Southern Poverty Law Center report highlights abusive conditions in US immigration detention centers
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
The report was based on a comprehensive study of four adult immigrant detention facilities in southern Florida.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/immi-d14.html

Gobierno de EEUU retira los cargos falsos contra periodista Max Blumenthal
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-12-14
El gobierno estadounidense desistió la causa basada en falsas acusaciones de agresión contra el editor de The Grayzone Max Blumenthal…
thegrayzone.com/2019/12/14/gobierno-eeuu-retira-cargos-max-blumenthal-venezuela/

The US-NATO-Israel Sponsored Al Qaeda Insurgency in Syria. Who Was Behind the 2011 "Protest Movement"?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
It was not a protest movement, it was an armed insurgency integrated by US-Israeli & allied supported "jihadist" death squads. From Day One, the Islamist "freedom fighters" were supported, trained & equipped by NATO & Turkey's High Command.
globalresearch.ca/syria-who-is-behind-the-protest-movement-fabricating-a-pretext-for-a-us-nato-humanitarian-intervention/24591

SEP/IYSSE public meeting in Colombo: Free Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning!
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
We urge all workers, youth and all those who cherish democratic rights to come forward and defeat the attack on Assange and Manning.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/asmt-d14.html

Julian Assange denied access to lawyers and vital evidence in US extradition case
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
It is clear that the fundamental legal rights of the WikiLeaks founder and world-famous investigative journalist are being trampled in what amounts to an extraordinary rendition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/assa-d14.html

Over 2000 Palestinians Participate in Peaceful Protest at Gaza Border
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-12-14
Over 2,000 Palestinians gathered in various parts of the Gaza Strip on Friday to take part in the weekly 'March of Return' protests. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that five Palestinians were shot with live rounds fired by the army across the perimeter fence. One of the wounded Palestinians …
imemc.org/article/over-2000-palestinians-participate-in-peaceful-protest-at-gaza-border/

The Mother of Us All: Ancient India's Vedic Civilization
William T. Hathaway | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-14
Researchers have determined that the Vedic culture of India was the first global civilization. They have uncovered archeological and historical evidence indicating that the society which began millennia ago in the Indus Valley grew to encompass all of South Asia, then spread peacefully to many parts of the world. Science and technology in ancient India …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/the-mother-of-us-all-ancient-indias-vedic-civilization/

ALEC Behind Ohio Bill Criminalizing Protests Against Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-14
When anti-protest legislation pushed by oil, gas and utility interests was introduced in the Ohio state Senate this year, it met a receptive audience and passed easily on a mostly party-line vote. It has since moved to the state House, where almost one-third of legislators are ALEC members, and will likely pass at the beginning of 2020. | The legislation, SB 33, is modeled…
truthout.org/articles/alec-behind-ohio-bill-criminalizing-protests-against-fossil-fuel-infrastructure/

Hong Kong local election results: Remarkably unremarkable and counter-revolutionary to boot
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-12-14
On November 24, Hong Kong held local elections for all 18 district councils in the city, with 452 of the 479 council seats up for grabs. Amid the polarized political atmosphere created by the protests and riots that gripped the city this year, turnout was much higher than past local elections. In total, 2,931,745 people cast ballots for their local district councils; about 71% of the 4,132,977 registered voters. | The U.S. and its allies in the corporate news media were quick to trumpet the results as a smashing success for the pro-Western protest movement, which elected 388 candidates to district councils. In co…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/12/14/hong-kong-local-election-results-remarkably-unremarkable-and-counter-revolutionary-boot

Soldiers Attack Palestinian Protesters Near Ramallah
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-12-14
Israeli soldiers attacked, Friday, dozens of Palestinian protesters near Beit El military roadblock, north of Ramallah in central West Bank. Eyewitnesses said dozens of Palestinians marched in the area of Beit El illegal colony, and were chanting against the ongoing Israeli occupation, its escalating violations against the people, their homes …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-attack-palestinian-protesters-near-ramallah/

NAFTA 2.0: Revising the 1994 Agreement
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
According to the Wall Street Journal, it's a "template for deals to come," adding: | "The new US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (has) implications for agreements beyond North America, including new bilateral deals being contemplated for China, Japan, the European Union, and the UK." | …
globalresearch.ca/nafta-2-0-revising-1994-agreement/5697683

