Cuban Solidarity, Bernie Sanders, the Leaked Labour Report & more -- The Week in News and Opinion April 12 - 19

This week's list of articles, news items, visuals and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  April 12 - 18.

This week's edition begins again with a very large roundup of news and left opinion about the capitalist coronavirus crisis and its impact on working people globally. There are also a number of links related to Cuba's internationalism and global solidarity with the island nation, Bernie Sanders' capitulation to Biden and the leak of a report showing that right-wing Labour Party insiders actually worked to tank the party in the 2017 election campaign. 

The Featured Article link at the start is an excellent piece by Bob Buzzanco on the attempts by some lefties to try to shame those not getting on board with backing Biden.

We have tried to arrange the coronavirus news thematically and to touch on many different areas of concern.


Featured Post:

Older and Wiser, and Vote-Shaming

Liberals are a an offensive and feckless peculiar bunch.  They love liberty and freedom.  They believe in equality and personal space.  They believe that a woman should have the right to choose whether to have a child, and that gays should have the right to get married. So perhaps the right to vote, or not to vote, should be part of their ideology too.  In any event, stop the scolding and hectoring and vote-shaming, and go out and work to get your guy elected.  Or maybe better, get involved in movement politics instead of obsessing over electoralism and waiting for a hero to save you.


Otherwise, STFU have a good day.

Capitalist Coronavirus Crisis:

- No time left. This social order must change! -- Statements from Turkey, Greece and Sweden

- Only socialism saves!

- A Socialist Cry for Civilisational Change: COVID-19 and the Failure of Neo-liberalism

- Could Covid-19 vanquish neoliberalism?

- Could COVID-19 bring down the U.S. empire?

- I Want My Death to Make You Angry

- Baffled?? Me Too,Friend!

- THE CASE FOR RENT FORGIVENESS

- The Coronavirus Strike Wave Could Shift Power to Workers—for Good

- Liberal anti-Chinese propaganda helped create the far-right campaign to blame China for Covid-19

- Truth Tracker: There's no scientific proof that COVID-19 was made in a Chinese lab

- Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth?

- Solidarity Yes -- Blockade No! We Demand the Immediate Lifting of the Criminal US Blockade of Cuba

- Cuba is Willing to Send More Medical Brigades to the World

- Cuba shares what it has

- Cuba Under Media Attack for Sending Doctors, Not Bombs, to Help Covid-19 Victims

- Cuba Is Developing a Vaccine to Activate the Immune System

- Cuban Doctors Arrive in Qatar to Fight COVID-19

- Caribbean Organizations Unite Against US Attacks, Support Caricom

- Vietnam ships 450,000 protective suits for U.S. health care workers

- Kerala is a model state in the Covid-19 fight

- Africa's COVID-19 Death Toll Hits 816, 15,249 Confirmed Cases

- COVID-19 Worsens Struggle of Migrant Workers in Gulf States

- Settler attacks rise by 78 percent amid pandemic

- Israel Shuts Palestinian Coronavirus Testing Clinic in East Jerusalem

- Open Letter to Condemn Trump Admin’s Hypocritical Indictment on Drug Charges of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, High-Ranking Officials

- Venezuela Has the Lowest Contagion Rate in Latin America

- “War Operation”: Communist Party-run Maranhão State imports Chinese ventilators in secret, via Ethiopia

- Trump Accused of 'Actively and Knowingly' Spreading Coronavirus to Central America Through Deportations

- Colombia: Red Rags on Windows to Protest Amid Quarantine

- Virus hit 'like a bomb' as toll rises in Ecuador's business capital

- Brazil: Chloroquine Studies Suspended After 11 People Die

- Brazil, Ecuador Record Highest Death Tolls From COVID-19

- There’s No Reason to Turn Airtime Over to Trump’s Deceptive Coronavirus Campaign Rallies

- Trump suspends funding to WHO pending review over handling of coronavirus

- Unions back U.S. Postal Service’s $75B pandemic appeal, oppose right-wing privatization plans

