Politics & environs articles 2019

[umbertino]

When governments have access to DNA databases, you’re right to be scared

 

We should be wary of what authorities can do with such sensitive genetic information

 

Sat 9 Nov 2019 16.00 GMT

John Naughton

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/09/when-governments-have-access-to-dna-databases-youre-right-to-be-scared

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For too many people in too many countries, democracy isn’t working

 

From Spain to Iraq, the integrity of elections is under threat, creating instability and failing to bring the change voters seek

 

Sat 9 Nov 2019 14.05 GMT Last modified on Sat 9 Nov 2019 15.30 GMT

By  Simon Tisdall

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/09/for-too-many-people-in-too-many-countries-democracy-isnt-working

 

 

 

 

 

Symbols of failure: the deeper issue that connects border walls

 

From Korea to Cyprus to Berlin to Israel, Kai Wiedenhöfer has spent decades photographing all the major border walls – and learned how despite what their defenders say, each is far from unique

 

 

Sat 9 Nov 2019 10.00 GMT

by Peter Beaumont

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/nov/09/symbols-of-failure-the-deeper-issue-that-connects-the-worlds-border-walls-kai-wiedenhofer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ex-UN Syria envoy says he quit to avoid having to shake Assad's hand

 

Staffan de Mistura also says EU’s failure to address Syria crisis led to Brexit vote

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Tue 5 Nov 2019 12.19 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/05/ex-un-syria-envoy-says-he-quit-to-avoid-having-to-shake-assads-hand

 

 

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Freed Brazilian ex-president Lula speaks to jubilant supporters

 

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told a crowd of thousands that he did not have a ‘thirst for revenge’

 

Agencies

Sat 9 Nov 2019 19.59 GMT Last modified on Sat 9 Nov 2019 21.18 GMT

 

 

 

Lula spoke from a stage outside a union office near São Paulo

Photograph: Nelson Almeida/AFP/Getty

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/09/freed-brazilian-ex-president-lula-speaks-to-jubilant-supporters

[umbertino]

Billionaires fear Warren and Sanders – but they should fear us all

 

Wealth tax plans make sense but proper regulation could also cut Bezos, Dimon, Cohen and Neumann down to size

 

Sun 10 Nov 2019 06.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 10 Nov 2019 06.02 GMT

Robert Reich  ( a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. He is also a columnist for Guardian US )

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/10/billionaires-warren-sanders-wealth-tax-bezos-dimon-cohen

 

 

 

 

Evo Morales agrees to new elections after irregularities found

 

Bolivian president’s decision follows protests over disputed 20 October election result

 

Dan Collyns in La Paz

Sun 10 Nov 2019 17.33 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/10/evo-morales-concedes-to-new-elections-after-serious-irregularities-found

 

 

 

 

 

Jerusalem's 'love neighbourhood': a refuge for star-crossed Palestinians

 

A bureaucratic loophole has left Kafr Aqab as a district where Palestinians can keep a foot in both Jerusalem and the West Bank – and be with their loved ones

 

Oliver Holmes and Sufian Taha in Kafr Aqab

Sun 10 Nov 2019 14.30 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/nov/10/kafr-aqab-jerusalem-love-neighbourhood-palestinians

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Socialists top Spain election result, but no majority in sight

 

Neither left nor right bloc likely to win clear majority, amid strong gains for far-right Vox party

 

Sam Jones in Madrid

Sun 10 Nov 2019 21.04 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/10/spain-general-election-polls-pedro-sanchez-psoe

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Meeting George Soros

 

Shaun Walker has spent years covering Russia and eastern Europe and watched how the billionaire philanthropist George Soros has become a figure of hate among populists and the far right

 

Presented by Anushka Asthana with Shaun Walker and Lea Ypi; produced by Rachel Humphreys, Cheeka Eyers and Courtney Yusuf; executive producers Nicole Jackson and Phil Maynard

Mon 11 Nov 2019 03.00 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/audio/2019/nov/11/meeting-george-soros

 

 

 

 

 

Democracy doesn’t matter to the defenders of ‘economic freedom’

