(2020-11-04). Why Will Bulgaria Veto North Macedonia's EU Accession but Did Not Block Its NATO Membership? globalresearch.ca Bulgaria's veto against North Macedonia's accession into the European Union (EU) remains very likely despite initial speculations that it would not obstruct the former Yugoslav country from joining the bloc. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva said that her country would …
(2020-11-04). Union leaders say, 'Count every vote,' as members go marching and more. peoplesworld.org 
PROTECT THE RESULTS — FIND AN EVENT NEAR YOU When it comes to workers' reaction to the outcome of the 2020 election, where you stand seems to depend on where you sit. If you're a national union leader, such as AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Communications Workers President Chris Shelton, Teachers President Randi Weingarten—-beforehand—-and Office and …
(2020-11-04). Amazon Bans Book Exposing US COVID-19 Chaos. popularresistance.org A decision by the Amazon company to block a book focused on a scientific and cooperative approach to COVID-19 amounts to corporate information control operating at a new intensity. This censorship occurs while almost every form of U.S. media permits and promotes racist, unscientific and thoroughly confusing information. | The censored book is "Capitalism on a Ventilator: The Impact of COVID-19 in China & the U.S." This anthology of 55 articles by a broad range of social justice authors discuss the importance of free health care, social distancing, testing, protective equipment, education and social mobilizat…
(2020-11-04). Trump's Executive Order to Manipulate the Minds of US Schoolchildren. globalresearch.ca On November 2, Trump signed an executive order that aims to manipulate the minds of young children. | "We will state the truth in full, without apology (sic)," he said, adding: | "We declare that the United States of America is the …
(2020-11-04). Stock Market Indicator in US Presidential Elections. globalresearch.ca Since 1928, rising stock market valuations favored incumbent US presidents 86% of the time, according to Bloomberg News. Results this year are mixed. | Investment strategist Sam Stovall noted that in US presidential election years since 1944, rising equity prices from …
(2020-11-04). Video: Turkish Risk Investments in Local Conflicts and Prospects of Armenian Counter-offensive in Karabakh. globalresearch.ca In early November, the Azerbaijani-Turkish advance in the directions of the Lachin corridor and the town of Shusha in the Nagorno-Karabakh region slowed down. | The main factors are the fierce resistance of Armenian forces, the complicated terrain, deteriorating weather conditions …
(2020-11-04). Charter School Disinformation About "Choice" dissidentvoice.org Perhaps no other word is more central to charter school discourse than the word "choice." "Choice" is not only a central concept in charter school discourse but a persistent source of disinformation. Disinformation refers to the deliberate hiding of the real context and relations of things so as to disorient people and cause them to …
(2020-11-04). Wolves to Lose Protection. globalresearch.ca A final rule to remove the iconic species from the Endangered Species Act has now been published. Read more about the science and politics of wolf conservation. | *** | As expected the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today issued a
(2020-11-04). Saving our planet is our responsibility. nationofchange.org If, and it's a large ominous if, humanity is to reverse the damage, education and widespread environmental/social responsibility are essential.
(2020-11-04). A Little Recognized and Most Pervasive Form of Racism: The Economic Model of "Global Capitalism" globalresearch.ca According to "racist thinking", certain groups of people innately have inferior characteristics that make them undesirable, unworthy, and dispensable. The purveyors of racist views believe they, in contrast, are superior, exceptionally worthy, and indispensable. | There is a virtually unrecognized form …
(2020-11-04). Graduate Workers Condemn Saturday Police Escalation. popularresistance.org In a Sunday statement, Northwestern University Graduate Workers condemned the police escalation — including the pepper-spraying and shoving student protestors — at Saturday's NU Community Not Cops protest. | At least two participating NUGW members were pepper-sprayed, the group wrote, during the 20th straight day of demonstrations demanding that NU divest from law enforcement. | "Last night proved once again that it is heavily armed, militarized police who create and escalate violence," NUGW wrote.
(2020-11-04). Wild Conspiracy Theory? The Truth Behind the Biggest Threat to the 'War on Terror' Narrative. globalresearch.ca "If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it." — Julius Caesar | The illegal invasion of Libya, in which Britain was complicit and a British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee's
(2020-11-04). US-funded Thai Protests: iLaw. thealtworld.com iLaw is a US government-funded front petitioning the Thai government to have the entire Thai constitution rewritten and rewritten in such a way as to make it easier for US-backed opposition parties to get into power. | I cover iLaw's US government funding and why it seeks to change Thailand's constitution and how it threatens Thai-Chinese relations and ultimately Thailand's economic future. | landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2020/11/us-fu… | References: | Bangkok Post — Three parties want to rewrite charter: | (2020-11-04). Tax the Rich. School the Children. Pay the Teachers. counterpunch.org Olivia Pace worked in early childhood education. She loved her job. She loved her kids. Then Covid-19 hit and she was laid off. "I've worked in childcare since I was 15 — since I was a child myself," said Pace, who lives in Oregon's Multnomah County, the metro area around Portland. Preschool workers like Pace
(2020-11-04). COVID-19 Tracing Methods: United Nations Special Rapporteur Warns of Danger of "Intrusive Surveillance" globalresearch.ca On October 29, 2020, Joseph Cannataci, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy delivered an address to the General Assembly warning that "Widespread use of contact tracing technology to fight the Covid-19 pandemic has led to almost incessant …
(2020-11-04). Video: The Plot Against the President. globalresearch.ca In the 2020 documentary film, The Plot Against the President, filmmaker Amanda Milius examines the conspiracy to sabotage President Donald Trump. | "The true story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the President of the …
(2020-11-04). College funds support Imperial community throughout the pandemic. imperial.ac.uk In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the College has expanded and extended the hardship fund available to its staff and student community.