- Three New York City transit workers dying every day of coronavirus

- Hit Hard by Covid-19, Transit Workers Call for Shutdowns

- US for-profit healthcare sector cuts thousands of jobs as pandemic rages

- The U.S. Opposes the IMF to Create Liquidity to Help Countries

- Coronavirus Outbreak at Virginia Nursing Home Spirals Out of Control as 45 Die

- ‘They’re Death Pits’: Virus Claims at Least 7,000 Lives in U.S. Nursing Homes

- Chicago coronavirus outbreak infects dozens of migrant children in U.S. custody

- “BURIALS ARE CHEAPER THAN DEPORTATIONS”: VIRUS UNLEASHES TERROR IN A TROUBLED ICE DETENTION CENTER

- Congress Should Immediately Pass Legislation Protecting Workers' Safety During the Coronavirus Pandemic

- 'Heartbreaking Statistic': Thanks to Pandemic, Last Month Was First March Since 2002 Without a US School Shooting

- Next Coronavirus Relief Package Must Include Moratorium on Utility Shutoffs, 830+ Justice Groups Say

- Death penalty states urged to release stockpiled drugs for Covid-19 patients

- Great, the Anti-Vaxxer Coronavirus Protests Are Here

- Labour leaders say they’ll push to permanently improve pay, working conditions for essential workers (Canada)

- The hypocrisy of our leaders around social distancing is reckless (Canada)

- Union says 35 TTC bus operators walked off job due to lack of PPE (Toronto)

- Quebec reopens mines despite the concerns of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador

- Years of government austerity to blame for 31 deaths at seniors' residence, Quebec's largest union says

- Kelowna golf courses reopen with new protocols but health officials say it's not a great idea

- Ontario’s lack of diversity data for COVID-19 is an embarrassment

- Ontario needs to spend at least $58 million more a month to fix long-term care staffing crisis: CCPA

- Ontario to stop caregivers from working at multiple long-term care homes as COVID-19 spreads like 'wildfire'

- Ontario scaled back comprehensive, annual inspections of nursing homes to only a handful last year

- Ontario rejects call to take over operations at long-term care homes where 54 residents have died

Bolivia:

- Bolivia Indigenous Denounce Añez for Discrimination

- Evo Morales: Police Put Cochabamba Population's Health at Risk

Brazil:

- Brazil: Indigenous Peoples Go to Court Against Missionaries

- Indigenous People In Brazilian Amazon Face Covid-19 and Loggers

- BRAZIL’S JAIR BOLSONARO, THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL CORONAVIRUS DENIER, JUST FIRED THE HEALTH MINISTER WHO DISAGREED WITH HIM

- Bolsonaro Closes Brazil's Embassy and Consulates in Venezuela

Canada:

- The Business Wage Subsidy: Trickle-Down Economics on Steroids

- Federal Government Won’t Disclose Details of New Contract With Amazon to Manage Canada’s COVID-19 Supplies

- We have the oil lobby’s secret list of COVID demands – if approved, they would set environmental protection back decades

- 11 things you need to know as Trudeau announces $1.7 billion to clean up ‘festering’ orphan and inactive wells

- Dimitri Lascaris wants the Green Party to be the champion of Canada’s left

- ‘A dangerous road’: Coastal GasLink pays to kill wolves in endangered caribou habitat in B.C. interior

- Alberta Government Turns Hard to the Right

- Manitoba seeks to claw back or cancel funding for 'non-essential' service providers during COVID-19 pandemic

- 'Let her soul rise': Supporters pay tribute to Eishia Hudson, 16, shot and killed by Winnipeg police

- Over 300 health-care workers sign open letter demanding more shelter for Toronto's homeless

- Some Landlords Found a Loophole in Doug Ford’s ‘Eviction Ban’. They’re Still Threatening Renters with Eviction.

