Meet the Beauty Queen Who Inspired #MeToo in Gambia
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-19
| In Gambia, an ongoing public truth and reconciliation commission is investigating the atrocities of former President Yahya Jammeh, who ruled the West African country of 2 million people for 22 years before his regime ended in 2016. In widely shared public testimony that has been live-streamed to tens of thousands of people, survivors and members of Jammeh\'s death squad who killed migrants, journalists and civilians during the president\'s reign are telling their stories for the world to hear. One such survivor is F…
truthout.org/video/meet-the-beauty-queen-who-inspired-metoo-in-gambia/

UK worsens Julian Assange\'s persecution as US seeks extradition
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-19
Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor-in-chief of Wikileaks, says that UK authorities are holding Julian Assange in worse conditions than accused terrorists and…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/19/uk-worsens-julian-assanges-persecution-as-us-seeks-extradition/

Open Letter to Congress: Why the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 Must Be Opposed
K. J. Noh, Kevin Zeese, and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-19
Note: Congress is currently considering the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019. If this bill becomes law it will increase conflict between the US and China and increase US meddling in Hong Kong. It will become an excuse for unilateral coercive measures (sanctions) against China and Hong Kong. In the Open Letter …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/open-letter-to-congress-why-the-hong-kong-human-rights-and-democracy-act-of-2019-must-be-opposed/

Will Americans Let Trump Start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel?
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
On Saturday, September 14th, two oil refineries and other oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia were hit and set ablaze by 18 drones and 7 cruise missiles, dramatically slashing Saudi Arabia\'s oil production by half, from about ten million to five …
globalresearch.ca/will-americans-let-trump-start-world-war-iii-saudi-arabia-israel/5689628

Why Argentina\'s elites are waging war against Milagro Sala
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-09-19
The leader of the Tupac Amaru Neighborhood Association is a symbol of the fight against the old order. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/18/why-argentinas-elites-are-waging-war-against-milagro-sala/

Piers Morgan leapt in to defend Laura Kuenssberg. It didn\'t end well
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-09-19
On 18 September, #SackLauraKuenssberg started trending on Twitter. Social media users expressed outrage after she tweeted that the man who confronted Boris Johnson at a children\'s ward was a Labour activist and then identified who he was. People claimed that by identifying the man, Ku…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/09/19/piers-morgan-leapt-in-to-defend-laura-kuenssberg-it-didnt-end-well/

It\'s Time to Strike for the Climate
Sonali Kolhatkar | truthdig.com | 2019-09-19
According to Bill McKibben, the internationally renowned climate activist, author and founder of 350.org, today\'s record-breaking hurricanes should not be labeled with such innocuous names as \"Dorian\" or \"Maria.\" Rather, they should be named after Exxon Mobil, Chevron and BP–major fossil fuel corporations that have been the driving force behind global warming and the subsequent supercharged storms. | In an interview, the author of the new book, \"Falter: Has the Human G…
truthdig.com/articles/its-time-to-strike-for-the-climate/

Greta Thunberg Is Just Getting Warmed Up
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-19
Sixteen-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has sparked a global movement with her \"school strike for the climate.\" Last year, she started skipping school on Fridays to stand outside the Swedish parliament demanding climate action. Since then, she has inspired millions around the world to join her. The final two Fridays of this month, Sept. 20 and 27, are expected to be some of the largest global protests in history. These two strike days fall on either side of the United Nations\' Climate Action Summit on Monday, Sept. 23. | Organized during the U.N.\'s annual General Assembly meeting, which brings le…
truthdig.com/articles/greta-thunberg-is-just-getting-warmed-up/

Greenpeace Says Amazon Needs More Transparency to Meet Bezos\' New Climate Goals
commondreams.org | 2019-09-19
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/09/19/greenpeace-says-amazon-needs-more-transparency-meet-bezos-new-climate-goals?cd-origin=rss

The Sorry State of the Nobel Peace Prize
Lawrence Davidson | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-19
Those deserving of a Peace Prize should be seen as assisting in the reworking of an otherwise violent human culture. As it presently stands, this higher ideal is being ignored in order to award the Peace Prize to those who may have \"contributed to peace\" in a much more narrow fashion–a peace that is often lacking justice and thus short-lived. In some cases the winner turns out to be someone who, like Alfred Nobel himself, was also a purveyor of war or other forms of violence.
counterpunch.org/2019/09/19/the-sorry-state-of-the-nobel-peace-prize/

The Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan: Is Community Engagement the Key?
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
I have just read a superb book by Mark Isaacs, an Australian who has documented several years of effort by a group of incredibly committed young people in Afghanistan to build peace in that war-torn country the only way …
globalresearch.ca/struggle-peace-afghanistan-community-engagement-key/5689666

US Drone Strike \'Accidentally\' Kills 30 Afghan Farmers
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-19
A U.S. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) group hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day\'s labor in the fields, officials said Thursday. | RELATED: | \'Our Doors Are Open for Peace Talks\': Taliban to Trump | The attack on Wednesday night also injured another 40 people after accidentally targeting farmers and laborers who had just finished collecting pine nuts at Wazir Tangi in eastern Nangarhar province, three Afghan officials told Reuters.
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Drone-Strike-Accidentally-Kills-30-Afghan-Farmers–20190919-0004.html

Declaration of the Network in Defense of Humanity: Save the Amazon! Save the Planet!
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-09-19
The Network in Defense of Humanity joins the worldwide mobilization in protest against the ecological disaster caused by the fires in the Amazon and against the transnational corporations and politicians directly responsible for the catastrophe. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/19/declaration-of-the-network-in-defense-of-humanity-save-the-amazon-save-the-planet/

\"Killer Robots\" Could Commit \"Atrocities\" Says Former Google Engineer
Mac Slavo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
Laura Nolan, a former Google software engineer who left the company in protest of Project Maven, Google\'s since-abandoned artificial intelligence development program for military drones, says killer robots could commit atrocities. If governments turn control of their weapons …
globalresearch.ca/killer-robots-could-commit-atrocities-says-former-google-engineer/5689671

French Unions Strike Against Privatization of Electricity
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-19
More than a third of EDF\'s workforce in France was on strike on Thursday for the second day in a row in protest against a privatization plan, yet without affecting households, affirmed labor union leaders. | RELATED: | French Gov\'t Budget, Actions To Tackle Femicides Falls Short of Expectations | EDF workers are protesting plans steered by the French government to restructure and split the group in two, privatizing its nuclear power generation business set to one side. | The rest…
telesurenglish.net/news/French-Unions-Strike-Against-Privatization-of-Electricity-20190919-0015.html

Spy vs Spy vs Spy: The Mysterious Mr. Smolenkov
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
A new spy story has been making the rounds in Washington, but this time it involved a brave Russian official who allegedly was allegedly recruited while in the Russian Embassy in Washington in 2007 and then worked secretly for the …
globalresearch.ca/mysterious-mr-smolenkov/5689684

Trump Regime Anti-Iran Blame Game
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
The blame game is longstanding US, NATO, Israeli policy — falsely blaming a targeted nation, entity, group, or individual for something they had nothing to do with. | Time and again, the tactic is used as a pretext to pursue a …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-anti-iran-blame-game/5689657

Why on Earth would the US go to war with Iran over an attack on Saudi oil refineries?
Dave Lindorff | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-19
President Bone Spur, backed by his warmongering Secretary of State Mike \"Armageddon\" Pompeo, tweeted yesterday that the U.S. military is \"locked and loaded,\" ready to attack (bomb) Iran if it can be proven that Iran was behind a drone bomb attack on Saudi Arabia\'s oil refineries. There are plenty of news media in the U.S. …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/19/why-on-earth-would-the-us-go-to-war-with-iran-over-an-attack-on-saudi-oil-refineries/

Venezuela oil production continues decline as China cancels more shipments
Ricardo Vaz | mronline.org | 2019-09-19
Russian oil giant Rosneft blasted threats of U.S. sanctions as \"unfair competition.\" | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/19/venezuela-oil-production-continues-decline-as-china-cancels-more-shipments/

Brazil Will Not Take The Floor At The UN Climate Summit
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-19
The United Nations Secretary-General\'s Special Envoy for the 2019 Climate Summit, Luis Alfonso de Alba, said Brazil is not on the list of countries that will address the climate summit, which is scheduled to be held in New York on September 23. | RELATED: | Brazil: Temer Admits Impeachment of Rousseff Was a Coup | \"Brazil has not put forward any plans to increase its commitment to climate change,\" De Alba said. | Previously, the United Nations requested the governments of its me…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Will-Not-Take-The-Floor-At-The-UN-Climate-Summit-20190919-0002.html

