RT (2019-10-26). Climate apocalypse is coming — says US Army, eyeing opportunities for more intervention. rt.com 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…

Michael Doliner (2019-10-25). The NBA, China and Trump. counterpunch.org 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 More

RT (2019-10-25). George Soros says all his \'enemies\' are wannabe dictators as he drops unprecedented wads of lobbying cash. rt.com 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…

Staff (2019-10-25). 2019-10-25: News Headlines. syria.positiveuniverse.com • Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria.
• Study Group \"A New Phase in the Syrian War\"
• From Chile to Lebanon: Working class offensive sweeps the globe.
• NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels to call for new Middle East wars.

Eds. (2019-10-25). Whitewashing neoliberal repression in Chile and Ecuador. mronline.org If the first casualty of war is truth, its self-anointed purveyors in the international media have much blood on their hands indeed. | Source

Max Parry (2019-10-25). The EU is Rewriting WWII History to Demonize Russia. dissidentvoice.org Last month, on the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, the European Parliament voted on a resolution entitled \"On the Importance of European Remembrance for the Future of Europe.\" The adopted document: 2. Stresses that the Second World War, the most devastating war in Europe\'s history, was started as an immediate result of the …

RT (2019-10-25). Tulsi Gabbard ditches congressional race to focus on presidential — triggering #TulsiStein conspiracy theorists. rt.com 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…

Ron Jacobs (2019-10-25). The Essence of War. counterpunch.org 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 More

Julie Hollar (2019-10-25). Fretting About Progressives\' \'Electability,\' Establishment Dems Are Really Worried About Their Power in the Party. fair.org by Julie Hollar | With Joe Biden struggling as frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, a surging Elizabeth Warren has begun to emerge as the party establishment\'s new bogeyman—and corporate media are ready and willing to transmit insiders\' panicked calls for new \"moderate\" entrants to the race. | On the same day earlier this week, the Washington Post and the New York Times ran twin articles:…

RT (2019-10-25). Subscription war on \'fake news\': WaPo, NYT ousted from White House, federal agencies told to follow lead. rt.com Donald Trump has unleashed an unprecedented attack on the free media (or shown fake news its place) by cancelling White House subscriptions to the WaPo and NYT and telling federal agencies to do the same. | No love is lost between US president and a large part of the American journalistic community. Trump repeatedly derided them as \"fake news\" and \"enemies of the people.\" He was accused in response of being a man-child and a wannabe dictator. | The president\'s criticisms were not always without merit, considering how many times the coverage of the Russiagate saga turned out to be inaccurate or even completely…

RT (2019-10-25). DOJ opens criminal probe into 'Russiagate' investigation after administrative review — report. rt.com The US Department of Justice has reportedly moved to launch a criminal inquiry into the roots of the \'Russiagate\' probe, which fizzled after failing to uncover any damning evidence of collusion between the US president and Moscow. | Also on rt.com | | Comey admits FBI failed to verify Steele Dossier it used to obtain a spy warrant on Trump\'s aide | A months-long review launched by Attorney General William Barr into the origins of the ill-fated Russia investigation, repeatedly denounced by US President Donald Trump as a \"hoax\" and a \"witch hunt,\" h…

Jon Schwarz (2019-10-25). For Some Reason, We Can\'t Find a Single Leftist Mark Zuckerberg Invited to His Dinners With Pundits From \"Across the Spectrum\" theintercept.com We asked The Nation, Mother Jones, Jacobin, Black Agenda Report, Chapo Trap House, and more: They all said their invitation from the Facebook CEO never arrived.

Miko Peled (2019-10-25). A Public Relations Scam: J Street Conference Attracts War Criminals and Zionist Liberals Alike. mintpressnews.com 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.

Barrett Brown (2019-10-25). Trials and Tribulations with a Dead Press. counterpunch.org 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 \"describe[.. my]self More

Tim Libretti (2019-10-25). Who (besides the rich) actually thinks wealth taxes are a bad idea? peoplesworld.org The wealth taxes Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have proposed continue to provoke the malice of Wall Street, corporate Democrats, and now even other Democratic candidates running for president. As I have written in People\'s World (here and here), the intensity of the energy devoted to this criticism, combined with the lack of …

Thomas Knapp (2019-10-25). Impeachment: Trump Has Already Confessed to \"High Crimes\" counterpunch.org Every time a witness testifies behind closed doors in the US House of Representatives\' methodical march toward the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Trump supporters scream \"no quid pro quo\" while Trump opponents breathlessly inform us that the \"smoking gun\" has turned up and that impeachment is now \"inevitable.\" What\'s with all this \"smoking gun\" More

RT (2019-10-25). Subscription war on \'fake news\': WaPo, NYT ousted from White House, federal agencies told to follow lead. rt.com Trump has unleashed an unprecedented attack on the free media (or shown fake news its place) – depending on which side you\'re on – by cancelling White House subscriptions to the WaPo and NYT, telling federal agencies to do so too.

