Trump’s Fake Withdrawal From Endless War
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
On Monday, October 7th, the U.S. withdrew 50 to 100 troops from positions near Syria’s border with Turkey, and two days later Turkey invaded Rojava, the de facto autonomous Kurdish region of northeast Syria. Trump is now taking credit for a temporary, tenuous ceasefire. In a blizzard of tweets and statements, Donald Trump has portrayed…
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Trump and the Retreat of the American Empire
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
In days gone by, I used to compare the Trump presidency with the Arab dictatorships. He took preposterous pleasure in the company of Egypt’s Sisi (60,000 political prisoners) and his inane ramblings had much in common with those of Muammar Gaddafi, who also “authored” a book he never wrote but whom Trump never met (albeit that Tony Blair and Gaddafi kissed each other on the cheek). But over the past week, I’ve begun to realise that the crackpot in the White House has much more in common with ancient Rome.
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Pro-Democracy Movement in Haiti Swells Despite Police Violence
Frances Madeson | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
It’s getting hard not to notice that U.S. corporate media is covering pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong far more than pro-democracy forces in the Caribbean. It can be challenging to catch up on significant events in a place that’s a mere two-hour flight from Miami; with a few exceptions, the media is largely failing Haiti…
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Protests in Haiti: An Overlooked Crisis the World Should Not Ignore
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-22
Haiti faces fuel shortages, food shortages, and corruption. Political economist Keston Perry argues that neocolonialism, neoliberalism, and climate injustice are at the root of Haiti’s instability.
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Haiti’s Endless Sorrows
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
Few people anywhere have suffered as long and egregiously as Haitians. | No strangers to adversity and anguish, for over 500 years, they endured severe oppression, slavery, despotism, colonization, reparations, embargoes, sanctions, deep poverty, starvation, unrepayable debt, and natural calamities. | Except …
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Terrorized, Traumatized and Killed: The Police State’s Deadly Toll on America’s Children
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
“Mommy, am I gonna die?”– 4-year-old Ava Ellis after being inadvertently shot in the leg by a police officer who was aiming for the girl’s boxer-terrier dog, Patches “‘Am I going to get shot again.'”–2-year-old survivor of a police shooting that left his three siblings, ages 1, 4 and 5, with a bullet in the…
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Russia, Turkey Seal Power in Northeast Syria With Accord
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-22
ANKARA, Turkey — Russia and Turkey announced an agreement Tuesday to jointly patrol almost the entire northeastern Syrian border after the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters, cementing the two countries’ power in Syria in the wake of President Donald Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of U.S. forces. | The announcement came as Kurdish fighters completed their pullout from a section of the Syrian-Turkish border as required by a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that was set to expire Tuesday night. Together the arrangements transform the map of northeast Syria, leaving Turkey in sole control over one section in the middle of the…
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Turkey and Russia Agree to Create ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-10-22
Turkey and Russia have reached an agreement that will see the withdrawal of Syrian-Kurdish forces from areas along the Turkish border.

Turkey and Russia Agree to Create ‘Safe Zone’ in Syria

Putin-Erdogan Meeting Aims to Organise Differences and Shorten the Gap Between Allies
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
In the first week of the month of October the US informed Turkey and Russia of its intention to withdraw from north-east Syria (NES). Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan pulled out a plan prepared over a year ago to move …
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Turkey, Russia Agree on Kurdish YPG Withdrawal, Safe Zone
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-22
Turkey and Russia agreed on Tuesday to remove the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia to beyond 30 km from the Turkish border, after which their troops will jointly patrol a narrower strip of land in the “safe zone” that Ankara has long sought in northern Syria. | Beginning at noon on Wednesday, Russian military police and Syrian border guards will move in to facilitate the removal of YPG members and weapons to beyond the zone in a mission that should take about six days, according to the deal. | Speaking at a joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkish an…
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Does Africa Need Russia? The First Ever Russia-Africa Summit
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
The roughly three dozen African heads of state who will travel to Sochi later this week to attend the first-ever Russia-Africa Summit realize that the comprehensive expansion of relations with the Eurasian Great Power gives them a competitive edge in …
globalresearch.ca/does-africa-need-russi…

