Alternative Media promotes Canadian Foreign Policy
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-29
Why would an alternative media website that questions government and corporate policies about climate change and the environment have so much trouble understanding that the same sort of skepticism is necessary regarding Canadian foreign policy? Imagine a self-declared progressive media outlet saying they don\'t cover racism, patriarchy or the dispossession of First Nations because they …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/alternative-media-promotes-canadian-foreign-policy/
Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua \'national security threat\' and targets Mexico
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-11-28
After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a \"national security threat\" and announced new sanctions,…
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/27/operation-condor-2-coup-trump-nicaragua-mexico/
Italian Authorities Uncover Plot to Create New Nazi Party
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-28
Italian police said on Thursday they uncovered a plot to form a new Nazi party and seized a cache of weapons during searches across the country. | RELATED: | Spanish Ship Arrives in Italy With 62 Rescued Migrants | Police in 16 towns and cities from the Mediterranean island of Sicily to the Alps in northern Italy took part in the investigation, which was launched two years. | The probe revealed a \"huge and varied array of subjects, residents in different places, united by the same ide…
telesurenglish.net/news/Italian-Authorities-Uncover-Plot-to-Create-New-Nazi-Party-20191128-0002.html
Five dead in Minneapolis, Minnesota high-rise fire
wsws.org | 2019-11-28
Most of the victims were Somali immigrants in a neighborhood near the city\'s downtown area.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/minn-n28.html
The Sword, the Pen and the Law — On Julian Assange
Prof. Barbara Harriss-White | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
\"The more I pursued the question of why Assange has so little public support, the more disturbing the story became.\" | I follow the blog written by Craig Murray, a former British Ambassador with long experience of the UK\'s deep …
globalresearch.ca/sword-pen-law-julian-assange/5696222
How a Would-be Thanksgiving Argument Can Spawn a Revolution
Sam Husseini | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
It\'s become something of a cliché: Many people dread Thanksgiving in part because they have to break bread with friends — and especially relatives — who they adamantly disagree with politically. One is pro-immigration, the other wants to build a bigger wall, etc. But what if this apparently annoying encounter was actually a blessing? I…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/how-a-would-be-thanksgiving-argument-can-spawn-a-revolution/
Biden Claimed He Wanted to Earn Every Vote
Carlos E. Rojas Rodriguez | thenation.com | 2019-11-28
Biden Claimed He Wanted to Earn Every Vote…
thenation.com/article/biden-south-carolina-immigration/
On State Contravention of the Genocide Convention
J.B. Gerald | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-28
I\'d like to note two articles by Professor Michel Chossudovsky published this November in Global Research: they help explain the current denigration of the Convention on Genocide. When we grow accustomed to our system\'s atrocities we lessen our humanity. In an article of November 13th, 20191 Chossudovsky outlines the history of George H.W. Bush\'s father, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/on-state-contravention-of-the-genocide-convention/
Occupied Palestine: The Most Enduring Media Cover-up
Alison Weir | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
Clearing the FOG hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese interviewed Alison Weir, journalist and founder of If Americans Knew, a website that provides factual information about the Israeli State and Palestine. Weir describes how she learned firsthand that US …
globalresearch.ca/most-enduring-media-cover-up/5696152
How to Commit War Crimes and Get Away With It
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
U.S. President Donald Trump sacked his Navy secretary on Twitter. The main reason is that the Navy secretary did not follow Trump\'s advice regarding Navy Special Warfare Operator Edward Gallagher. Trump wanted Gallagher to retain his position as a Navy Seal. Gallagher was accused of stabbing to death a wounded fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) in 2017; he was also accused of other incidents of murder (of a schoolgirl and an elderly man), and then of obstruction of justice. In July 2019, a military court acquitted Gallagher of most of the charges but found him guilty of posing with the bod…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/how-to-commit-war-crimes-and-get-away-with-it/
Labour offers \'by far the most ambitious\' pledges on tree planting ahead of climate debate
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-11-28
