The UK Must Release the Iranian Tanker; The UAE’s Mission to Tehran
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
Before Emmanuel Bonne, the special envoy of the French President Emmanuel Macron to Iran, visited President Hassan Rouhani, he promised to deal with the ” Grace I” crisis between Iran and the UK. Iran considered the UK …
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Threatens to Respond to UK’s ‘Piracy’
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated on Tuesday that the Islamic Republic would respond to Great Britain’s ‘piracy’ over the seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Gibraltar. | RELATED: | Unlike US, UK Foreign Secretary Wants To Save Iran Nuclear Deal | The religious leader called on Great Britain to immediately release the Iranian oil tanker and end their hostilities towards the Islamic Republic. | “Evil Britain commits piracy and steals our ship … an…
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What Right Has Britain to Seize an Iranian Tanker Off Spain?
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
“We have reason to believe that the Grace 1 was carrying its shipment of crude oil to the Banyas Refinery in Syria. That refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to European Union sanctions against Syria.” — Fabian Picardo, chief minister of Gibraltar…
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How Iran’s Soviet Era Air Defense System Shot Down America’s Global Hawk UAV over Strait of Hormuz
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
On the night of June 19-20, Iran shot down a US Global Hawk reconnaissance UAV over the Strait of Hormuz. | President Trump responded by calling for retaliatory air strikes against Iran. | In response to the Commander in Chief’s instructions, US …
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Nukes For Peace?
Nicky Reid | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
Surrounded by trigger happy Tonkinesque gunboats and drowning in debt, the Islamic Republic of Iran has made the risky decision to play the last card left in their deck; to defy the P5+1 Deal in order to save the P5+1 Deal. It’s a hell of a gambit but it already has those pussies in the…
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Trump, Netanyahu, Pence and Bolton: The Four Horsemen of the Nuclear Apocalypse
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
These are the demented Gang of Four who are determined to destroy 74 years of international cooperation for peace by waging a completely unwarranted war against Iran in a bid for global supremacy, and oil, that will provoke nuclear war …
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FBI Surveillance of Iranians After the 1988 Downing of Flight 655
Paul Gottinger | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
This month marks 31 years since the U.S. Navy ship, the USS Vincennes, shot down Iran Air flight 655, killing 290 Iranian civilians, including 66 children. The downing of the airliner on July 3, 1988 remains one of the …
globalresearch.ca/fbi-surveillance-irani…
Everybody Must Get Stoned
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
I recently wrote on these pages about the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee. Reading an article that the committee references on the Pentagon’s past commemoration of the war, I was not surprised to find pure and unabashed vitriol hurled at the peace movement of the 1960s and early 1970s. Yogi Berra might have observed that…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/16/everybody-mu…
US Jeopardizes Peace Talks With North Korea Over New Drills
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
The U.S. may have hurt its chances at convincing North Korea to abandon their nuclear program following Washington’s decision to break a promise not to hold military exercises with South Korea. | RELATED: | Australian Student Expelled From North Korea For ‘Spying Acts’ | According to North Korea’s official news agency, U.S. President Donald Trump revitalized efforts to persuade them to give up their nuclear weapons last month when he arranged a spur-of-the-moment meeting with No…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Jeopardizes-P…
Cruelty Prompts Trump’s Deal of the Century in the Middle East
Prof. Stuart Rees | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
If there’s one thing real estate moguls understand it’s the value of land. Which begs the question why Donald Trump’s plan to broker peace in the Middle East is so spectacularly ignorant of reality. Stuart Rees weighs in. | The …
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Liberals Use ‘Human Rights’ to Push Coup in Venezuela
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
The modern way to overthrow a government the capitalist world doesn’t like is by claiming to do it in the name of supporting ‘human rights’. This requires that the target be portrayed as a rights violator. | As part of their …
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A year after Nicaragua’s coup, the media’s regime change deceptions are still unraveling
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-16
A deadly arson attack during last year’s regime change attempt was blamed on Nicaragua’s government by everyone from the State…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/15/a-year-after-…
No Charges for New York Policeman Who Killed Eric Garner
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
