Tulsi says impeachment would be \'terribly divisive\' as Trump\'s Republican challengers back the move
rt.com | 2019-09-25
Swimming against the current in her own Democratic Party, 2020 candidate Tulsi Gabbard said she does not support impeachment proceedings against President Trump, amid louder calls within the party to remove him from office. | Moments before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry into the president on Tuesday evening, Gabbard warned the move would only deepen existing divides in the country. | \"I think impeachment would be terribly divisive for our already very divided country,\" she told CNN\'s Brooke Baldwin, adding, \"It\'s important Donald Trump is voted out of office by the American people…
rt.com/usa/469548-tulsi-trump-challengers-impeachment/
The Trump Impeachment Inquiry Scam
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-25
Most all actions by both right wings of the US one-party state are politically motivated. | They\'re united when it comes to unlawfully advancing America\'s imperium by brute force and other hostile means, supporting privileged interests over the general welfare, and …
globalresearch.ca/the-trump-impeachment-inquiry-scam/5690172
The Bidens, Trump, Kiev and Impeachment
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-25
The impeachment drive is quickly gathering steam, and who can have any sympathy for that man in the Oval Office? But I wonder if some enthusiasts may not be digging deeply enough. Has anyone noticed how often the media, in condemning Trump\'s treachery, swiftly and inconspicuously brush off the \"unsubstantiated\" and \"vague\" accusations against Hunter…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/25/the-bidens-trump-kiev-and-impeachment/
The Bidens, Trump, Kiev and Impeachment
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-25
The impeachment drive is quickly gathering steam, and who can have any sympathy for that man in the Oval Office? But I wonder if some enthusiasts may not be digging deeply enough. Has anyone noticed how often the media, in condemning Trump\'s treachery, swiftly and inconspicuously brush off the \"unsubstantiated\" and \"vague\" accusations against Hunter…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/25/the-bidens-trump-kiev-and-impeachment/
As Democrats begin Trump impeachment, key \'Russiagate\' case may be imploding
rt.com | 2019-09-25
President Donald Trump\'s security adviser Michael Flynn was the first casualty of \'Russiagate\' impeachment push, but the case against him seems weaker than ever, after a federal judge voided the conviction of his business partner. | Flynn, a retired general and former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was forced to resign in February 2017, after less than two weeks of serving as national security adviser. He was snared in an FBI perjury trap as part of surveillance of the Trump campaign — which was predicated on claims it was \"colluding\" with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. | Though t…
rt.com/usa/469544-flynn-russiagate-rafiekian-impeachment/
Memo Reveals Trump Pushed Ukraine Leader on Biden Claims
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-25
WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the House impeachment inquiry (all times local): | 10: 10 a.m. | The memo summarizing President Donald Trump\'s call with the Ukraine leader shows the president\'s lingering fixation on special counsel Robert Mueller\'s Russia investigation. | Trump flippantly refers to the ex-FBI director as a \"man named Robert Mueller\" and says he turned in \"a very poor performance.\" | The memo also shows that the president made reference to the private cybersecurity firm that investigated Russia\'s hack of t…
truthdig.com/articles/memo-proves-trump-prodded-ukraine-leader-on-biden-claims/
House Democrats launch formal impeachment inquiry against Trump
wsws.org | 2019-09-25
The action is a major escalation in the factional warfare within the US ruling elite, which revolves largely around differences over foreign policy.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/25/impe-s25.html
Trump\'s Impeachment Will Be a Political War That Can Be Won
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-25
The Nation\'s Elie Mystal and By The People\'s Alexandra Flores-Quilty look at the political struggle around impeachment as a battle for the soul and future of the nation.
