Daily Archives: July 10, 2019

2019-07-10: Social Media Postees

Acts of solidarity with migrants grow
Mirinda Crissman | workers.org | 2019-07-10
The United States government is waging a white-supremacist, imperialist, neocolonial war on multiple fronts. While this war on oppressed people rages on, people across the country and the world are taking a stand against state violence. Violence abroad can take many forms like resource extraction, economic sanctions and regime change. . . . | Continue reading Acts of solidarity with migrants grow at Workers.org
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Norway, Bachelet, and the Twilight of Guaido’s Insurrection
Ociel Alí López | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-10
Venezuelanalysis — Guaido’s uprising is going through its terminal phrase. He does not yet appear to have reached his end as leader, as he still produces and consolidates an important consensus among the opposition. What has decisively failed is his attempt to form a government without elections with the backing of the hawks in Washington. In almost six months since his self-swearing in as “interim president,” it has become palpable that his governing is truly impossible. The coup de grace was de…
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How the Climate Crisis Is Pushing Central Americans Out of Their Homes Toward the U.S
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-10
As the U.S. continues to crack down on migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, we look at one of the underreported driving factors leading people to flee their home countries: the climate crisis. John Carlos Frey, author of “Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border,” spent time with Central American climate refugees traveling in a caravan toward the United States. He says, “If this drought continues, we’re looking at all-out famine from Central America. …That’s one of the major reasons why they’re coming. … The government doesn’t even acknowledge the fact that there is a climate c…
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John Carlos Frey: America’s Deadly Stealth War on the Mexico Border Is Approaching Genocide
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-10
John Carlos Frey’s new book, “Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border,” chronicles how the U.S.-Mexico border became a war zone through decades of deadly bipartisan immigration policy. But it also examines the border through the personal history of his family. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Frey moved to the U.S. with his family when he was a toddler in 1965. He grew up in southern San Diego, California, where he witnessed the effects of American immigration policy on the borderlands every day. His father was an American citizen. His mother was a Mexican immigrant. Frey’s book is dedicated “To my mot…
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The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New. It’s a Key Part of a Decades-Old Bipartisan Policy
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-10
More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing. In Clint, Texas, the Border Patrol station that garnered international attention for jailing hundreds of migrant children without access to sufficient food, water, beds or medical care now has a spreading outbreak of scabies, shingles and chickenpox, according to border agents. In Yuma, Arizona, NBC reports that jailed migrant children have been subjected to mistreatment and sexual…
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Iran Rightfully Increases Uranium Stockpiles and Enrichment Beyond JCPOA Limits
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Iran recently increased its enriched uranium stockpiles and uranium enrichment levels beyond JCPOA limits in response to Washington’s unilateral withdrawal and increased sanctions. | Fourteen months ago, Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the United States out of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive …
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Iran Warns US Over Plans of Military Coalition in Gulf Waters
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-10
The United States hopes to enlist allies over the next two weeks or so in a military coalition to safeguard strategic waters off Iran and Yemen, where Washington blames Iran and Iran-aligned fighters for attacks, a top U.S. general said Tuesday. | RELATED: | UK Navy Seizes Tanker Filled With ‘Iranian Oil’ Meant for Syria | Under the plan, which has only been finalized in recent days, the United States would provide command ships and lead surveillance efforts for the military c…
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Piddling in the Think Tank
Michael Doliner | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
So let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Obama signed the JCPOA with Iran and other countries to get out of a tight spot. He was on the verge of being forced to go to war with Iran. That would have been a disaster. Signing this agreement was supposed to relax the tension. The agreement…
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French Senior Diplomat in Iran to Salvage Nuclear Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-10
French President Emmanuel Macron’s top diplomatic advisor held Wednesday high-level talks in Tehran aimed at saving the 2015 nuclear deal and easing tensions between Iran and the United States. | RELATED: | Iran Increases Uranium Production Beyond Nuclear Deal’s Limit | Emmanuel Bonne met Rear-Admiral Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his deputy Abbas Araghchi. | Bonne’s mission is “to try and…
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The winner of the leadership TV debate declared to be ‘people who didn’t watch’
