31 July 2019 Archives

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#DemDebate: Conquering Race-and-Red-Baiting Moderators and Moderates
Jud Lounsbury | progressive.org | 2019-07-31
In a show of progressive promise versus the status quo, it was Warren/Sanders versus the Four Horsemen of the Pale, Stale, and Male.
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CNN Tried to Pit Sanders and Warren Against Each Other. That Didn’t Happen
D.D. Guttenplan | thenation.com | 2019-07-31
CNN Tried to Pit Sanders and Warren Against Each Other. That Didn’t Happen.
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Last Night’s Debate Produced a Clear Winner: Medicare for All
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-07-31
Last Night’s Debate Produced a Clear Winner: Medicare for All…
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The Centrists Did Not Hold
Jeet Heer | thenation.com | 2019-07-31
Both the moderators and centrist Democratic candidates failed in their attempts to gang up on Sanders and Warren during Tuesday’s debate.
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Bernie Sanders sets the bar for radical healthcare reform with strong performance in latest TV debate
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2019-07-31
10 of the candidates running in the Democratic Party primary race went on stage on 31 July for the latest televised debate. Facing off against several establishment figures who argued for traditional centrist proposals, Bernie Sanders made waves with h…
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DNC Won’t Create Oversight Panel to Review the Millions It Spends
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-31
This article was produced by Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. | A proposal to bring unprecedented oversight to the way that the Democratic National Committee spends the billion dollars it raises between presidential elections was rejected by the DNC Rules and Bylaw Committee Tuesday, after a spirited debate highlighting that there is no independent oversight reporting back to the DNC’s 450 members. | The decision did not come without some Rules Committee members saying that the oversight issue was legitimate. But they di…
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Killing Democracy: US Imperialism, Civil War and Genocide in Guatemala 1954-1996
Edward B. Winslow | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
“This ideology of [United States corporatism] embraces a belief that societies and cultures can be regenerated through violence…. This belief that [the US has] a divine right to resources, land and power, and a right to displace and kill to …
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Sanders and Warren Defend Medicare for All From Moderates and Media
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-31
The two progressives team up to raise alarm at corporate advertising in America’s media as well as combat attacks from fellow Democrats.
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Pakistani Journalists Protest Media Blackout, Censorship
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Pakistani opposition parties and journalists have accused Prime Minister Imran Khan of intimidating broadcasters into a blackout on television coverage of his critics after several TV channels were briefly taken off-air and opposition protests and news conferences passed unreported. | RELATED: | US Labels Anti-Pakistan Baloch Army a ‘Terrorist’ Organization…
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12th Round of Sino/US Trade Talks Falls Flat. US Rage for Global Dominance
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
Over a year of Sino/US trade talks failed to resolve major differences because of unacceptable Trump demands. | On matters of statecraft, China, Russia, Iran, and other countries have outwitted the US. | Sino/US disagreements have little to do with the trade …
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US Imposes Sanctions on Iran’s Foreign Minister
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said on its website. | The Treasury Department said it was imposing sanctions on Zarif for acting on behalf of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. | RELATED: | Trump Claims Iran has Never Won a War in New Twitter Rant | “Javad Zarif implements the reckless agenda of Iran’s Supreme Leader, and is the regime’s pri…
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The Injustice of Economic Warfare
Daniel Larison | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
The AP reports on the harmful effects of sanctions on the availability of medicine in Iran: | “Our biggest concern is that channels to the outside world are closed,” said Dr. Arasb Ahmadian, head of the Mahak Children’s Hospital, which | …
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Iran to Europe: Fix INSTEX or Will Reduce Deal Commitments
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif lamented Wednesday, on the sidelines of a cabinet meeting in Teheran that France, Britain, and Germany are not abiding by the terms of the multilateral nuclear deal they signed in 2015. | RELATED: | US Imposes Sanctions on Iran’s Foreign Minister | The deal is not being respected, or the responsibility of these European countries, to find a solution to the consequences of the United States’ leaving the accord, officially called the Joint Comprehen…
