(2020-10-07). Greensboro Massacre: City Apologizes 41 Years After Cops Allowed Klan, Nazis to Kill 5 Antiracists. democracynow.org 
Nearly 41 years after Ku Klux Klansmen and American Nazis shot dead five antiracist activists in the town of Greensboro, North Carolina, the City Council there has passed a resolution apologizing for the attack and the police department's complicity in the killings. We speak with two survivors of the 1979 attack, Reverend Nelson Johnson and Joyce Hobson Johnson, who say the city's apology acknowledges "the police knew and chose to do nothing. In fact, they facilitated what we name now as a North American death squad."
(2020-10-07). On the Assange Extradition and Growing Fascism. zcomm.org If Assange is found guilty of the charges the U.S. government has laid against him, it means that whistleblowing and the publishing of whistleblowers revelations is dead…
(2020-10-07). Drop All Charges Against Activists And Protestors. popularresistance.org I add my voice to the millions here in our country and throughout the world who call for an end to fascist-driven police violence and repression in Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities. | Whether we call for community control, defunding, or ultimate abolition of the police, we are united in our demand for an immediate end to the state-sanctioned racist violence that routinely claims the lives of so many of our people. | Although many of us have protested, demonstrated, and organized over the decades to end racism and all its inequalities, injustices and collective pain, we have never experienced anything like…
(2020-10-07). Trump's turn from immigration to the enemy within. mronline.org 
Trump's shift from demonizing immigrants to targeting leftists is straight out of the fascist playbook.
(2020-10-07). History Teachers and "Patriotic Education" counterpunch.org 
We might wonder what would happen if a teacher took a knee during the daily playing of the national anthem in schools? Colin Kaepernick could afford the repercussions of his action, but the high school history teacher can only take so many reprimands before she loses her job. How is she to defend against this assault on her professional integrity and livelihood?
(2020-10-07). The Virus and Voting Will Not Suffice to Fell This Beast. counterpunch.org 
No Sympathy for the Devil Many online liberals and lefties celebrated news that the pandemo-fascist Donald Trump contracted his own virus. I've held back. It's not that I find wishing bad things for the president morally offensive. I think doing so is politically problematic, but I don't see it as morally incorrect. Not at all.
(2020-10-07). Nazis dealt major blow in Greece. liberationnews.org 
Concluding a five year-long trial, a Greek court ruled today that the fascist outfit Golden Dawn was operating as a criminal organization and its leaders were therefore guilty of functioning as organized crime bosses. This could be a fatal blow to what was until recently perhaps the most institutionally powerful openly Nazi organization in the …
(2020-10-07). Transracial Adoption Concerns are Warranted and Beyond Amy Coney Barrett. dissidentvoice.org 
SCOTUS Nominee, Amy Coney Barrett and Family In recent days there have been accusations of a political "witch hunt" attacking Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett with "repulsive" comments about her adoptions from Haiti. These claims are a red herring intended to dismiss the very real and warranted apprehensions about transnational and transracial adoptions that have …
(2020-10-07). The Heat: Palestinian Elections. america.cgtn.com 
Last month the two largest Palestinian factions, Fatah and Hamas, agreed on a deal to hold elections for the first in almost 15 years. After years of unrest with Israel, and the on-going Israeli occupation of the West Bank, could these elections offer a new …
(2020-10-07). Decision expected in the police murder of Alvin Cole. fightbacknews.org Milwaukee, WI – On the afternoon of October 7, it is expected that Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm will make a decision on the killing of Alvin Cole. The decision comes over eight months after Cole's murder. Milwaukee and Wauwatosa – the suburb where Cole was shot by Wauwatosa police – have been gripped by protests and actions of varying size and intensity since the resurgence of the movement for Black lives at the end of May. | While the initial local demonstrations largely centered around out-of-state cases like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, the focus quickly shifted when the…
(2020-10-07). Greek court declares fascist Golden Dawn party a criminal organization. peoplesdispatch.org A Greek court convicted the leadership of Greece's neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party of running a criminal organization. Its members were also convicted for their role in the murder of Greek musician Pavlos Fyssas and other hate crimes…
(2020-10-07). Further Betrayal of Palestinians. globalresearch.ca The old idiom says, "possession is nine-tenths of the law", but in the case of the dispossessed Palestinians, occupation represents one hundred per cent of the law after their land was usurped due to Israel's creation some 82 years ago. …
(2020-10-07). What To Do If Someone Threatens You At The Polls. popularresistance.org On this episode of As the South Votes, Anoa breaks down voter intimidation and steps you can take to safeguard yourself and others during the election process. This is the first presidential election where the GOP is not restricted by a consent decree banning ballot security activities and the second presidential election without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act. Documenting and reporting voter intimidation efforts is important to protecting the rights of voters and the political process as a whole.