therealnews.com/stories/trump-impeachment-political-war-that-can-be-won
They\'re Murdering My Son: Father of Julian Assange Tells of Pain and Anguish
Finian Cunningham | mintpressnews.com | 2019-09-25
John Shipton, the father of imprisoned whistleblower Julian Assange, says that if his son is extradited to the US, \"They will murder Julian one way or the other.\"
mintpressnews.com/theyre-murdering-my-son-father-of-julian-assange-tells-of-pain-and-anguish/262063/
The other Ukraine scandal: US support for neo-Nazis fuels far-right terror at home
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-25
Aaron Maté speaks with Ben Norton about how a far-right US soldier arrested by the FBI for plotting domestic bomb…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/25/ukraine-us-support-neo-nazis-ben-norton/
Labour pledges to abolish immigration detention centres in historic conference vote
Mohamed Elmaazi | thecanary.co | 2019-09-25
The Labour Party has passed a historic vote on immigration policy at its party conference in Brighton. The second-to-last vote on 25 September included a commitment to \"close all detention centres\", \"reject any immigration system based on incomes\" or a person\'s \"utility to business\", and \"scrap all Hostile Environment measures\". | The Canary was in attendance at the moment conference passed the vote to massive cheers and claps from across the hall. | A break from from Labour\'s \"very awful record\": | Joanna Gowers, a delegate for Finchley and Golders Green CLP, called the vote \"the most radical immigration…
thecanary.co/feature/2019/09/25/labour-pledges-to-abolish-immigration-detention-centres-in-historic-conference-vote/
Rev. Arlington Trotman on Racism and Immigration
UUSF Forum | indybay.org | 2019-09-25
First Unitarian Universalist Society of S.F. | 1187 Franklin St. @ Geary | San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/25/18826695.php
Activists Shut Down DC Streets as Climate Activism Heats Up
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-25
| Maybe there\'s hope after all. | It was in the mid-80s Monday morning in Washington, D.C., on the first day of autumn. By afternoon, the temperature soared to 93°F (34°C) in this hottest year on record, ominously underlining the urgency of #ShutdownDC\'s climate change protest. | Building on Friday\'s youth-led climate strike, which saw 4 million people protesting worldwide, Monday\'s action was intended to disrupt business-as-usual in the nation\'s capital to highlight the climate crisis. Liz Butle…
truthout.org/articles/activists-shut-down-dc-streets-as-climate-activism-heats-up/
Glacier on Mont Blanc Close to Collapse
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-25
A glacier of a quarter of a million cubic meters of ice is at risk of sliding off the Planpincieux glacier on the Grandes Jorasses peak in the Italian portion of the massif of Mont Blanc, Western Europe\'s highest mountain range, BBC reported. | RELATED | Young Climate Activists Held World Leaders Accountable at UN | This Tuesday Stefano Miserocchi, Mayor of the nearby town of Courmayeur, signed an order closing roads and evacuating homes and mountain refuges in the area. He said…
telesurenglish.net/news/Glacier-Mont-Blanc-Close-Collapse-20190925-0014.html
Activists Shut Down DC Streets as Climate Activism Heats Up
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-25
| Maybe there\'s hope after all. | It was in the mid-80s Monday morning in Washington, D.C., on the first day of autumn. By afternoon, the temperature soared to 93 in this hottest year on record, ominously underlining the urgency of #ShutdownDC\'s climate change protest. | Building on Friday\'s youth-led climate strike, which saw 4 million people protesting worldwide, Monday\'s action was intended to disrupt business-as usual in the nation\'s capital to highlight the climate crisis. Liz Butler from Friends of…
truthout.org/articles/activists-shut-down-dc-streets-as-climate-activism-heats-up/
Young Activists Sue World Leaders due to Climate Change
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-25
Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg and 15 other young climate activists on Monday filed a complaint with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child alleging that world leaders\' inaction on the climate crisis has violated children\'s rights. | RELATED: | Young Climate Activists Held World Leaders Accountable at UN | The petitioners, who range in age from 8 to 17 and hail from 12 different countries, teared up as they presented their complaint at the United Nations Childre…
telesurenglish.net/news/Young-Activists-Sue-World-Leaders-due-to-Climate-Change-20190925-0015.html
Peace versus Climate
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-25
Monday, 23 September, the UN in New York hosted a special meeting on Climate Change. There were massive predominantly youth demonstrations of tens of thousands around the globe, many of them in New York, one of them led by Greta Thunberg, the Swedish 16-year-old climate activist, who is sponsored mostly by Soros and his clan …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/peace-versus-climate/
In landmark UN complaint, 16 children accuse nations of failing to protect them from climate change
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-25
Youth climate activists from around the world also attended the U.N. Climate Action Summit Monday, where they spoke at UNICEF about a landmark new climate complaint they filed with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. Hailing from countries including Argentina, Brazil, Germany, the Marshall Islands and Tunisia, the young representatives spoke about why …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/25/in-landmark-un-complaint-16-children-accuse-nations-of-failing-to-protect-them-from-climate-change/
Powerful Forces Cause Fires in Brazil, Beyond the Amazon
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-25
The policies of Brazil\'s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro are provoking more forest fires and deforestation, not only in the Amazon rainforest. Environmental activists are now trying to counter the trend by engaging in reforestation.