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Iran simply won’t let itself be hemmed in by the U.S. and UK
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-07-31
The United States is leading a process to create a naval force that would patrol the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. has said it will send “command and control” ships to coordinate the escort naval vessels from different countries. But there are cracks in the coalition. | Source…
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Will Shake Up at IAEA Impact Iran? Washington’s Abuse of International Institutions
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano’s passing has stirred up suspicion and further tensions amid US-Iranian tensions. | Amano was 72 years old and as of mid July 2019 had already begun preparing to step down due to …
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81 Venezuelans Return Home From Ecuador With Gov’t Program
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
A total of 81 Venezuelans returned from Ecuador Tuesday, as part of the ‘Return to the Homeland’ program that has been promoted by President Nicolas Maduro’s administration. | RELATED: | 180 Venezuelans Return Home from Peru | According to the Venezuelans returning their decision is mainly based on the unfulfilled expectations when migrating, lack of opportunities in the host countries, suffering from xenophobia and/or not having the resources to return by their own means. | The migrants were residing…
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As US Beefs Up Military Presence in the Gulf, Yemen’s Houthis Turn to Russia for Support
Ahmed AbdulKareem | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
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. | *** | Yemen’s Houthi movement has reacted with concern …
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Venezuela: Disturbing Echoes of History
Maria Paez Victor | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
Amidst the cacophony of misinformation about Venezuela there are three key questions that need answers: 1) What is really happening in Venezuela, 2) Why is it happening, and 3) What will happen next? What is really happening in Venezuela? There is a Political Campaign against the Venezuelan Government The United States, Canada and Europe are…
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US Court Rules for Canadian Firm To Collect $1.4B of Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
With United States backing, self-declared interim president, Juan Guaido, and the Venezuelan right have been conducting an illegal operation to confiscate the Venezuelan public’s wealth and assets, Executive Vice President Delcy Rodriguez said Wednesday. | RELATED: | Russia To ‘Abstain’ Attending Int’l Talks on Venezuela in Lima | According to r…
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Maduro Personally Thanks Embassy Protection Collective From US
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro reiterated Tuesday his gratitude to United States’ activists who were members of the Protection Collective of Venezuela’s embassy in Washington. | RELATED: | Presidents of Venezuela and Cuba Close 25th Sao Paulo Forum | “Our gratitude and eternal recognition to the Protection Collective of our diplomatic headquarters in Washington. Their performance reflects high morals for the defense of the dignity and sovereignty of the Venezuelan people,” t…
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Publishing Stolen Material: WikiLeaks, the DNC and Freedom of Speech
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
It may well be a finding of some implication should Julian Assange find his way into the beastly glory that is the US justice system. In its efforts to rope in President Donald Trump’s election campaign, Wikileaks, Assange and …
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Trump Replaces Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats with Right Wing Extremist Rep. John Ratcliffe
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
Most often when White House officials step down, they were sacked, usually allowed to submit a resignation letter — likely the fate of former senator/Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dan Coats. | His departure is effective on August 15, right-wing …
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Tulsi Gabbard vs Google Goliath
Rick Sterling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
Introduction | The Tulsi Gabbard presidential campaign has filed a major lawsuit against Google. This article outlines the main points of the lawsuit and evidence the the social media giant Google has quietly acquired enormous influence on public perceptions and has …
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UK’s 10 hottest years on record have occurred since 2002 says Met Office
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-31
The UK’s 10 hottest years in records stretching back to the 19th century have all occurred since 2002, the Met Office has said.Analysis of temperature records which have been extended back to 1884 also reveals that none of the 10 coldest years have occurred since 1963, showing how the climate is warming.In the Met Office’s latest annual state of the climate report, the temperature series for the UK has been extended back by 26 years from 1910, as the data was added as part of ongoing work to digitise historic weather records.Dr Mark McCarthy, head of the Met Office’s national climate information centre, said: “Lo…
