Hundreds Rally in San Diego in Defense of Migrant Caravan
VWSW | indybay.org | 2018-11-28
On Sunday morning [26 November 2018] over 200 people attended a rally in Larsen Field, San Ysidro, on the San Diego-Tijuana Border, to support the migrants in the Central American caravan, who are seeking to claim asylum in the United States. The protest occurred several hours before US Customs and Border Protection shut down the San Ysidro border crossing and fired tear gas at several hundred men, women and children seeking to cross into the United States.
indybay.org/newsitems/2018/11/25/18819363.php

Students tell MPs: 'The dinosaurs in parliament house need to open their eyes'
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-28
Hundreds of primary and secondary students went on strike and protested at Parliament House on November 28 calling for serious action on climate change. The action was the first in a national round of student strikes and protests happening across the country on November 30. | Solomon Vassarotti Brann, a student North Ainslie Primary School told the crowd: "If the government says it's committed to climate change, I want to know why it's still supporting coal mines like Adani which increase our greenhouse gas emissions. I want climate action." | Nia and Lolo Cornthwaite and Aisla Hardie from Chapman Primary School…
greenleft.org.au/content/student-tell-mps-dinosaurs-parliament-house-need-open-their-eyes

Meat and Consequences: More Bad News for Climate Change
Arshad Khan | counterpunch.org | 2018-11-28
Thanksgiving is quite a holiday. In one day, we manage to eat and enjoy 44 million turkeys, twice the number consumed at Christmas. Yes, vegetarians may live longer and vegans even more so, but the smell of a roasting turkey in the kitchen lingering in the nostrils, titillating appetites as friends and relations gather, is…
counterpunch.org/2018/11/28/meat-and-consequences-more-bad-news-for-climate-change/

Trump Tries to Play 'Cowboys and Indians' with International Treaties Signed with Native American Tribes
Wayne Madsen | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-28
Donald Trump is attempting to do something that no previous recent president of the United States has attempted. Trump is trying to abrogate longstanding legal international treaties signed by some of his predecessors with sovereign Native American tribes. The Trump … | The post Trump Tries to Play 'Cowboys and Indians' with International Treaties Signed with Native American Tribes appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/trump-tries-to-play-cowboys-and-indians-with-international-treaties-with-native-american-tribes/5661273

Australian prime minister denounces students' climate-change protests
wsws | wsws.org | 2018-11-28
Scott Morrison's comments expressed the acute fear of the ruling establishment that students and young people are beginning to enter into political struggle.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/28/stcl-n28.html

How Trump Weaponized the Government's Refugee Resettlement Agency
aclu | aclu.org | 2018-11-28
The Office of Refugee Resettlement was supposed to protect vulnerable immigrant children. Now it's an arm of Trump's deportation force. | Back in April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, both under the Department of Homeland Security, entered into a memorandum of agreement with an obscure government agency known as the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services. The office, known by its initials ORR, had traditionally served vulnerable immigrant youth coming to the United States without an adult. The agency took custody of those c…
aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/immigrants-rights-and-detention/how-trump-weaponized-governments-refugee

How Tear Gas Became a Favorite Weapon of US Border Patrol
Shared by Cherise | truthout.org | 2018-11-28
As the Trump administration continues to defend firing tear gas into crowds of asylum seekers, we look at the history of tear gas, which is banned in warfare but legal for federal authorities and police to turn on civilians. Border authorities' use of tear gas has spiked under the Trump administration, with the agency's own data revealing it has deployed tear gas over two dozen times this year alone. Customs and Border Protection told Newsweek Tuesday it began using tear gas under the Obama administration in 2010. The agency's use of tear gas has now reached a seven-year record high. We speak with Stuart Schra…
truthout.org/video/how-tear-gas-became-a-favorite-weapon-of-us-border-patrol/

