(2020-10-09). Fascism's Twisted Take on Climate Change. counterpunch.org 
The climate catastrophe has caught fascism's evil eye. First it spawned eco-fascism, a creed founded on lies about immigrants and population control. More people migrating to first world countries, eco-fascists say, means more people with outsized carbon footprints. Better for those immigrants to stay home, having less climate impact, than coming here to indulge in
(2020-10-09). Killer cop let off the hook for a third time in Milwaukee. liberationnews.org 
Liberation News eyewitness to massive state repression of protest against racist police terror.
(2020-10-09). Evidence-free 'lab leak' speculation boosts Trump's Xenophobic approach to Coronavirus. mronline.org 
Ever since the outbreak of COVID-19 was first detected in Wuhan, China has been the target of relentless hostile and racist media coverage, depicting the country as a uniquely nefarious source of disease (FAIR.org, 3/24/20, 5/7/20).
(2020-10-09). Israel's school demolition order leaves Palestinian children in limbo. middleeasteye.net 
Israel's school demolition order leaves Palestinian children in limbo | The EU-supported project in Ramallah has seen daily intimidation by settlers and serves 50 students | Fri, 10/09/2020 – 10: 03 | Palestinian children from the primary school in Ras al-Tin, eastern Ramallah, that is facing demolition (Shatha Hammad) | An Israeli court rejected on Thursday an appeal against the demolition of an E…
(2020-10-09). Black Lives Should Always Matter: Delinking Social Justice from Seasonal US Politics. counterpunch.org 
After viewing the first US Presidential debate on September 29, one is left with no doubt about the degenerating political discourse among America's ruling elites. Following the debate between US President, Donald Trump, and Democratic Presidential nominee, Joe Biden, most analyses focused mainly on the personal insults and name-calling, which, deservedly, earned the event the
(2020-10-09). Systemic Racism At Wells Fargo & Microsoft. strategic-culture.org 
Rod DREHER | Here's a letter the US Labor Department sent to Wells Fargo recently. (I had to screenshot it in parts, which is why it's broken up here): | The Labor Department sent a similar letter to Microsoft: | There is no chance at all that a Biden administration Labor Department would investigate major corporations for anti-white discrimination. Keep that in mind. Naturally, there has been negative press coverage.
(2020-10-09). Are far right groups 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…
(2020-10-09). 'I Am White, Therefore a Racist' Declares Liberal Professor, in Latest Proof U.S. Academics Are Fueling Racial Tensions. strategic-culture.org In the latest sign that the mind of U.S. academia has been hijacked by the left, a professor from the University of California-Santa Barbara described herself "a white American" who is, therefore "by definition racist." | In a webinar lecture entitled, "Undoing White Supremacy in the Language Disciplines," Mary Bucholtz, Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at the University of California-Santa Barbara, broke the news to America's majority white population that white supremacy "is a system that White people have built in order to oppress everyone else." | "As a White American, I am by definition r…
(2020-10-08). Israel and Jordan sign aviation deal to cut time and costs for Gulf flights. middleeasteye.net 
Israel and Jordan sign aviation deal to cut time and costs for Gulf flights | Agreement comes after UAE, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia also allow Israeli planes to cross their airspace | Thu, 10/08/2020 – 15: 54 | Israeli El Al aircraft are pictured on the tarmac at Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, east of Tel Aviv, 24 September (AFP) | Israel and Jordan signed on Thursday an aviation agreement to allow internat…
(2020-10-08). NEO: Will it be Biden and Putin, Making the New World? thealtworld.com 
The current situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan has shown the world the dangers of secret pacts and ancient grudges, as a new "August 1914" moves toward reality. | As early as 2012, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Israel and the Gulf States began arming al Qaeda and ISIS, deploying them against both Syria and Iraq. | Other nations aided as well, not just the US, France and Britain. There was also Georgia, Azerbaijan, Romania and, above all, Ukraine. | We will cover the backstory on this but what is clear is this, the Trump era replacement for NATO, where supposed enemies work in concert seamlessly, presents challenges…
(2020-10-08). Palestinian prisoner's hunger strike against administrative detention hits 75 days. middleeasteye.net 
Palestinian prisoner's hunger strike against administrative detention hits 75 days | Maher al-Akhras has refused to cease his hunger strike unless 'freedom (is granted) to my family and my children' | Thu, 10/08/2020 – 13: 52 | Maher al-Akhras with one of his children before his arrest in July by Israeli forces (Screengrab) | A Palestinian prisoner has been on a hunger strike for 75 days in protest against his…
(2020-10-08). Denver Area Labor Federation condemns fascism in Colorado. workers.org 
On Sept. 24, the Denver Area Labor Federation delegate body, representing 90,000 union members, unanimously passed the following resolution condemning the actions of Denver District Attorneys Dave Young and George Brauchler following a July 17 protest. They had arrested six protest leaders, held them for over a week without arraignment, . . . |
(2020-10-08). US elections: Four Middle East moments from Harris-Pence debate. middleeasteye.net 
US elections: Four Middle East moments from Harris-Pence debate | Kamala Harris and Mike Pence discussed US policy on Iran, Israel and Palestine in the first and only vice presidential debate | Thu, 10/08/2020 – 07: 11 | Plexiglass separated the two candidates on Wednesday amid coronavirus concerns (AFP) | If political debates were a sport, US vice presidential debates would be a game between the reserve teams.
