News 10/8

Bolsonaro transforms tiny Brazil party into congressional powerhouse
Brazil’s far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro turned his party from a footnote in a crowded Congress into a national behemoth on Sunday, underscoring a seismic shift in Latin America’s biggest nation as voters raged against the political establishment.
reuters.com/article/us-brazil-election-congress-analysis/bolsonaro-transforms-tiny-brazil-party-into-congressional-powerhouse-idUSKCN1MI07Q

Bulgarian investigative journalist Viktoria Marinova found brutally murdered in Ruse
Viktoria Marinova is the third reporter investigating corruption to be killed in the EU this year
thinkprogress.org/viktoria-marinova-bulgarian-investigative-journalist-brutally-murdered-7ea85506c356/

Brazil Elections: Leftist PT Biggest Party in Lower House, Bolsonaro's PSL Expands
Brazil’s Workers’ Party (PT) became the top political party in the lower house of the country’s Congress, taking 57 seats out of the body’s 513, while the far-right Social Liberal Party (PSL) of Jair Bolsonaro made a strong showing, coming in second with 51 seats.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Brazil-Elections-Leftist-PT-Biggest-Party-in-Lower-House-Bolsonaros-PSL-Expands-20181008-0001.html

US Senate elevates right-wing judge Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court
Kavanaugh will take his seat on the high court when it resumes work Monday, shifting the nine-member body even further to the right. With his elevation, there is a solid bloc of five extreme right justices—Roberts, Kavanaugh, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump’s first nominee. All five were named by Republican presidents.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/kava-o08.html

‘We'll close our airports!’ Salvini resists Germany’s plans to send migrants back to Italy
Rome has still not reached an agreement with Berlin on the repatriation of asylum seekers who had first registered in Italy, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said, vowing to close airports to German flights transferring refugees.
rt.com/news/440615-italy-close-airports-germany-migrants/

Detroit Westin Book Cadillac workers join hotel walkouts
Workers at the Detroit Westin Book Cadillac hotel struck Sunday morning, joining thousands of other hotel workers on strike across the US. It is the first hotel strike in Detroit in 30 years.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/detr-o08.html

Deadly heat waves to hit India, Pakistan every year because of climate change
A heat wave like the one in 2015 in India which killed nearly 2,500 people may become an annual occurrence in India and Pakistan, a damning UN report on the threats of climate change claims.According to the report published on Monday, if world temperatures do indeed rise by two degrees Celsius, India could see deadly heat waves increase in frequency and become an annual condition.
rt.com/news/440664-india-pakistan-heat-wave-climate/

Japan pulls out of naval drills over demands it remove 'rising sun' flag
Japan has withdrawn from an international fleet review this week after rejecting demands that its warship take part without its “rising sun” flag ensign – regarded by many Koreans as a symbol of Japanese militarism and colonial rule.
theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/08/japan-pulls-out-of-naval-drills-over-demands-it-remove-rising-sun-flag

Cuban Doctors Head to Haiti to Help with Quake Recovery
Two teams of Cuban doctors arrived in Haiti on Sunday morning after a 5.9 magnitude quake shook the country that's still recovering from its 2010 tremor.
telesurtv.net/english/news/Cuban-Doctors-Head-to-Haiti-to-Help-with-Quake-Recovery-20181007-0008.html

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‘We bombed you to save you’ – NATO head Stoltenberg speaks about 1999 bombings on visit to Serbia
Although many people in Serbia hold “painful” memories of NATO’s 1999 bombing of their country, it was, in fact, done precisely to protect them from their own government, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in Belgrade.
rt.com/news/440616-stoltenberg-serbia-nato-bombing/

Wife of Israeli prime minister goes on trial for fraud
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, appeared in court on Sunday for the first hearing in the fraud trial against her, in which she is alleged to have misused state funds in ordering catered meals.
reuters.com/article/us-israel-netanyahu-wife/wife-of-israeli-prime-minister-goes-on-trial-for-fraud-idUSKCN1MH0IJ

