30 July 2019 Archives

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No, YOU are ‘Russian asset’: Meme war turns tables on Washington Post
rt.com | 2019-07-31
With the Washington Post stuck in a mud-slinging meme war with Senate Republicans and President Donald Trump, the capital’s paper of record has found itself on the receiving end of internet trolls’ meme-cannons. | …
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Dear Moderators of the Presidential Debates
Lawrence Wittner | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-30
You mass media folks lead busy lives, I’m sure. But you must have heard something about nuclear weapons — those supremely destructive devices that, along with climate change, threaten the continued existence of the human race. Yes, thanks to popular protest and carefully-crafted arms control and disarmament agreements, there has been some progress in limiting …
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Labor movements of the world support Bolivarian Venezuela
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-30
Caracas, Venezuela – On July 26, the delegation from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) participated in a gathering of trade unionists from around the world with the leaders of the Central of Bolivarian Socialist Workers (CBST), the largest labor federation in Venezuela. | Taking place as part of the 25th Sao Paolo Forum, the purpose of the meeting was to debate the current conditions – both internationally and nationally – in the anti-imperialist struggle, and how the working classes of the world can support the Bolivarian Revolution. The gathering was chaired by Carlos López, the national coordinato…
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Exterminating the Future: World Outcry Grows as Brazil Rapidly Expands Deforestation of Amazon
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-30
New government data in Brazil shows that deforestation in the Amazon has dramatically increased since the far-right former military officer Jair Bolsonaro became president in January. Brazil has lost more than 1,300 square miles of forest cover this year, and the pace of deforestation is increasing. One report claims that the equivalent of three soccer fields are being deforested every minute in the Amazon. In June, deforestation increased by 88% over the same month last year. The drastic spike is due to Bolsonaro’s rolling back of regulations and allowing illegal land invasions, logging and burning. Climate scie…
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Trump’s Intelligence Pick Is ‘Least Qualified … Ever,’ Senator Says
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-30
Sen. Ron Wyden issued a scathing statement late Monday warning that President Donald Trump’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence is so unqualified that he could put lives at risk. | Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), an ardent Trump loyalist, “is the most partisan and least qualified individual ever nominated to serve as director of national intelligence,” said Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon and a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Trump Administration, Democrats Make Progress on New NAFTA
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-30
WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats appear to be moving from “no way” to “maybe” on President Donald Trump’s rewrite of a trade pact with Canada and Mexico. House Democrats have met four times with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, most recently on Friday, and both sides say they are making progress toward a deal that would …
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Four Immigrants Have Died at Stewart ICE Facility in Georgia. Advocates Want It Shut Down
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-30
A 44-year-old immigrant from Mexico died last week at Stewart Detention Center, one of the largest immigration jails in the United States and one that has been plagued by allegations of neglect and abuse for years. Pedro Arriago-Santoya was the fourth person to die at Stewart in just two years and the seventh person to die while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since October. An immigration judge had ordered Arriago-Santoya be deported in June. Instead, he was transferred to Stewart on July 10 as his removal proceedings continued. Two weeks later he was pronounced dead at a Georgia hospital.
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Can Biden or Any Democrat Avoid a Brokered Convention?
Doug Johnson Hatlem | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
My #10at10 2020 Democratic Primary Model is now live. It includes delegate projections down to the state and Congressional District level (State Senate District in Texas) for every state voting from the Iowa Caucus on February 3rd through to Super Tuesday, when thirteen states vote a month later. The Model uses a variety of factors in…
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House Anti-BDS Resolution Reveals the Power and Limits of the Israeli Lobby
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
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“It’s nothing but intimidation tactics”: On the border in El Paso, Texas
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-30
“I come from Honduras, I left on April 22nd, I brought my daughter with me, because in Honduras they killed my brother, they had already killed my dad, there is no safety, two years later they killed my cousin just because. My daughter was studying and already those of the organized crime had told us …
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Standing room only at Nashville immigrant and refugee rights forum
Albert Bender | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-30
“I am a woman. I am a Mexican. My family lives in fear every single day”- Veronica Zavaleta NASHVILLE — Veronica Zavaleta, a homeowner, a business owner, mother, and immigrant gave a moving account of her feelings of terror at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Her narrative was given at a public …
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Go Back Where You Came From: A Coincidence
Calvin Trillin | thenation.com | 2019-07-30
Go Back Where You Came From: A Coincidence…
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Baltimore residents: Trump’s attacks on the city are rooted in “racism and white supremacy”
Amy Goodman | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-30
