Climate apocalypse is coming — says US Army, eyeing opportunities for more intervention
rt.com | 2019-10-26
A new US Army report envisions a bleak near future as a consequence of climate change, with power and water shortages, refugee flows — and also more opportunities for intervention and seizing natural resources in the Arctic. | Behind the dull title of \"Implications of climate change for the US Army\" lies a 52-page report by a team of scientists outlining apocalyptic scenarios: conflicts driven by hundreds of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels; collapse of the US power grid and transportation; and the inability of the Army itself to provide water for its troops, to name but a few. | Yet it…
rt.com/usa/471887-climate-change-pentagon-interventions/
Liberating Assange: A Woeful Lack of Leadership
Al Burke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
For years there has been widespread and growing support for Julian Assange in many parts of the world. This I have learned from a variety of sources, including so-called alternative media, and queries addressed to me in consequence of my …
globalresearch.ca/liberating-assange-lack-leadership/5693079
Liberating Assange: A Woeful Lack of Leadership
Al Burke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
For years there has been widespread and growing support for Julian Assange in many parts of the world. This I have learned from a variety of sources, including so-called alternative media, and queries addressed to me in consequence of my …
globalresearch.ca/liberating-assange-lack-leadership/5693079
Open Letter to PM Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, and Kevin Hollinrake
Heather Stroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-25
Dear Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Kevin Hollinrake, I feel compelled to write to you over my extreme concern regarding the health and well-being of Julian Assange. Please see the link below regarding the psychological torture that Julian Assange has been subjected to, both before leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy and since during his …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/open-letter-to-pm-boris-johnson-priti-patel-sajid-javid-and-kevin-hollinrake/
US military allowed to shoot at vehicles at entry ports along southern border
wsws.org | 2019-10-25
Migrants at the US-Mexico border will be treated like suspected terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/25/bord-o25.html
Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-25
Amid outrage over Turkey\'s atrocities against Kurdish civilians northern Syria, Max Blumenthal discusses how some of the Syrian militias committing…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/25/blowback-us-armed-moderate-rebels-slaughter-kurds-in-syria/
Can the Next President Deliver a New Social Contract for Our Survival?
James Haslam | commondreams.org | 2019-10-25
Activist outside the Congress demanding a vote to pass \' The Green New Deal\'. The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon at 4: 00 PM to begin debate on a sweeping resolution to combat climate change, the Green New Deal, which was introduced by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. Washington, D.C. March 26, 2019. (Photo: Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/we_want_green_new_deal.jpg …
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Can the Next President Deliver a New Social Contract for Our Survival?
James Haslam | commondreams.org | 2019-10-25
Activist outside the Congress demanding a vote to pass \' The Green New Deal\'. The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon at 4: 00 PM to begin debate on a sweeping resolution to combat climate change, the Green New Deal, which was introduced by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. Washington, D.C. March 26, 2019. (Photo: Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/we_want_green_new_deal.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/25/can-next-president-deliver-new-social-contract-our-survival?cd-origin=rss
Is Rikers Island Really Closing? Or is De Blasio Misrepresenting the NYC Council Vote?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-25
Eddie Conway spoke with organizer Albert Saint-Jean from Just Immigration about the impact of the NYC Council borough-based jail vote, about nonprofits that are funding more incarceration, and the misreporting of Rikers Jail closing.
