Did Indian Intelligence Invent a Russian Diplomatic Statement to Pressure Moscow on Kashmir?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-11
It remains unclear at the time of writing whether the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs really did back India’s unilateral actions in Kashmir or not, with the mysterious circumstances surrounding its now-viral alleged statement of support suggesting that it might …
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Chomsky Slams Macri’s Neoliberal Policies in Education
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-11
Noam Chomsky, the renowned academic and political thinker from the United States, slammed Argentinian President Mauricio Macri for subordinating of public education to favor neoliberal markets in an article published by La Garganta Poderosa Saturday. | RELATED: | Chomsky: Fixation on Russia May Have Handed Trump a 2020 Win | He said the advanced neoliberal p…
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Washington’s Utterly Failed Diplomacy
Strategic Culture Foundation | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-11
There seems no longer any attempt, or semblance, of seeking diplomacy by Washington. Sanctions and aggression are wielded with reckless abandon. Russia, China, and even America’s own supposed European allies are subject to sanctions by Washington in a high-handed dismissal …
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The Evolution of Venezuela’s Media Landscape: From Openness to Restriction?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-11
Prominent Venezuelan journalists talk about how Venezuela’s media landscape has evolved from the Chavez years to the present under the combined pressure of President Maduro and the US-Opposition’s onslaught against the government. A report from Venezuela by Ed Augustin…
therealnews.com/stories/the-evolution-of…

After Terror Attack at Oslo Mosque, What if Trump Spoke About White Supremacists the Way He Does Islam?
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2019-08-11
A picture taken on August 10, 2019 shows medics with a stretcher near the al-Noor islamic center mosque where a gunman, armed with multiple weapons, went on a shooting spree in the town of Baerum, an Oslo suburb. The gunman injured one worshipper before being arrested, police and witnesses said. (Photo: Terje Pedersen/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Billionaire Tom Steyer Spends More Than $7 Million on Ads in First Month
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-11
| In the month since Tom Steyer jumped into the Democratic presidential field with a promise to spend $100 million on his own campaign, the billionaire activist and former hedge fund manager has made his name known across early primary states with millions in ad buys. | But it remains to be seen whether Steyer,…
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I’m in Prison, and I Need More Than a Vote to Participate in Democracy
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-11
| I am well aware that, for years, activists have engaged in political and ideological disagreements about how far the new suffrage movement should go in fighting for the voting rights of people with felony convictions. I’ve been in prison for 25 years, following all the ups and downs. However, it is time to bring some hard-headed realism to bear on this longstanding contradiction in U.S. democracy. | Let’s take a mental leap: Even if politicians eventually conclude that no one of voting age in…
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro Says ‘Poop Every Other Day’ for Environment
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-11
Brazilian far-right President Jair Bolsonaro said people should “poop every other day” to save the planet from climate change. | RELATED: | ‘Bolsonaro is Responsible for the Amazon’ UN Rapporteur Says | His comments came after a journalist questioned his solution to preserving the environment as well as developing the agricultural industry. | “It’s enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It’s enough to poop every other day. That will be better for the…
telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-president…

China’s BRI Could Save Destroyed Southeast Asia
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-11
Most of the people in the West or in North Asia usually never think about it, but Southeast Asia is one of the most depressed and depressing parts of the world. It has been through genocides, wars and atrocious military regimes. Then, those monstrous income disparities. Jakarta beggars at night According to The Bangkok Post, …
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Israel Systematically Blocks International Scholars From Reaching Palestine
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-11
| International scholars are important to universities throughout the world. Their unique perspectives, emanating from different cultures and places, enrichen intellectual conversations among students and faculty. International scholars help orient local students toward global citizenship, and in turn those students help visiting scholars to understand their host country and culture better. | In the Occupied Palestinian Territories, however, Israel routinely blocks international scholars…
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Syria Warns US-Turkey “Safe Zone” Deal Is a Plot for “Expansionist Ambitions”
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-11
After three days of intense negotiations in Ankara, US and Turkish officials reached an agreement on Wednesday to create a joint operations center and set up a safe zone east of the Euphrates in north eastern Syria. Deal details have …
globalresearch.ca/syria-warns-us-turkey-…

Chernobyl: A ‘Debt to the Truth’
Susie Greaves | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-11
The HBO miniseries ” Chernobyl” is a timely reminder of the horrors of nuclear technology gone wrong. | In the early hours of 26 April 1986, an accident occurred in northern Ukraine that revealed once again that all the genius …
globalresearch.ca/chernobyl-debt-truth/5…

Climate Change and a New Agricultural System
Juliette Majot | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-11
This week, the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a long-awaited report on land, climate change and agriculture.[1] The report’s findings confirm that the agriculture and food systems on which we now depend are no longer viable. …
globalresearch.ca/climate-change-new-agr…

State Censorship: Seizing Journalists Notes, Restricting Press Freedom
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-11
In our recent article entitled — Rise of the Techno Stasi-State we asked the question was that too strong a news headline after the High Court decided the government’s architecture of mass surveillance over the population was perfectly legal. The …
globalresearch.ca/state-censorship-seizi…

