The Canary (2019-10-20). Confronted by impeachment, Trump adds to the chaos. thecanary.co The impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump has thrust Washington into a political crisis. And Trump keeps adding to the chaos.In the four weeks since house speaker Nancy Pelosi launched the investigation, Trump has taken steps that have drawn more criticism, not less, repeatedly testing the loyalty of his stalwart Republican allies. His actions have both intensified the questions at the centre of the inquiry and opened new areas of concern.Trump angered GOP leaders and US allies by clearing the way for Turkish attacks on Syrian Kurdish fighters, key American partners in the fight against Daesh (Isi…

Roger D. Harris (2019-10-20). Greater Middle East Project of Chaos. dissidentvoice.org Destination Afghanistan was known as the big easy back in the halcyon days of the late 1960s. Hippies from throughout the affluent West hitchhiked to the capital, Kabul, where crash pads and hashish were cheap, and the locals were tolerant. Life appeared to be mellow in the scenic shadow of the Hindu Kush Himalayans. That …

Vijay Prashad (2019-10-20). The IMF does not fight financial fires but douses them with gasoline. mronline.org On 13 October, Moreno had to promise to withdraw Decree 833. Pressure from the streets, from the United Nations, and from the Ecuadorian Episcopal Conference forced him to the table, where a televised discussion was held. The indigenous leaders won the \'debate\'—they were much more prepared and far more humane than the president and his […] | Source

RT (2019-10-20). Donald Trump thanks Pentagon chief Mark \'Esperanto\' for \'securing oil\' in Syria, whatever that might mean. rt.com Donald Trump has fired off another typo-laden tweet, this time sharing a quote from his defense secretary, Mark \"Esperanto.\" The US president also doubled down on his belief that the US has \"secured\" Syria\'s oil. | Trump wrote that the situation in Syria has stabilized, citing a statement from Defense Secretary Mark Esper in regards to the status of the fragile ceasefire between Turkish forces and Kurdish militias. | | The Tweeter in Chief, however, had difficulty spelling Esper\'s name. Another possibility: He fell victim to auto-correct. | As an added bonus, the message included another boast about how the…

Kathy Kelly (2019-10-20). Taking Next Steps toward Nuclear Abolition. dissidentvoice.org My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it happened again. When she broke her hip the first time, she was running, with her son, on a football field. After the second break, when she fell in her kitchen, she recalls her only desire …

Eds. (2019-10-20). Socialist feminism and the Communal State. mronline.org Blanca Eekhout is the Minister of People\'s Power for the Communes and Social Movements of Venezuela and a woman linked to revolutionary militancy long before President Hugo Chávez came to power, whose team she was part of. | Source

RT (2019-10-20). \'Hillary\'s gone Crazy!\' Russian puppet Trump (almost) blows his cover standing up for Kremlin assets Gabbard & Stein. rt.com The US president has openly admitted to being a Russian puppet (not really, but who cares)! In his latest tweet, Donald Trump sympathized with Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein, whom Hillary Clinton called Kremlin assets and tools. | In case anyone forgot, the White House is Kremlin-controlled territory right now, and the US leader was just one tiny step away from openly admitting it by showing compassion for collateral victims of the Russiagate craze — the Green Party\'s Jill Stein, and the Hawaiian congresswoman and 2020 Democratic hopeful, Tulsi Gabbard. | So now Crooked Hillary is at it again! She is callin…

Ben Norton (2019-10-20). Longest-held US political prisoner sends support from Puerto Rico to Venezuela. thegrayzone.com The world\'s longest-held political prisoner, Puerto Rican revolutionary Oscar López Rivera, who was incarcerated in the US for 36 years,…

Aaron Maté (2019-10-20). Max Blumenthal on why Hillary Clinton smeared Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein. thegrayzone.com Hillary Clinton has smeared Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein as Russian assets, and almost no Democratic politicians are pushing back….

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-10-20). March 11, 2011: Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation. globalresearch.ca The dumping of highly radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean constitutes a potential trigger to a process of global radioactive contamination… Eventually all major regions of the World will be affected.

