News 11/15

30 Years of Palestinian Independence: No Sovereignty in Sight
On Nov. 15, 1988, Yasser Arafat, then-Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) proclaimed the Unilateral Declaration of Independence for the state of Palestine to a standing ovation.This year marks 30 years since the declaration. In a statement, PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said the mark of independence declaration "sums up the will and legitimate national aspirations of the Palestinian people in achieving independence."
telesurenglish.net/news/30-Years-of-Palestinian-Independence-No-Sovereignty-in-Sight-20181115-0023.html

Investigations point to energy corporation’s negligence in California wildfire
An investigation is now underway that will assess the culpability of Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) in starting the Camp Fire, now the deadliest wildfire in the history of California.The company acknowledged Tuesday that it had submitted an “electric incident report” to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on November 8, moments before the wildfire broke out. The report detailed a power failure on a transmission line in Butte County at 6:15 a.m., 15 minutes before the fire was reported as starting in the same area.
wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/15/fire-n15.html

Two U.K. Cabinet Ministers, Including Chief Brexit Negotiator, Quit
Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain faced a deep political crisis on Thursday after two cabinet ministers quit her government, including Dominic Raab, her chief negotiator on withdrawal from the European Union — decisions that threaten to wreck not only her plans for the exit but also her leadership.The surprise resignation of Mr. Raab on Thursday morning followed a tense, five-hour meeting of the cabinet the previous day, during which ministers reluctantly agreed to sign off on Mrs. May’s draft plans for departure from the European Union, a process commonly known as Brexit.
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'Get out': some Mexico border residents reject migrant arrivals
Demonized by U.S. President Donald Trump and exhausted after a harrowing journey, members of Central American migrant caravans now face a new threat: open hostility from some Mexicans on the U.S. border.A small group of residents of an upscale neighborhood in the Mexican border of Tijuana confronted caravan migrants late on Wednesday, throwing stones and telling them to go back to their home countries.
reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-caravan/get-out-some-mexico-border-residents-reject-migrant-arrivals-idUSKCN1NK2D8

Pence, Putin And Bolton Have 'Informal Conversation' At Asian Summit In Singapore
Vice President Pence and Russian President Vladimir Putin sat next to each other and chatted briefly Thursday at the East Asia Summit in Singapore, in a conversation that also included national security adviser John Bolton.Pence and Putin "discussed the upcoming G20 Summit and touched on the issues that will be discussed when President Trump and President Putin are both in Argentina for the summit," according to the vice president's press secretary, Alyssa Farah.
npr.org/2018/11/15/668198282/pence-putin-and-bolton-have-informal-conversation-at-asian-summit-in-singapore

Yemen: US-Saudi coalition orders halt to Hodeidah offensive
The US-Saudi coalition has ordered a temporary halt to its offensive against Houthi rebels occupying Yemen’s main port city, Hodeidah, officials have said, raising hopes that a more lasting ceasefire can be reached to end fighting that threatens to push the country into full-blown famine.
theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/15/yemen-saudi-led-coalition-orders-halt-to-hodeidah-offensive

U.S. eyes possible ways to remove Erdogan foe to appease Turkey: NBC
The Trump administration is exploring possible ways to remove U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, a foe of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, to convince Turkey to ease pressure on Saudi Arabia over the killing of a Saudi journalist, NBC News reported on Thursday.
reuters.com/article/us-saudi-khashoggi-usa-gulen/u-s-eyes-possible-ways-to-remove-erdogan-foe-to-appease-turkey-nbc-idUSKCN1NK2T4?il=0

House blocks bill to end support for Saudi coalition in Yemen as UK yields diplomatic progress
The House of Representatives voted to block the passage of a bill that would have ended U.S. military support for the US-Saudi coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen.
The setback for critics of the coalition in the U.S. comes after the United Kingdom announced progress this week on the diplomatic front as the United Nations special envoy pushes to get the warring parties to the negotiating table by the end of the month in Sweden.
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Is this the power of Hispanic Protestantism?

Fuck

Trump team plans to promote fossil fuels at UN climate event: report
The Trump administration plans to again promote fossil fuels at the annual U.N. climate talks next month, three sources told Reuters.“Quite frankly, the U.S. is the only party to the convention that appears to be willing to push a rational discussion on the role of cleaner, more efficient fossil [fuels] and the role of civilian nuclear energy,” a source involved in the planning of the event said, according to the news service.
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Playing catch-up, Germany throws money at AI
Germany plans to invest more than 3 billion euros ($3.39 million) by 2025 to beef up its artificial intelligence capabilities and appoint 100 professors to lecture about it, as it seeks to close a digital technology gap with other leading economies.
reuters.com/article/us-germany-politics/playing-catch-up-germany-throws-money-at-ai-idUSKCN1NK1YF

