Michael Otto and Zoila Ramirez (2019-11-06). Ecuadorians review lessons of mass uprising. workers.org Nov. 2 — The 12-day national strike in Ecuador forced the Lenín Moreno government to retreat on the one issue of Decree #883, which raised fuel prices and was a direct attack on the Indigenous community, more than doubling the fuel costs of farming. Despite Moreno\'s retreat [on Oct 13], . . . | Continue reading Ecuadorians review lessons of mass uprising at Workers.org

RT (2019-11-06). \'Ban things I don\'t like\': Elizabeth Warren slams Twitter\'s new ban on political ads after urging Facebook to censor opponents. rt.com Democratic 2020 hopeful Elizabeth Warren can\'t seem to make up her mind on the correct course for big tech, first attacking Facebook\'s ad policies as too lax, then Twitter\'s as too strict. Perhaps they should make her CEO. | Senator Warren (D-Massachusetts), who has vowed to break up tech giants she deems too large or powerful, took to Twitter on Tuesday to denounce the platform\'s upcoming policy change banning all political ads, arguing the new rule helps the spread of misinformation about climate change. | \"Twitter\'s new ad policy will allow fossil fuel companies to buy ads defending themselves and spreading…

Saad Hafiz (2019-11-06). The Forever Wars. counterpunch.org Politicians and pundits in the West and jihadists have something in common. Both see the conflict between the West and Muslim worlds through the grand thesis of a \"clash of civilizations\". Some see it as a forever war. I think this approach is a grave mistake. It oversimplifies a complex problem that warrants closer analysis. More

Staff (2019-11-06). Ben and Jerry\'s Support of HR 40 Might Mainstream the Reparations Discussion. therealnews.com The iconic, progressive ice cream company is in favor of a House Bill that would develop reparations proposals—a sign that attitudes towards a once-radical answer to racial parity are shifting.

Paul Haeder (2019-11-06). From Colombia to Galapagos to California and OSU. dissidentvoice.org New information breakthroughs for me are exhilarating. Working with all that whale data is like looking into the dark with a flashlight. It\'s work that is able to contribute new information to the field. — OSU Whale Researcher, Daniel Palacios Whaling\'s first commercial iteration with harpoons started in Japan around 1570. With many more nations participating …

Natasha Lennard (2019-11-06). Trump Says Native Americans\' Heritage Month Is Also for the White Men Who Stole Their Land. theintercept.com Commemorating the \"founders\" of America at the same time as Native Heritage Month adds insult to a long history of injury against Indigenous people.

Conn Hallinan (2019-11-06). U.S. domination of Middle East challenged as new alignments emerge. peoplesworld.org The fallout from the September attack on Saudi Arabia\'s Aramco oil facilities is continuing to reverberate throughout the Middle East, sidelining old enmities—sometimes for new ones—and re-drawing traditional alliances. While Turkey\'s recent invasion of northern Syria is grabbing the headlines, the bigger story may be that major regional players are contemplating some historic re-alignments. After …

Aimee Cree Dunn (2019-11-06). An Open Letter to Climate Activists in the Northwoods…and Beyond. counterpunch.org From a talk delivered November 1, 2019. Northern Michigan University Sonderegger Symposium: Anishinaabek: East, South, West, North. Marquette, MI. Overview I\'m going to cut straight to the point: averting climate change is not going stop the global collapse of the planet as we know it. Don\'t get me wrong. Climate change is a global More

Don Fitz (2019-11-06). Dams and the Green New Deal: Why the Silence? counterpunch.org Hydroelectric power from dams might be the thorniest question that proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) have to grapple with. Providing more energy than solar and wind combined, dams could well become the backup for energy if it proves impossible to get off of fossil fuels fast enough. An August 2019 forum on the More

Binoy Kampmark (2019-11-06). The Hillary Clinton Resentment Machine. counterpunch.org Only a sadomasochist would consider it a genuine prospect. A failed presidential candidate, the louse in the locks of the Democratic Party, keen to make yet another vain tilt at the White House. But in the rogues\' gallery of the defective and disturbed, Hillary Clinton can count herself as pre-eminent, a historical creature who should More

George Ochenski (2019-11-06). The Never-Ending Curse of Coal. counterpunch.org Last week Murray Energy, one of the largest coal mining corporations in the nation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That makes it the fifth coal company to do so in the last year. While the owners made millions, they are bailing into bankruptcy and leaving behind massive environmental disasters, crushed communities and unfunded pension debts — More

John W. Whitehead (2019-11-06). A New Kind of Tyranny: The Global State\'s War on Those Who Speak Truth to Power. globalresearch.ca \"What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten us into silence. By defending Julian Assange, we defend our most sacred rights. Speak up now or wake up one morning to the silence …

WSWS (2019-11-06). Socialist Equality Party to stand in UK general election: No to austerity, militarism and war! Free Julian Assange! For class struggle and socialist internationalism! wsws.org The Socialist Equality Party will stand candidates in the December 12 UK general election to wage a political struggle against austerity, authoritarian rule, militarism and war.

