Daily Archives: July 26, 2019

2019-07-26: Social Media Postees

Troubled nuclear fuel plant in S. Carolina kept radioactive trash in LEAKY & RUSTY container
rt.com | 2019-07-27
A rusty shipping container full of uranium-tainted trash was found to be seeping contaminated sludge into the soil at Westinghouse fuel rod factory in S. Carolina, adding another radiation spike to the facility’s list of troubles. | …
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Venezuela recovers from blackout as Guaido ‘approves’ military treaty reincorporation
Ricardo Vaz | mronline.org | 2019-07-26
Caracas blamed the blackout on an “electromagnetic attack” while recovery was faster than before. | Source…
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Brazil: Minister Moro Seeks Deportation of Glenn Greenwald
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Brazil’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro signed a decree Friday limiting the legal stay of foreigners in the country under criminal investigation, or labeled “dangerous” by Brazilian or foreign intelligence services. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro’s Phone Hacked, Brazil Police Make Arrests | Coincidentally, decree number 666 can be used against Glenn Greenwald, the U.S. journalist living over a decade in B…
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Records Show Palantir Made $60 Million Contracting with ICE for Mobile App
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Palantir, the secretive data company founded by billionaire Trump surrogate and well-known Silicon Valley techno-goblin Peter Thiel, has come under fire in recent months for its work with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other government agencies involved in implementing Trump’s racist anti-immigrant policies. Protests organized both from within the tech community and from immigrants’…
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Did John Bolton Light the Fuse of the UK-Iranian Tanker Crisis?
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
While Iran’s seizure of a British tanker near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday was a clear response to the British capture of an Iranian tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar on July 4, both the UK and U.S. governments | …
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Did Trump Just Threaten to Attack Iran with Nukes? “We’re Ready for the Absolute Worst” Says Trump
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
On Monday during a press conference between Donald Trump and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Trump spoke rather casually of having reviewed plans to annihilate Afghanistan. | “I could win that war in a week. I just don’t want to | …
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Geopolitical Insanity: US War on Iran “Could Go Either Way” Says Trump
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
All bets are off in the geopolitical insanity stakes when we have the President of the United States (POTUS) glibly announcing he could launch a nuclear first strike to end the war in Afghanistan and wipe it “off the face …
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The Kremlin’s “Balancing Act”: Russia’s Ties with both Israel and Iran
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
The Senior Advisor of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation denied that there ever was a so-called “Russia-Shia axis” like Alt-Media claimed for years and reminded the prestigious audience at Russia’s …
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US Renews Chevron License in Venezuela Despite Trump Sanctions
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
The Trump administration ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äãrenewed Friday Chevron Corp’s license for three months to drill for oil in Venezuela, contradicting strict and illegal economic and oil sanctions by the White House against the Bolivarian government. | RELATED: | Venezuela Decries Latest US Sanction on Food System | The Treasury Department renewed the drilling license through Oct. 25 for Chevron, the last U.S. oil company operating…
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Guatemala Caves to U.S. Pressure, Signs 3rd Country Agreement
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Guatemala and the United States signed a migration deal Friday after President Donald Trump, threatened economic sanctions against the Central American country if it did not become a “Safe Third Country (STC).” | RELATED: | Morales Wants Guatemala to be ‘Safe Third Country’ | Trump told reporters that the agreement will “provide safety to legitimate asylum seekers and stop…
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Salvini Orders Italian Coast Guard Not to Rescue 135 Migrants
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini Friday announced that 135 migrants, who remain at an Italian Coast Guard vessel, will not disembark in his country unless European countries agree to welcome them. | RELATED: | 115 Migrants Feared Dead as Boat Capsizes off Libya | “The European Commission has been officially requested to coordinate the distribution operations of immigrants…
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As US Beefs Up Military Presence in the Gulf, Yemen’s Houthis Turn to Russia for Support
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-26
Houthi attempts to engage the UN to broker a peaceful solution to the war on Yemen have stalled. Now, out of options, the movement may have found a willing partner in Moscow.
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Colombia: Ex-Farc Killed, Justice Protests Staged Around World
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Six bullets ended the life of a former guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Thursday night, Colombian police reported Friday. | RELATED: | 100s of Cities Around World Join to ‘Defend Peace in Colombia’ | Carlos Alberto Montaño Mosquera was ambushed outside a welding workshop in Cali, Valle del Cauca by armed men riding motorcycles. | “It all happened when a subject arrived on a motorcycle, called him to the front yard and triggered six shots,” said Sant…
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100s of Cities Around World Join to ‘Defend Peace in Colombia’