The New York police officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold during an attempted arrest in 2014, fueling the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, will not face federal criminal charges, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn said Tuesday. | RELATED: | Cop Who Killed Eric Garner Had ‘Chronic History of Complaints’ | Garner’s death on a sidewalk during an arrest for allegedly selling untaxed cigarettes, and his gasped final words “I can’t breathe” caught on bystander vi…
telesurenglish.net/news/I-Cant-Breathe-N…
A Firm Grasp of the Obvious: Kim Darroch and the Weakness of Britain
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
The resignation of Sir Kim Darroch as British ambassador to Washington, because of his leaked messages to London criticising President Trump, is highly revealing about the real state of British knowledge of what is going on in the US. Supporters of the former ambassador portray him as a skilled and experienced foreign office official who…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/16/a-firm-grasp…
The United States of Overreaction
Matt Johnson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
On July 4, at a Starbucks in Tempe, Arizona, six police officers were asked to either move out of a customer’s line of sight or leave the establishment because they were making a patron uncomfortable–for being police. As a progressive-minded American who believes certain (unjust) laws are meant to be broken and who strongly opposes…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/16/the-united-s…
How the Goliath of the Jerusalem Settler Movement Persuaded the World It’s Really David
Jonathan Cook | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
Israeli police forced out the Siyam family from their home in the heart of occupied East Jerusalem last week, the final chapter in their 25-year legal battle against a powerful settler organisation. | The family’s defeat represented much more than just …
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The World Needs a Water Treaty
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
During the face-off earlier this year between India and Pakistan over a terrorist attack that killed more than 40 Indian paramilitaries in Kashmir, New Delhi made an existential threat to Islamabad. The weapon was not India’s considerable nuclear arsenal, but one still capable of inflicting ruinous destruction: water.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/16/the-world-ne…
Free Speech Just isn’t That Complicated
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
It’s hard to believe we need to have this conversation in this day and age. But if we don’t keep having it, at some point we might not be allowed to have it. Question: What is free speech? Or, rather what is NOT free speech? In 2017, former Vermont governor, presidential candidate, and Democratic National…
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This Land Was Your Land
Christopher Ketcham | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
For the past 10 years I’ve been documenting the fate of the least protected and most at-risk portion of the national commons: the roughly 450 million acres across 12 Western states overseen on our behalf by the United States Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service. It’s an astonishingly diverse landscape of…
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The Resigning Ambassador
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
Rarely do ambassadors resign after an intense self-assessment of worth. Diplomatic immunity does not merely extend to protecting the official from the reach of local laws; it encourages a degree of freedom in engaging as a country’s representative. Sir Kim Darroch, as UK ambassador to the United States, felt that any freedom afforded him in…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/16/the-resignin…
Sylvan Shock Theater
Martin Billheimer | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
Sylvan Shock Theater The Woods Theater was one of several run-down Varieties joints in the old Chicago Loop, great junk barges in stone whose razing epitomized the Late Reagan Mesozoic c. 1989. Each one of these old palaces had a different Gilded Age motif: The Oriental was brightest and echoed Khayyam and the Grand Turk’s…
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Democratic Virtues in Electing a President
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-16
Privatizing the US elections? I enjoyed listening to the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates speak of their hopes for the future of this country. What I did not like was the NBC umbrella over the aspiring candidates. Why should large TV monopolies run the presidential campaigns? Who gave this “media” money-machine the right to have its employees ask…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/16/democratic-v…
Seeking New Routes for Oil Delivery Saudi Arabia Tightens Its Grip on Eastern Yemen
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-16
Saudi Arabia is consolidating its military hold on eastern Yemen’s al-Mahrah province, hoping to use the area for an oil pipeline that would bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
mintpressnews.com/new-routes-oil-pipelin…
The Roots of Evil: Right-Wing Israeli Settler Group Accuses Palestinians of Land Theft
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-16
Israeli settler groups are turning the Israel-Palestine narrative on its head, accusing Palestinians of trying to illegally steal land in the West Bank’s Area C.
