Daily Archives: September 14, 2020

2020-09-14: News Headlines

yenisafak (2020-09-13). Coronavirus claims over 1,200 lives in Brazil, Mexico. yenisafak.com Brazil reported 814 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus, while Mexico saw 421 over the past 24 hours, health authorities said Sunday.In Brazil, the third worst-hit country in the world after India with the highest number of cases, the death toll reached 131,210, while confirmed cases to date surpassed 4.15 million with 33,523 new infections.According to the Brazilian Health Ministry, over 3.55 million people have so far recovered from the virus in the Latin American country.With a population of over 211 million, Brazil is seen as the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in the region.Brazil's vibrant financi…

WSWS (2020-09-12). Mexico runs out of death certificates with 122,765 "excess deaths" reported during pandemic. wsws.org The Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has done nothing to prevent the virus from claiming the lives of tens of thousands, most of them poor workers.

Anya Parampil (2020-09-11). US govt & Democrat-tied troll farm boosts Bolivian coup regime, meddles in Mexico, Venezuela. thegrayzone.com Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with The Grayzone's Ben Norton about US troll farm CLS Strategies that boosted Bolivia's coup regime and sought to destabilize leftist Venezuelan and Mexican governments. Ben Norton joined Red Lines to discuss his recent piece, "U.S. govt-linked PR firm ran fake news networks for right-wing Latin American regimes." He …

teleSUR (2020-09-11). Salvadoran Ex-Colonel Sentenced to Jail Over Priests' Massacre. telesurenglish.net Spain's High Court Friday sentenced Salvadoran former colonel Inocente Montano to 133 years in prison for the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in 1989. | RELATED: | Montano, 77, was accused of "terrorism" before the justice system for being responsible for planning and ordering the killings of the Jesuits during El Salvador's civil war. | He was the only Salvadoran officer judged for the five crimes, for which h…

_____ (2020-09-11). Biden Amplifies Anti-Sandanista Propaganda. popularresistance.org A clever trick of propaganda is to introduce false information as a precept to an argument with what seems like a valid conclusion. Those who agree with the conclusion will likely accept the false precept without even questioning it. This tactic was used for a recent series of articles in the Washington Post aiming to discredit the government of Nicaragua led by the Sandinista Party.

Kenn Orphan (2020-09-11). Fascism and the Quickening of History. counterpunch.org Over the last few months I have been revisiting research I did a long time ago on fascism. Pinochet's Chile, Sukarno's Indonesia, Montt's Guatemala, Hitler's Germany and beyond. I've spent time poring over the accounts of the survivors, the details of the crimes, the descriptions of the torture, of the camps, the ghettos, the dehumanization,

sputniknews (2020-09-11). Brazil's Bahia State Calls Purchase of Russian Sputnik V Vaccine 'Step to Save Lives'. sputniknews.com MOSCOW/MEXICO (Sputnik) – Rui Costa, the governor of the Brazilian state of Bahia, said on Friday that the agreement with Russia to purchase the Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus disease was life-saving.

Staff (2020-09-11). Trump Is Conveniently Ignoring the Climate-Fueled Fires Raging in the West. truthout.org On Thursday morning, as deadly wildfires fueled by drought and climate change caused power outages and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate their homes across three Western states, President Trump was tweeting about anything else. | New Mexico would not be "GREAT" unless President Trump is reelected, the president warned, and, he claimed, "America's suburbs" will be "OVERRUN" with protesters and low-income housing projects. Trump attacked political rivals, including President Obam…

Andy Rowell (2020-09-11). Climate Emergency: Records Tumble as 2 Million Acres of California Burn. globalresearch.ca The signs are ominous as yet another climate record is broken. California is once again burning. From near the southern Mexico border, to San Diego and the forests of the Sierra Nevada, over two million acres of the Golden state …