Daily Archives: November 5, 2020

2020-11-05: News Headlines

Lucas Leiroz de Almeida (2020-11-05). Tensions Grow in Bolivia as Arce's Inauguration Day Approaches. globalresearch.ca Arce's victory was not enough to overcome the effects of the coup in Bolivia. Currently, the country is strongly threatened by the confluence of the anti-democratic interests of various political groups, paramilitaries and religious fundamentalists who seek to prevent the …

Stephen Lendman (2020-11-05). Five Swing States to Decide US Presidential Election. globalresearch.ca After months of campaigning and a record $14 billion spent by the Trump and Biden teams, it all comes down to results in 5 battleground states. | Here's where things stand at the moment with vote counting still ongoing: | Pennsylvania: Trump …

Stephen Lendman (2020-11-05). "Fantasy Democracy": US Election 2020. Electoral Fraud?? globalresearch.ca First said in America's early 1930s, the expression "we wuz robbed" echoed in various forms following losses in close sports contests. | Time and again, it's been true as well about US elections at the federal, state and local levels since …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2020-11-05). The Corona Pandemic and Trump's Trade War against China: America's Dependence on "Made in China". Potential Disruption of the US Economy. globalresearch.ca First published in May 2020, updated June 14, 2020 | What Prospects for trade relations with China, in the wake of the 2020 US November Presidential Election? | Introduction | The US has been threatening China with trade sanctions for several years. At …

Philip M. Fearnside (2020-11-05). BR-319: The Beginning of the End for Brazil's Amazon Forest. globalresearch.ca The text of this commentary is updated from an earlier Portuguese-language version of the author's column at *** | The BR-319 (Manaus-Porto Velho) Highway was built in the early 1970s by Brazil's military dictatorship, but was abandoned in …

David Hearst (2020-11-05). Suspension of Jeremy Corbyn Will Define UK Labour Leader Keith Starmer as Iraq Defined Tony Blair. globalresearch.ca One of the lesser known aspects of Keir Starmer's assault on the left of his party since becoming Labour leader is his growing silence on Palestine. | Silencing the Palestinian lobby in Britain has always been a goal of Israel's …

Ilan Pappe (2020-11-05). From Balfour to the Nakba: The Settler-Colonial Experience of Palestine. globalresearch.ca The late prominent scholar of settler-colonialism, Patrick Wolfe, reminded us repeatedly that it is not an event, it is a structure. While settler-colonialism in many cases has a historical starting point, its original motivation guides its maintenance in the …

Glenn Greenwald (2020-11-05). The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. And Dangerous. globalresearch.ca The richest and most powerful country on earth — whether due to ineptitude, choice or some combination of both — has no ability to perform the simple task of counting votes in a minimally efficient or confidence-inspiring manner. As a …

Paul Antonopoulos (2020-11-05). Belarusian Protests Are Spilling over into Poland but Warsaw Is Beginning to Blame Russia. globalresearch.ca Polish leaders at all levels continue to speak with enthusiasm about the need to fully support "peaceful protests" in Belarus and to help them morally and financially. However, with widespread protests across Poland now, the same national leaders are angrily …

Dr. Jack Rasmus (2020-11-05). The Day After: US 2020 Election and Political Predictions. globalresearch.ca In my article last week, 'Why the Record Vote Turnout May Not Matter', I predicted the election via electoral college would look very much like 2016: the 3 swing states (PA, MI, WI) would determine the outcome again, and maybe …

Matt Sedlar (2020-11-05). Letter on Proposed Rulemaking: Affidavit of Support on Behalf of Immigrants, Department of Homeland Security Docket No. USCIS— 2019—0023. cepr.net November 1, 2020 Comments of Shawn Fremstad, Senior Fellow, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC. Submitted on Regulations.gov on November 1, 2020 My comments focus solely on the failure of the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Management and Budget to complete a Family Policymaking Assessment of the proposed rule, as …

Andre Vltchek (2020-11-05). The Uyghur Issue: How Can the U.S. Dare Lecturing China About the Rights of the Muslims? globalresearch.ca This article by the late Andre Vltchek was first published in 2019. | In 2019, I have written a long analysis about "the Uyghur issue"; analysis which will be soon published as a book. | For some time, I have been warning …

