Desieire Quintero Killed – Help her Son
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2019-10-31
Desieire Quintero was fatally crushed by a falling tree at her campsite in the Pogonip Park in Santa Cruz. She was the lead plaintiff in a historic civil rights lawsuit filed against the city of Santa Cruz.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/29/18827710.php

From California to El Salvador, Climate-Driven Displacement Is on the Rise
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-31
As part of the push for a Green New Deal, Democrats in both chambers of Congress have introduced legislation to support international refugees displaced by environmental disasters and climate disruption, and are continuing to challenge the Trump administration\'s immigration crackdown and ongoing quest to unravel what little progress the government has made on climate. | The bills would create a \"global resilience…
truthout.org/articles/from-california-to-el-salvador-climate-driven-displacement-is-on-the-rise/

Trump Official Who Once Led Hate Group Resigns Ombudsman Role
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-10-31
Julie Kirchner, a nativist hard-liner with ties to an anti-immigrant hate group, has resigned as ombudsman at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/10/31/trump-official-who-once-led-hate-group-resigns-ombudsman-role

An Open Letter to Donald Trump: You Are Putting the World at Grave Risk
César Chelala | commondreams.org | 2019-10-31
What is rarely considered is that most of those immigrants and their children come from countries where the U.S. has supported their most murderous regimes and actively destroyed their democratic forms of government. (Photo: Syrian refugees/ Joseph Eid/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/refugees_10.jpeg …
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Killing Julian Assange: Justice Denied When Exposing Official Wrongdoing
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-31
The hideous treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues and many observers are citing his case as being symptomatic of developing \"police state\" tendencies in both the United States and in Europe, where rule of law is being subordinated to …
globalresearch.ca/killing-julian-assange-justice-denied-exposing-official-wrongdoing/5693602

Convicted Anti-Nuclear Activists Speak Out: \"Pentagon Has Brainwashed People\"
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-31
The seven Catholic peace activists who were convicted on October 24 for their symbolic protest against nuclear weapons at the Kings Bay Naval Base are now facing a two-to-three-month wait to hear their prison sentences. They could face more than …
globalresearch.ca/convicted-anti-nuclear-activists-speak-out-pentagon-brainwashed-people/5693566

Keeping the Peace Is Far More Complicated Than Waging War
Robert C. Koehler | commondreams.org | 2019-10-31
Compassion, policing—these words don\'t go together! (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/police_2.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/31/keeping-peace-far-more-complicated-waging-war?cd-origin=rss

Colombia: Indigenous Peoples Call For New National Mobilization
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-31
The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia (ONIC) called on citizens to join the national mobilization that will take place on November 8 in defense of the 2016 Peace Agreement. | RELATED: | Colombian Indigenous Group Laments Murder of 5 Leaders | \"We call on all Colombian society to stand up in defense of life, rights and territories,\" ONIC senior ad…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Indigenous-Peoples-Call-For-New-National-Mobilization-20191031-0010.html

Impeachment, mass protest & the urgency to end the Trump Pence regime
UUSF Morning Forum | indybay.org | 2019-10-31
Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco | 1187 Franklin St. at corner of Geary | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/30/18827731.php

Iraq\'s Prime Minister Resigns Amidst Largest Protests Since 2003
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-31
Iraqi security forces have killed hundreds of protesters who want to uproot the corrupt political system tied to Iran and established after the U.S. occupation.
therealnews.com/stories/iraq-prime-minister-resigns-amidst-largest-protest-since-2003

Iraqi PM Will Only Resign if Replacement Found: President
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-31
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi is ready to resign only if parliament\'s main blocs can agree on his replacement, President Barham Salih said Thursday, as tens of thousands gathered in Baghdad to demand an end to the current system of government. | Abdul Mahdi, who despite promising reforms and a broad reshuffle of his cabinet has struggled to address protesters\' demands. He has refused calls for an early election made by his erstwhile main supporter, populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. | \"The prime minister had previously agreed to submit his resignation if the blocs agree on an acceptable replacement in o…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iraqi-PM-Will-Only-Resign-if-Replacement-Found-President-20191031-0007.html

