GOP-Requested Witness Rejects Trump \'Conspiracy Theories\'
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-20
WASHINGTON — Sought by Republicans to testify, the former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine spoke up instead for Democrat Joe Biden in Tuesday\'s impeachment hearings, rejecting \"conspiracy theories\" embraced by President Donald Trump and some of his allies. | Kurt Volker said he has known Biden as an honorable man for more than two decades, rebuffing debunked corruption allegations that Trump is said to have wanted the Ukrainians to investigate in exchange for military aid to hold off Russian aggression. | \"The allegations against Vice President Biden are self-serving and non-credible,\" Volker declared. | R…
truthdig.com/articles/gop-requested-witness-rejects-trump-conspiracy-theories/

Police storm universities in Hong Kong
Susan Price | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-20
protest Wlam*Issue 1246 Hong Kong 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy movementNovember 20, 2019Hong Kong riot police stormed the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), one of the prestigious universities in Hong Kong, on November 12, despite making several promises…
greenleft.org.au/content/police-storm-universities-hong-kong

350 Action Endorses Ed Markey, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) and Ilhan Omar (MN-05) for Congress
commondreams.org | 2019-11-19
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/11/19/350-action-endorses-ed-markey-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ny-14-and-ilhan-omar-mn?cd-origin=rss

Texas students say, \"Defend DACA\"
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-19
Arlington, TX — The University of Texas at Arlington\'s Progressive Student Union (PSU) held a rally for DACA recipients, November 14. The group, led by PSU President Mark Napieralski, delivered a list of ten demands to the administration, marching across the campus chanting, \"No protection, no peace,\" \"Stand up, fight back,\" \"Black and brown immigrants matter,\" and \"Defend DACA.\" | PSU delivered their demands to President Karbhari\'s office, though he was available to receive them personally. Regardless, the office received the demands and promised to deliver them to Karbhari. | PSU\'s demands included more r…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/18/texas-students-say-defend-daca

94 Refugees, Migrants Rescued Off Libya\'s Coast
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-19
The Ocean Viking charity vessel, operated jointly by SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders, carried out a mission Tuesday rescuing 94 refugees and migrants off the coast of Libya. | RELATED: | Migrants Released Amid Fighting in Libya Seek Refuge With UN | \"We were copied on an email sent to the Libyan coastguard by AlarmPhone this morning. As a result, we altered our course towards the potential boat in distress and arrived in the area 90 minutes later,\" Search and Rescue…
telesurenglish.net/news/94-Refugees-Migrants-Rescued-Off-Libyas-Coast-20191119-0009.html

Conflict of Interest: Julian Assange\'s Judge and Her Husband\'s Links to the British Military Establishment Exposed by WikiLeaks
Mark Curtis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
It can also be revealed that Lady Arbuthnot has received gifts and hospitality in relation to her husband, including from a military and cybersecurity company exposed by WikiLeaks. These activities indicate that the chief magistrate\'s activities cannot be considered as …
globalresearch.ca/julian-assange-judge-her-husband-links-british-military-establishment-exposed-wikileaks/5695199

Sweden Drops Decade-Long Case Against Julian Assange
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-19
A Swedish prosecutor dropped an investigation into an allegation of rape against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, ending the near decade-old case that had sent the anti-secrecy campaigner into hiding in London\'s Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition. | RELATED: | UK Judge Denies Request to Delay Assange\'s Extradition Trial | Although the prosecutor\'s…
telesurenglish.net/news/Sweden-Drops-Decade-Long-Case-Against-Julian-Assange–20191119-0004.html

UN torture envoy demands \'full accountability & compensation\' after Sweden drops rape probe against Assange
rt.com | 2019-11-19
The UN\'s Special Rapporteur on torture has called for a \"full investigation\" into the role Sweden played in driving WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange into asylum and eventual custody, after the rape case against him was dropped. | Swedish prosecutors announced on Tuesday that they would drop a dubious rape inquiry against Assange, as oral testimony against the publisher had \"weakened,\" and corroborating evidence was not strong enough to pursue a case. A Swedish arrest warrant was issued against assange in 2010, and a British court upheld a decision to extradite him in 2012. Threatened with what many saw as a po…
rt.com/news/473832-assange-torture-investigation-sweden/

Julian Assange appears in court via video link: Legal rights denied by judge
wsws.org | 2019-11-19
The British ruling class has no intention of providing even the appearance of a fair trial of Assange, after which they intend to railroad him to his persecutors in the United States.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/19/assa-n19.html

Sweden drops investigation into bogus sexual misconduct allegations against Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-11-19
The action confirms that the incessant media claims of \"rape\" and \"sexual assault\" by the WikiLeaks founder are a politically motivated fraud.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/19/assa-n19-2.html

Saving Julian Assange is Saving Ourselves
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-19
The United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner issued a statement based on special-rapporteur-on-torture Nils Melzer\'s fact-finding mission into the incarceration of WikiLeaks founder and publisher Julian Assange. The facts were a scathing indictment of those nations behind the targeting of Assange. \'The evidence is overwhelming and clear,\' the expert said. \'Mr. Assange …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/saving-julian-assange-is-saving-ourselves/

Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and millionaire–with foreign support
Max Blumenthal | mronline.org | 2019-11-19
Bolivian coup leader Luis Fernando Camacho is a far-right multi-millionaire who arose from fascist movements in the Santa Cruz region, where the US has encouraged separatism. He has courted support from Colombia, Brazil, and the Venezuelan opposition. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/19/bolivia-coup-led-by-christian-fascist-paramilitary-leader-and-millionaire-with-foreign-support/

United States has the highest child detention rate in the world
wsws.org | 2019-11-19
A UN report released Monday finds that the United States leads the world in depriving children of liberty, particularly through immigration detention.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/19/dete-n19.html

Occupied Palestine: From BDS to ODS. The Project of a One Democratic State (ODS)
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
We spent the last week in Occupied Palestinian Territory, commonly referred to as Israel, where we traveled around the country to visit communities in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Bethlehem, the West Bank, the Nagab, and more. | We call Israel Occupied Palestine because …
globalresearch.ca/occupied-palestine-bds-ods/5695360

Occupied Palestine: From BDS To ODS
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-19
We spent the last week in Occupied Palestinian Territory, commonly referred to as Israel, where we traveled around the country to visit communities in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Bethlehem, the West Bank, the Nagab, and more. We call Israel Occupied Palestine because it is not just the West Bank and Gaza that are occupied, but all of …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/occupied-palestine-from-bds-to-ods/

Rep. Ilhan Omar Asks Judge to \'Show Compassion\' for Hateful Man Who Threatened to Put Bullet in Her Head
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2019-11-19
In response to a man accused of threatening her life pleading guilty to the crime in a U.S. District Court a day prior, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday released publicly a letter she wrote to the federal judge presiding over the case asking that he \"show compassion\" in his sentencing. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/omar_apology_1.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/11/19/rep-ilhan-omar-asks-judge-show-compassion-hateful-man-who-threatened-put-bullet-her?cd-origin=rss

Dreamforce Rally – No Salesforce Tech for Concentration Camps
DSA San Francisco | indybay.org | 2019-11-19
Howard St between 3rd & 4th St – Just outside Dreamforce Entrance…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/17/18828191.php

Top Bolivian coup plotters trained by US military\'s SOA
The Grayzone | indybay.org | 2019-11-19
Commanders of Bolivia\'s military and police helped plot the coup and guaranteed its success. They were previously educated for insurrection in the US government\'s notorious School of the Americas and FBI training programs.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/17/18828196.php

Activists Occupy Pelosi\'s Office, Launch Global Hunger Strike for Climate Action
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-19
The global grassroots movement Extinction Rebellion is targeting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a hunger strike and demanding that the Democratic leader embrace bold climate action as have progressive lawmakers around the country. | The group told Pelosi a week ago that members would begin a hunger strike Monday unless the California Democrat agreed to a one-hour, on-camera meeting to discuss Extinction Rebellion\'s demands for concrete climate action. | On Twitter, the group announced that…
truthout.org/articles/activists-occupy-pelosis-office-launch-global-hunger-strike-for-climate-action/

Reconciliation helps \'repair fractures\', enable lasting peace, Security Council hears
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-19
The UN Security Council this Tuesday has been debating what one activist labeled \"the toughest and arguably most important part of the peace-building cycle\": reconciliation.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051691

There Are Riots In Iran And The Usual Suspect Are On It
Moon Of Alabama | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-19
There are a few riots in Iran and Amnesty International is on it: Amnesty International @amnesty — 15: 50 UTC ∑ Nov 19, 2019At least 106 protesters in 21 cities have been killed in #Iran, according to reports we have received. Verified video footage, eyewitness testimony & information gathered from activists outside Iran reveal a harrowing pattern …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/conspiracy/there-are-riots-iran-usual-suspect/

Release of Western Hostages and Prospects of Peace in Afghanistan
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
Three Taliban commanders have been released today, on Tuesday, by the Afghan government as part of a prisoner swap involving two Western hostages. Reportedly, the militant leaders, including senior Taliban leader Anas Haqqani, had landed in Qatar, which hosts the …
globalresearch.ca/release-western-hostages-prospects-peace-afghanistan/5695396

Peace Now: \"US Announcement on Softening Settlements Stance Marks a New Broadside on the Two-State Solution\"
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-19
On the announcement by U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo about dropping the US stance on settlements as inconsistent with international law, Peace Now has issued the following statement:…
imemc.org/article/peace-now-us-announcement-on-softening-settlements-stance-marks-a-new-broadside-on-the-two-state-solution/

UN updates guidelines to ensure successful return to civilian life for former combatants
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-19
Increasing hurdles which prevent former combatants from returning to a peaceful civilian life have prompted the UN to update its standard practices, in an effort to ensure they remain \"fit-for-purpose for years to come\".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051701

France to host \"peace summit\" with Germany, Ukraine and Russia
wsws.org | 2019-11-19
The summit is part of the effort of French and German imperialism to play a bigger role in Eastern Europe as tensions with the US are rising.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/19/ukra-n19.html

Iran\'s Protests Are Grassroots, Not Foreign-Driven, and that\'s the Real Problem
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
Iran\'s problem isn\'t that foreign forces are politically encouraging the latest unrest and possibly even directly supporting some of the most violent provocateurs to an uncertain extent, but that the vast majority of the participants in these nationwide protests are …
globalresearch.ca/iran-protests-grassroots-not-foreign-driven/5695392

Iranian regime shuts down internet following protests over gas price hikes
wsws.org | 2019-11-19
The Islamic Republic has been shaken by mass protests against a steep hike in gasoline prices precipitated by the US sanctions war on Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/19/iran-n19.html