Dee Hood (2019-10-25). Games of Chance. thenation.com Climate change is wreaking havoc.

Felipe Galindo (2019-10-25). Games of Chance. thenation.com Climate change is wreaking havoc.

Staff (2019-10-25). Jane Fonda: Put Oil and Gas Executives on Trial. therealnews.com 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.

Staff (2019-10-25). Human Actions Fueling California\'s Devastating Wildfires. therealnews.com Tens of thousands have been forced to flee wildfires across the state of California. Human actions, including climate change, are responsible, argues Professor Matthew Hurteau.

Janine Jackson (2019-10-25). \'There Are Noncoercive Solutions to Our Problems\' – CounterSpin interview with Alex Vitale on the role of policing. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed Brooklyn College\'s Alex Vitale about the role of policing for the October 27, 2017, episode of CounterSpin; a portion of that interview was reaired on the October 18, 2019, show. This is a lightly edited transcript of the rebroadcast. | Media…

Staff (2019-10-25). 2019-10-25: News Headlines. syria.positiveuniverse.com • 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

Staff (2019-10-25). Esper: U.S. Troops, Armored Vehicles Going to Syria Oil Fields. truthdig.com BRUSSELS — The U.S. will send armored reinforcements into eastern Syria to bolster defenses against a potential move by Islamic State militants on oil fields controlled by U.S.-backed Syrian Kurds, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday. | Esper described the added force as \"mechanized,\" which would likely means it will include tanks and other combat vehicles such as Bradley armored infantry carriers. This would introduce a new dimension to the U.S. military presence, wh…

Staff (2019-10-25). Is Rikers Island Really Closing? Or is De Blasio Misrepresenting the NYC Council Vote? therealnews.com 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.

Robert Fisk (2019-10-25). Beirut is Burning: Why I Don\'t Blame the Rioters. counterpunch.org 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 More

Staff (2019-10-25). Judge Hands Democrats a Victory in Impeachment Inquiry. truthdig.com WASHINGTON — A judge on Friday ordered the Justice Department to give the House secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller\'s Russia investigation, handing a victory to Democrats as they gather evidence for the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. | In a ruling that also affirmed the legality of the impeachment inquiry itself, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ordered the department to turn over the materials by Oct. 30. A Justice Department spokeswoman said it was reviewing the decision. The administration can appeal. | The ruling in favor of the House Judiciary Committee…

Joseph Natoli (2019-10-25). The Dialogue of Divisiveness. counterpunch.org \"If we tell that story [that the president committed an impeachable offense] with simplicity and repetition, the American people will understand why the president must be held accountable.\" — Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, quoted in The New York Times, Oct. 22, 2019 \"The only real connective tissue I see is the almost preternatural isolationist impulse that More

Staff (2019-10-25). 2019-10-25: News Headlines. south-america.positiveuniverse.com • 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.

Staff (2019-10-25). 2019-10-25: News Headlines. south-america.positiveuniverse.com • 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.

Ramzy Baroud (2019-10-25). She Deserves Our Support: Betty McCollum Wants US to Stop Subsidizing Torture of Palestinian Children. counterpunch.org 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 More

Henry Giroux (2019-10-25). Rethinking the Looming Threat of Neoliberal Fascism. counterpunch.org The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic. —Philip Roth, The Plot Against America Talk of a fascist politics emerging in the United States and in the rise of right-wing populist movements across the globe is often criticized as a naive exaggeration or a misguided historical More

Paul Buhle (2019-10-25). Chicago Cops: The Torture Machine, Unending. counterpunch.org The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago. By Flint Taylor. Chicago: Haymarket, 2019. 541pp. $27. The first thing to understand about this important book is the author. Flint Taylor is a Chicago-based civil liberties lawyer of long standing, founding partner in the People\'s Law Office, and a dogged opponent of Red Squad-style behavior. More