On 28 November, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn unveiled a commitment to create 10 new national parks to tackle the climate crisis. He also promised to set an example for his plans to sow two billion trees by 2040 by planting one given to him by Extinction Rebellion (XR) activists in Downing Street. | Speaking to supporters in Southampton FC\'s stadium, Corbyn revealed that he would plant a hornbeam tree he\'d received from climate protesters in a \"really nice place\" in Number 10. This comes as seven XR hunger strikers remain ou…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/11/28/labour-offers-by-far-the-most-ambitious-pledges-on-tree-planting-ahead-of-climate-debate/
Prompted by Local Activists, Congressman McGovern Condemns the Coup in Bolivia
Celina Stien-della Croce | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
Thirteen of us squeezed into Congressman Jim McGovern\'s small office in Northampton, Massachusetts, far outnumbering the number of chairs available. At the head of the table sat Koby Gardner-Levine, the congressman\'s Northampton district representative. Outside, a couple dozen more stood in the near-freezing temperature chanting, \"Evo, amigo, el pueblo está contigo\" (Evo, brother, the people are…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/prompted-by-local-activists-congressman-mcgovern-condemns-the-coup-in-bolivia/
Labour\'s New Internationalism: Chagos and Western Sahara
Elliot Murphy | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
There are a number of issues pertaining to UK foreign policy which campaigners and activists have long believed will forever reside at the margins. Never to be taught in schools or discussed on panel shows, these sidelined issues affecting the \'unpeople\' wordlessly trampled by consecutive British governments were assumed to remain hidden in little-reported legal…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/labours-new-internationalism-chagos-and-western-sahara/
Animal activists banned via Whole Foods\' restraining order hold 24-hour fast & protest in Oakland
DXE | indybay.org | 2019-11-28
Activists say Whole Foods\' parent-company Amazon continually seeks to silence animal cruelty and transparency concerns with heavy-handed legal actions…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/27/18828452.php
The DNC Refuses to Take Climate Change Seriously
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-28
The committee\'s chair told activists the issue would be discussed in the primary debates \"early and often,\" but that has not been the case.
truthdig.com/articles/the-dnc-refuses-to-take-climate-change-seriously/
Trump\'s Climate Recklessness Is Grounds for Impeachment
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2019-11-28
Members of the activist group Remove Trump unfurled a 600 sq ft banner with the impeachment clause from the U.S. Constitution as they marched on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower reciting Article II Section IV of the U.S. Constitution: \"High Crimes and Misdemeanors\". (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/impeach_trump_climate_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/28/trumps-climate-recklessness-grounds-impeachment?cd-origin=rss
Chilean Senate Reaches Agreement on Human Rights and Peace
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-28
The Chilean Senate signed on Wednesday night an agreement for peace, human rights and public order to advance the reunification process and urge the government to implement a schedule of profound structural changes. | RELATED: | Chilean Communists Reject Sebastian Piñera\'s Proposal | The Chilean senators expressed the need for Chile to go through \"a process of civic and social reunification\" through a \"significant economic effort, and a unequivocal political and social commitment to demo…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chilean-Senate-Reaches-Agreement-on-Human-Rights-and-Peace-20191128-0001.html
Remember the Oath of the Elbe
Jeremy Kuzmarov | progressive.org | 2019-11-28
On April 25, 1945, American and Russian soldiers linked up at the Elbe River and made a pledge for peace that we should heed today.
progressive.org/dispatches/remember-the-oath-of-the-elbe-kuzmarov-191128/
Over 30 Protesters Killed in Iraq Amid New Wave of Violence
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-28
Iraqi security forces shot dead at least 30 protesters on Thursday after demonstrators stormed and torched an Iranian consulate overnight, in what could mark a turning point in the uprising against the Tehran-backed authorities. | RELATED: | US Wars Have Killed Over 800,000 People Since 2001: Monitor | At least 29 people died in the southern city of Nassiriya when troops opened fire on demonstrators who blocked a bridge before dawn on Thursday and later gathered outside a police sta…
telesurenglish.net/news/Over-30-Protesters-Killed-in-Iraq-Amid-New-Wave-of-Violence-20191128-0003.html
In defiance of repression, Colombian workers mount second national strike in the past week
wsws.org | 2019-11-28
In the face of intense police repression that has already killed four protesters, workers and youth took to the streets to voice their hostility to the right-wing Duque administration.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/colo-n28.html
Media wonder: Why can\'t Venezuela be more like Bolivia?