- Ontario's Front-Line Workers Call For Paid Sick Days

- Governments that borrowed interest-free from Bank of Canada now incur massive debts borrowing from private banks

Climate Emergency:

- Second wave of locusts in east Africa said to be 20 times worse

- Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain

- 2020 expected to be Earth's warmest year on record, scientists say

- Wildlife Collapse From Climate Change Is Predicted to Hit Suddenly and Sooner

Europe:

- Workers in France Take Over McDonald’s to Distribute Food

- Greece’s Communist Party: We Join Our Voice with Those of Supermarket Employees

- Communist youth in Italy launch campaign to guarantee student rights

Facebook:

- Facebook arbitrarily limits The Left Chapter with no explanation or appeal

Ideas:

- Facing Reality: The Socialist Left, the Sanders Campaign and Our Future

Israel / Palestine:

- Netanyahu's Son Says He 'Hopes' Leftists Will Die of Coronavirus Following Protest

Latin America:

- Colombia: Not Even the Pandemic Halts Killing of Social Leaders

- Guatemala: Social Organizations Denounce Massive Layoffs

- Cuba: Institutions Work Together to Protect the Elderly

Mexico:

- ‘We’ve been abandoned’: a decade later, Deepwater Horizon still haunts Mexico

United Kingdom:

- Socialists call for transparency over anti-semitism investigation that risks being 'suppressed'

- ‘It’s going to be a long night’ – How Members of Labour’s Senior Management Team Campaigned to Lose

- ‘The Leaked Labour Report Is Shameful – It’s Time for an Urgent Investigation’

- Labour’s explosive report shows how right-wing officials sabotaged the party

- Labour's leaked report: we can't let them get away with it

- Labour leaks have cost the party dearly – but its dismissal of anti-black racism means it’s about to lose a lot more

- McCluskey slams ‘rancid and very cruel’ behaviour exposed in Labour's leaked report

United States:

- Bernie go Bye Bye -- Hellworld #8

- The Cognitive Dissonance of “Democratic Socialists”— Cults Die a Slow Death

- The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left

- Bernie’s Political Funeral 

- Not Me, Biden

- ‘THAT MAN CAN’T BREATHE’

- US judge cancels permit for Keystone XL pipeline from Canada

- These Photos Show the Staggering Food Bank Lines Across America

- With working Americans' survival at stake, the US is bailing out the richest

- 'A Complete Abomination': Mega-Rich Hedge Funds Swoop Down to Grab Covid-19 Small Business Relief Funds

- Millionaires to reap 80% of benefit from tax change in US coronavirus stimulus

Solidarity with Wet'suwet'en, Bloomberg's History, UK Labour Party & more -- The Week in News and Opinion February 9 - 16

Photo via twitter

This week's list of articles, news items and opinion pieces that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of  February 9 - 16.

The round-up of international left news is presented in sections related to topic/region listed alphabetically except for the Featured Article post and a large section related to Wet'suwet'en Solidarity Actions & News at the start.


For news related to the RCMP's violent attacks on land defenders in Wet’suwet’en territory up to February 12 see: RCMP launches violent raids into Wet’suwet’en territory

For a roundup of solidarity actions up to February 13 see: Actions across the country in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en

Featured Article:

- Wet’suwet’en protests a revolutionary moment in Canada: Mohawk scholar Gerald Taiaiake Alfred

Protesters are shutting down railways, bridges, ports, and offices.
They’ve taken to the streets in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en people opposing a gas pipeline in northern B.C.
It’s an extraordinary flow of events that have fused popular sentiment about Indigenous rights, the environment, and social justice.

For a Vancouver Island-based Mohawk scholar Gerald Taiaiake Alfred, Canada is witnessing no less than a revolutionary moment.

Wet'suwet'en Solidarity Actions & News:

On Saturday Feb 15th, around 50 people snuck onto some train tracks in Vaughan, Ontario (just north of Toronto) and shut down the second biggest rail yard in Canada. They were soon joined by a large crowd of supporters who helped hold down the blockade for the rest of the day.




"We have had enough. Enough dialogue, discussion, negotiation at the barrel of a gun. Canada comes to colonize. Reconciliation is dead.

It is time to fight for our land, our lives, our children, our future.

Revolution lives."