mintpressnews.com/israel-settler-accuses…
How Israeli-Designed Drones Became Russia’s Eyes in the Sky for Defending Bashar al-Assad
Patrick Hilsman | theintercept.com | 2019-07-16
Last summer, Israel shot down yet another military drone near the line that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria. The confrontation would have been business as usual, if not for a twist: Images of the destroyed drone showed Cyrillic tail markings and other identifiable components of a Forpost belonging to Russia. The findings presented an awkward geopolitical moment: Syria and Russia are allies, and Syria and Israel are bitter enemies — but the Russ…
theintercept.com/2019/07/16/syria-war-is…
Henry Wallace’s Internationalism: A Path that American Foreign Policy Could Have Taken and Still Can
Dr. Dennis Etler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
As America fumbles around for a way out of “forever wars,” can we draw inspiration from an alternative vision that once was mainstream? | Following twenty years of decay, US foreign policy has spun out of control since Donald Trump’s …
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Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF): Rep. McCaul Struggles to Keep “War On Terror” Alive
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, minority leader of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is struggling to keep Bush’s unconstitutional AUMF in place. If the no-end-in-sight “war on terror” is to continue and the AUMF is to remain embedded in the …
globalresearch.ca/rep-mccaul-struggles-k…
The Transpartisan Revolt Against America’s Endless Wars
Katrina vanden Heuvel | thenation.com | 2019-07-16
The Transpartisan Revolt Against America’s Endless Wars…
thenation.com/article/the-transpartisan-…
The 5G Wireless Crisis: Awareness & Accountability Summit
Josh del Sol | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
5G wireless… the industry HAS NOT shown it to be safe for your health or privacy — yet THOUSANDS of peer-reviewed, independent studies show the risks it presents. | Understand the dangers and find solutions in your community! | The 5G Crisis: …
globalresearch.ca/the-5g-wireless-crisis…
Is ‘Veep’ Still Funny?
Erin Schwartz | thenation.com | 2019-07-16
Is ‘Veep’ Still Funny?
thenation.com/article/veep-television-se…
North Korea Is Not Desperate: The New Geostrategic Environment in East Asia
Ruediger Frank | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
The discussion surrounding the surprise meeting at the DMZ between US President Donald Trump and DPRK State Affairs Commission Chairman Kim Jong Un has shown a remarkable ignorance of the fact that North Korea is by no means desperate …
globalresearch.ca/north-korea-not-desper…
How Dockworkers Are Fighting the Arms Trade
Katy Fox-Hodess | thenation.com | 2019-07-16
How Dockworkers Are Fighting the Arms Trade…
thenation.com/article/dockworkers-saudi-…
Moscow’s “Military Diplomacy” in the Middle East: A Major Headache for the US
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
The success of Moscow’s “military diplomacy” in the Mideast is proving to be a major headache for the US because of the strategic inroads that Russia is poised to make with many of America’s traditional partners in the region. | ***…
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The Podcast Revolution: The Power of Our Human Voice, from Marconi to Woods Hole
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
Heard “Trader Joe’s” podcast yet? I don’t know who might listen to a 22-minute corporate ad. But, given how cool podcasts have become: hey, that sounds inviting. The idea is also an implicit endorsement for radio — because that’s where …
globalresearch.ca/power-our-human-voice-…
Nuclear Experimentation: Year 74
Ethan Indigo Smith | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
Nuclear experimentation began with the first detonation of the Manhattan Project. The first detonation began the unstable and unceasing chain reaction that is the nuclear era. The scientists involved in the detonation experiment actually debated on whether or not it …
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Greece and the Refugee Crisis. Squatting at Athens’ City Plaza
Economic and Political Refugee Solidarity Initiative | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
On July 10th, 2019, the keys of squatted City Plaza, Athens, Greece, were handed back to the former employees of the hotel, to whom the mobile equipment in the building belongs. All refugees living at City Plaza have been moved …
globalresearch.ca/greece-and-the-refugee…
“Frecia’s Story is Very Common in Baltimore”
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (3/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/frecias-story-is…
Dan Kovalik: Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: U.S. Creating a Coup for Oil
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM | indybay.org | 2019-07-16
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As US Modernizes Its Nuclear Arsenal, Costs and Risks Soar
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-16
On July 16, 1945, the U.S. detonated the first-ever nuclear device in the New Mexico desert. Less than a month later, it dropped two more atomic bombs, destroying Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing and injuring more than 200,000 civilians. | Today, 74 years later, President Donald Trump has elbowed his way to the precipice of war threatening fire, fury and obliteration against one state that has nuclear weapons (North Korea) and one that doesn’t (Iran). In June, shortly after Trump reportedly called off a military strike against Iran with just 1…
truthout.org/articles/as-us-modernizes-i…
“What Can We Do About America’s Immigration Crisis?”