(2020-10-08). Abortion Foes Should Vote Democratic. progressive.org The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court has brought this contentious issue to the forefront of the 2020 election campaign.
(2020-10-08). High Court Rejects Governor's Private School Aid Plan. popularresistance.org Columbia, SC – The South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Wednesday a program created by Gov. Henry McMaster to allocate $32 million in federal pandemic aid to private and religious schools is unconstitutional because the public money would directly benefit the schools. | In the court's opinion, Chief Justice Don Beatty acknowledged the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the lives of South Carolinians and the state's education system, and the "unprecedented challenges" faced by state leaders including McMaster.
(2020-10-08). Let's Cut the Crap about "White Supremacy" dissidentvoice.org How many times do we need to request a meaningless "denunciation" of white supremacy? We, on what passes for a left, are supposed to be critics of corporate media, so why the dog-like obedience to its idiotic framing on this non-issue? President Trump has issued such pointless denunciations before, and did so again in the …
(2020-10-08). Greece: Golden Dawn Trial Ends with Guilty Verdict. globalresearch.ca The heavily guarded Court of Appeals of Athens delivered the verdicts today in a five-year-long Golden Dawn trial. | Thousands gathered in an antifascist rally outside of the court this morning to await the ruling. The trial, widely covered in Greek …
(2020-10-08). Macron's anti-Islamic separatism law: The death throes of French democracy. wsws.org This bill, which would impose control of Islam by the state and mass surveillance of the population, exposes the fascistic and anti-secular policies of the Macron government.
(2020-10-08). As Brazil's inequality soars, ruling elite sets racialist trap for the working class. wsws.org The efforts of the pseudo left and bourgeois parties like the PT to divide the working class along racial, gender and national lines feed the growth of fascistic forces.
(2020-10-08). Racism and the Death Penalty. globalresearch.ca Christopher Vialva, 40, was executed by the United States government on September 24 in Terra Haute, Indiana. | Vialva was the first Black person put to death by the federal criminal justice system since the resumption of executions by Washington earlier …
(2020-10-08). German state and political parties promote anti-Semitism. wsws.org Seventy-five years after the holocaust, anti-Semitic violence is on the rise in Germany.
(2020-10-08). The Rebellious Emirate of the UAE: Ras al Khaimah. thealtworld.com The UAE's embrace of Israel does not enjoy universal support in the seven emirates that make up the oil-rich federation. | Israel may view the United Arab Emirates as one of its few allies in the Arab World. However, the UAE's embrace of Israel does not enjoy universal support in the seven emirates that make up the oil-rich federation. One of the constituent emirates, Ras al Khaimah — sometimes referred to merely as "RAK" — has had a stormy relationship with the chief emirate in the unequal federation, Abu Dhabi. Israel and the Donald Trump administration may believe that the UAE is part and parcel of…
(2020-10-08). Golden Dawn leaders and members convicted of murder of Pavlos Fyssas. peoplesdispatch.org After a 5-year-long trial, the killers of anti-fascist musician Pavlos Fyssas were convicted on October 7. Leaders of the the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, which was heavily involved in his murder and other hate crimes, were convicted of running a criminal organization.
(2020-10-08). German court frees right-wing extremist accused of complicity in assassination of Walter Làºbcke. wsws.org The neo-Nazi Markus Hartmann, who was accused in the trial for the murder of German regional politician Walter Làºbcke, was freed from custody last Thursday.
(2020-10-08). For Love of Country: Black veterans join movement to rid military installations of Confederate names and symbols. splcenter.org …
(2020-10-08). Palestinian administrative detainee critical after over 70 days on hunger strike. peoplesdispatch.org Maher Akhras launched his hunger strike shortly after being arrested by the Israeli authorities on July 27. Doctors are now force-feeding him in an attempt to forcibly end his hunger strike…
(2020-10-08). An infected president, a disease of the heart, an imperiled republic. nationofchange.org It's a supreme irony that President Trump has chosen to call Covid-19 "the China virus".
(2020-10-08). Golden Dawn Guilty Verdicts Celebrated Across Greece. zcomm.org Ex-leader and MPs found guilty after biggest trial of fascists since Nuremberg…
(2020-10-08). Golden Dawn is defeated: the damage to democracy is harder to repair. zcomm.org In an historic verdict, an Athens Court convicted Golden Dawn leaders of running a criminal organisation, bringing its campaign of racist murders to an end. But the political climate that legitimised this is ever present.
