2019-08-21: Social Media Postees

Defense Department kills multi-billion dollar missile contract with Boeing
rt.com | 2019-08-22
The Pentagon is scrapping a multi-billion dollar deal with Boeing to replace an outdated missile interceptor, citing years of delays and technical problems and jealously eyeing rivals’ capabilities. | “Ending the program was the responsible thing to do,” Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said in a statement on Wednesday. | We decided the path we’re going down wouldn’t be fruitful, so we’re not going down that path anymore. | The exact details of the project’s failure would not be released “due to the classified nature of the program,” a spokesman for the Pentagon’s Missile D…
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Trump-Netanyahu: The Disgraceful President and the Contemptible Prime Minister
Prof. Alon Ben-Meir | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, to enter Israel. Netanyahu, like a poodle, simply obeys his …
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Omar, Tlaib, and the United States of Israel
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
I’m trying to remember when Israel wasn’t the fifty-first state. It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians. | Israelis are apparently more important and cherished than Americans, …
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Venezuela: About 4 Million Sign Petition Against US Blockade
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
Venezuela’s government announced that the petition to collect signatures calling on the United States to lift the unilateral blockade under the “#NoMoreTrump” campaign has reached four million rubrics with about three weeks still to go. | RELATED: | Venezuela: Arreaza Denounces Blockade to UN Security Council | “We already reached four million signatures. Do not be left behind, go out to sign, in the Bolivar Squares of the country, for the defense of Venezuela, for the peace of th…
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øEs posible un bloqueo naval de EE.UU. contra Venezuela?
Redacción Internacional, granma.cu | workers.org | 2019-08-21
19 de agosto — El magnate presidente Donald Trump ha insistido en el bloqueo naval como opción a tomar contra la República Bolivariana de Venezuela y, de acuerdo con el portal estadounidense Axios, citado por Misión Verdad, se trataría de un embargo directo a las costas venezolanas “para evitar que . . . | Continue reading øEs posible un bloqueo naval de EE.UU. contra Venezuela? at Workers.org
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China Bests U.S. on the Factory Floor in Obamas’ Netflix Debut
Jordan Riefe | truthdig.com | 2019-08-21
The Obamas’ first Netflix release, ” American Factory,” available beginning Wednesday on the streaming service and in select theaters, arrives at a time when most concede Chinese economic hegemony will eventually usurp that of the U.S. | The subject of the film, which won the best director award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, is a former General Motors factory in Dayton, Ohio, purchased and refitted by the Chinese company Fuyao Glass, one of the largest auto glassmakers in the world. | “There are two c…
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Rick Perry, politician responsible for US nukes, falls for embarrassing Instagram hoax
rt.com | 2019-08-21
The US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry showed his age and social media naivety by reposting a hoax that supposedly stops Instagram from making its users’ public posts… public. | The former governor of Texas, who’s currently responsible for America’s nuclear arsenal, shared…
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Assad Vows to ‘Liberate Every Inch of Territory from Terrorists’
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad reiterated his government’s commitment to ‘”liberate every inch of territory from terrorists,” following a victory for the Syrian Arab Army in the key Idlib town of Khan Sheikhoun. | RELATED: | China Warns of Reemergence of Islamic State Group in Syria | President Assad made the statement while receiving a delegation from Russia’s Douma, headed by lawmaker Dmitry Sablin. At the meeting, Sablin congratulated Assad for the army’s recent military vic…
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The MH17 Malaysian Airlines Tragedy, Blamed on Russia. NGOs Say They Will Seek PM Mahathir Support to Prevent the MH17 Trial of Four Men
Ida Lim | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) today said they will soon ask for Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s help to prevent the trial of four individuals over the 2014 shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 from starting. | Chandra Muzaffar…
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Video: Khan Shaykhun Is About to Fall into the Hands of Syrian Army
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Militants’ defense in southern Idlib and northern Hama has collapsed. | On August 19, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies backed up by Syrian and Russian air power cut off the M5 highway north of Khan …
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Russiagate: The Miserable Truth
Barry Kissin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Introductory Disclaimer: I have never voted Republican for Federal office and I deplore most of what Fox News has to offer. I am currently registered Democrat in order to vote in the Presidential primary for either Bernie Sanders or Tulsi …
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Video: Militant Groups Lose Lots of Equipment in Southern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Units of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces, backed up by the Syrian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces, have liberated Umm Zaytunah and Kafr Tab, and advanced on Abedin and Madaya in southern Idlib. | Meanwhile, …
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Venezuelan VP Meets Russian Foreign Minister to Strengthen Ties
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
Venezuela’s executive vice president, Delcy Rodríguez , met Wednesday in Russia with the country’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov , with the intention of strengthening economic and cooperation agreements between the two countries. | RELATED: | President Maduro Confirms Venezuela Talking With US Government | Both officials held a protocol meeting in which the Venezuelan official thanked the Russian people and Government for their s…
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New York Court Directive May Violate Rules Protecting Families From Deportation
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-21
| This story was originally published by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit news organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at revealnews.org and subscribe to the Reveal podcast, produced with PRX, at revealnews.org/podcast.A high-ranking immigration court official has issued a requirement to judges in New York City that deportation cases involving…
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Democrats Are Waging a Covert War on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-21
The Democratic Party establishment wants you to know that they’re not afraid of primary challenges from the Justice Democrats–a progressive political action committee that runs progressive candidates who reject campaign funding from the ultra-rich and corporations. But when the establishment Democrats tell you they aren’t afraid, they often aren’t brave enough to let reporters quote them by name. | These anonymous sources are rarely as insulting as the one quoted by Fox News’ Brooke Singman: “No one is afraid of those [Justice Democr…
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Washington intensifies its collective punishment of Venezuelans
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-21
Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive. | Source…
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US to allow indefinite detention for migrant children following rule change
rt.com | 2019-08-21
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a change in policy that could see migrant children detained indefinitely, replacing a previous restriction limiting confinement of undocumented minors to 20 days. | The department announced on Wednesday that it would terminate the 1997 Flores Settlement, which set requirements for detaining migrants, arguing the rules contained a “loophole” that drives illegal immigration into the US. | “By closing this key loophole in Flores, the new rule will restore integrity to our immigration system and eliminate the major pull factor fueling the crisis,” acting Home…
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Taliban Peace Talks Must Not Ignore CIA-Funded Afghan Militias, Report Says
Alex Emmons | theintercept.com | 2019-08-21
“If cut loose by the CIA,” the report notes, militias “may be reborn as private armies or ‘security guards’ in the service of powerful individuals.”
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That Couldn’t Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
Michael Welton | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
The Canadian nation-state presents itself to the world as a benign peacekeeper and benevolent force for good in the world. This myth washes over us and leaves us unwilling and reluctant to face up to our past as a white settler colonial state. If we did a few nasty things in the past, well, that…
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Sudan opposition leaders form government with the army
wsws.org | 2019-08-21
The agreement is a shameless betrayal of the months-long protest movement that brought cities across the country to a virtual standstill.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/21/suda…


telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
The head of Sudan’s now defunct military council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan was sworn in on Wednesday as leader of the new Sovereign Council that will run the country for three years until an election after decades of autocratic rule. | RELATED: | Sudan Concludes Formation of Ruling Body to Lead Transition | General Burhan, who played a key role in the overthrow of ex-President Omar Al-Bashir in April, has headed the military council that took control of the country after mon…
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Australian Investigative Journalist Exposes Mainstream Media Betrayal of Assange
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
At a Sydney “Politics in the Pub” meeting on Thursday night, award-winning Australian journalist Mark Davis revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the …
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The Forest Service Puts Ranchers Ahead of Grizzlies (and the Public Interest)
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
The recent killing of more grizzly bears by the Wyoming Game and Fish, a listed endangered species, to protect ranchers in the Upper Green River Allotment on the Bridger Teton National Forest is another shameful example of the mixed-up priorities and mismanagement of our public lands. Why should native animals, especially endangered animals, be killed…
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Trump Escalates War on Species as We Face an Extinction Emergency
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-21
| The Trump administration’s recent announcement of rule changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) will blow a hole through protections that have been crucial to preventing extinctions and to helping the recovery of many threatened species. The changes, announced by the Interior Department’s, Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service, will take effect in September. | About 1,600 plant and animal species in the U.S. are listed under the ESA. It’s been estimated the ESA…
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The Dead Letter Office of Capitalist Imperium: a Poverty of Mundus Imaginalis
Kenn Orphan — Phil Rockstroh | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
PR: What has been of greater service to humanity, the dark vision of humanity, limned in satire, by Jonathan Swift or the positivity-rancid homilies of corporate church of self-actualization? What is more propitious to the psyche, a descent into the underworld by Orphic imagination or the Icarusian dazzle on Instagram or the narcissistic intoxication induced…
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In Protest Against Police Raping Spree, Women Burn Their Station in Mexico City
Johnny Hazard | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
About two thousand people, mostly young women (many of whom identify themselves as anarcofeministas), marched and rampaged through the Zona Rosa area of Mexico City on Friday, August 16. This was the second such action in less than a week. The first, on Monday, was in direct reaction to a young woman’s accusation against four…
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Offering Choice But Delivering Tyranny: the Corporate Capture of Agriculture
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies to maximise choice and options. At the same time, somewhat ironically, they decry organic agriculture and proven agroecological approaches, presumably because these practices have no need for…
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Bolsonaro greenlights new pesticides even as advocates mourn half billion dead bees in Brazil
Jessica Corbett | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-21
Pointing to the deaths of more than half a billion bees in Brazil over a period of just four months, beekeepers, experts, and activists are raising concerns about the soaring number of new pesticides greenlighted for use by the Brazilian government since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January–and the threat that it poses …
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‘Slowbalization’: Is the Slowing Global Economy a Boon or Bane?
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
A group of Italians started the Slow Food movement back in the 1980s. Stay away from fast-food restaurants, they urged: eat local, focus on traditional recipes, relax, and enjoy your meal. The Slow Food movement began as a protest against McDonald’s, which opened a new franchise near the Spanish Steps in Rome. But it grew…
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2 American servicemen killed in Afghanistan — NATO
rt.com | 2019-08-21
Two US soldiers have been killed in action in Afghanistan, according to NATO’s press office. The alliance did not elaborate on the cause of death or release the names of the servicemen. | Sixteen US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan so far in 2019, 14 of them in combat and the other two in accidents aboard an American warship. | Taliban attacks have also spiked this year, inflicting major civilian casualties in bombings in Kabul and elsewhere. Earlier this month, the group claimed responsibility for a bombing that injured 100 people and killed 18. | DETAILS TO FOLLOW…
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2 American servicemen killed in Afghanistan — NATO
rt.com | 2019-08-21