How Tear Gas Became a Favorite Weapon of U.S. Border Patrol, Despite Being Banned In Warfare
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-28
As the Trump administration continues to defend firing tear gas into crowds of asylum seekers, we look at the history of tear gas, which is banned in warfare but legal for federal authorities and police to turn on civilians. Border authorities' use of tear gas has spiked under the Trump administration, with the agency's own data revealing it has deployed tear gas over two dozen times this year alone. Customs and Border Protection told Newsweek Tuesday it began using tear gas under the Obama administration in 2010. The agency's use of tear gas has now reached a seven-year record high. We speak with Stuart Schrader…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/28/how_tear_gas_became_a_favorite

California Gov. Jerry Brown Was a Climate Leader, but His Vision Had a Fatal Flaw
Kate Aronoff | theintercept.com | 2018-11-28
Under Jerry Brown, California has become a leader on climate politics. But the state has done little to phase out fossil fuel emissions at their source. | The post California Gov. Jerry Brown Was a Climate Leader, but His Vision Had a Fatal Flaw appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/11/28/california-jerry-brown-climate-legacy/

The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal
Naomi Klein | zcomm.org | 2018-11-28
It is a network of extraordinary groups and individuals who have held fast to their climate focus and commitments even when no media wanted to cover the crisis and no major political party wanted to do anything more than perform concern…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-game-changing-promise-of-a-green-new-deal/

World Faces 'Impossible' Task at Post-Paris Climate Talks
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-11-28
KATOWICE, Poland — Three years after sealing a landmark global climate deal in Paris, world leaders are gathering again to agree on the fine print. | The euphoria of 2015 has given way to sober realization that getting an agreement among almost 200 countries, each with their own political and economic demands, will be challenging — as evidenced by President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris accord, citing his "America First" mantra. | "Looking from the outside perspective, it's an impossible task," Poland's deputy environment minister, Michal Kurtyka, said of the talks…
truthdig.com/articles/world-faces-impossible-task-at-post-paris-climate-talks/

We Need to Triple Cuts to Stand a Chance Against Climate Change
Staff | truthdig.com | 2018-11-28
The gap between the world's greenhouse gas emissions and countries' planned reductions is growing, and only multiplying climate cuts can reduce global warming enough. | The post We Need to Triple Cuts to Stand a Chance Against Climate Change appeared first on Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists.
truthdig.com/articles/we-need-to-triple-cuts-to-stand-a-chance-against-climate-change/

'The Weekend,' 'Roma,' 'The Favorite,' 'Stan & Ollie,' capsule reviews from AFI
Ed Rampell | peoplesworld.org | 2018-11-28
LOS ANGELES–The American Film Institute's annual film festival, which took place Nov. 8-15, is arguably Los Angeles's premier annual fete of cinema. Here are further capsule reviews of some of this year's offerings. Some are now in theaters. The Weekend Woody Allen's films have sometimes been criticized for their dearth of Black characters, even if …
peoplesworld.org/article/the-weekend-roma-the-favorite-stan-ollie-capsule-reviews-from-afi/

"American Nightmare" Is an Antidote to Misguided Faith in Liberal Politics
Shared by Samantha Borek | truthout.org | 2018-11-28
With about eight dynasties now possessing as much money as half the entire world's population combined, it is impossible to ignore the fact that extreme wealth inequality is antithetical to the health and future of humanity and every other living thing on earth. | Despite the dystopian title — American Nightmare — of his latest book, cultural critic and prolific author Henry Giroux thinks that with a combined regimen of education and organization, we might still overthrow neoliberal fascism,…
truthout.org/articles/american-nightmare-is-an-antidote-to-misguided-faith-in-liberal-politics/

What white supremacists know
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz | mronline.org | 2018-11-28
The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans. | Source…
mronline.org/2018/11/28/what-white-supremacists-know/