Intensified US Sanctions Bolster Iran\'s Hardliners and Fuel Angry Protests
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-19
On November 14, 1979, 10 days after Iranian students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran to demand the return of Iran\'s deposed Shah, the U.S. first imposed sanctions on Iran. In the four decades since, Iran has been almost continuously under U.S. sanctions. | Almost 40 years to the day after the U.S. first sanctioned Iran, the Iranian government\'s announcement of a 50 percent spike in gasoline price…
truthout.org/articles/intensified-us-sanctions-bolster-irans-hardliners-and-fuel-angry-protests/

\'Shameful\' US withholds food & medicine from Iranians while claiming to support them, FM Zarif says
rt.com | 2019-11-19
Washington\'s self-professed solidarity with Iranians protesting against rising fuel costs cannot be taken seriously since US sanctions have caused so much suffering in the Islamic Republic, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said. | \"The regime that imposes coercive economic actions and bars delivery of food and drugs to the elderly and patients, can never claim that it\'s supporting the Iranian nation,\" Zarif noted on Tuesday, according to Iran\'s semi-official IRNA news agency. | He added that European nations that fail to challenge Washington\'s regime change posturing against Tehran will be \"responsible for their d…
rt.com/news/473794-iran-zarif-us-protests-sanctions/

Brazil Issued Arrest Warrant for Paraguay\'s Ex-President
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-19
Rio de Janeiro\'s Seventh Federal Court on Tuesday issued a prison order for Paraguay\' s former President Horacio Cartes for his involvement in a case related to the Car Wash Operation in Brazil. | RELATED: | Thousands of Paraguayans Protest for Impeaching President over Corruption | The decision was taken by Brazilian Judge Marcelo Bretas who is in charge of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Issued-Arrest-Warrant-for-Paraguays-Ex-President-20191119-0002.html

Amnesty Says at Least 106 Killed in Iran Protests
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-19
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Days of protests in Iran over rising fuel prices and a subsequent government crackdown have killed at least 106 people across the Islamic Republic, Amnesty International said Tuesday, citing \"credible reports.\" | Iran\'s government, which has not made nationwide numbers available for the toll of the unrest that began Friday, did not immediately respond to the report. A request for comment to its mission at the United Nations was not immediately acknowledged. | The Amnesty report comes after a U.N. agency earlier said it feared the unrest may have killed \"a significant number of…
truthdig.com/articles/amnesty-says-at-least-106-killed-in-iran-protests/

Bolivian UN Ambassador: Racist Elite Engineered Coup to Restore Neoliberalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-19
Thousands marched across Bolivia Monday to demand the resignation of Jeanine àÅñez, the right-wing senator who declared herself president of Bolivia last week after longtime socialist President Evo Morales resigned under pressure from the military. The coup d\'état has thrown Bolivia into crisis, with violence across the country leaving at least 23 dead. On Friday, the military gunned down nine pro-Morales protesters outside Cochabamba, where indigenous people took to the streets again on M…
truthout.org/video/bolivian-un-ambassador-racist-elite-engineered-coup-to-restore-neoliberalism/

Resistance against Turkish-Russian patrols grows in northeast Syria as more protesters are injured
Tom Anderson | thecanary.co | 2019-11-19
The people of northeast Syria [aka Rojava] are fiercely resisting against the patrols by Turkish and Russian occupation forces.They\'re facing the guns and armoured vehicles of two of the world\'s strongest militaries. Here in the UK we can stand in solidarity by demanding the UK stops its arms exports to Turkey.Fierce resistance: This video from Monday 18 November shows women and men throwing molotov cocktails at…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/11/19/resistance-against-turkish-russian-patrols-grows-in-northeast-syria-as-more-protesters-are-injured/

French Yellow Vests Celebrate First Birthday, Converge With Planned Labor Strikes
Richard Greeman | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-19
This weekend the Yellow Vests celebrated their first birthday, with convivial barbeques on traffic circles (roundabouts) all over France followed by direct actions like liberating tollbooths. Although number of protestors has declined to about 10% of the estimated 400,000 who rose up a year ago on Nov. 17, 2018 — thanks to a year of…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/19/french-yellow-vests-celebrate-first-birthday-converge-with-planned-labor-strikes/

Student Protesters are Walking a Tightrope in Hong Kong
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-19
It\'s hard to know what to think about the student protests in Hong Kong. | On the one hand, they are incredibly inspiring. The courage, determination, brilliant organizing in the face of corporate blocking of the social media platforms that have been so critical early on to coordinating actions and rallying support, and the links that these masses of students have been able to build with the broader Hong Kong community, have been amazing to witness. So too is the massive support that the city\'s residents — even its staid usually conservative business-minded bankers and shop owners — have given and con…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/19/student-protesters-are-walking-a-tightrope-in-hong-kong/

Electoral Reform Not the Reason for Dominica Protests: Skerrit
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-19
Dominica\'s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit addressed his nation this week to condemn the \"intrusion of violence into the election campaign,\" pointing out that the protesters are not demonstrating because of electoral reform, as previously reported by the western media. | RELATED: | Dominica to Assist Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian | The situation in Dominica has been tense these last few days, as police and protesters continue to clash in the streets of this small Caribbean islan…
telesurenglish.net/news/Electoral-Reform-Not-the-Reason-for-Dominica-Protests-Skerrit-20191119-0007.html

