Staff (2019-10-12). Trump Spouts Conspiracy Theories and Attacks Omar at Minnesota Rally. therealnews.com Trump\'s attacks on the impeachment process and Minnesota\'s Somali-refugee community are an appeal to America\'s far-right militia movement, say professors Joe Lowndes and Gerald Horne.

Staff (2019-10-12). AP Fact Check: Trump\'s Shoddy Information on Syria, Impeachment, More. truthdig.com The Associated Press refutes a number of the president\'s latest statements on the U.S. economy, Syria and Turkey, ISIS and more.

RT (2019-10-12). Colossal WASTE in US healthcare spending surpasses military budget at nearly $1 trillion per year, study says. rt.com Waste and needless spending in America\'s healthcare system could amount to almost $1 trillion each year, topping total US military expenditures in 2019 — the world\'s largest defense budget — according to new research. | Encompassing administrative overhead, fraud and abuse, inflated pricing and other inefficiencies, a study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found the cumulative waste in US healthcare ranged from $760 billion to $935 annually, or 25 percent of what Americans spend each year o…

The Canary (2019-10-12). Doctors join climate change protest to warn of health dangers. thecanary.co More than 100 healthcare professionals have joined the sixth day of climate change protests in London.Doctors, nurses and medical students were among those demonstrating at Jubilee Gardens, near oil giant Shell\'s London HQ, on Saturday in the \"Health March for the Planet\".Several protesters leading the crowd wore hospital face masks, while others carried Extinction Rebellion flags and signs reading: \"Climate change is a health issue.\"Doctors and other health workers took part in the protest in London\'s Jubilee Gardens (Dominic Lipinski/PA)Alex Turner, 36, a paediatric and emergency doctor from Bristol who was wea…

Alleen Brown (2019-10-12). Can Extinction Rebellion Build a U.S. Climate Movement Big Enough to Save the Earth? theintercept.com To members sincere in their belief that a mass-appeal movement is what\'s needed to quell catastrophe, drawing in front-line communities is life or death.

Michael Howard (2019-10-12). Don\'t Miss Joker. dissidentvoice.org I seldom go to the movies anymore as I nearly always leave underwhelmed. There have been exceptions in recent years—The Martian, Birdman—but in general the most hallowed films out of Hollywood (modern ones, anyway) don\'t resonate with me at all. They\'re more confusing and alienating than anything else. How is it that so many people …

RT (2019-10-12). 4 dead, 4 injured in shooting at Brooklyn gambling den. rt.com Four people were killed and four injured in a shooting in Brooklyn\'s Crown Heights neighborhood. The incident took place at a private club on Utica Avenue, that police believe was being run as an \"illegal gambling location.\" | Gunfire broke out shortly before 7am on Saturday at the club, NYPD Chief Dermot Shea told a press conference. Four men aged between 32 and 49 were shot dead and three people, two men and a woman, were wounded. Aother victim suffered a leg injury while fleeing the scene. | The wounded were taken to nearby hospitals, and police recovered two firearms in the club. According to Shea, there w…

WSWS (2019-10-12). US immigration policies sending thousands of children, including babies, back to Mexico. wsws.org The Trump administration has ordered 16,000 migrants under the age of 18 to await their US immigration court hearings in Mexico, including nearly 500 infants.

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-10-12). Ecuador under President Neo-coño Moreno: The IMF\'s Deadly \"Economic Medicine\", The Weaponization of Neoliberal Reforms. globalresearch.ca Lenin Moreno: aka Neocon Moreno | A popular insurrection is unfolding against the adoption of sweeping IMF reforms imposed by the \"centre left\" government of President Lenin Moreno. | In March 2019, a 4.2 billion dollar IMF loan was granted to Ecuador….

Martin Armstrong (2019-10-12). IMF Hands $4.2 Billion in Loans for Ecuador for Julian Assange. globalresearch.ca This article was first published in April 2019, following the granting of a $4.2 billion IMF loan to Ecuador. | It should be understood that the conditions underlying this loan are intended to impoverish an entire country. | The IMF policy conditionalities …

WSWS (2019-10-12). Six months since the brutal arrest of WikiLeaks\' publisher Julian Assange. wsws.org While Assange is subjected to what amounts to torture in a British prison, the war criminals he has done so much to expose walk free.

teleSUR (2019-10-12). Ecuador: Supposed \'Peace Zone\' Looks Like A \'War Zone\' in Quito. telesurenglish.net The social struggle did not abate in Ecuador despite attempts by the government to quell the protests on the tenth day of the demonstrations. During the early hours on Saturday, Ecuadorean olice fired tear gas and live ammo at the Indigenous people, farmers, workers and students who remained protesting near the National Assembly in Quito. | RELATED: | Ecuador: Riot Police Fire Tear Gas, Live Ammo at Protesters | Thousands of people from the Amazon region and the Andean highlands arr…

teleSUR (2019-10-12). Iran Says They Are Ready For Peace Talks With Saudi Arabia. telesurenglish.net The Islamic Republic of Iran announced on Saturday that they are prepared to hold talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, with or without the help of a mediator. | RELATED: | US Deploys Large Force to Saudi Arabia | The Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that the rumors about Pakistan\'s President Imran Khan mediating a potential meeting between Tehran and Riyadh were untrue. According to the Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi: \"I am not aware of any mediation,\" he told state broadcaster I…