Kathy Kelly (2019-10-20). Taking Next Steps Toward Nuclear Abolition. commondreams.org The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists at oceanfront in Georgia. (Photo credit: Kings Bay Plowshares) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/kings-bay-ploughshares-kathy-kelly.jpg …

South Front (2019-10-20). Video: Turkish-funded Syrian National Army and Myth of United Syrian Opposition. globalresearch.ca Turkey\'s Operation Peace Spring once again drew wide attention not only to the so-called Kurdish question, but also to attempts by Ankara to create a unified Syrian opposition as an alternative to the Assad government. According to official Turkish statements, …

teleSUR (2019-10-20). Live Updates: Voting Ends in Key Bolivia Election. telesurenglish.net Bolivians voted in an election on Sunday to decide whether to extend the rule of President Evo Morales to nearly two decades amid a rise in right-wing governments in the region who have been facing major protests in neighboring Chile, Ecuador and Argentina over harsh austerity measures. | RELATED: | Bolivia Analysis: What If Evo Morales Loses Elections? | Morales, widely known as just \"Evo,\" is the favorite to win, with most polls showing as scoring a first-round victory, while some…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-10-20). Celebrity Protesters and Extinction Rebellion. globalresearch.ca Benedict Cumberbatch. Olivia Colman. Fine actors. They believe in Extinction Rebellion, or perhaps, rebelling against the prospect of extinction. The environment thing, humanity as a damnably scandalous, ecologically damaging species. But they also believe in taking sponsorship from the very …

Ad Hoc Committee (2019-10-20). Protest Pacifica Coup: 1999 Redoux? Stop The Coup! indybay.org KPFA LSB Meeting, South Berkeley Senior Citizens Center, 2939 Ellis St, Berkeley, CA 94703…

Eliza Egret (2019-10-20). Noam Chomsky signs call to boycott Turkey and prevent the ethnic cleansing of Kurdish people. thecanary.co Noam Chomsky, David Graeber, and Brian Eno have joined hundreds of academics and artists around the world to sign an academic and cultural call to boycott Turkey. The call asks for: academics, artists and intellectuals around the world to oppose the Turkish invasion of north-eastern Syria [Rojava] by boycotting Turkish government sponsored academic, artistic and musical events taking place inside and outside of Turkey. | \"Rojava…

Stephen Lendman (2019-10-20). US/Turkey Deal on Syria, Like Carving Up Cuba Scene from the Godfather Trilogy. globalresearch.ca One of the trilogy\'s most memorable scenes was in pre-liberated Cuba where mafia dons are seen carving up a cake representing the country. | The Hyman Roth character explains that \"all of you will share\" in plundering the island state in …

South Front (2019-10-20). Video: Terrorists\' Air Force: Improvised Attack Drones in Syria and Iraq. globalresearch.ca Over the past years, the usage of improvised armed unmanned aerial vehicles by various armed groups and paramilitary formations has become an inherent part of conflicts in the Middle East. | First reports about the usage of such unmanned aerial vehicles …

Shane Quinn (2019-10-20). Iran Is Almost Encircled by at Least 45 American Military Bases. Who is Really Threatening Whom. globalresearch.ca A month ago president Donald Trump spoke of his desire to \"avoid\" war with Iran, as anxieties simmer between the United States and this large, diverse Middle East country. It is likely that the Trump administration is sincere in its …

Roger D. Harris (2019-10-20). Greater Middle East Project of Chaos: The Management of Savagery. globalresearch.ca Destination Afghanistan was known as the big easy back in the halcyon days of the late 1960s. Hippies from throughout the affluent West hitchhiked to the capital, Kabul, where crash pads and hashish were cheap, and the locals were tolerant. …

The Canary (2019-10-20). Ex-Royal Marine sets up woodland retreat for PTSD sufferers. thecanary.co A former Royal Marine is using his woodland getaway to help soldiers and police recover from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).Nick Goldsmith runs Woodland Warriors in Pensford, Somerset, teaching men and women skills like building shelters and carving tent pegs while helping them deal with grief and adjusting to civilian life.Goldsmith developed PTSD around 2014 after four tours on the front line in Afghanistan and said spending time in the wild, building fires and working the land, was the \"only thing\" that kept him going.The father-of-one, who served in the British Army for 11 years, said: The longer I spen…

teleSUR (2019-10-20). Turkey, Russia To Discuss Kurds Forces Removal from Syria Towns. telesurenglish.net Turkey and Russia will discuss the removal of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from the northern Syrian towns of Manbij and Kobani during talks in Sochi next week, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Sunday. | RELATED: | Erdogan Throws Trump\'s Syria Letter in the Trash | Turkey paused its military offensive into northeastern Syria after President Tayyip Erdogan agreed on Thursday, in talks with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, a five-day ceasefire to allow the YPG to withdraw from a \"

Pepe Escobar (2019-10-20). The Road to Damascus: How the Syria War Was Won. globalresearch.ca What is happening in Syria, following yet another Russia-brokered deal, is a massive geopolitical game-changer. I\'ve tried to summarize it in a single paragraph this way: | \"It\'s a quadruple win. The U.S. performs a face saving withdrawal, which Trump can …

Peter Koenig (2019-10-20). Water Is Life — They Are Stealing Our Livelihood and We Aren\'t Even Noticing. globalresearch.ca This article was first published on World Water Day, 22 March 2018. | Author\'s Update, March 24, 2019: Today is World Water Day 2019 — and the situation has become much worse. | Today, Jair Bolsonaro, is Brazil\'s President, pushed in …

