2019-07-25: Social Media Postees

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Tulsi Gabbard, Ayanna Pressley Votes in Favor of Anti-BDS Bill
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
The 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard came under fire for voting in favor of condemning the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. | RELATED: | Ilhan Omar Introduces Bill Backing Pro-Palestine BDS Movement | The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday passed (398-17) a nonbinding resolution condemning the BDS…
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Iran Seizure of a British Tanker: More than Tit for Tat
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-25
The British-flagged tanker "Steno Impero", heading for Saudi Arabia, was seized on Friday, 19 July 2019, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the Strait of Hormuz, after it rammed an Iranian fishing boat, whose distress call it ignored. The tanker was taken to an Iranian port, because it was not complying with "international …
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Bolsonaro Refuses to Supply Fuel to Iranian Cargo Ships
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Since the beginning of June, two Iranian commercial ships have been stranded at the port of Paranagua, in the state of Parana, in Brazil because the state-owned company, Petrobras has so far refused to supply fuel to them, in line with sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Iran, according to comments made by President Jair Bolsonaro to reports earlier this week. | RELATED: | Iran Hints at Possible Swap of Seized Tankers | "You know we are aligned with the U.S. policy. That is why…
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Iran Is Gambling That Trump Is Afraid of War
Tony Karon | thenation.com | 2019-07-25
Iran Is Gambling That Trump Is Afraid of War…
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Iran: How Bolton tricked Clueless UK Conservatives into Confrontation with Tehran
Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Simon Tisdall at The Guardian explains the difference between Socialist Spain and the disorganized Conservatives in control of UK on foreign policy. | US national security adviser John Bolton tried to hoodwink both of them about the Grace I, a Panamanian-flagged …
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Mossadegh in Reverse
Haydar Khan | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
Donald Trump, our right-wing populist president, is in a trap. It is mostly of his own making, and he is desperate to escape it. The supreme irony is that Iran, a defiant foreign power, is springing this trap. Iran once had its very own populist leader, who was trapped and then deposed by the U.S.
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Iran Imposes Its Rule of Engagement: "An Eye for an Eye"
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Iran has meticulously selected its political steps and military targets in recent months, both in the Gulf and the international arena. Its partial and gradual withdrawal — tactical yet lawful -from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known as …
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Tear Gas Company Owner Resigns From Whitney Museum Board
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2019-07-25
Artists, activists and museum staff launched protests after learning that chemicals made by Warren Kanders' company were used on migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
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115 Migrants Feared Dead as Boat Capsizes off Libya
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
About 115 people are missing and feared to have drowned and another 134 were rescued by Libyan coast guards and local fishermen after a wooden boat carrying migrants capsized off Libya, a Libyan navy official said Thursday. | RELATED: | EU Commission Should Let Rescue Boats Dock, Rackete Asks | "The worst Mediterranean tragedy of this year has just occurred," UNHCR head Filippo Grandi said in a tweet. Earlier, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said that up to 150 people were feared dead.
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Venezuela Hosts 25th Meeting of Leftist 'Sao Paulo Forum'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Embracing "Peace, Sovereignty and Prosperity of the Peoples" as a common goal, over 120 Latin American social and political organizations began Thursday the 25th Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum (SPF) in Caracas, Venezuela. | RELATED: | Sao Paulo Forum: Leftist Leaders Reaffirm Regional Unity | Their debates will be focused on the neoliberal offensive against Latin American peoples and its consequences regarding the increase in poverty and inequality. Amidst the United States aggression ag…
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Lebanon's New Work Permit Laws, Directed against Palestinians and Syrian Refugees
CFJPIME | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) condemns the Lebanese government's new work permit laws which discriminate against Syrian and Palestinian refugees working in the country. CJPME urges the Lebanese government to put an end to its …
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US Puppet Wants Help Making Thailand Like America
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