President Trump is facing widespread outrage after describing Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” in tweets attacking Congressmember Elijah Cummings, one of the most prominent African-American lawmakers in Washington. Trump tweeted that Cummings’s district is “considered the Worst in the USA,” and said “no human being would want to live there.” Trump’s initial tweets came after Fox News ran a story about Baltimore and after Cummings criticized the conditions of immigration jails along the Mexican border. Officials across Baltimore and Maryland denounced the president’s remarks, and The Ba…
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Trump Claims Iran has Never Won a War in New Twitter Rant
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted on Monday evening that Iran had never won a war, adding that they had also “never lost a negotiation. | RELATED: | US Senate Fails to Overturn Trump’s Veto on Saudi Weapons Ban | “Just remember, the Iranians never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!” | Trump’ would not elaborate after this bizarre tweet, but his remarks seem to follow U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s latest rant about Iran’s unwillingness to hold talks with the Ameri…
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Information Warfare: Iran’s “B-Team” Branding Is Effective in Putting a Lot of Pressure on Bolton
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif’s recent branding of US National Security Advisor Bolton, “Israeli” Premier Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) as part of a so-called “B-Team” of anti-Iranian hawks has been very successful in putting …
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Iran’s 40-Year Old Financial Dispute with Britain. A Hostage for the Money
Faramarz Davar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
A ruling by the high court in London has just made relations between Britain and the Islamic Republic of Iran more complicated, increasing friction at an already tense time. | The court ruled this week that the International Military Services (IMS) …
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Iran Won’t Let Itself Be Hemmed In by the U.S. and U.K
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-30
The United States is leading a process to create a naval force that would patrol the Strait of Hormuz.
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Dubai Ruler’s Wife Applies for ‘Marriage Protection Order’
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Princess Haya bint al-Hussein, the wife of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the ruler of Dubai, has requested a “forced marriage protection order” in the United Kingdom’s High Court in relation to one of her two children. | RELATED: | UAE Becoming Second Israel: Iran’s Zarif | Under the British legislature, a forced marriage protection order can provide help and protection from the state if someone says they have been forced into marriage or are already in a forced marriage. | The 45-year-old…
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One Sector Blocks Peace in Colombia: Ex-FARC Guerrilla Leader
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Rodrigo “Timochenko” Londoño, the leader of the demobilized Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrilla group, said in an interview with EFE that one economic power sector was blocking the peace achieved after half a century of war in Colombia. | RELATED: | Colombian Social Leader Shot a Day After Global March Against Activists’ Killings | Despite signing the peace agreement on Nov. 24, 2016, he said it did not achieve “a complete peace and, unfortunately, there still…
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Russia To ‘Abstain’ Attending Int’l Talks on Venezuela in Lima
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Russia will not be participating in international talks on the political crisis in Venezuela due to be held in Peru next month, its Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. | RELATED: | Cuba: International Community Should Stop US Attacks | It said it declined the invitation as one was not extended to representatives of the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, among other concerns. | “We doubt that a meeting focusing on the situation in Venezuela without inviting Venezuelans, repr…
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Venezuela: Six Chavista Militants Killed in Fresh Rural Violence
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-30
Landowner violence continues to plague the Venezuelan countryside.
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Venezuela: Six Farmers Killed by Colombian Paramilitary Forces
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Diosdado Cabello, the first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), lamented Monday the killing of six Campesinos by far-right paramilitaries in the Barinas state at the Colombia-Venezuela border area. | RELATED: | Colombian Cartel Kills Woman Community Leader, Son Witnesses | “We want to alert you to what happened in the Bari…
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In Venezuela, the Right to Housing is Made Possible by the Revolution
Alex Anfruns | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-30
In the Antímano neighbourhood of the capital district of Caracas, a very special block of flats has been built. Its inhabitants built it with their own hands. In 2011, on the initiative of President Hugo Chávez, a little less than one hectare of land was expropriated from the Polar company. The idea was to rescue …
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Book Review: “The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil” by Dan Kovalik
John Rachel | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-30
In one concise statement, Dan Kovalik sums up the criminal — if self-serving and for now effective — foreign policy of the U.S. across the planet: “The US appears to be intentionally spreading chaos throughout strategic portions of the world, leaving virtually no independent state standing to protect their resources, especially oil, from Western exploitation. And, this goal is …
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Saudi Forces Kill 13 in ‘Massacre’ at Yemen Market
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Saudi forces launched Monday airstrikes at a busy market in Yemen’s northern province of Saada, killing 13 and injuring 26, along with destroying much of the market produce, as the country suffers one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. | RELATED: | Yemen World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Human Rights Report | The attack has been called the ‘Al Thabet Market Massacre’ by Yemeni media outlet Almasirah. Though the confirmed death toll is 13, the number is likely to rise according to a He…