After wrangling with Amazon, Bernie Sanders has set his sights on Walmart
Bernie Sanders clashed with Amazon over its minimum wage — and prevailed. The online retailer bumped its minimum wage up to $15 an hour.But the senator from Vermont isn't finished wrangling with major companies over wages. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Sanders and California representative Ro Khanna are introducing legislation — the "Stop Walmart Act" — to compel Walmart to boost its minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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French teachers mobilize against Macron’s attacks on education
Teachers across France struck on November 12 against the 2019 education budget of the government of Emmanuel Macron. It was the first time the trade unions have called a national education strike since 2011.The first day of action involved close to one in two secondary and one in four elementary school teachers, according to union officials. The ministry claimed a far lower figure of 10 percent participation in the strike. Approximately 4,000 teachers protested in Paris; 1,000 in Marseille; 2,500 in Lyon; 850 in Nantes; 800 in Caen and 700 in Clermont-Ferrand, according to the police prefectures.
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AMAZON HQ2 WILL COST TAXPAYERS AT LEAST $4.6 BILLION, MORE THAN TWICE WHAT THE COMPANY CLAIMED, NEW STUDY SHOWS
AMAZON’S ANNOUNCEMENT THIS week that it will open its new headquarters in New York City and northern Virginia came with the mind-boggling revelation that the corporate giant will rake in $2.1 billion in local government subsidies. But an analysis by the nation’s leading tracker of corporate subsidies finds that the government handouts will actually amount to at least $4.6 billion.
theintercept.com/2018/11/15/amazon-hq2-long-island-city-virginia-subsidies/

Michelle Obama’s money-making hypocrisy is laughable
To read the worshipful press coverage you’d never know that, for Democrats, the unthinkable has happened: Michelle Obama has revealed herself as just another guru for sale
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Britain’s Secret War in Colombia
For over half a century, a war against Colombian civilians has been waged alongside the war against Colombia’s guerrilla insurgencies. And the British state has supported it.
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/11/uk-colombia-political-violence-bp-drug-war-counterinsurgency

Mainstream media on Gaza: Israelis get killed, but Palestinians merely ‘die’
After a Twitter backlash, the Guardian was forced to amend a brazenly propagandized headline which sought to undermine the basic rights of Palestinians and elevate Israeli soldiers to levels previously thought unimaginable.“We remain editorially independent, our journalism free from commercial bias and our reporting open and accessible to all,” reads an advertisement on the Guardian UK’s online newspaper when you click on a recent story.“Imagine what we could continue to achieve with the support of many more of you. Together we can be a force for change.”
rt.com/op-ed/444058-israel-attack-palestinians-killed/

DSA calls US midterm elections the “rebirth of the American socialist movement”
On November 7, the Democratic Socialists of America’s National Political Committee published a statement celebrating the US midterm elections as a victory for the “left.” The statement begins: “Yesterday democratic socialists fought and won inspiring election campaigns across the country, representing the rebirth of the American socialist movement after generations in retreat.”It continues: “While Democrats succeeded in taking back a slim majority in the House of Representatives, striking a blow to the extreme right-wing and pro-corporate agenda represented by Trump and the Republican Party, the Senate remains in the hands of Republicans.”The Democrat Cops of America presentation of the elections as a blow to the right wing and victory for socialism is in blatant conflict with reality, as is the claim that the election of a handful of Democrat Cops of America members and a few dozen Democrat Cops of America-supported candidates has significantly altered the political trajectory of the United States.
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An Anarchist Uprising Against the Liberal Ego
The liberal ego poses an interesting contradiction. It insists not upon being“egotistical” in the way we think of it, of thinking “too much” of oneself, being self-centered, selfish, etc., but upon being servile, second-rate, low worth, “co-dependent” in relation to the existing power structures. The liberal, while accepting the rewards of bourgeois attainment and thus living comparatively well, in failing to challenge her ego’s supremacy, is automatically obedient to the illegitimate authority of the existing capitalist structures.
counterpunch.org/2018/11/15/an-anarchist-uprising-against-the-liberal-ego/

Labour’s Socialist Realism
A new book of essays edited by UK Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell makes the case for economic democracy and charts the increasingly transformative thinking of Corbyn's Labour Party. .
jakkkobinmag.com/2018/11/labour-party-socialist-realism-jeremy-corbyn-john-mcdonnell

Superior, WI: Streets and Enbridge Headquarters Shut Down by Protesters
Report from Anti-Colonial Land Defense, who today rallied and marched against Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline in Superior, Wisconsin.
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Five CRPF personnel injured in Maoist attack
Five CRPF personnel on a foot patrol suffered bullet wounds in a three-hour gun battle with Maoists in a forested area here in Chhattisgarh.The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) troopers were targeted around 12.20 p.m. when they were on an “area domination” operation in a dense forest near Majiguda village in Bijapur district.
outline.com/8DX3Mj

New York governor Andrew Cuomo offers to change his name to "Amazon Cuomo" if Amazon moves its HQ to New York, a day before Amazon decides to move their HQ to Long Island
splinternews.com/will-new-york-resist-the-urge-to-give-amazon-literally-1830404202

I'm so glad he's desperate. Once New Yorkers finally see this faggot go it's probably going to become a State holiday.

Of course

Happy 30 years of Palestinian independence. May your country one day be free of Israeli imperialism.

All nations are illusory social constructs and so-called national liberation movements will always be snakes filled with venom yet guised in the mask of liberty. Death to Palestine. Death to all nations. Long live Humanity

I think Mao or somebody like that made the point that Marxists should be at the helm of the national liberation movement, or should at least have a significant stake in the leadership, maybe somebody could correct me on that if false.