Charles Davis (2019-09-27). Mass Killings In Afghanistan Are Acts of White Supremacy. counterpunch.org An American white nationalist killed over 30 people recently. The victims, all brown, had full lives; children, loved ones, and years, full of plans, ahead of them. But then they were incinerated. Worst of all, they were murdered while Afghan. The deaths were noted in the press, and one Democrat running for president even acknowledged More

Don Fitz (2019-09-27). Politicians Agree: \"Any White Cop Can Kill a Black Man\" counterpunch.org In 2017 my CounterPunch article, \"Any White Cop Can Kill a Black Man at Any Time,\" told how St. Louis cop Jason Stockley killed a 24-year-old black man, Anthony Lamar Smith. Though Stockley claimed he had fired in self defense when Smith pulled a gun on him, evidence showed that he had planted the gun More

Chauncey K. Robinson (2019-09-27). Review: \'The Day Shall Come\' exposes joke of \"war on terror\" peoplesworld.org The term Theatre of the Absurd deals with what happens when human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down. The new film The Day Shall Come explores this idea in relation to our current political terrain. It\'s a movie that uses comedy to address the very real chaos, corruption, and …

Medea Benjamin (2019-09-27). 10 Ways that the Climate Crisis and Militarism are Intertwined. counterpunch.org The environmental justice movement that is surging globally is intentionally intersectional, showing how global warming is connected to issues such as race, poverty, migration and public health. One area intimately linked to the climate crisis that gets little attention, however, is militarism. Here are some of the ways these issues—and their solutions—are intertwined. 1. The More

John Kendall Hawkins (2019-09-27). Towards a More Mature Democracy. counterpunch.org You could be forgiven (but what\'s the fun in that), if you were to think. Looking at Jacques-Louis David\'s neoclassical painting The Death of Socrates, you could believe you\'re seeing Socrates giving the bird to democracy and demanding that Crito give him the goddamned chalice full of hemlock, and get out of the way. There More

Patrick Anderson (2019-09-27). Edward Snowden\'s Julian Assange is an Unfamiliar Julian Assange. mintpressnews.com NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and WikiLeaks\' former editor Julian Assange have a complicated relationship. On the one hand, they share important similarities: both are perceived as dangerous enemies by the United States government, and both have been documentary subjects of filmmaker Laura Poitras. On the other hand, they clearly disagree when it comes to the means of achieving government transparency and accountability. After all, if Snowden had agreed with Assange a…

Janine Jackson (2019-09-27). \'The Remedies That Were Proposed Weren\'t About Ending the List\' – CounterSpin interview with Maha Hilal on 'terrorist watchlist'. fair.org Janine Jackson interviewed Justice for Muslims\' Maha Hilal about the \"terrorist watchlist\" for the September 20, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Janine Jackson: We don\'t need the anniversary of September 11, 2001, to remind us of the devastating legacies of that day: the evidently endless wars, by whatever name, in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere. And in the US, the wave of Islamophobia, not invented that day, of course, but elevated to organizing principle for law enforcement and policymakers and media—anti-Muslim bias repackaged as national security. | Now a pillar…

Murtaza Hussain (2019-09-27). It Doesn\'t Have to Be This Way: Stepping Away From a Disastrous War Over Kashmir. theintercept.com Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the crowd at the \"Howdy, Modi\" event in Houston, Texas, on Sept. 22, 2019. | , Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told a stadium packed with supporters that India had bade \"farewell\" to a constitutional clause granting autonomy to the Himalayan region of Kashmir. \"Article 370 had deprived people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh of development,\" Modi told the crowd. \"Terror and separatist elements were misusing the situation. Now, people there have got equal rights.\" The crowd responded with roaring applause. | Modi\'s remark about \"equal rights\" was a jarring contr…

Staff (2019-09-27). Message to the Climate Strike Marchers in Detroit. therealnews.com Merge the strikes! Merge the tiers! | We are all for the Green New Deal! | Make Detroit the Arsenal for a Green Economy! | Frank Hammer | This is a historic day, especially for those of us here in Detroit. We are at the center of not one but two strikes: | The nation-wide strike by 46,000 UAW members to determine fate of GM, Ford and Chrysler autoworkers which will have ripple effects for the entire working class and gm communities, right here in Detroit and Warren, in the US and globally. The other strike, today\'s youth-led global climate strike, is a huge step in our fight to shape the fate of our planet, the…

Staff (2019-09-27). The Democratic Party Remains a Party of War, Not Peace. therealnews.com Green Party candidate Madelyn Hoffman says that even the progressive Democratic presidential candidates remain unwilling to challenge the Pentagon.

Sonali Kolhatkar (2019-09-27). Children to Adults: \'Do Your Job So We Have a Future\'. truthdig.com The work of saving the planet has fallen to the youngest generation, as the Global Climate Strike made crystal clear.