(2020-10-07). Judgment Day For Greek Fascism. popularresistance.org Golden Dawn is the political organisation that was founded during the early '90s, started its criminal activity in 1992, gained political clout in 2010 and managed to elect 18 MPs in June 2012. Over this span of three decades, it committed dozens of crimes — for which, mostly, it had never been prosecuted. | The political system saw the Neo-Nazi organisation as a marginal group of far-right extremists. They might have loved Hitler, but they were too small to matter. However, when the economic crisis broke out in Greece, the never-ending impoverishment of the people along with…
(2020-10-07). Sunday 10/11: Sit. Walk. Listen. Because Black Lives Matter. indybay.org Henry J. Kaiser Memorial Park. Oakland, California. | (19th Street/Rashida Muhammad)…
(2020-10-07). Small but Mighty Sunnyvale Demonstration for Black Lives Matter. indybay.org October 3 Black Lives Matter protest in Sunnyvale, California…
(2020-10-07). Relating Yemen war to Iran, another American fallacy. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) — The chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Committee of Yemen dismissed the speculations relating the Yemen war to the US' pressure campaign on Iran, saying this is transparently another fallacy by the Americans.
(2020-10-07). Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party guilty of operating as crime organisation. thecanary.co A Greek court has ruled that the far-right Golden Dawn party was operating as a criminal organisation, delivering a landmark verdict in a marathon five-year trial. | The court delivered guilty verdicts against several of the party's former legislators for participating in a criminal organisation, and deemed others guilty of leading a criminal organisation. | Security tight was tight at the Athens courthouse with more than 15,000 people gathered for an anti-fascist rally outside. | The 68 defendants in the trial included 18 former legislators from the party that was founded in the 1980s as a neo-Nazi organization…
(2020-10-06). Abraham Accord: Experts Warn Trump Peace Deal a Precursor to War with Iran. thealtworld.com Experts warn that the Accord is motivated by a desire to secure a united front against Iran for a potential future war — a conflict that would likely make Iraq and Afghanistan look mild by comparison. | MPN— On paper at least, last month's U.S.-sponsored agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were all about peace. But behind the headlines, a darker, much more worrying picture of regional alliances, weapons deals, destabilization campaigns, and messianic prophecies emerge. | The Abraham Accord, as it is known, is likely to expand the power of Gulf dictatorships and increase the…
(2020-10-06). 'Incapable of Rendering Equal Justice': 150 Groups Demand Senators Reject Coney Barrett for Supreme Court. commondreams.org "Judge Barrett has demonstrated that she will march in lock step with President Trump's cruel agenda to deprive millions of people of their access to healthcare." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-10-06). Fascism is Breathing Down Our Necks in the US. counterpunch.org Each year about 9,000 people migrate to Canada from the US and that figure has held steady for several years ("'An alternative exists': US citizens who vowed to flee to Canada-and did," Guardian, February 1, 2016). The number of searches about migration on the search engine Google has risen sharply during periods of political uncertainty such
(2020-10-06). Breaking The Cycle Of Colonization. popularresistance.org Indigenous peoples have suffered and continue to suffer from historic injustices as a result of dehumanization and racism and the colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right of self-determination in accordance with their own needs and interests, extending to their rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements entered into with the United States and its several States. We must address the urgent need to respect and promote their inherent rights as peoples.