Jodie Evans (2019-11-06). Avoiding the Climate Catastrophe Starts With Divesting From the War Machine. commondreams.org Jane Fonda and her Fire Drill Fridays are linking social movements across issues, eyeing the connections between the myriad problems we see causing climate chaos, many of them rooted in capitalist consumer culture. (Photo: Twitter/CodePink) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/codepink.jpeg …

Ben Norton (2019-11-06). US congressional panel outlines next phase of dirty war on Syria: Occupy oil fields and block reconstruction. thegrayzone.com A DC foreign-policy apparatchik who oversaw Congress\' Syria Study Group proclaimed that the US military \"owned\" one-third of Syrian territory,…

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J S Davies (2019-11-06). Neoliberalism\'s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World. commondreams.org If Chenoweth is right and the million Chileans in the street have breached the tipping point for successful non-violent popular democracy, Chile may be leading the way to a global political and economic revolution. (Photo: RODRIGO ARANGUA/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1179494756.jpg …

First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto (2019-11-06). Harvest Peace and Social Justice Craft and Info Fair. indybay.org First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto | Fellowship Hall | 1140 Cowper Street | Palo Alto, CA 94301…

Staff (2019-11-06). Petroleum Is at the Heart of Ecuador\'s Anti-Austerity Protests. truthout.org An hour before sunrise on October 6, 200 armed soldiers entered the Indigenous Shuar territory on the western edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest. | \"They came in … shooting, with tear gas, without taking into account the presence of women, children, young people and seniors,\" said Tom Sharupi, the director of the youth branch of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENIAE), that represents 11 Indigenous nationalities with territory throughout the Ecuadorian Amaz…

teleSUR (2019-11-06). Colombia: Defense Minister Accused of Hiding Death of 7 Minors. telesurenglish.net Colombia\'s Defense Minister Guillermo Botero on Tuesday was accused of concealing the death of seven minors in a bombing against dissidents of the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC) which was carried out in the Caqueta region on September 2nd. | RELATED: | Colombia: 6th Indigenous Person Killed in Cauca in a Week | \"He presented suc…

teleSUR (2019-11-06). Demonstrations Rage Across Iraq as Protesters Clash with Gov\'t. telesurenglish.net The second week of protests have begun in Iraq as demonstrators continue to demand the removal of the current regime, including the Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi. | RELATED: | 13 People Killed in 24 Hours as Iraqi Protests Intensify | On Wednesday, the Iraqi security forces fired tear gas and live rounds into the air to disperse protesters in central Baghdad as the biggest wave of anti-government demonstrations in decades spread out across the capital. | Chaotic scenes unfolded as…

GETUP (2019-11-06). Australian prime minister plans to outlaw climate activism. indybay.org The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has just told a room full of mining lobbyists that he\'s begun work on legislation to outlaw climate activism — banning climate protests, boycotts and \"disruptive\" strikes.1 | It\'s the most alarming attack we\'ve seen yet — threatening people\'s right to take action against climate-denying politicians, and corporate climate wreckers.

teleSUR (2019-11-06). Bolsonaro Puts Up Brazilian Richest Oil Wells for Sale. telesurenglish.net Brazil\'s President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday put for sale four highly productive oil deposits to foreign multinational companies. | RELATED: | Brazil Mining Regulator Says Vale \'Negligence\' Cost Lives | One of them is the Buzios field where there are three of the world\'s most productive wells, which are capable of yielding more than 40,000 thousand barrels per…

Jeremy Scahill (2019-11-06). The Persistent Influence of Trump\'s \"Shadow Adviser\" Erik Prince. theintercept.com The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the Trump administration approached Blackwater founder and Trump shadow adviser Erik Prince about potentially buying a Ukrainian aerospace company that the U.S. government wants to prevent the Chinese government from acquiring. \"Motor Sich is a leading maker of helicopter and airplane engines and the U.S. wants to scuttle its pending sale to a group of Chinese companies to keep Beijing from acqu…

Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner (2019-11-06). US Authorizes Tax Payments to Maduro Gov\'t, Sanctions Five More Venezuelan Officials. venezuelanalysis.com Washington has eased some of the restrictions imposed under its recent Venezuela embargo.

