A New Kind of Tyranny: The Global State\'s War on Those Who Speak Truth to Power
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
\"What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten us into silence. By defending Julian Assange, we defend our most sacred rights. Speak up now or wake up one morning to the silence …
globalresearch.ca/global-state-war-those-speak-truth-power/5694131
Socialist Equality Party to stand in UK general election: No to austerity, militarism and war! Free Julian Assange! For class struggle and socialist internationalism!
wsws.org | 2019-11-06
The Socialist Equality Party will stand candidates in the December 12 UK general election to wage a political struggle against austerity, authoritarian rule, militarism and war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/06/pers-n06.html
Avoiding the Climate Catastrophe Starts With Divesting From the War Machine
Jodie Evans | commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
Jane Fonda and her Fire Drill Fridays are linking social movements across issues, eyeing the connections between the myriad problems we see causing climate chaos, many of them rooted in capitalist consumer culture. (Photo: Twitter/CodePink) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/codepink.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/06/avoiding-climate-catastrophe-starts-divesting-war-machine?cd-origin=rss
US congressional panel outlines next phase of dirty war on Syria: Occupy oil fields and block reconstruction
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-11-06
A DC foreign-policy apparatchik who oversaw Congress\' Syria Study Group proclaimed that the US military \"owned\" one-third of Syrian territory,…
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/05/us-economic-war-strategy-syria-oil-reconstruction/
Neoliberalism\'s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies | commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
If Chenoweth is right and the million Chileans in the street have breached the tipping point for successful non-violent popular democracy, Chile may be leading the way to a global political and economic revolution. (Photo: RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1179494756.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/06/neoliberalisms-children-rise-demand-justice-chile-and-world?cd-origin=rss
No hay victorias fáciles
Editor | workers.org | 2019-11-06
El líder marxista y liberador africano de Guinea-Bissau, Amílcar Cabral, dijo una vez: \"No digas mentiras. … No reclames victorias fáciles\". Los activistas revolucionarios de hoy que miran a América Latina y el Caribe deben tener en cuenta esa frase al revisar el mes de octubre de 2019. Las luchas . . . | Continue reading No hay victorias fáciles at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/11/44289/
An Open Letter to Climate Activists in the Northwoods…and Beyond
Aimee Cree Dunn | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-06
From a talk delivered November 1, 2019. Northern Michigan University Sonderegger Symposium: Anishinaabek: East, South, West, North. Marquette, MI. Overview I\'m going to cut straight to the point: averting climate change is not going stop the global collapse of the planet as we know it. Don\'t get me wrong. Climate change is a global…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/06/an-open-letter-to-climate-activists-in-the-northwoodsand-beyond/
Harvest Peace and Social Justice Craft and Info Fair
First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto | indybay.org | 2019-11-06
First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto | Fellowship Hall | 1140 Cowper Street | Palo Alto, CA 94301…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/03/18827836.php
Petroleum Is at the Heart of Ecuador\'s Anti-Austerity Protests
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-06
An hour before sunrise on October 6, 200 armed soldiers entered the Indigenous Shuar territory on the western edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. | \"They came in … shooting, with tear gas, without taking into account the presence of women, children, young people and seniors,\" said Tom Sharupi, the director of the youth branch of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), that represents 11 Indigenous nationalities with territory throughout the Ecuadorian Amaz…
truthout.org/articles/petroleum-is-at-the-heart-of-ecuadors-anti-austerity-protests/
Demonstrations Rage Across Iraq as Protesters Clash with Gov\'t
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-06
The second week of protests have begun in Iraq as demonstrators continue to demand the removal of the current regime, including the Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi. | RELATED: | 13 People Killed in 24 Hours as Iraqi Protests Intensify | On Wednesday, the Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live rounds into the air to disperse protesters in central Baghdad as the biggest wave of anti-government demonstrations in decades spread out across the capital. | Chaotic scenes unfolded as…
