'Like a scene that you see in war': 6 cops shot in Philadelphia drugs raid gone wrong
rt.com | 2019-08-15
Philadelphia police attempting to serve a drugs warrant were drawn into an hours-long shootout after heavily-armed suspects opened fire, wounding at least 6 officers and terrifying residents in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood. | …
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America's Enemies, Who's On the List?
Prof. James Petras | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
For almost 2 decades, the US pursued a list of 'enemy countries' to confront, attack, weaken & overthrow. This imperial quest to overthrow 'enemy countries' depends on two considerations: the level of priority & the degree of vulnerability for a 'regime change' operation.
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Immigrants Swept Up in Mississippi Raids Face Courts That Deport Most Defendants
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-14
| Hundreds of immigrants swept up in mass raids at meatpacking plants in Mississippi last week are now being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at privately run jails hours away in western Mississippi and Louisiana. Waves of hunger strikes have swept through an expanding network of immigration jails in the region as immigrants and asylum seekers protest against…
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Won't Block Venezuela Ships Despite US Sanctions, Panama Claims
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
The Panama Canal will continue authorizing vessels coming from Venezuela provided they present the necessary paperwork, the waterway's chief said on Wednesday, suggesting a new round of U.S. sanctions on the South American nation should not make a difference to canal traffic. | RELATED: | Food Shipment Destined For Venezuela Seized Due to US Blockade…
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13 Million Expected to Sign Petition Against US's Venezuela Blockade
Steve Sweeney | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
As many as 13 million people are expected to sign a petition opposing the US economic blockade of Venezuela and the "genocidal, racist, xenophobe" Donald Trump, according to the Bolivarian government. | Tables have been organised in public squares in …
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PHOTOS: Venezuelans march against US embargo in enormous #NoMoreTrump protest
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-14
The Grayzone attends a massive march where hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Caracas to condemn the US…
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Random Murder in the Age of Aquarius
David Macaray | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
"'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger." –David Hume, 1711-1776 (A Treatise on Human Nature) Most of us would agree that, on one level, random mass shootings don't make any sense whatever, no matter which approach–clinical or sociological–we take to explain them. But…
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Are Hate Crimes Linked to Mind Control? Trump Asks the Death Penalty
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
As part of Remarks by President Trump on Mass Shootings in Texas and Ohio on August 5th, President Donald Trump announced that: | "Today, I am also directing the Department of Justice to propose legislation ensuring that | …
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New Zealand Man Accused of Mosque Shootings Sent Racist Letters
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
The Australian white supremacist accused of terror attacks at two mosques in New Zealand that killed 51 people in March, has written several letters from jail expressing his racist political and social views, prompting Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to say that should never have been allowed. | RELATED: | Norway Mosque Attacker Inspired by El Paso, New Zealand Attacks: Report | "I think every New Zealander would have an expectation that this individual should not be able…
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Why Gold Prices Are About to Skyrocket Even Higher
Charles Kennedy | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
The gold bears have finally caved under the deafening barrage of fiscal and geopolitical catalysts, from Fed hints to intensely brewing conflict with Iran. But there is one key trend that stands to push gold up beyond $1,700–regardless of the …
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United States and Turkey Agree to a Syrian "Safe Zone," Betraying the Kurds
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-14
Baris Karaagac discusses how the U.S allowed the Turkish government seize land in northern Syria to counter Russian and Iranian influence in spite of former Kurdish allies…
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John Bolton Visit — Forcing Britain's Hand over Huawei, Iran and China before Trade Deal
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
There were many public protests with the arrival of Donald Trump to the shores of Britain and contrary to his own beliefs, Trump is not well-liked at all by ordinary British citizens. What was strange though was the fact that …
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Russian Blast Points to Danger of New Nuclear Arms Race
Jeremy Kuzmarov | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
On Thursday August 8th, an explosion at the Nenoksa Missile test site in northern Russia during testing of a new type of nuclear propelled cruise missile resulted in the death of at least seven people, including scientists and was followed by a spike in radiation in the atmosphere. Analysts in Washington and Europe are of the belief that the explosion may offer a glimpse of technological weaknesses in Russia's new arms program.
