The Canary (2019-12-01). Crucial round of talks to discuss climate breakdown begin. thecanary.co Countries meet in Madrid over the next fortnight for UN climate talks, with the pressure on to up the levels of ambition for cutting emissions.What are these talks?: This is the annual \"conference of parties\", or \"COP\" under the UN\'s climate convention. 196 countries, with the EU acting as a bloc, will attend to discuss action on climate catastrophe.Don\'t we already have an agreement on action?: Yes, we have the Paris Agreement, negotiated in the French capital in 2015, which commits countries to take action to keep temperature rises \"well below\" 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels and to pursue e…

Staff (2019-12-01). House Panel to Vote on Ukraine Report as Trump Mulls Defense. truthdig.com WASHINGTON—The House impeachment inquiry enters a pivotal stage this week, with investigators planning a vote Tuesday to approve their report making the case for President Donald Trump\'s removal from office as he decides whether to mount a defense before a likely Senate trial. | A draft report will be available for members of the House Intelligence Committee to view in a secure location before their planned vote on Tuesday, which would send their findings to the House Judiciary Committee to consider actual charges. | Majority Democrats say the report…

Ben Norton (2019-12-01). Plan Cóndor 2.0: Tras el golpe en Bolivia, Trump declara a Nicaragua \'amenaza a su seguridad nacional\' y apunta hacia México. thegrayzone.com Luego de presidir el golpe en Bolivia, los Estados Unidos declararon a Nicaragua como una \"amenaza a la seguridad nacional\"…

Juan Cole (2019-12-01). Back to Jim Crow Under Trump: \'Lynch Her\' Is Republicans\' Big Idea to Deal With Rep. Ilhan Omar. commondreams.org Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) speaks during a rally to express solidarity with immigrants and refugees hosted by MoveOn, United We Dream, Families Belong Together, and Popular Democracy near Union Station on May 16, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Zach Gibson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ilhan_omar_1_0.jpg …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-01). Criminalizing Speech and Press Freedoms. Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning. globalresearch.ca The persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning is all about waging war on truth-telling. | Chelsea Manning remains imprisoned for invoking her constitutional right to remain silent — for refusing to testify against Assange. | Her First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and …

Diana Johnstone (2019-12-01). Appeal to Archbishop of Canterbury for Liberation of Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca Œë letter signed by 60 intellectuals from 15 countries was delivered to Lambeth Palace calling on His Grace, Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, to use his moral influence to end the unjustified imprisonment of Julian Assange in Belmarsh Prison….

teleSUR (2019-12-01). US Created Fake University to Lure Int\'l Students, Arrest Them. telesurenglish.net The United States Department of Homeland Security created a fake university in 2015 luring international students who wanted to study in the country, in order to have them arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, as reported by the Detroit Free Press on Nov. 27. | RELATED: | Yale Student Fights To Halt Deportation of His Mother With Stage IV Cancer | About 90 foreign students, mostly from India, of the fake University of Farmington located in Detr…

Staff (2019-12-01). Thousands Stage Protest at German Coal Mines for Bolder Climate Policy. truthout.org On the heels of Friday\'s global youth-led climate strike, thousands of activists staged demonstrations at three coal mines in Germany Saturday to protest the government\'s plan to phase out coal by 2038, which activist…

Staff (2019-12-01). European Protesters Demand Amazon Stop Treating Workers Like Robots. truthdig.com Labor rights activists and climate campaigners across Europe used the occasion of Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, to call attention to and protest Amazon\'s \"appalling\" working conditions, paltry benefits, and destructive environmental practices. | \"Workers are breaking bones, being knocked unconscious, and being taken away in ambulances,\" said Mick Rix, national officer with the GMB Union, which organized demonstrations at Amazon warehouses across the United Kingdom on Friday. | \"Amazon has spent a fortune on fluffy adverts saying what a great place it is to work,\" Rix added. \"Why not spend th…

