28 July 2019 Archives

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How Joe Biden’s privatization plans helped doom Latin America and fuel the migration crisis
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-28
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has boasted of his role in transforming Colombia and Central America through ambitious economic…
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Iran Nuclear Deal Parties Meet, No Solution Reached Yet
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-28
An emergency meeting with parties to Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal was constructive but there are unresolved issues and Tehran will continue to reduce its nuclear commitments if Europeans fail to salvage the pact, Iranian official Abbas Araqchi said Sunday. | RELATED: | Iran Says Arrested 17 CIA Spies , Some Sentenced to Death | “The atmosphere was constructive. Disc…
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Tanker-War: Everything Is Ideological
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
Ukraine’s most senior military prosecutor, Anatoly Matios, announced yesterday that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) had seized the Russian tanker Nika Spirit at the port of Izmail and detained the crew, including at least 7 Russian nationals. Matios alleged …
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Iranian Monarchists Praise the Shah’s Brutal Rule on the Anniversary of His Death
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
On July 27, 1980, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi finally succumbed to cancer in Cairo, Egypt. In 1953, he was installed as the dictator of Iran after the CIA overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. | There …
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Latin American Leaders Remember Hugo Chavez on His Birthday
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-28
Latin American presidents and leaders issued statements Sunday marking the birthday anniversary of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez,, highlighting his legacy in the region and the world. | President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro stressed that Chavez’s legacy is still alive within the South American country. | “65 years of love Commander! We celebrate your life reaffirming the loyalty and commitment you sowed in us. We will defend how you taught us, the happiness of the people you loved so much. Thank you, teacher, for guiding us in the struggle of every day. Chavez is today, live action! “he President Madu…
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“We are the vaccine against unilateralism”: The Non-Aligned Movement gathers in Venezuela to resist the dictatorship of the dollar
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-28
The Grayzone reports from the 2019 Non-Aligned Movement, where delegates from over 120 nations offered a crucial endorsement of Venezuelan…
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Gold Miners Kill Indigenous Leader in Brazilian Amazon
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-28
A remote Indigenous reserve in the Brazilian Amazon was invaded by gold miners Saturday after they murdered Emyra Wajapi, a community leader whose body was found Wednesday. | RELATED: | Awa Tribe Contact in Brazil Shows Increased Amazon Logging | Around 50 miners invaded the 600,000-hectare Mariri village as the Wajapi Indigenous community fled in fear to the bigger village of Aramira. The village chief Viseni Wajapi said they were attacked by the miners. “They killed a Wajapi lead…
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Puerto Rico: Colonized, Controlled, and Exploited by the US
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
Puerto Rico is a US Colony, its people grievously harmed by the presence of US military bases. | After colonizing Puerto Rico in 1898, the US denied its residents control over their lives, welfare, and future. | For over 120 years, Puerto …
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Robert Mueller Did Not Do His Job
Marjorie Cohn | truthdig.com | 2019-07-28
As the recent hearings make clear, the former special counsel had a tool at his disposal during his 22-month investigation that he refused to use.
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Colonization and Destruction: People’s Tribunal on U.S. Crimes Against Puerto Rico
The International Action Center | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
Note to readers: please click the share buttons above. Forward this article to your email lists. Crosspost on your blog site, internet forums. etc. | This article was first published on September 12, 2018 | Since the devastation of Hurricanes Irma and …
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When Will Ayanna Pressley Realize that “the Pain” She Feels Is the Identical Pain Palestinians Feel?
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
When Michelle Alexander, a distinguished African-American scholar, wrote her now famous column in The New York Times, ‘Time to Break the Silence on Palestine’,her sympathetic words toward Palestinians received huge attention. Her article became a “watershed moment … with …
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Intimacies from an Awful War. “For Sama” by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
If you think you’ve seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven’t. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the …
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Video: Russian, Syrian Warplanes Bomb Al Qaeda Positions in Western Aleppo
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
On July 25, warplanes of the Syrian Air Force and the Russian Aerospace Forces bombed positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra) and its allies near the villages of al-Bawabiya, al-Atarib, Qammari, al-Barqoum, Urem al-Kubra, and Kafr Halab, and …
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Peru President Vizcarra Calls Early Elections for 2020
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-28
Peru’s President Martin Vizcarra announced Sunday that his country would bring forward legislative and presidential elections, cutting his term short one year early, a measure he says to end “institutional crisis” after Congress declined to approve all the requested political reforms. | RELATED: | Peru: Doctors, Health Workers Begin Nationwide Strike | Vizcarr…
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Turkey Deports Syrian Refugees to Idlib During Airstrikes
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
Syrian refugees in Turkey are facing an uncertain future. Turkey did not grant them citizenship, or permanent residency; but, instead a ‘temporary guest’ status, which can be revoked at any time. For many, that time has come, and hundreds have …
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America’s Enemies, Who’s On the List?
Prof. James Petras | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
For almost 2 decades, the US pursued a list of ‘enemy countries’ to confront, attack, weaken & overthrow. This imperial quest to overthrow ‘enemy countries’ depends on two considerations: the level of priority & the degree of vulnerability for a ‘regime change’ operation.
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Sign the International Appeal to Stop 5G on Earth and in Space
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
Despite widespread denial, the evidence that radio frequency (RF) radiation is harmful to life is already overwhelming: sick and injured human beings, cells and organ systems in plants and animals, epidemiological evidence that cancer, heart disease and diabetes–are in part caused by electromagnetic pollution.
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Poisoned for Profit: We Are Not the Agrochemical Industry’s Guinea Pigs
