16 November 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
The Washington-recognized interim government which just ascended to power via US-backed military coup in Bolivia is already shifting the nation’s foreign policy into alignment with the US-centralized empire, severing important ties with two governments which have resisted absorption into the imperial blob.
16 November 2019 — Off Guardian
The US-supported right-wing coup against Bolivian President Evo Morales on November 10th was a serious strike against that nation’s autonomy and its people (especially its indigenous, of whom Morales was one).
Such meddling has defined US foreign policy in Latin America for nearly two centuries, since the Monroe Doctrine of 1823.
14 November 2019 — Daily Maverick
By Mark Curtis and Matt Kennard
The husband of Lady Emma Arbuthnot, the Westminster chief magistrate overseeing WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the US, has financial links to the British military establishment, including institutions and individuals exposed by WikiLeaks.
15 November 2019 — Information Clearing House
By The Gray Zone
Anti-indigenous race-hatred has gripped the country since Evo’s October 20 re-election. – Continue
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15 November 2019 • 20:20 — The New Dark Age
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Chilean Elites Cannot Be Trusted to Write New Constitution, Activists Say
https://truthout.org/video/activists-say-chilean-elites-cannot-be-trusted-to-write-new-constitution/
Bolivia: Some Soldiers Have Rejected the Coup and March with the Protesters
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2019/11/15/bolivia-some-soldiers-have-rejected-the-coup-and-march-with-the-protesters/
15 November 2019 — Strategic Culture Foundation</em
Finian Cunningham
Never mind obscure troll farms and byzantine cyber-hacking (we’re being ironic here), Russia needs to really raise its game for “interfering” in other nations’ politics. Like, how about President Vladimir Putin going on a national radio show in Britain and telling voters how to vote in the forthcoming election? Now that’s what you call real, in-your-face influence!
15 November 2019 — Off Guardian
Binoy Kampmark
There is inherent bestiality in the politics of the Americas that signals coup, assassination and disruption. No state is ever allowed to go through what is weakly called a transition, except over corpses, tortures and morgues.
15 November 2019 — Counter Currents
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales was overthrown in a military coup on November 10. He is now in Mexico. Before he left office, Morales had been involved in a long project to bring economic and social democracy to his long-exploited country. It is important to recall that Bolivia has suffered a series of coups, often conducted by the military and the oligarchy on behalf of transnational mining companies. Initially, these were tin firms, but tin is no longer the main target in Bolivia. The main target is its massive deposits of lithium, crucial for the electric car.
15 November 2019 • 13:50 — The New Dark Age
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Syria to bring issue of Washington’s oil theft practices before UN
Syrian Army, SDF Jointly Besiege Turkish-backed Militants In Northern Al-Hasakah
Russia To Convert Former U.S. Base In Eastern Aleppo To Aid, Reconciliation Center (Video)
Assad: Current U.S. Policy Strongly Resembles Nazism
WATCH Russian military police descend on & secure hastily abandoned US airbase in Syria (VIDEO)
https://on.rt.com/a5cw
Russian military police begin guarding airfield near Syria’s Kobane
15 November 2019 — FAIR
The Brazilian Supreme Court reversed a 2018 ruling on November 7, upholding the principle of innocent until proven guilty in the 1988 Constitution and declaring it illegal to jail defendants before their appeals processes have been exhausted. Within 24 hours, former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was released to an adoring crowd of hundreds of union members and social movement activists who had maintained a camp outside the police station where he was held, shouting “good morning,” “good afternoon” and “good night” to him for 580 consecutive days.