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (8/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/what-can-we-do-a…
Migrants Are Escaping Conditions the US Helped Create
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (4/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/migrants-are-esc…
Selected Articles: Wake Up, America!
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
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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IYSSE wins seat in student parliament at Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany
wsws.org | 2019-07-16
The IYSSE’s electoral success shows widespread opposition to militarism, war and the rise of the far-right and the growing support for a socialist perspective.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/16/iyss…
Real Talk Tho: How will Baltimore Respond to Immigration Policy”
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
As Trump Ratchets Up Anti-immigrant Rhetoric, How Will Baltimore Respond? Images of children at the border locked in cages and starving have sparked protests across the country. Meanwhile, President Trump’s threats to carry out raids in cities like Baltimore have immigrant communities living in fear of being detained or deported. Do these harsh immigration policies…
therealnews.com/stories/real-talk-tho-ho…
#Resistance fawns over Antifa ‘martyr’ killed while attempting to set ICE facility on fire
rt.com | 2019-07-16
Impassioned tributes for Willem Van Spronsen, the seasoned Antifa activist who was shot dead by police after attacking an ICE detention center in Tacoma on Saturday, have flooded Twitter, praising him as a “hero” and a “martyr.” | …
rt.com/usa/464256-activist-attack-ice-pr…
Baltimore Says No To Trump’s ICE Raids
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (5/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/baltimore-says-n…
“What Was the Hardest Part of Leaving Your Home Country?”
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (7/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/what-was-the-har…
Protest of Planned Federal Immigration Roundups Draws Hundreds to Redwood City
Ruth Robertson | indybay.org | 2019-07-16
President Donald Trump has threatened mass deportation roundups, starting today. On Friday July 12, in Redwood City, California, demonstrators said it was important to protest the administration’s crackdown. | Photos by Charlie Moehle, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/14/1882470…
Australian government seeking to prosecute journalists over exposure of war crimes
wsws.org | 2019-07-16
The federal police are investigating journalists over the 2017 publication of the “Afghan Files,” which revealed Australian military involvement in extrajudicial killings and other crimes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/16/abcc…
How Can We Support Migrants at the Border and in Our Communities?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (6/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/how-can-we-suppo…
“It Requires a Lot of Courage to Share Your Story”
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (10/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/it-requires-a-lo…
Science group opposes planned immigration raids, mistreatment of immigrants
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-16
Statement by Ken Kimmell, President, Union of Concerned Scientists | Source…
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Grieve accuses Johnson of Brexit ‘radicalisation’ over Irish backstop
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-16
Dominic Grieve has accused Boris Johnson of further radicalising on Brexit and leaving the UK with “starker” prospects by trying to appease hardliners in a strengthening of his stance on the Irish backstop.The former attorney general also accused the Tory leadership front-runner of making a “disgraceful” suggestion which would spell the end of democracy as we know it.On Tuesday, Grieve warned whoever becomes the next prime minister that their government will collapse if they pursue a no-deal departure from the EU.Conservative Party leadership candidates Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt during a head-to-head debate h…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/07/16/grieve-a…
La corsa al dominio dello Spazio
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
´L’uomo volante strega Parigi alla parata del 14 luglio ª: con titoli come questo ci è stata descritta la sfilata delle forze armate francesi lungo l’Avenue degli Champs Elysées. Come al solito, sembra di essere informati su tutto fin nei minimi | …
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Ruthless Philippine President’s High Popularity Is the Result of Failed Democracy
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
As the death toll in President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs keeps climbing, so does his popularity. How can this be? Walden Bello says it is the result of a failed liberal democracy in the Philippines…
therealnews.com/stories/ruthless-philipp…
The Assange precedent: Journalists in Britain threatened with Official Secrets Act
wsws.org | 2019-07-16
