Max Blumenthal on Baghdadi\'s death and Trump\'s fake withdrawal in Syria
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-11-07
Max Blumenthal explains how the US-backed proxy war in Syria helped create the al-Qaeda safe haven where US forces killed…
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/07/max-blumenthal-on-baghdadis-death-and-trumps-fake-withdrawal-in-syria/

Billionaires Have Declared All-Out War on Sanders and Warren
Norman Solomon | truthdig.com | 2019-11-07
The 1 percent throws money at the likes of Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden because it understands that the left poses an existential threat.
truthdig.com/articles/billionaires-have-declared-all-out-war-on-sanders-and-warren/

The Crass Warfare of Billionaires Against Sanders and Warren
Norman Solomon | commondreams.org | 2019-11-07
Thousands of people turnout to hear Senator Bernie Sanders and take action against the Republican tax plan that would give huge tax cuts to millionaires, billionaires, and wealthy corporations while raising taxes for many middle-class families and threatening to unravel the Affordable Care Act at John S. Knight Center on December 2, 2017 in Akron, Ohio. (Photo: Duane Prokop/Getty Images for MoveOn.org) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bernie_billionaires.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/07/crass-warfare-billionaires-against-sanders-and-warren?cd-origin=rss

Billionaires Have Declared All Out War on Sanders and Warren
Norman Solomon | truthdig.com | 2019-11-07
The .1 percent is throwing money at the likes of Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden because it understands the left poses an existential threat.
truthdig.com/articles/billionaires-have-declared-all-out-war-on-sanders-and-warren/

How to Help Julian Assange by Writing to Him in Prison
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Not reported by ANY corporate media was the October 2 London protest to protect Julian Assange, led by Pink Floyd\'s world famous co-founder, Roger Waters and award-winning journalist John Pilger, in front of Britain\'s Home Office. About 1,000 …
globalresearch.ca/how-to-help-julian-assange-by-writing-to-him-in-prison/5694221

Neoliberalism\'s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
Medea Benjamin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
In this Autumn of Discontent, people | …
globalresearch.ca/neoliberalism-demand-justice-chile-world/5694211

Bernie Sanders Calls to Break Up ICE
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-07
The Vermont senator pledges to address the root causes of mass immigration, with the aim of creating a \"welcoming and safe nation for all.\"
truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-calls-to-break-up-ice/

Bernie Sanders Calls to Break Up ICE
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-07
The Vermont senator pledges to address the root causes of mass immigration with the aim of creating a \"welcoming and safe nation for all.\"
truthdig.com/articles/bernie-sanders-calls-to-break-up-ice/

With Bold Immigration Plan, Bernie Sanders Becomes the Only Candidate to Call for Break Up of ICE and CBP
Aída Chávez | theintercept.com | 2019-11-07
The plan, released Thursday, also calls to improve working conditions and labor protections for industries that rely on an immigrant workforce, including instating a domestic workers\' bill of rights.
theintercept.com/2019/11/07/sanders-immigration-plan-ice-cbp/

Australian prime minister plans to outlaw climate activism
GETUP | indybay.org | 2019-11-07
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/06/18827897.php

Bolivian Opposition Protesters Attack Socialist Mayor
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-07
A mob led by the right-wing opposition Wednesday set fire to the Vinto Town Hall and dragged socialist mayor Patricia Arce down the street, where they humiliated her physically and verbally. | RELATED: | Retired Bolivian General Dismisses Coup Attempt by ex-Army Men | The Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) politician was still inside the town hall wh…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivian-Opposition-Protesters-Attack-Socialist-Mayor-20191107-0003.html

America\'s Education System: Teaching the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing
John Stanton | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-07
Ask students to read for more than a couple of sentences and many will protest that they can\'t do it. The most frequent complaint that teachers hear that it\'s boring. It is not so much the content of the written material that is at issues here; it is the act of reading itself that is …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/americas-education-system-teaching-the-price-of-everything-and-the-value-of-nothing/