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Over 100 cities around the world held demonstrations Friday to support Colombian social organizations that are demanding President Ivan Duque guarantee the safety of human rights defenders and social activists. | RELATED: | UN Visits Colombia to Review Failing Peace Accord | “In Colombia, workers have always sought that governments guarantee the right to the exerc…
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Uruguay: We Won’t Vote for Luis Almagro as OAS Leader
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Uruguay’s government says it won’t support a re-election bid from its own Luis Almagro as Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS). | RELATED: | Almagro Against Venezuela Dialogue, in Favor of Use of Force | During a Friday press conference, Uruguayan Foreign Minister Rodolfo Nin Novoa, told reporters: “We do not support the re-election of Dr. Almagro. We believe that he has lost the conditions to be a secretary general. He who holds that position must seek t…
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Only Civic Driven Voter Turnout Can Defeat Tweeter Trump
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Does the Democratic Party know how to defeat the foul-mouthed, bigoted, self-enriching crony capitalist Donald Trump? Trump pretends to be a populist. In reality he does the bidding of Wall Street instead of Main Street and weakens or repeals governmental health and safety programs. Defeating corrupt, disgraceful, disastrous Donald should be easy. He is, on…
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Unilateral Surrender? Hollow Mahmoud Abbas Suspension of Agreements with Israel
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
In 2005, Mahmoud Abbas was anointed by Israel to serve its interests. | Installed by a rigged election with no legitimacy, his term expired in 2009 but it didn’t matter. | Israeli hardliners kept him in power where he remains as long …
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US Foreign Policy in Shambles: NATO and the Middle East. How Do You Wage War Without Allies?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Israel is obviously a major partner of the US and NATO. But there’s another element in US-Israeli relations. Israel also has an unspoken and unofficial alliance with Russia, where Netanyahu has a personal relationship with Putin.
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Records Show Palantir Made $60 Million Contracting with ICE for Mobile App
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Palantir Has Made More than $60 Million Collaborating with ICE on Just One Product Palantir’s $60 Million ICE Profit Is Just the Beginning Palantir-ICE Partnership Worth More than $60 Million US Government Records Show Palantir Made More than $60 Million Contracting with ICE for Just One Mobile App By Eric Draitser Palantir, the secretive data…
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ERA Back From the Grave?
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
“It’s been an especially rough few years for women in America,” John Oliver began his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, on Sunday, June 10th. “Yeah, no shit, Zazu.” In his highly-charged rant, Oliver reminded viewers that Pres. Donald Trump’s two-plus years in office have been a terrible period for women. He and his administration have led the charge…
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Boris Johnson as British PM: Olive Reincarnations and Elvis on Mars
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
The BBC World Service took its listeners to the English cathedral town of Ely, set in picturesque Cambridgeshire, during the course of a hot July 23 in an effort to take the pulse of the country. Well, at least that particular, erratic pulse. It found, for the most part, a certain enthusiasm for Boris Johnson,…
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Government committee admits the UK is not prepared for climate crisis as travellers face another day of delays
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-26
The Government’s advisory Committee on Climate Change has warned the UK is not prepared for the increase in heatwaves that is expected with global warming.Rail passengers are being urged to avoid unnecessary travel as efforts continue to repair damage to the network caused by record-breaking July temperatures.There are also delays and cancellations at Heathrow, the UK’s biggest airport because of “extreme weather conditions across Europe”.Network Rail is urging commuters planning to use the Midland Main Line between St Pancras and Sheffield to check before travelling due to reduced service levels. | ?&#6503…
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Global Research Publishers: Special Offers On Our Book Titles
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
All of these titles from Global Research Publishers are available in print and PDF (e-book). For our North American customers they are also available in bulk for a discounted price in bulk. If you prefer to shop using Amazon, they …
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Destabilizing Pakistan: Bookending Washington’s China Policy
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Much is being said of US activities aimed at China. Recent protests in Hong Kong together with a US-led propaganda campaign aimed at Beijing’s attempts to quell a growing terrorist threat in Xinjiang are aimed at pressuring the nation to …
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The Acid-Washed Witch Hunt Hoax Apple
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
Mueller? Boring! The real story is the psycho lovers . . .
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Southeast Asia Was Hit by a Record-Breaking Disaster; It Was Called the United States
David Swanson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
In my town in the United States — as is not especially unusual — we have big memorials in prominent public places marking some of the most catastrophically immoral actions of the past. Unfortunately, all five of these major monuments …
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How the People Change History
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
The Electoral College is a far greater obstacle to democracy in the United States than the laughably minor problem of “Russian interference in our [supposed great] democracy” — the matter that Democrats and their many media allies sadly chose to roil the nation about, dangling the threat of impeachment, for the last two and half years.
