The Canary (2019-11-02). Banks and hedge funds \'financing climate change\' to be targetted by Labour. thecanary.co The Labour Party is developing plans to \"go after\" banks and hedge funds \"financing climate change\".While the Conservatives have a legally binding target to achieve a zero carbon economy by 2050, shadow chancellor John McDonnell wants the goal reached by the 2030s using financial levers.Mr McDonnell revealed his approach ahead of the publication of the Finance and Climate Change report, authored by a group including academics and experts as well as former head of the civil service, Bob Kerslake.The report recommends banks and hedge funds \"should be forced to publish the climate-related risks associated with their…

Ryan Devereaux (2019-11-02). How an Occupy ICE Activist and DACA Recipient Was Deported for Tweeting. theintercept.com Sergio Salazar awoke around 8 a.m. on a strip of grass outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in San Antonio. It had been a heady summer for the 18-year-old. President Donald Trump, as part of his ongoing border crackdown, had separated thousands of migrant children from their parents. Viewing the policy as the latest in a string of assaults on immigrant communities, Salazar and his friends organized an occupation outside the ICE office in the midsummer heat. | In the weeks that followed, Occupy ICE SATX was visited by both TV crews and a raiding party of masked neo-Nazis, who stormed through the t…

Lynda Carson (2019-11-02). Trump impeachment inquiry, migrant vs migrant. indybay.org Earlier today in Oakland after the House of Representatives voted for the Trump impeachment inquiry resolution, I was curious in regards to how the migrants felt about this. Oakland is a land of migrants, and there are around 135 different languages spoken in this city.

ADMIN (2019-11-02). Al-Mezan: \"Israeli Soldier Sentenced for Failure to Follow Orders, instead of Killing of Child Al Mezan: Leniency Attests to Entrenched Impunity\" imemc.org Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: In one of the dozens of cases pursued by Al Mezan Center for Human Rights for the killing of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza\'s \'Great March of Return\' protests, an Israeli military court has sentenced a soldier who killed on July 13 2018, 14-year-old child, Othman …

WSWS (2019-11-02). Hamburg senate deploys police against student anti-Nazi protest. wsws.org Hundreds of Hamburg students have protested against the return of Bernd Lucke, founder of the far-right Alternative for Germany, to their university in the past two weeks.

Dan Bacher (2019-11-02). As CA expands oil drilling, Trump plans to frack on 1.2 million acres of federal lands. indybay.org Opponents of the Trump fracking expansion plan disagreed that promoting fracking and oil drilling on federal lands was \"responsible energy development.\" In response to release of the EIS, Food & Water Action Senior Central Coast Organizer Ana Rosa Rizo-Centino called expanding fracking and drilling \"the epitome of irresponsibility.\" | \"At a time when the climate crisis demands that California move away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy, it is the epitome of irresponsibility to expand fracking and drilling in our state. The climate-charged wildfires raging throughout California and the loss of life and…

teleSUR (2019-11-02). Venezuela Captures Paramilitary Photographed With Guaido. telesurenglish.net Venezuela\'s Minister of Communication and Information, Jorge Rodríguez, announced on Friday the capture of Argenis Vaca, alias \'Vaquita\', who was in charge of the finances of the Colombian paramilitary group \'Los Rastrojos\'. | RELATED: | 1st International Indigenous Congress Kicks Off in Venezuela | Vaca, who appears in one of the photos taken with co…

IMEMC News (2019-11-02). Israeli Air Strikes Kill One Palestinian, Injure Three, In Gaza. imemc.org The Health Ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip has confirmed that one Palestinian was killed, on Saturday at dawn, and three others were injured, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region. The army also fired many missiles into several areas in the Gaza Strip, after alleging …

WSWS (2019-11-02). Germany\'s grand coalition extends military operations in Syria and Iraq. wsws.org Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, leading politicians from all parties openly advocate policies of war and military violence.

