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28 November 19
Daniel Ellsberg Slams Trump: "The President Is a Domestic Enemy of the Constitution"
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Trump pardoned those that were accused of or convicted of war crimes and wanted to restore the level of Eddie Gallagher in the Navy SEALs. The Navy SEALs wanted to oust him. Dan Ellsberg, what is going on here?"
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Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Trump pardoned those that were accused of or convicted of war crimes and wanted to restore the level of Eddie Gallagher in the Navy SEALs. The Navy SEALs wanted to oust him. Dan Ellsberg, what is going on here?"
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Jimmy Fallon and Bernie Sanders. (photo: NBC)
Bernie Sanders Slow Jams the News With Jimmy Fallon: My Plan Is 'Actually Quite Sexy'
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "During last week's debate, I went toe-to-toe with my fellow Democrats on the issues that matter most: We need to defeat Trump, the most dangerous president in American history, but we need to do more."
Marlow Stern, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "During last week's debate, I went toe-to-toe with my fellow Democrats on the issues that matter most: We need to defeat Trump, the most dangerous president in American history, but we need to do more."
Protesters in North Dakota block route 6 in Mandan on Thanksgiving Day in 2016. (photo: Reuters)
Giving Thanks the Indigenous Way
Ruth Hopkins, Al Jazeera
Hopkins writes: "Thanksgiving may be the ritualized glorification of genocide and conquest, but does it have to be?"
Ruth Hopkins, Al Jazeera
Hopkins writes: "Thanksgiving may be the ritualized glorification of genocide and conquest, but does it have to be?"
excerpt:
For the past few years, Thanksgiving has been hard for me. In 2016, mere days before the holiday, the Oceti Sakowin and our allies were attacked by militarised police at Standing Rock for protecting ancestral burial sites and the fresh water source of millions of people, both native and non-native, from a pipeline that would be forced through our land at the point of a gun.
They used water cannon on unarmed civilians when the air temperature was below freezing. People were tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets. Hundreds were injured, including one young woman who suffered permanent damage to her arm and another who nearly lost an eye.
On that fateful night that some call Bloody Sunday, when my heart was broken and we became one with our ancestors, I recognised that the atrocities our grandmothers and grandfathers had faced - the brutality, blind hatred and aggression, the massacres and acts of genocide which inspired Adolph Hitler himself - had not ended and could happen all over again.
America, Custer may have died for your sins, but there will be no absolution without truth. Only then can we hope to charter a new path, as one. The true spirit of Thanksgiving cannot be honoured when it is forged in white supremacy and dipped in indigenous blood.
Acknowledging our shared history can help put an end to vicious destructive cycles meant to fill spiritual emptiness, and replace it with grateful hearts that will bring families and communities together, united in purpose, giving thanks for nature's bounty. Then, not only will our bodies be nourished, but our souls will be too.
U.S. Military forces in Afghanistan. (photo: Getty Images)
US Wars Have Killed Over 800,000 People Since 2001
teleSUR
Excerpt: "According to the figures in the report, the conflicts waged by the U.S. caused more than 800,000 deaths, including 335,000 civilians, and caused the displacement of some 21 million people due to the violence unleashed."
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teleSUR
Excerpt: "According to the figures in the report, the conflicts waged by the U.S. caused more than 800,000 deaths, including 335,000 civilians, and caused the displacement of some 21 million people due to the violence unleashed."
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Donald Trump left halfway through a Roger Waters performance of Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' in 2010. What could he have learned if he'd stayed? (photo: Dana Nalbandian/WireImage)
That Time Donald Trump Left Halfway Through a Performance of 'The Wall'
Kory Grow, Rolling Stone
Grow writes: "In 2010, the future president attended a Roger Waters performance of Pink Floyd's masterpiece but didn't stick around long enough to see the wall fall. Could he have learned something if he'd stayed?"