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Says No Evidence Indigenous Leader Murdered
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro Monday said there was no evidence that the death of Emyra Wajapi, a 68-year-old Amazonian indigenous chief, was caused by illegal miners who invaded traditional Indigenous lands. | RELATED: | Gold Miners Kill Indigenous Leader in Brazilian Amazon | “There is no solid evidence as of now that such Indian wa…
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Bolivia: Evo Announces MAS-IPSP Candidates Around the Country
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
In events around the country on Monday, Bolivia’s ruling leftist party, ‘Movement Towards Socialism’, announced their candidates for the upcoming general elections on October 20th. Morales attended events in two regions to inaugurate the candidates. | RELATED: | Bolivian Opposition Plan Protests to Destabilize Elections | On Monday, President Morales spoke in the Amazon region of Pando, and in the capital La Paz. Speaking in Pando at a local labor union building, Morales welcomed…
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Media Propaganda Creates “Know-Nothing Americans”. Majority In Favor of War
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Americans are the most over-entertained, uninformed citizens on planet earth — despite around 80% of US households having Internet access, making it easy to stay informed with minimal effort. | Manipulated by the power of state-sponsored and go-along establishment media propaganda, …
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US Stealing Syrian Oil. Controls About 30% of Syrian Territory
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Imperial adventurism is grand theft on a global scale — seizing, controlling, and looting the resources of targeted nations, along with exploiting their people. | Operating from illegally constructed military bases in northern and southern parts of Syria, platforms for war …
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A Dark Corner of Hell
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
Thou shalt not kill. Right! That admonition is one of the few things that organized religion got right over the past few thousand years. Their spokespersons on Earth soon began to give that advice from above lots of shades of gray and began to make it okay to kill in wartime, but only under some…
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By voice and vote, Communications Workers censure Trump’s racism
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-30
LAS VEGAS–By voice and by vote, in statements from leaders and members and in a blistering resolution, the Communications Workers convention strongly censured GOP President Donald Trump’s racism. Trump’s “naked appeal to white supremacy” is “dividing the country in ways we haven’t seen in half a century and probably haven’t seen since the Civil War,” …
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Greece: Students Protest to Keep Universities Police Free
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Greek students are protesting against a proposal to scrap academic sanctuary, a law that was designed to protect protesting students and freedom of ideas but which the new government says is used as a cover for lawlessness. | RELATED: | Greece: Refugees, Activists on Alert Amid New Migration Acts | A couple of thousand students marched through Athens against repealing asylum last week. “I personally believe the free movement of ideas means that no institution of the state can inter…
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More Than Three Eco-Activists Killed Every Week in 2018: Study
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
While calls to save the planet are growing every day, the people who fight to protect their lands and the environment are being silenced. In 2018, on average three environmental defenders were murdered each week, according to a study published Monday by the international human rights group Global Witness. | RELATED: | Peru: Protestors Demand Definitive End of Open-Pit Mining Project | More than 160 land an…
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Costa Rican Teachers Protest Against Privatization of Education
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Hundreds of teachers affiliated with the Association of Secondary School Teachers APSE marched Monday in the capital toward the National Assembly, protesting against the neoliberal policies affecting the public sector. | RELATED: | Chile’s Teachers Vote to End Second-Longest Strike | APSE President Melida Cedeño told reporters that the protest aimed to show the public that the government and most of the Parliament attempt to criminalize strikes with…
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India: Rape Victim of BJP Lawmaker Injured in Shady Accident
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Protesters stepped up demands Tuesday for India’s far-right ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to sack a state lawmaker accused by a young woman of raping her, holding several demonstrations just days after the survivor was critically injured in a highway collision. | RELATED: | India: 49 Intellectuals Write to PM Modi, Condemns Lynching of Minorities…
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How a Small Group of Pro-Israel Activists Blacklisted MintPress on Wikipedia
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-30
For over ten years, Wikipedia has been a key focus of right-leaning, pro-Israel groups that have effectively weaponized the online encyclopedia as a means of controlling the narrative when it comes to the state of Israel’s more than 50-year-long military occupation of Palestine.
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Israel Has “the Most Moral Army in the World”?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Eight days ago eleven Palestinian buildings containing seventy family apartments located in the illegally Israeli occupied East Jerusalem village of Wadi al-Hummus were demolished in a military-led operation by more than 1,000 Israeli soldiers, policemen and municipal workers using bulldozers, …
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Could Trump End the Afghanistan War?
Danny Sjursen | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