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Footage Captures NATO Intercept Attempt of Plane Carrying Russian Defense Minister
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Russia's Defense Ministry has published dramatic video Tuesday showing another close encounter between its military planes and NATO jets over the Baltic Sea, but this time it involved a dangerous intercept as the NATO aircraft came just off the wing …
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"Give Us Your Rich": Trump Is Changing Wholesale Who Gets Into the US
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-14
| "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Those are the words of Emma Lazarus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. But this week, acting Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli attempted to rewrite the poem to make a case for limiting immigration to the United States. He told NPR's Rachel Martin on Tuesday that the St…
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Court Overrides Salvini, Allows Migrant Ship in Italian Waters
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
An administrative court in Rome ruled Wednesday that a Spanish rescue ship carrying around 150 migrants should be allowed to enter Italian territorial waters in defiance of a ban imposed by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. | RELATED: | Salvini Orders Italian Coast Guard Not to Rescue 135 Migrants | Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, quic…
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Venezuelan Opposition Journalist Served as Agent for US, UK Gov't
TeleSUR English | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-08-14
In a U.S. diplomatic cable, Bocaranda is dubbed a "reliable source" and to be "strictly protected."
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Venezuela's Maduro Reshuffles Cabinet as Supreme Court Strips Three Opposition Lawmakers of Immunity
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-08-14
The National Constituent Assembly will also evaluate bringing forward legislative elections.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14628
Venezuela Retains Political Control after New US Coercive Measures
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
In political terms the government of Venezuela had a good month of July while managing very critical economic circumstances. Reps of 120 Non Aligned Movement (NAM) countries attended their ministerial meeting in Caracas, and more than 700 delegates from dozens …
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Killing Julian Assange Slowly
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Since April 11 when unlawfully dragged from Ecuador's London embassy to captivity, Assange has languished under draconian conditions in a UK dungeon at the behest of the Trump regime, wanting him tried in the US for the "crime" of truth-telling …
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The Downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17: The Quest for Truth and Justice. Review of the Evidence
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
The MH17 Inquiry has been conducted in an insidious fashion. Important pieces of evidence including eye witness reports, audio & video material transmitted through Ukraine Intelligence (SBU) have been manipulated or excluded from the Dutch inquiry, which largely endorses Washington's accusations directed against Moscow.
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Boris Johnson Recklessly Picks at the Scabs of Ireland's Violent Past
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
On 8 May 1987 a Provisional IRA unit of eight men attacked a police station in the village of Loughgall in county Armagh 15 miles from the Irish border. One man drove a digger with a bomb in its bucket towards the building, half of which was destroyed in the explosion. But British forces had…
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One homeless person dies every 19 hours, campaigners warn
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-14
Calls have been made to tackle the rough sleeping crisis after campaigners claimed one homeless person is dying on average every 19 hours. | The Museum of Homelessness (MoH) suggested the figure after it said its research found at least 235 people "affected by homelessness" had died in the last six months. | The social justice group used freedom of information requests, local authorities' figures, coroners' records and testimonies from families as well as details from media coverage to gather the data — but believe the true figure could be "significantly higher". | It has called for official bodies to recor…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/14/one-home…
Six Officers Shot by Gunman in Philadelphia Released From Hospital
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-14
PHILADELPHIA — The Latest on several police officers shot in Philadelphia (all times local): | 10: 45 p.m. | Police say all six officers wounded by gunfire from a man who has barricaded himself inside a north Philadelphia building have been released from the hospital. | Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross says "it's nothing short of a miracle that we don't have multiple officers killed today." | Ross says the situation that began about 4: 30 p.m. Wednesday has "gone from a hostage situation to a barricade." | Sgt. Eric Gripp said the suspect was "still armed and inside" the house. But Ross said poli…
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Tunisia's Electoral Body Announces 26 Presidential Candidates
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Tunisia's electoral body announced Wednesday a list of 26 presidential candidates for the third free elections to be held next month in the country. Almost 100 applicants had presented their candidacy in hopes to become the next country's leader. | RELATED: | Tunisians Launch Historic Protest To Welcome Saudi Prince MbS | "71 nomination papers were rejected, including 51 on the grounds of lack of sponsorships and deposit guarantees and 14 for the lack of endorsements," Nabil Ba…
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Brazil: 100,000 Daisies in Defense of Working Women's Rights
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Women from all over Brazil met at the Ministries Square in Brasilia on Wednesday to hold the "Daisies March," an even to defend agrarian reform and women's rights and reject gender violence and President Jair Bolsonaro. | RELATED: | Students Strike, Protest Across Brazil as Moro Orders Crackdown | "Brazilian women have a broad agenda of demands which…
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Far-right government elected in Guatemala
wsws.org | 2019-08-14
Marked by low participation and mass protests, the vote was overshadowed by the popular outrage against the "third safe country" agreement imposed by Trump.
