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The global campaign to reopen schools drives COVID-19 deaths past one million
Underlying the reckless drive to reopen schools is a broader policy of “herd immunity” adopted by every major capitalist country around the world.
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Report documents criminality and corruption at heart of global banking system
The report documents the role that major banks knowingly play in laundering trillions of dollars in dirty money from terrorist organizations, drug cartels and assorted international financial criminals.
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Johnson government says UK COVID-19 infections could hit 50,000 per day as pandemic spins “out of control”
Chief Scientific Officer Sir Patrick Vallance, an early advocate of a “herd immunity” strategy, conceded that only an estimated 8 percent of the population had been infected and that the majority of the population remain susceptible.
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Madrid hospitals collapsing amid Covid-19 resurgence in Europe
Health authorities report 90 percent of beds in Madrid intensive care wards are occupied, and 139 people died of Covid-19 in them last week.
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Whistle-blowers speak out as German authorities cover up coronavirus cases at schools and day-care centres
Despite hundreds of teaching and care facilities being infected, school and health authorities, as well as the federal and state governments, with the support of the trade unions, are doing everything in their power to continue reopening schools.
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Spike in Canada’s COVID-19 infections exposes criminality of back-to-work, back-to-school drive
The dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases is the direct outcome of the ruling elite’s criminal back-to-work and back-to-school policies, which are aimed at guaranteeing corporate profits regardless of the cost in human lives.
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US escalates military intervention in Syria
The bolstering of the US force with another 100 troops, armored vehicles, and air power heightens the threat of confrontation between the world’s two biggest nuclear powers.
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Trump to nominate new Supreme Court justice as early as Friday
Ignoring Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s pleas to wait until after the election, Trump has pledged to nominate a women by Saturday.
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Louisville police chief declares “state of emergency” in advance of state’s decision on charges against policemen who killed Breonna Taylor
Federal police agencies have been requested by U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman to provide protection for the courthouse and three other buildings in downtown Louisville in anticipation of protests this week.
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Youth and students on the frontlines of the pandemic in the US endure low paid, unsafe jobs and endless financial struggle
Adding insult to injury, students, many of whom who are frontline workers and therefore unable to escape exposure, are being blamed for the explosion of cases on college campuses.
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Opposition mounts at the University of Michigan as COVID-19 outbreaks emerge on campus
The possibility that the university administration delayed the public announcement of the cases until after the strike was officially smothered cannot be discounted.
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EU parliament calls for international investigation into alleged poisoning of Navalny
The resolution represents a significant escalation of attempts by the European imperialist powers to destabilize the Putin regime and ratchet up tensions with Russia.
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Devastation left in the wake of Hurricanes Sally and Laura along the US Gulf Coast
The region stretching from Texas to Florida remains locked in the crosshairs of a historically overactive hurricane season.
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Fiat Chrysler worker describes rapid abandonment of safety measures after return work
A member of the FCA Jefferson North Assembly Rank and File Safety Committee describes management’s flouting of safety protocols at the factory.
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“NTEU Fightback” aims to replace the discredited Australian university union leadership
These supposed “socialists” are seeking to keep workers trapped within the industrial and political straitjacket of the trade unions.
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The New York Times and Nicole Hannah-Jones abandon key claims of the 1619 Project
The Times has abandoned, without any public announcement or explanation, the central thesis that 1619, not 1776, was the “true founding” of the United States.
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COVID-19: French NPA’s Révolution Permanente web site lines up with Macron’s school re-opening
Factions of France’s New Anti-capitalist Party linked to Argentina’s Socialist Workers Party (PTS) tacitly back a return to school endangering millions.
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Philippine Maoist leader Sison seeks alliance with military against Duterte
The Communist Party of the Philippines and its allied organisations are seeking to corral mass opposition to fascistic President Rodrigo Duterte behind Vice-President Leni Robredo and pro-US factions of the military.
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Assange dragged from embassy “on the orders of the president”
Cassandra Fairbanks testified that Arthur Schwartz, a wealthy Republican Party donor and key Trump ally, had provided her with evidence of plans by the Trump administration to impose the death penalty.
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Thirteen former national presidents demand an end to the British show-trial of Julian Assange
The statement demonstrates that the attempt to prosecute Assange for exposing war crimes is widely viewed as an act of imperialist banditry that brands Britain and the US as rogue states.
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King’s Disease: Beware the nostrums of Nas
A skilled and engaging rapper, Nas remains committed to a message reflecting his confusion, racialist politics and considerable business interests.
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
Ontario home daycare workers began an unlimited strike Monday while instructors in Zacatecas, Mexico began a strike at the state’s 43 Bachelors College campuses on September 17.
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