 

The league tables created by conservative thinktanks show that neoliberalism is about ringfencing economic power

 

Mon 11 Nov 2019 06.01 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Nov 2019 07.22 GMT

Quinn Slobodian

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/11/democracy-defenders-economic-freedom-neoliberalism

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bolivian president Evo Morales resigns after election result dispute

 

President quits after nearly 14 years in power, hours after promising fresh elections

 

Dan Collyns in La Paz

Mon 11 Nov 2019 09.43 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/10/bolivian-president-evo-morales-resigns-after-election-result-dispute

 

 

 

 

A Chinese digital currency is the real threat, not Facebook's Libra

 

Western governments need to start thinking about their response to currencies they cannot control

 

Mon 11 Nov 2019 11.07 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Nov 2019 11.27 GMT

Kenneth Rogoff

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/11/chinese-digital-currency-facebook-libra

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bidding for 'milestone' sale of Aramco shares set for next week

 

State-owned Saudi oil company said it will provide the final offer price on 5 December

 

Jillian Ambrose, David Connett and Rob Evans

Sun 10 Nov 2019 17.14 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/nov/09/bidding-for-milestone-sale-of-aramco-shares-set-for-next-week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Exclusive: Brazilian Presidential Candidate Lula on Facing Jail as He Runs for President Again  (1 and1/2 year old interview)

 

March 19, 2018

 

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/19/exclusive_brazilian_presidential_candidate_lula_on

[umbertino]

The Guardian view on Spain’s election: progressive parties must unite to defeat the far right

 

The xenophobic nationalists of Vox made disturbing progress in Spain’s fourth election in as many years

 

Mon 11 Nov 2019 18.39 GMT Last modified on Mon 11 Nov 2019 19.40 GMT

Editorial

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/11/the-guardian-view-on-spains-election-progressive-parties-must-unite-to-defeat-the-far-right

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

British founder of White Helmets found dead in Istanbul

 

James Le Mesurier, who set up Syrian rescue group, reportedly fell from balcony

 

Michael Safi in Amman

Mon 11 Nov 2019 17.58 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/11/british-founder-of-white-helmets-found-dead-in-istanbul-james-le-mesurier

 

Not good......

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More than half of Italians in poll say racist acts are justifiable

 

Results of survey come after series of high-profile hate crime incidents across Italy

 

Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Tue 12 Nov 2019 14.45 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/12/more-than-half-of-italians-in-poll-say-racism-is-justifiable

 

 

I thought so......Thanks fmr. minister of Interior Affairs Matteo Salvini for clearing racism and intolerance!!!!!!!!! You can be so proud of yourself....Mussolini would give you a medal that's for sure....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denmark reinstates border checks at crossings to Sweden after bombings

 

Spot checks at ferry ports and on trains and vehicles follow attacks in Copenhagen area

 

Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Tue 12 Nov 2019 17.49 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/12/denmark-border-checks-crossings-sweden

Edited November 12, 2019 by umbertino

[umbertino]

American Isis suspect stuck on border 'not our problem', says Erdoğan

 

Alleged militant deported as part of Turkey’s drive to expel foreign jihadists in its custody

 

Bethan McKernan in Istanbul

Tue 12 Nov 2019 16.34 GMT

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/12/turkey-will-free-isis-fighters-and-send-them-to-europe-says-erdogan

 

 

 

 

Far right 'use Russian-style propaganda to spread misinformation'

 

Speakers at event in Oxford say ‘junk news’ tools pioneered by Russians now originate in UK

 

 

Alex Hern

Tue 12 Nov 2019 16.36 GMT Last modified on Tue 12 Nov 2019 17.35 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/far-right-use-russian-style-propaganda-to-spread-misinformation

 

Edited November 12, 2019 by umbertino

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Nativism is driving the far-right surge in Europe – and it is here to stay

 

Spain’s Vox party came in third as the mainstreaming and normalization of the far right has become a common phenomenon of 21st-century Europe

 

