Juan Cole | Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court Orders Government to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically

15 October 18 AM It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News YOU HAVE A RIGHT ... I would be pissed off, too, with regard to the lack of financial support being provided to your important RSN daily broadcasts. Your publication provides truth, which is neglected in the majority of media reporting and publications today. Namasté. / Joseph C, M.D., RSN Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation! Juan Cole | Future of Climate Activism: Dutch Court Orders Government to Reduce CO2 Emissions Dramatically  Juan Cole, Informed Comment Cole writes: "An appeals court in the Netherlands has upheld a 2015 lower court ruling in a class action case that the Dutch government needs to do more to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to 25% below 1990 levels by 2020. So far the Netherlands has only reduced 13% from 1990 levels." READ MORE Protests outside the White House. (photo: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) Trump Is Clamping Down on White House Protest. Be Very Afraid of What Comes Next Will Bunch, Philadelphia Inquirer  Bunch writes: "People should be very afraid — not just of these proposed rules, but about why Team Trump wants this in the first place." READ MORE People hold signs during a protest at the Saudi embassy in Washington, DC over Khashoggi's disappearance. (photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP) Saudi Arabia to Hit Back in Case of Sanctions Over Jamal Khashoggi Patrick Wintour, Guardian UK Wintour writes: "Saudi Arabia has said it will retaliate against any sanctions imposed over the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, as JP Morgan and Ford swelled the ranks of western companies pulling out of a high-profile conference in Riyadh next week." READ MORE Missouri Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Josh Hawley. (photo: Jeff Roberson/AP) Missouri GOP Senate Nominee Misleads on His Pre-Existing Condition Hypocrisy Josh Israel, ThinkProgress Israel writes: "Josh Hawley, the Republican nominee against Missouri’s US senator Claire McCaskill (D), has made protecting people with pre-existing conditions a key part of his campaign platform — even as he undermines those protections as his state’s attorney general." READ MORE Democratic candidate for Georgia's Governor Stacy Abrams. (photo: John Bazemore/AP) ALSO SEE: Brian Kemp Has Put Democracy Itself on the Ballot in Georgia Stacey Abrams: GOP Opponent Creating 'Miasma of Fear' Over Voting in Georgia Tom McCarthy, Guardian UK McCarthy writes: "As a crisis of potential voter suppression in Georgia deepened, the Democratic candidate for governor accused her opponent of seeking to disenfranchise people of color and women by creating a 'miasma of fear' around voting." READ MORE Pigeons fly in front of a mural of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, on a wall of the Metropolitan Cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador on Oct. 3. Romero, who was killed in 1980 by a right wing will death squad during Mass, will be canonized in Rome by Pope Francis on Sunday. (photo: Slavador  In El Salvador, Slain Archbishop Oscar Romero Seen as Saint Long Ago Marcos Aleman, Associated Press Aleman writes: "On Sunday in the Vatican, Pope Francis will officially make Romero a saint nearly three decades after he was martyred by an assassin’s bullet to the heart. But for many Salvadoran Roman Catholic devotees who already know him as 'Saint Romero of the Americas' that will only formalize something they have long known in their hearts." READ MORE The iceberg that calved from Pine Island Glacier in September 2017, which was 4.5 times th Huge Iceberg Poised to Break Off Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier Laura Geggel, Scientific American Geggel writes: "Scientists are concerned the glacier is spawning icebergs more frequently than it used to." READ MORE Contribute to RSN Become a Fan of RSN on Facebook and Twitter Update My Monthly Donation