In El Paso, a Loving Community Living in Fear
Edith Tapia, Ariana Sawyer | thenation.com | 2019-09-30
In El Paso, a Loving Community Living in Fear…
thenation.com/article/el-paso-immigration/

iPhone workers today are 25 times more exploited than textile workers in 19th Century England
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-09-30
A recent report by the International Labour Organisation shows that the total global labour force is now measured at 3.5 billion workers. This is the largest size of the global labour force in recorded history. Talk of the demise of workers is utterly premature when confronted with the weight of this data. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/09/29/iphone-workers-today-are-25-times-more-exploited-than-textile-workers-in-19th-century-england/

Funcionario del golpe en Venezuela Ricardo Hausmann se ve obligado a renunciar tras revelaciones publicadas por The Grayzone
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-30
Luego de que Anya Parampil de The Grayzone publicara unas revelaciones sobre las prácticas opacas e hipócritas de Ricardo Hausmann,…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/30/golpe-venezuela-ricardo-hausmann-renunciar-grayzone/

The Truth About Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett\'s Attack on Max Blumenthal
Darius Shahtahmasebi | theantimedia.com | 2019-09-30
Those of you who follow alternative media have likely come across independent journalists Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett and Max Blumenthal.
theantimedia.com/vanessa-beeley-eva-bartlett-max-blumenthal/

Behind the US-backed Venezuelan opposition\'s massive corruption scandal
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-30
On Pushback with Aaron Maté, The Grayzone\'s Anya Parampil explains how the Trump-backed right-wing opposition has essentially liquidated Venezuela\'s most…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/29/venezuelan-opposition-corruption-citgo-crystallex/

Syrians Continue Protests Against US-Owned SDF Terrorists
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-30
Syrians under the occupation of US illegals and their terrorist SDF are continuing public protests against the illicit militia that burns agricultural fields, appropriates or bombs homes, kidnaps Syrian children for criminal training in military camps. In a recent …
globalresearch.ca/syrians-continue-protests-against-us-owned-sdf-terrorists/5690546

How the Trump Admin Used a Secret Livestream to Spy on Julian Assange
Jimmysllama | mintpressnews.com | 2019-09-30
Working directly with Ecuador\'s corrupt government, the U.S. government abandoned all sense of legality and moral decency by spying on Assange twenty-four hours a day via an illegal livestream surveillance operation set up by a private security firm and approved by Ecuador\'s president.
mintpressnews.com/us-complicit-julian-assange-surveillance-operation-ecuadorian-embassy/262131/

London: Hundreds rally for Assange outside Belmarsh Prison
wsws.org | 2019-09-30
SEP National Secretary Chris Marsden emphasised that Assange\'s persecution was a product of the drive to war and dictatorial rule by the US, British and world imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/30/belm-s30.html

Greta Thunberg Isn\'t Alone. Meet Some Other Young Activists Who Are Leading the Environmentalist Fight
Leah Asmelash | commondreams.org | 2019-09-30
Young climate strikers march through Melbourne, Australia on May 3, 2019.(Photo: julian meehan/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/may-3-climate-strikes.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/09/30/greta-thunberg-isnt-alone-meet-some-other-young-activists-who-are-leading?cd-origin=rss

Do Voters Not Bear Responsibility for Those Who They Choose to Govern?
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-30
Building on the momentum of millions of people taking part in worldwide strikes to demand action on fighting climate change, an environmental group, Stop Ecocide, has called upon the International Criminal Court (ICC) to recognize ecocide as a crime against humanity. Activist Jojo Mehta of Stop Ecocide defined ecocide as \"large scale and systematic damage …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/do-voters-not-bear-responsibility-for-those-who-they-choose-to-govern/

Democrats say they will ban fracking nationwide. An empty campaign promise or are they serious?
rt.com | 2019-09-30
Several contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination have promised a nationwide ban on fracking. How viable is that proposal and do they really want to do it — or is it just a campaign promise they can never fulfil? | Banning \'fracking\' — the process of extracting oil and natural gas via hydraulic fracturing — is popular among environmentalists and activists who are increasingly concerned about climate change. Among the candidates who have backed a ban are the current frontrunner Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), as well as her colleagues Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and K…
rt.com/usa/469917-democrats-fracking-ban-2020/