Tue 12 Nov 2019 16.09 GMT First published on Tue 12 Nov 2019 16.00 GMT

By  Cas Mudde

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2019/nov/12/nativism-is-driving-the-far-right-surge-in-europe-and-it-is-here-to-stay

 

 

 

 

 

Fighting antisemitism is at the heart of the left’s struggle against oppression

 

The antisemites threatening us don’t just hate Jews. They hate the idea of multiracial democracy and political equality

 

Tue 12 Nov 2019 16.49 GMT Last modified on Tue 12 Nov 2019 16.59 GMT

Bernie Sanders

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/12/antisemitism-left-jews-multiracial-democracy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Products from Israeli settlements must be labelled, EU court rules

 

European court of justice says origin must be identified in decision likely to anger Israel

 

Associated Press in Brussels

Tue 12 Nov 2019 11.51 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/12/products-israeli-settlements-labelled-eu-court

[umbertino]

The Edge of Democracy: Lula Is Freed in Brazil in Victory for Movement to Resist Bolsonaro

 

November 12, 2019

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/12/petra_costa_lula_edge_of_democracy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Silence Is the Loudest Sound: Arundhati Roy Condemns Indian Crackdown in Kashmir

 

November 11, 2019

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/11/arundhati_roy_india_kashmir_assam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bolivia coup against Morales opens opportunity for multinational mining companies

 

November 11, 2019 4:49 PM CST By C.J. Atkins

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/bolivia-coup-against-morales-opens-opportunity-for-multinational-mining-companies/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once more, UN General Assembly rejects U.S. blockade of Cuba

 

November 12, 2019 12:50 PM CST By W. T. Whitney Jr.

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/once-more-un-general-assembly-rejects-u-s-blockade-of-cuba/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Family suicides in Turkey speak of a society that has lost hope

 

With an economy deep in recession and democracy in tatters, human self-worth is also taken away

 

Wed 13 Nov 2019 09.00 GMT

Elif Shafak

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/13/family-suicides-turkey-society-lost-hope

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why is inequality booming in Chile? Blame the Chicago Boys

 

Milton Friedman thought his disciples had created an economic ‘miracle’ in Chile’. But their policies soon backfired

 

 

Wed 13 Nov 2019 07.00 GMT

Richard Davies

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/13/why-is-inequality-booming-in-chile-blame-the-chicago-boys

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Morales exiled in Mexico; Bolivian army unleashes violence on the people

 

November 13, 2019 12:49 PM CST By Morning Star

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/morales-exiled-in-mexico-bolivian-army-unleashes-violence-on-the-people/

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week in history: Havana, Cuba, celebrates its 500th birthday

 

November 12, 2019 1:08 PM CST By Special to People’s World

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/this-week-in-history-havana-cuba-celebrates-its-500th-birthday/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Citing Medicare for All, National Nurses United endorses Sanders – again

 

November 13, 2019 9:54 AM CST By PAI

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/citing-medicare-for-all-national-nurses-united-endorses-sanders-again/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cuban diplomat: Normal relations involve more than just two embassies

 

November 8, 2019 12:20 PM CST By Mark Gruenberg

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/cuban-diplomat-normal-relations-involve-more-than-just-two-embassies/

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Behrouz Boochani, voice of Manus Island refugees, is free in New Zealand

 

Kurdish Iranian refugee and journalist – a multiple award-winner for documenting life in Australia’s offshore detention system – has left Papua New Guinea

 

Ben Doherty

Thu 14 Nov 2019 08.59 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Nov 2019 11.24 GMT

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/14/behrouz-boochani-free-voice-manus-island-refugees-new-zealand-australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gaza attacks: tentative truce after Israel strike kills eight Palestinian family members

 

Islamic Jihad says truce has begun as Israel says ‘quiet will be answered with quiet’, following two days of clashes

 

Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem and Hazem Balousha in Gaza

Thu 14 Nov 2019 06.44 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/gaza-attacks-tentative-truce-after-israel-strike-kills-six-palestinian-family-members

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'I live on the street now': how the insured fall into medical bankruptcy

 