Australian police violently attack climate change protestors
wsws.org | 2019-10-31
The incident marks a further escalation of state repression in Australia against protest and dissent.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/31/imrc-o31.html

South America, Again, Leads Fight Against Neoliberalism
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-31
The presidential election in Argentina pitted the people against neoliberalism and the people won. What happens next will have a tremendous impact all over Latin America and serve as a blueprint for assorted Global South struggles. | *** | The presidential election …
globalresearch.ca/south-america-again-leads-fight-against-neoliberalism/5693526

Russia\'s Nord Stream 2 Gas Pipeline Nears Completion
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-31
Russia has the world\'s largest natural gas reserves. Iran ranks second. Both nations have far larger reserves than the US, Saudi Arabia and other countries. | When completed, Russia\'s Nord Stream 2 will be the world\'s longest underwater pipeline, able to …
globalresearch.ca/russia-nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline-nears-completion/5693653

US Equities Soar While Real Economy Plummets. Deep Recession Ahead?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-31
On Wednesday, the S&P 500 closed at a record high, the Dow and Nasdaq just shy of record territory. | Yet according to economist John Williams, noted for reengineering official data to how it was accurately calculated decades earlier, the …
globalresearch.ca/us-equities-soar-economy-weakens/5693639

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians that Nobody is Talking About
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
Palestine\'s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world\'s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine and South Africa sounded the alarm at a conference in Johannesburg on October 15. Their gathering was titled: \"The Holy Land: A Palestinian Christian Perspective\". One…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/the-ethnic-cleansing-of-palestinian-christians-that-nobody-is-talking-about/

Baghdadi Had No Real Answer for the Crumbling of His Caliphate
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
The Arab Spring uprisings in 2011, notably in Syria, presented Baghdadi and ISI with an opportunity for swift expansion as the Syrian government lost control of large parts of the country. Al-Baghdadi sent seasoned militants and fighters, money and weapons to establish Jabhat al-Nusra as the leading rebel organisation, though its dependence on ISI was at first kept secret.
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/baghdadi-had-no-real-answer-for-the-crumbling-of-his-caliphate/

Syria\'s groundbreaking constitutional talks: \'a clear success of mediation\' says Guterres in Turkey
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-31
Mediation is \"one of our most important tools to reduce and end conflict\", United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the sixth Istanbul Mediation Conference, in the Turkish capital on Thursday.
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Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2019-10-31
NPML – Marxist Library | 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/31/18827751.php

Trump, Turkey and the Kurds – signs of a crumbling U.S. empire
UUSF Morning Forum | indybay.org | 2019-10-31
Unitarian Universalist Society of S.F. | 1187 Franklin St. corner of Geary Ave. | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/30/18827732.php

\'Nobody Is Above the Law\' Mobilizations Build Mass Momentum As Impeachment Inquiry Vote Hits Capitol Hill
commondreams.org | 2019-10-31
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/10/31/nobody-above-law-mobilizations-build-mass-momentum-impeachment-inquiry-vote-hits?cd-origin=rss

\'Just the First Step\': House Democrats Approve Trump Impeachment Inquiry Resolution
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2019-10-31
\"This resolution ensures transparency, advancing public disclosure of deposition transcripts, and outlying the procedures for the transfer of evidence to the judiciary committee to use in its proceedings,\" said Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ahead of the vote | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-10-31_at_11.08.13_am.png …
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Impeachment Inquiry Vote Will Determine Legacies of U.S. Representatives
commondreams.org | 2019-10-31
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/10/31/impeachment-inquiry-vote-will-determine-legacies-us-representatives?cd-origin=rss

Full House votes to approve Trump impeachment roadmap
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-10-31
WASHINGTON–The full U.S. House voted to approve today, 232 to 196, an impeachment roadmap, making the inquiry an official one and detailing the next steps, including open public hearings. The vote maker almost inevitable the day the full House will make Trump the fourth president in U.S. history impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. The …
peoplesworld.org/article/full-house-votes-to-approve-trump-impeachment-roadmap/

