-25). Video: Azerbaijani Forces Rush to Capture Lachin Corridor from Retreating Armenians. globalresearch.ca The Armenian defense in the southern part of the Nagorno-Karabakh region seems to be collapsing as the advancing Azerbaijani forces are about to reach the strategic Lachin corridor. | On October 23, Azerbaijani troops were filmed near the village of Muradxanlƒ±, …
(2020-10-25). 'Regional consensus can drive peace in Afghanistan'. yenisafak.com Consensus among regional countries can drive peace in Afghanistan with people of the war-torn country in the driver's seat, speakers said at an international virtual conference said."The Afghan peace process seems long, [and] complex with the bumpy road," said Oguzhan Ertugrul, Turkey's ambassador in Kabul, at the conference hosted by Ankara-based Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA) on Friday.In February, the US reached a deal with Taliban to end the war. The US promised to withdraw all troops within 14 months if the Taliban uphold the deal. The deal followed the intra-Afghan dialogue in…
(2020-10-25). 605 Years Ago: Medieval Inspiration to Fight The Corona World Order Today. globalresearch.ca "The truth is, the technocrats have no intention of ever letting us go back to normal," writes Dr. Joseph Mercola in
(2020-10-25). The 2020 Election: Nothing Will Change. globalresearch.ca With the first of three scheduled presidential debates (aka brawl) between President Donald Trump and his opponent, former vice-president Joe Biden, now history, the pundits will fall all over themselves to determine what it all means. Who won? Did …
(2020-10-25). US-China Confrontation: The Hijacking of the United Nations Security Council Continues. globalresearch.ca Former OPCW Director-General Bustani Banned From Speaking At UN Security Council | October 5: Western Delegations Oppose Presentation of Evidence that OPCW Report Of Chemical Weapons Attack on Douma, Syria May Have Been Falsified. | October 21: In New York Post Article, …
(2020-10-25). Freedom of Choice: the European Court of Justice Wants to Keep Cash. globalresearch.ca Whether it be because the EU is staying true to its pledge to protect the freedom and well-being of its citizens, or because it wishes to increase its relevance and importance in the mind of Europeans, the matter is of …
(2020-10-25). Russia and United States Get Closer on Signing Nuclear Agreement. globalresearch.ca Russia and the United States, after several months of moving forth and back with negotiations, have finally moved closer to agree on extending the controversial nuclear treaty for one year. The one-year short-term agreement was on the initiative, or better …
(2020-10-25). Paul Robeson and the Battle for the Soul of America. globalresearch.ca "Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice" | Paul Robeson, 1937 | America today stands at a …
(2020-10-25). COVID-19 as a Weapon. The Crushing of the Disposable Working Class — by Design. globalresearch.ca This article was originally crossposted in April 2020. | The arrogance and brutality of the ruling class — is nothing less than breathtaking. | Let's begin. |
(2020-10-25). Why Black Families Are Choosing To Keep Their Kids Remote. popularresistance.org Mississippi – Yolanda Logan, the parent engagement coordinator for the Oxford School District, spent two weeks in July making home visits — some announced, some cold-calls — to check in on the students educators had been most worried about when schools shut down in the spring. Some had test scores at the bottom at their class. Some belonged to families who had been struggling to make ends meet before the pandemic struck and devastated the economy. | Logan asked the students, and the adults in their lives, how they were holding up and what support they needed.
(2020-10-25). Majority of doctors believe the tier system will have little to no impact on coronavirus spread. thecanary.co More than a third of doctors in England feel the government's tier system will have no impact on efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19), while almost half (46%) said they thought the system would only work to a slight extent. This is according to a wide-ranging survey from the British Medical Association (BMA). | The research also raises concerns about the confidence of healthcare staff for the autumn/winter period. More than half said they're "quite anxious" about it. | "Enormous scale" of challenges: | The findings show the "enormous scale of the challenges" facing the NHS into winter,…
(2020-10-25). French president encouraged Islamophobia: Pakistan PM. yenisafak.com The Pakistani prime minster has added his voice to the growing criticism of the French president for "encouraging Islamophobia" following the killing of a teacher who showed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad to his pupils. | "Hallmark of a leader is he unites human beings… rather than dividing them. This is a time when President [Emmanuel] Macron could have put healing touch, and denied space to extremists rather than creating further polarisation and marginalisation that inevitably leads to radicalization," Imran Khan said in a series of tweets on Sunday. | "It is unfortunate that he has chosen to encourage Isl…
(2020-10-24). The Covid-19 Numbers Game: The "Second Wave" is Based on Fake Statistics. globalresearch.ca "Red zones", travel bans, quarantines, "red lists". A "Second Wave". Millions of people are lining up for Covid-19 testing. The "Numbers Game". How statistics and "estimates" are used by politicians to justify the closure of the national economy and the derogation of fundamental civil rights.