South Front (2020-11-05). Video: Presence of Turkish-backed Syrian Militants in Nagorno-Karabakh Gives Armenia Additional Chances in War. globalresearch.ca The Azerbaijani Armed Forces and their allies continue to storm Armenian positions in the mountainous terrain near Shusha and the Lachin corridor in Nagorno-Karabakh. After making rapid advances, the Azerbaijani forces now appear to be stuck in a kind of …

_____ (2020-11-05). Teachers Walk Off The Job After COVID-19 Outbreak. popularresistance.org Teachers and support staff at Glamorgan Junior Public School, in the Toronto borough of Scarborough, walked off the job Monday to protest school authorities' decision to keep the school open despite a major COVID-19 outbreak. The outbreak was declared last Friday after nine teachers and two students tested positive for the potentially lethal virus. Fifty-eight students have been ordered to quarantine. | The work stoppage continued yesterday as reports emerged of a further student testing positive. The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) has flatly refused to close the school…

news.un (2020-11-05). Violence and bullying affect one in three students, education experts warn. news.un.org Children face violence and bullying at school all over the world, with one in every three students subject to attacks at least once a month and one in 10, a victim of cyberbullying, the UN said on Thursday.

Anthony Hall (2020-11-05). Censorship: US Department of Justice (DOJ) Closes Down Canada's Independent Media Site AHT. Professor Anthony Hall. globalresearch.ca Global Research Editor's Note | . | We stand in firm support of The American Herald Tribune and Professor Anthony Hall, who has the courage to confront the US corporate media. | . | The tendency is towards online media censorship in derogation …

Dave DeCamp (2020-11-05). DOJ Seizes 27 Domains, Claims They are Controlled by Iran. globalresearch.ca The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday …

Hubert Moolman (2020-11-05). It Has Been Decided: Silver Is Going Much Higher. globalresearch.ca The currency markets have just announced what is coming for silver. This was explained in my The USD/ZAR ratio has now broken down. This sets silver up to finish the year with a very strong rally: | . ….

A. Castellitto (2020-11-05). COVID Testing: We've Been Duped. globalresearch.ca Lost in this whole pandemic hysteria are some key considerations that when carefully analyzed place the whole COVID-19 narrative in a highly questionable light. The gatekeepers of information dissimulation are manufacturing consent at an alarming rate, but their fatigue is …

Khaled Iskef (2020-11-05). The Arab World and the US Elections. Who Will Succeed in Controlling the White House? globalresearch.ca The exit of the American forces from Iraq and Syria, finding a solution to the Palestinian issue and the Syrian and Libyan crisis and ending the war in Yemen is what the Arab World wants, in addition to ending the …

Jacob G. Hornberger (2020-11-05). Don't Forget LBJ's Election Theft. globalresearch.ca The mainstream pro-Biden media is poking fun at Donald Trump's suggestion that there could be fraud involved in…

Daniel Larison (2020-11-05). The Foreign Policy Election that Ignored Foreign Policy. globalresearch.ca The 2020 presidential campaigns have ignored foreign policy more this year than in any election since the turn of the century, but the 2020 election will have significant foreign policy consequences no matter the outcome. The neglect of foreign policy …

John Helmer (2020-11-05). Australian Journalist Identified as Ukrainian Spy in Malaysian Airlines MH17 Prosecution Leak. globalresearch.ca A freelance Australian-Ukrainian reporter named Demjin Doroschenko (lead image), employed by the Australian, British and US press to report from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in July 2014, has been exposed this week as an agent of …

Andrew Corbley (2020-11-05). US Congress Tries to Restrict F-35 Sales to UAE for All the Wrong Reasons. globalresearch.ca Congressmen Eliot Engel (D-NY) and a number of his colleagues from both sides of the isle have introduced legislation into the House that would prohibit the sale of F-35 fighter jets to the UAE unless a long list of conditions …

Michael Jansen (2020-11-05). What if Clinton Had Won the 2016 US Presidential Election Instead of Trump? globalresearch.ca What if Democrat Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 US presidential election instead of Donald Trump? The US and the world would have been spared four roller-coaster years of Trump, of his narcissism, ignorance and irrationality and his never …