Having health insurance is often not enough to save Americans from massive debts when serious illness strikes

 

Michael Sainato

Thu 14 Nov 2019 07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Nov 2019 07.02 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/14/health-insurance-medical-bankruptcy-debt

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suicide rates fall after *** marriage laws in Sweden and Denmark

 

Rate among those in same-sex unions falls by 46%, but still ‘worryingly high’, say researchers

 

Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Thu 14 Nov 2019 11.43 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/suicide-rates-fall-after-***-marriage-laws-in-sweden-and-denmark

 

 

 

 

Greek refugee camp for 640 people is found to be housing 3,745

 

Unaccompanied children sleeping on floors at facility on island of Samos, EU audit says

 

Daniel Boffey in Brussels

Wed 13 Nov 2019 15.13 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/13/greek-refugee-camp-for-640-people-found-housing-3745-eu

 

 

 

 

 

 

Up to 4.8m unauthorised immigrants in Europe in 2017 – study

 

Figure is down from 2016 peak and UK and Germany account for about half of total

 

Jon Henley

Wed 13 Nov 2019 15.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Nov 2019 00.40 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/13/4m-unauthorised-immigrants-in-europe-in-2017-study

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What the coup against Evo Morales means to indigenous people like me

 

The indigenous-socialist project accomplished what neoliberalism has repeatedly failed to do: redistribute wealth to society’s poorest sectors

 

Thu 14 Nov 2019 07.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Nov 2019 07.01 GMT

By  Nick Estes

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/14/what-the-coup-against-evo-morales-means-to-indigenous-people-like-me

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neighbours meet to plot path out of Chile crisis amid exasperation at elite

 

Hundreds of town hall-style meetings – cabildos – are taking place to debate causes and solutions of the current unrest

 

John Bartlett in Santiago

Wed 13 Nov 2019 09.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/13/chile-crisis-town-hall-meetings-neighbours

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Syrian refugees ask Norway police to investigate war crimes

 

Torture survivors file dossier of evidence against 17 high-ranking Syrian officials

 

Emma Graham-Harrison in Oslo

Wed 13 Nov 2019 16.23 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/13/syrian-refugees-ask-norway-police-to-investigate-war-crimes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saudi stabbings: three theatre performers attacked during show

 

Riyadh police arrest ‘Arab’ suspect, with three members of foreign musical troupe reportedly in a stable condition

 

Agence France-Presse

Tue 12 Nov 2019 00.29 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/12/saudi-stabbings-three-theatre-performers-attacked-during-show

 

[umbertino]

The task of politics today is to scare the capitalists as much as communism did

 

The threat of the Soviet bloc forced western democracies to acknowledge the rights of workers and poor people

 

Thu 14 Nov 2019 06.00 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Nov 2019 10.52 GMT

Aditya Chakrabortty

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/14/task-politics-today-scare-capitalists-communism

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Chilean Activist: Same Elites Who Caused Social Crisis Can’t Be Trusted to Write New Constitution

 

November 14, 2019

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/14/chile_national_strike_sebastian_pinera_constitution

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s time to ban the billionaires

 

November 14, 2019 9:31 AM CST By Negin Owliaei

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/its-time-to-ban-the-billionaires/

Edited November 14, 2019 by umbertino

[umbertino]

CodePink Founder Medea Benjamin Threatened with Arrest After Protesting U.S. Foreign Interventions

 

November 14, 2019

 

 

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/14/activist_medea_benjamin_faces_threats_of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Green Strategy: To beat climate change, humanity needs socialism

 

November 14, 2019 12:40 PM CST By W. T. Whitney Jr.

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/green-strategy-to-beat-climate-change-humanity-needs-socialism/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The US and Britain face no existential threat. So why do their wars go on?