China-US "Phase One" Trade Deal: The Devil in the Unannounced Details and Implementation
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
According to China's official People's Daily broadsheet, Beijing and Washington "agreed on the text of a phase one economic and trade agreement based on the principle of equality and mutual respect," adding: | "The text includes nine chapters: the preface, intellectual | …
globalresearch.ca/sino-us-phase-one-trade-deal/5697679

Video: Latin America, Geopolitical Battlefield. U.S. Threatens Military Intervention
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Latin America has long been regarded as the exclusive stomping ground of US economic interests, US military, and US intelligence services for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, to the point that the US public has grown to view …
globalresearch.ca/video-latin-america-new-old-hot-point-geopolitical-battlefield/5697687

Queen & Slim: An African-American couple on the run
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
In Queen & Slim, a racist white policeman is killed in the act of assaulting two young black people. Relying on certain aspects of reality, the film creates a largely mythological picture to justify a strand of rabid identity politics.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/quee-d14.html

Indigenous Bolivia Ready to go to War Against Fascism
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-14
Bolivia, December 2019, three weeks after the fascist coup. It is devilishly cold. My comrade's car is carefully navigating through the deep mud tracks. Enormous snow-covered mountain peaks are clearly visible in the distance. The Bolivian Altiplano; beloved, yet always somehow hostile, silent, impenetrable. So many times in the past I came close to death …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/indigenous-bolivia-ready-to-go-to-war-against-fascism/

"The Good Terrorists": How U.S. Airstrikes Helped Prop Al-Qaeda in Syria's Idlib?
Nauman Sadiq | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Al-Qaeda in Syria has two noteworthy apologists. One is the jihadist propagandist Bilal Abdul Kareem, a former correspondent for CNN, often seen in videos sporting a long beard and reporting from the ground in the al-Nusra Front strongholds in …
globalresearch.ca/how-american-airstrikes-helped-prop-al-qaeda-syria-idlib/5697665

Nunca vi o Mundo tà£o fragmentado!
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
É impressionante a facilidade com que o império ocidental está a conseguir destruir os países "rebeldes" que està£o no seu caminho, sem que haja resistência. | Trabalho em todos os cantos do planeta, onde os "conflitos" kafkianos forem desencadeados por Washington, …
globalresearch.ca/nunca-vi-o-mundo-tao-fragmentado/5697707

Prime Minister Modi Triggers Political Instability in India's Northeastern States
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Indian Prime Minister Modi has a huge crisis on his hands entirely of his own making after some of the ethno-religiously diverse Northeastern States of the so-called 'Seven Sisters' are erupting in rage after the passage of the 'Citizenship (Amendment) …
globalresearch.ca/prime-minister-modi-triggers-political-instability-in-indias-northeastern-states/5697619

US Seeks Thai Opposition for Anti-China Alliance at ASEAN Summit
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Why is the US talking "democracy, human rights and justice" with an opposition who lost recent elections, abuses human rights and works daily to undermine and evade justice? | Time was precious at the 35th ASEAN Summit. Leaders from across Southeast …
globalresearch.ca/us-seeks-thai-opposition-anti-china-alliance-asean-summit/5697671

Arms Control. UN General Assembly Adopts Five Russian Resolutions
Eurasia Diary | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
The United Nations General Assembly voted in favour of five draft resolutions addressing arms control, disarmament and international security earlier submitted by Russia at the UN's First Committee, Eurasia Diary reports citing Sputnik. | Three of the documents adopted late Thursday | …
globalresearch.ca/arms-control-un-general-assembly-adopts-five-russian-resolutionsarms-control-un-general-assembly-adopts-five-russian-resolutions/5697657

O Juiz que criticou o "culto da Bomba"
John LaForge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Numa dada circunstância, o Juiz do Distrito Federal, Miles Lord, que faleceu em 10 de Dezembro de 2016, aos 97 anos de idade, poderia ter-me aplicado uma sentenàßa de dez anos. Longe disso, o famoso Juiz sem rodeios, que era …
globalresearch.ca/o-juiz-que-criticou-o-culto-da-bomba/5697703

Someone Interfered in the UK Election, and It Wasn't Russia
Caitlin Johnstone | globalresearch.ca | 2019-12-14
Ladies and gentlemen I have here at my fingertips indisputable proof that egregious election meddling took place in the United Kingdom on Thursday. | Before you get all excited, no, it wasn't the Russians. It wasn't the Chinese, the Iranians, Cobra …
globalresearch.ca/someone-interfered-uk-election-it-wasnt-russia/5697667

