Daily Archives: November 3, 2019

2019-11-03: News Headlines

RT (2019-11-03). Nasty Russians harassed a sick American diplomat? That's 'fake news' says Foreign Ministry. rt.com The New York Times has spun a tale of Russian treachery based on its usual anonymous sources. Though the Russian Foreign Ministry stepped in to correct the record, the paper didn't let facts get in the way of a good story.

Stephen Lendman (2019-11-03). The Real US Mission in Syria. globalresearch.ca US involvement in Syria has nothing to do with regional peace, stability and security, nothing to do with combatting ISIS-Daesh terrorists. It's all about killing a nation, partitioning it for easier control, installing puppet rule, eliminating an Israeli rival, isolating …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-11-03). Scott Morrisons' Authoritarian Streak: Crushing Anti-Mining Protest in Australia. asia-pacificresearch.com

IMEMC News (2019-11-03). Soldiers Attack Solidarity Protest With Hunger Striking Detainees, Abduct Journalist, In Jerusalem. imemc.org Updated: Israeli soldiers resorted, Saturday, to the excessive use of force against dozens of Palestinians, holding a nonviolent protest in solidarity with the hunger-striking detainees in Israeli prisons, and abducted a journalist, in occupied Jerusalem. Media sources in Jerusalem said the soldiers attacked dozens of Palestinians who were nonviolent protesting …

Staff (2019-11-03). Attacker Stabs Several, Bites Off Politician's Ear as Hong Kong Boils. truthdig.com HONG KONG — A knife-wielding man slashed several people and bit off part of the ear of a pro-democracy politician in Hong Kong on Sunday, as riot police stormed several malls to thwart protesters who have been demanding government reforms for nearly five months. | The bloody attack erupted outside one of those shopping complexes, Cityplaza on Hong Kong Island. Local media said the attacker told his victims that Hong Kong belongs to China. | Television footage showed the man biting the ear of district councilor Andrew Chiu, who had tried to stop him from leaving after the stabbings. The attacker was then bad…

Peter Koenig (2019-11-03). China Breaks the Western Debt Stranglehold on the World. globalresearch.ca The west has colonized, exploited, ravaged and assassinated the people of the Global South for hundreds of years. | Up to the mid-20th century Europe has occupied Africa, and large parts of Asia. | In Latin America, though much of the …

Philip Giraldi (2019-11-03). The White House Plan to Strangle Iran. Trump's Flip Flop Foreign Policy. globalresearch.ca There is a certain irony in President Donald Trump's frequently expressed desire to withdraw from the endless wars that have characterized the so-called "global war on terror" initiated by George W. Bush in 2001. The problem is that Trump …

Afroze Fatima Zaidi (2019-11-03). Journalists accuse Twitter of 'censorship' as it suspends multiple news accounts from Palestine and Lebanon. thecanary.co On 2 November, Twitter suspended a number of accounts reporting news from Palestine and Lebanon. Among these were Arabic and English language news accounts of the Palestinian outlet Quds News Network. | Other accounts that Twitter appears to have suspended around the same time include Asra News and Lebanese pla…

South Front (2019-11-03). Video: Syrian Oil and US Troop Withdrawal, Explained. globalresearch.ca The United States is to keep forces at the oil fields in Syria despite the troops' withdrawal from the north of the country. The formal justification of the move is the need to "deny ISIS access" to the oil fields. …

Mark Taliano (2019-11-03). President Assad of Syria Tells the Truth regarding ISIS-Al Baghdadi, for All Who Care to Listen. globalresearch.ca Western politicians are perception managers, puppets, deep state stooges. They bow to diktats from largely unelected polities. They are hollow, straw figures who sell out their countries and those whom they proclaim to represent with a whim. They have failed …

Ron Forthofer (2019-11-03). Proposed Withdrawal of US Troops in Syria. commondreams.org A US soldier stands by an armored vehicle during a patrol of the northern countryside of the northeastern Syrian town of al-Malikiyah (Derik) at the border with Turkey, on November 3, 2019. (Photo: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/us-troops-in-syria-11032019-955px.jpg

Ryan Cristián (2019-11-03). "White Helmets Are Preparing New Chemical Provocations In Syria," France Bombs Iraq & Oil Occupation. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/2/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard et al (2019-11-03). We Stand in Solidarity with Rojava, an Example to the World. commondreams.org 02 November 2019, Berlin: A demonstration of Kurds against the invasion of Syria by the Turkish army under the motto "Stop the war. Solidarity with Rojava" is moving along the boulevard Unter den Linden. Various alliances had called for the demonstration. (Photo by Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/rise-up-for-rojava-955px.jpg

United Nations (2019-11-03). Far more needed to 'confront the world's climate emergency', UN chief tells ASEAN Summit. un.org Four of the ten countries most affected by climate change are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sunday, urging the ASEAN Summit in Bangkok to "confront the world's climate emergency".

