\'DISLIKE\': Russia\'s Facebook rival VK to roll out this ONE button FB users always wanted but never got
rt.com | 2019-11-14
Russian social network VKontakte has unveiled the upcoming \'dislike\' button, a simple feature that has been cruelly denied to Facebook users despite years of begging. Now Mark Zuckerberg can claim it was a Russian plot all along! | The feature was announced on Wednesday at VK\'s Content Day conference in Moscow, and the company thinks it will help \"invigorate\" the comment section. | VK has answered its users\' prayers with the button, which will appear as an option next to the \'like\' button on comments, giving users the ability to regi…
rt.com/news/473369-vk-dislike-button-facebook-emojis/

Arizona: Second trial begins of pro-immigrant \"No More Deaths\" volunteer
wsws.org | 2019-11-13
The main accusation against Warren is that he provided two undocumented migrants with food, water and a place to sleep over three days.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/13/nmdv-d11.html

Assange, Zuckerberg and Free Speech
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/assange-zuckerberg-and-free-speech/

Biden and Bloomberg Want Uncle Sam to Defer to Uncle Scrooge
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
The extremely rich Americans who are now frantically trying to figure out how to intervene in the Democratic presidential campaign make me wonder how different they are from the animated character who loved frolicking in money and kissing dollar bills while counting them. If Uncle Scrooge existed as a billionaire in human form today, it\'s easy to picture…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/biden-and-bloomberg-want-uncle-sam-to-defer-to-uncle-scrooge/

Overthrown Honduran President Zelaya interviewed
the gray zone | indybay.org | 2019-11-13
He discusses the extreme violence, drug trafficking, economic depression, migration crisis, Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), WikiLeaks, Venezuela, and more. | Video by Ben Norton…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/11/18828010.php

Code Pink founder raided by DC police on dubious Venezuelan embassy \'assault\' charges (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-11-13
Police have tried to detain Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin without a warrant on belated and mysterious charges of \'assaulting\' a Democratic congresswoman during this summer\'s siege of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington. | Benjamin was accused of assaulting Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Florida) — months after the alleged incident — when over a dozen officers surrounded her home on Wednesday in Washington, DC. | In footage she posted to Facebook, Benjamin strenuously denies the accusations, explaining that she was the one assaulted — pushed and pulled by right-wing Venezuelans (\"b…
rt.com/usa/473371-medea-benjamin-detained-venezuela-assault/

While Greta Thunberg hitches another top-dollar yacht ride to Europe, plebs will live with \'flight shame\'
rt.com | 2019-11-13
Swedish eco-activist Greta Thunberg has managed to find a ride across the Atlantic with a pair of sailing YouTubers. Once again, the activist will make her journey on a yacht far beyond the means of the ordinary working Joe. | After hitching a ride from Europe to New York aboard a €4 million racing yacht in August, Thunberg embarked on a whirlwind tour of climate change summits and street-level protests. However, when the UN\'s COP25 climate summit in Chile was moved to Spain due to political unrest, the Swedish activist was left marooned in the US. | Avoiding combustion-powered planes and boats, Thunberg\'…
rt.com/news/473347-greta-thunberg-yacht-flight-shame/

\'No justification\' for attacks against civilians, UN envoy says on mounting cross-border violence in Gaza
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-13
Following Israel\'s targeted killing of a Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader inside Gaza on Tuesday, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process has expressed his growing concern over increasing rocket fire across the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051251

Questioning war within the military; resistance from Vietnam to Iraq
Peace Action of San Mateo County | indybay.org | 2019-11-13
Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo | 300 E. Santa Inez Avenue | San Mateo, CA 94401…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/11/18828011.php

Iraqis paying an \'unthinkable price\' to be heard, UN envoy tells politicians in Baghdad
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-13
Noting that the people of Iraq were at \"a critical juncture\", the top UN Envoy in the country told parliamentarians there on Thursday that over the past six weeks, hundreds of thousands have been peacefully voicing their \"genuine, legitimate, demands, loud and clear\".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051311

Letter-Writing Session for Leonard Peltier; Demand an End to the Elder Unit Lockdown!
Jon Britton | indybay.org | 2019-11-13
San Jose Peace & Justice Center | 48 S Seventh St., San Jose, CA 95112…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/13/18828089.php

