(2020-10-01). The Court of God: How a Catholic secret society took over SCOTUS. mronline.org 
With his latest SCOTUS nomination, Trump advances the designs of a clique of ultra-conservatives with ties to a Catholic secret society and Cold War stalwarts leading the U.S. to the brink of overt fascism.
(2020-10-01). The Next Steps in Eviction Defense. counterpunch.org 
A few thoughts on intentions, tactics, and building eviction defense networks Here in Portland, there are signs that the movement for Black lives and the movement for actually affordable housing are increasingly intersecting in all kinds of ways. Among the networks engaged in popular education and resistance organizing efforts around housing issues, you'll find groups
(2020-10-01). The ultra-right background of Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett. wsws.org Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett, a protegée of arch-reactionary Antonin Scalia, would significantly shift the court in the direction of religious obscurantism and political repression.
(2020-10-01). Trump's Operation Dictatorship: What the debate exposed. wsws.org The White House is the center of a fascistic conspiracy to overturn the Constitution and establish a presidential dictatorship.
(2020-10-01). Deterring 'atrocious crimes' contributes to development: International Criminal Court President. news.un.org Deterring genocides, armed conflicts and other atrocious crimes supports sustainable development says the President of the UN-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) Chile Eboe-Osuji.
(2020-10-01). Neo-Fascist Proud Boys Exult Over Trump Telling Them to "Stand By," Not Stand Down. zcomm.org Asked to tell white supremacists and militia groups to stay away from protests, the president told them to be on alert.
(2020-10-01). Are far right groups really just about spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation? zcomm.org Research finds that far right tactics are less about misinformation than looking for community support by highlighting societal inequalities…
(2020-10-01). Prince Harry and Meghan tell Britain: tackle 'structural racism'. yenisafak.com Meghan and Prince Harry has called on Britain to grasp an opportunity to change "structural racism" which they said was holding young people of colour back, The Evening Standard reported.Harry said Britain could be a better place if white people understood more about those "of a different coloured skin", the prince told the newspaper in an interview.
(2020-09-30). Headlines for September 30, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Refuses to Condemn White Supremacists or Rule Out Post-Election Violence, New York City Coronavirus Infections Surge for First Time in Months, Indian Health Officials Claim 60 Million Coronavirus Infections Nationwide, House Democrats Unveil Pared-Down $2.2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill, Texas Sheriff and Prosecutor Indicted for Evidence Tampering in Javier Ambler Police Killing, Kentucky AG Didn't Recommend Murder Charges for Breonna Taylor's Killers, Trump Plans Pre-Election ICE Raids in U.S. Sanctuary Cities, More Women Detail Forced Sterilizations, Unnecessary Surgeries at Georgia ICE Jail, World Hea…
(2020-09-30). "He Wants Violence in the Streets": Trump's "White Supremacist Project" on Full Display at Debate. democracynow.org 
Donald Trump and Joe Biden were asked about how to address racism during the first presidential debate held in Cleveland. While Biden expressed sympathy with victims of police brutality, President Trump insisted that most violence came from left-wing groups — a false claim ignoring that the vast majority of political violence in the U.S. comes from right-wing extremists, according to the FBI and others. Trump's refusal to reckon with the issue "poses a real and grave threat to Black and Brown people in particular in our country who are often the victims of racial violence," says Kristen Clarke, president an…
(2020-09-30). Former Neo-Nazi Says Trump's Call for Proud Boys to "Stand By" Will Encourage More Violence. democracynow.org 
President Trump refused to condemn white supremacists during the first of three scheduled presidential debates with Joe Biden. When pressed by moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News to disavow far-right extremism, Trump name-checked the Proud Boys and told them to "stand back and stand by," words widely denounced as a tacit endorsement of the violent, white supremacist organization classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group. The Proud Boys almost immediately responded by changing its logo online to include the Trump quote. Christian Picciolini, a former neo-Nazi who now leads the Free Radicals Pro…
(2020-09-30). 'Notorious RBG' had a mixed climate justice record. therealnews.com 
Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted on behalf of environmental protections in many Supreme Court cases. But her track record was mixed on climate justice issues, particularly on Indigenous rights and corporate land expropriation.