Bolivia: Coup-Born Government\'s Witch Hunt Intensifies
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-19
Bolivia\'s coup-born government on Monday intensified its attack campaign against the Movement to Socialism (MAS) supporters, who keep protesting in the streets. | RELATED: | Bolivia: More Than 68,000 Fake Twitter Accounts Supported Coup | Interior Minister Arturo Murillo announced the creation of a \"special apparatus at the Prosecutor…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivia-Coup-Born-Governments-Witch-Hunt-Intensifies-20191119-0003.html

Bernie Sanders Reiterates That There Was a Coup in Bolivia
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-19
Independent U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders again described what happened in Bolivia as coup and condemned security forces\' repression against indigenous protesters. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Coup-Born Government\'s Witch Hunt Intensifies | \"I oppose the intervention of Bolivia\'s security forces in the democratic process and their repression of Indigenous protesters,\" the legislator for Vermont posted on Twitter on Monday. | \"It was the military who i…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bernie-Sanders-Reiterates-That-There-Was-a-Coup-in-Bolivia-20191119-0013.html

Bolivian Military Cracks Down on Blockade of Key Gas Plant
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-19
Bolivian police and military forces used armored vehicles, helicopters and tear gas to crack down on protesters blocking access to a major gas plant in the city of El Alto on Tuesday. | RELATED: | Bolivia\'s De Facto Gov\'t Grants Impunity to Police, Armed Forces | Helicopters flew above roads around the Senkata gas plant, operated by state-run YPFB, and a heavily-equipped police unit dispersed the crowd with tear gas and bullets, according to protesters, who added that two people…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivian-Military-Cracks-Down-on-Blockade-of-Key-Gas-Plant-20191119-0010.html

UN decries \'extreme violence\' by Hong Kong protesters amid fears of further escalation
rt.com | 2019-11-19
The UN Human Rights Office said it was gravely concerned by increased violence on the part of some \'very angry\' protesters in Hong Kong, urging accountability for both the wrongdoers and police using excessive force in response. | \"The resort to extreme violence, including against the police force, by some engaged in the protests… cannot be condoned,\" spokesman Rupert Colville told a journalist in Geneva. | The statement came after the anti-government protesters, holed up in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, used Molotov cocktails, arrows and bricks to repel the attempts by police to remove them from the…
rt.com/news/473830-hong-kong-protest-violence-un/

Hong Kong police lay siege to university occupied by demonstrators
wsws.org | 2019-11-19
The ramping up of police violence is a precursor to even more violent methods of suppressing the months-long protest movement.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/19/hong-n19.html

Protest at SF Chinese Consulate for Hong Kong Rights
Xten Tentachion | indybay.org | 2019-11-19
Chinese Consulate San Francisco | 1450 Laguna St, San Francisco, California 94115…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/19/18828254.php

Police Surround Last Holdouts at Hong Kong Campus Protest
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-19
Even as the latest violence winds down, a fundamental divide suggests the protests in the former British colony are far from over.
truthdig.com/articles/police-surround-last-holdouts-at-hong-kong-campus-protest/

The Other Americans: Indigenous Guatemalans Mobilize to Denounce Coup in Bolivia
Jeff Abbott | progressive.org | 2019-11-19
Repression against indigenous Bolivians has spurred protests across the Americas.
progressive.org/dispatches/the-other-americans-indigenous-guatemalans-mobilize-abbott-191119/

Iran erupts in protest; over 100 killed in security crackdown
Jane Green | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-19
The recent order by Iranian \"Supreme Leader\" Ali Khamenei directing the security forces \"to implement their tasks\" sent out a stark and ominous signal to the people of Iran. Protests erupted in cities across Iran on Friday following the government\'s announcement of a hike in the cost of gasoline by at least 50%, signaling further …
peoplesworld.org/article/iran-erupts-in-protest-over-100-killed-in-security-crackdown/

Iran protests: Live ammunition reportedly used, says UN human rights office
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-19
Reports indicating that dozens of people have been killed in continuing protests across Iran — some by live ammunition – are of deep concern, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), said on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1051661

A Deadly Game of Chicken in Iraq and Lebanon
Thanassis Cambanis | thenation.com | 2019-11-19
Popular revolts in the Middle East are pitting people against regimes.
thenation.com/article/iraq-lebanon-protest/

Trump Regime Calls Illegal Israel Settlements Legal
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-19
There\'s no ambiguity about the illegality of Israeli settlements. International law on the issue is clear and unequivocal. | It\'s automatically US constitutional law under its Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2). | Fourth Geneva\'s Article 49 states: | \"Individual or mass forcible | …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-calls-illegal-israel-settlements-legal/5695404

Erdogan\'s Ethnic Cleansing of the Kurds is Still Happening
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-19
Mass expulsion or the physical extermination of an entire ethnic or religious community — ethnic cleansing — is usually treated by the media in one of two different ways: either it receives maximum publicity as a horror story about which the world should care and do something about, or it is ignored and never reaches…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/19/erdogans-ethnic-cleansing-of-the-kurds-is-still-happening/