(2020-10-06). Trump, 'Get your hands off Somali refugees!'. workers.org 
Before being admitted to the hospital for coronavirus infection, Donald Trump spent the last two weeks on yet another vile anti-immigrant tirade. Both in a policy statement to Congress and on a campaign stop in Minnesota, Trump veered to his campaign cornerstone to send yet another message to his racist . . . |
(2020-10-06). Fighting for Black Lives at school. mronline.org 
This is an incredibly challenging situation for teachers and the education system because we know how important in-person learning is. There's no substitute for that online," says Jesse Hagopian…
(2020-10-06). US Supreme Court hears case of Muslims put on No Fly list for refusing to spy. middleeasteye.net 
US Supreme Court hears case of Muslims put on No Fly list for refusing to spy | Lawyer representing Muslim men tells court his clients are entitled to monetary damages, which he argued would deter future abuse of religious rights | Tue, 10/06/2020 – 21: 18 | Muslim advocates have described the use of the No Fly list as a violation of due process and equal treatment under the law (AFP) | More than 13 years ago, FB…
(2020-10-06). Israeli-made cluster bombs used by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, says Amnesty. middleeasteye.net 
Israeli-made cluster bombs used by Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, says Amnesty | The rights group says widely-banned weaponry has been fired on residential areas of breakaway region | Tue, 10/06/2020 – 14: 10 | A picture shows an unexploded rocket in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region's main city of Stepanakert on 6 October 2020 (AFP) | Israeli-made cluster bombs are being used by Azerbaijan against civili…
(2020-10-06). Minor League baseball players get a SCOTUS win; voting rights a loss. peoplesworld.org 
At this very moment, the United States is staring down the barrel of a gun. As we inch closer to Election Day 2020, the country is seeing an uptick in coronavirus cases. Our voting rights are under siege by GOP operatives misguided by their impression that winning trumps democracy, and the highest court in the land is on the …
(2020-10-06). Arab populations continue to oppose normalisation with Israel, survey shows. middleeasteye.net 
Arab populations continue to oppose normalisation with Israel, survey shows | Support for pro-democracy movements still high, though Algerians refused to back Sudanese transition | Tue, 10/06/2020 – 15: 56 | Palestinians gather to protest the Israeli normalisation deals with the UAE and Bahrain, in the town of Tubas, in the occupied West Bank (AFP) | Arab populations overwhelmingly continue to o…
(2020-10-06). 1929: Nazis in the Antechamber. counterpunch.org 
ARD, also known as Channel One, is the main state-run broadcaster in Germany. On 7 October it will start showing the third season of Babylon Berlin. In order to prepare the German audience for the third season, ARD has put together a 44-minute documentary which highlights the true political and financial circumstances of the time.
(2020-10-06). To Sit or Not to Sit? Can Amy Coney Barrett Fairly Judge an Abortion Case? counterpunch.org 
The political excitement surrounding Judge Barrett's nomination comes from religiously conservative and pro-life individuals who recognize that, with her seated on the Court, there will be, for the first time, a solidly conservative, five-member majority capable of overturning Roe v. Wade, the decision protecting women's right of choice and reproductive freedom.
(2020-10-06). Not a Woman Judge, But a Lady Judge. counterpunch.org 
"God almighty made the woman and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies." —Mother Jones Despite her essential conservatism, I guess I understand why so many US residents are lamenting the death of Justice Ginsburg and demanding the Senate not confirm whomever Trump's choice is. Arguably, this focus on the Supreme Court seat is
(2020-10-06). 102-year-old Bea Lumpkin calls her mail-in ballot a 'vote against fascism'. peoplesworld.org 
CHICAGO—Longtime labor activist, socialist, and retired teacher Bea Lumpkin cast her vote by mail for former Vice President Joe Biden, calling it an action against fascism in the United States and said this election is by far the most serious of her 102 years. "I think democracy is on the line, and if we ever …
(2020-10-06). University of Kentucky SEGREGATES resident assistants by race for 'abhorrent' mandatory white-shaming training. rt.com 
The University of Kentucky has subjected incoming resident assistants to segregated training sessions in which the white group was made to identify with racist generalizations, documents leaked by a participant reveal. | Presented with a lengthy
(2020-10-06). Gov't covers up white supremacist infiltration of police. workers.org 
According to The Intercept, the FBI is now so "concerned about the infiltration of law enforcement by white supremacist groups and its impact on police abuse and tolerance of racism" that on Sept. 29 it released an unredacted version of agency surveillance about the infiltration, which supposedly started in 2006. . . . |
(2020-10-06). From British Israelism to the Miami Model: What's Behind QAnon's 2020 Resurgence? mintpressnews.com 
The QAnon message being subtly, and sometimes not-so-subtly, amplified by the very same members of the deep state they claim to abhor, spurring some of America's most powerful forces to join the movement.
(2020-10-06). Netanyahu's aggressive missteps are handing his rivals the initiative. middleeasteye.net 
Netanyahu's aggressive missteps are handing his rivals the initiative | Failing to quash protests through lockdown restrictions, the prime minister has encouraged security forces to look to Palestine for inspiration | Tue, 10/06/2020 – 14: 30 | Police officers detain a person as Israelis protest against legislation banning them from holding demonstrations more than 1 km from their homes (Reuters) | Israe…
(2020-10-06). Israeli press review: Minister breaks lockdown, gets corona, then lies about it. middleeasteye.net 
Israeli press review: Minister breaks lockdown, gets corona, then lies about it | Meanwhile, Jerusalem police let ultra-Orthodox celebrate Sukkot as normal and Israeli and UAE foreign ministers meet in Berlin | Tue, 10/06/2020 – 13: 41 | Gila Gamliel has been backed by Netanyahu (social media) | Israeli minister breaks lockdown and lies about it: | An Israeli minister broke lockdown restrictions, lied…
(2020-10-06). At the start of #BlackHistoryMonth, deportations and raids show racist state violence is alive and well in the UK. thecanary.co 
We're almost a week into this year's Black History Month, in a year where violence against Black people has already sparked an uprising in the US and the global growth of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. | Already, establishment figures are using the occasion to tell a nationalistic bedtime story where, One family membe…
(2020-10-06). In Lieu of a Liberation Strategy: Palestinian Elections Are Designed to Buy Time. zcomm.org It is abundantly clear that Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas, has underestimated the seriousness of the challenges facing Palestine and the Palestinians.
