Miguel Gutierrez (2019-09-20). El Desmadre: The Colonial Roots of Anti-Mexican Violence. counterpunch.org On August 3, 2019 a white supremacist walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas and murdered 22 people and injured dozens more. Shortly before the attack, he posted online comments complaining about a \"Hispanic invasion.\" He later told authorities that he was specifically targeting \"Mexicans.\" Just a few days before the El Paso massacre, another shooting in Gilroy, California left 3 dead and many more injured. The murderer in this case had online postings about invading \"hordes of mestizos\" and recommended that people read a white supremacist favorite \"Might is Right\" which, among other things, exalts the racial su…

Ismael Hossein-Zadeh (2019-09-20). Unipolar Governance of the Multipolar World. counterpunch.org The emergence in recent years of the economic and military powers in countries like China, Russia and India has given rise to theories and hopes of a multipolar world that could temper the heavy-handed unilateral/unipolar policies of the United States on a global level. Such hopes are further buoyed by the fact that these rising poles of economic development have instituted a number of regional international organizations such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the China-sponsored Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and the Eurasian Economic Union that incorporates Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzsta…

Ralph Nader (2019-09-20). 25 Ways the Canadian Health Care System is Better than Obamacare for the 2020 Elections. counterpunch.org Dear America: Costly complexity is baked into Obamacare, and although it has improved access to healthcare for some, tens of millions of Americans still cannot afford basic medical care for their family. No healthcare system is without problems but Canadian-style single-payer — full Medicare for all — is simple, affordable, comprehensive and universal for all basic and More

Valerie Reynoso (2019-09-20). The Rising Monopoly of Monsanto-Bayer. counterpunch.org Monsanto was an agrochemical and agricultural biotech company established in the US that became a large producer of GMO crops, with their main GMO crop having been corn. Monsanto was bought by Bayer, a German multinational pharmaceutical company, in late 2016 for $63 billion dollars. This deal was approved in early 2018 by the European Union More

H. Bruce Franklin (2019-09-20). How We Launched Our Forever War in the Middle East. counterpunch.org Late on the night of July 14, 1958, I navigated our KC-97 aerial tanker to refuel a lone B-52 on a secret radio-silence mission near the Arctic Circle. On our way home, our number three engine conked out as we approached the Gaspé Peninsula. We got permission to make an emergency landing at Loring, the More

Louis Yako (2019-09-20). Working in America: Paychecks for Silence. counterpunch.org Let us begin with just a few recent and disturbing statistics about working in America. First, most Americans (nearly 78%) live paycheck to paycheck, which makes them vulnerable to abuse and bullying by employers. Second, a 2018 Harris Poll found that \"seven in ten employers (70 percent) use social networking sites to research job candidates More

Rob Urie (2019-09-20). Strike for the Environment, Strike for Social Justice, Strike! counterpunch.org A very large chasm exists between those in power, including most of the 2020 presidential candidates, and environmentalists and scientists intent on acting now to resolve growing environmental crises. To reiterate what is known, the United Nations, through its IPCC and the IPBES committees, has provided comprehensive evidence that little time remains to avert catastrophic global warming. And the world is already in the midst of the sixth mass extinction. More

Lee Hall (2019-09-20). Mayor Obedience Training, From the Pet Products Industry. counterpunch.org Mars Petcare US—purveyor of pet products including Whiskas Æ, Greenies‚Ñ¢, Sheba Æ, Cesar Æ, and Iams‚Ñ¢—is a division of the $35 billion Mars (M&Ms) chocolate empire. Mars chocolate is problematic in its own ways—serious ways—but today I focus on the corporation\'s pet fetish. Mars\'s 2019 BETTER CITIES FOR PETS‚Ñ¢ gimmick was announced at the U.S. Conference of Mayors Summer Meeting More

Louis Proyect (2019-09-20). A Rebellion for the Wild West. counterpunch.org Christopher Ketcham\'s \"This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West\" is a politically explosive and beautifully written chronicle of the ongoing struggle to preserve publicly owned land in the West. This is home to iconic endangered species such as the grizzly bear, the wolf, and the wild horse. Much of the More