Jonathan Power (2019-09-27). A Dangerous Confrontation With Russia Over Kalingrad. counterpunch.org \"What idiocy\", exclaims Jack Matlock on Facebook. Matlock is one of my \"Facebook Friends\" because I judge his knowledge of Russia as second to none, having been under President Ronald Reagan the White House\'s senior advisor on the Soviet Union and, later, his ambassador to Moscow. The object of his ire is based on a Newsday More

Ron Jacobs (2019-09-27). Are We Possessed by Our Possessions? counterpunch.org Virtually everyone agrees that people in the advanced capitalist nations have way too many possessions. Three and four car families, multiple televisions and numerous devices to send and receive messages and media all day and all night. Of course, many more people have considerably less, even in the United States, where possessions are totems to More

Christopher Ketcham (2019-09-27). Solitude and the Love of the Human Race. counterpunch.org When I return from a solo backpacking trip, all I want is company. I see another person at the trail\'s end, at the road that leads back to the cities, I\'m a slavering dog — I hump all legs, my tongue is out, I run around in circles, I want to talk and talk. My More

Louisa Willcox (2019-09-27). Exorcizing Wendigo to Save Grizzlies, Ourselves. counterpunch.org Interior Secretary David Bernhardt recently aborted a planned trip to Montana to hear from farmers and ranchers seeking to boost federal budgets in order to kill more grizzlies, especially along the Rocky Mountain Front. Disappointed that Bernhardt didn\'t show, Dave McEwen of the Montana Wool Growers Association announced that stockmen will travel to DC, saying: \"Now More

Lawrence Davidson (2019-09-27). A Twenty-First Century Children\'s Crusade. counterpunch.org \"You Had Your Future, And So Should We\" This was the chant of thousands of demonstrators, most of them under 20 years of age, as they marched through New York City on 23 September 2019. At about the same time, millions of other young people were demonstrating across the globe: in Australia, India, South Africa, More

Michael Welton (2019-09-27). What\'s In It For Me? Turning Citizens Into Customers. counterpunch.org Sociation by consumption Wolfgang Streeck, author of How will capitalism end? [2016], provides us with a compelling and provocative analysis of how capitalism, slammed against the ropes and almost down for the count of ten, found a way out of its dilemmas of the 1970s. The market was saturated and the labour movement was pressing More

Tony McKenna (2019-09-27). Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory. counterpunch.org Conspiracy theories in general tend to be crude and simplistic, more often than not reflecting the nature of the people who indulge them. But when the conspiracy theory is mingled with antisemitism — as with the Rothschild rot — it represents a particular failure of the imagination, a particularly null and void exercise in dehumanisation. For it seeks to perpetuate a racial stereotype in which a group of people who have been so systematically displaced, persecuted and murdered are transformed into the persecutors on a global scale by way of a vulgar fiction which lacks any trace of humanity or self-aw…

Geoffrey McDonald (2019-09-27). Does the USA Have a Slavery Habit? counterpunch.org As part of its \"1619 Project\" on the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first African slaves in North America, the New York Times Magazine ran an essay with the somewhat radical message in its title: \"American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation\" (Matthew Desmond, 8/14/19). But how will studying More

Brian Cloughley (2019-09-27). Trump and the Kashmir Catastrophe. counterpunch.org India\'s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump have much in common, not least extensive use of Twitter to communicate their thoughts, policies and intentions. The arrangement for a Modi-Trump meeting on September 22 in Houston Texas, at a rally of Indian-Americans, known as \"Howdy Modi!\" was greeted enthusiastically by India\'s leader (\"The special gesture of President More

Evaggelos Vallianatos (2019-09-27). Polluting the Heavens. counterpunch.org Heavens brings to mind the vast sky and the millions of stars lighting the Earth at night. Greek mythology has the sky and the Earth mating and giving birth to the natural world, the ocean, terrible monsters, the gods and the cosmos. Greek philosophers expanded myths and studied the heavens as a home of the More

Peter Certo (2019-09-27). The Case for Impeachment Goes Far Beyond Ukraine. counterpunch.org \"Has Trump finally gone too far?\" There\'s a headline you\'ve seen a thousand times. At last, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says he has. A whistleblower says Trump withheld foreign aid to Ukraine to pressure the country\'s new president into investigating Joe Biden\'s son Hunter\'s past business there. Trump doesn\'t even really deny it. Pelosi has long More

Rob Urie (2019-09-27). Climate Change and Technology. counterpunch.org Climate change is one of a host of environmental ills for which technological solutions are being proposed. In fact, most of the proposed solutions exacerbate environmental ills in other dimensions such as species loss and mass extinction. This tendency of technological reasoning to \'bleed\' from one dimension or axis to another— to cause unintended consequences, is a function of the structure of this type of reasoning. More

C.J. Atkins, John Wojcik (2019-09-27). Majority support impeachment probe as White House cover-up is exposed. peoplesworld.org According to a new poll released early Friday morning, public support for the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump has now hit a majority. The milestone comes amidst the explosive revelation of a White House cover-up aimed at hiding the details of how Trump solicited election interference from the Ukrainian president. Opinion polls conducted in …

Staff (2019-09-27). The Impeachment: Will This Be Trump\'s Unraveling? therealnews.com Ryan Cooper, National Correspondent for The Week, joins us to look at today\'s testimony, the president\'s petulance, and what all this means for the presidential campaign.

