US Waging Wars on Multiple Fronts: Cold Wars, Hot Wars, Economic Wars, Propaganda Wars
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Supported by both hawkish wings of its war party, the US is waging hot wars, cold wars, economic wars, financial wars, trade wars, anti-social justice wars, anti-human rights wars, anti-democracy wars, propaganda wars, sanctions wars, tariffs wars, protest wars, homeland …
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Punishing the World with Sanctions. Intended to Cause Real Pain
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Sanctions are economic warfare, pure and simple. As an alternative to a direct military attack on a country that is deemed to be misbehaving they are certainly preferable, but no one should be under any illusions regarding what they actually …
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Media Can’t Even Tell the Truth About Canada’s Foreign Policy History
Yves Engler | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Media coverage of Canadian foreign policy is uniquely one-sided and biased. It’s so bad that few readers, listeners or viewers will have ever seen or heard an honest analysis of this country’s past, let alone current role around the world….
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What Explains Russia and China’s Differing Stances towards Kashmir?
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-16
Russia and China, two of the most important Great Powers that are jointly working to accelerate the emergence of the Multipolar World Order, are on totally opposite sides when it comes to Kashmir, with their differing stances being explained by …
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The Root Cause of Mass Shootings is the Rage of Alienation
Ted Rall | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Mass shootings prompt simple explanations of the gunman’s motivation. At Columbine High School in Colorado, the killers supposedly snapped after being bullied. The guy who shot up a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado was wild-eyed carrot-topped nuts. After a massacre at a Walmart in El Paso, an anti-immigrant manifesto posted online pointed to right-wing politics.
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Trump’s Ignorance Touches Off a New Crisis in Kashmir
Zubeida Mustafa | truthdig.com | 2019-08-15
South Asia is again in crisis and could be on the brink of war. For the second time in six months, the world is on tenterhooks, waiting to see what turn events will take. Because the two antagonists are armed with nuclear weapons, the possibility of a confrontation is taken seriously. And as has happened before, Kashmir is at the center of the dispute that has kept India and Pakistan at loggerheads for over 70 years. | The simmering cauldron came to a boil about 10 days ago, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, flush after a landslide electoral victory, revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution, which e…
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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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What an American Terrorist Looks Like
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz | commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
The rise in these public-place mass shootings and extremist violence correlates with the rise in rhetoric on White supremacy, xenophobia, and misogyny. (Photo: YES! Infographic by Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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US Demands UK Hand Over Seized Iran Oil Tanker
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
The U.S. Department of Justice has put in a special request, in the early hours of Thursday morning, demanding that they be given Iran’s oil tanker, which was seized by the U.K., and which was due to be returned to Iran on Thursday. | RELATED: | US Trade Deal Could Drag Britain Into More Wars, Austerity | “The US Department of Justice has applied to seize…
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UK Snubs Trump, Orders Release of Iranian Oil Tanker
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
Gibraltar decided Thursday to free the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, detained off the British overseas territory six weeks ago by Royal Marines, paving the way for a possible swap for a British-flagged tanker seized by Iran in the Gulf. | The two tankers have become pawns in the standoff between Iran and the West, their fate tangled up in the diplomatic differences between the EU’s big powers and the United States. | The Grace 1 was seized by commandos in darkness off peninsula on July 4. | Gibraltar Chief Minister Fabian Picardo decided to lift the detention order after formal written assurances from Tehran t…
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UK Snubs Trump, Orders Release of Iranian Oil Tanker
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
Gibraltar decided Thursday to free the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1, detained off the British overseas territory six weeks ago by Royal Marines, paving the way for a possible swap for a British-flagged tanker seized by Iran in the Gulf. | RELATE: | US Demands UK Hand Over Seized Iran Oil Tanker | The two tankers have become pawns in the standoff between Iran and the West, their fate tangled up in the diplomatic differences between the EU’s big powers and the United States. | The Grace 1 was sei…
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Russia Denounces Plan Based in Guyana to Destabilize Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
Russia’s Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday on a plan to train alleged Venezuelan refugees in a British military base in Guyana, this in order to deploy them in the South American country to perpetrate violent acts. | RELATED: | Maduro Says Uribe, Colombian Ambassador Plotting his Killing | The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that “dozens of alleged refugees from Venezuela have been transferred to a…