Robert Scheer (2019-09-20). America Keeps Getting China All Wrong. truthdig.com For decades, China has been an enigmatic foe and friend to the United States. From trade to immigration, the two international giants have been linked in inextricable ways in recent years. With Donald Trump\'s current trade war with China and the Hong Kong protests hitting headlines, Americans are once again thinking about the Chinese in a more nuanced way. Yet there is still a lot of misinformation about the Asian nation circulating at all levels of American society, including within the Trump administrat…

Staff (2019-09-20). How E-Commerce Warehouse Development Perpetuates Deforestation. therealnews.com \"Not in our backyard!\" — Residents of Abingdon, Maryland, demand an end to the deforestation plan and protest in front of Harford County Government Administration Offices.

Staff (2019-09-20). San Diego Ends Electricity Monopoly, Aims for 100% Renewables by 2035. therealnews.com San Diego has signed a Community Choice Energy agreement, creating a competitor to San Diego Gas & Electric. Owned by Sempra Energy, SDG&E has shifted toward exporting its natural gas to Mexico and overseas.

Robert J. Burrowes (2019-09-20). The Struggle for Peace in Afghanistan: Is Community Engagement the Key? dissidentvoice.org 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 it can be built: by learning, living and sharing peace. The book, titled The Kabul Peace …

Staff (2019-09-20). Activists Face Felony Charges for Blocking Houston Oil Tanker Corridor. therealnews.com Under a new law backed by Big Oil and passed in statehouses nationwide, Greenpeace USA activists face felony charges for the action. Texas is the second state to bring such charges under the \"critical infrastructure\" law…

RT (2019-09-20). SHOCKER! Area 51 raid FLOPS as bunch of YouTubers chat up guards instead of running to \'see them aliens\' (WATCH LIVE). rt.com A viral prank that promised to see two million alien hunters breach the gates of Area 51 has ended with a whimper instead of a bang, drawing only a few dozen enthusiasts for the much-anticipated \'raid.\' | Initially a mock Facebook event, \"Storm Area 51\" quickly became a phenomenon that garnered interest from hundreds of thousands of netizens, who signed up to blaze past police and military guards to \"see them aliens\" at the top-secret Nevada facility. Some celebrities who\'d promised to join in heated up the memeful event even more, while the authorities tried to pour cold water on even the idea of a peaceful a…

Rachel M. Cohen (2019-09-20). The Environmental Left Is Softening on Carbon-Capture Technology. Maybe That\'s OK. theintercept.com At the start of this year, more than 600 environmental groups — including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and Sunrise Movement — sent a letter to Congress saying they will \"vigorously oppose\" federal climate legislation that promotes \"corporate schemes\" like carbon-capture and storage. | Congress was not chastened. This past July, tucked in the Senate\'s $287 billion highway reauthorization bill, was a bipartisan measure to support carbon-ca…

Tatiana Dias (2019-09-20). Brazil\'s Army Wanted to \"Occupy\" the Amazon Before. Leaked Audio Reveals Their Plan to Try Again. theintercept.com Jair Bolsonaro and Brazil\'s army are reviving an old dream of the dictatorship to bring industry, mining, and settlers to the Amazon.

Marc Brodine (2019-09-20). Green Strategy: Building the movement to stop climate change. peoplesworld.org The following is an excerpt from Marc Brodine\'s new book, Green Strategy: Path to Fundamental Transformation, available from International Publishers. The key to creating fundamental change is to create a movement broad enough, diverse enough, powerful enough, and sophisticated enough to embrace billions of people the world over. We can confidently predict that the environmental …

Kate Aronoff (2019-09-20). Why VSCO Girls are Going on Strike for the Climate. theintercept.com It\'s not as if all VSCO Girls are sleeper climate champions. But as climate organizing has come to involve more people, it sucks the trends of the day up.

