Nov 4, 2019
President Trump has announced that he intends to “secure the oil” in Syria. US media was largely uncritical of the move while the Defense Department confirmed that the US military would be protecting the oil “from ISIS and others.” RT America’s Michele Greenstein joins Rick Sanchez with the details. Then former Pentagon official Michael Maloof offers his analysis. He laments the international precedent set by the blatant theft of resources.
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An indigenous forest protector named Paulo Paulino Guajajara was shot dead in the Amazon by illegal loggers on Saturday. It is the latest incident in a wave of violence targeting indigenous land protectors since the election of Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro last year — but João Coimbra Sousa of Amazon Watch says the history of land conflict in the state of Maranhão between indigenous people and corporate forces extends back much further than the reign of the contentious far-right president. “Most of those conflicts began with the colonization of Brazil,” says Sousa. “When you see how well-protected the indigenous lands are, you understand economically why they want to invade such territories. … The killing of Paulo Paulino Guajajara is directly linked to that idea of eternal expansion of the agribusiness.”
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Siddharth Singh, author of “The Great Smog of India,” says the country needs a major agriculture policy shift if it is to curb its toxically high levels of air pollution.
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Published on Nov 4, 2019
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says the four no-show impeachment witnesses are just more fodder for the list of President Donald Trump’s obstruction of the impeachment inquiry. (Nov. 4)
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Nov 3, 2019
As California recovers from devastating wildfires, President Trump lashed out at California Governor Newsom and threatened to pull federal funding. He said Newsom “must ‘clean’ his forest floors,” though many of the blazes were not forest fires.»
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Nov 4, 2019
An indigenous forest protector named Paulo Paulino Guajajara was shot dead in the Amazon by illegal loggers on Saturday. It is the latest incident in a wave of violence targeting indigenous land protectors since the election of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro last year. Guajajara was killed when he and another forest protector were ambushed by a group of illegal loggers inside the Araribóia reservation in the northeastern state of Maranhão. We speak with João Coimbra Sousa, a field coordinator and legal adviser for Amazon Watch, in São Luís in the northeastern state of Maranhão. And in San Francisco, we speak with Christian Poirier, program director at Amazon Watch.
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Nov 4, 2019
U.S. President Donald Trump has been waiting months to officially begin to withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. Today that process begins. CGTN’s Jim Spellman reports.
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Nov 4, 2019
Protests against Iraq’s political system continue. The movement shows no sign of letting up, despite more than 250 deaths. Women are also breaking with tradtion to make their voices heard. Plus, pollution in New Delhi isn’t limited to the air. Hindus marking Chhath Puja have been photographed wading through the Yamuna river’s toxic foam.
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Africa, Australia, the Americas, and the Artic. The world is on fire. Across the globe wildfires are raging at tremendous levels. The cause, scientists say, is the global climate crisis. Global warming means drier land and drier land means more kindling for fires. In turn, the wildfires continue the circle because not only do these fires emit carbon dioxide into the air, they also burn away trees and vegetation that help remove harmful greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere. So how do we break this cycle? We ask a panel of experts that question on this episode of The Stream.
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Dec 21, 2018
Every year Venice, Italy, experiences seasonal flooding, which is known as acqua alta. The video dives into why Venice floods, if it’s getting worse and how the city adapts to rising water levels.
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