Insulated from the Truth
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-11
In 1933, soon after Hitler’s ascent to power, the British ambassador to Germany made this assertion: “I have the impression that the persons directing the policy of the Hitler government are not normal. Many of us, indeed, have a feeling …
globalresearch.ca/insulated-truth/568611…

Britain after Brexit: Welcome to the Vulture Restaurant
Adam Ramsay | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-11
“Britain has no leverage, Britain is desperate … it needs an agreement very soon. When you have a desperate partner, that’s when you strike the hardest bargain.” So warned former US treasury secretary Larry Summers on Radio 4 ‘Today’ programme …
globalresearch.ca/britain-after-brexit-w…

Saudi Forces Attack UAE-Backed Separatists in Aden, 40 Killed
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-11
The Saudi-led coalition intervened in Aden Sunday in support of the Yemeni government after southern UAE-backed separatists effectively took over the port city, fracturing the alliance that had been battling the Houthi movement. | RELATED: | Saudi Forces Kill 13 in ‘Massacre’ at Yemen Market | The infighting, which broke out on Aug. 8 to control the port city which serves as temporary seat of Yemen’s Saudi-backed has killed 40 people and injured 260, the United Nations said. | “It is heart-…
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No, Trump Doesn’t Want to ‘See People Mowed Down and Killed,’ Says Sanders, But His ‘Racist Rhetoric’ Fueling Violence
Common Dreams staff | commondreams.org | 2019-08-11
The president, charged the 2020 Democratic candidate, “creates a climate where we are seeing a significant increase in hate crimes in this country—hates crimes against Muslims, against Mexicans, against Jews. He is creating the kind of divisiveness in this nation that is the last thing we should be doing.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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CODEPINK Monthly Golden Gate Bridge Walk for Peace
Toby Blome | indybay.org | 2019-08-11
11: 45 am: Gather at the SF or Marin end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge. Parking available on all 4 “corners”, just remember to take the last exit on hwy 101 as you approach the bridge, or the first exit after you leave the bridge. Arrive early for best parking. | Noon: Walk on the eastern walkway from the north or south ends, to converge in the middle. Short, silent vigil in the middle. | 1: 00 pm: Rally on SF side after the bridge walk. | FMI & carpooling: Toby, 510-215-5974 | ratherbenyckeling@comcast.net | See https: //tripplanner.transit.511.org for public transit options. | Golden Gate Transit…
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CODEPINK Monthly Golden Gate Bridge WALK for PEACE
Martha Hubert | indybay.org | 2019-08-11
11: 45 am: Gather at the SF end of the eastern walkway of the Golden Gate Bridge. | Noon: Walk on the easter walkway from the SF side to the middle of the bridge. There we will hold a “burma shave” style presence | with each of us holding a sign with adequate space between us so that motorists can easily read all of our signs. Some signs provided, or bring your own. We’ll return to the SF side of the bridge for a rally with Photo ops and flyer distribution. | Parking is available, though often very crowded. It’s best to use public transit. See https: //tripplanner.transit.511 for transit options. The SF Muni Bus 28…
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Mozambique Charges Former President’s Son, Officials for Secret Debt Scandal
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2019-08-11
Mozambique charged the former president’s son and 19 others on corruption, fraud and blackmail in relation to a $2 billion dollar loan scandal.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/09/1882531…

“The Sikhs For Justice” Are Taking Up The Kashmiri Cause At The UN
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-10
The Sikhs For Justice, a purely peaceful organization that’s campaigning for a plebiscite on the independence of Indian Punjab as Khalistan, are taking their support for Kashmir to the next level by filing a complaint at the UN about India’s …
globalresearch.ca/the-sikhs-for-justice-…

New Delhi’s assault on Kashmir and the fight against communal reaction, imperialism, and war
wsws.org | 2019-08-10
With the aim of inciting communal reaction against mounting social opposition and strengthening its hand against Pakistan and China, India’s BJP government has illegally stripped Jammu and Kashmir of its special status.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/pers…

India’s Kashmir Crackdown Poses Risk of War
John Riddell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-10
On August 5, India’s Hindu nationalist government unilaterally revoked the autonomy of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, while flooding the region with troops, imposing a curfew, and shutting down all communications. | The state is to be broken in two, …
globalresearch.ca/indias-kashmir-crackdo…