The US is involved in regime change worldwide — from Venezuela in South America, to Ukraine in Eastern Europe, to Syria in the Middle East, to Afghanistan in Central Asia. | But these headline-grabbing wars, coups, color revolutions, and interventions are …
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Sudan Military: Officers Arrested Over Coup Attempt
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Sudan's military said Wednesday it managed to prevent a coup attempt and arrested a number of senior officers who were plotting to restore ousted President Omar al-Bashir to power. | RELATED: | Sudan: Military Council, Opposition Sign Political Agreement | "The failed attempt aims to abort your glorious revolution and to return the former National Congress regime to power, and to disrupt the path before the expected political solution that aims to establish a civilian state," said…
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Drought Threatens Lives of 15 Million People in Africa's Horn
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
The humanitarian organization Oxfam Thursday warned that more than 15 million people are at severe risk due to drought in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia, the countries at the "Horn of Africa." | RELATED: | Suicide Attack in Somalia: Mayor Wounded, Officials killed | According to recent studies, the overall number of people in need of immediate humanitarian assistance are 5.4 million in Somalia, 8.3 million in Ethiopia and 1.6 million in Kenya. | Of that 15.3 million Africans who are a…
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Lula's Native Region Showcases Afro and Indigenous Folklore
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Garanhuns, a city off the beaten track in northeastern Brazil and the hometown of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, hosts a huge festival each year that showcases Brazilian folklore, which boasts elements of African and European culture. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro: Hunger, Poverty in Brazil: 'A Big Lie' | Maracatu drums, string literature and empanadas, or meat pies, as well as wine, are served during the 10-day event in the streets of Garanhuns, which will host its 29th Winter Festival fr…
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Spain's Sanchez Fails to Form Gov't After Rejecting Podemos
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez lost a vote of confidence Thursday after he rejected the demands of the leftist Unidas Podemos party, declaring that he will not attempt to do form a government again, meaning snap elections will be triggered for November 2019. | RELATED: | Spain Elections: Far-Right Rises In Polls As Podemos Falls | Pedro Sanchez's party, the center-left PSOE, was the largest party at the recent elections in April. However, fell short of a parliamentary majorit…
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Mueller's Congressional Testimony Lays an Egg
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
His 7-hour Wednesday Q & A spectacle was much ado about nothing. | Undemocratic Dems wanting grist for their rage to impeach Trump got nothing to make their case. | The charade was an embarrassment to the maestro of malign intent, unable …
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Big Pharma Fueled Opioid Crisis
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
The widespread opioid epidemic is perhaps the most serious public health crisis in the US. | It's fueled by Big Pharma greed and indifference to the health and welfare of ordinary people — facilitated by ruling authorities in Washington, doing little …
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War Profiteers and the Demise of the US Military-Industrial Complex
Cluborlov | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Within the vast bureaucratic sprawl of the Pentagon there is a group in charge of monitoring the general state of the military-industrial complex and its continued ability to fulfill the requirements of the national defense strategy. Office for acquisition and …
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Robert Mueller Testimony Disappoints Democrats Who Bet on Special Counsel to Help Sink Trump
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-25
Special counsel Robert Mueller gave his much-anticipated testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, where he spoke for the first time about his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections. Over the 7-hour hearing, Mueller stressed to the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees that despite Donald Trump's claims, he had not exonerated the president of obstruction of justice. Mueller's report was handed in 124 days ago, but only a redacted version was made available to the public. Ahead of Mueller's testimony, the Justice Department warned Mueller in a letter to "remain within the bound…
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Mothers Nature and Human: Another Blueprint for Survival
Stephen Corry | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
The real fight for biodiversity is also a fight against prejudice and patriarchy, against inequality and cruelty. It's a fight against the corrosive and self-defeating pretence that nature is separate from humanity. That's simply not true: Both nature and humanity are our mother and each is part of the other, as everyone once knew and we must now learn afresh. Our fight must yoke human rights to environmental concerns and so point the way to the survival of a better and kinder world.
