2019-10-10: News Headlines

Peter Maass (2019-10-10). Congratulations, Nobel Committee, You Just Gave the Literature Prize to a Genocide Apologist. theintercept.com Austrian author Peter Handke sits in the garden at his house in Chaville, France, on Oct. 10, 2019. Handke was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature. | Photo: Francois More/AP | Stockholm is more than 1,500 miles from Sarajevo, and the war in Bosnia was halted in 1995, so there's a lot of time and distance between the Swedes who just chose the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the nasty war that happened in the heart of the Balkans a generation ago. But that's no excuse for the decision to give the 2019 Nobel to Peter Handke, who denies that a well-documented genocide was committed by Serbs ag…

RT (2019-10-10). Republican donors involved in Trump impeachment inquiry arrested on campaign finance charges. rt.com Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two wealthy Soviet-born Floridians who allegedly passed information between the government in Kiev and President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, have been arrested for campaign finance violations. | Parnas and Fruman were arrested on Wednesday, reportedly while attempting to leave the US from Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC. | Along with two other men, they were charged with funnelling illegal foreign contributions to Republican PACs in the runup t…

RT (2019-10-10). Child's play: Reporter's breaking news broadcast interrupted by small screen debut of her toddler (VIDEO). rt.com A TV news correspondent's breaking news segment about the Turkish offensive against Kurdish-led militias in northeastern Syria was suddenly interrupted live on air by an unexpected studio guest, her own young son. | NBC's Courtney Kube was reporting on Turkey's strikes when her flow was broken by four-year-old Ryan making an uninvited appearance, right by her side. Temporarily distracted, the anchor apologizes, saying "Sorry, my kids are here – live television!" | She quickly gets right back to the story as the screen cuts away to a map of Syria, presumably giving producers enough time to remove the young int…

Staff (2019-10-10). Rojava Defends Feminist Revolution Against Turkish Invaders. truthout.org | | Up to 60,000 civilians are fleeing the border area between Turkey and the autonomous region of Rojava in northeast Syria, where clashes between Kurdish militias and Turkish forces continued for a second day on Thursday. The Turkish invasion threatens the radically decentralized and democratic social revolution in Rojava, including women-led political movements and projects that have inspired activists across the globe, and stand in sharp contrast to the patriarchy and authoritarianism that defines much…

Stephen Lendman (2019-10-10). Turkey Invades? Erdogan Seeks Annexation of Northern Syria Territories. globalresearch.ca Turkish aggression launched East of the Euphrates River Wednesday is proceeding over a far more widespread area than its earlier illegal cross-border operations in Syria — so-called Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch. | So-called "Operation Peace Spring" has nothing to do …

Health Impact News (2019-10-10). Protest against Implementation of 5G Wireless Technology in Switzerland: Immediate Health Impacts. globalresearch.ca If you want to get an idea of what will happen in the U.S. when the telecom companies start rolling out 5G networks with new towers in your local neighborhood, take a look at what is happening in Switzerland today, …

Ed Sykes (2019-10-10). Turkish invasion forces hit civilians in northern Syria. thecanary.co Turkey has invaded north-eastern Syria (aka Rojava), attacking largely-Kurdish fighters who were key in defeating Daesh (Isis/Isil). And now, Turkish troops have reportedly bombarded a convoy of civilian vehicles taking residents of the northern Syrian city of Raqqa to a border town, inflicting casualties among them. | Civilian murders: | The Kurdish Hawar n…

John Ranson (2019-10-10). The UK must 'immediately stop' arming the Turkish military, say campaigners. thecanary.co UPDATE: This article was updated at 3.39pm on 10 October to add details of an emergency rally taking place in London at 5.30pm.As Turkey launches an attack on north-eastern Syria, there have been calls for the UK to suspend arms sales to Ankara.Customer: In a press release, the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) says that Turkey is one of the "world's largest buyers of UK weapons". CAAT says the UK has licensed weapons sales worth &poun…

WSWS (2019-10-10). US-North Korean nuclear talks stall again. wsws.org Negotiations in Sweden on Saturday broke up with North Korea declaring that it would not take part in another session of "sickening negotiations" unless the US offered a substantial concession.