Palestinian Rights: Israeli Army Forcibly Evicts Nonviolent Demonstrators at the Dead Sea
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-30
Today, over 100 activists came together at the northern banks of the Dead Sea to reclaim Palestinian rights to land and its natural resources amidst the deepening Israeli occupation of the West Bank. After decades of apartheid and colonialization, and …
globalresearch.ca/israeli-army-forcibly-evicts-nonviolent-demonstrators-dead-sea/5690549

Yemen prisoner release boosts hopes of peace at last for war-weary civilians
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-30
Hopes for a possible end to the war in Yemen grew slightly on Monday, following the news that nearly 300 detainees have been released as a gesture of goodwill by Houthi forces, pitted against the Government of Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1048132

Monday\'s Daily Brief: Hopes rise for peace in Syria and Yemen, UNGA speeches end, Guterres saddened by India flood deaths
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-30
\'Sign of hope\' for long-suffering Syrians as new committee forms; Yemen prisoner release signals hope for Yemen; Assembly President closes formal Debate; Refugees evacuated from Libya to Rwanda; Multilingualism observed on World Day.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1048212

Just as Iraq Begins to Find Peace, It Once Again Becomes the Battleground for an American Proxy War
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-30
People in Baghdad are fearful that the next war between the US and Iran will take place in Iraq, which is only just returning to peace after the defeat of Isis. Alarm that Iraq will be sucked into such a conflict has increased here because of recent Israeli drone attacks on the bases of the Iraqi paramilitary group known as the Hashd al-Shaabi, which is accused by the US and Israel of acting as a proxy of Iran.
counterpunch.org/2019/09/30/just-as-iraq-begins-to-find-peace-it-once-again-becomes-the-battleground-for-an-american-proxy-war/

DPRK reports \'little progress\' since historic June 2018 summit with US
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-30
Lack of progress in achieving peace on the Korean Peninsula is \"entirely attributable\" to the United States, a senior official from the Democratic People\'s Republic of Korea (DPRK) told the UN General Assembly on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1048232

In Media Newspeak, a \'Peace Plan\' for Israel/Palestine Is Anything US Proposes
Joshua Cho | fair.org | 2019-09-30
by Joshua Cho | Prior to the elections in Israel/Palestine in September–marred by blatant racism posturing as the \"democratic process,\" with millions of Palestinians living under varying degrees of Israeli rule unable to vote due to their ethnicity–Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu generated headlines for repeatedly pledging to annex nearly a third of the illegally occ…
fair.org/home/in-media-newspeak-a-peace-plan-for-israel-palestine-is-anything-us-proposes/

UN General Assembly President upholds value of multilateralism in speech closing annual debate
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-30
The only way to guarantee peace, security and sustainable development is for countries to work together, the UN General Assembly president said in his speech on Monday concluding the annual high-level debate in the Hall.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1048242

Daniel McAdams: \"The US Has Ceased Being a Republic and Has Become a National Security State\"
American Herald Tribune | theantimedia.com | 2019-09-30
Daniel McAdams, the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, is banned from Twitter.
theantimedia.com/daniel-mcadams-twitter/

Veritable Uprising or The (Faux) Real Thing‚Ñ¢: Greta and Climate Activism in a Wilderness of Projections
Kenn Orphan — Phil Rockstroh | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-30
PR: Kenn, recently, this observation of mine provoked a measure of ire: Street demonstrations, even large ones, are apropos of nothing as long as they are manifested as de facto state sanctioned protests. A march proceeds, chants are cast into indifferent air, speechifying comes to pass by the usual gasbags then the assembled head home…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/30/veritable-uprising-or-the-faux-real-thing-greta-and-climate-activism-in-a-wilderness-of-projections/

Half a million people join Montreal climate change protest
wsws.org | 2019-09-30
The scale of Friday\'s protest attests to mounting popular anger at the failure of the world\'s corporate-controlled governments to address this social and ecological crisis.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/30/mtlc-s30.html