Great Game India (2019-11-03). India Loses $7 Billion WTO Case Against the US. globalresearch.ca India has lost a $7 billion WTO case against US. Meanwhile China has won its case with the WTO now allowing the Chinese to impose a $3.6 billion sanction on American goods. The verdict comes days after India and US

Staff (2019-11-03). Our Future Will Require Green Infrastructure. Here's How We Can Build It. truthout.org November 1, 2019 — In Lafayette, Indiana, six people spent half the summer of 2019 hand-sweeping a road. That's not how the city typically cleans its streets, but in this case, the road was permeable pavement, which puts gravel in between the pavers to let water filter into the soil below. Sweeping by hand was necessary to get the loose gravel back between the brick pavers after cleaning, says Vanessa Rainwater, the city's green infrastructure manager. The process was time consuming, but was…

teleSUR (2019-11-03). Saudi Aramco Kick-starts What Could be World's Biggest IPO. telesurenglish.net Saudi Arabia's giant state oil company finally kick-started its initial public offering (IPO) on Sunday, announcing its intention to float on the domestic bourse in what could be the world's biggest listing as the kingdom seeks to diversify its economy away from oil. | But in its long-awaited announcement, Aramco, the world's most profitable company, offered few specifics on the number of shares to be sold, pricing or the date for a launch. | Bankers have told the Saudi government that investors will likely value the company at around $1.5 trillion, below the $2 trillion valuation touted by Crown Prince Moham…

IMEMC News (2019-11-03). Israeli Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian Near Jenin. imemc.org Israeli soldiers shot, on Sunday morning, a young man at the military gate of the illegal Annexation Wall, installed on Palestinian lands in Aneen village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jenin said the soldiers shot Mohammad Ahmad Jaradat, 32, …

teleSUR (2019-11-03). Palestinian Killed, Two Wounded in Israel strikes on Gaza. telesurenglish.net Israel carried out retaliatory strikes on Gaza Saturday killing a Palestinian and wounding two others, following two nights of rocket attacks that were the first since September. | RELATED: | Israeli Soldier Who Killed Palestinian Teen Gets 1-Month Sentence | Dozens of pre-dawn strikes targeted bases of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, which rules the strip, and those of allied militant groups, a Gaza security source said. | The Israeli army said the strikes targete…

Staff (2019-11-03). Police Killed Atatiana Jefferson, Then Implied She Was Responsible for Her Death. truthout.org At 2: 30 am on October 12, Atatiana Koquice Jefferson was shot and killed in her own home by an officer with the Fort Worth Police Department. Officer Aaron Dean, responding to a call placed by a neighbor to investigate an open front door, searched the exterior of Jefferson's home before approaching her bedroom window. Upon seeing a figure moving inside the…

Alfred de Zayas, Urs Gasche and F Zollmann (2019-11-03). The US Tramples on International Law. indybay.org The US surprise attack on Iraq in March 2003 was a primal catastrophe. International law was eliminated and replaced by the imperial dictatorship of the US. Those who destroyed a whole people and have over a million casualties on their conscience are not punished in any way.

teleSUR (2019-11-03). Iran's Khamenei Restates Ban on Talks With US. telesurenglish.net On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated Sunday a ban on any negotiation with the U.S. | RELATED: | US Sanctions Threaten Iranians' Healthcare: Human Rights Report | "One way to block America's political infiltration is to ban any talks with America. It means Iran will not yield to America's pressure," the Leader said in a meeting with university students in Tehran a day before the anniversary of the Nov. 4, 1979, embassy seizure.

ALEXB (2019-11-03). Turkish nationalists attack Rojava solidarity rally. greenleft.org.au Rojava Solidarity Alex BainbridgeIssue 1244 Australia Gold CoastNovember 3, 2019A peaceful rally on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in solidarity with the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria was attacked by Turkish chauvinists on November 3. | Rally spokesperson Mi…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-11-02). It's Official: Dysfunctional Impeachment Resolution against Donald J. Trump. H. RES. 13. globalresearch.ca According to Rep.Sherman: "Recent disclosures by Donald Trump Jr. indicate that Trump's campaign was eager to receive assistance from Russia." The NYT candidly states without a shred of evidence that the Russian lawyer is "connected the Russian government" intimating that she is a stooge of the Kremlin.

Fight Back (2019-11-02). Condemn mass arrest and Duterte regime's heightened fascist drive. fightbacknews.org Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Nov. 2 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the mass arrest of activist workers, peasants, women, and media practitioners over the past few days in Bacolod, Escalante and Manila. Police arrested and detained more than 60 people belonging to various sectoral organizations. More than five children were also accosted. | The CPP condemns the statement issued by Malacañang which makes the patently false claim that the arrested activists in Bacolod City were members of th…

