Daily Archives: July 17, 2019

2019-07-17: Social Media Postees

House votes to block Saudi arms sales in face of Trump’s veto threat
rt.com | 2019-07-18
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday sided with the Senate in passing three resolutions to ban sales of precision-guided munitions and other weaponry and technology to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. | …
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Amazon Helps ICE Deport Migrants Using AI Technology: Report
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
Amazon is enabling the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain and deport migrants from the United States according to a report by Al-Jazeera published Wednesday. | RELATED: | Small Scale Immigration Raids in US as Migrants Hide in Fear…
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Britain is following Trump and escalating the threat of war with Iran
Lindsey German | mronline.org | 2019-07-17
The British Navy’s seizing of an Iranian oil tanker shows Britain following Trump, trading in diplomacy for the threat of military confrontation, argues Lindsey German | Source…
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UK to Send 3rd Warship to Persian Gulf, Tensions With Iran Grow
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
The United Kingdom announced Tuesday that it will send a third warship to the Persian Gulf. The announcement comes at a time when tensions between the U.K. and Iran over the illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker earlier this month are increasing. | RELATED: | Iran Ready for Talks If US Lifts Sanctions: Rouhani | The British Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that HMS Kent, a type 23 frigate, would be sent out into the region in September in order to ensure the country’s maritime security p…
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Iran’s Not the Aggressor, the US Is
Khury Petersen-Smith | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
It’s easy to be confused about what’s happening between the U.S. and Iran. On July 10, President Trump again accused Iran of violating the Obama-era nuclear deal, in a tweet that he concluded by promising to increase U.S. sanctions “substantially.” Similarly, headlines — such as a recent New York Times article that originally proclaimed,…
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US Removes Turkey from International F-35 Fighter Jet Program
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
Turkey is being removed from the F-35 fighter jet program, the United States confirmed Wednesday. | RELATED: | Turkey Receives S-400 System Amid Sanctions Threat from US | The decision to cut Turkey from the program was expected, particularly after the middle eastern country signed for the delivery of the sophisticated Russian S-400 military defense system last week. | In a statement Stephanie Grisham, White House press secretary, said, “Unfortunately, Turkey’s decision to purchas…
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Ilhan Omar Introduces Bill Backing Pro-Palestine BDS Movement
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives Wednesday defending the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement the lawmaker told the news outlet Al-Monitor. | RELATED: | Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, AOC Sign Bill To Stop US Aid to Israel Over Child Detentions | ”
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Provoking War? British Hijack Iranian Ship, Another Day, Another Dangerous Provocation
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
Had Iran openly hijacked a vessel of any nation, for any reason, plying through waters anywhere on Earth, the US and its allies would immediately cite it as a provocation toward war. | In fact, even without evidence, suspiciously timed attacks …
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Towards an India-US-Israel Alliance directed against Iran? Prime Minister Modi “Pivots to the West”
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
India made a fool out of Iran by allying with its American & “Israeli” enemies, victimizing it with the blowback from its Hybrid War on CPEC, and crippling its budget by depriving it of its second-largest oil customer. | India, true …
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Reopening of Pakistan’s Airspace: A Bad Omen for India? Implications for Iran and Afghanistan
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
The reopening of Pakistani airspace to civil aviation was timed to coincide with PM Khan’s upcoming trip to the US, which is an extremely bad omen for India because it suggests that the resumption of its Afghan air corridor across …
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Europa ficará com EUA-hooligans, ou cumprirá as obrigaàßàµes do Tratado com o Irà£?
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
Desde que a revoluàßà£o iraniana chegou ao poder em 1979, o mundo pà¥s-se contra o Irà£, porque a “República Islâmica” resiste a reconhecer e curvar-se à dominaàßà£o dos EUA sobre o Oriente Médio e todo o mundo. Digo “o mundo”, …
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Trump Redirects Central American Aid to Venezuelan Opposition
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
The United States government has decided to redirect US$41.9 million, meant to financially assist Central American countries, to Venezuela’s opposition, according to an internal document obtained Tuesday by Reuters. | RELATED: | We Must Be More Active in Defense of Migrants: Rigoberta Menchu | The U.S. Agency for International Development ( USAID) notified Congress that the…
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‘Live From Nicaragua’: What Media Hushed About 2018 Failed Coup
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
As images and reports came out of Nicaragua in 2018, the public was fed a narrative created by the United States, its international proxies, and the Central American nation’s elite. The fabrication envisioned a peaceful, progressive and young protest movement crushed by a leftist dictatorial regime. | RELATED: | National Endowment for Destabilization? CIA Funds for Latin America in 2018 | Yet as it is often the case, narratives about Latin America hide imperiali…
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UN Chief Guterres Meets Venezuelan Top Diplomat Arreaza
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza insisted Wednesday that his government is working to reach an agreement with the country’s opposition in order to establish political and economic peace in the country, adding that U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed to him during a meeting at the organization’s headquarters his full support for the dialogue efforts taking place in Barbados. | RELATED: | Arreaza Slams US for Seeking to ‘Colonize Venezuela’ | Arreaza stressed that duri…
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Another Ex-Guerrilla Fighter Killed in Colombia
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
Leandro Chavarria ex-guerrilla of The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia People’s Army (FARC–EP) was murdered on Tuesday, according to the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force, a leftist political party in Colombia, established in 2017 as the political successor of the FARC. | RELATED: | Colombia FARC: Committed to Peace, Santrich No-Show at Court | “On Tuesday, former combatant Leandro Chavarria, 23 years old, was murder…
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Sudan: Military Council, Opposition Sign Political Agreement
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
Sudan’s ruling military council and an opposition alliance signed a political accord Wednesday as part of a power-sharing deal aimed at leading the country to democracy following three decades of autocratic rule. | RELATED: | Sudan to Establish Joint Civilian-Military Governing Body | The agreement, which ended days of speculation about whether a deal announced earlier this month would hold, was initialed in Khartoum in the presence of African mediators following a night of talks to iro…
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In the US and Brazil, Two Trends Underline the Creeping Fascism of Both Governments
Peter Bolton | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
The word fascism is undoubtedly overused in today’s political lexicon. It is used by figures from across the political spectrum as a shorthand for anything that one’s opponent does that is deemed sinister or disagreeable. This phenomenon has obscured the real meaning of the word, creating confusion and misunderstanding within the general public. One of…
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‘CNN is Building the Show to Extradite Assange’, Correa Says
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
In an interview with Russian media RT, Ecuador’s former President Rafael Correa questioned the intentions of a recent CNN publication which accuses Julian Assange of having participated in the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the United States. | RELATED: | Assange Masterminded Hilary Clinton Leaks in 2016: CNN | “CNN is doing its job like when it invented that there were mass weapons of destruction for people to applaud a war, an invasion of Iraq, which…
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Media Intrigue: Spying on Julian Assange
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
History’s scope for the absurd and tragic is infinite. | To see images of an exhausted and world-weary Julian Assange attempting to dodge the all-eye surveillance operation that he would complain about is to wade in the insensibility of it all. …
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London’s ‘Media Freedom’ Conference Smacks of Irony: Critics Barred, No Mention of Jailed Assange
Eva Bartlett | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
Irony is the word which comes to mind at the mention of the “Global Conference for Media Freedom” co-hosted by the UK and Canadian foreign ministers. Everything about this twilight zone gathering smacked of irony. | Irony that governments which support | …
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China to Ban Doing Business with Firms Selling Weapons to Taiwan
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
China considers Taiwan its sovereign territory, treating it as a breakaway province to be eventually reunited with the mainland. | Its ruling authorities call incursions by US warships in the Taiwan Strait provocative — the 110 mile-wide waterway separating Taiwan from …
globalresearch.ca/china-ban-doing-busine…

