Gibraltar to Detain Iranian Oil Tanker for Another Month
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
Gibraltar has been granted the power to detain Iran’s Grace 1 oil tanker for another month after a private Supreme Court meeting was held on Friday. | RELATED: | Trump: U.S. Navy Destroys Iranian Drone in Strait of Hormuz | Gibraltar said the Iranian vessel, seized by marines in a daring landing in darkness off the coast of the British territory on July 4, was suspected of smuggling oil to Syria in breach of European Union sanctions. | Iran has repeatedly called for the ship’s re…
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Iran Seizes British Oil Tanker in Persian Gulf Waters
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
Iran has seized a British oil tanker that was sailing through the Persian Gulf waters en route to Saudi Arabia this evening, the Islamic Revoutionary Guard Corps announced. | RELATED: | Iran Releases Video Disproving US Claims of Downed Drone | Britain said it was urgently seeking further information after a British-flagged tanker took a sudden turn into Iranian waters. | Relations between Iran and the West have been increasingly strained after Britain seized an Iranian tanker in G…
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Iran Releases Video Disproving US Claims of Downed Drone
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
The Iranian government has released a new video on Friday showing one of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) drones following the USS Boxer as it sailed through the Strait of Hormuz. | RELATED: | Gibraltar to Detain Iranian Oil Tanker for Another Month | This new video, which was released on state-owned Press TV, showed the USS Boxer before and after it sailed through the imperative waterways of the Strait of Hormuz. The video supposedly proves Iran’s claims that their dron…
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The World Is Dedollarizing
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
What if tomorrow nobody but the United States would use the US-dollar? Every country, or society would use their own currency for internal and international trade, their own economy-based, non-fiat currency.
globalresearch.ca/world-dedollarizing/56…
US Blames Hezbollah Leader for 1994 Buenos Aires Attack
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on a senior Hezbollah operative it claimed coordinated the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires, in which 85 people died. | RELATED: | Pompeo Begins Trip to Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, El Salvador | In a statement, the State Department also offered a US$7 million reward for information on the whereabouts of Salman Raouf Salman, also known as Samuel Salman El Reda, who it said helped plan and carr…
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U.S. replaces bombs on Iran with a cyberattack
G. Dunkel | workers.org | 2019-07-19
President Trump called off a bombing attack on Iran on June 20 because he was “shocked” at 150 projected casualties. He then called on the U.S. Cyber Command to conduct a series of attacks against that country. Virtual attacks on command and control systems can cause as much infrastructure damage . . . | Continue reading U.S. replaces bombs on Iran with a cyberattack at Workers.org…
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US to Send 500 Ground Troops to Saudi Arabia in Response to Iran
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-19
There is a plan to send “up to 500” US ground troops to Saudi Arabia in response to Iran tensions.
US to Send 500 Ground Troops to Saudi Arabia in Response to Iran
As Trump Tears Up Our Treaties, Can Local Efforts Yield Diplomatic Fruit?
James Carden | thenation.com | 2019-07-19
As Trump Tears Up Our Treaties, Can Local Efforts Yield Diplomatic Fruit?
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Trump Claims US Navy Shot Down Iranian Drone in Defensive Action; Iran Denies
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-19
“We have no information about losing a drone today,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif told reporters at the UN.
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French Police Ready to Crack Down on Algerian Soccer Fans
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
Thousands of extra French police are set to be on duty later Friday in Paris and other major cities for the final of the Africa Cup of nations following exuberant street celebrations that has been used by the government and the far-right to spread racist views on French citizens with immigrant origins. | RELATED: | ‘Les Bleus’ Made France World Cup Champion, But Not Less Racist Nation | Algeria won the Africa Cup of Nations for the second time on Friday when a fortuito…
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EU Commission Should Let Rescue Boats Dock, Rackete Asks
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
After being questioned by the Agrigento Prosecutor’s office in Sicily on Thursday, the captain of the Sea Watch vessel, Carola Rackete, asked the new members of the European Commission (EC) to do everything possible to help migrants saved by humanitarian rescue boats. | RELATED: | Paris Awards Captains Rackete and Klemp for Humanitarian Work | “I sincerely ho…
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Sudan’s Agreement on Political Declaration Leaves Many Unanswered Questions
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
An agreement on the Political Declaration signed by the Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the leadership of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) on July 17 postpones firm decisions on key aspects of a comprehensive program which will determine …
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Spying on Julian Assange
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
History’s scope for the absurd and tragic is infinite. Like Sisyphus engaged in permanent labours pushing a boulder up a slope, the effort of making sense of such scope is likewise, absurdly 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…
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Nicaragua 1979-2019. History of the Sandinista Revolution
Eric Toussaint | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
The Nicaraguan government’s violent repression against demonstrators protesting its brutal neoliberal policies, resulting in more than 300 people being killed by regime forces since April 2018, is only one of the reasons why various leftist social movements have condemned the …
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Will Any Disgusted Republicans Challenge Trump in the Primaries?