The Green Party manifesto at a glance
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-11-19
The Green Party has revealed the details of its general election manifesto. | Titled If Not Now, When?, the manifesto announces 10 new laws that would be ready to be implemented if co-leaders Sian Berry and Jonathan Bartley won an against-the-odds majority on 12 December. | I very much hope that our manifesto gives Labour some pause for thought, before their manifesto is published, especially on: the climate crisisfreedom of movementdrug reform | Have…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/11/19/the-green-party-manifesto-at-a-glance/

Dreamforce Rally – No Salesforce Tech for Concentration Camps
DSA San Francisco | indybay.org | 2019-11-18
Howard St between 3rd & 4th St – Just outside Dreamforce Entrance…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/17/18828191.php

Immigrants Feel Broaden Risk During Fires
Ryan Gopar | indybay.org | 2019-11-18
This is an opinion piece on the anxiety endured by the immigrant population. While referencing events in northern California, the climate of fear is throughout all of the United States. This piece is meant to raise awareness of and for immigrants, in relation to the Public Charge Rules.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/15/18828131.php

Jesus would not get a UK visa under proposed immigration system, says Archbishop of Canterbury
rt.com | 2019-11-18
If a point-based immigration system touted by PM Boris Johnson is introduced, the likes of Jesus would be turned down at the UK border, said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, taking a thinly-veiled jab at the idea. | \"Our founder Jesus Christ was of course not white, middle class and British – he certainly wouldn\'t have got a visa – unless we\'re particularly short of carpenters,\" said the highest ranking bishop in the country speaking at the CBI business conference in London on Monday. His tongue-in-cheek criticism of the proposed immigration system elicited laughter and a round of applause from the audie…
rt.com/uk/473749-jesus-visa-immigration-system/

How to Save the Planet and Ourselves
Chris Hedges | commondreams.org | 2019-11-18
A banner is hung across a roadway while people participate in direct action with Extinction Rebellion on April 17, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/climate-emergency-nyc-955px.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/18/how-save-planet-and-ourselves?cd-origin=rss

Another Death Penalty Horror: Stark Disparities in Media and Activist Attention
Stephen Cooper | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-18
On November 12, intrepid abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean tweeted to her legions of followers: \"What do Sen. Ted Cruz, Gigi Hadid, Kim Kardashian, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and me all have in common? We\'re among a growing local and national movement asking Texas @GovAbbott to stop the scheduled Nov. 20 execution of #RodneyReed[.]\" But for Twitter\'s…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/18/another-death-penalty-horror-stark-disparities-in-media-and-activist-attention/

Syrian War Refugee Mother & Daughter in Canada Want to Bring Family to Ottawa
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2019-11-18
Interview with Syrian war refugee Walaa Ibrahim, who emigrated to Ottawa, Canada with her young daughter in November, 2018. Activists are now raising funds to bring Walaa\'s parents and brother to Canada. Includes interviews with activists who helped bring Walaa and Kadar to Canada.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/15/18828154.php

Celebrating Peace: A Work in Progress
Robert Koehler | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-18
Veterans For Peace, an organization that speaks truth to war like nobody else, is attempting to reclaim Armistice Day, the Nov. 11 holiday that was flipped on its head 65 years ago when it was renamed Veterans Day — and became a celebration not of the end of war but of its perpetuity. The name…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/18/celebrating-peace-a-work-in-progress/

Missed Opportunity to Recall a Day to \'Perpetuate Peace\'
Janine Jackson | commondreams.org | 2019-11-18
A close-up of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jonathan Cutrer/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/media-fail-veterans-day.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/18/missed-opportunity-recall-day-perpetuate-peace?cd-origin=rss

U.S. Angers Palestinians With Reversal on Israeli Settlements
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-18
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday softened the U.S. position on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, reversing four decades of American policy and further undermining the effort to gain Palestinian statehood. | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the U.S. is repudiating the 1978 State Department legal opinion that held that civilian settlements in the occupied territories are \"inconsistent with international law.\" Israeli leaders welcomed the decision while Palestinians and other nations warned that it undercut any chance of a broader peace deal. | Pompeo told reporters at…
truthdig.com/articles/u-s-angers-palestinians-with-reversal-on-israeli-settlements/

Ending Endless War From the Right
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-11-18
They sure didn\'t look the part. These weren\'t a bunch of stereotypical hippie peaceniks. As I surveyed the room in the beautiful DC brownstone which hosted the BringOurTroopsHome.us opening night reception, I saw well-built, well-dressed men and women, many still sporting military-style haircuts (though often with a well-groomed beard). Instead of tie-dye shirts, I spied some flag-lapel pins, a few Trump 2020 ball caps, and even a big old cowboy hat. Yet all these relatively young combat veterans were gathered in the nation\'s capital last week with a common cause: endi…
truthdig.com/articles/ending-endless-war-from-the-right/

US Says Israel Settlements Not Illegal Under International Law
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-18
The United States abandoned Monday its 40-year-long position announcing Israel\'s settlements in the occupied West Bank are not \"inconsistent with international law.\" In doing so the North-American country effectively endorsed Israel\'s right to build settlements, further hindering an already stuck peace process. | RELATED: | Trump \'Frustrated\' With Netanyahu Amid Israel\'s Political Impasse | \"The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements is not, per se, inconsistent with in…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Says-Israeli-Settlements-Are-Not-Illegal-Under-International-Law–20191118-0009.html

