UK authorities may have just provided the perfect reason why Assange\'s extradition should end
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2019-10-23
A UK authority may have just provided the perfect reason for dismissing the US extradition request for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. | Court hearing: | At a 21 October court hearing, Assange\'s lawyers made it clear to district judge Vanessa Baraitser that the US extradition request should be denied because of surveillance in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Significantly, that surveillance included the monitoring of privileged client-lawy…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/10/23/uk-authorities-may-have-just-provided-the-perfect-reason-why-assanges-extradition-should-end/

That We Live Under a Dictatorship Is Now Unquestionable: The Assange Case
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
What else can we call it when a publisher does what the New York Times did when it published the Pentagon Papers and was ruled by the Supreme Court in 1971 (New York Times Co. v. United States) to have …
globalresearch.ca/we-live-under-dictatorship-assange-case/5692847

Assange in Court
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday\'s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange\'s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. | Before I get …
globalresearch.ca/assange-court/5692834

Jill Stein: Hillary Clinton is still sabotaging progressives
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-23
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein responds to Hillary Clinton calling her a \"Russian asset\" and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/23/jill-stein-hillary-clinton-is-still-sabotaging-progressives/

Sanctions Are Part of a Failed Foreign Policy Playbook. Stop Relying on Them
Ilhan Omar | commondreams.org | 2019-10-23
Economic and sector sanctions are too often designed to inflict maximum pain on civilians, not empower them. (Photo: Syrian Refugees/Josh Zakary/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/refugeesvienna-a.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/23/sanctions-are-part-failed-foreign-policy-playbook-stop-relying-them?cd-origin=rss

US troops are staying in Syria to \'keep the oil\' — and have already killed hundreds over it
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-10-23
Hundreds of American soldiers are remaining in Syria to occupy its oil reserves and block the Syrian government from revenue…
thegrayzone.com/2019/10/23/us-troops-staying-syria-oil/

Tulsi Gabbard Isn\'t a Russian Asset. It\'s More Complicated Than That
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-23
The Nation\'s Jeet Heer discusses Hillary Clinton\'s recent remarks toward Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. Why do anti-war activists and the right wing seem to love her?
therealnews.com/stories/tulsi-gabbard-russian-asset-hillary-clinton

ExxonMobil Is Still Bankrolling Climate Science Deniers
Elliott Negin | commondreams.org | 2019-10-23
Climate activists demonstrate in Washington, D.C. in 2015. One displays a sign admonishing ExxonMobil for its complicity in furthering the climate apocalypse. (Photo: Johnny Silvercloud) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/22286952533_bee67ae3e5_o.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/23/exxonmobil-still-bankrolling-climate-science-deniers?cd-origin=rss

Elizabeth Warren and Activists Say Big Tech Companies Should Be Broken Up
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-23
Facebook continues to face growing criticism and demands that it be broken up. Massachusetts senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has repeatedly called for Facebook and other big tech companies to be broken up on antitrust grounds. Roger McNamee, a Silicon Valley investor who went from being an early supporter of Facebook to a vocal critic, speaks with us about 2020 candidates\' platforms on big tech. Antitrust regulation is \"the one issue that seems to cut across the entir…
truthout.org/video/elizabeth-warren-and-activists-say-big-tech-companies-should-be-broken-up/

Activist claims CITES exemption for finished musical instruments may set a bad precedent
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2019-10-23
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

America\'s Mission to Remake Afghanistan Has Failed
Saad Hafiz | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-23
The United States is ready to leave Afghanistan despite the latest gambit by President Trump to call off peace negotiations with the Taliban. The US intervention in the country in 2001 has turned into a trillion-dollar disaster. It was ostensibly intended to punish the Taliban for sheltering Al-Qaeda before 9/11 and to prevent the use of…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/23/americas-mission-to-remake-afghanistan-has-failed/

Somalia advancing towards \'inclusive and peaceful future\' for women, deputy UN chief
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-23
Somalia has made \"enormous strides on its path to peace and stability\", and Somali women\'s participation in peace and security efforts has \"helped advance society towards an inclusive and peaceful future\", UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said on Wednesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1049851

Better Relations Between the US and Russia Are Not in the Cards
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
By now Russians must wonder if the better relations they desire with the US are ever to be. US Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat from Hawaii is the latest peacemaker to be declared \"a Russian asset\" by Hillary, the DNC, …
globalresearch.ca/better-relations-us-russia/5692882

Video: Erdogan, Putin Reach \'Historical Deal\' on Northern Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
On October 22, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin reached an agreement to settle the situation in northeastern Syria. | According to the agreement, Turkey\'s Operation \'Peace Spring\' will continue in a limited area between Tell Abyad …
globalresearch.ca/video-erdogan-putin-reach-historical-deal-northern-syria/5692853