Congress approves \'impeachment\' resolution authorizing Schiff\'s secret probe of Trump
rt.com | 2019-10-31
The US House of Representatives has approved a resolution authorizing the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, despite Republican opposition arguing that the \"Soviet-style\" bill lacks transparency and due process. | The 232-196 vote ended up being almost entirely along party lines, with only two Democrats voting against and no Republicans voting for the resolution. | The White House has reacted to the outcome with a statement saying that \"with today\'s vote, Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats have done nothing more than enshrine unacceptable violations of due process into House rules,\" adding that the \"un…
rt.com/usa/472314-trump-impeachment-inquiry-vote/

Impeachment Just Got Real
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-10-31
Impeachment Just Got Real…
thenation.com/article/trump-congress-impeachment-resolution/

House Democrats Approve Trump Impeachment Inquiry Resolution
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-31
The Democratic-controlled U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday voted to approve a resolution put forth by Democrats that will dictate the rules and processes of the official impeachment inquiry aimed at President Donald Trump. | The final vote of 232 to 196 was along strict party lines, with just two Democrats voting against the resolution, no Republicans voting in…
truthout.org/articles/house-democrats-approve-trump-impeachment-inquiry-resolution/

Yemen Runs Out of Fuel and Last Hospitals Close
Randi Nord | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-31
While the mainstream media focuses on condemning President Trump for pulling US troops out of Syria, Yemen faces a national health crisis. The last functioning hospitals across multiple major cities in Yemen will shut their doors and stop providing services …
globalresearch.ca/yemen-runs-out-fuel-last-hospitals-close/5693530

CIA-Trained Afghan Forces Behind War Atrocities, Report Finds
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-31
ISLAMABAD — Heavily armed men burst into the home in the middle of night, hustling four brothers into separate rooms, their hands bound. Afghan special forces then shot them in the head and heart. The operation, the CIA-trained Afghan unit said, targeted Islamic State militants in a remote region of eastern Nangarhar Province. | In reality, the raid took place in the province\'s capital of Jalalabad, within earshot of Justice Ministry offices. In an interview with The Associated Press, the family said the dead brothers included a school teacher and an assistant to a member of Afghanistan\'s parliament. The tr…
truthdig.com/articles/cia-trained-afghan-forces-behind-war-atrocities-report-finds/

A CIA-Backed Militia Targeted Clinics in Afghanistan, Killing Medical Workers and Civilians
Andrew Quilty | theintercept.com | 2019-10-31
On the night of March 8, 2019, four staffers at a Swedish-run health clinic in Afghanistan\'s Wardak Province ate together, talked around a thermos of tea, and bedded down for the night in the guard\'s room. They were awakened some time later by the thump of helicopter rotors followed by distant explosions echoing from farther up the Tangi Valley. The sounds were not unusual in Wardak, where for 20 years there has been little respite from war, and the four went back to sleep. | The men were jolted awake again sometime after midnight. The main gate to the clinic, which was next to the guard\'s room, had been blown in…
theintercept.com/2019/10/30/afghanistan-health-clinics-airstrikes-taliban/

Urgent: Stand up for Rojava in the Face of Turkish Aggression
Hang Erdo | indybay.org | 2019-10-31
Fighting and airstrikes continue during the ceasefire. Brutal Turkish artillery, jihadis employed by Ankara, and airstrikes have created 200,000 internally displaced persons and threaten the very existence of the emancipatory self-government in Rojava and the Kurds themselves. Today they are using tanks to push toward one of the last major cities, Tel Tamir, to push the people into the desert. Please stand up in solidarity!
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/29/18827701.php

From Climate Denial to \"Green\" Petroleum: Massachusetts Accuses Exxon Mobil of Deceptive Messaging
Alleen Brown | theintercept.com | 2019-10-31
Exxon Mobil\'s relationship with the New York Times is a case study in how the fossil fuel industry\'s climate denialism has evolved over the past 20 years. Beginning in the 1970s, Exxon Mobil published an \"advertorial\" every Thursday on the New York Times editorial page. The quarter-page, essay-style ads were designed to mimic a Times op-ed. Starting in the 1980s, doubt about the seriousness of human-driven climate change was a repeated theme. The ads came with titles including \"Apocalypse no,\" \"Reset the alarm,\" \"Less heat, more light on climate change,\" and \"Climate change: a degree of uncertainty.\" | According…
theintercept.com/2019/10/31/exxon-mobil-massachusetts-climate-change-lawsuit-greenwashing/