East Bay Peace Action (2019-10-12). Speaker Pennie Opal Plant on \"Let Us Save the World Together\" indybay.org Fred Weaver Resident Center, St. Paul\'s Tower, second floor, 100 Bay Pl, Oakland, CA 94610 (near 27th and Harrison)…

Staff (2019-10-12). Ecuador\'s Indigenous Leaders Willing to Talk After Fuel-Price Protests. truthdig.com QUITO, Ecuador — Indigenous leaders of fuel-price protests that have paralyzed Ecuador\'s economy for nearly a week said Saturday they are willing to negotiate with President Lenín Moreno, signaling a possible exit from the crisis even as violence prompted the president to impose a curfew in the capital and surrounding areas. | Moreno said the military-enforced curfew would begin at 3 p.m. local time in response to breakouts of violence in areas previously untouched by the protests. Around 1 p.m., masked protesters broke into the national auditor\'s office and set it ablaze, sending black smoke billowing acro…

teleSUR (2019-10-12). Ecuador: \'No Place to Hide\', More Cities Reject Neoliberalism. telesurenglish.net For the first time in the history of the Republic of Ecuador, the government headquarters was transferred from Quito, the capital city, to Guayaquil on October 7. | President Lenin Moreno made the decision amid growing protests against the policy package implemented to secure an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan. | The decision also happened a week after Moreno declared a State of Exception, a legal move which allows the government to restrict civil and political rights. | Closure of alternative media, detention of hundreds of people and other measures to halt citizen protest, however, would appear to have h…

Harvey Goldberg (2019-10-12). National strike paralyzes Ecuador on Seventh Day of Protests. indybay.org The strike dramatically impacted Cuenca on Wednesday. Streets were largely deserted of vehicle traffic. There was no taxi or bus service. Police and army officers blocked off the central square in downtown Cuenca. A huge march of workers, students, and indigenous people gathered before noon. Things calmed down during mid-day, but in the evening there were running battles between protesters and security forces, which responded by lobbing teargas canisters.

Harvey Goldberg (2019-10-12). Scenes from protests against government in Cuenca, Ecuador. indybay.org (Video 1: 51) | Anti-austerity protests in Cuenca, Ecuador | October 9, 2019…

Graham Peebles (2019-10-12). Climate Change: All Talk No Action. dissidentvoice.org Awareness of climate change and the interconnected environmental crisis is growing throughout the world. Protest movements led by Extinction Rebellion and School Strike for Climate increase in number and scope, demands for action are repeated, louder and louder, anger and anxiety mounts. And yet politicians and corporations, complacent, trapped by outdated ideology and motivated by …

Ralph Nader (2019-10-12). The Ukraine Shakedown Is Important, But Not Sufficient to Let People Realize All the Other Things Trump Is Doing. commondreams.org It is time for the House of Representatives to announce comprehensive articles of impeachment against the chronic outlaw and violator of the public trust—President Donald J. Trump who won the Electoral College, but lost the popular vote.

Staff (2019-10-12). Pentagon Confirms US Forces in Syria Came Under Turkish Artillery Fire. truthout.org | | As tens of thousands of civilians flee northeast Syria amid Turkey\'s ongoing offensive targeting Kurdish forces in the region — an operation enabled by U.S. President Donald Trump — the Pentagon confirmed…

teleSUR (2019-10-12). Turkish Military Advances into Syrian Border City. telesurenglish.net Turkish-backed Syrian rebels advanced into Ras al Ain in northeast Syria on Saturday but it was unclear how far, with Turkey saying the town center had been taken and Kurdish-led forces denying this and saying they were counter-attacking. | RELATED: | Turkey Advances in Northeast Syria Despite US, EU Criticism | The battle for Ras al Ain raged as Turkey pursued a four-day-old, cross-border offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia despite an outcry from the United States and Europ…

WSWS (2019-10-12). New Anti-capitalist Party demands military escalation against Turkey in Syria. wsws.org The Pabloite NPA bitterly opposes a struggle to unify the working class internationally in a movement against imperialist war and the Middle Eastern bourgeoisie.