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Michael Brown remembered
Brenda Ryan | workers.org | 2019-08-14
New York — Exactly five years after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a cop in Ferguson, Mo., Shut It Down NYC called an Aug. 9 demonstration — "Fists Up, Fight Back!" — in his memory. Protesters marched from Grand Central Terminal through midtown Manhattan chanting: "Eric Garner, . . . | Continue reading Michael Brown remembered at Workers.org…
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What's Left After Liberalism?
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
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The New Mayor of New York
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
(The following is a transcript of a speech delivered Monday, August 12, by Eon Pig Eon, the self-proclaimed new Mayor of New York City.) Esteemed guests, thank you for coming. I'll get right to the point. The city, and the country, and the planet are in the midst of an unprecedented set of crises at…
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The Case Against Voting for President
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
As individuals, our choices make very little difference to the state of the world, often virtually none. Nonetheless, those same choices can have significant effects on ourselves, sometimes profoundly. For example: One can give up driving for biking, and though this will make no difference to global pollution output, the profits of oil companies or…
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In a Tight Labor Market, the Profit Share of Income is Falling
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
Last month's GDP report also included revisions to previously reported profit data for the last three years. The earlier reports showed a slight increase in the profit share in 2018; the revised data showed that the profit share of corporate income had fallen by 0.4 percentage points from the prior year. This is important both…
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From the Royal to the Prophetic to the Apocalyptic: The Case for a Saving Remnant
Robert Jensen | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
The royal, prophetic, and apocalyptic traditions in the Hebrew and Christian bibles provide a compelling framework for understanding progressive intellectual and political work today, as we face the task not only of struggling to create a just and sustainable world but also imagining a saving remnant that will negotiate a radically different future in which…
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Woodstock Nation Revisited: Abbie Hoffman, Joan Baez and the Culture Vultures of Capitalism
Jonah Raskin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
The Woodstock music festival, now a legendary event, took place a long time ago and memories have largely faded. Folksinger Joan Baez can't really be faulted for saying recently that at Woodstock, "Nobody was really thinking about the serious issues." True, not many, but not nobody, either. Baez also suggested in a recent interview with…
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Lyme Disease and Biowarfare
Karl Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
"Pentagon May Have Released Weaponized Ticks That Helped Spread of Lyme Disease: Investigation Ordered" was the Newsweek headline last month. The article below it was about the U.S. House of Representatives having…
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We're All Enemies of the State
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary." –H.L. Mencken We've been down this road many times before. If the government is consistent about any one thing, it is this: it has an…
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Educating Ourselves About Violence
M. G. Piety | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-14
I'm at a loss to say whether Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover's highly-celebrated account of her escape from a fundamentalist, survivalist, home-schooled upbringing in Idaho to earn a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, is a good book. What I can say without hesitation is that it's a disturbing book. It took me awhile to get through…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/14/educating-ou…
Mueller e ilusiones
Editor | workers.org | 2019-08-14
Cualquiera que se aferró a la ilusión de que el testimonio de Robert Mueller del 22 de julio ante los comités de la Cámara de Justicia e Inteligencia pondría a POTUS en apuros tenía que decepcionarse. Ahora debe quedar claro: no habrá atajos para hacer retroceder al presidente, y mucho . . . | Continue reading Mueller e ilusiones at Workers.org…
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Ecuador Assembly Deposes Democratically-Elected Council Members
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Ecuador's National Assembly voted Wednesday to depose four democratically elected members of the Citizen Participation and Social Control Council in a highly questioned political move as they pledged to investigate President Lenin Moreno's administration. | RELATED: | 'Real Coup': Ecuador Removes Constitutional Court Judges | With 84 votes in favor, 32 against and eight abstentions, lawmakers approved a motion of censure and deposed Jose Tuarez, Rosa Chala, Victoria Desintonio and Walt…
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Brazil's Student Movement Mobilizes to Oppose Bolsonaro's Education Privatization
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-14
Students rallied and marched in 207 municipalities of Brazil, to declare their opposition to right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro's education reform that would privatize much of Brazil's higher education. Mike Fox reports…
therealnews.com/stories/brazils-student-…
Brazilian House Approves Economic Freedom Measure's Text
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Brazilian house approved Tuesday by 345 votes to 76 a substitute text to the so-called "Economic Freedom PM (Provisional Measure)," allowing work on Sundays and public holidays. | RELATED: | Brazil: Bolsonaro Ends Lula's Pro-Workers Minimun Wage Policy | "The provisional measure contains many unconstitutional points, including work on Sundays regardless of the labor law. The Constitution states that Sundays are rest days and the provisional measure contradicts this point, also pr…