ADMIN (2019-11-02). Al-Mezan: "Israeli Soldier Sentenced for Failure to Follow Orders, instead of Killing of Child Al Mezan: Leniency Attests to Entrenched Impunity" imemc.org Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: In one of the dozens of cases pursued by Al Mezan Center for Human Rights for the killing of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza's 'Great March of Return' protests, an Israeli military court has sentenced a soldier who killed on July 13 2018, 14-year-old child, Othman …

teleSUR, jg (2019-11-02). Hong Kong Protesters Trash Xinhua Office in Night of Violence. telesurenglish.net Police fired tear gas at black-clad protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday after setting fire to subway stations and destroying buildings, including China's official Xinhua news agency. | RELATED: | China: 19th CPC Central Committee Concludes Plenary Session | As part of the worst acts of violence that have hit the city in weeks, small groups of masked protesters fled to the central business district lighting street barricades and dropping gasoline bombs through streets filled with b…

teleSUR (2019-11-02). Chile: Workers to Keep Pace With Mobilizations Over The Weekend. telesurenglish.net Due to President Sebastian Piñera's unwillingness to make policy changes and stop the repression, the Workers' United Center of Chile (CUT) presented to the citizens a weekend protest program which includes the performance of a "Super Monday" with mass mobilizations throughout the country. | RELATED: | Chile: 'Interference Accusation is US Dirty Game,' Russia says | On next…

teleSUR (2019-11-02). Iraqi Protesters Block Roads, Demand End to Foreign Meddling. telesurenglish.net Security forces killed a protester and wounded 91 others in Baghdad on Saturday, security and medical sources said, as tens of thousands of Iraqis gathered in mass anti-government protests in the capital and blocked roads leading to a major port. | RELATED: | Iraq Witnesses Largest Protests Since the Fall of Saddam | Protesters have been congregating in the capital's central Tahrir Square for weeks, demanding the fall of the political elite in the biggest wave of mass demonstrations…

Peter Koenig (2019-11-02). China Breaks the Western Debt Stranglehold on the World. dissidentvoice.org The west has colonized, exploited, ravaged and assassinated the people of the Global South for hundreds of years. Up to the mid-20th Century Europe has occupied Africa, and large parts of Asia. In Latin America, though much of the sub-Continent was "freed" from Spain and Portugal in the 19th Century — a new kind of …

Staff (2019-11-02). Research Links Pesticide Harmful to Bees With Collapse of Fisheries. truthout.org A new study out this week provides more evidence of harm caused by a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, with researchers linking use of the chemicals on a Japanese lake with impacts to an entire food web that resulted in the collapse of two fisheries. | "No surprise," tweeted former UK Green Party leader leader Natalie Bennett, "soaking our planet in pesticides has broad systemic effects on biodiversity and bioabun…

WSWS (2019-11-02). Prime Minister Hariri's resignation intensifies Lebanon's political crisis. wsws.org The political vacuum in Lebanon poses the risk of an intervention by the regional powers or their local proxies.

Ryan Cristián (2019-11-02). Baghdadi Deception Exposed, Israel Bombs Gaza After Phantom Rocket & US Violates Own Syria Sanctions. thelastamericanvagabond.com Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/1/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …

Ron Forthofer (2019-11-02). Proposed Withdrawal of US Troops in Syria. dissidentvoice.org President Trump has stated his intent to withdraw US troops from Syria on several occasions since March 2018. Each time politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties, supported by the corporate-controlled media, have, based on US imperial interests, vehemently challenged the withdrawal proposal. These folks also based their opposition to withdrawal on their supposed …

teleSUR (2019-11-02). Turkey, Russia Hold First Joint Patrol In Northeast Syria. telesurenglish.net Turkish and Russian troops carried out their first joint ground patrols in northeastern Syria on Friday under an agreement between the two countries that forced a Kurdish militia to leave the territory near the border with Turkey. | RELATED: | Syrian Kurdish Forces Leaving Turkish Border Area, Damascus Welcomes Move | Turkish armored veh…

WSWS (2019-11-02). Germany's grand coalition extends military operations in Syria and Iraq. wsws.org Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, leading politicians from all parties openly advocate policies of war and military violence.

teleSUR (2019-11-02). Trump: Possible Trade Agreement With China to be Signed in Iowa. telesurenglish.net After Chile withdrew from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Santiago, there was no date set for the signing of an agreement between world`s largest economies until President Donald Trump announced the possible pact within the U.S. | RELATED: | US Launches A National Security Investigation Into TikTok | Trump and Xi had been expected to ink the agreement at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Santiago, Chile from Nov. 16-17, but those plans were thrown into…

WSWS (2019-11-02). Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific. wsws.org While 16,000 Tamil Nadu doctors walked-out to demand salary increases and promotions, thousands of the state's railway workers struck against privatisation measures.

Jordan Davidson (2019-11-02). Japanese fisheries collapsed due to pesticides, new research says. nationofchange.org "Let's hope this is a wake-up call for Asian countries and they move to quickly ban the chemicals from paddyfields."

WSWS (2019-11-02). India: Growing support for 48,000 Telangana workers fired for striking. wsws.org The Telangana transport workers courageously defied the state Chief Minister's ultimatum that they immediately end their strike or be deemed "self-dismissed."