Ryan Grim (2019-10-10). The Actual Laws Trump Has Broken, Just With the Ukraine and China Affairs, Could Land Him 10 Years in Prison. theintercept.com Take 18 U.S. Code ß 872: "Extortion by officers or employees of the United States." Or 18 U.S. Code ß 610: "Coercion of political activity."

Laura Flanders (2019-10-10). The Global Corruption Rebellion Americans Don't Know They're Part Of. counterpunch.org Abuse of power, corruption, violation of the social contract… If you're an American Democrat, chances are Donald Trump's disdain for all of those has been evident to you for quite a bit. The spectacle of the President using the power of his office to urge the leader of Ukraine, and now China, to investigate a More

commondreams (2019-10-10). Campaign Finance Charges Against Ukrainegate Figures an Encouraging Sign. commondreams.org ______________________________…

WSWS (2019-10-10). German Nazi murders two in Yom Kippur Synagogue attack. wsws.org The Nazi assault on the Halle synagogue is aimed at demonstrating that anti-Semitism is, once again, a significant political force in Germany.

Staff (2019-10-10). Turkish Invasion Raises Fear of Kurdish Genocide and ISIS Resurgence. truthout.org | | Turkey has launched an aerial and ground assault on northern Syria targeting Kurdish-controlled areas. The offensive began Wednesday, just days after President Trump ordered U.S. troops to fall back from their positions on the Turkish-Syrian border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports at least 16 Kurds have been killed so far. Turkey is claiming the death toll is far higher. The Trump administration has faced widespread criticism from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers for aband…

teleSUR (2019-10-10). Turkey Advances in Northeast Syria Despite US, EU Criticism. telesurenglish.net The Turkish Armed Forces continued their operation along the Syrian border Thursday after the U.S. troops withdrew south of the agreed upon "safe zone" in the northern part of the country. | RELATED: | Turkey Begins Operation Against Kurdish Forces in Syria | Turkish troops, alongside their rebel allies, reportedly advanced in several areas, including Tal Abyad, after engaging in heavy clashes with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria. | While addressing h…

United Nations (2019-10-10). Civilians 'must not be a target', urges UNHCR, following military escalation in northern Syria. un.org The scale-up in military operations in north-east Syria has forced tens of thousands of civilians to seek safety, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Thursday, one day after Turkey launched airstrikes and a ground offensive across the border.

WSWS (2019-10-10). Turkey launches US-backed offensive targeting Kurdish forces in Syria. wsws.org Turkish air raids and artillery bombardments hit cities and military and civilian targets along approximately 100 kilometers of the Turkey-Syria border.

Staff (2019-10-10). After Trump Abandoned Kurds, Turkish Invasion Raises Fear of Kurdish Genocide & ISIS Resurgence. democracynow.org Turkey has launched an aerial and ground assault on northern Syria targeting Kurdish-controlled areas. The offensive began Wednesday, just days after President Trump ordered U.S. troops to fall back from their positions on the Turkish-Syrian border. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports at least 16 Kurds have been killed so far. Turkey is claiming the death toll is far higher. The Trump administration has faced widespread criticism from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers for abandoning the stateless Kurds who had helped the U.S. fight ISIS. Turkey is claiming the assault is needed to establish a "

Staff (2019-10-10). Turkey Moves to Crush Rojava, the Kurds' Radical Experiment Based on Democracy, Feminism & Ecology. democracynow.org As Turkey launches an aerial and ground assault on northern Syria targeting Kurdish-controlled areas, we look at how the offensive threatens the Kurdish region of Rojava with Debbie Bookchin, co-founder of the Emergency Committee for Rojava. She is a journalist and author who co-edited a book of essays by her father, Murray Bookchin, "The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy." We also speak with Elif Sarican, a Kurdish Women's Movement activist and anthropologist at the London School of Economics, and Ertuƒürul Kàºrkàßàº, honorary chair of the pro-Kurdi…

