'Stop the massacre!' Evo Morales appeals to Bolivian military as 5 killed in crackdown by 'interim' government (GRAPHIC)
rt.com | 2019-11-16
Bolivia's ousted leader Evo Morales pleaded with his country's military to stop firing on unarmed demonstrators protesting the coup-imposed interim leadership, after several activists were killed in clashes with security forces. | "We ask the armed forces and the Bolivian Police to stop the massacre," Morales said in a tweet late on Friday. "The uniform of the institutions of the Homeland cannot be stained with the blood of our people." | Pedimos a las FFAA y a la Policía Boliviana que paren la masacre. El uniforme de las instituciones de la Patria no puede mancharse con la sangre de nuestro pueblo.– Evo…
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Tear gas & bonfires: Scuffles with police as Yellow Vests block roads in Paris ahead of 1st anniversary of protests (WATCH LIVE)
rt.com | 2019-11-16
Police fired tear gas as Yellow Vest protesters blocked a major road and erected barricades in Paris, marking one year since the nationwide demonstration movement began sweeping the country. | Clashes broke out at Place d'Italie downtown and near Porte de Champerret on the city's outskirts. | pic.twitter.com/m9REoHUsYs– BFMTV (@BFMTV) November 16, 2019 | Place ditalie #Acte53 pic.twitter.com/aTWZHE4Ay8
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Twitter's 'ban' on political ads has a gaping, legacy media-shaped loophole
rt.com | 2019-11-16
Trying to stay ahead of spurious allegations of enabling 'Russian meddling' into US elections, Twitter has outlawed all political advertising — but left an exemption most US legacy media, though partisan, will easily sail through. | "Twitter globally prohibits the promotion of political content. We have made this decision based on our belief that political message reach should be earned, not bought," the company announced Friday, sharing the details of its ad ban. | Elaborating on the decision in a thread, Twitter's head of legal, policy and Trust & Safety Vijaya Gadde effectively admitted that the ban w…
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The Truthiest Reality of Global Warming
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-15
An omniscient individual on my electronic social media splattergram expressed skepticism that the 0.04% of the atmosphere made up of CO2 could possibly have any responsibility for causing global warming, now also known as climate change. It seems clear to me now that with each passing day more people will stumble upon this startling insight,…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/15/the-truthiest-reality-of-global-warming/

Ex-Ukraine envoy's feelings that Trump 'threatened' her & his 'real-time attacks' on Twitter are IMPEACHABLE, Democrats say
rt.com | 2019-11-15
Ex-ambassador Marie Yovanovitch feeling "threatened" by President Donald Trump and his tweet criticizing her "in real-time" during her testimony amount to new grounds for impeachment, Democrats and their media proxies claimed. | During Friday's impeachment hearing, Yovanovitch complained that she's been the victim of a "smear campaign" by the Trump administration, carried out particularly by the president's personal counsel Rudy Giuliani — and Trump himself. | The former ambassador recalled her reaction to the transcript of the phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a testi…
rt.com/usa/473583-yovanovitch-impeachment-intimidation-trump/

AFL-CIO President Trumka and other union leaders condemn Bolivian coup
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-15
WASHINGTON–AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has come out against the military coup that ousted Bolivian President Evo Morales earlier this week. Trumka tweeted that the nation's largest labor federation is joining national and international labor organizations "in condemning the military interference in Bolivia's election process. Morales reduced widespread poverty and fought for the inclusion of the …
peoplesworld.org/article/afl-cio-president-trumka-and-other-union-leaders-condemn-bolivian-coup/

Twitter Details Political Ads Ban, Issue Ads Allowed
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-15
Twitter says its new ban on political ads will cover appeals for votes, solicitations for campaign contributions and any political content. | Twitter is defining political content to include any ad that references a candidate, political party, government official, ballot measure, or legislative or judicial outcome. The ban also applies to all ads — even nonpolitical ones — from candidates, political parties and elected or appointed government officials. | However, Twitter is allowing ads related to social causes such as climate change, gun control and abortion. People and groups running such ads won't…
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DNC Dithers While the World Burns
Tom Weis | commondreams.org | 2019-11-15
The youth-led Sunrise Movement launched a campaign earlier this year to urge the Democratic Party to hold a 2020 presidential primary debate about the climate crisis. (Photo: Sunrise Movement/Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/dnc-sunrise.jpg …
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Yovanovitch Testifies for 5 Hours in House Probe
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-15
WASHINGTON — The Latest on President Donald Trump and House impeachment hearings (all times local): | 3: 22 p.m. | The second open House impeachment hearing is over. | Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testified for about five hours on Friday, telling investigators about her ouster in May at President Donald Trump's direction and how she felt as she found out that he had criticized her in a July phone call with Ukraine's president. | She also said it was "intimidating" as Trump went after her again on Twitter as she testified…
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Why Facebook Filtering Will Ultimately Fail
Timothy Karr | commondreams.org | 2019-11-15
"After devoting nearly two decades to growth at any cost," writes Karr, the Facebook "network has become far too big NOT to fail—even when you consider the resources Facebook is now throwing at filtering and flagging objectionable content. And those failures are having dangerous ramifications in the real world." (Photo: flickr/GostGo/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/facebook_1_0.jpeg …
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Noel Ignatiev: Remembering a Comrade and a Friend
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-15
For all of the opprobrium Facebook deserves, it is still essential for building ties on the left when there are so few opportunities for networking in real space as opposed to cyberspace. Just checking now, it seems that I became a FB friend with Noel Ignatiev sometime in 2015. It was worth it to me…
counterpunch.org/2019/11/15/noel-ignatiev-remembering-a-comrade-and-a-friend/

