Prof. Brenda Shaffer specializes in intl energy, natural gas, Middle East, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Caspian energy, and East-Med. Passion-mountain gorillas

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“On October 21, President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a phone call to President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. During the phone conversation, the heads of state discussed bilateral relations between Azerbaijan and Türkiye, as well as regional and global issues. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed confidence that cooperation between Azerbaijan and Türkiye, based on brotherly relations, would continue to reach new heights. The Turkish President once again congratulated President Ilham Aliyev on the 35th anniversary of the restoration of Azerbaijan’s state independence and invited him to attend the 13th Summit of the Organization of Turkic States, to be held in Ankara. President Ilham Aliyev thanked President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for the phone call and his congratulations on the 35th anniversary of the restoration of Azerbaijan’s state independence. In turn, President Ilham Aliyev expressed confidence that the brotherly relations between Azerbaijan and Türkiye would continue to develop successfully.”
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President of the Republic of Türkiye Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a phone call to President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev. president.az/en/articles/vie…
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The protesters were encouraged "to rise up against laïcité, France’s principle of secularism. In their sights are the 2004 law banning religious symbols (including the hijab) in schools, and former prime minister Gabriel Attal’s 2023 ban on the abaya in state schools." thefp.com/p/france-high-scho… @NoraBussigny @TheFP
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From the @WSJ: “Persian Gulf oil exports have surpassed prewar levels, as an improvised shipping system under U.S. protection is helping tankers move oil through one of Iran’s fiercest waves of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.” wsj.com/world/middle-east/mo…
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The air forces of the UAE and Azerbaijan are conducting a joint exercise in Azerbaijan 🇦🇪🇦🇿
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EXCLUSIVE: We obtained the full text of the Mecca defence pact signed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan - The agreement commits the three countries to mutual defence, also barring withdrawal for the first 10 years THE FULL TEXT IS BELOW #BREAKING middleeasteye.net/news/full-…
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Cold-hearted 🖤 Copenhagen pushes elderly in retirement homes to eat little meat to cut CO₂ Can they please get more meat on, say, their birthday? No. A left-wing councilor: Climate targets for everyone. And old people are “precisely the generation that polluted the most” kk.kommune-tv.dk/watch/11310…
Heartbreaking 💔 Copenhagen climate politicians push elderly in retirement homes onto minimal meat to cut CO₂ Birthday wishes for beef are sometimes rejected “for the CO₂ accounts” Residents pay for the food but often get organic vegetarian instead of what they want archive.ph/wo9OV Guidelines (p.45): max 500g meat/week, max 80g beef/veal/lamb (~one kid’s burger/week) maaltider.kk.dk/sites/defaul…
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Pink-hued dolphins filmed surfacing off Qantab Beach in Muscat, Oman.
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Important to understand where many Western countries are at in terms of energy security: the UK had a local natural gas field close to ready to provide gas to homes and businesses, but did not allow it to operate due to "climate concerns." Instead, imported gas from foreign countries. And, complain about the rise in gas prices due to the Iran war.
BREAKING: UK government approves the Jackdaw natural gas field in the North Sea — the project, which is effectively built already, was previously quashed over its climate impact. Next test for London is the approval of the Rosebank oilfield project.
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BREAKING: UK government approves the Jackdaw natural gas field in the North Sea — the project, which is effectively built already, was previously quashed over its climate impact. Next test for London is the approval of the Rosebank oilfield project.
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Persian Gulf oil exports have surpassed prewar levels, as an improvised shipping system under U.S. protection is helping tankers move oil through one of #Iran’s fiercest waves of attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. wsj.com/world/middle-east/mo…
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"Regardless of what side of the aisle you sit on, natural gas produced in America should be feeding the Northeast." - Kyle Haustveit, U.S. Under Secretary of Energy #thedrakeforum #energy #energysecurity – at Titusville, PA
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“The history of energy is a history of addition – more energy sources – not subtraction” - Mike Sommers, President and CEO, American Petroleum Institute #thedrakeforum #energy #energysecurity – at Titusville, PA
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The U.S. is sending a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East (Fox News).
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Rubio told Zelenskyy in a 45-minute talk that nothing has changed on intelligence sharing with Ukraine. "The president made it very clear he's ordered no such changes, so none of that has changed. None of it, and I see reporting that it has, but it's just not accurate," @SecRubio told us.