Forrest Hylton (2019-10-25). Colombia Diary: Higher Ed Under Threat. counterpunch.org Recent events in Chile and Ecuador reverberate throughout South America and indeed the world. Confronted with violent government repression, by insisting on reasoned argument, critical thinking, and mass direct action, non-violent student movements in South America offer hope at a time when authoritarianism threatens democratic citizenship worldwide. In Colombia, one of Washington\'s closest allies in More

George Wuerthner (2019-10-25). Fire and Logging Myths. counterpunch.org MYTH: FUEL BUILD UP IS RESPONSIBLE FOR LARGE BLAZES? A conventional narrative is that wildfires in the western U.S. are unprecedented and more extensive than in the past. This increase in fire acreage is attributed to \"fuel build-up,\" presumed to be the result of successful fire suppression. However, such assertions lack context. Compared to the More

Stephen Corry (2019-10-25). A Deluge of Things: Von Humboldt, Leonardo and the Confounding of Nature. counterpunch.org Like Humboldt, Leonardo dissected, analyzed, and spent a great deal of time thinking about humans\' role in nature. He grasped the similarities between the anatomies of people and animals. He saw how long hair curled and swirled in a way curiously similar to the flow of water, clouds and wind. He probed reproduction, gender and its ambiguities, and pondered over what precisely changed when animal or plant succumbed to old age and death. How did it all fit? For Leonardo and his age the natural world was not distinct from the human, both were inextricably interconnected, as they are for many indigenous peoples today…

Ralph Nader (2019-10-25). Excluding the Civic Community Excludes Life-Savers. counterpunch.org 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 More

Paul Street (2019-10-25). All That is Holy is Profaned: Beyond Ruling Class Trumpeachment. counterpunch.org 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…

Staff (2019-10-25). Iraqi Police Fire Shots, Tear Gas at Protesters; 23 Killed. truthdig.com 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…

RT (2019-10-25). \'It was meant to happen that way,\' says driver who saved family from getting MOWED DOWN in viral VIDEO\'. rt.com An Arizona woman has told reporters that she doesn\'t consider herself to be a hero after her car successfully redirected a red-light-running Jeep that was mere seconds away from hitting a family of three on a crosswalk. | The Phoenix Police Department posted dramatic video of the incident earlier this week. | A couple was calmly crossing the road on their way to a grocery store, while pushing a stroller with their 11-month-old son. A speeding SUV ran a red light, and was heading straight for the couple. The vehicle would have likely mowed down the entire family if it wasn\'t for a Chevrolet Cruze that collided…

Eds. (2019-10-25). There\'s something that\'s ours on those streets and we\'re going to take it back. mronline.org In Lebanon, it was a tax on the use of WhatsApp; in Chile, it was the rise in subway fares; in Ecuador and in Haiti, it was the cut in fuel subsidies. Each of these conjunctures brought people to the streets and then, as these people flooded the streets, more and more joined them. | Source

Staff (2019-10-25). The Indigenous Voices of Ecuador\'s General Strike. therealnews.com 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.

PACBI (2019-10-25). Do You Own Puma Sportswear? Join #RebrandPuma! bdsmovement.net Do You Own Puma Sportswear? Join #RebrandPuma! : Action AlertIf you purchased Puma gear before the company decided to support Israel's illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land, rebrand it by writing \"Boycott\" over the logo! | Red Card Israel Boycott PumaOctober 25, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)

Al Burke (2019-10-25). Liberating Assange: A Woeful Lack of Leadership. globalresearch.ca 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 …

Heather Stroud (2019-10-25). Open Letter to PM Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, and Kevin Hollinrake. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

WSWS (2019-10-25). US military allowed to shoot at vehicles at entry ports along southern border. wsws.org Migrants at the US-Mexico border will be treated like suspected terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Aaron Maté (2019-10-25). Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria. thegrayzone.com Amid outrage over Turkey\'s atrocities against Kurdish civilians northern Syria, Max Blumenthal discusses how some of the Syrian militias committing…

James Haslam (2019-10-25). Can the Next President Deliver a New Social Contract for Our Survival? commondreams.org 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 …

Staff (2019-10-25). Seven Peace Activists Found Guilty of \"Conspiracy\" for Anti-Nuclear Protest. truthout.org 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…

Lynda Carson (2019-10-25). Activist claims CITES exemption for finished musical instruments may set a bad precedent. indybay.org 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.