Paul Antonopoulos (2019-11-02). Washington's Belated Armenian Genocide Recognition Is Politically Motivated. globalresearch.ca A historical moment was achieved on October 29 for the Armenian lobby in the U.S. after the House of Representatives recognized the Armenian genocide, with 405 votes in favor and 11 against the Resolution. This timely move was certainly aimed …

WSWS (2019-11-02). Bangladesh: Sixteen sentenced to death over brutal murder of student. wsws.org The Bangladeshi government is exploiting outrage over the brutal murder of a young woman to step up its law-and-order attacks on democratic rights.

IMEMC News (2019-11-02). Palestinian Resistance Fires Several Projectiles After Palestinian Killed on Friday. imemc.org Israeli sources reported that Palestinian resistance groups fired around 8 rockets across the border from Gaza into Israel Friday night, with one of the projectiles causing slight damage to a house in southern Israel. Israeli residents of the town of Sderot reportedly ran into bomb shelters as a siren sounded …

IMEMC News (2019-11-02). Israeli Air Strikes Kill One Palestinian, Injure Three, In Gaza. imemc.org The Health Ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip has confirmed that one Palestinian was killed, on Saturday at dawn, and three others were injured, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region. The army also fired many missiles into several areas in the Gaza Strip, after alleging …

BIICFHRIOT (2019-11-02). Israel to establish waste-to-energy plant in settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, unlawfully exploiting Palestinian territory for its own needs. imemc.org The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights In The Occupied Territories (B'Tselem): Israel to establish waste-to-energy plant in settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, unlawfully exploiting Palestinian territory for its own needs In October 2019, the Israeli government issued a tender for the establishment of its first waste-to-energy plant, at an estimated …

IMEMC News (2019-11-02). Qassam Fighter Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In 2014. imemc.org The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, has reported that one of its fighters died, Friday, from serious wounds he suffered during the Israeli war on Gaza in the summer of 2014. In a statement, al-Qassam said the fighter, Bara' Adel al-'Amour, 30, was injured in Khan Younis, …

IMEMC News (2019-11-02). Soldiers Force Palestinians Out Of Their Olive Orchards In Nablus. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, Palestinian olive orchards between Burin and Huwwara towns, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and forced the Palestinians out, in addition to threatening them with "binging the settlers to attack them." Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded the orchards near the illegal Yitzhar colony, …

IMEMC News (2019-11-02). Israeli Soldiers Attack School, Abduct A Child And Injure Many, In Jerusalem. imemc.org Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday morning, a Palestinian school in the al-'Isawiya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and abducted one child, in addition to causing many others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation after throwing gas bombs into their school. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Saleh Tawil, in …

Larry Romanoff (2019-11-02). God Save the Queen. The US Destruction of the British Empire. globalresearch.ca One of the major factors that propelled the US to its overwhelming economic supremacy after WWII was the final destruction of the British Empire. WWI caused Britain to lose about 40% of its former Empire, and WWII completed this task…

Mike Lofgren (2019-11-02). Spare Us From the Vichy Republicans. commondreams.org House Judiciary Committee members (L-R) Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) share a laugh during a hearing about the Mueller Reporter in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill June 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gop_lunacy_cult.jpg

2019-11-03: Social Media Postees

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The Real US Mission in Syria
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-03
US involvement in Syria has nothing to do with regional peace, stability and security, nothing to do with combatting ISIS-Daesh terrorists. It's all about killing a nation, partitioning it for easier control, installing puppet rule, eliminating an Israeli rival, isolating …
globalresearch.ca/real-us-mission-syria/5693800

Scott Morrisons' Authoritarian Streak: Crushing Anti-Mining Protest in Australia
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | asia-pacificresearch.com | 2019-11-03
asia-pacificresearch.com/scott-morrison-crushing-anti-mining-protest-australia/5628930

Soldiers Attack Solidarity Protest With Hunger Striking Detainees, Abduct Journalist, In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-03
Updated: Israeli soldiers resorted, Saturday, to the excessive use of force against dozens of Palestinians, holding a nonviolent protest in solidarity with the hunger-striking detainees in Israeli prisons, and abducted a journalist, in occupied Jerusalem. Media sources in Jerusalem said the soldiers attacked dozens of Palestinians who were nonviolent protesting …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-attack-solidarity-protest-with-hunger-striking-detainees-in-jerusalem/

Attacker Stabs Several, Bites Off Politician's Ear as Hong Kong Boils
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-03
HONG KONG — A knife-wielding man slashed several people and bit off part of the ear of a pro-democracy politician in Hong Kong on Sunday, as riot police stormed several malls to thwart protesters who have been demanding government reforms for nearly five months. | The bloody attack erupted outside one of those shopping complexes, Cityplaza on Hong Kong Island. Local media said the attacker told his victims that Hong Kong belongs to China. | Television footage showed the man biting the ear of district councilor Andrew Chiu, who had tried to stop him from leaving after the stabbings. The attacker was then bad…
truthdig.com/articles/attacker-bites-off-part-of-politicians-ear-stabs-several-as-hong-kong-boils/