Suzanne Berliner Weiss (2019-10-20). Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey. globalresearch.ca An excerpt from Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey by Suzanne Berliner Weiss (pp. 45-47). Weiss\'s book, released this month by Fernwood Publishers, tells of her eight decades of engagement with the movement for social justice. Her book launch will take …

South Front (2019-10-20). Video: Assad Troops Deploy on Border Amid 120-hour Ceasefire. globalresearch.ca On October 16 and 17, the Russian Aerospace Forces were conducting airstrikes on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in northern Lattakia and southern Idlib. According to local sources, the most intense strikes took place near Tahtaya, Kafar Sijnah and Rakaya …

helenlobato (2019-10-20). Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccines Tested on 4-6 Year-olds. globalresearch.ca I have often feared that in the end babies and young children would be given the dangerous and increasingly unpopular HPV vaccines. | I suspect that time is fast approaching. | GlaxoSmithLine (GSK) the manufacturer of Cervarix has recently conducted a trial …

Larry Romanoff (2019-10-20). US Interventions in Canada — A Brief History. globalresearch.ca ‚Ä¢Let\'s Invade Canada | The US has always maintained a dream of annexing Canada and expanding the American homeland empire to include the entire length and breadth of the North American continent. The ambition to take territorial control of Canada has …

Padraig McGrath (2019-10-20). Donbass and Crimea: Ukrainian President Zelensky Juggles an Impossible Situation. globalresearch.ca Analyzing a sequence of public statements by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky regarding Crimea and Donbass made over any length of time, it immediately becomes clear that he is attempting to master the political art of sending mixed signals. He has …

Joachim Hagopian (2019-10-20). Privatization of Water as an Owned Commodity Rather Than a Universal Human Right. globalresearch.ca There is no greater natural resource on this earth than water. As the sustenance of all life, water keeps every living and breathing organism, every plant, every animal and every human being on this planet alive.

Dr. T. P. Wilkinson (2019-10-20). Stop Press: The Queen\'s Screech: Britain, Spain and Other Illnesses. globalresearch.ca There are some people — whereby I do not know how many — who recall the key elements of British colonial rule. I was fortunate enough not to live under it. My grandfather had no great admiration for the …

Philip A Farruggio (2019-10-20). Drugged! … By Big Pharma? Prescription Drugs and the Opioid Crisis. globalresearch.ca First published September 20, 2018 | You don\'t have to be a genius sometimes to just \'connect the dots\'. Since 2012 Big Pharma ads for prescription drugs, especially on the boob tube, has risen by 62%. You cannot channel surf without …

The Canary (2019-10-20). \'In the chaos of a full-scale war, it can be hard to get clear answers\'. UK Internationalists shed light on the deal with Assad. thecanary.co This is the second piece The Canary is publishing from British Internationalists currently volunteering in north east Syria (Rojava). It\'s written by Berivan Qereàßox and Natalia Szarek. | On 14 October, a military agreement was announced between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of the Autonomous Administration and the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the fo…

Venezuela Analysis (2019-10-20). Venezuela Elected to UN Human Rights Council Despite US Opposition. theantimedia.com The Maduro government was elected to a three-year term with backing of 105 out of 195 UN member-states.

TIM (2019-10-20). StarShip Earth Meditative Vigil (Globally Synchronized). indybay.org Open invite to a meditative vigil: Project the terror, pain and suffering borne from poverty, racism and ignorance, evils of the war-economy, militarism, and the ecological holocaust back onto the omniciders. STOP the oncoming acts of omnicide!

Derrick Z. Jackson (2019-10-20). Natural Gas vs. Renewable Energy: Beware the Latest Gas Industry Talking Points. commondreams.org With the plummeting costs of renewable energy now calling even the modest benefit of natural gas into question, along with its risky methods and risks to the climate, it should be debated whether gas should be called \"natural\" at all. (Photo: Max Pixel, Creative Commons) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/natural-gas-pr.jpg …

Churchill Club (2019-10-20). Data-Driven Insights for Meaningful Climate Solutions. indybay.org Computer History Museum | 1401 North Shoreline Boulevard | Mountain View, CA 94043…

Jessica Taft (2019-10-20). A UN Treaty Guarantees Youth Rights Everywhere on Earth—Except the United States. commondreams.org Greta Thunberg, Iris Duquesne, and Alexandria Villase√±or attend a press conference where 16 children from across the world presented their official human rights complaint on the climate crisis to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child at the UNICEF Building on September 23, 2019 in New York City. (Photo: Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/youth_climate_suit.jpg …

Janet Gunter (2019-10-20). Why Taking Responsibility for Our Carbon Emissions Means Promoting the Right to Repair. commondreams.org We must take responsibility for our emissions, wherever they occur. Likewise, we must take responsibility for the raw materials that are extracted for the stuff we buy. (Photo: Wil C. Fry/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/right-repair-climate.jpg …

repost (2019-10-20). How & Why Rouge Pacifica \"Diaboligcal SOB\'s\" Stole Programming From Native American Show. indybay.org The \"Coup\" Take-over At Pacifica Led By KPFA manager Quincy McCoy and Pacific IED John. Vernile stole a Native American program to pretend that WBAI was back on the air instead of having piped in programming.