"Red Flag Laws": Rights Can't be "Suspended," Only Violated
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2018-11-27
Hanna Scott of Seattle's KIRO radio reports that prosecutors in Washington are wrestling with the question of whether or not the state's "Red Flag law" applies to minors, and trying to stretch it to do so. Under the "law," Scott writes, a judge can issue an "Extreme Risk Protection Order" to…
counterpunch.org/2018/11/27/red-flag-laws-rights-cant-be-suspended-only-violated/

Climate, Human Delusion and Our Destruction of the Biosphere: We Aren't Even Trying!
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2018-11-27
Have you heard the expression 'climate change'? That lovely expression that suggests a holiday in a place with a more pleasant climate. | Unfortunately, only the rarest individual has the capacity to see through the elite-promulgated delusion that generated this benign … | The post Climate, Human Delusion and Our Destruction of the Biosphere: We Aren't Even Trying! appeared first on Global Research.
globalresearch.ca/climate-human-delusion-and-our-destruction-of-the-biosphere-we-arent-even-trying/5661126

The BBC Has Legal Protection to Spread Fake News: the Curious Case of ISIS, Andrew Neil and Jeremy Corbyn
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2018-11-27
The BBC spreads fake news. We all know that. From the uncritical parroting of the British government's Iraqi weapons of mass destruction claims to the unchallenged lies spouted by war-mongering politicians, that Libya's dictator (who was armed and trained by Britain, incidentally) was going to commit a "bloody massacre" in Libya's Benghazi region. (A postwar…
counterpunch.org/2018/11/27/the-bbc-has-legal-protection-to-spread-fake-news-the-curious-case-of-isis-andrew-neil-and-jeremy-corbyn/

EPA Plans to Roll Back Water Protections Despite Climate Change Warnings
Sharon Lerner | theintercept.com | 2018-11-27
While one branch of the U.S. government issued a report last week outlining the grave threats posed by climate change, another branch was preparing a rollback of water protections that will further exacerbate some of the climate-related problems laid out in the report. | "Water security in the United States is increasingly in jeopardy" warn the authors of the Fourth National Climate Assessment. Issued the day after Thanksgiving, the 1,656-page report was written by a team of more than 300 experts from the government and the private sector,…
theintercept.com/2018/11/27/epa-water-protection-climate-change/

John Podesta styling himself as a climate change expert in Guardian article
RT | rt.com | 2018-11-27
John Podesta, the former chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign whose private emails were infamously published by WikiLeaks, seems to have pivoted into a new arena: Climate change punditry. | …
rt.com/usa/445010-john-podesta-climate-change/

The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal
Naomi Klein | theintercept.com | 2018-11-27
The "Green New Deal" is not a piecemeal approach that trains a water gun on a blazing fire, but a comprehensive plan to transform society for the better. | The post The Game-Changing Promise of a Green New Deal appeared first on The Intercept.
theintercept.com/2018/11/27/green-new-deal-congress-climate-change/

How a Climate Change-Fueled Drought & U.S.-Fed Violence Are Driving Thousands from Central America
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-27
President Trump is urging Mexico to deport the thousands of Central American migrants who are at or approaching the U.S. border in an attempt to seek asylum, days after U.S. border authorities fired tear gas into a crowd of asylum seekers as some tried to push their way through the heavily militarized border near San Diego. Trump tweeted, "Mexico should move the flag waving Migrants, many of whom are stone cold criminals, back to their countries. Do it by plane, do it by bus, do it anyway you want, but they are NOT coming into the U.S.A. We will close the Border permanently if need be. Congress, fund the WALL!" T…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/27/how_a_climate_change_fueled_drought

There's No Global Warming, Because It's Cold Outside
Tom Tomorrow | thenation.com | 2018-11-27
There's No Global Warming, Because It's Cold Outside…
thenation.com/article/theres-no-global-warming-because-its-cold-outside/