Alfred de Zayas, Urs Gasche and F Zollmann (2019-11-02). The US Tramples on International Law. indybay.org The US surprise attack on Iraq in March 2003 was a primal catastrophe. International law was eliminated and replaced by the imperial dictatorship of the US. Those who destroyed a whole people and have over a million casualties on their conscience are not punished in any way.

Jacob Sugarman (2019-11-02). Democrats Can\'t Ignore Their Biden Problem Forever. truthdig.com Earlier this week, in a vote that saw only two Democratic defections, the House of Representatives approved a package of ground rules for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. According to The Associated Press, the vote will allow Congress to \"transition from weeks of closed-door interviews with witnesses to public hearings and ultimately to possible votes on whether to recommend Trump\'s removal from office.\" (Republicans, for their part, voted unanimously against, with White House Press Secretary Stephani…

Party for Socialism and Liberation (2019-11-02). Forum: Politics Behind Impeachment + Latin American Elections, Uprisings. indybay.org 2969 Mission St., near 26th St.

WSWS (2019-11-02). Comparing two impeachments. wsws.org In light of Thursday\'s vote in the House of Representatives to formalize the impeachment inquiry against Trump, it is worth contrasting the events now unfolding in Washington to those that led to the resignation of Richard Nixon 45 years ago.

WSWS (2019-11-02). Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention. wsws.org Trump\'s intervention comes less than four months after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned the US government would not allow a Corbyn government to take office and would \"push back\" to prevent this.

teleSUR (2019-11-02). Turkey, Russia Hold First Joint Patrol In Northeast Syria. telesurenglish.net Turkish and Russian troops carried out their first joint ground patrols in northeastern Syria on Friday under an agreement between the two countries that forced a Kurdish militia to leave the territory near the border with Turkey. | RELATED: | Syrian Kurdish Forces Leaving Turkish Border Area, Damascus Welcomes Move | Turkish armored veh…

Eugene E Ruyle (2019-11-02). Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds. indybay.org NPML – Marxist Library | 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…

teleSUR (2019-11-02). US Launches A National Security Investigation Into TikTok. telesurenglish.net After two years from the $1 billion transaction of Musical.ly to Beijing ByteDance Technology Co, U.S. lawmakers have been calling in recent weeks for a national security probe into TikTok, concerned the Chinese company may be censoring politically sensitive content, and raising questions about how it stores personal data. | RELATED: | China: 19th CPC Central Committee Concludes Plenary Session | TikTok has been growing more popular among North American teenagers in paralel to the…

WSWS (2019-11-02). New Zealand: Anti-China propagandist Anne-Marie Brady speaks at Victoria University of Wellington. wsws.org Brady is demanding a full-scale witch hunt against Chinese \"interference\" in order to align New Zealand even more closely with US war preparations.

WSWS (2019-11-02). UAW sanctions plant closing, expansion of temps in deal with Ford. wsws.org The tentative agreement announced with Ford will further advance the restructuring of the auto industry into a low wage sector employing large numbers of contingent workers.

Ryan Cristián (2019-11-02). Baghdadi Deception Exposed, Israel Bombs Gaza After Phantom Rocket & US Violates Own Syria Sanctions. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/119). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Edward Curtin (2019-11-02). The \"Deep State\" Has Been Redefined as Career Bureaucrats Doing Their Patriotic Duty. dissidentvoice.org It gets funny, this shallow analysis of the deep state that is currently big news. There\'s something ghoulish about it, perfectly timed for Halloween and masked jokers. What was once ridiculed by the CIA and its attendant lackeys in the media as the paranoia of \"conspiracy theorists\" is now openly admitted in reverent tones of …

IMEMC News (2019-11-02). Qassam Fighter Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In 2014. imemc.org The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, has reported that one of its fighters died, Friday, from serious wounds he suffered during the Israeli war on Gaza in the summer of 2014. In a statement, al-Qassam said the fighter, Bara\' Adel al-\'Amour, 30, was injured in Khan Younis, …

Tom Canavan (2019-11-01). Rutgers softball coaches face accusations of abuse, intimidation. peoplesworld.org (AP)—Two Rutgers softball coaches, a husband and wife, have been accused of fostering a climate of fear, intimidation and abuse on the team. The university president said Thursday he wants an independent investigation of allegations made against softball head coach Kristen Butler and her husband, Marcus Smith, a volunteer assistant. Smith has since left the …