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
In 1956, then Senator John F. Kennedy authored a best-selling book titled Profiles in Courage, in which he told the stories of Senators in American history who, on principle, bucked the tides of power. Today, some Republican writer or conservative syndicated columnist — George Will or Max Boot — should write a book called Profiles…
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Nigerian Political Prisoner Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
Nigerian rule is tyrannical, headed by military dictator/turned politician Muhannadu Buhari and his so-called All Progressives Congress party (APC). | His February re-electoral triumph was dubious at best, critics citing voter-suppression and vote-buying. | Political violence occurred in the run-up to the …
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Israel’s Choice for U.S. President
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
In late June, President Donald Trump flailed away with his own particular brand of nondiplomacy at the G20 Summit in Japan, but it is worthwhile noting on the plus side that his administration is so inept that it could not …
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Four Killed As Protests Spread in Southern Ethiopian City
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
Four protesters have died of gunshot wounds they suffered in clashes with Ethiopian security forces this week while demonstrating for a new, autonomous region for the Sidama ethnic group that wants a political base in the southern city of Hawassa. | RELATED: | Ethiopian Security Kills Coup Mastermind, Others Arrested | The threat of large-scale violence in Hawassa was largely averted after a Sidama opposition party agreed Thursday to delay declaring possession over the southern regio…
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Revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-07-19
Impossible to deny the reality of poverty in our world. Studies of the data on income and wealth routinely show that billions of people on the planet live with minimal access to resources. These studies demonstrate that poverty cannot be measured merely by the financial resources that are not available; they demonstrate how billions of […] | Source…
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The Billionaires v. Bernie
Michael Sainato | progressive.org | 2019-07-19
The democratic socialist candidate is under attack from the super rich, their corporations, lobbyists, and think tanks. Some are even backing his 2020 Democratic primary rivals.
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“The US Got Scared” Voices of the Resistance in Post-Coup Honduras
Alexander Rubinstein | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-19
Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup – and the Neoliberalism it brought with it – have impacted their country.
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South Carolina Speaks for Whom?
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
Because the African American vote is crucial, the conventional wisdom nowadays is that for Democrats to end up with a nominee who can defeat Donald Trump, Democratic candidates must win over African Americans’ hearts and minds. This is a rare case in which the conventional wisdom is spot on. Because South Carolina will be the…
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All Seemed Possible When the Sandinistas Took Power 40 years Ago
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Sandinistas taking power in Nicaragua, a milestone that merits celebration regardless of our opinions on how the Sandinista Revolution evolved. Nor should the hand of United States imperialism in distorting that revolution be ignored — the huge cost exacted by the U.S.-directed and -funded Contras totaled more…
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Chevron’s Oil Spill Endangers Kern County
Dan Bacher | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
MCKITTRICK, CA A massive oil spill even bigger than the Plains All American Pipeline disaster off Refugio Beach in Santa Barbara County in 2015 has occurred in Kern County, as first reported by Ted Goldberg at KQED. The latest disaster has spilled more than 798,000 gallons of combined oil and wastewater into the surrounding area…
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This Is Heaven!: A Journey to the Pearly Gates with Chuck Mertz
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
Note: This is merely a humble recount of a vision and it in no way reflects the *real actions of Chuck Mertz, Jesus Christ or anyone else. Note: This is a translation of a dream-like state and therefore cannot be fully understood within the constraints of narrative and the naturally alienating medium of reconstruction of…
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What You Don’t Want to be in Trump’s America
Brian Cloughley | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
Life can be bright in America — If you can fight in America; Life is all right in America — If you’re all-white in America. — West Side Story, film version October 1961. 1961 is way back in history, the year of John F Kennedy’s election, the Bay of Pigs, the first man in space, and lots…
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It Was Never Just About the Chat: Ruminations on a Puerto Rican Revolution
Miguel A. Cruz-Díaz | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
The current upcoming generation of Puerto Ricans has galvanized those that came before in a way never before seen on the island. What musician and up-and-coming founding parent Bad Bunny called the “no more” generation has taken to the streets. Hell, they have taken the streets! And they keep coming back, day after day, beating after beating carried out by cops driven more and more unhinged.