Joshua Cho | mronline.org | 2019-11-28
Western corporate media outlets have often cried foul when foreign elections don\'t go the way the U.S. empire wants them to, and find roundabout ways to label the violent attempts by vocal right-wing minorities to use military forces to overthrow leftist governments as \"protests\" rather than coups (FAIR.org, 5/16/18, 5/1/19). | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/28/media-wonder-why-cant-venezuela-be-more-like-bolivia/
Iran Says at Least 8 CIA Assets Arrested, Blames US for Torching Hundreds of Banks
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-11-28
Hundreds of banks were attacked during recent major protests, and Iranian authorities say 7,000 demonstrators were arrested.
theantimedia.com/iran-says-at-least-8-cia-assets-arrested-blames-us-for-torching-hundreds-of-banks/
US Is Again Complicit in an Illegal Coup, this Time in Bolivia
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
Once again, the United States is complicit in an illegal coup d\'état in Latin America, this time in Bolivia. On November 10, a right-wing, anti-Indigenous group seized power after the Bolivian military\'s removal of President Evo Morales, who had …
globalresearch.ca/us-complicit-illegal-coup-bolivia/5696194
Are We on the Path to War? — Middle East Heats Up While Viewers Watch the Impeachment
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
Americans and also much of the rest of the world have been watching or otherwise following the impeachment proceedings in Washington and not paying much attention to developments in the Middle East that could be setting the stage for a …
globalresearch.ca/path-war-middle-east-heats-up-while-viewers-watch-impeachment/5696163
Beijing Slams US Anti-China Legislation
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
Time and again, the US unacceptably meddles in the internal affairs of other countries — what the UN Charter\'s principle of non-intervention prohibits. | House and Senate members unanimously passed the so-called Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act (HKHRDA) of …
globalresearch.ca/beijing-slams-us-anti-china-legislation/5696233
Tory PM Johnson Wants Britain\'s National Health Service Privatized
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
On Wednesday, Britain\'s Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn released secret Tory/Trump regime trade documents, showing Britain\'s National Health Service (NHS) is on the table for privatization. | Does Tory leader Boris Johnson want healthcare in Britain transformed into a US …
globalresearch.ca/tory-pm-johnson-wants-britains-national-health-service-privatized/5696230
US Vows to \'Reinforce\' Sanctions, Accuses Venezuela and Cuba of Stirring Regional \'Strife\'
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-11-28
Elliott Abrams reiterated support for Guaido and denied that sanctions are damaging the Venezuelan economy.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14734
A Nation Run by Billionaires and Lobbyists
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
In 1961, I left Greece for the United States. The reason for that life-changing decision was education. The University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin welcomed me and gave me a free education. I earned my Bachelor\'s and Master\'s degrees from Illinois and my doctorate from Wisconsin. In college My education was a mixture…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/a-nation-run-by-billionaires-and-lobbyists/
Renewed surge in US mergers
wsws.org | 2019-11-28
Last Monday alone, takeover deals amounting to more than $70 billion were announced as multinational firms sought to tighten their grip on the markets in which they operate.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/merg-n28.html
Labour reveals major plan to restore Britain\'s \'vital\' wildlife and tackle climate crisis
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-28
Labour is pledging to plant two billion trees by 2040 and create 10 new national parks as part of its plans to tackle the climate crisis. | Jeremy Corbyn is committing to spending £3.7bn in capital investment for the planting programme and habitat restoration if he wins the election. | Friends of the Earth welcomed the planting plan as \"by far the most ambitious\" of all the parties\' tree pledges, which are aimed at capturing atmospheric carbon to offset emissions. | Labour wants the 10 new protected parks to be added to the 15 existing ones during its first term if Corbyn triumphs in the 12 December general…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2019/11/28/labour-reveals-major-plan-to-restore-britains-vital-wildlife-and-tackle-climate-crisis/
Trump threatens to designate Mexican cartels as \"terrorists\"
wsws.org | 2019-11-28
The step would set the stage for direct US military interventions in Mexico, while pressuring the Mexican government to escalate militarized repression of social opposition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/28/mexi-n28.html
Kurti\'s Election Means a Stronger Push for \"Greater Albania\" and Protection for Terrorists in Kosovo
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
Albin Kurti is on the verge of becoming the next Prime Minister of Kosovo after he and opposition chairman Isa Mustafa confirmed last week that the two rival political parties had made progress to create a coalition government. Mustafa said …
globalresearch.ca/kurti-election-means-stronger-push-greater-albania-protection-terrorists-kosovo/5696155
Oakland Raids Housing Justice Village: Being Houseless Is Not a Crime
Cat Brooks | indybay.org | 2019-11-28
Last night, dozens of unhoused community members with The Village and East Oakland Collective placed their tents on the lawn of City Hall; demanding to be seen, heard and helped by city officials. Instead they were terrorized, brutalized, arrested and taken to Santa Rita Jail.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/25/18828416.php
Did Sri Lanka\'s Presidential Election Bring Back a Polarising Wartime Figure?
