(2019-09-19). How the rise of populism is fuelling climate science denial across Europe. nationofchange.org 
This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. In December 2015, European Commission President Jean-Claude Junker stood at a podium to hail the world's first comprehensive agreement to take action on climate change, and told the world, "the Paris Agreement now …
(2019-09-19). Venezuela oil production continues decline as China cancels more shipments. mronline.org 
Russian oil giant Rosneft blasted threats of U.S. sanctions as "unfair competition." | Source
(2019-09-19). Russiagate's last stand? #Resistance works itself up over whistleblower complaint on Trump's alleged 'favor to foreign leader'. rt.com 
Just when you thought the Russiagate horse was well and truly dead, count on House Intelligence chair Adam Schiff to whip it back into life with another saucy tale of collusion, conspiracy and cover-up. | President Donald Trump's alleged "collusion" with Russia to swing the 2016 election has largely been absent from the news of late. After the Mueller Report cleared the president of wrongdoing, and after the damp squib that was Special Counsel Mueller's testimony before Congress in July, the story finally exited the news cycle. | Here comes Congressman Schiff (D-California), determined to breathe new life into…
(2019-09-19). French Unions Strike Against Privatization of Electricity. telesurenglish.net More than a third of EDF's workforce in France was on strike on Thursday for the second day in a row in protest against a privatization plan, yet without affecting households, affirmed labor union leaders. | RELATED: | French Gov't Budget, Actions To Tackle Femicides Falls Short of Expectations | EDF workers are protesting plans steered by the French government to restructure and split the group in two, privatizing its nuclear power generation business set to one side. | The rest…
(2019-09-19). Spy vs Spy vs Spy: The Mysterious Mr. Smolenkov. globalresearch.ca A new spy story has been making the rounds in Washington, but this time it involved a brave Russian official who allegedly was allegedly recruited while in the Russian Embassy in Washington in 2007 and then worked secretly for the …
(2019-09-19). France rejects Edward Snowden's latest request for asylum. thecanary.co France's foreign minister has said "it's not the time" to grant a new asylum request from former US National Security Agency contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden. | Snowden gained asylum in Russia after Barack Obama's adminstration revoked his passport — rendering him stateless — while he was travelling to Latin America in 2013. The revocation left him stranded in Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. Snowden was en route to seek asylum after leaking classified documents detailing government mass surveillance programmes. | Asking France again for asylum this week, he argued that "protecting whistleblowe…
(2019-09-19). Hands Off Exarcheia: Athens's Anarchist Community Fights Back. thenation.com Hands Off Exarcheia: Athens's Anarchist Community Fights Back…
(2019-09-19). Syrian Military Shoots Down Drone Over Rural Damascus: SANA. telesurenglish.net The Syrian military shot down an enemy drone over southeastern Damascus this evening, the state-owned Syrian Arab News Agency reported. | RELATED: | Syria Says US-Turkey 'Safe Zone' Patrol Violates Sovereignty | Syrian state media said the drone was shot down by the Syrian military as it was flying over the Aqraba suburb in Damascus' southeastern countryside. | The reports did not specify who the 'enemy' drone belonged to, but it is believed to be an Israeli unmanned aerial vehicl…
(2019-09-19). Brexit Has Divided the Left in the UK and Overshadowed Social Justice. truthout.org | | With the election of Boris Johnson as the leader of the Conservative Party in Britain, the Brexit crisis has come to a head. Johnson has suspended Parliament and is threatening to withdraw Britain from the European Union without a deal. | David Renton is a British barrister, historian and longstanding socialist activist. He has written numerous books, including his most recent one wi…
(2019-09-19). Italian Politics: What Happened to Luigi Di Maio's Antinuclear Commitment? globalresearch.ca Like all European environmental parties, without any exception, Luigi Di Maio's Five-Star Movement is deeply anti-nuclear. It campaigned vehemently on this theme. And like all European environmental parties, when they come to power, they defend NATO, its wars and …
(2019-09-19). The Modern Machiavelli Who Predicted Trump's Rise. truthdig.com 
Early in the Mueller investigation, President Trump rankled at then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions' reluctance to circle the wagons on his behalf. " Where's my Roy Cohn?" the president asked, name-checking his unscrupulous mentor, lawyer and fixer. | Trump had been in cahoots with Cohn since they met in a Manhattan nightclub in 1973. By then, Cohn, prosecutor of the infamous Rosenberg trial and later assistant to Wisconsin Sen. Joe McCarthy during the…
(2019-09-18). Land Without Bread: the Green New Deal Forsakes America's Countryside. counterpunch.org 
Days after the heart-stopping Notre-Dame Cathedral fire in April, Swedish schoolgirl Greta Thunberg trained her eyes on the United Kingdom's parliament and chastised its meager response to climate change. "I want you to panic," the baby-faced sixteen-year-old quietly instructed the adults in the room. "Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation More
(2019-09-18). Turkey's Erdogan Presents Plan to Turn Kurds into a Minority in Northern Syria. therealnews.com 
President Erdogan of Turkey says that it's time for Turkey to send Syrian refugees to northern Syria, currently inhabited by Syrian Kurds. Meanwhile Erdogan's position in Turkey is weakening, both politically and economically, says Baris Karaagac…
(2019-09-18). Will Russia Be Driven From the West? thenation.com Will Russia Be Driven From the West?