The Canary (2019-09-20). What action is demanded from the climate strikers? thecanary.co Children and students are being joined by adults at more than 200 events across the country calling for urgent action on climate change as part of a global movement.The UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) is calling for specific action from British politicians.That includes declaring a climate emergency, which Parliament has done since the last major UK schools strike in March, and implementing a \"Green New Deal\" to achieve climate justice.Jake Woodier, from the UKSCN, said: \"The UKSCN is calling for policymakers to implement a \'Green New Deal\' in the UK to transform our economy and tackle the climate crisis, and…

Staff (2019-09-20). Greta Thunberg Leads Climate Strikes in 150 Countries (Live Blog). truthdig.com Truthdig\'s Michael Nigro reports live from New York City, where the Swedish activist will speak at a global climate change protest.

The Canary (2019-09-20). Tens of thousands join climate crisis protests across world. thecanary.co Tens of thousands of protesters have joined rallies across Australia on a day of worldwide demonstrations calling for action to tackle the climate crisis.Some of the first rallies in what is being billed as a \"global climate strike\" began in Sydney and Canberra, with demonstrators calling on leaders in Australia, the world\'s largest exporter of coal and liquid natural gas, to take more drastic action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.The Global Strike 4 Climate said protests are being staged in 110 towns and cities across Australia on Friday, with organisers demanding government and business commit to a target o…

Mark Gruenberg (2019-09-20). Around the world, millions strike demanding climate action. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—For Daniel Goldman of Arlington, Va., the reason for battling to reverse climate change is very simple. \"I don\'t want to die,\" he says. Marching with a hand-drawn sign declaring \"The wrong ICE is melting\" — uniting two controversies on one piece of cardboard — the high school student from Arlington, Va., was one of …

Staff (2019-09-20). Documentary \"Blowout\" Follows Climate Cost of Oil Boom from Fracking to Exports. therealnews.com The new film follows the U.S. oil supply chain, covering health, climate and environmental justice impacts. And it points to the president who was central to creating the current reality: Barack Obama.

Staff (2019-09-20). Over One Million to Take Part in Youth Climate Strike. therealnews.com Activists are taking part in 5,000 actions across 157 countries to demand immediate action to address climate change. We\'ll bring you updates throughout the day including on-the-ground reporting from Baltimore and New York…

Staff (2019-09-20). Bernie Sanders Vows to Prosecute Fossil Fuel CEOs. truthdig.com At a climate-change town hall, the 2020 hopeful says those who \"lied to the American people\" in a \"bold-faced way\" must be held accountable.

Eric A. Gordon (2019-09-20). Outrage and lawsuits arise from Trump\'s attempt to ban emissions control. peoplesworld.org LOS ANGELES, FORMER SMOG CAPITAL OF THE WORLD—On Wednesday of this week, in the lead-up to the Global Climate Strike this weekend, President Donald Trump upped the ante on his satanic attempt to end civilized life on Earth. In a series of three tweets, he announced his \"Administration is revoking California\'s Federal Waiver on emissions …

Jimmy Doran (2019-09-20). Save the planet or save capitalism; we can\'t do both. peoplesworld.org The world in which we live is finite. It does not possess infinite, everlasting resources. And it is fast approaching the point of no return as we face imminent climate catastrophe. If we are to save humanity and protect the world for future generations, we have to radically change the way we live—immediately. We\'re not …

Kasia Anderson (2019-09-20). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Refuses to Be \'Gaslit\' by The New York Times. truthdig.com By now, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has gone through more full-on political attacks than President Trump has gone through cabinet members. | Fox News\' abuse of power, and of Ocasio-Cortez, comes as no surprise, given the Murdochian media complex\'s total commitment to making sure their audience sees Ocasio-Cortez and her peers — specifically, congressional \"Squad\"-mates Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley — as the socialist enemies of (white) America that President Trump insists they are. But a perhaps more remar…