Support MH17 Truth: Machine Gun-Like Holes Indicate Shelling from a Military Aircraft. No Evidence of a Surface-to-Air Missile Attack
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
The West accuses Russia and the Donbass separatists of having brought down the plane with a Buk missile. IT’S A LIE. The evidence available in September 2014 –including a BBC report which the BBC decided to suppress– refutes the official story.
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Social Movements in Brazil Demand Freedom for Lula
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
Representatives of social movements took to the streets in several cities of Brazil to demand the immediate release of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has been at the headquarters of the Federal Police of Curitiba since April 2018. | RELATED: | First Audio of Brazilian Prosecutor Published in Lava Jato Case | In Brasilia, the member of the agrarian sector of the Workers’ Party (PT), Samuel Carvalho, indicated that “Lula Libre” c…
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Global Research: Giving Voice to Unspoken Truths
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
Dear Readers, | We live in a world rife with unspoken truths. One such truth is the danger of a war in which nuclear weapons could be used. | Another unspoken truth is that selling the idea of such a war to …
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Council dump charges likely to lead to fly-tipping, environmental campaigners warn
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-17
Charging householders to dump their rubbish legally could trigger a rise in the illegal practice of fly-tipping, environmental campaigners have warned. | The Government has announced a review of current rules at waste recycling centres after some councils began rolling out fees. | The charges include £3.30 per car tyre at Cornwall Council, £2 for a bag of loose material at North Tyneside Council, and £20 per boiler at Buckinghamshire County Council. | But Allison Ogden-Newton, chief executive of environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy, said it was better to encourage people to dispose of their w…
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A Fearless and Free Press is Essential to Our Democracy
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
“Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.” –Thomas Jefferson Make no mistake about it, the individual sitting in the highest office of our nation is trying to destroy the foundational institution upon which our democracy was founded — a fearless and free press. And why…
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Five Years on from Malaysian Airlines MH17 Destruction: A Clear Lack of Evidence that Moscow Was Behind It
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
The fighting that erupted in the east of Ukraine can be traced to a US-instituted coup d’état of February 2014 — confirmed by president Obama on CNN when he confided that Washington had “brokered a deal to transition power” in the country, forcing Viktor Yanukovych from office.
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Lava Jato Witness Admits He ‘Built a Story’ to Incriminate Lula
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
Former Odebrecht Superintendent, Carlos Armando Paschoal, and one of the plaintiffs in the trial against former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva admitted that he was “almost coerced” by Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) prosecutors to “build a story” that would incriminate Lula, according to a report published Tuesday by Brasil de Fato. | RELATED: | Key Witness in ‘Operation Car Wash’ Case Was Forced to Testify Against Lula: Leaks | “In the case of the At…
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Mexican Drug Lord ‘El Chapo’ Sentenced to Life in US prison
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord found guilty of running a murderous criminal enterprise that smuggled tons of drugs into the United States, was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday at his sentence hearing where he said his confinement amounted to “mental torture” before a U.S. judge sentenced him. | RELATED: | War on Drugs Failed Even with ‘El Chapo’ Facing Prison for Life | Guzman spoke during a sentencing hearing in a federal court in Brooklyn that is also ex…
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Congresswomen condemn White House racism
Monica Moorehead | workers.org | 2019-07-17
As we go to press, the House of Representatives passed a resolution saying that Trump’s tweets were racist. All Democrats and four Republicans voted for the resolution. More to come. The white supremacist and misogynist Trump has opened up another vicious, racist verbal war. This time it is against four . . . | Continue reading Congresswomen condemn White House racism at Workers.org
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On the Need to be Free from the Press
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
The notion that the West has a free press is beyond ridiculous. We have a “hegemonic” press which supports wars of aggression and concomitant Supreme International War Crimes. We have a press that does not seek the truth, but instead …
globalresearch.ca/need-free-from-press/5…

