Special to Workers World (2019-10-30). Protests across the U.S. tell Greyhound: ICE off our buses! workers.org Demonstrations targeting Greyhound for its collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement took place in a national day of action in cities across the U.S. on Oct. 25. The coordinated actions were in response to a call from a coalition of organizations, including Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere (FIRE), Laundry . . . | Continue reading Protests across the U.S. tell Greyhound: ICE off our buses! at Workers.org

RT (2019-10-30). Colorado police who blew up family\'s house with CHEMICAL BOMBS just to catch a shoplifter owe them NOTHING, court rules. rt.com A Colorado family whose house was destroyed in a 19-hour standoff between police and an armed shoplifter is not entitled to any compensation from the department that rendered them homeless, an appeals court has ruled. | Police who deployed explosives and armored vehicles to flush out a man —who\'d stolen two belts and a shirt from a Greenwood Village Walmart— from the house of Leo and Alfonsia Lech, are not required to compensate the couple for destroying their home, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on…

John Wojcik (2019-10-30). Trump sinks deeper into the impeachment mud with each passing day. peoplesworld.org …

RT (2019-10-30). \'Rupublicans\' should fight \'infair\' impeachment: Trump tweet typos set Resistance tongues wagging again. rt.com US President Donald Trump has urged his party to push back on the \"impeachment nonsense\" — but his early morning typos are feeding the trolls and the online \'Resistance,\' convinced that they will get him this time. | Tweeting on Wednesday morning, Trump repeated that the transcript of his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was \"totally appropriate\" and called the Democrat-led impeachment process \"just a continuation of the Witch Hunt Hoax\" — meaning the debunked Russian collusion conspiracy. | He managed to misspell a few things, however. | | In the sea of hostile responses ever…

The Canary (2019-10-30). Brazilian president defends policies amid recent Amazon fires. thecanary.co Brazil\'s president has launched a strong defence of his far-right government while on a visit to Saudi Arabia, blasting any criticism of his policies on recent fires in the Amazon region.Jair Bolsonaro also criticised French president Emmanuel Macron in a speech on Wednesday before the Future Investment Initiative in the kingdom, while praising American leader Donald Trump.Bolsonaro at one point said: \"The Amazon region belongs to us.\"Bolsonaro praised US president Donald Trump (AP)Scientists say the vast rainforest is a bulwark against global warming as its lush vegetation absorbs heat-trapping carbon dioxide fr…

Miko Peled (2019-10-30). At This Year\'s J Street Conference, \"Progressive\" Pols Bow to Israel While Preaching Peace. mintpressnews.com Progressive politicians like Bernie Sanders should be credited for finally offering solutions to decades-old Israeli Human rights violations, but those solutions are often little more than talking points designed to placate their base and appease Israel.

RT (2019-10-30). 1 killed as rocket hits checkpoint \'METERS\' from US embassy in Baghdad. rt.com A rocket has struck a checkpoint inside Baghdad\'s Green Zone, killing one Iraqi soldier and injuring another, Iraq\'s security forces have confirmed. It struck some 50 meters from the gates to the US Embassy, media reports say. | Two rockets were reportedly fired into the heavily fortified Green Zone area of Baghdad on Wednesday night. Iraqi military sources confirmed one soldier was killed and another wounded, but did not elaborate. | Some media reports indicated, however, that the area was targeted by mortar fire. | The Green Zone is a walled-off district in the heart of the Iraqi capital where government bui…

Tim Wheeler (2019-10-30). Rep. John Conyers: 53 years fighting for peace, justice, equality. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON—I covered Rep. John Conyers, D., Mich., for the entire 25 years I was the Washington correspondent for the Daily World and People\'s Daily World. He was always in the front lines of whatever struggle was at the top of the people\'s agenda. Yet often, he introduced legislation years before the issue became a burning …