IMEMC & Agencies (2019-12-01). Illegal Israeli Settlers Harass Palestinians and International Supporters. imemc.org Israeli settlers today chased down Palestinian sheep herders and international supporters away from their pastures in the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, according Aref Daraghmeh, a local activist. He said the settlers forced the sheep herders to leave the area and assaulted some of the international supporters who …

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-01). Turkish Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Syria. globalresearch.ca Launched cross-border on October 9, east of the Euphrates River, Turkish aggression is all about President Erdogan\'s aim to annex northern Syrian territory. | So-called \"Operation Peace Spring\" has nothing to do with peace, nothing to do with protecting Turkey from …

IMEMC & Agencies (2019-12-01). High Representative to the EU: Settlements are an Obstacle to Peace. imemc.org Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, stated, on Thursday, that Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank threaten to make a two-state solution impossible, the Palestine News Network reported. \"Settlement activity in East Jerusalem seriously jeopardizes the possibility of Jerusalem serving …

Global Research News (2019-12-01). National Endowment for Democracy (NED) \"Pulling the Strings\" in Hong Kong. globalresearch.ca According to a report by NewsHub, a so-called \"offshoot of the CIA\" was involved in engineering the protest movement in Hong Kong. The report which quotes French author Maxime Vivas states that the Washington based National Endowment for Democracy (NED) …

Michelle Bachelet (2019-12-01). Hong Kong\'s Leaders Have Only One Way Out of the Protest Crisis. commondreams.org Pro-democracy protesters hand out leaflets at the arrival hall of the Hong Kong International Airport during a demonstration on Aug. 11, 2019. Rallies on the streets of Hong Kong against a controversial extradition bill began on June 9. (Photo: Anthony Kwan/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-11610645151.jpg …

Labor Video Project (2019-12-01). 50,000 Rally & March In Berlin To Defend Planet From Global Warming. indybay.org 50,000 rallied and marched through Berlin, Germany to protest the growing dangers of global warming and continued use of oil and gas around the world.

Nicolas J. S. Davies (2019-12-01). Iraqis Rise Up Against 16 Years of \'Made in the USA\' Corruption. globalresearch.ca As Americans sat down to Thanksgiving dinner, Iraqis were mourning 40 protesters killed by police and soldiers on Thursday in Baghdad, Najaf and Nasiriyah. Nearly 400 protesters have been killed since hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets …

teleSUR (2019-12-01). China Accuses Bachelet of Interference in Its Internal Affairs. telesurenglish.net The spokesperson for China\'s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, Chen Yaou, on Sunday accused the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet of \"inappropriate\" interference in his country\'s internal affairs. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces Errors in Bachelet Report Before the UN | \"We wish to emphasize that Hong Kong is a part of China and Hong Kong affairs belong to China\'s internal affairs where no state, organization or individual shall interfere in any…

Stephen Lendman (2019-12-01). Six European Nations Join Worthless INSTEX\'s Trade Mechanism with Iran. globalresearch.ca The EU Instrument for Supporting Trade Exchanges (INSTEX) with Iran became operational in June — a smoke and mirrors scheme to bypass dollar transactions, unrelated to restoring normal European trade with Iran. | It\'s an illusory financial transactions mechanism, pretending to …

IMEMC & Agencies (2019-12-01). OPINION: Anatomy of a Zionist Smear Campaign: Jerusalem Post Admits to Fabrications. imemc.org By Marion Kawas for Palestine Chronicle On November 20, 2019, Israel advocacy club Herut Canada held a public meeting entitled \"Reservists on Duty\" at York University in Toronto. The meeting billed itself as a chance to hear from \"real Israeli soldiers\" about the \"Arab-Israeli conflict, BDS and much more\". Pro-Palestinian …

South Front (2019-12-01). Video: Syrian Military Bombs Oil Smuggling Infrastructure in Turkish-Occupied Areas. globalresearch.ca On November 26, Kurdish rebels from the so-called Afrin Liberation Forces announced that their forces had eliminated 5 Turkish-backed militants and injured 6 others in an attack near Tuweys in northern Aleppo. The killed and injured militants were reportedly belonging …