therealnews.com/stories/powerful-forces-cause-fires-in-brazil-beyond-the-amazon
Deforestation Is Spreading Beyond the Amazon in Brazil
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-25
The policies of Brazil\'s right-wing president Jair Bolsonaro are provoking more forest fires and deforestation, not only in the Amazon rainforest. Environmental activists are now trying to counter the trend by engaging in reforestation.
therealnews.com/stories/deforestation-spreads-beyond-amazon-brazil
Activists Disrupt US and Israeli Officials at NYC Event Calling for War with Iran
commondreams.org | 2019-09-25
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/09/25/activists-disrupt-us-and-israeli-officials-nyc-event-calling-war-iran?cd-origin=rss
Documents Prove \"Creative Community for Peace\" is Front for Right-Wing Israel Lobby Group \"StandWithUs\"
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-09-25
Documents Prove \"Creative Community for Peace\" is Front for Right-Wing Israel Lobby Group \"StandWithUs\": UpdateArtists who support justice for all and oppose racism in all forms should be aware of CCFP\'s deception and steer clear of its lobbying agenda. | Cultural BoycottSeptember 25, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) …
bdsmovement.net/news/ccfp-front
More U.S. Commandos Are Fighting Invisible Wars in the Middle East
Nick Turse | theintercept.com | 2019-09-25
The percentage of commandos deployed to the Middle East is on the rise, according to new statistics provided to The Intercept by U.S. Special Operations Command. On average, more than 4,000 Special Operations forces — Navy SEALs, Army Green Berets, and Marine Corps Raiders among them — are deployed to the region each week, more than anywhere else in the world. | The increase comes at a time when the United States is apparently planning a troop drawdown in Afghanistan, despite a peace agreement with the Taliban having f…
theintercept.com/2019/09/25/special-operations-command-military-middle-east/
Take Action to Avoid War with Iran
Jon Rainwater | peaceaction.org | 2019-09-25
photo credit Dear Groundswell Readers, We have to keep pushing Congress this week if we want to avoid war with Iran. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said recently that the U.K. might join a U.S.-led military effort in the Gulf. When other nations step up to join the \"coalition of the willing\" it\'s often a bad sign. …
peaceaction.org/2019/09/25/take-action-to-avoid-war-with-iran/
Central African Republic President says country \'remains fragile\', despite progress on peace deal
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-25
President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic (CAR), addressing the UN General Assembly\'s annual general debate, spotlighted \"modest but sure\" progress in implementing the landmark peace agreement signed by his Government and 14 armed groups on 6 February 2019.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1047522
UN chief urges scaled up response for peace, across troubled Sahel\'s region
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-25
Humanitarian and development responses for Mali and Africa\'s wider Sahel region \"are falling short\", and support must be scaled up to ensure a hopeful future for its people, the Secretary-General told world leaders at a special high level meeting inside UN Headquarters on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1047542
Liberian President credits UN for \'16 years of unbroken peace\', outlines plan to reduce poverty, boost growth
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-25
\"Liberia is a UN success story\", President George Manneh Weah told the annual United Nations high-level generalral debate in New York on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1047492
Youth Organizers lead 40,000 Marchers Across San Francisco Make Demands for Climate Action
Climate Strike NOW! | indybay.org | 2019-09-25
On September 20, a crowd of nearly 40,000 demonstrators marched from Nancy Pelosi\'s office at the San Francisco Federal Building to Embarcadero Plaza, calling for immediate climate action. They paused to protest at key climate-movement enemies along the way.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/25/18826657.php
\'Milestone agreement\' paves the way for new UN Human Rights Office in Sudan
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-25
\"With this milestone agreement, we are poised to accompany Sudan through an important moment in its history\" — the words of UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Wednesday, as she signed a deal between the UN and the newly-constituted Government of Sudan to open a Human Rights Office in the capital, Khartoum.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1047482
US-Iran Relations: Bolton\'s \"Maximum Pressure\" Policy Is The Illegitimate Child Of Diplomacy
Bahman Fozouni | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-25