telesurenglish.net/news/Demonstrations-Rage-Across-Iraq-as-Protesters-Clash-with-Govt-20191106-0006.html
Australian prime minister plans to outlaw climate activism
GETUP | indybay.org | 2019-11-06
The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has just told a room full of mining lobbyists that he\'s begun work on legislation to outlaw climate activism — banning climate protests, boycotts and \"disruptive\" strikes.1 | It\'s the most alarming attack we\'ve seen yet — threatening people\'s right to take action against climate-denying politicians, and corporate climate wreckers.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/06/18827897.php
The Persistent Influence of Trump\'s \"Shadow Adviser\" Erik Prince
Jeremy Scahill | theintercept.com | 2019-11-06
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the Trump administration approached Blackwater founder and Trump shadow adviser Erik Prince about potentially buying a Ukrainian aerospace company that the U.S. government wants to prevent the Chinese government from acquiring. \"Motor Sich is a leading maker of helicopter and airplane engines and the U.S. wants to scuttle its pending sale to a group of Chinese companies to keep Beijing from acqu…
theintercept.com/2019/11/05/erik-prince-trump-ukraine-china/
US Authorizes Tax Payments to Maduro Gov\'t, Sanctions Five More Venezuelan Officials
Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-11-06
Washington has eased some of the restrictions imposed under its recent Venezuela embargo.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14719
Microsoft Should Stop Funding Israeli Spying on Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-06
Through its venture capital arm M12, Microsoft has reportedly invested $78 million in the Israeli startup company that \"uses facial recognition to surveil Palestinians throughout the West Bank…
mintpressnews.com/microsoft-fund-israel-facial-recognition-palestinians/262674/
Far Left? Not in This Democratic Party
Ted Rall | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-06
America has lots of leftists. Forty percent of voters say that they would prefer to live in a socialist country than a capitalist one. Yet America has zero leftists running for president. Think about that the next time someone tells you that we live in the greatest country on earth, or for that matter, that…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/06/far-left-not-in-this-democratic-party/
US Army Purchases 624 \"Robotic Mules\" for Combat Use
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
In an effort to rapidly modernize before the next large-scale military conflict, the US Army has purchased 624 robotic mules from General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), a deal worth more than $162 million, reported Defense Blog. | GDLS\' MUTT (Multi-Utility …
globalresearch.ca/us-army-purchases-624-robotic-mules-combat-use/5694167
Bolivia: Leaked Audios Confirm Involvement of Opposition Leaders, Ex-Military and US in Coup Plans
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
The Radio Education Network of Bolivia (Erbol) leaked 16 audios involving opposition leaders who are calling for a coup d\'etat against the government of President Evo Morales, a political action which would have been coordinated from the U.S. embassy …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-audios-linking-civic-ex-military-us-coup-plans/5694142
From Canada\'s Election to Public Action: Beyond the Moral Tumor of Alberta Tar-Sands
Prof. John McMurtry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
For months during and after Canada\'s 2019 federal election campaign, corporate media provided daily frontline news space for non-stop Alberta demands for more tar-sands export infrastructure through British Columbia, as well as discrediting stories on the Trudeau government for questionable …
globalresearch.ca/canada-election-public-action-beyond-moral-tumor-alberta-tar-sands/5694140
Listen to the Lebanese People
James J. Zogby | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
In 2012, I wrote an article about Lebanon that still rings true today. It ended with a quote from one of my favourite pieces written by Kahlil Gibran: \"You Have Your Lebanon, I Have My Lebanon.\" | I am including below …
globalresearch.ca/lebanese-people/5694168
Asia\'s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): The RCEP Train Left the Station, and India, Behind
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
A pan-Asia high-speed train has left the station — and India — behind. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which would have been the largest free trade deal in the world, was not signed in Bangkok. It will probably be …
