Fight Back (2021-10-24). Blood money off the backs of Black and brown people just keeps rolling into FSU. fightbacknews.org Tallahassee, FL – First there was the $20 million regressive Blueprint sales tax money stolen from Black, brown, and poor people for tax exempt skyboxes sold to rich white people to enhance their "football experience." | All this while the games are played in the shadow of Doak Campbell, a stadium named after a white man who despised Black people and thought they had no place at FSU. FSU refused to change the name. | White "Indians" doing the tomahawk chop are getting old. | Now we have Dr. Sylvie Naar, the recipient of a $6.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to study HIV among the largely Black people…
The Daily Expose (2021-10-24). Child Deaths Are 52% Higher than the 5-year-average Since They Were Offered the COVID-19 Vaccine, after Previously Being 14% Down According to ONS Data. globalresearch.ca
Ulson Gunnar (2021-10-24). The Dangers of Human Gene Editing. globalresearch.ca This incisive article published by Global Research on June 5, 2015 outlines what we are living now, with the introduction of the mRNA vaccine which modifies the human genome. | ***. | "Perhaps no technology yet has been poised to change the …
Celeste McGovern (2021-10-24). Vaccine Researcher Admits 'Big Mistake,' Says Spike Protein Is Dangerous 'Toxin'. globalresearch.ca First published in …
Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-10-24). Bastille 2.0: "Real Regime Change": Building Protest and Resistance Against the COVID-19 Agenda. globalresearch.ca …
Michael J. Talmo (2021-10-24). COVID-19: Pandemic? Or Cult? globalresearch.ca For the overwhelming majority of people, COVID-19 is a religion. …
Chloe DS (2021-10-24). As COVID-19 spreads, protesters ramp up calls for refugees to be released from hotel detention. greenleft.org.au Protesters gathered outside the Park Hotel in Carlton to demand that the refugees be immediately released. Chloe DS reports.
Extinction Rebellion, Youth v Apocolypse more (2021-10-24). Friday 10/29: SF March & Street Mural: Defund Climate Chaos & Fossil Fuels Global Day of Action. indybay.org Outside of BlackRock HQ, 400 Howard St., San Francisco, CA | Wear a Mask. Please follow current COVID guidelines: covid19.ca.gov/safely-reopening/…
David Skripac (2021-10-24). What Are the Truly Verifiable Facts Surrounding COVID-19? globalresearch.ca Incisive and carefully researched article by David Skripac, first published on Global Research on August 14, 2020 "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that …
Extinction Rebellion, 350.org, more grps (2021-10-24). Thursday 11/11: Bay Area COP26 Rebellion: March & Rally to Demand Climate Emergency Action Now! indybay.org San Francisco Ferry Building, 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco, CA 94111; Peaceful protest | Wear a Mask. Please follow current COVID guidelines: covid19.ca.gov/safely-reopening/…
Peter Koenig (2021-10-24). COVID and Zero Tolerance for the Unvaccinated. globalresearch.ca
Wingel Xue, Alexandre White (2021-10-23). [Perspectives] COVID-19 and the rebiologisation of racial difference. thelancet.com In the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, early dashboards set up by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering tracked overall numbers of cases and deaths but provided no demographic breakdown of these statistics. Current data show wide racial disparities in the burden of COVID-19 in the USA, with Latino, Indigenous, and Black people disproportionately affected. Similar disparities are also evident in other nations with histories of structural racism.
Talha Burki (2021-10-23). [World Report] Health at COP26. thelancet.com World leaders will soon gather in Glasgow for the much hyped climate change conference. Talha Burki looks at the health agenda.