(2020-10-24). Coronavirus: Corporate Plunder and Hope for Political Change. globalresearch.ca "It destroys peoples lives! And it destroys the nation-state! And eventually, what is happening is a structure whereby the financial establishment takes over the structures of government." | — Professor Michel Chossudovsky (from this week's interview) | LISTEN TO THE SHOW |
(2020-10-24). Israel Lobby Spreads More Lies About Palestine Groups At NYU. popularresistance.org New York University has agreed to settle with the US Department of Education over allegations that the university had not appropriately responded to claims of anti-Semitism. | Two attorneys filed the complaint last year on behalf of a student who alleged that she faced "two years of extreme anti-Semitism on the NYU campus which has created an intolerable and unlawful hostile atmosphere for Jewish students." | Echoing previous attempts by Israel advocates to silence Palestinian rights activists on campuses, the complaint accused Students for Justice in Palestine of creating the "hostile" climate due to the group's…
(2020-10-24). Universal mask-wearing would save nearly 130,000 lives by spring 2021, study finds. nationofchange.org The researchers estimated what the death toll until March 2021 would be for each state if mask-wearing and social distancing mandates are put in place, versus if they are not.
(2020-10-24). Chicago officials plan to reopen schools for 20,000 students. wsws.org The plan to shift from online learning to a daily in-person schedule was announced as Illinois' seven-day average COVID-19 testing positivity rate surpassed five percent for the first time since early June.
(2020-10-24). Video: The Lockdown: Economic Hell on Earth is Coming, "They Are Killing Us" globalresearch.ca Gerald Celente, the popular publisher of The Trends Journal, is sounding the alarm on what he sees as a coming economic catastrophe. | "They are killing us," says Celente referring to the current lockdown of many businesses. | In the interview …
(2020-10-24). Coronavirus: Killer Virus or Common Flu. globalresearch.ca This is part one of a special series devoted to the global pandemic that has coordinated an unprecedented attack on lives and civil liberties everywhere. In this chapter, we have two guests concluding that the threat is not nearly catastrophic …
(2020-10-24). Video: Second 2020 Presidential Debate: Joe Biden and Donald Trump. globalresearch.ca …
(2020-10-24). The Third "Open" Presidential Debate. globalresearch.ca …
(2020-10-24). Trump's Attacks on Science Have Scarred Our Public Institutions. zcomm.org Trump is continuing a long GOP tradition of warring against science…
(2020-10-24). Herd Immunity Is Folly — So Who's Funding This Bad Science? zcomm.org Links between an anti-lockdown declaration and a libertarian thinktank suggest a hidden agenda…
(2020-10-24). S.F. Votes 10/23/20-11/3/20 daily; Young People Changing the World. indybay.org San Francisco's early voting is now daily including 2 weekends, from 10/23/20 to 11/3/20. Young people are turning out in record numbers in the contested states, and need to keep doing so as the young outnumber the old, to Dump Trump and his minions all the way down the ballot. See circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/absente……
(2020-10-24). HEAT CCSF Collective Gives a "Report Card" That Flunks the CCSF Board of Trustees. indybay.org San Francisco HEAT Higher Education Action Team and the CCSF Collective present their | Report Card on the performance of the San Francisco City | College Board of Trustees.
(2020-10-24). [Comment] Offline: Science and politics in the era of COVID-19. thelancet.com "How can we follow the science when scientists haven't the foggiest." "'Big mouth' scientists losing trust of Ministers." Headlines such as these are increasingly common in UK newspapers. Scientists are no longer seen as providing impartial, independent advice to government. They are seen as being responsible for crashing economies, driving up unemployment, and ruining livelihoods. Chris Whitty, England's Chief Medical Officer, and Patrick Vallance, Chief Scientific Adviser, have received the sharpest criticism.