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48 hours of overpolicing in NYC
Karla Reyes | liberationnews.org | 2019-07-31
Recording the police or offering Metrocards will not end the criminalization of poverty, it will not end police terror.
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Financial Capitalism Gone Amok: Ultra-low Interest Rates and Price Bubbles
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
This all began with the subprime financial crisis in summer of 2007, when some US mega-banks were teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Indeed, they had created a new type of financial products, the so-called mortgage-and debt-backed securities (MBS) and other asset-backed paper (ABCP), which were bundles of risky debt and were sold as new esoteric securities.
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Bolsonaro Announces Greater Budget Cuts in Brazil
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro, announced on Wednesday a cut to the federal budget of 82.5 million dollars, representing the largest reduction in recent years in the country. | The new economic policy mainly affects education and social welfare programs, whose resources will be blocked by an unofficial decree of the Executive. | RELATED: | Brazilians Protest Bolsonaro’s Threats Against Glenn Greenwald | Between 2016-2019 Brazil has experienced a reduction in its gross domest…
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We Fall, Divided
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
On Sunday July 28th”the world’s greatest summer food fair” came to a tragic end. A “really angry” 19 year-old-white-supremacist snuck into the Gilroy Garlic Festival and committed a mass shooting, killing three people and injuring 15 more. I followed closely as the events were reported; I had flashbacks to the worst mass shooting in recent…
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The Way Forward in Hong Kong
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
I am in Hong Kong, never having been there before. But having been to mainland China several times a year in the past decade, the urge to draw comparisons is irresistible. Of course, unlike the mainland which never was a part of the British empire, the vestiges of Hong Kong’s colonial past are everywhere–from the…
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Argentina Opposition Cries Fraud on New Voting System
teleSUR-EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Leaders of Argentina’s coalitions, Front for All and Federal Consensus, along with the Radical Civic Union (UCR) party, presented a letter to the nation’s top electoral body citing “technical problems, irregularities and other inconvenient situations” regarding the country’s newly installed electoral software to be used in the October presidential polls. | RELATED: | Macri Is ‘Owned’ by IMF: Progressive Presidential Candidate | “We do not even have the basic documents or passwords, r…
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Fed Cuts Its Key Rate for First Time in More Than a Decade
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-31
The benchmark’s quarter-point drop is in response to economic pressures from Trump’s trade wars, low inflation and poor global outlook.
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Darkness Bringing Us Down
Michael Welton | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
If you dare enter the door of Tanya Talaga’s Massey Lectures of 2018, All Our Relations: Finding the Path Forward, be prepared to face some dark truths. These terrible truths explode in our faces like mines buried on a battlefield as we traverse the disconsolate pages. An accomplished and honoured journalist (author of Seven Fallen…
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Video: The War on Syria and the Next Loop of the Great Game
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
After the defeat of ISIS, the war in Syria entered a low intensity phase. However, the conflict is in no way near its end and the country remains one of the main points of instability around the world. | In August | …
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Return to the Discourse of the Cold War Era to Justify US Imperialist Aggression Against Cuba
Dr. Birsen Filip | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
For more than six decades, socialist Cuba has struggled against the ‘most formidable imperial power ever known to humankind’. It could be said that, ‘never has the world witnessed such an unequal fight’ when considering the respective sizes, populations, economies, …
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Apocalypse economics and economic apocalypse
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-31
Unfortunately for humanity, the naturalizing of capitalism by dominant mainstream neoclassical economics establishes a bulwark against the posing of vital economic questions which challenge capitalist rationality. | Source…
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‘Secret Embargo’: Saudi Arabia Stops Turkish Exports From Entering Kingdom
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-31
Saudi authorities blocked 80 Turkish trucks which were transporting textile products and chemicals into Saudi Arabia.