Staff (2019-09-27). Whistleblower Probe Tests GOP\'s Alliance with Trump. truthdig.com WASHINGTON—One Republican hadn\'t read the whistleblower\'s complaint. Another called President Donald Trump\'s conversation with the Ukraine leader \"thin gruel\" for any impeachment effort. A third said the whole thing was \"blown way out of proportion.\" | And yet, as more details emerged about what the president said and the efforts to shield it from view, Republicans were straining Thursday under the uncertainty of being swept up in the most serious test yet of their alliance with the Trump White House. | The quickly moving events caught Republicans off stride. While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell sta…

Staff (2019-09-27). Brazilian Students Take Protest to Next Level, Launch Strike Against Bolsonaro Education Cuts. therealnews.com Brazil\'s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has proposed privatization and immediate slashing of the public education budget. Students worried about the future of education in Brazil are beginning to mobilize with a strike at one of the county\'s main universities. Mike Fox reports from Brazil…

Melanie Bender (2019-09-27). Murder of Native woman in California still unsolved. peoplesworld.org REDDING, Calif.—Driving through northern California is such a peaceful, solace-filled, meditative journey. One could get caught up in beautiful dreams and thoughts with scenery so ancient, green, and mountainous and lakes that glitter silver-blue hues in the sunshine. The last thing it evokes is thoughts of a brutal murder in the midst of the beauty. On …

Paul Street (2019-09-27). Protest Alone Won\'t Save Our Planet. truthdig.com We can all use a shot of hope. I got one from 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and the disproportionately youthful masses—4 million across 150 cities worldwide—who came out for climate sanity last week. I listened online to the speech Thunberg delivered to more than 300,000 mostly young people in lower Manhattan on Friday. She spoke eloquently about the supreme ecological danger we face, thanks to the relentless pursuit of profit and to the insincere assurances and pathetic inaction of politicians and policymakers the world over: | We have not taken to the streets, sacrificing our education…

The Canary (2019-09-27). Second wave of worldwide protests demanding climate action kick off. thecanary.co Tens of thousands of mostly young people have marched to New Zealand\'s parliament, kicking off a second wave of worldwide protests demanding swift action on climate change.The protests were inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, who spoke to world leaders this week at a United Nations summit in New York.The march to the parliament in the capital Wellington was one of the largest protests ever seen in New Zealand, and organisers had to change their security plans to accommodate the swelling crowd.Thousands of people gather near New Zealand\'s parliament (Nick Perry/AP)Thousands more marched in Auckland and in…

Rick Sterling (2019-09-27). Remembering Hisham Ahmed: Activist, Professor and Palestinian Powerhouse. mintpressnews.com H isham Ahmed was born in Deheisheh refugee camp on the outskirts of Bethlehem, Palestine in 1963. Blind from birth, Hisham somehow surmounted all odds and ultimately earned a Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He taught for many years at Birzeit University in Palestine, before coming to Saint Mary\'s College of California in 2006. He died of cancer in July 2019 at age 56. The following remembrance was given at his memorial service on 25 September 2019 at St Mary\'s College. | Sometimes you meet someone who is unforgettable. Hisham Ahmed was such a…

unitedEditor (2019-09-27). Intrigue of Afghanistan\'s Presidential Elections. uwidata.com However, the elections will be held among massive social confusion and ambiguity: the candidates need not only win the loyalty of people, they must also be recognized by the Taliban, the main opposition force in the country. Without question, the coming presidential election will be one of the most important events for the people of …

Staff (2019-09-27). With the Gears of Impeachment Finally Grinding, the Hard Part Begins. truthout.org | | Now that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has enough votes in hand to open an official impeachment inquiry into the rogue presidency of Donald Trump, it is worthwhile to contemplate what got us here, or more specifically, what didn\'t. | Meticulously documented cases of Trump obstructing justice didn\'t get us here, nor did his ongoing violations of the emoluments clause, his ongoing policy of caging separated children in concentration camps, his Muslim ban, his public embrace of racism and fascist whi…

Max Blumenthal (2019-09-27). Following Grayzone exposé, top Venezuelan coup official Ricardo Hausmann is forced to resign. thegrayzone.com After The Grayzone\'s Anya Parampil published an exposé of Guaidó appointee Ricardo Hausmann\'s opaque and hypocritical financial practices, he was…

Kevin Zeese (2019-09-27). Marijuana goes to house floor with landslide victory for SAFE Banking Act. nationofchange.org For the first time since the war on marijuana was declared by President Richard Nixon, progressive marijuana law reform was considered on the Floor of the House of Representatives, and won by a landslide. Now, it is likely to be considered by the Senate. Yesterday, members of the House of Representatives voted 321 to 103 …