Cuba’s President Diaz-Canel Concludes Official Visit to Ireland
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-22
Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Tuesday concluded a two-day official visit to Ireland, a country where he held high-level meetings to boost bilateral relations established 20 years ago. | RELATED: | Cuba’s Diaz-Canel Heads to Europe, Russia for NAM Summit | In addition to visiting some emblematic places of Irish history…
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Diplomat: Trump Linked Ukraine Aid to Demand for Probe
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-22
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. Ambassador William Taylor provided lawmakers Tuesday with a vivid, detailed and what some lawmakers called “disturbing” account of the way President Donald Trump wanted to put the new Ukraine president “in a public box” by demanding a quid pro quo at the center of the impeachment probe. | In a lengthy opening statement to House investigators, Taylor described the way Trump’s demand that “everything” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wanted, including vital military aid to counter Russia, hinged on makin…
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The US Tore the Middle East Apart. Can They Abandon It on a Whim?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-10-22
The Kurds fought in U.S. wars. Iraq and Syria are dismembered. Why is no one talking about diplomacy and aid?
therealnews.com/stories/us-middle-east-a…

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

Islamic State in Asia: ‘Unintentional’ Consequences of Turkey’s Syria Operation
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
Turkey began on October 9 its illegal offensive in northern Syria to expel terrorist organizations, primarily the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces and the Islamic State according to Ankara, away from the Turkish border and to establish a safe zone in | …
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Video: Syrian Army Takes Control of Abandoned US Bases
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
The northeastern Syria ceasefire, agreed by Washington and Ankara, immediately collapsed. Under the terms of the reached agreement, Turkey had to halt its Operation Peace Spring for 120 hours to allow units of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to …
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‘This Is the Latest Chapter of a Long History of US Betrayal of Kurds’ – Khury Petersen-Smith on the Turkish Invasion of Syria
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-10-22
Janine Jackson interviewed IPS’s Khury Petersen-Smith about the Turkish invasion of Syria for the October 18, 2019, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
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US Syria Pullout Leaves Troops in North and South
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
US aggression, occupation and control of Syrian territory is a flagrant UN Charter breach — a hard truth establishment media ignore, falsely blaming Bashar al-Assad for US-led imperial high crimes committed against his country. | The same goes for US actions …
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The Mother of Messes in Syria
Eric Margolis | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
What a mess. The imperial cooks in Washington have turned poor Syria into a poison pit of warring factions, with disastrous results for all. | Henry Kissinger once quipped that it is more dangerous being America’s ally than its enemy. A …
globalresearch.ca/mother-messes-syria/56…

Syrian Journalist: The West, Led by the US, Knows Erdogan Has Been Supporting ISIS for Years, Yet Chooses to Ignore this
MEMRI, Middle East Media Research Institute | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
In an article titled “Erdogan’s Terror, Which the West Ignores” in the London-based daily Al-Arab, ‘Ali Qassem, a Syrian journalist residing in Tunisia, castigated the West for its stance towards Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He argued that the …
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Trump’s Endless Wars
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
Donald Trump loves to talk about ending the endless U.S. wars that he inherited as president. He tweets about it. He endlessly criticizes his predecessors for their martial mistakes. But like the old saw about the weather, Trump talks a whole lot about endless wars but doesn’t do anything about them. Just this month, he…
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A Call for a Coup Plus a Week Like No Other for Tulsi Gabbard
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
There was what might be described as an extraordinary amount of nonsense being promoted by last week’s media. Unfortunately, some of it was quite dangerous. Admiral William McRaven, who commanded the Navy Seals when Osama bin Laden was captured …
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Trump Threatens to Reveal Whistleblower’s Identity
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-22
Depositions in the House’s impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump resume on Tuesday, as investigators try to parse out whether Trump corruptly withheld military aid to Ukraine to force the U.S. ally to investigate one of his chief political opponents. | Here’s what’s happening on the impeachment front: | Depositions continue: Investigators will sit down on Tuesday with Bill Taylor, the American diplomat who ran the embassy in Kyiv. Taylor was thrus…
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Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez use “left” demagogy to channel opposition to Trump behind Democrats
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
At Sanders’ first rally since his heart attack, he did not mention ongoing strikes by autoworkers and teachers, or the impeachment inquiry against Trump.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/sand…