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Kory Grow, Rolling Stone
Grow writes: "In 2010, the future president attended a Roger Waters performance of Pink Floyd's masterpiece but didn't stick around long enough to see the wall fall. Could he have learned something if he'd stayed?"
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National Strike protests in Bogotá. (photo: Ana Luisa González)
Behind the National Strike in Colombia
Pablo Medina Uribe, NACLA
Uribe writes: "Ivan Duque's approval ratings have been dropping steadily. And now, he's facing the seventh consecutive day of country-wide protests against his government."
Pablo Medina Uribe, NACLA
Uribe writes: "Ivan Duque's approval ratings have been dropping steadily. And now, he's facing the seventh consecutive day of country-wide protests against his government."
EXCERPT:
Despite edging the firebrand left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro by two million votes in the presidential runoff, Duque’s numbers have never been great. His government began by pushing a tax reform that favored businesses—big or small, but hurt the middle class. By the end of 2018, Duque had one of the lowest popularity ratings in decades of a Colombian president in his first 100 days in office.
But the National Strike, even before it started, quickly grew beyond the organizing committee. Many decided to join because of other causes: support for public education, better public transportation, the country’s unequal health system, and a general dissatisfaction with life in the country.
A video shows a woman rescuing a koala from Australia's wildfires. (photo: VOA News/YouTube)
Lewis, the Koala Famously Rescued From Australian Bushfires, Has Died
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Rosane writes: "Lewis, the koala who stole the world's heart when a video of his rescue from Australian wildfires went viral, has died."
Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch
Rosane writes: "Lewis, the koala who stole the world's heart when a video of his rescue from Australian wildfires went viral, has died."
he koala rose to fame when Australian grandmother Toni Doherty was filmed risking her life to carry him out of the flames using the shirt off her back. Doherty named him Ellenborough Lewis after one of her seven grandchildren, according to HuffPost, and rushed him to the Port Macquarie Koala Hospital. But the hospital had to put him to sleep when his injuries proved too severe.
"We recently posted that 'burns injuries can get worse before they get better.' In Ellenborough Lewis's case, the burns did get worse, and unfortunately would not have gotten better. The Koala Hospital's number one goal is animal welfare, so it was on those grounds that this decision was made," the hospital wrote in a Facebook Post Tuesday.
He's the little koala who captured hearts all around the globe, but today, Lewis' brave fight came to an end, succumbing to his injuries out of the NSW bushfire crisis. @MarkWBurrows #9News
Doherty and her husband, Peter, were present to say goodbye, 9News reported.
"We were there this morning. We are naturally very sad about this, as we were hoping he'd pull through but we accept his injuries were severe and debilitating and would have been quite painful," Peter Doherty told Australia based 9News.
Lewis's story brought attention to a wider crisis faced by Australia's Koala population in the midst of an extreme bushfire season. More than a million hectares have burned just in the state of New South Wales, BBC News reported, and the Australian summer has not even begun. Australia's Climate Council has warned for six years that the climate crisis is increasing the country's fire risk, and this has devastating consequences for koalas.
In October, the same hospital that tended Lewis warned that more than 350 koalas might have died when fires reached a koala habitat in Port Macquarie. Deborah Tabart, chairwoman of the Australian Koala Foundation, said this month that 80 percent of koala habitat has been destroyed by the fires.
The fires are especially perilous for koalas because they will climb trees and curl up into balls instead of running away. But they also scream for help when distressed, something that caught Doherty's attention.
"I've never heard a koala before. I didn't realise they could cry out. It was just so heart-rendering," Doherty told Today after rescuing Lewis, according to 9News.
Jill Filipovic wrote for CNN that Lewis's death was a symptom of a much larger problem, as the climate crisis and other human activities threaten Earth's biodiversity with mass extinction.
"Indeed, koalas are a particularly cute emblem of how a perfect storm of greed, nationalism, climate denialism, political cynicism has gathered to fundamentally alter life on earth as we know it," she wrote.
