“The U.S. got scared” voices of the resistance in post-coup Honduras
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup — and the Neoliberalism it brought with it — have impacted their country. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/the-u-s-got-scar…
China, Philippines Reach Consensus on South China Sea
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
China and the Philippines have reached an important consensus on bilateral ties: the South China Sea issue and regional development cooperation. The agreements were made during the 22nd diplomatic consultation between the two countries, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday. | RELATED: | US Sanctions Chinese State-Run Energy Company Over Iranian Oil | Spokesperson Hua Chunying told reporters that this diplomatic meeting in Manila was the first to take place af…
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Trump Regime Pressuring Turkey to Keep Its S-400s Nonoperational
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
Pompeo reportedly warned Turkey that it faces “more (US) sanctions” if its Russian S-400 air defense missiles become operational. | What’s the point of them if not able to protect against potential aerial threats. In 2018, US and Ankara officials discussed …
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North Korea Tests New Missile in Warning Message to South Korea
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
The firing of two “new-type tactical” weapons from the DPRK has prompted worries from South Korea and the United States. But Washington said it still wants “diplomatic engagement.” | RELATED: | US Jeopardizes Peace Talks With North Korea Over New Drills | In a report released Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the DPRK move a d…
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Presidential Candidates Kamala Harris or Tulsi Gabbard
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
It has been decades since a bona fide anti-war candidate ran for US President; that is, a candidate who ‘felt’ peace in their bones rather than a political calculation to be exploited. By my reckoning, that last campaign would be …
globalresearch.ca/kamala-tulsi/5684695
The Caracas Manifesto: Proposal and Promise at the Sao Paulo Forum 2019
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
The 25th Annual Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum is taking place July 25-28 in Caracas, Venezuela. The first meeting was held in 1990 in Sà£o Paulo, Brazil, with 48 political organizations and social movements led by Fidel Castro…
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‘Stop police terror, from Philly to Philippines’
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2019-07-27
Dozens of people braved 99Àö weather to rally in front of Philadelphia’s City Hall on July 21. They gathered to demand “U.S. stop funding terror in the Philippines” and instead “Fund jobs, health care, housing and education, not imperialist wars.” Speakers included Cero Parel and Jeeva of BAYAN-USA, Nora Kerrich . . . | Continue reading ‘Stop police terror, from Philly to Philippines’ at Workers.org…
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Report on Hassan Diab’s Illegal Extradition from Canada. The Segal Report
Hassan Diab Support Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
We were informed that the Department of Justice will release tomorrow (Friday July 26) the findings of an external review of Dr. Hassan Diab’s extradition to France in 2014. | The external review was conducted by Murray Segal, former …
globalresearch.ca/hassan-diab-press-conf…
For a new world
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
Basking in record-breaking high tempertures, slowly barbecuing ourselves, Britons may well welcome the benefits of global warming. Don’t fool yourselves. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/for-a-new-world/
Free speech advocate Jacob Rees-Mogg is literally banning his staff using certain words
John Shafthauer | thecanary.co | 2019-07-27
As Jacob Rees-Mogg takes his place in Boris Johnson’s new cabinet, it’s been revealed that he has a style guide and a list of banned words. They’re as backwards and weird as you’d expect. People had fun with it, but some of Rees-Mogg’s writerly demands are troubling.It turns out the free speech advocate…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/07/27/free-sp…
A Syrian Mother’s Letter to Her Daughter, “For Sama” Shows War in an Unusually Intimate Light
Sarah Aziza | theintercept.com | 2019-07-27
For the majority of Western audiences, the region known as “the Middle East” is conceived as a vast swath of constant and inscrutable chaos. In this imagination, diverse conflicts, insurgencies, and civilian revolutions are flattened into a single horrorscape, represented by ubiquitous images of billowing smoke and colorless destruction. Violence, it would appear, is endemic to the region, as natural and inevitable as the endless, hostile desert. | This lack of historicity — and subsequent denial of responsibility — can be partly blamed on Western media that rewards sensationalist, reductionist headli…
theintercept.com/2019/07/27/syria-war-do…
Highlights: Watch House Republicans Tear Mueller Apart at Hearing
Jamie White | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
Former FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday over the findings of his report into so-called “Russian collusion,” and Republicans took him to the woodshed. | Throughout the hearing, Republican members of the committee exposed …
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Addressing the Climate Crisis, Worldwide Reforestation and Industrial Hemp
Adelaide Mena | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a July 4 article in The Guardian, citing a new analysis published in the journal Science…
globalresearch.ca/cheapest-way-save-plan…
The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Tragedy, Suppression and Tampering of the Evidence. New Documentary
John Helmer | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
A new documentary from Yana Yerlashova and Max van der Werff, the leading independent investigator of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster, has revealed breakthrough evidence of tampering and forging of prosecution materials; suppression of Ukrainian Air Force radar …
globalresearch.ca/mh17-evidence-tamperin…
Agricultural Literacy: A Solution to Youth Idleness and Unemployment
Anya Karaman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
At a juvenile detention center in Fes (Morocco), it feels like summer camp is all year round. There, “maximum security” is an open, white building complex, “delinquents” are watering plants and planting seeds, and the only guard in sight, if …
globalresearch.ca/agricultural-literacy-…
The U.S. Has No Place in Stirring Up China-Vietnam Relations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
American diplomats were trying to stir up trouble in Chinese-Vietnamese relations by making aggressive statements regarding Hanoi’s request that Beijing cease conducting seismic research in part of the South China Sea region that lies within the nine-dash line. A survey | …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-has-no-place-stirr…