Kevin Zeese (2019-09-27). At UN Session, US Empire in Decline and Global Solidarity on the Rise. globalresearch.ca As the United Nations General Assembly conducts its fall session, Popular Resistance is in New York City for the People\'s Mobilization to Stop the US War Machine and Save the Planet. Themes of the mobilization are connecting militarism and …

Kevin Zeese (2019-09-27). Marijuana Goes to House Floor with Landslide Victory for Safe Banking Act. globalresearch.ca For the first time since the war on marijuana was declared by President Richard Nixon, progressive marijuana law reform was considered on the Floor of the House of Representatives, and won by a landslide. Now, it is likely to be …

Norman Solomon (2019-09-27). To Joe Biden, Trump\'s Potential Successor Mike Pence \"Is a Decent Guy\" counterpunch.org When Joe Biden told an audience that Mike Pence \"is a decent guy,\" Pence had already been vice president for more than two years. After the comment drew fierce criticism, Biden responded that he\'d said it \"in a foreign policy context\" — an odd effort at damage control, given that Pence has publicly backed every one of More

Kathy Kelly (2019-09-27). The Wounds of War. progressive.org Recovering from a broken hip, peace activist Kathy Kelly reflects on her experiences with people disabled and traumatized by war.

teleSUR (2019-09-27). Italy: Over a Million Climate Protesters Take to the Streets. telesurenglish.net In a collective action, rarely seen in decades, over a million Italians turned to execute their \"Scopiero Per il Clima\", the local version of the climate strike promoted by the Fridays for the Future (FFF) movement which the Swedish Greta Thunberg has been active in since last year. | RELATED: | Young Activists Sue World Leaders due to Climate Change | Citi…

Dan Bacher (2019-09-27). Extinction Rebellion Activists in Sacramento. counterpunch.org Over 20 activists from the Extinction Rebellion today targeted the offices of the Western State Petroleum Association (WSPA) offices at 1415 L St. at 12 Noon. They sang songs, shouted out chants and briefly blocked the street in front of the WSPA offices just down the street from the State Capitol. There were no arrests. The Western States More

Defund Fossil Fuels (2019-09-27). 7 Climate Activists Arrested for Blocking Major Banks in SF. indybay.org Arrests at September 25 Direct Action. | [Photos: Terry Scussel, Pro Bono Photo, please credit the photographer]…

commondreams (2019-09-27). Women\'s Rights and Climate Activists to Host Briefing on A Feminist Agenda for the Green New Deal. commondreams.org ______________________________…

Demand Banks Defund Climate Extinction (2019-09-27). Climate Activists Shut Banks and Blocks of SF Financial District. indybay.org 7 protesters were arrested during a demonstration which blocked streets and buildings in San Francisco\'s Financial District on September 25. Demonstrators targeted banks including Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and US Bank, demanding that they stop all funding of fossil fuel producing businesses. | [Photos: Terry Scussel, Pro Bono Photo, please credit the photographer]…

Robert Dodge (2019-09-27). Hope and Necessity This International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. commondreams.org Making the connection between the environment, nuclear war, peace and the survival of our world is critical. (Photo: Scott Howe/DVIDS) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/nuclearweapons_0.jpeg …

Richard Moser (2019-09-27). Soldiers and Veterans are Anti-War Leaders. Could This Be The Peace Movement of Our Time? counterpunch.org \"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world: My own Government.\" — Martin Luther King If you want to stop the wars, challenge the empire and deal with climate crisis then support our anti-war soldiers and veterans. Soldiers and veterans carry special knowledge. Sometimes that knowledge starts with the gut-wrenching realization that they have fought, suffered, More

United Nations (2019-09-27). At UN, Modi outlines development successes, says India gave world \'Buddha, not war\'. un.org In his address to the UN General Assembly\'s general debate on Friday, the Prime Minister of India outlined how the world\'s largest democracy has embodied the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in its work towards \"peace, development and progress in the world\".

United Nations (2019-09-27). \'No place for violence, intimidation or fraud\' in Afghan elections: UN chief. un.org All key actors in Afghanistan must \"uphold their responsibility to support a peaceful, credible, transparent and inclusive electoral process\", UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a statement on Friday, the day before presidential elections are due to be held in the country, adding that \"there is no place for violence, intimidation or fraud\".

United Nations (2019-09-27). Human Rights Briefing: Updates on Egypt, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. un.org Here\'s a roundup of human rights news this Friday: UN\'s Bachelet urges restraint over arrests of Egypt protestors; expert calls for \'democratic shift\' in Zimbabwe; Human Rights Council agrees fact-finding mission to Venezuela; independent experts urge freedom for Saudi women's rights defender, after 500 days in prison.