‘Secret Embargo’: Saudi Arabia Stops Turkish Exports From Entering Kingdom

Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Could Blow Saudi Arabia’s Role in Attacks Wide Open
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-31
He’s reportedly ready to spill the beans on Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the worst terror attack to ever take place on American soil.
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Video: Syrian Army Advancing in Northern Hama
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
On the evening of July 28 the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), the Tiger Forces and their allies renewed their advance on militant positions in northern Hama. In the ensuing series of clashes, government troops eliminated at least 5 units of …
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Bolivia: Oil and Gas Revenue Increases in 2019’s First Semester
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Bolivia’s Hydrocarbon Minister, Luis Alberto Sanchez, revealed Tuesday the rise of oil revenues in the first half of 2019, which reached US$ 1.1 billion | RELATED: | Bolivia: Evo Announces MAS-IPSP Candidates Around the Country | The income is higher than what was reported last year for the same period when it registred just a little more than US$ 1 billion, Sanchez told local media. | Concerning the current production of gas, he said that it represented 58 million cubic meters…
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Permissible Deviance: Facebook’s FTC Fine
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
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…
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Hong Kong’s Crisis as Microcosm of the World’s Future
Thomas Hon Wing Polin | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
Hong Kong, with its Sino-Western heritage, lies on the fault line of the intensifying confrontation between the Western Empire and China. The conflict is likely to be the defining international affair of our time. That’s a fundamental reason the former British colony and current Chinese special administrative region has been wracked by turmoil the past…
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What’s Wrong with Corey Stapleton?
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
Three shocking events concerning foreign interference in state and national elections were revealed last week. The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report detailing “unprecedented” Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election in all 50 states; Robert Mueller testified before two House committees that Russia and other foreign nations were…
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Ex Hex — Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
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Monsters With Human Faces
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around–they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.” ‚Äï Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s…
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With Criticism Crushed in the West, Israel Can Enjoy Its Impunity
Jonathan Cook | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions. The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House two-and-a-half years ago has emboldened Israel as never before, leaving it free to unleash new…
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Notes From a Caribbean Colony in Turmoil
Manuel Otero | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-31
From what I gather from the US press coverage, the recent events here have been portrayed as something close to a popular insurrection that got rid of an arrogant, inept and corrupt colonial governor. A note is added to the effect, a kind of wishful thinking, that if only Trump could be dispatched via similar methods.
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Ukraine: Language-laws Are Not Purely Symbolic
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
On February 22nd 2014 Oleksandr Turchynov, on his first day as speaker of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, made his now infamous speech concerning the disestablishment of the Russian language as a state language in Ukraine. What people who were …
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Food security vs. ‘border security’
Editor | workers.org | 2019-07-31
As the whole world knows by now, Trump has launched major racist attacks on four congress members known as the “Squad” over the past couple of weeks. He ordered the women to “go back where they came from.” Trump targeted the four because of their courageous and outspoken public criticism . . . | Continue reading Food security vs. ‘border security’ at Workers.org…
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States and Capitalist Society
Leo Panitch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
The illusions of the neoliberal era — that the market should or even could be freed from the state, or that an unstoppable process of capitalist globalization was bypassing even the most powerful of states — have suddenly dissipated. One …
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Toxic Mine Waste. The Dangers of Copper Sulfide Mining
Dr. Gary G. Kohls | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
A few months ago, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management renewed the previously cancelled mineral exploration leases to Antofagasta, the Chilean mining giant that owns Twin Metals, the Canadian penny-stock company that has been doing the groundwork for Antofagasta’s …
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China’s Proposed “Code of Conduct” for Antarctica
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
The Czech Republic hosted the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting from July 1 to 10 to discuss the future of the world’s seventh continent, during which China proposed a code of conduct for all nations’ active on the landmass, though it …
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Climate change, oil profits and the new youth movement
Deirdre Griswold | workers.org | 2019-07-31
Despite the know-nothing stance of the gang in the White House, climate change is a subject that hundreds of millions of people cannot ignore. Massive spring floods in the U.S. Midwest continued into June, causing billions of dollars in damage as levees were breached and fields turned into vast lakes. . . . | Continue reading Climate change, oil profits and the new youth movement at Workers.org…
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Netanyahu May Survive This Political Crisis, but Israel’s Left Will Not
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-31
JERUSALEM, OCCUPIED PALESTINE — Like a pack of hyenas surrounding a weakened and wounded lion, Israeli politicians are ganging up on an injured, weakened Benjamin Netanyahu. With over ten years in office, Netanyahu is now the longest-reigning prime minister in the history of the State of Israel. Comparisons are being drawn between him and the man who is now second only to Netanyahu, the man considered to be the Founding Father of Israel, Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. | Th…
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Gilroy Shooter Touted White Supremacist Text, Posted Racist Content Before Massacre
Democracy Now! | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