Julie Hollar (2019-12-01). We\'re Still Waiting for \'Early and Often\' Climate Debate Questions. commondreams.org Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), former Vice President Joe Biden, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) raise their hands during the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University's Health and PE Center on Sept. 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/democratic_debate_winship_1.jpg …

teleSUR (2019-12-01). Over 5,000 Police Deployed to Monitor Climate Summit in Spain. telesurenglish.net Spain\'s authorities have deployed over 5,000 officers to monitor the 2019 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP25) to be held in Madrid from Monday. | RELATED: | Global Strikes to Pressure U.N. Climate Summit COP25 | While the Civil Guard will control vehicular traffic and airport security, the Defense Ministry will supervise air safety. | For its part, Madrid\'s Municipal Police will control urban mobility and support government delegations in their movements. | This spec…

United Nations (2019-12-01). COP25: \'Signals of hope\' multiplying in face of global climate crisis, insists UN chief Guterres. news.un.org The UN Secretary-General has outlined the \"increased ambition and commitment\" that the world needs from governments during the coming days of the COP25 UN climate change conference which opens in Madrid on Monday, calling for \"accountability, responsibility and leadership\" to end the global climate crisis.

Staff (2019-12-01). Earth Nears Irreversible Tipping Points. truthdig.com On the eve of a global climate summit in Madrid, seven distinguished climate scientists have issued an urgent warning of approaching planetary tipping points: within a few years, they say, humankind could enter a state of potentially catastrophic climate change on a new \"hothouse\" Earth. | They warn that dramatic changes to planetary stability may already be happening in nine vulnerable ecosystems. As these changes happen, they could reinf…

CFBDH (2019-12-01). Beyond Climate Denial: Exposing the Fossil Fuel Industry\'s Latest Tactics. indybay.org Children\'s Creativity Museum Theater, 221 4th St, San Francisco, CA 94103…

Sunrise Movement Santa Cruz and others (2019-12-01). National Climate Strike: Santa Cruz Walkouts, Marches and Rally. indybay.org County Building, 701 Ocean St, Santa Cruz, CA 95060…

James Wright (2019-12-01). The BBC is ignoring David Attenborough\'s extraordinary takedown of Boris Johnson. thecanary.co The BBC seems to be ignoring the views of the broadcaster\'s most high-profile voice — David Attenborough. | \"Shameful\": | Speaking to Channel 4, the Planet Earth presenter condemned Johnson\'s decision to skip the recent TV debate on the climate. Attenborough dismissed the sitting prime minister\'s excuse that he\'d \"don…

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-12-01). Trump Designating Drug Cartels as Terrorist Organizations Is Aimed Against Mexican President. globalresearch.ca Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a patriotic socialist, in his first year of government rejected a war against the powerful narcotic cartels. However, he now faces a dilemma in the face of Washington\'s intentions to label the cartels …

James Wright (2019-12-01). Ex-chief prosecutor says Boris Johnson is \'lying to us\' about the London attack. thecanary.co A terror attack on London bridge left two people dead on 29 November. Now the former chief prosecutor for North West England Nazir Afzal is saying that both Boris Johnson and home secretary Priti Patel are lying to us about the issues surrounding the tragedy. | The corporate media also seems to be falsely suggesting that Corbyn wants to release terrorists early from prison. But his answer on Sky\'s Sophy Ridge was a lot more detailed. | \"Both lying to us\": | Afzal felt he had a duty t…