(2020-09-30). Thousands raise up Black Lives outside presidential debate. workers.org 
Cleveland protest targets first presidential debate, Sept. 29. Cleveland While presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump were debating in what many have labeled a "shitshow," thousands of Greater Clevelanders came out for a "Protest for Black Lives and Climate Justice." A broad coalition spread the word about the action . . . |
(2020-09-30). Justice for Breonna Taylor and Black lives in Seattle. workers.org 
Decriminalize Seattle. Seattle — Demonstrators marched here on Sept. 24 to protest the previous day's decision by a grand jury in Louisville, Ky., not to bring charges against the cops who murdered Breonna Taylor. Hundreds took to the streets for hours, until after midnight, and marched on the Capital Hill . . . |
(2020-09-30). Trump uses debate to trash democracy and empower white supremacists. peoplesworld.org 
The first presidential debate of the 2020 election season last night was a dark moment in American history—a moment when a sitting president, Donald Trump, came prepared not to discuss issues but to trash yet another democratic norm: presidential debates themselves. In addition, he tried to further delegitimize the entire election by calling into question …
(2020-09-30). Barrett on the bench: Bad news for workers. peoplesworld.org 
WASHINGTON—In her three years as a federal appellate court judge, Amy Coney Barrett, whom GOP Oval Office occupant Donald Trump has nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, has shown herself to be bad news for workers' rights, legal analysts report. But what may be scarier about the former Notre Dame University law professor is her …
(2020-09-30). Biden embraces cops in first presidential debate. liberationnews.org 
Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden went out of his way in last night's debate to distance himself from the historic mass movement against racism and police violence that has emerged in recent months. Despite the endless barrage of advertisements from the Biden campaign opportunistically making use of footage from this summer's demonstrations, or the assurances …
(2020-09-30). Israel's West Bank annexation postponed for a year, not cancelled, says Friedman. middleeasteye.net 
Israel's West Bank annexation postponed for a year, not cancelled, says Friedman | US ambassador to Israel reiterates that controversial annexation plans have only been temporarily suspended | Wed, 09/30/2020 – 12: 04 | Archimandrite Abdullah Yulio, parish priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic church in Ramallah, joins other Palestinians as they gather to commemorate the second intifada and to protest against t…
(2020-09-30). Poll: Half of UK Conservative party members believe Islam 'incompatible with British way of life'. middleeasteye.net 
Poll: Half of UK Conservative party members believe Islam 'incompatible with British way of life' | A new poll suggests that 40 percent of Tories want to reduce the number of Muslims entering Britain | Wed, 09/30/2020 – 13: 04 | Boris Johnson launched an investigation into Islamophobia in the Conservative Party earlier this year following social media posts from activists and elected officials (AFP) | A…
(2020-09-30). Israel curbs protests with new coronavirus laws. middleeasteye.net 
Israel curbs protests with new coronavirus laws | Critics fear that the measures were introduced to stop anti-Netanyahu protests over his alleged corruption | Wed, 09/30/2020 – 10: 24 | The new laws also give the government powers to declare a 'special emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic' for renewable periods of one week (AFP) | Israel's parliament on Wednesday approved a new set…
(2020-09-30). Israel's parliament curbs protests with new coronavirus laws. middleeasteye.net 
Israel's parliament curbs protests with new coronavirus laws | Critics fear that the measures have been introduced to stop anti-Netanyahu protests over the prime minister's alleged corruption | Wed, 09/30/2020 – 10: 24 | The new laws also give the government powers to declare a 'special emergency caused by the coronavirus pandemic' for renewable periods of one week (Reuters) | Israel's par…
(2020-09-30). Tehran hosts 4th Palestine Children, Youth Solidarity Summit. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 01 (MNA) — The Fourth Palestine Children's and Youth Solidarity Summit was held at Khalij-e-Fars Amphitheater of Tehran's Sacred Defense Museum late on Wed.
(2020-09-30). Slipping into Totalitarianism? UK Government Tries to Shut Down Socialist Teaching. globalresearch.ca We remember with horror the stories of Nazis burning books in the 1930s — it's one of the first signals that you're living in a totalitarian regime, when education is targeted. Yet it was reported that last week, that Department …
(2020-09-30). Amy Coney Barrett Is Not Qualified to Be a Supreme Court Justice. commondreams.org Amy Coney Barrett (R), U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, speaks as U.S. President Donald Trump listens during an announcement ceremony at the White House on September 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-09-30). Trump uses debate to incite fascist violence. wsws.org Trump renewed his call for supporters—that is, right-wing vigilante organizations—to monitor polling places and not accept the results of the election.
