Italy: Government Addresses Migration Issues With Rescue NGOs
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-26
Italy\'s Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese on Friday held a meeting in Rome with representatives of humanitarian organizations that save lives in the Mediterranean to address issues related to migration to this European country. | RELATED: | Italian Govt. Allows Ocean Viking to Bring 176 Migrants Ashore | \"It is a first step towards a direct dialogue…
telesurenglish.net/news/Italy-Government-Addresses-Migration-Issues-With-Rescue-NGOs-20191026-0003.html

Bolivians Abroad Helped Evo Secure Presidency
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-26
The reelection of Evo Morales for his fourth term as President of Bolivia was possible thanks to the votes of Bolivians residing abroad, according to an investigation carried out by Fato\'s Brazil. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Morales Officially Wins Presidency | \"Bolivian immigrants, who live in neighboring countries that have neoliberal governments, gave the winning candidate a wide margin of difference over his opponent Carlos Mesa: 61 percentage points of advantage in Brazil and 74 percentage points…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolivians-Abroad-Helped-Evo-Secure-Presidency-20191026-0002.html

The Eurozone In Crisis? New President of the European Central Bank (ECB) has a Criminal Record. Christine Lagarde
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
Lagarde was found \"guilty\" without the enforcement of a one year prison sentence. She was accused of \"negligence\" rather than \"complicity\" in a multimillion euro fraud. She was rewarded rather than penalized.
globalresearch.ca/new-president-of-the-european-central-bank-ecb-has-a-criminal-record-christine-lagarde/5691850

Butina\'s case is \'prosecutorial overreach\': She did nothing illegal, but got \'harsh sentence\' — freed gun activist\'s lawyer
rt.com | 2019-10-26
Russian gun activist Maria Butina, who has spent over a year behind bars in the US on charges of being an unregistered Russian lobbyist, was essentially innocent but was caught up in anti-Russian witch hunts, her lawyer told RT. | Butina came to the US on a student visa in 2016 and was actively involved in pro-gun circles, namely the National Rifle Association (NRA) with a stated goal of expanding gun laws in Russia, which are quite restrictive. Yet, she was detained by the FBI in July 2018 on suspicion of conspiring to infiltrate the lobby group to promote Russian interests in the US. | The American media…
rt.com/usa/471881-butina-lawyer-anti-russian-hysteria/

Right a Bell for Peace
Veteran For Peace, Chapter 101 | indybay.org | 2019-10-26
corner of Fourth and Santa Clara Streets | San Jose, California…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/25/18827604.php

Jane Fonda: Put Oil and Gas Executives on Trial
The Real News Network | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-26
Before she got arrested at her weekly #FireDrillFriday demonstration, Jane Fonda told TRNN\'s Dharna Noor that she tried to get Netflix to give her a yearlong hiatus from Grace and Frankie to continue protesting climate inaction.
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/jane-fonda-put-oil-and-gas-executives-on-trial/

SF Protesters Demand Piñera Out! Stop Military Terror In Chile
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-10-26
Dozens of Chileans and Chilean Americans protested the president and military repression in Chile…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/24/18827584.php

Hillary Clinton Spoils the Party
Jacob Bacharach | truthdig.com | 2019-10-26
In the middle of October, Hillary Clinton managed to perform a minor political miracle. By baselessly speculating that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, was a \"favorite of the Russians\" and preparing to run as an independent, she revived one of the more quixotic, eccentric and moribund campaigns of this election cycle while spoiling a primary that has proved shockingly substantive for a major party in the United States. | Gabbard \"clapped back,\" tweeting that Hillary was \"the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party.\" The congresswoman then p…
truthdig.com/articles/hillary-clinton-spoils-the-party/

Trident Is the Crime
Kathy Kelly | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-26
On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three felony counts and one misdemeanor. The defendants face 20 years in prison, yet they emerged from their trial seeming quite ready for next steps in their ongoing witness. Steve Kelly, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/trident-is-the-crime/

Climate Crisis: What Can You Do – Learn more on 11/13 at 6pm
League of Women Voters | indybay.org | 2019-10-26
League of Women Voters Oakland in collaboration with other community partners is hosting a \"Community Round-table on: Climate Crisis in Oakland: What We Can Do\".
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/26/18827622.php

Climate apocalypse is coming — says US Army, eyeing opportunities for more intervention
rt.com | 2019-10-26
A new US Army report envisions a bleak near future as a consequence of climate change, with power and water shortages, refugee flows — and also more opportunities for intervention and seizing natural resources in the Arctic. | Behind the dull title of \"Implications of climate change for the US Army\" lies a 52-page report by a team of scientists outlining apocalyptic scenarios: conflicts driven by hundreds of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels; collapse of the US power grid and transportation; and the inability of the Army itself to provide water for its troops, to name but a few. | Yet it…
rt.com/usa/471887-climate-change-pentagon-interventions/

The Frenzy About Russia Has Undermined Progressive Agendas
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-26
When Donald Trump won the presidency, crucial questions begged to be addressed: How could it happen? Was Hillary Clinton seen by voters as too close to Wall Street, too aligned with wealthy elites? Was Bernie Sanders correct that loyalty to the billionaire class would undermine the Democratic ticket\'s appeal to working-class voters? | Those were hardly the kinds of questions that Democratic Party leaders and corporate media wanted to put in the national spotlight. Instead, they quickly shifted the focus [mdash…
truthout.org/articles/the-frenzy-about-russia-has-undermined-progressive-agendas/