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A Racist President and Racial Trauma
J.P. Linstroth | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
When an American person of color hears–“go back to where you came from”–those very words epitomize racism. They are white code for “you do not belong here”. And “you are not white” and therefore “you are not us”; and as such, you are not part of this country, the United States, which should be white.
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The Inequality of Equal Pay
David Underhill | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
“Equal pay! Equal pay!” the crowd chanted at the rally for the women’s soccer team after the ticker tape World Cup victory parade in New York. They were loud and insistent–and they didn’t mean it. Team captain Megan Rapinoe confirmed this in her speech during the rally. She didn’t merely call for equal pay. She…
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How the Trump Administration is Eviscerating the Federal Government
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
The federal government is by no means a perfect organization. It mirrors society. Yet it is the only saving grace that prevents the collapse of society under the stress of capitalism. It funds the military establishment and provides socialist medical care to its veteran soldiers — and members of Congress. The federal government also employs…
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Say Goodbye to MAD, But Remember the Fight for Free Expression
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
The Los Angeles Timesand other media outlets recently announced that MAD magazine was going to cease publishing a hard copy or newsstand edition and will only be available through subscription and in comic-book stores. More troubling, at year’s end it will cease being published. Say goodbye to the ever-subversive freckled-faced of Alfred E. Neuman. Comedian “Weird Al” Yankovic was MAD’s…
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System Capture 2020: The Role of the Upper-Class in Shaping Democratic Primary Politics
Anthony DiMaggio | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
The Democratic primary season is upon us, and the party’s candidate list is a useful starting point for assessing the impact of affluence on American politics. Classic works by sociologists of decades past, including C. Wright Mills and G. William Domhoff, posited that U.S. political institutions were captured by elite economic actors, who seek to enhance their own material positions at the expense of the many.
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The Groundbreaking Public Health Study That Should Change U.S. Society–But Won’t
Bruce E. Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
What variable is associated with a 12 times greater likelihood of a suicide attempt–and also doubles the likelihood of cancer, heart disease, or stroke? In the late 1990s, the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study revealed a stunningly powerful relationship between childhood trauma and later adult emotional difficulties and physical health problems. Two decades after the…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/19/the-groundbr…
Stranger Things, Stranger Times
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
To say we live in extraordinarily strange times is perhaps the ultimate understatement. Strange times indeed, and terrifying as well. Rising global fascism, the continued threat of nuclear war, an imperiled biosphere and a climate that is rapidly heating up. In the US it is even more apparent. There are concentration camps on the southern…
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Environmentalists and Wilderness are Not the Timber Industry’s Big Problem
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
For decades the timber industry and its political allies have claimed that efforts to maintain Montana’s functioning forest ecosystems and native wildlife have “shut down” logging. But two recent articles reveal that the basic economic principles of over-supply and over-production in the timber industry are the real problems, not environmentalists, the Endangered Species Act, or being…
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Gaming the Climate
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
The greater divisiveness of the various warring factions in Game of Thrones places our own national divisiveness on to small, less frightening screen only because our divisiveness does not include White Walkers and their Army of the Dead. The Thrones is a world of all against all far more confusing than our own U.S. war…
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Adventures in Script-Writing
David Macaray | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
Over the years I’ve had approximately twenty scripts produced at small theaters in and around Hollywood and Orange County. None of these plays were celebrated or spectacular, mind you, just some offbeat comedies (in what might be called the “minimalist” tradition) that were fortunate enough to attract modest audiences willing to pay $25. Live theater,…
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Cuban Workers Celebrate Salary Rise From New Economic Measures
Helen Yaffe | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
‘Today is Cuban workers’ day!’ a Cuban friend told me in late June, beaming at the news that all employees of the island’s ‘budgeted’ state sector would receive significant salary rises, commencing from 1 July 2019. Cuba’s budgeted sector incorporates organisations and entities which operate with a state budget and mostly provide services free to…
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Precinct or Neighborhood? How Barcelona Keeps Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Global Capital
David Bravo | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