Hong Kong protests defy police violence and mass arrests
wsws.org | 2019-11-13
Escalated police attacks appear to have reinforced the popular support for the protests, setting the stage for an even-more bloody confrontation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/13/hkon-n13.html

Anti-government rallies swell in Baghdad & south Iraq
rt.com | 2019-11-13
Anti-government rallies swelled in Iraq\'s capital and south on Wednesday as Baghdad faced new pressure from both the street and the UN to respond seriously to weeks of demonstrations. | Protests demanding a new leadership have rocked the capital and Shiite-majority south for weeks. | Demonstrators appear to have been revived after the country\'s top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said they \"cannot go home without sufficient reforms.\" | The head of the UN\'s mission in Iraq (UNAMI), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, planned to address the main political blocs and brief lawmakers on her meeting w…
rt.com/newsline/473318-rallies-iraq-baghdad-un/

How the OAS and US Just Helped Overthrow Another Government
Leonardo Flores | commondreams.org | 2019-11-13
A supporter of former President Evo Morales hands over an indigenous flags \"wiphala\" to an anti-riot police officer during a protest in La Paz, Bolivia, on November 12, 2019. Protesters have been in the streets calling for Morales\' resignation. He stepped down after the army requested he leave his post and requested political asylum from Mexico. (Photo: Marcelo Perez Del Carpio/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bolivia_coup_backed_by_us_oas.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/13/how-oas-and-us-just-helped-overthrow-another-government?cd-origin=rss

Ukraine, the Land of Quid Pro Quos
Frederic Mousseau, Elena Teare | commondreams.org | 2019-11-13
A couple walks along a line of tractors blocking the parliament in Kiev on November 12, 2019, during a rally to protest against government plans to lift the moratorium on agricultural land sales, a step long awaited by investors but opposed by the Ukrainians fearing a foreign land grab. The former Soviet country, whose stalling economy has been propped up by Western aid in recent years, is home to some of the largest swathes of cultivated land in Europe. (Photo by Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage…
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/13/ukraine-land-quid-pro-quos?cd-origin=rss

ISIS Captives Offer a Convenient Pawn in Turkey\'s Syria Chess Game
Vanessa Beeley | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-13
ISIS is the latest bogeyman in a global terror portfolio that serves a neoconservative agenda in the Middle East, and Turkey has been its midwife and curator.
mintpressnews.com/isis-captives-pawn-turkey-syria-chess-game/262814/

The Real Reasons Behind Israel\'s Arrest of Two Jordanian Nationals
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-13
The release on November 6 of two Jordanian nationals, Heba al-Labadi and Abdul Rahman Mi\'ri from Israeli prisons was a bittersweet moment. The pair were finally reunited with their families after harrowing experiences in Israel. Sadly, thousands of Palestinian prisoners are still denied their freedom, still subjected to all sorts of hardships at the hands of their Israeli jailers. | Despite the jubilant return of the two prisoners, celebrated in Jordan, Palestine and throughout the Arab world, several compelling questions remain unanswered: why were they held in the first place? Why were they released and what ca…
mintpressnews.com/real-reasons-israel-arrest-two-jordanian-nationals/262833/

When an elected government falls in South America, as in Bolivia today, look for a US role
Dave Lindorff | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-13
History shows us that U.S. antipathy towards independent progressive leaders generally results in U.S.-sponsored subversion and military coups.
nationofchange.org/2019/11/13/when-an-elected-government-falls-in-south-america-as-in-bolivia-today-look-for-a-us-role/

Governments Abroad Are Shaping Our Foreign Policy in Broad Daylight
Ben Freeman, Ryan Summers | thenation.com | 2019-11-13
Governments Abroad Are Shaping Our Foreign Policy in Broad Daylight…
thenation.com/article/trump-saudi-arabia-lobbying/