Fight Bolivia\'s Coup, The Resistance: Indigenous Workers Build Self Defense Committees
Tatiana Cozzarelli | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
After weeks of increasing right-wing protests, the Bolivian military demanded on Sunday that President Evo Morales resign. The protests had reached a fever pitch, with the police joining the side of the right-wing in the streets demanding the president\'s ouster….
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-workers-build-self-defense-committees-fight-bolivia-coup/5695207

Bolivia\'s U.S.-backed Coup Government Has Given the Military a License to Kill Protestors
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
The de facto and unelected president of Bolivia, Jeanine àÅñez, signed a decree that exempts all military personnel from being criminally responsible, even in the cases of murder, in the midst of demonstrations against the coup d\'etat that ousted …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-us-backed-coup-government-given-military-license-kill-protestors/5695284

Bolivia Faces Ethnic Cleansing, Racism and South African-Style Apartheid?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Post-coup Bolivia is at risk of Croatian-style ethnic cleansing and South African-like apartheid unless the protesters succeed in putting substantial international pressure on the new \"authorities\" and ensuring that genuinely free and fair elections are held as soon as possible …
globalresearch.ca/bolivia-faces-ethnic-cleansing-racism-and-south-african-style-apartheid/5695262

Campus Under Siege as Hong Kong Police Battle Protesters
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-18
HONG KONG — As night fell on Hong Kong, police tightened their siege of a university campus where hundreds of protesters were trapped in the latest dramatic episode in months of protests against growing Chinese control over the semi-autonomous city. | The Asian financial center\'s workweek began Monday with multiple protests that disrupted traffic, while schools remained closed because of safety concerns stemming from the demonstrations, which began in June but have become increasingly violent in recent weeks. | The pitched battle for control of the campus of Hong Kong Polytechnic University has been the cen…
truthdig.com/articles/campus-under-siege-as-hong-kong-police-battle-protesters/

Arrow-wielding Rioters Barricade in Hong Kong Polytechnic University
CGTN | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-18
All eyes are on Hong Kong as police and rioters remain locked in a standoff. Anti-government protesters have barricaded a university campus, attacking police forces who have closed in on them, with various weapons including bow and arrow.
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/arrow-wielding-rioters-barricade-in-hong-kong-polytechnic-university/

Student protesters are walking a tightrope in Hong Kong
Dave Lindorff | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-18
The whole world is watching Hong Kong.
nationofchange.org/2019/11/18/student-protesters-are-walking-a-tightrope-in-hong-kong/

Chinese soldiers appear on Hong Kong streets for first time since protests began
wsws.org | 2019-11-18
The use of PLA troops to clear roadblocks in Hong Kong is a thinly veiled threat that the Chinese military could be used to violently suppress the protest movement.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/hong-n18.html

Another Failed US-Backed Coup Attempt in Venezuela Goes Unnoticed
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-18
Despite heavy backing from US officials, the coup attempt fell completely flat as Venezuela\'s armed forces failed to defect to Juan Guaidó\'s side and few opposition protesters trickled into the streets.
mintpressnews.com/juan-guidos-latest-coup-attempt-venezuela-ends-was-a-massive-flop/262870/

Protestors Massacred in Post-Coup Bolivia
Olivia Arigho-Stiles | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-18
Eight are dead and hundreds injured in a week of bloodshed after Bolivia\'s former President Evo Morales was forced to resign from power last Sunday. | In this slim window of time, an interim unelected president has been installed, anti-coup protesters have been shot dead by the police and hundreds of foreign citizens have been expelled from the country, including over 700 Cuban doctors and Venezuelan diplomats. In total, 24 have died in a month of protest and turmoil.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/18/protestors-massacred-in-post-coup-bolivia/

Venezuelans Protest Bolivia Coup After Diplomatic Break
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-11-18
The de facto government in La Paz has broken relations with Caracas and recognised Guaido.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14725

Fuel price hikes lead to mass protests and state repression in Iran
Tom Anderson | thecanary.co | 2019-11-18
Protests are ongoing across Iran against a recent hike in fuel prices. They began on 15 November, after the Iranian government announced an end…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/11/18/fuel-price-hikes-lead-to-mass-protests-and-state-repression-in-iran/

Leaked Iranian Intelligence Reports Expose Tehran\'s Vast Web of Influence in Iraq
James Risen | theintercept.com | 2019-11-18
In mid-October, with unrest swirling in Baghdad, a familiar visitor slipped quietly into the Iraqi capital. The city had been under siege for weeks, as protesters marched in the streets, demanding an end to corruption and calling for the ouster of the prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi. In particular, they denounced the outsize influence of their neighbor Iran in Iraqi politics, burning Iranian flags and attacking an Iranian consulate. | The visitor was there to restore order, but his presence highlighted the protesters\' biggest grievance: He was Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, head of Iran\'s powerful Quds Force, and h…
theintercept.com/2019/11/18/iran-iraq-spy-cables/

Iran: Economic Blockade and Crowd Protests Were Also How the US Made the 1953 Coup
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2019-11-18
The situation in Iran eerily resembles that in summer, 1953. (Photo: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/imperialism.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/18/iran-economic-blockade-and-crowd-protests-were-also-how-us-made-1953-coup?cd-origin=rss

Hundreds pack hearing to protest Trump administration proposal to dredge San Francisco Bay
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-11-18
\"Deepening the Bay to accommodate bigger vessels carrying dirty tar sands crude oil puts communities along the water and near the refineries at risk,\" said Isabella Zizi, Climate Campaigner at Stand.earth and member of Protect the Bay.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/15/18828132.php