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Russia Denounces Plan Based in Guyana to Destabilize Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
Russia’s Foreign Ministry reported on Thursday on a plan to train alleged Venezuelan refugees in a British military base in Guyana, this in order to deploy them in the South American country to perpetrate violent acts. | RELATED: | Maduro Says Uribe, Colombian Ambassador Plotting his Killing | The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, María Zajárova, said that “dozens of alleged refugees from Venezuela have been transferred to a…
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Russians everywhere! Biden aide cries ‘spy plane’ about normal treaty flight over US
rt.com | 2019-08-15
A routine Russian flight to Hawaii under the Open Skies treaty has been invoked by a former senior Obama administration official to stir up panic among the ‘Russiagate’ holdovers, proving some conspiracies just refuse to go away. | …
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US Navy expert laments ‘Slav’ incompetence of new NATO navies in scary Russia essay
rt.com | 2019-08-15
NATO’s Eastern European member states have terrible navies that suffer from “legacy concepts” and equipment and can’t do much against Russia, a prominent professor lamented, asking the US Navy to do something about it. | …
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“Give us your rich”: Immigration reporter says trump admin is changing “wholesale” who gets into U.S
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
“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 …
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End endless conflict and bring peace to Korea
Jesse Jackson | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-15
July 27 marked the 66th anniversary of the signing of the Korean War armistice, which brought an end to hostilities that killed nearly five million people, including almost 40,000 U.S. service members. The war ended in a temporary cease-fire, which is why the United States still maintains 28,500 troops in South Korea. Nuclear missiles ring the …
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Changing world balance of forces in new stage of globalization
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-15
This is part 7 of the full main report, “Unity to save people and planet; For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism,” to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, Illinois, June 21-23, 2019. Other installments available here. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA national …
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Prison Guard Drives Truck Into Crowd of Peaceful Anti-ICE Protesters
Ilana Novick | truthdig.com | 2019-08-15
Activists who were sitting at the entry to the detention facility’s parking lot in Rhode Island are shaken but remain as committed as ever.
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Aloha from Dr. Martin Luther King and Tulsi Gabbard
Paul Rockwell | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-15
“Aloha,” says Gabbard, “is a powerful force that motivates us to take action for the well-being of others and our country.” In King’s famous words, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but bends toward justice.” Gabbard seeks to bend the arc of history away from war toward peace.
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Fake News About Venezuela and the Power of Propaganda
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Public ignorance and indifference about major issues let US authorities get away with mass murder and much more. | In a June 1950 commencement address, Boston University President Daniel Marsh said: | “If the (television) craze continues…we are destined to have a | …
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Sudan’s “Constitutional Declaration” Leaves Out Key Political Forces. Attempted Military Coups and Regional Intrigue
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Members of the Sudanese Professional Association (SPA), a leading organization within the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), announced on August 9 that they would have no representatives in the soon to be created transitional government. | This report comes in …
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Top scientist denounces smears of Tulsi Gabbard on Syria
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-15
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has been smeared as an Assad apologist for her efforts to end the US-backed proxy war and…
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Trump Regime Gutting the Endangered Species Act
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Richard Nixon was a friend of the earth, Donald Trump its mortal enemy. | Following the 1969 offshore Santa Barbara, CA February oil spill, the largest in US waters to that time, (now third-ranked after the 1989 Exxon Valdez and 2010 …
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Damning new evidence is yet another reason why selling arms to Saudi Arabia is illegal
Emily Apple | thecanary.co | 2019-08-15
New evidence that shows the Saudi-led coalition is breaking humanitarian law in Yemen has been published by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and Mwatana for Human Rights (Mwatana). Its research shows that the coalition: has continued to carry out apparently unlawful attacks throughout the course of the conflict, failed to credibly investigate, and whitewashed signif…
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Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-15
| Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That’s both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Societ…
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Fracking and shale drilling caused spike in climate-warming methane pollution, says new study
Sharon Kelly | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That’s both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report, which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than …
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Brazil: 8 Bodies Found in Secret Mass Grave Used by Rio Militia
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
Police and firefighters discovered Wednesday eight bodies in a clandestine cemetery used by far-right militias in Belford Roxo, a poor municipality ravaged by violence which is located at the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region. | RELATED: | Brazil: 100,000 Daisies in Defense of Working Women’s Rights | Bullet wounds were identified on most bodies, some of which were also dismembered, Commissioner Moyses Santana Gomes said to local media. | The discovery of the Belford Roxo grave, w…
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The Fading Home of Homo ‘Sapiens’. Extreme Weather Events
Dr. Andrew Glikson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
In front of our eyes green forests are blackened by fire, draughts turn grassy planes to brown semi-deserts, fertile fields are flooded by muddy water, white snow and ice melt to pale blue water and clear blue skies turn grey …
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Turkey: Women’s group offers solidarity to Syrian refugees
Steve Sweeney | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-15
Women in Turkey have come together and sent a message of solidarity with thousands of Syrian refugees being deported as authorities crack down across Istanbul. The Yoƒüurtàßu Women’s Forum met in Turkey’s largest city to discuss the plight of the country’s 3.6 million Syrian refugees as the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government implements a …
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26-Year-Old Gun Violence Prevention Activist Is Taking on 26-Year Incumbent Rep. Bobby Rush
Akela Lacy | theintercept.com | 2019-08-15
A 26-year-old organizer in Chicago is mounting a primary challenge to Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., who has been a member of Congress for 26 years. | Robert Emmons, whose best friend, high school classmate, and freshman roommate was shot and killed in 2015, is making gun violence prevention a cornerstone of his campaign. The Windy City experiences gun violence at alarming yet not uncommon rates, as compared to other metropolitan areas — but the number of fatal shootings is in some ways unique to Chicago, where Emmons’s 21-year-ol…
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Why Bernie Sanders is Right About the Washington Post–and Corporate Media Overall
Norman Solomon | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Many decades ago, the great media critic George Seldes observed: “The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself.” That remains true today. Bernie Sanders set off the latest round of outraged denial from elite media this week when he talked to a crowd in New Hampshire about the tax avoidance of Amazon…
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Henry Giroux: Now Is the Time to Break the Spectacle of Ignorance and Violence
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-15
| This is the 31st in a series of dialogues with artists, writers, and critical thinkers on the question of violence. This conversation is with Henry A. Giroux, a renowned public intellectual, author, and critical educator, who currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University. Giroux is the author of many books, including, most recently, American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism (2018) and The Terror of the Unforeseen…
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Federal Relief Essential for Newark and Other Communities Facing Water Crises
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Planned Parenthood demands federal court intervene to stop trump attack on abortion rights and Title X program
Jessica Corbett | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
Planned Parenthood warned Wednesday that, without intervention from a federal court, it will be forced out of the Title X Family Planning Program next week because of the Trump administration’s ban on health clinics receiving federal tax dollars if they provide or refer patients for abortions. The Health and Human Services Department declared last month it would …
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Our Lords, Their Flies
Richard Ward | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
As a college student, after reading Lord of the Flies for the second time (I’d first read it as a young teenager), I asked the professor in my philosophy of literature class if he thought humans were inherently evil. He responded by asking if I was pursued by daemons. Taken aback, I replied that I didn’t know…
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Australia: Pro-US ideologue brands student groups as China’s “useful idiots”
wsws.org | 2019-08-15
Clive Hamilton’s comments are a warning that Australia’s involvement in the US drive to war with China will be accompanied by political repression domestically.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/15/hami…
‘Hong Kong is a Chinese Affair’, China Warns the United States
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
The Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry reminded Thursday that Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China and “no country has the right to interfere in China’s internal affairs.” | RELATED: | China Journalism Association Rejects Violence Against Reporter | “We have noted that President Trump has previously said that ‘Hong Kong is part of China and they have to solve it for themselves, without (external) recommendations’,” Hua Chunying, the Foreign Affairs spokesperson r…