therealnews.com/stories/rikers-closing-misrepresented-de-blasio
Trials and Tribulations with a Dead Press
Barrett Brown | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I have lived a life marked by many roles, some of them mutually exclusive. According to The Dallas Morning News, for instance, I\'m an \"investigative journalist whose prison sentence was derided by free press advocates\", as well as an \"Anonymous activist and award-winning journalist\". Also according to the Dallas Morning News, I merely…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/trials-and-tribulations-with-a-dead-press/
Trials and Tribulations with a Dead Press
Barrett Brown | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I have lived a life marked by many roles, some of them mutually exclusive. According to The Dallas Morning News, for instance, I\'m an \"investigative journalist whose prison sentence was derided by free press advocates\", as well as an \"Anonymous activist and award-winning journalist\". Also according to the Dallas Morning News, I merely…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/trials-and-tribulations-with-a-dead-press/
Seven Peace Activists Found Guilty of \"Conspiracy\" for Anti-Nuclear Protest
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-25
In Georgia, a federal grand jury on Thursday found seven Catholic peace activists guilty on three felony counts and a misdemeanor charge for breaking into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on April 4, 2018. The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, entered the base armed with hammers, crime scene tape, baby bottles containing their own blood, and an indictment charging the U.S. government with crimes against peace. The base is home to at least six nuclear ballistic missile submarines, ea…
truthout.org/video/seven-peace-activists-found-guilty-of-conspiracy-for-anti-nuclear-protest/
2019-10-25: News Headlines
Staff | south-america.positiveuniverse.com | 2019-10-25
• Colombia Diary: Higher Ed Under Threat. | • Activist claims CITES exemption for finished musical instruments may set a bad precedent. | • Mass protests spread to Bolivia after a disruption in electoral broadcasts. | • SF Protesters Demand Piñera Out! Stop Military Terror In Chile.
south-america.positiveuniverse.com/2019/10/25/2019-10-25-News-Headlines/
2019-10-25: News Headlines
Staff | south-america.positiveuniverse.com | 2019-10-25
• 2019-10-25: News Headlines. | • Colombia Diary: Higher Ed Under Threat. | • Activist claims CITES exemption for finished musical instruments may set a bad precedent. | • Mass protests spread to Bolivia after a disruption in electoral broadcasts.
south-america.positiveuniverse.com/2019/10/25/2019-10-25-News-Headlines/
Activist claims CITES exemption for finished musical instruments may set a bad precedent
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2019-10-25
The handmade guitar made by the author of this story around 34 years ago is partially made of East Indian rosewood and Brazilian rosewood. It would be confiscated by government officials if it was taken across an international border.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/23/18827550.php
A Public Relations Scam: J Street Conference Attracts War Criminals and Zionist Liberals Alike
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-25
J Street was designed to make Zionists, particularly Israeli liberals, feel good about themselves and look good to the outside world without actually having to commit to peace.
mintpressnews.com/j-street-conference-attracts-war-criminals-zionist-liberals/262479/
Clashes in Northeastern Syria Put Turkish-Russian Memorandum at Risk
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
On Tuesday, exactly two weeks after Ankara launched its cross border military operation \"Operation Peace Spring\", in northern Syria east of the Euphrates River, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Sochi for …
globalresearch.ca/clashes-northeastern-syria-put-turkish-russian-memorandum-risk/5693063
2019 Global Peace Forum on Korea — \"Making Connections: Global Challenges, Korea, and Peaceful Coexistence\"
Dr. Kiyul Chung | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
On September 28, 2019 Global Peace Forum on Korea (2019 GPFK), initially proposed by a nonprofit, educational organization, (21cir), was held throughout the day at Italian Academy of Columbia University in New York City …
globalresearch.ca/2019-global-peace-forum-korea-making-connections-global-challenges-korea-peaceful-coexistence/5693019
Central African Republic: \'Transform dreams of peace into reality\': mission chief tells Security Council
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-10-25
Updating the Security Council on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday, the head of the UN Mission in the country, MINUSCA, called on the country\'s friends and partners, including the Council, to \"transform the dreams of peace, prosperity and development of millions of Central Africans into a lasting reality\".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1050041
Chilean Protesters Report Sexual Assault by Military and Riot Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-25
Content Warning: As mobilizations against the government continue in Chile, reports are surfacing of violence and sexual abuse against women involved in the protests. | In Chile over the last several days, multiple allegations were made by human rights and feminist organizations concerning beatings, abuses, and threats of rape against women participating in the protests and cacerolazos (demostrations in which protesters bang pots and pans). | In the wake of arrests and attacks on protesters, women ar…
truthout.org/articles/chilean-protesters-report-sexual-assault-by-military-and-riot-police/
Over 1 Million People March in Chile\'s Largest Protest
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-25
About one million people are marching in the streets of the Chilean capital, responding to the convocation of students and labor unions who organized on social media \"The Largest March in Chile\" on Friday afternoon, with rallies paralyzing major cities. | RELATED: | Chile Unrest: Rights Groups Warn of Dictatorship-Like Practices | The march started between 5-6 p.m., local time, from the Plaza Italia, demanding among others the government to send back the Armed Forces to their m…
telesurenglish.net/news/Over-1-Million-People-March-in-Chiles-Largest-Protest-20191025-0008.html
Hezbollah Leader Calls for Protesters to Meet with Government
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-25
Lebanon\'s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned on Friday that nationwide protests could push the country into chaos, collapse and, \"God forbid\", civil war. | RELATED: | Lebanese President Vows to Meet with Protestes to Ease Tensions | Supporters of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group with widespread influence in Lebanon, meanwhile scuffled with anti-government protesters who have been on the streets for days, angered by corruption and the near collapse of the econom…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hezbollah-Leader-Calls-for-Protesters-to-Meet-with-Government-20191025-0003.html
At Least 2 Dead, 350 Wounded as Major Anti-Government Protests Resume in Iraq
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-10-25
Iraqi security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to repel crowds marching towards the Green Zone.