Ramzy Baroud (2019-11-06). Microsoft Should Stop Funding Israeli Spying on Palestinians. mintpressnews.com Through its venture capital arm M12, Microsoft has reportedly invested $78 million in the Israeli startup company that \"uses facial recognition to surveil Palestinians throughout the West Bank…

Ted Rall (2019-11-06). Far Left? Not in This Democratic Party. counterpunch.org America has lots of leftists. Forty percent of voters say that they would prefer to live in a socialist country than a capitalist one. Yet America has zero leftists running for president. Think about that the next time someone tells you that we live in the greatest country on earth, or for that matter, that More

James Rogers (2019-11-06). The Dark Side of Our Drone Future. globalresearch.ca Let me paint a picture of the near future. Drones, some weighing a few pounds and others a few tons, will flow endlessly back and forth from rural distribution centers to inner-city delivery hubs. Day in and day out, they …

James J. Zogby (2019-11-06). Listen to the Lebanese People. globalresearch.ca In 2012, I wrote an article about Lebanon that still rings true today. It ended with a quote from one of my favourite pieces written by Kahlil Gibran: \"You Have Your Lebanon, I Have My Lebanon.\" | I am including below …

Andrew Korybko (2019-11-06). India\'s RCEP Refusal, Russia\'s Eurasian Vision, and Next Week\'s BRICS Summit. globalresearch.ca India\'s refusal to join the RCEP mega-bloc endangers the viability of Russia\'s Greater Eurasian Partnership supercontinental integration vision, which not even next week\'s BRICS Summit might be able to save after Modi crossed the Rubicon of self-imposed regional economic isolation …

Padraig McGrath (2019-11-06). The New Cold War: Russia\'s \"Stealth Capable\" 955 Borei-class Submarines. US-NATO\'s Aegis Ashore Missile Defense. globalresearch.ca On October 29th, the Norwegian news-outlet NRK broke the story that between 8 and 10 Russian submarines, including Sierra II class submarines, had begun naval exercises in the North Atlantic. This is one of the largest Russian naval exercises focused …

Eric Zuesse (2019-11-06). Over 100 Missiles against Syria: US, UK and France Committed an International War Crime Against Syria on 14 April 2018. globalresearch.ca It is now clear that on 14 April 2018, the three Governments of U.S., UK, and France, fired over a hundred missiles against Syria, on no more \'justification\' than staged videos that had been done by those regimes\' own proxy …

Nauman Sadiq (2019-11-06). Iran Nuclear Deal and the Attack on Abqaiq Oil Facility. globalresearch.ca In response to Washington unilaterally cancelling the Iran nuclear deal and imposing sanctions on Iran, Tehran has announced on Tuesday that it will begin injecting uranium gas into 1,044 centrifuges at Fordow nuclear facility. Though like the previous retaliatory measures …

Tony Cartalucci (2019-11-06). Syria: OPCW Whistleblowers Confirm What We Already Knew. The OPCW Suppressed Evidence Regarding alleged Chemical Weapons Attack. globalresearch.ca Whistleblowers have come forward revealing what many had known all along — that the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had deliberately altered various reports and suppressed evidence regarding alleged chemical weapon attacks in Syria to help bolster …

Telesur (2019-11-06). Bolivia: Leaked Audios Confirm Involvement of Opposition Leaders, Ex-Military and US in Coup Plans. globalresearch.ca The Radio Education Network of Bolivia (Erbol) leaked 16 audios involving opposition leaders who are calling for a coup d\'etat against the government of President Evo Morales, a political action which would have been coordinated from the U.S. embassy …

Prof. John McMurtry (2019-11-06). From Canada\'s Election to Public Action: Beyond the Moral Tumor of Alberta Tar-Sands. globalresearch.ca For months during and after Canada\'s 2019 federal election campaign, corporate media provided daily frontline news space for non-stop Alberta demands for more tar-sands export infrastructure through British Columbia, as well as discrediting stories on the Trudeau government for questionable …

Andrew Korybko (2019-11-06). India\'s Refusal on RCEP Causes Far-reaching Geopolitical Implications. globalresearch.ca India officially refused to join the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) following several days of heated negotiations on the issue during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Bangkok. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is reported to have said,…

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-11-06). China\'s Development of the Russian Far East Can Improve EU-Moscow Relations. globalresearch.ca Russia\'s Far East Investment and Export Support Agency investment manager Vasily Libo revealed on November 1 that China\'s foreign investment in the Far East advanced development zone accounted for about 59.1% of foreign investments in the region. This massive investment …