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Trade war, falling sales take center stage at Michigan auto industry conference
wsws.org | 2019-08-15
The discussions at the Management Briefing Seminar exposed the financial pressures on the auto industry that are driving demands for ever greater attacks on workers.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/15/auto…
The Truth About the UK’s Special Relationship with Israel
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Britain does not have a special relationship with the USA. It is, and has been since the end of the World War, a subservient inferior ‘partner’ doing what it is told. Britain stands next to the schoolyard thug and tries …
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America’s “Hybrid War” against China has Entered a New Phase
Christopher Black | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
The hybrid war, being conducted against China by the United States and its gaggle of puppet states from the UK to Canada to Australia, has entered a new phase. | The first stage involved the massive shift of US air and …
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A-levels ‘milestone’ hailed as more girls than boys take science
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-15
Girls have overtaken boys in A-level science entries for the first time, national figures show.The gender switch was hailed as “a cause for celebration” by scientists as school leaders suggested that an increase in female role models in the subjects may be contributing to the trend.The figures came in national A-level results, published today, which showed that across all subjects, the proportion of A-level entries awarded an A grade or higher has fallen to the lowest level for more than a decade.Students celebrate their A-level results at Roedean School in Brighton (PA)Girls narrowly clawed back the lead from bo…
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Questioning the Extremely Online
William Hawes | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-15
This essay is in regard to a crime that too often goes unmentioned when the conversations turn towards political analysis, the contemporary journalistic scene, and broader social critique: the crime of being extremely online. What does it mean to be extremely online? It mostly is as straightforward as it sounds. Generally, activities such as spending …
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‘Hong Kong is a Chinese Affair,’ China Warns the United States
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
The Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry reminded Thursday that Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China and “no country has the right to interfere in China’s internal affairs.” | RELATED: | China Journalism Association Rejects Violence Against Reporter | “We have noted that President Trump has previously said that ‘Hong Kong is part of China and they have to solve it for themselves, without (external) recommendations,'” Hua Chunying, the Foreign Affairs spokesperson r…
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It Was More Like a Couple of Asian Decades Than a Century
Marshall Auerback | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
It’s become media orthodoxy to suggest that the era of U.S. hegemony is slowly slipping away and migrating to Asia–with China as its locus–as we proceed into the heart of the 21st century. There is, however, a competing narrative, one recently expressed by Michael Auslin on ForeignPolicy.com, who makes the case that the “Asian Century” “is ending far faster than anyone could have predicted. From a dramatically slowing Chinese economy to showdowns over democracy in Hong Kong and a new cold war between Japan and South Korea, the dynamism that was supposed to propel the region into a glorious future seem…
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Why Mauna Kea needs your protection
Kaitlin Grable | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-15
I was born on the island of O’ahu, 98 years after the U.S. supported an illegal coup in my hometown of Honolulu to overthrow Queen Liliuokalani and steal Hawaiian land. I was born in a Hawai’i that is radically and tragically different from the Hawai’i of my ancestors. The Hawaiian word for land is ‘aina. This word …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/15/why-mauna-…
What Happened at Woodstock?
Nick Licata | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Fifty years ago, this week, close to 500,000 youth attended Woodstock. Each of us could tell a story of what happened there. This is mine. After hitchhiking a couple thousand miles around New England and Canada for the month of July 1969, I returned back to Bowling Green, Ohio, dead tired. I was met by…
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The Continuing Hong Kong Impasse
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
I was in Hong Kong 10 days ago, which is now in its tenth week of demonstrations that began as a response to a proposed extradition law, but have since expanded to include other grievances and demands for democratic reforms. These include the following: + the resignation of the territory’s leader, Chief Executive Carrie Lam…
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Was It a Thumbs Up Sign or a Finger Gun Pointing at Us?
Priti Gulati Cox | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
I have to say it doesn’t take very long for Kansas’ 1st district Rep. Roger Marshall and his staff to feel like as though they are the victims of their constituents’ concerns and not the other way around. This time it started on Sunday, August 4 with some singing and chalking on Rep. Marshall’s sidewalk.