Breaking: Blockade continues despite 'modest progess' made in talks between federal minister and Tyendinaga Mohawk

- ‘The Fight Isn’t Over’: Wet’suwet’en Activist Speaks Out After RCMP Arrest

- Country erupts into Wet’suwet’en solidarity demonstrations: A week in pictures

- “This Is Insurrection”: #ShutDownCanada Action “Cancels Trains Nationwide” As Acts Of Sabotage Continue

- Police protect corporations, not people

- More than 60 shipping vessels stalled off B.C. coast due to rail blockades

- Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Against the Colonial Policies of the Canadian State

- MCA stands with Wet’suwet’en

- Palestinians stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation

- The Wet’suwet’en are more united than pipeline backers want you to think

- The inconvenient truth for pipeline supporters: root causes of this revolution will not be televised

- Canada does not deserve seat at UN Security Council: Opinion

- The Wet'suwet'en, Aboriginal Title, and the Rule of Law: An Explainer

- B.C. NDP MLAs all voted for LNG incentives—and they only have themselves to blame for the rebellion that's followed

- Time to Tear off the Masks in the Media’s Framing of the Horgan Pipeline Debacle

- Profit over people: What the Wet’suwet’en struggle reveals about corporate capture

- Trudeau calls for 'dialogue' as blockade cripples rail network, while Scheer says clear out the protesters

This is very powerful and well said. Be sure to listen to the end:

 


Brazil:

- Deep in the Amazon, armed tribesmen battle illegal loggers for their future

- Brazil: Bolsonaro Is Pushing Teachers Towards a National Strike

Canada:

Petition: TELL TRUDEAU HE IS WRONG TO CONDEMN BDS

- The Conservative leadership race: Den of really, truly, horrible people -- Hellworld Podcast Episode 2

- An open letter to B.C. Green leadership candidate Sonia Furstenau from the B.C. Ecosocialist Party

- Fredericton brings in replacement workers amid labour dispute

- Is it time for a child-care uprising in Ontario?

- Jason Kenney’s Energy War Room Deletes Tweets Accusing the New York Times of ‘Bias’ and ‘Anti-Semitism’

- 'It's 2020': Parent appalled after students told not to speak Atikamekw language in school

- Atikamekw families demand Quebec heed calls to action, to find out what happened to missing children

China:

- China Focus: Wuhan sends 34,000 gov't workers, Party members to fight coronavirus in communities

- ANTI-CHINA RACISM MUST BE REJECTED

Climate Emergency:

- How climate change is driving food insecurity

- Car ‘splatometer’ tests reveal huge decline in number of insects

- Earth just had its hottest January in recorded history

- Stop blaming population growth for climate change. The real culprit is wealth inequality

Co-op Refinery Strike:

- Newest Unifor picket line in Co-op labour dispute begins in Prince George

- Judge fines Unifor 594 $250,000 for contempt in CRC dispute

- The Myth of State Neutrality

Cuba:

- Trump Puts More Pressure on Cuba, Targets Cuban Doctors Program

- The Internet Is Widely Accessible in Cuba. Why Is the US Insisting It Isn’t?

Europe:

- Italy Salvini: Senate votes for far-right leader to face trial

- Activist fights homophobia in Poland with photo series of 'LGBT-free' zones

France:

- BlackRock Becomes a Symbol for Anticapitalist Fervor in France

- “Either We Defend Social Solidarity, or French Society Will Break Down”

Germany:

- German Communist Party (DKP) to hold its 23rd Congress

- Germany: Opening the floodgates to the far right

India:

Night of Terror: CCTV video exposes police brutality in Delhi's Jamia university


A recently released CCTV footage captured the ‘Night of Terror,’ when police brutally attacked the students inside the library of New Delhi based Jamia Millia Islamia University on December 15, 2019. On that day, students of Jamia and residents from nearby localities had organized a march against the divisive citizenship amendment law passed by the far-right Indian government. As the protesters attempted to take out the march, police unleashed a brutal violence.



- India's communists to protest against Trump's visit to the country

Ireland:

- Sinn Féin to try to form ruling coalition after Irish election success

- Ireland’s Left Turn

Israel / Palestine:

- Palestinians welcome UN's list of companies complicit in illegal Israeli expansion

- MLB to Cancel Roger Waters' Tour Promotions Over BDS Support

- Journalist Abby Martin Sues State of Georgia Over Law Requiring Pledge of Allegiance to Israel

- Moroccans protest Trump's Mideast plan, support Palestinians

- The IDF Spokesman Announces: Continue to Shoot Palestinian Children

Porn & Prostitution:

- Quebec City murder underscores need to abolish prostitution

- Opinion: 'Sex work' isn't work, it's sexual exploitation

- Enforcing prostitution laws could have saved Marylène Lévesque

South America:

- Meet the candidates taking on Bolivia’s U.S.-backed right-wing government

- Chile: Almost 10,000 People Arrested in Four Months of Protests

- End of political violence and threats advocated in Colombia

Spain:

- Spanish govt to ban glorification of Franco dictatorship – Socialist Party

- Leftist Podemos chief to join talks with Catalan separatists

United Kingdom:

This is what democracy looks like!


