Merkel joins Macron in call for ‘real, true’ European army after Trump slams idea German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a “real, true” European army to be created, just days after French President Emmanuel Macron did the same – and received backlash from Donald Trump for doing so.“We should work on a vision of one day establishing a real European army,” Merkel said during an address to MEPs at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Monday. rt.com/news/443876-merkel-european-army-macron/
Democrats seek agreements with Trump administration A lame duck session of Congress opens today with Democrats signaling that they wish to reach agreement with the Trump White House on a range of budget and policy issues in order to “clear the decks” before the new Democratic-controlled House of Representatives takes office in January.The Senate and House must pass seven of 12 separate appropriations bills by December 8 to avoid a partial shutdown of the federal government, with the most contentious bill involving funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/13/dems-n13.html
UK and EU negotiators have agreed on a Brexit deal UK and EU negotiating teams have agreed on a Brexit withdrawal deal which Prime Minister Theresa May will present to her Cabinet on Wednesday.The UK government confirmed reports that May's most senior ministers would read the details of the draft agreement on Tuesday evening before a special Cabinet meeting at 2 p.m. on Wednesday. businessinsider.com/uk-european-union-thresa-may-brexit-negotiators-have-agreed-a-deal-2018-11
Israelis, Palestinians brace for the worst as Gaza ceasefire kicks in As Palestinian militants controlling the Gaza Strip exchanged fire with Israeli soldiers in the most intense fighting for years Tuesday, the people below the soaring rockets braced for further bloodshed.The flare-up — seemingly triggered by a botched Israeli raid into Gaza on Sunday — killed seven Palestinians and one Israeli before a ceasefire was announced by militant groups. outline.com/w6MMVn
Sri Lankan Supreme Court Blocks President's Bid To Dissolve Parliament Less than three weeks after Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena shocked the country by sacking his prime minister and suspending Parliament, his bid to consolidate power has hit a major speed bump: the country's Supreme Court. npr.org/2018/11/13/667333085/sri-lankan-supreme-court-blocks-presidents-bid-to-dissolve-parliament
Brazilian court takes issue with Bolsonaro's campaign accounts Brazil’s top electoral authority said it has found irregularities in the campaign accounts of President-elect Jair Bolsonaro and gave him three days to explain.In a document published late Monday, the TSE electoral court described possible campaign donations from illegal sources, donations from unidentified donors and lack of information on how campaign funds were spent, among other issues. reuters.com/article/us-brazil-politics/brazilian-court-takes-issue-with-bolsonaros-campaign-accounts-idUSKCN1NI1E1
Food taste 'not protected by copyright' rules EU court The taste of a food cannot be protected by copyright, the EU's highest legal authority has ruled in a case involving a Dutch cheese.The European Court of Justice said the taste of food was too "subjective and variable" for it to meet the requirements for copyright protection.The court was asked to rule in the case of a spreadable cream cheese and herb dip, Heksenkaas, produced by Levola. bbc.com/news/world-europe-46193818
Rohingya Repatriation Set To Begin, As Amnesty Revokes Award To Aung San Suu Kyi The long-planned repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh back to Myanmar is set to begin later this week — and refugees are reportedly fleeing camps to avoid being sent back to the country they fled. Many refugees have said they fear for their lives if they should return to Myanmar. npr.org/2018/11/12/666951625/rohingya-repatriation-set-to-begin-as-amnesty-revokes-award-to-aung-san-suu-kyi
Brazil’s Bolsonaro prepares most right-wing government since end of US-backed dictatorship The first two weeks since the election of the far-right populist Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil’s president are further confirming that the next administration will be the most right-wing since the return to civilian rule after a 21-year US-backed military dictatorship in 1985. wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/13/bols-n13.html
Trump wants to cut off disaster relief to Puerto Rico President Donald Trump wants to cut off disaster relief to Puerto Rico because he believes, without evidence, that officials there are misusing the money to pay down debts, according to Axios.Puerto Rico is still recovering from Hurricane Maria, which killed almost 3,000 Puerto Ricans and decimated the island territory’s infrastructure. outline.com/pu4f82