Government loophole sacrificed $18 billion to Big Oil
Jordan Davidson | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-26
The loophole dates back to a 1995 law that urged companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico by offering oil companies a break from paying royalties on the oil produced.
nationofchange.org/2019/10/26/government-loophole-sacrificed-18-billion-to-big-oil/

Microsoft bags $10bn Pentagon contract for JEDI \'war cloud\' project, edging out presumed frontrunner Amazon
rt.com | 2019-10-26
After months of wrangling over the bidding process, tech giant Microsoft has landed the job to develop the Pentagon\'s multi-billion dollar \"war cloud\" storage system, a contract many assumed would go to Amazon. | Dubbed JEDI for short, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure project has been in the works since November 2017, and sets out to revamp the Pentagon\'s computer storage system, upgrading to a remote \"cloud\" setup. It\'s not hard to see why tech firms have jumped at the opportunity to land the decade-long contract, however, worth a hefty $10 billion. | \"This contract will address critical and urgent…
rt.com/usa/471890-microsoft-awarded-war-cloud/

Impeachment Now? Or Never?
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2019-10-26
NPML | 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/26/18827620.php

Hundreds of thousands expected to join \'historic nationwide mobilization\' on eve of Trump impeachment vote
Jake Johnson | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-26
\"The night before the House of Representatives takes a historic vote to impeach Trump,\" progressive groups said of the anticipated action, \"we\'ll head to every congressional office and public square to declare that nobody is above the law.\"
nationofchange.org/2019/10/26/hundreds-of-thousands-expected-to-join-historic-nationwide-mobilization-on-eve-of-trump-impeachment-vote/

Justice Department probe of Russia-Trump inquiry has become a \"criminal investigation\"
wsws.org | 2019-10-26
The Trump administration is using the Justice Department investigation as a counterweight to the House impeachment inquiry.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/26/dunh-o26.html

Trump shifts from ending \"forever wars\" to sending tanks into Syria\'s oil fields
wsws.org | 2019-10-26
While pitched as a defense against ISIS, the proposed occupation of the oil fields is aimed at denying vital resources to Syria\'s government.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/26/syri-o26.html

Trump\'s Antiwar Speech Deserved a Better Reception
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-10-26
There were parts of President Trump\'s latest speech on Syria, which, if read without the sound of The Donald\'s gruff, bombastic voice, sounded a whole lot like Bernie Sanders might\'ve delivered it. | That\'s right, sandwiched between Trump\'s standard braggadocio about how he single-handedly secured \"a better future for Syria and for the Middle East,\" and his cynical pivot to decry his opponents\' supposed desire to accept \"unlimited migration from war-torn regions\" across the U.S. border, was one of the s…
truthdig.com/articles/trumps-antiwar-speech-deserved-a-better-reception/

Everyone Is Denouncing the Syrian Rebels Now Slaughtering Kurds. But Didn\'t the U.S. Once Support Some of Them?
Mehdi Hasan | theintercept.com | 2019-10-26
It\'s a lazy, cynical rewriting of history to pretend these groups have nothing to do with the U.S., or were never backed by the U.S., in their current form.
theintercept.com/2019/10/26/syrian-rebels-turkey-kurds-accountability/

More Troops/Tanks To Syria Confirmed, OPCW Whistleblower, Barr\'s PreCrime & Mossad Clinton Blackmail
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-10-26
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (10/25/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/more-troops-tanks-to-syria-confirmed-opcw-whistleblower-barrs-precrime-mossad-clinton-blackmail/

The Pentagon\'s Map of Afghanistan: An Eldorado of Mineral Wealth and Natural Resources
Nikolai Malishevski | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
Of relevance to an understanding of America\'s ongoing military and economic agenda in Afghanistan as well as its confrontation with Russia and China. First published in August 2012 (translated from Russian) | Curious information surfaced in the media [2012] — based …
globalresearch.ca/the-pentagon-s-map-of-afghanistan-an-eldorado-of-mineral-wealth-and-natural-resources/32265

More evidence of cover-up of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
wsws.org | 2019-10-26
The damning disclosures underscore why the government is intensifying its efforts to suppress media freedom.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/26/afgh-o26.html

Cocaine, Heroin, Cannabis, Ecstasy: How Big is the Global Drug Trade?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
First published in May 2014 | Of relevance to the current debate on Heroin addiction and opioids in the USA. | Narcotics is big business. | 90 percent of the heroin consumed in the US comes from Afghanistan | *** | refresh if image fails …
globalresearch.ca/cocaine-heroin-cannabis-ecstasy-how-big-is-the-global-drug-trade-2/5381210

Neoliberal Globalization: Is There an Alternative to Plundering the Earth?
Prof. Claudia von Werlhof | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
Is there an alternative to making war? Is there an alternative to destroying the planet? No one asks these questions because they seem absurd…
globalresearch.ca/neoliberal-globalization-is-there-an-alternative-to-plundering-the-earth/24403

