WSWS (2019-11-29). Over 250 students arrested in Michigan by ICE in fake university scam. wsws.org After arresting 161 students in January and February earlier this year, US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement revealed that they had detained an additional 91 students in an ongoing sting operation conducted by the federal agency.

WSWS (2019-11-29). Australia: Queensland parliament forum reflects growing support for Assange. wsws.org While largely focussed on lobbying parliamentarians, the meeting gave expression to the deep-felt concern of working class and professional people over the persecution of the WikiLeaks founder.

WSWS (2019-11-29). Australian Labor Party shuts down parliamentary discussion on Assange. wsws.org It is a glaring exposure of the thoroughly rotten character of the Labor Party that, on the issue of Assange, it is well to the right of Joyce, a conservative nationalist and populist.

Philip Giraldi (2019-11-29). Iran May be the Only Winner in Iraq. globalresearch.ca Intelligence documents reveal how Tehran took advantage of US blundering | The American invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of that nation\'s government in 2003 has rightly been described as the greatest foreign policy disaster in the history of the United …

United Nations (2019-11-29). COP25: UN climate change conference, 5 things you need to know. news.un.org Climate change is happening—the world is already 1.1 ∞C warmer than it was at the onset of the industrial revolution, and it is already having a significant impact on the world, and on people\'s lives. And if current trends persist, then global temperatures can be expected to rise by 3.4 to 3.9 ∞C this century, which would bring wide-ranging and destructive climate impacts. | That\'s the stark warning from the international community ahead of the 2019 UN Climate Change Conference, known as COP25, which gets underway in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on 2 December. So, just two months after the Secre…

Yves Engler (2019-11-29). Alternative Media promotes Canadian Foreign Policy. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

Sarah Abed (2019-11-29). Turkey Holds NATO Hostage Until Syria-related Demands Are Met. globalresearch.ca NATO is in a state of division and instability with the US, Turkey, and France at odds, providing President Trump with the perfect opportunity to pull out of both NATO and the UN. | Next week NATO will be holding its …

WSWS (2019-11-29). Delay in publication of UK security report used to feed anti-Russian campaign. wsws.org Allegations of Russian attempts to influence the UK\'s 2016 EU referendum and 2017 general election reveal sharp factional disputes within the British bourgeoisie.

WSWS (2019-11-29). Fire Brigades Union study exposes decades of deregulation and cost cutting that led to Grenfell Tower inferno—Part 1. wsws.org The FBU\'s study is all the more important in the context of a concerted smear campaign by the media and the official Grenfell Tower Inquiry, which have set out to cover up the principal causes of the fire and shift the blame towards the London Fire Brigade and firefighters.

Andrew Korybko (2019-11-29). India\'s \'Military Diplomacy\' Has Been a Mixed Bag of Success. globalresearch.ca India\'s practice of \"military diplomacy\" in holding joint drills with a variety of Great Powers and regional states has been a mixed bag of success since the former has resulted in sending positive signals about \"multi-alignment\" while the latter risks …

David Walsh (2019-11-29). Modern-day Artistic Reaction: The New York Times Considers \"Canceling\" French Painter Paul Gauguin. globalresearch.ca According to Victoria Charles, a biographer of French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the artist died in Atuona, in the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia, \"having lost a futile and fatally exhausting battle with colonial officials, threatened with a …

Andrew Korybko (2019-11-29). The Hong Kong Local Elections Were a Monumental Defeat for Fake News, Not China. globalresearch.ca Marsha Blackburn, a Republican Senator from Tennessee, burnished her anti-China hawk credentials by ridiculously tweeting that the Hong Kong local elections were a \"monumental defeat\" for \"pro-China lawmakers\". The politician has been on a hostile anti-Chinese spree all this …

Jonathan Cook (2019-11-29). Britain\'s Chief Rabbi Is Helping to Stoke Antisemitism against Corbyn. globalresearch.ca Chief rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has not only misrepresented the known facts about Labour and its supposed antisemitism crisis. He has not only interfered in an overtly, politically partisan manner in the December 12 election campaign by suggesting that Jeremy Corbyn …

WSWS (2019-11-29). Trump signs Hong Kong \"democracy\" bill. wsws.org Entitled the \"Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act\"—and passed by the US Congress with only one dissenting voice in the House of Representatives so it was veto-proof—the legislation has nothing to do with either.