Ocasio-Cortez, youth protesters storm Pelosi office to push for climate plan More than 200 youth activists, flanked by Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, flooded House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s office this morning urging Democrats to act more decisively on climate change.Capitol Police said they arrested 51 protesters for unlawfully demonstrating outside Pelosi's office in the Cannon House Office Building. politico.com/story/2018/11/13/ocasio-cortez-climate-protestors-push-pelosi-962915
Dow tumbles 160 points in early Tuesday trade as rebound attempt sputters The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded more than 100 points lower Tuesday morning, as a tumble in shares of Boeing Co. BA, -2.11% and Home Depot Inc. HD, -0.24% put the kibosh on a rebound attempt by the blue-chip index. Boeing's share decline was carving about 80 points out of the Dow DJIA, -0.40% after The Wall Street Journal reported that the aerospace company withheld information about a change to its aircrafts. outline.com/RvTKvz
Starbucks to Lay Off 5% of Corporate Workforce Starbucks Corp. SBUX -0.74% is planning to lay off approximately 5% of its global corporate workforce as it seeks to become a more nimble company.The plan comes as the Seattle-based chain struggles to attract new and repeat customers to its U.S. coffee shops amid a highly competitive coffee market. wsj.com/articles/starbucks-to-lay-off-5-of-corporate-workforce-1542130200
‘Completely safe’: Monsanto owner Bayer hit by new wave of lawsuits over Roundup weed killer German chemicals and pharmaceuticals giant Bayer disclosed that lawsuits from 9,300 plaintiffs were pending at the end of October. The lawsuits allege that the company’s recently acquired weed-killing product causes cancer.. . rt.com/business/443852-bayer-monsanto-weedkiller-lawsuits/
Christian Flores
I just want them to kick America out and challenge American hegemony. Once that happens we will move one step closer to multipolarity and the beginning of the next socialist revolutionary era.
Elijah Lee
Are liberals going to LARP their way into America having no allies? I could see other US presidents getting away with some shit like this, but this is increasingly looking like the beginning of everyone turning on America.
Anthony Anderson
OP/ED
The Self-Serving Myths of Silicon Valley Silicon Valley's boosters say it's an innovative, meritocratic wonderland that rewards brilliant visionaries and just might save the world. That's nonsense. jakkkobinmag.com/2018/11/live-work-die-silicon-valley-review-pein
Gaza burns hotter than Hollywood but there's nobody to put the fires out - George Galloway The world is fixated by the forest fires in Hollywood burning down stars' mansions. With supreme irony some of them belong to those who helped raise millions of dollars for the Israeli Army which is now burning the hovels of Gaza.The Hollywood warriors have insurance of course, and other homes too, sometimes many of them. The hovel-dwellers of Gaza have neither. rt.com/op-ed/443868-israel-gaza-strike-palestinians/
Great powers commemorate First World War, and plan the next one Over the past weekend, the leaders of the world’s great powers met in France to commemorate the official end of World War I. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump pulled long faces, hugged each other and gave speeches lamenting the “horror” and “tragedy” of a war that claimed more than 16 million lives.But their talk of “tragedy” and “suicide” could not hide the fact that they are all engaged in active preparations for a new and deadly world military conflict. wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/13/pers-n13.html
Moreno’s Neoliberal Restoration Proceeds in Ecuador Lenin Moreno won Ecuador’s presidency in 2017 by campaigning to continue the economic policies of Rafael Correa (a leftist who was in office from 2007 until 2017) but upon taking office immediately shifted dramatically to the right. Andres Arauz, a former member of Correa’s economic team whom I interviewed for Counterpunch in May, provides an update on Moreno’s remarkably cynical Neoliberal Restoration. counterpunch.org/2018/11/13/morenos-neoliberal-restoration-proceeds-in-ecuador/
AOC Rental Woes a Reminder of Worsening Conditions for Workers The media coverage of the fact that Alexandria Ocascio-Cortez can’t yet move to Washington because she can’t afford to rent an apartment is another Versailles circa 1788 moments. Washington has so long been expensive that even before working-class AOC stormed the barricades there have long been stories of Congresscritters who live in their offices in DC rather than rent an apartment. The most famous case is Paul Ryan. As Kentucky representative Andy Barr said in 2015, “I think there’s more than you might expect. There’s quite a few of us, particularly the younger members with young families back home in our districts. There’s quite a few — men and women.” nakedcapitalism.com/2018/11/aoc-rental-woes-a-reminder-of-worsening-conditions-for-workers.html
Matthew Scott
Merkel isn't an absolutist, though, enlightened or otherwise. She just managed to hold onto an elected position for a long time.
Yeah, I keep oscillating between "AOC will fuck everyone over" and pretty impressed.
All the performative woke idealist socialists should take notes, if they're going to insist on doing things on feels.
