Daily Archives: November 4, 2020

2020-11-04: News Headlines

Commonwealth Club (2020-11-04). Thursday 11/5: LGBTQIA+ Leaders: Where Do We Go from Here? Post-Election Discussion. indybay.org Online event…

imperial.ac.uk (2020-11-04). J-IDEA symposium: Tony Blair on the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. imperial.ac.uk Former Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the coronavirus pandemic could accelerate social inequality and the wealth gap.

_____ (2020-11-03). 'The Coming War On China' — Watch John Pilger's Powerfully Relevant Documentary. strategic-culture.org Caitlin JOHNSTONE | "The aim of this film is to break a silence: the United States and China may well be on the road to war, and nuclear war is no longer unthinkable," Pilger says in his 2016 documentary The Coming War on China, which "In a few years China has become the world's second-biggest economic power," Pilger's introduction continues. "The United States is the world's biggest military power, with bases and missiles and ships covering ever…

Annerieke Daniel (2020-11-03). Pandemic's Toll on Young Black Women. progressive.org Structural racism, discrimination, and poverty—which have historically left Black people out of the healthcare system — are leaving leave us more vulnerable to a serious and deadly virus.

Heidi Shierholz (2020-11-02). Thanks to Mitch McConnell, 30 Million Workers Head Into Election Day Unnecessarily Hurting. commondreams.org It is both cruel and terrible economics that Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate last Tuesday with no COVID relief. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/mcconnell_unemployment.jpg

Raul Diego (2020-11-02). Freedom of Speech on the Internet is all but Extinct: Facebook's New "Free Speech Court" Is Anything but Independent. globalresearch.ca Freedom of speech on the Internet is all but extinct, and on the eve of the 2020 US elections, a de facto "free speech court" is going to make sure it never comes back. On Facebook at least. | ***…

Jasmine Norden (2020-11-02). Calls for Universal Basic Income increase as government support fails those most in need. thecanary.co Elected representatives across the UK have called on the government to prevent poverty by trialling Universal Basic Income (UBI). | On 30 October, 520 MPs, councillors, peers, mayors and members of devolved assemblies, In the letter, organised by UBI Lab Network, the elected representatives said: Millions of people have fallen through the cracks of the government's support packages. The pandemic has left countless families facing po…

WSWS (2020-11-02). Who bears responsibility for the Canadian ruling elite's catastrophic handling of the COVID-19 pandemic? wsws.org By systematically prioritizing corporate profit and investor wealth over human lives, Canada's governments have created conditions for a second wave of COVID-19 infections and deaths even bigger than the first.