Could Donald Trump end the Afghan war someday? I don’t know if such a possibility has been on your mind, but it’s certainly been on the mind of this retired U.S. Army major who fought in that land so long ago. And here’s the context in which I’ve been thinking about that very possibility. Back…
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Pakistani Military Aircraft Crashes Near Capital City, 17 Dead
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
A Pakistani military aircraft reportedly crashed on Tuesday morning while conducting a training flight near the garrison city of Rwalpindi. | RELATED: | Kabul Seeks Explanation on Trump Talk of Wiping out Afghanistan | According to the Pakistani authorities, the training flight crashed in a built-up area in the garrison city of Rawalpindi early on Tuesday killing all five crew members and 12 civilians and setting off a blaze that left a pile of smoking rubble. | A statement from the Pakistani…
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Most civilian deaths in Afghanistan at hands of coalition and regime forces, says UN report
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-30
More civilians were killed by Afghan and international coalition forces in Afghanistan in the first half of this year than by the Taliban and other militants, the UN mission said in a report.The report apparently refers to civilians killed during supposed Afghan and US military operations against insurgents, such as airstrikes and night raids on militant hideouts. Insurgents often hide among civilians.The US formally ended its combat mission in Afghanistan in 2014 but still provides extensive air and other support to Afghan forces.The UN report published on Tuesday said 403 civilians were killed by Afghan forces…
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Bolsonaro-Legalized Toxic Pesticides Endanger People Worldwide
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
Brazil President’s Jair Bolsonaro’s environmental deregulation and new free trade deals would see the world consuming toxic pesticides that are banned in most countries, Oliver Tickell of the Green Economic Institute warned Tuesday in an interview with RT. | RELATED: | Awa Tribe Contact in Brazil Shows Increased Amazon Logging | “This is not just a probl…
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Russia and China Display Strategic Coordination in Asia-Pacific. Joint Air Patrol
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
A significant new template has appeared in the geopolitics of the Asia-Pacific last week when Russia’s Aerospace Force and China’s Air Force carried out their first-ever joint air patrol in the region. | Steadily and imperceptibly but profoundly, the regional alignments …
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Why is Education Being Corporatized and Human Life Being Devalued?
Nyla Ali Khan | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
In the southern Indian state of Telangana at least 23 teenagers have killed themselves since the scores of their school-leaving exam results, processed by a private software firm, Globarena Technology, were announced in April. The state education board of Telangana has impersonalized education by outsourcing the job of conducting the school-leaving exam, processing the scores,…
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The Pompeo Commission Is Weaponizing Human Rights
James Carden | thenation.com | 2019-07-30
The Pompeo Commission Is Weaponizing Human Rights…
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Militarising Australia: Talisman Sabre and the US Military Build Up
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Deemed the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations strategy, the military method is a US Marine special, still spanking new, featuring “the amphibious landing of troops on islands for seizure and capture as part of a forward projection of sea and airpower …
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The US-China Trade War: A Cease-Fire, Nothing More
Mel Gurtov | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
The Financial Times reported on July 10 that Donald Trump, at his last meeting with Xi Jinping in Osaka in June, promised to “tone down” criticism of China’s actions in Hong Kong in return for progress on trade talks. Such is the way of Donald’s world: Making a deal with authoritarian regimes is always preferable…
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Yemeni Civilians in Crowded Market Pay with Their Lives as Trump Keeps Building Saudi Arsenal
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-30
More U.S. Weaponry is headed for Saudi Arabia just as the Kingdom unleashed fresh airstrikes on the crowded Al-Thabit Market in Yemen.
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Permissible Deviance: Facebook’s FTC Fine
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-30
It was something of a shrug moment. One of the world’s largest digital platforms had been fined $5 billion for privacy violations by the Federal Trade Commission, claiming it had violated its 2012 order. The FTC order also requires the company “to restructure its approach to privacy from the corporate board-level down, establishing strong new …
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Chinese Huawei Beats Trump’s Ban, Makes a $58.3 Billion Profit
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
China’s tech company Huawei made a profit of US$58.3 billion, which means it billed 23.2 percent more in the first half of 2019 despite the veto imposed on its products by the U.S. President Donald Trump. | RELATED: | Trump’s Decision to Ease Huawei Ban Boosts Market Shares | In the first six months, Huawei sold 118 million smartphones, an increase of 24 percent over the prev…
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Contractual Disputes: Replacing Monster Chefs on MasterChef
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
The show is pompous, condescending and shallow. It was designed to mock the lowly non-cook, the ignorant, and, from high culinary summitry, grace the winner after munching, gratis, what was promoted. The winner would then be nurtured, cared for in an entrepreneurial way. Little master chefs would, in turn, become big ones, owning restaurants, starting a…
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It Isn’t Rocket Science
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