Worldwide Solidarity Rallies Held in Support of Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-10
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on the people of his country on August 10th to march in protest of U.S. President Donald Trump’s ongoing inhuman economic blockade that has caused significant suffering to the civilians of the Bolivarian Republic. | Related: | Venezuelans Amass Across the Country to Protest Trump | In a sign of solidarity with the people of Venezuela, several demonstrations were held in countries such as Australia, Haiti, Turkey Italy, Germany, Dominican Republ…
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Maduro: ‘Amazing’, the Global #NoMoreTrump Protests
teleSUR-EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-10
Named ‘World Protest Day’, massive demonstrations took place Saturday in Venezuela and across the globe against the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump on this South American country. | RELATED: | Venezuelans Amass Across the Country to Protest Trump | Hundreds of thousands of people were in the streets of Caracas Aug. 10 with signs that read, ‘No Mas Trump’ in protest to the U.S. president and his administration that has prevented the Ven…
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USA vs. Venezuela: the embargo as part of a war with no turning back (Interview — Julio Escalona)
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-10
The total embargo declared by Donald Trump against Venezuela is another step in sharpening his strategy to generate chaos in the country and overthrow Nicolás Maduro. Julio Escalona, deputy of the National Constituent Assembly, analyzes the situation, the possibility of dialogues, and challenges. | Source…
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Criminal Embargos: Venezuela and Iran in the Crosshairs of Murderers Inc — Who is Next?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-10
Now the US is expanding her palette of killing by impunity to subjugate nation after nation which they do not consider bending sufficiently to the dictate of their masters. Venezuela has been targeted for two decades, and Iran, ever since the US-imposed Shah was deposed in 1979 — exactly 40 years ago…
globalresearch.ca/criminal-embargos-vene…

Why are there more mass killings on Trump’s watch than before?
Michael T. Hertz | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-10
Why are there more mass killings on Trump’s watch than before? | I suspected that this was true, but until I actually used US mass shootings, 1982-2019: Data from Mother Jones’ investigation I didn’t have data. | The Mother Jones data collects all mass killings (shootings that killed over 3 people, not including the perpetrator). I added up those killed in mass shootings under Obama, and the total for all 8 years was 310. The total for Trump through August 4, 2019 was 256. Thus, Obama averaged 38.75 a year while T…
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Mexico: 19 Massacred by ‘Cartel Jalisco’ in Turf War
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-10
About 380 national police agents are monitoring the Mexican city of Uruapan, in Michoacan state, after the murder of 19 people Thursday. Their bodies were abandoned in three different areas of the city, authorities said Saturday. | RELATED: | Mexico to Take Legal Action Against US Post-El Paso Shooting | The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) criminal organization took credit for the massacre, according to th…
telesurenglish.net/news/Mexico-19-Massac…

US defence secretary, NATO chief visit New Zealand to strengthen military ties
wsws.org | 2019-08-10
The visits by US defence secretary Mark Esper and NATO general secretary Jens Stoltenberg were aimed at incorporating New Zealand further into the military build-up against China, Russia and Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/nzus…

The New York Times’ Pro-War Arguments Against War With Iran
Gregory Shupak | commondreams.org | 2019-08-10
“Once you’re debating who ought to start a war,” writes Shupak, “you’ve abandoned the anti-war argument.” (Screenshot: New York Times, 6/20/19) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Venezuela and Iran in the Crosshairs of Murderers Inc
Peter Koenig | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-10
Imagine just for a moment, the World would stand up in unison, sick and tired of the aggressive killer arrogance of the United States and her vassals — and their joint war-force called NATO — and this World, our World, what’s left of it when you deduct Washington and its Brussels allies, would at once …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/venezuela-and…

The Unraveling of the Conspiracy Case Against No More Deaths Volunteer Scott Warren
Ryan Devereaux | theintercept.com | 2019-08-10
The federal courthouse in Tucson, Arizona, has always been a place where the borderlands and the American justice system collide. Described by its engineers as “a gateway to the desert and the mountains beyond,” it was completed in 2000, the year that the Pima County medical examiner’s office began tracking an explosion of deaths in that same desert. | Each afternoon, Monday through Thursday, dozens of chained migrants who survived the journey across the border but found themselves in Border Patrol custody are marched up from the building’s bowels for mass hearings. They come in groups of up to 70 at a time. You…
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A Trump-Bolsonaro Free Trade Deal Is an Apocalyptically Bad Idea
Andrew E. Miller | commondreams.org | 2019-08-10
Greenpeace activists hang a large banner on the ramparts of the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel with a message to the visiting Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro on April 1, 2019. (Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg / AFP / Israel Out) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Bolivia Rejects US Drug Control Report as ‘Malicious’
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-10
Bolivia says it rejects the slanderous accusations made by the U.S. in its recent report where it alleged the South American country had breached the bylines of an international anti-drug initiative. | RELATED: | War on Drugs Has Failed in Bolivia: Evo Morales | In a memorandum released Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump listed 20 countries his administration says are either major transit, or illicit drug-producing countries. He named Bolivia and Venezuela as having failed to honor their ob…
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Biodiversity is highest on indigenous-managed lands — even higher than protected land areas
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-10
Indigenous-managed lands possess the greatest levels of biodiversity, perhaps even more than the biodiversity in protected areas says a new study published in the journal of Environmental Science & Policy. | Studying biodiversity levels in nearly 16,000 areas across Australia, Brazil, and Canada, the team of researchers found that land fully or co-managed by indigenous communities contained the highest levels of biodiversity. | Protected areas of lands, such as parks and wildlife reserves, came in second. Size and location of the land had less of an impact on species diversity levels than who the land was mana…
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Detroit man dies after ICE deports him to Iraq
wsws.org | 2019-08-10
Jimmy Aldaoud was born in Greece to Iraqi refugee parents and arrived in the US as an infant in 1979. He was deported to Iraq in June and died this week.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/alda…