Decision to Keep Nuclear Weapons Data Classified Hurts US National Security
Hans Kristensen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
The Trump administration’s decision to classify the total number of nuclear weapons that the United States possesses and the number of nuclear warheads dismantled in 2018 marks an abrupt change from the recent norm. Every year since 2010, the United …
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Merger Mania: The Military-Industrial Complex on Steroids
William D. Hartung | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
When, in his farewell address in 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned of the dangers of the “unwarranted influence” wielded by the “military-industrial complex,” he could never have dreamed of an arms-making corporation of the size and political clout of …
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Trump Is Tanking the American Manufacturing Industry
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-17
It’s official. Trump has put US manufacturing, which is about 14% of the US gross national product, into recession, according to AFP Recession is defined as two consecutive quarters of decline. | The recession in manufacturing has many reasons, including a cyclical slowdown in the Chinese economy. But on top of them call came Trump’s trade war with China, which tipped the balance. | The US is in the eleventh year of a particularly slow and tepid economic expansion after the Great Bush Crash of 2008-2009. Despite al…
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Amazon workers strike for safe working conditions
Chris Garaffa | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-17
The advanced technologies that Amazon makes billions of dollars selling to oppressive agencies could be used for good.
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Louvre Discreetly Removes Sackler Name Amid Opioid Scandal
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
The Louvre museum in Paris has removed the name of the Sackler family from one of its wings, amid a sanitory scandal that has seen the billionaire donors accused of pushing a highly-addictive opioid blamed for tens of thousands of deaths, reported local media on Wednesday. | RELATED: | Purdue Corrupted WHO to Boost Opioid Sales: Congress’ Report | Louvre p…
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Billionaires and American Politics
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-17
Is the United States becoming a plutocracy? With the manifestly unqualified but immensely rich Donald Trump serving as the nation’s first billionaire president, it’s not hard to draw that conclusion. And there are numerous other signs, as well, that great wealth has become a central factor in American politics. Although big money has always played an …
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Billionaires and American Politics
Lawrence Wittner | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
Is the United States becoming a plutocracy? With the manifestly unqualified but immensely rich Donald Trump serving as the nation’s first billionaire president, it’s not hard to draw that conclusion. And there are numerous other signs, as well, that great wealth has become a central factor in American politics. Although big money has always played…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/17/billionaires…