John Shafthauer | thecanary.co | 2019-07-10
Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt debated on 9 July. But who won? Well, as the Tory membership has already decided to go Johnson or go home — the winner was whoever avoided watching. | State of affairs : | Hunt continued his strategy of answering as if every question was ‘what do the Tory membership want to hear?’ This meant responses like: I’m… tough on crime? I’m tough on Iran? I’ll be firm with Trump? I’ll do whatever Trump wants? I’ll dress like a giant chicken and practice auto-erotic asphyxiation? I’ll cull squirrels to reduce TB in postmen? I’ll gentrify Hadrian’s wall? | Johnson, meanwhile, con…
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The Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Is Not New
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
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China’s Belt and Road, Trump’s Trade War and the Future of the Global Economy
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan told the audience at this year’s World Peace Forum that “development is the key to resolving all issues”, remarking in the run-up to his conclusion that “China’s development can’t shut out the rest of the …
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A turning point moment to save people and planet
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-10
This is part 1 of the full main report, “Unity to save people and planet; For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism,” which was delivered to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, Ill., June 21-23, 2019. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA …
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Venezuela: US Trying to Destroy Political Dialogue in Barbados
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-10
Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza Wednesday denounced that the U.S. President Donald Trump administration is seeking to “destroy” the negotiations being carried out by President Nicolas Maduro’s delegates and the Venezuel…
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John Bolton and the Trump Derangement Syndrome
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
CNN’s Jake Tapper’s anti-Donald vendetta, amplified by the Trump Derangement Syndrome, demonstrates just how disingenuous a corporate script-reader can be. | It’s true, Bolton wasn’t on the Trump neocon team during the campaign, but this is largely irrelevant. | From the very …
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US Military Is a Bigger Polluter than as Many as 140 Countries — Shrinking this War Machine Is a Must
Benjamin Neimark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
The US military’s carbon bootprint is enormous. Like corporate supply chains, it relies upon an extensive global network of container ships, trucks and cargo planes to supply its operations with everything from bombs to humanitarian aid and hydrocarbon fuels. Our …
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The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-10
Britain’s leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed…
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Israel’s Scheme to Bury the Nakba. “The Ethnic Cleansing oF Palestine”
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Israel’s 1947-48 Nakba against the Palestinian people was and remains one of history’s great crimes — what Ilan Pappe called “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” in his book by this title. | Establishment of the Jewish state came at the expense …
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Hong Kong: New Epicenter of the Empire’s Smear Campaign Against China?
Thomas Hon Wing Polin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
Photograph Source: 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protests by Studio Incendo — CC BY 2.0 | As the Western Empire ramps up its full-spectrum war on the Chinese, its latest target is Hong Kong, China’s premier special administrative region (SAR). Even the latest wave of media assaults confirms it. | An essential adjunct to an Imperial attack on any designated victim is a sustained campaign of demonization, conducted through mainstream media and supported by associated local media. Such a drive had been onging in Hong Kong, since the former Britis…
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If You Provoke the Entire World, Something May Happen
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats. | It used to be like this …
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Why Trump caved to China and Huawei
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-07-10
This article was produced by Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Everything about the trade war between the United States and China is bewildering. The world’s two largest economies entered a titanic struggle with harsh words and high tariffs, sending shudders through the global economy. Hundreds of billions of dollars of goods on […] | Source…
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Government has ‘Dad’s Army’ approach to coping with climate impacts
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-10
The Government has a “ramshackle, Dad’s Army” approach to making sure England can cope with the impacts of rising temperatures, its climate advisers warn. | And UK action to slash the greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change is lagging far behind what is needed, even before the Government set a tougher new target to cut pollution to zero overall by 2050. | In its annual progress report to Parliament, the advisory Committee on Climate Change (CCC) said the Government had to show it was serious about tackling the problem in the next 12 to 18 months. | And it warned that action to prepare homes, businesses an…