Following Warren and Sanders, Candidates Vow Not to Cross Picket Line for Debate
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-14
As the hospitality workers' union Unite Here Local 11 said that next week's Democratic presidential debate could be threatened by stalled contract negotiations for workers at Loyola Marymount University, which is hosting the debate, Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders led the Democratic field in announcing they would be on the side of the workers if a deal is not reached in the coming days. | Warren tweeted early Friday afternoon that she would "not cross the union's picket line even…
truthout.org/articles/following-warren-and-sanders-candidates-vow-not-to-cross-picket-line-for-debate/

House Judiciary Committee Recommends Impeachment of Donald Trump
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-14
On Friday the 13th of December, the House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. After a 14-hour hearing, the committee voted 23-17, along party lines, to recommend to the House of Representatives that Trump be impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. | Article I: Abuse of Power: | Article I charges: "Usin…
truthout.org/articles/house-judiciary-committee-recommends-impeachment-of-donald-trump/

Climate Policy Should Reflect the Resilience of Northern Indigenous Communities
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-14
This year, Canada experienced record-breaking temperatures across the nation, with a larger increase above normal temperatures in the north than in the south. Canada's annual average temperature has warmed 1.7C since 1948, but in northern Canada it has increased by 2.3C. | The Canadian North is feeling t…
truthout.org/articles/climate-policy-should-reflect-the-resilience-of-northern-indigenous-communities/

Ukrainian Foreign Influence Operation Bankrolled by Secret Donors
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-14
Foreign agents peddling influence for a controversial Ukraine politician were part of a coordinated effort bankrolled through a secretive network of shell companies and offshore entities, according to new foreign lobbying records. | The foreign influence operation centered around Ukraine's former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, who ran against now-President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine's 2019 pre…
truthout.org/articles/ukrainian-foreign-influence-operation-bankrolled-by-secret-donors/

NAFTA 2.0 Does Little to Reverse the Damage of Its Predecessor
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-12-14
On Tuesday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that Democrats had reached a deal with the Trump administration to advance the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), also referred to as "NAFTA 2.0." In explaining the deal, she said: "There is no question of course that this trade agreement is much better than NAFTA." | Progressives have criticized Pelosi for potentially handing President Trump a political victory during both an impeachment process and an approachin…
truthout.org/articles/nafta-2-0-does-little-to-reverse-the-damage-of-the-previous-trade-agreement/

200 International Organizations Support Call to ICC on Palestine
IMEMC News & Agencies | imemc.org | 2019-12-14
An impressive international coalition of 185 civil society organizations has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a formal investigation, into possible war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, without further delay. The ICC has been engaged in a preliminary investigation for almost …
imemc.org/article/200-international-organizations-support-call-to-icc-on-palestine/

A Mined History: The Bougainville Referendum
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-12-14
It would be an understatement to claim that Bougainville, that blighted piece of autonomous territory in Papua New Guinea, had been through a lot. Companies have preyed upon its environment with extractive hunger. Wars and civil strife have beset its infrastructure and economy. Some 900 kilometres from the PNG mainland, it has been what might …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/a-mined-history-the-bougainville-referendum/

Becoming backward or taking society forward
Anthony Ravlich | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
The human rights omissions of the United Nations has determined western civilization and global freedom for decline. There is a desperate need for intelligent males from a western culture to take society forward. The UN agenda aims to eliminate freedom of thought which led to major human accomplishments and the dominance of western culture.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828890.php

Nicola Sturgeon warns Johnson he cannot 'bludgeon Scotland into accepting his view'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-12-14
Boris Johnson cannot "bludgeon" Scotland into seeing the world in the same way that he does, Nicola Sturgeon has said.She spoke with Johnson in a phone call on Friday following the election in which the SNP won 48 of the 59 Scottish seats.Downing Street said that in the call, Johnson "made clear how he remained opposed to a second independence referendum".However, speaking at the V&A Museum in Dundee on Saturday as she joined her party's newly-elected MPs, Sturgeon insisted it is unsustainable for the Tories to keep saying no to a fresh vote. | Of her phone call with the PM, she added: I wasn't sure how much he'd…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/12/14/nicola-sturgeon-warns-johnson-he-cannot-bludgeon-scotland-into-accepting-his-view/