Argentina Remembers ’94 Bombing, Creates Terrorist Database
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
In honor of the 25th anniversary of Argentina’s tragic and deadly terrorist attack, South American officials created an antiterrorist database Wednesday. | RELATED: | Argentina’s Former Neoliberal President De la Rua Dies At 81 | The new database has listed names and members of terrorist groups which, officials say, could suffer financial penalties per association. | A quarter of a century has passed since the devastating bombing in Buenos Aires’ Argentinian Israeli Mutual Association (A…
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Trump May Appoint Fringe Neocon to Head Intelligence
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
It keeps getting worse. The neocons have burrowed termite-deep inside the Trump administration and rumor has it the president will add yet another one to an important cabinet position. | If there is any substance to the latest rumors, DNI …
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It’s “Un-American” to be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the Right to Criticize the Government
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
” Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us? The constitutional theory is that we the people are the sovereigns, the state and federal officials …
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Overcoming the Robotic Mind — Why Humanity Must Come Through
R. Teichmann | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
When I read the latest book of Julian Rose’s ‘Overcoming the Robotic Mind — Why Humanity Must Come Through’ I was touched by the uncompromising analysis of how earth and all life on it is under threat. Even more so …
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Trump Has 150 Nuclear Bombs in Europe Giving the White House a Dangerous Stranglehold Over EU
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
According to a report in the UK press today (amply corroborated by numerous reports), the US has approximately 150 (tactical) nuclear weapons of mass destruction (WMD) stored at six locations in Europe. | They are reported by a NATO-linked body, as …
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The World Bank Saw the Debt Crisis Looming
Eric Toussaint | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
In 2019, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will be 75 years old. These two international financial institutions (IFI), founded in 1944, are dominated by the USA and a few allied major powers who work to generalize policies that …
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Turkish Diplomat, One Other Shot Dead in Kurdish Capital Erbil
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-17
At least two people including a Turkish diplomat were shot dead on Wednesday in a rare attack in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil, Kurdish security officials and Turkey’s foreign ministry said. | A gunman opened fire at a restaurant where Turkish diplomats were dinning before fleeing in a car driven by an accomplice, two Kurdish security officials and a witness said. | Security forces began a search for the attackers, the Kurdish officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. | Turkey’s foreign ministry said one of those killed was a diplomat working at its consulate to Iraq’s semi-autonomous…
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Cheap Shots at the Trump Economy
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
I am not anxious to defend Donald Trump’s economic performance, but a complaint by Steven Rattner in his New York Times column caught my attention. The column features a graph showing that the ratio of the median wage for blacks has fallen relative to the median wage for white workers since 2016. This bothered me,…
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Teach the Children Well: the Unrealized Vision In Teaching and Learning in the Residential Schools
Michael Welton | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
Through the entire era of the residential school in Canada, from the 1880s until the 1980s, parents, public school inspectors and departmental officials made serious complaints about the “poor education” the Native children were receiving. John Milloy (A national crime: the Canadian government and the residential school system, 1879 to 1986 [1999]) observes poignantly:…
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Sexual Predators in the Power Elite
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
“As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensating to increase. And the dictator (unless he needs cannon fodder and families with which to colonize empty or conquered territories) will do well to encourage that freedom.” –Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Power corrupts. Anyone who believes differently hasn’t been paying attention. Politics, religion, sports,…
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I Had an Abortion and Now I’m Not Ashamed
Rebecca Gordon | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
I have never said this publicly before, but in December 1974 I had an abortion. I was 22 years old, living in a cold, dark house in Portland, Oregon, spending my days huddled in front of a wood stove trying to finish my undergraduate senior thesis. I did not want to have a baby. I…
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“Go Back Where You Came From:” an Episode From Canada
Michael Kidder | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
“… go back where you came from…” Not something one expects to hear from a head of state addressing his own citizens. When these taunts come from a man, a second generation American, whose entire pedigree as Captain America rests on having one natural born US citizen as an ancestor; it might be laughable, if…
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Ye Cannot Swerve Me: Moby-Dick and Climate Change
Manuel García, Jr. | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
Will climate change drive humanity to extinction? If so, how much time have we got?, and how will it happen? These questions are on the minds of many people today. In this essay, I will follow paleontologists deep into the geological past to see if it can offer any analogs to the evolving climatic conditions of today, and in that way give us a window into our future.
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States collaborating with the far-Right
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-17
It is not the collapse of Conservatism causing the rise of the far-right in America, Europe and Britain, it is the opposite. It is, however, important to understand that this is exactly how fascism comes to power. | Source…
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Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-17
The supposedly random ‘violence’ and drug wars in El Salvador must be seen within the political context of misguided American interventionism. Were it not for such violent interventions, Oscar, Valeria and millions of innocent people would still be alive today.
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CNN peddles intelligence agencies’ lies against Assange
wsws.org | 2019-07-17
A recent CNN article recycles the discredited claim that WikiLeaks was involved in a Russian conspiracy to deprive Hillary Clinton of the US presidency.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/17/cnns…