Manlio Dinucci (2020-11-05). Fukushima, the Nuclear Pandemic Spreads. globalresearch.ca It was not Covid, therefore the news went almost unnoticed: Japan will release over a million tons of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. The catastrophic incident in Fukushima was triggered by the Tsunami that …

Brian Shilhavy (2020-11-05). Brainwashing the Masses: 6 Companies Own Almost All of the Media in the U.S. — Using Medical "Doctors" to Sell Their Message. globalresearch.ca The current "war against the Coronavirus" is primarily an information war, with the corporate media putting forth a unified message they want the public to believe, and any efforts to present alternative information is vigorously opposed and ridiculed. | Six …

John C. A. Manley (2020-11-05). "New Normal"on Social Distancing and the Facemask: Neglectful Caring and Compassionate Tyranny. globalresearch.ca "Caring for each other. Because we are all in this together." What a blatant hijacking of virtue. I simply can't see something like that and not speak out. If for no other reason, because I don't want to become numb and accepting to such brainwashing.

WSWS (2020-11-05). College student, 20, found dead in dorm room after testing positive for COVID-19. wsws.org The young student died in her dorm room while in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19 and being sent home from the hospital.

Prof. Ruel F. Pepa (2020-11-05). Controlling Information to Protect Us? globalresearch.ca "The control of information is something the elite always do, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people." —Tom Clancy | "Information is not knowledge." —Albert Einstein…

Dave DeCamp (2020-11-05). Online Censorship: DOJ Seizes 27 Domains, Claims They are Controlled by Iran. globalresearch.ca The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday …

Dr. Pascal Sacré (2020-11-05). The COVID-19 RT-PCR Test: How to Mislead All Humanity. Using a "Test" To Lock Down Society. globalresearch.ca The misuse of the RT-PCR technique is used as an intentional strategy by some governments, supported by scientific safety councils and by the dominant media, to justify the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, the destruction of the economy with the bankruptcy of entire active sectors of society,…

Zafar Syed Zaffsyed (2020-11-05). "I Found Out that My Father Was Imprisoned in Guantánamo on Google" globalresearch.ca The article below was written by Zafar Syed Zaffsyed for the Pakistan Independent and published on November 2, 2020. The original is available Our thanks to Reprieve for bringing this …

Unredacted (2020-11-05). It's All Wrong: Sage U.K. Forecast of 4,000 Deaths a Day Is 'Misleading'. globalresearch.ca The forecast of 4,000 people dying per day from COVID-19 by next month could be four or five times too high and does not reflect the current situation, a leading Oxford professor has warned. | The incredible figure was presented by…

Stephen Lendman (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 …

Stephen Lendman (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 …

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-04). Spate of attacks against civilians in Afghanistan. peoplesdispatch.org Hours after a suicide attack in Kabul University left 20 students dead and dozens injured in six long hours of fighting on November 2, Monday, Afghan security forces killed another suicide car bomber near a military outpost in Kunduz's Imam Sahib on Tuesday. The ground situation in Afghanistan continues to remain volatile despite the ongoing intra-Afghan peace talks between the Taliban insurgents and the Afghan government in Doha. | In the attack inside Kabul University, one of the premier institutes of the country, at least three attackers stormed the campus premises and began firing indiscriminately near the la…

_____ (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…

Mark Gruenberg (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 …

Paul Antonopoulos (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 …

South Front (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 …

Robert P. Alvarez (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

Anthony Cartalucci (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: | WSWS (2020-11-04). Parents' strike called Thursday in UK against threat from COVID-19. wsws.org The parents' strike poses the need for a coordinated network of rank-and-file committees linking parents with teachers, students and broader sections of the working class to defeat the Johnson government's "herd immunity" agenda.

Wollman Productions (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 …

Megan Sherman (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 …

WSWS (2020-11-04). Bipartisan assault on US public education intensifies amid COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org The further evisceration of state and local budgets for education will have a devastating impact on education workers and public school students alike.

Cynthia Chung (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

Brian Shilhavy (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 …

Dr. Robert Rennebohm (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 …