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NORML’s Deputy Director Paul Armentano Speaks Volumes
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
“Passing Prop 64 in California was just the beginning. We’ll go on tinkering with cannabis rules and regulations for a long time and we’ll also have to address life style issues. In many part of the country marijuana is still associated by and large with hippies. The culture wars will go on.” — Paul Armentano,…
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Trade group airs ads to boost five senators facing reelection
Jessica Piper | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-10
A trade group representing chemical companies will spend more than $150,000 on advertising during July in support of four Republican senators and one Democrat, all of whom face reelection in 2020. The American Chemistry Council, which represents nearly 200 companies including DuPont, Chevron Phillips and ExxonMobil, is running TV and radio ads in Alaska, Delaware, Louisiana, Montana and South Dakota …
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Only a mass movement can bring about a Green New Deal
Angus Satow | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-10
Ours is an age of crisis. Britain faces a crisis of inequality, with the Tories’ brutal austerity program leaving schoolchildren eating from bins and 14 million people living in poverty, whilst the obscene riches of the 1% accumulate yet further. At the same time, we face planetary collapse, with just 11 years left to stop runaway warming. …
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The National Security State Is Eating America Alive
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-10
Put up with me for just a moment while I wax literary. It turns out that, if French novelist Marcel Proust lived today, he might have had to retitle his Remembrance of Things Past as Remembrance of Things Present, or even more sadly, Things Future. As an ex-military man who lived through part of the Cold War in uniform, let me make my point, in terms of the Pentagon and an ever-growing atmosphere of American militarism, this way: I love used bookstores. I’ve been browsing in them since my teens. I was, then, an early fan of Stephen King, the famed horror-story writer. Admittedly, today I’m more likely to browse t…
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CIA Torture Unredacted: Four-Year Investigation Reveals What Was Hidden in US Senate Torture Report
Crofton Black | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
New report is the most comprehensive public account of one of the most disturbing elements of America’s so-called ‘War on Terror’ | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Barack Obama: “Turns Out I’m Really Good At Killing People”
Eric Walberg | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-10
In Obama’s Unending Wars, Kuzmarov has brought together many telling proofs, nuggets, of just how horrible the world is, and just how responsible the US and its henchmen around the world are. A kind of who-does-it. Kuzmarov is that rare analyst (Belen Fernandez is another) who respects footnotes, leaving fascinating bits there that would otherwise …
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Appeals Court Sides With Trump in Hotel Lawsuit
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-10
RICHMOND, Va.–A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit accusing President Donald Trump of illegally profiting off the presidency through his luxury Washington hotel, handing Trump a significant legal victory on Wednesday. | A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously overturned the ruling of a federal judge in Maryland who said the lawsuit could move forward. | The state of Maryland and the District of Columbia sued in 2017, claiming Trump has violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution…
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‘Scraps’: A forceful play about slavery’s legacy in West Coast premiere
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-10
LOS ANGELES– In 2009, just as the Barack Obama presidency began and following more than three decades of producing multiple award-winning work for the stage, Matrix Theatre Company founder/artistic director Joseph Stern resolved to redirect the company’s focus to the exploration of race issues in contemporary society. Recently at the Matrix People’s World reviewed August …
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“Wars Come About As a Result of Lies.” Selected Radio Shows
Michael Welch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
“When we understand that wars come about as a result of lies peddled to the British public and the American public and the publics all over Europe and other countries then who are the war criminals? It is not …
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Turkey’s Erdogan Meet’s China’s Xi: Sultan Shines in the Court of the Dragon King
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
The graphic image of Turkey pivoting away from NATO towards the Russia-China strategic partnership was provided, in more ways than one, by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing right after the G20 in Osaka. | Turkey …
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New Common Cause Site Tracks Which Members of Congress Have Actually Read the Mueller Report
commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
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Pentagon Document Shows U.S. Knew of “Credible” Reports of Civilian Casualties After Its Attacks in Somalia
Nick Turse | theintercept.com | 2019-07-10
U.S. Africa Command claimed no civilians were hurt in its attacks in Somalia — but its own internal assessment shows this isn’t true.