Joseph Thomas (2019-09-27). Hong Kong Protests: Fading Foreign Tantrum, Not Genuine Revolution. globalresearch.ca Just as unfolded in 2014 during the so-called \"Umbrella protests\" or \"Occupy Central\" movement, a growing backlash has begun across Hong Kong against US-funded protests that have attempted to disrupt governance and commerce as part of a floundering movement to …

Eoin Higgins, staff writer (2019-09-27). Report: US-Made Bomb Killed Six Yemeni Civilians, Including Three Children, in June Attack. commondreams.org \"It is unfathomable and unconscionable that the U.S.A. continues to feed the conveyor belt of arms flowing into Yemen's devastating conflict.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/yemen_kid.jpg …

G. Dunkel (2019-09-26). Indonesian fires threaten millions. workers.org Over the past few months, fires have destroyed millions of acres of rainforest in Brazil\'s Amazon region, normally one of the wettest areas in the world, as well as in Indonesia, which has been immersed in the world capitalist economy since the U.S. covertly engineered a military coup there in . . . | Continue reading Indonesian fires threaten millions at Workers.org

RT (2019-09-26). US Army warns its soldiers that they could be shot by a disgruntled virgin if they go see new movie \'Joker\'. rt.com The US Army has ordered its soldiers to stay alert — not in Afghanistan, Iraq or Syria, but at their local movie theater. The Pentagon reportedly believes that screenings of \'Joker\' could be targeted by sex-hungry mass shooters. | Responding to a bulletin issued by the FBI, the US Army advised service members to prepare for the worst if they choose to see the controversial Warner Bros. film. According to an alert emailed to soldiers, the movie could galvanize \'incels,\' also known as \'involuntary celibates,\' or \"guys who can\'t get dates.\" | In the message, Army officials stated that incels \"idolize the Jo…

Todd Miller (2019-09-26). Trapped in an Empire of Borders. counterpunch.org The driver of the passenger van pulled onto the shoulder of the road, looked back, and said, \"There\'s an immigration checkpoint up ahead. Does everyone have their papers?\" We were just north of the Guatemalan border, outside the town of Ciudad Hidalgo in the Mexican state of Chiapas. There were 10 of us in the More

Staff (2019-09-26). Corporate Media Ignores Connection Between Militarism and Climate Change. therealnews.com Joe Jamison of the U.S. Peace Council explains that the Pentagon is one of the world\'s worst polluters.

Mats Svensson (2019-09-26). Bewildered in Jerusalem. counterpunch.org It was desolate. Quiet. In the quietness I heard voices, whispers, words being repeated. Words that had been repeated for a long time. \"Two states\", \"peace\", \"demolitions\", \"negotiations\", \"walls\", \"rocks\", \"keys\", \"reconciliation\", \"resistance\", \"executions\", \"we are staying\". I had been served repetitions for breakfast, lunch, dinner. They ruined my sleep. They were in every report, in every conversation. More

The Canary (2019-09-26). Amazon widens Alexa\'s reach despite ongoing privacy concerns. thecanary.co Amazon has announced a wave of new virtual assistant-powered devices — including a pair of earphones and glasses — despite ongoing concerns about the privacy of those who use its smart helper, Alexa.The technology giant unveiled a number of new Echo smart speakers, as well as the first wearables to support the voice-activated software — earphones, smart glasses and a ring.Amazon\'s new Alexa-enabled Echo Frames. (Martyn Landi/PA)Amazon — along with other tech firms with AI assistants — have come under scrutiny about their privacy practices in recent months following revelations about indus…

Michael Là∂wy (2019-09-26). The far right: a global phenomenon. mronline.org In recent years, the reactionary, authoritarian and/or fascist extreme right wing has been in the ascendant all over the world: it already governs half of the world\'s countries. Among the best-known examples are: Trump (United States), Modi (India), Orbán (Hungary), Erdoƒüan (Turkey), Daesh (Islamic State), Salvini (Italy), Duterte (Philippines), and now Bolsonaro (Brazil). | Source

Mirinda Crissman (2019-09-26). Thousands reject Modi-Trump racism in Houston. workers.org Thousands of people of many nationalities and religions gathered outside the stadium here Sept. 22 to protest the fascist rally held for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump. Under the guise of signing a trade deal to strengthen economic relations between the countries, both Modi and Trump . . . | Continue reading Thousands reject Modi-Trump racism in Houston at Workers.org

Kirkpatrick Sale (2019-09-26). The Illusion of Saving the World. counterpunch.org At the end of this month, as you probably know by now, an extraordinary hoopla event will descend on Manhattan in the form of a \"Climate Action Summit,\" summoned by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, to get the nations of the world finally to take seriously the threat of \"global warming\" and pledge to actually take serious action to save the world from catastrophe. The chances of that happening are nil. More

Martha Grevatt (2019-09-26). Class war at GM. workers.org The strike of autoworkers at General Motors is just over a week old, but already the class lines are clear. At more than one location, pickets were injured by delivery drivers trying to drive through the lines and into the plants. Police have harassed pickets, and in Spring Hill, Tenn., . . . | Continue reading Class war at GM at Workers.org

Staff (2019-09-26). Warming Oceans Are Rising at Alarming Rate, Says New UN Report. therealnews.com The IPCC report concludes that unfettered climate change will cause glaciers to melt, destroy oceanic ecosystems, accelerate sea level rise, and wreak havoc on the earth. Despite all this, our guests say there still is hope.