Dr. Palitha Kohona | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
The Economist proclaimed recently that Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the man who, as secretary of defense, presided over this horrifying episode (the final phase of Sri Lanka\'s terrorist inspired internal conflict), has just been elected president of Sri Lanka. To Sinhalese …
globalresearch.ca/did-sri-lanka-presidential-election-bring-back-polarising-wartime-figure/5696161
Syrian Army Bombs Kurdish Tankers Smuggling Oil to Turkey, A Message to Trump
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-28
Oil tankers and oil makeshift refineries in northeast Syria were bombed by \'mysterious\' planes yesterday morning, SANA later stated it was done by the Syrian Army regional command. | The statement conveyed Syrian Arab News Agency SANA was brief but very …
globalresearch.ca/saa-bombs-kurdish-tankers-smuggling-oil-turkey-message-trump/5696165
Native leader says Trump\'s empty promises won\'t halt crisis of murdered Indigenous women
Brenda Norrell | indybay.org | 2019-11-28
Ohlone Chair Dee Dee Ybarra said Trump\'s empty promises to halt the ongoing genocide of missing and murdered Indigenous women is no more than political rhetoric aimed at getting votes.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/28/18828454.php
Indigenous Resistance Might Just Save Our Lives
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-28
Thanksgiving is one of the great foundational myths of the United States, turning a single gathering of indigenous people in Massachusetts with English settler colonists in 1621 into one of the greatest whitewashes of genocide in world history. Even by that time, native people throughout the Western hemisphere had already suffered horrific violence for over a century, at the hands of Christopher Columbus and other European explorers intent on enslaving native people and exploiting the region\'s vast resources. Thanksgiving has morphed into an event celebrating family, feasting and football, a day off before the co…
truthdig.com/articles/indigenous-resistance-may-just-save-all-our-lives/
Indigenous Girls in Guatemala Battle Gender Violence with Martial Arts
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-28
A group of indigenous girls in the northern Guatemalan village of Tipulcan have found in martial arts a way to gain confidence and claim space that majorly belongs to men. | RELATED: | US Sends First Honduran Asylum Seeker to Guatemala | Once or twice a week, the girls, decked out in the traditional skirts of the Q\'eqchi\' Maya people, practice taekwondo under the eye of their coach, Dany Coy. | Taekwondo \"provides the girls…
telesurenglish.net/news/Indigenous-Girls-in-Guatemala-Battle-Gender-Violence-with-Martial-Arts-20191128-0007.html
Climate Tipping Points Could Hit Harder — and Sooner — Than We Think
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-28
Citing an \"existential threat to civilization,\" a group of top climate scientists have put out a new paper warning that the latest evidence related to climate tipping points–when natural systems reach their breaking point and cascading feedback loops accelerate collapse–could mean such dynamics are \"more likely than was thought\" and could come sooner as well. | In the paper, published as a commentary in the journal Nature on Wed…
truthout.org/articles/climate-tipping-points-could-hit-harder-and-sooner-than-we-think/
Native Women Were Forcibly Sterilized — and They Fought Back
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-28
I was 12 years old when I first heard about the forced sterilization of my people. A close friend of my family — the kind of person you call \"auntie,\" even though you\'re not related — who was Menominee, like me, told me and my sister that she worried about Native girls who were registered tribal members. Even though we didn\'t live on a reservation, our \"auntie\" feared the reach of the government and the violence it had so often disguised as \"health care.\" She came of age during the 1970s, at the he…
truthout.org/articles/native-women-were-forcibly-sterilized-and-they-fought-back/
Retail Giants Gear Up for Black Friday — and Political Giving
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-28
Ready, shoppers? Your long-awaited holidays are afoot — so are the countless deals up for grabs. | But as millions of Americans gear up to flood drop-in shops and online stores for Black Friday sales, some of the top retail giants are pouring big bucks into the political sphere. | In the wake of ongoing U.S-China trade tension, many corporate giants are ramping up lobbying efforts this year, hiri…
truthout.org/articles/retail-giants-gear-up-for-black-friday-and-political-giving/