Pepe Escobar (2019-11-06). Asia\'s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): The RCEP Train Left the Station, and India, Behind. globalresearch.ca A pan-Asia high-speed train has left the station — and India — behind. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which would have been the largest free trade deal in the world, was not signed in Bangkok. It will probably be …

Renee Parsons (2019-11-06). When Is a Whistleblower, Not a Whistleblower? From Russiagate to Ukrainegate. globalresearch.ca For those readers who care more about Donald Trump, Obama\'s legacy or the Republican/Democrat parties rather than the Rule of Law and what remains of the US Constitution, the following scenario should be a Giant Wake up Call. | As the …

Zero Hedge (2019-11-06). US Army Purchases 624 \"Robotic Mules\" for Combat Use. globalresearch.ca In an effort to rapidly modernize before the next large-scale military conflict, the US Army has purchased 624 robotic mules from General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), a deal worth more than $162 million, reported Defense Blog. | GDLS\' MUTT (Multi-Utility …

Graham Vanbergen (2019-11-06). Britain\'s Democracy — Being Corrupted to the Point of Worthlessness. globalresearch.ca Yet more scandals are engulfing the Tories. Apart from new cases being brought to the crown prosecution Service and two other unresolved cases involving the police and Electoral Commission, we have now heard of another incendiary political cover-up involving a …

Carla Stea (2019-11-06). UN Security Council Sanctions against North Korea Responsible for Deaths of 3,193 Children Under Age 5 in 2018 Alone! globalresearch.ca On Monday, October 28, a brilliant panel discussion revealing the atrocities resulting from the UN Security Council sanctions (in particular, Resolution 2397) forced upon the DPRK was held at 777 United Nations Plaza. This panel discussion should have been held …

Arabi Souri (2019-11-06). Erdogan Forces Loot Power Transformers in Towns They Infest. globalresearch.ca Forces loyal to the Turkish pariah Erdogan in the Turkish Army and accompanying terrorist groups looted electricity power generators and transformers from a number of villages and towns they infested in the Hasakah countryside. A car blew up with the …

Staff (2019-11-06). Thousands Could Be Kicked Out of Privatized Affordable Housing in Los Angeles. truthout.org After seven months of intense struggle, we in the Hillside Villa Tenants Association thought we had a deal to keep hundreds of people in their homes. | On July 3, Los Angeles City Councilmember Gil Cedillo posted a picture of himself on Facebook shaking hands with Tom Botz, the owner and landlord of the 124-unit Hillside Villa Apartments in Los Angeles\'s Chinatown. | \"Councilmember Cedillo was able to reach a deal,\"

WSWS (2019-11-06). Uncertainty hangs over US-China trade deal. wsws.org There has been no agreement from Washington to withdraw any of the tariff measures already imposed because it wants to ensure China complies with US-dictated terms.

Sam Biddle (2019-11-06). Shutterstock Employees Fight Company\'s New Chinese Search Blacklist. theintercept.com Shutterstock, the well-known online purveyor of stock images and photographs, is the latest U.S. company to willingly support China\'s censorship regime, blocking searches that might offend the country\'s authoritarian government, The Intercept has learned. | The publicly traded company built a $639 million-per-year business on the strength of its vast — sometimes comically vast — catalog of images depicting virtually anything a blogger or advertiser could imagine. The company now does business in more than 150 countries. But in China, there is now a very small, very significant gap in Shutterstock\'s of…

WSWS (2019-11-06). IYSSE meetings in Germany: Stop the shift to the right at the universities! wsws.org The meetings are part of a series being organised by the IYSSE across Germany to oppose the rise of the far-right on university campuses and in political life.

John Feffer (2019-11-06). Nationalism Is Global. The Left Is on the Defensive. thenation.com Nationalism Is Global. The Left Is on the Defensive.

Howard Zinn Book Fair (2019-11-06). The Sixth Annual Howard Zinn Book Fair – Strike! Discovering Our Power. indybay.org City College of San Francisco – Mission Campus | 1125 Valencia Street, S.F., CA 94110…

The Canary (2019-11-06). Alun Cairns quits Cabinet at start of Tory election campaign launch. thecanary.co Welsh secretary Alun Cairns has resigned after being accused of \"brazenly lying\" about his knowledge of an allegation that a Tory candidate had sabotaged a rape trial. | The cabinet minister\'s decision to quit will rock the Conservative Party which is officially launching its election campaign on Wednesday. | In a letter to prime minister Boris Johnson, Cairns said: \"You will be aware of allegations relating to the actions of a Party employee and candidate for the Welsh Assembly elections in the Vale of Glamorgan. | \"This is a very sensitive matter, and in light of continued speculation, I write to tender my resi…