Winning the Green New Deal on the road toward socialism
Donald Donato | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-13
This is the second part of a 2-article series. Read Part 1 here. In this second of two articles on the Green New Deal and the problem of profit, we will explore the remaining major policy areas targeted by the Green New Deal resolution put forward by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and …
peoplesworld.org/article/winning-the-green-new-deal-on-the-road-toward-socialism/

Warrant targeting Assange supporter reveals scope of US government campaign against WikiLeaks
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
As part of the FBI probe into supposed Russian interference in the 2016 US election, the entire contents of a Google account belonging to Somerset Bean, a WikiLeaks supporter and graphic designer, was subpoenaed by the American government.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/bean-d13.html

If you want peace, you get war; if you want war, you get rich
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-12-13
A quarter century ago, Victoria Sandino Palmera joined the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People\'s Army (FARC-EP). She had previously been a militant in the Communist Party and–when FARC-EP was above ground in the 1990s–joined the Patriotic Pole. But the repression of what she calls the \'traditional oligarchy\' sent her back to the jungle over and […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/12/13/if-you-want-peace-you-get-war-if-you-want-war-you-get-rich/

A year on from Yemen talks breakthrough, top UN Envoy hails \'shift\' towards peace, despite setbacks
news.un.org | 2019-12-13
When warring parties in Yemen met in a renovated castle outside the Swedish capital last December for UN-brokered talks, they showed that perhaps there could be a way out of brutal conflict and the world\'s worst humanitarian crisis, the UN Special Envoy for the country said this week.
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Pakistan Must Face Its Past
Saad Hafiz | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
I have often wondered if Pakistan would have been a better country and South Asia a more peaceful region if the crisis that led to the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 had been handled differently. As we know that did not happen when Pakistani forces went to war to prevent the secession of East Pakistan.
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/pakistan-must-face-its-past/

Colombians Protest Against Tax Reform in Front of Congress
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-13
Colombia\'s Congress Thursday began to debate President Ivan Duque\'s \"Economic Growth\" bill, a policy package that aims at benefiting big companies, which mobilized hundreds of people to protest at the Bolivar Square in Bogota.‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã | RELATED: | Colombian Police to be Investigated for Excessive Use of Force | Through this economic reform, Duque seeks to establ…
telesurenglish.net/news/colombians-protest-against-tax-reform-in-front-of-congress-20191212-0019.html

Colombia and The Revolutionary Process
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
In order to have a revolutionary process, it is necessary to go through revolutionary stages. First, what\'s needed is a raised consciousness that may trigger some outrage by a sector of society which may subsequently grow into sustained protests. The …
globalresearch.ca/colombia-revolutionary-process/5697571

Algeria: Former PM Elected With the Greatest Abstention Ever
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-13
Algeria\'s Independent National Electoral Authority (ANIE) Friday declared former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune as the winner of the presidential election, which was held amid massive protests and with the greatest abstention in the history of the country. | RELATED: | Algeria: Presidential Elections Close With Very Low Attendance | According to the ANIE, the 74-year-old candidate won 58.15 percent of the vote, which prevented a second round. In the electoral process, howev…
telesurenglish.net/news/Algeria-Former-PM-Elected-With-the-Greatest-Abstention-Ever-20191213-0001.html

Australia: Thousands attend climate change rally in Sydney
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
While bushfires ravaged the state, workers and students gathered to protest government inaction on climate change.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/clim-d13.html

The Perils of Embedded Journalism: \'Afghan Papers\' Wouldn\'t Be Needed If We Had a Real Independent News Media
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
In 1966, during the early years of the America\'s war against Vietnam, Congress passed and President Johnson signed into law a Freedom of Information Act. It wasn\'t all that great at the time, though. Indeed, it took the courageous act of two men, Daniel Ellsberg and his co-conspirator, Anthony Russo, to steal and then copy…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-perils-of-embedded-journalism-afghan-papers-wouldnt-be-needed-if-we-had-a-real-independent-news-media/

Midnight Ramble: A Fascist Rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
At one of his permanent fascist-style campaign rallies on December 10, 2019, the day the U.S. House of Representatives rolled out Articles of Impeachment, United States President Donald J. Trump told an adoring Pennsylvania crowd that U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren \"has a fresh mouth.\" The meaning of this insult was understood by his audience. It…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/midnight-ramble-a-fascist-rally-in-hershey-pennsylvania/