In California, police have identified the gunman who killed three people–including two children–at a mass shooting Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival as 19-year-old Santino William Legan. He was fatally shot by police at the scene. Authorities say they are still determining a motive for the attack, but the gunman’s social media activity shows him promoting a manifesto on white supremacy just moments before the rampage. He also wrote in a post Sunday,…
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British Pound Faces a Two-year Low as “Back Door Johnson” Prepares UK for “No Deal Brexit”
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
‘Back door Boris’ — the latest nickname for the UK Prime Minister, who can add it to a long line of other derogatory titles he has received over the years. The term was coined after Boris Johnson decided to exit …
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Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Tear Apart Liberal Rivals
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders offered an unabashed defense of their progressive policies during a Democratic presidential debate Tuesday when their liberal, pro-establishment rivals criticized the proposals as unrealistic and politically untenable. | RELATED: | Bernie Sanders, Cardi B Film US Presidential Campaign Video | Defying all guesses of Sanders and Warren turning on each other, the progressive candidates teamed up to take down the right-wing tendencies in their Democr…
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Socialist Analysis & Discussion – The War on Immigrants & the Fight Back Movement
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose…
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CNN Tried to Derail Sanders and Warren Last Night. It Failed
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| Tuesday night’s Democratic debate was a CNN-engineered center-right ambush of Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren that was so ham-fisted in its conception and execution, it could have been drawn up by Donald Trump himself. | “Is Bernie Sanders Too Extreme?” was an actual discussion topic. Zero-polling candidates like Rep. John Delaney and Sen. Amy Klobuchar were encouraged to take swipes at Medicare for All, student debt forgiveness, and other big-box ideas put forth by the two progressive fro…
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The Rise of the American Gestapo: Has It Already Happened Here?
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-31
” Adolf Hitler is alive and well in the United States, and he is fast rising to power.”–Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, on the danger posed by the FBI to our civil liberties | Despite the …
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Fukushima 2020 Olympics Nightmare: Is PM Abe Criminally Insane?
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
This documentary investigates and exposes the plans of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to bring the Olympics baseball games to contaminated Fukushima. Although there is over a million tons of tritium radioactive water in tanks surrounding the plan, thousands of contamined bags of waste and melted nuclear rods still in the broken plants Abe has claimed to the Olympic Committee and world that Fukushima has been decontaminated.
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2nd Democratic Debate, Pt 1: Battle Over Medicare for All and Fixing Immigration (2/3)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-31
The debate allowed candidates to show how support for Medicare for All and humanity at the U.S. border are key issues in 2020. With guests Kimberly Moffit and Jeet Heer, hosted by Marc Steiner…
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“We Don’t Want Another President Obama”: Activist Urges Democrats to Reframe Immigration Debate
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-31
Democratic candidates also sparred on immigration policy, from decriminalizing border crossing to providing healthcare to undocumented immigrants. We hear excerpts of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, as well as Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Plus we speak to Erika Andiola, chief advocacy officer for RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services.
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Fighting the Causes of Flight
Jens Berger | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
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.
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“We Don’t Want Another Obama”: Immigration Activist Urges Democrats to Be Bold
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| Democratic candidates sparred on immigration policy, from decriminalizing border crossing to providing healthcare to undocumented immigrants. We hear excerpts of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, as well as Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Plus we speak to Erika Andiola, chief advocacy officer for RAICES, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services. | TRANSCRIPT: | JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We’re also joined by Erika Andiola of RAICES. Erika, I wanted to…
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Second Democratic Debate, Part One: The Moderate/Progressive Divide Came Through (1/3)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-31
The first part of the second democratic debate showed a non-rancorous divide on how to beat Trump and fresh discussions first-use of nuclear weapons and for getting out of Afghanistan…
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Brazilians Fight Far-Right Campaign to Silence Greenwald & Intercept Leaks
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-31
Hundreds of Brazilians rallied in defense of U.S. journalist Glenn Greenwald, on Tuesday. Greenwald has been threatened to be deported, imprisoned, and even killed, because of his role in the release of the on-going bombshell Intercept leaks, which revealed right-wing bias in the corruption investigations that saw former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva jailed…
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Exxon oil plant on fire in Texas (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2019-07-31
A fire has broken out at an ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baytown, Texas, east of Houston. Local authorities have warned residents to close all doors and windows and turn off air conditioning as a precaution. | …
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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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Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders Dominate Democratic Debate Set Up to Ambush Them
Robert Mackey | theintercept.com | 2019-07-31
The most progressive candidates on stage at the Democratic debate in Detroit, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, dominated an event framed like an ambush.
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Sanders & Warren Fight “Republican Talking Point” That Medicare for All Is About Reducing Coverage
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-31
Ten Democratic presidential candidates took to the stage in Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday night for the first of a two-night debate hosted by CNN. The debate began with an extended discussion on healthcare, where progressive candidates Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren defended their platforms of Medicare for all against more moderate candidates who argued this stance is political suicide. We speak with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, former Michigan gubernatorial candidate.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/31/cnn_debat…