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Bolivian Opposition Plan Protests to Destabilize Elections
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
A senior figure of Bolivia's right-wing opposition has announced plans for a 'national revolt' to destabilize the upcoming presidential elections, because they believe Evo Morales should not be on the ballot paper. Social movements have denounced the plans as 'undemocratic'. | RELATED: | Bolivian Opposition Will Privatize Gas Reserves, Minister Warns | Opposition lawmaker Rafael Quispe announced on Wednesday a fresh round of national mobilizations, starting on the 10th of Octo…
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Pa'lante Puerto Rico
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-25
Just before midnight on Wednesday, Puerto Rico's governor Ricardo Rossello announced in a prerecorded video message that he would resign, effective Friday, Aug. 2. This capped close to two weeks of nonstop protests. | In Old San Juan, cries of "!Ricky Renuncia!" had been ringing out alongside the traditional refrain, "!Pa'lante!" The first was a demand for the embattled Rossello to resign, while the latter means "onward, forward." The Caribbean island (along with its smaller islands, Vieques and Culebra) is at a historic crossroads. Hundreds of thousands of people have been marching and protesting daily, followin…
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Puerto Ricans Demonstrate How to Oust a Corrupt Leader
Sonali Kolhatkar | truthdig.com | 2019-07-25
The movement that forced Ricardo Rosselló to step down as governor of Puerto Rico is one of the largest in the island's history. It unified people across the ideological and political spectrum toward a common purpose: ending the governor's corrupt regime. On Monday, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in San Juan to demand "Ricky Renuncia." | Traveling to her native Puerto Rico to witness what was unfolding, political activist and journalist Rosa Clemente told me in an interview that rumors had spread…
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No Accountability in Washington. The CIA Wants to Hide All Its Employees
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Government that actually serves the interests of the people who are governed has two essential characteristics: first, it must be transparent in terms of how it debates and develops policies and second, it has to be accountable when it fails …
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California and 4 Automakers Defy Trump's Fuel Emissions Rules
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Four major automakers said on Thursday they have reached an agreement with California on fuel efficiency rules, bypassing a Trump administration effort to strip the state of the right to fight climate change by setting its own standards. | RELATED: | Earth's Climate Nowadays, Warmest Period of the Past 2,000 Years: Study | California and other states had vowed to enforce stricter Obama-era emissions standards, after President Donald Trump proposed rolling back the federal rules. | Au…
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How to Get Children Out of Cages
Warren Binford | progressive.org | 2019-07-25
The evidence is consistent, and damning–children are being hurt. We don't have to agree on the outcome in order to do the right thing.
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Climate Change the Culprit for European Heatwave: Expert
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Paris's temperatures registered above 40.4 C Thursday, the first time since July 28, 1947, as extreme heat covers France and much of western Europe. Temperatures even rose to 42 C in the French capital, with moments at 43, according to EFE. | RELATED: | Earth's Climate Nowadays, Warmest Period of the Past 2,000 Years: Study | The heat it hitting on a national scale with records broken in Lille and Reims, and since Monday, 20 departments have been on red alert and another 60 on orange…
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'This is the beginning': new study warns climate crisis may have been pivotal in rise of drug-resistant superbug
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-25
Research argues that deadly Candida auris "may be the first example of a new fungal disease emerging from climate change." | Source…
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Imperial Duplicity and Mass Murder
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
A staple of Western war propaganda is what Prof. John McMurtry calls "Reverse Projection". The U.S. Empire, for example, projects its own crimes against prey nations. | So, it projects the lie that President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is a "brutal …
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Nicaragua: Telling the Truth as a Revolutionary Act
Gabriela Luna | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
"The (soft coup) effort (June 2018) to topple the democratically-elected government of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was originally led by students trained by US-funded "democracy promotion" programs (USAID). US-funded nongovernmental organizations, the Sandinista Renovation Movement political party, the Catholic Church …
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Conspiring with Neo-Nazi Parties: Washington and the EU's Role in the Kiev Coup
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