RT (2019-11-29). Indian nuclear plants \'absolutely safe\' as recent malware attack was limited to \'administrative block\'. rt.com The Indian government has assured lawmakers that its nuclear infrastructure is \"completely safe\" following a spate of rumors that a North Korean malware attack had crippled vital systems at one facility. | Addressing reports of a cyber breach at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), Minister of State in the Prime Minister\'s Office Jitendra Singh insisted on Thursday that there was no reason for concern at the KNPP or any other nuclear facility in India. | \"Let me assure the House that the nuclear plants in the country are completely safe,\" Singh told India\'s upper chamber of parliament, the Rajya Sabha.

Global Justice Now (2019-11-29). Explosive Leaked US-UK Trade Papers: Lowering Food and Health Standards under Brexit, Britain\'s NHS, \"Chlorinated Chicken\" Already on Table in US Trade Talks. globalresearch.ca Trade campaigners have welcomed the release of leaked papers detailing trade talks between the Trump administration and British government officials, which show the US government pushing Britain into as hard a Brexit as possible because they see this as the …

Fred_F (2019-11-29). The answer to the climate crisis is obvious: ban climate protests. greenleft.org.au environment Carlo SandsIssue 1247 Australia Carlo's CornerNovember 29, 2019As Australia burns amid record-breaking temperatures and ongoing drought, and report a…

Susan Price (2019-11-29). The October uprising in Iraq. greenleft.org.au anti-government protest Susan Price Abeer Hasan AbdulazeezIssue 1247 Iraq 2019 Iraq protestsNovember 28, 2019Since early October, there has been a spontaneous wave of demonstr…

Fred_F (2019-11-29). The media\'s Palestine problem. greenleft.org.au international solidarity Sue BoltonIssue 1247 Australia fighting fund PalestineNovember 29, 2019ABC\'s November 25 Q&A program discussed the push by the United States to recognise illegal Israeli…

RT (2019-11-29). \'I\'m so scared!\' India shocked by brutal rape & murder of young doctor, tear up over her last words. rt.com The charred remains of a missing Indian veterinary doctor have been discovered discarded beneath an overpass. The young woman was apparently abducted and raped on her way to work in yet another attack that shocked Indian society. | The 26-year-old doctor, Priyanka Reddy, suffered a flat on her motorbike on her way to an animal hospital on Wednesday and was stranded in the town of Shamshabad, where a group of men offered her \"help.\" Reddy\'s sister Bhavya said she had last talked her sometime in the evening — unaware they would never speak again. | #RIPPriyankaReddy

Staff (2019-11-28). The DNC Refuses to Take Climate Change Seriously. truthdig.com 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.

Staff (2019-11-28). Indigenous Resistance Might Just Save Our Lives. truthdig.com 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…

George Wuerthner (2019-11-28). A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems. counterpunch.org 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 More

The Canary (2019-11-28). Postal workers\' union set to take strike injunction case to Court of Appeal. thecanary.co The trade union representing postal workers is set to challenge a High Court injunction to block potential strikes by members.Royal Mail was granted an injunction to prevent members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) from taking industrial action in a dispute over job security and employment terms.Giving his ruling two weeks ago, Justice Swift said there was \"improper interference\" by the union with a strike ballot, because members had been encouraged to remove their voting papers from work before they were delivered to their home addresses.CWU general secretary Dave Ward said the injunction was a \'massive…

Staff (2019-11-28). Americans Must Choose Between Life and Death in 2020. truthdig.com We could continue to fund military boondoggles and fruitless wars, or invest our money in a policy that will benefit the whole country.