(2020-10-08). Saturday 10/10: In the Street 'til this Fascist Regime is GONE! indybay.org San Francisco Civic Center Plaza, directly across from Cityall…
(2020-10-08). Rev. William Barber: Republicans Can't Win Without Voter Suppression. truthout.org During Wednesday's debate, Vice President Mike Pence refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power if Biden wins the election. Instead, he referenced the Trump administration's legal efforts to restrict mail-in voting. Rev. William Barber says the Republican Party's voter suppression efforts ahead of the November election, aimed primarily at Black and Brown voters, amount to "surgical racism with surgical precision." The Poor People's Campaign, of which Barber is co-chair, is leading a major voter mo…
(2020-10-08). Libya Refuses to Take Up Arab League Presidency Following Palestinian Walkout. globalresearch.ca Libya on Tuesday refused to assume the presidency of the current session of the Arab League, after Qatar …
(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). 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). 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). Greensboro Massacre: City apologizes 41 years after cops allowed Klan, Nazis to kill 5 anti-racists. nationofchange.org "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). Saudi trial resumes for Palestinian Hamas members detained by kingdom. middleeasteye.net 
Saudi trial resumes for Palestinian Hamas members detained by kingdom | At least 68 Palestinians – including veteran Hamas middleman Mohammed al-Khoudary – are standing trial on unknown charges with no access to lawyers, right group says | Wed, 10/07/2020 – 12: 18 | Mohammed Saleh al-Khoudary, and his eldest Hani have been in a Saudi prison since April 2019 (Screengrab) | Rights groups continue to raise the al…
(2020-10-07). Philly protesters demand 'Stop racist police murders!'. workers.org 
Hundreds of activists gathered at the "Rocky Steps" in Philadelphia on Oct. 3 to hear speakers from Black Lives Matter Philly, Black Philly Radical Collective, Black Alliance for Peace and Mobilization4Mumia condemn the racist police murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Mya Hall and countless others. March leaders used the . . . |
(2020-10-07). Accept tax revenues collected by Israel or lose aid, EU tells Palestinians. middleeasteye.net 
Accept tax revenues collected by Israel or lose aid, EU tells Palestinians | Palestinian Authority began boycotting Israeli tax payments in May following Israel's plans to annex large swaths of the occupied West Bank | Wed, 10/07/2020 – 20: 50 | Palestinians gather to commemorate the Second Intifada and protest Israeli normalisation deals with the UAE and Bahrain in Ramallah on 28 September (AFP/File photo)…
(2020-10-07). Challenging incarceration of women and trans people. workers.org 
The following are slightly edited opening remarks given during the Sept. 24 webinar Women & Gender Oppressed Prisoners, Survival & Resistance. In our global struggle for liberation from capitalism, imperialism, white supremacy and patriarchy, we cannot waver in our determination to 'Tear Down the Walls' of human cages. Since the . . . |
(2020-10-07). Voting rights: 'Capitalist charity' vs workers' democracy. workers.org 
During this U.S. election season, many people are still fighting to get access to the universal bourgeois right to vote, supposedly a cornerstone of capitalist "democracy." It's been an uphill struggle since 1776 when only propertied white men who were Protestants could legally vote. Everyone else was denied — Catholics, . . . |
(2020-10-07). Qatar makes formal request to US for F-35 jets: Report. middleeasteye.net 
Qatar makes formal request to US for F-35 jets: Report | Despite being close allies, potential Qatar deal must satisfy decades-old US agreement to maintain Israel's 'qualitative military edge' | Wed, 10/07/2020 – 22: 47 | Any F-35 sale may take years to negotiate and deliver and would also require congressional approval (AFP/File photo) | Qatar has submitted a formal request to buy US-made…
(2020-10-07). Nazis lose in Greece; Golden Dawn declared criminal organization. peoplesworld.org 
At the time Morning Star went to press, the verdict in this case had not yet been delivered. This article is updated with an Associated Press report on the verdict. At least 20,000 people gathered outside the central court in Athens on Wednesday to hear the long-awaited verdicts in the trial of Greek neo-Nazi party …
(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). 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). 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). Traits like 'objectivity' and 'perfectionism' signs of RACISM and white supremacy, elementary school kids taught. rt.com 
A screenshot of a lesson apparently taught to elementary school kids claiming characteristics like "perfectionism" and "objectivity" can signify racism has sparked outcry, with many ridiculing the concept as being racist itself. | The presentation slide, shared on Twitter by author James Lindsay on Wednesday, showed a list of 15 traits by which the young students could identify "white supremacy culture." It appeared to be a rough