(2020-11-04). Unprecedented Move: The CDC Stops Tracking Influenza for 2020-21 Flu Season. globalresearch.ca I have been covering the fraud that happens every year with how the CDC tracks incidents and deaths due to the annual influenza for almost a decade now. | The numbers used each year to scare the public into getting the …
(2020-11-04). 'Corbyn as Much a Racist as Nelson Mandela,' Former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein Tells Online Rally. globalresearch.ca Jeremy Corbyn "is as much a racist or anti-semite as my former boss Nelson Mandela" and must be restored to membership of the Labour Party, former South African MP Andrew Feinstein told a rally in defence of the ex-Labour leader …
(2020-11-04). That Mask Is Giving You Lung Cancer. globalresearch.ca I happen to know a thing or two about masks and safety. Why? Because for 25 years I was the editor of an award-winning trade magazine called HazMat Management that covered such topics as pollution prevention and compliance with health …
(2020-11-04). 5G's Assault on Civil Rights: Let's Not Forfeit Local Power being Trapped into Surveillance. globalresearch.ca Having conquered, colonised and regimented cyberspace and its flow of data, driven away from us and in to orbit in secret stores, telecommunications companies are now looking to occupy public infrastructure with their next generation data network 5G. | Because 5G …
(2020-11-03). France and Turkey Not Embroiled in "Clash of Civilizations" but Rather Geopolitical Struggle. globalresearch.ca The horrific terrorist attacks in France and the confrontation that erupted between Paris and Ankara has questioned alliances and changed the geopolitical landscape in the East Mediterranean and Africa.
(2020-11-03). Egypt court orders release of more than 600 detainees swept up in crackdown. middleeasteye.net 
Egypt court orders release of more than 600 detainees swept up in crackdown | The prisoners include journalists, politicians and students who had been in pre-trial detention for over a year | Tue, 11/03/2020 – 14: 50 | A picture taken during a guided tour organised by Egypt's State Information Service on 11 February, 2020, shows the entrance of the Tora prison clinic in the Egyptian capital Cairo (AFP/fi…
(2020-11-03). Selected Articles: The Second Wave: Testing, Testing, "Covid is on the Rise" globalresearch.ca 
By Peter Koenig and Prof. Michel…
(2020-11-03). The approach of the World Socialist Web Site to science. wsws.org The WSWS was the only publication to warn very early on the dangers the working class faced if the coronavirus became a pandemic.
(2020-11-03). Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women And Girls Committee Releases Final Report. popularresistance.org Arizona's Study Committee on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has posted its final report, including dozens of specific legislative, law enforcement and other policy recommendations to address the ongoing crisis. After nearly a year of in-depth research, which was slowed by COVID-19 and some enforcement agencies choosing not to participate, Arizona got its clearest picture to date of the increasing crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. | "Our work will not end with this report; this is only the beginning," said Chairwoman Rep. Jennifer Jermaine, D-Chandler.
(2020-11-03). 'The Coming War On China' — Watch John Pilger's Powerfully Relevant Documentary. strategic-culture.org Caitlin JOHNSTONE | "The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which "In a few years China has become the world's second-biggest economic power," Pilger's introduction continues. "The United States is the world's biggest military power, with bases and missiles and ships covering ever…
(2020-11-03). Video: The Second Wave: Testing, Testing, "Covid is on the Rise". Towards a Total Lockdown. globalresearch.ca
(2020-11-03). COVID and Its Man-Made Gigantic Collateral Damage: The Great Reset — A Call for Civil Disobedience. globalresearch.ca The going narrative in the west is: "Covid is on the Rise — we are entering the second wave — we must protect our people." | The offered recipe is testing-testing-testing — it is the instrument for increasing "cases". The more …
(2020-11-03). Video: The Second Wave: Testing, Testing, "Covid is on the Rise". The Lockdown. globalresearch.ca
(2020-11-03). Deconstructing France's Emmanuel Macron. The Surge of Islamophobia. globalresearch.ca The Modi government has earned the distinction as the "first non-western" voice to come out in support of French President Emmanuel Macron over the recent
(2020-11-03). Relations Between Mexico and India Are on the Rise. asia-pacificresearch.com …
(2020-11-03). Is Joe Biden Cognitively and Physically "Unfit to Serve"? Both Trump and Biden are Unfit for the Highest Office. globalresearch.ca As judged by their public records, Trump and Biden are unfit for the nation's highest office. | Time and again, both figures showed that they serve privileged interests exclusively at the expense of ordinary people they're dismissive toward. | It's how Dem …
(2020-11-03). Israel Wins U.S. Election. globalresearch.ca The U.S. election will end today, more or less, and we Americans will suffer another four years of putting up with serial nonsense out of a White House and Congress that couldn't care less about us no matter who is …
(2020-11-03). National Education Union belatedly begs Johnson government to close UK schools during lockdown. wsws.org The NEU itself envisages only a temporary closure of schools, calling for "rotas to be introduced at the end of the lockdown period."
