Hillary Clinton: Europe must curb immigration to stop rightwing populists In an interview with the Guardian, the former Democratic presidential candidate praised the generosity shown by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, but suggested immigration was inflaming voters and contributed to the election of Donald Trump and Britain’s vote to leave the EU.“I think Europe needs to get a handle on migration because that is what lit the flame,” Clinton said, speaking as part of a series of interviews with senior centrist political figures about the rise of populists, particularly on the right, in Europe and the Americas. theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/hillary-clinton-europe-must-curb-immigration-stop-populists-trump-brexit?fbclid=IwAR2CRWgS_4Pv3yF4tJV3ZjwrSwrQQKGe0tfhySaeqGI04hehiue47gfCSvg
Military will use lethal force at Mexico border if needed – Trump US President Donald Trump has given troops permission to use lethal force if needed at the border with Mexico, adding that there could be a government shutdown next month over border security.Trump’s statements come just one day after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he had been granted authority to allow troops to exhibit greater power to help protect border officials. rt.com/uk/444655-trump-lethal-force-military/
Global carbon dioxide levels hit a new record in 2017, U.N. says The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit a new record last year with emissions showing no sign of slowing down, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday.The annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin dashed hopes for a slowdown in emissions of CO2 - the byproduct of burning fossil fuels that scientists say is the main cause of the greenhouse effect causing global warming. reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-greenhouse/global-carbon-dioxide-levels-hit-a-new-record-in-2017-un-says-idUSKCN1NR0S3
UK, EU agree on an outline of their relationship after Brexit The UK and the European Union have agreed on a political declaration outlining the shape of their relationship after Brexit.Donald Tusk, the European Council's president, said on Thursday morning that a text had been "agreed at negotiators' level and agreed in principle at political level," paving the way for an overall Brexit deal to be signed off. businessinsider.com/uk-eu-agree-future-relationship-text-as-brexit-deal-edges-closer-2018-11
Fascist group exposed in youth wing of Australia’s National Party An Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) “Background Briefing” program last month exposed a fascistic group inside the youth wing of the rural-based National Party, which is in coalition governments with the Liberal Party at the federal level and in a number of states. wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/22/natp-n22.html
Trump denies CIA implicated Saudi crown prince in Khashoggi murder President Donald Trump on Thursday said that the CIA did not reach a conclusion about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s involvement in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, adding during a teleconference with military members that Salman “regretted the death more than I do.” politico.com/story/2018/11/22/trump-salman-khashoggi-murder-1012552
Israel to Evict 700 Palestinians in Silwan, Occupied Jerusalem The Israeli High Court upheld Wednesday its decision to remove 700 Palestinians from the historic neighborhood of Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem. A total of 104 Palestinian families petitioned the high court to avoid their uprooting but their request was rejected…. telesurenglish.net/news/Israel-to-Evict-700-Palestinians-in-Silwan-Occupied-Jerusalem-20181122-0011.html
nothing wrong with this idea in general, just the general Trumpist application of it tends to be retarded. this is what China does: they focus on expanding their industry via African countries, rather than tearing down the government because of minor trade disagreement. if Europe stopped treating the middle east like they did Libya and Syria they'd literally be fine.
Ryan Howard
she's right. The mass immigration and refugees are giving the far right an open to really the troops. This will lead to more far right getting elected and possibly the end of the EU. Ironically the eurocrats hard on for protecting rapeugees will be their downfall
Luis Rodriguez
hi
Gavin Morris
She's doing it because she is a cynical hack: remember the "Superpredator" stuff in the 90s?