(2020-10-06). The Supreme Court Will Hear a Case That Could Destroy What Remains of the Voting Rights Act. zcomm.org And Republicans are poised to gain a 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court.
(2020-10-06). Clarence Thomas Screed Suggests Supreme Court Should Overturn Same-Sex Marriage. truthout.org Obergefell v. Hodges was the landmark 2015 ruling in which the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Two of the dissenters in that ruling were Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito — and now, Thomas and Alito are calling for that decision to be overturned. This comes at a time when there is a very real possibility that Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a far-right social conservative nominated by President Donald Trump, will be repla…
(2020-10-06). Successful GOP Repeal of ACA Would Strip Health Coverage From Millions and Give Top 0.1% a Massive Tax Cut—During a Pandemic. commondreams.org "If Trump gets the Supreme Court to strike down ACA, the richest 0.1% would get a tax cut of $198,000 a year, and Big Pharma would get a tax cut of $2.8 billion. But millions of seniors would pay billions more for prescription drugs, and 20 million would lose their health insurance." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
(2020-10-06). Supreme Court Hears Case of American Muslims Placed on No-Fly List for Refusing to Spy on Their Communities. commondreams.org ______________________________…
(2020-10-06). Politics, Religion, Abortion, Use of Force and the Will of God. counterpunch.org There is in this world of concepts, ideas, and theories hardly any more absurd and therefore dangerous notion, than the idea of forced patriotism or forced religion. History is absolutely overwhelmed with tales of the horror and ultimate futility of those who attempted to force religion and politics onto others, others that is, who were
(2020-10-06). Two guises of racism, disdain as well as envy. zcomm.org I predict that the shift from exploitation racism to competition racism will continue with the further emancipation of minorities — who are recognizable in the public space — therefore increasing the chance of mass violence…
(2020-10-06). Racist Roots: Origins Of North Carolina's Death Penalty. popularresistance.org Right now, our nation is in a moment of reckoning with our criminal punishment system. We are finally seeing clearly what should have been obvious long ago: The system has its knee on the necks of Black people. | In North Carolina, as we begin a long-overdue conversation about the future of police and prisons, we must confront the punishment that sits at the top of that system, condoning all its other cruelties — the death penalty. | When citizens have acclimated to the state strapping a person to a gurney and killing them in front of an audience, it becomes harder to shock them.
(2020-10-06). Report Finds 'Gang Like' Police Clique That Exerts 'Undue Influence'. popularresistance.org Los Angeles County's top watchdog said Monday that substantial evidence exists that a secretive group of tattooed deputies at the East L.A. sheriff's station are "gang-like and their influence has resulted in favoritism, sexism, racism and violence." | In a 32-page report probing activities of the Banditos clique, Inspector General Max Huntsman alleged that Sheriff Alex Villanueva "continues to promote a code of silence regarding these sub-groups" which have plagued the agency for decades.
(2020-10-06). Human Rights Defenders Sue German Parliament Over Anti-BDS Resolution. popularresistance.org Three human rights defenders are mounting a court challenge to the German parliament's resolution condemning BDS — the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights. | The BDS supporters are suing the German parliament for violation of their rights to freedom of expression and assembly. | Based on the widely criticized IHRA definition that is promoted by Israel and its lobby, the resolution passed by the Bundestag in May 2019 smears BDS activism as anti-Semitic.
(2020-10-06). Friday 10/9: Stop The Racist Attacks On SF City Workers & Prosecute & Jail The Crooks. indybay.org CCSF Deparment of Human Resources DHR & MTA | 1 South Van Ness/Market St. | San Francisco…
(2020-10-06). 'Persistent Eye in the Sky': Spy Drones Deployed Abroad Are Being Modified to Police US Cities. sputniknews.com Spy drones developed for use in US foreign wars have begun appearing over US cities as police forces and defense contractors push for new, lucrative contracts. One peace activist told Sputnik that the fights against their use abroad and their use at home should never have been separate, and are intricately linked to the Black Lives Matter movement.