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NYT Reporter from Michigan: Lifelong Democrats in the Detroit suburbs say they’re voting for a Republican (Mike Rogers) for the first time. “That’s a big deal. I don’t know of any other marquee race in the country right now where the Republican candidate is converting Democrats”
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Note that according to @AsraNomani 's important research, the planned Oct. 24 protests in France will target energy infrastructure, including refineries, oil depots, and gas stations. Nomani also identified the participation of Extinction Rebellion in the demonstrations, a supposed anti-climate change organization.
HOT OFF THE PRESSES. CHAOS INC. is growing. Who is behind the protests in France and Europe? I was just on @FoxBusiness to talk to the amazing @dagenmcdowell about the findings of my new reporting at @FoxNews Digital: 🔴🟢 101 organizations in the "red-green" alliance across 9 counties are fomenting and amplifying the protests in France and Europe (up from 54 orgs yesterday) 🔴🟢 Only 1 in 3 student or youth; the rest are adults 🔴🟢 They plan “Acte II” on Saturday OCTOBER 24 with protests across France 🔴🟢 The protests are being amplified by the network in the US funded by Neville Roy Singham, the American communist tycoon living in Shanghai supporting the Chinese Communist Party. READ HERE: foxnews.com/world/global-cha… For this reporting, I name names so that the myth of "student protests" can be pierced. Let me know of any organizations that I missed. Of course, I will reveal any ties, if any, of these organizations to governments from Russia to the Islamic Republic of Iran and China -- wherever the reporting takes us. WHO'S WHO IN THE EXPANDING GLOBAL 'CHAOS INC.' NETWORK (101) ACTE II, OCT. 24 – NEW (14) 🔴 Coordination régionale Bloquons tout Île-de-France — Île-de-France Regional "Block Everything" Coordination – PROTEST COORDINATION: Regional "Block Everything" organization behind the platform promoting "Acte II." 🔴 Peuple RÉVOLTÉ – People in Revolt — PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Organization helping operate the "Acte II" platform. 🔴 Maintenant! – Now! — PROTEST MOVEMENT: Civic movement participating in the "Acte II" platform. 🔴 Indignons-nous, Bloquons tout – Let’s Get Indignant, Block Everything — DIRECT ACTION: Protest collective promoting "Acte II." 🔴 Coordination nationale lycéenne – National High School Students’ Coordination — STUDENT/YOUTH: New national high-school coordination calling students into the streets Oct. 24 for "Acte II." Angoulême, France 🔴 NPA Charente – New Anticapitalist Party–Charente (NPA 16) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local NPA chapter mobilizing for Acte II. 🔴 Action Antifasciste 16 — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on the Angoulême Acte II announcement. 🔴 Maison des Peuples et de la Paix – House of Peoples and Peace — ACTIVIST: Angoulême organization collaborating on the Acte II call. 🔴 Fanfare en lutte d'Angoulême – Angoulême Marching Band in Struggle — ACTIVIST: Local activist collective collaborating on Acte II. 🔴 Révolution Permanente Angoulême — Permanent Revolution–Angoulême – REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local chapter of Révolution Permanente, collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization. 🔴 Organisation de Solidarité Trans (OST) Angoulême — Trans Solidarity Organization–Angoulême – ACTIVIST / SOLIDARITY: Local organization listed as an Acte II collaborator. Caen, France 🔴 Caen Antifa Squad — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on an "ACTE II — 24 OCTOBRE" announcement. 🔴 Caen en Lutte — Caen in Struggle – PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Local organization collaborating on Acte II. 🔴 Solidarité Étudiante 14 — Student Solidarity 14 – STUDENT: Calvados student organization collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization. NOV. 20 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK Belgium (3) 🔴 Comac — MARXIST/SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian youth organization associated with the Workers' Party. 🔴 RedFox — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian socialist youth organization. 🔴 Vrede — ANTI-WAR: Belgian organization publishing and promoting the International Youth Strike manifesto. France (1) 🔴 Mouvement National Lycéen — STUDENT/YOUTH: French high-school organization identified in the European Nov. 20 coalition. Germany (6) 🔴 Schulstreik gegen Wehrpflicht — STUDENT/"ANTI-CONSCRIPTION": German school-strike network mobilizing for Nov. 20. 