Nolan Nguyen
go back to Zig Forums
Brayden Walker
U.S. spending $72 million for troops to do nothing at the border For reasons still unclear, President Trump has stationed nearly 6,000 troops at the southern border. This political stunt, the Pentagon now reports, will cost U.S. taxpayers $72 million. Combined with the $138 million spent on the 2,100 National Guard troops that have been deployed there since April, that brings the total cost of securing the border this year to $210 million. outline.com/BATBAf
UAW carries out campaign of intimidation against Lear auto parts workers Workers at Lear Corporation’s Hammond and Portage, Indiana, automobile seating factories have reported that they are facing “backlash” from United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 2335 for opposing the union’s efforts to push through a sellout contract and for commenting on articles posted on the World Socialist Web Site about their struggle. wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/22/lear-n22.html
'I am sure Trump is going to get wind of this': Twitter Bans Laura Loomer, A Far-Right Activist An investigative journalist known for her tenacity aimed at left-wing liberals has been banned from Twitter, per a report Wednesday. Laura Loomer, the center point of Illumiate Media, told The Daily Beast she was kicked off Twitter for recent comments about newly-elected U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the first Muslim woman elected to Congress.This is not going to be the end of Laura Loomer,” Loomer told The Daily Beast.Loomer said she was banned from the popular social medium for tweeting Omar was "anti-Jewish." outline.com/BGXbrn
US companies are using an ingenious method to game the system and avoid the worst of Trump's trade war American companies may be finding an ingenious way to skirt around the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on importing Chinese goods, as a means of avoiding the financial hit caused by the 25% taxes.According to a note from Paul Donovan, the global chief economist for UBS Wealth Management, some US firms are likely funnelling imports from China through other foreign subsidiaries, say in Canada, before finally importing them into the US. This allows companies to continue importing from China while dodging tariffs. businessinsider.com/us-china-trade-war-american-companies-skirting-round-tariffs-2018-11
650,000 Tunisians strike for pay rise as economy struggles About 650,000 public sector workers went on strike and thousands joined protests across Tunisia on Thursday over the government’s refusal to raise wages amid threats from international lenders to stop financing Tunisia’s tattered economy. .. af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKCN1NR0OV-OZATP
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The Case Against WikiLeaks is a Threat to All Journalists The Justice Department has prepared criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and is working behind the scenes to have him extradited to the United States. Press freedom and the right to dissent may hang in the balance.The criminal charges were accidentally revealed last week when Assange’s name was found on the court filing of an unrelated case, suggesting that prosecutors had copied a boilerplate text and forgotten to change the defendant’s name. counterpunch.org/2018/11/22/the-case-against-wikileaks-is-a-threat-to-all-journalists/
America’s Thanksgivings In an effort to give a livelier and more in-depth picture of modern life, American novelists such as John Dos Passos—The 42nd Parallel (1930), 1919 (1932) and The Big Money (1936)—introduced “newsreel” sections including headlines, advertisements and popular songs. We hope the following selections will provide some sense of American reality on Thanksgiving Day 2018. wsws.org/en/articles/2018/11/22/amer-n22.html
Justin Lewis
I fucking love this clusterfuck lmao
Brody Ramirez
What do you think is the reason between the split between the CIA's and Trump's position of Saudi Arabia? Is it 4D chess or does Trump just like Salman for some reason?
Anthony Thomas
because CIA are ideology-driven while Trump is money-driven. it's the same reason Priests and Kings had disagreements when it came to imperialism.
Austin Edwards
What even is the CIA's ideology? It obviously not liberal democracy like they would claim. Can maintaining American hegemony and imperialism itself be considered an ideology?
Robert Rivera
They're both money-driven The CIA is just very good at getting returns in investment, while trump is a hapless idiot who can't even effectively landlord and casino, the two positions where you can do little more than own stuff to be profitable. Trump is a grifter in the showman sense, but he doesn't know the first thing about investment, diplomacy, or international affairs. The CIA does all of these things very well, it's just completely evil.
Protectionism is the neoliberal line. Thatcher didn't want to see a unified Germany, for instance, and NATO balked at the prospect of a demilitarized unified Germany. Open borders has always been anathema to the hegemon. Immigration is only embraced by capital when they can strictly dictate the terms.
Because they have no problem toppling democracies and only care about human rights when they can use them as a justification for war against other countries.
Henry Gutierrez
what do you think the government tells them they're doing? trust me I've met CIAniggers. they're literal "centrist" retards who think they're making the world a better, more peaceful place
Nathaniel Foster
cianiggers don't actually realize they're destroying peaceful countries for oil. see
Grayson Martin
1. Saudi Arabia is one of the most powerful members of OPEC (maybe the most powerful? I don't remember), challenging them openly would instantly invite higher gasoline prices. When you punish a country economically you're punishing first and foremost its people, not its leadership, so such actions have to be used with discretion-especially with a powerful trading partner
2. Saudi Arabia's killing of a journalist is literally nothing compared to their other well known human rights abuses which have all historically been swept under the rug or otherwise ignored-and the media hasn't ever really pressured previous administrations to "do something" about it as far as I recall
3. Trump wants to put economic pressure on Iran to keep them from competing with US and Israeli hegemony in the middle east (such as in Syria) and needs Saudi oil for that.
4. We don't know what's going on behind the scenes. The Trump administration could have used this unpopular event to squeeze even more oil favors from the Saudis, as Trump himself had alluded to in a tweet a few days ago.
how does this article disprove anything I said? the oil companies preferred Russia and China so that means America doesn't care about oil? lmao
Jackson Carter
Maybe the rank and file, but the higher ups have to know what the real deal is
Jaxson Gonzalez
I don't know whose post you're reading but considering what I'd written about the U.S. and Saudi relationship two seconds before I addressed you it probably wasn't mine.
Obviously the US cares about oil. However, if the war in Iraq was specifically about that oil from the beginning the United States probably wouldn't have spent trillions of dollars to topple Saddam (reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314), occupy Iraq for 8 years and then go on to hand over 86% of Iraq's oil to some of the their biggest competitors on the world stage pro bono. In fact that image seems to be a little outdated, this more recent chart from CNN (money.cnn.com/2016/06/07/investing/iraq-oil-production-record-high-isis/index.html) shows the U.S. taking an even worse drubbing in oil contracts.
