La Conferencia ‘Socialismo’ presenta a activistas golpistas financiados por el gobierno de EEUU
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-19
La Conferencia de Socialismo 2019, patrocinada por los gigantes de la izquierda estadounidense, la DSA, la revista Jacobin y Haymarket…
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Imperialist threats unite Venezuelan left, even as patience with Maduro wears thin
Paul Dobson | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-19
On a recent visit to Caracas, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel characterized Venezuela as “the world’s primary anti-imperialist bastion.” This, coming from a Cuban, is a striking description. Despite political power having rested in the hands of progressive leaders for 20 years, the primary and unresolved contradiction facing Venezuela is between national sovereignty and imperialist power …
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Venezuela: Worker control vs. Trump’s blockade
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-19
Chicago, IL – Venezuela is a country where the dreams of the conscious workers of the world are being made real. It is a nation of 30 million people where, every day, the working class is becoming more conscious of its historic role in building socialism and taking steps to achieve it in the not so distant future. And in the face of an imperialist offensive that threatens them with starvation, where the threat of military invasion hangs over their heads like a storm cloud, they continue their struggle undeterred. | This past week, at the National Gathering of the Productive Worker Councils (CPTs), this stage of t…
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Venezuela Oil Production Continues Slump as US Embargo Deters Foreign Trade
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-08-19
July’s production was 740,000 barrels per day, 4 percent lower than in June.
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Trump Wanted Navy Stationed Along Venezuelan Coast
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-19
The United States President Donald Trump proposed deploying navy ships along the Venezuelan coast to prevent the entry of products into the country according to a report by Axios news portal. | RELATED: | US: Already Interfering in Upcoming Venezuelan Elections | Trump devised the idea of the maritime blockade of Venezuela with his security advisors ac…
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Professor slams US for causing ‘intense hardships’ abroad, and media for not holding it to account
Slava Zilber | thecanary.co | 2019-08-19
Jeffrey Sachs — director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University — a long-time critic of US foreign policy. And speaking to The Canary, he slammed devastating US sanctions on countries like Venezuela and I…
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A concentraàßà£o de riqueza conduz o novo imperialismo global
Peter Phillips | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
As mudanàßas de regime no Iraque e na Líbia, a guerra na Síria, a crise na Venezuela, as sanàßàµes a Cuba, Irà£o, Rússia e Coreia do Norte reflectem o novo imperialismo global imposto por um núcleo de naàßàµes capitalistas em …
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Facing Federal Charges for Aiding Migrants, Activist Says He Won’t Be Deterred
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-19
| We broadcast live from Tucson, Arizona, where the government recently put humanitarian activist Scott Warren on trial amid the ongoing policing of the U.S.-Mexico border, separation of families, and cruel and inhumane conditions at immigrant jails across the country. Warren, a longtime volunteer with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, was charged with three felony counts for his alleged crime of providing food, water and shelter to migrants in Ajo, Arizona. The immigrants had arri…
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Salvini’s anti-immigrant policy is like a bomb that’s ‘going to explode’
Peadar O’Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2019-08-19
On 18 August, several people jumped into the sea from the Spanish humanitarian boat Open Arms to reach the Italian coast. Italian far-right interior minister Matteo Salvini refuses to give this boat permission to dock in It…
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Public Charge Rule Is Trump’s Latest Attack on Immigrants
Rebekah Barber | commondreams.org | 2019-08-19
This week, Ken Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced updates to the public charge rule that would bar immigrants who use safety-net programs including Medicaid and food stamps from obtaining green cards. (Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.) |…
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When People of Colour are seen as less than human, their babies are too
Afroze Fatima Zaidi | thecanary.co | 2019-08-19
Every now and then, I come across a piece of news that just… rips my heart out. This may sound like an exaggeration, but reading these things can give me what feels like a physical pain inside my chest. I am forced to reflect on what some people have to suffer at the hands of our greatest living oppressors. And it makes me despair at the state of the world a little bit more. Reading about a four-month-old baby girl being separated from her breastfeeding mum by US immigration authorities…
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Trump’s Anti-Iran Warrant
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Time and again, hard evidence shows the US is a nation run by hawkish right-wing extremists, dismissive of the rule of law and democratic values they abhor and don’t tolerate. | Operating exclusively by their own rules, they maintain that UN …
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Trump Wields Sanctions Hammer, but to What End?