(2020-09-30). The Top 5 Most Horrible Things Trump Said in the Presidential Debate. scheerpost.com The "debate" was an unfortunate and distasteful spectacle, largely because of Trump's bullying and mendacious behavior. But let us resist the cable-tv temptation to focus only on personalities and the horse race to consider some actual policy issues. And the true horror lay in what Trump had to say about them. 1. When pressed by Chris Wallace to denounce white supremacists and the neo-Nazi Proud… |
(2020-09-30). Amid Torrent of Anti-BDS Legislation, Columbia University Students Win Referendum Against Apartheid. mintpressnews.com Colombia's President has already hinted at efforts to undermine the referendum's success, claiming that the BDS is tied to anti-Semitism and ignores "similar issues in other countries."
(2020-09-30). The Threat of Fascism Won't End with Trump. zcomm.org It will take sustained progressive political pressure now and into the future to dismantle the powerful fascist forces that threaten our democracy…
(2020-09-30). New law Surfaces South's Racist Beginnings Of Felon Voter Disenfranchisement. popularresistance.org Tennessee – In June, large crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters occupied the plaza in front of Tennessee's State Capitol, where inside, a 44-inch bust of the first Klu Klux Klan Grand Wizard, Nathan Bedford Forrest, has sat still in his bronze bearing for over 40 years. | A line of state troopers stood silently on the other side of the encampment, making arrests and dragging protesters away. Those who remained chained themselves to the property, chanting and playing Kendrick Lamar through loudspeakers, annoying representatives inside the capitol, and making it clear—they were not leaving until the immort…
(2020-09-30). Saturday 10/3: Oct 3 it begins: Trump/Pence Out Now. indybay.org San Francisco Civic Center Plaza…
(2020-09-30). Because of Russia, China and England — and Because Our Men Were Brave. strategic-culture.org On September 2, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper delivered a short and unconsciously enormously revealing — speech on 75th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan in 1945. | It was a routine speech for Esper, short and content free with no thought whatsoever in it, let alone any original one, and therefore entirely typical of his storied career. No major American or Western European wire service or other major mainstream news bothered carrying a word of it. Even for them, it was intellectually content free, vacuous. | Yet Esper's speech was also enormously important and revea…
(2020-09-30). How Exceptional America Is. strategic-culture.org America is becoming exceptionally exceptional. In some votes at the UN General Assembly — the Assembly of nations — only Israel, or one or two other U.S. allies, vote along with it, and all others either vote against it, or else abstain in order to prevent U.S. retaliation against their own nation. No other nation is anything like that. In fact, on many occasions, the U.S. arm-twists other delegations in order to get them to abstain from voting so as to make less stark, and less embarrassing, America's international isolation. But America is also extraordinarily exceptional in other ways, which have n…
(2020-09-30). History not to forgive killers, traitors: Foreign Ministry. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 30 (MNA) — On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the martyrdom of Palestinian child Muhammad al-Durrah, Iranian Foreign Ministry in its Twitter account wrote that the history won't forgive killers and traitors.
(2020-09-30). Resistance martyrs' bloods to void compromise with Zionists. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Sep. 30 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said that the blood of Resistance martyrs voids humiliating compromise with the child-killer regime.
(2020-09-30). Anti-Fascists Worked to Keep Portland Community Safe Amid Proud Boys Rally. truthout.org As hundreds of people flooded into Peninsula Park in Portland, Oregon, last weekend despite the pouring rain, they brought a level of energy that few would expect months into an unending protest in the city. While the city braced itself for dueling rallies between an influx of far right Proud Boys on the one side and anti-fascists on the other, instead, the latter triumphed in a celebration of the strength they have found in continually taking a stand against the far right and police violence.