Jimmysllama (2019-09-20). Through the Eyes of Jesselyn Radack: A Look at the Vital Role of Whistleblowers and Their Attorneys. mintpressnews.com \"By protecting whistleblowers, sources, and online activists, we facilitate robust investigative journalism, hold government to account, protect the freedoms of speech, privacy and the press, and foster the most critical component of democratic society: an informed citizenry.\" — Whistleblower and Source Protection Program…

teleSUR (2019-09-20). US and El Salvador Sign Joint Immigration Deal. telesurenglish.net The United States and El Salvador have reached a joint deal on immigration, the U.S. embassy in El Salvador said on Friday, without giving many additional details beyond those related to asylum claims. | RELATED: | 126 Central American Mothers Sue US Gov\'t for Asylum Ban | Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is scheduled to discuss the immigration agreement on Friday at a news briefing in Washington, D.C. | \"The bottom line of this agreement is asylum. It seeks to…

WSWS (2019-09-20). Julian Assange: The great unmentionable as Australian leader wines and dines with Trump. wsws.org Were Assange imprisoned by the Chinese, Russian or Iranian regimes, the response of the Australian government would doubtless be very different.

Judy Rohrer (2019-09-20). \"Make \'America\' White Again\": White Resentment Under the Obama & Trump Presidencies. counterpunch.org Neo-Nazis, the KKK, the Proud Boys, and various white power groups have been rallying in Portland, Boston, Berkeley, Charlottesville, and Gainsville. Mass shootings and numerous hate crimes targeting immigrant/Latinx/Black/Muslim/Jewish people are on the rise. Four junior women of color U.S. representatives are under constant racist, xenophobic, and misogynist attack. In fact, Rep. Ilhan Omar has More

United Nations (2019-09-20). Climate emergency \'a new danger\' to peace, youth activists hear ahead of World Day. un.org Among the efforts to build a sustainably peaceful world, \"urgent climate action is needed\" to curb environmental threats to all our well-being and security, the Secretary-General told the annual peace gathering in New York on Friday, addressing a largely youthful crowd.

Staff (2019-09-20). US Denies Visa to Afghan Teen Invited to First-Ever UN Youth Climate Summit. truthout.org | | Climate youth activist Nasratullah Elham of Afghanistan was invited to participate in the first-ever U.N. Youth Climate Summit, but the United States rejected his visa. He breaks the sound barrier to join us from Phuket, Thailand, where he is a 12th grade student, and says his activism is based on the crisis\'s impact on his home country. \"The poor people there are very badly affected in a situation [where] they do not really have much carbon emissions,\" he says. | TRANSCRIPT: | AMY…

Sonali Kolhatkar (2019-09-20). It\'s Time to Strike for the Climate. commondreams.org Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, center in orange shirt, participates in a youth climate strike outside the United Nations on Aug. 30 in New York City. Thunberg was also in town to address the U.N. Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23. (Photo: Mary Altaffer / AP) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/sonaliclimatestrike.jpeg …

Tracy Keeling (2019-09-20). Tory radio host\'s cockeyed crusade against climate strikers gets called out, by a Tory MP. thecanary.co Tory radio host Julia Hartley-Brewer is not a fan of the youth climate movement. Back in August she joined Aaron Banks in \'mocking the silly claims\' of climate activist Greta Thunberg. And on what looks to be the \"biggest day of climate action in planetary history\" she, of course, g…

United Nations (2019-09-20). Friday's Daily Brief: World youth call for climate action and peace, record food needs met in Yemen, exclusive sit down with UN chief. un.org A recap of Friday\'s top stories: Climate emergency threatening peace progress; Guterres urges States bring concrete answers to GA; Migrant shooting in Libya signals danger; Xenophobia attacks rise in South Africa; Record number get UN food aid in Libya.

United Nations (2019-09-20). \'Collective\' erosion of two-State solution, continues unabated: Mladenov. un.org The \"steady deterioration\" of chances that a lasting peace can be negotiated between Israel and Palestine as two States live side by side, reflects a \"collective failure\" of leadership across the region and the world.