It Isn’t Rocket Science The gecko’s in the ginkgoes And the weasel’s got the measles As the diesels chug You slump and cough For cops won’t allow us to shut off The engines And Willem Van Spronsen’s in other dimensions And oh did I mention, And oh did you see They’re knocking on doors but everyone’s hiding…
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BOOM! Fossil Fuel Combustion and the Mother of All Economic Busts
Lance Olsen | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
William Catton focussed on what follows a boom in the human population. He spelled out the scenario in his 1980 book, Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. As one reviewer put it,…
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Boris Johnson and the New Battle of Britain
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
All eyes are focused these days on Boris Johnson, the new prime minister of the United Kingdom. But that’s not the most important news this month out of Britain. The Labor Party has finally come around to opposing the country’s exit from the European Union, though it’s possibly a case of “too little, too late.”
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Cuba’s Revolution in Thinking: To Live and Not Lie
Susan Babbitt | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
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 in life is to live and not lie.”
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Poisoned for Profit: We Are Not the Agrochemical Industry’s Guinea Pigs
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
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 poisoned her nature reserve in South Wales and is also poisoning people across the UK…
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It’s Deceptive to Talk About a ‘Cycle of Violence’ in Hong Kong
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
The popular Western mainstream media outlet Reuters published a very misleading piece over the weekend that deceptively described the latest events in Hong Kong as a “cycle of violence,” inaccurately implying that the recent disturbances are partially the fault of …
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Trump’s Disregard for Public Lands and Outdoor Heritage: Releases Management Plan for Illegally Reduced Bears Ears National Monument in Utah
Yetta Stein | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
The Trump administration released a management plan for the illegally reduced areas of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah today. With Congressional recess right around the corner, the timed release of the proposed management plans and Final Environmental Impact Statement …
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Deer Caught in the Headlights
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
We all remember those vivid pictures of a deer, halfway across a road at night…. Frozen as the car is about to hit it. A shrewder animal would not allow itself to be so defenseless on that roadway. Alas, the …
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Greece — “Economic Suicide” or Murder?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Pundits from the left, from the right and from the center cannot stop reporting about Greece’s misery. And rightly so. Because Greece, the vast majority of her people live in deep economic hardship. No hope. Unemployment is officially at 18%, …
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“Without Health, We Have Nothing”: The Need for Comprehensive Sustainable Development
Fariha Mujeebuddin | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
After a windy uphill journey to Aguerzran, a small village nestled within the High Atlas Mountains, we reached the building where we would be conducting workshops. The small rectangular building, painted in sun-faded pink and green, overlooked the lush valley. …
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Big Mac’s new Big Data “innovation”
Jim Hightower | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-30
| The great thing about corporate giants is that they are such amazing business innovators. For example, in the category of “wheel-spinning” innovation — ie, trying to change a corporation’s course without actually changing anything — it’s hard to top McDonald’s. For several years, the fast-food chain has been losing customers to younger chains with healthier, more-stylish offerings. So, CEO Steve Easterbrook has tried to recoup the losses with PR tricks, such as calling the menu “healthy” and “fr…
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US Senate Fails to Overturn Trump’s Veto on Saudi Weapons Ban
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
The U.S. Senate failed on Monday to override President Donald Trump’s veto of the legislation passed by Congress that would have banned the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia. | RELATED: | Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Open to Testify Against Saudi Arabia | In the first attempt to overturn the U.S. President’s decision, the Senate was unable to reach the two-thirds majority that was needed to reinstate their weapons ban bill. | According to the Senate session report, the supporter…
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The Future of Iran-UK Tanker Crisis
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-30
WAS IRAN RETALIATING AGAINST THE UK FOR SEIZING ITS TANKER? Even though Mr. Ali Rabei, the newly appointed speaker of the Iranian Government, and Mr. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic, officially rejected the claims that Iranian seizure of the British Tanker in the Persian Gulf was a response to the …
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Brazil’s Massive Crime Against Humanity. Bolsonaro has Decided to Destroy the Amazon
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
The corrupt Brazilian government installed by Washington has decided to destroy the Amazon Rain Forest. This will adversely affect the Earth’s climate by eliminating a massive carbon sink. | The beneficiaries of the destruction of the rain forest are the timber …
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Not a coincidence, a message: S-400s arrive in Turkey on anniversary of coup attempt
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-30
Journalist Sedat Ergin of the Turkish newspaper Hàºrriyet recently wrote that the delivery of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems coincided with the anniversary of the coup d’état on July 15, 2016, and that this was anything but a coincidence. He stressed that the S-400s arriving from Russia had even landed on the same runway where …
uwidata.com/4526-not-a-coincidence-a-mes…