Major Victory as EIB Ends Fossil Fuel Financing by 2021
Andy Rowell | commondreams.org | 2019-11-18
An Extinction Rebellion protester holds up a placard saying \"Divest from climate change\" on October 14, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-11809997791.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/18/major-victory-eib-ends-fossil-fuel-financing-2021?cd-origin=rss

Protesters rally outside Japan\'s 1st arms show amid fears of a return to WWII-era militarism (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2019-11-18
Some 200 protesters gathered outside a convention center near Tokyo to demonstrate against the government-backed DSEI Japan exhibition, the country\'s first-ever arms show. | The Japanese government is hoping to garner interest from weapons manufacturers in a bid to boost its own arsenal to help counter looming regional threats from China and North Korea. | Ê≠ª\"ÅÆÂï܉∫∫\"Åä\"Åì\"Å®\"Çè\"Çä Ê≠¶Âô®Ë¶ãÊú¨&…
rt.com/news/473706-protesters-japan-arms-fair/

Brutal repression as Bolivian coup regime tries to defeat mass protests
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-11-18
For almost 14 years, Bolivia\'s government has been an example of how democratic socialism can be successful. For that reason, the US and its local allies have conspired to…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/11/18/brutal-repression-as-bolivian-coup-regime-tries-to-defeat-mass-protests/

Support the resistance to the coup in Bolivia
Sam Ordóñez | workers.org | 2019-11-18
Nov. 15 — On Nov. 10, Evo Morales, president of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, resigned, along with the vice president and the majority of his cabinet. This happened after the national police abandoned their defense of the elected government and joined right-wing protests, and the Armed Forces announced on . . . | Continue reading Support the resistance to the coup in Bolivia at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/11/44451/

Dictatorship is Preparing for a State of Siege: Evo Morales
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-18
The Bolivian President in exile, Evo Morales, said on Monday that the de facto government established in his nation is preparing for a state of siege to contain the protests against the coup. | RELATED: | Cuban Doctors Arrested, Harassed In Bolivia Return Home Safely | \"After massacreing 24 indigenous people, they now preparing for a State of Siege. It would be the confirmation that instead of respecting democracy, they installed a dictatorship,\" the Bolivian leader said via his Tw…
telesurenglish.net/news/Dictatorship-is-Preparing-for-a-State-of-Siege-Evo-Morales-20191118-0002.html

Anti-Indigenous Violence Escalates as Mass Protests Denounce Coup in Bolivia
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-18
In Bolivia, at least 23 people have died amid escalating violence since President Evo Morales, the country\'s first indigenous president, resigned at the demand of the military last week. Growing unrest quickly turned to violent chaos on Friday outside Cochabamba when military forces opened fire on indigenous pro-Morales demonstrators, killing at least nine people and injuring more than 100. The violence began soon after thousands of protesters — many indigenous coca leaf growers — ga…
truthout.org/video/anti-indigenous-violence-escalates-as-mass-protests-denounce-coup-in-bolivia/

Media Silent as Bolivia\'s New Right-Wing Gov\'t Massacres Indigenous Protesters
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-18
Both the corporate media and human rights groups have been silent as journalists and indigenous protesters have been targeted as Bolivia\'s self-declared right-wing government uses violence to secure its tenuous hold on power.
mintpressnews.com/media-silent-bolivia-massacre-indigenous-protesters/262858/

The Most Impeachable President vs. The Most Hesitant Congress. What Are The Democrats Waiting For?
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-18
Amid the worst Republican President and Republican Party in modern times, the Democrats are playing the politics of low expectations. This is not the time for Democrats to be in disarray. On Capitol Hill, the prevailing view of most Democrats is that they will cling to their House majority and they shouldn\'t expect to regain…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/18/the-most-impeachable-president-vs-the-most-hesitant-congress-what-are-the-democrats-waiting-for/

Western Media Whitewash Bolivia\'s Far-Right Coup
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Bolivia has a new US-backed puppet leader, and the Western media can hardly conceal their adulation. | Jeanine àÅñez declared herself \"interim president\" in a near-empty Senate chamber on November 12, proceeding to don the presidential sash with the assistance of …
globalresearch.ca/western-media-whitewash-bolivia-far-right-coup/5695244

US Dirty Hands Escalate Hong Kong Violence
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Months of violence and chaos in Hong Kong have US dirty hands all over them. | Orchestrated by the CIA in cahoots with other anti-democratic US agencies and anti-government Chinese hooligans, there\'s nothing spontaneous about what\'s going on endlessly. | Days earlier, …
globalresearch.ca/us-dirty-hands-escalate-hong-kong-violence/5695259

Hardline US Senators Call for Combatting China
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
On November 12, a joint press release by US Senate Foreign Relations Committee hardliners Chris Coons, Jeff Merkley, Marco Rubio, and Todd Young called for combatting China. | The so-called Global Economic Security Strategy Act of 2019 (GESS) is all about …
globalresearch.ca/hardline-us-senators-call-combatting-china/5695247

Michael Lynk\'s UN Report on Israeli Settlements Speaks the Truth, But the World Refuses to Listen
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-18
He\'s a very tall man with bright eyes and a broad smile, and he holds out a great paw when he greets you. But Michael Lynk is no gentle giant. He may teach human rights law at the Western University in London, Ontario, but as the UN\'s special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/18/michael-lynks-un-report-on-israeli-settlements-speaks-the-truth-but-the-world-refuses-to-listen/