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Italy: Democrats, Five-Star Movement call for technocratic government
wsws.org | 2019-08-14
On August 20, the Senate will hold a confidence vote on the current government, after far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini broke the governing alliance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/14/ital…
Three-star general stands for far-right Alternative for Germany in mayoral election
wsws.org | 2019-08-14
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has selected Joachim Wundrak, a former Luftwaffe lieutenant-general, as its candidate for the Hannover mayoral election on October 27.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/14/gene…
Stacey Abrams Applauded for #FairFight2020 Initiative Against Voter Suppression
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-14
| After experiencing firsthand how voter suppression impacts elections in her narrowly unsuccessful Georgia gubernatorial race against Republican Brian Kemp, Stacey Abrams on Tuesday launched an initiative aimed at bolstering voter protections nationwide ahead of the 2020 elections. | "There are only two things stopping us in 2020: that people have…
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Why Marx matters: capitalism and the Metabolic Rift
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-14
CO2 was identified as a prime driver of global warming in the 1950s and has been the subject of many international meetings over the past 30 years. Despite increasing calls to reduce carbon emissions, they continue to rise faster and faster. | Source…
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Coffee, Cacao Combat Chronic Heart Disease, Cancer
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Eating flavonoids, certain nutrients found in plants, might help humans live longer, especially those who smoke and drink, according to a new study by researchers at the Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia. | RELATED: | Trade War: China Suspends Purchases of US Agricultural Products | Scientists have been discovering the health benefits of flavonoids over the past two decades. However, this study, conducted by the ECU's School of Medical and Health Sciences, is the first…
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Paul Findley: A Man of Courage
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Paul Findley one of the most remarkable Congressmen that the US House of Representatives had produced since the Second World War passed away on the 9th of August 2019. He was 98 years old. He was first elected to …
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US Trade Deal Could Drag Britain Into More Wars, Austerity
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
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The new Cold War against China
Fred Goldstein | workers.org | 2019-08-14
During the Cold War and the struggle that put the USSR and China on one side and imperialism, headed by Washington, on the other, revolutionaries used to characterize the conflict as a class war between two irreconcilable social systems. On one side was the socialist camp, based upon socialized property, . . . | Continue reading The new Cold War against China at Workers.org…
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Bottled water distributions begin as lead water poisoning crisis erupts in Newark, New Jersey
wsws.org | 2019-08-14
After three years of cover-up, city and state officials were forced to begin distributing bottled water to residents on Monday.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/14/newa…
Warnings ancient and modern
Victor Grossman | mronline.org | 2019-08-14
Before the Berlin Wall was torn down we all made sarcastic jokes about its official designation by East German (GDR) party leaders as "anti-fascist protective barrier". But hearing racist ranting by AfD leaders now hoping for victories and seeing gangs of marching thugs with barely–paraphrased Nazi slogans, from East Berlin to southern Saxony, we must […] | Source…
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Nuclear Weapons, No First Use: "It Makes the World Safer"
Jeff Carter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Jeff Carter is Executive Director of Physicians for Social Responsibility. | In a statement released today, he said: | "During the second 2020 presidential debate, Senator Elizabeth Warren reiterated her support for a 'No First Use' policy on nuclear weapons, stating, 'It | …
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At Least Six Killed After Houses Collapse in Chile's Valparaiso
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
At least six people have died after two houses collapsed in the historic Chilean port city of Valparaiso late on Tuesday. The city's authorities have confirmed and a regional official said the death toll could rise further. | RELATED: | 74% of Chileans Back Reduction of Workweek to 40 Hours | Rescue workers combed through the rubble to look for four other missing people overnight on Tuesday and on Wednesday morning beneath one of the many steep hills of the city's historic quarter, a UN…
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The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Its Tragic Aftermath
Rossen Vassilev Jr. | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
The three meltdowns and at least four big core explosions at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant's six American-designed Daiichi reactors in March 2011 still constitute the world's worst nuclear nightmare so far, surpassing even the Chernobyl #4 reactor's explosion and meltdown …
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The Next Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Nuclear Weapons and US — Japan — China Relations