Outrage Erupts After Trump Calls Impeachment Inquiry “a Lynching”
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-22
President Donald Trump took his outrageous response to House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry to a new level Tuesday morning by calling the congressional proceedings “a lynching,” a term that evokes the long history of racist violence against black people in the United States. | “So some day, if a Democrat becomes president and the Republicans win the House, even by a t…
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Millionaires’ Grip on the Globe Is Only Tightening
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-22
The millionaires of the world, who account for just 0.9 percent of the global population, now own nearly half of the planet’s $361 trillion in wealth while the bottom 56 percent of the population owns just 1.8 percent. | That’s according to the annual Global Wealth Report released Monday by Credit Suisse, which found that the number of millionaires in the world grew to 47 million between mid-2018 and mid-2019, with the United States leading the world in both new and total millionaires. | According to Credit Suisse,…
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Human violence: Pervasive, multi-dimensional and extinction-threatening
Robert J. Burrowes | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-22
Violence is pervasive throughout human society and it has a vast range of manifestations. Moreover, some of these manifestations — particularly the threat of nuclear war (which might start regionally), the climate catastrophe and the ongoing ecological devastation, as well as geoengineering and the deployment of 5G — threaten imminent human extinction if not contained. …
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New Yorkers Rally in Support of AG James, Demand Exxon Pay for Climate Crimes
commondreams.org | 2019-10-22
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XR Co-Founder Discusses Climate Emergency
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
Extinction Rebellion (“XR”) has hit the world stage like a flash of light with participants in more than 70 countries all within one year’s time. Its allure is simply “telling the truth” about the climate crisis… for a change. A breath of fresh air in a world filled with deceit and lies by people in…
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A World Partnership for Ecopolitical Health and Security
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
The world in 2019 is in deep trouble. States still act in their own interest, scarcely paying attention to the evolving horrors of climate change, war, hunger, ecological impoverishment of the planet and rapidly growing population. In such a precarious ecopolitical environment, we have the United States run by a president acting like a two-year…
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Climate Change Deniers Become Extinct in Canadian Election
Gary Engler | commondreams.org | 2019-10-22
(FromL) Federal party leaders, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, host Patrice Roy from Radio, Canada’s Prime Minister and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer, and Bloc Quebecois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet pose for pictures on October 10, 2019. (Photo: SEAN KILPATRICK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Minnesota: Patriotic Chinese students oppose turmoil in Hong Kong
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-10-22
Minneapolis, MN – On October 18, the five-starred flag of the People’s Republic of China fluttered in the wind, as a group of patriotic Chinese international students marched in opposition to a reactionary demonstration billed as the “Liberty for Hong Kong March.” | The reactionaries made their way through the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus “in solidarity with Hong Kong people against oppression on democracy and human rights.” Many of the ‘liberators’ wore black, and the leaders of the demonstration donned yellow armbands and face masks. Their demonstration coincided with the House of Representatives…
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Greater Middle East Project of Chaos: The Management of Savagery
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2019-10-22
The refugee crises coming out of the Middle East, generated by the forever wars and accompanying economic sanctions (more accurately, illegal unilateral coercive measures), have consequently fueled xenophobia both in the US and abroad. This, in turn, has fostered an ascendant wave of rightists. “Trump’s election,” author Max Blumenthal contends, “would not have been possible without 9/11 and the subsequent military interventionism conceived by the national security state.”
mintpressnews.com/greater-middle-east-pr…

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

Slow-Motion US/UK Killing of Julian Assange
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
Establishment media are in cahoots with US/UK ruling regimes against Assange for the “crime” of truth-telling journalism abhorred in the West — totalitarian rule where these societies are heading. | In mid-October, UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer denounced Assange’s …
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Violence Against Indigenous Peoples Explodes in Brazil
Clarissa Beretz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
On the same day that President Jair Bolsonaro made his anti-indigenous speech at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) released its annual report, ” Violence Against Indigenous Peoples in Brazil.” The data collected …
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Anti-Assange Court Continues Unfair Extradition Hearing to Railroad Assange to US
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
On October 21, 2019, Julian Assange appeared in court for an extradition hearing. Assange is being held in a British jail pending extradition to the United States after having served his sentence for skipping bail when he was given asylum …
globalresearch.ca/anti-assange-court-con…

A Modest Goal: #usoutofafghanistan
Tom Gallagher | commondreams.org | 2019-10-22
Anti-war demonstrators protest against the announcement of a US troop increase for Afghanistan, at a rally outside the Federal Building in Los Angeles on December 2, 2009. (Photo: MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Workers Struggles: The Americas
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
Workers are set to carry out a series of strikes and protests over the refusal of management to take any serious steps toward the removal of asbestos from trains.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/wrkr…