DOJ Guts Asylum Protections for Members of Families Threatened With Violence
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-30
| In a decision immigrant rights advocates said could have horrific consequences for thousands of people fleeing violence in Central America, Attorney General William Barr ruled Monday that being an immediate member of a persecuted family is not sufficient grounds to seek asylum in the United States. | According to immigration experts, Barr’s move rewrites years of law and represents the Trump administration’s…
truthout.org/articles/doj-guts-asylum-pr…

‘Armed, dangerous and unhinged’: John McAfee tweets ‘warning’ about lookalike imposter
rt.com | 2019-07-30
John McAfee made fun of his renegade reputation with a tongue-in-cheek tweet warning people to be on the lookout for an armed and dangerous man — one who looks suspiciously exactly like him, but with a blonde wig. | …
rt.com/usa/465378-john-mcafee-imposter-t…

New UN report shows record numbers of children killed and maimed in conflict
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-30
A new UN report has found that 2018 was the worst year on record for children caught up in armed conflict; the year saw the highest numbers killed or maimed since the United Nations began monitoring the violation.
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The Cheapest Way to Save the Planet Grows Like a Weed
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-30
| 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. The author explains: | As trees grow, they absorb and store the carbon…
truthout.org/articles/the-cheapest-way-t…

The False Promise of Nuclear Power
Robert Jay Lifton, Naomi Oreskes | commondreams.org | 2019-07-30
Climate change itself works against nuclear power; severe droughts have led to the shutting down of reactors as the surrounding waters become too warm to provide the vital cooling function. (Photo: Reinhard Marscha – stock.adobe.com) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Poetry to Close the Camps
Norma Smith | indybay.org | 2019-07-30
630 Sansome St (Immigration and Customs Enforcement HQ)…
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Intercept article calls on Democrats to step up attack on Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-07-30
James Risen peddled the lies of CNN and the intelligence agencies, slanderously suggesting that Assange worked on behalf of Russia and the Trump campaign.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/30/assa…

London bus drivers show support for Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-07-30
Many London bus drivers, drawn from every corner of the world, including Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, have first-hand experience of the US war crimes and government corruption exposed by WikiLeaks since 2006.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/30/buse…