CADTM (2019-10-12). Ecuador: Brutal Economic Policies, The IMF \"Economic Package\" (\"Paquetazo\"). globalresearch.ca With a stubborn position that borders on political suicide, the government of Lenin Moreno, during the seventh day of massive and combative Popular Unemployment, has preferred to repress thousands of indigenous, students, settlers and workers who have risen throughout the …

teleSUR- EF (2019-10-12). Quito Militarized, Under Curfew. telesurenglish.net Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno declared Saturday afternoon, with a 30 minute warning, that his government was putting the capital city of Quito under a curfew starting at 3: 00 p.m. local time and declared the city and its surrounding a \"militarized\" zone. | RELATED: | Ecuador: CONAIE Accepts Direct Dialogue With President Moreno | In a press conference flanked by Vice President Otto Sonnenholzner and Defense Minister Oswaldo Jarrin, the president said the measure was being ta…

WSWS (2019-10-12). Five dead and almost 1,000 arrested as repression mounts in Ecuador. wsws.org The Ombudsman Office of Ecuador confirmed that the repression has left 5 demonstrators killed, 554 injured, and 929 arrested. These numbers, however, conceal the brutality of the repression.

Michael Harris (2019-10-12). A New Beginning For California Pan African Global Trade and Investment. indybay.org The State of California is poised to join The global competition with India, Europe, China and the rest of the world to expan Trade and Investment with the Pan African Diaspora, over 1.4 billion people globally.

John Nichols (2019-10-12). Here\'s an Idea: Don\'t Pay Them. thenation.com Here\'s an Idea: Don\'t Pay Them…

Staff (2019-10-12). Henry A. Giroux on Neoliberal Ideology and the Road to Fascism. truthout.org | | How has neoliberalism paved the way for the rise of far right ideologies and populists around the world? As demonstrated in the elections of, and policies enacted by, such leaders as Donald Trump in the United States, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil and Viktor Orbán in Hungary, a \"neoliberal fascism\" is emerging globally. As Henry elaborates in his book The Terror…

WSWS (2019-10-12). Right-wing extremist network behind fascist synagogue attack in Germany. wsws.org The reality is that the \"ideological inciters\" of the right-wing terrorist attack in Halle hold top positions within the state and security apparatus, the intelligence agencies, the military and the federal government.

WSWS (2019-10-12). US sends 3,000 more troops to defend Saudi monarchy. wsws.org The escalation of the US troop deployment in the region followed on the heels of a missile attack on an Iranian oil tanker in the Red Sea.

By The People (2019-10-12). #ImpeachTrump: Pacifica March to Impeach Trump! indybay.org Linda Mar State Beach (North), 5000 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacifica, CA 94044 | www.october13.org/map…

Joaqlin Estus (2019-10-12). Alaska Supreme Court hears oral arguments in kids\' climate change lawsuit. nationofchange.org \'Is there a time to declare that air that sustains life is a fundamental right?\'

Staff (2019-10-12). Alaska Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Kids\' Climate Change Lawsuit. truthout.org | | The Alaska Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Oct. 9 on the constitutionality of Alaska\'s energy policy promoting development of oil and gas. The plaintiffs in Sinnok vs the state of Alaska are 16 young Alaskans ranging in age from 5 to 22. | One of the plaintiffs\' two attorneys, Andrew Welle, told justices the state knowingly and systematically permits, authorizes and promotes the development of fossil fuels. Those actions, he said, are adding to greenhouse gasses and destabilizing the…

United Nations (2019-10-12). After this year\'s Climate Action Summit, what happens next? un.org People across the world need to embrace \"fundamental change\" in order to combat climate change and meet the target of restricting the increase in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius, Claudio Forner, from UN Climate Change in Bonn, told UN News in an interview that took place following the Climate Action Summit.

Josue De Luna Navarro (2019-10-12). A \'Red Deal\': Why Indigenous Communities Belong at the Center of Climate Action. commondreams.org \"We are all related; us, plants, animals, water, air, and soil. We are all related.\"

Ruth Milka (2019-10-12). \"The climate crisis is feeding monster hurricanes\": 10 U.S. species face extinction due by climate-fueled superstorms. nationofchange.org \"The climate crisis is feeding monster hurricanes that bring suffering and death to some of our nation\'s most vulnerable wildlife.\"

WSWS (2019-10-12). Dortmund, Germany withdraws prestigious award from the author Kamila Shamsie over support for BDS. wsws.org The withdrawal of the prize is yet another case of censorship by the German state and local authorities, which claim to oppose anti-Semitism but in fact suppress and criminalise any criticism of the Israeli government\'s right-wing policies.

Amah Mutsun Land Trust (2019-10-12). Amah Mutsun Land Trust Awarded State Funding for Stewardship of Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve. indybay.org Santa Cruz, California, October 9, 2019 — The California Natural Resources Agency announced last week that Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT) has been selected to receive $400k to carry out indigenous-based conservation and restoration work at Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve (QVCP) in Año Nuevo State Park. The award was made through the competitive statewide Cultural, Community, and Natural Resources Grant Program, funded by Prop 68.

