Daily Archives: November 7, 2019

2019-11-07: News Headlines

Thomas Knapp (2019-11-07). Mexico: One Failed US War Doesn't Justify Another. counterpunch.org Many (probably most) Americans like to get high. Everything else being equal, they'd probably prefer to buy their marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and so forth from their local pharmacies, at reasonable prices and in known quantity, purity, and potency. But if they can't do that, they're not going to stop getting high just because the US government tells them they must not. More

MBNJSD (2019-11-07). Neoliberalism's Children Rise Up to Demand Justice in Chile and the World. dissidentvoice.org 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, …

teleSUR (2019-11-07). Argentina: Fernandez Affirms Non-Interventionist Stance on Venezuela. telesurenglish.net Argentina's President-elect Alberto Fernandez on Wednesday reiterated his position in favor of the non-intervention of the United States in Venezuela during a conversation with Mauricio Claver-Carone, Advisor to the U.S. President Donald Trump for Hemispheric Affairs. | RELATED: | Mexico Wants To Bolster Economic Ties with Argentina: President | This meeting to…

Vijay Prashad (2019-11-06). The political tide sweeping South America won't accept predatory capitalism. mronline.org The slogan is pithy—Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it was drawn on the walls in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and in a more sober register, it is mentioned in a seminar in Mexico City, Mexico. | Source

Todd Smith (2019-11-06). A Brief History of Time Change. dissidentvoice.org 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 …

teleSUR (2019-11-06). Argentina's Alberto Fernandez Backs Legal Abortion. telesurenglish.net During a keynote conference at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Argentina's President-elect Alberto Fernandez on Tuesday said that abortion should not be a crime, for the State should guarantee the right to voluntary and safe interruption of pregnancy. | RELATED: | Thousands of Argentinian Women Demand Legal Abortion | "All my life I have…

WSWS (2019-11-06). Trump calls for US troops to wage "war" on drug cartels in Mexico. wsws.org Trump tweeted: "This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth."

Staff (2019-11-06). Headlines for November 6, 2019. democracynow.org Democrats Take Virginia Legislature & Beat Trump-Backed Governor in Kentucky, NYC Approves Ranked-Choice Voting; Tucson Voters Reject Sanctuary City Measure, JPMorgan CEO Accuses Warren of "Vilifying" Richest Americans, Sondland Now Says There Was Quid Pro Quo on Ukraine, Scientists: Humanity Risks "Untold Suffering" from Climate Change, Brazilians Protest the Largest Oil Auction in Brazilian History, Activists Arrested After Blockading Port of Vancouver in Pipeline Protest, 9 Members of Mormon Family Murdered in Mexico, Pro-Beijing Lawmaker Stabbed in Hong Kong, Israeli Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Expelling…

teleSUR (2019-11-06). Social NGOs Stand Guard At Venezuelan Embassy in El Salvador. telesurenglish.net Social organizations continued Wednesday to safeguard the Venezuelan embassy in El Salvador to prevent a possible occupation of the diplomatic premises in a similar fashion as in Washington around six months ago. | RELATED: | Venezuela Expels El Salvador's Diplomats from Caracas | "We recognize the constitutional legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro, we mobilized to protect the embassy," member of the Venezuelan Embassy Defense Committee Logan Martinez told Prensa Latina. | This comes…

RT (2019-11-05). 'Radical Left Dems are killing our cities': Trump attacks New York leaders as hundreds of prisoners set for early release. rt.com 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…

Staff (2019-11-05). "Release My Mother": A Yale Student Fights to Halt Deportation of His Mother with Stage IV Cancer. democracynow.org 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…

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

Ashoka Mukpo (2019-10-24). I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw. aclu.org Two weeks ago, I traveled to northern Mexico along with Mexican photographer Guillermo Arias to meet with asylum-seekers who've been trapped at the southern U.S. border by Trump Administration policies. Neither of us was prepared for what we saw there. | We visited two cities — Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros — to track down people who had been placed into the deceptively misnamed "Migrant Protection Protocols" that have slammed America's door shut to people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries. Before we arrived, we wondered whether the stories we'd read of kidnappings, assaults,…

David Myers (2019-10-22). UNM faculty vote to unionize, blowout union-busting administration. liberationnews.org Behind the faculty victory at University of New Mexico.