The White Helmets, Hala Systems and the Grotesque Militarization of \"Humanitarianism\" in Syria
Vanessa Beeley | mintpressnews.com | 2019-09-30
Syria, August 2019 — reports came in that Russian warplanes had destroyed two terrorist-manned early warning radar posts in the Northern Hama countryside, known as the 20th post and the Eagle post. | According to an article published by South Front, these early warning posts are \"tasked with monitoring flights of Russian and Syrian warplanes\" and warn armed groups throughout Hama and Idlib of incoming airstrikes on their positions. | South Front informed us that \"four militants, inc…
mintpressnews.com/white-helmets-hala-systems-militarization-humanitarianism-syria/262115/

The Wounds of War in Afghanistan
Kathy Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-30
Its economy gutted by war, Afghanistan\'s largest cash crop remains opium. Yet farmers there do grow other crops for export. Villagers in the Wazir Tangi area of Nangarhar province, for example, cultivate pine nuts. As a precaution, this year at harvest time, village elders notified the governor of the province that they would be bringing…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/30/the-wounds-of-war-in-afghanistan/

The Wounds of War
Kathy Kelly | commondreams.org | 2019-09-30
People disabled by war are a common site in Kabul. Here a man arrives in a wheelchair to receive duvets given out to help families survive the cold winter. (Photo: Kathy Kelly) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/afghanistan_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/09/30/wounds-war?cd-origin=rss

Trump–Will He Implode with Lies Before He is Impeached?
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-30
Donald Trump said he believes the Constitution lets him do \"whatever I want as President.\" In over two and a half years, Trump has been a serial violator of the Constitution, unmatched by any president in American history. Just about every day he is a constitutional outlaw. Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein has documented twelve categories…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/30/trump-will-he-implode-with-lies-before-he-is-impeached/

Ralph Nader: Trump Can\'t Be Impeached for Ukraine Alone
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-30
The president has violated the constitution like few before him. Nancy Pelosi is making a mistake by limiting the scope of his trial.
truthdig.com/articles/ralph-nader-trump-cant-be-impeached-for-ukraine-alone/

Turkey\'s Erdogan Plans Annexation of Northern Syrian Territory
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-30
Wannabe sultan Erdogan covets expanding Turkey\'s borders to include oil-rich northern Iraqi and Syrian territory. | Combatting Kurds in Syria, posing no cross-border threat, is part of his annexation scheme — what Damascus officials condemn and won\'t tolerate. | In cahoots with …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-erdogan-plans-annexation-of-northern-syrian-territory/5690592

The Anti-Trump Character Assassination. Spinoff from DNC/Hillary \"Dodgy Dossier\"?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-30
A personal note: Throughout his tenure, I\'ve been a sharp Trump critic for numerous legitimate reason. | He escalated wars of aggression inherited from Bush/Cheney and Obama, continuing the rape and destruction of nonbelligerent states threatening no one. | He\'s waging economic …
globalresearch.ca/cia-anti-trump-character-assassin/5690590

Third Israeli Election Likely over Impasse?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-30
Netanyahu\'s Likud finished second to Gantz/Lapid\'s Blue and White party in September 17 rerun elections. | President Rivlin broke precedent by choosing Netanyahu to form a coalition government, showing partisanship in breach of his mandate to serve interests of the state, …
globalresearch.ca/third-israeli-election/5690554

UK Labour\'s Annual Conference Reveals an Ongoing Struggle for the Party\'s Soul
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-09-30
If Jeremy Corbyn and his real supporters come out of this process unscathed and are able to lead and govern, it will have an enormous impact on the people of Britain and is almost certain to change the rules of the game regarding Palestine.
mintpressnews.com/uk-labour-zionist-old-guard-plots-jeremy-corbyn-downfall/262122/

Japan\'s prosecutors appeal against \'negligence\' acquittals in Fukushima case
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-30
Prosecutors in the only criminal trial involving the 2011 Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown have appealed against the acquittal of three former Tokyo Electric Power Co executives.On 19 September, the Tokyo District Court found ex-Tepco chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata and two others not guilty of professional negligence in the disaster and the death of 44 elderly patients who were forcibly evacuated from local hospitals.(From left) Tsunehisa Katsumata and vice presidents Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro were all acquitted (Satoru Yonemaru/AP)The court said a tsunami of the size that hit the plant after an earthquake was…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/09/30/japans-prosecutors-appeal-against-negligence-acquittals-in-fukushima-case/