🔴 Die Falken — SOCIALIST YOUTH: German socialist youth organization involved in the international organizing process. 🔴 Linksjugend ['solid] — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Youth organization associated with Die Linke. 🔴 DIE LINKE.SDS — SOCIALIST STUDENT: German socialist university organization. 🔴 Socialist German Workers Youth, (SDAJ) — COMMUNIST YOUTH: Socialist German Workers Youth. Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität — SOCIALIST: German socialist organization mobilizing around Nov. 20. Ireland (1) 🔴 Militant Left — SOCIALIST: Irish socialist organization promoting the international mobilization. Italy (4) 🔴 Rete della Conoscenza — LEFT-WING STUDENT: Italian student network helping build the international strike. 🔴 Unione degli Studenti — STUDENT: Italian high-school student organization promoting Nov. 20. 🔴 Coordinamento Universitario — STUDENT: Italian university network promoting the strike. 🔴 CGIL — LABOR: Italian labor confederation whose Nov. 20 general strike converges with the student mobilization. Spain (1) 🔴 Sindicato de Estudiantes — SOCIALIST STUDENT: Spanish student organization identified in the international network. United Kingdom (9) 🔴 Counterfire — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST / ANTI-WAR: Promoting the Nov. 20 international strike. 🔴 Left Unity — SOCIALIST: Promoting the wider European mobilization. 🔴 International Youth Strike — INTERNATIONAL YOUTH / ANTI-CAPITALIST COALITION: The coordinating coalition behind the Nov. 20 strike says student and youth organizations across Europe are organizing demonstrations, walkouts, assemblies, blockades and occupations. Its manifesto says exploitation, climate breakdown and war are the "essence of capitalism," calls NATO an instrument of "imperial interests" that "should be dissolved," and demands "radical system change." 🔴 North West Pensioners Association — ACTIVIST: Organizational supporter of the Nov. 20 actions. 🔴 Socialist Party — TROTSKYIST: Socialist party promoting the international strike. 🔴 Socialist Students — SOCIALIST STUDENT: British organizer advocating a "socialist future." 🔴 Stop the War Coalition — ANTI-WAR: Promoting Nov. 20 student mobilization. 🔴 Universities and Colleges Union @ucunion — The largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in UK "Further Education" and "Higher Education." 🔴 Young Greens — YOUTH / GREEN: British youth organization identified among supporters. Amplifiers (8) 🔴 CODEPINK — U.S. ANTI-WAR / ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION: The U.S. organization has explicitly connected the French protests to its own planned Washington mobilization. "From France to the United States, the message is clear," CODEPINK said, before promoting its Nov. 10-12 "Taxpayer Uprising" demanding that federal spending go toward education, healthcare and housing rather than the military. 🔴 Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) — TROTSKYIST / SOCIALIST: An international socialist organization whose national affiliates include Britain's Socialist Party and Ireland's Militant Left. Its international website is promoting the Nov. 20 youth walkout under the campaign slogan "Fight for our future not their wars." 🔴 International Socialist Alternative (ISA) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: The international socialist organization says "Capitalism means war" and that it "wholeheartedly" supports the Nov. 20 strike. ISA says its members have helped organize Germany's anti-conscription school strikes and describes imperialism as the "highest stage of capitalism." 🔴 Party for Socialism and Liberation–Houston — MARXIST-LENINIST / U.S. CHAPTER: The Houston chapter of the U.S. Party for Socialism and Liberation is amplifying the French protest movement. 🔴 Progressive International — TRANSNATIONAL LEFT NETWORK: The international organization explicitly grouped the current protests in France, Spain, India and Albania in an Oct. 16 briefing and asked how the "new rebellions" could acquire organized political power. Most significantly, it said: "These are the forces that the Progressive International is working to support and connect." 🔴 Stop ReArm Europe — ANTI-WAR / ANTI-MILITARIZATION COALITION: A European coalition calling for demonstrations and actions around Nov. 20 under the slogan "Welfare, not Warfare." It says it supports students "refusing" militarization and calls on social movements, unions, civil-society groups, political organizations and parliamentarians to mobilize around the student strike. 