The September 14 strikes against Saudi Arabia\'s Khurais oilfield and Abqaiq processing facility, which the U.S. government quickly pinned on Iran, as well as President Trump\'s decision to substantially increase sanctions against Iran in response, are sobering reminders that the …
globalresearch.ca/us-iran-relations-boltons-maximum-pressure-policy-is-the-illegitimate-child-of-diplomacy/5690160
Why Patriot Missiles Are Useless
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-25
Missile strikes that shut down a half of Saudi oil production not only marked a new round of escalation in the Persian Gulf, but also revealed the limitations of the Kingdom\'s air defense. Over the past years, Saudi Arabia, the …
globalresearch.ca/why-patriot-missiles-are-useless/5690125
Trump\'s Iran Policy: A Q&A With Richard Falk
Daniel Falcone | thenation.com | 2019-09-25
Legal scholar Richard Falk on Iran, Saudi Arabia, and American interests abroad.
thenation.com/article/iran-saudi-oil-drone/
European powers endorse US war provocations against Iran
wsws.org | 2019-09-25
Berlin, London and Paris endorsed US allegations that the recent attack in Saudi Arabia was an Iranian act of war, without providing any concrete evidence whatsoever.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/25/euir-s25.html
Reverse Pied Pipering Climacide
David Underhill | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-25
The following remarks were delivered on September 20, 2019 during the Rise for Climate at a downtown square in Mobile, Alabama, the city\'s part in the Global Climate Strike. The Pied Piper played a hypnotic tune and led the children away. But that was long ago. Now the children are calling out and taking the…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/25/reverse-pied-pipering-climacide/
The Global Climate Movement is Failing: Why?
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-25
It has been satisfying to note the significant response to two recent climate campaigns: the actions, including the recent Global Climate Strike, initiated by school students inspired by Greta Thunberg and the climate actions organized by Extinction Rebellion. | While delighted …
globalresearch.ca/the-global-climate-movement-is-failing-why/5690154
UN climate action summit falls \'woefully short\' of expectations
Olivia Rosane | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-25
The promises made by major economies at the UN Climate Action Summit fell \"woefully short\" of what is needed to address the climate crisis, The New York Times reported Monday. China did not increase its commitments under the Paris agreement, India made no pledge to reduce its use of coal and the U.S. did not speak at all. \"Their lack of ambition …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/25/un-climate-action-summit-falls-woefully-short-of-expectations/
Youth Organizers lead 40,000 Marchers Across San Francisco/Make Demands for Climate Action
Climate Strike NOW! | indybay.org | 2019-09-25
On September 20, a crowd of nearly 40,000 demonstrators marched from Nancy Pelosi\'s office at the San Francisco Federal Building to Embarcadero Plaza, calling for immediate climate action. | [Photos: Leon Kunstenaar, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer]…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/25/18826657.php
UN climate action summit falls \'woefully short\' of expectations
Olivia Rosane | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-25
The promises made by major economies at the UN Climate Action Summit fell \"woefully short\" of what is needed to address the climate crisis, The New York Times reported Monday. China did not increase its commitments under the Paris agreement, India made no pledge to reduce its use of coal and the U.S. did not speak at all. \"Their lack of ambition …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/25/un-climate-action-summit-falls-woefully-short-of-expectations/
Earth\'s oceans and frozen spaces paying price for \'taking the heat of global warming\'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-25
Our oceans and frozen spaces have been \"taking the heat\" for global warming for decades, climate experts said on Wednesday, warning that without a radical change in human behaviour, hundreds of millions of people could suffer from rising sea levels, frequent natural disasters and food shortages.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1047392
Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight
Laura Flanders | commondreams.org | 2019-09-25
Last Friday, as four million young people marched in the world\'s capitals for action on climate, countless more were on the picket line supporting autoworkers who are out on strike. (Photo: Ron Jenkins/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/strike_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/09/25/climate-strikeauto-strike-same-struggle-same-fight?cd-origin=rss
Reverse Pied Pipering Climacide
David Underhill | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-25