Two US soldiers have been killed in action in Afghanistan, according to NATO’s press office. The alliance did not elaborate on the details of death or release the names of the servicemen. | Sixteen US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan so far in 2019, 14 of them in combat and the other two in accidents aboard an American warship. Most recently, in late July, two US soldiers perished in a ‘green-on-blue’ attack, in which an allied Afghan soldier opened fire on the servicemen. | Meanhwile, Taliban attacks have also spiked this year, inflicting major civilian casualties in bombings in Kabul and elsewhere. E…
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Warning over increasing violence at Pentonville Prison
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-21
Violence fuelled by gangs, drugs, debt and “volatile young prisoners” has “increased markedly” at one of the country’s oldest and busiest jails, inspectors have warned. | Violence has shot up by more than 50% since 2017 at HMP Pentonville in north London, the Inspectorate of Prisons said on Wednesday. | Inspectors found the prison was unsafe and plans for activities, rehabilitation and release were not good enough. | In the last six months there have been 264 assaults on staff and inmates and 61 fights, compared with 196 and 65 respectively during a previous inspection. | The problems were “clear and serious” wit…
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Brian Banks: A false rape accusation and its consequences
wsws.org | 2019-08-21
Brian Banks is based on the true story of a black high school football star in Long Beach, California falsely accused of rape at the age of 16. Rosie deals with homelessness in Dublin and Angels Are Made of Light the war in Afghanistan.
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Elizabeth Warren Announces Plan to Protect Black Farm Ownership
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-21
| Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren released farm policy plans this month that intend to address discrimination against farmers of color and protect heirs’ property ownership. Her proposals cite ProPublica’s investigation into the historic and ongoing dispossession of heirs’ property o…
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How Elizabeth Warren Works the Political System
David Dayen | commondreams.org | 2019-08-21
What sets Senator Elizabeth Warren apart is that she uses the levers of power available to politicians with a platform in Washington to achieve progress—and she is willing to criticize allies in the process. (Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Unique climate change has no natural cause
Tim Radford | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-21
European and U.S. scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years, but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause. Other historic changes — the …
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Amid Warnings of Recession, Trump Proposes More Tax Cuts for the Rich
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-21
| The Trump administration has floated a new round of tax cuts for the rich and slashing the payroll tax used to fund Social Security and Medicare to ease worries of a recession, which the White House insists is not happening despite dire warnings from economists and the stock market. | Despite the stock market plummeting over concerns of a loo…
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Condescension and Climate Change: Australia and the Failure of the Pacific Islands Forum
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
It was predictably ugly: in tone, in regret, and, in some ways, disgust. Australia emerged from the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting isolated, the true spoiler of the party which saw 17 states facing the obstinacy of one. It had taken place on Tuvalu, some two hours flight north of Fiji. The capital Funafuti is…
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The Smiling Turtle
Gary Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
The smiling turtle looks like he’s About to break into a laugh He’s been Waiting a long time for the punch-line I am not smiling My mirror has misted up I feel the closeness of the swamp I think we are sinking Into the muck of our business We have to call off the meeting…
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Sleater-Kinney — Can I Go On
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
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Endangered Species Act: A Failure Worth Fighting For?
Craig Collins | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
Everyone who gives a damn about the planet is denouncing Trump’s latest attack on the Endangered Species Act. But little is being said about this law’s actual impact on the fate of endangered species. In theory, the collapse of global biodiversity was supposed to be prevented by the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the Convention on International Trade of Endangered (CITES). But in reality this has amounted to trying to stop a raging wildfire with a squirt gun.
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Brazilian Congress Committee Approves US to Use Alcantara Base
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
The Foreign and Defense Committee of the Brazilian Congress has just approved by majority vote the U.S.’ commercial use of the Alcântara Base along Brazil’s north Atlantic coast. | RELATED: | Brazil: the Far-Right’s Lawfare Now Aims at Professor Haddad | This move comes just months after President Jair Bolsonaro inked a deal with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump to allow the Americans access to this satellite launching base. | As a result of this move by the Foreign and Defense C…
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump EPA’s 200 Million-acre Expansion of Bee-killing Pesticide

| globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety sued the Trump administration today over its July decision to approve use of the bee-killing pesticide sulfoxaflor across more than 200 million acres of crops. | The approval was granted despite …
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A Nightmare of Homelessness: A Knapsack Full of Dreams
John Clarke | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Cathy Crowe’s book A Knapsack Full of Dreams: Memoirs of a Street Nurse comes out of decades of witnessing and challenging a growing blight of destitution and poverty in Toronto that has developed with the advance of the neoliberal agenda. …
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Half a Billion Bees Drop Dead in Brazil Amid Jump in Pesticide Use
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Bee apocalypse has unfolded in four of Brazil’s southern states in 1Q19. More than half a billion bees died earlier this year, in a short period, experts are suggesting that pesticides are likely to be blamed, reported Bloomberg. | ….
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Video: Syrian Tiger Forces Advance to Encircle Khan Shaykhun
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Government forces are rapidly advancing in southern Idlib inflicting large casualties to radical militant groups. | During the weekend, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies have liberated the villages of Khirbat Abidin, Hursh al-Tawilah, Mughr Hunta, …
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Colonization and Americanization of Hawaii: Replacing Hawaiian Culture
Kioni Dudley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
Summary | In 1959, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 1469 relieving the U.S. from the reporting requirements under Article 73 e, after finding that the people of the territory had exercised self-government by choosing to become a state of the | …
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Fast Bowling, Concussions and Jofra Archer
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
We should all be cheering on some level. So much in this age of cricket favours the pampered bat over the stifled ball. The game of duration has suffered: five-day test matches are struggling before diminishing attention spans and ever …
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Antifa Is Not a ‘Terrorist Organization,’ But That Doesn’t Make It Good
Jeffrey C. Isaac | commondreams.org | 2019-08-21
Antifa is not a threat to U.S. democracy. White supremacists are. And a President who offers them inspiration and encouragement is an even greater threat. But neither is Antifa an appropriate or representative form of democratic response to these threats. (Photo: Alexandros Michailidis | Shutterstock.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Trump might one day NUKE Denmark, ‘prophetic’ Ted Cruz predicted in 2016
rt.com | 2019-08-21
No one could have predicted in 2016 that US President Donald Trump would be throwing a geopolitical hissy fit over Denmark’s refusal to consider his offer to buy Greenland. No one, that is, except… Republican ex-rival Ted Cruz? | “I don’t know anyone who would be comfortable with someone who behaves this way having his finger on the [nuclear] button. We’re liable to wake up one morning and Donald, if he were president, would’ve nuked Denmark,” Cruz told a crowd during a New Hampshire campaign event in February 2016. | With Trump cancelling a visit to Denmark in a fit of pique after PM Mette Fredriksen ref…
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UK government prepares for social unrest following no-deal Brexit
wsws.org | 2019-08-21
The crisis wracking the ruling elite over Brexit is the most severe since the Second World War.
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Brexit — or Not? Fearmongering. Masters of Manipulating Public Opinion
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
BREXIT deadline is 31 October 2019. On 23 June 2016, the British people voted 52% against 48% to leave the European Union. In England alone, the margin was somewhat higher, 53.4% for leaving the EU, against 46.6% for staying.
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Portland rejects proud boys & other ultra-right groups as Trump tries to criminalize Antifa
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-21
A crowd of white nationalists took to the streets of Portland, Oregon, over the weekend for what they dubbed the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally. But they were outnumbered by a massive response from counterprotesters, who gathered across the city as police escorted members of the Proud Boys, Patriot Prayer and other right-wing groups across one …
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Scars of terrorism ‘run deep’, UN chief says, paying tribute to victims
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-21
The scars of terrorism “run deep”, and while they may fade with time, “they never disappear”, the United Nations chief said on Wednesday, in his message for the second International Day of Remembrance and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism.
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‘A Bullhorn to His White Nationalist Base’: Progressive Jews Hit Back After Trump’s Anti-Semitic Smear
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-21