theantimedia.com/two-dead-major-protests-resume-iraq/
Hezbollah Leader Calls for Protesters to Meet with Government
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-25
Lebanon\'s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned on Friday that nationwide protests could push the country into chaos, collapse and, \"God forbid\", civil war. | RELATED: | Lebanese President Vows to Meet with Protestes to Ease Tensions | Supporters of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group with widespread influence in Lebanon, meanwhile scuffled with anti-government protesters who have been on the streets for days, angered by corruption and the near collapse of the econom…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hezbollah-Leader-Calls-for-Protesters-to-Meet-with-Government-20191025-0003.html
Jane Fonda: Put Oil and Gas Executives on Trial
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-25
Before she got arrested at her weekly #FireDrillFriday demonstration, Jane Fonda told TRNN\'s Dharna Noor that she tried to get Netflix to give her a yearlong hiatus from Grace and Frankie to continue protesting climate inaction.
therealnews.com/stories/jane-fonda-oil-gas-executives-protest
Uprisings: From climate to austerity, autumn protests engulf the world
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-25
Solving the climate crisis with ambitious policy programs like Green New Deals might help to alleviate some of the suffering caused by the austerity that is breaking the backs of working people in rich and poor countries alike.
nationofchange.org/2019/10/25/uprisings-from-climate-to-austerity-autumn-protests-engulf-the-world/
Uprisings: From climate to austerity, autumn protests engulf the world
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-25
Solving the climate crisis with ambitious policy programs like Green New Deals might help to alleviate some of the suffering caused by the austerity that is breaking the backs of working people in rich and poor countries alike.
nationofchange.org/2019/10/25/uprisings-from-climate-to-austerity-autumn-protests-engulf-the-world/
2019-10-25: News Headlines
Staff | syria.positiveuniverse.com | 2019-10-25
• October 18, 2019, show | • Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria. | • Hezbollah Leader Calls for Protesters to Meet with Government. | • Lebanese President Vows to Meet with Protestes to Ease Tensions…
syria.positiveuniverse.com/2019/10/25/2019-10-25-News-Headlines/
2019-10-25: News Headlines
Staff | syria.positiveuniverse.com | 2019-10-25
• October 18, 2019, show | • Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria. | • Hezbollah Leader Calls for Protesters to Meet with Government. | • Lebanese President Vows to Meet with Protestes to Ease Tensions…
syria.positiveuniverse.com/2019/10/25/2019-10-25-News-Headlines/
Iraqi Police Fire Shots, Tear Gas at Protesters; 23 Killed
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-25
BAGHDAD — Iraqi police fired live shots into the air as well as rubber bullets and dozens of tear gas canisters Friday to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters, sending young demonstrators running for cover and enveloping a main bridge in the capital Baghdad with thick white smoke. Twenty-three protesters were killed and dozens were injured, security officials said. | The confrontations began early in the morning after anti-government demonstrations resumed, following a three-week hiatus. The protests began Oct. 1 over corruption, unemployment and lack of basic services but quickly turned deadly…
truthdig.com/articles/iraqi-police-fire-shots-tear-gas-at-protesters-23-killed/
The Neoliberal Ghost of Pinochet Is Finally Being Exorcised from Chile
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
More than 46 years of initially military imposed neoliberalism has finally exploded into widespread frustration, protest and violence. This neoliberalism culminated in 2017 with twelve businessmen, among them Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, monopolizing at least 17% of the national …
globalresearch.ca/neoliberal-ghost-pinochet-finally-being-exorcised-chile/5693077
SF Protesters Demand Piñera Out! Stop Military Terror In Chile
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-10-25
Dozens of Chileans and Chilean Americans protested the president and military repression in Chile…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/24/18827584.php
The Indigenous Voices of Ecuador\'s General Strike
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-25
Massive protests forced President Moreno into a negotiation with indigenous opposition movements, which was broadcast on live TV. The leaders seemed to school the president and his ministers, and he eventually canceled the IMF-required austerity decree. We spoke to some of those leaders.