Leo Gonzalez
I thought she was a sell-out, but maybe she did have a strat all along…
Adam Hughes
twitter.com/sunrisemvmt These are the lot who organised the thing. Their manifesto seems to be radical social democracy: A Green New Deal they call it. Honestly this has all come from the dark, perhaps there is something in this?
Adrian Murphy
I support building a European army. It should be largely focused on humanitarian work though.
Tyler Fisher
Yeah, it's going to be used to prop up the French and German defense industries and continuing Francafrique neocolonialism. The only good thing that will come out of it is slowly seeing NATO/America leave Europe.
Anthony Johnson
A “Green New Deal” is something Burger SocDems and Green Party Members have been trying to get done for years. It’s basically a re-hash of FDR’s “New Deal” but with an emphasis on Renewable Energy.
Asher Hughes
It won’t be though. It’ll likely be used to intervene in Ukraine, Syria, Yemen, etc.
Justin Gray
why these aren't banned?
Chase Young
Because your mum is BO and we're all fucking her.
Ian Perry
good grief, never thought we'd have to fear the french again
Hunter Jackson
YOU THOUGHT YOU'D SEEN THE LAST OF ME PROLE? THINK AGAIN, FOR I HAVE RISEN, AS JVPITER
Come on user. I would not be surprised if Pelosi herself orchestrated this.
Leo Gonzalez
smh tbh fam
Colton Lee
I mean the EU started off as a project for De Gaulle to recreate the continental system so I guess we are reaching its apex. Tbh, critically support the Franco-German axis against American Imperialism.
Ayden Ward
Far too clever a play for the Dems, and not something that's in their interest to do.
Christian Richardson
Yeah, having Euros in charge of their own affairs is infinitely better than them being an American superFOB
Benjamin Cook
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Jack Smith
No relief here - the fact somebody even tried to do this is a fucking awful sign. They're reaching their greasy feelers out, the results are going back to the nerve center.
Ian Evans
nah man, most of the time it is really oddly specific craft food makers trying to build forts around their products. The Italians get really autistic over their cheese in trade deals for example.
Cooper Gray
While such a plan obviously doesn't go far enough, it would go a long way to improving the lives of workers. This could be a major boon for the more radical left if we can play a significant role in bringing it about. It would give us an accomplishment to point to and prove to workers that we're on their side.
Joshua Wilson
It would also divide the Western camp into two, it would be like the porky version of the Sino-Soviet split.
Jayden Martin
France would take the EU for a ruse cruise around Africa and become the imperialist spoilsport of the split.
Brandon Gomez
this doesn't even sound real. It's like a DnD game discussion come to life, except its boring and there aren't not dungeons nor dragons, or even goblins.
I ironically support reactionaries bombing each other into giblets as long as they don't get any on me. If the people won't become class conscious themselves, it will be beaten into them.
Gavin Torres
>Roll 1, Italians scream in the corner, clutching block of formaggio, no deal
My point was that even if Germany isn’t a colonial power they would likely not take kindly to France trying to monopolize power within the EU.
Asher Wilson
What's meant by multipolarity? Isn't the capitalist world already polarized now because, for example, the American bourgeoisie won't collaborate with the Russian bourgeoisie?
Nicholas Wright
That's quite the understatement since Germany HAS already virtually monopolized power in the EU over the past few decades. The Euro was modelled in conformity with the Bundesbank's needs from the beginning onwards.
Easton Ramirez
America is almost entirely unchallenged by country or group of countries at the moment. It makes all the rules and decides when those rules get enforced (and when they don't.)
Its nice that capitalist globalism works for us in achieving world communism. Trotsky was right.
Nathan Barnes
You could provide information for Chinese in that situation.
Samuel Anderson
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Robert Carter
Fuck off Satan. You don't exist.
John Torres
SATAN IS WORLD-SPIRIT CONFIRMED
VIVE
Oliver Hill
Waterproof uniform Worn while aboard a warship. Wearing a helmet. Carrying a gasmask. Possibly a battle dress uniform
Ceremonial uniform Naval sailor's military parade ceremonial uniform. Sailer uniform, worn during ceremonies. During military parades, carrying an MPI-KMS is a frequent occurence.
People's Navy Cap(?) Different from ground forces and the air force, it isn't silver, but gold.
I'm so rusty, that took forever
Mason Thomas
i also spelt sailor wrong the second time ffs
Jonathan Foster
Join pro Chinese army is not in option?
Liam Nelson
exactly, where do I enlist to the PLA?
Ayden Morris
its fucking orchestrated
Thomas Torres
I wish he became mage knight, cuz I don't wanna see him die. He's so precious.