🔴 teleSUR English — INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AMPLIFIER: The international media outlet amplified the French demonstrations with Oct. 17 coverage of clashes, fires and arrests in Paris, Lyon and other cities. This is evidence of international amplification. 🔴 World BEYOND War — INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR: A global organization that describes itself as a movement to "end war" and says it is part of the Stop ReArm Europe campaign. It is explicitly promoting the Nov. 20 International Youth Strike and urging supporters to "join this resistance." FRANCE — ORIGINAL NETWORK (54) 🔴 Organisation communiste révolutionnaire — REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST: Communist organization involved in protests. 🔴 Parti communiste français — COMMUNIST: French Communist Party whose leaders and activists joined the demonstrations. 🔴 Parti des Indigènes de la République — DECOLONIAL: Political organization that defends the student revolt. 🔴 Parti de l'égalité socialiste — TROTSKYIST: Socialist organization advocating workers' action committees. 🔴 Revolutionary Communist Group — COMMUNIST: British organization that connects the French protests to capitalism, imperialism and Palestine. 🔴 Révolution Permanente — TROTSKYIST: Revolutionary socialist organization promoting student-worker mobilization. 🔴 World Socialist Web Site — TROTSKYIST MEDIA: Socialist outlet framing the French protests around capitalism, austerity and militarization. Palestine-solidarity organizations 🔴 Union juive française pour la paix — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Jewish organization that publicizes support for the protesting students. 🔴 Urgence Palestine — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Palestine organization that amplified protest-related material. Labor and professional organizations 🔴 CGT Éduc'action — LABOR: CGT's education-sector organization. 🔴 CFDT Éducation Formation Recherche Publiques — LABOR: Education and research union supporting the student movement. 🔴 CGT — LABOR: Major French labor confederation involved in the October mobilizations. 🔴 CNT — ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST: Revolutionary-syndicalist union that declared students were "right to revolt." 🔴 Confédération paysanne — FARMERS' UNION: Called agricultural workers into the Oct. 17 mobilization. 🔴 FSU — LABOR: Education and public-sector union federation. 🔴 FNEC FP-FO — LABOR: Force Ouvrière's education federation. 🔴 Force Ouvrière — LABOR: National labor confederation. 🔴 SUD éducation — LABOR: Left-wing education union. 🔴 SNES-FSU — LABOR: Secondary-school personnel union. 🔴 Union syndicale Solidaires — LABOR: Left-wing labor federation. 🔴 UNSA — LABOR: National autonomous trade-union federation. Advocacy, environmental and protest organizations 🔴 Amnesty International France — HUMAN RIGHTS: Reported on police treatment of minors during the demonstrations. 🔴 ATTAC France — ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Connected the mobilization to austerity and economic policy. Coordination nationale du mouvement du 26 septembre — PROTEST NETWORK: Mobilization network that encouraged participation in Oct. 17. 🔴 Extinction Rebellion — ENVIRONMENTAL: Environmental direct-action movement appearing in the protest ecosystem. 🔴 FCPE — PARENTS: National parents' federation that called members to demonstrate. 🔴 Gilets jaunes — Yellow Vests: Decentralized protest movement whose Oct. 17 mobilization converged with the students. 🔴 Intersyndicale nationale VTC — PROFESSIONAL / LABOR: Private-hire drivers' coalition promoting participation. 🔴 Les Soulèvements de la Terre — RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL: Movement that celebrated the student revolt and called for antifascist mobilization. 🔴 Ligue des droits de l'Homme — HUMAN RIGHTS: Supported students and criticized police repression. 🔴 Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples (MRAP) — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in the wider coalition. 🔴 SOS Racisme — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in supporting the movement. International amplifiers 🔴 BreakThrough News — SINGHAM NETWORK / MEDIA: New York-based nonprofit amplifying the French protests internationally. 🔴 Indian Alliance Paris — INTERNATIONAL / DIASPORA: France-based organization connecting French and Indian protest messaging. Partnered with the People's Forum in Manhattan.
