(2019-11-23). Uruguay: Far-Right Calls Armed Forces to Vote Against Leftists. telesurenglish.net Uruguay's Minister of Defense Jose Bayardi denounced Saturday former army general and far-right presidential candidate Guido Manini for inciting confrontations and rebellion of the military against democratic institutions, through a video on social media. | RELATED: | Uruguay: Martinez, Lacalle Pou Close Campaigns Prior to Ballot | The far-right politician who belongs to the Cabildo Abierto party published a video addressed to members of the armed forces, calling for them…
(2019-11-23). Man set on fire by Hong Kong protesters 'can't recognize his own daughter' after 10+ days in coma. rt.com 
A Chinese man set ablaze by rioters in Hong Kong, seen in a deeply disturbing video that shocked social media users, has woken up after more than 10 days in a coma but faces a long and painful recovery — both in body and mind.
(2019-11-23). 3 killed, dozens wounded in car bomb blast in Syrian town along Turkish border — Ankara. rt.com 
A car rigged with explosive detonated in the Syrian town of Tell Abyad near the Turkish border, killing three and injuring 26, Ankara said. | Photos and videos on social media allegedly show the aftermath of the blast on Saturday. | A vehicle is seen engulfed in flames and covered in smoke, as locals rush to clear the rubble from the damaged building nearby. | ÿߟܟÅÿ¨ÿßÿ± ÿ≥Ÿäÿßÿ±ÿ© ŸÖŸÅÿÆÿÆÿ© ŸÅŸä ŸÖÿØ…
(2019-11-23). Double your Money: Floyd Mayweather 'seeking TWO fights next year, including one against UFC fighter'. rt.com 
After announcing that he is coming out of retirement next year, reports from US media state that Floyd Mayweather Jr is chasing a rematch with old rival Manny Pacquiao as well as a boxing match with a UFC superstar. | US publication TMZ Sports claims that a 'source' close to the Mayweather camp has informed them of 'Money's' plans for 2020 after the undefeated boxer announced that he was ending his retirement on social media earlier this week – and those begin with a sequel to his 2015 points vi…
(2019-11-23). 'Put your money where your mouth is': UFC 'BMF' Jorge Masvidal renews Conor McGregor callout. rt.com 
Jorge Masvidal has told Conor McGregor to 'put his money where his mouth is' and accept a fight with him after the Irishman again announced on social media that he would be interested in a bout with the UFC's newly-crowned 'BMF'.
(2019-11-23). Bolivian Senate voids ousted president Evo Morales' election victory. rt.com 
Bolivia's Senate has passed legislation canceling Evo Morales' victory in the October presidential election, which was followed by a coup that forced him to flee the country. The bill also opens the door for new elections. | The bill on new elections was passed unanimously, the Senate confirmed on its Twitter page. The legislation will now need to get the approval of the lower chamber of the national parliament before self-proclaimed interim president Jeanine Anez signs it into law. | The bill effectively annuls the result of October's election which saw Morales eventually winning by a wide margin and sparked…
(2019-11-23). Football fans fume after Yale-Harvard game disrupted by HUNDREDS of pitch-invading climate protesters (VIDEO). rt.com 
A football game between two elite Ivy League universities froze for about an hour as a crowd of students and alumni staged a protest against investment in fossil fuels right on the playing field — and sparked an online outrage. | It was after the second quarter of the game at the Yale Bowl, New Haven, Connecticut, when scores of protesters from both colleges stormed the field, carrying banners and placards that accused the two prestigious universities of being "complicit in climate injustice" by investing in fossil fuel companies. | @DivestHarvard and (2019-11-23). 'OK boomer': Biden attempt to roast Trump on Twitter unites left and right in mockery. rt.com 
Conservatives and liberals found rare common ground in mocking the Twitter game of former Vice-President and current Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, after he tried to accuse President Donald Trump of corruption. | "Corruption is Donald Trump's middle name," Biden tweeted out on Friday, following that up with a plea for $5 donations to oust the "most corrupt president in modern American history." | This prompted Ken Klippenstein, a journalist with the progressive outlet The Young Turks, to post a screensho…
(2019-11-23). Trump & Navy trade blows as confusion, conflicting reports swirl around review to expel SEAL accused of war crimes. rt.com 