Peter Maass (2019-11-28). The Nobel Prize, a Rape Camp in Bosnia, and Peter Handke. theintercept.com When Peter Handke visited Bosnia in 1998, he stayed at a horrifying landmark: a hotel used by Serbs during the war as a rape camp.

Janine Jackson (2019-11-28). \'This Was a Test Case to See How a Couple of Photos Could Silence Women\' – CounterSpin interview with Mallory McMaster on Katie Hill. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed reproductive rights advocate Mallory McMaster about Katie Hill for the November 22, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…

Ben Norton (2019-11-28). Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua \'national security threat\' and targets Mexico. thegrayzone.com After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a \"national security threat\" and announced new sanctions,…

Sam Husseini (2019-11-28). How a Would-be Thanksgiving Argument Can Spawn a Revolution. counterpunch.org 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 More

Carlos E. Rojas Rodriguez (2019-11-28). Biden Claimed He Wanted to Earn Every Vote. thenation.com Biden Claimed He Wanted to Earn Every Vote…

WSWS (2019-11-28). Five dead in Minneapolis, Minnesota high-rise fire. wsws.org Most of the victims were Somali immigrants in a neighborhood near the city\'s downtown area.

Alison Weir (2019-11-28). Occupied Palestine: The Most Enduring Media Cover-up. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Prof. Barbara Harriss-White (2019-11-28). The Sword, the Pen and the Law — On Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca \"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 …

J.B. Gerald (2019-11-28). On State Contravention of the Genocide Convention. dissidentvoice.org 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, …

Vijay Prashad (2019-11-28). How to Commit War Crimes and Get Away With It. counterpunch.org 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…

Ed Sykes (2019-11-28). Labour offers \'by far the most ambitious\' pledges on tree planting ahead of climate debate. thecanary.co 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…

Ralph Nader (2019-11-28). Trump\'s Climate Recklessness Is Grounds for Impeachment. commondreams.org 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 …

DXE (2019-11-28). Animal activists banned via Whole Foods\' restraining order hold 24-hour fast & protest in Oakland. indybay.org Activists say Whole Foods\' parent-company Amazon continually seeks to silence animal cruelty and transparency concerns with heavy-handed legal actions…

Celina Stien-della Croce (2019-11-28). Prompted by Local Activists, Congressman McGovern Condemns the Coup in Bolivia. counterpunch.org 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 More

Elliot Murphy (2019-11-28). Labour\'s New Internationalism: Chagos and Western Sahara. counterpunch.org 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 More

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2019-11-28). Remember the Oath of the Elbe. progressive.org 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.

Jason Ditz (2019-11-28). Iran Says at Least 8 CIA Assets Arrested, Blames US for Torching Hundreds of Banks. theantimedia.com Hundreds of banks were attacked during recent major protests, and Iranian authorities say 7,000 demonstrators were arrested.

Joshua Cho (2019-11-28). Media wonder: Why can\'t Venezuela be more like Bolivia? mronline.org 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

WSWS (2019-11-28). In defiance of repression, Colombian workers mount second national strike in the past week. wsws.org 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.

Philip Giraldi (2019-11-28). Are We on the Path to War? — Middle East Heats Up While Viewers Watch the Impeachment. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2019-11-28). US Is Again Complicit in an Illegal Coup, this Time in Bolivia. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Lucas Koerner (2019-11-28). US Vows to 'Reinforce' Sanctions, Accuses Venezuela and Cuba of Stirring Regional 'Strife'. venezuelanalysis.com Elliott Abrams reiterated support for Guaido and denied that sanctions are damaging the Venezuelan economy.