(2020-10-24). [World Report] US election 2020: research and health institutions. thelancet.com How will the NIH, CDC, and FDA change if President Donald Trump wins a second term or if his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, defeats him? Susan Jaffe reports from Washington, DC.
(2020-10-24). [Editorial] Reimagining long-term care. thelancet.com A dichotomous narrative surrounds ageing in the 21st century. On the one hand, there is increasing research and recognition of healthy ageing, and a recognition that age is not synonymous with ill health. On the other hand, there is the fear of looming economic costs and providing care for increasing numbers of older people with increasingly complex needs. These two narratives are hard to marry. Even the name long-term care (given to the latter narrative) is at odds with a short-term neoliberal political economy and, as a result, is generally low on government agendas.
(2020-10-24). [Comment] Building a tuberculosis-free world while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. thelancet.com In March, 2019, the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis1 highlighted the opportunity to build a tuberculosis-free world. After years of neglect of this disease, the UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis in September, 2018, made ending tuberculosis a global priority; global leaders committed to important steps, including ambitious country-specific tuberculosis case-finding and prevention targets, and a revitalised research agenda.2 The Lancet Commission concluded that the prospect of a tuberculosis-free world was a realistic objective that could be achieved with sufficient accountability and resources, and detailed…
(2020-10-24). [Correspondence] Leonardo da Vinci has been misinterpreted. thelancet.com About 1506—08, Leonardo da Vinci's studies of the brain culminated in filling the ventricles of an ox with melted wax, a pioneer accomplishment in medical science. An otherwise excellent review in The Lancet claimed that these drawings of the casted ventricles show the interventricular foramen of Monro and the paired lateral ventricles in a correct manner.1 This misconception has repeatedly been stated in the literature.2—4…
(2020-10-24). [Research Paper] Diagnosis of COVID-19 by analysis of breath with gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry – a feasibility study. thelancet.com These two studies independently indicate that patients with COVID-19 can be rapidly distinguished from patients with other conditions at first healthcare contact. The identity of the marker compounds is consistent with COVID-19 derangement of breath-biochemistry by ketosis, gastrointestinal effects, and inflammatory processes. Development and validation of this approach may allow rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 in the coming endemic flu seasons.
(2020-10-24). France Recalls Its Ambassador to Turkey as Erdogan Claims Macron Needs 'Mental Checks'. sputniknews.com The development follows Turkish President Erdogan's harsh reaction towards new measures that his French counterpart announced in response to the beheading of a school teacher by a Muslim refugee for showing Prophet Muhammad cartoons to pupils in a Paris suburb.
(2020-10-24). Headteachers 'speechless' after ministers offer food standards advice during school meals battle. thecanary.co Headteachers have been left angry by a letter from ministers reminding them to provide pupils with nutritious food in school. It comes just days after MPs rejected a campaign to extend free meals to children during the holidays. | "Speechless": | The letter came from children's minister Vicky Ford and junior health minister Jo Churchill. It was sent to school leaders on the morning of Friday 23 October to encourage them to offer a healthy and nutritious hot meal to their pupils during term-time. Heads received the letter two days after a Labour motion to offer free school meals to poorer children during h…
(2020-10-24). New Research Shows Masks Are Helping Hold Down COVID Death Rates Significantly. truthout.org The chances of dying from COVID-19 have fallen precipitously since the pandemic began, according to two new peer-reviewed studies. | One Patients treated by NYU's health system had a 25.6% chance of dying when the pandemic began but that number has fallen to 7.6%…
(2020-10-24). Australia: University of Melbourne IYSSE holds successful AGM despite anti-democratic measures. wsws.org Held amid a COVID-19 lockdown, the meeting reflected the growing radicalisation among youth and students.