A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
A researcher in California is collecting seeds of sugar pine that appear to have resistant to bark beetles. Her goal is to capture and propagate trees that can withstand beetle attacks. According to the article, past logging of sugar pine has dramatically reduced the genetic diversity of the sugar pine population. Loss of genetic diversity…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/a-collective-ignorance-of-ecosystems/
Thanksgiving Should Be America\'s Day of the Dead
Nicky Reid | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, There lived a group of magical white Christians called the Pilgrims. After growing weary of their King\'s discrimination against witch trials and buckle-hats, they climbed aboard a magic ship called the Mayflower and sailed the deadly Atlantic on a quest for religious freedom and laissez-faire…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/thanksgiving-should-be-americas-day-of-the-dead/
Just Part of Doing Business
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
Songwriter James McMurtry released a song several years ago that told the story of many working people in the United States. Titled \"We Can\'t Make It Here Anymore,\" McMurtry\'s lyrics described broken lives in a broken town in a nation broken by an economic disaster engendered by the greed of the capitalist class. Describing broken…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/just-part-of-doing-business/
Sarah Gillespie on \"The Ballad of Standing Rock\"
Sarah Gillespie | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
For Thanksgiving the critically acclaimed singer-songwriter is launching video for her song \'The Ballad of Standing Rock.\' The song is written in first person narrative. Why did you decide to do that? I wanted to try find a way to evoke the ongoing barbarism in North Dakota that wasn\'t merely a form of placard waving…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/sarah-gillespie-on-the-ballad-of-standing-rock/
Why We Mu Permanently Safeguard Chaco Canyon
Tweeti Blancett | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
In New Mexico, there are some places where oil and gas development makes sense. But there are others, like in the Greater Chaco area, where the risks of additional development are far too great. That is why I was so excited to see that the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed the Chaco Cultural Heritage…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/why-we-mu-permanently-safeguard-chaco-canyon/
Will Impeachment Affect Trump\'s Re-Election Chances?
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
One of the hallmarks of a democratic political system is that voters change their minds. In North Korea, 100 percent of voters support the ruling party coalition in election after election. In South Korea since 1998, voters backed 10 years of progressive candidates followed by 10 years of conservative candidates. Then, after a dramatic turnaround…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/will-impeachment-affect-trumps-re-election-chances/
China Has Hugely Outgrown the US Under Trump
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
This is one in the \"whose is bigger?\" category; which country has added the most to their GDP over the last three years. There is not any particular reason anyone should care about this, except that Donald Trump has made a big point of touting something about how no one says China will soon be…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/china-has-hugely-outgrown-the-us-under-trump/
A Meaningful Thanksgiving
Wim Laven | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
The impeachment proceedings to investigate allegations of impropriety in the Donald Trump presidency will impact many American households this Thanksgiving. Families will be confronted by political tensions of a profound nature this year. There is no sugar coating it, there is a base of people who believe Trump\'s lies and the absurd defenses offered for…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/a-meaningful-thanksgiving/
A Humboldt Thanksgiving
Alexander Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-28
It\'s Thanksgiving here in America, a day of infamy for turkeys. At my place in Humboldt County, northern California, turkeys learned their lesson a few years ago, when five fine specimens of Meleagris gallopavo–wild turkey to you–wandered onto my property. I assume they forgot to check the calendar. Under California fish and game regulations, you can shoot them legally for two weeks around Thanksgiving.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/28/a-humboldt-thanksgiving/