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

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Mexico: One Failed US War Doesn't Justify Another
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-07
Many (probably most) Americans like to get high. Everything else being equal, they'd probably prefer to buy their marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and so forth from their local pharmacies, at reasonable prices and in known quantity, purity, and potency. But if they can't do that, they're not going to stop getting high just because the US government tells them they must not.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/07/mexico-one-failed-us-war-doesnt-justify-another/

Mexico: One Failed US War Doesn't Justify Another
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-07
Many (probably most) Americans like to get high. Everything else being equal, they'd probably prefer to buy their marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and so forth from their local pharmacies, at reasonable prices and in known quantity, purity, and potency. But if they can't do that, they're not going to stop getting high just because the US government tells them they must not.
counterpunch.org/2019/11/07/mexico-one-failed-us-war-doesnt-justify-another/

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/

Argentina: Fernandez Affirms Non-Interventionist Stance on Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-07
Argentina's President-elect Alberto Fernandez on Wednesday reiterated his position in favor of the non-intervention of the United States in Venezuela during a conversation with Mauricio Claver-Carone, Advisor to the U.S. President Donald Trump for Hemispheric Affairs. | RELATED: | Mexico Wants To Bolster Economic Ties with Argentina: President | This meeting to…
telesurenglish.net/news/Argentina-Fernandez-Affirms-Non-Interventionist-Stance-on-Venezuela-20191107-0005.html

Argentina's Alberto Fernandez Backs Legal Abortion
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-06
During a keynote conference at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Argentina's President-elect Alberto Fernandez on Tuesday said that abortion should not be a crime, for the State should guarantee the right to voluntary and safe interruption of pregnancy. | RELATED: | Thousands of Argentinian Women Demand Legal Abortion | "All my life I have…
telesurenglish.net/news/Argentinas-Alberto-Fernandez-Backs-Legal-Abortion-20191106-0003.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/

Trump calls for US troops to wage "war" on drug cartels in Mexico
wsws.org | 2019-11-06
Trump tweeted: "This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth."
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/06/mexi-o06.html

Argentina's Alberto Fernandez Backs Legal Abortion
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-06
During a keynote conference at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Argentina's President-elect Alberto Fernandez on Tuesday said that abortion should not be a crime, for the State should guarantee the right to voluntary and safe interruption of pregnancy. | RELATED: | Thousands of Argentinian Women Demand Legal Abortion | "All my life I have…
telesurenglish.net/news/Argentinas-Alberto-Fernandez-Backs-Legal-Abortion-20191106-0003.html

20 years without a raise drives Univ. Of New Mexico faculty to unionize
PAI | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-06
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (PAI)–Overcoming entrenched opposition by university bosses–including their importation of one of the nation's most-notorious union-busters–faculty at the University of New Mexico's five campuses voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Going 20 years without a pay raise was a major issue that helped send …
peoplesworld.org/article/20-years-without-a-raise-drives-univ-of-new-mexico-faculty-to-unionize/

The political tide sweeping South America won't accept predatory capitalism
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-11-06
The slogan is pithy–Neoliberalismo nunca más (Neoliberalism Never Again). It was chanted in the streets of Santiago, Chile; it was drawn on the walls in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and in a more sober register, it is mentioned in a seminar in Mexico City, Mexico. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/11/06/the-political-tide-sweeping-south-america-wont-accept-predatory-capitalism/

Social NGOs Stand Guard At Venezuelan Embassy in El Salvador
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-06
Social organizations continued Wednesday to safeguard the Venezuelan embassy in El Salvador to prevent a possible occupation of the diplomatic premises in a similar fashion as in Washington around six months ago. | RELATED: | Venezuela Expels El Salvador's Diplomats from Caracas | "We recognize the constitutional legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro, we mobilized to protect the embassy," member of the Venezuelan Embassy Defense Committee Logan Martinez told Prensa Latina. | This comes…
telesurenglish.net/news/Social-NGOs-Stand-Guard-At-Venezuelan-Embassy-in-El-Salvador-20191106-0012.html

'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

I Went to Mexico to Meet Asylum-Seekers Trapped at the Border. This Is What I Saw
Ashoka Mukpo | aclu.org | 2019-10-24
Two weeks ago, I traveled to northern Mexico along with Mexican photographer Guillermo Arias to meet with asylum-seekers who've been trapped at the southern U.S. border by Trump Administration policies. Neither of us was prepared for what we saw there. | We visited two cities — Ciudad Juarez and Matamoros — to track down people who had been placed into the deceptively misnamed "Migrant Protection Protocols" that have slammed America's door shut to people fleeing persecution and violence in their home countries. Before we arrived, we wondered whether the stories we'd read of kidnappings, assaults,…
aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/i-went-to-mexico-to-meet-asylum-seekers-trapped-at-the-border-this-is-what-i-saw

UNM faculty vote to unionize, blowout union-busting administration
David Myers | liberationnews.org | 2019-10-22
Behind the faculty victory at University of New Mexico.
liberationnews.org/unm-faculty-vote-to-unionize-blowout-union-busting-administration/

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