22 October 2020 — ColdType
Day: October 22, 2020
Paradise for Human Victims of Corporate Persons: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2020)
22 October 2020 — Tricontinental
Henry Tayali (Zambia), Destiny, 1962-1966.
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
Any day now, Zambia will be the first African country to slip into a private debt default. It can only pay interest on the $3 billion in dollar-denominated bonds if it totally ignores the needs of the Zambian people. The country has suffered from the slowdown of the world economy, which impacted the sale of its copper for a part of this year (although copper prices and future prices have now begun to rise). Continue reading
Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?
22 October 2020 — BMJ
(Published 17 September 2020)
- Peter Doshi, associate editor
It seemed a truth universally acknowledged that the human population had no pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2, but is that actually the case? Peter Doshi explores the emerging research on immunological responses
Update: Operation Moonshot
22 October 2020 — Good Law Project
The ‘Operation Moonshot’, Government’s grand plan to develop a rapid turnaround testing programme, has predictably fizzled out into a damp squib. Continue reading
Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19 Inferred from Seroprevalence Data
21 October, 2020 — Global Research
Bulletin of the WHO 14 October 2020
Abstract
Objective: To estimate the infection fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from seroprevalence data. Continue reading
Black Agenda Report for 21 October 2020
21 October 2020 — Black Agenda Report
Peace, Black Self-Determination, and the Duopoly Trap
Glen Ford, BAR Executive Editor
Corporate institutions and their Black servants conspire to hide the fact that the Black American worldview is profoundly Left on issues of peace and social justice.
UK: The racist roots and reality of school segregation
22 October 2020 — Novara Media
As education becomes increasingly authoritarian, the battle against racist educational enclosure policies is one the left cannot afford to lose, argues the Institute of Race Relations’ Jessica Perera
There is no shortcut to an ecosocialist future
21 October 2020 — Origin: Climate & Capitalism
Voting for liberals won’t work. Nor will isolated actions by small groups. Building mass movements is hard work, but it is the only way to win
Winning broad support for a radical challenge to the triple crisis requires patient work.
by Fred Fuentes Continue reading
Watch: The Moment for Change Is Now. Medical Doctors Speak Out
22 October, 2020 — Global Research
By ACU Kai Stuht Creative Caravan
On October 10, 2020, ACU2020.org announced the world doctors’ alliance in Berlin, Germany.
It is an alliance of medical doctors, scientists and peace activists who together claim that this COVID-19 affair is just not true.
And as medical doctors, it is their duty to speak out the truth.
Watch the video below. Continue reading
Russia and the EU: “Business as Usual” Is Over
22 October, 2020 — Global Research
By Pepe Escobar
This article was originally published on Asia Times.
Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, is the world’s foremost diplomat. The son of an Armenian father and a Russian mother, he’s just on another level altogether. Here, once again, we may be able to see why. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 