_____ (2021-10-23). Public Health or Private Wealth? How Digital Vaccine Passports Pave Way for Unprecedented Surveillance Capitalism. strategic-culture.org 
Public health or private wealth? How digital vaccine passports pave way for unprecedented surveillance capitalism | By Jeremy LOFFREDO, Max BLUMENTHAL | The titans of global capitalism are exploiting the Covid-19 crisis to institute social credit-style digital ID systems across the West. | The death by starvation of Etwariya Devi, a 67-year-old widow from the rural Indian state of Jharkhand, might have passed without notice had it not been part of a more widespread trend. | Like 1.3 billion of her fellow Indians, Devi had been pushed to enroll in a biometric digital ID system called Aadhaar in order to access pub…
Sharon Kelly (2021-10-23). Fossil fuel plant run by William Koch at heart of EPA investigation into racism in Texas's environmental oversight. nationofchange.org "My hope is that they will thoroughly investigate their emissions and their impact on the community and draw what we believe to be an inescapable conclusion that Oxbow is an eminent danger to the life and health of people in Port Arthur and southeast Texas."
The Lancet (2021-10-23). [Editorial] Abortion bans in the USA harm health equity. thelancet.com On Sept 1, the state of Texas enacted Senate Bill 8S (SB8S), banning all abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected—at as early as 6 weeks of gestation and before most women know they are pregnant—effectively making abortion illegal in the state. In response, the US Justice Department filed a brief with the US Supreme Court against SB8S, stating that the ban unconstitutionally violates citizens' rights and wrongly deputises citizens across the USA to notify authorities of anyone aiding or abetting such abortions, thereby rewarding vigilantism (and providing a US$10‚Äà000 cash award…
WSWS (2021-10-23). A global tragedy: Up to 180,000 health care workers have died from COVID-19. wsws.org The tens of thousands of health care workers who gave their lives to save others are among the approximately 15 million people worldwide who have died from COVID-19.
March for Medicare for All (2021-10-23). Saturday 10/30: Day of the Dead Vigil and Rally for Medicare for All in San Francisco. indybay.org We will gather at Alta Plaza Park (Jackson St. & Steiner St.) in the Presidio neighborhood of San Francisco at 12 noon and proceed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's residence in the style of a funeral procession.
Julia Conley (2021-10-23). Rich Nations Have Delivered Just 14% of Vaccine Doses Promised to Poor Nations. zcomm.org "It is painfully clear that the developing world cannot rely on the largesse and charity of rich nations and pharmaceutical companies, and hundreds of thousands of people are dying from Covid-19 as a result."
_____ (2021-10-23). As Harvard Study Reveals Limits of Mandatory Vaccine Regime, Joe Biden Should Let Americans Decide Their Own Fate. strategic-culture.org 
It would be wise to heed the words from the Harvard team at a time when society is being increasingly divided between two warring camps. | As millions of U.S. workers are about to be made redundant in the wake of the Biden administration's harsh vaccine mandate, a recent study by Harvard University, which appears to show no discernable link between people fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases, deserves a second look. | By all indications, there is a Cateogy-5 socio-economic hurricane barreling down on the United States, yet few people — least of all in the legacy media — are willing to talk about. Pos…
Ella Fassler (2021-10-23). When Prison Guards Refuse Vaccines, Incarcerated People Pay the Price. truthout.org 
Tensions are reaching a boiling point as large swaths of prison guards continue to refuse COVID-19 vaccines despite mandates in some states for public sector employees. Vaccination rates for prison staff members The disputes are coming to a head during a raging pandemic where,…
Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2021-10-23). The "Killer Vaccine" Worldwide. 7.9 Billion People. globalresearch.ca The stated objective is to enforce the Worldwide vaccination of 7.9 billion people in more than 190 countries, to be followed by the imposition of a digitized "vaccine passport". The evidence of mortality and morbidity resulting from the vaccine is overwhelming. Needless to say this is a multi-billion dollar operation for Big Pharma.
Peter Koenig (2021-10-23). The Spike Protein Is the Killer — Beware of mRNA "Vaccines" globalresearch.ca First published by Global …
Joachim Hagopian (2021-10-23). U.S Air Transportation in Crisis: Pilots Taking a Bold Stand against "Killer Vaccine" globalresearch.ca
Mike Whitney (2021-10-23). Will Vaccine-Linked Deaths Rise Sharply this Winter? globalresearch.ca First published on …
WSWS (2021-10-23). Police across US refuse COVID-19 vaccines. wsws.org Police departments have faced resistance in their efforts to get officers to comply with vaccine mandates, despite reports indicating that COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death for US police.