 

Endless conflicts in the Middle East have cost us dear, yet all we hear are absurdities about ‘keeping our streets safe from terror’

 

Fri 15 Nov 2019 06.00 GMT Last modified on Fri 15 Nov 2019 10.12 GMT

By  Simon Jenkins

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/15/britain-and-us-wars-conflicts-middle-east

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe black Americans face a genocide. Here's why I choose that word

 

Consider the physical, financial, mental, even spiritual deaths inflicted on black Americans

 

Fri 15 Nov 2019 10.09 GMT

Ben Crump   ( civil rights attorney and founder of the law firm Ben Crump Law, based in Tallahassee, Florida )

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/15/black-americans-genocide-open-season

 

 

 

 

Why is the world losing the fight against history's most lethal disease?

 

Easy to catch but hard to diagnose, TB is almost as deadly today as it was 150 years ago. Better, cheaper drugs are a priority

 

Thu 14 Nov 2019 12.34 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Nov 2019 15.28 GMT

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/nov/14/why-is-the-world-losing-fight-against-history-most-lethal-disease-tb-tuberculosis

 

 

 

 

 

 

'They tell the truth’: Spanish town where 34.5% voted for far-right Vox

 

In small towns like Ocaña, Vox has seized on disillusionment with traditional politics to spread its message

 

Sam Jones in Ocaña

Thu 14 Nov 2019 15.07 GMT Last modified on Thu 14 Nov 2019 18.15 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/they-tell-the-truth-spanish-town-where-345-voted-for-far-right-vox

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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“Bolivia does not exist”: Neocolonial rule reasserted with racist ‘General’s Coup’

 

November 15, 2019 11:13 AM CST By Vijay Prashad

 

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/bolivia-does-not-exist-neocolonial-rule-reasserted-with-racist-generals-coup/

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can’t fight corruption without pissing off corrupt people

 

November 15, 2019 3:28 PM CST By C.J. Atkins

 

 

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/you-cant-fight-corruption-without-pissing-off-corrupt-people/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'The constitution of the dictatorship has died': Chile agrees deal on reform vote

 

• Protesters called for scrapping of Pinochet-era constitution
• April referendum on whether to rewrite document and how

 

John Bartlett in Santiago

Fri 15 Nov 2019 12.30 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/chile-referendum-new-constitution-protests

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ban import of Israeli settlement goods

 

Israeli settlements are the leading cause of human rights violations against Palestinians, and settlement expansion is destroying the possibility of a two-state solution, say signatories including Prof David Harel

 

Letters

Fri 15 Nov 2019 17.09 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/ban-import-of-israeli-settlement-goods

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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'My job can be pretty depressing': how Africa's legal systems are tipped against girls

 

Discrimination against girls is still entrenched in the laws of many African countries. Shocking examples are easy to find

 

by Violet Odala (LLD), African Child Policy Forum

Sat 16 Nov 2019 06.30 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/nov/16/my-job-can-be-pretty-depressing-how-africas-legal-systems-are-tipped-against-girls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Catalan crisis is key to the rise of the Spanish far right

 

The Vox party drew on Catalan unrest to gain seats in this week’s election. Both sides feed off the other’s nationalist vision

 

Sat 16 Nov 2019 07.00 GMT Last modified on Sat 16 Nov 2019 07.02 GMT

Umut Özkırımlı

 

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/16/catalan-crisis-spanish-far-right-vox

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Protests erupt in Iran after government raises price of gas by 50%

 

One person killed as violence flares during demonstrations blocking traffic in several cities

 

Associated Press in Dubai

Sat 16 Nov 2019 18.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/16/protests-erupt-in-iran-after-government-raises-price-of-gas-by-50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Eritrean refugee, 19, killed himself as he 'feared he would be sent back'

 

Osman Ahmed Nur and three friends killed themselves in space of 16 months, inquest hears

 

Diane Taylor

Fri 8 Nov 2019 19.03 GMT Last modified on Fri 8 Nov 2019 19.46 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/08/eritrean-refugee-19-who-killed-himself-feared-he-would-be-sent-back

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea

 

[umbertino]

'Show no mercy': leaked documents reveal details of China's Xinjiang detentions

 

More than 400 pages leaked to New York Times by Chinese political insider document brutal crackdown on Muslim minority

 