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Corporate Media’s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the campaign of her leading opponent for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The conspiracy, that ranged from obtaining campaign debate questions in advance for Clinton and front-loading primaries in states…
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Hong Kong and Puerto Rico: Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of Britain, which conquered and held onto it since the Opium War in 1841, now returned to China, but still existing in a kind of neo-colonial relationship to that country, the other an island…
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Extinction is Stalking Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-26
I have previously written a summary of the interrelated psychological, sociological, political-economic, military, nuclear, ecological and climate threats to human survival on Earth which threaten human extinction by 2026. Rather than reiterate the evidence in the above article, I would like to add to it by focusing attention on three additional threats — geoengineering, medical …
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The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed
Ellen Brown | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-26
Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a Guardian article, citing a new analysis published in the journal Science. The author explains: As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that are driving global heating. New …
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Germany and France: Old Demons
Patrick Howlett-Martin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
The suspension of arms sales is a classic instrument of diplomacy. It has been wielded on a number of occasions against nations whose governments and armed forces are accused of flagrant human rights violations. In May 1977, the U.S. administration under Jimmy Carter suspended arms sales to the Argentine military junta after the coup of…
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By Any Other Name: American “Frustrationism”
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
“C’mon, of course the President’s not racist, but he’s frustrated like so many Americans are.” — Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) Well, I certainly do not think the President’s a racist. I believe the President shares a lot of American’s frustration with Congress, particularly those four women congressmen….” –Rep. James Comer (R-Kentucky).
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A Fateful Tug of War
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Tug-of-war is an innocent sport and, if there’s no heat wave such as now in the USA and Europe, it can be fun for all the players. But in world politics it may be a dangerous game, especially if played like some old Vikings did — across a fiery pit awaiting the losers. On the…
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Vote Blue for Better Wage Slavery
Jason Hirthler | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Democrats of all stripes continue to funnel workers into dead-end reformism Some night soon, after you’ve finished clanging your pots and pans in the streets, calling for regime change in Washington, take a stroll through your local chain bookstore. If you look in the right places, you’ll find quality reading, of political, literary, and spiritual…
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The Quiet One: Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones Phones In
Prairie Miller | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
“Wherever we went, we were antagonized by the media. We were always put down as saying we had long hair, we were dirty, we smelled, we wore our grubby, grubby clothes –And they never talked about the music until much later.” Rock musician Bill Wyman, most famously the bass guitarist rolling with the Stones for…
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Ecological Limits and the Working Class
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
In the latest issue of Catalyst Magazine that is published by Bhaskar Sunkara, there is an article titled “Ecological Politics for the Working Class” by Syracuse University professor Matt Huber, which argues for the need to abandon the “middle class” orientation of the ecologists whose worldview was shaped by the 1960s radicalization. (I guess that…
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The Tragic Inevitability of Boris Johnson PM
T.J. Coles | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Boris Johnson (BoJo) is an MP for Uxbridge. Born into wealth and privilege, the millionaire once described his £250,000 a year salary as a columnist for The Telegraph as “chicken feed.” In his role as Brussels correspondent, he spread what one Telegraph editor described as fake news about the European Union.
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Trump: the GOP’s Exterminating Angel
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Anyone with normal sensibilities who does not tune the world out completely cannot help but find the Trump presidency disorienting and upsetting — not only because the fate of the planet is in the hands of an illiberal, willfully ignorant, inept, sleaze ball with a Mussolini smirk, whose modus operandi is to stir up racial…
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The Empty Gaze of Mike Pence
Coco Das, Sarah Roark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
When people are not seen as human beings, but as a “storage” problem, the final solution becomes the “logical” solution. Are we going to let that happen? In the 2001 movie, The Conspiracy, Nazi officials gather at a stately home to discuss what to do about the Jewish population, which for the most part has…
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Genocide from Kissinger to Trump
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Donald Trump’s statement earlier this week that he could win the US war in Afghanistan but he doesn’t want to kill ten million Afghans was both revealing and appalling. Like so many other of Trump’s statements, his remark revealed the genocidal nature of US foreign policy. It is a policy that considers human lives as…
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Coming Out in Rural America