RT (2019-10-30). Climate change denial is the new \'flat Earth\' & causes WILDFIRES, California ex-governor testifies. rt.com Add California\'s wildfires to the list of problems caused by US President Donald Trump. The state\'s former governor has warned Trump and his fellow Republicans that \"the blood is on your soul\"… for denying climate change. | \"California\'s burning while the deniers make a joke out of the standards that protect us all. The blood is on your soul here and I hope you wake up,\" former governor Jerry Brown snarled, during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the Trump administration\'s recent decision to bar California from setting its own auto emissions standards. \"This is not politics, this is life, this is moral…

George Ochenski (2019-10-30). Trump\'s War on the Free Press Reeks of Dictatorship. counterpunch.org Donald Trump seems to think the United States is some kind of banana republic. He has already defied the standards of nepotism and inserted his daughter and son-in-law into the highest levels of our government. As for robbing the Treasury like the dictators he admires, it\'s tough to ignore funneling taxpayer funds to his private More

Victor Grossman (2019-10-30). Election Rollercoaster in Eastern Germany. counterpunch.org Germany is really riding a rollercoaster these days, but this is no amusement park; there\'s lots of suspense but rarely joy — and quite a few politicians are very unwell! Not only politicians! Well then, who\'s climbing, who\'s plunging? Look quick — it\'s moving fast! Heading screechingly downward are the two traditionally main parties: the so-called More

T.P. Wilkinson (2019-10-30). The Temperature Movement: The Reincarnation of a Perennial Anglo-American Obsession. dissidentvoice.org There are two basic fields in which more than a century of critical writing and education has made no impact whatsoever on what for convenience I will call the Anglo-American progressives, some of whom apparently like to think of them as members of the Left. Here is not the place to discuss the meanwhile virtual …

Jaideep Hardikar (2019-10-30). Belated Rains, Beleaguered Farmers: the Climate Crisis in Bhandara. counterpunch.org Inside a tiny hole on the hardened soil lies a dead crab, its legs severed from its body. \"They are dying of the heat,\" says Devendra Bhongade, pointing at holes all over his five-acre paddy farm. If it had rained, you\'d see crabs swarming in the water on the farm, incubating, he adds, standing amid More

RT (2019-10-30). Woker than woke? Obama CANCELS \'call out\' culture, tells Americans \'good people have flaws\'. rt.com Cancel culture and \"woke\" political correctness has found a new and surprising critic in former US president Barack Obama, who warned American liberals about the folly of demanding ideological \"purity\" from everyone around them. | Speaking at his annual Obama Foundation summit on Tuesday, the former president blasted the current liberal trend toward \'calling out\' and \'cancelling\' anyone who says or does something which is not considered \'woke\' enough for the modern age. | This idea of purity… and you\'re never compromised and you\'re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly.

Dave Stalling (2019-10-30). Grizzlies, Helicopters and the North Cascades: Fighting for the Integrity of Wilderness is Not a \"Mental Illness\" counterpunch.org I don\'t know much about Conservation Northwest, a Seattle-based nonprofit dedicated to \"protecting, connecting and restoring wildlands and wildlife\" from the Washington Coast to the British Columbia Rockies. I like what I do know. I know it\'s an affiliate of the National Wildlife Federation, a good organization I used to work for and continue to More

Bill Hatch (2019-10-30). When Justice Delayed Means Extinction: the Case of the Delta Smelt. counterpunch.org The signature event of the 2019 California Water Year is the arrival of extinction for the Delta smelt, a two-inch, nearly transparent fish at the bottom of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta food chain. The smelt\'s demise signals critical dangers for two species of Coho salmon, one species of Steelhead and resident killer whales that feed More

Stephen Cooper (2019-10-30). Talking with The Mighty Diamonds: \"Harmony Can Never Go Out of Style\" counterpunch.org On September 25th at the Dub Club in Los Angeles, I interviewed one of the best reggae bands ever, the Mighty Diamonds. What follows is a transcript of that interview; it has been modified only slightly for clarity and space considerations. Q: Tabby, Judge, and Joe, thank you for this interview[, and] great show tonight! It\'s More