Takeover of Venezuela\'s embassy in Brazil timed to coincide with launch of BRICS summit — Russia
rt.com | 2019-11-13
The seizure of Venezuela\'s embassy in Brasilia was not only an attack on the legitimate government of Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, but also an attempt to sow discord between the BRICS member states, Russia\'s Deputy FM told RT. | The Wednesday storming on the diplomatic mission by the supporters of US-backed Venezuelan opposition figure Juan Guaido was \"planned before and timed that it coincided with the first day of BRICS summit,\" Sergey Ryabkov said. | It took place on the same day as the leaders of Russia, China, India and South Africa arrived to the Brazilian capital for the high-profile BRICS summit. Members…
rt.com/news/473365-venezuela-embassy-brazil-brics-russia/

Trespassers Forcibly Enter Venezuelan Embassy in Brasilia
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-13
A group of trespassers forced their way into the Venezuelan Embassy in Brasilia on Wednesday, resulting in the brief disruption of diplomatic affairs. | RELATED: | Trump Threatens Venezuela And Nicaragua After Coup in Bolivia | The Deputy Minister for Europe of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela , Yván Gil, took to Twitter shortly after the incident to denounce the forcibly entry into the headquarters of the Venezuelan Embassy in Brazil by militants from the far-right…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trespassers-Forcibly-Enter-Venezuelan-Embassy-in-Brasilia–20191113-0002.html

From Where Rock Oil on Brazilian Beaches (Also Far to the USA?)
Terranium 117 | indybay.org | 2019-11-13
Places of beach oil pollutions in Brazil suggest that oil have come with the South-Equatorial Ocean Stream, even from region of the African Oil Shore. And it come from the lithospherical expansional rock cracks or widened mining drill slots. Big quantity of this sea oil may be here later the critical evidence of new phenomenon.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/12/18828051.php

Bolsonaro Threatens Lula With Activating National Security Law
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-13
Brazil\'s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro decided to continue his campaign of aggression against the recently released Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and threatened Tuesday to use the National Security Law to repress possible demonstrations in favor of the former president. | RELATED: | Brazil: Lula Stands As Opposition To Bolsonaro, Right Wants Him Back In Jail | The law is designed to suppress \"insurrections,\" therefore, for Bolsonaro, any demonstration in favor of the ex-pr…
telesurenglish.net/news/bolsonaro-threatens-lula-with-activating-national-security-law-20191112-0023.html

Montana\'s Radioactive Waste Legacy
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
One label Montana\'s Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock won\'t have to worry about being stuck with is \"environmentalist.\" His outdated support for coal in the face of a global warming crisis and his \"leadership\" on the massive and ongoing deforestation of public lands under the phony rubric of the Bush-era \"Healthy Forests Initiative\" are bad enough.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/montanas-radioactive-waste-legacy/

The Logic of Medical Co-Payments
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
Aaron Carroll had a very useful NYT Upshot piece highlighting research showing that even modest co-payments discourage people from getting necessary medical care. The article is about co-payments for prescription drugs where it highlights research showing that people will often skip taking prescribed drugs to avoid co-payments. There are a couple of points worth making…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/the-logic-of-medical-co-payments/

The ISC Report: Russian Connections in Albion?
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
The UK election campaign has kicked off, and merrily confused are the major candidates. The chaotic scene was made a touch more interesting with the refusal on the part of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to clear the release of a report by the intelligence and security committee on claimed Russian interference in British politics.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/the-isc-report-russian-connections-in-albion/

A Doubtful Proposition: a Reflection on the Trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7
Brian Terrell | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
\"Whether nuclear weapons are actually illegal under international or domestic law (a doubtful proposition) is not relevant or an appropriate issue to litigate in this case,\" so ruled Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the US District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, late on Friday October 18. This last-minute order, restricting the defense of…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/a-doubtful-proposition-a-reflection-on-the-trial-of-the-kings-bay-plowshares-7/

Chicago Teachers Divided Over Strike Settlement
Jeff Mackler | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
Twenty five thousand Chicago teachers, affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1, AFL-CIO, returned to work on October 31 following a divided vote of the Chicago Teacher Union\'s (CTU) 700-member Delegate Assembly (DA) to end the union\'s 11-day strike. The vote to accept the five-year tentative contract was 60 percent in favor and…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/chicago-teachers-divided-over-strike-settlement/

How Not to End a Forever War
Charles Pierson | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/how-not-to-end-a-forever-war/