China Breaks the Western Debt Stranglehold on the World
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-03
The west has colonized, exploited, ravaged and assassinated the people of the Global South for hundreds of years. | Up to the mid-20th century Europe has occupied Africa, and large parts of Asia. | In Latin America, though much of the …
globalresearch.ca/china-breaks-western-debt-stranglehold/5693814

The White House Plan to Strangle Iran. Trump's Flip Flop Foreign Policy
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-03
There is a certain irony in President Donald Trump's frequently expressed desire to withdraw from the endless wars that have characterized the so-called "global war on terror" initiated by George W. Bush in 2001. The problem is that Trump …
globalresearch.ca/white-house-plan-strangle-iran/5693807

Journalists accuse Twitter of 'censorship' as it suspends multiple news accounts from Palestine and Lebanon
Afroze Fatima Zaidi | thecanary.co | 2019-11-03
On 2 November, Twitter suspended a number of accounts reporting news from Palestine and Lebanon. Among these were Arabic and English language news accounts of the Palestinian outlet Quds News Network. | Other accounts that Twitter appears to have suspended around the same time include Asra News and Lebanese pla…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/11/03/journalists-accuse-twitter-of-censorship-as-it-suspends-multiple-news-accounts-from-palestine-and-lebanon/

Video: Syrian Oil and US Troop Withdrawal, Explained
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-03
The United States is to keep forces at the oil fields in Syria despite the troops' withdrawal from the north of the country. The formal justification of the move is the need to "deny ISIS access" to the oil fields. …
globalresearch.ca/video-syrian-oil-us-troop-withdrawal/5693791

We Stand in Solidarity with Rojava, an Example to the World
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard et al | commondreams.org | 2019-11-03
02 November 2019, Berlin: A demonstration of Kurds against the invasion of Syria by the Turkish army under the motto "Stop the war. Solidarity with Rojava" is moving along the boulevard Unter den Linden. Various alliances had called for the demonstration. (Photo by Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/rise-up-for-rojava-955px.jpg
commondreams.org/views/2019/11/03/we-stand-solidarity-rojava-example-world?cd-origin=rss

President Assad of Syria Tells the Truth regarding ISIS-Al Baghdadi, for All Who Care to Listen
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-03
Western politicians are perception managers, puppets, deep state stooges. They bow to diktats from largely unelected polities. They are hollow, straw figures who sell out their countries and those whom they proclaim to represent with a whim. They have failed …
globalresearch.ca/president-assad-syria-tells-truth/5693785

"White Helmets Are Preparing New Chemical Provocations In Syria," France Bombs Iraq & Oil Occupation
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-03
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/2/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/white-helmets-are-preparing-new-chemical-provocations-in-syria-france-bombs-iraq-oil-occupation/

Proposed Withdrawal of US Troops in Syria
Ron Forthofer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-03
A US soldier stands by an armored vehicle during a patrol of the northern countryside of the northeastern Syrian town of al-Malikiyah (Derik) at the border with Turkey, on November 3, 2019. (Photo: DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/us-troops-in-syria-11032019-955px.jpg
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Far more needed to 'confront the world's climate emergency', UN chief tells ASEAN Summit
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-03
Four of the ten countries most affected by climate change are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sunday, urging the ASEAN Summit in Bangkok to "confront the world's climate emergency".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/11/1050501

India Loses $7 Billion WTO Case Against the US
Great Game India | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-03
India has lost a $7 billion WTO case against US. Meanwhile China has won its case with the WTO now allowing the Chinese to impose a $3.6 billion sanction on American goods. The verdict comes days after India and US …
globalresearch.ca/india-loses-7-billion-wto-case-against-us/5693786

Our Future Will Require Green Infrastructure. Here's How We Can Build It
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-03
November 1, 2019 — In Lafayette, Indiana, six people spent half the summer of 2019 hand-sweeping a road. That's not how the city typically cleans its streets, but in this case, the road was permeable pavement, which puts gravel in between the pavers to let water filter into the soil below. Sweeping by hand was necessary to get the loose gravel back between the brick pavers after cleaning, says Vanessa Rainwater, the city's green infrastructure manager. The process was time consuming, but was…
truthout.org/articles/our-future-will-require-green-infrastructure-heres-how-we-can-build-it/

Saudi Aramco Kick-starts What Could be World's Biggest IPO
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-03
Saudi Arabia's giant state oil company finally kick-started its initial public offering (IPO) on Sunday, announcing its intention to float on the domestic bourse in what could be the world's biggest listing as the kingdom seeks to diversify its economy away from oil. | But in its long-awaited announcement, Aramco, the world's most profitable company, offered few specifics on the number of shares to be sold, pricing or the date for a launch. | Bankers have told the Saudi government that investors will likely value the company at around $1.5 trillion, below the $2 trillion valuation touted by Crown Prince Moham…
telesurenglish.net/news/Saudi-Aramco-Kick-starts-What-Could-be-Worlds-Biggest-IPO-20191103-0004.html