Deirdre Griswold (2019-10-30). The real enemies of the planet. workers.org A map of the world, recently circulated online, claims to identify the world\'s worst offenders responsible for the climate crisis. It named energy ministers in scores of countries — rich and poor, imperialist and oppressed — as equally the culprits for the biggest challenge facing humanity. The map was no . . . | Continue reading The real enemies of the planet at Workers.org

Staff (2019-10-30). Chile Scraps Asia-Pacific and Climate Summits Amid Protests. truthdig.com SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean President Sebastián Piñera said Wednesday that he is canceling two major international summits so he can respond to protracted nationwide protests over economic inequality that have left more than a dozen people dead, hundreds injured and businesses and infrastructure damaged. | The decision to call off the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and U.N. global climate gatherings, planned for November and December, respectively, dealt a major blow to Chile\'s image as a regional oasis of stability and economic development. | Piñera said he was forced to cancel both events due to the chao…

WSWS (2019-10-30). Grayzone editor Max Blumenthal arrested in Washington DC. wsws.org The independent journalist was shackled in a cage for five hours on a false charge stemming from protests at the Venezuelan embassy in April and May of this year.

Dr. Leon Tressell (2019-10-30). British Government Retains Julian Assange in a Maximum Security Prison at the Behest of Trump Regime. globalresearch.ca At his latest extradition hearing Julian Assange was once again denied justice by a British court. | If extradited to the U.S. he faces 175 years imprisonment for revealing American war crimes committed during its regime change wars in Iraq and …

CodePink (2019-10-30). Golden Gate Bridge Walk: Bridges, Not Walls! indybay.org …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-10-30). Michel Chossudovsky: Biographical Summary. globalresearch.ca There are a number of deliberate \"errors\" and omissions in Michel Chossudovsky\'s wikipedia entry. | The same applies to the wikipedia entry for Global Research which has been merged with Chossudovsky\'s entry. | Below is a biographical summary focussing on Chossudovsky\'s …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-10-30). Yemen and The Militarization of Strategic Waterways. globalresearch.ca Among Washington\'s strategic objectives is the militarization of major sea ways. This strategic waterway links the Mediterranean to South Asia and the Far East, through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.

Keith McHenry (2019-10-30). Desieire Quintero Killed – Help her Son. indybay.org Desieire Quintero was fatally crushed by a falling tree at her campsite in the Pogonip Park in Santa Cruz. She was the lead plaintiff in a historic civil rights lawsuit filed against the city of Santa Cruz.

Santa Cruz News (2019-10-30). After Fighting to Keep Ross Camp Open, Homeless Woman Killed When Tree Strikes Campsite. indybay.org Deseire Quintero, whose name became synonymous with the legal effort to keep the Ross Camp in Santa Cruz open to its homeless residents, died Sunday morning when a tree fell and struck her at a survival campsite located in a wooded area in Pogonip, a City park. Quintero was 55 years old.

Maj. Danny Sjursen (2019-10-30). In Defense of Tulsi Gabbard. truthdig.com \"The trouble [with injustice] is that once you see it, you can\'t unsee it. And once you\'ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There is no innocence. Either way, you\'re accountable.\" —Arundhati Roy | Once again, Arundhati Roy—the esteemed Indian author and activist—more eloquently described what I\'m feeling than I could ever hope to. After tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, a lifetime in the Army and burying several brave young men for no goo…

Marlee Kokotovic (2019-10-30). Climate activist Greta Thunberg declines Nordic environmental prize saying \"the climate movement does not need any more awards\" nationofchange.org \"I have received the Nordic Council\'s environmental award 2019. I have decided to decline this prize.\"

Celal Cahit Agar (2019-10-30). There\'s more to Turkey\'s invasion of northern Syria than the media\'s reporting. thecanary.co Dr Celal Cahit Agar is a lecturer at St Andrews University, School of Management. This article was co-authored with Steffen Bà∂hm, professor in organisation studies at the University of Exeter Business School. | Turkey\'s recent invasion of northern Syria — i.e. \" Operation Peace Spring\" — sought to displace largely Kurdish communities and establish what Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan calls a 2…

