2020-11-15: News Headlines

Rod Driver (2020-11-15). Elephants in the Room: Why Do America and Britain Commit War Crimes? Neoliberalism and Predatory Capitalism. globalresearch.ca "I spent 33 years…being a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the …

Nathaniel Manderson (2020-11-15). Understanding the Trump voters: Here's why nobody is doing it right. salon.com I've been an evangelical pastor and a teacher in an immigrant community. I'm not shocked Trump did better this time…

sputniknews (2020-11-14). Source of 'Saint Death' Cult Venerated by Mexican Drug Cartel Members Uncovered, Media Says. sputniknews.com Last year, an altar made by a Mexican gang and dedicated to La Santa Muerte, featuring "satanic masks" and containing "human remains along with skulls covered with blood", was reportedly found during a police raid in the municipality of Cuauhtemoc, Mexico City.

WSWS (2020-11-14). Tropical Storm Eta causes widespread flooding in southeastern US as record-setting hurricane season continues. wsws.org After devastating large swathes of Central America and Southern Mexico last week, the storm system named Eta, the 28th of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, made two separate landfalls in Florida this week.

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-13). More than 70 migrants die in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea near Libyan coast. peoplesdispatch.org The small dinghy was reportedly carrying over 120 people of whom at least 47 were rescued. Every year, hundreds of migrants are killed in similar accidents while trying to reach Europe from Libya or other countries in the region…

James Goodman (2020-11-13). A New Vision for Immigration. progressive.org Once in office, Joe Biden must immediately work toward a system where immigrants aren't treated as criminals.

WSWS (2020-11-13). Immigrant women who accused ICE doctor of forced sterilization deported from the United States. wsws.org One of the women who spoke to federal investigators was told only hours later by ICE that the hold on her deportation had been removed and that her removal was "imminent."

Fred Fuentes (2020-11-13). Women of Steel: Check out upcoming screenings near you. greenleft.org.au Denied jobs at Wollongong's steelworks, working-class migrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a campaign for the right to work that lasted for 14 years. Women of Steel tells their story, writes Kerry Smith.

sputniknews (2020-11-13). Reunion Work By Grassroots Groups 'A Godsend' as US DoJ Abandons Separated Migrant Children – Lawyer. sputniknews.com Carlos Castaneda, an attorney who specializes in immigration law, told Political Misfits Friday that years after the end of the "zero tolerance" border policy causing migrant children to be separated from their parents, most of the family reunions have been the work of grassroots groups, not the US Department of Justice.

Stephen Lendman (2020-11-12). Extrajudicial Regime Change: The American Way at Home and Abroad. globalresearch.ca US imperialism operates domestically and abroad. | Regime change is official policy by both wings of one-party rule. | Things began in the mid-19th century by stealing half of Mexico. | Throughout…

teleSUR (2020-11-12). US Border Smugglers Benefit From Pandemic Border Policy. telesurenglish.net U.S. President Donald Trump's administration in March announced that it would begin to quickly expel nearly all migrants caught at the border under the authority of an existing federal public health act, known as Title 42, saying the move was necessary to prevent coronavirus from spreading into the United States. | But the order appears to be having unintended effects. | RELATED: | Previously, Central American mi…

news.un (2020-11-12). More tragedy on the Mediterranean as 74 migrants reportedly drown off Libya coast. news.un.org The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Thursday reported yet another devastating shipwreck in the Central Mediterranean, which has claimed the lives of at least 74 migrants off the coast of Khums, Libya. It is the eighth such incident since the beginning of October.

teleSUR (2020-11-12). Joy Marks Evo's Return To Bolivia. telesurenglish.net In a commemorative caravan, Evo Morales began his trip back to Bolivia through the border crossing point La Quiaca in the Argentinean province of Jujuy where Argentina's President Alberto Fernandez warmly bade him farewell. | RELATED: | "A month ago I arrived in Mexico, a brother country that saved our lives, I was sad and devastated. Now I arrived in Argentina, to continue fighting for the humblest and to unite the…

teleSUR (2020-11-12). AMLO To Regulate Outsourcing Despite Private Sector Refusal. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presented a bill to regulate outsourcing on Thursday, which aims to prevent abuses carried out by employers through this hiring mechanism. | RELATED: | The bill will regulate the outsourcing of staff, specialized services, and employment agencies. The measure will heavily impact the private sector as it is estimated that over 4.6 million workers are hired via outsourcing. | O…

Peoples Dispatch (2020-11-12). Mexico police shoots at anti-femicide protest in Cancún. peoplesdispatch.org On November 9, Mexico's police open fired at a protest against femicides in Cancún. Three reporters were injured because of police violence, one of them suffering bullet wounds. The latest femicide was that of 20-year old Bianca "Alexis" Lorenzana whose dismembered body was found days after she disappeared.

teleSUR (2020-11-11). Mexico: AMLO Seeks To Reform Housing Law To Support Workers. telesurenglish.net Mexico's President Andrés Manuel López Obrador announced a reform to the housing law that will allow over 40 million workers to access credits for their homes without intermediaries. | RELATED: | According to the authorities, this is "the largest financial inclusion reform that the country has had, in a country where financial inclusion is low." The reform seeks to provide workers with the freedom to buy a house or land "in their way."