We’re Spending Trillions on Weapons and War. Let’s Spend It on Health Care
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-17
| We can’t afford it! | This will mean higher taxes! | It’s anti-American!This is but a taste of the nonsense you can expect to endure over the coming 16.5 months as the nation hurtles toward an electoral reckoning with the Trumpian monstrosity that was unleashed in 2016. | Of course, Republicans will spray this cheese into the wind at every opportunity, partially because the deliberately inaccurate vision of “socialism” they’re peddling will cost their wealthy benefactors a miniscule percent…
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Wall Street Journal warns job threats might not prevent rebellion by autoworkers
wsws.org | 2019-07-17
The mouthpiece of the banks said younger workers who have never experienced mass layoffs are the “big wild card” in this year’s contract fight.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/17/auto…

Sudan Transition to Civilian Rule Endangered as Foreign Interests Prevail
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-17
With the foiling of a coup attempt, the Sudanese military is consolidating its rule, despite a nearly signed transition agreement. Part of the problem is that Gulf states want to see the military in charge, especially since Sudanese soldiers are fighting in Yemen, says Prof. Khalid Ahmad…
therealnews.com/stories/sudan-transition…

Massive photo databases secretly gathered in US and Europe to develop facial recognition
wsws.org | 2019-07-17
Large digital face and “selfie” photo databases have been used by state agencies, software engineers and researchers involved in perfecting AI algorithms and image pattern analyses.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/17/face…

Beanpole (Dylda): Disturbing scenes of postwar Soviet life
wsws.org | 2019-07-17
Russian director Kantemir Balagov’s film treats the damaged lives of two young women who have just returned to Leningrad (today St. Petersburg) from the front after the end of the Second World War.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/17/dyld…

Free Speech No Longer Exists in US Universities
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
Georgetown University law professor Jonathan Turley notes that the University of California, once a bastion of free speech, now is opposed to it. The university now punishes people for opinions expressed outside the classroom and the university. See this….
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As Amazon Continues Undercutting Rivals, Workers Demand Fair Pay and Conditions
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-17
| While online shoppers around the world flocked to Amazon’s mega-sale “Prime Day” this week, the retail giant faced growing outrage from protesters, workers and lawmakers for its unsafe working conditions and collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Demonstrators in Seattle delivered a petition with over 270,000 signatures to Amazon headquarters demanding it stop exploiting workers and cooperating with ICE. Lawmakers, including Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Ilh…
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Pentagon to send 2,100 additional troops to Mexican border
rt.com | 2019-07-17
The US Department of Defense will send 2,100 troops to the Mexican border, to bolster the 4,500 military personnel already there. The move comes amid Democratic Party criticism of President Trump’s immigration policies. | …
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Sudan Transition to Civilian Rule Endangered as Foreign Interests Prevail
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-17
With the foiling of a coup attempt last week, the Sudanese military is consolidating its rule, despite having signed transition agreement for joint military-civilian rule. Gulf states want the military in charge, especially since Sudanese soldiers are fighting in Yemen, says Prof. Khalid Ahmed…
therealnews.com/stories/sudan-transition…