“This rhetoric from the president is going to get Jews killed. It already has.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Amid Recession Warnings, Trump Reportedly Considering More Tax Cuts for Rich and Corporations
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-21
“Two of Trump’s ideas for stimulating the economy are 1) cutting the corporate tax rate a little more (after cutting it a lot didn’t do much), and 2) indexing capital gains to inflation. It’s tax cuts for the rich all the way down.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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After Decades of Corporate ‘Decimation’ of Unions, Sanders Says It Is Time for Workers to Win the Class War
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-21
“If there is going to be class warfare in this country, it’s time that the working class of this country won that war.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Progressive Jews Hit Back After Trump’s Anti-Semitic Smear
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-21
| Progressive Jews accused President Donald Trump of blaring ” straightforward anti-Semitism” after he said from the Oval Office on Tuesday that Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic Party are either ignorant or disloyal. | The smear — which sparked widespread outrage and the trending hashtag #DisloyaltoTrump — came after Trump once aga…
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Yemen: Lack of Funds Forces UN to Cancel Life-Saving Programs
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
United Nations and humanitarian groups were promised to receive US$2.6 billion in urgent help for Yemen at a pledging event held last February, however, less than half of the amount has been collected so far. | RELATED: | Yemen’s Houthis Agree to Lift Aid Suspension: UN Food Program | “We are desperate for the funds that were promised,” said Lise Grande, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen. “When money doesn’t come, people die.” | Only three U.N. humanitarian programs in Yemen are curren…
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Lack of funds forces UN to close down life-saving aid programmes in Yemen
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-21
The United Nations announced on Wednesday that it is being forced to close down several humanitarian programmes in Yemen because money pledged by Member States to pay for them has “failed to materialize”.
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Somalia security remains a concern, head of UN Mission warns Security Council
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-21
Despite “encouraging” developments, insecurity across Somalia remains a serious concern, James Swan, head of the UN Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), warned the Security Council, in his first briefing to the world body since taking office.
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Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, but at What Price?
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-21
With Jewish settlers dictating the political agenda in Israel, and constantly provoking Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, violence is likely to grow exponentially in the coming months.
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Meet Alvaro Enciso, the Artist Placing Crosses in Sonoran Desert to Memorialize Migrant Deaths
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-21
More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to embark on an uncertain and perilous journey to the United States. On a recent visit to the Arizona borderlands, Democracy Now! accompanied Tucson-based artist Alvaro Enciso into the desert at the site where he placed four unique markers to honor four immigrants killed in a car accident years ago as they fled from Border Patrol. In the past five years, Enciso, who is originally from Colombia, has built and installed over 900 crosses across the treacherous Sonoran Desert in Arizona as part o…
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The fall and rise of public heroism
Robert Skidelsky | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-21
Recently I watched The Man Who Was Too Free, a moving documentary about the Russian dissident politician Boris Nemtsov, who was gunned down in front of the Kremlin in 2015. A young, handsome rising political star in the 1990s, Nemtsov later refused to bend to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s authoritarianism and went into opposition, where he was …
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APTP Monthly Membership Meeting: Scott Morris on Santa Rita Jail
Anti Police-Terror Project | indybay.org | 2019-08-21
East Side Arts Alliance | 2277 International Blvd. | Oakland, CA 94606…
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Emergency Palantir Mass Mobilization–#StopICEterror
Coaltion to Close the Concentration Camps | indybay.org | 2019-08-21
100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301-1616, United States | (Palantir Headquarters)…
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History: US Encroachment Encouraged Japan To Support Hitler and Mussolini
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
During late September 1940, Japanese representatives like Sabur≈ç Kurusu flew to Berlin where they were greeted by the ruler of Europe, Adolf Hitler. Kurusu, an experienced career diplomat from Yokohama, could not help but notice the Nazi self-assurance at …
globalresearch.ca/ongoing-western-encroa…