Tina Stevens — Stuart A. Newman (2019-09-26). Risking Women\'s Health, While Widening the Door to Techno-Eugenics. counterpunch.org In September, California\'s legislature passed AB 922, a bill legalizing the payment to women for their eggs for research purposes. Additionally, next year, the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is expected to return to the voters to secure passage of an initiative that will supply billions of dollars to fund entrepreneurial bioresearch. If Governor More

Binoy Kampmark (2019-09-26). Tempered Emergency: the Climate Change Summit in New York. counterpunch.org It had a good deal of desperate scolding. Sweden\'s Greta Thunberg assumed the role of punishing advocate, a Joan of Arc of fury. The main culprit in her speech at the UN Climate Action Summit was the hideous, super ego, the big bad \"You\", ever condescending, ever indifferent, the \"You\" of adulthood that had trashed More

Ramzy Baroud (2019-09-26). Netanyahu on Steroids: What a Gantz-led Government Means for Palestine. counterpunch.org Experience has taught Palestinians not to pay heed to Israeli elections. But to every rule there is an exception. Although it is still true that no Israeli Zionist leader has ever been kind to the Palestinian people, the dynamics of the latest Israeli elections on September 17 are likely to affect the Occupied Palestinian Territories More

Colin Todhunter (2019-09-26). Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual. counterpunch.org The global insect apocalypse is largely the result of intensive agriculture and pesticide usage. One of the biggest impacts of insect loss is on the many birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish that eat insects. If this food source is taken away, all these animals starve to death. Such cascading effects have already been seen in Puerto Rico, where a recent study revealed a 98% fall in ground insects over 35 years. More

UUSF Forum (2019-09-26). Rev. Arlington Trotman on Racism and Immigration. indybay.org First Unitarian Universalist Society of S.F. | 1187 Franklin St. @ Geary | San Francisco…

WSWS (2019-09-26). New York Times publisher warns of a \"worldwide assault on journalists\" but silent on Julian Assange. wsws.org In a speech warning that the Trump administration was spearheading an attack on media freedom, Sulzberger did not mention the only journalist currently facing criminal prosecution by the American state.

Nathan Goldman (2019-09-26). A New Generation of Jewish Activists Is Transforming Judaism Itself. thenation.com A New Generation of Jewish Activists Is Transforming Judaism Itself…

Demand Banks Defund Climate Extinction (2019-09-26). Climate Activists Shut Banks and Blocks of SF Financial District. indybay.org 7 protesters were arrested during a demonstration which blocked streets and buildings in San Francisco\'s Financial District on September 25. Demonstrators targeted banks including Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and US Bank, demanding that they stop all funding of fossil fuel producing businesses.

Defund Fossil Fuels (2019-09-26). 7 Climate Activists Arrested for Blocking Major Banks in SF. indybay.org Arrests at September 25 Direct Action. | [Photos: Terry Scussel, Pro Bono Photo, please credit the photographer]…

WSWS (2019-09-26). Madrid launches \"anti-terror\" crackdown in Catalonia. wsws.org Spain\'s Civil Guards have launched a widely publicized \"anti-terror\" police operation against Catalan nationalist activists, code-named \"Operation Judes.\"

Leonardo Flores (2019-09-26). Dialogue in Venezuela is a Missed Opportunity for Democrats. counterpunch.org Days after the Democratic presidential candidates missed yet another opportunity to challenge President Donald Trump\'s failed Venezuela policy on the debate stage on September 12, President Nicolás Maduro signed an important agreement with four opposition parties. These events offer insight into the differing perspectives on the economic, social and political crises in Venezuela — one More

WSWS (2019-09-26). Washington uses UN session to unveil new sanctions against Iran and Venezuela. wsws.org US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo made it clear that the target of the latest sanctions was not just Iran, but China, which accounts for half of Iran\'s sharply reduced oil exports.

Fight Back (2019-09-26). \"Suicide by cop\" is murder by cop. fightbacknews.org Fight Back! is circulating statement by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar | Minneapolis, MN – Keaton James Larson, Travis Jordan, Billy Hughes, Archer Amorosi and Phil Quinn are a few of the many Minnesotans who were dealing with a mental health crisis when killed by those who are paid to \"protect and serve,\" leading some to ask the question \"Were the victims suicidal?\" | The question should not be \"Was the victim suicidal?\" but \"Would the victim be alive if the police had handled the situation more appropriately?\" In the case of Brian Quinones, killed on September 9 by police in Richfield, the answer…

Kepler\'s Literary Foundation (2019-09-26). Naomi Klein, new book \"On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal\" (San Mateo). indybay.org San Mateo Performing Arts Center: 600 N Delaware Street, San Mateo, CA 94401…

WSWS (2019-09-26). Bangladesh warns UN officials over Rohingya refugees. wsws.org The Bangladesh government is determined to relocate Rohingya refugees to an unsafe and remote island in defiance of opposition from the UN and human rights organisations.