A showdown between President Donald Trump and the US Navy may be shaping up over an attempt to expel a commando from the elite SEAL force. Vague statements and conflicting reports are adding to confusion about the case. | After the Navy announced that it would carry out a Trident review to consider expelling Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher from the SEALs earlier this week, Trump stepped in with a tweet, insisting that nothing of the sort would be happening. | "The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher's Trident Pin," the president said on Thursday. "This case was handl…
(2019-11-23). Rob Delaney hails NHS as 'pinnacle of human achievement' as he backs Labour. thecanary.co Catastrophe star Rob Delaney has hailed the NHS as "the pinnacle of human achievement" in a video supporting Labour ahead of the general eelection. | In a clip shared by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter, the American actor and writer says he is "crazy" about the NHS. | He also commented on Boris Johnson's "disastrous Brexit deal", suggesting the "NHS as we know it will be gone" if the Conservatives win the December 12 election. | pic.twitter.com/VNzKPYGgq2 | — rob delaney (@robdelaney)
(2019-11-22). YouTube Is Breaking Its Own Rules About State-Sponsored Videos. truthdig.com 
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. | The hourlong show — not to be confused with the venerable CBS program — airs weeknights on the state-owned Russia 1 television network, which boasts the second-largest viewership in the country. Episodes can also be watched on YouTube, where the channel has 353,000 subscribers. Under a policy YouTube instituted last year, a box sh…
(2019-11-22). Haitians Reject Visit of US Representative as US Interference. telesurenglish.net Social and political organizations in Haiti rejected the visit of the United States ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, who arrived in the country on Wednesday. | RELATED: | UN Peacekeeping 15-year Mission Ends With Mixed Legacy in Haiti | Videos on social media showed protesters expressing anger over what they call the U.S.'s interference in Haitian politics, signaling Craft's visit as its latest instance. | Social organizations have been calling out the U.S. for backing…
(2019-11-22). A BDS Campaign Tackles the Sports Industry in Portland — and Wins. truthout.org Boycotting for Palestinian rights works. A reporter broke the news in late September that the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team ended their partnership with Leupold & Stevens, which makes rifle scopes for Israel's brutal occupying army, following a year-long protest campaign led by our Portland, Oregon, chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and many allies. | For nearly 10 years, Leupold & Stevens sponsored a "Hometo…
(2019-11-22). Washington's Consensus on Neofascist Coups in Latin America. counterpunch.org The Obama-backed right-wing coup in Honduras helped fuel Central American migrant streams that the demented fascist oligarch Donald Trump railed against during his successful and Nativist presidential campaign. "Donito Assolini" has been mired in partisan turmoil since the beginning of his cancerous, white-nationalist presidency. The two major parties and their constituents disagree sharply over whether the tiny-fingered, tangerine-tinted, Twitter-tantruming tyrant Trump should be impeached and removed for trying to trade arms to Ukraine in exchange for political dirt on the ludicrous right-wing Democratic-presid…
(2019-11-22). Sasha Baron Cohen Delivers Blistering Takedown of Facebook. truthdig.com Sometimes the most trenchant commentary comes from the voices we'd least expect. Such was the case Thursday night when "Borat" actor and comedian Sasha Baron Cohen used his acceptance speech for an International Leadership Award from the Anti-Defamation League to address the dangers social media giants like Facebook pose to democracies the world over. | While acknowledging that his own body of work has been accused of perpetuating harmful stereotypes—a line of criticism he disputes—he blames the decline of global democracy on the proliferation of hate speech and conspiracy theories. The result, Baron…
(2019-11-22). Watch: Viral animated video shows how just a fraction of Bill Gates' $110 billion could pay to replace Flint's water pipes. nationofchange.org "You'd have to save more than a $100,000 per year for a MILLION years to get there. So where's that wealth tax?"