US tests INF-banned missile after Democrats rubber-stamp Trump's nuclear build-up
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
The test comes just days after congressional Democrats voted for a massive military spending bill that stripped out language limiting the development of dangerous new nuclear weapons.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/nucl-d14.html

NDP props up Trudeau, joins Conservatives in demanding tougher anti-China stance
wsws.org | 2019-12-14
The true character of the NDP's "opposition" to the Liberals and the Conservatives–the Canadian ruling class' traditional parties of national government–was laid bare in two recent parliamentary votes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/12/14/ndpp-d14.html

Impeach & Remove: Rally and March in San Francisco
SF Indivisible, Progressive Democrats, others | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
San Francisco Federal Building @ 90 7th Street, on the corner of Mission and 7th streets, San Francisco, CA 94103…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828891.php

Impeach & Remove Demonstration in Oakland
Moveon | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
Grand Lake Theater Intersection, 3200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828895.php

Impeach and Remove Rally
Indivisible SF Peninsula and CA-14 | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
In front of Ana Furniture Across the street from the Hillsdale Mall | 3011 S El Camino Real | San Mateo, CA 94403…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/13/18828878.php

Impeach and Remove Rally in Sacramento
MoveOn Sacramento | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
California State Capitol, 1315 10th St, Sacramento, California 95814…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828893.php

Impeach and Remove Rally, San Rafael
Patty Hoyt | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
San Rafael's City Plaza (1000 4th St. between "A" St. & Lootens near Arizmendi Bakery)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828888.php

Impeach & Remove Events in East Bay Area Cities
Moveon | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
Events in East Bay cities: El Cerrtio, Walnut Creek, Emeryville, San Ramon, Castro Valley…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828896.php

Impeach & Remove Trump Rally in Palo Alto
Moveon | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
Lytton Plaza, University Ave. & Emerson Street, Palo Alto 94301…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828897.php

Impeach & Remove Rally in Livermore (Tri Valley)
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
Flagpole Plaza, intersection of First St and S. Livermore Ave., Livermore, CA 94550…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828900.php

National Impeach & Remove Rallies, Marches, Vigils in Bay Area and beyond
Moveon.org, and others | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
National marches, rallies, vigils in the San Francisco Bay Area, State of California, and throughout nation…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828892.php

Impeach & Remove Demonstration in Cupertino
MoveOn | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
Cupertino City Center (out front of building), south east intersection of Stevens Creek and De Anza Blvd., Cupertino 95014…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828898.php

Impeach and Remove Events in Wine Country (Sonoma & Napa Counties)
Moveon | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
Events in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Sonoma, Napa, Healdsburg…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/14/18828894.php

Venezuela: Maduro Attends Anti-Neoliberal ALBA Summit in Cuba
telesurenglish.net | 2019-12-14
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro attends the 17th summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA-TCP), which is taking place in Havana, Cuba, on Saturday. | RELATED: | Venezuelan Oil Production Sets Historical Record in November | "At such a complex time for Latin America and the Caribbean, this ALBA summit brings a message of ho…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Maduro-Attends-Anti-Neoliberal-ALBA-Summit-in-Cuba-20191214-0002.html

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Susie Gardner | truthdig.com | 2019-12-14
truthdig.com/bazaar/american-sonnets-for-my-past-and-future-assassin/

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Susie Gardner | truthdig.com | 2019-12-14
truthdig.com/bazaar/american-sonnets-for-my-past-and-future-assassin/

U.N. Climate Talks in Limbo as Chair Chile Bids for Compromise
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-12-14
Rules for carbon markets and a system to help poor countries cope with the economic impact of climate change are key unresolved issues.
truthdig.com/articles/u-n-climate-talks-in-limbo-as-chair-chile-bids-for-compromise/

Water waste must stop
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2019-12-14
The whole wastewater system is contributing to climate change.
nationofchange.org/2019/12/14/water-waste-must-stop/

Central Valley Water Board Approves Grasslands Water District Permit
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-12-14
"Toxins in water impact fish, divide indigenous families from traditional foods, and can cause permanent learning disabilities in children," stated Sherri Norris, executive director of the California Indian Environmental Alliance. "Many of these toxins cannot be removed from water once it enters into the system. It's imperative that we protect all of California's water from these toxins."
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/12/13/18828881.php