11 October 2019 — WSWS
The forced blackouts affecting over two million people and businesses across 34 counties in Northern California are a stark example of the irrationality of the capitalist system.
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The irrationality of capitalism: Millions cut off from electricity, lives endangered by California utility PG&E
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Major Media Bury Groundbreaking Studies of Pentagon’s Massive Carbon Bootprint
10 October 2019 — FAIR
by Joshua Cho
In 2010, Project Censored (10/2/10) found that the
US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported.
The Conversation (6/26/19) ran a piece by the authors of the Durham/Lancaster study.
Almost a decade later, Project Censored’s observations are still applicable, with two major studies published in June remaining buried by most major media outlets. The first study, “Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War,” by Neta Crawford for Brown University’s Costs of War Project, confirmed previous findings that the US military is “the single-largest producer of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the world,” and that the Pentagon is responsible for between “77% and 80% of all US government energy consumption” since 2001, and that from the beginning of the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 to 2017, the US military emitted approximately 1.2 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
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Syria News Links 9-11 October 2019
11 October 2019 • 9:00 — The New Dark Age
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Russia called on Kurds to cooperate with Damascus, but they chose another way
In Maps: Progress Of Turkey-led Forces’ Advance On SDF Positions
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Information Clearing House Headlines 10-11 October 2019: Trump admits US killed millions in war based on lies
11 October 2019 — Information Clearing House
Trump admits US killed millions in war based on lies
By Bill Van Auken
It amounts to an official admission that successive US administrations are responsible for war crimes resulting in mass murder. Continue======
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Israeli police ‘turning a blind eye to killing spree’
10 October 2019 — Jonathan Cook
Palestinian citizens of Israel take to streets to accuse police and politicians of exploiting crime wave in their communities
Middle East Eye – 10 October 2019
Palestinian citizens of Israel escalated their protests against the police and government on Thursday by bringing sections of the country’s busiest highway to a crawl as they drove in a slow convoy towards Jerusalem for a major demonstration.
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Around the world in 8 Minutes Ep 58: Ecuador fights back against IMF
10 October 2019 — Peoples Dispatch
What has happened in the week of protests in Ecuador against the neoliberal economic policies of Lenín Moreno? Why are people on the streets?
In this episode of Around the World in 8 minutes, we look at the mounting resistance of the people of Ecuador to the neoliberal policies of Lenin Moreno. The struggle of Ecuadorians in the face of intense repression marks another moment in the Latin American outburst against the far-right whose policies have wreaked great havoc on the lives and livelihoods of all sections of the people.
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Defying repression, tens of thousands of Ecuadorians take part in national strike
10 October 2019 — The Peoples Dispatch
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
Tens of thousands of protesters mobilized in Quito on October 9 against the neoliberal ‘package’ announced by President Lenín Moreno. Photo: Ecuador Today
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SYRIA: Turkey, the Kurds and NATO explained By Vanessa Beeley
10 October 2019 — The Wall Will Fall
There is a growing confusion over the situation in the north-east of Syria – Turkey, a NATO member state, is de facto challenging other NATO member states by attacking a U.S proxy force occupying the region. The Kurdish contras and separtist factions that make up the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) are the apparent target.
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A Green Earth With Peace And Room For Us All
9 October 2019 — Transform! Europe
Source: flickr.com/DonkeyHotey Draft Globalization programme submitted by the National Board of the Red-Green Alliance/Enhedslisten, Denmark, to the party’s next Annual Congress on 5 – 6 October. It is a programmatic text about global development.
The world economy is characterized by major economic inequalities and by a production system that has already exceeded the limits of what is globally sustainable.
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Ecuador: Lenin vs. Lenin
8 October 2019 — Internationalist 360°
Insurrection has always been a weapon of humble peoples, those wretched of the earth of which Frantz Fannon spoke. It is a necessary alternative and a mirror in which one must obligatorily look at oneself, when the moment comes when the possibilities of dialogue with those above are exhausted, and the one below moves from the left. One fine day, the humiliated and dispossessed stand up and shout a forceful “enough is enough” and from that moment everything becomes possible, right up to the seizure of power.