Juan Cole (2019-10-30). Bernie Sanders Refuses to Bow to Israel. truthdig.com Bernie Sanders has almost single-handedly changed the discourse on Israel in the Democratic Party and in the United States more generally. But his appearance at the J-Street conference was a further tour de force, and the positions he has staked out clearly have put pressure on the other Democratic candidates to take a position on Israeli land-grabs in the Palestinian West Bank and economic strangulation of the Palestinians in Gaza. | Sanders said in his address that Palestinians also want peace. He said, said, \"let me underline this\" and continuing, \"It is not anti-Semitism to say that the Netanyahu government h…

Scott Ritter (2019-10-30). Russia Isn\'t Getting the Recognition It Deserves on Syria. truthdig.com At a time when the credibility of the United States as either an unbiased actor or reliable ally lies in tatters, Russia has emerged as the one major power whose loyalty to its allies is unquestioned, and whose ability to serve as an honest broker between seemingly intractable opponents is unmatched. | If there is to be peace in Syria, it will be largely due to the patient efforts of Moscow employing deft negotiation, backed up as needed by military force, to shape conditions conducive for a political solution to a violent problem. If ever there was a primer for the art of diplomacy, the experience of Russia in S…

United Nations (2019-10-30). From \'strength to strength\' UN-African Union security partnership growing, Security Council hears. un.org The Security Council highlighted the growing partnership on matters of peace and security between the United Nations and African Union (AU) on Wednesday amidst calls to bolster overall effectiveness.

UUSF Morning Forum (2019-10-30). Impeachment, mass protest & the urgency to end the Trump Pence regime. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco | 1187 Franklin St. at corner of Geary | San Francisco…

WSWS (2019-10-30). Iraqi regime responds to mass protests with brutal crackdown. wsws.org The Iraqi police and security services have killed at least 250 people and injured thousands in a crackdown against the mass protests that erupted earlier this month.

James J. Zogby (2019-10-30). \'Attention Must be Paid\' to the Sufferings of the Palestinian People. globalresearch.ca With mass protests roiling Lebanon and Iraq, unsettling developments in Syria and Yemen, and the latest episode of the continuing soap opera that calls itself Israeli politics, little attention is being given to the plight of the Palestinians. One consequence …

teleSUR (2019-10-30). Iraqi PM Loses Two Main Backers as Resignation is Imminent. telesurenglish.net The Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi suffered a major blow on Wednesday when his two main backers agreed to work to remove him from office. The loss of these two main backers comes as protests against his government gained momentum in Baghdad and much of the Shi\'ite south only to be met with violence. | RELATED: | Iraqi Protests Intensify After PM Refuses Early Elections | According to reports, populist Shi\'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who leads parliament\'s largest bloc, had as…

United Nations (2019-10-30). Iraq protests: UN calls for national talks to break \'vicious cycle\' of violence. un.org The UN\'s most senior official in Iraq, visited protesters in central Baghdad on Wednesday, calling for \"a national dialogue to identify prompt, meaningful responses to break the vicious cycle of violence\" which has roiled the country during the past five days.

Randi Nord (2019-10-30). Secret Document Reveals Plans for Civil War in Lebanon, Israeli False Flags, and Invasion. globalresearch.ca This article was first published on April 8, 2019, several months prior to the ongoing protest movement and civil strife in Lebanon. The analysis presented in this article is not corroborated by secondary sources. | *** | During his visit with US …

Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (2019-10-30). Free Speech: Trump Administration Rescinds Planned Anti-Protest Rules. globalresearch.ca In an extraordinary victory for the people, the Trump Administration has announced that it is fully withdrawing its massive anti-democratic plan to block free speech and assembly through proposed regulations that would have crushed protest on federal land in the …