globalresearch.ca/rcep-train-left-station-india-behind/5694128
China\'s Development of the Russian Far East Can Improve EU-Moscow Relations
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Russia\'s Far East Investment and Export Support Agency investment manager Vasily Libo revealed on November 1 that China\'s foreign investment in the Far East advanced development zone accounted for about 59.1% of foreign investments in the region. This massive investment …
globalresearch.ca/china-development-russian-far-east-improve-eu-moscow-relations/5694181
Over 100 Missiles against Syria: US, UK and France Committed an International War Crime Against Syria on 14 April 2018
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
It is now clear that on 14 April 2018, the three Governments of U.S., UK, and France, fired over a hundred missiles against Syria, on no more \'justification\' than staged videos that had been done by those regimes\' own proxy | …
globalresearch.ca/us-uk-france-committed-international-war-crime-against-syria/5694192
Britain\'s Democracy — Being Corrupted to the Point of Worthlessness
Graham Vanbergen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Yet more scandals are engulfing the Tories. Apart from new cases being brought to the crown prosecution Service and two other unresolved cases involving the police and Electoral Commission, we have now heard of another incendiary political cover-up involving a …
globalresearch.ca/britain-democracy-corrupted/5694160
India\'s Refusal on RCEP Causes Far-reaching Geopolitical Implications
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
India officially refused to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) following several days of heated negotiations on the issue during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Bangkok. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reported to have said,…
globalresearch.ca/india-refusal-rcep-causes-far-reaching-geopolitical-implications/5694057
India\'s RCEP Refusal, Russia\'s Eurasian Vision, and Next Week\'s BRICS Summit
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
India\'s refusal to join the RCEP mega-bloc endangers the viability of Russia\'s Greater Eurasian Partnership supercontinental integration vision, which not even next week\'s BRICS Summit might be able to save after Modi crossed the Rubicon of self-imposed regional economic isolation …
globalresearch.ca/india-rcep-refusal-russia-eurasian-vision-brics-summit/5694189
Syria: OPCW Whistleblowers Confirm What We Already Knew. The OPCW Suppressed Evidence Regarding alleged Chemical Weapons Attack
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Whistleblowers have come forward revealing what many had known all along — that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had deliberately altered various reports and suppressed evidence regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks in Syria to help bolster …
globalresearch.ca/syria-opcw-whistleblowers-confirm-what-we-already-knew-the-opcw-suppressed-evidence-regarding-alleged-chemical-weapons-attack/5694146
The Dark Side of Our Drone Future
James Rogers | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Let me paint a picture of the near future. Drones, some weighing a few pounds and others a few tons, will flow endlessly back and forth from rural distribution centers to inner-city delivery hubs. Day in and day out, they …
globalresearch.ca/dark-side-our-drone-future/5694172
Erdogan Forces Loot Power Transformers in Towns They Infest
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
Forces loyal to the Turkish pariah Erdogan in the Turkish Army and accompanying terrorist groups looted electricity power generators and transformers from a number of villages and towns they infested in the Hasakah countryside. A car blew up with the …
globalresearch.ca/erdogan-forces-loot-power-transformers-towns-they-infest/5694164
When Is a Whistleblower, Not a Whistleblower? From Russiagate to Ukrainegate
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
For those readers who care more about Donald Trump, Obama\'s legacy or the Republican/Democrat parties rather than the Rule of Law and what remains of the US Constitution, the following scenario should be a Giant Wake up Call. | As the …
globalresearch.ca/when-whistleblower-not-whistleblower/5694135
The New Cold War: Russia\'s \"Stealth Capable\" 955 Borei-class Submarines. US-NATO\'s Aegis Ashore Missile Defense
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
On October 29th, the Norwegian news-outlet NRK broke the story that between 8 and 10 Russian submarines, including Sierra II class submarines, had begun naval exercises in the North Atlantic. This is one of the largest Russian naval exercises focused …
globalresearch.ca/aegis-makes-submarines-more-important/5694049
UN Security Council Sanctions against North Korea Responsible for Deaths of 3,193 Children Under Age 5 in 2018 Alone!