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Overpopulation a Cover Story for Money-Cancer System
John McMurtry | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
It is not “the rising tide of human numbers” simpliciter that loots, pollutes and destroys the life carrying capacities of the planet. It is what all over-populationists conveniently ignore: (1) the much still exponentially self-multiplying tides of private money demand on the earth’s resources that drives every degenerate trend in the planet’s life carrying capacities,…
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Ominous Signs From the Hinterlands
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
It’s fair to say many people judge the state of the nation’s economy and well-being by the performance of the stock market — even though only a small majority of Americans actually have a stake in the stock marker. It’s also fair to say many Americans think of Montana as a hinterland “somewhere up by Canada.” But…
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Sick to the Stomach: Pesticides and the Cocktail of Toxicity
Colin Todhunter | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Dame Sally Davies is the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England and recently released the CMO annual report for 2019. The report focuses on UK engagement with global health and forging partnerships. However, there appears to be no mention of cancers in the report, a serious omission according to environmental campaigner Rosemary Mason. Like many…
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Bill of Rights: the Last Seduction
Michael Doliner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
MONDAY, June 16, 1788 Mr. HENRY thought it necessary and proper that they should take a collective view of this whole section, and revert again to the first clause. He adverted to the clause which gives Congress the power of raising armies, and proceeded as follows: To me this appears a very alarming power, when unlimited. They…
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Here’s the Evidence Corporate Media Say Is Missing of WaPo Bias Against Sanders
Julie Hollar | fair.org | 2019-08-15
Bernie Sanders has taken to calling out corporate media for their anti-progressive bias, and their feathers have gotten quite ruffled. | In a campaign event Monday in New Hampshire, Sanders told the crowd: We have pointed out over and over again that Amazon made $10 billion in profits last year. You know how much they paid in taxes? You got it, zero! Any wonder why the Washington Post is not one of my great supporters, I wonder why? New York Times not much better. | The next day, he returned to the same point: And then I wonder why the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, doesn’t write…
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China to Counter US Tariffs, Open to Meet Halfway for Deal
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
China’s government announced Thursday that it will implement “necessary” countermeasures in response to the United States imposing additional 10 percent tariffs on US$300 billion worth of Chinese imports starting Sept. 1. | RELATED: | US Delays Tariff on Some Chinese Goods Like Laptops Till Dec 15 | “The U.S. move seriously violated the consensus reached between the two heads of state in Argentina and Osaka, Japan, and deviated from the right track of settling difference…
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Conservatives and Social Democrats court the far-right Austrian Freedom Party
wsws.org | 2019-08-15
Several opinion polls show the far-right FPàñ and its lead candidate with a clear advantage, while the establishment bourgeois parties are running about equal.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/15/aust…
“Creating Money out of Thin Air”: Public Banking and Ellen Brown’s “Web of Debt” Website
Bryant Brown | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
You may not have heard of Ellen Brown but she is without a doubt the world’s most persistent advocate for public banking. | So what, you may ask! What she is fighting for is a change in our banking system so …
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Video: Syrian Army Reached Khan Shaykhun
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Government forces are developing their advance in the southern part of the Idlib de-escalation zone. | The Syrian military has deployed a new batch of reinforcements, including battle tanks from the 4th Armoured Division, to the frontline. According to pro-government …
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‘Overpopulation’: A Cover Story for the Money Cancer System
Prof. John McMurtry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
It is not “the rising tide of human numbers” simpliciter that loots, pollutes and destroys the life carrying capacities of the planet. It is what all over-populationists conveniently ignore: | (1) the much still exponentially self-multiplying tides of private money demand | …
globalresearch.ca/overpopulation-cover-s…
French Court Rules Against Linky for Health Reasons
Connexion | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
The tribunal de grande instance (TGI or the civil court) of Tours considered the case of 121 “anti-Linky” complainants, and threw out 108 of the claims. The remaining 13 were accepted, with the court conceding a possible link between their …
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US Meddling Continues in Cambodia, but with Setbacks
Joseph Thomas | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Two Cambodian employees of US government-funded “Radio Free Asia” (RFA) face espionage charges for continuing to work for the foreign information operation even after the Cambodian government ordered it closed. | Qatari state media, Al Jazeera, in their article, ” Espionage …
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Report: ‘No Evidence that Fracking Can Operate without Threatening Public Health’
Tara Lohan | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
In 2010 when I first started writing about hydraulic fracturing — the process of blasting a cocktail of water and chemicals into shale to release trapped hydrocarbons — there were more questions than answers about environmental and public-health threats. That …
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Justin Trudeau and the Ethics of Interference. The SNC Lavalin Affair
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
Ethics can be a slippery matter and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has taken, rather decidedly, the option of adding more grease. His understanding over the ethics, for instance, of interfering in the decision-making process involving an Attorney-General has led …
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Taliban claim breakthrough in Afghanistan talks, US commander says operations continue