Sanders, Warren Clash With Moderates Over ‘Medicare for All’
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-31
DETROIT–The signature domestic proposal by the leading progressive candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination came under withering attack from moderates Tuesday in a debate that laid bare the struggle between a call for revolutionary policies and a desperate desire to defeat President Donald Trump. | Standing side by side at center stage, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren slapped back against their more cautious rivals who ridiculed “Medicare for All” and warned that “wish-list economics” would jeopardize Democrats’ chances for taking the White House in 2020. | “I don’t understand why anybody g…
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Second Demcoratic Debate, Part One: The Moderate/Progressive Divide Came Through (1/3)
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-31
The first part of the second democratic debate showed a non-rancorous divide on how to beat Trump and fresh discussions first-use of nuclear weapons and for getting out of Afghanistan…
therealnews.com/stories/second-demcorati…

Millions displaced and hundreds killed by monsoonal floods in South Asia
wsws.org | 2019-07-31
South Asian governments have responded with apathy and indifference toward the poverty-stricken people severely impacted by the floods.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/flod…

On Direct Action and Trump’s Immigration Agenda
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| We are nearing the tail end of the latest round of reports of (and subsequent righteous uproar at) the ongoing crisis at the U.S./Mexico border and all things immigration. At different points over the last several weeks, folks have wondered aloud online about where was the immigrant rights movement? What could be done? | Speaking for myself, it’s been difficult to produce a convenient answer (or even an inconvenient one that will work). I have felt pena ajena when I see that the only action step for people is to do…
truthout.org/articles/on-direct-action-a…

Sanders, Warren Clash With Cautious Rivals Over ‘Big Ideas’
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-31
DETROIT–The signature domestic proposal by the leading progressive candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination came under withering attack from moderates Tuesday in a debate that laid bare the struggle between a call for revolutionary policies and a desperate desire to defeat President Donald Trump. | Standing side by side at center stage, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren slapped back against their more cautious rivals who ridiculed “Medicare for All” and warned that “wish-list economics” would jeopardize Democrats’ chances for taking the White House in 2020. | “I don’t understand why anybody g…
truthdig.com/articles/sanders-warren-cla…

States Are Thwarting Cities’ Attempts to Govern Themselves
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| In 2015, the City of Berkeley, California, passed an ordinance requiring cellphone shops to inform customers that carrying a cellphone in certain ways can expose them to radio-frequency radiation that exceeds Federal Communications Commission (FCC) standards. | Retailers would be forced to put up a poster that reads: | The City of Berkeley requires that you be provided the following notice: | To as…
truthout.org/articles/states-are-thwarti…

Warren Backs “No First Use” Nuclear Policy
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| While most of Tuesday’s debate focused on domestic issues, Democratic candidates were briefly asked about nuclear weapons policy and the war in Afghanistan. Senator Elizabeth Warren defended her “no first use” policy on nuclear weapons, despite criticism from Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Meanwhile, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper sparred on whether the U.S. should withdraw from Afghanistan after 18 years of war. | TRANSCRIPT: | AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, de…
truthout.org/video/warren-backs-no-first…