In the weeks preceding the February 2014 ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, American politicians were prominent in Kiev inciting the marchers so as to destabilize government institutions. From early December 2013 Victoria Nuland, a high-ranking official in …
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Conspiring with Neo-Nazi Parties: Washington and the EU's Role in the Kiev Coup
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
In the weeks preceding the February 2014 ousting of Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, US politicians were prominent in Kiev inciting the marchers to destabilize government institutions. Victoria Nuland, a high-ranking official in the US Department of State, made repeated trips to the Ukrainian capital…
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Aleppo Rebuilding Its Infrastructure, 1216 Projects Since Eliminating Terror
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
As hundreds of thousands of Aleppo residents returning to their homes since the Syrian Arab Army and its allies cleaned it from US-sponsored terror, the infrastructure must be rehabilitated and whatever needs to be rebuilt must be completed at the …
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Trump's "Proximity" to the Nuclear Weapons Trigger. Racism in America
John Stanton | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
"He has been glorified as a hero and obeyed as a ruler, but fundamentally he is always the same. His most fantastic triumphs have taken place in our own time, among people who set great store by the idea …
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13 Shocking Facts About Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller
Washington's Blog | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
First published in November 2017. Can we trust Robert Mueller with Trump-Russia probe? | *** | Talking heads act like Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is fair, impartial and unbiased. | But the facts are a wee bit different … | Failure to Aggressively Prosecute …
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New MH17 Documentary Proves Beyond a Doubt that a Cover-Up Took Place
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
The newly released documentary directed by Yana Yerlashova with the contribution of independent Dutch investigator Max van der Werff proves beyond a doubt that Ukraine and its Western partners did all that they could to cover up the true …
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New MH17 Documentary Proves Beyond a Doubt that a Cover-Up Took Place
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
MH17 – Call For Justice" sheds light on the dark truth of what happened immediately after the plane's downing. The video powerfully includes an interview with Malaysia's PM Minister Mahathir, who had earlier spoken out about the cover-up & reaffirms that Russia was blamed for before any information was known about the incident.
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The Campaign to Stop Corbyn — Smears, Racism and Censorship
Media Lens | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to …
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Radioactive Fallout of the First Atomic Bomb Explosion, "Trinity", July 16, 1945: "The Most Significant Hazard of the Entire Manhattan Project"
Kathleen M. Tucker | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
For the past several years, the controversy over radioactive fallout from the world's first atomic bomb explosion in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945–code-named Trinity–has intensified. Evidence collected by the New Mexico health department but ignored for some 70 …
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Getting Rid of Imperial Ambitions. UN Resolution to Terminate British Control over Chagos Archipelago
Sergey Sayenko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
The British authorities cannot get rid of imperial ambitions and appear to be yearningly recalling the times of the British Empire under Queen Victoria. At least, this is what the Chagos Archipelago situation testifies to. | Just a reminder: on May …
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Our Ruling Elites Have No Idea How Much We Want to See Them All in Prison Jumpsuits
Charles Hugh Smith | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Even the most distracted, fragmented tribe of the peasantry eventually notices that they're not in the top 1%, or the top 0.1%. | Let's posit that America will confront a Great Crisis in the next decade. This is the presumption of …
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Russia-Africa Relations: Economic, Strategic and Geopolitical Dimensions
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Following the Russia-Africa Economic Conference in Moscow last month and the Russia-Africa Parliamentary Conference on July 3rd, the first ever Russia-Africa political summit is scheduled for Sochi on October 24th. The summit will henceforth be planned as an annual event. …
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The Ten Suggestions
Paul Krassner | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
1) Stay well-informed and be on the alert for disinformation; besides mainstream media, check out alternative papers and the Internet, especially the international press. 2) Maintain empathy for the motivation of terrorists and sympathizers, bearing in mind that they are victims of their own conditioning. 3) Start saving the world by acting in every aspect…