Twitter CEO maxes out donations to Tulsi Gabbard… conspiracy machine kicks into overdrive
rt.com | 2019-07-17
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has donated thousands of dollars to anti-war Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard — and Twitter users and mainstream media journalists are (rather ironically) up in arms about it. | …
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The Truth About — ‘Taking Back Control’. Britain’s Post-Brexit Debacle
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-17
Even The Telegraph — an ardent and enthusiastic cheerleader for Brexit with its traditional right-wing stance and influence over conservative activists has had to admit that in post-Brexit Britain, taking back control means — taking orders. And it looks like …
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Protesters Target Palantir for Profiting from ICE Contracts
Ruth Robertson | indybay.org | 2019-07-17
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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Kip Sullivan and Dr. Matthew Hahn on How Value Based Programs Are Undermining Medicare and Single Payer
Russell Mokhiber | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-17
There is a growing sentiment, bubbling from the ground up, that before we get to Medicare for All, we need to first fix Medicare. Richard Bazarian, an eye surgeon in Portland, Maine, is supportive of the idea.
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Eric Garner Family Outraged DOJ Won’t Prosecute His Murder by Police
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-17
| It’s been five years since Eric Garner, an African-American father of six, was killed when a white New York City police officer wrestled him to the ground and applied a fatal chokehold, while Garner, who was unarmed, said “I can’t breathe” 11 times. On Tuesday, federal prosecutors announced they will not bring civil rights charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer implicated in Garner’s death. The move reportedly came after Attorney General William Barr ordered that the case be dropped.
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Maureen Dowd Asked Rahm Emanuel to Weigh In on an Immigration Debate. His Record Is Abysmal
Ryan Grim | theintercept.com | 2019-07-17
When it comes to immigration, both the politics and the policy, perhaps no Democrat has been more destructive over the past 25 years than Rahm Emanuel.
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SPLC sues Florida officials over law requiring police to act as ICE agents
splcenter.org | 2019-07-16
The SPLC and its partners sued top Florida officials today over a new state law that requires local police to act as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
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Julián Castro Is Running for President & Supporting Striking Amazon & McDonald’s Workers
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-16
Amid labor strikes against poor working conditions and low wages for Amazon and McDonald’s workers, we speak with 2020 presidential candidate Julián Castro about workers’ rights, fair pay and where he stands on foreign policy, from China to Israel.
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Oaklanders condemn Trump immigration policies, demand respect and humane treatment
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-16
OAKLAND, Calif.–The biggest result so far from the immigration raids touted by President Trump may well be the flood of actions throughout the country, including the San Francisco Bay Area, demanding that immigrants’ rights be fully respected and that they be treated humanely. Among dozens of Bay Area actions was one that filled the plaza …
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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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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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Venezuela Rejects EU Sanctions Warnings
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
The Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, published Tuesday a communiqué on his Twitter account denouncing and rejecting statements made by the High Representative of the European Union (EU), Federica Mogherini, as she threatened the South American country with new sanctions if there was no progress in talks between the Venezuelan opposition and the government of President Nicolas Maduro. | RELATED: | Blockade Forces Venezuelan Kids To Leave Argentinian Hospital…
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Venezuelan FM Rejects Statements by His Colombian Peer
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza has rejected the statements made by his Colombian counterpart, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, who is fulfilling an agenda in the United States. | RELATED: | Venezuela Rejects EU Sanctions Warnings | During his visit, Holmes Trujillo reiterated the accusations of an alleged connection between the Venezuelan government and Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN). | In this regard, the Venezuelan diplomat denounced that these theories aim to distract attention from t…
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Trade Group Paves the Way for China Sanctions on the U.S
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-16
In a case dating to 2007, the World Trade Organization rules that the U.S. wrongly calculated tariffs imposed to punish China for subsidies.
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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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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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House opposes Trump’s Iran war threat, repeals Bush ‘war on terror’ authorization
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-16
WASHINGTON–By mostly party-line tallies, the Democratic-run U.S. House opposed President Donald Trump’s presumed march towards war against Iran. Lawmakers also voted to repeal two prior war-making measures, approved in 2001 and 2002, originally OK’d for Republican President George W. Bush’s so-called “war on terror” and his invasion of Iraq. The House vote against Trump’s Iran …
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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 …
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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 President and Commander in Chief’s …
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Trump Murdered the Iran Deal—And Europe Isn’t Too Happy About It
Vijay Prashad | commondreams.org | 2019-07-16
When Donald Trump campaigned for the U.S. presidency in 2016, he would frequently attack the JCPOA as Obama’s folly. (Photo: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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We Must Be More Active in Defense of Migrants: Rigoberta Menchu
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
Guatemalan Indigenous leader and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu expressed Tuesday that one must be energetic to defend human rights and considered that the raids in the United States are an offense to the migrants of the world. | RELATED: | Trump Bars Asylum Seekers at US Southern Border | “What happens in the U.S. can be replicated in other parts of the world and this is not good news, because it is confining young people and mothers, it is humiliating people, so who we are to t…
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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…
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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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Liberals Using “Human Rights” to Push Coup in Venezuela
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 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 effort to overthrow Nicolas Maduro’s government, Ottawa has funded and promoted a slew of groups …
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China-Latin America Cooperation Benefits All: Chinese Gov’t
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry emphasized Tuesday that the cooperation between the Asian nation and Latin America, specifically with Venezuela, adhere to the principles of respect, equality and mutual benefits. | RELATED: | Bilateral Cooperation Between US-China Benefits World | “China-Latin America relations are equal, mutually beneficial, innovative, open, benefiting the people, and not exclusive,” a spokesperson for the Ministry, Geng Shuang said. | This comes as a respon…
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Guaido’s Bodyguards Arrested as Venezuela Talks Resume in Barbados
Venezuela Analysis | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-16
(VZA) — Three men linked to self-declared “Interim President” Juan Guaido were arrested on Friday while allegedly selling weapons stolen during the failed April 30 putsch. According to Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez, Guaido’s personal bodyguards Erick Sanchez and Jason Parisi, as well as Sanchez’s cousin Eduardo Garcia, were detained while reportedly trying to sell five AK-103 rifles …