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Faith in humanity restored after fellow passengers kicked a man off a bus for being a massive racist
Glen Black | thecanary.co | 2019-07-10
Passengers “ejected” a man from a bus because of his reportedly “vile racist” behaviour. And while police are still searching for the abuser, the online response shows the strength of community action. | “The woman… remained calm and collected”: | Brighton and Hove News reported that passengers “ejected” a man from a bus in Brighton for launching a racist tirade. The man, who hasn’t yet been identified, shouted: “f***ing Syrian…
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How Multinationals Pad Their Budgets With the Wealth of Developing Countries
Tanya Rawal-Jindia | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
In 2015, Global Financial Integrity (GFI) published a study revealing that in 2013 an astounding US$1.1 trillion was stolen annually—or nearly $3 billion a day—from developing countries due to trade mispricing. (Photo: The Weekly Bull/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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We are the Losers: Played Again by King Donald
Fred Baumgarten | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
I spent last weekend considering the latest word salad plated by our Accidental President and enjoying some of the endless satirical memes about Revolutionary air forces and such, until they became tiresome and predictable–which was in about five minutes. (Still to come: John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, and a thousand other talk show hosts…
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Elections in the Era of Charismatic Politics
Walden Bello | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
Elections are often regarded as the quintessential expression of democracy. Yet elections can have undemocratic outcomes. The carefully choreographed election designed to give a fig leaf to an authoritarian regime is something everyone is familiar with. But there is also the paradoxical case where a relatively free and fair election ends up bringing the winner…
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Speaking Truth to Power
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
Last week Rep. Justin Amash, formerly a very conservative Republican member of Congress and the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, declared he’s no longer a member of either the party or the caucus. He is also the only Republican member of Congress to call for the impeachment of president Trump after he actually read the entire…
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Climate change is a working-class and poor people’s issue
Mallika Khanna | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-10
If you’ve read anything about climate change over the past year, you’ve probably heard about the IPCC report that gives a 12-year deadline for limiting climate change catastrophe. But for many parts of the world, climate change already is a catastrophe. Recently in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, more than 40 people were killed by a severe heat …
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Climate Change Is a Poor People’s Issue
Mallika Khanna | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
A cemetery in Taft, Louisiana, in the shadow of a petrochemical plant. The area is known as “Cancer Alley.” (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Brazil: Glenn Greenwald Invited to Students Union Event
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-10
More than 18,000 delegates from universities are gathering Wednesday in Brasilia to attend the 57th edition of the National Union of Students (UNE) Congress, an event whose central theme is the defense of education, employment and social security. | RELATED: | Sergio Moro Asks for a 5-Day Leave During Lava Jato Case | “In times of crisis, when there are attempts to restrict political participation, attacks on acquired rights and other setbacks happening across the country, Brazilian…
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Trump Wants His Friend Boris Johnson to Win the Tory Leadership Race
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Whoever leaked the British Ambassador to the US’ diplomatic telegrams to London did so with the intent that the resultant tiff that it predictably provoked with Trump would probably make Boris Johnson win the Tories’ leadership vote with a landslide….
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In Pictures: The Devastated City of Mosul Two Years On
Billy Briggs | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
More than 300,000 people are unable to return to their homes in Mosul two years after the end of a military operation to retake Iraq’s second largest city from Islamic State. | An estimated 138,000 houses were damaged or destroyed in …
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“It’s Going To Be Carnage” — Deutsche Begins Culling 18,000 Employees
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Update (9 am ET): Deutsche Bank shares have continued to sell off ahead of the US market open. They were recently off 5% at a new session low, as the bank’s shareholders have apparently realized that DB won’t be able …
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The Dangers of Cell Phone Radiation. The Right to Know. Don’t Put in Your Shirt Pocket
Environmental Health Trust | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
A landmark Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the City of Berkeley’s cell phone right to know ordinance rejecting industries argument that the ordinance violates the first amendment. The Berkeley ordinance requires retailers to inform consumers that cell phones emit …
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The High Costs of Military Air Shows
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
In 1825, long before anybody even thought about air flight, the US Navy began operations in the Pensacola, Florida area, when the federal government built a naval yard on Pensacola Bay. | 90 years later, in 1914, the naval yard became …
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The Environmental Fallout of Toxic Plastics

| globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
Louisiana will hold a public hearing on issuing 15 air permits for Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics. The massive proposed complex would be one of the largest and most toxic plastic production facilities in the world. | On Tuesday, July 9, at …
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At least 2% of U.S. public water systems are like Flint’s — Americans just don’t hear about them
Laura Pangallozzi | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-10
More than five years after Flint’s water crisis first hit the news, the city has successfully lowered the lead levels in its water. The most recently available testing, from the second half of 2018, puts the lead in Flint’s water at 4 parts per billion. That’s well below the level, 15 ppb, that the federal …
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Trump’s threat to override Supreme Court on census: The march toward rule by decree
wsws.org | 2019-07-10
Trump’s greatest asset is the fecklessness of the Democratic Party, whose record is one of complete acquiescence to Trump’s escalating attack on basic democratic principles.