Ann Danaiya Usher (2021-10-23). [World Report] Vaccine shortages prompt changes to COVAX strategy. thelancet.com COVAX, the global COVID-19 vaccine procurement hub, has changed how it allocates vaccines. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.
José Manuel Blanco Diaz (2021-10-23). Confirmed: Venezuela to Start COVID-19 Vaccination for Children Next Week (Cooperation with Cuba). orinocotribune.com 
In Venezuela, children aged 12 years and older will start receiving COVID-19 vaccines from Monday, October 25. This was confirmed on Thursday, October 21, by President Nicolás Maduro. | At the end of a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister of Cuba, Ricardo Cabrisas, President Maduro highlighted the benefits of a comprehensive cooperation program between the two countries that has been in effect since 2000. This agreement was originally an initiative of Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro. | "Face-to-face classes will begin on Monday," informed President Maduro, "and we will simultaneously start vaccination of teenagers. We…
Internationalist 360 ∞ (2021-10-23). Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate. libya360.wordpress.com Eder Peña As part of the normality that, like a promised land, they have repeatedly offered during the pandemic, some governments of the Global North have created mechanisms to control mobility based on the inoculation of vaccines against covid-19. The so-called vaccine passport has raised a debate that goes beyond vaccines and calls into question…
Dr. Nicole Delépine (2021-10-23). The Incidence of Cancer, Triggered by the Covid 19 "Vaccine" globalresearch.ca Vaccinating cancer patients or former cancer patients may affect the mechanism of the gene injection on immunity. Several geneticists had expressed concerns about the possible interference between active or dormant cancer cells and the activity of gene therapy on lymphocytes in particular.
Staff (2021-10-23). National School Board Association backtracks after asking White House to label dissident parents 'domestic terrorists'. rt.com 
A national federation of school boards has issued a mea culpa after it was revealed the org had pressed the White House to label parents who oppose Covid restrictions as "domestic terrorists," apologizing after a wave of backlash. | The US National School Board Association (NSBA) issued a lengthy apology on Friday, acknowledging to members that a controversial letter to President Joe Biden "regarding threats and acts of violence against school board members" included inflammatory language while apologizing for the poorly worded missive. | "On behalf of the NSBA, we regret and apologize for the letter. To be cl…
WSWS (2021-10-23). COVID-19 surge spreads across Europe. wsws.org While Britain and Eastern Europe are particularly hard hit, with hundreds of deaths every day, the number of cases is again growing across the entire continent.
WSWS (2021-10-23). Five things every autoworker needs to know about the fight against COVID-19. wsws.org COVID-19 is still raging, and auto plants are a major source of spread. Here's what autoworkers need to know to protect themselves and bring the pandemic to an end.
WSWS (2021-10-23). Educators across the US West Coast support October 24 webinar: "How to End the Pandemic" wsws.org Our committees fully support the fight for the global elimination of COVID-19 in order to save millions of lives worldwide.
Anonymous103 (2021-10-23). As America's Supply Chain Breaks Down, Biden falls in the polls. southfront.org 
Illustrative Image | Written by William Stroock, observer, author of military fiction | Right now America is in the midst of a durable goods shortage and the term 'supply chain crisis' saturates the news. After a long lag due to the Wuhan Virus, demand is up once more. But America lacks the dock facilities to unload and store imports. As a result, more than a hundred merchant container ships lay at anchor awaiting their turn to offload their cargos at Los Angeles and Long Beach, the largest ports on the West Coast. | Compounding the crisis is a nationwide shortage of truckers brought about by onerous Covid regula…
Editor2 (2021-10-23). Systemic Crisis Further Exposes Inequalities: Poor Women's Global Struggle Against Hunger and Pandemic. orinocotribune.com By Misión Verdad — Oct 22, 2021 | Without a doubt, the global pandemic of covid-19 has had a devastating impact on the economy and, consequently, on the population. Its appearance has accelerated a systemic crisis that was already underway, and has brought to light the need for an urgent change in the dynamics of relations imposed by the capitalist system. | Although at the beginning of the pandemic many hopeful people believed that it would be an opportunity for a paradigm shift to occur, what we have seen until then has been a deepening of barbarism in which the common denominator has been the domination o…
WSWS (2021-10-23). Tennessee mother dies of COVID-19 one month after childbirth. wsws.org Amanda Perry waited to be vaccinated after the birth of her child, a child she never saw or held.
