Daily Archives: July 20, 2019

2019-07-20: Social Media Postees

The UK’s dubious role in the new tanker war with Iran
Prabir Purkayastha | mronline.org | 2019-07-20
There are signs of a new tanker war in the Persian Gulf, with Britain joining a coalition that wants a war with Iran. | Source…
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Iranian FM Visits Venezuela in Show of Solidarity
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-20
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif traveled to the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on Friday to meet with several officials after attending a U.N. session in New York City earlier in the week. | RELATED: | Iran Seizes British Oil Tanker in Persian Gulf Waters | According to the Tasnim News Agency, Zarif said the United States is “creating instability and insecurity” in the Middle East and Latin America. “The resistance of Venezuela to the United States is very important for th…
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US “Downs” Legitimacy After Claims of Downing Iranian Drone
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-20
The US boasted of downing an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz, admittedly in international waters, just miles off Iran’s coast, and thousands of miles from Washington. | It claims the drone was “threatening” a US amphibious assault ship, the | …
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Is Trump Psychologically Deranged?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-20
Iran denies it, but if true it’s an act of premeditated aggression against a nonbelligerent country threatening no one — occurring 7,239 miles distant from the US. | More on his claim and Iran’s response below. | *** | What do all his …
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A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Trump’s Middle East Policy Could Push Yemen’s Houthis into Iran’s Hands
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-20
As both the United States and Saudi Arabia continue to wage war and impose economic blockades on both Yemen and Iran, it is likely that the Houthis’ political alliance with Iran against their common enemies will grow, turning the fears of both the Saudi Arabia and the United States into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Urges Direct Talks With Trump
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-20
Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made the surprise move to endorse direct talks with President Trump on Friday.

Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Urges Direct Talks With Trump

Germany: Rallies Against Neo-Nazis On ‘Operation Valkyrie’ Day
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-20
Over 8,000 Germans took to the streets in Kassel on Saturday to reject the demonstration in their city by a neo-Nazi march summoned by “The Right” (Die Rechte), an extremist nationalist party which pursues to settle policies to control the presence of migrants and “non-white” people in the country. | RELATED: | German Police Arrests 6 Alleged Members of Far-right Terrorist Ring | This 500-participant parade was carried out because Die Rechte holds that the murder of a loca…
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120 NAM States Condemn US Intervention, Promote Multilaterism
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-20
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) condemned Saturday the United State’s continued hostile policies toward Venezuela, this year’s host country, and called for strengthened multilateralism against the hegemony of powerful nations that undermine the world order and international law. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces EU Attempt to Disrupt Dialogue With Opposition | At the opening of the meeting of the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of the Non-Aligned Movement (Co-BNAM) being held in Carac…
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Trump Regime Bans Sale of F-35 Fighter Jets to Turkey for Purchasing Russian S-400s
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-20
Global Research Editor’s Note | The Pentagon ban on the sale of F-35 stealth fighter jets to Turkey, which is presented as a penalty for not conforming to US demands, is ultimately a slap in the face for Lockheed Martin which …
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“El Chapo” Guzman gets life — U.S. drug bankers walk free
Richard Becker | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-20
Zero bank executives have been criminally prosecuted for laundering hundreds of billions of dollars in illegal drug money.
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Endangered Species Mural Project

| globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-20
Just as nature inspires art, art inspires actions to defend wild places and the wild creatures that live in them. With this in mind, the Center for Biological Diversity’s Endangered Species Mural Project works with artists, scientists, and organizers to …
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How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World
Sharon Lerner | theintercept.com | 2019-07-20
The students at Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off. The plastic bag receptacle that the kids painted green and outfitted with triangular white teeth and a “feed me” sign won the students from the Nashville suburb first place in a recycling box decorating contest. The idea, as Westmeade’s proud principal told a local TV news show, was to help the environment. But the real story behind the dragon — as with much of the escalating war over plastic waste — is more complic…
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Fukushima: an ongoing disaster
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-20
n March–on the eighth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster–Time magazine published an article with the headline: “Want to Stop Climate Change? Then It’s Time to Fall Back in Love with Nuclear Energy”. | Source…
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We Got to the Moon. We Can Overcome War and Capitalism
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-20
| “For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.” — Carl SaganMy little girl loves the moon. When she sees it, whether full in borrowed light or a waning…
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‘Your child may be taken from your home’: School warns parents over unpaid lunch bills
rt.com | 2019-07-20
The Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania warned parents that their children could be taken from them and placed in foster care if they fail to pay their outstanding lunch debt. | …
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US immigration agents use children to inflict terror on migrant families
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
Three recent incidents highlight the depravity of the US government’s bipartisan war on immigrants, spearheaded by the Trump administration.
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Cross-border drug traffic peaking thanks to focus on migrant crisis, US drug czar says
rt.com | 2019-07-20
More drugs than ever are flowing into the US from south of the border as federal resources have been diverted to the migrant crisis, leaving Border Patrol hopelessly overstretched, the US drug policy chief has warned. | …
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War with Iran as 2020 election boost? Ron Paul optimistic Trump may tell Bolton ‘to get lost’
rt.com | 2019-07-20
With tension between the US and Iran running sizzling hot, some fear President Donald Trump may see war as a potential boost for his re-election campaign. Ex-Senator Ron Paul told RT he is optimistic that Trump won’t. | …
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Mixed signals on rate cut prompts Trump to demand the Fed enlist in US trade war against rivals
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
Trump is demanding that the Fed drop all pretence of “independence” and openly serve as an instrument of Washington’s economic war against its global competitors.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/fedr…