Jill Richardson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
I went to graduate school thinking I was straight. Then I realized I wasn’t. I came out of the closet almost two years ago, right after deciding to do my graduate research in Montana. Suddenly, I had an extra consideration on my plate: What would it be like to be gay in Montana? What will…
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How NAFTA Killed the Green New Deal
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
In a fundamental way, the 2020 election will be about unfinished business. The neoliberal order that emerged from the 1970s remained viable until 2008. Since then it has retained legitimacy in the centers of power, due no doubt to the highly stratified economic outcomes it produces. However, its social logic was never evident in the hinterlands. This distance reframed the adversarial posture of the political parties as an insider’s game that is largely unrelated to the public interest.
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My First Cousin Odysseus
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
When I first started reading to my young daughter Corinna in the late 1970s, I said to her, “I am the first cousin of Odysseus.” Homer and Odysseus This was more than bragging to a little girl. I love Homer and Odysseus. They have been my heroes. They speak to me and they speak to…
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How the Young Lords revived community activism at The People’s Church
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
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Britain Watches as Europe Braces for Trump Trade War
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Brussels is once again bracing itself for a new round of U.S. tariff threats. And Britain is in the trade war firing line. | Just under a year after U.S. President Donald Trump and European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker struck a …
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With Pakistan’s Prime Minister at His Side, Trump Threatens to Wipe Afghanistan “Off the Face of the Earth”
Sampath Perera | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
US President Donald Trump threatened to “kill 10 million” Afghans in “a week” so as to win a quick victory in America’s longest war, at a joint White House press conference Monday with Imran Khan, Pakistan’s prime minister. | The US …
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Pentagon Wants 16-year Old Kids to Fight the Empire’s Wars
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
The Pentagon is desperate. Far too many millennials are criminals, so luring them in to become the latest crop of bullet stoppers for the state is a nonstarter. | Solution? Recruit 16-year-olds. Most have yet graduated to petty and violent crime, …
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Johnson’s Westminster Cabinet Is Far to the Right of Thatcher
Craig Murray | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
I can only imagine that the media people who are saying this is the most right wing cabinet since the 1980’s were not sentient in the 80’s. Thatcher never had a Home Secretary remotely as illiberal as Pritti Patel, …
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Most Dem Presidential Candidates Are Attacking Trump’s Korea Policy–From the Right
Tim Shorrock | thenation.com | 2019-07-26
Most Dem Presidential Candidates Are Attacking Trump’s Korea Policy–From the Right…
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Cambodia Rumors: “Secret Chinese Bases” or “Argument over Semantics?”
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
The Western Mainstream Media is going into overdrive spreading the rumor that China is supposedly planning to set up naval and air bases in southern Cambodia, but the fact of the matter is that China might only have signed logistical …
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Left-wing British University Took Hundreds of Thousands of Pounds from British Military for ‘Cultural Advice’
Phil Miller | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has paid a British university hundreds of thousands of pounds for “cultural advice” on how to operate in former colonies. | Students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) in London have slammed the …
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Birthright Does Not Apply to Palestinians in Jerusalem
Daoud Kuttab | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Life has been difficult as a stateless person in Jerusalem for Mustafa Kharouf. He had the unfortunate case of being born to Jerusalem parents while they were in Algiers. His parents brought him back to Jerusalem but the Israelis …
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Inside the Submissive Void: Propaganda, Censorship, Power and Control
Greg Maybury | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to …
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Britain’s New Government: Where Do Boris Johnson’s Ministers Stand on the Middle East?
Alex McDonald | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
The UK’s newly installed prime minister, Boris Johnson, has spared no time in appointing a set of government ministers that better reflect his new agenda — most importantly with regards to a no-holds barred approach to take Britain out …
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Cuba Is a Safe Country, but U.S. Continues Its Attempts to Manipulate Reality
Ana Laura Palomino García | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Yesterday, July 25, Cuba demanded that the U.S. government cease its manipulation of alleged health problems reported by its diplomatic staff in Havana, as a pretext to impose aggressive measures to harm our country, economy, and people. | In statements to …
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The Demonization of Slobodan Milosevic
Michael Parenti | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
This article was originally published in 2003. | U.S. leaders profess a dedication to democracy. Yet over the past five decades, democratically elected governments–guilty of introducing redistributive economic programs or otherwise pursuing independent courses that do not properly fit into the …
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China-US Trade Negotiations Post-Osaka G20: Why No Deal on the Horizon
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