Ecuador\'s Austerity Measures, Repression Based on Lies AP Happily Spread
Joe Emersberger | fair.org | 2019-10-23
AP piece in the LA Times ( 10/14/19) | Bernie Sanders tweeted an Associated Press article in the LA Times ( 10/14/19) about Ecuador\'s recent protests, in which eight protesters were killed in 11 days. \"Economic elites ke…
fair.org/home/ecuadors-austerity-measures-repression-based-on-lies-ap-happily-spread/

Lebanese Join Growing Protest Wave Against Austerity and Corruption
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-23
Anti-austerity protests have swept Sudan, Egypt, Algeria, Iraq, and now Lebanon. As\'ad Abukhalil discusses how Lebanon is joining what seems like a second Arab Spring focused on a demand for social justice.
therealnews.com/stories/lebanon-protest-austerity-corruption-arab-spring

Stirrings of Basic Change Accompany Protests in Haiti
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-23
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Food availability is uncertain for 60 percent of the people. Conditions are bleak, and bleaker still from shortages, rampant political corruption, and not much to show after two years of regular street protests. In the year prior to September, security forces killed 77 people. That month protests accentuated and by October 7 they had killed at least 17 more.
counterpunch.org/2019/10/23/stirrings-of-basic-change-accompany-protests-in-haiti/

Celebrity Protesters and Extinction Rebellion
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-23
Benedict Cumberbatch. Olivia Colman. Fine actors. They believe in Extinction Rebellion, or perhaps, rebelling against the prospect of extinction. The environment thing, humanity as a damnably scandalous, ecologically damaging species. But they also believe in taking sponsorship from the very same entities who are doing their best (or worst) to engage in matters of existential…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/23/celebrity-protesters-and-extinction-rebellion/

Abusive North American Companies Pay Off Latin American Police to Harass Critics
Jen Moore | commondreams.org | 2019-10-23
Indigenous Peruvians protest mining pollution, 2015. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/peru.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/23/abusive-north-american-companies-pay-latin-american-police-harass-critics?cd-origin=rss

Mass protests continue in defiance of military crackdown in Chile
wsws.org | 2019-10-23
The military-police crackdown on protests in Chile is only one of the most shocking expressions of the global turn toward dictatorship by governments throughout the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/23/pers-o23.html

US Renews Chevron License as European Refiner Cuts Venezuela Ties over Sanctions
Lucas Koerner | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-10-23
Finnish-Venezuelan refiner Nynas is one of PDVSA\'s few remaining cash buyers.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14702

Military Spending\'s Out of Control While Slashing It Could Easily Fund Medicare for All
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-23
Something very unusual happened on Thursday, Oct. 17. The New York Times suddenly ran an article on its opinion page explaining how to cut $300 billion from the $1-trillion military budget — enough, the article explained, to fund Bernie Sanders\' proposed program for an expanded Medicare program to cover all Americans without raising a dime…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/23/military-spendings-out-of-control-while-slashing-it-could-easily-fund-medicare-for-all/

Where Are the Influentials Who Find Trump Despicable?
Ralph Nader | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
The British political philosopher, John Stuart Mill, was a man of many pithy phrases. Possibly his most widely quoted assertion is that…
globalresearch.ca/influentials-find-trump-despicable/5692836

Hillary, \"Russian Assets\" and Realignment. The Dems Morph into Neocons
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
As you may have figured out by now, Hillary Clinton, warped by her own self aggrandizement of entitlement, did Tulsi Gabbard and her Presidential campaign against interventionist wars a huge incidental favor. | While the Democrats continue to splinter and …
globalresearch.ca/hillary-russian-assets-and-realignment-the-dems-morph-into-neocons/5692873

Even CNN thinks Hillary Clinton has gone too far with her latest conspiracy theory
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-10-23
US Army veteran Tulsi Gabbard hopes to become the Democratic Party\'s presidential candidate in 2020. But because she firmly opposes devastating US regime-change wars abroad and tells the t…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/10/23/even-cnn-thinks-hillary-clinton-has-gone-too-far-with-her-latest-conspiracy-theory/

As Trump Aids and Abets Turkey\'s War Crimes, the UN Must Act
Prof. Marjorie Cohn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
Nearly two weeks have passed since Turkey launched its ground and air attack on Rojava, the autonomous region of northeast Syria, following Trump\'s sudden removal of 1,000 U.S. troops from the area. | While the United States and Turkey reached a …
globalresearch.ca/trump-aids-abets-turkey-war-crimes-un-must-act/5692841