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Chemicals Regulation Division (HSE) in the UK claiming that the glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup has …
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Cuba’s Revolution in Thinking: To Live and Not Lie
Prof Susan Babbitt | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
In Dostoevsky’s Demons, liberal academic Stepan Trofimovich says before dying: | “I’ve been lying all my life. Even when I was telling the truth …. The worst of it is that I believe myself when I lie. The most difficult thing | …
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Selected Articles: The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Tragedy
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed “volunteers” among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
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How Biden’s Secret 2002 Meetings Led to War in Iraq
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-28
| Even though former Vice President Joe Biden’s favorability has declined following the first Democratic debate, he remains largely considered the frontrunner by many mainstream media outlets and pundits for the Democratic presidential nomination. | Early in the first debate, Sen. Bernie Sanders mentioned how Biden had supported the Iraq War and that he had voted against it.
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Noam Chomsky: Life Expectancy in the US Is Declining for a Reason
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-28
| Life in the United States — the richest country in world history — doesn’t need to be like this. This country’s endless wars, deaths of despair, rising mortality rates and out-of-control gun violence did not come out of nowhere. In this second installment from an exclusive transcript of a conversation aired on Alternative Radio, public intellectual Noam Chomsky discusses the roots of gun culture, militarism, economic stag…
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New bill looks set to overturn NSW’s archaic abortion law
Fred_F | greenleft.org.au | 2019-07-28
A decades-long feminist campaign to remove abortion from the anti-woman NSW Crimes Act is likely to take one more step towards victory with reports that a pro-choice private members’ bill will be introduced into state parliament this week.
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Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Nuclear Weapons Protest Rally & March at Livermore Labs
Tri Valley Cares & Co-sponsors | indybay.org | 2019-07-28
Livermore Lab, Vasco Rd & Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore, California…
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11 wounded in shooting at block party near playground in New York (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-07-28
At least 11 people have been shot and one person reportedly killed after a shooting occurred at an annual block party next to a playground in Brooklyn, New York. | …
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Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-07-28
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.
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New British PM Minister Boris Johnson Faced with Two Major Challenges: Brexit and Iran
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
The two most pressing issues on newly appointed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plate right now are Brexit and Iran. Will the UK leave the EU on October 31st regardless of whether they have a new deal, as …
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More Evidence on the Srebrenica “Numbers Game”
George Pumphrey | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-28
For nearly a quarter of a century, the massacre of Srebrenica has been reappearing in the headlines of the western media. The usual allegation: 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred on July 11, 1995, in “the worst war crime …
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Rally: Defend the Amazon & Support Brasil’s Indigenous Women’s March!
Brasil Solidarity Network & others | indybay.org | 2019-07-28
Brazilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery St, San Francisco 94104-1901…
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“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…
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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 …
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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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Venezuela: High Court Rejects Guaido’s TIAR Attempt
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
Venezuela’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) has nullified the National Assembly’s attempt to reinstate the nation in the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (TIAR), calling the move “an assault on the rule of law and the power of the Venezuelan people.” | RELATED: | Venezuela: Thousands March in Solidarity at Sao Paulo Forum | TSJ Vice President Juan Jose Mendoza told the chamber that the measure made by the National Assembly, already in contempt of the high court si…
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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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Bolsonaro: Greenwald ‘May be Imprisoned’, Journalist Says ‘ No’
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
Indignation broke out across Brazil after President Jair Bolsonaro commented that United States journalist Glenn Greenwald “may be imprisoned” for publishing information in The Intercept Brazil that incriminates the nation’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro. | RELATED: | Bolsonaro’s Phone Hacked, Brazil Police Make Arrests | The comments of the ultra-right president were condemned by opposition politicians and journalist associations that accused him of “serious aggression against freedom of…
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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 …
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Addressing the Climate Crisis, Worldwide Reforestation and Industrial Hemp
Ellen Brown | 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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 | …
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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 …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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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…

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…

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…
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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…

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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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…

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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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…
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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…

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…
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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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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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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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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…

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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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 …
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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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