The recently passed G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan witnessed the return to ‘happy talk’ by Trump, promising the US and China would again get together and continue negotiating on trade. The Osaka G20 sounds almost a repeat of the December …
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The Dogma that 5G Wireless Radiation is Absolutely Safe
Microwave News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Last Tuesday (July 16), the New York Times devoted most of the front page of its science section to Bill Broad’s latest attack on those who challenge the dogma that wireless radiation is absolutely safe. | “The 5G Health Hazard …
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It’s About the Benjamins — Trump’s Smearing of Congresswomen Demonstrates Israel’s Influence in US Politics
Philip Weiss | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
Donald Trump has brought up Israel again and again in his racist tweets aimed at the four Congresswomen he says should leave the country. He says that “the Radical Left Congresswomen” “hate” Israel and the United States and should “apologize” …
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Dozens of bodies recovered after refugee boats capsize off Libya
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-26
Libya’s coast guard recovered dozens of bodies of Europe-bound refugees who perished at sea as search operations continued on Friday, a day after up to 150 people, including women and children, went missing and were feared drowned after their boats capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.A top UN official described Thursday’s shipwreck as “the worst Mediterranean tragedy” so far this year.Also on Friday, Libyan authorities transferred dozens of people rescued from the disaster to a detention centre near Tripoli that was hit by an airstrike earlier this month despite UN objections to such a move, the UN refugee agency s…
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US House Panel Reaches out to Court To Assess Trump Impeachment
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
The Democratic-led U.S. House Judiciary Committee asked a federal court on Friday for access to grand jury evidence from the Mueller probe as lawmakers there move one step closer to impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. | RELATED: | Mueller Hearing: Trump Would be Indicted if He Weren’t President | Democratic lawyers from the House of Representatives filed a 53-page petition to the U.S. District Court seeking permission to review evidence involving interaction…
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AIPAC’s Anti-BDS Resolution Easily Wins Bipartisan Support
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2019-07-26
Palestine remains the litmus test issue and once again, the Democrats showed their true colors on July 23, 2019 with 209 Democrats joining 189 Republicans in voting for pro Zionist Israel AIPAC’s HRes 246, Roll Call 497 opposing the Boycott Divest Sanctions Movement of the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. See https: //clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll497.xml. The bill may be found at www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/hou…
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Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq’s photograph, lying face down on the road, was circulated on social media. His untimely death is heartbreaking. Tariq’s innocent blood must not go in vain. For this to happen,…
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The cult of the billionaire entrepreneur
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-26
Let’s stop putting our hopes in billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos to save humanity. The billionaire class has benefited from the inequities of the capitalist system, and so is incapable and unwilling to change it, writes Rupen Savoulian.
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Combatting Surveillance Capitalism: An Orwellian Lesson in History from Ford to Google
Michael Barker | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Close scrutinization of the daily lives of workers has always played an important role in enabling capitalists to squeeze greater profits from their workforce. The relentless surveillance of employees, whether it be on the factory floor or in the workers’ homes, was something that the anti-Semitic industrialist, Henry Ford, was proud to have honed to…
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Roaming Charges: And Then There Were Three
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
+ Trump wants to make AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Than Omar the faces of the Democratic Party. The Democrats, whose current faces of the party are Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer and Biden, should say, thank you very much, Mr. President, for doing what we should’ve done ourselves. (Curiously, they haven’t shown such gratitude.) +…
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Foreign Correspondent: Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
Warren’s troubling foreign policy history includes uncritical support of Israel, supporting sanctions on Venezuela, and vilifying Russia and China as national security threats. But her views are also evolving.
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‘Unprecedented, Wasteful, and Obscene’: House Approves $1.48 Trillion Pentagon Budget
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-26
“Wanna know how broken and captured Washington is by the Pentagon and the corruption of our nation’s ‘defense’ budget? Well, look no further than the soon to be enacted budget ‘deal.'” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Jeremy Corbyn backs Mersey tidal power project
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-26
A Labour government will invest £3.5 billion in a major project to harness the power of the River Mersey to generate electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes, Jeremy Corbyn has promised. | The Labour leader will confirm his support for the Mersey Tidal Power Project during a visit to Liverpool on Friday. | The scheme aims to utilise the power of the Mersey and Liverpool Bay to produce clean, renewable energy for up to a million homes while creating thousands of jobs | Labour said its support for the project was part…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/07/26/jeremy-c…

