Daily News 11/02
Daily News 11/02
Daily News Archives Since June 20
Half A Million Join Youth-Led Protests In France Saturday, October 31, opened as another day of mass mobilizations across France. For almost two months – led by high school and university student demands for stronger public education – hundreds of thousands of people have been joining demonstrations against the policies of President Emmanuel Macron and successive administrations. According to student unions, at least 500,000 people joined the demonstrations on Saturday, including 200,000 in the capital. “We are now in the sixth week of mobilization by high school students and, more broadly, the youth,” Christophe Benoît, deputy general secretary of the General Confederation of Labor (Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT) in Lille, told BreakThrough News. “It’s a movement best summed up in the words of a high school student speaking at a recent assembly: ‘We see the social hardship of our parents and we see our own future reflected in it.’”
French Students And Unions “Preparing For A Massive Strike” On November 5
Protest and Social Change in Europe: Can Students Shift Budget Priorities?The banging of war drums in France and the student protests there for better schools bring to the fore the class interests of the rulers and the ruled.
From The global climate health emergenc: . . . Worsening. “The risks become even more profound when you consider how different hazards interact and compound. At the same time, drought is spreading, and the world is swinging to water extremes, some drying out, while others are flooding. This isn’t a gradual worsening; it’s a step change that must be recognised as the global health emergency it is.”
Video: The Ocean Off California Just Broke A 100-Year Record — And Scientists Are Sounding The Alarm
Video: November Is About to Turn EXTREME Across America — Massive Storms & Polar Vortex COLLAPSE!
Global Summit Ends Without Securing Finance Commitments Needed to Protect Biodiversity
‘Bunch of baloney’: calls grow for Cop summit reforms as countries on track to fail nature targetsCop17, focused on protecting nature and restoring ecosystems, concludes on Saturday with critics saying system allows ‘one idiot’ to stall progress
Will it be AI or the climate crisis that ends humanity? We can make it neitherBoth of these threats have the same roots: private entities seeking to cash in. We have the power to stand against them
Crisis 2026 | What We are Facing Now The global water crisis remains one of the most urgent humanitarian challenges of our time, with 2.1 billion people, or roughly one in four globally, still living without safely managed drinking water in 2026. This is water that is available at home, free from contamination, and there when a family needs it. According to the WHO and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP), the latest assessment confirms that progress has slowed at the exact moment the need is rising. Behind every statistic is a child who falls sick from unsafe water, a girl who misses school to fetch it, and a family that cannot plan beyond the next day. Water is the quietest necessity. It is rarely noticed until it is gone. Yet clean water sits beneath almost every other measure of human dignity, from health and education to safety and economic stability. The facts and figures below explain where the world stands in 2026, who carries the heaviest burden, and why the gap between those who have water and those who do not continues to define the lives of billions.
Global Water Crisis Statistics (2026) The numbers come from the most recent WHO/UNICEF JMP, UN-Water, and World Bank reporting. They reflect 2024 data, the latest verified figures available in 2026.
Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and ‘free passes to pollute’, report saysEnvironmental Defense Fund analysis shows administration handed out $950m and Clean Air Act exemptions
The CIA Is Resorting to an Open Casting Call for Would-Be Cuban Assets With Marco Rubio’s public plea for Cubans to work with the CIA, the administration is eyeing its next imperial conquest. Imperial ambisions are ever-shifting under President Donald Trump. Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are oftentimes spoken about as one continuous train of complete victories and soon-to-be-complete-victories. With the midterms fast approaching, and the date for an apparent telegraphed return to the Iran war on its heels, talk of easily overthrowing regimes has returned, if it ever truly left. At a rally in Florida last Friday, Trump laid out his grand vision, which he promised would come to pass once the Islamic Republic is neutralized as a threat to the world: “We’re going to come back from Iran. Those beautiful ships will pass Cuba. We’ll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They’ll raise up their hands, and then we’re going to send Marco Rubio in to finish up the deal.”
ICE Is Running One Of The Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Operations In History
The World Once Again Calls For An End To The US Blockade On Cuba
Chris Hedges: Gaza’s Survivors Bear Witness to a Genocide the World Refuses to Stop
Days Before Midterms, Pelosi Attacks Fellow Democrats for Demanding Equality in Israel
Rape as a Tool of Empire: Cornell, Palestine, and the Silence of Western FeministsJust because a woman is brown and Muslim, or just because the man being abused is Palestinian, does not mean their pain should be ignored by the mainstream feminists of today.
Will the AI Bubble Burst in the Face of the Working Class?The ultimate betrayal will be if AI succeeds in making America vastly wealthier while leaving working Americans with less economic security, less political power, and with the bill for another generation of financial speculation wiping out our retirement accounts