wsws.org | 2019-08-15
Trump is reportedly pushing for a withdrawal of US troops before the 2020 election, while leading Republicans are pressing for a “residual force” of special forces and CIA.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/15/afgh…
Mexico City Prison Fire Kills 3, Injures 7
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
A fire at a prison in eastern Mexico City on Thursday morning killed at least three men and injured seven others, the city government said in a statement. | RELATED: | Mexico Urges US to Designate El Paso Shooting Act of Terrorism | Officials were still working to determine the cause of the fire, which was detected in a sleeping area at the prison in the Iztapalapa neighborhood at 5: 25 a.m. local time, the statement said. | The three inmates killed in the fire were identified…
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‘Mexico Must Investigate All ‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚Äã‚ÄãDisappearance Cases’: Ex-UN Rapporteur
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-15
Former member of the United Nations Committee on Enforced Disappearances (CED) and former rapporteur on the case of Mexico, Rainer Huhle, warned at a conference held in Mexico City, that the Latin American country should be investigating all the disappeared and not focus only on the case of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students who went missing in 2014. | RELATED: | Mexico Urges US to Designate El Paso Shooting an Act of Terrorism | “I fear that the day the 43 are found, the many…
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Iran Condemns Trump Administration for ‘Piracy Attempt’ After Court Rejects US Effort to Seize Oil Tanker
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
“Having failed to accomplish its objectives through its economic terrorism—including depriving cancer patients of medicine—the U.S. attempted to abuse the legal system to steal our property on the high seas.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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America’s “War on Terrorism” and The Globalization of Poverty: Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-15
SPECIAL: 30$ for America’s “War on Terrorism” + Globalization of Poverty: | Two Books by Michel Chossudovsky | Click here to buy! | America’s War on Terrorism | To understand the complex web of deceit aimed at luring the American people and the rest …
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Terrorism survivors: Forced to farm, fish, fight, ‘they slaughtered three of my friends’
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-15
To mark next week’s International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism, UN News travelled to Chad and the Far North region of Cameroon in West Africa earlier in the year, to interview people who have personal stories to tell about how terrorism has shattered their lives.
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Cropping Out “Immigrants Welcome,” Cuccinell Takes Selfie With Replica Statue of Liberty Before Removing It From DHS Headquarters
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
A day after President Donald Trump’s top immigration official suggested the U.S. should only welcome immigrants who “can stand on their own two feet,” administration officials removed a replica of the Statue of Liberty from the Department of Homeland Security’s grounds. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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‘This Was Murder,’ Says Judge, Sentencing Ex-Blackwater Guard to Life for Nisour Square Massacre
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
Rejecting claims that U.S. prosecutors scapegoated former Blackwater security guard Nicholas Slatten to improve U.S.-Iraqi relations, a federal judge sentenced Slatten to life in prison Wednesday for his role in the notorious 2007 Nisour Square massacre. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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As NJ and EPA Officials Meet Over Newark’s Lead Crisis, Group Demands National Push for Water Justice
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
While officials from New Jersey and the Trump administration met in Washington, D.C. Thursday to discuss lead-contaminated drinking water in Newark, the advocacy group Food & Water Watch pointed to the emerging crisis as an example for why the federal government needs to prioritize water justice on a national scale. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Global Temps Continue to Soar Upward as NOAA Confirms July 2019 Was Hottest Month Since Records Began in 1880
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
With climate scientists observing hotter and hotter temperatures, a top U.S. weather agency reported on Thursday that July 2019 was the hottest month the planet has ever experienced since the government began recording global temperatures. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Decrying Silicon Valley’s Exploitation of Gig Economy Workers, Warren Backs California Bill to Guarantee Labor Protections
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-15
Arguing that corporate greed among Silicon Valley executives is one of the biggest battles facing this generation of U.S. workers, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday endorsed a bill making its way through the California state legislature, aimed at protecting workers in the so-called “gig economy.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The Black Working Class and Venezuela: Fighting The Same Enemy
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-15
Netfa Freeman discusses the unique perspective of the Embassy Protection Collective’s work through the lens of the Black working class and their connection with Venezuela…
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Germany Shows Signs of Recession — Is the Global Economy Next?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-15
Heiner Flassbeck argues that the China-US trade war is not having as much of an impact on the global economy as many assume. China’s currency is not undervalued, despite its recent devaluation. Rather, the undervalued Euro gives Germany a real competitive advantage in world trade. It’s actually Europe’s economic weakness that is dragging down Germany,…
therealnews.com/stories/germany-shows-si…
Jewish Activists and Allies Confront Amazon for Profiting Off ICE Terror
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
More than 1,000 Jewish activists and allies gathered at an Amazon book store in New York City on Sunday to protest the online retail behemoth’s collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which swept up nearly 700 people last week in what was reportedly one of the agency’s largest-ever raids.