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

Vindictive Sentence in Catalan Leaders’ Trial Unleashes Tsunami of Protest
Dick Nichols | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
The gap between the 75%–80% of Catalans who uphold their country’s right to self-determination, and the Spanish elites and parts of Spanish society that do not want to know anything about it, was already very wide before October 14. | But …
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Nuclear Weapons and the Third Reich: Hitler’s Military Advisor Colonel Skorzeny called for the Bombing of New York City
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-10-22
Author’s preface: | About 18 months ago the distinguished American historian and scientist, Noam Chomsky, directed my attention through emails to Otto Skorzeny’s ‘My Commando Operations’, a book on which the below article is largely based upon — and, a …
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Warren’s ‘transformational’ education plan takes aim at charter schools and vouchers, vowing to make schools safe and equitable for all students
Julia Conley | nationofchange.org | 2019-10-22
“It’s a plan focused on supporting students from birth to college and career, and on supporting teachers throughout their careers.”
nationofchange.org/2019/10/22/warrens-tr…

Trump Declares Victory in China Trade War
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
Back in the late 1960s, when it was clear that the United States was losing in Vietnam, Vermont Senator George Aiken came up with the plan to declare victory and leave. It seems that Donald Trump has stolen the senator’s playbook. While we don’t know much of the details of Trump’s partial deal with China,…
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Will the GOP Become the Party of Blue-Collar Conservatism?
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
From the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt onward through to the 1990s, the Democrats had long been considered the party of the working class. That perception lingered long after the fact that by the 1990s, they had more accurately become the party of Wall Street and Silicon Valley, often embracing policies at variance with their…
counterpunch.org/2019/10/22/will-the-gop…

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

Change the Nation You Live In
Chelli Stanley | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
First, I want to say that, despite the difficulty that it sometimes is, I absolutely believe in all People and our inherent worth. This is of paramount importance for us as humanity to understand, because without it, we will always come to cages, borders, hate, pollution, arrogance, war, greed — sicknesses galore; all that the…
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Banks and the Real Estate Business Have Undermined Black Homeowners
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-10-22
Recent U.S. census data reveals the homeownership rate for African Americans has fallen to its lowest level since before the civil rights movement. In the second quarter of this year, the rate fell to just 40% — the lowest level since 1950. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s new book, Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership, examines the roots of this crisis. The book has just come out and has been longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award. From Philadelphia…
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Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Politically Motivated Probe: US Envoy
telesurenglish.net | 2019-10-22
The United States Senior Envoy to Ukraine William Taylor testified Tuesday he was told that President Donald Trump made the release of security aid to Ukraine if Kiev would publicly declare it would carry out politically motivated investigations against presidential candidate Joe Biden, according to a copy of his statement to lawmakers. | RELATED: | 2nd Whistleblower in Trump-Ukraine Scandal Comes Forward | The top U.S. diplomat gave closed-door testimony to the three Democratic-led…
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Anonymous Trump Official Writing ‘Unprecedented’ Inside Take
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-10-22
“A Warning,” the book by the person who wrote an anonymous essay about resistance from the inside the administration will be out Nov. 19.
truthdig.com/articles/anonymous-trump-of…

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

Pentagon to create ‘AI assistant’ to help tank crews navigate & MAKE DECISIONS in battle
rt.com | 2019-10-22
The US Army is working on all-seeing artificial intelligence that would analyze combat data and calculate how to gain supremacy in tank warfare. The project was launched amid growing concerns about using AI in real war. | The brand new program, dubbed Project Quarterback, is aimed at providing tank crews with an AI assistant that would gather all available battlefield data, analyze it and suggest the best way to take out an enemy, Defense One reported. The effort would radically speed up the decision-making in combat, as the AI would collect data from satellites, drones, radars and soldiers’ body cams. | “Simp…
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Bretton Woods Institutions’ Neoliberal Over-Reach Leaves Global Governance in the Gutter
Patrick Bond | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
Last week’s annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund was held in Washington, DC, with back-slapping now that the Bretton Woods twins have reached age 75 (they were founded at a New Hampshire hotel in 1944). But no amount of back-slapping can disguise the way these institutions have led the world into…
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Alliance for the Wild Rockies Challenges Logging and Burning Project in Methow Valley
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2019-10-22
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has mounted a legal challenge against the Mission Restoration Project on National Forest lands in the Methow Valley west of Twisp, Washington. This pristine, remote rural area is sandwiched between the Pasayten Wilderness on the north, the Sawtooth Wilderness on the south, and the North Cascades National Park on the west. It is…
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Right-wing terror in Germany: the responsibility of the Grand Coalition
wsws.org | 2019-10-22
The responsibility for right-wing terror lies not only with the AfD, but also with the Grand Coalition and its political supporters in the Left Party and the Greens.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/10/22/germ…

Animal Rights and Imperiled Species: Trump Administration Delays Lifesaving Protections