Barcelona’s MontjuàØc fairground occupies twenty-seven hectares of municipal land, an area equivalent to twenty-one blocks of the city’s Eixample district. Its centrality is enviable, its installations obsolete, and its use is discussible, to say the least. Is today’s Barcelona using this public land in a way that best fits its needs? There’s plenty of time…
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A Trump Plan to Throw 50,000 Kids Out of Their Schools
Rose Ramirez — Dedrick Asante-Mohammad | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
In 1968 — just a week after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination — Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, or FHA. The law secured everyone’s right to housing regardless of race, national origin, disability, familial status, sex, or religion. The FHA protects people from discrimination when they’re renting, getting a mortgage, or seeking housing assistance…
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5 Years Later: No Indictments in Choking Death of Eric Garner
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
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The Numbers are In, and Trump’s Tax Cuts are a Bust
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
The most commonly heard refrain when Donald Trump and the GOP were seeking to pass some version of corporate tax reform went something like this: There are literally trillions of dollars trapped in offshore dollar deposits which, because of America’s uncompetitive tax rates, cannot be brought back home. Cut the corporate tax rate and get…
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The Blob Fought the Squad, and the Squad Won
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
For students of political history, a cottage industry has grown in recent years around identifying the historical circumstances and intellectual origins of neoliberalism. While the initial conditions have been identified in…
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Dancing with Dr. Benway
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
William S. Burroughs was a writer and a wreck; a cynic and a seer, a misanthrope and a muse. He was not really the hero type; he lacked the wholesomeness those seeking heroes are looking for. Nor was he a rock star. However, his books and approach to life inspired rock musicians, guitar heroes and…
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Russia and China Compete In Africa. Moscow’s “Pivot to Africa”
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
The heavily Russian-influenced government in the Central African Republic is recommending the closure of four Chinese-run gold mines over environmental concerns, making it possible that these firms could be replaced with Russian ones and potentially creating a model whereby Moscow …
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The “Squad” Will Need to Realize that You Can’t Defeat White Supremacy with White Supremacy
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
The “squad” condemns Trump for his white nationalism, not understanding that as a white supremacist settler-colonial state, white nationalism is “American” nationalism. | “Biden as a neoliberal white supremacist imperialist was always clear where he stood.” | The story of Trump’s white …
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“Voices from Syria” and “The Dirty War on Syria”: Mark Taliano and Tim Anderson Analyze the War on Syria
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
Voices from Syria by Mark Taliano and The Dirty War on Syria by Tim Anderson: two essential books on Syria for . | *SPECIAL OFFER: Voices from Syria + The Dirty War on Syria: | …
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The Sidama Region and Ethiopia’s “Perfect Storm”
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
The last-minute compromise deal by the Sidama Liberation Movement and the Ethiopian government to delay the former’s planned declaration of a new regional state until an upcoming referendum in December doesn’t solve the deeper problem of the country’s contentious internal …
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Brain-Damaging Pesticide for Use on Foods Kids Eat. It’s Legal
EWG | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
Farmers can keep spraying fruits and vegetables with a pesticide shown to harm a child’s brain even at low levels of exposure, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency said today. | With a court deadline looming, EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced …
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From Mad Cow Disease to Agrochemicals: Time to Put Public Need Ahead of Private Greed
Rosemary Mason | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
The first part of this article documenting the development of BSE in Britain was written by Rosemary Mason and is taken from her new report ‘ Why didn’t the UK media report the documentary on Mad Cow Disease?’ It …
globalresearch.ca/mad-cow-disease-agroch…
Rural America and the 5G Digital Divide. Telecoms Expanding Their “Toxic Infrastructure”
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
While there is considerable telecom hubris regarding the 5G rollout and increasing speculation that the next generation of wireless is not yet ready for Prime Time, the industry continues to make promises to Rural America that it has no intention …
globalresearch.ca/rural-america-5g-digit…
Inside Junior’s War Room
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
Deep deep deep inside the bowels of the White House is this private, very private chamber. Some say its the place where REAL PRESIDENT Cheney stays, and operates the REAL government. | Today, on this cold, bitter cold Sunday, Super Sunday, …
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‘An Insanely Bad Move’: Experts Sound Alarm as Trump’s Nuclear Safety Agency Weighs Rollback of Plant Inspections
Jessica Corbett | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