Stephen Lendman (2019-11-28). Tory PM Johnson Wants Britain\'s National Health Service Privatized. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Stephen Lendman (2019-11-28). Beijing Slams US Anti-China Legislation. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2019-11-28). A Nation Run by Billionaires and Lobbyists. counterpunch.org 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 More

Yves Engler (2019-11-29). Alternative Media promotes Canadian Foreign Policy. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

Kumar Venkat (2019-11-28). Eating Well Without Destroying the Climate. commondreams.org For an equal supply of protein, beef produces 20-25 times as much greenhouse gas emissions on average as beans, and about 12 times as much as tofu. (Photo: Neil H/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/cows.jpeg …

Staff (2019-11-28). Indigenous Resistance Might Just Save Our Lives. truthdig.com 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…

George Wuerthner (2019-11-28). A Collective Ignorance of Ecosystems. counterpunch.org 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 More

Janine Jackson (2019-11-28). \'This Was a Test Case to See How a Couple of Photos Could Silence Women\' – CounterSpin interview with Mallory McMaster on Katie Hill. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed reproductive rights advocate Mallory McMaster about Katie Hill for the November 22, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…

Staff (2019-11-28). The DNC Refuses to Take Climate Change Seriously. truthdig.com 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.

The Canary (2019-11-28). Postal workers\' union set to take strike injunction case to Court of Appeal. thecanary.co The trade union representing postal workers is set to challenge a High Court injunction to block potential strikes by members.Royal Mail was granted an injunction to prevent members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) from taking industrial action in a dispute over job security and employment terms.Giving his ruling two weeks ago, Justice Swift said there was \"improper interference\" by the union with a strike ballot, because members had been encouraged to remove their voting papers from work before they were delivered to their home addresses.CWU general secretary Dave Ward said the injunction was a \'massive…

Peter Maass (2019-11-28). The Nobel Prize, a Rape Camp in Bosnia, and Peter Handke. theintercept.com When Peter Handke visited Bosnia in 1998, he stayed at a horrifying landmark: a hotel used by Serbs during the war as a rape camp.

Staff (2019-11-28). Americans Must Choose Between Life and Death in 2020. truthdig.com We could continue to fund military boondoggles and fruitless wars, or invest our money in a policy that will benefit the whole country.

Ben Norton (2019-11-28). Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua \'national security threat\' and targets Mexico. thegrayzone.com After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a \"national security threat\" and announced new sanctions,…

teleSUR (2019-11-28). Italian Authorities Uncover Plot to Create New Nazi Party. telesurenglish.net 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…

WSWS (2019-11-28). Five dead in Minneapolis, Minnesota high-rise fire. wsws.org Most of the victims were Somali immigrants in a neighborhood near the city\'s downtown area.

Prof. Barbara Harriss-White (2019-11-28). The Sword, the Pen and the Law — On Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca \"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 …

Sam Husseini (2019-11-28). How a Would-be Thanksgiving Argument Can Spawn a Revolution. counterpunch.org 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 More

Carlos E. Rojas Rodriguez (2019-11-28). Biden Claimed He Wanted to Earn Every Vote. thenation.com Biden Claimed He Wanted to Earn Every Vote…

J.B. Gerald (2019-11-28). On State Contravention of the Genocide Convention. dissidentvoice.org 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, …

Alison Weir (2019-11-28). Occupied Palestine: The Most Enduring Media Cover-up. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Vijay Prashad (2019-11-28). How to Commit War Crimes and Get Away With It. counterpunch.org 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…

Ed Sykes (2019-11-28). Labour offers \'by far the most ambitious\' pledges on tree planting ahead of climate debate. thecanary.co 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…

Elliot Murphy (2019-11-28). Labour\'s New Internationalism: Chagos and Western Sahara. counterpunch.org 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 More

Celina Stien-della Croce (2019-11-28). Prompted by Local Activists, Congressman McGovern Condemns the Coup in Bolivia. counterpunch.org 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 More

DXE (2019-11-28). Animal activists banned via Whole Foods\' restraining order hold 24-hour fast & protest in Oakland. indybay.org Activists say Whole Foods\' parent-company Amazon continually seeks to silence animal cruelty and transparency concerns with heavy-handed legal actions…

Ralph Nader (2019-11-28). Trump\'s Climate Recklessness Is Grounds for Impeachment. commondreams.org 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 …

teleSUR (2019-11-28). Chilean Senate Reaches Agreement on Human Rights and Peace. telesurenglish.net 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…

Jeremy Kuzmarov (2019-11-28). Remember the Oath of the Elbe. progressive.org 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.

teleSUR (2019-11-28). Over 30 Protesters Killed in Iraq Amid New Wave of Violence. telesurenglish.net 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…

WSWS (2019-11-28). In defiance of repression, Colombian workers mount second national strike in the past week. wsws.org 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.

