TDB Top 5 International Stories: Wednesday 29th May 2019

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5: What You Need to Know About the Trump Adviser Who Compared CO2 to Persecuted Jews

A physicist who said “the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler” may get the authority to question the conclusions of the biggest government-funded climate study.

“Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews,” Princeton physicist William Happer finished that thought during a 2014 interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC.

Vice News

 

4: Sudan protesters begin two-day strike to pressure military

Protesters in Sudan started a two-day general strike on Tuesday to pile pressure on the ruling army to hand over power to a civilian government.

The strike left hundreds of airline passengers stranded at Khartoum airport on Tuesday morning after opposition group Alliance for Freedom and Change requested Sudanese pilots to participate.

An official at the capital’s international airport, said that local flights were suspended early Tuesday however “the international flights are going as usual,” he said. The official declined to give his name because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

Aljazeera

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3: HOW BERNIE SANDERS ACCIDENTALLY BUILT A GROUNDBREAKING ORGANIZING MOVEMENT

MCDONALD’S WORKERS, PUSHING for higher wages and an end to workplace abuses, picketed Thursday outside franchises across the country. In an unusual twist, they were joined by volunteers from the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders.

It was the campaign’s second bout of activist intervention in as many weeks, as campaign supporters had previously joined a picket line with University of California workers locked in negotiations with their bosses.

It’s common for a politician to make a brief appearance on a picket line to show solidarity with a cause, but it’s practically unheard for a campaign to divert its own volunteers away from the mission of electing its candidate. This act of activism flows directly from the bottom-up approach taken by the 2020 Sanders campaign, which is not just in stark contrast to every other presidential campaign: It’s also a sharp reversal from the approach taken by the leadership of the 2016 Sanders campaign.

The Intercept

 

2: Green Party Wins Record Support in EU Elections as Youth-Led Climate Strikes Grow

The Green Party soared in popularity in many nations in the European parliamentary elections, placing second in Germany and making gains in Finland, France and Ireland. The next president of the European Commission will likely be Bas Eickhout of the Dutch Green Party. We speak with Luisa Neubauer, a youth climate activist and member of the German Green Party, about the party’s next steps.

Democracy Now

 

1: Theresa May blames Brexit failure for EU election humiliation