Consortium News website taken down by a malware attack after streaming program defending Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
The independent investigative journalism website Consortium News was brought down on Monday by a malware attack following the inaugural episode of CN Live!
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US, EU and NATO, once again, threaten Turkey with sanctions
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-20
In recent years, Western countries and, above all, the United States, have persistently attempted to make Turkey their proverbial “whipping boy.” Ankara, for its part, is aware of the situation, and the times when it’s politicians preferred to bow their heads and accept the outside influence are now firmly in the past: Turkey is resolutely …
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Cuba, Russia, China, Iran — Pompeo lists every nation that ‘must leave’ Venezuela, except one
rt.com | 2019-07-20
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says foreign nations (Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba) must stay clear of Venezuela, so that the one foreign nation not on the list “can begin to do the work to rebuild that country.” | …
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Publico reports Spanish intelligence facilitated 2017 Barcelona terror attack
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
The report is prima facie evidence of criminal behavior by the Spanish state, abetted by other NATO powers, to create the climate to build a fascistic police-state regime.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/spai…

Iran seizes UK tanker in Strait of Hormuz as danger of Middle East war mounts
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
Chief responsibility for the growing war danger in the Persian Gulf rests squarely with US imperialism, which has relentlessly escalated its provocations against Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/iran…

33 brave senior(kupuna) protectors on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea detained by police
DLI | indybay.org | 2019-07-20
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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An interview with veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier about actress Lillian Gish and director D. W. Griffith
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier (Round Midnight, Coup de Torchon, Life and Nothing But, It All Starts Today, In the Electric Mist) is one of the most admirable figures in cinema over the past 45 years.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/tave…

Peace Strike for Climate & Amazon Rainforest in State Capital
Fridays For Future Sacramento | indybay.org | 2019-07-20
California State Capitol Museum, West Steps | 1315 10th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814…
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UK intelligence agencies exonerated of responsibility in London Bridge terror attack
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
The families of the victims presented evidence before the inquest showing that the attacks could and should have been prevented.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/lond…

‘Green Card Won’t Save You’: ICE Arrests Trinidad Card Holder
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
Social media samaritans are coming to the rescue of a Trinidadian native, Trevor James, who was arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers despite being a Green Card holder. | RELATED: | Amazon Helps ICE Deport Migrants Using AI Technology: Report | ICE agents arrested the Caribbbean man at his job in North Carolina, sending him to a detention center in Atlanta, Georgia. | In a statement online, his sister, Solange James, explained he had been work…
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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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British Say Iran Seizes 2 Vessels in Strait of Hormuz
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-19
One of the ships is British-flagged and the other sails under Liberia’s flag. Details remain sketchy amid rising pressures in the region.
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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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Iran Denies Trump Claim That U.S. Destroyed Iranian Drone
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-19
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Friday denied President Donald Trump’s claim that a U.S. warship destroyed an Iranian drone near the Persian Gulf in another escalation of tensions between the two countries less than a month after Trump nearly launched an airstrike. | The Iranian military said all its drones had returned safely to their bases and denied there was any confrontation with a U.S. vessel the previous day. | The country’s Revolutionary Guard said on its website it would release before-and-after images from the drone — it did not say when — to prove it was not destroyed. | “We have not lost any…
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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

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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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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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?
thenation.com/article/trump-iran-climate…

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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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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President Ortega Leads Sandinista Revolution 40th Anniversary
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
The president of Nicaragua , Daniel Ortega , lead the ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Revolution , accompanied by thousands of militants of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) in Plaza La Fe, located in Managua (capital). | RELATED: | Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution | Representatives of various countries and social organizations came to this place to express their congratulations, among them, delegations from Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Ger…
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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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40 years after ousting US-backed dictator, Nicaragua still endures devastating US interference
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2019-07-19
19 July 2019 marks the 40th anniversary of the successful culmination of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. On that date in 1979, Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) guerrillas declared victory after ousting the US-ba…
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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 …
globalresearch.ca/nicaragua-1979-2019-hi…