(2020-11-03). Same Story, Different Decade: How WHO's Definition of a Global Pandemic Benefits Big Pharma. globalresearch.ca When WHO broadened its definition of global pandemic in 2009, H1N1 vaccine makers profited at taxpayers' expense. COVID vaccine makers will likely reap even more benefits. | *** | In the years leading up to 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) worked …
(2020-11-03). Low paid over 20 times more likely to be furloughed on reduced pay. thecanary.co The UK's worst-paid workers were more than 20 times more likely to be furloughed on reduced pay than the highest earners, data has shown. | More than half — 51.7% — of workers who were usually paid less than £8.72 per hour were furloughed with a pay cut, compared with 2.5% of those earning more than £29.67. | According to Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, even slightly higher pay could significantly reduce the risk of a worker being put on reduced-pay furlough. | Only 8.3% of those earning between £8.72 and £9.48 per hour were furloughed with a smaller pay cheque, six…
(2020-11-03). Teachers strike across France against first day of deadly school reopenings. wsws.org Government policy means that schools will act as vectors for the transmission of the virus, countless children will become infected, and will infect family and friends.
(2020-11-03). Shameful Treatment of Refugees on Greek Island: A Snapshot. globalresearch.ca On Sunday, October 11, Mohammad was lying on the road, holding his foot and screaming in pain. "You treat us worse than dogs!" he shouted at the hospital. A twenty-year-old refugee from the province of Homs in Syria he, like …
(2020-11-03). Fukushima espalha a pandemia nuclear. globalresearch.ca Nà£o é o Covid, mas a notícia passou quase desapercebida: o Japà£o descarregará no mar mais de um milhà£o de toneladas de água radioactiva da central nuclear de Fukushima. | O acidente catastrófico de Fukushima foi provocado pelo tsunami que, em …
(2020-11-03). The US Military's 'Four Horsemen of Pharma': Destroying Veterans' Health? globalresearch.ca The
(2020-11-03). Fukushima, dilaga la pandemia nucleare. globalresearch.ca Foto:
(2020-11-03). On Eve of 103rd Anniversary of Balfour Pledge, Palestinian Refugees Still Committed to Unyielding Right of Return. globalresearch.ca More than a century on, millions of Palestinian refugees continue to grapple with the devastating upshots of the Balfour Declaration, which led to a significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians. | Issued on November 2, 1917, the declaration turned the …
(2020-11-03). Tourism Industry to Lose Over $1 Trillion and Can Reduce Global GDP by up to 2.8%. globalresearch.ca Tourism, which is the third largest export sector in the global economy, is among the worst impacted sectors by the global pandemic. According to the research data analyzed and gathered by
(2020-11-03). America After the Election: A Few Hard Truths About the Things that Won't Change. globalresearch.ca "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."—George Orwell | The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new president in the White House can solve …
(2020-11-03). UN expert urges Myanmar not to undermine 'very lifeblood of democracy' ahead of polls. news.un.org An independent UN human rights expert has called on the Government and military of Myanmar to stop persecuting opposition supporters, including journalists and student protesters, ahead of next week's general elections.
(2020-11-03). Announcing a New Initiative: UK Drone Watch. globalresearch.ca Since 2010, Drone Wars UK has been shining a spotlight on the military's use of drones and the impact on peace and security around the globe. Now, both in the US and in Europe, large military-grade drones which fly 'beyond …
(2020-11-03). Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes. imperial.ac.uk Imperial researchers have created drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forests.
(2020-11-03). Bad Leadership Is Plunging Public Schools Into A Crisis. popularresistance.org Michael Barbour, a professor at Touro University California and an expert on K-12 online learning, believes that more than half of the nation's school superintendents "should be fired." | His blistering criticism stems from the fact that, deep into the 2020-2021 school year, many schools are still struggling with virtual learning during the pandemic. | Stories of school districts' online learning systems crashing are widespread. Teachers complain about not being included in decisions about online curriculum and pedagogy. Alarming numbers of students are not engaged or not showing up, especially in low-income area…
(2020-11-03). China's Growing Ties with Laos. asia-pacificresearch.com …