Murder Like It\'s 1495: U.S.-Backed Counterinsurgency in the Philippines
Nick Alexandrov | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
Two men, soldiers probably, noticed Bai Leah Tumbalang. This was last August. She was in Valencia City, in the Philippine province of Bukidnon. The men drew near on their motorcycle, followed her, then pulled up to shoot her in the forehead. She died immediately. But her death was not random, not senseless. With it her…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/murder-like-its-1495-u-s-backed-counterinsurgency-in-the-philippines/

The \"Officer Friendly\" Police Fantasy
James Bovard | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
Police in Tempe, Arizona, announced plans in July for a \"positive ticketing\" campaign to pull over drivers who had violated no traffic laws. A Phoenix TV station reported that the police would give the people they targeted free soft-drink coupons for Circle K as a reward for their \"good driving behavior.\" Police in other areas…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/the-officer-friendly-police-fantasy/

\"We\'ll See You on the Barricades\": Bojo Johnson\'s Poundshop Churchill Imitation
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
Poundshop: British chain similar to the US\'s Dollar General I\'m in London for a week to inhale the UK election vapours. Some scents reeked of the cheap knock-off perfumes– labelled \"Chanel\", \"Dior\", etc.– you can buy in shonky street markets in many cities. Others though had more in common with a leaking sewer pipe. BoJo…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/well-see-you-on-the-barricades-bojo-johnsons-poundshop-churchill-imitation/

Risking Lives in Endless Wars is Morally Wrong and a Strategic Failure
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-13
We just celebrated Veterans Day, paying tribute to the young men and women who have served our country. Across the country, families gathered at the gravesites of those who gave their lives. Veterans drank toasts to their fellow soldiers. In football and basketball stadiums, crowds offered a moment of silence for the fallen. The rituals…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/13/risking-lives-in-endless-wars-is-morally-wrong-and-a-strategic-failure/

The EU\'s Shame Is Locked Away in Libya
Jérà¥me Tubiana | thenation.com | 2019-11-13
The EU\'s Shame Is Locked Away in Libya…
thenation.com/article/libya-refugees-detention/

US: No Work Permits to Asylum Seekers Who Enter \'Illegally\'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-13
The United States government proposed a new regulation Wednesday that would ban asylum seekers from applying for a work permit if they entered the U.S. without authorization. | RELATED: | Honduras Signs Safe Third Country-Type Deal with US | \"Asylum law explicitly permits applications regardless of the manner of entry,\" an asylum officer told BuzzFeed, adding that \"to single out those asylum seekers who couldn\'t afford a visa and prohibit them from obtaining lawful employment is cruel and…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Proposes-Denying-Work-Permits-to-Asylum-Seekers-Who-Enter-Without-Authorization-20191113-0007.html

Joining Youth and Age on the Climate Crisis
Michael Lyon | indybay.org | 2019-11-13
Street Level Community Room, Park Branch Library | 1833 Page St. San Francisco…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/12/18828081.php

Cuba\'s Ingenious Lesson for Cities Facing Hunger
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-13
When countries run short of food, they need to find solutions fast, and one answer can be urban farming. | That was the remedy Cuba seized with both hands 30 years ago when it was confronted with the dilemma of an end to its vital food imports. And what worked then for Cuba could have lessons today for the wider world, as it faces growing hunger in the face of the climate crisis. | When the Soviet Union collapsed in the 1990s, most of Cuba\'s food supplies went with it. To stave off severe malnutrition the people of the capital, Havana, found an imaginative answer: urban gardening. That\'s now seen as a possible bl…
truthdig.com/articles/cubas-ingenious-lesson-for-global-cities/

Over $39 million earmarked by UN-backed fund to combat effects of climate change in Nepal
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-13
More than $39 million in funding was approved on Wednesday for a project that will build resilience and mitigate the effects of climate change, benefitting nearly one million Nepalis, according to the Board of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund (GCF).
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051281

Climate Confusion, Angst, and Sleeplessness
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-13
Climate change is a nagging issue for many people because it is so big, diverse, and overwhelming, as big as the planet itself. So, how to explain climate change? Sociologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and even anthropologists and economists have tackled the phenomenon of Climate Weltschmerz, meaning people experience angst as the enormity of climate change overrides …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/climate-confusion-angst-and-sleeplessness/