Caitlin Johnstone (2019-10-20). This MSNBC Clip is Everything Ugly About Russia Smears. theantimedia.com There\'s a video clip circulating on Twitter right now that simply has to be seen to be believed.

Stephen Lendman (2019-10-20). Vote on Johnson\'s No-Brexit/Brexit Deal Delayed. globalresearch.ca A rare Saturday session was held to resolve Brexit up or down. | Not so fast. Forty months after Brits narrowly voted to leave the EU on June 23, 2016, the issue remains unresolved. More on Saturday\'s below. | *** | Johnson struck …

Trevor Aaronson (2019-10-20). Informant Reveals FBI\'s Already Vast Powers to Investigate Right-Wing Extremists. theintercept.com \"I was just a human recording machine paid by the government to go into people\'s lives and befriend them and find out what they were thinking.\"

Rania Khalek (2019-10-20). The U.S. armed and funded extremists in Syria. mronline.org The US armed and funded extremists in Syria to overthrow the Syrian government and the media cheered. Those same extremists then attacked the Kurds on Turkey\'s behalf to the horror of the same media. Now what? | Source

Nellie Bailey (2019-10-20). Phony progressives follow Trump lead on Venezuela. mronline.org So-called progressives sound just like Donald Trump when they describe Venezuela\'s elected government as a \"dictatorship,\" said Nicholas Evan Ayala, co-editor of Anti-Conquista. \"A lot of Democrats pretend to be anti-war, yet fail to see that every intervention they advocate follows a long history of US evil…leading to the deaths of millions of people,\" said […] | Source

Michael Otto and Zoila Ramirez (2019-10-19). An inside account of the Indigenous uprising in Ecuador. workers.org Oct. 16 — On Oct. 7, 4000 Indigenous people from towns in and around the same canton marched for four hours to Ibarra to present a manifesto to the governor of Imbabura. The governor refused to meet with them and later rejected their primary demands: Cease the military aggression against . . . | Continue reading An inside account of the Indigenous uprising in Ecuador at Workers.org

RT (2019-10-19). \'We don\'t own Syria\': Lee Camp shreds media\'s \'manipulative\' coverage of US troop withdrawal (VIDEO). rt.com President Trump\'s decision to pull troops out of northern Syria sent the mainstream media into a full-blown meltdown, Redacted Tonight\'s Lee Camp said, slamming their hawkish coverage as mindless and deceitful. | The withdrawal of US forces stationed in the region prompted the New York Times to run a front-page headline decrying how Syrian forces would soon take control of the \"US void\"… in their own country. | None of this makes sense, Camp argued. | There are certain things you will never hear from the mainstream media. For one thing, we don\'t own Syria. This is an illegal invasion of ours… The way they…

Douglas Grant (2019-10-19). Only One View at The View: Biden Not So Bad. fair.org by Douglas Grant When the then—Democratic frontrunner stopped by the table of The View on April 26 for his first interview since announcing his presidential run, he was afforded an honorific rarely applied to US vice presidents: \"The legendary Joe Biden!\" | It was a warm homecoming. They called him Joe; he called them friends. Meghan McCain asked him, \"What took so long to get into the race? We\'re so happy you finally announced.\" | When the subject turned to Biden\'s handling of the 1991 Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings, Joy Behar joked, \"Wel…

RT (2019-10-19). #IamTulsi trending after Gabbard hands Hillary Clinton brutal smackdown. rt.com 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard is trending on Twitter, after the Hawaiian lawmaker scorched Hillary Clinton with a devastating put-down. Nevertheless, Hillary fans still maintain Tulsi\'s popularity is the work of \'Russian bots\'. | Gabbard unloaded on Clinton on Friday, after the failed 2016 presidential contender suggested that \"the Russians\" were \"grooming\" her to run as a third-party candidate next year to split the Democratic vote. | \"Great! Thank you Hillary Clinton,\" Gabbard tweeted in response. \"You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Dem…

Murtaza Hussain (2019-10-19). Bill McKibben on How Climate Crises and New Technologies Will Change What It Means to Be Human. theintercept.com \"Just as we had long taken for granted the stability of the planet, we have likewise taken for granted the stability of the human species.\"