Thousands out in force at the London climate strike:




- Even With Corbyn Gone, Antisemitism Threats Will Keep Destroying the UK Labour Party

- My life’s work as an anti-racist and anti-Zionist activist makes me an antisemite according to Labour

- Labour reinstates Palestine campaigner

- Why I referred myself to the Labour Party’s Compliance Unit for antisemitism

- Calls to stem ‘devastating’ rise of femicides

United States:

- Voting for Mike Bloomberg is the line I just can’t cross

- This should disqualify Michael Bloomberg

- Why Is Bloomberg's Long History of Egregious Sexism Getting a Pass?

- 64 White Supremacists Prosecuted by DOJ Receive 820 Years in Federal Prison

- AIPAC IS HELPING FUND ANTI-BERNIE SANDERS SUPER PAC ADS IN NEVADA

- WITH NEW HAMPSHIRE BEHIND HIM, SANDERS LOOKS TO NEVADA WORKERS AS VEGAS UNION BOSSES RALLY AGAINST HIM

- New Hampshire 2020: In Supreme Irony, the Horse Race Favors Bernie Sanders

-  A pro-Israel PAC tried to sabotage Bernie in Iowa. It didn't go well

- BERNIE SANDERS LEADS ALL DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES IN SUPPORT FROM NON-WHITE VOTERS, NEW POLLS SHOW

- Why does the “BernieBro” myth persist? Because pundits don't understand how the internet works

- Native burial sites blown up for US border wall

- Seattle City Council OKs ban on wintertime evictions; here’s how it would work for renters, landlords

- "You wouldn't think you'd go to jail over medical bills": County in rural Kansas is jailing people over unpaid medical debt

Venezuela:

- Juan Guaido Stars Venezuela's Biggest Corruption Case Ever

- Mistrial Declared in Trial of Embassy Protection Collective 4

- 'The Bolivarian Shield' Prepares Millions to Defend Venezuela

- Conviasa will Continue to Operate Normally Despite US Sanctions

- Minnesotans go to anti-imperialist congress in Venezuela

Corbyn and the Press

"Communications are coming under the control fewer people. Concerns are spreading across the whole field of the media -- television, papers, publishing, theatre, cinema etc. A few people are in a position to impose their taste upon the masses, or to prevent the expression of certain views, and to wield their considerable economic power as they think best...

...Thus although we are constantly taught to believe that we inhabit a free and open society, we have in fact come to live in a remarkably closed system, even by comparison with other countries." - Two quotes from The People and the Media Report of the Labour Party, UK, 1974

"If our mainstream press has become a propaganda machine for the right-wing, it’s no wonder that the first openly socialist leader Britain has had in twenty years has been the victim of perhaps the longest continuous smear campaign ever seen against a politician in the UK...

...No other politician in the UK has faced the sheer volume of smear that Corbyn has. This article by the Independent calculated that 75 per cent of all press coverage of Jeremy Corbyn, factually misrepresented him.

When studying the last half century of political smears, Corbyn tops the chart. Smear campaigns against him, in terms of volume, makes the national newspaper attacks on the likes of Neil Kinnock, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband look like April Fools jokes." - Jeremy Corbyn is the most smeared politician in history, 2019

"We can guess how future generations will view the current propaganda blitz depicting Jeremy Corbyn as a threat to Britain’s Jews. Not since 2002-2003, when sanctions-stricken Iraq, willing to allow months of no-notice UN weapons inspections, was said to be a ‘clear and present danger’ to the nuclear-packing US-UK, has the truth been so completely and shamefully distorted.