Russian/Turkish Agreement on Northern Syria
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
When deals are struck, the devil is in the details, along with implementation of what was agreed on by all parties involved. | The historical record is clear. The US, West and Israel can never be trusted. The Russian Federation operates …
globalresearch.ca/russian-turkish-agreement-northern-syria/5692858

Betty McCollum Is Pushing Congress to Stop Subsidizing the Torture of Palestinian Children
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-23
\"The legislation I am introducing is expressly intended to end U.S. support and funding for Israel\'s systematic military detention, interrogation, abuse, torture, and prosecution of Palestinian children.\" – Betty McCollum…
mintpressnews.com/betty-mccollum-bill-military-aid-to-israel-human-rights/262462/

The Kill Team Kills Again
Ed Rampell | progressive.org | 2019-10-23
The new film illustrates how Washington\'s endless imperialist wars of aggression tragically pit Americans against not only overseas \"enemies,\" but one another.
progressive.org/dispatches/kill-team-kills-again-afghanistan-rampell-191023/

Germany, US threaten war amid Russia-Turkey summit on Syria
wsws.org | 2019-10-23
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer called for a massive European Union (EU) force to occupy northern Syria, involving up to 40,000 troops.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/23/syri-o23.html

The EU Is Rewriting World War II History to Demonize Russia
Max Parry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
Last month, on the 80th anniversary of the start of World War II, the European Parliament voted on a resolution entitled \"On the Importance of European Remembrance for the Future of Europe.\" The adopted document: | \"…Stresses that the Second World | …
globalresearch.ca/eu-rewriting-wwii-history-demonize-russia/5692802

Turkey Signals It\'s Holding Back on Resuming Syria Push
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-23
Ankara indicates it will not resume its offensive against Kurds in northeast Syria, following separate agreements reached with the U.S. and Russia.
truthdig.com/articles/turkey-signals-its-holding-back-on-resuming-syria-push/

The Russian-Turkish Deal on Syria: Who Won and Who Lost?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
Presidents Putin and Erdogan reached a deal on Syria that represents a decisive victory for Turkey while being a drastic climbdown for Damascus after President Assad vowed earlier that day that the Syrian Arab Army was \"prepared to support any …
globalresearch.ca/russian-turkish-deal-syria/5692838

Russia and Clinton\'s Election Plan B
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
America is an insular nation, exceptional only in its willful ignorance of the rest of the world. Many Americans, undoubtedly a majority, know very little about what is really going on in the world. | Millions of Americans are unable to …
globalresearch.ca/russia-clinton-election-plan-b/5692801

Former Zuckerberg Mentor: I Raised Alarm on Russian Interference But Was Ignored
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-23
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies on Capitol Hill Wednesday, where he is expected to face questioning about the company\'s cryptocurrency Libra, among other issues. Zuckerberg has faced scrutiny before, including for Facebook\'s role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. A former mentor of Zuckerberg and longtime Silicon Valley investor Roger McNamee speaks out about the company\'s dismissal of Russian interference in the election. \"They treated it like a PR problem, not a business issue,…
truthout.org/video/former-zuckerberg-mentor-i-raised-alarm-on-russian-interference-but-was-ignored/

India is Confused: where does it go from here?
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-10-23
At J. Nehru University, most students know about China and Russia only from the BBC, Reuters and other Western media outlets. Even those individuals who claim they belong to the left are not immune; influenced mainly by the British propaganda. ***** It has been like this for years: usual confusion, all around India: tough nationalistic, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/10/india-is-confused-where-does-it-go-from-here/

UN and partners call for solidarity, as Venezuelans on the move reach 4.5 million
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-23
Since 2015, approximately 4.5 million Venezuelans have fled their country as the Latin American nation\'s political, humanitarian and economic crisis drags on, creating one of the \"direst\" displacement crises in the world, the UN and European Union said on Wednesday, ahead of a solidarity conference next week.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1049871

Media Failed to Connect Climate Crisis and Utility Blackouts
Joshua Cho | commondreams.org | 2019-10-23
While California\'s wildfires are a part of the area\'s natural state, the size and intensity of the seasonal blazes have increased for decades under worsening climate change. (Photo: LA Times/Screenshot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-10-23_at_5.01.19_pm.png …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/23/media-failed-connect-climate-crisis-and-utility-blackouts?cd-origin=rss

Congress Holds Hearing on Big Oil\'s War on Climate Science
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-23
The House Oversight Committee heard testimony about the fossil fuel industry\'s multimillion dollar campaign to suppress knowledge of their contributions to the climate crisis.
therealnews.com/columns/congress-hearing-big-oil-war-on-climate-science

Trump\'s Fracking Boosterism is a Climate Calamity
commondreams.org | 2019-10-23
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/10/23/trumps-fracking-boosterism-climate-calamity?cd-origin=rss