Israeli Soldiers Shoot A Palestinian Near Jenin
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-03
Israeli soldiers shot, on Sunday morning, a young man at the military gate of the illegal Annexation Wall, installed on Palestinian lands in Aneen village, west of the northern West Bank city of Jenin. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Jenin said the soldiers shot Mohammad Ahmad Jaradat, 32, …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-shoot-a-palestinian-near-jenin-2/

Palestinian Killed, Two Wounded in Israel strikes on Gaza
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-03
Israel carried out retaliatory strikes on Gaza Saturday killing a Palestinian and wounding two others, following two nights of rocket attacks that were the first since September. | RELATED: | Israeli Soldier Who Killed Palestinian Teen Gets 1-Month Sentence | Dozens of pre-dawn strikes targeted bases of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, which rules the strip, and those of allied militant groups, a Gaza security source said. | The Israeli army said the strikes targete…
telesurenglish.net/news/Palestinian-Killed-Two-Wounded-in-Israel-strikes-on-Gaza-20191103-0002.html

Nasty Russians harassed a sick American diplomat? That's 'fake news' says Foreign Ministry
rt.com | 2019-11-03
The New York Times has spun a tale of Russian treachery based on its usual anonymous sources. Though the Russian Foreign Ministry stepped in to correct the record, the paper didn't let facts get in the way of a good story. | …
rt.com/usa/472538-russia-diplomat-fake-news/

The US Tramples on International Law
Alfred de Zayas, Urs Gasche and F Zollmann | indybay.org | 2019-11-03
The US surprise attack on Iraq in March 2003 was a primal catastrophe. International law was eliminated and replaced by the imperial dictatorship of the US. Those who destroyed a whole people and have over a million casualties on their conscience are not punished in any way.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/11/01/18827768.php

Iran's Khamenei Restates Ban on Talks With US
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-03
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the seizure of the United States Embassy in Tehran, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated Sunday a ban on any negotiation with the U.S. | RELATED: | US Sanctions Threaten Iranians' Healthcare: Human Rights Report | "One way to block America's political infiltration is to ban any talks with America. It means Iran will not yield to America's pressure," the Leader said in a meeting with university students in Tehran a day before the anniversary of the Nov. 4, 1979, embassy seizure.
telesurenglish.net/news/Irans-Khamenei-Restates-Ban-on-Talks-With-US-20191103-0010.html

Turkish nationalists attack Rojava solidarity rally
ALEXB | greenleft.org.au | 2019-11-03
Rojava Solidarity Alex BainbridgeIssue 1244 Australia Gold CoastNovember 3, 2019A peaceful rally on the Gold Coast, Queensland, in solidarity with the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria was attacked by Turkish chauvinists on November 3. | Rally spokesperson Mi…
greenleft.org.au/content/turkish-nationalists-attack-rojava-solidarity-rally

It's Official: Dysfunctional Impeachment Resolution against Donald J. Trump. H. RES. 13
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-02
According to Rep.Sherman: "Recent disclosures by Donald Trump Jr. indicate that Trump's campaign was eager to receive assistance from Russia." The NYT candidly states without a shred of evidence that the Russian lawyer is "connected the Russian government" intimating that she is a stooge of the Kremlin.
globalresearch.ca/its-official-impeachment-resolution-against-president-donald-j-trump-h-res-438/5599031

Condemn mass arrest and Duterte regime's heightened fascist drive
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-02
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Nov. 2 statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines. | The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns in the strongest terms the mass arrest of activist workers, peasants, women, and media practitioners over the past few days in Bacolod, Escalante and Manila. Police arrested and detained more than 60 people belonging to various sectoral organizations. More than five children were also accosted. | The CPP condemns the statement issued by Malacañang which makes the patently false claim that the arrested activists in Bacolod City were members of th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/11/2/condemn-mass-arrest-and-duterte-regime-s-heightened-fascist-drive

Al-Mezan: "Israeli Soldier Sentenced for Failure to Follow Orders, instead of Killing of Child Al Mezan: Leniency Attests to Entrenched Impunity"
ADMIN | imemc.org | 2019-11-02
Al-Mezan Center For Human Rights: In one of the dozens of cases pursued by Al Mezan Center for Human Rights for the killing of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza's 'Great March of Return' protests, an Israeli military court has sentenced a soldier who killed on July 13 2018, 14-year-old child, Othman …
imemc.org/article/al-mezan-israeli-soldier-sentenced-for-failure-to-follow-orders-instead-of-killing-of-child-al-mezan-leniency-attests-to-entrenched-impunity/

Hong Kong Protesters Trash Xinhua Office in Night of Violence
teleSUR, jg | telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-02
Police fired tear gas at black-clad protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday after setting fire to subway stations and destroying buildings, including China's official Xinhua news agency. | RELATED: | China: 19th CPC Central Committee Concludes Plenary Session | As part of the worst acts of violence that have hit the city in weeks, small groups of masked protesters fled to the central business district lighting street barricades and dropping gasoline bombs through streets filled with b…
telesurenglish.net/news/hong-kong-protesters-trash-xinhua-agency-office-in-night-of-violence-20191102-0011.html