Self-Determination for Syria! U.S. Out Now!
Jeff Mackler | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
A furious bi-partisan warmongering outburst of opposition met President Trump\'s mid-October announcement that U.S. troops were being withdrawn from Northeastern Syria. Engineered by the Democrats, and joined by the top spokespersons of the twin parties of war, racism and environmental destruction, they denounced Trump and passed an instant congressional resolution demanding that the estimated 1,000…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/self-determination-for-syria-u-s-out-now/

Bernie, Liz, and Rosa
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
\"Bernard Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are from different parties but agreed on 93 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18). It is unusual for two members of different parties to agree on so many votes. Out of 583 votes in the 115th Congress, they agreed on 543 votes, including 40 major votes.\" –ProPublica The…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/bernie-liz-and-rosa/

Trump\'s Hidden Attention to Detail…in Avoiding Accountability
Eleanor Eagan | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
With each passing day, President Trump\'s criminal syndicate looks weaker. Until recently, hoping for defections on the scale we\'re seeing now might have seemed like a pipe dream, but it turns out that several of Trump\'s former associates do have limits on what they will tolerate (even if it is sometimes puzzling where exactly they…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/trumps-hidden-attention-to-detail-in-avoiding-accountability/

53206: The Poverty of Politics
Jeffrey Sommers | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
The proposed plant (Strauss Meats) straddles Milwaukee\'s 53206 zip code, notorious for its de-industrialization induced blight and poverty. Century City is the rebranded 80 acre \"business park\" that once housed A.O. Smith, once the largest producer of auto and truck frames in the United States. At its peak, it employed nearly 8000 industrial union workers. These jobs delivered solid incomes to African-Americans in the 53206 and adjacent zip codes. A.O. Smith\'s closure, along with a larger deindustrialization underway in Milwaukee, struck a death blow to middle-class aspirations for many of the city\'s African-Amer…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/53206-the-poverty-of-politics/

An Open Letter To Twitter Regarding The Safe Space It\'s Created for Nazis
Barrett Brown | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
Text of email sent to press@Twitter.com, 10/25/2019 Sirs- This is Barrett Brown. I\'m a longtime journalist and the recipient of the National Magazine Award for commentary, the New York Press Club award for humor, the Folio award for best local coverage, and other such awards in recognition of my journalism and opinion writing. I\'m also…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/an-open-letter-to-twitter-regarding-the-safe-space-its-created-for-nazis/

Don\'t Make Zuckerberg America\'s Political Truth Czar
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
Politicians lie. Not all of them. Not every time. But most of them, from both \"major\" political parties, lie. A lot. It\'s not always easy to tell when they\'re lying. It\'s not always easy to prove they\'re lying. Often, it\'s not even easy to tell if they\'re just lying to us or to themselves as…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/dont-make-zuckerberg-americas-political-truth-czar/

Scary Movies for Anarchists to Watch in the Dark
Nicky Reid | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
The horror film is hands down the most woefully underrated genre in cinema. Art at its very finest provokes and there is no subject more provocative than death. Death is the only existential constant in the human experience. Like it or not, we are all born to die. So it only follows that human beings…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/scary-movies-for-anarchists-to-watch-in-the-dark/

A Touch of Plagiarism: the Nazari Precedent
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
The academy is filled with wonder. There are professors who cannot teach. There are associate professors who cannot write. There are tenured academics who have been promoted on the basis of being able to be the fourth author on all their papers, able to put and patch together an abstract and jot down a signature.
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/a-touch-of-plagiarism-the-nazari-precedent/

What It Means to Experience America\'s Wars From a Computer Screen Away
Allegra Harpootlian | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
Think back to the last time you cried at work. Did the tears come after your boss sent you a curt email? Or when you accidentally cc\'d (instead of bcc\'d) everyone? Maybe you just had a really, really long day and that one last little misstep pushed you over the edge. In my case, I…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/what-it-means-to-experience-americas-wars-from-a-computer-screen-away/