#ExtinctionRebellion Launches Civil Disobedience Campaign Over Climate Change
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-11-26
A day after a new US Government report warned of imminent climate catastrophe, TRNN spoke to some of the protesters who marched and shutdown traffic in Manchester, England, to urge action over the climate crisis | The post #ExtinctionRebellion Launches Civil Disobedience Campaign Over Climate Change appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/extinctionrebellion-launches-civil-disobedience-campaign-over-climate-change

Americas: Stuck at the door: The Urgent Need for Protection of Central American Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in the Caravans
amnesty | amnesty.org | 2018-11-26
The arrival in Mexico since 19 October 2018 of between 8,000 and 10,000 migrants, refugees and people seeking asylum from Honduras, as well as from El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala as part of a series of so-called caravans is an urgent situation that requires States to respond in line with international human rights law and standards.
amnesty.org/en/documents/amr01/9447/2018/en/

Trump Admin Tries to Bury 1,656-Page Climate Report Warning of Devastating Health Impacts of Warming
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-26
The White House released an alarming climate change report on Black Friday, attempting to bury a 1,656-page government assessment that directly contradicts President Trump's history of climate change denial. The damning report, known as the National Climate Assessment, says that the consequences of climate change will leave no part of the U.S. untouched and that the warming climate will increase wildfires, crumble infrastructure, worsen air quality, destroy crops and lead to more frequent disease outbreaks. It also finds that global warming could shrink the U.S. economy by as much as 10 percent by the end of the…
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/26/trump_admin_tries_to_bury_1

Bill McKibben: New Report Reconfirms Climate Change is Shrinking Inhabitable Parts of the Planet
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-26
On the heels of yet another alarming climate change report–this time released by a White House that openly denies global warming–we speak with 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben and public health scholar Kristie Ebi about President Trump's environmental policies, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal and what it will take to fight the growing threat of climate change.
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/26/bill_mckibben_new_report_reconfirms_climate

Malcolm X would say Russiagate is a fool's game
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2018-11-26
"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." –Malcolm X | Source…
mronline.org/2018/11/26/malcolm-x-would-say-russiagate-is-a-fools-game/

Laura Flanders Show: Divest to Decolonize
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-11-25
At the traditional start of the holiday season, many in the US come together with family and friends to celebrate and give thanks. Though for indigenous peoples around the world perhaps apologies, even recompense, would be more in order. We hear from Native American activists Michelle Cook and Hartman Deetz about the ongoing struggle for… | The post Laura Flanders Show: Divest to Decolonize appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/laura-flanders-show-divest-to-decolonize

The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter — Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (11/13)
Shared by Hezvo Mpunga | therealnews.com | 2018-11-23
An H Bomb first strike will create firestorms and smoke that ends most human life; this is a fact ignored by military planners and by the Trump administration which doesn't believe in climate science — says Daniel Ellsberg on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay | The post The Doomsday Machine and Nuclear Winter — Daniel Ellsberg on RAI (11/13) appeared first on The Real News Network.
therealnews.com/stories/the-doomsday-machine-and-nuclear-winter-daniel-ellsberg-on-rai-11-12

'The Administration's Refusal to Consider the Reality of Climate Change Is Very Difficult'
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2018-11-23
Janine Jackson interviewed Jackie Prange about the Keystone XL re-review for the November 16, 2018, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript. | Media…
fair.org/home/the-administrations-refusal-to-consider-the-reality-of-climate-change-is-very-difficult/

Noam Chomsky: The Future of Organized Human Life Is At Risk Thanks to GOP's Climate Change Denial
Democracy Now! | democracynow.org | 2018-11-22
As the death toll from the climate change-fueled Camp Fire in California continues to rise and hundreds remain missing, we rebroadcast our conversation about climate change with world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author Noam Chomsky from October. He says Republican Party leaders are dedicated to "enriching themselves and their friends" at the cost of the planet, and warns: "We have to make decisions now which will literally determine whether organized human life can survive in any decent form."
www.democracynow.org/2018/11/22/noam_chomsky_the_future_of_organized