While the Amazon burns, Brazil\'s indigenous peoples rise up
Marina Martinez | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-19
A record outbreak of fires is incinerating the Amazon, the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world, which is home to at least one in every 10 species of plants and animals on Earth and millions of indigenous people. Rather than working for environmental preservation, Jair Bolsonaro, the recently elected president of Brazil, is committed to opening up the …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/19/while-the-amazon-burns-brazils-indigenous-peoples-rise-up/

The Ansarullah\'s Aramco Drone Strike versus \"The Real Act of War\" against Yemen
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
Pompeo\'s provocative pronouncement that the Ansarullah\'s drone strike on Aramco\'s oil facilities was an \"act of war\" is extremely hypocritical because it ignores the fact that the Saudis were the ones to initiate the international dimension of the War on …
globalresearch.ca/ansarullah-aramco-drone-strike-real-act-war/5689658

Saudis Show Off Charred Junk, Insist Iran Responsible for Aramco Attack. Will Trump Unleash the Dogs of War?
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
First up, we have the neocon windup clown, Senator Marco Rubio. | . | . | . | . | Situation with #Iran is a very serious matter. | This is one of those #3amcalls that requires steady & serious American leadership. | We must bring | …
globalresearch.ca/saudis-show-off-charred-junk-insist-iran-responsible-aramco-attack/5689607

Tunisia\'s Ousted President Ben Ali Dies in Saudi Exile
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-19
Tunisia\'s ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali died in exile in Saudi Arabia Thursday, days after a free presidential election in his homeland, his family lawyer said. | \"Ben Ali just died in Saudi Arabia,\" the lawyer, Mounir Ben Salha, told Reuters by phone. | Ben Ali fled Tunisia in January 2011 as his compatriots rose up against his oppressive rule in a revolution that inspired other Arab Spring uprisings abroad and led to a democratic transition at home. | On Sunday, Tunisians voted in an election that featured candidates from across the political spectrum, sending two political outsiders through to a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Tunisias-Ousted-President-Ben-Ali-Dies-in-Saudi-Exile-20190919-0006.html

Iran Warns of \'All-Out War\' if Attacked by US and Allies
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-19
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif warned on Thursday that any attack on the Islamic Republic would lead to an \"all-out war\". | RELATED: | Saudi Gives \'Evidence\' of Iran\'s \'Attack\' on Oil Reserve, Pompeo Calls it \'Act of War\' | Zarif made the comment to CNN after he was asked what would happen if Iran was attacked by the U.S. and its allies | \"I am making a very serious statement that we don\'t want war; we don\'t want to engage in a military confront…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Warns-of-All-Out-War-if-Attacked-by-US-and-Allies-20190919-0001.html

Will Americans Let Trump Start World War III for Saudi Arabia and Israel?
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-19
On Saturday, September 14th, two oil refineries and other oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia were hit and set ablaze by 18 drones and 7 cruise missiles, dramatically slashing Saudi Arabia\'s oil production by half, from about ten million to five million barrels per day. On September 18, the Trump administration, blaming Iran, announced it was …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/will-americans-let-trump-start-world-war-iii-for-saudi-arabia-and-israel/

Trump reviewing target lists as Iran war threat mounts
wsws.org | 2019-09-19
US Secretary of State Pompeo described Saturday\'s attacks on Saudi oil installations as \"an act of war,\" attributing them–still with no evidence–to Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/19/iran-s19.html

Disputing Trump Claims, Japan Says No Evidence Iran Was Behind Saudi Attack
Jake Johnson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono told reporters Wednesday that he has not seen any intelligence indicating Iran was behind the attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities over the weekend, contradicting Saudi and Trump administration claims about the incident. | \"We | …
globalresearch.ca/japan-says-no-evidence-iran-behind-saudi-attack/5689677

Mike Pompeo Declares Drone Attack on Saudi Arabia an \"Act of War\"
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-09-19
Mike Pompeo is declaring what happened \"an act of war,\" and is now looking to use that bellicosity cobble together a coalition against Iran.
theantimedia.com/mike-pompeo-drone-attack-saudi-arabia-act-of-war/