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Volodymyr Zelensky's Landslide Victory in Ukraine May Become a Slippery Slope
Nicolai N. Petro | thenation.com | 2019-07-25
Volodymyr Zelensky's Landslide Victory in Ukraine May Become a Slippery Slope…
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It's Important to Always Ignore Thomas Friedman
Chris Wright | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
Whenever I read a column by the pustule called Thomas Friedman, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. To laugh at the hilarious attempts of an anthropoid carbuncle to sound vaguely human and Serious, or to cry at the fact that this abscess on the body politic is admired and deemed Serious by…all the polyps and tumors that run the media, the government, the corporate sector, the country, and the world.
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Media Ignoring US Officials Saying Trudeau Adopts "America First" foreign policy
Yves Engler | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
Wouldn't you think the corporate media would be interested in the US embassy's reaction to the appointment of a new Canadian foreign minister? Especially if that reaction was to claim Ottawa had decided to adopt an "America First" foreign policy? Wouldn't some big newspaper or TV station, dedicated to telling the truth about what our…
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It's Un-American to be Anti-Free Speech
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
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Killer Heat Forever, From Our Fossil-Fueled Inertia
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
For the equivalent of a week or more each year, about 120 million people across the U.S.A. will be exposed to conditions so hot, the heat index (or "feels like" temperature, which is produced by the combination of heat and humidity) will surpass the limits of the National Weather Service's heat index charts. Depending on locality at that time, the upper limit of the heat index scale could be at or above 127 ∞F (52.8 ∞C)…
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Reducing Carbon Emissions Must Not Be Done on the Backs of the World's Poorest
David Rosnick | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
By all appearances, the economic positions of the world's poorest people have improved considerably over the most recent three decades. Households living on $1.90 per capita per day have — on average — seen their real (inflation-adjusted) incomes grow approximately 4.2 percent per year for the last 30 years. Consequently, less than 10 percent of…
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Domestic Violence is Widespread in the Middle East
Cesar Chelala | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
Gender violence, manifested essentially as violence against women, is one of the most significant epidemics in the Middle East today. This kind of violence occurs in practically all countries in the region and affects families of all backgrounds, religions, and social spheres. It affects not only families but societies as a whole. It is estimated…
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The Great Reckoning A Look Back from Mid-Century
Andrew Bacevich | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
[Editorial note: This remnant of a manuscript, discovered in a vault near the coastal town of Walpole, Massachusetts, appears to have been part of a larger project, probably envisioned as an interpretive history of the United States since the year 2000. Only a single chapter, probably written near the midpoint of the twenty-first century, has…
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Marx on Children (and on Forgiving Christianity)
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
According to his daughter Eleanor, Karl Marx often said, "Despite everything, we can forgive Christianity much, because it has taught us to love children." What did he mean by that? In the gospels Jesus refers to children many times, repeatedly stating that one must become like a child to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew…
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Colombia Gov't Bails out Banks for Dissolved Odebrecht Project
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
The Colombian government said Wednesday it will bail out an Odebrecht-backed consortium in Colombia with the amount of 1.2 billion pesos, US$378 million. | RELATED: | Colombia: Duque's Party Proposes Law to Allow Convicted Politicians to Appeal | The money will be paid to seven banks that lent the capital for a national highway project which, due to the company's major corruption scandal and subsequent loss of funds, is being scrapped. | Minister of Transportation…
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Mueller's Testimony Exposes Trump for What He Really Is
Juan Cole | truthdig.com | 2019-07-25
This piece first appeared on Informed Comment. | Trump keeps trying to hypnotize people by saying "No collusion, no obstruction," and saying that Mueller exonerated him. Since so few Americans and so few in Congress will actually read the Mueller report, he thinks he can get away with the Big Lie. | Mueller explicitly denied yesterday that he had exonerated Trump. So that's a Trump lie. | The Mueller report contains ample evidence that Trump attempted to obstruct the Mueller investigation. In fact, we know that Trump tried as hard…