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HOT OFF THE PRESSES. CHAOS INC. is growing. Who is behind the protests in France and Europe? I was just on @FoxBusiness to talk to the amazing @dagenmcdowell about the findings of my new reporting at @FoxNews Digital: 🔴🟢 101 organizations in the "red-green" alliance across 9 counties are fomenting and amplifying the protests in France and Europe (up from 54 orgs yesterday) 🔴🟢 Only 1 in 3 student or youth; the rest are adults 🔴🟢 They plan “Acte II” on Saturday OCTOBER 24 with protests across France 🔴🟢 The protests are being amplified by the network in the US funded by Neville Roy Singham, the American communist tycoon living in Shanghai supporting the Chinese Communist Party. READ HERE: foxnews.com/world/global-cha… For this reporting, I name names so that the myth of "student protests" can be pierced. Let me know of any organizations that I missed. Of course, I will reveal any ties, if any, of these organizations to governments from Russia to the Islamic Republic of Iran and China -- wherever the reporting takes us. WHO'S WHO IN THE EXPANDING GLOBAL 'CHAOS INC.' NETWORK (101) ACTE II, OCT. 24 – NEW (14) 🔴 Coordination régionale Bloquons tout Île-de-France — Île-de-France Regional "Block Everything" Coordination – PROTEST COORDINATION: Regional "Block Everything" organization behind the platform promoting "Acte II." 🔴 Peuple RÉVOLTÉ – People in Revolt — PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Organization helping operate the "Acte II" platform. 🔴 Maintenant! – Now! — PROTEST MOVEMENT: Civic movement participating in the "Acte II" platform. 🔴 Indignons-nous, Bloquons tout – Let’s Get Indignant, Block Everything — DIRECT ACTION: Protest collective promoting "Acte II." 🔴 Coordination nationale lycéenne – National High School Students’ Coordination — STUDENT/YOUTH: New national high-school coordination calling students into the streets Oct. 24 for "Acte II." Angoulême, France 🔴 NPA Charente – New Anticapitalist Party–Charente (NPA 16) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local NPA chapter mobilizing for Acte II. 🔴 Action Antifasciste 16 — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on the Angoulême Acte II announcement. 🔴 Maison des Peuples et de la Paix – House of Peoples and Peace — ACTIVIST: Angoulême organization collaborating on the Acte II call. 🔴 Fanfare en lutte d'Angoulême – Angoulême Marching Band in Struggle — ACTIVIST: Local activist collective collaborating on Acte II. 🔴 Révolution Permanente Angoulême — Permanent Revolution–Angoulême – REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: Local chapter of Révolution Permanente, collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization. 🔴 Organisation de Solidarité Trans (OST) Angoulême — Trans Solidarity Organization–Angoulême – ACTIVIST / SOLIDARITY: Local organization listed as an Acte II collaborator. Caen, France 🔴 Caen Antifa Squad — ANTIFASCIST: Collaborator on an "ACTE II — 24 OCTOBRE" announcement. 🔴 Caen en Lutte — Caen in Struggle – PROTEST COLLECTIVE: Local organization collaborating on Acte II. 🔴 Solidarité Étudiante 14 — Student Solidarity 14 – STUDENT: Calvados student organization collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization. NOV. 20 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK Belgium (3) 🔴 Comac — MARXIST/SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian youth organization associated with the Workers' Party. 🔴 RedFox — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Belgian socialist youth organization. 🔴 Vrede — ANTI-WAR: Belgian organization publishing and promoting the International Youth Strike manifesto. France (1) 🔴 Mouvement National Lycéen — STUDENT/YOUTH: French high-school organization identified in the European Nov. 20 coalition. Germany (6) 🔴 Schulstreik gegen Wehrpflicht — STUDENT/"ANTI-CONSCRIPTION": German school-strike network mobilizing for Nov. 20. 🔴 Die Falken — SOCIALIST YOUTH: German socialist youth organization involved in the international organizing process. 🔴 Linksjugend ['solid] — SOCIALIST YOUTH: Youth organization associated with Die Linke. 🔴 DIE LINKE.SDS — SOCIALIST STUDENT: German socialist university organization. 🔴 Socialist German Workers Youth, (SDAJ) — COMMUNIST YOUTH: Socialist German Workers Youth. Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität — SOCIALIST: German socialist organization mobilizing around Nov. 20. Ireland (1) 🔴 Militant Left — SOCIALIST: Irish socialist organization promoting the international mobilization. Italy (4) 🔴 Rete della Conoscenza — LEFT-WING STUDENT: Italian student network helping build the international strike. 