(2020-10-24). 'We're Rounding the Corner Beautifully,' Trump Lies Just Before US Hits Another Record: 85,000+ New Covid-19 Cases. commondreams.org "Trump's lies and his rejection of science have cost us tens of thousands of lives. We need a new president," said Sen. Bernie Sanders. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-10-23). "It's Criminal": Biden Slams Trump as Gov't Can't Find Parents of 545 Children Separated at Border. democracynow.org 
During the second and final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, moderator Kristen Welker asked Trump and Biden about immigration and family separation. Trump deflected questions during the debate, repeatedly stating that the Obama-Biden administration "built the cages" and falsely claiming that kids seeking asylum in the U.S. are "well taken care of." However, the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy "took children away from their families at the border," says Erika Andiola, advocacy chief at RAICES Action, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. "He's not owning up t…
(2020-10-23). Syrian Refugees Have Become a Tool of Duplicitous Politics. globalresearch.ca Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria the issue of Syrian refugees and internally displace has been the subject of countless articles and reports with international humanitarian organizations and countries involved in the Syrian conflict shifting responsibility for the …
(2020-10-23). Protests Against President Iván Duque Increase in Colombia. globalresearch.ca In Colombia, popular dissatisfaction with President Iván Duque's policies is growing day after day. Popular protests started late last year and peaked between September and October this year. During this period, the number of claims increased significantly, mainly due …
(2020-10-23). Turkey and Greece agree to call off war games: Nato chief. middleeasteye.net 
Turkey and Greece agree to call off war games: Nato chief | Standoff over gas exploration in contested waters had seen Nato neighbours plan rival war games and ramp up rhetoric | Fri, 10/23/2020 – 22: 02 | Tensions flared in August when Ankara sent Oruc Reis research vessel into waters also claimed by Greece and Cyprus (AFP/File photo) | Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Frid…
(2020-10-23). Is France's response to Samuel Paty murder deepening divisions? middleeasteye.net 
Is France's response to Samuel Paty murder deepening divisions? | Hostile political rhetoric in aftermath of teacher's murder pits Muslims against the rest of French society, advocates warn | Fri, 10/23/2020 – 11: 32 | A French police officer stands next to a portrait of slain French teacher Samuel Paty in the city of Montpellier on 21 October 2020 (AFP) | A week after the gruesome murder of a school…
(2020-10-23). 19yo man with van full of guns & explosives arrested, was plotting to assassinate Joe Biden. rt.com 
Newly-released court documents show a man was arrested in Kannapolis, North Carolina in possession of firearms and explosives. He had reportedly researched how to kill presidential candidate Joe Biden. | A van belonging to Alexander Hillel Treisman, 19, was found at a Kannapolis bank filled with guns, books on making bombs, explosive materials, multiple driver's licenses, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. | The van was abandoned and towed at the request of the bank, and then subsequently searched by police officers. | Court docs say Alexander Treisman left this van at a Kannapolis Fifth Third Bank.
(2020-10-23). 'Opposite' of Vantablack? Scientists create WHITEST paint ever, which reflects 95.5% of light & keeps buildings cool. rt.com 
Engineers have created a paint capable of reflecting 95.5 percent of sunlight back into space, while keeping a building cooler than the ambient temperature, which might one day dramatically reduce the need for air conditioning. | In research undertaken at Purdue University, in Indiana, engineers have produced the remarkable acrylic paint. It makes use of passive radiative cooling technology, which keeps surfaces 10 degrees Celsius below the ambient temperature at night and at least 1.7 degrees Celsius below the ambient temperature at noon. | "It's very counterintuitive for a surface in direct sunlight to be co…
(2020-10-23). US sanctions Russian CHEMICAL research institute, saying it's 'connected' to Triton computer malware. rt.com 
A Moscow research institute involved in developing S-300 air defense missiles has been blacklisted by the US Treasury Department over alleged "connections" to malware used "against US partners in the Middle East." | The Central Scientific Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (TsNIIKhM, or –¶–ù–ò–ò–•–ú) is "connected to the destructive Triton malware," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
(2020-10-23). US sanctions Russian CHEMICAL research institute, saying it's 'connected' to Triton computer malware used in foreign cyber attacks. rt.com A Moscow research institute involved in developing high-tech S-300 air defense missiles has been blacklisted by the US Treasury Department over alleged "connections" to malware used "against US partners in the Middle East." | The Central Scientific Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (TsNIIKhM, or –¶–ù–ò–ò–•–ú) is "connected to the destructive Triton malware," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin
(2020-10-23). Biden Appeals to Bosnian Muslim and Albanian Voters. Reveal Democrats' Plans in the Balkans. globalresearch.ca U.S. Democrat Presidential Candidate Joe Biden has been on a whirlwind campaign in an attempt to defeat President Donald Trump in next month's election. Published policy papers has shown Biden's strong support for Greece, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Albania …
(2020-10-23). The Elusive "October Surprise". Iran Seeks to Confuse the United States? globalresearch.ca Those who have been waiting for the elusive October Surprise that will upset the apple cart on election day are admittedly running out of time. The media's unwillingness to even consider that the antics of