Ohio Republicans Balked at a Nuclear Bailout, so the Industry Elected New Republicans — and Walked Away with $1.1 Billion
Ryan Grim | theintercept.com | 2019-07-26
A newly elected state legislature, backed by a dark-money effort linked primarily to the nuclear industry, overcame years of opposition to pass the bailout.
theintercept.com/2019/07/26/ohio-billion…

Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-07-26
In this commentary from the World Socialist Web Site, Patrick Martin describes how a recent viral video helps expose fundamental lies behind doomsday predictions of an America on the brink of race war.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/25/1882496…

Judge Halts Puerto Rico Bankruptcy for 4 Months
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2019-07-26
In a hearing on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Laura Taylor Swain told Puerto Rico’s government, creditors and a federal oversight board that for 120 days all debt suits will be on hold and sent to mediation. Puerto Rico is attempting to resolve more than $72 billion in debt.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/24/1882495…

Northern Ireland and Brexit: Where History and Fantasy Collide
Tom Clifford | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Almost 100 years on since the formation of the Northern Irish state, it is still the Irish question that is bedeviling politics in the United Kingdom. Brexit is not about Europe. It is about the Tories and increasingly about Ireland. First the Tories. Ironically the term for members of the Conservative and Unionist Party, to…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/northern-ire…

Selected Articles: War with Iran
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
In spite of online censorship efforts directed against the independent media, we are happy to say that readership on globalresearch.ca has recently increased. We wish to thank all of you who share our articles far and wide. | We cover a …
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Despite Mueller debacle, Democrats step up call for crackdown on “foreign meddling”
wsws.org | 2019-07-26
Wednesday’s testimony by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller before Congress, staged by the Democrats in the hope of reviving their discredited anti-Russia campaign, blew up in their faces.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/26/pers…

Rally: Defend the Amazon & Support Brasil’s Indigenous Women’s March!
Brasil Solidarity Network & others | indybay.org | 2019-07-26
Brazilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery St, San Francisco 94104-1901…
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Trump’s Not the Only Republican to Welcome Election Meddling
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-26
| Now that a couple of days have passed and we’ve all had a chance to digest the testimony of special counsel Robert Mueller and shake off the media’s predictable theatre criticism and sports analysis, it’s easy to see that the man’s focus in the investigation was on the Russian sabotage of America’s electoral system rather than Trump abusing his power to cover it up. And after the Sena…
truthout.org/articles/trumps-not-the-onl…