🔴 Unione degli Studenti — STUDENT: Italian high-school student organization promoting Nov. 20. 🔴 Coordinamento Universitario — STUDENT: Italian university network promoting the strike. 🔴 CGIL — LABOR: Italian labor confederation whose Nov. 20 general strike converges with the student mobilization. Spain (1) 🔴 Sindicato de Estudiantes — SOCIALIST STUDENT: Spanish student organization identified in the international network. United Kingdom (9) 🔴 Counterfire — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST / ANTI-WAR: Promoting the Nov. 20 international strike. 🔴 Left Unity — SOCIALIST: Promoting the wider European mobilization. 🔴 International Youth Strike — INTERNATIONAL YOUTH / ANTI-CAPITALIST COALITION: The coordinating coalition behind the Nov. 20 strike says student and youth organizations across Europe are organizing demonstrations, walkouts, assemblies, blockades and occupations. Its manifesto says exploitation, climate breakdown and war are the "essence of capitalism," calls NATO an instrument of "imperial interests" that "should be dissolved," and demands "radical system change." 🔴 North West Pensioners Association — ACTIVIST: Organizational supporter of the Nov. 20 actions. 🔴 Socialist Party — TROTSKYIST: Socialist party promoting the international strike. 🔴 Socialist Students — SOCIALIST STUDENT: British organizer advocating a "socialist future." 🔴 Stop the War Coalition — ANTI-WAR: Promoting Nov. 20 student mobilization. 🔴 Universities and Colleges Union @ucunion — The largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in UK "Further Education" and "Higher Education." 🔴 Young Greens — YOUTH / GREEN: British youth organization identified among supporters. Amplifiers (8) 🔴 CODEPINK — U.S. ANTI-WAR / ACTIVIST ORGANIZATION: The U.S. organization has explicitly connected the French protests to its own planned Washington mobilization. "From France to the United States, the message is clear," CODEPINK said, before promoting its Nov. 10-12 "Taxpayer Uprising" demanding that federal spending go toward education, healthcare and housing rather than the military. 🔴 Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) — TROTSKYIST / SOCIALIST: An international socialist organization whose national affiliates include Britain's Socialist Party and Ireland's Militant Left. Its international website is promoting the Nov. 20 youth walkout under the campaign slogan "Fight for our future not their wars." 🔴 International Socialist Alternative (ISA) — REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALIST: The international socialist organization says "Capitalism means war" and that it "wholeheartedly" supports the Nov. 20 strike. ISA says its members have helped organize Germany's anti-conscription school strikes and describes imperialism as the "highest stage of capitalism." 🔴 Party for Socialism and Liberation–Houston — MARXIST-LENINIST / U.S. CHAPTER: The Houston chapter of the U.S. Party for Socialism and Liberation is amplifying the French protest movement. 🔴 Progressive International — TRANSNATIONAL LEFT NETWORK: The international organization explicitly grouped the current protests in France, Spain, India and Albania in an Oct. 16 briefing and asked how the "new rebellions" could acquire organized political power. Most significantly, it said: "These are the forces that the Progressive International is working to support and connect." 🔴 Stop ReArm Europe — ANTI-WAR / ANTI-MILITARIZATION COALITION: A European coalition calling for demonstrations and actions around Nov. 20 under the slogan "Welfare, not Warfare." It says it supports students "refusing" militarization and calls on social movements, unions, civil-society groups, political organizations and parliamentarians to mobilize around the student strike. 🔴 teleSUR English — INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AMPLIFIER: The international media outlet amplified the French demonstrations with Oct. 17 coverage of clashes, fires and arrests in Paris, Lyon and other cities. This is evidence of international amplification. 🔴 World BEYOND War — INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR: A global organization that describes itself as a movement to "end war" and says it is part of the Stop ReArm Europe campaign. It is explicitly promoting the Nov. 20 International Youth Strike and urging supporters to "join this resistance." FRANCE — ORIGINAL NETWORK (54) 🔴 Organisation communiste révolutionnaire — REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST: Communist organization involved in protests. 