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Socialist Analysis & Discussion “The War on Immigrants & the Fight Back Movement”
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
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Suriname Recognizes Evo Morales’ Leadership in Bolivia and the Region
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
10 de julio de 2019, 15: 14Paramaribo, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) The government of Suriname on Wednesday distinguished Bolivia”s President Evo Morales with his nation”s highest award, in recognition of both his regional leadership and the economic and social progress he has attained in his country.
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Japanese American Internment Survivors Protest Plan to Jail Migrant Kids at Prison Camp
Repost, Democracy Now! | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
Japanese Americans, including at least one from San Francisco, demonstrated at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma on June 22, one day after President Trump directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct a mass roundup of migrant families that have received deportation orders. They were met by uniformed military police who told them they did not have permission to congregate and might face arrest. “You need to move right now!” one of the officers shouted. “What don’t you understand? It’s English: Get out.”
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Venezuela Denounces US Intention to Sabotage Political Dialogue
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Caracas, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza charged on Tuesday that US authorities are trying to sabotage the political dialogue between the Venezuelan Government and the opposition, which is taking place in Barbados.
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The Book of Palestine: National Liberation vs Endless Negotiations
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
Those who are still hoping that the new American agenda on Palestine and Israel is temporary, or reversible, should abandon this false hope. Washington’s complete adoption of Israel’s messianic, extremist policies regarding Occupied Palestine has been a long time in the making. And it is here to stay. Despite the unmistakable clarity in the American…
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Billionaire Mega-Donor Haim Saban Says He Loves All 2020 Democrats—Except Bernie Sanders
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
“Siri, show me the hatred that we welcome,” tweeted Sanders speechwriter David Sirota | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Venezuelan Constituents Reject UN Human Rights Report
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
10 de julio de 2019, 02: 57Caracas, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela”s National Constituent Assembly (ANC) MP Mercedes Gutierrez has rejected on Wednesday the report presented by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet.
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The US’s Deadly Stealth War on the Mexico Border Is Approaching Genocide
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-10
John Carlos Frey’s new book, Sand and Blood: America’s Stealth War on the Mexico Border, chronicles how the U.S.-Mexico border became a war zone through decades of deadly bipartisan immigration policy. But it also examines the border through the personal history of his family. Born in Tijuana, Mexico, Frey moved to the U.S. with his family when he was a toddler in 1965. He grew up in southern San Diego, California, where he witnessed the effects of American immigration policy on the borderlands every day. His father was an American citizen. His mother was a Mexican immigrant. Frey’s book is dedicated “To my mo…
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London’s Burning: Brexit and Climate Change
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
The Brexit farce continues, this time compounded by the pantomime that is the Tory-party leadership election. Both candidates are from the monied elite (of course), and will be disastrous as prime minister. The choice between them will be made by the largely male, white, and geriatric Tory party membership– it is a standing joke in social media that the meeting of the Young Conservatives at their annual conference has an average age of over 40.
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Diaz-Canel: Investors Still in Cuba Despite US Pressures
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Havana, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Most of foreign investors keep their business in Cuba in spite of pressures and sanctions of the US blockade, President Miguel Diaz-Canel affirmed this Wednesday.
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Terrorism ‘spreading and destabilizing’ entire regions, Guterres warns States, at key Kenya conference
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-10
“Trauma from terrorism” hurts families, communities and destabilizes entire regions, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, as he expressed solidarity with victims of extremist attacks in Africa.