350.org on Congressional Hearing on Exxon\'s Climate Deception: \"It\'s Time Fossil Fuel Billionaires Pay for Care and Repair\"
commondreams.org | 2019-10-23
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/10/23/350org-congressional-hearing-exxons-climate-deception-its-time-fossil-fuel?cd-origin=rss

A Glimpse of the Climate Apocalypse to Come
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-23
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica\'s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. | This article was co-published with The New York Times Magazine. | At the beginning of October, my kids\' preschool informed me that it might be closed the next day because of rolling blackouts — a radical new effort by our local power utility in Northern California to avoid sparking wildfires. The water company, faced with the shutdown of its pumps, asked us to fill our bathtubs before the cutoff. On the advice of e…
truthdig.com/articles/a-glimpse-of-the-climate-apocalypse-to-come/

Oil giant BP tries to lecture ordinary people on the climate crisis. It backfires spectacularly
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-10-23
Oil giant BP seems to be on a PR offensive at the moment. And in an apparent attempt to distract from its own massive role in global climate breakdown, it\'s essentially lecturing ordinary people on how they can do more to reduce their impact. | BP searching for sympathy: | Speaking at the One Young World conference in London, BP chief executive Bob Dudley said: It isn\'t the producers of energy only, it\'s the users of energy. We\'ve had generations of using energy… so we\'re all part of the problem. … | We [BP] want to be part of…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/10/23/oil-giant-bp-tries-to-lecture-ordinary-people-on-climate-crisis-it-backfires-spectacularly/

Trump Says US War With Iran May Be Soon, Putin/Erdogan Syria Deal & Iraq Says No US Troops Allowed
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-10-23
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 (10/22/19). 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/trump-says-us-war-with-iran-may-be-soon-putin-erdogan-syria-deal-iraq-says-no-us-troops-allowed/

Turkey is cynically using Syrian refugees in its plans to ethnically cleanse northern Syria
Tom Anderson | thecanary.co | 2019-10-23
Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan plans to move at least one million refugees from all over Syria into the areas invaded by the Turkish military and its proxies in northern Syria (aka Rojava). But Erdoƒüan\'s plans have nothing to do with th…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/10/23/turkey-is-cynically-using-syrian-refugees-in-its-plans-to-ethnically-cleanse-northern-syria/

Study Group \"A New Phase in the Syrian War\"
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-10-23
A\'Roma Roasters Coffee, 95 5th St., Santa Rosa…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/23/18827549.php

Video: US Troops Remain in Syria to Protect Oil Fields from \'Terrorists\'?
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
The US is planning to keep control of oil fields on the eastern bank of the Euphrates despite the ongoing troops withdrawal. On October 21, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters that Washington wants to be sure that ensure …
globalresearch.ca/video-us-troops-remain-syria-protect-oil-fields-terrorists/5692795

The Democrats Helped Cultivate the Barbarism of ISIS
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-23
There is something profoundly deceitful in the way the Democratic Party and the corporate media are framing Donald Trump\'s decision to pull troops out of Syria. One does not need to defend Trump\'s actions or ignore the dangers posed to the Kurds, at least in the short term, by the departure of US forces from…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/23/the-democrats-helped-cultivate-the-barbarism-of-isis/

\"Erdogan Stole Syrian Factories, Oil and Wheat and Today He Is Stealing Syrian Land\". President Al-Assad
Hamda Mustafa | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-23
President Bashar Al-Assad has stressed that the President of the Turkish regime Recep Tayyib Erdogan is a thief who stole the Syrian factories, wheat and oil and today he is stealing Syrian land. | President Al-Assad made the remarks during his …
globalresearch.ca/president-al-assad-erdogan-stole-syrian-factories-oil-wheat-syrian-land/5692850

Trump slammed for \'rewarding murder\' in Syria as he lifts sanctions on Turkey
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-10-23
Donald Trump has said he will lift sanctions on Turkey after it reportedly agreed to \'permanently\' cease hostilities against the largely-Kurdish areas of northern Syria (aka Rojava). But he has faced criticism across the board for being soft in the face of his NATO ally\'s crimes. | A new stage of the invasion: | Turkey has faced accusations of ethnic cleansing and…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2019/10/23/trump-slammed-for-rewarding-murder-in-syria-as-he-lifts-sanctions-on-turkey/

New Zealand government introduces class-based immigration restrictions
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
The Labour Party-led government has imposed draconian restrictions to prevent working class immigrants from bringing their parents to join them in New Zealand.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/nzim-o22.html

Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez use \"left\" demagogy to channel opposition to Trump behind Democrats
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
At Sanders\' first rally since his heart attack, he did not mention ongoing strikes by autoworkers and teachers, or the impeachment inquiry against Trump.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/sand-o22.html