After months of experts raising alarm over the nuclear power industry pressuring U.S. regulators to roll back safety policies, staffers at the federal agency that monitors reactors sparked concerns Tuesday with official recommendations that include scaling back required inspections to …
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Multibillion-pound investment in schools ‘desperately’ needed, say MPs
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-19
Schools “desperately need” a multibillion-pound cash injection and the Government should draw up a 10-year funding plan, a cross-party group of MPs has said.A report by the Education Select Committee found that funding for schools and colleges had failed to keep pace with the extra demands being placed on institutions, such as providing mental health support and disabilities provision.This, coupled with growing pupil numbers and rising costs, meant the sector had been put under “significant strain” over the past 10 years, the MPs found.Robert Halfon, chairman of the committee, called for a “bottom-up national ass…
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Bolsonaro: Hunger, Poverty in Brazil: ‘A Big Lie’
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, says that the ample evidence of poverty and hunger in the country is a, “big lie.” | RELATED: | Brazil’s Bolsonaro: No Nepotism Here, Wants Son Diplomat to US | The president made the comments to the international press Friday during an interview at the presidential palace, Palacio de Planalto, located in Brasilia. | ”
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Rainforest on fire
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-19
On the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against Climate Catastrophe | Source…
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Pompeo Begins Trip to Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, El Salvador
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
T U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo began on Friday a three-day tour across Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico and El Salvador, which is aimed at “strengthening alliances in the Western Hemisphere on regional and global challenges.” | RELATED: | Pompeo Launches Commission to Study Human Rights Role | During his trip, Pompeo will seek to “reinforce” support for the…
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Pakistan: Release Ali Wazeer, Mohsin Dawar and PTM activists
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-19
On May 26, the army fired on a non-violent protest by the Pashtun Defence Movement (PTM) in Waziristan, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens. | Two PTM members of the Pakistan National Assembly, Ali Wazeer and Mohsin Dawar, who led the protest, were arrested on trumped up terrorism charges and a curfew was imposed on the region. | The curfew created a humanitarian crisis, resulting in three deaths from starvation and lack of medicine. After huge protests across Waziristan and on social media, the 11-day curfew was lifted on June 17. | Today, Wazeer and Dawar still remain in detention, charged with terro…
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Japanese Police Arrest Man Suspected of Kyoto Animation Fire
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
Japanese officials say they have arrested one suspect in the tragic Thursday arson attack that killed 33 people in Kyoto. | Some 100 investigators began the search to find the arsonist behind the merciless aggression. So far, one suspect has been arrested, a 41-year-old artist from Shinji Aoba who claims the studio had plagiarized his work. | In what is being called Japan’s worst mass killing in two decades, 33 people perished in the Kyoto Animation studio after it was set on fire…
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Wild Thoughts About the Wild Gallatin
Louisa Willcox | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
For the last 30 years a view of the stunning Gallatin Range has greeted me nearly every morning. Our window looks out on three dark green hogbacks that link the broad belly of Paradise Valley to the spine of the Gallatin Mountains. Her expression shapes my day, sometimes glowering, radiant, or showing off a new…
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Republicans introduce resolution to designate Antifa ‘domestic terrorist organization’
rt.com | 2019-07-19
Two Republican senators have introduced a resolution to “properly identify” Antifa as “domestic terrorists” who use violence against their opponents while being protected by “liberal privilege.” | …
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‘Escalatory violence’: Washington reacts to Tehran seizing British tanker
rt.com | 2019-07-19
The White House has condemned “escalatory violence by the Iranian regime,” as President Donald Trump promised to speak with the UK after Iran’s elite military wing said they captured a British-owned tanker over alleged violations. | …
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Break the link between Israeli apartheid and Australian agriculture
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-19
Most people would not be aware that two Israeli companies are the main suppliers of irrigation systems in Australia. They are potential targets for Palestine justice activists keen on expanding the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign into rural areas. | Along with the water business, FIMI/Rivulis and Netafim are deeply involved in the ongoing military oppression of Palestinians. Both companies provide military, surveillance and prison equipment to the Israeli government. | FIMI (First Israel Mezzanine Investors), which describes itself as a leader in “micro irrigation”, also owns Israeli defence firm…
greenleft.org.au/content/break-link-betw…
Venezuela: Trump diverts Central America aid to Guaido as EU threatens more sanctions
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-19