WSWS (2021-10-23). SEP electoral members in Australia denounce premature ending of COVID-19 lockdowns. wsws.org "The reason they're telling us to live with the virus is because the economy is going downhill, and capitalism has to continue generating profits for companies and businesses. But the consequence is more infections, illness and deaths."
WSWS (2021-10-23). Educators across the US South call for a mass working-class movement to end the pandemic. wsws.org Our committees, comprised of educators in Alabama, Tennessee and Texas, call for a mass movement of the working class to fight for the global elimination of COVID-19.
Oakland Privacy (2021-10-23). Wednesday 11/17: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State. indybay.org We will probably meet online in October and November due to Covid, as we did in September and August, although it is possible we will meet in-person at the OMNI Commons, as we have in the past before the pandemic, and did in July, assuming it is open and available. Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info.
WSWS (2021-10-23). Indian and Sri Lankan workers and students support WSWS webinar on COVID-19 pandemic. wsws.org "These meetings have given me hope for the future of the entire human race so I'll being attending the next meeting with the same enthusiasm."
WSWS (2021-10-23). Canadian educators and workers explain why they are attending the October 24 webinar on eliminating COVID-19. wsws.org A school caretaker wrote, "With this knowledge we can mobilize all education workers to immediately close schools until there are zero reported COVID cases."
WSWS (2021-10-23). Third global school strike against dangerous reopenings draws support from thousands worldwide. wsws.org The third global school strike to fight against the deadly reopening of schools as the COVID-19 pandemic rages was held on Friday, drawing support from thousands of parents and workers worldwide.
WSWS (2021-10-23). Long COVID survivor urges people to attend October 24 webinar. wsws.org Katie said Long COVID survivors have been "forgotten and let down by the government and the medical establishment. I no longer feel like I am a part of society, I'm just coping with my symptoms every day."
WSWS (2021-10-23). Parent denounces full reopening of schools across Brazil. wsws.org "Brazil is a leader in deaths of young people from the coronavirus. How can I not defend my child from this?"
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U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said over the weekend that Democrats are close to reaching a deal on a pair of major budget bills that form the backbone of President Biden's domestic agenda. Progressives in Congress have spent months defending provisions such as Medicare benefits, paid family leave and free community college, but conservative Democrats such as Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have slashed them from the budget. Congressmember Ro Khanna draws a hard line on items such as climate provisions, as per President Joe Biden's wishes ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference "to show Ame…
In Crowter & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care [2021] EWHC 2536 (Admin), the High Court considered the lawfulness of the provision in the Abortion Act 1967 which permits termination of a foetus after 24 weeks where there is a substantial risk that, if born, a …
Republican-controlled states are increasingly trying to recruit law enforcement officers who lose their jobs because of Covid-19 jab mandates, and Florida may soon up the ante by offering displaced cops a $5,000 relocation bonus. | Florida Governor Ron DeSantis 
Yemen: Saudi-led coalition says more than 260 Houthis killed around Marib | Deaths follow call for 'de-escalation' of conflict by UN Security Council to counter risk of 'large-scale famine' | Sun, 10/24/2021 – 15: 17 | Fighters loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed government man a position at the front line facing Houthi rebels in Marib province on 23 October 2021 (AFP) | The Saudi-led coalition…
More than 2,000 health care workers — including nurses, technicians, clerical workers, and custodians — at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, New York have been on strike since October 1. Similar to other