The level of madness is breathtaking, even by ‘mainstream’ standards." - Reopening Auschwitz – The Conspiracy To Stop Corbyn, 2019

Canadian Climate Strikes, Climate Emergency, Labour Resolutions & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos September 22 - 29

Toronto Climate Strike Photo via Julia Laxer

This week's list of articles, news items, opinion pieces and videos that I see as a must if you are looking for a roundup that should be of interest to The Left Chapter readers.

This list covers the week of September 22 - 29.

For those interested in news and developments in the Canadian election this will be covered in a separate weekly roundup the third of which this past Friday was: PPC Goes Ever Lower, Climate Fails, Brownface Aftermath and more -- The Left Chapter Canadian Election Round-up Week Three



1) 120K people pack Vancouver, Victoria streets for Climate Strike, marches held around B.C.

Simon Little, Global News

Thousands of people gathered outside Vancouver City Hall on Friday to participate in one of dozens of climate strikes across the country.

2) 'We are changing the world': Greta Thunberg addresses hundreds of thousands at Montreal climate march

Benjamin Shingler · CBC News

Organizers say 500,000 people attend protest, making it largest in province's history.

Montreal Climate Strike photo via Facebook:

3) Views from Toronto's climate strike — sights, sounds and signs from the massive event

CBC News

Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of Toronto on Friday as part of a rising movement demanding swift action on climate change.

Toronto Climate Strike Photos via Julia Laxer:

Video from the massive climate strike in Australia last week.



Biggest demo in Ottawa since 1981. Photo via Ottawa New Socialists

4) Why Greta is Good

Liza Featherstone, Jacobin 

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager and climate activist, has grabbed the world’s attention and kept it focused on the threat of climate change. She's an unlikely leader of a world movement — and yet uniquely suited for that role.

5) How 'organized climate change denial' shapes public opinion on global warming


Kelly Crowe · CBC News

Climate communication researchers say climate skepticism is taking new form.

6) Indigenous teen Autumn Peltier addresses UN: ‘We can’t eat money, or drink oil’

The Canadian Press

Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addressed hundreds of international guests at UN headquarters in Manhattan Saturday.

7) One year after a ruling in their favour, Loblaws delivery drivers still waiting for overtime pay

Farrah Merali · CBC News

The grocery company is challenging a ruling that found it should have been paying drivers OT after 44 hours.

8) Defeating fascism: Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party is collapsing

Kevin Ovenden, People's World

Golden Dawn closed its national headquarters in Athens last Saturday.

The Tide is Turning in the UK!:


9) Labour delegates vote for plan that would abolish private schools

Richard Adams and Kate Proctor, The Guardian

Labour delegates have endorsed radical plans that would abolish private schools by removing their charitable status and redistributing their endowments, investments and properties to the state sector.

10) Labour votes for Palestinian right to return

Asa Winstanley, Electronic Intifada 

Labour delegates voted overwhelmingly to recognize the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland at the UK opposition party’s annual conference on Monday.

11) Labour Party conference: McDonnell promises 32-hour working week

BBC News

The average working week in the UK would be cut to 32 hours within 10 years under a Labour government, John McDonnell has announced.

12) Egypt's Sisi Faces Growing Dissent as Protests Spread

Telesur

Egyptian President Abdul-Fattah El-Sisi is facing a growing campaign of dissent from his countrymen as protests have spread to several cities across the North African nation.

13) FBI: US soldier discussed killing activists, bombing network

Al Jazeera 

A United States Army soldier shared bomb-making instructions online and also discussed killing activists and bombing a news network, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.

14) Workers keep dying at this Toronto bakery that supplies Sobey's and Dunkin Donuts

Mira Miller, Blog TO

A tragic workplace accident has led to the death of another temporary worker at Fiera Foods, a North York industrial bakery ⁠— and this is far from the first time.

15) Italy's Mont Blanc Glacier Could Collapse As Ice Rapidly Melts, Scientists Warn

Peter O'Dowd and Serena McMahon, WBUR

The Italian side of Mont Blanc glacier is at risk of collapsing due to increased ice melt linked to climate change, scientists and local officials warn.

16) We asked 3 companies to recycle Canadian plastic and secretly tracked it. Only 1 company recycled the material

Katie Pedersen, Eric Szeto, David Common and Luke Denne · CBC News

Do you know where your recycling really goes after it's been picked up?

17) Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter And Higher, And It's Accelerating

Rebecca Hersher, NPR

As the world's climate changes, ocean warming is accelerating and sea levels are rising more quickly, warns a new report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

18) Evo Morales: The Root of the Problem Is the Capitalist System

Telesur 

The president of Bolivia, Evo Morales,   said Tuesday that the multiple problems that afflict the planet have their roots in the capitalist system, which favors the unequal distribution of wealth and the senseless accumulation of goods and money in a few people.

19) “What About China?” Is a Bad Response to the Climate Crisis

Daniel K. Gardner, The New Republic 

Whenever the subject of climate policy comes up in the United States, someone in the room, sooner or later, is sure to point out that China today emits more carbon dioxide than the U.S. What is China doing to tackle the climate crisis, they ask.

20) Ontario education unions turn up pressure on Doug Ford's government

The Canadian Press

High school teachers and educational workers in Ontario turned up the pressure on the Progressive Conservative government on Tuesday as cracks continued to emerge in their contentious contract talks with the province.

21) Class size changes will mean 10,000 fewer teachers over five years: watchdog

The Canadian Press

Public schools in Ontario will lose approximately 10,000 teachers over the next five years due to an increase in class sizes, the province's fiscal watchdog said Thursday.

22) Doug Ford’s cuts to public education are benefiting for-profit private schools

North 99

Doug Ford’s decision to underfund public education is increasingly appearing like a boon to private, for-profit education in Ontario.

23) How incels fit into a global far-right ecosystem of angry young men

May Warren, The Toronto Star 

On one of the worst days in Toronto’s history — as victims lay in hospital beds, and families received devastating news about loved ones who didn’t survive — they cheered.

24) Tesla violated labor laws by blocking union organizing, judge rules

Ganesh Setty, CNBC

Administrative Law Judge Amita Baman Tracy found that CEO Elon Musk violated national labor laws when he implied via tweet that Tesla workers who unionized would have to give up their company stock options.

25) Cuban FM Slams US Over Economic Blockade and Venezuela

Telesur

"I want to denounce, before this General Assembly of the United Nations, that just a few months ago the U.S. government has started to implement, criminal, non-conventional measures to prevent fuel shipments from arriving to our country from different markets, by resorting to threats and persecution against the companies that transport fuel, flag States, States of registration as well as shipping and insurance companies."

26) 'Clear the Kikes From Ukraine!' Who Will Confront Kiev's Spiraling anti-Semitism Problem?

Neil Karpenko, Haaretz

When the same vicious anti-Semitism is voiced by a far right militia leader and a Ukrainian diplomat, it's a sign how deeply Jew-hatred, and hyper-nationalist Holocaust revisionism are contaminating Ukrainian society and politics

27) Johnson's suspension of parliament unlawful, supreme court rules

Owen Bowcott, Ben Quinn and Severin Carrell, The Guardian 

The supreme court has ruled that Boris Johnson’s advice to the Queen that parliament should be prorogued for five weeks at the height of the Brexit crisis was unlawful.

28) Hundreds of authors protest after Kamila Shamsie's book award is revoked

Alison Flood, The Guardian 

Nelly Sachs prize was withdrawn over Shamsie’s support for boycotting Israel, prompting more than 250 fellow writers to defend her stance.

29) Israel’s excuses for shooting unarmed Palestinians don’t ring true

Hossam Shaker, Middle East Monitor

Images of Palestinians girls or women lying in the middle of the road with blood seeping from their heads have become “normal” since the autumn of 2015. Women, children and men have all become victims to be added to the growing body of statistics that the global media never stops to consider when reporting on this most asymmetric of conflicts. They are the victims of the field executions committed by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinians — women, children and men — at the humiliating and frequently fatal military checkpoints imposed across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

30) US: Sanders Reveals Plan to Eliminate Medical Debt

Telesur

Senator and United States democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders revealed Saturday his plan to cancel all past-due medical debt in the U.S., pledging an end to the "immoral and unconscionable" practice of debt collection from families who suffered illness or disease.

See also: Global Climate Strikes, Israeli Elections, Iran & more -- The Week in News, Opinion and Videos September 15 - 22