Joshua Cho (2019-11-28). Media wonder: Why can\'t Venezuela be more like Bolivia? mronline.org 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

Jason Ditz (2019-11-28). Iran Says at Least 8 CIA Assets Arrested, Blames US for Torching Hundreds of Banks. theantimedia.com Hundreds of banks were attacked during recent major protests, and Iranian authorities say 7,000 demonstrators were arrested.

Prof. Marjorie Cohn (2019-11-28). US Is Again Complicit in an Illegal Coup, this Time in Bolivia. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Philip Giraldi (2019-11-28). Are We on the Path to War? — Middle East Heats Up While Viewers Watch the Impeachment. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Stephen Lendman (2019-11-28). Beijing Slams US Anti-China Legislation. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Stephen Lendman (2019-11-28). Tory PM Johnson Wants Britain\'s National Health Service Privatized. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Lucas Koerner (2019-11-28). US Vows to 'Reinforce' Sanctions, Accuses Venezuela and Cuba of Stirring Regional 'Strife'. venezuelanalysis.com Elliott Abrams reiterated support for Guaido and denied that sanctions are damaging the Venezuelan economy.

WSWS (2019-11-28). Renewed surge in US mergers. wsws.org 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.

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2019-11-28). A Nation Run by Billionaires and Lobbyists. counterpunch.org 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 More

The Canary (2019-11-28). Labour reveals major plan to restore Britain\'s \'vital\' wildlife and tackle climate crisis. thecanary.co 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…

WSWS (2019-11-28). Trump threatens to designate Mexican cartels as \"terrorists\" wsws.org 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.

Dr. Palitha Kohona (2019-11-28). Did Sri Lanka\'s Presidential Election Bring Back a Polarising Wartime Figure? globalresearch.ca 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 …

Cat Brooks (2019-11-28). Oakland Raids Housing Justice Village: Being Houseless Is Not a Crime. indybay.org 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.

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-11-28). Kurti\'s Election Means a Stronger Push for \"Greater Albania\" and Protection for Terrorists in Kosovo. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Arabi Souri (2019-11-28). Syrian Army Bombs Kurdish Tankers Smuggling Oil to Turkey, A Message to Trump. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Brenda Norrell (2019-11-28). Native leader says Trump\'s empty promises won\'t halt crisis of murdered Indigenous women. indybay.org 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.

teleSUR (2019-11-28). Indigenous Girls in Guatemala Battle Gender Violence with Martial Arts. telesurenglish.net 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…

Staff (2019-11-28). Retail Giants Gear Up for Black Friday — and Political Giving. truthout.org 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…

Staff (2019-11-28). Native Women Were Forcibly Sterilized — and They Fought Back. truthout.org 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…

Staff (2019-11-28). Climate Tipping Points Could Hit Harder — and Sooner — Than We Think. truthout.org 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…

Wim Laven (2019-11-28). A Meaningful Thanksgiving. counterpunch.org 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 More

Guillaume Long (2019-11-28). How the OAS, and the Media\'s Lack of Scrutiny, Caused a Violent Coup in Bolivia. counterpunch.org As often happens when an elite-driven coup leads to US-endorsed regime change, there are powerful attempts to disguise its real character. A recurrent method is to blame the coup on its victim. Of this, the November 10, 2019 coup in Bolivia is a textbook example. The narrative went as follows. Bolivian president Evo Morales, eager More

George Ochenski (2019-11-28). Thankful for Montana and Much More. counterpunch.org Once a year Americans stop for a day and give thanks, share meals with friends and family, and generally leave aside the daily hubbub that surrounds modern life for a while. Without doubt, citizens in the U.S. have much for which to be thankful — and Montanans, living in the last best place, have even more. More