Iran warns of war as U.S. continues accusations it bombed Saudi oil refinery
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-19
Iran has warned the U.S. that any aggression will be met with an immediate response, as Washington continues to insist the nation was responsible for missiles fired at a Saudi oil refinery. Tehran dismissed claims by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Iran had been involved in the attack on Saturday, …
peoplesworld.org/article/iran-warns-of-war-as-u-s-continues-accusations-it-bombed-saudi-oil-refinery/

Will Americans Let Trump Start a World War for Israel and Saudi Arabia?
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-19
If we fail to speak out now, passionately and vociferously, we may learn it\'s too late to rein in our venal, warmongering ruling class.
truthdig.com/articles/will-americans-let-trump-start-world-war-iii-for-israel-and-saudi-arabia/

Who Needs John Bolton? Trump\'s Neocons Are Determined to Go to War Against Iran
Timothy Alexander Guzman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
Following John Bolton\'s departure from the White House, Saudi Arabia\'s oil facility was attacked by drones operated by the Houthi rebels of Yemen. Trump and his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo once again claimed that it was the Iranians …
globalresearch.ca/trump-neocons-determined-go-war-against-iran/5689692

Boycott DGTL Tel Aviv Festival 2019
SAMIR | bdsmovement.net | 2019-09-19
Boycott DGTL Tel Aviv Festival 2019: PACBI StatementDGTL Tel Aviv takes place atop the ruins of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village | Cultural BoycottSeptember 19, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
bdsmovement.net/boycott-DGTL

Global Research Publishers: Special Offers On Our Book Titles
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
All of these titles from Global Research Publishers are available in print and PDF (e-book). For our North American customers they are also available in bulk for a discounted price. If you prefer to shop using Amazon, they are also …
globalresearch.ca/global-research-publishers-special-offers-on-our-book-titles/5684648

The Washington Post Has an Uber Problem
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-19
A new California law threatens to upend Uber, but the Washington Post claimed the law doesn\'t apply to the ride-hailing giant. This is convenient, since Post owner Jeff Bezos is not only a major Uber investor, but also founder and CEO of Amazon, which is likely to also be negatively impacted by the new law. | The recently passed legislation requires companies to classify workers as employees if their work is central to the business. Throughout its decade of lawbreaking and staggering growth, Uber has classified its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. This has allowed the ride-hailing giant to avoid…
truthdig.com/articles/the-washington-post-has-an-uber-problem/

WaPo No Longer Discloses Its Owner\'s Uber Investment – Even when quoting Uber\'s legal theories as legal fact
Pete Tucker | fair.org | 2019-09-19
A new California law threatens to upend Uber, but the Washington Post claimed the law doesn\'t apply to the ride-hailing giant. This is convenient, since Post owner Jeff Bezos is not only a major Uber investor, but also founder and CEO of Amazon, which is likely to also be negatively impacted by the new law. | The recently passed legislation requires companies to classify workers as employees if their work is central to the business. Throughout its decade of lawbreaking and staggering growth, Uber has classified its drivers as independent contractors, not employees. This has allowed the ride-hailing giant to av…
fair.org/home/wapo-no-longer-discloses-its-owners-uber-investment/

Houthi Rebels Overturned the Middle East Geopolitical Chessboard
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-19
We are the Houthis and we\'re coming to town. With the spectacular attack on Abqaiq, Yemen\'s Houthis have overturned the geopolitical chessboard in Southwest Asia — going as far as introducing a whole new dimension: the distinct possibility of …
globalresearch.ca/houthi-rebels-overturned-the-middle-east-geopolitical-chessboard/5689631

Edward Snowden Speaks
D.D. Guttenplan | thenation.com | 2019-09-19
Edward Snowden Speaks…
thenation.com/article/edward-snowden-memoir/

The \'Jacobin\' Outrage About the Working Family Party\'s Elizabeth Warren Endorsement Is Foolish and Unjustified
Jeffrey C. Isaac | thenation.com | 2019-09-19
The \'Jacobin\' Outrage About the Working Family Party\'s Elizabeth Warren Endorsement Is Foolish and Unjustified…
thenation.com/article/warren-wfp-jacobin/

Challenges and Opportunities toward Iran in the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-09-19
Negotiations for the Caspian Sea legal regime began almost immediately after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, but at the beginning of the process there were no negotiations on a single text. Prior to that, Iran and the Soviet Union used this sea commonly, though in practice the Soviet Union, by using its power …
uwidata.com/5358-challenges-and-opportunities-toward-iran-in-the-convention-on-the-legal-status-of-the-caspian-sea/