United States President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly diverting more than US$40 million in aid destined for Central America to the Venezuelan opposition. | According to the Los Angeles Times, a memo from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was handed to Congress on July 11 saying that $41.9 million was being handed to self-proclaimed “Interim President” Juan Guaido and his team. The memo argued that there is an “exigent” crisis involving US “national…
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French intelligence strategy document warns of “insurrectional violence”
wsws.org | 2019-07-19
The “road map” establishes the target of France’s counterterrorism agencies as “subversive movements” and potential “insurrectional violence” in the population.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/fran…
Calling Trump Claim ‘Delusional,’ Iran Says US May Have Shot Down Its Own Drone by Mistake
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-19
“All drones belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz have returned to their bases,” said a spokesman for the Iranian armed forces | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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US stokes war danger in Middle East following alleged downing of Iranian drone
wsws.org | 2019-07-19
The regularity of incidents between the US and Iran underscores how great is the danger of a military conflagration in the region, which would quickly draw in the major powers and endanger the entire planet.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/iran…
33 brave senior(kupuna) protectors on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea detained by police
DLI | indybay.org | 2019-07-19
On Wednesday morning, State police removed 33 senior(kupuna) protectors from a human chain that had blocked–for 3 days–access to the Mauna Kea Road, by construction equipment that are slated to begin the Thirty Meter Telescope(TMT). The protectors are part of the hundreds-strong peaceful activists that had been up at the Mauna(mountain) since last Sunday, July 14.
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Socialism 2019: The ex-International Socialist Organization embraces the Democratic Party
wsws.org | 2019-07-19
Amid Trump’s threats of war, unprecedented assaults on immigrants and attacks on democratic rights, Jacobin and the ex-leaders of the ISO hosted an event promoting the Democratic Party and American imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/soci…
Venezuela: Guaido’s bodyguards arrested as Barbados talks resume
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-19
Three men linked to self-declared “Interim President” Juan Guaido were arrested on July 12, 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 and ten ammunition packs for US$35,000. | The rifles’ serial numbers allegedly matched those stolen from the Bolivarian National Guard post in Caracas’ Federal Legislative Palace, where the National Assembly sits. | The governme…
greenleft.org.au/content/venezuela-guaid…
United Nations report finds global hunger on the rise for third year in row
wsws.org | 2019-07-19
The rise in hunger and food insecurity around the world is inextricably linked to the rise of social inequality, the outbreak of new wars and the disastrous effects of climate change.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/worl…
New Film Shows How UK Whistleblower Almost Stopped the Iraq Invasion in 2003
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-19
| In 2003, Katharine Gun, a young specialist working for Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, exposed a highly confidential memo that revealed the United States’ collaboration with Britain in collecting sensitive information on United Nations Security Council members in order to pressure them into supporting the Iraq invasion. Gun leaked the memo to the press, setting off a chain of events that jeopardized her freedom and safety, but also opened the door to putting the entire l…
truthout.org/video/new-film-shows-how-uk…
Who Killed Oscar and Valeria: The Inconvenient History of the Refugee Crisis
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
History never truly retires. Every event of the past, however inconsequential, reverberates throughout and, to an extent, shapes our present, and our future as well The haunting image of the bodies of Salvadoran father, Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez and his daughter, Valeria, who were washed ashore at a riverbank on the Mexico-US border cannot be…
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Dutton’s war on democracy
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-19
With the re-election of the Coalition government, conservatives have become emboldened to intensify their agenda of transferring even more wealth and power to the already dominant at the expense of the rest of us. | One sign of this is the rise in prominence of one the most hard-right figures in the Coalition: home affairs minister Peter Dutton. | Dutton has been at the centre of the Coalition government’s efforts to whip up racist scapegoating and strengthen the state’s repressive powers, a task for which he was well-prepared by his time in the Queensland police. | In 2014, he was appointed immigration minister…
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Roaming Charges: Big Man, Pig Man
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
+ After the scenes of mass psychosis in North Carolina on Wednesday night, you’d think the Democrats would finally extinguish their happy trope about “bringing the country together”, concentrate on protecting their most valuable assets (the 4 Horsewomen of the Political Apocalypse), and throw themselves into taking POWER. As Hobbes, the English Machiavelli understood perhaps…
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Sudan: ‘The only way to ensure justice for our martyrs is in the streets.’