Jamar Clark settlement announced, community vows to keep up the fight
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-10
Minneapolis, MN – On August 8, a settlement was reached in the case of Jamar Clark. The city of Minneapolis awarded $200,000 to Jamar Clark’s families. | Clark was murdered by Minneapolis police officers on November 15, 2015. According to witnesses, he was handcuffed when he was shot at point-blank range. His killing led to massive protests and a weeks-long winter encampment in front of the police precinct office near the scene of his death. Investigators ignored the input of 20 witnesses to the killing, forcibly seized all video of the shooting, and refused to release the video to the public. No charges were pre…
fightbacknews.org/2019/8/9/jamar-clark-s…

Police have killed 5,000 Americans since Ferguson protests
wsws.org | 2019-08-10
Despite popular protests and increased scrutiny in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s killing, US police officers have continued to kill at a rate of more than 1,000 people per year.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/poli…

German government and Greens promote military mission in Persian Gulf
wsws.org | 2019-08-10
The German ruling class is intensifying its campaign for a European war mission in the Persian Gulf. Especially aggressive are the leaders of the Green party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/germ…

Saudi, UAE Proxies Clash in Southern Yemen, as UAE Plots Partition
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-10
At least 2,400 citizens have been forcibly expelled from Aden, while over 1,600 shops have been burned and damaged, more than 1,700 shops closed and 76 cars confiscated.
mintpressnews.com/saudi-uae-proxies-clas…

Talks ahead? Trump says Kim Jong-un ‘apologized’ for missile tests in ‘beautiful’ 3-page letter
rt.com | 2019-08-10
President Donald Trump has said that North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un wants to meet again for negotiations, after Kim reportedly apologized for missile tests and complained about US military exercises. | …
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Canada’s ruling elite whipping up anti-China hysteria to pave way for repression, rearmament and war
wsws.org | 2019-08-10
All the organs of Canadian bourgeois propaganda–government institutions, political parties and corporate media outlets–have united to cast Ottawa as a beleaguered David confronting a Chinese Goliath.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/cach…

Facebook ‘News’: A bold step toward total control of reality?
rt.com | 2019-08-10
Facebook’s plan to hook ad-cash-deprived mainstream outlets on licensing payouts seems to be an attempt to hijack narrative control en route to total domination of the infosphere — the ultimate safe space, Zuckerberg-style. | …
rt.com/usa/466199-facebook-control-news-…

American History for Truthdiggers: Bush II and the Birth of Forever War
Maj. Danny Sjursen | truthdig.com | 2019-08-10
Editor’s note: The past is prologue. The stories we tell about ourselves and our forebears inform the sort of country we think we are and help determine public policy. As our current president promises to “make America great again,” this moment is an appropriate time to reconsider our past, look back at various eras of United States history and re-evaluate America’s origins. When, exactly, were we “great”? | Below is the 36th installment of the “American History for Truthdiggers” series, a pull-no-punches appraisal of our shared, if flawed, past. The author of the series, Danny Sjursen, who retired recently as a…
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Italy: Salvini seeks coalition with fascist Fratelli d’Italia
wsws.org | 2019-08-10
In a surprise coup, the leader of the Lega is attempting to carry out a shift to the right and to prepare fascistic forms of rule.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/10/ital…

ISIS and Al Qaeda are “Made in America”. Trump Tweets “We Have Defeated ISIS in Syria”
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-10
In late 2018 and numerous other times, Trump falsely claimed ISIS was defeated. | Last December he tweeted: “We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there…” | In his January State of the Union address, he falsely …
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Government denies large power outages part of no-deal planning
John Shafthauer | thecanary.co | 2019-08-10
Power outages hit England and Wales on 9 August. Coincidentally, the government has recently been planning for a no-deal Brexit. | But is it a coincidence? | Or is it part of what the government is expecting after they open the Brexit hell mouth? | Lights out: | According to a leaked memo, the government is planning the following tests: | Closing the Irn Bru factory for a week to see how long it takes before Scotland starts rioting. | Replacing people’s medicine with tic tacs to see if the placebo effect kicks in. | Redirecting all outward-bound British tourists to Skegness. | A whistleblower came forward…
thecanary.co/off-the-perch/2019/08/10/go…

Ireland can Stop a no-deal Brexit. Here’s How
Fintan O’Toole | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-10
Ireland, North and South, is facing a political and economic crisis. But the key to preventing it lies in Irish hands. One Irish political party has the power to change the balance of power at Westminster and to alter the …
globalresearch.ca/ireland-can-stop-a-no-…