Julian Rose (2019-09-20). \"Extinction Rebellion\", \"Green New Deal\" and the \"Rebranding of Global Capitalism\" globalresearch.ca On 20 September students will be mobilizing in a global protest against climate change. | Who is supporting this Worldwide endeavour, who is funding it? | Is this a real rebellion? | *** | It is natural for people to come forward in defense …

Extinction Rebellion, Sunrise Movement (2019-09-20). Climate Strike: Sound the Alarm for Climate Change Silent Protest (SF). indybay.org Ferry Building, located on the Embarcadero at the foot of Market Street. | Also: Map of additional San Francisco warning siren locations can be found here: | sfdem.org/outdoor-public-warning-system-0…

teleSUR (2019-09-20). Thousands Join World Climate Strike as UN Summit Approaches. telesurenglish.net Thousands of people from all over the world took to the streets to join the \"Third World Climate Strike\" on September 20, a protest triggered by the Fridays for The Future (FFF) movement, which demands from governments concrete actions to resolve the ongoing environmental emergency generated by increased global warming. | RELATED: | Brazil Will Not Take The Floor At The UN Climate Summit | In Europe, Asia, Africa and Noth America, hundreds of environmental, social, labor and human rig…

Stephanie Van Hook (2019-09-20). Beyond Coping: How to Find the Strength to Take on Climate Change. commondreams.org Students protest in front of the Scottish Parliament on March 15, 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland. This was part of the global climate strike in March, when students around the world demanded that elected officials take action on climate change. (Photo: Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/image_6.jpeg …

Alleen Brown (2019-09-20). Two Years After the Hurricane, Puerto Rico\'s \"Generation Maria\" Leads a Climate Strike. theintercept.com One of the most important moments in 16-year-old Tristán Queriot\'s climate activism came at the international airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in mid-July. Puerto Rico\'s former secretary of education, Julia Keleher, was flying back to the island from Washington, D.C. to stand before a federal judge and confront corruption charges. Queriot and the other protesters ha…

Rachel Sarah (2019-09-20). To the Adults Who Are Striking Today for the Future, Thank You. commondreams.org Participants of a demonstration clap their hands and write the Icelandic \"Hu\". The demonstrators follow the call of the movement Fridays for Future and want to fight for more climate protection. They want to support the calls for strikes and protests all over the world. (Photo: Patrick Seeger/dpa/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate_strike.jpg …

Elected Officials to Protect California (2019-09-20). California School Board Officials Urge School Districts to Allow Students to Take Part in Global Climate Protest. indybay.org Statement from California School Board Members on Youth Climate Strikes…

teleSUR (2019-09-20). Germany Accepts Climate Protection Deal Amid Worldwide Protests. telesurenglish.net The German government reached a consensus Friday on a new climate protection package, which includes a domestic carbon price and the possibility of more stringent measures in future, a source close to the talks said. | RELATED: | Australia \'Sets Standard\' as Thousands Join #ClimateStrike | According to the reports, German Chancellor Angela Merkel\'s conservatives and her Social Democrat partners agreed a carbon price for energy used in buildings and transport in line with the existing…

Staff (2019-09-20). US Will Stage Its Largest Ever Climate Strike. truthout.org | | The US is to stage its largest ever day of protest over the climate crisis, with tens of thousands of students joined by adults in abandoning schools and workplaces for a wave of strikes across the country. | Climate strikes will take place in more than 1,000 locations in the US on Friday, with major rallies in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and Miami. Globally, more than 4,500 strikes are planned across 150 countri…

Mark Fiore (2019-09-20). How To Get The U.S. To Care About The War In Yemen. progressive.org \"Over 85,000 children dead from war and starvation in Yemen. And now you may pay more at the pump!\"

Hiroyuki Hamada (2019-09-20). In Defense of Cory Morningstar\'s Manufacturing for Consent Series. dissidentvoice.org Good investigative journalism doesn\'t only reveal hidden mechanisms of our time; it also exposes those who refuse to confront the mechanisms. Remember when the late Bruce Dixon courageously and cogently called Bernie Sanders \"a sheep dog candidate\"? Remember when Eva Bertlett, Vanessa Beeley and others truly stood with Syrian people in opposing the western intervention? …