What the Metropolitan Police proposed was the de facto criminalisation of journalism so that it could be bracketed within terrorist activity.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/16/jour…
“I Was One of Them” Asylum Seeker Reflects on Her Journey to the US
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (1/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/i-was-one-of-the…
Amazon workers internationally protest against conditions on Prime Day
wsws.org | 2019-07-16
Across the US and in Europe, Amazon workers are protesting dangerous working conditions, low pay and the company’s ties to the US immigration Gestapo.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/16/amaz…
Jeff Bezos flaunts obscene wealth with $80 million Manhattan penthouse purchase
wsws.org | 2019-07-16
Bezos’ $137 billion combined wealth could pay the annual median rent for all 250,000 Amazon workers in the US for 100 years.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/16/bezo…
AOC & Omar’s ‘squad’ bashes Trump for ‘distracting’ tweet — by devoting entire conference to it
rt.com | 2019-07-16
The four freshman congresswomen President Donald Trump told to leave the US if they didn’t like it have hit back with a grandstanding press conference, feeding the #Resistance back its own warmed-over talking points. | …
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Trump promises to probe China’s alleged ‘infiltration’ of Google
rt.com | 2019-07-16
Donald Trump has said his administration will probe accusations that Google has been infiltrated after working with China’s military, days after billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel called for the tech giant to be investigated. | …
rt.com/usa/464310-thiel-google-china-tru…
Protesters Target Palantir for Profiting from ICE Conracts
Ruth Robertson | indybay.org | 2019-07-16
July 12 was a national day of action to call for the protection of immigrants from ICE raids. In Palo Alto, demonstrators marched on Palantir Technologies’ headquarters, saying the data mining company is helping the Trump administration separate families. Palantir sells software that assists the government in tracking and finding people to arrest and deport. | Please credit the photographer: Jack Owicki, Pro Bono Photo.
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After Finding Refuge in the US, Asylum Seekers Now Fear Deportation
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (2/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/after-finding-re…
Mountain View Vigil Protests Immigration Camps
Text: R.R. Photos: Teri Vershel | indybay.org | 2019-07-16
On June 30, 2018 in Mountain View 2,000 people demonstrated to send a clear message to Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress: Families Belong Together! They demanded an end to cruel and unjustified treatment of immigrant children and their families. A year later, on July 12, 2019, members of Together We Will once again called upon the people to gather on the streets, for the situation has not improved. Quite the opposite, it has only become more dire. | Photos by Teri Vershel, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/14/1882468…
Undocumented Workers Have Rights & How the US Destabilized Honduras
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-16
Episode 8 of Real Talk Tho: As Trump threaten immigration raids, how will Baltimore respond? (9/10)…
therealnews.com/stories/undocumented-wor…
Have ‘Russian bots’ tricked Americans into thinking their country has problems? RT investigates
rt.com | 2019-07-16
Americans concerned about political friction in the US will be relieved to know that, according to the media, most of these issues have been manufactured by Russian bots. RT took a closer look at this scary conspiracy. | …
rt.com/usa/464272-russian-bots-us-manipu…
Anarchist Activist Killed for Fighting US ‘Concentration Camps’
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
United States Anarchist and anti-fascist activist, Will Van Spronsen, was killed Saturday by the police in the state of Washington while trying to take direct action against a migration concentration camp, by setting up migrants deportation buses on fire. | RELATED: | Small Scale Immigration Raids in US as Migrants Hide in Fear | The killing occurred a few hours after a peaceful demonstration against the migrants’ detention camp when four police officers shot the 69-year-old campaigner in t…
telesurenglish.net/news/Anarchist-Killed…
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
The United States authorities launched small-scale operations seeking to arrest undocumented immigrants over the weekend in an apparent start to President Donald Trump’s vow to launch mass deportation round-ups across the country. | RELATED: | 1,600 Migrant Children Were Killed or Went Missing Since 2014 | The operation, which Trump revealed on Twitt…
telesurenglish.net/news/ice-united-state…
Hundreds join united action in Palo Alto, Calif., to shut down Palantir Technologies for complicity with ICE
Jon Britton | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-15
In a great show of unity in action, more than a dozen groups from all over the San Francisco Bay Area joined together July 19 to protest at Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto for the company’s provision of software facilitating ICE raids, detentions and deportations.