Australia’s Mack Horton’s Anti-Drug Stance
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
The first rush of enthusiasm on looking at this is clear: a high-achieving swimmer on the circuit — the Australian Mack Horton — decides to take a stance. It’s not about refugees, Donald Trump or climate change. Unlike other sportspeople …
globalresearch.ca/australias-mack-horton…
Who Invented the Internet — A Full History
BroadbandSearch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
The internet has become a staple of modern life. We use it to shop for what we need and want, talk to friends and family, run businesses, meet new people, watch movies and TV, and pretty much everything you can …
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As risky finances alienate investors, fracking companies look to retirement funds for cash
Sharon Kelly | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-27
A year ago, Chesapeake Energy, at one time the nation’s largest natural gas producer, announced it was selling off its Ohio Utica shale drilling rights in a $2 billion deal with a little-known private company based in Houston, Texas, Encino Acquisition Partners. | For Chesapeake, the deal offered a way to pay off some of its debts, incurred…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/27/as-risky-f…
At least 6 people killed in mob lynching incidents in Bihar in past week
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
Not just that, a dozen more incidents of mob violence have also been reported in which people were attacked, thrashed, injured, abused and humiliated by mobs for alleged crimes or no crimes in some cases. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/at-least-6-peopl…
German government uses 75th anniversary of plot to kill Hitler to promote rearmament and war
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
It is only logical that the German ruling class hails the assassins of July 20, who were extreme nationalists and deeply involved in Nazi crimes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/germ…
The War on Drugs in Mexico Is Also a War on Journalists
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-27
| What is press freedom and how do we know what it looks like? While we in the United States are absorbed in Julian Assange-related quandaries about just who is a journalist, and whether leaked information can or should compromise national security, reporters in Mexico are harassed and killed daily for covering a “drug war” launched in 2006 by President Felipe Calderón, but abetted by the U.S. governme…
truthout.org/articles/the-war-on-drugs-i…
The mass drownings off Libya and the fight to defend refugees
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
The ongoing wave of atrocities against refugees demonstrates that it is impossible to defend immigrants without a mass, international movement against capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/pers…
FTC imposes $5 billion fine on Facebook for “deceiving users” about data privacy
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
The settlement is part of a concerted effort by the US government to implement regulations and control over social media platforms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/face…
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. | …
rt.com/usa/465179-westinghouse-nuclear-w…
AIPAC’s Anti-BDS Resolution Easily Wins Bipartisan Support
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
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……
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/24/1882495…
Stranger Things, Season 3: Nostalgia for the 1980s meets anti-Russian hysteria
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
Stranger Things, created by the Duffer Brothers, continues with its tribute to the 1980s, science fiction and horror themes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/stra…
Australian central bank chief fearful of rising global tensions
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
“When businesses are nervous, they don’t want to invest,” Philip Lowe warned a corporate lunch audience.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/lowe…
Rally: Defend the Amazon & Support Brasil’s Indigenous Women’s March!
Brasil Solidarity Network & others | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
Brazilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery St, San Francisco 94104-1901…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, both members of the Democratic Socialists of America, voted for a bill that includes a record $738 billion for the military.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/budg…
Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
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…
Northeast Ohio says “Never again”
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2019-07-27
Over 100 members of the Jewish community and allies demonstrated July 23 in northeast Ohio outside the Geauga County Safety Center, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants. Among them were Holocaust survivors and their children, doctors, educators and many youth, including organizer Lexi Stovsky. Protesters chanted “Never . . . | Continue reading Northeast Ohio says “Never again” at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/07/27/northeast-ohio-sa…
Demonstrators arrested ahead of Moscow election protest
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-27
Russian police have been arresting people outside the Moscow mayor’s office ahead of an election protest demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the city council.The dispute comes as the Kremlin is struggling with how to deal with strongly opposing views in its own sprawling capital of 12.6 million people.OVD-Info, an organisation that monitors political arrests, said at least 26 people had been detained by police 30 minutes before the protest against the exclusion of opposition candidates from September’s ballot was to start.There was no immediate information on what charges the detainees migh…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/2…
Insect invasion: Massive grasshopper swarms strike Las Vegas (PHOTO, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2019-07-27
Las Vegas has been invaded by thousands of swarming grasshoppers that descended en masse on the tourist-filled strip. | …
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Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Nuclear Weapons Protest Rally & March at Livermore Labs
Tri Valley Cares & Co-sponsors | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
Livermore Lab, Vasco Rd & Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore, California…
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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 | …
globalresearch.ca/did-trump-just-threate…
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’…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/records-show…
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Guatemala-Sig…
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Renews-Chevro…
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Salvini-Orders-I…
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.