Staff (2019-12-01). Indigenous Colombians Escalate Fight to Rescue Ancestral Lands. truthout.org The Nasa are one of 102 Indigenous peoples of Colombia who were pushed up into the mountains by European conquest in the 16th century, and later by massive sugarcane plantations. Since 2015, they have been carrying out direct actions in which they cut down cane fields, plant organic crops in their place, and allow the native vegetation to cover additional areas within the same reclaimed lands. They call this action \"the liberation of Mother Earth,\" an…

teleSUR (2019-12-01). \'Venezuela Faces Media Warfare for 20 Years\', Gil. telesurenglish.net Venezuela\'s Vice-Chancellor for Europe Yvan Gil on Saturday denounced that his nation has been facing a media warfare for the last 20 years, which aims to distort what is happening in this South American country and minimize the achievements of the Bolivarian revolution. | RELATED: | Maduro Warns About Actions Against Venezuela From Colombia | According to this diplomat, owners of transnational media are the main responsible for the systematic misrepresentation of the Venezuelan re…

teleSUR (2019-12-01). Chile: Municipalities Call Citizens to Independent Consultation. telesurenglish.net Chile\'s Association of Municipalities (AChM) on Friday announced that it will conduct an independent consultation on Dec. 15, which will be focused on the citizens\' main demands. | RELATED: | Chile: People With Eye Injuries To File Lawsuit Against Piñera | AChM executives confirmed that they will make the consultation even though in April 2020 a referendum is convened for the country to pronounce on the realization or not of a new Constitution that replaces the current one, whic…

teleSUR (2019-12-01). Malta\'s PM to Quit Amid Crisis Over Murdered Journalist Probe. telesurenglish.net Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced Sunday he plans to step down, saying he would ask his ruling Labour Party to start choosing a new leader for the country next month, amid the crisis over the probe into the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. | RELATED: | One of Malta\'s Wealthiest Men Charged With Complicity in Journalist\'s Murder | \"I will write to the president of the Labour Party so that the process for a new leader is set for Jan. 12 2020. O…

teleSUR (2019-12-01). Israel Plans New Ilegal Settlement In Hebron Occupied West Bank. telesurenglish.net Israel\'s defense minister announced Sunday he has approved plans to build a new illegal settlement in the heart of the city of Hebron, which has been strongly criticized by Palestinian officials. | RELATED: | World: International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People | According to local media, Minister Naftali Bennett ordered the departments responsible for the occupied West Bank \"to notify the municipality of Hebron about the construction of a new Jewish q…

Eric Zuesse (2019-12-01). Bolivia Coup, Masterminded in Washington: Post-Coup Update, Rigged Elections? globalresearch.ca With every passing day, it becomes clearer that the military coup in Bolivia on November 10th was masterminded in Washington DC. This reality will create yet a new difficulty in relations between the U.S. regime and Mexico to its direct …

Staff (2019-12-01). Democratic Party Set Up One-on-One Meetings for Lobbyists and State Lawmakers. truthout.org This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge. | In late August, Democratic state lawmakers from around the country gathered in Boston for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee\'s (DLCC) Summer Policy Conference. The…

Staff (2019-12-01). Last-Minute Loophole Could Undermine Texas Law Against Surprise Medical Bills. truthout.org Texas\' bipartisan effort to shield patients from surprise medical bills could be weaker than lawmakers intended when it takes effect Jan. 1. | Earlier this year, lawmakers from both parties came together on legislation to protect people in state-regulated health plans from getting outrageous bills for out-of-network care. The new law, known as Senate Bill 1264, creates an arbitration process for insurers and providers to negotiate fair prices in those cases. The intention of the law is to estab…

Staff (2019-12-01). Oil and Gas Industry Tries to Rehabilitate Fracking Amid Calls for National Ban. truthout.org The American Petroleum Institute, the nation\'s largest oil and gas trade association, is promoting a new video touting domestic natural gas production as essential to energy security. The video, titled \"America\'s Energy Security: A Generation of Progress At Risk?\" comes at a time when calls for…

IMEMC & Agencies (2019-12-01). Adalah: Withholding Deceased Palestinians a Violation of International Humanitarian Law. imemc.org Withholding bodies of dead Palestinians and not returning them to their families for proper burial, is a cruel practice and a violation of international humanitarian law and United Nations Convention against Torture, said the Haifa-based Adalah — The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel said Friday. The Palestinian …