Temporary Ceasefire? China and US Agree on Phase One Trade Deal?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
According to the Wall Street Journal, China and the US agreed on \"roll(ing) back existing tariffs on Chinese goods and cancel(led) new (15%) levies\" on another $156 billion worth of its imports scheduled to be imposed on December 15. | The | …
globalresearch.ca/temporary-ceasefire-china-and-us-agree-on-phase-one-trade-deal/5697605

Trump Wants Criticism of Israel Equated with Anti-Semitism
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
Trump wants anti-Semitism redefined. An executive order perhaps already signed is all about stifling legitimate criticism of Israel. | It\'s about wanting the Jewish state absolved of occupation, colonialism, and apartheid crimes against humanity. | The International Court of Justice (ICJ) affirmed …
globalresearch.ca/trump-wants-criticism-israel-equated-anti-semitism/5697562

Conservative Landslide: Boris Johnson\'s Tories Triumph Over Progressive Change in UK Elections
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
With ballot counting nearly completed, Boris Johnson-led Tories appear to have won a near 80-seat House of Commons majority — 364 seats to Labor\'s 203, Sottish National Party\'s 48, Liberal Dems 11, DUP 8, Sinn Fein 7, other small parties | …
globalresearch.ca/conservative-landslide-boris-johnsons-tories-triumph-over-progressive-change-in-uk-elections/5697597

Abstract Leftism Leaves Bolivia and Global South in Crosshairs of Imperialism
Nefta Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
\"Progressive leftists\" in the U.S., also known as liberals who claim to oppose U.S. Empire but tolerate all of its crimes, cannot be described as anything less than nauseating. Anything short of outright U.S. military invasion or bombing of a | …
globalresearch.ca/abstract-leftism-leaves-bolivia-and-global-south-in-crosshairs-of-imperialism/5697604

Common Cause Presses House to Impeach and McConnell to Recuse from Senate Trial
commondreams.org | 2019-12-13
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Judiciary Committee Sends 2 Articles of Impeachment to Full House
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-13
The vote on abuse of power and obstruction of Congress splits along party lines, with 23 Democrats in favor and 17 Republicans opposed.
truthdig.com/articles/judiciary-committee-sends-2-articles-of-impeachment-to-full-house/

A Plague on Both Their Houses, Plus a Dozen Poxes on Trump\'s
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
Nancy Pelosi should thank Donald Trump for helping her get over a bad case of IAS, Impeachment Aversion Syndrome. We all should. Had she not come down with that malady years ago, after the 2006 midterm election made her Speaker of the House the first time, she could now be looking forward, when the time…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/a-plague-on-both-their-houses-plus-a-dozen-poxes-on-trumps/

House Judiciary Committee nears vote to approve articles of impeachment against Trump
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
The debate has underscored the right-wing basis of the Democrats\' impeachment drive.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/impe-d13.html

Representative Jamie Raskin Is Congress\' Impeachment Scholar
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-12-13
Representative Jamie Raskin Is Congress\' Impeachment Scholar…
thenation.com/article/jamie-raskin-impeachment-scholar/

Equally Determined: To Impeach/To Support
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
\"A federal appeals court on Wednesday evening stayed a lower-court ruling that former Trump White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a House subpoena after the administration appealed, arguing the battle poses great consequences for the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches\". — Washington Post, Nov. 27, 2019 There are three obvious reasons…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/equally-determined-to-impeach-to-support/

Judiciary Committee sends 2 articles of impeachment to the full House
Mark Gruenberg, John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2019-12-13
WASHINGTON — A massive coalition of progressive groups, led by MoveOn.org, and including sponsors such as the Service Employees, United We Dream, Indivisible and its Chicago affiliate, the Women\'s March, NOW, Democracy 21 and Credo, plan mass rallies in more than 440 cities nationwide on the eve of the upcoming U.S. House vote to impeach …
peoplesworld.org/article/judiciary-committee-sends-2-articles-of-impeachment-to-the-full-house/