Lynda Carson (2019-09-26). Mountain Mike\'s Pizza supports the NRA, a domestic terrorist organization. indybay.org Mountain Mike\'s Pizza LLC, a Delaware corporation, has numerous locations including Oakland CA., Berkeley, Alameda, Livermore, Santa Rosa, Fremont, San Carlos, Antioch, and other locations, is a proud supporter of the National Rifle Association (NRA), a domestic terrorist organization!

Labor Video Project (2019-09-26). ILWU Local 10 West Oakland Community Meeting Speak Out On Fisher A\'s Stadium Scheme. indybay.org At a community labor meeting in West Oakland Speakers and community and labor people spoke out against A\'s billionaire owner John Fisher\'s scheme to build a new stadium on port property and with a hotel and 4,000 $1 million condos. | Also Democratic politicians Nancy Skinner and Ron Bonta have pushed state legislation to help the billionaire Fisher to raise taxes to pay for his development project…

Zoà´ Carpenter (2019-09-26). The Climate Movement Breaks Through. thenation.com The Climate Movement Breaks Through…

Nick Licata (2019-09-26). The Limits of Debating Climate Change. counterpunch.org In a debate one side wins and the other side loses. How many debates end with the losing side agreeing that they were wrong? It doesn\'t happen. And that is why the climate change debate is not converting deniers into believers. Each side on this issue is focused on rolling over the opposition. The recent More

Climate Strike NOW! (2019-09-26). Youth Organizers lead 40,000 Marchers Across San Francisco/Make Demands for Climate Action. indybay.org On September 20, a crowd of nearly 40,000 demonstrators marched from Nancy Pelosi\'s office at the San Francisco Federal Building to Embarcadero Plaza, calling for immediate climate action. | [Photos: Leon Kunstenaar, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer]…

Staff (2019-09-26). The People Are Revolting at Long Last. truthdig.com For millions of people around the globe — especially young people — the pressing issue of our time is this: The world is on fire! | On fire with climate change, creating a new and intensifying norm of deadly weather extremes that make a dystopian future a distinct possibility — constant wildfires, rising seas, desertification, global crop failures, widespread hunger, water shortages, etc. | Luckily, we are a sentient species with the scientific ability to know that the chief cause of this global destruction is not angry gods, but us — specifically humankind\'s massive extraction and burning…

Laura Flanders (2019-09-26). Climate Strike/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight. counterpunch.org Twenty years after turtles and teamsters teamed up to battle the WTO in Seattle, labor strikes and climate strikes are coinciding everywhere but in the media, and that\'s dangerous. If history is any guide, any minute now, some two-bit pundit or shameless president will pit workers against environmentalists so as to distract us from the More

Ben Ehrenreich (2019-09-26). The Tragic Logic of the Attacks on the Saudi Oil Plants. thenation.com The Tragic Logic of the Attacks on the Saudi Oil Plants…

Eleanor Eagan (2019-09-26). With Impeachment (Slowly) Underway, Other Oversight is Still Needed. counterpunch.org Impeachment proceedings are officially underway, meaning that the tedious debate over whether or not to open an inquiry is (at least, hypothetically) behind us. Following revelations last week that President Trump has taken Congress\' refusal to impeach as a blank check, it is even becoming plausible that the days of Nancy Pelosi\'s ridiculous ongoing opposition More

Scott Owen (2019-09-26). No Help for the Homeless, Please! counterpunch.org After reading the news, I find Trumps recent comments regarding America\'s homeless particularly appalling, scary and dangerous. According to Trump the homeless are \"living on our best highways, our best streets, our best entrances to buildings, where people in those buildings pay tremendous taxes.\" \"How the hell can we get these people off the streets?\" More

Lawrence Wittner (2019-09-26). The Two Internationalisms. counterpunch.org In recent years, internationalism—cooperation among nations for promotion of the common good—has acquired a bad reputation. Of course, internationalism has long been anathema to the political Right, where a primitive tribalism and its successor, nationalism, have flourished for many years. Focusing on their nation\'s supposed superiority to others, a long line of rightwing demagogues, including More

Nelson Valdes (2019-09-26). Cuba, OFAC, Fines and Extraterritoriality. counterpunch.org Those of us who follow events going on in Cuba—as well as Cuba\'s international relations — should discuss the extraterritorial power that the US Treasury Department has to impose huge financial fines on non US foreign financial institutions. To my knowledge there has been little discussion as to the reasons that foreign financial institutions accept the extraterritorial powers of More

Jesse Jackson (2019-09-26). Workers are Asking, Whose Side Are You On? counterpunch.org More than 2,200 nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center went out on strike last week, but they are not alone. American workers are waking up and walking out. On Sept. 15, 46,000 hourly General Motors\' United Auto Workers employees went on strike, the first time in 12 years. Striking British Airway pilots grounded More

David Schultz (2019-09-26). The 2020 Democratic Impeachment Strategy and Why it Makes Sense Now. counterpunch.org For so long \"If to impeach the president?\" was the question, now the question is \"When?\" Maybe thus far Speaker Nancy Pelosi\'s decision not to pursue impeachment of Donald Trump made electoral sense. But increasingly a 2020 impeachment next summer just as the presidential general election is kicking into high gear makes sense both as More