Sanders Demands Drug and Insurance Industries Explain the Hundreds of Millions They Seem Willing to Spend to Defeat Medicare for All
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-10
“You made a $100 billion in profits last year—how much are you going to be spending of that $100 billion to oppose Medicare for All? Is it $200 million? Is it $500 million? Is it a billion dollars in order to protect your profits?” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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‘Gold Over Life, Literally’: How Trump Forced Reversal on Mining Project EPA Scientists Warn Could Destroy Alaskan Salmon Ecosystem
Jon Queally, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-10
“I was dumbfounded,” said one EPA insider after Trump officials reversed the agency’s opposition to the copper and gold mining project in Bristol Bay that scientists warn will devastate the salmon and the overall ecosystem. “We were basically told we weren’t going to examine anything. We were told to get out of the way and just make it happen.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Milwaukee: Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembered
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-10
Milwaukee, WI – On the evening of August 9, over 50 anti-war activists, peace advocates and community members gathered at the Urban Ecology Center in Washington Park on Milwaukee’s north side to remember the victims of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) in 1945. Additionally, victims of recent and prior mass shootings across the U.S. were honored. | The program began with an opportunity for attendees to create their own Japanese lanterns, including drawing or writing messages or images on the wrappings. Many custom designs feature messages such as “No more war!” and “Denu…
fightbacknews.org/2019/8/10/milwaukee-vi…

Three UN workers killed following Benghazi car bomb attack, as Security Council meets in emergency session, honours their ‘ultimate sacrifice’
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-10
Secretary-General António Guterres on Saturday condemned a car bomb attack in front of a shopping mall in the Libyan city of Benghazi, which left three UN workers dead, and three others injured, with dozens of civilians also wounded.
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Libya: 3 UN Members, 2 Assistants Killed in Car Bombing
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-10
Three United Nations staff members and two other mission personnel were killed in a car bomb explosion Saturday in Benghazi, Libya. | RELATED: | Paris Admits its Missiles Found on Pro-Haftar Base in Libya | The explosion happened in front of a shopping mall and bank. At least one burned-out U.N. car could be seen at the scene. | The U.N. refrained from releasing details, but said some of the casualties were from its team working on a mission in eastern Libya. | Libyan National A…
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Weekend Read: Neo-Nazi leader must pay more than $14 million in damages
splcenter.org | 2019-08-10
A federal judge has ruled in an SPLC lawsuit that neo-Nazi leader Andrew Anglin must pay more than $14 million in damages for using his website to launch an antisemitic campaign of terror against a Jewish woman and her family.
splcenter.org/news/2019/08/10/weekend-re…

Las Vegas ‘vigilante’ plotted to recruit killer squads to murder gays & Jews
rt.com | 2019-08-10
A 23yo Las Vegas man is facing ten years behind bars for plotting terrorist attacks against the Jewish and LGBT communities and attempting to hire armed hit squads to carry out the atrocities. | …
rt.com/news/466201-las-vegas-jews-gays-t…

TURKEY AND US COME TO AGREEMENT ON CREATION OF SECURITY ZONE
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-08-10
Turkey and the United States seem to have finally reached some level of agreement regarding the creation of a security zone in Syria, an issue which had long strained the already tense relations between the two countries. Nonetheless, the decision likely doesn’t mean the end of the conflict over the issue. Following three days of …
uwidata.com/4836-turkey-and-us-come-to-a…

Poultry towns devastated as workers and students disappear after ICE raids
Jeff Amy, Rogelio V. Solis | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-09
MORTON, Miss. (AP)–Effects of the largest immigration raid in at least a decade are likely to ripple for years through six Mississippi small towns that host poultry plants. A store owner who caters to Latino poultry plant workers fears he will have to close. A school superintendent is trying to rebuild trust with the Spanish-speaking …
peoplesworld.org/article/poultry-towns-d…

ICE Raids on Undocumented Immigrants Create Fear and Enable Exploitation
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-09
The recent ICE raids that detained 680 food workers in Mississippi not only strike fear and terror in the hearts of immigrants, but are a calculated move to enable greater exploitation of immigrants because it increases their insecurity and makes organizing more difficult…
therealnews.com/stories/ice-raids-on-und…

Mass ICE Raids in Mississippi After Workers Fought for Better Conditions Leave Kids Without Parents
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-09
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents swept through seven poultry processing plants in Mississippi this week and arrested 680 people. It was the largest single-state raid in U.S. history.The mass arrests also came on the first day of the school year, and some children walked home from school only to find their doors locked and their family members missing. Wednesday’s raids targeted chicken processing plants operated by Koch Foods, one of the largest poultry producers in the U.S. Last year, the company paid out $3.75 million to settle an Equal Employment Opportunities Commission class-action suit charging th…
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Reframing the Issues and Taking Direction of the Nation
Charles McKelvey | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
In El Paso, Texas, twenty-two persons were killed in a Walmart store, allegedly by a white supremacist gunman who had posted online a manifesto that railed against immigrants and an “Hispanic invasion of Texas.” The attack has been described by Richard Parker, in an editorial in The New York Times, as the worst massacre of…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/09/reframing-th…

