Amazon workers in Germany strike on ‘Prime Day‘ Reuters
Workers Tried To Blow The Whistle On COVID Hazards. Then People Died. HuffPost
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Peoples Day comes amid a reckoning over colonialism and calls for return of Native land The Conversation
Hundreds of schools still have racist mascots FiveThirtyEight
Voter suppression
California GOP accused of operating fake ‘official’ ballot drop boxes: ‘Appalling criminal conduct’ Alternet
Armed groups say they will show up to polling sites on Election Day, and experts are afraid it will intimidate voters Business Insider
The City Where Someone Was Bitten by a Police Dog Every 5 Days Marshall Project
Why K-9s in Indianapolis have attacked so many people
Eviction crisis
CDC Memo Gives Landlords Green Light To Resume Evictions Blavity
Coronavirus
Battle Rages Inside Hospitals Over How COVID Strikes and Kills KHN
On the other side are many occupational safety experts, aerosol scientists, front-line health care workers and their unions, who are quick to note that the novel coronavirus is far deadlier than the flu ― and argue that the science suggests that high-quality, and costlier, N95 respirators should be required for routine COVID-19 patient care.
Hospitalizations increase in New York amid second COVID-19 spike NYPost
Grim new analyses spotlight just how hard US is failing in pandemic Ars Technica
Capitalist crisis
A prize auction Michael Roberts
This year’s ‘Nobel’ (actually the Riksbank) prize for economics went to Stanford University economists, Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson. … All this says a lot about what mainstream economics is for; namely to improve the profitability of capital and defend the market model. Any critic of those objectives is not going to be recognised as making a ‘contribution to society’.
China
White House moving forward on arms sales to Taiwan: Report Al Jazeera
Indonesia
Braving repression, thousands take to the streets in Indonesia against Omnibus Law Peoples Dispatch
Fake news hoax exposed: NY Times podcast star lied about joining ISIS Grayzone
You'll hear journalists these days talking about various privileges they enjoy, but when is the last time you heard one talk about the vast family wealth they exploited — and still benefit from — or the private prep schools they went to? Almost never. Not because it's rare.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 12, 2020
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