Hundreds to walk through London overnight to raise awareness of suicide
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-10-26
Nearly 1,000 people are expected to walk across central London overnight on 26 October to raise awareness of suicide. | The Lost Hours walk, organised by mental health charity Calm, aims to give those affected by suicide \"an opportunity to deal with grief differently and defiantly\". | It is the first of its kind to be organised and will begin at 11pm. | Walkers can choose to walk a 20-mile route from Greenwich to the Oval and back again, via Big Ben, or a shorter 10-mile route that finishes at the halfway point. | \"We can\'t bring Ade back or change what has happened, but we can do something positive in his memory…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/10/26/hundreds-to-walk-through-london-overnight-to-raise-awareness-of-suicide/

Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons: The Remote Manipulation of the Human Brain
Mojmir Babacek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
From our archives. This important article first published by GR in August 2004 brings to the forefront the role of Psychotronic weapons as an instrument of modern warfare. | It should be understood, that Electromagnetic and Informational Weapons are fully operational …
globalresearch.ca/electromagnetic-and-informational-weapons-the-remote-manipulation-of-the-human-brain-2/5458103

Pillaging the World. The History and Politics of the IMF
Ernst Wolff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
The following text is the forward to Ernst Wolff\'s book entitled : Pillaging the World. The History and Politics of the IMF, Tectum Verlag Marburg, 2014, www.tectum-verlag.de. The book is available in English and German. First posted on …
globalresearch.ca/pillaging-the-world-the-history-and-politics-of-the-imf/5420397

It\'s no wonder rape survivors fear they will not be believed, commissioner warns
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-10-26
People who are raped face a \"culture of disbelief\" when trying to obtain justice, the Victims\' Commissioner for England and Wales has said.Dame Vera Baird QC said a combination of myths surrounding rape and a drop in the number of people prosecutions, despite record volumes of cases being reported to police, meant many survivors feel like they were unsupported by the criminal justice system.Dame Vera told the PA news agency how the lack of convictions was particularly disappointing given the good work of the #MeToo campaign in encouraging survivors to come forward.The former Northumbria police and crime commissio…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/10/26/its-no-wonder-rape-survivors-fear-they-will-not-be-believed-commissioner-warns/

Lithium, a Strategic Resource: Here\'s Why The US Wants To Break Bolivia To Bits With Hybrid War
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
Of relevance to the political crisis in Bolivia, first published by Global Research in August 2016 | So I was scanning Telesur\'s website the other day and a pretty interesting story caught my eye. It said that Bolivia had begun exporting …
globalresearch.ca/heres-why-the-us-wants-to-break-bolivia-to-bits-with-hybrid-war/5542595

Senator Warren is Exactly Right
Dean Baker | commondreams.org | 2019-10-26
Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaking at the Heartland Forum in Storm Lake, Iowa on March 31, 2019. (Photo: Lori Shaull/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/warren_donors_0.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/26/senator-warren-exactly-right?cd-origin=rss

Charter School Advocates Are Hypocritical and Out-of-Touch
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-26
On Monday, October 21, 2019, democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren issued her plan for K-12 public education. In it, she outlines her opposition to charter schools. A brief excerpt from a section of the plan titled, Combating the Privatization and Corruption of Our Public Schools, states: To keep our traditional public school systems strong, we …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/charter-school-advocates-are-hypocritical-and-out-of-touch/

History of World War II: America Was Providing Military Aid to the USSR, While Also Supporting Nazi Germany
Evgeniy Spitsyn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
John D. Rockefeller Jr. owned a controlling interest in Standard Oil, but the next largest stockholder was the German chemical company I. G. Farben, through which the firm sold $20 million worth of gasoline and lubricants to the Nazis.
globalresearch.ca/history-of-world-war-ii-americas-was-providing-military-aid-to-the-ussr-while-also-supporting-nazi-germany/5449378

College Education in America: \"Learning to Be Stupid in the Culture of Cash\"
Luciana Bohne | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
Incisive and provocative analysis first published by Global Research in August 2003. | You might think that reading about a Podunk University\'s English teacher\'s attempt to connect the dots between the poverty of American education and the gullibility of the American …
globalresearch.ca/college-education-in-america-learning-to-be-stupid-in-the-culture-of-cash/5324513

\"Le guerre di Siria\": resistenza, istruzioni per l\'uso
Majed Nehmé | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
\"Mentono … e sanno che mentono … e sanno che noi sappiamo che mentono … Eppure continuano a mentire sempre più forte\" | è la frase, scritta da Naguib Mahfouz, che Michel Raimbaud mette in evidenza nel suo libro \"Les | …
globalresearch.ca/le-guerre-di-siria-resistenza-istruzioni-per-luso/5693108

The Caliphate Project, Made in America. Declassified U.S. Government Documents Confirm the US Supported the Creation of ISIS
Washington\'s Blog | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
Global Research Editor\'s Note: | First published in May 2015, this article reveals not only that the ISIS is a creation of US intelligence, it also confirms that the Caliphate Project was designed in Washington. | See Screenshots Below from the title …
globalresearch.ca/newly-declassified-u-s-government-documents-the-west-supported-the-creation-of-isis/5451640

Nikola Tesla on Wireless Technology, Describes a Cell Phone Back in 1926
Nikola Tesla | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-26
\"The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature …
globalresearch.ca/nikola-tesla-on-wireless-technology-describes-a-cell-phone-back-in-1926/5498782