The Mississippi raid: Trump’s attack on immigrants and his Democratic enablers
wsws.org | 2019-08-09
Hundreds of children have been traumatized by having their parents ripped away from them and, in many cases, shipped to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement prison 150 miles away.
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A Lack of Migrant Labor is Forcing Farmers in the US to Stop Growing Crops
CGTN | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-09
The immigration policies of the U.S. government are once again igniting opposition. This time from members of the agriculture industry who say that blocking immigrants from entering the country is doing more harm than good. U.S. farmers who depend on migrants as “guest workers” for their harvest are facing considerable financial losses. It’s the result …
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Indo-Pakistani conflict sharpens with New Delhi’s assault on Kashmir
wsws.org | 2019-08-09
In response to India’s aggressive and patently illegal moves to tighten its control over disputed Kashmir, Pakistan has taken a raft of retaliatory measures and issued thinly-veiled war threats.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/09/kash…

Venezuela: Maduro Celebrates Indigenous, Reaffirms #NoMoreTrump
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-09
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, during an event to celebrate World Indigenous Day, reiterated from Caracas that his nation will continue to ‘resist’ the United States administration’s continued attempts to overthrow his government, which culminated this week in a blockade of the South American country. | RELATED: | Trump Turns Sanctions Against Venezuela Into an Embargo | “The Indigenous peoples of Venezuela are in active resistance against the imperialist blockade of Donald Tru…
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Barber: “Words” of white supremacy “lead to acts of physical violence”
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-09
EL PASO, Texas–Five religious leaders who journeyed to El Paso to investigate — and discuss — awful conditions migrants face, just before the white supremacist terrorist massacred 22 people in that Texas border city, unveiled an open pastoral letter to the entire nation linking racist words and policies to the murders, and demanding a massive …
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Nothing Less Than a Revolution Can Save Us
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
Is there no limit to the lethal and authoritarian absurdity of America, land of mass gun massacres like Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Aurora, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland, and now El Paso and Dayton among other pockmarked sites? Here is a society that claims to be the beacon to the world of civilized decency and democracy…
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Hate, Murder and Perversity: El Paso 2019, Mississippi 1964
Daniel Beaumont | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
Hate, Lacan observed, is–like love–a career without limit.[1] The massacre on Saturday August 3 in an El Paso Walmart ended with the arrest of 21 year-old Patrick Crusius, a white supremacist from Dallas. Crusius was likely the source of what the media began to call a “manifesto” posted on the website 8chan, a site linked…
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“Culture Of Violence?” You Betcha, Mr. Trump, But It’s Not The Video Games
Mike Ferner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
On the day after America’s weekend shooting rampage that killed 31 people and wounded dozens more in El Paso and Dayton, president Trump told the nation in a 10-minute address, what he sees as the causes of and cures for gun violence in the U.S. As causes, he mentioned: + “Racism, bigotry and white supremacy”
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How Real is the “Eco-Fascist” Threat?
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
In a manifesto that was posted to 8Chan just before he carried out his murderous attack on Walmart shoppers in El Paso, Patrick Crusius expressed “Green” values that are widespread on the left: The American lifestyle affords our citizens an incredible quality of life. However, our lifestyle is destroying the environment of our country. The…
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Is Trump Building a White Ethnostate?
Robert Scheer | truthdig.com | 2019-08-09
On Saturday, Aug. 3, a 21-year-old white man entered a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, with an automatic rifle and opened fire. By the time he was finished, 20 people were killed and dozens of others were gravely wounded. Two more would die as a result of the injuries they suffered during the carnage. | The suspect left behind a manifesto citing the shooter at a Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque in March as the ins…
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U.S. Imperialism, Iran and the Context for War
Margot Patterson | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
The Trump administration’s efforts to collapse Iran’s economy can’t be divorced from the history of U.S. imperialism. If Americans remember the 1979 student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the 444 days in which 52 U.S. diplomats and embassy staff were held hostage, Iranians remember the 1953 CIA coup that brought down the…
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The NYT’s Pro-War Arguments Against War With Iran
Gregory Shupak | fair.org | 2019-08-09
Once you’re debating who ought to start a war, you’ve abandoned the anti-war argument (New York Times, 6/20/19). | The New York Times has published five editorials since the beginning of May that are ostensibly critical of a possible military war between the United States and Iran. As anti-war arguments, however, they are woefully lacking–vilifying Iran without subjecting the US to comparable scrutiny, and hiding US aggression towards Iran. | The editorials regurgitate the same anti-Iran demonology pro-war voices offer to try t…
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Nagasaki mayor hits out at nuclear powers on 74th anniversary of bombing
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-09
The mayor of Nagasaki has criticised nuclear states including the US and Russia as the city marked the 74th anniversary of the atomic bombing which ended the Second World War.Tomihisa Taue said nuclear powers are undermining the survivors’ efforts towards building a nuclear-free world.The mayor lamented that the idea of “useful” nuclear weapons appears to be gaining traction.People attend a mass at the Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki to mark the 74th anniversary of the world’s second atomic bomb attack (Kyodo/AP)He said both the US and Russia are returning to the development and deployment of nuclear weapons, as th…
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The Tragic Story of Jimmy Aldaoud, Deported From the Streets of Detroit to His Death in Iraq
Chris Gelardi | theintercept.com | 2019-08-09
Aldaoud was targeted as part of an ongoing ICE crackdown on Iraqi communities. His family and supporters say the agency bears responsibility for his death.
theintercept.com/2019/08/08/ice-deportat…