House Anti-BDS Resolution Reveals the Power and Limits of the Israeli Lobby
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-30
The defense of Palestinian rights has become more acceptable and accusations of anti-Semitism have become more sparing in the mainstream media, despite the House’s recent resolution against the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, says IPS’s Phyllis Bennis…
therealnews.com/stories/house-anti-bds-r…

Nearly 4,000 Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan This Year: UN
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-30
A new report released by the United Nations on Tuesday revealed that nearly 4,000 civilians have been killed during the first half of 2019. | RELATED: | At Least 20 Killed in Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan | According to the United Nations report, at least 3,812 Afghan civilians have killed or wounded in the first half of 2019 in the war against militant groups, including a big increase in the number of casualties caused by government and NATO-led troops, the United Nations said on Tuesd…
telesurenglish.net/news/Nearly-4000-Civi…

European Union threatens Iran with naval mission to Persian Gulf
wsws.org | 2019-07-30
Amid the US war drive against Iran, this mission is a reckless attempt by the European imperialists to grab a share of the resources of the oil-rich Persian Gulf region.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/30/euro…

O modelo USA do governo ´soberanista ª
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Embora a oposiàßà£o ataque sempre o governo e existam divergências no seio do próprio governo, em todo o arco parlamentar nà£o se ergueu uma única voz, quando o Primeiro Ministro Conte expà¥s as linhas de orientaàßà£o da política externa, na …
globalresearch.ca/o-modelo-usa-do-govern…

‘Moscow Mitch’ sells out to the Kremlin: Same old voter access debate with Russian dressing
rt.com | 2019-07-30
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been labeled a “Russian asset,” and “Moscow Mitch” after he blocked a raft of election security bills, which in fact contain old partisan sticking points. | …
rt.com/usa/465415-moscow-mitch-mcconnell…

Socialist Analysis & Discussion – The War on Immigrants & the Fight Back Movement
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-07-30
San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose…
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Four Immigrants Have Died at Stewart ICE Facility in Georgia
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-30
| A 44-year-old immigrant from Mexico died last week at Stewart Detention Center, one of the largest immigration jails in the United States and one that has been plagued by allegations of neglect and abuse for years. Pedro Arriago-Santoya was the fourth person to die at Stewart in just two years and the seventh person to die while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since October. An immigration judge had ordered Arriago-Santoya be deported in June. Instead, he was transferred to Stewart…
truthout.org/video/four-immigrants-have-…

More Than 160 Environmental Defenders Were Killed in 2018, and Many Others Labeled Terrorists and Criminals
Alleen Brown | theintercept.com | 2019-07-30
Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous peoples, was disturbed to learn that her name had been included on a list of “terrorists” allegedly affiliated with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army. | Authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte had imposed martial law on the island of Mindanao in May 2017, when ISIS sympathizers attacked the predominantly Muslim city Marawi. By October, ISIS had been ousted, but martial law remained in p…
theintercept.com/2019/07/30/criminalizat…

Britain’s National Breakdown Over Brexit
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-30
I felt frustrated over the past three years at what appeared to me to be the shallow and Westminster-obsessed coverage of the Brexit saga by the media. Here was a crisis like no other in recent British history that was shaking the bedrock of society and government alike, but the reporting and commentary on it were…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/30/britains-nat…

Il modello USA del governo ´sovranista ª
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
Anche se l’opposizione attacca sempre il governo e vi sono divergenze nel governo stesso, dall’intero arco parlamentare non si è levata alcuna voce critica quando il premier Conte ha esposto alla Conferenza degli ambasciatori (26 luglio) le linee guida della …
globalresearch.ca/il-modello-usa-del-gov…

Fighting the Causes of Flight
Jens Berger | indybay.org | 2019-07-30
The refugee debate is back again but only the symptoms are in the spotlight. Refugees are fought instead of the causes of flight. The political failure is as dreadful as the forgetfulness of the media and politics. For the first time, more than 70 million persons are fleeing from war, persecution and conflicts. Every two seconds a person becomes a refugee.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/29/1882503…

Trump’s Coalition Commits New Massacre in Syria’s Deir Ezzor Countryside
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-30
The illegal coalition led by the United States of America outside the United Nations and without the approval of the Syrian state added a new massacre to its long list of ugly crimes against the Syrian people today by bombing …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-coalition-commi…

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