(2020-09-30). Trump's "White Supremacist Project" Was on Full Display at First Debate. truthout.org Donald Trump and Joe Biden were asked about how to address racism during the first presidential debate held in Cleveland. While Biden expressed sympathy with victims of police brutality, President Trump insisted that most violence came from left-wing groups — a false claim ignoring that the vast majority of political violence in the U.S. comes from right-wing extremists, according to the FBI and others. Trump's refusal to reckon with the issue "poses a real and grave threat to Black and Brown peop…
(2020-09-30). Reclaiming Life and Housing in an Era of Collapse. truthout.org Under fascism, mass displacement often means mass death. With a catastrophic eviction crisis looming, Kelly Hayes talks with longtime activist Cheri Honkala about housing reclamation and the solidarity we will need to navigate an era of collapse. | TRANSCRIPT: | Note: This a rush transcript and has been lightly edited for clarity. Copy may not be in its final form. | Kelly Hayes: Welcome to Movement Memos, a Truthout podcast about things you should know if you want to change the world. Today's guest is my friend…
(2020-09-30). That Was Not a Debate. That Was a Warning. This Nation Is Not Well. truthout.org In the lost innocence of yesterday morning, I Would that it were so. | Instead, what happened was tantamount to a neo-fascist Proud Boy on a spring bursting from Trump's…
(2020-09-30). Trump Refusal to Disavow White Supremacy Presents Threat to Black Lives. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-09-30). President Trump Must Condemn White Supremacy and Racist Violence. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-09-30). 'Fascism at Our Door': Asked to Condemn White Supremacist Groups, Trump Tells Them to 'Stand By' Instead. commondreams.org "Trump fans the flames of racism, embraces white supremacy, and employs state violence against Americans exercising their rights," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "That's Donald Trump's America." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-09-30). Color Of Change PAC: Trump is Calling His Supporters to Violence and Facebook Is Helping Him Do It. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-09-30). From the Front Lines of California's Fires, Yolo County Joins 1,750+ Communities in Declaring Climate Emergency. commondreams.org The resolution's success, said one organizer, "is a testament to the social movement power demanding both transformative climate action and concrete steps to remedy the legacy of systemic racism." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-09-30). Making Black Lives Matter On and Off the Diamond. thenation.com Making Black Lives Matter On and Off the Diamond…
(2020-09-30). As Trump Equivocates on White Supremacy, the FBI Warns of Right-Wing Terror. thenation.com As Trump Equivocates on White Supremacy, the FBI Warns of Right-Wing Terror…
(2020-09-29). Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: We Must Rethink Our Society, from Policing to the Supreme Court. democracynow.org 
As President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden face off in the first presidential debate in Cleveland, we speak to author and academic Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who says the multiple crises facing the United States are not getting enough attention leading up to the November election. "We're in the midst of a national reckoning about systemic racism in this country, about the way that things are governed, the way that this country functions," says Taylor, historian and contributing writer at The New Yorker. "There is such a myopia with Donald Trump that every sentence, every breath, everything that h…
(2020-09-29). Trump Was Right to End Critical Race Theory in Government, but What About Academia, the Birthplace of Anti-White Ideology? strategic-culture.org 
This month, the US leader instructed his government to end federal training programs that stereotype and scapegoat white people for being "inherently racist" and natural-born oppressors. While a necessary first step at combatting what is essentially another form of racism, Trump's plan falls short of addressing the problem where it matters most, at the university level. | Last week, Republicans were ecstatic as Donald Trump knocked down a major pillar of leftist woke ideology, known as 'Critical Race Theory' (CRT), which postulates that white folks, blessed from birth with an inordinate amount of 'privilege,' are…
(2020-09-29). Trump tells Proud Boys to 'stand by,' refuses to agree to concede election. therealnews.com 
After Donald Trump and Joe Biden square off for the first presidential debate, the Working Families Party's Maurice Mitchell and TRNN's Steve Horn join Jaisal Noor to discuss.
(2020-09-29). Albuquerque Police Surveillance Linked to Companies Who Work with Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, CIA, Documents Show. counterpunch.org 
The Albuquerque Police Department (APD), with the help of private companies, built a large and sophisticated intelligence gathering operation. One company is slowly building a database of every license plate in the United States. Another has clients that include neo-Nazi and white supremacist websites, and more than a half dozen groups listed as terrorist organizations
(2020-09-29). A 'protester suppression' bill launched in Florida. workers.org 
Occupied Creek/Muscogee territory — Pensacola Fla. In a Sept. 21 press conference, Florida far-right Governor Ron DeSantis launched a new attack against the continuing protests for Black lives with the announcement of a reactionary legislative bill, the "Combating Violence, Disorder and Looting and Law Enforcement Protection Act." The bill would . . . |