Staff (2019-10-10). Headlines for October 10, 2019. democracynow.org Turkey Launches Ground Offensive in Northern Syria, WH Budget Office Refuses to Comply with Subpoena for Impeachment Probe, Biden Joins Majority of 2020 Field in Calling for Trump's Impeachment, Trump Faces Dozens of New Allegations of Sexual Misconduct, Matt Lauer Denies Raping NBC Producer Brooke Nevils in 2014, Germany: 2 Killed in Anti-Semitic Attack Outside Temple on Yom Kippur, U.N.: U.S. Military Killed 30+ Afghan Civilians in Airstrikes in May, Amnesty: Death Toll in Anti-Government Protests in Iraq Surpasses 150, Protests Erupt in Algeria over Corruption & Army's Role in Politics, Egyptian Dissident Alaa…

Staff (2019-10-10). 2 Nobel Literature Prize Winners Expose Europe's Fault Lines. truthdig.com STOCKHOLM — Nobel Prizes for literature were awarded Thursday to two writers enmeshed in Europe's social and political fault lines: a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes. | The rare double announcement — with the 2018 prize going to Poland's Olga Tokarczuk and the 2019 award to Austria's Peter Handke — came after no literature prize was awarded last year due to sex abuse allegations that rocked the Swedish Academy, which awards the literature prize. | Yet if prize organizers hoped t…

Binoy Kampmark (2019-10-10). Internal Dissolution: Brexit and the Disunited Kingdom. counterpunch.org While the European family seems to be having its internal spats — populist sparks within threatening to light the powder keg — the marshals and deputies, for the most part, are attempting to contain the British contagion. Britain is still scheduled to leave on October 31 without a deal with the European Union. The divorce More

susan_p (2019-10-10). 'Not even 1000 bombs can destroy a revolutionary society ready to defend itself'. greenleft.org.au Turkey's war on Rojava Make Rojava Green AgainIssue 1240 Rojava Make Rojava Green Again war KurdsOctober 10, 2019The foll…

Jake Johnson, staff writer (2019-10-10). 'Tip of the Iceberg': Prosecutors Allege Vast Criminal Conspiracy by Giuliani Associates to Funnel Foreign Cash to Trump and GOP. commondreams.org "To a prosecutor's eye, this really looks increasingly like one big scheme, overseen by Trump and Giuliani, to obtain illegal assistance from Ukraine in the 2020 election." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/prosecutors_trump_giuliani.png

Dean Baker (2019-10-09). Trump's Trade War: a Report From the Front. counterpunch.org Donald Trump is bravely carrying on a trade war, not just with the bad guys with China, but with longtime allies like Canada and the European Union. Incredibly, the media just don't seem that interested in reporting on the ongoing progress. Last week the Commerce Department released trade data for August, and it got almost More

Eds. (2019-10-09). Speech on 'Environmental Protections' by Karl Liebknecht. mronline.org This speech was delivered in 1912 to the Prussian House of Deputies in response to a proposal by the Free People's Party. Environmental destruction was not as far-reaching then as it is now, yet Liebknecht was keenly aware of the disappearance of butterflies and insects, of the small changes that bode ill. | Source

RT (2019-10-09). 'Time to deliver' Elon Musk? NASA nervous as spaceship delays threaten to cut off astronauts from ISS. rt.com With NASA's contract with Russia about to run out without a replacement spaceship ready, the US space agency is leaning on SpaceX to hurry up and deliver. CEO Elon Musk says everything is on schedule — but is it? | Since the Space Shuttle program was scrapped in 2011, NASA has had no crewed spaceship capability, having to pay Roscosmos $80 million a seat to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX and Boeing were both contracted to develop a domestic alternative, but both the Crew Dragon and the Starliner have yet to get beyond the testing stage. | This is a problem for the US space ag…

Eva Bartlett (2019-10-09). Return to Russia: Crimeans Tell the Real Story of the 2014 Referendum and Their Lives Since. mintpressnews.com Eva Bartlett traveled to Crimea to see firsthand out how Crimeans have fared since 2014 when their country reunited with Russia, and what the referendum was really like.