Warren Denounces White Supremacy as Domestic Terrorism; Marianne Williamson Calls for Reparations
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-31
Democratic candidates also spoke on race and white supremacy, with Senator Elizabeth Warren arguing that the United States needs “to call out white supremacy for what it is: domestic terrorism.” Marianne Williamson of California brought up the Flint water crisis and highlighted environmental racism saying, “We have communities, particularly communities of color and disadvantaged communities, all over this country who are suffering from environmental injustice.” We speak with Mehdi Hasan, columnist for The Intercept and host of its “Deconstructed” podcast. He’s also host of “UpFront” at Al Jazeera English.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/31/cnn_democ…

Die Zeit editor Jochen Bittner condemns “German pacifism”
wsws.org | 2019-07-31
An op-ed by Bittner in the New York Times treats the German population’s aversion to war as a problem to be overcome.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/bitt…

U.K. Could See ‘Corporate Courts’ After Brexit
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-31
A parliamentary report published Tuesday warns that investors could have huge new powers to sue the government after Brexit, as EU trade arbitration could be replaced by investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which means corporations will play a role in settling trade disputes, rather than an independent third party. | RELATED: | ‘Poverty Criminalized, Wealth Immunized’: US Corporate Impunity | Britain has not yet defined how they will handle trade disputes after Brexit, witho…
telesurenglish.net/news/U.K.-Could-See-C…

Is nothing sacred? For WaPo, hamburgers have ‘hidden Russia connection’
rt.com | 2019-07-31
There is no food so quintessentially American as hamburgers, which of course makes them a perfect target for disparagement by the woke clickbait media. The newest twist is that they have a ‘hidden Russia connection.’ | …
rt.com/usa/465513-wapo-hamburgers-trump-…

With One Line, Elizabeth Warren Effectively Ends What Was Left of John Delaney’s Campaign
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-31
“Extremely rude of Elizabeth Warren to murder John Delaney on national television like this.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/30/one-lin…

Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Build Nuclear Weapons
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/30/1882507…

United, Warren and Sanders Show What a Left-Wing Democratic Party Looks Like
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-31
| Late in the first night of the second round of the 2020 Democratic debates on Tuesday, CNN moderator Jake Tapper asked Sen. Elizabeth Warren a serious question in an unserious way. “Senator Warren, you want to make it U.S. policy that the U.S. will never use a nuclear weapon unless another country uses one first,” Tapper said. “Why should the U.S. tie its own hands with that policy?” | Warren’s response was clear, direct, and morally and strategically sound. “Because it makes the world…
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Elizabeth Warren’s Trade Plan Empowers Workers, Not Corporations
Todd N. Tucker | thenation.com | 2019-07-31
Elizabeth Warren’s Trade Plan Empowers Workers, Not Corporations…
thenation.com/article/elizabeth-warren-t…

Socialist Analysis & Discussion “Money for War, But Can’t Feed the Poor”
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
2969 Mission St., near 26th St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/31/1882508…

Vigil to Expose Monsanto
San Francisco-Bay Area Veterans For Peace | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
Union Square, Downtown San Francisco. Bordered by Geary Blvd. and Post Street; and Powell and Stockton Street.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/31/1882511…

Preparing for great-power war, France creates space command
wsws.org | 2019-07-31
The implication, covered over by the media and political establishment, is that the French ruling class is preparing for war against militarily-advanced, nuclear-armed powers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/31/spac…

Warren Backs “No First Use” Nuclear Policy as Buttigieg Calls for Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-31
While most of Tuesday’s debate focused on domestic issues, Democratic candidates were briefly asked about nuclear weapons policy and the war in Afghanistan. Senator Elizabeth Warren defended her “no first use” policy on nuclear weapons, despite criticism from Montana Governor Steve Bullock. Meanwhile, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper sparred on whether the U.S. should withdraw from Afghanistan after 18 years of war.
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/31/cnn_debat…

Poetry to Close the Camps
Norma Smith | indybay.org | 2019-07-31
630 Sansome St (Immigration and Customs Enforcement HQ)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/29/1882505…

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