Man charged with killing 39 people who were found dead in the back of a lorry
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-10-26
A lorry driver has been charged with killing 39 people who were found dead in a trailer in Essex.Maurice Robinson, 25, is due to appear at Chelmsford Magistrates\' Court on 28 October.He is charged with 39 counts of manslaughter, conspiracy to traffic people, conspiracy to assist unlawful immigration and money laundering.Robinson, who is known as Mo and is from Northern Ireland, was arrested shortly after the bodies of eight women and 31 men were found in the refrigerated trailer in an industrial park in Grays in the early hours of Wednesday.The charges came after a man wanted by Essex Police as part of the invest…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/10/26/man-charged-with-killing-39-people-who-were-found-dead-in-the-back-of-a-lorry/

New blow for US imperialism as Bolivia re-elects Evo Morales
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-10-26
anti-imperialism Fiona EdwardsIssue 1243 Bolivia BoliviaOctober 26, 2019Bolivian president Evo Morales, whose government has overseen improving living standards and a dramatic reduction in poverty while in power, has been re-elected. This is yet another blow for the ongoin…
greenleft.org.au/content/new-blow-us-imperialism-bolivia-re-elects-evo-morales

A million people march in Chile to protest against the government
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-10-26
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have marched in Chile\'s capital, intensifying pressure on a government struggling to contain deadly unrest over economic hardship.The huge throng surged toward a central plaza on 25 October as participants blew whistles, banged pots and pans and carried Chilean flags and posters demanding change.The diverse crowd included students, workers, parents and their children.\"All of Chile is marching here,\" Santiago mayor Karla Rubilar said, adding that there was hope as well as sadness among the demonstrators.According to Chile\'s human rights watchdog, more than 2,000 people have been…
thecanary.co/uk/2019/10/26/a-million-people-march-in-chile-to-protest-against-the-government/

Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-25
Amid outrage over Turkey\'s atrocities against Kurdish civilians northern Syria, Max Blumenthal discusses how some of the Syrian militias committing…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/25/blowback-us-armed-moderate-rebels-slaughter-kurds-in-syria/

Can the Next President Deliver a New Social Contract for Our Survival?
James Haslam | commondreams.org | 2019-10-25
Activist outside the Congress demanding a vote to pass \' The Green New Deal\'. The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon at 4: 00 PM to begin debate on a sweeping resolution to combat climate change, the Green New Deal, which was introduced by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. Washington, D.C. March 26, 2019. (Photo: Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/we_want_green_new_deal.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/25/can-next-president-deliver-new-social-contract-our-survival?cd-origin=rss

Open Letter to PM Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, and Kevin Hollinrake
Heather Stroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-25
Dear Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Kevin Hollinrake, I feel compelled to write to you over my extreme concern regarding the health and well-being of Julian Assange. Please see the link below regarding the psychological torture that Julian Assange has been subjected to, both before leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy and since during his …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/open-letter-to-pm-boris-johnson-priti-patel-sajid-javid-and-kevin-hollinrake/

Liberating Assange: A Woeful Lack of Leadership
Al Burke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
For years there has been widespread and growing support for Julian Assange in many parts of the world. This I have learned from a variety of sources, including so-called alternative media, and queries addressed to me in consequence of my …
globalresearch.ca/liberating-assange-lack-leadership/5693079

Is Rikers Island Really Closing? Or is De Blasio Misrepresenting the NYC Council Vote?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-25
Eddie Conway spoke with organizer Albert Saint-Jean from Just Immigration about the impact of the NYC Council borough-based jail vote, about nonprofits that are funding more incarceration, and the misreporting of Rikers Jail closing.
therealnews.com/stories/rikers-closing-misrepresented-de-blasio

US military allowed to shoot at vehicles at entry ports along southern border
wsws.org | 2019-10-25
Migrants at the US-Mexico border will be treated like suspected terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/25/bord-o25.html

Seven Peace Activists Found Guilty of \"Conspiracy\" for Anti-Nuclear Protest
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-25
In Georgia, a federal grand jury on Thursday found seven Catholic peace activists guilty on three felony counts and a misdemeanor charge for breaking into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on April 4, 2018. The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, entered the base armed with hammers, crime scene tape, baby bottles containing their own blood, and an indictment charging the U.S. government with crimes against peace. The base is home to at least six nuclear ballistic missile submarines, ea…
truthout.org/video/seven-peace-activists-found-guilty-of-conspiracy-for-anti-nuclear-protest/

Trials and Tribulations with a Dead Press
Barrett Brown | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I have lived a life marked by many roles, some of them mutually exclusive. According to The Dallas Morning News, for instance, I\'m an \"investigative journalist whose prison sentence was derided by free press advocates\", as well as an \"Anonymous activist and award-winning journalist\". Also according to the Dallas Morning News, I merely…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/trials-and-tribulations-with-a-dead-press/

Clashes in Northeastern Syria Put Turkish-Russian Memorandum at Risk
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
On Tuesday, exactly two weeks after Ankara launched its cross border military operation \"Operation Peace Spring\", in northern Syria east of the Euphrates River, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Sochi for …
globalresearch.ca/clashes-northeastern-syria-put-turkish-russian-memorandum-risk/5693063

A Public Relations Scam: J Street Conference Attracts War Criminals and Zionist Liberals Alike
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-25
J Street was designed to make Zionists, particularly Israeli liberals, feel good about themselves and look good to the outside world without actually having to commit to peace.
mintpressnews.com/j-street-conference-attracts-war-criminals-zionist-liberals/262479/