‘Teens can’t vote’: Elizabeth Warren tweet praising gender neutral licenses backfires
rt.com | 2019-07-26
US presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren’s strategy to appeal to progressive voters by praising New Hampshire for passing a law to allow citizens to mark their gender as ‘X’ appears to have backfired massively. | …
rt.com/usa/465165-elizabeth-warren-gende…

At City Hall, Debates Over Water Affordability Measures Rage On
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-26
After a ransomware attack that shut down the city’s billing system, Baltimoreans are bracing themselves to recieve three months of bills. Affordability advocates are continuing to push for income-based billing…
therealnews.com/columns/at-city-hall-deb…

Roaming Charges: And Then There Were Three
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
+ Trump wants to make AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar the faces of the Democratic Party. The Democrats, whose current faces of the party are Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer and Biden, should say, thank you very much, Mr. President, for doing what we should’ve done ourselves. (Curiously, they haven’t shown such gratitude.) +…
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Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-26
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq’s photograph, lying face down on the road, was circulated on social media. His untimely death is heartbreaking. | Tariq’s innocent blood must not go in vain. For this to happen, we are morally obliged to understand the nature of Jewish settler violence, which cannot be viewed in isolation from the inherent racism in Israeli society as a whole. | We a…
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Elizabeth Warren Seeks to Cut Private Equity Down to Size
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-26
| Elizabeth Warren’s Stop Wall Street Looting Act, which is co-sponsored by Tammy Baldwin, Sherrod Brown, Mark Pocan and Pramila Jayapal, seeks to fundamentally alter the way private equity firms operate. While the likely impetus for Warren’s bill was the spate of private-equity-induced retail bankruptcies, with Toys ‘R’ Us particularly prominent, the bill…
truthout.org/articles/elizabeth-warren-s…

Rosselló’s Gone, But Puerto Rico’s Fight Against Police Repression Continues
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-26
| On Monday night, protesters were gathered outside of the governor’s mansion in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, as they had been for more than a week, in order to demand the resignation of Gov. Ricardo Rosselló. | Although the protesters had been demonstrating in a peaceful manner all evening, around 10 pm, the police suddenly announced that a few protesters had become “aggressive” and then used their own claims as a pretext for a brutal crackdown. The police told members of the crowd th…
truthout.org/articles/rossellos-gone-but…

Activists Confront 2020 Candidates in Iowa About Drones and War
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-26
| In late July, the MQ-9 Reaper drone, the U.S.’s foremost killer drone, will enter the Iowa presidential primary contest in a cable TV ad that challenges 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to pledge to end all U.S. drone attacks, close U.S. drone bases and work for a global ban on weaponized drones. | The ad, due to appear on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News, will urge support for the End Drone War Pledge campaign plann…
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US Supreme Court allows Trump to spend $2.5bn in Pentagon funds on border wall
rt.com | 2019-07-26
The US Supreme Court has blocked a ruling by a California judge that would have prevented President Donald Trump from spending $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build a wall along the country’s southern border. | …
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At City Hall, Debates Over Water Affordability Measures Rage On
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-26
After a ransomware attack that shut down the city’s billing system, Baltimoreans are bracing themselves to receive three months of bills. Affordability advocates are continuing to push for income-based billing…
therealnews.com/columns/at-city-hall-deb…

Electrical worker killed at pipe mill in Western Pennsylvania
wsws.org | 2019-07-26
Forty-six-year-old David Bupp was electrocuted last Wednesday while repairing a piece of equipment at a small steel pipe manufacturing plant north of Pittsburgh.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/26/stee…

Brexit, Britain and the Permanent Crisis in the Gulf
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
What on Earth were the British politicians and officials thinking who gave the go-ahead for the seizure of the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 off Gibraltar on 4 July? Did they truly believe that the Iranians would not retaliate for what they see as a serious escalation in America’s economic war against them? The British…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/brexit-brita…