Ralph Nader: The GOP Is a Profile in Cowardice
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-19
The president has proven himself entirely unfit for office. If Republicans had an ounce of moral courage, they would be primarying him.
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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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Unions slam reports of pay rise for public sector workers
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-19
Leaders of public sector workers have angrily attacked reports of a pay rise for teachers, police officers and other employees as a “last- gasp” attempt to curry favour with an austerity hit workforce.The Treasury is reportedly set to unveil the biggest public sector wage increase for six years, worth £2 billion, after years of pay caps.The move would affect two million workers, with any announcement coming just before Theresa May leaves Downing Street.(PA Graphics)Unite assistant general secretary Gail Cartmail said: “Millions of hard-working public servants will not be fooled by this last-gasp attempt by…
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U.S. and NATO warmakers find some willing partners in Germany
John Wojcik | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-19
BERLIN–While Donald Trump dominates the news daily in the U.S. with his racist diatribes, tweets, and rallies, the American public can’t be blamed if it fails to notice that on a world scale and here in Europe, in particular, the right wing is pushing for a level of militarization and war planning that goes beyond …
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Besieged Puerto Rico Governor Goes Quiet Amid Protests
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-19
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico–In the Spanish colonial fortress that serves as his official residence, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló is under siege. | Motorcyclists, celebrities, horse enthusiasts and hundreds of thousands of ordinary Puerto Ricans have swarmed outside La Fortaleza (The Fort) in Old San Juan this week, demanding Rosselló resign over a series of leaked online chats insulting women, political opponents and even victims of Hurricane Maria. | Rosselló, the telegenic 40-year-old son of a former governor, has dropped his normally intense rhythm of public appearances and gone into relatively long perio…
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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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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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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 Nationwide Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight
Robert Scheer | truthdig.com | 2019-07-19
Some investigative reports reveal such extreme levels of greed, immorality and abuse that they can seem inconceivable. Such is the case of the bombshell series by the Center for Investigative Reporting on the egregious exploitation of residential care home workers. Jennifer Gollan, the Emmy Award-winning journalist in this investigation published by Reveal, joins Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer to discuss her work on this week’s episode of his podcast “Scheer Intelligence.” | Below is an excerpt from the multimedia report by Gollan: [The] burgeoning multibillion-dollar elder care industry … is enabling op…
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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 …
globalresearch.ca/russia-and-china-compe…

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…

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 …
globalresearch.ca/sidama-region-ethiopia…

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…

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…

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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“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 “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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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 …
globalresearch.ca/epas-wheeler-keeps-bra…

‘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 …
globalresearch.ca/insanely-bad-move-expe…

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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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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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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The Billionaires v. Bernie
Michael Sainato | commondreams.org | 2019-07-19
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks to the crowd during the 2019 South Carolina Democratic Party State Convention on June 22, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina. (Photo: Sean Rayford/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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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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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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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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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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Jamaica Imprisons 906 in 2 Months to Quell Violence to No Avail
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-19
Jamaican authorities have made 906 arrests since a state of emergency was announced two months ago, but it’s done little to reduce the amount of violence across the Caribbean island, the Jamaican Constabulary Force said Friday. | RELATED: | Caricom Unites Behind Goals of Prosperity, Innovation | As of April 30, the state emergency temporarily deployed army personnel and granted permission to stop, search and arrest without warrant in three parishes. | However, the militarization and ‘cr…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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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 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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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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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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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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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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“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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Manus, Nauru and an Australian Detention Legacy
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-19
It could be called a gulag mentality, though it finds form in different ways. In the defunct Soviet Union, it was definitive of life: millions incarcerated, garrisons of forced labour, instruments of the proletarian paradise fouled. Gulag literature suggested another society, estranged and removed from civilian life, channelled into an absent universe. Titles suggested as …
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First men on the moon ‘came in peace’ to UN Headquarters ‘for all mankind’
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-19
As the world remembers Saturday’s 50th anniversary of the “giant leap for mankind” made by all those involved in the pioneering Apollo 11 space programme, we take a look back at the visit made by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to UN Headquarters in New York, just a few weeks after their historic mission.
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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…
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NDFP condemns Duterte for giving Israel’s IDF Nahal Brigade a role in his war against the people
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-19
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Luis G. Jalandoni, Chief International Representative, National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). | The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) strongly condemns the Duterte regime’s having the notorious Israel Defense Forces (IDF) give a specialized training by the Nahal Brigade of the IDF to 175 elite troops of the Philippine Army. This is despicable collaboration with Israeli Zionism, longtime partner of US imperialism, in horrendous acts of aggression against the Palestinian and Arab peoples. | Col. Dan Goldfus, commande…
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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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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…
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