Vijay Prashad (2019-10-09). What to expect from Turkey's coming invasion of Syria. mronline.org Erdogan's government is preparing to enter Syria for a major military operation against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is made up largely of Kurdish factions who set up this armed force to defend the mainly Kurdish enclave in northern Syria. | Source

Staff (2019-10-09). Trump's Withdrawal From Syria: Betrayal of Kurds or End to Endless War? therealnews.com President Trump's intention to withdraw from Syria was met with outrage on many sides, with people calling it a betrayal of a key ally in the Syrian conflict. Kurdish expert Edmund Ghareeb says there is probably a deal between Trump and Erdogan.

Eds. (2019-10-09). A green Earth with peace and room for us all. mronline.org Draft Globalization programme submitted by the National Board of the Red-Green Alliance/Enhedslisten, Denmark, to the party's next Annual Congress on 5 — 6 October. It is a programmatic text about global development. | Source

Andrei Ilyashenko (2019-10-09). Russia and China Reach New Level of Military Cooperation. China's Missile Early Warning System. globalresearch.ca The government of Japan intends to intensify negotiations with Russia to resolve the territorial issue and conclude a peace treaty. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe once again reminded about this in his keynote speech at the parliament opening session. | "By solving …

teleSUR (2019-10-09). Venezuela Denounces Airspace Violation by US. telesurenglish.net Venezuelan Minister of Defense, Vladimir Padrino Lopez, expressed through his official Twitter account a new violation of the airspace of that Bolivarian nation by an intelligence aircraft belonging to the United States. | RELATED: | U.S: Eyes on Cuba and Russia for Supporting Venezuela | The publication explained that this irruption in the sovereignty of the South American country was captured and recorded by the sensors of the Integral Aerospace Defense Command (Codai), this Wednesday,…

Aaron Maté (2019-10-09). Russian social media debate: clickbait or information warfare? thegrayzone.com What is the Internet Research Agency, and are the claims of a Russian influence campaign against the U.S. well-founded? Aaron…

Lev Golinkin (2019-10-09). Ukraine's Corruption Is a Mirror of Our Own. thenation.com Ukraine's Corruption Is a Mirror of Our Own…

United Nations (2019-10-09). Wednesday's Daily Brief: Mistreatment rife during childbirth, UNICEF Cryptocurrency Fund, Synagogue attack in Germany, World Post Day. un.org A recap of Wednesday's stories: Alarming accounts of women mistreated in childbirth; UNICEF enters new world of cryptocurrency funding; UN chief condemns synagogue attack in Germany; mission chief calls on DR Congo political class to build on progress; UN celebrates mail services around the world.

United Nations (2019-10-09). German synagogue shooting 'another tragic demonstration of anti-Semitism': UN chief. un.org The killing of two people outside a synagogue in Germany on Wednesday has been characterized by the UN Secretary-General as "another tragic demonstration of anti-Semitism."

Staff (2019-10-09). Julián Castro Backs Impeachment Effort & Condemns Trump's "Betrayal" of Kurds in Northern Syria. democracynow.org Turkey's government says its troops are prepared for an imminent assault on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria, after President Trump ordered U.S. troops to fall back from their positions on the Turkish-Syrian border. Kurdish fighters said they're bracing for a "humanitarian catastrophe." This follows warnings that former Kurdish allies of the U.S. who feel betrayed by President Trump will abandon thousands of prisoners captured during the U.S.-backed war against ISIS over the past two years. We speak to former housing secretary and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro, who says Trump's move is a…

Paul Haeder (2019-10-09). Czechoslovakia to Chile, Back to Oregon Coast. dissidentvoice.org We're being accused of being eco-terrorists. But the way the laws are right now, the corporations have priority over the citizens' right to defend their own health and safety. That's terrorism. — Newport resident Maria Sause We meet at Oceana Natural Foods Co-op. Maria Kraus will turn 77 on December 9. Her face reflects five …