To Ensure 'Genuine Public Service for All,' UK Labour Party Proposes Free, Nationalized Broadband
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-15
"Instead of you forking out for your monthly bill, we'll tax the giant corporations fairly—the Facebooks and the Googles—to cover the running costs." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/corbyn-broadband-free-nationalize-plan.jpg …
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The government's latest cringeworthy attempt to sell Brexit is reducing people to tears
Kerry-anne Mendoza | thecanary.co | 2019-11-15
Brexit secretary Steven Barclay has released a video on social media making an astonishing claim about the benefits of Brexit. Barclay promises Brexit will mean we can invite more players from Brazil, Argentina, or Africa to join the UK Premier League. It's a complete lie, and people can't stop laughing about it. | Oh Steve: | According to Barclay, the government's alleged lack of control over immigration is impacting football's Premier League. He said: one of the things about taking control of our immigration is we can decide, do we want more English qualified players in the Premier League? Which is somet…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/11/15/the-governments-latest-cringeworthy-attempt-to-sell-brexit-is-reducing-people-to-tears/

Social Media Censorship Reaches New Heights as Twitter Permanently Bans Dissent
Mnar Muhawesh | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-14
| | It's an open secret. The deep state is wo…
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Angela Rayner only needed one tweet to wipe the floor with Nigel Farage
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-11-14
Nigel Farage has been hitting the media and hitting the streets to launch his election campaign. He has always been keen to promote himself as a 'man of the people' — an image not supported by his background. | But after he made a geographical mistake in a tweet — s…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/11/14/angela-rayner-only-needed-one-tweet-to-wipe-the-floor-with-nigel-farage/

The tweet that shows just how cynical Rachel Riley's 'war on antisemitism' has become
Kerry-anne Mendoza | thecanary.co | 2019-11-14
Rachel Riley does the numbers on Countdown. But she's also appointed herself witchfinder general in a campaign to silence critics of Apartheid Israel with false accusations of antisemitism. (Full disclosure: she has dedicated a lot of that time smearing The Canary.) This is why we were somewhat shocked to find her promoting the views of an alleged antisemite. Why? Because…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/11/14/the-tweet-that-shows-just-how-cynical-rachel-rileys-war-on-antisemitism-has-become/

Facebook Logo Redux
Paul Mavrides | thenation.com | 2019-11-14
Keeping a stiff Zucker lip.
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Code Pink founder raided by DC police on dubious charges of 'assault' at anti-Maduro 'Venezuela freedom' event (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-11-13
Police have tried to detain Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin without a warrant on mysterious charges of 'assaulting' a Democratic congresswoman at an anti-Maduro press event in support of the "freedom for the Venezuelan people." | Benjamin was accused of assaulting Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Florida) when over a dozen officers surrounded her home on Wednesday in Washington, DC. | In footage she posted to Facebook, Benjamin strenuously denies the accusations, explaining that she was the one assaulted — pushed and pulled by right-wing Venezuelans ("big guys") supporting the US-backed oppositi…
rt.com/usa/473371-medea-benjamin-detained-venezuela-assault/

Marco Rubio blames 'Putin's disinformation' for coverage of Bolivia coup that he doesn't like
rt.com | 2019-11-12
Eager to find some way to implicate Russia in Bolivia's political crisis and control of the US narrative, Republican senator Marco Rubio branded any skeptical coverage of events as an example of how "Putin uses disinformation." | Rubio, an early and avid supporter of protests that ousted former Bolivian President Evo Morales this week, tweeted that those wishing to understand Russian disinformation should "study current coverage" of Bolivia. | In Rubio's world, Russia has created "fake news" on Bolivia and is spreading it via a "vast network of outlets" and "social media actors" before it is "echoed in mainstr…
rt.com/usa/473270-marco-rubio-bolivia-russia/

Former British Ambassador to Syria: UK Complicit in Trump's Syria Oil Grab
Peter Ford | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-07
The cat is out of the bag. The UK is potentially complicit in a war crime. With typical insouciance the U.S. military dropped this bombshell by tweet and apparently without realizing the implications for U.S. partners: | We are repositioning @CJTFOIR forces to Deir ez Zor #Syria to continue partnering w/ #SDF to defeat ISIS remnants, protect critical infrastructure, & deny ISIS access to revenue sources…
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