An Artist Is Placing Crosses in Sonoran Desert to Memorialize Migrant Deaths
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-21
| More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to embark on an uncertain and perilous journey to the United States. On a recent visit to the Arizona borderlands, Democracy Now! accompanied Tucson-based artist Alvaro Enciso into the desert at the site where he placed four unique markers to honor four immigrants killed in a car accident years ago as they fled from Border Patrol. In the past five years, Enciso, who i…
truthout.org/video/an-artist-is-placing-…

What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
The main problem with the US economy is that globalism has been deconstructing it. The offshoring of US jobs has reduced US manufacturing and industrial capability and associated innovation, research, development, supply chains, consumer purchasing power, and tax base of …
globalresearch.ca/globalism-transfer-us-…

Selected Articles: Mainstream Media Betrayal of Assange
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media “NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize”, and where “nuclear weapons and wars make us safer”. | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-main…

Trump calls for naval blockade of Venezuela
wsws.org | 2019-08-20
The US president’s demand for a military option reflects growing desperation in Washington over the failure of its regime-change operation.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/20/vene…

Why the world is watching the fate of an Iranian tanker in the Mediterranean
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-08-20
The British, it is clear, seized the Iranian tanker at the urging of the United States. There was no previous British warning that it might enter in such a muscular way into the U.S. attempt to suffocate Iran. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/19/why-the-world-is…

Jammu and Kashmir: the Legitimacy of Article 370
Nyla Ali Khan | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
Introduction The recent unilateral decision of Prime Minister Modi’s government to revoke Article 370, which guaranteed the special status of Jammu and Kashmir; dismemberment of the State, and its diminishment are flagrant violations of the sovereign Constitution of India. These maneuvers jeopardize the federal structure of India. The erosion of the rights and privileges of…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/jammu-and-ka…

West Papua: Indonesia Gov’t Sends Troops Ahead of More Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-20
Indonesia deployed more troops Tuesday to West Papua, as protests are expanding to various communities in the region, with reports of injuries and violent attacks that contradict previous statements by the Indonesian government that assured that the unrest was contained. | RELATED: | Thousands Demand Independence in Indonesia’s Papua Regions | President Joko Widodo’s top Security Minister, Wiranto, told reporters on Tuesday that Jakarta will deploy more troops to the region to forest…
telesurenglish.net/news/West-Papua-Indon…

Review: Russian revolution revered as trailblazing event in the developing world
Tony Pecinovsky | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-20
“Like a brilliant sun, the [1917] October [Bolshevik] Revolution shone over all five continents, awakening millions of oppressed and exploited people around the world. There has never existed such a revolution of such significance and scale in the history of humanity,” wrote a young H·ªì Chí Minh while in Paris. He had just read the …
peoplesworld.org/article/russian-revolut…

Russia, Racism… Recession? Trump says Democrats hope for economic bust to hurt him in 2020
rt.com | 2019-08-20
US President Donald Trump is accusing Democrats and the media of trying to bring about a recession in order to hurt his 2020 re-election. His critics reply that they’re only stating the facts… just like they did with Russiagate? | “The word recession is inappropriate… We’re very far from a recession,” Trump said on Tuesday, adding that his critics would “love to see” an economic downturn. Earlier, he tweeted a video clip of Fox Business host Lou Dobbs blaming “radical Democrats” for the recession talk. | pic.twitter.com/WyGbgUGEhJ– Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTr…
rt.com/usa/466931-trump-recession-media-…

Tell Greyhound: ICE off our buses!
FIRE | workers.org | 2019-08-20
The call to action below can be shared and signed at bit.ly/ICEoffBuses. Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees Everywhere is a multinational, multigenerational and multigendered organization based in the U.S., seeking to bring together all sectors of society to concentrate on abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, immediately putting an end to . . . | Continue reading Tell Greyhound: ICE off our buses! at Workers.org
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The Trump Administration’s Immigration Policy Is This Sadistic
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2019-08-20
The flu was the cause in three of the at least seven migrant kids’ deaths in U.S. Customs and Border Control custody in the last year. However, CBP officials are declining to provide flu vaccines at detention facilities to stop the spread of the virus, according to a new report from CNBC. | A CBP spokeswoman defended the decision on the grounds that supposedly families wouldn’t be in custody l…
truthdig.com/articles/u-s-denies-flu-sho…