(2019-11-22). 1.2 BILLION people's data — including social media profiles and contact info — found on unsecured Google Cloud server. rt.com 
A massive four-terabyte trove of sensitive personal data belonging to over a billion profiles has been found on an unsecured Google Cloud server – its owner still a mystery – in one of the largest single-source data leaks ever. | The mountain of data, including phone numbers, email addresses, and social media profiles, was sitting unprotected on an anonymous server hosted on the Google Cloud when security researchers Vinny Troia and Bob Diachenko found it while scanning for vulnerabilities last month. After they reported the massive exposure to the FBI, it disappeared within hours. It's not clear who accessed…
(2019-11-22). 'Suppressed unfairly'? John Bolton's Twitter comeback raises Resistance hopes for Trump impeachment. rt.com 
President Donald Trump's now-former National Security Advisor John Bolton returned to Twitter promising a "backstory" for his two-month absence, sending Trump critics into a frenzy of hope he might testify in impeachment hearings. | "Glad to be back on Twitter after more than two months. For the backstory, stay tuned," the verified account with over 770,000 followers tweeted on Friday, for the first time since Bolton's resignation — or firing, depending on who you ask — on September 10. | Glad to be back on Twitter after more than two months. For the backstory, stay tuned……..— John Bolton (…
(2019-11-22). Unprecedented 'Architecture of Surveillance' Created by Facebook and Google Poses Grave Human Rights Threat: Report. commondreams.org "Their insidious control of our digital lives undermines the very essence of privacy and is one of the defining human rights challenges of our era." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/facebook-google-privacy.jpeg …
(2019-11-21). Evo Denounces Set Up to Prosecute Him Internationally. telesurenglish.net President Evo Morales denounced the coup regime in Bolivia, headed by Jeanine Añez, for trying to create a set up with the intention of creating an international trial to discredit him, reported Prensa Latina. | RELATED: | Bolivia: Police Attack Protesters Carrying Coffins of Killed | In a tweet from his asylum in Mexico, the leader of Movement to Socialism said that they will appeal against judicial manipulation to imprison anti-imperialist, leftist and progressive figures, somet…
(2019-11-21). Israel's PM Netanyahu Charged in 3 Corruption Cases. telesurenglish.net Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was charged with bribery, breach of trust and fraud on Thursday, the first of its kind against a serving Israeli prime minister. | RELATED: | 3rd Israeli Election Likely as Gantz Fails to Form Gov't | The indictment, announced by Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, poses no immediate threat to Netanyahu's decade-long hold on power, a grip loosened by elections in April and September in which neith…
(2019-11-21). Trump asked Tim Cook if Apple could 'get involved' in building 5G networks in US. rt.com 
US President Donald Trump wants Apple CEO Tim Cook to "get involved" in developing 5G across the US in an apparent bid by Washington to push against the "threat" of Chinese tech giants. | Trump tweeted on Thursday morning that he had asked Cook about becoming involved with 5G during his visit to Austin, Texas, where he visited Apple facilities and discussed the construction of a new $1 billion, three-million-square-foot campus. | "I asked Tim Cook to see if he could get Apple involved in building 5G in the US. They have it all — Money, Technology, Vision & Cook!" Trump tweeted. | During my visit yesterday…
(2019-11-20). At Private California Fundraiser, Pete Buttigieg Explains Limited Black Support. theintercept.com At a private fundraiser in California on Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg suggested that black voters in South Carolina preferred former Vice President Joe Biden because of a perception of "familiarity," even though Biden isn't "the candidate with the best answers on the subject of race." | Asked by a guest in attendance at a meet-and-greet event at Thunderbird Heig…
(2019-11-20). Iran: Over 100 Feared Dead in Protest Crackdown as Authorities Impose Internet Blackout. democracynow.org 
In Iran, Amnesty International reports over 100 protesters have been killed in 21 cities by security forces during ongoing nationwide demonstrations sparked by a sudden hike in fuel prices last week. The death count may be much higher, the report warns, with some suggesting as many as 200 have been killed. According to Iranian state media, over 1,000 people have been arrested. On Thursday, Iran announced a rise in the cost of gas ranging from 50% to 300%. Soon after protests broke out on Sunday, Iran imposed an almost complete internet blackout, making it nearly impossible for protesters use social media to share…
(2019-11-17). CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying. peoplespolicyproject.org 
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…
(2019-11-15). Whistleblowers Are Public Servants. We Must Protect Them. aclu.org President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke on the phone. The president insists the call was " perfect." Others are concerned that, during the call, the president intimated he would withhold financial aid appropriated to Ukraine unless the Ukrainian president agreed to investigate former-Vice President Joe Biden, a political rival of the president. | How do we even know about any of this? A…