UN report predicts catastrophic consequences if greenhouse gas emissions not reduced by 2030
A new report from a United Nations panel warns that the world might be on a path toward catastrophic climate change if greenhouse gas emissions aren’t cut dramatically by 2030.
outline.com/mAmYgh

Appalachia: Tensions Rise at Yellow Finch Blockade
In so-called Virginia, a blockade of tree-sitters continues to prevent work on the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) for a thirtieth day. Loggers for the MVP are cutting trees near the sitters and their traverses, unsuc cessfully attempting to intimidate blockaders and their supporters.
itsgoingdown.org/tensions-rise-at-yellow-finch-blockade/

CPP: “Red October” Plot Is An Invention Of The AFP
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) unequivocally denies claim of a so-called Red October plot of the CPP and New People’s Army (NPA) to overthrow the Duterte regime by October. The CPP denounces the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for conjuring this fictional plot which clearly aims to set the stage for applying increasingly draconian measures against the Filipino people.
www.redspark.nu/en/peoples-war/philippines/cpp-red-october-plot-is-an-invention-of-the-afp/

Thousands of service industry workers will strike next week to demand unions
As union membership in the United States has hit historic lows, several thousand service industry workers will strike next week in seven states to demand union representation…………
outline.com/ZJ3MyX

Demonstration day tomorrow in Paris
paris.demosphere.eu/rv/63777

CPI Maoist Announces ‘Operation Ghamasan’ To Counter Government’s ‘Operation Samadhan’
Maoists in eastern India have launched ‘operation Ghamasan’ to counter ‘Operation Samadhan’ launched by the Narendra Modi government last year to end the five-decade-long Naxalite insurgency in various parts of the country.
outline.com/PRVKR5

French government staggered by Interior Minister Collomb’s resignation
The resignation on October 2 of Gérard Collomb, the second-ranking minister in the government, under conditions without precedent in France’s Fifth Republic, has laid bare the extreme weakness and deep crisis of President Emmanuel Macron’s government.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/fran-o08.html

OP/ED

Looking for the Way Out of Brazil’s Crisis
Brazil’s election campaign has seen sharp clashes between the Workers’ Party and Jair Bolsanaro’s far-right movement. But political strife and soldiers in the streets also reflect a deeper economic malaise.
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/10/brazil-economic-crisis-election-workers-party

The Land Belonged to Them: Revisiting a Palestinian Family, 25 Years After Their Land was Taken
A quarter of a century ago, I watched Israel take the Palestinian Khatib family’s land. With a British film director, we filmed the bulldozers closing in on the garden wall of the house of Mohamed and Saida Khatib and their son Sulieman amid their little orchard of olives, grapes, figs, apricots and almonds, beside Saida’s old chicken coop.
counterpunch.org/2018/10/08/the-land-belonged-to-them-revisiting-a-palestinian-family-25-years-after-their-land-was-taken/

Faked concern: Haley & corporate media bleating about Idlib civilians, ignore terrorists’ presence
Nikki Haley, the hypocritical US Ambassador to the UN, mistakenly thinks she can dictate – from New York City, far from the terrorists which her country supports – that the Syrian army cannot fight and eradicate al-Qaeda in Idlib.
rt.com/op-ed/440629-idlib-liberate-terrorists-haley/

Socialist Alternative on New York primaries: Burrowing further into the Democratic Party
Socialist Alternative’s response to New York’s recent state primary elections has underscored the organization’s role as an appendage of the Democratic Party.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/10/08/salt-o08.html

the balkanization of Yugoslavia was the worst crime of the decade

i welcome the progression of the tomokofication of this board
i feel shitty for even just asking since this is already such an effort that you put into it but
any chance to post these news in order of categories?

Because Lain wasn't edgy enough for you? Use mascots and relatable figures, by all means, but do it wisely and don't end up bowing down to things just for the sake of them.