Slow-Motion US/UK Killing of Julian Assange
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
Establishment media are in cahoots with US/UK ruling regimes against Assange for the \"crime\" of truth-telling journalism abhorred in the West — totalitarian rule where these societies are heading. | In mid-October, UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer denounced Assange\'s …
globalresearch.ca/us-uk-killing-julian-assange/5692753

Anti-Assange Court Continues Unfair Extradition Hearing to Railroad Assange to US
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
On October 21, 2019, Julian Assange appeared in court for an extradition hearing. Assange is being held in a British jail pending extradition to the United States after having served his sentence for skipping bail when he was given asylum …
globalresearch.ca/anti-assange-court-continues-unfair-extradition-hearing/5692706

Trump\'s Fake Withdrawal From Endless War
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
On Monday, October 7th, the U.S. withdrew 50 to 100 troops from positions near Syria\'s border with Turkey, and two days later Turkey invaded Rojava, the de facto autonomous Kurdish region of northeast Syria. Trump is now taking credit for a temporary, tenuous ceasefire. In a blizzard of tweets and statements, Donald Trump has portrayed…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/trumps-fake-withdrawal-from-endless-war/

Greater Middle East Project of Chaos: The Management of Savagery
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-22
The refugee crises coming out of the Middle East, generated by the forever wars and accompanying economic sanctions (more accurately, illegal unilateral coercive measures), have consequently fueled xenophobia both in the US and abroad. This, in turn, has fostered an ascendant wave of rightists. \"Trump\'s election,\" author Max Blumenthal contends, \"would not have been possible without 9/11 and the subsequent military interventionism conceived by the national security state.\"
mintpressnews.com/greater-middle-east-project-chaos-management-savagery/262449/

Video: Syrian Army Takes Control of Abandoned US Bases
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
The northeastern Syria ceasefire, agreed by Washington and Ankara, immediately collapsed. Under the terms of the reached agreement, Turkey had to halt its Operation Peace Spring for 120 hours to allow units of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-army-takes-control-abandoned-us-bases/5692688

Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
Workers are set to carry out a series of strikes and protests over the refusal of management to take any serious steps toward the removal of asbestos from trains.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/wrkr-o22.html

A Modest Goal: #usoutofafghanistan
Tom Gallagher | commondreams.org | 2019-10-22
Anti-war demonstrators protest against the announcement of a US troop increase for Afghanistan, at a rally outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on December 2, 2009. (Photo: MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-93616259.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/22/modest-goal-usoutofafghanistan?cd-origin=rss

Pro-Democracy Movement in Haiti Swells Despite Police Violence
Frances Madeson | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
It\'s getting hard not to notice that U.S. corporate media is covering pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong far more than pro-democracy forces in the Caribbean. It can be challenging to catch up on significant events in a place that\'s a mere two-hour flight from Miami; with a few exceptions, the media is largely failing Haiti…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/pro-democracy-movement-in-haiti-swells-despite-police-violence/

The Decent Protester: a Down Under Creation
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
The Decent Protester, appropriately capitalised and revered is, from the outset, one who does not protest. It is an important point: to protest in the visage of such a person is an urge best left to inner fantasy and feeling. You come late to the scene: the best work and revolt has been done; the…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/the-decent-protester-a-down-under-creation/

Protests in Haiti: An Overlooked Crisis the World Should Not Ignore
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-22
Haiti faces fuel shortages, food shortages, and corruption. Political economist Keston Perry argues that neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and climate injustice are at the root of Haiti\'s instability.
therealnews.com/stories/haiti-crisis-overlooked-climate-neoliberalism-neocolonialism

Vindictive Sentence in Catalan Leaders\' Trial Unleashes Tsunami of Protest
Dick Nichols | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
The gap between the 75%–80% of Catalans who uphold their country\'s right to self-determination, and the Spanish elites and parts of Spanish society that do not want to know anything about it, was already very wide before October 14. | But …
globalresearch.ca/catalan-leaders-trial-unleashes-protest/5692754

Nuclear Weapons and the Third Reich: Hitler\'s Military Advisor Colonel Skorzeny called for the Bombing of New York City
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
Author\'s preface: | About 18 months ago the distinguished American historian and scientist, Noam Chomsky, directed my attention through emails to Otto Skorzeny\'s \'My Commando Operations\', a book on which the below article is largely based upon — and, a …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-weapons-and-the-third-reich-hitlers-military-advisor-colonel-skorzeny-called-for-the-bombing-of-new-york-city/5692700

A Call for a Coup Plus a Week Like No Other for Tulsi Gabbard
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
There was what might be described as an extraordinary amount of nonsense being promoted by last week\'s media. Unfortunately, some of it was quite dangerous. Admiral William McRaven, who commanded the Navy Seals when Osama bin Laden was captured …
globalresearch.ca/call-coup-tulsi-gabbard/5692710