Chile: Workers to Keep Pace With Mobilizations Over The Weekend
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-02
Due to President Sebastian Piñera's unwillingness to make policy changes and stop the repression, the Workers' United Center of Chile (CUT) presented to the citizens a weekend protest program which includes the performance of a "Super Monday" with mass mobilizations throughout the country. | RELATED: | Chile: 'Interference Accusation is US Dirty Game,' Russia says | On next…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chile-Workers-to-Keep-Pace-With-Mobilizations-Over-The-Weekend-20191102-0003.html

Iraqi Protesters Block Roads, Demand End to Foreign Meddling
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-02
Security forces killed a protester and wounded 91 others in Baghdad on Saturday, security and medical sources said, as tens of thousands of Iraqis gathered in mass anti-government protests in the capital and blocked roads leading to a major port. | RELATED: | Iraq Witnesses Largest Protests Since the Fall of Saddam | Protesters have been congregating in the capital's central Tahrir Square for weeks, demanding the fall of the political elite in the biggest wave of mass demonstrations…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iraqi-Protesters-Block-Roads-Demand-End-to-Foreign-Meddling-20191102-0006.html

China Breaks the Western Debt Stranglehold on the World
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-02
The west has colonized, exploited, ravaged and assassinated the people of the Global South for hundreds of years. Up to the mid-20th Century Europe has occupied Africa, and large parts of Asia. In Latin America, though much of the sub-Continent was "freed" from Spain and Portugal in the 19th Century — a new kind of …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/china-breaks-the-western-debt-stranglehold-on-the-world/

Research Links Pesticide Harmful to Bees With Collapse of Fisheries
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-02
A new study out this week provides more evidence of harm caused by a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids, with researchers linking use of the chemicals on a Japanese lake with impacts to an entire food web that resulted in the collapse of two fisheries. | "No surprise," tweeted former UK Green Party leader leader Natalie Bennett, "soaking our planet in pesticides has broad systemic effects on biodiversity and bioabun…
truthout.org/articles/research-links-pesticide-known-harmful-to-bees-with-collapse-of-fisheries/

Prime Minister Hariri's resignation intensifies Lebanon's political crisis
wsws.org | 2019-11-02
The political vacuum in Lebanon poses the risk of an intervention by the regional powers or their local proxies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/02/leba-n02.html

Baghdadi Deception Exposed, Israel Bombs Gaza After Phantom Rocket & US Violates Own Syria Sanctions
Ryan Cristián | thelastamericanvagabond.com | 2019-11-02
Welcome to The Daily Wrap Up, a concise show dedicated to bringing you the most relevant independent news, as we see it, from the last 24 hours (11/1/19). As always, take the information discussed in the video below and research it for yourself, and come to your own conclusions. Anyone telling you what the truth …
thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/baghdadi-deception-exposed-israel-bombs-gaza-after-phantom-rocket-us-violates-own-syria-sanctions/

Turkey, Russia Hold First Joint Patrol In Northeast Syria
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-02
Turkish and Russian troops carried out their first joint ground patrols in northeastern Syria on Friday under an agreement between the two countries that forced a Kurdish militia to leave the territory near the border with Turkey. | RELATED: | Syrian Kurdish Forces Leaving Turkish Border Area, Damascus Welcomes Move | Turkish armored veh…
telesurenglish.net/news/turkey-russia-hold-first-joint-patrol-in-northeast-syria-20191101-0014.html

Germany's grand coalition extends military operations in Syria and Iraq
wsws.org | 2019-11-02
Eighty years after the end of the Second World War, leading politicians from all parties openly advocate policies of war and military violence.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/02/coal-n02.html

Proposed Withdrawal of US Troops in Syria
Ron Forthofer | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-02
President Trump has stated his intent to withdraw US troops from Syria on several occasions since March 2018. Each time politicians from both the Democratic and Republican parties, supported by the corporate-controlled media, have, based on US imperial interests, vehemently challenged the withdrawal proposal. These folks also based their opposition to withdrawal on their supposed …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/proposed-withdrawal-of-us-troops-in-syria/

Workers Struggles: Asia, Australia and the Pacific
wsws.org | 2019-11-02
While 16,000 Tamil Nadu doctors walked-out to demand salary increases and promotions, thousands of the state's railway workers struck against privatisation measures.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/02/labo-n02.html

Japanese fisheries collapsed due to pesticides, new research says
Jordan Davidson | nationofchange.org | 2019-11-02
"Let's hope this is a wake-up call for Asian countries and they move to quickly ban the chemicals from paddyfields."
nationofchange.org/2019/11/02/japanese-fisheries-collapsed-due-to-pesticides-new-research-says/