mintpressnews.com/us-beefs-up-military-g…
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/100s-of-Cities-A…
Political and constitutional crisis: The extreme-right threat to democracy
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-26
This is part 4 of the full main report, “Unity to save people and planet; For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism,” to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, Illinois, June 21-23, 2019. Other installments available here. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA …
peoplesworld.org/article/political-and-c…
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Ex-Farc…
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/only-civic-d…
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 …
globalresearch.ca/hollow-abbas-suspensio…
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.
globalresearch.ca/us-foreign-policy-sham…
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. | ?ᥧ…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/20…
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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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,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/boris-johnso…
Impeach Trump–A template for writing your member of Congress
Rick Nagin | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-26
Following the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which again repeated the evidence of Trump’s obstruction of justice and other crimes, People’s World correspondent Rick Nagin in Ohio wrote to his member of Congress, Marcy Kaptur. He encouraged her to push Congressional leaders to begin impeachment proceedings against the president. We share his letter …
peoplesworld.org/article/impeach-trump-a…
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 …
globalresearch.ca/destabilizing-pakistan…
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/hong-kong-an…
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/corporate-me…
The Acid-Washed Witch Hunt Hoax Apple
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
Mueller? Boring! The real story is the psycho lovers . . .
progressive.org/dispatches/the-acid-wash…
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.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/how-the-peop…
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…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/2…
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/genocide-fro…
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/a-fateful-tu…
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, …
globalresearch.ca/pentagon-wants-16-year…
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/extinction-is…
CapitalGate’s the Problem, Not Russiagate
Frank Scott | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-26
[U]nder existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights. — Albert Einstein While the professional class …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/capitalgates-…
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/germany-and-…
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 …
globalresearch.ca/inside-submissive-void…
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 …
globalresearch.ca/cambodia-rumors-secret…
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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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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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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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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Brazilian Anti-Corruption Prosecutor Gave Secret Talk to Bankers and Took Money From a Company He Was Investigating
Andrew Fishman | theintercept.com | 2019-07-26
Deltan Dallagnol, the coordinator of Brazil’s Car Wash prosecutors, gave speeches to bankers organized by XP Investimentos and the big-data firm Neoway.
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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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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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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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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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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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How the Young Lords revived community activism at The People’s Church
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Official New Zealand inquiry into Afghan war crimes further exposed as a whitewash
wsws.org | 2019-07-26
The Labour government’s inquiry seeks to clean up the image of the NZ Defence Force for new wars.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/burn…
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…
McConnell Dubbed ‘Moscow Mitch’ for Blocking Debate on Election Security Bill Just As Senate Report Details 2016 Russian Interference
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-26
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell earned the nickname “Moscow Mitch” Friday after blocking lawmakers from taking action to prevent foreign interference in U.S. elections—just as the legislature he leads concluded that Russians meddled in the 2016 elections in all 50 states. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Friday’s Daily Brief: Libya mass drownings response: Syria ‘carnage’ denounced, food aid doubled for Ebola-affected in DR Congo
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-26
Our main stories today: UN leaders call for a return to sea rescues in the Mediterranean, following Libya shipwreck; UN human rights chief denounces indifference to victims of Syrian airstrikes; World Food Programme doubles supplies to those affected by Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, and WHO urges more investment to eradicate hepatitis.
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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.
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Voices of Afghan women ‘must be heard at the table in the peace process and beyond’ UN deputy chief tells Security Council
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-26
Afghan women have “paid a high price” during their country’s nearly four decades of conflict, the United Nations deputy chief said on Friday, addressing the Security Council a day after Kabul had been hit with a fresh round of “horrific” bomb attacks.
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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…
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No war on Venezuela, lift the sanctions
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-26
The following open letter to the Australian government, signed by a number of academics, unionists and solidarity activists and groups, was released on July 27.
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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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‘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. | …
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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,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/killing-tari…