therealnews.com/stories/indigenous-voices-of-ecuador-general-strike
With Little Fanfare, William Barr Formally Announces Orwellian Pre-Crime Program
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-25
A recent memorandum authored by Attorney General William Barr announced a new \"pre-crime\" program inspired by \"War on Terror\" tactics and is set to be implemented next year.
mintpressnews.com/william-barr-formally-announces-orwellian-pre-crime-program/262504/
All That is Holy is Profaned: Beyond Ruling Class Trumpeachment
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
Trump is both a policy and a public relations disaster for the American Empire, whose benefits revert to the wealthy Few and whose costs are born by the rest of us. He is hastening the end of the \"The American Century.\" Trump is bad for the brand as well the operations of the Empire. In his small hands and big Twitter feed, the solid and doctrinally mandatory sense that \"exceptional\" and \"good\" America \"stands taller and sees farther\" (former Secretary of State Madeline Albright not long after she went on national television to proclaim that the killing of half a million Iraqi children by U.S.-imposed economic sa…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/all-that-is-holy-is-profaned-beyond-ruling-class-trumpeachment/
All That is Holy is Profaned: Beyond Ruling Class Trumpeachment
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
Trump is both a policy and a public relations disaster for the American Empire, whose benefits revert to the wealthy Few and whose costs are born by the rest of us. He is hastening the end of the \"The American Century.\" Trump is bad for the brand as well the operations of the Empire. In his small hands and big Twitter feed, the solid and doctrinally mandatory sense that \"exceptional\" and \"good\" America \"stands taller and sees farther\" (former Secretary of State Madeline Albright not long after she went on national television to proclaim that the killing of half a million Iraqi children by U.S.-imposed economic sa…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/all-that-is-holy-is-profaned-beyond-ruling-class-trumpeachment/
She Deserves Our Support: Betty McCollum Wants US to Stop Subsidizing Torture of Palestinian Children
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
In December 2018, 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier in an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Sabah was only 14 years old when the alleged attack took place. Another alleged…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/she-deserves-our-support-betty-mccollum-wants-us-to-stop-subsidizing-torture-of-palestinian-children/
Beirut is Burning: Why I Don\'t Blame the Rioters
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I thought the days when I kicked burning tyres off roads had ended. I used to clear the road in Belfast in 1972. Then, often, I did the same in Beirut. But there I was yesterday, as my faithful driver Selim waited patiently for me to shake hands with the local militiaman and explain why…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/beirut-is-burning-why-i-dont-blame-the-rioters/
Beirut is Burning: Why I Don\'t Blame the Rioters
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I thought the days when I kicked burning tyres off roads had ended. I used to clear the road in Belfast in 1972. Then, often, I did the same in Beirut. But there I was yesterday, as my faithful driver Selim waited patiently for me to shake hands with the local militiaman and explain why…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/beirut-is-burning-why-i-dont-blame-the-rioters/
Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South
James North | thenation.com | 2019-10-25
Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South…
thenation.com/article/coffee-starbucks-honduras-fairtrade/
US Reoccupation of Northern Syria? Turkish Aggression Halted?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
Time and again, things aren\'t as they seem, Trump\'s ordered withdrawal of US forces from northern Syria the latest example — saying one thing, then going another way, going along with his geopolitical team\'s permanent war agenda. | Commenting on the …
globalresearch.ca/us-reoccupation-northern-syria-turkish-aggression-halted/5693041
Tulsi Gabbard ditches congressional race to focus on presidential — triggering #TulsiStein conspiracy theorists
rt.com | 2019-10-25
Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has abandoned her race for re-election in Hawaii to focus on securing her party\'s presidential nomination, kicking the \'Russian asset\' conspiracy theorizing into high gear. | Gabbard announced on Friday that she would not seek re-election to Congress, declaring she would focus instead on the presidential race. Promising to \"end our interventionist foreign policy of being the world\'s police, toppling dictators and governments we don\'t like, and redirect our precious resources towards serving the needs of the people here at home,\" she \"humbly\" asked her Hawaii consti…
rt.com/usa/471865-tulsi-gabbard-president-stein-conspiracy/
Excluding the Civic Community Excludes Life-Savers
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
The lawmakers are doing it. The candidates are doing it. The mass media are doing it. All are excluding from their arenas the leading citizen groups as never before, since the early nineteen sixties. The nonprofit national advocacy/research organizations that led the way for social reforms are being shut out of the political process. These…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/excluding-the-civic-community-excludes-life-savers/
The NBA, China and Trump
Michael Doliner | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
How about the hapless NBA? Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team, tweeted support for the rioters in Hong Kong. The United States is openly fomenting this often quite violent insurrection. I have no idea whether Mr. Morey knew of the beating of the journalist Fu Guohao or the involvement of American official Julie Eadeh in…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/the-nba-china-and-trump/
George Soros says all his \'enemies\' are wannabe dictators as he drops unprecedented wads of lobbying cash
rt.com | 2019-10-25
In the world of billionaire financier George Soros, his critics are \"would-be dictators\" who will not succeed. Meanwhile, under Trump, the Open Society founder has been pouring greater sums into lobbying than ever before. | \"I\'m very proud of the enemies I have,\" he told the New York Times in an interview published Friday, in which he confidently predicted the popular opposition to his globalist philosophy was winding down and that a backlash against Trump-style nationalism was on the horizon. | It\'s a perfect way to tell a dictator or a would-be dictator, if he identifies me as an enemy. | Soros slammed the U…
rt.com/usa/471880-soros-enemies-dictators-lobbying-china/
The Racial Wealth Divide Hurts the Entire Middle Class
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
Americans are more aware than ever that America has a race problem — and, more specifically, a racial wealth divide problem. As researchers from the Institute for Policy Studies and I found earlier this year, median white families are 41 times wealthier than median Black families in the United States. As our country becomes more…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/the-racial-wealth-divide-hurts-the-entire-middle-class/
Whitewashing neoliberal repression in Chile and Ecuador
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-10-25
If the first casualty of war is truth, its self-anointed purveyors in the international media have much blood on their hands indeed. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/10/25/whitewashing-neoliberal-repression-in-chile-and-ecuador/
Secular Humanism: Bane of Civilizations
Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst | indybay.org | 2019-10-25
Secular Humanism is intended to become the \"religion\" of the World Order in the making. Its purpose is to disarm the populations of all resistance by removing theism from their midst; the higher moral authority that confers absolute standards and invites mankind toward hope and breaking the bonds of servitude to fellow man. It is easier to make slaves of the public mind with no higher authority other than the world government, big brother if you will, which shall rule the public mind in such a way that mankind shall come to love its own servitude. That\'s the agenda.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/23/18827564.php
The Essence of War
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
Many US teenage boys in the late 1960s and early 1970s grew up wondering if they would end up in the jungles of Vietnam when they reached draft age. Some could hardly wait to go fight in their idealized version of honor and glory. Some knew by the time they were sixteen that they would…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/the-essence-of-war/
Typhoon wreaks havoc in Japan
wsws.org | 2019-10-25
The storm was the most powerful to hit Japan in decades and is part of an uptick in natural disasters in the region influenced by warming seas.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/25/typh-o25.html