Santa Cruz News (2019-10-12). Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women Strays from its Charge. indybay.org Gillian Greensite, the co-founder of the Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women (CPVAW), and it\'s first Chair, spoke to the Santa Cruz city Council on October 8 about how the Commission has strayed outside of its original charge, of \"sexual harassment, rape, and domestic violence,\" when it moved to endorse a censure of Councilmembers Chris Krohn and Drew Glover. Greensite added, \"I have no doubt that the complaints that the women brought forward [against Glover and Krohn] were serious in their eyes and well investigated. They had nothing to do with the commission.\" Video: Former CPVAW Chair Gilli…

Staff (2019-10-12). Tokyo Area Shuts Down as Powerful Typhoon Lashes Japan. truthdig.com TOKYO — A heavy downpour and strong winds pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Saturday as a powerful typhoon forecast to be Japan\'s worst in six decades made landfall and passed over the capital, where streets, nearby beaches and train stations were long deserted. | Store shelves were bare after people stocked up on water and food ahead of Typhoon Hagibis. The Japan Meteorological Agency warned of dangerously heavy rainfall in Tokyo and surrounding prefectures, including Gunma, Saitama and Kanagawa, and later expanded the area to include Fukushima and Miyagi to the north. A coastal earthquake also rattle…

WSWS (2019-10-12). Edward Snowden: The man who exposed the electronic surveillance of everyone by US intelligence. wsws.org The memoir Permanent Record by the former intelligence contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden is an important account of the life of the man behind the exposure of secret global electronic surveillance programs run by the NSA and CIA.

Kurdish Community Center and BALB (2019-10-12). Emergency Daytime Rally to defend NE Syria. indybay.org Union Square NW corner, Post and Powell…

WSWS (2019-10-12). US and China reach limited trade deal. wsws.org The markets responded enthusiastically with the Dow finishing up by more than 300 points, but for all the celebrations, the agreement is very limited.

The Canary (2019-10-12). Labour vows to do \'whatever it takes\' to prevent no-deal Brexit. thecanary.co Labour has warned Boris Johnson that it is ready to take action through the courts if he tries to push through a no-deal Brexit against the will of Parliament. | Shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the party would do \"whatever it takes\" to prevent the UK leaving the EU at the end of the month without an agreement. | Addressing the Co-operative Party conference in Glasgow, Sir Keir said that if the Prime Minister was unable to secure a deal at next week\'s crucial EU summit, he must comply with the so-called Benn Act and seek a further delay. | \"If he can\'t — or I should say won\'t — get a deal…

Daniel Thompson (2019-10-12). An Aperspectival View of the Culture War. dissidentvoice.org Each stage in the history of the civil rights movement has had a specific theme and focus. In the 19th century it was race and gender, in the 20th it was race, gender, gay, bi, trans, queer, in the 21st it is all of them +. One could say that these are ideas whose time …

Jessica Corbett, staff writer (2019-10-12). Warren Challenges Facebook\'s Political Advertising Policy—With Ad That Falsely Claims CEO Zuckerberg Endorsed Trump. commondreams.org Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren this week targeted Facebook's advertising policy—which allows politicians to circulate lies—with an ad of her own, which falsely claims that the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/elizabeth_warren_gottleib_pfizer_0.jpg …

Central Committee, The Communist Party of Turkey (2019-10-12). TKP statement: Hands off Syria! liberationnews.org AKP is committing a great crime for the last eight years. AKP disregards the sovereignty of another country.

Fréa Lockley (2019-10-12). As countries pull arms sales to Turkey, the UK government is still complicit in death. thecanary.co On 9 October, Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan launched a violent invasion of largely-Kurdish areas in northern Syria (aka Rojava). Now, several European countries have stepped up and sto…

CP Editor (2019-10-12). Fund Drive Fanatics: Who Will Be the Big Donor This Year? counterpunch.org Donate Today!

Andre Vltchek (2019-10-11). Some in Hong Kong feel frustrated as their city is losing to Mainland China. dissidentvoice.org Hong Kong is losing to Mainland China. Its poverty rates are high, it suffers from corruption and savage capitalism. It is now the most expensive city on earth. People are frustrated, but paradoxically, they are blaming socialist Beijing for their problems, instead of the legacy of British colonialism. \'Across the line\', Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Xiang …

Staff (2019-10-11). Ethiopia\'s Reformist PM Abiy Ahmed Wins Nobel Peace Prize. truthdig.com ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to a dynamic young African leader whose sweeping reforms and surprising embrace of a bitter rival have been praised as an inspiration to the continent and a hopeful counterpoint to strongman movements far beyond it. | Now the task for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is reining in the ethnic violence that followed the loosening of repressive controls, and resisting any urge to crack down. \"He deserves it and the new challenge is keeping it,\" one outspoken African activist, Nigerian Shehu Sani, said of the award. | Abiy, a favorite to win de…