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Rioters Storm Ecuador’s National Assembly, As President And Ministers Flee Capital
9 October 2019 — South Front
Click to see full-size imageOn October 8th, riots in Ecuador continued for the 6th day. Thousands of indigenous people who had been marching towards the capital, Quito, descended on the city.
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Tracking foreign interference in Hong Kong
8 October 2019 — Asia Times
Lawyer Lawrence Ma claims the US has been supporting the protests via groups such as the NED
By Pepe Escobar, Hong Kong
Lawrence YK Ma is the executive council chairman of the Hong Kong Legal Exchange Foundation and director of the China Law Society, the Chinese Judicial Studies Association and the Hong Kong Legal Exchange Foundation. He also finds time to teach law at Nankai University in Tianjin.
Ma is the go-to expert in what is arguably the most sensitive subject in Hong Kong: He meticulously tracks perceived foreign interference in the Special Administrative Region (SAR).
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Defending the Rule of Law….with HRC in the Wings Renée Parsons
9 October 2019 — True Publica
It has been more than fascinating if not totally absorbing to watch the chain of events unfold over recent days with the Democrats in open cahoots with the CIA. Their joint goal is to remove the implacable Donald Trump from the Oval Office as two-time former Dem presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has suddenly emerged from the Swamp for a few media appearances.
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Ecuador News Links 9 October 2019
9 October 2019 • 18:00 — The New Dark Age
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Popular Outrage Against Ecuador’s President Moreno. Deadly Wave of IMF Economic Reforms
https://www.globalresearch.ca/popular-outrage-against-ecuador-moreno/5691478Ecuador’s President Moves Government Operations From Capital to Escape Protests
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ActivistPost/~3/QvKVHBDf1xI/ecuadors-president-moves-government-operations-from-capital-to-escape-protests.html
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Mass protests against endemic poverty, government corruption convulse Haiti By Richard Dufour
9 October 2019 — WSWS
Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and several other major cities have been virtually shut down for the past three weeks in a continuation of mass anti-government protests that have erupted at regular intervals since July of last year. Impoverished youth from working-class neighborhoods have come out by the tens of thousands to denounce their hellish conditions of life.
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Ecuador’s president retreats from capital in face of growing mass protests By Andrea Lobo
9 October 2019 — WSWS
In the face of a continuing strike and a mass indigenous mobilization against an IMF-dictated austerity package, Ecuador’s President Lenín Moreno moved his government from the capital of Quito to the coastal city of Guayaquil, where he is now directing a police-state crackdown.
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US protects NSA spy’s wife wanted in UK over teenager’s death By Laura Tiernan
9 October 2019 — WSWS
The Trump administration is refusing to waive immunity for the wife of a senior US spy, who fled the UK after she was involved in a head-on collision more than a month ago that killed 19-year-old Harry Dunn.
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Ecuador raging against IMF’s measures, protesters storm parliament building
9 October 2019 — Counter Currents
Amid widespread demonstrations by people, clashes with riot police, and general strike by transport workers over the International Monetary Fund (IMF) dictated neo-liberal measures, protesters stormed Ecuador’s parliament building in Quito, the capital city.
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Spooks Turned Spox: US Media Now Filled With Former Intelligence Agents by Tyler Durden
5 October 2019 — Zero Hedge
After years in the shadows overseeing espionage, kill programs, warrantless wiretapping, entrapment, psyops and other covert operations, national security establishment retirees are are turning to a new line of work where they can carry out their imperial duties.
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Hundreds of Extinction Rebellion protesters arrested in central London By Steve James
9 October 2019 — WSWS
The number of arrests of Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate protestors in London topped 500 yesterday, in a naked display of state repression designed to intimidate and silence political and social opposition among much broader layers.