Trump: Possible Trade Agreement With China to be Signed in Iowa
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-02
After Chile withdrew from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in Santiago, there was no date set for the signing of an agreement between world`s largest economies until President Donald Trump announced the possible pact within the U.S. | RELATED: | US Launches A National Security Investigation Into TikTok | Trump and Xi had been expected to ink the agreement at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Santiago, Chile from Nov. 16-17, but those plans were thrown into…
telesurenglish.net/news/trump-possible-agreement-signing-with-china-in-iowa-20191102-0010.html

India: Growing support for 48,000 Telangana workers fired for striking
wsws.org | 2019-11-02
The Telangana transport workers courageously defied the state Chief Minister's ultimatum that they immediately end their strike or be deemed "self-dismissed."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/02/tela-n02.html

Washington's Belated Armenian Genocide Recognition Is Politically Motivated
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-02
A historical moment was achieved on October 29 for the Armenian lobby in the U.S. after the House of Representatives recognized the Armenian genocide, with 405 votes in favor and 11 against the Resolution. This timely move was certainly aimed …
globalresearch.ca/washington-armenian-genocide-recognition-politically-motivated/5693596

Bangladesh: Sixteen sentenced to death over brutal murder of student
wsws.org | 2019-11-02
The Bangladeshi government is exploiting outrage over the brutal murder of a young woman to step up its law-and-order attacks on democratic rights.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/02/bang-n02.html

Soldiers Force Palestinians Out Of Their Olive Orchards In Nablus
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-02
Israeli soldiers invaded, Saturday, Palestinian olive orchards between Burin and Huwwara towns, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, and forced the Palestinians out, in addition to threatening them with "binging the settlers to attack them." Eyewitnesses said the soldiers invaded the orchards near the illegal Yitzhar colony, …
imemc.org/article/soldiers-force-palestinians-out-of-their-olive-orchards-in-nablus/

Israeli Air Strikes Kill One Palestinian, Injure Three, In Gaza
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-02
The Health Ministry in the besieged Gaza Strip has confirmed that one Palestinian was killed, on Saturday at dawn, and three others were injured, in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the coastal region. The army also fired many missiles into several areas in the Gaza Strip, after alleging …
imemc.org/article/israeli-air-strikes-kill-one-palestinian-injure-three-in-gaza/

Israel to establish waste-to-energy plant in settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, unlawfully exploiting Palestinian territory for its own needs
BIICFHRIOT | imemc.org | 2019-11-02
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights In The Occupied Territories (B'Tselem): Israel to establish waste-to-energy plant in settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, unlawfully exploiting Palestinian territory for its own needs In October 2019, the Israeli government issued a tender for the establishment of its first waste-to-energy plant, at an estimated …
imemc.org/article/israel-to-establish-waste-to-energy-plant-in-settlement-of-maale-adumim-unlawfully-exploiting-palestinian-territory-for-its-own-needs/

Israeli Soldiers Attack School, Abduct A Child And Injure Many, In Jerusalem
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-02
Israeli soldiers invaded, on Saturday morning, a Palestinian school in the al-'Isawiya town, in occupied East Jerusalem, and abducted one child, in addition to causing many others to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation after throwing gas bombs into their school. Media sources said the soldiers abducted Saleh Tawil, in …
imemc.org/article/israeli-soldiers-abduct-a-schoolchild-injure-many-in-jerusalem/

Palestinian Resistance Fires Several Projectiles After Palestinian Killed on Friday
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-02
Israeli sources reported that Palestinian resistance groups fired around 8 rockets across the border from Gaza into Israel Friday night, with one of the projectiles causing slight damage to a house in southern Israel. Israeli residents of the town of Sderot reportedly ran into bomb shelters as a siren sounded …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-resistance-fires-several-projectiles-after-palestinian-killed-on-friday/

Qassam Fighter Dies From Serious Wounds Suffered In 2014
IMEMC News | imemc.org | 2019-11-02
The al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement, has reported that one of its fighters died, Friday, from serious wounds he suffered during the Israeli war on Gaza in the summer of 2014. In a statement, al-Qassam said the fighter, Bara' Adel al-'Amour, 30, was injured in Khan Younis, …
imemc.org/article/qassam-fighter-dies-from-serious-wounds-suffered-in-2014/

God Save the Queen. The US Destruction of the British Empire
Larry Romanoff | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-02
One of the major factors that propelled the US to its overwhelming economic supremacy after WWII was the final destruction of the British Empire. WWI caused Britain to lose about 40% of its former Empire, and WWII completed this task…
globalresearch.ca/save-queen/5693500

Spare Us From the Vichy Republicans
Mike Lofgren | commondreams.org | 2019-11-02
House Judiciary Committee members (L-R) Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) share a laugh during a hearing about the Mueller Reporter in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill June 10, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/gop_lunacy_cult.jpg
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Coal addiction 'must be overcome' to ease climate change, UN chief says in Bangkok
United Nations | un.org | 2019-11-02
In Thailand for the ASEAN Summit, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres visited a climate mitigation project in Bangkok's new Centenary Park on Saturday where he told journalists that "coal addiction must be overcome".
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