US Syria Pullout Leaves Troops in North and South
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
US aggression, occupation and control of Syrian territory is a flagrant UN Charter breach — a hard truth establishment media ignore, falsely blaming Bashar al-Assad for US-led imperial high crimes committed against his country. | The same goes for US actions …
globalresearch.ca/us-syria-pullout-leaves-troops-north-south/5692746

Haiti\'s Endless Sorrows
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
Few people anywhere have suffered as long and egregiously as Haitians. | No strangers to adversity and anguish, for over 500 years, they endured severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities. | Except …
globalresearch.ca/haiti-endless-sorrows/5692748

\'Outrageous\': Bernie rejects Hillary Clinton\'s \'foreign asset\' smear on Tulsi Gabbard
rt.com | 2019-10-22
Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has come to the defense of fellow Democratic contender Tulsi Gabbard, batting away claims — spread by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — that the dovish candidate is a \"foreign asset.\" | The progressive stalwart from Vermont took to Twitter on Monday to reject any suggestion Gabbard worked for a foreign power, as Clinton implied in a recent interview, insisting her patriotic bonafides as a combat veteran were beyond question. | \"Tulsi Gabbard has put her life on the line to defend…
rt.com/usa/471480-bernie-defends-tulsi-foreign-agent/

Trump and the Retreat of the American Empire
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
In days gone by, I used to compare the Trump presidency with the Arab dictatorships. He took preposterous pleasure in the company of Egypt\'s Sisi (60,000 political prisoners) and his inane ramblings had much in common with those of Muammar Gaddafi, who also \"authored\" a book he never wrote but whom Trump never met (albeit that Tony Blair and Gaddafi kissed each other on the cheek). But over the past week, I\'ve begun to realise that the crackpot in the White House has much more in common with ancient Rome.
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/trump-and-the-retreat-of-the-american-empire/

Climate Change Deniers Become Extinct in Canadian Election
Gary Engler | commondreams.org | 2019-10-22
(FromL) Federal party leaders, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, People\'s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, host Patrice Roy from Radio, Canada\'s Prime Minister and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet pose for pictures on October 10, 2019. (Photo: SEAN KILPATRICK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gettyimages-1175168929.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/10/22/climate-change-deniers-become-extinct-canadian-election?cd-origin=rss

Mediation Won\'t End Class War
Keith McHenry | indybay.org | 2019-10-22
Santa Cruz City Manager Martin Bernal knows who he works for and it isn\'t the residence of the city. Our city like most in the US is controlled by property speculators and transnational corporations. This is a nationwide deliberate war against those forced to live outside. A war against the poor.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/10/22/18827524.php

Workers and students speak at Sanders rally in New York
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
The WSWS discussed issues of war, healthcare and the role of the Democratic Party in capturing and destroying social movements against capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/int-o22.html

The Mother of Messes in Syria
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
What a mess. The imperial cooks in Washington have turned poor Syria into a poison pit of warring factions, with disastrous results for all. | Henry Kissinger once quipped that it is more dangerous being America\'s ally than its enemy. A …
globalresearch.ca/mother-messes-syria/5692735

The US Tore the Middle East Apart. Can They Abandon It on a Whim?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-22
The Kurds fought in U.S. wars. Iraq and Syria are dismembered. Why is no one talking about diplomacy and aid?
therealnews.com/stories/us-middle-east-abandon-kurds-syria-iraq

Human violence: Pervasive, multi-dimensional and extinction-threatening
Robert J. Burrowes | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-22
Violence is pervasive throughout human society and it has a vast range of manifestations. Moreover, some of these manifestations — particularly the threat of nuclear war (which might start regionally), the climate catastrophe and the ongoing ecological devastation, as well as geoengineering and the deployment of 5G — threaten imminent human extinction if not contained. …
nationofchange.org/2019/10/22/human-violence-pervasive-multi-dimensional-and-extinction-threatening/

A World Partnership for Ecopolitical Health and Security
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
The world in 2019 is in deep trouble. States still act in their own interest, scarcely paying attention to the evolving horrors of climate change, war, hunger, ecological impoverishment of the planet and rapidly growing population. In such a precarious ecopolitical environment, we have the United States run by a president acting like a two-year…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/a-world-partnership-for-ecopolitical-health-and-security/

Banks and the Real Estate Business Have Undermined Black Homeowners
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-22
Recent U.S. census data reveals the homeownership rate for African Americans has fallen to its lowest level since before the civil rights movement. In the second quarter of this year, the rate fell to just 40% — the lowest level since 1950. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\'s new book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership, examines the roots of this crisis. The book has just come out and has been longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. From Philadelphia…
truthout.org/video/banks-and-the-real-estate-business-have-undermined-black-homeowners/