liberationnews.org/hundreds-join-united-…
Cruelty Is the Point: Communities Fight Back as Threat of ICE Raids Terrorize Immigrant Families
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-15
This weekend, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents launched a handful of raids across the country as part of President Trump’s push to detain and deport thousands of undocumented migrants in 10 major cities. Agents in Chicago reportedly arrested a mother and her children only to quickly release them. Arrests were also attempted in New York City, in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and Harlem, where immigrants reportedly refused to open their doors to ICE agents because they did not have warrants. Authorities say more raids are planned this week, prompting fear but also generating mass protests on the ground. We speak…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/15/immigrati…
Trump’s Attack against Immigrants Meets Resistance
Alicia Jrapko and Bill Hackwell | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-15
Photo Credit: Bill Hackwell Nearly 800 events took place this weekend across the United States organized by grassroots organizations including religious sectors, community groups, students, labor and many individuals who had had enough of the Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids taking place in working and poor communities against immigrants and Trump’s concentration camps on the …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/trumps-attack…
Trump Bars Asylum Seekers at US Southern Border
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
The United States Departments of Justice and Homeland Security issued Monday a joint rule that blocks all migrants from applying for asylum at the southern border, requiring them first to attempt international protection in a safe third country. | RELATED: | Small Scale Immigration Raids in US as Migrants Hide in Fear | It “will affect all those who reach our southern land border but may have fled from anywhere in the world. It does nothing to fix our broken migration system,” a DHS official…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Bars-Asylu…
America Pours “Oil into Fire” in Persian Gulf. Strategic Waterways. Control of Strait of Hormuz
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
The illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibralter by the British Navy last Friday is fast acquiring farcical character. Britain acted at the behest of the US; in turn, the US probably acted at the behest of the …
globalresearch.ca/america-pours-oil-into…
UK Says They Will Release Iranian Oil Tanker After Guarantees of Destination
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-15
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt spoke with his Iranian counterpart, Javad Zarif, over the phone on Saturday.
UK Says They Will Release Iranian Oil Tanker After Guarantees of Destination
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Bachelet’s Gift to the US: Justifying Regime Change in Venezuela
Roger Harris | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-15
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s report on Venezuela echoes the US government’s talking points, which are designed to terminate the two-decade-old Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. The report fails to acknowledge Venezuela’s manifest accomplishments or even recognize victims of US-backed right-wing violence in Venezuela. The US economic war against Venezuela, US threats of a…
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China Reports High Economic Growth of 6.3%
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
Despite the US trade war, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Monday that the country has met its growth targets after recording a 6.3 percent rise in GDP and an 8.8 percent rise in average disposable incomes. | RELATED: | Chinese VP Says World Cannot Shut China Out | Analysts awaited the publication of growth figures to see if U.S. sanctions and tariff war would hinder China’s ability to reach the government’s official growth targets, which were a 6 percent rise in GDP for the f…
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UN Human Rights Council Adopts Resolution Rejecting US Sanctions
TeleSur English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-15
The draft resolution was approved with 28 votes in favor, 14 against and five abstentions, and was presented by Venezuela and Palestine on behalf of the Movement of Non-aligned Countries.