On anniversary of Hiroshima, demands for end to nuclear weapons
Marilyn Bechtel | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-09
LIVERMORE, Calif. — Determined to oppose the Trump administration’s drive to develop new nuclear weapons and to strengthen the fight to eliminate nuclear weapons worldwide, some 200 demonstrators gathered here on Aug. 6 to rally against what they term “Designing Armageddon” at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Over three dozen peace, justice and faith-based organizations …
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New IPCC Report Warns of Vicious Cycle Between Soil Degradation and Climate Change
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-09
Greenpeace’s Diana Ruiz discusses the new IPCC Climate report, “Climate Change and Land,” which issues a dire warning about how climate change and destructive land use reinforce each other, leading to serious threats for human survival…
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John Pilger warns: “Do not forget Assange. Or you will lose him”
wsws.org | 2019-08-09
The well-known journalist outlined the WikiLeaks founder’s deteriorating health, and the draconian conditions in which he is being held in a British prison.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/09/pilg…

US vs. China: A Clash of Civilizations?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-09
In promoting destructive “Western values,” hardline academic Samuel Huntington once said the following: | “The West must exploit differences and conflicts among Confucian and Islamic states to support in other civilizations groups sympathetic to Western values and interests — to strengthen | …
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US and Turkey Collude to Steal Northern Syrian Territory
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-09
Troops of both countries illegally occupy northern Syrian territory bordering Turkey, including its oil rich area. | On the phony pretext of protecting Turkey’s security, President Erdogan is intermittently battling Kurdish YPG fighters cross-border in Syria — despite their posing no …
globalresearch.ca/us-turkey-collude-stea…

Big Pharma: Gouges, Casualties, and the Congressional Remedy!
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
The Congress can overturn the abuses of Big Pharma and its “pay or die,” subsidized business model for its drugs. Big Pharma’s trail of greed, power, and cruelty gets worse every year. Its products and practices take hundreds of thousands of lives in the U.S. from over-prescriptions, lethal combinations of prescriptions, ineffective or contaminated drugs,…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/09/big-pharma-g…

‘Arm to the teeth & pretend to be Canadian’: McAfee’s savage tactical advice for next US Civil War
rt.com | 2019-08-09
Scandalously famous tech millionaire John McAfee has offered some cheeky advice for both blue and red states in case a civil war erupts in the US: hoard guns, pretend to be Canadian, and sell useless states to Mexico and Cuba. | …
rt.com/usa/466119-mcafee-guns-civil-war/

How We Learned to Hate the Bomb
Norman Stockwell | progressive.org | 2019-08-09
For nearly three-quarters of a century, “The Progressive” has been a consistent voice against nuclear madness.
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Militarized Observers: Institutional Daydreams of Ethics End Runs to Weaponize Culture
David Price | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
A significant limitation facing scholars studying US military uses of anthropology and other social sciences is that while the existence and activities of various military programs are known, and some related documents are available, there is much about these programs that remains unknown to outsiders. Yet, even with these gaps in knowledge, it is possible…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/09/militarized-…

Mass-Shootings as Expressions of U.S. Racism
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
Nineteenth century U.S. racism, resting in part on biblical myth (the curse of Ham) and Social Darwinist notions of racial hierarchies, focused on the defense of slavery and suppression of uppity blacks. Its cruelest, most terrorist tool was the lynching. Twenty-first century racism rests on the myth of a lost golden era of white (“White”)…
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Facebook Settlement Breaks a Record, But Not the Cycle of Exploitation
Amos Toh | progressive.org | 2019-08-09
For years, Facebook engaged in a pattern of deceptive conduct that misled users about how their data was being handled. Now, despite a $5 billion fine imposed by the U.S. government, it promises to do little to guarantee a change in behavior.
progressive.org/dispatches/facebook-sett…

Malaysia charges 17 Goldman Sachs figures over 1MDB scandal
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-09
Malaysian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against 17 more current and former directors at three Goldman Sachs subsidiaries over their role in the alleged multibillion-dollar ransacking of state investment fund 1MDB. | Malaysian and US prosecutors allege that bond sales organised by Goldman Sachs for 1MDB provided one of the means for associates of former Malaysian leader Najib Razak to steal billions over several years from a fund that was ostensibly set up to accelerate Malaysia’s economic development. | The government filed criminal charges in December against Goldman Sachs and two former executives for…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/08/09/ma…