Hans Stehling (2019-09-26). Ankle Deep in Britain\'s Dirty Politics. Brutal Verbal Exchange in House of Commons. globalresearch.ca \'Bully, mobster, yob, ruffian, criminal, roughneck, gangster, hoodlum ..\' | Just some of the adjectives used to describe each of the current leaders in both London and Washington. | In an unprecedented and brutal verbal exchange, politicians in the House of Commons …

Fred_F (2019-09-26). School strikers take aim at Morrison, vow to continue. greenleft.org.au Climate Strike climate action Pip HinmanIssue 1239 AustraliaSeptember 26, 2019\"The student strikes have been phenomenal — surreal at times,\" Sydney high school student Chloe Russell-Alexander told Green Left Weekly reflecting on the huge Climate Strike that saw…

susan_p (2019-09-26). \'We are a wave of change\' say New York climate strikers. greenleft.org.au climate action Barry SheppardIssue 1239 United States student strike for climate SS4CSeptember 26, 2019I had no idea that September 20 would be so huge. Greta Thunberg said to a reporter as she…

Staff (2019-09-26). \"Financial Censorship Is Still Censorship\": Edward Snowden Slams Justice Dept. Lawsuit Against Him. democracynow.org As a whistleblower complaint filed against President Trump rocks Washington and threatens Trump\'s presidency, one of the world\'s most famous whistleblowers, Edward Snowden, joins us from Moscow, Russia. Earlier this month, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Snowden alleging that his newly released memoir, \"Permanent Record,\" violates the nondisclosure agreements he signed with the federal government when he was a National Security Agency employee. The Justice Department also argued that they are entitled to all of Snowden\'s book profits. Democracy Now!\'s Amy Goodman and Juan González speak with Sno…

Staff (2019-09-26). Permanent Record: Why NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Risked His Life to Expose Surveillance State. democracynow.org Six years ago, Edward Snowden leaked a trove of secret documents about how the United States had built a massive surveillance apparatus to spy on Americans and people across the globe. Snowden was then charged in the U.S. for violating the Espionage Act and other laws. As he attempted to flee to Latin America, Snowden became stranded in Russia after the U.S. revoked his passport. He has lived in Moscow ever since. Snowden just published his memoir, \"Permanent Record,\" in which he writes about what led him to risk his life to expose the U.S. government\'s system of mass surveillance. From Moscow, he speaks to Democ…

Staff (2019-09-26). Edward Snowden Condemns Trump\'s Mistreatment of Whistleblower Who Exposed Ukraine Scandal. democracynow.org Responding to news of a whistleblower\'s complaint at the center of an impeachment inquiry filed against President Trump this week, famed whistleblower Edward Snowden speaks about his own decision to leak classified documents in 2013. The House Intelligence Committee has released the declassified whistleblower complaint, which details a July phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian president. The White House is trying \"to make the conversation not about the allegations,\" Snowden told Democracy Now! \"They want to talk about the whistleblower rather than the government\'s own wrongdoing.\"

Staff (2019-09-26). Headlines for September 26, 2019. democracynow.org Transcript Shows Trump Pressured Ukrainian Leader to Probe Joe Biden and Son, President Trump on Ukraine Phone Call: \"Impeachment for That?\", Majority of House Lawmakers Back Impeachment Inquiry Against Trump, Iranian President Rules Out Talks with U.S. While Sanctions Remain, Saudi-Led Coalition Airstrikes Kill 16 Civilians in Yemen, Israel\'s President Asks Benjamin Netanyahu to Form New Government, 2 Million Wild Animals Perish as Fires Rage in Bolivia, Climate Crisis Drives Mont Blanc Glacier Toward Collapse, 7 Arrested as San Francisco Climate Protesters Block Wells Fargo Entrance, Doctors Glue Themselves to…

The Canary (2019-09-26). PM wrong to use Jo Cox\'s name in that way, says sister of murdered MP. thecanary.co The sister of murdered MP Jo Cox has called on prime minister Boris Johnson to reflect on his language, saying he was wrong to tell MPs they should honour her sister\'s memory by delivering Brexit. | Kim Leadbeater said she was \"mesmerised and dumbstruck\" as she watched the events in the Commons on 25 September. | There was uproar in the house as the prime minister rejected calls to temper his language, and said the best way to honour ardent Remainer Cox was to \"get Brexit done\". | Johnson had dismissed as \"humbug\" Labour MP Paula Sherriff\'s claim that like Cox, who was killed by a man with far-right sympathies ju…

Jake Johnson, staff writer (2019-09-26). Sanders Rips \'Casual Cruelty That Motivates Trump and His Billionaire Friends\' as White House Moves to Strip Free School Lunches From 500,000 Kids. commondreams.org \"Trump is depriving 500,000 kids of their school lunches for no damn reason—even after 139 members of Congress warned him not to.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/trump_school_lunches.png …