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Stop the Deportations! US Hands off Iran and Venezuela! National Day of Protest
Judy Greenspan | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland…
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Nicki Minaj Cancels Saudi Concert Citing Women, LGBT Rights
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-10
U.S. rapper Nicki Minaj said she was pulling out of a planned concert in Saudi Arabia next week, citing her support for the rights of women and the LGBTQ community, which are gravely lacking in the ultra-Islamist country, according to a report by the Associated Press published Tuesday. | RELATED: | Runaway Saudi Sisters Urge Google, Apple to Remove Gov’t-made Women-Monitoring App | “After careful reflection I have decided to no longer move forward with my sch…
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South Africa Condemns the US Blockade Against Cuba
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Pretoria, July 10 (Prensa Latina) The US aggressions against Cuba were strongly condemned on Wednesday in this capital as a violation of international law and a transgression of the rights of peace, development and security of such a sovereign State.
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Venezuela Benefits 80 Percent of Vulnerable Families with Houses
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Caracas, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) About 80 percent of 2,700,000 homes built to date by Venezuela”s Great Housing Mission (GMVV) are assigned to low-income families.
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Selected Articles: Towards a Banking Crisis?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-10
In spite of online censorship efforts directed against the independent media, we are happy to say that readership on globalresearch.ca has recently increased. We wish to thank all of you who share our articles far and wide. | We cover a …
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Read Labour’s full complaint to the BBC as tensions flare over Panorama’s antisemitism episode
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2019-07-10
The BBC is due to air an episode of Panorama called Is Labour Anti-semitic? at 9pm on 10 July. Ahead of the show, the Labour Party has issued a multi-point complaint. It claims Panorama presenter John Ware is “unsuitable” and asks the BBC to “suspend and reconsider” airing the programme. | Summary: | The compl…
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Washington approves large arms package to Taiwan
wsws.org | 2019-07-10
The deal with Taiwan is part of a stepped-up campaign by Washington to arm allies in the region as part of its preparation for war against China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/10/taiw…

UN experts voice ‘deep concern’ over Iran’s ‘consistent pattern’ of denying life-saving medical treatment to detainees
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-10
Despite repeated calls, Iran continues to deny medical treatment to detainees in what amounts to “a consistent pattern”, according to eight UN human rights experts, in a statement on Wednesday.
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Ecuador: 33rd Return to Homeland Flight to Depart for Venezuela
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Quito, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) The 33rd flight of the Return to Homeland Plan, implemented by the Venezuelan Government, will depart from Ecuador on Wednesday, carrying 90 repatriates.
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All I Want Is Lula to Be Well, Mujica Says
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Brasilia, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Uruguayan President Jose Mujica asked that his friend, former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, be well, during an interview posted by an Argentine website and quoted in Workers” Party (PT) website.
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Inhumane Treatment of Migrants Reflects Decades-Old Bipartisan Policy
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-10
More than a week after lawmakers flocked to the U.S.-Mexico border to observe the horrible treatment of refugee children and families in immigration jails, reports of unsafe and unsanitary conditions for asylum seekers are continuing. In Clint, Texas, the Border Patrol station that garnered international attention for jailing hundreds of migrant children without access to sufficient food, water, beds or medical care now has a spreading outbreak of scabies, shingles and chickenpox, according to border agents. In Yuma, Arizona, NBC reports that jailed migrant children have been subjected to mistreatment and sexu…
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Joe Biden: Protector of the Deep State
Jeremy Kuzmarov | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
Kamala Harris surged in the polls after attacking frontrunner Joe Biden during the first Democratic Party debate for opposing federal busing programs in the 1970s that were designed to desegregate public schools. Bernie Sanders in the debate also criticized Biden’s support for the Iraq War. Left overlooked, however, were some other skeleton’s in “lunch bucket”
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Venezuela Denounces US Intention to Sabotage Political Dialogue
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Caracas, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza charged on Tuesday that US authorities are trying to sabotage the political dialogue between the Venezuelan Government and the opposition, which is taking place in Barbados.
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Company Vale Sentenced to Pay for Mining Tragedy in Brazil
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Brasilia, Jul 10 (Prensa Latina) Brazilian justice sentenced the company Vale to pay for the damage caused by the collapse of a dam on January 25 in Brumadinho municipality, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.