From the Rubble of the U.S. War in Iraq, Iran Built a New Order
Jeremy Scahill | theintercept.com | 2019-11-18
The chaos unleashed by the U.S. invasion allowed Iran to gain a level of influence in Iraq that was unfathomable during the reign of Saddam.
theintercept.com/2019/11/18/us-iraq-invasion-iran/

Russia-Africa Relations: Writing off Soviet Era Debts. Miltary-Technical Cooperation
Kester Kenn Klomegah | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Long seen as a strategic partner, Russia has opened a new chapter and started building better relations with Africa, and most significantly made its move by writing off Africa\'s debts accumulated from the Soviet era. After the Soviet collapse, Russia …
globalresearch.ca/russia-africa-relations-writing-off-soviet-era-debts-miltary-technical-cooperation/5695218

After Al-Baghdadi, Islamic State Is Being Headed by Shura Council
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
In July 2015, the security officials of Afghanistan and Pakistan were holding an important meeting in Islamabad to initiate a dialogue process with the Taliban when the Afghan National Directorate of Intelligence publicly announced that Taliban chief Mullah Mohammed Omar…
globalresearch.ca/after-al-baghdadi-islamic-state-headed-shura-council/5695251

China, USA and the Geopolitics of Lithium
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
For several years since the global push to develop mass-scale Electric Vehicles, the element Lithium has come into focus as a strategic metal. Demand is enormous in China, in the EU and in the USA at present, and securing control …
globalresearch.ca/china-usa-and-the-geopolitics-of-lithium/5695346

The US-Sponsored Coup that Ousted Evo Morales. Bolivia\'s Partnership with China in Lithium Production
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Any human being who values justice and freedom would condemn the coup that ousted the Bolivian president Evo Morales on the 10th of November 2019. | Morales obtained 47.08 % of the vote to secure a fourth term as president …
globalresearch.ca/coup-ousted-morales/5695281

Brazil\'s Amazon Guardians Respond to Killing of Paulo Paulino
Native News Online | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
We\'ve lost a great warrior in our fight. They murdered our friend, our brother, our tireless companion in the defence of the forest, Paulo Paulino \"Lobo\" Guajajara. | We\'re mourning and our hearts are hurting. | Lobo was killed because he …
globalresearch.ca/amazon-guardians-respond-killing-paulo-paulino/5695293

US Politicians Ruthless in Pushing Hong Kong Bill in US Senate, Condone Mob Violence
Global Times | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
A 70-year-old cleaner died Thursday night after being struck with a brick thrown by rioters during a Wednesday street clash. He was the first Hong Kong resident directly killed from street clashes since the unrest was sparked by the since-withdrawn …
globalresearch.ca/us-politicians-pushing-hong-kong-bill/5695225

Self-proclaimed Guaido Congratulates the New Self-proclaimed in Bolivia: Believe It or Not
Orinoco Tribune | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Today Wednesday, the deputy president of the National Assembly in contempt and \"self-proclaimed\" Juan Guaidó congratulated the president in charge — and also \" self-proclaimed \" — of Bolivia, Jeanine àÅñez, after the coup d\'etat was consummated in that …
globalresearch.ca/guaido-congratulates-new-self-proclaimed-bolivia/5695231

US Threatens Sanctions on Serbia, Scrambles to Thwart Possible Russian S-400 Missile Defense Purchase
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
In a largely unreported but hugely important story that played out this week in the Balkans, Washington is putting immense pressure on Serbia to shelve future plans for acquiring Russia\'s advanced S-400 air defense missile systems. | The controversy began …
globalresearch.ca/us-threatens-sanctions-on-serbia-scrambles-to-thwart-possible-russian-s-400-missile-defense-purchase/5695201

Cuba\'s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM): 20 Years True to Fidel\'s Humanist Thought
Granma | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
Cuba\'s President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, presided the 20th anniversary celebration of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), which he described as \"a visionary project founded to improve the quality of life of those who were born and died …
globalresearch.ca/elam-20-years-true-fidel-humanist-thought/5695223

A History of U.S. Economic Warfare, from WWII to the Present
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
On the Global Research News Hour we do our best to cover a wide spectrum of topics from the environmental crisis to economic and geopolitical analysis to debunking war pre-text narratives. | We welcome listener support to maintain and improve the …
globalresearch.ca/a-history-of-u-s-economic-warfare-from-wwii-to-the-present/5695139

\"Unearthing Justice\": Canada\'s Mining Industry, Environmental and Social Impacts
Richard Fidler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
The mining industry continues to be at the forefront of colonial dispossession around the world. It controls information about its intrinsic costs and benefits, propagates myths about its contribution to the economy, shapes government policy and regulation, and deals ruthlessly …
globalresearch.ca/unearthing-justice-canadas-mining-industry-environmental-and-social-impacts/5695278

Shut Down the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC
Dévora González | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-18
On November 16, 1989, the US-trained and funded Salvadoran Atlacatl Battalion entered the grounds of El Salvador\'s Central American University (UCA) and brutally murdered six Jesuit priests, sixteen-year-old Celina Ramos, and her mother, Elba Ramos. Nineteen of the twenty-five …
globalresearch.ca/shut-down-school-americas-whinsec/5695234