Guaido’s Bodyguards Arrested as Venezuela Talks Resume in Barbados

180 Venezuelans Return Home from Peru
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
A total of 180 Venezuelans returned from Peru this Tuesday, thanks to the Plan Vuelta a la Patria (Return to the Homeland plan) that has been promoted by the Government of Venezuela. | RELATED: | 90 Venezuelans Return Home from Ecuador with “Return Home” Plan | Distributed in two flights from the morning of this Tuesday and tomorrow Wednesday, a new group of Venezuelans will return to the country due to the precarious conditions in which they were living in Peru. | According to…
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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
Corporate media outlets blamed Nicaragua’s government for a deadly arson attack during the 2018 coup attempt, but new information raises…
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Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo Arrested in US
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-16
Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo was arrested in the United States under an extradition order on Tuesday, the South American country’s public prosecutor’s office said in a post on its official Twitter account. | RELATED: | Odebrecht Admits Paying Peru ex-President Toledo $32M in Bribes | Toledo, who governed from 2001 to 2006, is a fugitive from Peruvian justice for allegedly receiving $20 million from the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht in exchange for aid t…
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49ers’ Exum Knocks Police Violence in ‘Officer Kaepernick’ Track
Kasia Anderson | truthdig.com | 2019-07-16
Antone Exum Jr. is all too aware of what he’s up against as a professional athlete looking to be taken seriously as a recording artist. As if that weren’t a tough enough feat to pull off, the San Francisco 49ers safety also mixed politics with music in his latest track. And Exum made the stakes even higher by name-checking a revolutionary figure who rose from the same NFL ranks as he has, one whose mere mention draws any number of reactions–none of them mild. | Exum’s single, “Officer Kaepernick,” dropped on July 12. The title refers, of course, to Colin Kaepernick, the 49ers quarterback whose risky bid thr…
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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 …
globalresearch.ca/how-goliath-jerusalem-…

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…
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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…
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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…

What’s Really Going on in Hong Kong?
Reese Erlich | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-16
For more than three months, people in Hong Kong massed in the streets to protest a proposed extradition law. Critics say it would allow China to extradite dissenting students, journalists, and business people to the mainland, where they could face …
globalresearch.ca/whats-really-going-hon…