UK: Boris Johnson selects extreme right cabinet
wsws.org | 2019-07-26
Johnson’s is a class war government, with all the main positions filled by representatives of the extreme right of a very right-wing party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/26/bori…

Witness for the Non-Prosecution: Mueller, Pelosi and Trump’s Likely Triumph
Chris Floyd | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Robert Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday was the very definition of anti-climax. After months of frantic build-up by the ‘Resistance’ (“At last, Mueller is going to nail Trump to the wall!”) Mueller merely noted — mildly, haltingly but rightly — that his report laid out evidence of obstruction of justice, and that is up to the House of Representatives to decide whether to use this evidence to impeach the president or not. This is precisely what we knew months ago.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/witness-for-…

Tulsi Gabbard, Ayanna Pressley Votes in Favor of Anti-BDS Bill
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
The 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard came under fire for voting in favor of condemning the pro-Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. | RELATED: | Ilhan Omar Introduces Bill Backing Pro-Palestine BDS Movement | The U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday passed (398-17) a nonbinding resolution condemning the BDS…
telesurenglish.net/news/tulsi-gabbard-vo…

Venezuela Decries Latest US Sanction on Food System
teleSUR -EF-mrs | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Venezuelan authorities say they reject the newest set of sanctions by the United States government aimed at cutting off food aid for the poor into the South American country. | RELATED: | Lights on in Venezuela After Latest Blackout Attack | In a statement issued by Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, the government denounced “the repeated aggression of the U.S. Government against the people.” | “The Trump Administration has blocked bank transactions, purchases of food and medicin…
telesurenglish.net/news/Venezuela-Decrie…

Iran Seizure of a British Tanker: More than Tit for Tat
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-25
The British-flagged tanker “Steno Impero”, heading for Saudi Arabia, was seized on Friday, 19 July 2019, by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in the Strait of Hormuz, after it rammed an Iranian fishing boat, whose distress call it ignored. The tanker was taken to an Iranian port, because it was not complying with “international …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/iran-seizure-…

Bolsonaro Refuses to Supply Fuel to Iranian Cargo Ships
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-25
Since the beginning of June, two Iranian commercial ships have been stranded at the port of Paranagua, in the state of Parana, in Brazil because the state-owned company, Petrobras has so far refused to supply fuel to them, in line with sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on Iran, according to comments made by President Jair Bolsonaro to reports earlier this week. | RELATED: | Iran Hints at Possible Swap of Seized Tankers | “You know we are aligned with the U.S. policy. That is why…
telesurenglish.net/news/Were-Aligned-Wit…

Iran Is Gambling That Trump Is Afraid of War
Tony Karon | thenation.com | 2019-07-25
Iran Is Gambling That Trump Is Afraid of War…
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Iran Imposes Its Rule of Engagement: “An Eye for an Eye”
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Iran has meticulously selected its political steps and military targets in recent months, both in the Gulf and the international arena. Its partial and gradual withdrawal — tactical yet lawful -from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known as …
globalresearch.ca/iran-imposes-its-rule-…

Iran: How Bolton tricked Clueless UK Conservatives into Confrontation with Tehran
Juan Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-25
Simon Tisdall at The Guardian explains the difference between Socialist Spain and the disorganized Conservatives in control of UK on foreign policy. | US national security adviser John Bolton tried to hoodwink both of them about the Grace I, a Panamanian-flagged …
globalresearch.ca/iran-how-bolton-tricke…

U.S., Britain: Hands off Iran
Editor | workers.org | 2019-07-25
Britain’s aggressive maneuvers against Iran have put the possibility of a major war in West Asia on the front burner for the second time this year. In a conflict between the world’s imperialist powers and an independent capitalist country — in this case between U.S. and British imperialism on one . . . | Continue reading U.S., Britain: Hands off Iran at Workers.org
workers.org/2019/07/25/u-s-britain-hands…

Venezuela: US Sanctions Target Subsidized Food Program as Foro de Sao Paulo Kicks Off
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-25
Washington has targeted companies and individuals it alleges are profiteering from the CLAP food initiative.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14602