The only solution to climate change is world socialism
wsws.org | 2019-09-19
The millions marching against global warming must turn to the international working class to solve the unfolding environmental catastrophe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/19/clim-s19.html

The media\'s war with Bernie Sanders highlights the need to factcheck the factcheckers
Alan MacLeod | thecanary.co | 2019-09-19
One of the only growing industries in news media right now is factchecking, which promises to differentiate reality from fiction for us in today\'s post-truth world of spin and fake news. But factcheckers themselves are not neutral arbiters of truth; like everyone else, they\'re individuals and organizations with their own interests and biases. And a case in point is how the media appears intent on trying to factcheck into oblivion everything Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders says, sometimes with comical results. |
thecanary.co/us/us-analysis/2019/09/19/the-medias-war-with-bernie-sanders-highlights-the-need-to-factcheck-the-factcheckers/

The threat of Bolton has receded — but not the threat of war
John Feffer | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-19
The national security adviser entered the Trump administration as a predictable warmonger with an unslakable thirst for power. He streamlined the national security apparatus to maximize his access to the president. At least at first, he played the role of loyal adjutant to Trump. As in his days as an arms control official in the …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/19/the-threat-of-bolton-has-receded-but-not-the-threat-of-war/

Warren\'s Ethnic Issue Should Not Go Away
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-19
I am an academic. I\'ve taught at Tufts for over thirty years and always had a Harvard institutional affiliation. I understand academic culture and the centrality of affirmative action in administrative consciousness since the 1970s. In heading up numerous search committees for historians at Tufts, I\'ve had to fill out forms at the invitation stage,…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/19/warrens-ethnic-issue-should-not-go-away/

Elizabeth Warren organizing happy hour
anybody | indybay.org | 2019-09-19
La Guerrera\'s Kitchen, Oakland…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/19/18826442.php

France rejects Edward Snowden\'s latest request for asylum
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-19
France\'s foreign minister has said \"it\'s not the time\" to grant a new asylum request from former US National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden. | Snowden gained asylum in Russia after Barack Obama\'s adminstration revoked his passport — rendering him stateless — while he was travelling to Latin America in 2013. The revocation left him stranded in Moscow\'s Sheremetyevo Airport. Snowden was en route to seek asylum after leaking classified documents detailing government mass surveillance programmes. | Asking France again for asylum this week, he argued that \"protecting whistleblowe…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/09/19/france-rejects-edward-snowdens-latest-request-for-asylum/

Trump Officials: UNC-Duke Program Too Positive on Islam
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-19
The Trump administration is threatening to cut funding for a Middle East studies program run by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, arguing that it\'s misusing a federal grant to advance \"ideological priorities\" and unfairly promote \"the positive aspects of Islam\" but not Christianity or Judaism. | An Aug. 29 letter from the U.S. Education Department orders the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies to revise its offerings by Sept. 22 or risk losing future funding from a federal grant that\'s awarded to dozens of universities to support foreign language instruction. The consortium received $2…
truthdig.com/articles/trump-officials-unc-duke-program-too-positive-on-islam/

Security Council: Two draft resolutions, zero consensus on ceasefire in Syria\'s Idlib
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-19
The UN Security Council on Thursday failed to reach consensus on either of two competing resolutions on a cessation of hostilities in Idlib, Syria: the last province in the war-torn nation that is still largely held by rebel forces.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1046802

Ending the Afghan War Won\'t End the Killing
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-19
| I\'ve never been to Afghanistan, but I am the mother of two young children. So when I imagine what life must be like there after 18 years of war, my mind conjures up the children most vividly — the ones who have been affected by the conflict — and their parents. I think of the 12-year-old boy who was carrying water to a military checkpoint in a remote part of that country, earning pennies to help sustain his…
truthout.org/articles/ending-the-afghan-war-wont-end-the-killing/

American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: The Propaganda That Upholds the Status Quo
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-19
In the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People\'s History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to The War On Terror, authors Roberto Sirvent and Danny Haiphong assert that \"The mainstream corporate media is one of the chief propagators of American exceptionalism and innocence…the narratives of American exceptionalism and American innocence work together…
therealnews.com/stories/american-exceptionalism-and-american-innocence-the-propaganda-that-upholds-the-status-quo