Why is Latin America Burning?
Cesar Chelala | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-07
In Latin America several countries are under turmoil, as people cannot even meet their most basics needs. The last few months have seen a remarkable spectacle: hundreds of thousands of citizens are taking to the streets to protest to what they perceive is their governments\' attack on their well-being, and the governments\' responses have been…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/07/why-is-latin-america-burning/

Why is Latin America Burning?
Cesar Chelala | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-07
In Latin America several countries are under turmoil, as people cannot even meet their most basics needs. The last few months have seen a remarkable spectacle: hundreds of thousands of citizens are taking to the streets to protest to what they perceive is their governments\' attack on their well-being, and the governments\' responses have been…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/07/why-is-latin-america-burning/

How Unofficial Capital Controls Stopped a Run on the Banks in Lebanon
Paul Cochrane | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-07
Lebanon\'s banks were closed for two weeks due to the mass protests throughout the country. The banks opened last Friday (1 November). There was the expectation of a run on the banks and massive capital flight as Lebanese, expatriate Lebanese and foreigners withdrew their cash. It didn\'t happen, but it doesn\'t mean that all is…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/07/how-unofficial-capital-controls-stopped-a-run-on-the-banks-in-lebanon/

Anti-Trump Impeachment Scam Ignores What US Military Aid to Ukraine Goes For
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Ukraine is a US client state, established by the Obama regime\'s 2014 coup — replacing democratic governance with a government integrated by Nazi elements. . | The US FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes $250 million in military aid …
globalresearch.ca/anti-trump-impeachment-scam-ignores-what-us-military-aid-ukraine-goes/5694243

Nuclear Outlaw Israel Slams Iran\'s Legitimate Uranium Enrichment
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
On Tuesday, Iranian President Rouhani announced his nation\'s 4th JCPOA pullback — permitted under the deal\'s Articles 26 and 36 when other signatories breach their obligations. | That\'s precisely what happened. The Trump regime illegally abandoned the internationally binding agreement. | Europe …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-outlaw-israel-slams-iran-legitimate-uranium-enrichment/5694212

Fighting Words for Young Workers From a Radical Elder
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-07
I was explaining to my 26-year-old son recently that while I\'m continuing to work as a writer, because I waited until age 70 to begin collecting my Social Security benefits, I am now collecting almost $29,000 on top of what I earn doing my freelance journalism thing. He said, matter-of-factly,…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/07/fighting-words-for-young-workers-from-a-radical-elder/

Largest Brazilian media group implicates Bolsonaro in death squad execution of Marielle Franco
wsws.org | 2019-11-07
Every faction of the Brazilian political system, from the Army to the pseudo-left, fears that Bolsonaro\'s austerity measures and fascistic rhetoric may trigger a social explosion.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/07/braz-n07.html

In Bolsanaro\'s Brazil, Dams Are Ticking Time Bombs
Tchenna Maso | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Fundà£o tailings (mine waste) dam disaster in Mariana, a town in the South-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The Fundà£o dam and the associated iron ore mine, called Samarco, is operated by a …
globalresearch.ca/bolsanaro-brazil-dams-ticking-time-bombs/5694257

UN Overwhelmingly Votes to End US Blockade Against Cuba
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-07
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday overwhelming voted in favor of the resolution demanding the ending of the U.S. blockade against Cuba with 187 countries voting in favor, three against while two countries abstained. | RELATED: | Caribbean Nations Reaffirm Support for Cuba Against US Blockade | The nations still promoting the continuation of the financial, economic and trade blockade are the United States, Israel and Brazil. | For the first time in its dip…
telesurenglish.net/news/UN-Overwhelmingly-Votes-in-Favor-of-Resolution-Ending-US-Blockade-Against-Cuba-20191107-0008.html

I Was 10 When the Battle of Fallujah Taught Me the Meaning of War
Ali Nayyef | thenation.com | 2019-11-07
I Was 10 When the Battle of Fallujah Taught Me the Meaning of War…
thenation.com/article/iraq-invasion-military-fallujah/

Neoliberalism\'s Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-07
Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal \"center-right\" and \"center-left\" governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the expense of working people are sweeping country after country all over the world. In this Autumn of Discontent, people from Chile, Haiti and Honduras to Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon are rising up against neoliberalism, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/neoliberalisms-children-rise-up-to-demand-justice-in-chile-and-the-world/