IMEMC News (2019-12-01). Israeli Troops Abduct Five Palestinians in Pre-Dawn Raids Across the West Bank. imemc.org On Sunday morning before dawn, Israeli troops invaded several parts of the West Bank and abducted five Palestinians. In the town of Beit Awwa in Hebron, in the southern West Bank, Israeli forces abducted Mohammad Osama Shalash and Uday Ismail Shalash. Both are believed to be under age 18, although …

Fare strike (2019-12-01). Bay Area Youth Evade Unjust BART Fare. indybay.org San Francisco, California. Today, Friday November 29th, Bay Area (born and raised) youth evaded unjust fares and hopped the turnstiles en masse, stating their concern for their communities and a desire to hold BART accountable for attacks towards them. They say that many people from the Bay regularly hop as a basic point of survival and likewise, they have no intention of stopping these evasions.

Elizabeth C. Tippett (2019-12-01). 2020 Race Shows the More Women Run, the More They\'re Treated Like Candidates—Not \'Tokens\'. commondreams.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a 2020 presidential candidate, does a pinky swear with a little girl while walking through the Iowa voters at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa on Aug., 10, 2019. (Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-11642981381.jpg …

Christine Prat (2019-12-01). Daiara Tukano: Europe must stop investing in the genocide industry. indybay.org Daiara Tukano, Tukano of Brazil\'s Amazon, spoke in Paris at events of the Committee in Solidarity with Indigenous in the Americas, CSIA-Nitassinan. Denouncing colonialism and capitalism, she speaks out for Mother Earth.

Gilbert Mercier (2019-12-01). Thanksgiving: Celebrating the Genocide of Native Americans. globalresearch.ca The sad reality about the United States of America is that in a matter of a few hundreds years it managed to rewrite its own history into a mythological fantasy. | The concepts of liberty, freedom and free enterprise in the …

Julian Rose (2019-12-01). Poland Proposes Raising Carcinogenic 5G Emission Levels as a \"National Norm\" globalresearch.ca Hundreds of letters are pouring into the office of Polish Minister of Health, Lukaz Szumowski, from Polish citizens and people all over the world, responding to Mr Szumowski\'s proposition to exponentially raise the officially recognised limit for cell phone …

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2019-12-01). Maltese Prime Minister Announces Plans to Resign After Protests Intensified Over Journalist\'s Murder. commondreams.org Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced Sunday that he intends to step down soon amid protests demanding his immediate resignation, which intensified over the weekend after a businessman who allegedly has ties to the government was charged with complicity in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11836464881.jpg …

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2019-12-01). Decrying \'Utterly Inadequate\' Efforts to Tackle Climate Crisis, UN Chief Declares \'Our War Against Nature Must Stop\'. commondreams.org On the eve of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, U.N. Secretary-General Ant√≥nio Guterres decried the \"utterly inadequate\" efforts of governments to curb planet-heating emissions and called for \"a clear demonstration of increased ambition and commitment\" from world leaders to tackle the crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/gettyimages-11858063881.jpg …

Ted Glick (2019-12-01). How We Win via NVDA Campaigning. dissidentvoice.org Long-time peace, justice, democracy and lgbtq activist and trainer George Lakey has written a book, How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning, about the strategic centrality to movement-building of the approach of nonviolent direct action campaigning. Built upon his decades of organizing experience going back to the \'60s civil rights movement, there …

Global Research News (2019-12-01). Selected Articles: The Bush Family and the Mexican Drug Cartel. globalresearch.ca Do you value the reporting and in-depth analysis provided by Global Research on a daily basis? | Click to | * * * | | George H. Walker Bush: …

RT (2019-12-01). For 10 years you\'ve done nothing! BBC host slams BoJo as PM reveals 74 convicted terrorists roaming UK streets. rt.com UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has revealed that 74 convicted terrorists are roaming the streets of the UK after being granted early release from prison, in cases similar to that of London Bridge attacker Usman Khan. | Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show on Sunday morning, the PM revealed that dozens of people with convictions for terrorism offences have been let out of jail before serving their full sentences. | The Conservative politician declined to provide further details on the cases but sought to reassure the British public that these people are being monitored. | | © Nils Jorgensen/ Global Look Pre…