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• Armenian-Azeri fighting escalates as war danger surges across Middle East
• New York City resumes in-person schools as COVID-19 infections continue to rise
• Teacher protests surge in Southern California as schools reopen
• New wildfires cause mass evacuations in California’s Napa Valley
• More than 2,000 schools in UK hit by COVID-19 outbreaks as thousands of children and staff sent home

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Chelsea Manning

• Assange faces “very high risk of suicide,” medical expert tells court
• Trump’s suggestion of a pardon for Edward Snowden meets US intelligence community backlash
• Growing demands for Assange’s release as first coronavirus case confirmed in British prisons
• Doctors condemn Australian government’s refusal to defend Julian Assange
• Fund drive to pay Chelsea Manning’s court fines raises $267,000 in two days

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US Media Issues

• US escalates military intervention in Syria
• Louisville police chief declares “state of emergency” in advance of state’s decision on charges against policemen who killed Breonna Taylor
• Devastation left in the wake of Hurricanes Sally and Laura along the US Gulf Coast
• The New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones abandon key claims of the 1619 Project
• Supreme Court fight deepens political crisis surrounding US elections

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United States

• New York City resumes in-person schools as COVID-19 infections continue to rise
• Teacher protests surge in Southern California as schools reopen
• New wildfires cause mass evacuations in California’s Napa Valley
• US military suicides spike 20 percent in 2020
• Federal district judge blocks President Trump’s TikTok download ban

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North America

• Teacher protests surge in Southern California as schools reopen
• New wildfires cause mass evacuations in California’s Napa Valley
• With phoney promises of “job security,” Unifor rams through Ford Canada contract
• US military suicides spike 20 percent in 2020
• Jacobin magazine pleads with Biden and the Democrats to fight Trump

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The war drive against Russia

• Armenian-Azeri fighting escalates as war danger surges across Middle East
• Peace negotiations stall as ceasefire begins to fall apart in Ukraine
• German imperialism and the strange case of Alexei Navalny
• Protests, crackdown follow Belarus elections
• Britain’s Russia Report: Propaganda for authoritarianism and war

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Free Julian Assange!

• Assange faces a fate “worse than death” in US prisons, witnesses tell court
• Australian journalist Mary Kostakidis: Assange is a “highly principled individual with enormous courage”
• Free Julian Assange! The political issues confronting educators in the fight for freedom of information
• Decision on Assange’s extradition set for next year
• Assange lawyers expose politically biased medical evidence

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The anti-Russia campaign in the US

• German imperialism and the strange case of Alexei Navalny
• The New York Times slanders left-wing opposition to Biden as “Russian propaganda”
• New Senate Intelligence Committee volume on “Russian interference” smears WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
• US escalates economic warfare against Russia and China
• Anti-Russia war fever spreads on Capitol Hill

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Recent Perspectives

• Trump’s tax returns and the parasitism of the financial oligarchy (29/09/2020)
• Is Trump preparing an “October Surprise”? (28/09/2020)
• After the exoneration of Breonna Taylor’s killers: The way forward in the fight against police violence (26/09/2020)
• Why won’t the Democrats fight Trump? (25/09/2020)
• Trump’s coup d’état election (24/09/2020)

Most Read Over the Past 7 Days

1. The New York Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones abandon key claims of the 1619 Project (22/09/2020)
2. Why is Unifor hiding details of the Ford Canada “pattern” contract? (25/09/2020)
3. Trump’s coup d’état election (24/09/2020)
4. Why won’t the Democrats fight Trump? (25/09/2020)
5. Hundreds of Kenosha, Wisconsin teachers call in sick to force schools to close (23/09/2020)

The 2020 US Elections

• Trump incites fascistic violence as US election approaches (16/09/2020)
• The Civil War Election (09/09/2020)
• Trump incites vigilante violence against peaceful protests in Wisconsin (08/31/2020)
• The Biden/Harris campaign and the dead-end of “lesser evil” politics (08/17/2020)
• The selection of Kamala Harris and the degradation of American politics (13/08/2020)
• Biden picks former law-and-order prosecutor Kamala Harris to be his Democratic running mate (12/08/2020)

The New York Times’ 1619 Project

• Hannah-Jones receives Pulitzer Prize for personal commentary, not historical writing
• American Historical Review publishes letter on 1619 Project by Tom Mackaman and David North
• New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein attempts to slither away from central 1619 Project fabrication
• New York Times ignored objections raised by 1619 Project fact-checker
• A reply to the American Historical Review’s defense of the 1619 Project
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, race theory and the Holocaust
• The New York Times’s 1619 Project: A racialist falsification of American and world history
• Slavery and the American Revolution: A Response to the New York Times 1619 Project
• An interview with historian James McPherson on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
• An interview with historian James Oakes on the New York Times’ 1619 Project
• Historian Victoria Bynum on the inaccuracies of the New York Times 1619 Project

International May Day 2020 Online Rally

• The COVID-19 pandemic: A trigger event in world history

Lectures and Essays by David North

• Trotsky’s Last Year (20/08/2020)
• Socialism and the centenary of the Russian Revolution: 1917-2017 (01/03/2017)
• Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856–1918): His Place in the History of Marxism (12/05/2016)
• Philosophy and Politics in an Age of War and Revolution (10/25/2016)
• A Quarter Century of War: The US Drive for Global Hegemony 1990–2016 (07/11/2016)

Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!

• Vindictive court rulings prove British state wants Assange dead
• The show trial of Julian Assange begins
• The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
• Doctors demand “urgent” medical intervention to save Julian Assange’s life
• The significance of the doctors’ open letter in defence of Julian Assange
• An open letter from doctors: Julian Assange “could die in prison”
• Clinical Psychologist Lissa Johnson on Julian Assange: “A maximum security prison is no place to treat a torture victim”
• Collapse of Swedish “sexual misconduct” frame-up exposes political conspiracy against Assange

Socialism and the Struggle Against War

• No to a Greek-Turkish war in the eastern Mediterranean! (12/09/2020)
• ICFI Resolution: Socialism and the fight against war (18/02/2016)
• SEP (US) Resolution: The fight against war and the political tasks of the SEP (25/08/2014)
• SEP (Australia) Resolution: The Socialist Equality Party and the fight to build an international anti-war movement (27/07/2016)
• SEP (Sri Lanka) Resolution: The political struggle against war and the tasks of the Socialist Equality Party (30/04/2016)
• PSG(Germany) Resolution: The struggle against war and the tasks of the PSG (14/11/2014)