Gregory Kulacki | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Japan was the first, the last and the only nation to be attacked with nuclear weapons. If it continues along the path set by Prime Minister Abe and the national security bureaucrats of his Liberal Democrat Party (LDP), it may …
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UK Government Is Pushing Ahead with Extreme US Trade Deal
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Currently, Britain has a Prime Minister who was elected not by the public, but by around 90,000 Conservative party members. With a majority in the House of Commons of just one seat, without any real political mandate, Britain is being …
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Australia's Pacific Play: Denying Climate Change and Boosting China's Threat
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Australia has always nursed a contradictory, repressive relationship with its Pacific neighbours. Being a satrap of great powers, it has performed the role of gate keeper and monitor of regional instability, a condescending, often paternalistic agent. At stages, it has …
globalresearch.ca/australias-pacific-pla…
How English Nationalist Boris Johnson Is Turning the UK into a "US Colony"
Henry McLeish | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Boris Johnson and the right-wing Tories in Cabinet are English nationalists who hope to turn UK into a US 'colony', a country where EU regulations are replaced by limited welfare, minimum standards, low taxes and low pay, writes Henry McLeish….
globalresearch.ca/english-nationalist-bo…
Argentina & the Next Global Financial Crisis
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
On August 12, 2019, financial markets in Argentina crashed. The stock market contracted 38% in just one day. The currency, the Peso, fell 20% after falling as low as 30% and recovered to 20% only when Argentina's central bank raised …
globalresearch.ca/argentina-next-global-…
Vaccines and the Liberal Mind
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
This article was originally published in June 2018. | Instead of demanding blue-ribbon safety science and encouraging honest, open and responsible debate on the science, too many online outlets are silencing critics and shutting down discussion on this key public health …
globalresearch.ca/vaccines-liberal-mind/…
Trump Finalizes Disastrous Weakening of Endangered Species Act
In a massive attack on imperiled wildlife, the Trump administration today finalized rollbacks to regulations implementing key provisions of the Endangered Species Act. The changes, which could lead to extinction for hundreds of animals and plants, are illegal and will …
globalresearch.ca/trump-finalizes-disast…
The Government Relies on False "Evidence" Against Migrants
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-14
| Laura Peña could see that her 36-year-old client was wasting away. Gaunt and haggard after nearly two months in jail, he ran his fingers through his hair and opened his hands to show her the clumps that were falling out. He was so distraught that his two young children had been taken from him at the border, he could barely speak without weeping. | After Carlos requested political asylum, border and immigration agents had accused him of being a member of the notorious MS-13 gang in El Salvador [mdas…
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Selected Articles: Brexit Conundrum
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media "NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize", and where "nuclear weapons and wars make us safer" | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
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When even arch-Brexiteers warn of no-deal danger to the economy, you know it's time to worry
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2019-08-14
A cross-party House of Commons report, co-authored by arch-Brexiteers such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, warns of the dangers of a no-deal Brexit. The report was published in July, prior to Boris Johnson becoming prime minister, but has only recently been made public. And its conclusions are worrying, to say the least. | Tory MP and leader of the house Rees-Mogg, meanwhile, is not the only hypocrite in all t…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2019/08/14/when…
Irish Newspaper Calls for Union between Ireland, Wales and Scotland
Nation.Cymru | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-14
Wales, Ireland and Scotland should form a 'Celtic pact' and leave England behind to sort out Brexit for itself, according to the Irish Mirror. | Writing for the newspaper, Jason O'Toole suggests that a pact of the four nations — Ireland, …
globalresearch.ca/irish-newspaper-calls-…
'Just Reciting White Nationalist Talking Points': Trump Immigration Chief Says Statue of Liberty Poem Only About Europeans
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-14
"This administration finally admitted what we've known all along: They think the Statue of Liberty only applies to white people." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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'More Important Than Ever': Stacey Abrams Applauded for #FairFight2020 Initiative Against Voter Suppression
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-14
"Creating a government of the people, by the people, and for the people will happen only when we hear every voice from the people." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Growing Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Trump's Immigration Policies
ACLU NorCal SCU Law Club | indybay.org | 2019-08-14
Charney Hall, Room 104. Santa Clara University School of Law | 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 95050…
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Climate Strike: Downtown Palo Alto
Peninsula Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2019-08-14
Lytton Plaza, intersection of University Ave. & Emerson Street, Palo Alto 94301…
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Commemorate 1970 Chicano Moratorium March
CHICANO MEXICANO RESISTANCE | indybay.org | 2019-08-14
SAN JOSE PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER | 48 S. 7th Street | San Jose, Calif. 95112 | Near corner of 7th and Santa Clara Streets.