Kenneth Surin (2019-10-09). Bojo Goes Bonkers: Two Borders Will Divide Ireland From Northern Ireland. counterpunch.org Brexit would have (the non-EU) UK share a border with (the EU-member) Ireland, and the EU does not countenance a flexible border (tariff-free, free movement of peoples, etc.) between itself and non-EU countries– unless the UK strikes an agreement with the EU similar to the one Norway has. But that would amount to a soft Brexit, which of course is absolutely unacceptable to hardline Brexiters. More

teleSUR, jg-EF (2019-10-09). Boris Johnson To Meet Irish PM On Last-Minute Brexit Talks. telesurenglish.net Boris Johnson and Irish Prime Minister Leo Vardkar will meet this Thursday as the British prime minister seeks a last minute solution for Brexit after the European Union publicly dismissed Downing Street's previous strategy as a "blame game." | RELATED: | Brexit Negotiation Collapses as PM Johnson Blames EU | After many English media outlets warned this week th…

Al Neal (2019-10-09). Possible Brexit concessions in the works on Northern Ireland. peoplesworld.org

pip.hinman (2019-10-09). Reaction to Jock Palfreeman's illegal detention continues to grow. greenleft.org.au civil rights Pip HinmanIssue 1240 Bulgaria political prisoner paroleOctober 9, 2019On October 7, three Bulgarian judges from the Supreme Court of Cassation decided they would need up to two months to review…

Ed Sykes (2019-10-09). Urgent UK protests called as Turkey begins 'illegal invasion' of northern Syria. thecanary.co Turkey has invaded north-eastern Syria, attacking largely-Kurdish fighters who were key in defeating Daesh (Isis/Isil). | NATO member Turkey targeting "civilian areas" in Syria invasion: | Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the start of the invasion, which followed an announcement on Sunday by Donald Trump that US troops supporting the fight against Daesh would step aside. Erdoğan called the attack 'Operation Peace Spring'.

Tom Coburg (2019-10-09). Boris Johnson to agree to Brexit extension or the court will intervene directly. thecanary.co UK prime minister Boris Johnson is obliged to seek an extension to Article 50 if a Brexit deal fails, as stipulated by the Benn Act. And a Scottish court was asked to examine ways to enforce that obligation further. The court decided to defer a ruling until after the EU summit, to see if Johnson compl…

RT (2019-10-08). 'Gift to Putin!' Meltdown as House Democrat claims Trump plans to ditch Open Skies treaty. rt.com The House Foreign Affairs Committee chair has sent a letter to the White House expressing concern over "reports" that President Donald Trump wants to abandon the Open Skies Treaty. Yet the only such report is his own. | Congressman Eliot Engel (D-New York) denounced on Monday "potential plans" to withdraw from the treaty, saying it would be "a blow to United States national security interests, endangering Ukraine and other key European allies."

RT (2019-10-08). Get your popcorn? Trump & Comey to face off…in TV drama series. rt.com Russiagate may have fizzled out, but efforts to cash in on the ensuing hysteria have only just begun. CBS Studios will make a TV show based on the debunked conspiracy theory, with some already joking it will surely not be biased.

Eds. (2019-10-08). When Ukraine's Prosecutor came after his son's sponsor Joe Biden sprang into action. mronline.org There are some serious questions around the Biden family involvement in the Ukraine that the media have not picked up on. | Source

Aaron Maté (2019-10-08). US arming of Ukraine is a scandal on its own. thegrayzone.com There is growing evidence that President Donald Trump briefly froze U.S. military assistance to Ukraine for political goals. Max Blumenthal…

Middle East Eye (2019-10-08). As Turkey Readies for Invasion of Northern Syria, Russia and Iran Object. theantimedia.com Turkey has readied its forces for an offensive against Kurdish forces in northern Syria, prompting negative reactions from Iran and Russia.