Climate apocalypse is coming — says US Army, eyeing opportunities for more intervention
rt.com | 2019-10-26
A new US Army report envisions a bleak near future as a consequence of climate change, with power and water shortages, refugee flows — and also more opportunities for intervention and seizing natural resources in the Arctic. | Behind the dull title of \"Implications of climate change for the US Army\" lies a 52-page report by a team of scientists outlining apocalyptic scenarios: conflicts driven by hundreds of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels; collapse of the US power grid and transportation; and the inability of the Army itself to provide water for its troops, to name but a few. | Yet it…
rt.com/usa/471887-climate-change-pentagon-interventions/

Liberating Assange: A Woeful Lack of Leadership
Al Burke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
For years there has been widespread and growing support for Julian Assange in many parts of the world. This I have learned from a variety of sources, including so-called alternative media, and queries addressed to me in consequence of my …
globalresearch.ca/liberating-assange-lack-leadership/5693079

Liberating Assange: A Woeful Lack of Leadership
Al Burke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
For years there has been widespread and growing support for Julian Assange in many parts of the world. This I have learned from a variety of sources, including so-called alternative media, and queries addressed to me in consequence of my …
globalresearch.ca/liberating-assange-lack-leadership/5693079

Open Letter to PM Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid, and Kevin Hollinrake
Heather Stroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-25
Dear Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, Sajid Javid and Kevin Hollinrake, I feel compelled to write to you over my extreme concern regarding the health and well-being of Julian Assange. Please see the link below regarding the psychological torture that Julian Assange has been subjected to, both before leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy and since during his …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/open-letter-to-pm-boris-johnson-priti-patel-sajid-javid-and-kevin-hollinrake/

US military allowed to shoot at vehicles at entry ports along southern border
wsws.org | 2019-10-25
Migrants at the US-Mexico border will be treated like suspected terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/25/bord-o25.html

Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-25
Amid outrage over Turkey\'s atrocities against Kurdish civilians northern Syria, Max Blumenthal discusses how some of the Syrian militias committing…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/25/blowback-us-armed-moderate-rebels-slaughter-kurds-in-syria/

Can the Next President Deliver a New Social Contract for Our Survival?
James Haslam | commondreams.org | 2019-10-25
Activist outside the Congress demanding a vote to pass \' The Green New Deal\'. The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon at 4: 00 PM to begin debate on a sweeping resolution to combat climate change, the Green New Deal, which was introduced by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. Washington, D.C. March 26, 2019. (Photo: Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/we_want_green_new_deal.jpg …
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Can the Next President Deliver a New Social Contract for Our Survival?
James Haslam | commondreams.org | 2019-10-25
Activist outside the Congress demanding a vote to pass \' The Green New Deal\'. The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday afternoon at 4: 00 PM to begin debate on a sweeping resolution to combat climate change, the Green New Deal, which was introduced by freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey. Washington, D.C. March 26, 2019. (Photo: Aurora Samperio/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/we_want_green_new_deal.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/25/can-next-president-deliver-new-social-contract-our-survival?cd-origin=rss

Is Rikers Island Really Closing? Or is De Blasio Misrepresenting the NYC Council Vote?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-25
Eddie Conway spoke with organizer Albert Saint-Jean from Just Immigration about the impact of the NYC Council borough-based jail vote, about nonprofits that are funding more incarceration, and the misreporting of Rikers Jail closing.
therealnews.com/stories/rikers-closing-misrepresented-de-blasio

Trials and Tribulations with a Dead Press
Barrett Brown | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I have lived a life marked by many roles, some of them mutually exclusive. According to The Dallas Morning News, for instance, I\'m an \"investigative journalist whose prison sentence was derided by free press advocates\", as well as an \"Anonymous activist and award-winning journalist\". Also according to the Dallas Morning News, I merely…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/trials-and-tribulations-with-a-dead-press/

Trials and Tribulations with a Dead Press
Barrett Brown | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I have lived a life marked by many roles, some of them mutually exclusive. According to The Dallas Morning News, for instance, I\'m an \"investigative journalist whose prison sentence was derided by free press advocates\", as well as an \"Anonymous activist and award-winning journalist\". Also according to the Dallas Morning News, I merely…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/trials-and-tribulations-with-a-dead-press/

Seven Peace Activists Found Guilty of \"Conspiracy\" for Anti-Nuclear Protest
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-25
In Georgia, a federal grand jury on Thursday found seven Catholic peace activists guilty on three felony counts and a misdemeanor charge for breaking into the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base on April 4, 2018. The activists, known as the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, entered the base armed with hammers, crime scene tape, baby bottles containing their own blood, and an indictment charging the U.S. government with crimes against peace. The base is home to at least six nuclear ballistic missile submarines, ea…
truthout.org/video/seven-peace-activists-found-guilty-of-conspiracy-for-anti-nuclear-protest/

2019-10-25: News Headlines
Staff | south-america.positiveuniverse.com | 2019-10-25
• Colombia Diary: Higher Ed Under Threat. | • Activist claims CITES exemption for finished musical instruments may set a bad precedent. | • Mass protests spread to Bolivia after a disruption in electoral broadcasts. | • SF Protesters Demand Piñera Out! Stop Military Terror In Chile.
south-america.positiveuniverse.com/2019/10/25/2019-10-25-News-Headlines/