Betsey Piette (2019-11-01). Children and women lost, people dead in ICE custody. workers.org According to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union released Oct. 24, over 5,400 children have been separated from their families by U.S. immigration authorities at the Mexican border since July 2017. While a federal judge in San Diego on June 26, 2018, ordered that the children be reunited . . . | Continue reading Children and women lost, people dead in ICE custody at Workers.org

RT (2019-11-01). 4 killed, 4 injured at Halloween party shooting in Orinda, California — police. rt.com At least four people were killed and four more injured in a shooting at a Halloween party in Orinda, California, police have confirmed. The suspect is reportedly still at large. | According to initial reports, a heavy-set black male in an orange hoodie was seen indiscriminately firing what appeared to be a automatic pistol into the residence before fleeing the scene. | Police responded to reports of a person firing at partygoers at 10: 45pm local time on Thursday, and six ambulances were summoned to the home amid reports of a large number of dead and wounded. | Orinda Police Department and Contra Costa County O…

Louis Proyect (2019-11-01). The Political Economy of Homelessness. counterpunch.org In 2009, Hollywood tried to get us to care about the nearly 50,000 homeless people in Los Angeles by releasing a film titled \"The Soloist\". It starred Jamie Foxx as the real-life, trained classical musician Nathaniel Ayers who ended up on the streets as a result of schizophrenia. This chronic illness makes such people especially vulnerable when tax-starved municipal governments can no longer fund support networks. It was up to LA Times reporter Steve Lopez to tell his story, after happening upon him on the streets playing a cello (in the film, it was a violin). Ayers barely got by from the small donations he rece…

Patrick Cockburn (2019-11-01). Why Killing \"High-Valued Targets\" Like Baghdadi Won\'t Destroy ISIS. counterpunch.org At the height of the al-Qaeda-led insurgency in Iraq in 2006-07, US commanders, whose troops were suffering serious casualties from roadside bombs, developed a strategy. They sought to identify, kill or capture the leaders of the cells planting the Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in the belief that this would cripple the bombing campaign. Many such high-value More

M. Palani Kumar (2019-11-01). In Rough Seas: the Seaweed Harvesters of Tamil Nadu. counterpunch.org They\'re up by 3 each morning. They\'ve got to be at work by 5 a.m. and need to complete all their household tasks before that. The commute to their vast, wet workplace is a short walk. They just step out of their homes, stride up to the sea — and dive in. Sometimes they take More

Ron Jacobs (2019-11-01). The Blues Had a White Baby and His Name was Michael Bloomfield. counterpunch.org Michael Bloomfield began playing in Chicago blues clubs while still in high school. By 1968 he was considered one of the best guitarists in the world along with Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. By that time, Bloomfield had joined and left the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, played on Bob Dylan\'s masterpiece album Highway 61 Revisited More

Paul Street (2019-11-01). The Capitalist War on the Last American Commons. counterpunch.org The land in question in This Land is Christopher Ketcham\'s brilliant first book is the last wild \"American commons\": the federal public lands of the western United States. Comprising many millions of acres of grassland, forest, mountains, valleys, canyons, and steppe, this vast \"public trust\" is under the deeply compromised supervision of the U.S. Department More

Lawrence Davidson (2019-11-01). Hillary Clinton\'s Hunt for \"Russian Assets\" counterpunch.org Conspiracy Theories All Around We know that in 2016 Americans elected a president who can\'t tell the difference between what\'s real and the stuff he makes up. He appears particularly susceptible to conspiracy theories. Indeed, he has espoused at least 24 of them since becoming president. We also know that in 2016 the presidential election was interfered More

Manuel García, Jr. (2019-11-01). Life in the Ashes of Lotusland Dreams: the Kinkade Fire and the Future of California. counterpunch.org The Kincade Fire, currently burning in Sonoma County, California erupted at 9: 24 PM on October 23 during an extreme wind event, east of Geyserville (77 miles or 124 km north of San Francisco). An area of 400 acres (2 square kilometers, 2 km^2) burned that evening. By October 30 the fire had burned an area More