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Growing Anti-Immigrant Sentiments and Trump’s Immigration Policies
ACLU NorCal SCU Law Club | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Charney Hall, Room 104. Santa Clara University School of Law | 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara 95050…
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The Plot to Attack Iran:‚Ä® How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran
Eugene E Ruyle | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…
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#CloseTheCamps: Protest by Public Health & Healthcare Workers for Migrant Rights
Public Health Justice Collective & Others | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
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#CloseTheCamps: Protest by Healthcare & Harm Reduction Workers for Migrant Rights
Do No Harm Coalition, Public Health Awakening | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), | 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
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Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil
Cat Bell | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Corner of Masonic and Fell at the Golden Gate Park Panhandle…
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End the Genocide in #Yemen
Yemeni Alliance Committee | indybay.org | 2019-08-15
Outside Federal Building — office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi | 90 7th St. | San Francisco, CA 94103…
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Three more humanitarian workers killed in Syria, with civilian death toll ‘rising every day’
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-15
An attack in the south of Syria’s restive Idlib province that led to the deaths of a paramedic, an ambulance driver and a rescue worker, were added to the grim total on Thursday of more than 500 civilian fatalities documented in the country by the United Nations, over the past three and a half months alone.
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Thursday’s Daily Brief: Harrowing terrorist survivors’ stories, children first in Mediterranean rescues, Yemen and Switzerland updates, new SDG Advocates speak out
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-15
Our main stories today: Boko Haram terrorist survivors tell their stories; UNICEF speaks out for children adrift on the Mediterranean; UN health agency pushes to stem dengue fever in Yemen; Switzerland declines sponsorship deal with tobacco firm; new SDG Advocates on the job.
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Australia must end its support for more US wars
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-15
Remember when Donald Trump campaigned for office in 2016 on getting the United States out of “endless wars”? He did, in part, to distinguish himself from the pro-war Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton. | Now, Trump and his band of hawks are pushing for a new war, most likely with Iran. | In July, Trump authorised missile strikes on Iran, only to back down at the last minute, after the downing of a US drone in the Persian Gulf, which Iran says was in its air space. | Then,…
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Listening to school strikers is our greatest hope
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-15
The world recently commemorated the anniversaries of the dropping of nuclear weapons on the people of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) in 1945. But it hasn’t been a good few weeks for world peace. | Instead, we have seen a reckless and dangerous escalation of the possibility of war. | August 4 saw United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrogantly suggest during a visit to Australia that Darwin would be an ideal place to locate nuclear missiles. | Although Prime Minister Scott Morrison was in denial mode, we should be sceptical enough to realise that often on such matt…
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The End of Humanitarianism?
Jonas Ecke | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-15
Our current historical moment is characterized by a global push towards so-called “counter-humanitarian policies” that intentionally undermine hard-won rules aimed at preventing repetitions of the atrocities of the 20th century. The erosion of humanitarian norms has already changed how western countries deal with immigrants, wage war and deliver aid. Saving humanitarianism will require us to address the shortcomings of the current world order…
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India’s Kashmir crackdown poses risk of war
greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-15
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The US is already interfering in the upcoming Venezuelan elections
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-08-15
US President Donald Trump has maintained strong economic pressure against Venezuela, having signed numerous decrees blocking the assets of the Venezuelan authorities within US jurisdiction. Giants such as the Central Bank of Venezuela and the state-owned oil company PDVSA were also included in the sanctions list. Now, Washington has announced it will even impose sanctions …
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‘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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Immigration Is for Rich People
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian | thenation.com | 2019-08-15
Immigration Is for Rich People…
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Progressives Are Right to Endorse a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Weapons Policy
James Carden | thenation.com | 2019-08-15
Progressives Are Right to Endorse a ‘No First Use’ Nuclear Weapons Policy…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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