Carla Stea | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
On Monday, October 28, a brilliant panel discussion revealing the atrocities resulting from the UN Security Council sanctions (in particular, Resolution 2397) forced upon the DPRK was held at 777 United Nations Plaza. This panel discussion should have been held …
globalresearch.ca/violation-international-law-full-knowledge-consequences-security-council-sanctions-responsible-deaths-3193-children-under-age-5-2018/5694133
Iran Nuclear Deal and the Attack on Abqaiq Oil Facility
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-06
In response to Washington unilaterally cancelling the Iran nuclear deal and imposing sanctions on Iran, Tehran has announced on Tuesday that it will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges at Fordow nuclear facility. Though like the previous retaliatory measures …
globalresearch.ca/iran-nuclear-deal-attack-abqaiq-oil-facility/5694130
Thousands Could Be Kicked Out of Privatized Affordable Housing in Los Angeles
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-06
After seven months of intense struggle, we in the Hillside Villa Tenants Association thought we had a deal to keep hundreds of people in their homes. | On July 3, Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo posted a picture of himself on Facebook shaking hands with Tom Botz, the owner and landlord of the 124-unit Hillside Villa Apartments in Los Angeles\'s Chinatown. | \"Councilmember Cedillo was able to reach a deal,\"
truthout.org/articles/thousands-could-be-kicked-out-of-privatized-affordable-housing-in-los-angeles/
Uncertainty hangs over US-China trade deal
wsws.org | 2019-11-06
There has been no agreement from Washington to withdraw any of the tariff measures already imposed because it wants to ensure China complies with US-dictated terms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/06/deal-n06.html
Shutterstock Employees Fight Company\'s New Chinese Search Blacklist
Sam Biddle | theintercept.com | 2019-11-06
Shutterstock, the well-known online purveyor of stock images and photographs, is the latest U.S. company to willingly support China\'s censorship regime, blocking searches that might offend the country\'s authoritarian government, The Intercept has learned. | The publicly traded company built a $639 million-per-year business on the strength of its vast — sometimes comically vast — catalog of images depicting virtually anything a blogger or advertiser could imagine. The company now does business in more than 150 countries. But in China, there is now a very small, very significant gap in Shutterstock\'s of…
theintercept.com/2019/11/06/shutterstock-china-censorship-tech/
IYSSE meetings in Germany: Stop the shift to the right at the universities!
wsws.org | 2019-11-06
The meetings are part of a series being organised by the IYSSE across Germany to oppose the rise of the far-right on university campuses and in political life.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/06/germ-n06.html
Nationalism Is Global. The Left Is on the Defensive
John Feffer | thenation.com | 2019-11-06
Nationalism Is Global. The Left Is on the Defensive.
thenation.com/article/far-right-nationalist-climate-crisis/
Ecuadorians review lessons of mass uprising
Michael Otto and Zoila Ramirez | workers.org | 2019-11-06
Nov. 2 — The 12-day national strike in Ecuador forced the Lenín Moreno government to retreat on the one issue of Decree #883, which raised fuel prices and was a direct attack on the Indigenous community, more than doubling the fuel costs of farming. Despite Moreno\'s retreat [on Oct 13], . . . | Continue reading Ecuadorians review lessons of mass uprising at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/11/44296/
The Sixth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair – Strike! Discovering Our Power
Howard Zinn Book Fair | indybay.org | 2019-11-06
City College of San Francisco – Mission Campus | 1125 Valencia Street, S.F., CA 94110…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/04/18827850.php
Why Did Nobel Winner Peter Handke Have a Secret Passport from Milosevic-era Yugoslavia?
Peter Maass | theintercept.com | 2019-11-06
The spring of 1999 was a busy time for Peter Handke, the controversial Austrian writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last month. | Back then, Handke was already criticized for several books that were regarded as denying the Serb genocide of Muslims in Bosnia. But after the U.S. and its NATO allies began a bombing campaign against Serb targets on March 25, Handke stepped even more deeply into wartime politics by traveling to Belgrade to express his solidarity with the isolated country and its strongman, Slobodan Milosevic. \"My place is in Serbia if th…
theintercept.com/2019/11/06/nobel-prize-literature-peter-handke-yugoslavia-passport/
Multi-Millionaire Nancy Pelosi warns \"Fellow Leftists\": Medicare for All is a Very Bad Idea
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-06
Pelosi\'s objections to progressive legislation like a wealth tax or Medicare for All are based not on pragmatic concerns about losing votes (quite the opposite appears to be true) but have more to do with her position as one of America\'s richest people.