Stephen Lendman (2019-10-30). Trump\'s Phony Pretext to \"Protect\" Syria against ISIS: US Occupation and Plunder of Syrian Oil Prevails. globalresearch.ca US aggression in Syria is all about eliminating its sovereign independence, gaining another imperial trophy, installing puppet rule, plundering its resources, exploiting its people, removing an Israeli rival, and isolating Iran — ahead of stepped up hostile actions against its …

Kathy Kelly (2019-10-30). Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq. counterpunch.org Sunday morning, President Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi and three of his children. President Trump said Al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, was fleeing U.S. military forces, in a tunnel, and then killed himself by detonating a suicide vest he wore. In 2004, Al-Baghdadi had been captured by U.S. forces and, for More

Mark Taliano (2019-10-30). Fake Narratives as Cover for High Crimes. The Al Baghdadi ISIS-Daesh \"Fairytale\" globalresearch.ca Western stories about Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi are meant to confuse, to distract, and to strengthen fake narratives. | First, the West supports Daesh in Syria (and beyond). It isn\'t a secret. High profile people such as Tulsi Gabbard even admit it….

Staff (2019-10-30). Chomsky: Trump\'s Actions on Syria Reflect the Foreign Policy of a Con Man. truthout.org Donald Trump\'s handling of U.S. foreign policy with Syria has baffled and angered both the diplomatic and military establishments in the United States. Nonetheless, he continues to maintain power as \"an effective con man who has a good sense of what animates his voting base,\" Noam Chomsky argues in the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows. | Trump rose to power with the aid of vitriolic but disingenuous \"anti-establishment\" rhetoric that appealed to millions of disgruntled voters. Essenti…

teleSUR (2019-10-30). US House of Reps Votes to Recognize Armenian Genocide. telesurenglish.net The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to recognize the mass killings of Armenians a century ago as a genocide, a symbolic but historic vote instantly denounced by Turkey. | RELATED: | US House Democrats Ready Impeachment Rules, as 1st Trump Official Testifies | The Democratic-controlled House voted 405-11 in favor of a resolution asserting that it is U.S. policy to commemorate as genocide the killing of 1.5 million Armenians by the Ottoma…

Jeet Heer (2019-10-30). The Party of War Has No Problem Trashing Veterans. thenation.com The Party of War Has No Problem Trashing Veterans…

WSWS (2019-10-30). Democrats to hold House vote to authorize impeachment inquiry. wsws.org The political character of those within the military and intelligence agencies with whom the Democrats are aligned is reflected in the Trump officials who have defied White House orders and agreed to testify in the impeachment inquiry.

Staff (2019-10-30). GOP Senators Serving as Impeachment Jurors Are Implicated in Trump\'s Misdeeds. truthout.org Nancy Pelosi has announced that the House will finally hold a formal vote dictating the rules for the impeachment inquiry, six weeks after it was launched by a whistleblower\'s complaint mysteriously withheld from Congress. And on Tuesday, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman backed up both the initial whistleblower and U.S. diplomat Bill Taylor by testifying that he too was concerned about the Trump administration\'s push to use congressionally-allocated military aid to Ukraine to coerce an investigatio…

Press TV (2019-10-30). Syria: The Launch of a Constitutional Committee a Sign of Hope for Syrian People. dissidentvoice.org 29 October 2019 Peter Koenig Transcript of a PressTV Interview following a live press Conference by the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey at the UN Geneva, Switzerland Background GENEVA, October 28 (Xinhua) — The UN Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, said here on Monday that the Constitutional Committee\'s launch should be a …

UUSF Morning Forum (2019-10-30). Trump, Turkey and the Kurds – signs of a crumbling U.S. empire. indybay.org Unitarian Universalist Society of S.F. | 1187 Franklin St. corner of Geary Ave. | San Francisco…

Juan Cole (2019-10-30). Bernie Sanders Says Give Aid to Gaza and That Calling Out Netanyahu\'s Racist Government Isn\'t Anti-Semitism. commondreams.org Sanders went so far as to say that some of the $3.8 billion that currently goes to Israel every year should be dedicated to humanitarian aid for Gaza. (Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1178661604.jpg …