Trump Appears to Admit Extrajudicial Killing of Michael Reinoehl Was Planned Truthout
Jacob Blake Is My Nephew. My Family Is Suffering. NYTimes
Police violence takes a largely invisible toll on Black families.
Media Again Falsely Claim That Joe Biden’s Intervention In Ukraine Was Innocent MoA
Thomas Sankara : “We Want to Be the Heirs of All the Revolutions in the World”
Indigenous Peoples
Members of Wet’suwet’en tribe occupy pipeline drillsite in Canada as protests reignite Peoples Dispatch
Coronavirus
Competing with Nature: COVID-19 as a Capitalist Virus Spectre Journal
Remdesivir, the only antiviral authorized for COVID-19 in US, does not improve chances of survival, a massive WHO study found Business Insider
Act now, wait for perfect evidence later, says ‘high priestess’ of U.K. COVID-19 masking campaign Science
When Covid-19 rules are flouted by ultra-Orthodox Jews, it isn’t anti-Semitism to call it out NBC
The noble lie about masks and coronavirus should never have been told The Week
Inside the Fall of the CDC ProPublica
Jobless
Jobless claims: only one week’s data, but cause for significant concern Angry Bear
Jobless claims: only one week’s data, but cause for significant concern Today marked the biggest increase in new jobless claims in two months, and one of the two biggest increases since May, while the slightly lagging continuing claims continued to decline.
Exclusive: America’s true unemployment rate Felix Salmon, Axios
A person who is looking for a full-time job that pays a living wage — but who can’t find one — is unemployed. If you accept that definition, the true unemployment rate in the U.S. is a stunning 26.1%
‘So Hard To Prove You Exist’: Flawed Fraud Protections Deny Unemployment To Millions NPR
China
Xi Jinping: “We Must Prepare for War Internationalist 360°
Anti-Chinese racism sets stage for New McCarthyism Monthly Review
Bolivia
A Biden Presidency Could End The U.S. Oil Boom Dan Doyle, OilPrice.com
Dan Doyle is president of Reliance Well Services, a hydraulic fracturing company based in Pennsylvania.
What does oil and U.S. intervention have to do with Cuba? Watch this, and stay tuned tomorrow for Episode 2 of "The War on Cuba." pic.twitter.com/BjzRdrOdY9
— Belly of The Beast (@bellybeastcuba) October 15, 2020
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