Patrick Cockburn (2019-10-11). Kurdish Fighters Always Feared Trump Would be a Treacherous Ally. counterpunch.org In a field beside a disused railway station on the plain just south of the Syrian-Turkish frontier, a brigade of Syrian Kurdish soldiers were retraining in order to resist an invasion by the Turkish army. \"We acted like a regular army when we were fighting Daesh [Isis],\" Rojvan, a veteran Kurdish commander of the YPG More

Party for Socialism and Liberation (2019-10-11). U.S. and Turkey out of Syria — No to the NATO invasion! liberationnews.org Down with the Turkish invasion! U.S. and Turkey out of Syria and the Middle East!

Steve Sweeney (2019-10-11). Turkish army and militia forces surround Kurdish towns as invasion advances. peoplesworld.org Scores of Kurdish civilians, including children, were killed and injured as Turkish forces and their jihadist allies closed in on the towns of Tel Abyad and Serekaniye in northern Syria yesterday. NATO\'s second largest army began its invasion after launching air strikes across the Syrian border. Troops flooded into the largely Kurdish region east of …

Ed Sykes (2019-10-11). Corbyn says sanctions on Turkey could be needed if \'appalling\' attacks on Kurdish areas of Syria continue. thecanary.co The British government has faced criticism for failing to act over Turkey\'s invasion of northern Syria. The UK\'s NATO ally is attacking largely-Kurdis…

Staff (2019-10-11). A Know-Nothing President Steps Into a Turkish/Kurdish Minefield. therealnews.com The U.S. is deeply involved in the region surrounding Syria. Its actions helped lay the groundwork for the current struggle faced by the Kurds.

Vijay Prashad (2019-10-11). If you take away freedom, all four seasons and I will die. mronline.org Turkey has invaded Syria. In particular, Turkey has crossed the border to destroy the largely Syrian Kurdish province of Rojava, south of the Turkey-Syria border and east of the Euphrates River. The green light for this invasion came from Washington, DC, when U.S. President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that the U.S. […] | Source

Ahmed Abdulkareem (2019-10-11). Houthis Vow Retaliation As Saudi Naval Blockade Sparks Fresh Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen. mintpressnews.com Saudi Arabia has stepped up its seizure and detention of ships carrying food and fuel into Yemen, sparking shortages that experts warn will push the country\'s civilians into even more dire straits.

WWSFBAB (2019-10-11). Stop the U.S.-backed massacres in Haiti! workers.org A week of solidarity actions for the people\'s struggle in Haiti reached hundreds of people from Oakland to San Jose beginning Sept. 30. The public meetings and demonstrations were organized by the Haiti Action Committee to protest police terror and massacre of the Haitian people who are resisting with their . . . | Continue reading Stop the U.S.-backed massacres in Haiti! at Workers.org

The Canary (2019-10-11). Far-right terrorist in German synagogue attack admits to shootings on Judaism\'s holiest day. thecanary.co The suspect in an attack on a German synagogue that left two people dead has reportedly admitted carrying out the shooting.Two people outside the synagogue were shot dead by the attacker after he failed to gain entry to the building.News agency dpa reported that the man admitted to the crime and a right-wing extremist motive, and federal prosecutors say he testified for several hours.The German, identified by prosecutors as Stephan B, was ordered to be held in custody pending formal charges at a closed-door hearing before a judge on Thursday night.He is suspected of two counts of murder and seven of attempted mur…

William Hartung — Mandy Smithburger (2019-10-11). The Pentagon is Pledging to Reform Itself, Again. It Won\'t. counterpunch.org For the Pentagon, happy days are here again (if they ever left). With a budget totaling more than $1.4 trillion for the next two years, the department is riding high, even as it attempts to set the stage for yet more spending increases in the years to come. With such enormous sums now locked in, More

The Canary (2019-10-11). Japan braces for typhoon ahead of weekend. thecanary.co A powerful typhoon is forecast to bring two feet of rain and damaging winds to the Tokyo area this weekend, and Japan\'s government has warned people to stockpile supplies and evacuate before it becomes too dangerous.The Rugby World Cup and other events were cancelled for Saturday, and flights and train services halted.\"In order to protect your own life and your loved ones, please try to start evacuating early before it gets dark and the storm becomes powerful,\" Meteorological Agency forecast department chief Yasushi Kajihara told a news conference.A man watches a public TV of weather forecast in Tokyo (Eugene Hos…

Staff (2019-10-11). Will Impeachment Change Anything for the Masses? therealnews.com Eddie Conway talks to patrons at Conscious Heads barbershop about impeachment, the rift between the Democratic and Republican Parties, whether it all just boils down to corporate interests, and if it will change things for anyone who is not a member of the 1 percent.