Lily Kuo

Sun 17 Nov 2019 08.04 GMT Last modified on Sun 17 Nov 2019 12.54 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/17/show-no-mercy-leaked-documents-reveal-details-of-chinas-mass-xinjiang-detentions

 

 

 

 

 

Iran supreme leader backs petrol price rises as protests spread

 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says ‘hooligans’ guilty of sabotage are ‘Iran’s enemies’

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic Editor

Sun 17 Nov 2019 12.34 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/16/protests-erupt-in-iran-after-government-raises-price-of-gas-by-50

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warren doesn't just frighten billionaires – she scares the whole establishment

 

No wonder the wealth tax turns the Gray Lady white as a sheet: it will help the needy and its author is a good bet for president

 

Sun 17 Nov 2019 06.00 GMT Last modified on Sun 17 Nov 2019 15.11 GMT

Robert Reich   ( former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. He is also a columnist for Guardian US )

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/17/elizabeth-warren-billionaires-wealth-tax-new-york-times

 

 

 

Is it a coup or a return to democracy? Battle for Bolivia’s soul rages

 

With protests growing in La Paz, the future of the country Evo Morales reshaped is in doubt

 

Emma Graham-Harrison in London and Dan Collyns in La Paz

Sun 17 Nov 2019 09.13 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/17/bolivia-more-volatile-than-ever-as-president-flees-and-leaders-denounce-a-coup

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uncertainty, inequality, fragility: why France is a country at war with itself

 

The gilets jaunes erupted exactly a year ago. To understand them, we need to see the movement in the context of 2015’s tumultuous events

 

Sun 17 Nov 2019 06.00 GMT

Andrew Hussey

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/17/uncertainty-inequality-fragility-france-at-war-with-itself-gilets-jaunes-charlie-hebdo

 

 

 

 

Louisiana re-elects Democrat governor John Bel Edwards, in blow to Trump

 

Incumbent wins tight gubernatorial race despite president’s strong support of Republican Eddie Rispone

 

Oliver Laughland in New Orleans

Sun 17 Nov 2019 07.21 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/17/louisiana-re-elects-democrat-governor-john-bel-edwards-in-blow-to-trump

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Neo-Nazi terror group threatened ‘to find and harm’ US activist in Germany

 

Activist says German police were warned by US authorities of AWD member who went to Germany with possible intention to harm her

 

Jason Wilson

Mon 18 Nov 2019 18.48 GMT Last modified on Mon 18 Nov 2019 18.50 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/18/neo-nazi-terror-group-threatened-us-activist-germany

 

 

 

 

Russian internet giant grants veto powers to Kremlin-linked body

 

Yandex agrees to corporate restructuring in move likely to increase government oversight

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow

Mon 18 Nov 2019 11.30 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/18/russian-internet-giant-yandex-grants-veto-powers-kremlin-linked-body

 

 

 

 

 

 

China threatens Sweden after Gui Minhai wins free speech award

 

Embassy hits out at judges and warns of ‘consequences’ after the Tucholsky prize goes to jailed Hong Kong publisher

 

Alison Flood

Mon 18 Nov 2019 12.40 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/18/china-threatens-sweden-after-gui-minhai-wins-free-speech-award

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blind student 'dragged from Oxford Union chamber by his ankles'

 

Ghanaian postgraduate student left feeling ‘unwelcome in the union, Oxford and the country’

 

Georgina Hayes

Sun 17 Nov 2019 22.28 GMT First published on Sun 17 Nov 2019 22.28 GMT

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/17/blind-student-dragged-from-oxford-union-chamber-by-his-ankles

 

Double racism...Black and blind...What a shame.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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US says Israeli settlements no longer considered illegal in dramatic shift

 

Declaration marks rejection of 2016 UN resolution that settlements on the West Bank are a ‘flagrant violation’ of international law

 

Julian Borger in Washington and Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem

Mon 18 Nov 2019 20.53 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/18/us-israeli-settlements-no-longer-considered-illegal-palestinian-land-mike-pompeo

 

Really now???