🔴 Parti communiste français — COMMUNIST: French Communist Party whose leaders and activists joined the demonstrations. 🔴 Parti des Indigènes de la République — DECOLONIAL: Political organization that defends the student revolt. 🔴 Parti de l'égalité socialiste — TROTSKYIST: Socialist organization advocating workers' action committees. 🔴 Revolutionary Communist Group — COMMUNIST: British organization that connects the French protests to capitalism, imperialism and Palestine. 🔴 Révolution Permanente — TROTSKYIST: Revolutionary socialist organization promoting student-worker mobilization. 🔴 World Socialist Web Site — TROTSKYIST MEDIA: Socialist outlet framing the French protests around capitalism, austerity and militarization. Palestine-solidarity organizations 🔴 Union juive française pour la paix — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Jewish organization that publicizes support for the protesting students. 🔴 Urgence Palestine — PALESTINE SOLIDARITY: French Palestine organization that amplified protest-related material. Labor and professional organizations 🔴 CGT Éduc'action — LABOR: CGT's education-sector organization. 🔴 CFDT Éducation Formation Recherche Publiques — LABOR: Education and research union supporting the student movement. 🔴 CGT — LABOR: Major French labor confederation involved in the October mobilizations. 🔴 CNT — ANARCHO-SYNDICALIST: Revolutionary-syndicalist union that declared students were "right to revolt." 🔴 Confédération paysanne — FARMERS' UNION: Called agricultural workers into the Oct. 17 mobilization. 🔴 FSU — LABOR: Education and public-sector union federation. 🔴 FNEC FP-FO — LABOR: Force Ouvrière's education federation. 🔴 Force Ouvrière — LABOR: National labor confederation. 🔴 SUD éducation — LABOR: Left-wing education union. 🔴 SNES-FSU — LABOR: Secondary-school personnel union. 🔴 Union syndicale Solidaires — LABOR: Left-wing labor federation. 🔴 UNSA — LABOR: National autonomous trade-union federation. Advocacy, environmental and protest organizations 🔴 Amnesty International France — HUMAN RIGHTS: Reported on police treatment of minors during the demonstrations. 🔴 ATTAC France — ECONOMIC JUSTICE: Connected the mobilization to austerity and economic policy. Coordination nationale du mouvement du 26 septembre — PROTEST NETWORK: Mobilization network that encouraged participation in Oct. 17. 🔴 Extinction Rebellion — ENVIRONMENTAL: Environmental direct-action movement appearing in the protest ecosystem. 🔴 FCPE — PARENTS: National parents' federation that called members to demonstrate. 🔴 Gilets jaunes — Yellow Vests: Decentralized protest movement whose Oct. 17 mobilization converged with the students. 🔴 Intersyndicale nationale VTC — PROFESSIONAL / LABOR: Private-hire drivers' coalition promoting participation. 🔴 Les Soulèvements de la Terre — RADICAL ENVIRONMENTAL: Movement that celebrated the student revolt and called for antifascist mobilization. 🔴 Ligue des droits de l'Homme — HUMAN RIGHTS: Supported students and criticized police repression. 🔴 Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples (MRAP) — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in the wider coalition. 🔴 SOS Racisme — ANTIRACIST: Antiracism organization involved in supporting the movement. International amplifiers 🔴 BreakThrough News — SINGHAM NETWORK / MEDIA: New York-based nonprofit amplifying the French protests internationally. 🔴 Indian Alliance Paris — INTERNATIONAL / DIASPORA: France-based organization connecting French and Indian protest messaging. Partnered with the People's Forum in Manhattan.
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The European Union remains committed to "ensuring that oil, coal and gas stay in the ground, including in Arctic regions," according to a new Arctic strategy presented by the European Commission and EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Tuesday. "Due to its specific vulnerabilities, the Commission will work with partners to protect the Arctic environment and prevent all hydrocarbon reserve developments that pose a threat to the Arctic ecosystem," the document also says. marketscreener.com/news/eu-s…
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"One reason for the slowdown in new discoveries is the decarbonization push among major energy companies. Since 2020, Western oil majors have come under growing pressure from environmental groups and investors around, prompting them to redirect capital toward renewable energy." Global oil and gas discoveries hit 40-year low on investment cutbacks asia.nikkei.com/business/ene… via @NikkeiAsia
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