Will the GOP Become the Party of Blue-Collar Conservatism?
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
From the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt onward through to the 1990s, the Democrats had long been considered the party of the working class. That perception lingered long after the fact that by the 1990s, they had more accurately become the party of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, often embracing policies at variance with their…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/will-the-gop-become-the-party-of-blue-collar-conservatism/

Trump Declares Victory in China Trade War
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
Back in the late 1960s, when it was clear that the United States was losing in Vietnam, Vermont Senator George Aiken came up with the plan to declare victory and leave. It seems that Donald Trump has stolen the senator\'s playbook. While we don\'t know much of the details of Trump\'s partial deal with China,…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/trump-declares-victory-in-china-trade-war/

Trump\'s Endless Wars
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
Donald Trump loves to talk about ending the endless U.S. wars that he inherited as president. He tweets about it. He endlessly criticizes his predecessors for their martial mistakes. But like the old saw about the weather, Trump talks a whole lot about endless wars but doesn\'t do anything about them. Just this month, he…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/trumps-endless-wars/

US troops withdraw across Syrian border into Iraq
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
While Trump has sought to strike a phony antiwar posture with his pullout order, the troops leaving Syria will remain in the Middle East.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/syri-o22.html

The New York Times, China, and the specter of the \"Yellow Peril\"
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
In a full-page editorial in its Sunday edition, the New York Times engaged in a vicious anti-Chinese rant, warning of a \"dangerous and growing threat\" by the \"aggressive … Communist state.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/pers-o22.html

Democrats Shouldn\'t Let Trump\'s Problems Turn Them Into the Party of War
Katrina vanden Heuvel | thenation.com | 2019-10-22
Democrats Shouldn\'t Let Trump\'s Problems Turn Them Into the Party of War…
thenation.com/article/democrats-shouldnt-let-trumps-problems-turn-them-into-the-party-of-war/

Millions of young lives at risk due to humanitarian funding shortfall: UNICEF
United Nations | un.org | 2019-10-22
\"Substantial\" shortfalls in humanitarian funding are placing the lives of millions of children in areas affected by conflict and disaster at risk, the UN Children\'s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/10/1049731

Pentagon to create \'AI assistant\' to help tank crews navigate & MAKE DECISIONS in battle
rt.com | 2019-10-22
The US Army is working on all-seeing artificial intelligence that would analyze combat data and calculate how to gain supremacy in tank warfare. The project was launched amid growing concerns about using AI in real war. | The brand new program, dubbed Project Quarterback, is aimed at providing tank crews with an AI assistant that would gather all available battlefield data, analyze it and suggest the best way to take out an enemy, Defense One reported. The effort would radically speed up the decision-making in combat, as the AI would collect data from satellites, drones, radars and soldiers\' body cams. | \"Simp…
rt.com/usa/471489-pentagon-ai-tank-warfare/

Warren\'s \'transformational\' education plan takes aim at charter schools and vouchers, vowing to make schools safe and equitable for all students
Julia Conley | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-22
\"It\'s a plan focused on supporting students from birth to college and career, and on supporting teachers throughout their careers.\"
nationofchange.org/2019/10/22/warrens-transformational-education-plan-takes-aim-at-charter-schools-and-vouchers-vowing-to-make-schools-safe-and-equitable-for-all-students/

Syrian Journalist: The West, Led by the US, Knows Erdogan Has Been Supporting ISIS for Years, Yet Chooses to Ignore this
MEMRI, Middle East Media Research Institute | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
In an article titled \"Erdogan\'s Terror, Which the West Ignores\" in the London-based daily Al-Arab, \'Ali Qassem, a Syrian journalist residing in Tunisia, castigated the West for its stance towards Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He argued that the …
globalresearch.ca/west-us-knows-erdogan-supporting-isis-years/5692682

Change the Nation You Live In
Chelli Stanley | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
First, I want to say that, despite the difficulty that it sometimes is, I absolutely believe in all People and our inherent worth. This is of paramount importance for us as humanity to understand, because without it, we will always come to cages, borders, hate, pollution, arrogance, war, greed — sicknesses galore; all that the…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/change-the-nation-you-live-in/

Everything Keeps Getting Worse for Trump\'s Toadies
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2019-10-22
Giuliani, Mulvaney, and Pompeo are getting in deeper and deeper trouble as the impeachment push accelerates.
thenation.com/article/trump-ukraine-giuliani-mulvaney/