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'Algorithms don't write themselves': Google whistleblower on Big Tech merging with politics
rt.com | 2019-07-25
A senior Google software engineer has dismissed the idea that Big Tech can be politically neutral and called out his company as "very biased," joining Project Veritas' growing stable of whistleblowers. | …
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Credit Suisse Banker Pleads Guilty in Mozambique Loan Scandal
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2019-07-25
On Friday, former Credit Suisse banker Andrew Pearse pled guilty in US Federal Court for accepting millions of dollars in a fraud scheme that led to a $2 billion Mozambique loan scandal and debt crisis in the East African country.
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End Forever War? Divest Zionism. US Congress Passes Resolution which Violates Constitution
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
On Wednesday, the US House of "Representatives" passed a resolution that violates both the Constitution and natural law. | . | . | . | BREAKING: 398 House members just voted for H.Res.246 in a powerful statement opposing the global BDS campaign and its | …
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Mueller's Testimony Didn't Herald Impeachment — But Don McGahn's Might
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-25
| SCHIFF: Russia committed federal crimes in order to help Donald Trump? | MUELLER: When you're talking about computer crimes in the charge in our case, absolutely. | SCHIFF: The Trump campaign officials built their strategy — their messaging strategy around those stolen documents? | MUELLER: Generally that's true. | SCHIFF: And then they lied to cover it up. | MUELLER: Generally that's true.In case you missed it during all the hand-wringing (or crowing) over the unsteady, understated perform…
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Russiagate devotees bemoan Mueller's deflating testimony… but at least Maddow liked it
rt.com | 2019-07-25
Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress failed to live up to the expectations of many Russiagate-peddling pundits, with one notable exception being MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, who had glowing praise for the former special counsel. | …
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Judge Halts Puerto Rico Bankruptcy for 4 Months
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2019-07-25
In a hearing on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain told Puerto Rico's government, creditors and a federal oversight board that for 120 days all debt suits will be on hold and sent to mediation. Puerto Rico is attempting to resolve more than $72 billion in debt.
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Syria: Assad fails to recapture Idlib
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-25
The Bashir al Assad regime has made little progress in its attempt to recapture rebel-held territory in northwestern Syria. Rebels continue to control most of Idlib and parts of adjacent provinces, writes Chris Slee.
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Sex workers thrown under bus in Latimer case
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-25
The case of the release from prison of repeat sex offender Edward William Latimer shines a light on WA's archaic laws which place sex workers in harm's way, writes Emma Softly.
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Dangerous encounter of warplanes from four nations over Sea of Japan
wsws.org | 2019-07-25
While the US was not directly involved, its aggressive military buildup in Asia created the conditions for the aerial standoff.
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AIPAC's Anti-BDS Resolution Easily Wins Bipartisan Support
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2019-07-25
Palestine remains the litmus test issue and once again, the Democrats showed their true colors on July 23, 2019 with 209 Democrats joining 189 Republicans in voting for pro Zionist Israel AIPAC's HRes 246, Roll Call 497 opposing the Boycott Divest Sanctions Movement of the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. See https: //clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll497.xml. The bill may be found at www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/hou……
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Koch Industries Cultivate Antiwar Image While Profiting From Defense Contracts
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-25
| This article was produced by Sludge, an independent, ad-free investigative news site covering money in politics. Click here to support Sludge.Libertarian billionaire industrialist Charles Koch has gone to great lengths to paint himsel…
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Progressives to Democrats: We Are Watching the Way You Mistreat "the Squad"
Ted Rall | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
Strictly speaking, Nancy Pelosi is right. Led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, the four Congressional freshmen known as the Squad are, by Beltway standards, relatively powerless–just four votes, as the speaker said. They chair no committees and head no broad coalitions that can be counted upon to cast yeas and nays at their command. Yet…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/25/progressives…