2019-10-25: News Headlines
Staff | south-america.positiveuniverse.com | 2019-10-25
• 2019-10-25: News Headlines. | • Colombia Diary: Higher Ed Under Threat. | • Activist claims CITES exemption for finished musical instruments may set a bad precedent. | • Mass protests spread to Bolivia after a disruption in electoral broadcasts.
south-america.positiveuniverse.com/2019/10/25/2019-10-25-News-Headlines/

Activist claims CITES exemption for finished musical instruments may set a bad precedent
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2019-10-25
The handmade guitar made by the author of this story around 34 years ago is partially made of East Indian rosewood and Brazilian rosewood. It would be confiscated by government officials if it was taken across an international border.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/23/18827550.php

A Public Relations Scam: J Street Conference Attracts War Criminals and Zionist Liberals Alike
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-25
J Street was designed to make Zionists, particularly Israeli liberals, feel good about themselves and look good to the outside world without actually having to commit to peace.
mintpressnews.com/j-street-conference-attracts-war-criminals-zionist-liberals/262479/

Clashes in Northeastern Syria Put Turkish-Russian Memorandum at Risk
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
On Tuesday, exactly two weeks after Ankara launched its cross border military operation \"Operation Peace Spring\", in northern Syria east of the Euphrates River, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Sochi for …
globalresearch.ca/clashes-northeastern-syria-put-turkish-russian-memorandum-risk/5693063

2019 Global Peace Forum on Korea — \"Making Connections: Global Challenges, Korea, and Peaceful Coexistence\"
Dr. Kiyul Chung | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
On September 28, 2019 Global Peace Forum on Korea (2019 GPFK), initially proposed by a nonprofit, educational organization, (21cir), was held throughout the day at Italian Academy of Columbia University in New York City …
globalresearch.ca/2019-global-peace-forum-korea-making-connections-global-challenges-korea-peaceful-coexistence/5693019

Central African Republic: \'Transform dreams of peace into reality\': mission chief tells Security Council
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-10-25
Updating the Security Council on the situation in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Friday, the head of the UN Mission in the country, MINUSCA, called on the country\'s friends and partners, including the Council, to \"transform the dreams of peace, prosperity and development of millions of Central Africans into a lasting reality\".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1050041

Chilean Protesters Report Sexual Assault by Military and Riot Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-25
Content Warning: As mobilizations against the government continue in Chile, reports are surfacing of violence and sexual abuse against women involved in the protests. | In Chile over the last several days, multiple allegations were made by human rights and feminist organizations concerning beatings, abuses, and threats of rape against women participating in the protests and cacerolazos (demostrations in which protesters bang pots and pans). | In the wake of arrests and attacks on protesters, women ar…
truthout.org/articles/chilean-protesters-report-sexual-assault-by-military-and-riot-police/

Over 1 Million People March in Chile\'s Largest Protest
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-25
About one million people are marching in the streets of the Chilean capital, responding to the convocation of students and labor unions who organized on social media \"The Largest March in Chile\" on Friday afternoon, with rallies paralyzing major cities. | RELATED: | Chile Unrest: Rights Groups Warn of Dictatorship-Like Practices | The march started between 5-6 p.m., local time, from the Plaza Italia, demanding among others the government to send back the Armed Forces to their m…
telesurenglish.net/news/Over-1-Million-People-March-in-Chiles-Largest-Protest-20191025-0008.html

Hezbollah Leader Calls for Protesters to Meet with Government
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-25
Lebanon\'s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned on Friday that nationwide protests could push the country into chaos, collapse and, \"God forbid\", civil war. | RELATED: | Lebanese President Vows to Meet with Protestes to Ease Tensions | Supporters of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group with widespread influence in Lebanon, meanwhile scuffled with anti-government protesters who have been on the streets for days, angered by corruption and the near collapse of the econom…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hezbollah-Leader-Calls-for-Protesters-to-Meet-with-Government-20191025-0003.html

At Least 2 Dead, 350 Wounded as Major Anti-Government Protests Resume in Iraq
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-10-25
Iraqi security forces used tear gas and stun grenades to repel crowds marching towards the Green Zone.
theantimedia.com/two-dead-major-protests-resume-iraq/

Hezbollah Leader Calls for Protesters to Meet with Government
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-25
Lebanon\'s Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned on Friday that nationwide protests could push the country into chaos, collapse and, \"God forbid\", civil war. | RELATED: | Lebanese President Vows to Meet with Protestes to Ease Tensions | Supporters of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group with widespread influence in Lebanon, meanwhile scuffled with anti-government protesters who have been on the streets for days, angered by corruption and the near collapse of the econom…
telesurenglish.net/news/Hezbollah-Leader-Calls-for-Protesters-to-Meet-with-Government-20191025-0003.html

Jane Fonda: Put Oil and Gas Executives on Trial
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-25
Before she got arrested at her weekly #FireDrillFriday demonstration, Jane Fonda told TRNN\'s Dharna Noor that she tried to get Netflix to give her a yearlong hiatus from Grace and Frankie to continue protesting climate inaction.
therealnews.com/stories/jane-fonda-oil-gas-executives-protest