Stand Up America Implores Lawmakers to Impeach Donald Trump
commondreams.org | 2019-12-13
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/12/13/stand-america-implores-lawmakers-impeach-donald-trump?cd-origin=rss

\"Deep State\" or Quid pro Coup?
Todd Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-13
Whether seen as a shadowy, villainous presence or, possibly, a heretofore tight-lipped benefactor, the \"Deep State\" has recently risen from the far-fringed depths of obscure conspiracies to seize the public discourse with a Leviathan-like tentacle. On the surface, President Trump, the quid pro quo\'ster boy of impeachable note, either looks like a paid clown of …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/deep-state-or-quid-pro-coup/

The Politics of Impeachment
Donald Monaco | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
The decision by Democrats sitting on the House Judiciary Committee to approve Articles of Impeachment that will be affirmed in a full vote of the House of Representatives just handed Donald Trump a probable victory in the 2020 election barring …
globalresearch.ca/the-politics-of-impeachment/5697613

The National Defense Authorization Act Perpetuates the Destruction of Yemen
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), released on December 9, signals that the US will continue to render assistance to the coalition led by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates which has killed 100,000 Yemenis, including 12,000 civilians. The bill gives the Pentagon $738 billion. The best reaction came from The…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-national-defense-authorization-act-perpetuates-the-destruction-of-yemen/

Evo Morales on prohibition to wear Indigenous garments in Ministry HQ
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-12-13
Bolivia \'s leader Evo Morales reacted to an internal memo from the foreign ministry of the de facto government in Bolivia, prohibiting personal use of traditional Indian attire inside the headquarters of the ministry during the workday. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/12/13/evo-morales-on-prohibition-to-wear-indigenous-garments-in-ministry-hq/

Indigenous Bolivia Ready to Go to War Against Fascism
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
Bolivia, December 2019, three weeks after the fascist coup. It is devilishly cold. My comrade\'s car is carefully navigating through the deep mud tracks. Enormous snow-covered mountain peaks are clearly visible in the distance. | The Bolivian Altiplano; beloved, yet always …
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-bolivia-ready-go-war-against-fascism/5697576

Someone Interfered in the UK Election, and It Wasn\'t Russia
Caitlin Johnstone | theantimedia.com | 2019-12-13
Hardly anyone will care because this election interference has been happening right out in the open, and was perfectly legal.
theantimedia.com/someone-interfered-uk-election/

Where Is the Outrage Over the War in Afghanistan?
Jeet Heer | thenation.com | 2019-12-13
Where Is the Outrage Over the War in Afghanistan?
thenation.com/article/afghanistan-papers-lies-war/

We Have Just Been Handed the Pentagon Papers of Our Generation
Danny Sjursen | thenation.com | 2019-12-13
We Have Just Been Handed the Pentagon Papers of Our Generation…
thenation.com/article/afghanistan-papers-forever-war/

The Tory War on Truth — and How to Fight Back
Adam Ramsay | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
\"There\'s all these facts flying around on social media — you don\'t know what to believe\". | Wes lost his job as a builder in the crash and these days works as a receptionist at a major employer in Crewe. He …
globalresearch.ca/the-tory-war-on-truth-and-how-to-fight-back/5697600

The End of the Era: Nineteen Nineteen
Cal Winslow | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
\"To be a red in the summer of 1919 was worse than being a Hun in the summer of 1917,\" reckoned Dos Passos, in Nineteen Nineteen, his novel of the war years. The nation was war weary as the year began, still reeling from the deadly influenza– the \"Spanish Flu.\" It yearned, and deserved, politicians…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/the-end-of-the-era-nineteen-nineteen/

India adopts Hindu supremacist citizenship law
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
In the face of widespread popular opposition and warnings that India is rending its \"secular\" political-constitutional order, the BJP government has rammed through legislation that redefines Indian citizenship in Hindu supremacist terms .
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/inci-d13.html

Pete Buttigieg\'s Progressive Early Backers Demand a Refund
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-13
Though they initially viewed South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg as an intriguing and progressive newcomer when he began his presidential campaign early this year, the #RefundPete hashtag began trending Thursday morning on social media as a growing number of former donors started requesting their donations back in the wake of recent revelations about the 2020 Democratic candidate. | Kristen Hill, a volunteer community leader for the presidential primary campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) in North Carolina, was one of the first voters to kick off the viral hashtag #RefundPete. | \"If Pete Buttigieg fo…
truthdig.com/articles/pete-buttigiegs-progressive-early-backers-demand-a-refund/