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End the Genocide in #Yemen
Yemeni Alliance Committee | indybay.org | 2019-08-14
Outside Federal Building — office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi | 90 7th St. | San Francisco, CA 94103…
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Salmon advocates slam Trump rules slashing Endangered Species Act protections
Dan Bacher | indybay.org | 2019-08-14
"Here in California we're likely to see salmon, sturgeon, steelhead trout, wolves, wolverines, kit fox and many others all slide towards extinction as a result of today's action by the Trump White House," said John McManus, Executive Director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association.
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Saudi Woman Activist Refuses to Deny Torture in Prison
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Imprisoned women's rights activist Loujain Hathloul rejected Saudi Arabia's proposal to secure her release from prison in exchange for a video statement denying reports she was tortured in custody, her family said Tuesday. | RELATED: | Nicki Minaj Cancels Saudi Concert Citing Women, LGBT Rights | Hathloul, along with at least a dozen other women's rights activists, was arrested over a year ago as Saudi Arabia ended a ban on women driving cars, which many of the detainees had lon…
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"Give Us Your Rich": Immigration Reporter Says Trump Admin Is Changing "Wholesale" Who Gets into U.S
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-14
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Those are the words of Emma Lazarus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. But this week, acting Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ken Cuccinelli attempted to rewrite the poem to make a case for limiting immigration to the United States. He told NPR's Rachel Martin on Tuesday that the Statue of Liberty's message is "Give me your tired and your poor, who can stand on their own two feet and who will…
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Cardi B Meets Bernie Sanders, Talks Minimum Wage, Unemployment
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Singer and rapper Cardi B interviewed the U.S. Senator and 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders about the economy, union, unemployment. | RELATED: | US 2020 Presidential Elections: Buttigieg has 24 Billionaire Donors, Harris 18, Biden 13, Sanders 0 | In a video shared by the singer Tuesday, the two could be seen talki…
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Violations Against Children Are 'New Normal' in Mali: UN
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-14
Acts of grave violence against children are escalating in Mali where more than 150 children have been killed so far in 2019 and more than 75 injured due to violent attacks and the use of child soldiers, according to a report published Tuesday by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). | RELATED: | Mali: Thousands Protest Inter-Ethnic Violence in Call for Peace | The number of child soldiers in armed groups within the country has increased drastically while more than 900 s…
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Australia 'tips petrol on the fire' at Pacific Islands Forum
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-14
Australia's bullying behaviour was in full view again at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) this week in Tuvalu, as it ignored pleas to take climate change seriously. | Phil Glendenning, who is attending the PIF for the Edmund Rice Centre, told Green Left Weekly on August 13: "When someone's house is burning, you're not being a good neighbour by tipping more petrol on the flames." | "It doesn't matter if you have a hose handy while you're pouring the petrol," he added, a reference to Australia's pretence at concern. | Glendenning said Australia had ruled out giving more to help with climate abatement because the $50…
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Manifestos of Hate: What White Terrorists Have in Common
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-14
Writing under the title of "If the El Paso shooter had been Muslim", Moustafa Bayoumi stated the obvious. | "If the El Paso shooter had been a Muslim," Bayoumi wrote in the British Guardian newspaper on August 6, US President Donald Trump "would be lobbing accusations such as 'Islam hates us' in the direction of Muslims and not lecturing the public about video games." | Bayoumi was referring to the double standards that define much of western official and media discourses regarding violence. When the allege…
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When ICE hit Mississippi, its citizens showed up for immigrant families
Adam Lynch | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-13
The Mississippi immigration raid detained hundreds and left children stranded on the first day of school. It also evoked a massive humanitarian response in a state not traditionally friendly to immigrants.