Unions, workers, EPI back Warren bill to crack down on ‘private equity’ funds
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-09
BOYNTON BEACH, Fla.–So-called “private equity” investment funds, one of the worst manifestations of anti-worker corrupt corporate capitalism, left Madelyn Garcia and her co-workers without jobs. And she came to Washington in August to help launch legislation to curb their robberies. Garcia, you see, spent 30 years at a Toys “R” Us store in Boynton Beach, …
peoplesworld.org/article/unions-workers-…

Jeremy Corbyn is at a crossroads. The decision he makes now will change everything
James Wright | thecanary.co | 2019-08-09
Jeremy Corbyn is at a crossroads. And with scientists warning we have 18 months to begin a green industrial revolution to avoid climate catastrophe, the stakes have never been higher. The decision the Labour leadership makes now will change everything. | The stakes: | Britain may be a small country, but if it elects Corbyn as the prime minister of a genuinely progressive government on the promise to deliver a green new deal, that will have global repercussions. It will be a tu…
thecanary.co/opinion/2019/08/09/jeremy-c…

David Horowitz’s Hate Group, Civil War and the White House
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
“People are scared and frightened. The country is on the verge of a war between people of color and law enforcement, and the White House seems to be spurring it on.” — Greg Sarris, Chairman the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria Last month, I wrote an article about the 1970s clandestine organization, the Weather Underground,…
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Heroes in their Own Minds
Peter Breschard | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-09
There are thousands of faceless heroes out there on the Internet and on the airwaves. It’s about time they came forward and claimed the recognition they so justly deserve. These brave soldiers battle for their and others’ freedoms each and every day. When events occur which will forever justify their labors, they are all too …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/heroes-in-the…

Atomic Bombs Are Not Lifesavers
Timothy Braatz | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
One shouldn’t have to state the obvious. It is well known that two atomic detonations, in early August, 1945, killed over 100,000 Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents, revealing the unlimited human capacity for atrocity in wartime. But it seems many U.S. history teachers are still telling students that the atomic bombings somehow saved lives. Whence cometh…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/09/atomic-bombs…

Conversations with Fidel Castro: The Dangers of a Nuclear War
Fidel Castro Ruz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-09
“In a nuclear war the collateral damage would be the life of humankind. Let us have the courage to proclaim that all nuclear or conventional weapons, everything that is used to make war, must disappear!” “It is about demanding that the world is not led into a nuclear catastrophe, it is to preserve life.” (Fidel Castro, 15 October 2010)…
globalresearch.ca/conversations-with-fid…

‘I Am My Own Mother’ shows finding birth families an awkward business
Jo Allen-Eure | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-09
What child would not want to know their DNA origins? In the experience of adopted children, most of them do want to know, Where do I come from? That was the case with Dionne Audain, playing the part of Esther, the lead character in I Am My Own Mother, written and directed by Andrew Zox, …
peoplesworld.org/article/i-am-my-own-mot…

How Israel’s Erasure of Palestinian History Perpetuates Occupation
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-09
Prof. Ilan Pappe discusses why Israel’s agency in charge of nuclear security hid documents about the Nakba, the catastrophe in which Palestinians were driven from their land in 1948, explaining that it was an effort to eliminate the Palestinian narrative…
therealnews.com/stories/how-israels-eras…

Blood in Our Eyes
John Steppling | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
“As the business grew, Sturm Ruger CEO Michael Fifer lobbied personally against a Connecticut ban on high-capacity magazines, commonly used with the company’s semi-automatic rifles. “The regulation of magazine capacity will not deter crime, but will instead put law-abiding citizens at risk of harm,” Fifer wrote to state lawmakers in early 2011. The legislation died…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/09/blood-in-our…

Democrats and the Politics of Change
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
With the political season underway, the question of an effective politics is the subtext of the debates and speeches intended to motivate constituencies and movements. This should read as odd: in the U.S., it is the act of getting elected that defines effective politics. But as neoliberalism has crept into every aspect of modern life, elections have become an anti-politics, a way of working against the democratic will.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/09/democrats-an…

Climate Crisis Means the Ruling Class has Failed. Can the Working Class Inherit the Earth?
Richard Moser | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
The climate crisis is proof positive that the ruling class is an utter failure — but it will not fall on its own. Can the working class rise to the challenge? It sure will help if we understand that our class interests are not merely the economic needs of working people — no matter how important…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/09/climate-cris…

Resolving the Democrats’ Dilemma
Richard Rubenstein | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-09
When it comes to thinking about the 2020 presidential election, a dominant theme among both commentators and candidates is the “Democrats’ Dilemma”: an alleged contradiction between the party’s ideological interests and its electoral ambitions. Energized by a new crop of progressive lawmakers, the Dems are leaning left on issues ranging from “tax the rich” and…
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