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-19
Sudanese took to the streets in their tens of thousands across the country on July 13, while negotiations for a transitional civilian-led government hung in the balance. | Two days later, protests broke out again in response to the killing of a civilian, shot dead in the town of El Souk, southeast of Khartoum. Witnesses reported that members of the feared Rapid Support Forces fired on protesters, who were demanding that the paramilitaries leave their town. | Negotiations between the democratic Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) and the Transitional Military Council (TMC), which seized control following the toppl…
greenleft.org.au/content/sudan-only-way-…
Drug companies poured 76 billion opioid pills into US neighborhoods in just six years
wsws.org | 2019-07-19
Newly released data shows that between 2006 and 2012, as the drug epidemic spiraled out of control, drug companies flooded the country with oxycodone and hydrocodone pain pills.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/opio…
Indian Trotskyists to hold “Free Julian Assange” rallies in Chennai and Kolkata
wsws.org | 2019-07-19
Rallies in two of India’s biggest cities will take forward the call issued by the World Socialist Web Site international editorial board for the formation of a Global Defence Committee.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/asan…
Will the Afghan Peace Agreement be a Face-Saving Fig Leaf?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-19
Afghanistan is making progress for a peace agreement, but such an agreement will not necessarily mean an end to war or even assure the Afghan government’s survival, says Matthew Hoh…
therealnews.com/stories/will-the-afghan-…
US investigators identify 70 current and former immigration agents in far-right, racist Facebook groups
wsws.org | 2019-07-19
The announcement came after several Facebook groups connected to Customs and Border Protection agents were discovered to contain vulgar and sexually explicit posts.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/19/bord…
Iran Acknowledges Missing Tanker Was Seized in Persian Gulf
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-18
The United Arab Emirates-based oil tanker and its crew of 12 was smuggling fuel out of the country, according to Iran’s state-owned TV station.
truthdig.com/articles/iran-acknowledges-…
Venezuela Decries EU Attempt to Disrupt Talks With Opposition
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-18
Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza denounced Thursday a new attempt by the European Union to destabilize the dialogue process between government representatives and the opposition in Barbados. | RELATED: | Venezuela Rejects EU Sanctions Warnings | “The institutions of the European Union are determined to disrupt and try to destroy the dialogue process in Venezuela. They do not respect the sovereignty, nor the right to peace. What would Jean Monnet think?” the diplomat tweeted. | Arrea…
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Seeking truth about Venezuela’s food production
John Catalinotto | workers.org | 2019-07-18
An organization in the United States has scheduled a 10-day trip to Venezuela in late August that could help people find answers to important questions: Are there shortages of food? What is responsible for such shortages? What is the role of U.S. sanctions? How are the Venezuelans responding to the . . . | Continue reading Seeking truth about Venezuela’s food production at Workers.org…
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Venezuela: Trump Diverts Central America Aid to Guaido as EU Threatens More Sanctions
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-18
Guaido’s team is receiving over $40 million to fund salaries, travel, training, propaganda and technical assistance.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14592
Diplomacy Instead of a Disaster in Iran
Paul Kawika Martin | peaceaction.org | 2019-07-18
Washington, D.C. — July 18, 2019 — In response to reports of the U.S. shooting down an Iranian drone, Paul Kawika Martin, Senior Director for Policy and Political Affairs at Peace Action, released the following statement: “Because of the Trump administration’s policy of maximum provocation towards Iran, America stands on the precipice of another blunderous …
peaceaction.org/2019/07/18/diplomacy-ins…
Media Lies About Iran Deal, Headlines Repeat Unfound State Department Claims
Dave DeCamp | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
Iran announced last week they will be enriching uranium to 5% which is over the 3.67% limit set by the Joint Comprehension Plan of Action signed in 2015 under the Obama administration. | Iran has every right to go over that …
globalresearch.ca/msm-lies-about-iran-de…
How Iranian MEK Went from US Terror List to Halls of Congress
Ali Harb | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
As soon as Maryam Rajavi, her face beaming across a giant screen, finished speaking, the sky above hundreds of her supporters in the United States filled with red, white and green confetti — the colours of the Iranian flag….