As Trump and Erdogan Meet, the U.S. Hopes to Resume F?35 Arms Sales to Turkey
Alex Emmons | theintercept.com | 2019-11-13
Despite Turkey\'s recent human rights abuses in Syria, the Trump administration would like Turkey to rejoin the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program.
theintercept.com/2019/11/13/trump-erdogan-turkey-f-35/

US & Turkey working on \'resolving S-400 issue,\' but Trump & Erdogan tight-lipped on details
rt.com | 2019-11-13
US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan said their countries were working to \"resolve\" the issue of Ankara purchasing Russian S-400 air defense systems, without going into any specifics. | Erdogan, who arrived in Washington on Wednesday for an official state visit, spent much of the day in meetings with Trump and several US senators critical of Turkey\'s recent actions in northern Syria. Appearing at a joint press conference in the late afternoon, he showed no sign of backing down from Ankara\'s current posture, saying that political concerns ought to be separate from matters o…
rt.com/usa/473363-trump-erdogan-press-conference/

US wants Turkey \'back in the fold\' as tensions mount between between NATO allies
rt.com | 2019-11-13
The US wants to bring Turkey \"back into the fold,\" Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Wednesday as he warned again about Ankara drifting away from its NATO partners. | Washington is concerned that recent arms deals with Russia and its recent incursion into northern Syria mean Turkey is slipping away from the military bloc. Esper\'s comments came ahead of US President Donald Trump\'s meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the White House on Wednesday. | \"We need Turkey back in the fold. They\'ve been good allies for many years, all the way back to fighting alongside the United States in the Korean war, up t…
rt.com/newsline/473364-esper-turkey-nato-fold/

Coming to Terms With the U.S. Role in Central America
César Chelala | commondreams.org | 2019-11-13
GUATEMALA COUP, 1954. Colonel Miguel Mendoza, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, and Major Julio Gaitan (foreground, left-to-right), three leaders of the rebel invasion force which overthrew the government of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman of Guatemala in 1954. Photographed 24 June 1954. (Photo: ullstein bild via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-11-13_at_3.51.32_pm.png …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/13/coming-terms-us-role-central-america?cd-origin=rss

Zunzi (尊子) Political Cartoon Expo
Northern California Hong Kong Club | indybay.org | 2019-11-13
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall | 836 Stockton St, San Francisco, California…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/12/18828085.php

Violent riots force Chinese and foreign students to flee Hong Kong
Associated Press | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-13
HONG KONG (AP)–University students from mainland China and Taiwan are fleeing Hong Kong, while those from three Scandinavian countries have been moved or urged to leave as college campuses become the latest battleground in the city\'s 5-month-long anti-government unrest. Marine police used a boat Wednesday to help a group of mainland students leave the Chinese …
peoplesworld.org/article/violent-riots-force-chinese-and-foreign-students-to-flee-hong-kong/

Impeaching a President and Impeachment and Corruption
Matthias Rossbach and Mark Tushnet | indybay.org | 2019-11-13
Resisting \"corruption\" has occupied the American republic since its origin – along with the search for \"virtuous leaders.\" The impeachment process was understood as a remedy for corruption. The violation of the people\'s trust through abuse of office – the misuse of power for one\'s enrichment, the missing orientation in the common good – is the reason for removal.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/11/18828008.php

Public impeachment hearings to escalate political warfare in Washington
wsws.org | 2019-11-13
The bitter conflict within the state is between two right-wing factions of the ruling class that have been battling one another over foreign policy questions since Trump\'s nomination as the Republican candidate for president.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/13/impe-n13.html

Ukrainegate impeachment saga worsens US-Russia Cold War
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-11-13
As the House opens impeachment hearings for President Trump, Professor Stephen F. Cohen warns that the US military assistance at…
thegrayzone.com/2019/11/13/ukrainegate-impeachment-saga-worsens-us-russia-cold-war/

Impeachment Is Ready for Prime Time
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-11-13
Impeachment Is Ready for Prime Time…
thenation.com/article/impeachment-hearings-bill-moyers/

Impeachment Hearing Republicans Confirm There Is No Defense for Donald Trump
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-11-13
Impeachment Hearing Republicans Confirm There Is No Defense for Donald Trump…
thenation.com/article/impeachment-intelligence-committee-first-day/