UK Lowers Security Level for Its Ships in Strait of Hormuz
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-07
Britain lowered its security risk level for U.K.-flagged ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, more than a month after one of its tankers was finally released from detention by Iran. | RELATED: | UK Snubs Trump, Orders Release of Iranian Oil Tanker | The Stena Impero was seized in July by Iran\'s Revolutionary Guards in the Strait, a major oil shipping route, for alleged marine violations two weeks after Britain detained an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar. The Iranian ship…
telesurenglish.net/news/UK-Lowers-Security-Level-for-Its-Ships-in-Strait-of-Hormuz-20191107-0004.html

Yemen\'s Houthis Launches Attack on Port City
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-07
The Houthi militia backed by Iran … (used) ballistic missiles and exploding drones. Most of them were intercepted and some fell on residential areas, a displaced persons camp and a health center run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF),\" the pro-coalition joint military command of the western coast said in a statement, without mentioning whether military targets had been hit.
telesurenglish.net/news/Yemens-Houthis-Launches-Attack-on-Port-City-20191107-0009.html

UK Lowers Security Level for Its Ships in Strait of Hormuz
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-07
Britain lowered its security risk level for U.K.-flagged ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, more than a month after one of its tankers was finally released from detention by Iran. | RELATED: | UK Snubs Trump, Orders Release of Iranian Oil Tanker | The Stena Impero was seized in July by Iran\'s Revolutionary Guards in the Strait, a major oil shipping route, for alleged marine violations two weeks after Britain detained an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar. The Iranian ship…
telesurenglish.net/news/UK-Lowers-Security-Level-for-Its-Ships-in-Strait-of-Hormuz-20191107-0004.html

Trump\'s Worst Impeachable Offense Hurts the Whole World
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-07
You can run from the climate crisis, but you can\'t hide. On the front lines of this global environmental calamity, entire communities are being consumed by fire, submerged by typhoons and hurricanes, or baked under the sun amid historic droughts. President Donald Trump, the climate change denier in chief, has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. Originally signed by President Barack Obama in 2015, the accord established a cooperative, global path to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees F) above preindustrial levels. The United States is now the only nati…
truthdig.com/articles/trumps-worst-impeachable-offense-hurts-the-whole-world/

Sierra Club Takes a Commendable Turn on Population, Climate Change, and Inequality
Roger D. Harris | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-07
The Sierra Club — long a retrograde proponent of saving the planet by driving a Tessler, eating wild caught salmon, and voting blue — took positive environmental leadership with their end of the year issue of the Sierra magazine. Stating it is \"time to fix the population fixation,\" they examine the interactions of population, climate …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/sierra-club-takes-a-commendable-turn-on-population-climate-change-and-inequality/

Can Carbon Pricing Address Climate Justice?
James K. Boyce, Manuel Pastor | thenation.com | 2019-11-07
Can Carbon Pricing Address Climate Justice?
thenation.com/article/carbon-economics-climate-change/

\'This Is a Huge Opportunity to Create an Energy System Rooted in Climate Justice\' – CounterSpin interview with Johanna Bozuwa on public utilities
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-11-07
Janine Jackson interviewed the Democracy Collaborative\'s Johanna Bozuwa about public utilities for the November 1, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/this-is-a-huge-opportunity-to-create-an-energy-system-rooted-in-climate-justice/

San Francisco City College Rallies Against Cuts
HEAT | indybay.org | 2019-11-07
San Francisco City College | Ocean Campus | Chinatown Campus…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/06/18827915.php

The New World Order. Trade and Power: The Economies of China, India and the US
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-07
China and India have made a name for themselves in the world of trade and power and speculations are that both the countries will surpass the US in a short time but experts neglect some basic things while making the …
globalresearch.ca/reports-us-decline-overstated-china-india-face-severe-challenges/5694275

Why a Russian Politician Just Called Trump \'Hitler\'
Juan Cole | truthdig.com | 2019-11-07