Elected Constituent Assembly in Venezuela provoked International Outrage, not the illegal handpicked one in Ecuador
Joe Emersberger | zcomm.org | 2018-11-22
"CONAIE and CREO direct the new National Electoral Council" announces a headline yesterday in the rightwing Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo. CONAIE is a self-declared "left" federation representing indigenous peoples in Ecuador. CREO is the party of the "defeated" right wing presidential candidate in 2017. I put "defeated" in quotes because CREO's electoral defeat — which they stupidly Read…
zcomm.org/zblogs/elected-constituent-assembly-in-venezuela-provoked-international-outrage-not-the-illegal-handpicked-one-in-ecuador/

Greece: Dire Conditions for Asylum Seekers on Lesbos
Human Rights Watch | hrw.org | 2018-11-21
A boy holds a bicycle at a camp next to the Moria refugee camp in the island of Lesbos on August 5, 2018. | © 2018 Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images | (Brussels) — The already dire conditions in the overcrowded Moria camp for asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos may deteriorate into a full-blown humanitarian disaster as winter approaches unless urgent action is taken, Human Rights Watch said today. | "Thousands of people seeking protection in E…
hrw.org/news/2018/11/21/greece-dire-conditions-asylum-seekers-lesbos

Minimal Media Attention Helped Sink Crucial Climate Initiatives
Justin Anderson | fair.org | 2018-11-21
Climate change took a backseat to other issues in this year's midterm elections, and humanity may end up paying the price. The majority of climate change-related ballot measures failed, many climate deniers in the Republican party won or kept their seats, and even Democratic winners were not pressed on their commitment to climate change legislation …
fair.org/home/minimal-media-attention-helped-sink-crucial-climate-initiatives/

SPLC sues Trump administration for records detailing rollback of protections for transgender people in prison
splcenter | splcenter.org | 2018-11-20
The SPLC, along with Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) today.
splcenter.org/news/2018/11/20/splc-sues-trump-administration-records-detailing-rollback-protections-transgender-people

Out-of-control system burns California
stuart_m | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-16
A combination of real estate capitalism and climate change has unleashed murderous fires in California, writes Phil Hearse. | Things are getting serious. On November 15, at least are 56 were confirmed dead with hundreds missing. Thousands of homes and businesses have burned down. Two major fires, in the north and south of the state, were still not under control. | The scenes could be the aftermath of a US or Russian bombing raid in the Middle East — bodies littered on the ground, people burned to death in their cars, families devastated with grief at the loss of homes and loved ones. | United States Preside…
greenleft.org.au/content/out-control-system-burns-california

National Exclusive: Former Sen. Barbara Boxer's Son and California Powerbroker Found Bilking Indian Tribe
Consortiumnews | consortiumnews.com | 2018-11-16
Darius Anderson and his business partner, Douglas Boxer, preyed upon Native American clients who were too intimidated by their political connections to seek recourse, writes investigative reporter Peter Byrne. Judges Find Breach of Contract and Trust By Peter Byrne Darius… Read more ?…
consortiumnews.com/2018/11/16/national-exclusive-former-sen-barbara-boxers-son-and-california-powerbroker-found-bilking-indian-tribe/

Why students are striking for climate action on November 30
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2018-11-15
This November 30, I, along with hundreds — possibly thousands — of high school students will be participating in a student strike for climate action. | Initiated by the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC), the School Strike 4 Climate has gained momentum in recent weeks, with nearly thirty events being organised in capital cities and regional areas around Australia. | We are currently facing an unprecedented climate emergency. With 2018 (once again) being the hottest year on record, we face the prospect of an uncertain and dangerous future. | Climate change is "threatening water security", accord…
greenleft.org.au/content/why-students-are-striking-climate-action-november-30

Maduro: Venezuela Sitting on 2nd Biggest Gold Reserve on Earth
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2018-11-05
President Nicolas Maduro described the U.S. sanctions on Venezuela as "crazy" and "criminal."
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14133