Uprisings: From climate to austerity, autumn protests engulf the world
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-25
Solving the climate crisis with ambitious policy programs like Green New Deals might help to alleviate some of the suffering caused by the austerity that is breaking the backs of working people in rich and poor countries alike.
nationofchange.org/2019/10/25/uprisings-from-climate-to-austerity-autumn-protests-engulf-the-world/

Uprisings: From climate to austerity, autumn protests engulf the world
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-25
Solving the climate crisis with ambitious policy programs like Green New Deals might help to alleviate some of the suffering caused by the austerity that is breaking the backs of working people in rich and poor countries alike.
nationofchange.org/2019/10/25/uprisings-from-climate-to-austerity-autumn-protests-engulf-the-world/

2019-10-25: News Headlines
Staff | syria.positiveuniverse.com | 2019-10-25
• October 18, 2019, show | • Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria. | • Hezbollah Leader Calls for Protesters to Meet with Government. | • Lebanese President Vows to Meet with Protestes to Ease Tensions…
syria.positiveuniverse.com/2019/10/25/2019-10-25-News-Headlines/

2019-10-25: News Headlines
Staff | syria.positiveuniverse.com | 2019-10-25
• October 18, 2019, show | • Blowback: US-armed \'moderate rebels\' slaughter Kurds in Syria. | • Hezbollah Leader Calls for Protesters to Meet with Government. | • Lebanese President Vows to Meet with Protestes to Ease Tensions…
syria.positiveuniverse.com/2019/10/25/2019-10-25-News-Headlines/

Iraqi Police Fire Shots, Tear Gas at Protesters; 23 Killed
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-25
BAGHDAD — Iraqi police fired live shots into the air as well as rubber bullets and dozens of tear gas canisters Friday to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters, sending young demonstrators running for cover and enveloping a main bridge in the capital Baghdad with thick white smoke. Twenty-three protesters were killed and dozens were injured, security officials said. | The confrontations began early in the morning after anti-government demonstrations resumed, following a three-week hiatus. The protests began Oct. 1 over corruption, unemployment and lack of basic services but quickly turned deadly…
truthdig.com/articles/iraqi-police-fire-shots-tear-gas-at-protesters-23-killed/

The Neoliberal Ghost of Pinochet Is Finally Being Exorcised from Chile
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
More than 46 years of initially military imposed neoliberalism has finally exploded into widespread frustration, protest and violence. This neoliberalism culminated in 2017 with twelve businessmen, among them Chilean President Sebastián Piñera, monopolizing at least 17% of the national …
globalresearch.ca/neoliberal-ghost-pinochet-finally-being-exorcised-chile/5693077

SF Protesters Demand Piñera Out! Stop Military Terror In Chile
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-10-25
Dozens of Chileans and Chilean Americans protested the president and military repression in Chile…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/24/18827584.php

The Indigenous Voices of Ecuador\'s General Strike
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-25
Massive protests forced President Moreno into a negotiation with indigenous opposition movements, which was broadcast on live TV. The leaders seemed to school the president and his ministers, and he eventually canceled the IMF-required austerity decree. We spoke to some of those leaders.
therealnews.com/stories/indigenous-voices-of-ecuador-general-strike

With Little Fanfare, William Barr Formally Announces Orwellian Pre-Crime Program
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-25
A recent memorandum authored by Attorney General William Barr announced a new \"pre-crime\" program inspired by \"War on Terror\" tactics and is set to be implemented next year.
mintpressnews.com/william-barr-formally-announces-orwellian-pre-crime-program/262504/

All That is Holy is Profaned: Beyond Ruling Class Trumpeachment
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
Trump is both a policy and a public relations disaster for the American Empire, whose benefits revert to the wealthy Few and whose costs are born by the rest of us. He is hastening the end of the \"The American Century.\" Trump is bad for the brand as well the operations of the Empire. In his small hands and big Twitter feed, the solid and doctrinally mandatory sense that \"exceptional\" and \"good\" America \"stands taller and sees farther\" (former Secretary of State Madeline Albright not long after she went on national television to proclaim that the killing of half a million Iraqi children by U.S.-imposed economic sa…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/all-that-is-holy-is-profaned-beyond-ruling-class-trumpeachment/

All That is Holy is Profaned: Beyond Ruling Class Trumpeachment
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
Trump is both a policy and a public relations disaster for the American Empire, whose benefits revert to the wealthy Few and whose costs are born by the rest of us. He is hastening the end of the \"The American Century.\" Trump is bad for the brand as well the operations of the Empire. In his small hands and big Twitter feed, the solid and doctrinally mandatory sense that \"exceptional\" and \"good\" America \"stands taller and sees farther\" (former Secretary of State Madeline Albright not long after she went on national television to proclaim that the killing of half a million Iraqi children by U.S.-imposed economic sa…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/all-that-is-holy-is-profaned-beyond-ruling-class-trumpeachment/

She Deserves Our Support: Betty McCollum Wants US to Stop Subsidizing Torture of Palestinian Children
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
In December 2018, 17-year-old Palestinian teen, Ayham Sabah, was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 35 years in prison for his alleged role in a stabbing attack targeting an Israeli soldier in an illegal Jewish settlement in the West Bank. Sabah was only 14 years old when the alleged attack took place. Another alleged…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/she-deserves-our-support-betty-mccollum-wants-us-to-stop-subsidizing-torture-of-palestinian-children/