Diplomat: Trump Linked Ukraine Aid to Demand for Probe
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-22
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Ambassador William Taylor provided lawmakers Tuesday with a vivid, detailed and what some lawmakers called \"disturbing\" account of the way President Donald Trump wanted to put the new Ukraine president \"in a public box\" by demanding a quid pro quo at the center of the impeachment probe. | In a lengthy opening statement to House investigators, Taylor described the way Trump\'s demand that \"everything\" Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wanted, including vital military aid to counter Russia, hinged on makin…
truthdig.com/articles/diplomat-provides-house-with-disturbing-account-on-ukraine/

Outrage Erupts After Trump Calls Impeachment Inquiry \"a Lynching\"
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-22
President Donald Trump took his outrageous response to House Democrats\' impeachment inquiry to a new level Tuesday morning by calling the congressional proceedings \"a lynching,\" a term that evokes the long history of racist violence against black people in the United States. | \"So some day, if a Democrat becomes president and the Republicans win the House, even by a t…
truthout.org/articles/outrage-erupts-after-trump-calls-impeachment-inquiry-a-lynching/

Trump Thinks the Emoluments Clause Is Phony
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-10-22
Trump Thinks the Emoluments Clause Is Phony…
thenation.com/article/trump-impeachment-emoluments/

Trump Threatens to Reveal Whistleblower\'s Identity
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-22
Depositions in the House\'s impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump resume on Tuesday, as investigators try to parse out whether Trump corruptly withheld military aid to Ukraine to force the U.S. ally to investigate one of his chief political opponents. | Here\'s what\'s happening on the impeachment front: | Depositions continue: Investigators will sit down on Tuesday with Bill Taylor, the American diplomat who ran the embassy in Kyiv. Taylor was thrus…
truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-to-reveal-whistleblowers-identity/

China Celebrates Revolution\'s 70 Years. Fundamental Shift in U.S./China Relations
Sara Flounders | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
October 1, 2019, was the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People\'s Republic of China. We were interested in visiting China during a time when there was a huge national celebration of what we consider an unprecedented accomplishment in …
globalresearch.ca/china-celebrates-revolutions-70-years-fundamental-shift-in-u-s-china-relations/5692770

Minnesota: Patriotic Chinese students oppose turmoil in Hong Kong
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-10-22
Minneapolis, MN – On October 18, the five-starred flag of the People\'s Republic of China fluttered in the wind, as a group of patriotic Chinese international students marched in opposition to a reactionary demonstration billed as the \"Liberty for Hong Kong March.\" | The reactionaries made their way through the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus \"in solidarity with Hong Kong people against oppression on democracy and human rights.\" Many of the \'liberators\' wore black, and the leaders of the demonstration donned yellow armbands and face masks. Their demonstration coincided with the House of Representatives…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/10/22/minnesota-patriotic-chinese-students-oppose-turmoil-hong-kong

Budget blow to Chancellor after first September borrowing hike for five years
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-10-22
Chancellor Sajid Javid has been dealt a pre-Budget blow as official figures showed the first September hike in government borrowing for five years.The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said public sector net borrowing, excluding state-owned banks, rose by £60 million to £9.4 billion year-on-year in September.This marks the first September annual rise in borrowing for five years.Chancellor Sajid Javid is set to deliver the next Budget on November 6 (David Mirzoeff/PA)The borrowing hike comes despite the government receiving a £1.1 billion dividend boost last month from part-nationalised lender…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/10/22/budget-blow-to-chancellor-after-first-september-borrowing-hike-for-five-years/

The Kurds as U.S. Sacrificial Lambs
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
How often have we heard in the last few days—from countless retired military officers and intelligence officials, security analysts, think tank talking heads—that the Kurds in Syria \"died for us\"? You know, sort of like Jesus on the cross?nAs though in fighting ISIL–a grotesque by-product of the criminal U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003–the Syrian Kurds were doing anything other than protecting their homeland?
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/the-kurds-as-u-s-sacrificial-lambs/

\'This Is the Latest Chapter of a Long History of US Betrayal of Kurds\' – Khury Petersen-Smith on the Turkish Invasion of Syria
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-10-22
Janine Jackson interviewed IPS\'s Khury Petersen-Smith about the Turkish invasion of Syria for the October 18, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/this-is-the-latest-chapter-of-a-long-history-of-us-betrayal-of-kurds/

Turkey and Russia Agree to Create \'Safe Zone\' in Syria
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-10-22
Turkey and Russia have reached an agreement that will see the withdrawal of Syrian-Kurdish forces from areas along the Turkish border.
theantimedia.com/turkey-russia-agree-create-safe-zone-syria/

US Stays In Syria, Kurds Call On Israel To Attack Turkey & US Says Israel Has \'Right\' To Attack Iran
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-10-22
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 (10/21/19). 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 …
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