Barrett Brown (2019-11-01). On Putin and Press Failures. counterpunch.org I wrote this in 2010. As Stratfor liked it enough to steal it, I\'ll republish it here This is a March 2010 article I wrote for the old True/Slant outlet, which had its heyday circa 2009 before being bought by Forbes, which in turn promptly got rid of me, Michael Hastings, and other contributors of More

Dave Lindorff (2019-11-01). Democrats Make a Huge Mistake If They Just Focus Impeachment on the Ukraine Scandal. counterpunch.org The impeachment theater on display today in the House, bracketed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi\'s maudlin reading of Article I of the Constitution, and by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy\'s ludicrous evocation of the Stalin purge trials to characterize the full House vote to establish impeachment rules and procedures, is increasingly looking like the first act More

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2019-11-01). Five Years On, Saudi Attacks on Yemen\'s Farmers Are Pushing the Whole Country into Famine. mintpressnews.com Between March 2015 and March 2019, the Saudi-led Coalition launched at least 10,000 airstrikes in Yemen that struck farms, 800 that struck local food markets, and about 450 airstrikes that hit silos and other food storage facilities.

RT (2019-11-01). \'Thank God for Deep State\', ex-CIA boss says. Still think it\'s a conspiracy theory? rt.com In just a few short months, the US political establishment has gone from denying the existence of the \'Deep State\' and calling it a conspiracy theory, to praising it as the bulwark of the Republic against President Donald Trump. | \"Thank God for the \'Deep State,\'\" declared former CIA director John E. McLaughlin at an event this week, describing the diplomats and intelligence officers testifying before the congressional impeachment inquiry as \"people who are doing their duty or responding to a higher call.\" | Lavishing praise on the \'whistleblower\' intelligence officer whose complaint about Trump\'s phone call l…

Staff (2019-11-01). Impeachment Begins; Trump Panics as Facts Unfold. therealnews.com Even though it is becoming clear that Trump violated the Constitution, the partisan divide is only getting deeper.

Michael Bento (2019-11-01). Ecuador\'s uprising, visible and invisible — a commentary. workers.org The writer is of African descent from the United States, currently living in Quito. For more than 10 days at the beginning of October, Ecudorians across the nation revolted against President Lenín Moreno\'s austerity Decree 883 announced to satisfy part of the U.S.-based International Monetary Fund\'s loan conditions. As part . . . | Continue reading Ecuador\'s uprising, visible and invisible — a commentary at Workers.org

RT (2019-11-01). 'Blade Runner\' showed us a depersonalized dystopia in 2019 — instead of a warning, we used it as an instruction manual. rt.com The real world has caught up to the dystopian sci-fi classic \'Blade Runner\', set in November 2019. While robots aren\'t quite passing for humans, they\'re silently taking over human jobs and roles. | The real Los Angeles of November 2019 bears more than a passing resemblance to the chilling future depicted in \'Blade Runner\', where ultra-realistic androids prowl the streets pretending to be human and corporations have taken on most of the functions of government. While the US doesn\'t have flying cars — yet — many of the other technologies seen in the 1982 adaptation of Philip K. Dick\'s novel \'Do Android…

Ady Barkan (2019-11-01). Ady Barkan: Elizabeth Warren\'s Plan Is a Massive Win for the Medicare for All Movement. theintercept.com Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks to students and staff at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines, Iowa, on Oct. 21, 2019. | Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP | The movement for single-payer health care has taken some big strides forward in recent years. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., put the issue at the center of the Democratic Party\'s debate with his run for president in 2016. In partnership with the nurses union and other champions, he then got 19 senators to co-sponsor his bill in 2017. After Democrats took back the House of Representatives, we demanded and got hearings in multiple powerful committees on the fantastic b…