Beirut is Burning: Why I Don\'t Blame the Rioters
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I thought the days when I kicked burning tyres off roads had ended. I used to clear the road in Belfast in 1972. Then, often, I did the same in Beirut. But there I was yesterday, as my faithful driver Selim waited patiently for me to shake hands with the local militiaman and explain why…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/beirut-is-burning-why-i-dont-blame-the-rioters/

Beirut is Burning: Why I Don\'t Blame the Rioters
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
I thought the days when I kicked burning tyres off roads had ended. I used to clear the road in Belfast in 1972. Then, often, I did the same in Beirut. But there I was yesterday, as my faithful driver Selim waited patiently for me to shake hands with the local militiaman and explain why…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/beirut-is-burning-why-i-dont-blame-the-rioters/

Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South
James North | thenation.com | 2019-10-25
Coffee Prices Have Collapsed, Threatening the Livelihood of Millions Across the Global South…
thenation.com/article/coffee-starbucks-honduras-fairtrade/

US Reoccupation of Northern Syria? Turkish Aggression Halted?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-25
Time and again, things aren\'t as they seem, Trump\'s ordered withdrawal of US forces from northern Syria the latest example — saying one thing, then going another way, going along with his geopolitical team\'s permanent war agenda. | Commenting on the …
globalresearch.ca/us-reoccupation-northern-syria-turkish-aggression-halted/5693041

Tulsi Gabbard ditches congressional race to focus on presidential — triggering #TulsiStein conspiracy theorists
rt.com | 2019-10-25
Democratic presidential hopeful Tulsi Gabbard has abandoned her race for re-election in Hawaii to focus on securing her party\'s presidential nomination, kicking the \'Russian asset\' conspiracy theorizing into high gear. | Gabbard announced on Friday that she would not seek re-election to Congress, declaring she would focus instead on the presidential race. Promising to \"end our interventionist foreign policy of being the world\'s police, toppling dictators and governments we don\'t like, and redirect our precious resources towards serving the needs of the people here at home,\" she \"humbly\" asked her Hawaii consti…
rt.com/usa/471865-tulsi-gabbard-president-stein-conspiracy/

Excluding the Civic Community Excludes Life-Savers
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
The lawmakers are doing it. The candidates are doing it. The mass media are doing it. All are excluding from their arenas the leading citizen groups as never before, since the early nineteen sixties. The nonprofit national advocacy/research organizations that led the way for social reforms are being shut out of the political process. These…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/excluding-the-civic-community-excludes-life-savers/

The NBA, China and Trump
Michael Doliner | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
How about the hapless NBA? Daryl Morey, general manager of the Houston Rockets basketball team, tweeted support for the rioters in Hong Kong. The United States is openly fomenting this often quite violent insurrection. I have no idea whether Mr. Morey knew of the beating of the journalist Fu Guohao or the involvement of American official Julie Eadeh in…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/the-nba-china-and-trump/

George Soros says all his \'enemies\' are wannabe dictators as he drops unprecedented wads of lobbying cash
rt.com | 2019-10-25
In the world of billionaire financier George Soros, his critics are \"would-be dictators\" who will not succeed. Meanwhile, under Trump, the Open Society founder has been pouring greater sums into lobbying than ever before. | \"I\'m very proud of the enemies I have,\" he told the New York Times in an interview published Friday, in which he confidently predicted the popular opposition to his globalist philosophy was winding down and that a backlash against Trump-style nationalism was on the horizon. | It\'s a perfect way to tell a dictator or a would-be dictator, if he identifies me as an enemy. | Soros slammed the U…
rt.com/usa/471880-soros-enemies-dictators-lobbying-china/

The Racial Wealth Divide Hurts the Entire Middle Class
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
Americans are more aware than ever that America has a race problem — and, more specifically, a racial wealth divide problem. As researchers from the Institute for Policy Studies and I found earlier this year, median white families are 41 times wealthier than median Black families in the United States. As our country becomes more…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/the-racial-wealth-divide-hurts-the-entire-middle-class/

Whitewashing neoliberal repression in Chile and Ecuador
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-10-25
If the first casualty of war is truth, its self-anointed purveyors in the international media have much blood on their hands indeed. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/10/25/whitewashing-neoliberal-repression-in-chile-and-ecuador/

Secular Humanism: Bane of Civilizations
Zahir Ebrahim | Project Humanbeingsfirst | indybay.org | 2019-10-25
Secular Humanism is intended to become the \"religion\" of the World Order in the making. Its purpose is to disarm the populations of all resistance by removing theism from their midst; the higher moral authority that confers absolute standards and invites mankind toward hope and breaking the bonds of servitude to fellow man. It is easier to make slaves of the public mind with no higher authority other than the world government, big brother if you will, which shall rule the public mind in such a way that mankind shall come to love its own servitude. That\'s the agenda.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/23/18827564.php

The Essence of War
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-25
Many US teenage boys in the late 1960s and early 1970s grew up wondering if they would end up in the jungles of Vietnam when they reached draft age. Some could hardly wait to go fight in their idealized version of honor and glory. Some knew by the time they were sixteen that they would…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/25/the-essence-of-war/

Typhoon wreaks havoc in Japan
wsws.org | 2019-10-25
The storm was the most powerful to hit Japan in decades and is part of an uptick in natural disasters in the region influenced by warming seas.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/25/typh-o25.html