globalresearch.ca/how-iranian-mek-went-f…
Trump: U.S. Navy Destroys Iranian Drone in Strait of Hormuz
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-18
President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a U.S. Navy ship had “destroyed” an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the ship, in the latest incident in the Gulf. | Trump told an event in the White House that the drone had flown to within 1,000 yards (meters) of the USS Boxer. | RELATED: | Iran Seizes Vessel in Gulf for ‘Smuggling’ Oil | “This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by Iran against vessels ope…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-U.S.-Navy-…
Diplomacy Instead of a Disaster in Iran
commondreams.org | 2019-07-18
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Travels in the South
Michele Willens | thenation.com | 2019-07-18
Travels in the South…
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El Chapo’s Life Sentence Inhumane: Mexican President
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-18
The life sentence for Mexican drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is inhumane, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) said Thursday just days after the conviction was finalized by a United States judge. | RELATED: | Mexico Rejects the Presence of Venezuelan Opposition at the OAS | During a morning conference, AMLO explained that sentences like the…
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Mexico Rejects the Presence of Venezuelan Opposition at the OAS
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-18
Mexico, along with nine countries in the region, challenged on Thursday the presence of representatives of the Venezuelan opposition in the General Assembly of the Organization of American States ( OAS ), which is being held in Medellin, Colombia. | RELATED: | Why the Canadian Government Is Confronting Venezuela | After the accreditation of said delegation, headed by the deputy of the Venezuelan right Julio Borges, Mexico requested that the following be included in the minutes and doc…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-Rejects-t…
An Interview with Daniel Kovalik
Alex Anfruns | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-18
In his last book on Venezuela, Daniel Kovalik, a lawyer and a long standing friend of Latin American people in countries such as Colombia and Central America, is tearing away the veil of war propaganda: “The humanitarian part of the intervention is now barely a fig leaf for the real and usual intention — the …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/interview-wit…
Julian Assange: US Coopts Patriotic Opposition in Ecuador, Former President Correa goes against Wikileaks Founder
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
Former President Rafael Correa’s claim that Julian Assange abused his political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to influence the US’ 2016 elections and his publicly proclaimed admiration for Hillary amount to nothing less than the completion of America’s …
globalresearch.ca/us-just-completed-its-…
Spying on Julian Assange: UC Global, CNN and Russian Couriers
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-18
History’s scope for the absurd and tragic is infinite. Like Sisyphus engaged in permanent labours pushing a boulder up a slope, the effort of making sense of such scope is likewise, absurdly 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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/spying-on-jul…
Will Any Disgusted Republicans Challenge Trump in the Primaries?
Ralph Nader | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-18
In 1956, then Senator John F. Kennedy authored a best-selling book titled Profiles in Courage, in which he told the stories of Senators in American history who, on principle, bucked the tides of power. Today, some Republican writer or conservative syndicated columnist — George Will or Max Boot — should write a book called Profiles in Cowardliness. It …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/will-any-disg…
Trump Ignorant of China’s Resolve
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
Trump is an artful dealmaker in his own mind, his mastery more myth than reality. | Former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res earlier said he wasn’t a great dealmaker. | “In terms of taking the responsibility for the buck, he just would | …
globalresearch.ca/trump-ignorant-chinas-…
Top 10 Facts About Cell Phones and Wi-Fi
Environmental Health Trust | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
1. All Cell Phones And Wireless Devices Emit Radiation. | Every wireless device is actually a two-way microwave radio that sends and receives a type of non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation called radio frequency radiation RF — EMF. This machine-made radiation is millions | …
globalresearch.ca/top-10-facts-about-cel…
The Mad Corruptions of Trump Inc
Jim Hightower | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-18
Where’s Shakespeare when we need him? Only the Bard of Avon could do literary justice to the tortured madness of Donald Trump, who fluctuates between petulant self-pity and weird self-praise. | His brags are especially weird because they usually involve …
globalresearch.ca/mad-corruptions-trump-…
Taliban Attack on Afghan Police Kills 12, Wounds 90
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-18
At least 12 people have been killed and dozens wounded Thursday afternoon in a Taliban attack against a police headquarters in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, government authorities and the Taliban say. | RELATED: | Video: UK Troops Use Jeremy Corbyn’s Picture for Target Practice in Kabul | “A number of mujahideen equipped with heavy and small a…
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