Rochester AFL-CIO Calls for General Strike if Trump Steals Election Mike Elk
Videos show closed-door sessions of leading conservative activists: ‘Be not afraid of the accusations that you’re a voter suppressor’ Washington Post
Nearly 5.2 Million Americans Will Be Disenfranchised in 2020 Election Due to Felony Convictions: Study Common Dreams
Trump Picks Rudy Giuliani To Lead His Legal Challenges To Election TROF
Thousands of Mathematicians Join Boycott Against Police Collaboration Shadowproof
Sen. Lindsey Graham Jokes About ‘Good Old Days of Segregation’ at ACB Hearing Daily Beast
Activist suspected in Portland shooting was fired at 30 times by police, official says MSN
Coronavirus
Survey finds Americans are more united than divided on wearing face masks MarketWatch
White House informally endorses letting pandemic spread unchecked ars technica
Sudden irreversible hearing loss post COVID-19 BMJ
France imposes curfews to beat back coronavirus Reuters
“Staggering” need: COVID-19 has led to rising levels in food insecurity across the U.S. CBS News
The Pandemic Has Benefited One Group Of People: Billionaires HuffPost
Indigenous Peoples
Terror in Nova Scotia: White Supremacists LAUNCH ATTACK on Mi’kmaw Fishermen Toronto Today
Van torched, lobsters destroyed as mob surrounds Mi’kmaw lobster pounds in Nova Scotia APTN
Call for investigation into border wall dispute Indian Country Today
Capitalist crisis
The Great American Oil & Gas Massacre: Bankruptcies Hit New Milestone as Bigger Companies Let Go
As Virus Spread, Reports of Trump Administration’s Private Briefings Fueled Sell-Off NYTimes
Military-industrial complex
Top 50 U.S. Think Tanks Receive Over $1B from Gov, Defense Contractors
US lets Indonesia’s Prabowo off the hook Asia Times
China
No, China Didn’t ‘Stall’ Critical Covid Information at Outbreak’s Start FAIR
The Lancet – China’s successful control of COVID-19
According to a July survey by the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of Americans believe that China has done a bad job dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. It is clearly not an opinion shared by WHO. In a press conference in September, Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme, offered “deepest congratulations…to the front-line health workers in China and the population who worked together tirelessly to bring the disease to this very low level”.
U.S. Fails To Find Allies For Waging War On China Moon of Alabama
In 2020, The Trump administration has dramatically increased the number of Freedom of Navigation missions.
US appoints Tibet coordinator amid tensions with China Al Jazeera
In an impressive display of collective schadenfreude, Donald Trump's tweet announcing his #COVID19 diagnosis is, by far, his most liked tweet since becoming US president.#TrumpCovid #dataviz #ggplot2 #rstats pic.twitter.com/fZiUSJwmJ9
— Nathan Cunningham (@nathcun) October 4, 2020
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