Make love, not war? Department of PEACE plan unveiled by Marianne Williamson, and Twitter loves it
rt.com | 2019-08-20
Democratic presidential hopeful and spiritual guru Marianne Williamson has revealed a proposal for a new “Department of Peace,” a project devoted to “ending the scourge of violence” around the world. Twitter felt the good vibes. | The proposal was rolled out on Monday night in a post on Williamson’s website, calling for a new cabinet-level department. The plan lists a lofty series of goals, ranging from addressing “white supremacy” and domestic gun violence, to developing “restorative justice programs” and “new structures of nonviole…
rt.com/usa/466918-marianne-williamson-pe…

Kushner’s Threat to Palestine: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein
Colter Louwerse | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
Norman Finkelstein is a leading authority on the Israel-Palestine conflict. While most observers have proclaimed Jared Kushner’s ongoing ‘peace’ initiative to be dead in the water, Norman warns that it may pose a serious threat to the Palestinians. In part 1 of this interview, I spoke with him about what we can expect from the…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/kushners-thr…

Say no to the McCarthyite attack on Chicago teachers
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-20
As the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) find itself locked in tough contract negotiations and faces the possibility of a strike, corporate and right-wing media like the Chicago Tribune, Breitbart and others have launched a bizarre attack that seems like it is straight out of the 1950s red scare. Rather than addressing the real problems impacting teachers and students in Chicago schools, these reactionary pundits have decided the rant and rave about – of all things – a delegation of teachers that traveled to Venezuela earlier this summer. | Here are the facts of the matter. A group of teachers who are also members of…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/20/say-no-m…

Biden’s Complicity in Obama’s Toxic Legacy
Peter Bolton | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
According to recent polling data, former Vice President Joe Biden has a two-to-one lead over his next closest rival in the Democratic primary contest, Bernie Sanders. According to a Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll, Biden has 34 percent support from registered Democratic voters compared to 17 percent who support Sanders. This will surely embolden those in the establishment wing of the Democratic Party who claim that a moderate, centrist figure like Biden stands the best chance of defeating Trump next year.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/bidens-assoc…

Julian Assange’s father warns WikiLeaks’ publisher’s health is “declining rapidly” in Belmarsh Prison
wsws.org | 2019-08-20
“The government will willingly sacrifice Julian’s well-being to the demands of the US and the UK.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/20/ship…

New York Police Department fires cop who killed Eric Garner
wsws.org | 2019-08-20
The NYPD fired officer Daniel Pantaleo over five years after he choked to death Staten Island resident Eric Garner.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/20/garn…

The NYPD Finally Fired the Cop Who Killed Eric Garner — but the Police Reaction Shows How Little Will Change
Natasha Lennard | theintercept.com | 2019-08-20
The decision will not alter the entrenched police ideology that allows for deaths like Garner’s — showing why reform will be slow and tough.
theintercept.com/2019/08/20/nypd-eric-ga…

Monroeism is the Other Side of Jim Crow, the Side Facing South
Frederick B. Mills | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
Presentation before the Forum of Sà£o Paulo, Washington DC, on July the 20th, 2019 This Forum of Sà£o Paulo of Washington DC marks a significant step forward in building North-South solidarity on behalf of economic and social justice throughout the hemisphere and respect for the sovereign equality of nations. The Forum comes on the heels of…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/monroeism-is…

‘Run, hide, or fight’: Louisiana State University warns of ‘armed intruder’ in a tweet
rt.com | 2019-08-20
The Louisiana State University’s campus was temporarily placed on lockdown after a report of a gunman on its grounds. The university responded with a warning, telling its students in a tweet to “run, hide or fight.” | The university first warned about an armed intruder on Tuesday afternoon, and soon followed up its initial tweet with advice to “Run: Exit the area and move away from danger. Hide: If escape is not possible, find a safe area to hide. Fight: This is an absolute last resort.” | Run: Exit the area and move away from danger. | Hide: If escape is not possible, find a safe area to hide. | Fight: This i…
rt.com/usa/466928-louisiana-university-a…