RT (2019-11-01). Illegal opioid haul found in Ohio is so huge authorities called it \'chemical warfare\' (PHOTO). rt.com Ohio law enforcement agencies have revealed a huge drugs bust in which over 20 kilograms (44lbs) of suspected fentanyl, an addictive opioid more dangerous than heroin, was seized along with $30,000 cash and three guns. | \"Twenty kilograms of fentanyl is enough to kill the entire population of Ohio, many times over,\" said Vance Callender, Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge for Michigan and Ohio. | Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost described the quantity of fentanyl involved in the case as amounting \"to chemical warfare and a weapon of mass destruction,\" and thanked all of the officers and ag…

Ed Rampell (2019-11-01). Film review: All aboard the freedom train with \"Harriet\" peoplesworld.org The stand-up-and-cheer biopic Harriet about legendary freedom fighter Harriet Tubman (British-born actress/singer Cynthia Erivo, who won the Best Leading Actress in a Musical Tony Award for The Color Purple in 2016) is arguably the most progressive feature film of the year. In a straight forward, conventional manner co-writer/director Kasi Lemmons (1997\'s Eve\'s Bayou) unfolds the …

Staff (2019-11-01). Border Patrol Is Being Endowed With Frightening Powers. truthdig.com ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica\'s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. | Pushing further toward its goal of \"extreme vetting,\" the Trump administration is creating a new center in suburban Virginia that will allow immigration agents to access, for the first time, the sprawling array of information scooped up by America\'s intelligence agencies, from phone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency to material gathered by the CIA\'s s…

Norman Solomon (2019-11-01). Adam Schiff is No Friend of Progressives. counterpunch.org A huge national spotlight is now on Adam Schiff, the member of Congress leading the impeachment inquiry. In his tenth term, Schiff is really going places. But where is he coming from? This year, as chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he has relentlessly built a case against a horrendous president. For progressives eager to More

Harry Blain (2019-11-01). How the Courts are Chipping Away at the Legal Basis for the War on Terror. counterpunch.org In times of war, the law often does fall silent. The U.S. Supreme Court, in all its independence and courage, has endorsed concentration camps, censorship, sham military tribunals, and guilt by association at various points in its history. Textbooks and television sell us the caricature of heroic judges and inspiring courtroom debates, but in truth, More

John O\'Kane (2019-11-01). A Lottery of Equality Dispenses Dystopia. counterpunch.org A common refrain in the Democratic Party debates has been support for more equality, the inclusion of those yet to access the American Dream. Most candidates even want to include migrants in their target group and make them eligible for free college and medical care. Expanding the base of successful citizens is what has defined More

Derek Royden (2019-11-01). Risk assessment: Thoughts on \'a climate security plan for America\'. nationofchange.org \"A Climate Security Plan for America\", if it had been covered by the press, could actually make a difference in changing the minds of some in the political center more inclined to believe the U.S. military than scientists or activist groups.

Ricardo Vaz (2019-11-01). Venezuelan Leftist Parties and Unions Stage Protest, Demand Gov\'t Answers. venezuelanalysis.com Dozens of activists demanded better wages and respect for collective bargaining rights.

IMEMC News (2019-11-01). Army Injures Many Nonviolent Protesters in Kufur Qaddoum. imemc.org Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, the weekly procession in Kufur Qaddoum town, east of the northern West bank city of Qalqilia, wounding many Palestinians and international peace activists. Medical sources said many Palestinians and international suffered the effects of teargas inhalation and received the needed treatment. The soldiers invaded the town …

teleSUR (2019-11-01). Greenpeace Fights \'Ocean Looters\' in Uruguayan Waters. telesurenglish.net Greenpeace activists met with fishermen in the Uruguayan port of Montevideo in a campaign against a lack of regulation on the world\'s oceans. | RELATED: | Uruguay\'s General Elections Exit-Polls Confirm Runoff Vote | The activists came ashore on several boats and kayaks from the Esperanza ship, the largest vessel in the international organization\'s fleet displaying a 25 meter-long banner with the message \"Ocean Looters.\" | The port regularly hosts vessels that fish in unregulated waters bey…