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“Radiating Insecurity”: Will Europe Stand with “US Hooliganism”, or Stand by Its Treaty Obligations to Iran?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Since the Iranian revolution took power in 1979, the world stood against Iran because it is an “Islamic Republic”, unwilling to acknowledge and bow to US dominance of the Middle East and the entire world. I say the world because …
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I Know What It’s Like to Be Told to ‘Go Back’ to My Own Country
Natasha Hakimi Zapata | truthdig.com | 2019-07-15
As the daughter of Iranian and Mexican immigrants, the president’s racist attacks on four congresswomen of color have struck me to my core.
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Iran’s Not the Aggressor. The U.S. Is
Khury Petersen-Smith | commondreams.org | 2019-07-15
The U.S. is brutalizing ordinary Iranians, even as its actions and rhetoric are driving toward a more serious military confrontation. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Some Iranian women taking off hijabs as hardliners push back on dress code
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-15
A few daring women in Iran’s capital have been taking off their headscarves in public, risking arrest and drawing the ire of hardliners.The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for one young Iranian woman who often moves in Tehran’s streets without a hijab.With every step, she risks harassment or even arrest by Iran’s morality police, whose job is to enforce the strict dress code imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Women spend an afternoon around the Persian Gulf Martyrs’ Lake in Tehran (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)”I have to confess it is really, really scary,” the 30-year-old fire safety consulta…
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Trump murdered the Iran Deal–and Europe isn’t too happy about it
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-07-15
During the July 14, 2019 meeting between France, Germany, and the UK to discuss their response to the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal, President Hassan Rouhani remarked that Iran is “always ready for negotiation.” Iran, he said, urges the U.S. to “abandon bullying.” | Source…
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Unlike US, UK Foreign Secretary Wants To Save Iran Nuclear Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
Britain said Monday there was a “small window” of time to save the Iran nuclear deal, as Tehran signaled it would ramp up its nuclear program if Europe failed to do more to salvage the pact. | RELATED: | Leaks Reveal Trump Left Pact With Iran to Erase Obama’s Legacy | “Iran is still a good year away from developing a nuclear bomb. There is still some closi…
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US Waterboards Iran and Then Asks for Talks: Former IAEA Head
The Iran Project | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Washington is waterboarding Iran then asks for talks, said former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei, adding that no country will cooperate under such ‘humiliating conditions’. | “They are applying a waterboarding method to Iran, drowning Iran | …
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The Fear Party
David Altheide | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-15
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair | The politics of fear led by President Trump attacking undocumented immigrants and religious minorities is pushing our political parties apart. Political divisions in the United States are increased when our two major political parties do not agree on what are the important issues. | Historically, Democratic and Republican parties essentially agreed on…
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Over 39,000 Honduran Migrants Deported From Mexico
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
Over 39 400 Hondurans were deported from Mexico, from October 2018 to the date, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. | RELATED: | Two Honduran Vessels Wreck at Sea, 27 People Killed | Statistics released by the Consular and Migratory Observatory of Honduras reported that over 60 000 Hondurans have been sent back to the Central American nation, 43 percent higher than the same period of 2018. | In statements to the press, the head of the General Directorate of Migrant Protection, Li…
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Amazon Prime Day Strike: Workers say no to overwork and discrimination
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-15
SHAKOPEE, Minn.–Amazon Prime Day is becoming Amazon Strike Day. Amazon is forcing its workers at its monster warehouse in Shakopee, Minn., to walk out again. The 1,500 workers, one-third of them migrants and refugees from Somalia and other nations of East Africa are walking off the job for six hours today, July 15. That’s the …
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Remnants of War
Kathy Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-15
Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In Kabul at least 40 people, including one child, were killed in a complex Taliban attack. Dozens of children whose school was partially collapsed by a massive…
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Venezuelan Delegation Arrives in Barbados to Continue Dialouge
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
The Venezuelan delegation arrived in Barbados Monday to continue the negotiations with the spokesperson of the country’s opposition. | RELATED: | Venezuela: US Trying to Destroy Political Dialogue in Barbados | Jorge Rodríguez, the Vice President of Communication, Tourism, and Culture of Venezuela informed about their arrival on Twitter. | “We have arrived at generous Barbados to continue the dialogue of peace. Together with Pope Francis, we hope that all of us will commit our…
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Two Congressional Resolutions That Won’t Advance Israeli-Palestinian Peace
James Zogby | commondreams.org | 2019-07-15
The U.S. Capitol building (Martin Falbisoner via Wikimedia Commons) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Venezuela: Guaido Bodyguards Arrested as Barbados Talks Resume
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-15
The self-declared “Interim President” claimed his men were victims of a “set up.”