Is Hong Kong Important? For Whom?
Daniel Warner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
Hundreds of thousands in the streets of Hong Kong protesting the anti-extradition bill for now over ten weeks; thousands closing down the busy international airport; an influential British parliamentarian proposing to return UK citizenship to Hong Kong residents; Chinese students supporting the government and those supporting the protesters clashing in foreign countries; videos showing Chinese…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/is-hong-kong…

Einstein’s Atomic Regrets
Karl Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
“If I had known that the Germans would not succeed in constructing an atom bomb, I never would have moved a finger,” wrote Albert Einstein in his 1950 book Out of My Later Years. He was speaking about a letter from his vacation home on Nassau Point on Long Island that warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt of a breakthrough in Nazi Germany in nuclear fission which could “lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable…extremely powerful bombs of a new type.” Atom bombs.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/einsteins-at…

A Clerk’s Guide to the Unspectacular, 1914
Martin Billheimer | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
“There ain’t nothing to do…” — Dead Boys Now available for the first time in English, Jean de la Ville de Mirmont’s Sundays of Jean Dézert is a series of dryly comic vignettes in the life of a young Parisian petit bourgeois on the eve of the Great War. This kind of book describes a…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/a-clerks-gui…

Twitter’s new policy on ‘state-controlled news media’ should concern us all
Mohamed Elmaazi | thecanary.co | 2019-08-20
Twitter has announced an update to its advertisement policy which may reflect yet another assault on free speech by social media giants. On 19 August, Twitter declared that: Going forward, we will not accept advertising from state-controlled news media entities. | While this may not see…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/08/20/twitters…

The Mythology of the Stock Market
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
The stock market enjoys a mythological place not only among mainstream media types, but also among many progressives. For some reason this measure of expected future corporate profits is taken as a measure of economic well-being. The fact that the media obsesses over the stock market hardly needs to be mentioned. If there is one…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/the-mytholog…

On the 10-Year Treasury Bonds
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
On the 10-Year Treasury Bonds Unless there is radical change The 10-year Treasury bond Can be, with some certainty, expected To yield a world substantially hotter And far more polluted — In which the air is poison And the forests all are wrecked The oceans have no coral reefs left, Next to no fish And…
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God, Guns and Video Games
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
The din struck by videos of the gaming variety; its forced causal link (always alleged, never proved) to altering conduct, continues its relentless march across the discussion forums in the United States and beyond. The almost casual butcheries — actual, not as opposed to digital — have gone on unabated, the next extremist taking a murderous shot at his role in history — and everybody else. Now it is the white supremacists who are sharing top billing with previous jihadi enthusiasts, a concession on the part of law enforcement authorities that there might be something to say about using the word…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/20/god-guns-and…

Toni Morrison: Beloved or Belovéd?
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-20
One of the strangest-turned-ugly conversations I’ve ever found myself trapped in had to do with the pronunciation of Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. Should you say it with or without the accent? I was beginning a new career as an English teacher overseas — in Istanbul — and was unpacking my books in my new “digs”
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Sob o “escudo” de mísseis nucleares USA na Europa
Mondialisation | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-20
A instalaàßà£o de mísseis da NATO em Deveselu, na Roménia, que faz parte do sistema Aegis americano de “defesa anti-mísseis”, terminou a “actualizaàßà£o” que comeàßou em Abril passado. Comunica a NATO, assegurando que “nà£o conferiu nenhuma capacidade ofensiva ao sistema”, …
globalresearch.ca/sob-o-escudo-de-missei…

Lula: “U.S. hand” on everything that’s happened in Brazil
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-20
In an interview with Bob Fernandes, on TVE Bahia, former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said that the U.S. government “created the Lava Jato investigation to take our oil.” | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/20/lula-u-s-hand-on…

Behind Fiat Chrysler’s $4.5 billion investment in the Motor City
wsws.org | 2019-08-20
The investment of $4.5 billion by FCA in automotive manufacturing in Detroit is part of a global strategy predicated on further dramatic reductions in labor costs.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/20/fiat…

Turkey removes HDP mayors amid impending military attack on Syria
wsws.org | 2019-08-20
The Turkish government removed mayors belonging to the Kurdish nationalist party as it plans a renewed attack on Kurdish YPG militias in Syria.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/20/turk…

Pentagon Officials Eager to Present a Recovering ISIS, but Facts Don’t Support It
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-08-20
The Pentagon clearly wants this to be true, because they are using it to spin a US military withdrawal from Syria as dangerous.

Pentagon Officials Eager to Present a Recovering ISIS, but Facts Don’t Support It