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hong Kong: police say surrender is only option for protesters

 

Hundreds trapped inside Polytechnic as demonstrators try to break campus siege

 

Lily Kuo in Hong Kong and Michael Safi

Mon 18 Nov 2019 18.08 GMT

 

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/18/hong-kong-protests-up-to-800-trapped-as-police-lay-siege-to-university

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Iran begins payments to 60 million as petrol price protests continue

 

Government claims it is switching subsidies from petrol consumption to households

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Mon 18 Nov 2019 19.35 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/18/iran-begins-payments-to-60-million-as-petrol-price-protests-continue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spain’s new coalition must face up to the Catalan crisis and the rise of the far right

 

We must address the crisis facing our political system, not least the worrying surge in support for the Vox party

 

Mon 18 Nov 2019 12.25 GMT Last modified on Mon 18 Nov 2019 20.14 GMT

Pablo Iglesias ( secretary-general of Podemos, in coalition with the Spanish Socialist Workers’ party )

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/18/spain-coalition-catalan-far-right-vox

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

US settlement announcement prompts Israeli calls for takeover

 

‘Now is the time to apply our sovereignty to these communities,’ says former Israeli justice minister of Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories

 

Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem

Mon 18 Nov 2019 21.44 GMT

 

 

A Palestinian medic is pushed back by an Israeli border policeman as he tries to help a wounded protester near the Jewish settlement of Beit El in the occupied West Bank on Monday

Photograph: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/18/settlements-israeli-calls-for-takeover-palestinian-territories

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UN urges restraint over reports of multiple deaths in Iran protests

 

Concerns raised over alleged use of live ammunition against petrol price demonstrators

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Tue 19 Nov 2019 15.48 GMT

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/19/un-urges-restraint-over-reports-of-multiple-deaths-in-iran-protests

 

 

 

 

Trump is systematically ending the viability of a future Palestinian state

 

The Trump administration’s announcement on Monday about Israeli settlements was just the latest draconian measure targeting Palestinians

 

Tue 19 Nov 2019 15.34 GMT Last modified on Tue 19 Nov 2019 15.51 GMT

Joshua Leifer

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/19/trump-is-systematically-ending-the-viability-of-a-future-palestinian-state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taliban free US and Australian hostages in prisoner swap

 

Timothy Weeks and Kevin King had spent more than three years in captivity

 

Ben Doherty in Sydney and Michael Safi in Amman

Tue 19 Nov 2019 14.13 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/19/taliban-say-us-and-australian-hostages-freed-in-prisoner-swap

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$1 a week: the bitter poverty of child sugarcane workers in Zimbabwe

 

Children as young as seven are doing hazardous work for meagre sums on sugar plantations

 

Nyasha Chingono in Chiredzi

Tue 19 Nov 2019 07.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/nov/19/the-bitter-poverty-of-child-sugarcane-workers-in-zimbabwe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hong Kong protests: about 100 still holed up at university

 

Carrie Lam says 600 surrendered to authorities at Polytechnic University overnight

 

Lily Kuo in Hong Kong

Tue 19 Nov 2019 13.33 GMT

 

Vid

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/19/hong-kong-protests-hundreds-surrender-to-police-after-university-standoff

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moscow court rejects appeal of US man held on espionage charges

 

Paul Whelan, who has been held for 11 months, has called his case a ‘hostage situation’

 

Andrew Roth in Moscow

Tue 19 Nov 2019 09.50 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/19/moscow-court-rejects-appeal-of-paul-whelan-us-man-held-on-espionage-charges

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Arab politician asking Israeli police to enter his communities

 

Ayman Odeh reflects fears of Arab minority who feel abandoned by law enforcement amid a spike in gang violence

 

Oliver Holmes and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tel Aviv

Tue 19 Nov 2019 05.00 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/19/the-arab-politician-asking-israeli-police-to-enter-his-communities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Migrants from Libya not driven by hope of being rescued at sea – study

 

No link found between number of Mediterranean crossings and level of NGO rescue ship activity

 

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Mon 18 Nov 2019 17.48 GMT

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/18/migrants-from-libya-not-driven-by-hope-of-being-rescued-at-sea-study