Pentagon chiefs say US troops to stay in Syria for years
Bill Van Auken | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
Barely two months after US President Donald Trump\'s demagogic announcement that he was pulling US troops out of northeastern Syria to fulfill his campaign promise to bring a halt to Washington\'s \"endless wars,\" the senior civilian and uniformed Pentagon chiefs …
globalresearch.ca/pentagon-chiefs-say-us-troops-to-stay-in-syria-for-years/5697599

Johnson wins majority in UK election after collapse of Labour vote
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
Johnson\'s return consolidates the most right-wing government in post-war British history, with devastating consequences for the working class.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/elec-d13.html

Boeing executives must be held to account
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
It has become clear that Boeing executives and government officials repeatedly disregarded warnings by employees of potentially deadly safety lapses that led to the deaths of over 300 people.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/pers-d13.html

Trump\'s War on the Poor
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
Donald Trump is famed for his head-snapping reversals. One day he\'s taking troops out of the Middle East; the next he\'s sending more in. One day he\'s on the verge of an agreement with China on trade; the next he\'s tweeting about holding off until after the election. On one thing, however, Trump and his…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/trumps-war-on-the-poor/

New Zealand: Warnings about danger of White Island eruption were ignored
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
There is growing anger among relatives of those killed and injured that warnings of a volcanic eruption were ignored by tourism companies and government regulators.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/volc-d13.html

Afghanistan Papers Confirm That the Longest War Is a Lie
Sonali Kolhatkar | commondreams.org | 2019-12-13
U.S. Marines in Afghanistan, 2001. (Photo: Sergeant Joseph R. Chenelly / United States Marine Corps) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/afghanistansonali2.jpeg …
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Human Rights and Humbug in Washington
Brian Cloughley | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
It has recently been announced that \"a confidential trove of government documents obtained by The Washington Post reveals that senior U.S. officials failed to tell the truth about the war in Afghanistan throughout the 18-year campaign, making rosy pronouncements they knew to be false and hiding unmistakable evidence the war had become unwinnable.\" Fascinating, of course, but the underlying message…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/human-rights-and-humbug-in-washington/

US trucking firm Celadon goes bankrupt leaving thousands of drivers stranded
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
The major logistics company closed without warning, leaving thousands of drivers stranded across the country and without jobs just before the holidays.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/cela-d13.html

JEDI Mind Tricks: Amazon Versus the Pentagon and Trump
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-12-13
Amazon is one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenues of more than $230 billion last year. But last month the company sued the US Department of Defense over a paltry potential $10 billion spread over ten years. Amazon lost out to Microsoft in bidding for the Pentagon\'s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (yes,…
counterpunch.org/2019/12/13/jedi-mind-tricks-amazon-versus-the-pentagon-and-trump/

US to impose sanctions on companies involved in European Nord Stream 2 pipeline
wsws.org | 2019-12-13
The sanctions against the joint Russian-Western Europe energy project underscores just how conflict-riven the relations between the members of the world\'s largest military alliance are.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/13/nord-d13.html

Boris Johnson\'s Right-Wing Populism Prevails in UK Election
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-13
Sometimes election nights contain great drama; other times, the exit polls, released the moment the polls close, shut down all argument. | Thursday\'s election in the U.K. was among the latter. When the voting places closed at 10 p.m., the exit polls released immediately predicted a huge Conservative majority and a catastrophic breakdown of the Labour Party\'s support in its traditional northern England citadels. | What does this mean? Firstly, much a…
truthout.org/articles/boris-johnsons-right-wing-populism-prevails-in-uk-election/

Three Ring Circus
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-13
Remember when we all were kids and the circus came to town? Inside the \'Big Tent\' or arena we would sit and view all the many goings on from the three rings in front of us. It was highly entertaining… …
globalresearch.ca/three-ring-circus/5697559

D.C. Judge to Hear Legal Challenge to Trump\'s Border-wall Emergency