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There’s Far More Diversity in Venezuela’s ‘Muzzled’ Media Than in US Corporate Press
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
The international corporate media have long displayed a peculiar creativity with the facts in their Venezuela reporting, to the point that coverage of the nation’s crisis has become perhaps the world’s most lucrative fictional genre. Ciara Nugent’s recent piece for …
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Trump’s Hissy-Fit Over Darroch Will Blow a Chill Wind Across Britain’s Embassies in the Middle East
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-15
Just for a moment, let’s forget poor old Kim Darroch. Let’s jump a couple of days in front of this news story. Let me tell you how his utter humiliation and sacrifice at the hands of Trump — and with the connivance of the man who will probably be the next British prime minister –…
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Three Months Since Arrest of WikiLeaks Publisher: UK Government Holds “Media Freedom” Conference While Imprisoning Assange
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Thursday marked three months since WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange was dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy and into London’s Belmarsh Prison, where he is being held pending extradition to the United States and a drumhead trial on Espionage Act charges …
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“This Omar from Minnesota”. Trump’s Aggressive Tweets
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Just when you thought President Trump couldn’t get any more absurd, out comes a series of tweets telling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came.” | Omar …
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Revanchist Israel Bent on Territorial Expansion. Towards “Greater Israel”?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Israel is the only nation without official borders. From its inception it was planned this way to extrajudicially annex more territory. | A territorial expansion plan was drawn up in the 1980s as part of the US/Israel plan to redraw the …
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Turkey’s Purchase of Russian S-400 Air Defense System: A Blow to the US War Machine
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-15
Turkey’s purchase of state-of-the-art Russian S-400 air defense equipment at the expense of less capable US Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Air Defense (THAAD) missiles is of much greater significance than has been reported. More on this below. | The White | …
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US: Prominent Civil Rights Activist Killed in Louisiana
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-15
United States police in the state of Louisiana are investigating the murder of Sadie Roberts-Joseph, a prominent civil rights activist and founder of an African-American history museum, whose body was found in the trunk of her car in Baton Rouge, officials reported Sunday. | RELATED: | Trump Says ‘The Squad’ Hates the US, Asks Them to Leave Again | Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, was killed by “traumatic asphyxia, including suffocation” before her body was found in the trunk of her car…
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“Fossil Fuel Stooges” Pence & Trump Deny Climate Crisis as Deadly Rains Slam Louisiana & South Asia
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-15
Ongoing heavy rain has killed at least 67 people in Nepal, 25 in India and 14 in Bangladesh as flooding from monsoons has displaced 1 million people in South Asia. This year’s flooding in the region has been worse than ever before and is likely fueled by rising global temperatures, which have led to more extreme weather. Scientists warn that the risk of deadly floods is not over. In the United States, New Orleans residents managed to avoid the worst of Tropical Storm Barry, but 11 million people continued to be on flash flood warning as the storm slowly made its way through Louisiana over the weekend. President T…
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Why Do Billionaires Keep Presenting Themselves as America’s Great New Hope?
Nathan J. Robinson | commondreams.org | 2019-07-15
Billionaire candidates often run promising to fix the very problems that their own existence created in the first place. (Photo: Stephen Lam/Reuters) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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