Rob Urie (2019-10-11). Democrats Impeach Joe Biden, Fiddle as the Planet Burns. counterpunch.org Establishment efforts to isolate \'corruption\' narrowly in the persons of Donald Trump and Joe Biden\'s son, Hunter, rely on a conception of it that makes sense only within political economy that ceased to function for the rest of us some decades ago. Understood outside of Washington and New York is that the exchange of campaign More

Anthony DiMaggio (2019-10-11). Fake News in Trump\'s America. counterpunch.org \"Fake news\" has become a household term in contemporary discourse. A review of the Nexis Uni database shows that, in any given week, it appears in dozens of news stories in elite newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post, and in hundreds of segments across American television media. In the first 10 days following Nancy Pelosi\'s announced impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump, \"fake news\" was referenced in relation to \"Trump\" and \"impeachment\" in nearly 1,200 newsprint articles in English-language media. More

Staff (2019-10-11). U.S. Suspends Plans to Hike Tariffs on Chinese Imports. truthdig.com WASHINGTON — The United States is suspending a tariff hike on $250 billion in Chinese imports that was set to take effect Tuesday, and China agreed to buy $40 billion to $50 billion in U.S. farm products as the world\'s two biggest economies reached a cease-fire in their 15-month trade war. | The White House said the two sides made some progress on the thornier issues, including China\'s lax protection of foreign intellectual property. But more progress will have to be made on key differences in later negotiations, including U.S. allegations that China forces foreign countries to hand over trade secrets in re…

RT (2019-10-11). Pentagon sending 2,000+ more troops to \'assure and enhance defense\' of Saudi Arabia amid tensions with Iran. rt.com The US is beefing up military might in the Middle East, saying it will send more troops, fighter jets and missile defense systems to Saudi Arabia amid escalating tensions with Iran. | US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has authorized the deployment of two fighter squadrons, one Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), two batteries of Patriot missile defense systems and one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD), Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said Friday. | This is in addition to the 200 or so troops, Patriots and radar systems whose deployment was announced two weeks ago, and amounts to 3,000 troops \"e…

Gabriel Leà£o (2019-10-11). Killing the Messengers: Rising Violence Against Journalists and Indigenous Leaders Defending the Amazon. counterpunch.org In February 2005, the body of 73-year-old Sister Dorothy Stang was found on the side of a remote dirt road 33 miles from Anapu, Pará, in Brazil\'s AmazonBasin. Seven bullets pierced her body. The first hit her in the abdomen, then after she fell face down, the killers fired bullets to the back and four More

The Canary (2019-10-11). John McDonnell speaks out as it emerges Facebook only paid £28.5m in UK tax despite £1.65bn revenue. thecanary.co Facebook only paid £28.5 million in UK taxes last year despite reporting growing revenue of £1.65 billion from advertising sales.The tech giant\'s latest UK accounts reveal that pre-tax profits jumped by more than 50% from the year before to £96.6 million.Its total tax bill for 2018 came in at £30.4 million, but this was reduced by £1.9 million due to deferred tax and effects of changes in tax rates — up from the £15.8 million it paid in tax for 2017.Labour\'s shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said: How many more examples of large-scale tax avoidance does this Government nee…

RT (2019-10-11). Trump nominates John Sullivan as US ambassador to Russia. rt.com US President Donald Trump has nominated Deputy Secretary of State John Joseph Sullivan as the new ambassador to Russia. If confirmed by the Senate, he will fill the spot vacated by the departure of Jon Huntsman. | Sullivan, 59, has served as deputy secretary since May 2017. He was acting secretary of state in March and April 2018, following the resignation of Rex Tillerson and the confirmation of current Secretary Mike Pompeo. | Most of his previous government experience has been in law, rather than diplomacy. Early on in his career, Sullivan clerked for a Fifth Circuit appeals judge and Supreme Court Justice…

Lawrence Davidson (2019-10-11). Donald Trump, the Christian Warrior. counterpunch.org It turns out that President Donald Trump has a \"top religion advisor.\" This is surprising because there is no evidence that President Trump has a \"top religion,\" or any religion at all. The only regular activities to occupy this president\'s church-going Sundays are rounds of golf and the composing of malicious Twitter messages. To understand just More

Richard Moser (2019-10-11). The Empire Is Running Out of War Stories. Or is it? Will American Exceptionalism Rise Again? counterpunch.org American Exceptionalism remains one of the innermost ideas shaping our national identity and still lies behind all of the war stories used to justify US foreign policy. Exceptionalism has been a part of American culture since the very first European settlers landed. At its core, exceptionalism places America outside of normal history into a category More