'Clinton Body Count' trends on Twitter, establishment blames Russia
rt.com | 2019-07-25
Americans waking up to check Twitter were greeted with the trending hashtag "#ClintonBodyCount." Referencing a long-running conservative conspiracy theory, its re-emergence has of course been blamed on 'Russian bots.' | …
rt.com/usa/465068-clinton-body-count-twi…

Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-07-25
In this commentary from the World Socialist Web Site, Patrick Martin describes how a recent viral video helps expose fundamental lies behind doomsday predictions of an America on the brink of race war.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/25/1882496…

A Major Diplomatic Defeat for Duterte
Walden Bello | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-25
A vote In the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) instructing its High Commissioner to "prepare a comprehensive written report on the situation of human rights in the Philippines" has triggered an earthquake whose aftershocks continue to rock the Philippines weeks after the event. The resolution sponsored by Iceland, which passed with 18 votes affirmative…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/25/a-major-dipl…

America's Collapse: Asset Forfeiture
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Readers aware that I, and Dmitry Orlov, have been chronicling America's rapid decline ask me, "where did it all begin?" To answer that question would require a massive history such as Jacques Bazun's From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of …
globalresearch.ca/americas-collapse/5684…

Mueller testimony: Another debacle for the Democrats' anti-Russia campaign
wsws.org | 2019-07-25
The Democrats staged two House committee hearings with the former FBI head and special counsel in an attempt to revive their discredited claim that Putin stole the 2016 election for Trump.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/25/muel…

Profile: Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexiteer rewarded with Cabinet role
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-25
Jacob Rees-Mogg has been rewarded for his loyalty to Boris Johnson and his hardline Brexit views by being appointed as Leader of the House of Commons.In an unusual move, Mr Rees-Mogg will attend Cabinet meetings despite not being a full member of the Cabinet.The fourth of five children, Mr Rees-Mogg was born to a wealthy family steeped in the Conservative Party — his late father William Rees-Mogg was a former editor of The Times and was created a life peer in 1988, while his mother Gillian Shakespeare Morris's father was a Tory local government politician.Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage and Annunziata Rees-…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/07/25/profile-…

A Joint-Russia-China Air Patrol Just Made South Korean-Japanese Tensions Worse
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
The first-ever long-range joint air patrol between the Russian and Chinese Air Forces got off to a scandalous start after South Korea reportedly fired hundreds of warning shots to ward off what it says was Moscow's violation of its sovereign …
globalresearch.ca/joint-russian-chinese-…

Entire Navy SEAL platoon withdrawn from Iraq for drinking alcohol in latest US Special Forces shame
rt.com | 2019-07-25
An entire platoon of elite US Navy SEALs stationed in Iraq has been recalled to base in San Diego, amid allegations that they were drinking alcohol while on deployment. | …
rt.com/usa/465045-navy-seal-redeployed-d…

Ryan Grim: Tom Perez Was Elected Head of DNC Thanks to a "Silent Coup" in Puerto Rico in 2017
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-25
As Puerto Ricans celebrate the imminent departure of disgraced Governor Ricardo Rosselló, we speak with Intercept reporter Ryan Grim about how Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez benefited from what's been described as a "coup" within the Democratic Party in Puerto Rico. In his recent book, Grim revealed pro-statehood politicians–including some Republicans–quietly took over the Puerto Rico Democrats in 2017 and then offered full support for Perez in exchange for his support for statehood. This helped give Perez enough delegates to beat Keith Ellison in the race to head the DNC.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/25/ryan_grim…

Time to forget the word Russiagate & look into FBI-gate instead — Ron Paul
rt.com | 2019-07-25
The Democrats' dream of impeaching President Trump over the Russiagate scandal has "totally failed," its fate confirmed by special counsel Robert Mueller's disastrous showing in Congress, former congressman Ron Paul told RT. | …
rt.com/usa/464996-ron-paul-mueller-russi…

US Secretary of State Pompeo announces "new era" of US-Latin America reaction
wsws.org | 2019-07-25
Pompeo boasted about extraditing Assange, while demanding greater spying, anti-immigrant crackdowns and alignment with the US drive against its geopolitical rivals.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/25/pomp…

Pro-Palestinian Activists Persevere Amid Ongoing Turmoil in Gaza
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-25
| "I felt shaky and uneasy all day, preparing for this talk" — Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian from the territory of Gaza.Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew up in Gaza. In Chicago last week, addressing activists committed to breaking the siege of Gaza, he held up a stack of 31 papers. On each page were names of 1,254 Palestinians living in Gaza who had been killed in just one month of Israel's "Operation Protective Edge" attacks five years ago. | "I felt shaky an…
truthout.org/articles/pro-palestinian-ac…