The following remarks were delivered on September 20, 2019 during the Rise for Climate at a downtown square in Mobile, Alabama, the city\'s part in the Global Climate Strike. The Pied Piper played a hypnotic tune and led the children away. But that was long ago. Now the children are calling out and taking the…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/25/reverse-pied-pipering-climacide/
Voices and Stories from the NYC Climate March
Zach D. Roberts | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-25
Across the country and the world last Friday, kids and adults marched and rallied in solidarity in a Climate Strike. The NYC Mayors office puts the number of people who marched in Manhattan at 60,000, according to the NTY Times; the organizers say 250,000. This journalist\'s estimate puts the numbers far closer to the cities …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/25/voices-and-stories-from-the-nyc-climate-march/
Placido Domingo leaves Macbeth production at New York\'s Met as venue pressured to fire him before sexual harassment probe over
rt.com | 2019-09-25
Placido Domingo said the \"climate in which people are condemned without due process\" has cast a shadow over his colleagues, so he\'s dropping out of an upcoming production, vowing to never again perform at the Metropolitan Opera. | Domingo announced the decision on Tuesday, just one day before the opening of \'Macbeth\' at the Metropolitan Opera, in which the renowned tenor-turned-baritone was slated to star in the title role. | While several US venues turned Domingo down when allegations of sexual misconduct first surfaced last month, the Met stood by the singer, waiting for the outcome of the investigations lau…
rt.com/usa/469545-domingo-drops-out-macbeth-met/
U.N. Report Paints a Harrowing Portrait of the Planet\'s Future
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-25
A landmark United Nations climate report published Wednesday details the observed and anticipated future impacts of planet-heating emissions from human activity on the world\'s oceans and frozen zones–and warns of the emerging consequences for humanity, marine ecosystems, and the global environment. | The Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) is a product of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a U.N. body that assesses the latest science related to the human-caused…
truthdig.com/articles/u-n-report-paints-a-harrowing-portrait-of-the-planets-future/
The US is exporting a fracked climate catastrophe
Justin Mikulka | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-25
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. According to climate scientists, limiting the worst impacts of climate change means weaning the world off of fossil fuels, not ramping it up. But two factors, the U.S. \"fracking revolution\" that helped boost domestic oil and gas production …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/25/the-us-is-exporting-a-fracked-climate-catastrophe/
Big Polluters Respond to Greta\'s Climate Call With \"Woefully Short\" Ambition
Andy Rowell | commondreams.org | 2019-09-25
An impassioned and blunt speech by Greta Thunberg urged world leaders to finally understand the urgency of our climate emergency. (Photo: Screenshot/YouTube) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/great.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/09/25/big-polluters-respond-gretas-climate-call-woefully-short-ambition?cd-origin=rss
Postcards from the Global Climate Strike
StudentNation | thenation.com | 2019-09-25
Postcards from the Global Climate Strike…
thenation.com/article/postcards-from-the-global-climate-strike/
Climate and the Money Trail
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-25
Climate. Now who wudda thought. The very mega-corporations and mega-billionaires behind the globalization of the world economy over recent decades, whose pursuit of shareholder value and cost reduction who have wreaked so much damage to our environment both in the | …
globalresearch.ca/climate-and-the-money-trail/5690209
The US is exporting a fracked climate catastrophe
Justin Mikulka | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-25
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. According to climate scientists, limiting the worst impacts of climate change means weaning the world off of fossil fuels, not ramping it up. But two factors, the U.S. \"fracking revolution\" that helped boost domestic oil and gas production …
nationofchange.org/2019/09/25/the-us-is-exporting-a-fracked-climate-catastrophe/
The Right Attacks Greta Thunberg, But Climate Strike Inspires Humanity
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-25
Real News climate correspondents Dharna Noor and Dimitri Lascaris discuss the UN Climate Summit, the past week\'s climate justice demonstrations, Greta Thunberg\'s presence and attacks against her, and the promise of this movement.
therealnews.com/stories/right-attacks-greta-thunberg-climate-strike-inspires-humanity