The Canary (2019-10-11). Climate breakdown activists \'wallpaper\' government department with science reports. thecanary.co Environmental activists have \'wallpapered\' the front of a government department with pages of science detailing the climate impact of fracked gas.A group of protesters, many dressed in boiler suits, pasted printouts of a study by climate scientist Professor Robert Howarth of Cornell University in the US, showing the effects of fracked gas on fossil fuels.The group pasted the pages on the revolving doors, walls and windows of the department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment in Dublin.The move is the flagship action of Extinction Rebellion week in the city.Extinction Rebellion (XR) protestors wallpa…

Louis Proyect (2019-10-11). Building Soldier Resistance Under the Shadows of Fascism. counterpunch.org In the summer of 1967, I was edging closer to joining the Trotskyist movement. In June, Israel had claimed victory in the Six-Day War. This left it with the occupied territories that have continued to galvanize Palestinian resistance for more than a half-century. By this time, I had given up on the myth of \"socialist More

Mitchell Zimmerman (2019-10-11). IMPOTUS: Droit de seigneur at Mar-a-Lago. counterpunch.org \"Trump Crashes Wedding and Kisses Bride\" — 850 WFTL News Talk \"Will he really come?\" she worried. Nearly 4: 00 a.m., and Kaitlyn had suddenly awakened beside her husband of less than a day. Jason had drifted into a deep sleep following a tear-the-sheets night, consummating their marriage vows in the grand bed in the Seigneur More

Andrew Levine (2019-10-11). Trump\'s End Days. counterpunch.org Consciousness of time passing seldom accords with what clocks and calendars tell us. The discord is especially acute in these days of Trump-induced, ever changing \"breaking news.\" Thus, it seems to me and I suspect to every other sentient being paying attention, that it was centuries ago that Donald Trump was still making an effort More

Sam Pizzigati (2019-10-11). Inequality is Literally Killing Us. counterpunch.org What do the folks at the U.S. Census Bureau do between the census they run every 10 years? All sorts of annual surveys, on everything from housing costs to retail sales. The most depressing of these — at least this century — may be the sampling that looks at the incomes average Americans are earning. More

Jill Richardson (2019-10-11). What Life on the Margins Feels Like. counterpunch.org My campus, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is in an uproar over a video to promote the school\'s homecoming that features no students of color. We are one of the whitest schools in the country, but we are not unique in having a race problem. In that regard, we\'re as American as apple pie. Or, rather, More

Mark Ashwill (2019-10-11). Reflections on General Giap and the End of an Era in Vietnam. counterpunch.org Six years have passed but the memory of the great general\'s death and funeral are still fresh in my mind. While thousands upon thousands of Vietnamese waited patiently under the still potent autumn sun to bid a final farewell to their national hero, General Vo Nguyen Giap, who lay in state at the National Funeral More

Paul Street (2019-10-11). On the TrumpenLeft and False Equivalence. counterpunch.org No political \"Left\" can or should exist that: + cannot or will not walk and chew gum at the same time. + fails to forthrightly and unambiguously oppose the United States\' current fascist, racist, eco-cidal, and sexist presidency and its noxious white Amerikaner base. + reflexively and constantly responds to every liberal and Left criticism More

Becky Grant (2019-10-11). CounterPunch in Peril? counterpunch.org I started working for Alexander Cockburn 22 years ago. I was hired to convert his hunt-and-pecked type-written articles into digital format. It was a complicated exchange involving a range of technologies, his archaic fountain pen corrections (inkblots included), lots of whiteout and typing paper and my old \"vintage\" Mac – a suit-cased sized beast and an old, low-resolution monitor. More

Eds. (2019-10-11). Struggle for climate change is a struggle against capitalism. mronline.org The struggle against inequality and for destruction of capital is innately linked with struggle for man-nature dialectics of the higher order where earth does not remain a commodity to be exploited. | Source

Eds. (2019-10-11). Climate Justice in India: A critical overview. mronline.org Global climate strike led by Greta Thunberg and youth around the world has trigged climate justice debates in the mainstream. In India, from the past few weeks, we have witnessed climate protests in major metropolitan cities demanding governments to act on the current climate crisis to ensure a livable future for the coming generations. | Source

Staff (2019-10-11). Peru\'s Constitutional Crisis Cuts Deep Due to Endemic Corruption. therealnews.com The standoff between Peru\'s president and its legislature has found a temporary resolution, but the corruption crisis continues and the left might be able to take advantage of the situation.

