The new NAFTA won't protect workers' rights
David Bacon | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-08
Sara Steffens after being fired from her job as a reporter for heading the union organizing drive at the Contra Costa Times-called for passage of labor law reform in the US. Today Steffens is Secretary-Treasurer of the Communications Workers of America. 2009 | David Bacon | Strong unions and high wages benefit workers in both countries. The USMCA supposedly will require Mexico to enforce the new reforms more rigorously. Mexican workers will indeed benefit if they are enforced, but the track record of the old NAFTA is clear. Even if the USMCA requires Mexico to obey its own labor laws, freeing US corporations to i…
peoplesworld.org/article/the-new-nafta-wont-protect-workers-rights/

Neoliberalism's Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-08
Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal "center-right" and "center-left" governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the expense of working people are sweeping country after country all over the world. In this Autumn of Discontent, people from Chile, Haiti and Honduras to Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon are rising up against neoliberalism,…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/neoliberalisms-children-rise-up-to-demand-justice-in-chile-and-the-world/

#HereToStay: Student Walkouts Across US to Demand Supreme Court Defend DACA
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-08
Days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the first oral arguments regarding President Donald Trump's decision to rescind working permits for undocumented young people, thousands of high school and college students staged walkouts Friday to declare that DACA recipients are "here to stay." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/screen20shot202019-11-0820at2012.36.2020pm.jpg …
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Attacking the Messenger: Profile of Salvadoran political cartoonist Otto Meza
Jesse Lawrence Anderson | mronline.org | 2019-11-07
Otto Meza, a calm, bespectacled 46-year-old Salvadoran political cartoonist deals with a whole spectrum of domestic issues. Many of the themes Meza uses to label his cartoons provide a stark overview of the issues facing contemporary El Salvador: "Migration," "Inequality," "Corruption," "Transparency," "Impunity," "Historical Memory." | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/07/attacking-the-messenger/

Neoliberalism's Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World
MBNJSD | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-07
Uprisings against the corrupt, generation-long dominance of neoliberal "center-right" and "center-left" governments that benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations at the expense of working people are sweeping country after country all over the world. In this Autumn of Discontent, people from Chile, Haiti and Honduras to Iraq, Egypt and Lebanon are rising up against neoliberalism, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/neoliberalisms-children-rise-up-to-demand-justice-in-chile-and-the-world/

Deforestation in Brazil Jumped by 80% in One Year: Study
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-07
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region increased by 80 percent in September compared to the same month last year, according to a private study released on Wednesday stating that 802 square kilometers of forest was lost in the zone. | RELATED: | Bolivia and Nicaragua Launch Large Reforestation Plans | The Amazon Institute of People and the Environment ( Imazon), which has been analyzing the planet's largest tropical forest for the past three decades…
telesurenglish.net/news/Deforestation-in-Brazil-Jumped-by-80-in-One-Year-Study-20191107-0010.html

A Brief History of Time Change
Todd Smith | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-06
As an American, one can reasonably ask: "What's happened during the last hundred years, or 36,500 days?" Presidentially speaking, America's gone from a pedantic, virulently anti-Communist Woodrow Wilson to a bombastic, virulently anti-Islamic Donald Trump. Coincidentally, Wilson was the most recent U.S. president to authorize an invasion of Mexico (March 15,1916), while Trump's obsession with …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/11/a-brief-history-of-time-change/

'Radical Left Dems are killing our cities': Trump attacks New York leaders as hundreds of prisoners set for early release
rt.com | 2019-11-05
US President Donald Trump has joined a chorus of opposition to moves by New York leaders which will see hundreds of inmates being released from prison as early as next month. | The controversial law doesn't officially come into force until 2020, but New York's state court system indicated in recent days that it will begin to release prisoners next month to avoid a glut of cases when January rolls around. | Also on rt.com | | No 'foreign intervention' needed: Mexico thanks Trump but rejects offer of 'help' with drug cartels after murder of US family | Ne…
rt.com/usa/472687-trump-dems-killing-cities-new-york/

"Release My Mother": A Yale Student Fights to Halt Deportation of His Mother with Stage IV Cancer
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-11-05
Tania Romero, an undocumented mother from Honduras and survivor of stage IV cancer, is fighting to remain in the United States with her four children. Two months ago, Romero was imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the privately owned Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, interrupting her life-saving medical treatments. In mid-August, Romero was pulled over for a minor traffic infraction and arrested for not having a driver's license. Tania Romero's attorney requested a stay of deportation on humanitarian grounds because of her fragile health, but it was denied in September. Her son, Cristian…
www.democracynow.org/2019/11/5/cancer_patient_tania_romero_ice_detention

Venezuela, El Salvador Break Relations as Maduro Applauds 'New Anti-Neoliberal Wave'
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-11-04
Guatemala's president-elect has similarly pledged to break with the Maduro government upon assuming office in January.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14717

Venezuela Denies Guatemalan President-Elect Entrance, Congratulates Ecuadorian People on IMF Defeat
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-10-14
President Nicolas Maduro also called on Chavista forces to prepare to "rescue" the National Assembly in the upcoming elections.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14692