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Massacres at Home and Abroad
John Marciano | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-13
On August 5, former President Obama released a powerful statement in response to the latest gun massacres in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton that left scores dead and wounded–including children who were shopping for school supplies at Walmart with their mothers, and with their families at the wonderful Gilroy Garlic Festival. He decried the madness of violence that has been fueled by Trump's vile pronouncements and policies that help spread anti-immigrant and racist poison across the nation.
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Trump rule can deny legal status for immigrants using public assistance
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-13
At every turn the Trump administration takes regarding immigration, there's only one tangible goal: Fear produced by inhumane tactics aimed at deterring migration to the U.S. from Central America and Mexico. On Aug. 3, 22 people were killed by a domestic terrorist in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. The shooter targeted Mexicans and …
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SPLC joins brief opposing Kansas law targeting immigrants
splcenter.org | 2019-08-13
The SPLC and 29 worker and immigrant rights organizations filed an amicus brief today urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a court decision stating that a Kansas identity theft law cannot be used to turn local law enforcement into immigration agents.
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Trump Keeps Cracking Down on Legal Immigration Because His Base Loves Cruelty
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-13
| When Democrats dismissed the Fox News-led fear-mongering about "hordes" of undocumented immigrants "invading" the United States from the south as a manufactured crisis, they were pilloried by Republicans and the mainstream media alike for not taking the issue seriously. Hardly anyone demonstrated an understanding of Democrats' nuanced argument. | Illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border appeared much more substantial precisely because the Trump administration had choked off acces…
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Trump imposes new class-based immigration restrictions
wsws.org | 2019-08-13
The draconian regulation change means immigrants will be denied permanent residency if they have a low credit score, for example.
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NYPD Arrest 44 On 2nd Day of Protests Against Amazon-ICE Links
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at Amazon Books in Manhattan Sunday to protest the company's involvement with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On the second day of protests, 44 protestors were detained by New York's Police. | RELATED: | Labor Abuse Allegations Surrounded Factory Raided by ICE | The demonstration was organized by local Jewish leaders, who say Amazon provides technology that helps ICE make detentions and has contracts with the Department of Hom…
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From Hong Kong to Kashmir to the US, Authoritarianism Is Rising
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-13
| Over the past couple weeks, the global pattern of authoritarianism has become particularly visible, and particularly gut-wrenching. Global politics is changing quickly, with political discourse becoming increasingly degraded and dangerous in one country after the next. | In Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's ruling party boasted of the mass book burning and destruction that it has, apparen…
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Why Don't Activists Care About the Kashmiris as Much as the Rohingyas?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
It's certainly peculiar that the international activist community cares more for the Rohingyas than the Kashmiris despite both of these people being Muslim minorities that are facing a similar threat of ethnic cleansing, which suggests that there must be more …
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French Activists Call for an End to the Blockade of Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Activists and citizens from France and other parts of the world signed on Tuesday in this capital a letter addressed to the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, to denounce the blockade imposed on Venezuela by the United States. | RELATED: | Venezuela: Court Charges 3 Assembly Members with Treason | The Venezuelan Embassy hosted the first of seven days dedicated to gathering support for the statement, which was backed this Tuesday by French, Venezuelan, Brazilian, Cuban, Salvadoran…
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Family of El Paso shooting victims says they received death threats over photo with Trump
rt.com | 2019-08-13
Relatives of a married couple killed in the El Paso, Texas mass shooting say they have been swept up in a wave of hate and criticism — including death threats — after being photographed with US President Donald Trump. | …
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Is America crazy?