(2019-09-18). Minister defends under-fire settlement scheme for EU citizens. thecanary.co CORRECTION: This article was updated at 10am on 19 September to correct a quote from Polish ambassador to the UK Arkady Rzegocki. | A minister has defended the settlement scheme for EU citizens in the UK as it came under fire from Poland's ambassador and a senior MEP. | Polish ambassador to the UK Arkady Rzegocki said there were "quite a lot of problems" with the system. | Guy Verhofstadt, the European Parliament's Brexit co-ordinator, hit out at the "bureaucratic" process which had even caused problems for EU citizens who had been in the UK for decades. | But Home Office minister Victoria Atkins insisted the Gov…
(2019-09-18). Climate change affects the German economy. mronline.org 
In 2018, one of the longest dry spells on record left part of the Rhine in Germany at record low levels for months, forcing freighters to reduce their cargo or stop using the river altogether. | Source
(2019-09-18). Another German Court rules in favor of supporters of BDS Movement. bdsmovement.net 
Another German Court rules in favor of supporters of BDS Movement: In the NewsCourt orders City of Bonn to allow Women's Association to participate in festival, ruling their exclusion due to BDS support is "not even remotely justified." | Right To BoycottSeptember 18, 2019 | By: | | The European Legal Support Center
(2019-09-17). 'The Times is DEAD!' Trump demands resignation of all NYT writers involved in latest Kavanaugh smear. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump slammed the New York Times for 'destroying lives' after the paper belatedly issued a correction admitting its claim of assault by Justice Brett Kavanaugh was totally unsubstantiated by the "victim." | "I call for the Resignation of everybody at The New York Times involved in the Kavanaugh SMEAR story, and while you're at it, the Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, which is just as phony!" Trump tweeted on Monday in response to the Times's correction to an article describing Kavanaugh's alleged drunken misbehavior during his college years at Yale University, posted two days after the article itse…
(2019-09-16). Banana Kingdom Denmark. dissidentvoice.org September 2, the day that Yankee President Donald Trump should have been in Denmark, between 1200 and 1500 demonstrated against US-Denmark wars to tell both states: "Yankee Go Home" and "Take Back Denmark's Sovereignty." This was the largest anti-war gathering in a long time. Some people came out just to protest vulgar Trump, or to …
(2019-09-16). Will the IMF, FED, Negative Interest and Digital Money Kill the Western Economy? dissidentvoice.org The IMF, has been instrumental in helping destroying the economy of a myriad of countries, notably, and to start with, the new Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, Greece, Ukraine and lately Argentina, to mention just a few. Madame Christine Lagarde, as chief of the IMF had a heavy hand in the annihilation …
(2019-09-16). Russia has 'oligarchs,' the U.S. has 'businessmen'. mronline.org 
In 150 NYT, CNN and Fox articles, 'oligarch' seems reserved for Slavic billionaires | Source
(2019-09-15). Outing of CIA's Kremlin mole echoes Iraq WMD hoax. thegrayzone.com The outing of a CIA informant inside of the Kremlin raises new questions about the Russia investigation and the intelligence…
(2019-09-12). Venezuela Oil Production Continues Decline as China Cancels More Shipments. venezuelanalysis.com Russian oil giant Rosneft blasted threats of US sanctions as "unfair competition."
(2019-09-12). Noura Erakat: Netanyahu's Proposed West Bank Annexation Is Logical End to Israel's Apartheid Policy. democracynow.org 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing worldwide condemnation for vowing to annex nearly a third of the occupied West Bank if he wins next week's snap election. The United Nations, the Arab League, the European Union and Russia have all criticized Netanyahu's plan, which he unveiled Tuesday. Netanyahu's pledge comes just a week before Israeli voters return to the polls on Tuesday for new elections after Netanyahu failed to form a coalition government following Israel's April 9 election. Netanyahu's annexation plan would crush hopes of an eventual Palestinian state. We speak with Noura Erakat, Palesti…
(2019-09-12). MintPress Sits Down with Russia's Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova. mintpressnews.com 
(2019-09-09). Safe zone in Syria, Trump and the Taliban, Maduro vs. Guaido. uwidata.com Safe zone in Syria On Sunday, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States of attempting to use the creation of a security zone in northeastern Syria, not for Ankara's sake, but in order to protect the Washington-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDS) operating in the area. Turkey sees the SDS and the Kurdish units of …
(2019-08-26). Israeli Filmmakers Letter on Greenhouse Project. bdsmovement.net Israeli Filmmakers Letter on Greenhouse Project: In the NewsLeonidas Kioussis
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| (European Commission Delegation in Morocco) Cultural BoycottFebruary 16, 2006 | By: | | Israeli filmmakers, producers, scholars and artists
(2019-08-08). Venezuelan Gov't Suspends Dialogue as EU Criticizes US Embargo. venezuelanalysis.com The European Union objected to the "extraterritorial application of unilateral measures."