Private Contractors Play Key Role in US Intelligence\'s Creeping Authoritarianism
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-09-30
| As a whistleblower complaint against President Trump rocks Washington, Democrats begin an impeachment inquiry and Trump threatens \"big consequences\" for the person who came forward, we continue our conversation with one of the world\'s most famous whistleblowers: Edward Snowden, now in exile in Russia. Six years ago, he shocked the world when he leaked a trove of secret documents about how the United States had built a massive surveillance apparatus to collect phone calls, text messages…
truthout.org/video/private-contractors-play-key-role-in-us-intelligences-creeping-authoritarianism/

Democrats frame impeachment drive as defense of \"national security\"
wsws.org | 2019-09-30
There is not the slightest democratic content to the Democrats\' impeachment inquiry.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/30/impe-s30.html

Impeachment is on the Rails, But That\'s Not the Hard Part
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-30
On September 24, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) elbowed her way to the front of a parade she\'d been trying to disperse since early 2017. \"Today,\" she said,…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/30/impeachment-is-on-rails-but-thats-not-the-hard-part/

That Impeachment Inquiry? Now is the time to take to the streets
Curt Wechsler | indybay.org | 2019-09-30
1590 Bryant (at 15th Street), San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/28/18826888.php

Democrats Must Reject False Choices as They Pursue Impeachment
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2019-09-30
Democrats Must Reject False Choices as They Pursue Impeachment…
thenation.com/article/democrats-impeachment-ukraine-russia-trump/

Bolton\'s WH-bashing private debut met with elated applause by impeachment-hungry #Resistance media
rt.com | 2019-09-30
Uber-hawk ex-US national security advisor John Bolton\'s first public appearance after being fired by the White House saw him slam Trump\'s North Korea policy, call for regime change — and be embraced by the mainstream media. | Proving there is no former White House official too unpleasant for the anti-Trump #Resistance media to embrace, Bolton\'s reputational rehabilitation was evident in the headlines heralding his return to private-sector warmongering after he spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Monday. The no longer unemployed belligerent excoriated President Donald Trump for…
rt.com/usa/469946-bolton-embraced-mainstream-media-impeachment/

Impeachment is the first, not final, move to defeat Trumpism
Victor Grossman | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-30
BERLIN–Yes, we all detest Trump and will be gladdened and relieved to see the last of him in the White House. In the United States, growing numbers of the people\'s forces back impeachment and do so for a host of good reasons. But does all such current enthusiasm for impeachment have the same good motivation? …
peoplesworld.org/article/impeachment-is-the-first-not-final-move-to-defeat-trumpism-in-the-u-s/

Trump tweets quote warning that impeachment will cause \'Civil War-like fracture\' in US
rt.com | 2019-09-30
US President Donald Trump responded to the Democrats-led impeachment inquiry by posting an ominous quote from a church leader who warned that removing him from office would inflict \"Civil War-like\" wounds on the nation. | Known for regularly watching shows on Fox News, Trump apparently liked how the Southern Baptist minister and televangelist Robert Jeffress appeared on the channel on Sunday and blasted the Democrats for wanting to impeach him. | \"And I do want to make this prediction this morning: If the Democrats are successful in removing the president from office, I\'m afraid it will cause a Civil War-like…
rt.com/usa/469920-trump-impeachment-civil-war/

The Untold Story of the Trump-Ukraine \'Scandal\': The Routine Corruption of US Foreign Policy
Joe Lauria | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-30
The most crucial aspects of the Trump-Ukraine \"scandal,\" which has led to impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, are not being told, even by Republicans. | Trump was very likely motivated by politics if he indeed withheld military aid to Ukraine in …
globalresearch.ca/untold-story-trump-ukraine-scandal/5690573

Decimation of the rainforests and the money men
Graham Peebles | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-30
During August thousands of fires ravaged the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Bolivia. Some are still burning. In the wet ecosystem of the rainforest fires are not a natural phenomenon, they are started by people, mostly well-organized criminal gangs that profit from illegal logging and land clearance. | Brazil\'s right-wing President, Jain Bolsanaro, took office in January; since then deforestation in the country has doubled, there have been 87,000 fires in the Amazon, the highest number since 2010. Funding to Brazil\'s Environmental Protection Agency, IBAMA, has been cut by 25%, including monies allocated for p…
nationofchange.org/2019/09/30/decimation-of-the-rainforests-and-the-money-men/