14 November, 2019 — Source: Common Dreams
by Abby Zimet, Further columnist
The Sawarka family’s dead. Photo by Fatima Shbair/MEE. On front, an Israeli drone-fired missile killed 7-year-old Amir Rafat Ayyad as he rode on a motorbike with his father Rafat Muhammad Ayyad, 54, and older brother Islam Rafat Ayyad, 24, as they were trying to get to al-Shifa Hospital
The reign of terror, which we help fund, goes on. In the last two days of airstrikes over the open-air prison that is Gaza, where two million beleaguered people, almost half of them children, are packed and trapped, Israel has killed at least 34 Palestinians and injured more than 111. Many of the victims were children. The dead included eight members of the Sawarka family – three adults, five kids – killed around midnight as they slept in their house. The only survivor of the slaughter of the Sawarkas was a month-old girl named Marah; her mother, father, aunt and siblings were all buried in the rubble. A relative, Taleb Mesmeh, said that when people heard the explosions, “We never expected (they’d target) a civilian home that looked like any normal house.” The retrieved bodies “were torn into pieces, and there was blood everywhere,” he said. “This is Israel targeting children inside their homes.” Then he began picking some children’s school uniforms from the rubble. “This is Mariam’s school uniform,” he wailed. “She was still in first grade. What did she do to be killed?”
15 November 2019 — True Publica
By James Cusick: New evidence which confirms that the Liberal Democrats sold voter data to the Remain campaign in 2016 for almost £100,000 is being withheld from public scrutiny by the UK’s information watchdog, openDemocracy has learned.
15 November 2019 — The New Dark Age
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Joint investigation team begins new witness appeal in MH17 crash case
Trump And Zelensky Want Peace With Russia. The Fascists Oppose That.
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2019/11/14/trump-and-zelensky-want-peace-with-russia-the-fascists-oppose-that/
MH17 investigation team twists facts to support pre-approved decision — Russian diplomat
https://tass.com/politics/1088949
8 November 2019 — Fightback by Benoît Tanguay
In the past year, we have seen an explosion of the environmental movement. Through the global climate strike and mass demonstrations for the planet launched by Greta Thunberg, an entire generation has gotten a taste of political action, understanding the need for dramatic change to deal with environmental degradation. It is in this context that the group Extinction Rebellion (XR) has struck a chord. For many, both young and old, the urgency of the situation requires drastic solutions, and many have therefore been seduced by the group’s actions and its calls for immediate measures to save our planet. But are XR’s methods what the climate movement needs? What exactly does XR stand for?
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14 November 2019 — Mint Press
By Mnar Muhawesh Mnar Muhawesh @mnarmuh
Mnar Muhawesh speaks with journalist Daniel McAdams about being permanently banned from Twitter, social media censorship and more.
14 November 2019 — South Front
After failing to provide any comprehensive evidence that will allow to blame Russia for the MH17 tragedy, Western diplomats and ‘investigators’ have come with a fresh batch of PR tricks to picture the situation like they have some evidence.
13 November 2019 • 18:10 — The New Dark Age
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MAS: Resist, so that tomorrow we can fight again
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/movement-towards-socialism-mas-resist-so-tomorrow-we-can-fight-again
‘We Don’t Want Any Dictators’: Bolivians Flood Streets to Protest Right-Wing, Anti-Indigenous Coup
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/14/we-dont-want-any-dictators-bolivians-flood-streets-protest-right-wing-anti?cd-origin=rss
14 November 2019 — Tri-Continental
Dear Friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On November 10, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales Ayma was removed from office. Technically Morales resigned, but the conditions for his resignation had been set by the Bolivian oligarchy (egged on for thirteen years by the United States government, as Noam Chomsky and I indicated in this statement the day before the coup). Having won re-election for the fourth time, Morales faced an open insurrection from his opponent – former president Carlos Mesa – who lost the election conclusively. A team from the openly hostile Organisation of American States (OAS) arrived and provided legitimacy for the coup with a report on the elections that was long on accusations and short on facts. Using this OAS report – fully backed by the United States – as justification, the police mutinied, and then the army (which had remained neutral) told Morales he had to resign. There was no choice.
13 November 2019 — Source: Internationalist 360°
Thank you Programme Director. May I take this opportunity to thank the International Secretariat for creating this space for us. I see this space as an instrument full of possibilities and hope for a better world, a world that we want and for which we are all prepared to fight. May I also thank all comrades from Pan Africa Today who have always counted us, the uncounted, in this difficult journey for a world we want, a world in which we all live like human beings.
13 November 2019 — Source: Internationalist 360°
La Paz, Nov. 13 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian police today violently prevented Senator Adriana Salvatierra from entering Parliament as evidence of increased repression against Evo Morales’ supporters.