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Immigrant Rights Activists Renew Push Against Palantir to Cancel ICE Contract
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-10
Organizers with Mijente, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, the Tech Workers Coalition, and other groups mobilized in New York and Washington D.C. to demand Palantir Technologies, a surveillance company, cancel its contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). | In New York, people stood outside the Palantir office and chanted, “Immigrants are welcome here! Time to cancel, Palantir!” | Activists with Mijente, an immigration and Latinx-focused organization, attempted to give workers entering the New York office a flier that ur…
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Mission Accomplished for Far-Right Brexiteers? After Leaked Memos, UK Ambassador Who Called Trump ‘Inept’ Resigns
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
“We’re on course to become the 51st state of Donald Trump’s USA, with Boris Johnson as his consul,” tweeted Guardian columnist Owen Jones | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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At NEA, Democratic candidates weave pro-teacher messages into campaign themes
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-10
HOUSTON–From Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to Beto O’Rourke and Julian Castro, Democratic presidential hopefuls weaved pro-teacher, pro-education messages into their general campaign themes at a 2-hour-long one-by-one q-and-a on the evening of July 5 at the convention of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest union. There were few mentions of President Donald Trump, …
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Evo Morales Leaves for Russia after Official Visit to Suriname
plenglish.com | 2019-07-10
Paramaribo, July 10 (Prensa Latina) Bolivian President Evo Morales has left on Wednesday for Russia after paying an official visit to Suriname, where he met and signed several agreements with his counterpart, Desi Bouterse.
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Venezuela and International Law
Urs P. Gascha | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
International law professors explain a US military incursion in Venezuela would violate the UN Charter. “All nations must desist from any threat or use of force in their international relations. The media and governments denounce violations of international law very selectively. International norms promote peaceful coexistence, not the right of the stronger.
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Ilhan Omar brands Tucker Carlson a ‘racist fool’ in scathing tweet
rt.com | 2019-07-10
Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called Fox News host Tucker Carlson a “racist fool” for saying she is “living proof” that US immigration policy is a danger to the country. | …
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Another Billionaire Running for President?
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-10
One might have thought that the election of celebrity businessman Donald Trump would have put an end to the stale old trope that we’d be better off if “the government were run like a business.” It’s a silly idea since the American government’s only resemblance to a business is the fact that it employs a lot of people to do certain tasks and, like most big organizations, it’s managed in a hierarchical framework. | Other than that, they are very different systems with very different purposes. The most important distinction being that a business is an autocracy which exists to make a profit while the government i…
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The Coming Renewable Energy Revolution
San Jose Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
San José Peace and Justice Center | 48 South 7th Street | San José, CA 95112 | Bus routes: 22, 522, 23, 11, 63, 64, 72, 73, 81, Hwy 17 Express, MST 55, Dash, LRT, 181…
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Momentum launches pre-emptive strike on BBC Panorama’s ‘hatchet job’ on antisemitism
Joshua Funnell | thecanary.co | 2019-07-10
Tonight (10 July) the BBC airs its long-anticipated Panorama documentary, Is Labour Anti-Semitic? with reporter John Ware.But one of the Labour left’s largest grassroots organisations, Momentum, has expressed…
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‘We Welcome Their Hatred’: Sanders Unveils Anti-Endorsement List of Billionaire CEOs and Wall Street Bankers
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-10
“I am proud to announce the modern-day oligarchs who oppose our movement.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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7-6-19 Julian Assange and Press Freedom forum
DJ Mouse | indybay.org | 2019-07-10
Wikileaks: the Global Fourth Estate author Nozomi Hayase and award winning reporter Ann Garrison defended Julian Assange at last Saturday’s ‘Suds, Snacks and Socialism’ at the Starry Plough…(142 min.)…
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Corporate Team of Rivals: Biden and Harris
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-10
The odds are now very strong that Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders will be the Democratic presidential nominee. New polling averages say they account for almost 70 percent of support nationwide, while no other candidate is anywhere near. For progressives who want to affect the news instead of just consume it, active engagement…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/10/corporate-te…

India’s Rahul Gandhi Resigns, PM Modi Faces Little Opposition to Far-Right Agenda
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-10
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-wing BJP party won an overwhelming majority in India’s election last May and now there is no real opposition to his rule, says Sreerekha Sathi…
