Manilla Bulletin reported nine Muslim Moro farmers were killed in Kabacan, North Cotabato, Philippines on 29th August 2020. This massacre has sparked outrage among Muslim communities. Policemen were involved in daytime massacre of these Muslim farmers based on a dying declaration of one of the victims, according to the regional director of the Commission of Human Rights in Region 12 (CHR-12).

On Wednesday, 16th September 2020, the PTI government managed to pass eight important bills, including three related to the colonialist Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The bills were passed in a joint sitting of parliament. The FATF-related bills were rejected in the opposition-dominated Senate but were given approval in a joint session of Parliament as some three dozen opposition members failed to show up.

A $400 billion deal between China and Iran that was leaked in July 2020 and caused a stir in the international media. China securing vital energy resources and providing a lifeline to the embattled regime in Tehran has been seen as a challenge to the US dominance of the region.

The divide between rich and poor in the US is “wider than any other nation in the G-7, a group of major developed countries” and the author warns this “spiraling inequality can also contribute to political and financial instability, fuel social unrest and extend any economic recession."