Michael Otto and Zoila Ramirez (2019-10-11). A massive people\'s strike explodes in Ecuador. workers.org Oct. 10 — The great people\'s strike has exploded in Ecuador. Today is the eighth day that road traffic in Ibarra, a city with a population of 250,000, has been completely shut down, with no buses or taxis running. It is the sixth day of suspended classes for all students. . . . | Continue reading A massive people\'s strike explodes in Ecuador at Workers.org

Eds. (2019-10-11). Defying repression, tens of thousands of Ecuadorians take part in national strike. mronline.org The heavy-handed response of the Ecuadorian police and military to the massive mobilizations in the country has already cost eight lives with hundreds suffering grave injuries | Source

Eds. (2019-10-11). Under capitalism, even water is a tool of oppression. mronline.org All life depends on water. It covers 71 percent of the Earth\'s surface, makes up 60 percent of our bodies and literally falls from the sky. It\'s abundant and indispensable. But under capitalism, even water is a tool of social domination. | Source

Staff (2019-10-11). Trump Attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar and Somali Refugees at Minnesota Rally. truthout.org | | After President Donald Trump launched unhinged and racist attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar and Minnesota\'s Somali refugee community during a campaign rally in Minneapolis Thursday night, Omar quickly responded that Trump\'s hate-filled rhetoric and policies can and must be defeated by a grassroots progressive movement. | \"At his rally just now, Trump called me an \'America-hating socialist\' and a \'disgrace.\' He shouted xenophobic conspiracy theories about me. He scolded my district for voting for me,\"

Aaron Maté (2019-10-11). Real life and resistance in Venezuela — Ben Norton reports on effects of US blockade. thegrayzone.com Ben Norton speaks about his reporting in Venezuela, where he investigated how bipartisan US sanctions and Trump\'s embargo are making…

Medea Benjamin (2019-10-11). Crises in Iraq and Haiti Expose the Failure of Militarized Neoliberalism. globalresearch.ca This season could be called the Autumn of Discontent, as people from the Middle East to Latin America and the Caribbean have been rising up against corrupt neoliberal governments. Two of the countries in crisis, Haiti and Iraq, are on …

WSWS (2019-10-11). CIA spied on Assange\'s lawyers, visitors in Ecuadorian embassy. wsws.org The El País report indicates that the US pursuit of Assange has included the illegal surveillance of American lawyers and journalists, in violation of the US Constitution.

Teresa Albano (2019-10-11). Resisting Anti-Immigrant Hate in the City of Big Shoulders. progressive.org A gaggle of far-right MAGA men showed up at a Chicago church to protest its immigrant rights work. Bad decision.

commondreams (2019-10-11). Judge Blocks \"Public Charge\" Immigration Rule From Going Into Effect. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Aída Chávez (2019-10-11). Twitter Tips the Scale Toward Incumbents by Refusing to Verify Primary Challengers. theintercept.com Twitter is refusing to verify the accounts of primary challengers running for Congress in 2020, a policy that many candidates say is hurting their campaigns and helping keep the same handful of politicians in power. | Cori Bush, a community activist who challenged 10-term incumbent William Lacy Clay in the St. Louis-based district last cycle, still hasn\'t been verified on Twitter. She\'s running in Missouri\'s 1st Congressional District again in 2020, and even starred in a documentary about her first attempt. \"Knock Down the House,\" the Rachel Lears film Netflix bought for a record $10 million, followed the insurge…

Andrew Korybko (2019-10-11). Is \"Operation Peace Spring\" a Trap Sprung by Trump on Turkey? globalresearch.ca It\'s worthwhile to wonder whether \"Operation Peace Spring\" is a trap sprung by Trump on Turkey after the US created the conditions for Ankara\'s invasion but then proceeded to threaten punitive measures against the country after its nominal NATO \"ally\" …

South Front (2019-10-11). Video: Turkey\'s \"Operation Peace Spring\". US Withdraws. Turkey Invades Northeastern Syria. Bombs US Supported YPG Forces. globalresearch.ca Turkey officially announced that it had launched a military operation in northeastern Syria. Over the past years, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other representatives of the country\'s leadership have repeatedly announced this idea. However, this time promises were turned …

Sarah Abed (2019-10-11). World Leaders Condemn Turkey\'s \"Operation Peace Spring\" and Demand Exercising Restraint. globalresearch.ca \"Operation Peace Spring\" Turkey\'s third cross border military operation in northern Syria, in as many years, was initiated east of the Euphrates River, on Wednesday. Turkish armed forces began heavy air and artillery strikes targeting about 180-200 Kurdish positions. Turkey\'s …

United Nations (2019-10-11). Ethiopian Prime Minister awarded Nobel Peace Prize: Guterres hails his \'people first\' agenda. un.org The winner of this year\'s Nobel Peace Prize has been praised by the UN Secretary-General for creating a pathway to stability in the Horn of Africa region.

teleSUR (2019-10-11). Iranian Oil Tanker Targeted by Two Missiles Off the Saudi Coast. telesurenglish.net An Iranian oil tanker that was traveling through the Red Sea waters on Friday was reportedly targeted by two missiles from an unidentified source, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) announced in an official statement. | RELATED: | Iran Reiterates Hormuz Plan Will Guarantee Peace in the Region | Iran identified the ship as the \'Sabiti\', which, at the time, was traveling off the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah when the explosions were first reported at 9: 00 A.M. (Riyadh Time).