mintpressnews.com/millionaire-nancy-pelosi-leftists-medicare-for-all/262681/
The Forever Wars
Saad Hafiz | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-06
Politicians and pundits in the West and jihadists have something in common. Both see the conflict between the West and Muslim worlds through the grand thesis of a \"clash of civilizations\". Some see it as a forever war. I think this approach is a grave mistake. It oversimplifies a complex problem that warrants closer analysis.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/06/the-forever-wars/
It is Time to Demand Action About Homelessness
Haley Hatch | indybay.org | 2019-11-06
This is a short opinion piece on the increasing threat of homelessness in Sonoma County. While referencing those already experiencing homelessness, this piece is dedicated towards raising awareness how housing unstable housing is becoming for the middle-class.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/06/18827898.php
The First Step to Averting Climate Catastrophe
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-06
The Pentagon is the single largest consumer of oil on the planet. Its war machine must be dismantled if we hope to preserve our biosphere.
truthdig.com/articles/the-first-step-to-averting-climate-catastrophe/
The Medicare for All Debate Is Long Overdue
Jesse Jackson | commondreams.org | 2019-11-06
Democratic Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren, shown campaigning in Iowa, has released a plan for Medicare for All. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/warren_16.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/06/medicare-all-debate-long-overdue?cd-origin=rss
Robert Reich: The Founding Fathers Would Have Impeached Trump
Robert Reich | truthdig.com | 2019-11-06
Trump has asked a foreign power to dig up dirt on a major political rival. This is an impeachable offense. | Come back in time with me. In late May 1787, when 55 delegates gathered in Philadelphia to begin debate over a new Constitution, everyone knew the first person to be president would be the man who presided over that gathering: George Washington. As Benjamin Franklin put it, \"The first man put at the helm will be a good one,\" but \"nobody knows what sort may come afterwards.\" | Initially, some of the delegates didn\'t want to include impeachment in the Constitution, arguing that if a president was bad he\'d be…
truthdig.com/articles/robert-reich-the-founding-fathers-would-have-impeached-trump/
Ben and Jerry\'s Support of HR 40 Might Mainstream the Reparations Discussion
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-11-06
The iconic, progressive ice cream company is in favor of a House Bill that would develop reparations proposals–a sign that attitudes towards a once-radical answer to racial parity are shifting.
therealnews.com/stories/ben-and-jerrys-support-h-r-40-mainstream-reparations-discussion
In a step towards justice, US Senate passes bill with funds for missing and murdered indigenous women
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-06
Lack of sufficient data and jurisdictional issues has been a huge obstacle for finding justice for Indigenous women that are victims of violence.
nationofchange.org/2019/11/06/in-a-step-towards-justice-us-senate-passes-bill-with-funds-for-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women/
Step up action to protect the planet during wartime: UN environment chief
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-06
Greater action is needed to protect the environment during wartime if the world is to realize the goal of a more sustainable future for all people and the planet, the head of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warned on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1050761
Alun Cairns quits Cabinet at start of Tory election campaign launch
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-06
Welsh secretary Alun Cairns has resigned after being accused of \"brazenly lying\" about his knowledge of an allegation that a Tory candidate had sabotaged a rape trial. | The cabinet minister\'s decision to quit will rock the Conservative Party which is officially launching its election campaign on Wednesday. | In a letter to prime minister Boris Johnson, Cairns said: \"You will be aware of allegations relating to the actions of a Party employee and candidate for the Welsh Assembly elections in the Vale of Glamorgan. | \"This is a very sensitive matter, and in light of continued speculation, I write to tender my resi…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/11/06/alun-cairns-quits-cabinet-at-start-of-tory-election-campaign-launch/