John Feffer | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-13
The United States witnessed three mass shootings in one week recently in California, Texas, and Ohio. There have been more than 250 mass shootings so far in 2019, more than one a day. This year in America, more than 33,000 shooting incidents have killed more than 8,700 people. | America is the richest country in the world, but it has more than half a million homeless and 28 million people without health insurance — out of a population of around 325 million. The…
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Trump, el capitalismo incitan tiroteos masivos
Editor | workers.org | 2019-08-13
Entre el 31 de julio y el 3 de agosto, tres terroristas hombres de raza con blanca mataron e hirieron a docenas de personas en Gilroy, California; El Paso, Texas; y Dayton, Ohio. Tres tiroteos masivos en los Estados Unidos en una semana. Los locutores de televisión expresaron que esto . . . | Continue reading Trump, el capitalismo incitan tiroteos masivos at Workers.org…
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BDS movement condemns U.S. Congress' anti-BDS resolution
patrick | bdsmovement.net | 2019-08-13
BDS movement condemns U.S. Congress' anti-BDS resolution: UpdateThe resolution is based on lies and aims to to demonize peaceful resistance to Israel's military occupation and apartheid. | Right To BoycottJuly 23, 2019 | By: | | Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) …
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How Voice of America Persian Became a Trump Administration PR Machine
Jordan Michael Smith | theintercept.com | 2019-08-13
As an Iranian American journalist covering the Iran-U.S. relationship, Negar Mortazavi is accustomed to receiving vitriol on social media. Still, she found it unusual when she saw on Twitter that someone had called her a "treasonous criminal" and "a spy and an enemy of the people." The tweets got darker: "If the U.S. had laws of the Middle Ages like Iran, this mouthpiece of the corrupt regime would have been executed," one read, in Farsi. | What made the tweets unusua…
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UK Expected To Release Illegally Seized Iranian Tanker
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Iran is celebrating a diplomatic victory, as they claim the U.K. is expected to release the seized Iranian tanker, following negotiations. Iranian maritime authorities said Tuesday that they had been in talks with the U.K. government, and showed documents that prove that Iran did not violate sanctions against Syria, the reason given by the U.K. for the seizure. | RELATED: | UK Wants European Force to Police Persian Gulf | Jalil Eslami, deputy head of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization, s…
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How Tehran Fits into Russia-China Strategy
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-13
Complex doesn't even begin to describe the positioning of Iran-Russia in the geopolitical chessboard. What's clear in our current, volatile moment is that they're partners, as I previously reported. Although not strategic partners, as in the Russia-China tie-up, Russia-China-Iran …
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Explosions at Russian military facilities leave eight dead
wsws.org | 2019-08-13
Bound up with the accelerating global arms race, blasts at a nuclear weapons testing facility in Russia's far north and an ammunitions depot in Siberia have injured dozens.
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MSNBC and the Next Election: Racism is the Issue
Gary Leupp | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-13
After Donald Trump unexpectedly won the 2016 election, the Democrats and the mainstream media they shape sought to explain the disaster as a result of Russian meddling. Such meddling, which had been alleged for months, was documented in an (unconvincing) intelligence report prepared by the lame-duck Obama administration, made public Jan. 6, 2017; Congress followed …
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World Commemorates Fidel Castro's Birthday
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Governments and social movements around the world have come together to commemorate the birthday of revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, on what would have been his 93rd birthday. | RELATED: | 60 Years of Defending Cuba Against a Barbarous Empire | On Tuesday morning, members of China's Communist Youth attended an event at the Cuban embassy in Beijing to commemorate the Cuban revolutionary hero. Other Cuban embassies also hosted events. In Russia, there was a talk on Fidel along with an…
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Italian Senators Temporarily Dismiss Call for Snap Elections
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-13
Italian senators suspended Tuesday, until next week, the debate for snap elections promoted by Matteo Salvini, the current Minister of Interior and leader of the far-right League party. | RELATED: | EU Offers No Solution to Over 500 Migrants Stranded at Sea | Salvini, along with its right-wing allies, wanted a no-confidence vote on Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's government, to be held in the Senate before Wednesday. The leader of the League party wanted to trigger snap elections…
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Medellín Diary: Remembering Our Dead
Forrest Hylton | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-13
What set Gustavo Marulanda's death apart from so many others in those years, when the Colombian government of Andrés Pastrana negotiated peace with the insurgent guerrilla movement, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), and the paramilitaries targeted intellectuals as well as social and trade union movement activists as guerrilla supporters, is that Marulanda publicly forecasted his murder at a student assembly. |…
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