California Has Its Faults
Michael Steinberg | indybay.org | 2019-07-25
Two big recent earthquakes shook up all things nuclear in the state, and beyond too…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/22/1882491…

Poor Countries Lose Billions from Tax Avoidance, Reveal "Mauritius Leaks"
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2019-07-25
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released evidence that laws in the country of Mauritius help corporations avoid taxes globally, including on the continent of Africa.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/23/1882494…

Canada Must Condemn Israeli Demolition of Palestinian Homes
CFJPIME | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-24
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is deeply concerned by Israel's demolition of Palestinian housing units in East Jerusalem. Yesterday, Israeli Occupation Forces entered the Palestinian East Jerusalem village of Sur Bahir in the middle of …
globalresearch.ca/canada-must-condemn-is…

Iran Hints at Possible Swap of Seized Tankers
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-24
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that they would be open to returning a British tanker that Iran seized if Britain returns the Iranian tanker they seized in Gibraltar adding that while his government is open to dialogue, Iran will not back down from defending its waters from western "mischief" in the Strait of Hormuz. | RELATED: | Iran Says Arrested 17 CIA Spies, Some Sentenced to Death | "If Britain steps away from the wrong actions in Gibraltar, they will receive an a…
telesurenglish.net/news/Iran-Hints-at-Po…

Venezuela Recovers From Blackout as Guaido 'Approves' Military Treaty Reincorporation
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-24
Caracas blamed the blackout on an "electromagnetic attack" while recovery was faster than before.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14599

Suicide Attack in Somalia: Mayor Wounded, Officials killed
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-24
At least six people were killed and the mayor of Mogadish, Abdirahman Omar Osman, wounded Wednesday in a suicide bomb attack, during a meeting in the mayor's office, according to officials. | RELATED: | Ilhan Omar Was Right on 'Black Hawk Down' Events in Somalia Despite Right-wing Media's Lies | "The mayor was wounded in the b…
telesurenglish.net/news/Suicide-Attack-i…

On the border in Laredo, "No one seems to remember the history"
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-24
People's World correspondent Al Neal is in the field reporting from sites all along the U.S.-Mexico border. In his dispatches, you will get a view of the towns and people caught up in Trump's "border crisis." You will see the women, men, and children impacted by the administration's immigration policies as well as U.S. foreign …
peoplesworld.org/article/on-the-border-i…

Nashville neighbors form human chain to rescue father and son from ICE
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-24
NASHVILLE–ICE vehicles sat behind a van in the Hermitage neighborhood of the city. The van was parked in the driveway of a modest home lived in for 14 years by a well-liked neighbor and his wife and 12-year old son. But on the morning of July 22, the neighbor, as yet unnamed, were under siege by Immigration …
peoplesworld.org/article/nashville-neigh…

AOC Went Back to Where She Came From: New York City
Celisa Calacal, Acacia Handel, Molly Minta | thenation.com | 2019-07-24
Celisa Calacal, Acacia Handel, Molly Minta AOC Went Back to Where She Came From: New York City…
thenation.com/article/aoc-queens-immigra…

Iran Seizure of a British Tanker. More than Tit for Tat. Towards a War Scenario?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-24
The British-flagged tanker "Steno Impero", heading for Saudi Arabia, was seized on Friday, 19 July 2019, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the Strait of Hormuz, after it rammed an Iranian fishing boat, whose distress call it ignored….
globalresearch.ca/iran-seizure-of-a-brit…

Iran: How Bolton tricked clueless UK conservatives into confrontation with Tehran
Juan Cole | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-24
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) — Simon Tisdall at The Guardian explains the difference between Socialist Spain and the disorganized Conservatives in control of U.K. on foreign policy. U.S. national security adviser John Bolton tried to hoodwink both of them about the Grace I, a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker carrying Iranian petroleum through the Straits of Gibraltar. Spain monitored …
nationofchange.org/2019/07/24/iran-how-b…

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