Unified Action to Fight Deforestation
Nicole Polsterer | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-30
Jair Bolsonaro defied his critics at the UN General Assembly in New York this month — as expected — denouncing those maintaining that his policies have fanned the flames of the Amazon fires. | Brazil\'s President declared: | \"We all know | …
globalresearch.ca/unified-action-fight-deforestation/5690597

Flood From Heavy Rain Kills 113 People in India
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-30
Heavy rains have killed at least 113 people in India\'s Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states over the past three days, officials said Monday, as floodwaters swamped a major city, inundated hospital wards and forced the evacuation of inmates from jail. | RELATED: | Indian Police Arrest Rape Victim of Minister for \'Extortion\' | India\'s monsoon season that begi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Flood-From-Heavy-Rain-Kills-113-People-in-India-20190930-0003.html

Houthis Claim Ambush of Saudis Killed Hundreds
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-30
It is being reported Houthi fighters, aka Ansarallah, have pulled off a major military offensive against Saudi troops in northern Yemen. | . | . | . | . | Yemen\'s Houthis say attacked Saudi border frontline, no immediate Saudi confirmation t.co/2ba748JR4Y pic.twitter.com/Jq7TIxzGYE | — Reuters | …
globalresearch.ca/houthis-claim-saudis-killed-hundreds/5690558

Yemen\'s Houthis Rout Saudis: Hundreds Killed, Thousands Captured
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-09-30
Three entire Saudi brigades were effectively wiped out. Between 200 and 500 Saudi soldiers were killed, and thousands more captured.
theantimedia.com/yemens-houthis-rout-saudis-hundreds-killed-thousands-captured/

Total U.S. control of Middle East may be slipping
Conn Hallinan | peoplesworld.org | 2019-09-30
In many ways, it doesn\'t really matter who–Houthis in Yemen? Iranians? Shiites in Iraq?–launched those missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia. Whoever did it changed the rules of the game, and not just in the Middle East. \"It\'s a moment when offense laps defense, when the strong have reason to fear the weak,\" observes military …
peoplesworld.org/article/total-u-s-control-of-middle-east-may-be-slipping/

Reports on China \'organ harvesting\' derive from front groups of far-right cult Falun Gong
Ryan McCarthy | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-30
A wave of corporate media reports on Chinese organ harvesting rely without acknowledgement on front groups connected to the far-right…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/30/reports-china-organ-harvesting-cult-falun-gong/

Constitutional Committee breakthrough offers \'sign of hope\' for long-suffering Syrians
United Nations | un.org | 2019-09-30
There is a \"sign of hope for the long-suffering Syrian people\" as a Syrian-led, Syrian-owned, credible and inclusive Constitutional Committee is set to start deliberations next month, the United Nations Special Envoy for the country told the Security Council on Monday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/09/1048162

President Maduro to Colombia: Take Responsibility for False Dossier
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-30
President Nicolas Maduro on Monday urged the Colombian government of President Iván Duque to assume responsibility of the \"false positives\" presented at the 74th General Assembly of the United Nations. | RELATED: | Colombian Intelligence Chief Dismissed After President Duque Uses Fake Venezuela Photo in UNGA | \"Documents have reached us to alert us that the U.S. government has given the order to mount a false positive at the U.N. to begin an esc…
telesurenglish.net/news/President-Maduro-to-Colombia-Take-Responsibility-for-False-Dossier-20190930-0005.html

Colombia Fires Intelligence Chief After UNGA Fake Photo Row
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-30
The Colombian government dismissed the head of Intelligence and Counterintelligence General Oswaldo Peña Bermeo after President Ivan Duque presented fake photos as \"conclusive proof\" of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro\'s support of so-called terrorist groups. | RELATED: | President Maduro to Colombia: Take Responsibility for False Dossier | The…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombian-Intelligence-Chief-Dismissed-After-President-Duque-Uses-Fake-Venezuela-Photo-in-UNGA-20190930-0006.html