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By Yves Engler. From the outset Canadian officials had an
incredibly expansive definition of NATO’s supposed defensive character, which
says an “attack against one ally is considered as an attack against all
allies.” As part of the Parliamentary debate over NATO external minister
Lester Pearson said: “There is no better way of ensuring the security of
the Pacific Ocean at this particular moment than by working out, between the
great democratic powers, a security arrangement the effects of which will be
felt all over the world, including the Pacific area.” -more-
By Ahmad Kabariti, Mondoweiss. Human waves
flooded the Israel-Gaza fence beginning Saturday morning marking the first
anniversary of the Great March of Return protests, facing off against Israeli
forces behind the fortified barbed-wire fence. The demonstrators gathered
despite rain, and even as Egypt is seeking to mediate a deal to end the
blockade of Gaza. For the fifty-second week in succession, Israeli military’s
tear gas canisters, live rounds and rubber bullets broke into the shouts of
demonstrators, more than 40,000 (according to Israeli army), gathering at
several locations along the border. -more-
By Dan Sisken, Occupy.com. National Labor
Relations Board data indicate that 2018 marked a huge upsurge in
strikes by workers across the U.S. The year saw 21 major work stoppages
involving 485,000 workers, compared with 25,000 in 2017. The most obvious
takeaway is this: In the year of the Janus Supreme Court decision that
prevented unions from charging fees to non-union workers who still benefit
from union-negotiated contracts, workers were anything but cowed. Workers
struck across the country, including hotel workers, university graduate
students, United Steelworkers locals, and staff of the University of... -more-
By Steve Norris, Popular Resistance. This week in a
small remote corner of North Carolina, two mega fossil fuel corporations,
Duke and Dominion, may have met their match. In the Robeson County Courthouse
in Lumberton Lumbee and Tuscarora neighbors of a proposed metering and
regulation(M&R) station (including a 350-foot radio tower) and a
compressor station (which already exists) challenged their County
Commissioners' permitting of these projects. Because these facilities are
essential to the construction of Atlantic Coast Pipeline, they were
also taking on the corporate owners of the ACP. -more-
By Eric Holthaus, Grist.
Post-flood satellite images of Mozambique show that Cyclone Idai
submerged about 835 square miles of homes and fields — an area
larger than New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Boston combined.
Aid workers in Mozambique describe the floodwaters as “inland
oceans extending for miles and miles.” Idai’s official death toll in
Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi reached 761 on Monday, but that total
will surely rise. There are reports of hundreds of bodies alongside a
single road as floodwaters began to recede. -more-
By World Meteorological Organization. The WMO
Statement on the State of the Global Climate in 2018, its
25th anniversary edition, highlights record sea level rise, as well as
exceptionally high land and ocean temperatures over the past four years. This
warming trend has lasted since the start of this century and is expected to
continue. In 2018, most of the natural hazards which affected nearly 62
million people were associated with extreme weather and climate events.
Floods continued to affect the largest number of people, more than 35 million. -more-
By Vijay Prashad, Globetrotter. Neither the
Palestinian protesters nor the Israeli soldiers will back down. Israel’s
government is undaunted by the UN findings. The Palestinians have no choice
but to protest. The confrontation will escalate on the first anniversary of
the March. The Israelis will be harsh, harsher to give Benjamin Netanyahu the
kind of muscular response that allows him to bully his way back to power. -more-
By Telesur. The imposter fraud Guaido is having a
difficult time organizing people to support his coup against President
Maduro. Our colleague, Eva K. Bartlett, who joined us on a recent peace
delegation in Venezuela and has remained behind to continue to report on
activities there. She has been trying to go to a Guaido opposition protest
and yesterday went to several locations where they were supposed to take
place. She was unable to find any opposition of significance and no Guaido.
Venezuela's Comptroller General Elvis Amoroso announced Thursday
that the opposition politician Juan Guaido has been barred from... -more-
By Al Jazeera. The United States came under
sharp criticism from 14 other United Nations Security Council
nations for its decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the
Golan Heights in violation of international law. The Security Council
met on Wednesday at the request of Syria, which in a letter to the
council called the US move a "flagrant violation" of UN
resolutions. Speaker after speaker at the council session supported Syria's
sovereignty over the Golan Heights and opposed Israel's annexation
after Trump's proclamation. "This unilateral action does nothing to assist
in finding a long-term peaceful solution to the... -more-
By Finian Cunningham, Strategic Culture. President Donald
Trump and his White House team may have been cleared of collusion with the
Kremlin in the 2016 presidential election. That startling conclusion by
Special Counsel Robert Mueller after nearly two years of investigation, might
be viewed by some as giving Trump freedom to now get on with
normalizing relations with Moscow. Don’t bet on it. The fundamental issue for
Washington is that Russia is not a vassal for American imperialism. That’s
why there will be no reset. There will only be reset when American
imperialism is replaced by a law-abiding, genuinely... -more-
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