therealnews.com/stories/indias-rahul-gan…

H. Ross Perot, billionaire third-party US presidential candidate, dead at 89
wsws.org | 2019-07-10
The Texas tycoon won the biggest support for a third-party candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/10/pero…

Colombia FARC: Committed to Peace, Santrich No-Show at Court
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-09
The People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force (FARC) political party of Colombia released a statement Tuesday saying it is committed to the nation’s 2015-signed peace accords after its Congressman Jesus Santrich did not show up at a Supreme Court of Justice hearing. | RELATED: | Colombia: FARC Party Denounces 128 Killings of Ex-militants | The FARC party makes clear in its statement it will comply with all the points of the agreement signed by the former government under Manuel San…
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Detained Journalist Manuel Duran’s Case Ordered Reopened
splcenter.org | 2019-07-09
The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered detained journalist Manuel Duran’s case reopened, paving the way for an asylum claim and possible release after over 15 months in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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“This Is Not a Surprise”: U.S. Sanctions and Saber Rattling Led to Iran’s Renewed Uranium Enrichment
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-09
In ongoing fallout from the Trump administration’s decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear accord, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed on Monday that Iran has begun enriching uranium above the level agreed to by the 2015 nuclear deal. Iran has threatened to continue to increase their production of enriched uranium if European signatories of the nuclear deal do not help ease the impact of the U.S. sanctions. We speak with Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the new think tank, the Quincy Institute, and author of “Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran, and the Triumph of Diplomacy.”
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/9/trump_admi…

The Seizure of an Iranian Tanker and the Lethal Toll of Sanctions
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-09
The seizure of an Iranian oil tanker allegedly bound for Syria by British Royal Marine commandos off Gibraltar is the latest episode in the long and disastrous history of economic sanctions in the Middle East. The UK claims that it is implementing EU sanctions on Syria, but the act will be seen by Tehran — and most other states — as the British enforcing US sanctions on Iran that the EU said it opposes. An Iranian official said a British tanker should be seized in retaliation.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/09/the-seizure-…

It is not the Non-existent Iranian Bomb; it is the Other Existing Bombs
Dan Lieberman | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-09
United States (US) demands that Iran promise to halt pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile developments distract from the real intent of the US actions. Knowing that the Islamic Republic is not pursuing nuclear weapons and will react aggressively to sanctions, the US ploy deters other nations from establishing more friendly relations with Iran …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/it-is-not-the…

Frog-Marching Trump Toward War on Iran
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-09
Hypocrisy seems to have become a defining characteristic of US foreign policy, especially when it comes to Iran. After breaking the Iran deal last year and, de facto, forcing the Europeans to violate the deal in May, the US Administration …
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Dogs of War Howl for Blood in Iran While Americans Cheer US Bombers on July 4
Medea Benjamin, Ann Wright | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-09
President Trump’s order to the Pentagon to have an aerial parade of military aircraft over Washington, DC on July 4 provided a history lesson of America’s war mongering in the past two decades, and a terrifying view of what might appear in the skies of Iran if John Bolton gets his way. The combat aircraft…
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Europe Freaks Out Over Minuscule Iranian Uranium Enrichment
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-09
Leave it to CBS News and all the other establishment propaganda mills to spin the obvious. | CBS and the others know the Iran nuke deal is a dead letter. | Trump refused to honor the agreement while Europe pretends the deal …
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Italy Shuts Down Europe’s Once Biggest Migrant Center
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-09
What was once Europe’s biggest migrant reception center, located in Mineo, Sicily, was officially closed Tuesday with its biggest critic, far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, on hand. | RELATED: | Italy’s Salvini Sets New Norms Against Humanitarian Vessels | About 50 former workers at the center and unionists protested ahead of the minister’s arrival, holding a protest banner reading: “today we celebrate the funeral of Mineo.” | The reception center, a former housing comple…
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The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-09
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The D.O.A. Peace Movement Ain’t Marching Much Anymore, But We Did
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-09
We won’t be erased or airbrushed out of history. Even though there appears to be no life in anything resembling a vibrant antiwar movement, especially on college campuses, the endless wars the U.S. now fights go on with lives lost and trillions of dollars of so-called national treasure thrown away. In 2018, I received an email from…
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