California Burns…It Always Has
Scott Silver | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
As California burns, the press is offering all number of explanations for why this is so; naming everything from drought and climate change, to lack of sufficient acres of prescribed burns and forest thinning, to the failure of PG&E to properly maintain the electrical grid. The \'problems\', or so the press would have the public…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/california-burns-it-always-has/

Donald Trump and the New, New World Order
John Grant | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-31
When the going gets weird, the weird go pro. (Hunter Thompson) For weeks, I\'ve been reading New York Times stories that, as a military veteran of the anti-war movement for the past 35 years, really blow my mind. For one thing, President Trump is in a domestic, political war with what he and his allies call…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/31/donald-trump-and-the-new-new-world-order/

Trump says Melania \'wouldn\'t cry her eyes out\' if he were shot — joke explodes on Twitter
rt.com | 2019-10-31
US President Donald Trump has, apparently, confirmed that his wife Melania would not be moved to tears if he happened to get shot — and Twitter has quickly taken it as a window into the first couple\'s much-discussed marriage. | Speaking to a Republican audience at a private fundraiser at the Trump Hotel in Washington on Tuesday, Trump brought up the 2017 shooting of House minority whip Steve Scalise. | Trump recalled that, when he visited Scalise in hospital, the politician\'s wife had \"cried her eyes out\" — a reaction he would not, apparently, expect from Melania — or most wives, for that matte…
rt.com/usa/472333-trump-shot-melania-cry-not/

ISIS Announces Al-Baghdadi\'s Death and New Leader
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-31
The Islamic State militant group confirmed on Thursday that its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a weekend raid by U.S. forces in northwestern Syria and it vowed revenge against the United States. | RELATED: | Trump Says Islamic State Leader Baghdadi Dead in US Forces Raid | Baghdadi, an Iraqi jihadist who rose from obscurity to declare himself \"caliph\" of all Muslims as the leader of Islamic State, died during the swoop by U.S. special forces, President Donald Trump…
telesurenglish.net/news/ISIS-Announces-Al-Baghdadis-Death-and-New-Leader-20191031-0009.html

We Already Have a Wealth Tax. It\'s Just Paid to Hedge Fund Managers
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-31
Volatility in the markets is very scary for ordinary U.S. citizens who face real repercussions from economic downturns. But this volatility is positively golden for traders on Wall Street and at hedge funds. | I spent seven years working on Wall Street, and the traders I knew prided themselves on making money whether the market was crashing or surging. That\'s why I\'m so skeptical of the now two billionaire hedge fund managers who predict a market crash if Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders is elected pr…
truthout.org/articles/we-already-have-a-wealth-tax-its-just-paid-to-hedge-fund-managers/

Two jaw-dropping minutes in a BBC interview were the best gift Labour could get
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2019-10-31
BBC radio host Emma Barnett interviewed Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle on 31 October. And the discussion contained two absolutely jaw-dropping minutes after the MP raised one of his party\'s key messages in the election: that it is on the side of \"normal working people\", not the tax-dodging billionaire class. | What followed was an absolute gift to the Labour Party: | \"I don\'t think anyone in this country should be a billionaire\" \"Why on earth shouldn\'t people be able to be billionaire…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/10/31/two-jaw-dropping-minutes-in-a-bbc-interview-were-the-best-gift-labour-could-get/

Ford Canada announces more job cuts as GM prepares final shutdown in Oshawa
wsws.org | 2019-10-31
The announcement is part of an ongoing $11 billion global restructuring program initiated by Ford last year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/31/oakv-o31.html

Syrian Woman to Ivanka: \"How Shameless, You Are Proud Your Father Murders Us\"
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-31
This article was originally published in 2017. | Ivanka Trump on Twitter, how shameless you are to be proud of your father\'s murderous bombings of Syria. Are you both afraid because Syria is protecting Syrians from foreign terrorists armed and funded …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-woman-ivanka-how-shameless-proud-father-murders/5693624

Why Those \"Endless Wars\" Must Never End
Andrew Bacevich | commondreams.org | 2019-10-31
Donald Trump\'s declared intention to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria as a preliminary step toward reducing our regional military presence has elicited bipartisan condemnation expressed in the strongest terms. (Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/pentagon_budget_0.jpeg …
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