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-19
WASHINGTON — Call it the diplomacy of coercion. | The Trump administration is aggressively pursuing economic sanctions as a primary foreign policy tool to an extent unseen in decades, or perhaps ever. Many are questioning the results even as officials insist the penalties are achieving their aims. | Since taking office in January 2017, President Donald Trump has used an array of new and existing sanctions against Iran, North Korea and others. His Treasury Department, which oversees economic sanctions, has targeted thousands of entities with asset freezes and business bans. The State Department has been simi…
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Iran Urges European Partners to Fulfill Nuclear Commitments
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-19
Foreign Minister of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated on Monday his call for the Union Europe to meet its commitments in the nuclear pact. | RELATED: | Iranian Oil Tanker Leaves Gibraltar Despite US Pressure | “Our ties with the European Union are important, in particular, for the commitments to the nuclear agreement, which Europeans must fulfill,” said the Iranian Foreign Minister, from Helsinki, Finland. | With this statement, Zarif recalled the little support of the Europea…
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El sol es el mejor desinfectante para Puerto Rico
Javier Sierra | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-19
Erase una vez una ciudad regida por un déspota cruel. El día de su muerte, sus súbditos llenaron de júbilo las calles. Todos, menos una mujer que sollozaba. Alguien le preguntó, ” øPor qué lloras? °El tirano ha muerto!”. Y ella respondió, “No lloro por el que se va, sino por el que viene”. Esta fábula …
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Supreme Nihilism: the El Paso Shooter’s Manifesto
John O’Kane | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
Mick Mulvaney staunchly defended President Trump after the shootings in Ohio and Texas, claiming he was horrified by the actions but had said nothing that could be construed as provoking them. Trump did come out strongly two days later against hate groups and “white supremacy,” a little late for many who contend these shootings demonstrate his inflammatory rhetoric was at least partially to blame for the incidents. Hopefully this will be a real change from his irresponsibly-quick tweets that often lead to reversals and clumsy apologies for misguided claims and send many of his supporters ducking for cover; or his…
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Kashmir and Palestine: Solidarity and Unity in Opposing Global Militarization
Palestinian BDS National Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society, shares the shock and anger of Kashmiris and democratic forces in India and across the world over the authoritarian decision of the Bharatiya Janta Party-led …
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India’s Mangled Economy
Arshad Khan | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
Mid-August is when the subcontinent celebrates independence from Britain. Born in a cauldron of hate 74 years ago, India today is again filling it to the brim. In one fell swoop, Mr. Modi has denuded Kashmir of the flimsy shroud purporting to preserve its cultural and territorial integrity through articles 370 and 35A in the…
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Sudan’s Bashir “Took Millions in Cash From Saudi Crown Prince,” Trial Hears
Middle East Eye | theantimedia.com | 2019-08-19
Detective tells court the deposed president was handed the money by Mohammed bin Salman’s envoys.
Sudan’s Bashir “Took Millions in Cash From Saudi Crown Prince,” Trial Hears
Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir Received Millions From Saudi Arabia
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-19
Sudan’s ousted president Omar Hassan al-Bashir acknowledged receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a police detective told a court Monday at the start of a corruption trial that most Sudanese thought they would never see. | RELATED: | Saudi, UAE Crown Princes Meet with Sudan’s Military Council in Effort to Cement Influence | Bashi…
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White Terror: Toni Morrison on the Construct of Racism
Ipek S. Burnett | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
“To lose one’s racial-ized rank is to lose one’s own valued and enshrined difference,” writes Toni Morrison in The Origin of Others. In a 2016 post-election essay entitled “Mourning for Whiteness,” this sense of loss and the ensuing disorientation become Morrison’s focus. In today’s America as “people of color” are increasingly occupying everywhere including the Senate,…
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If Chinese Tanks Take Hong Kong, Who’ll be Surprised?
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
In the glorious world of journalism, tanks always “roll” across borders. I’ve never in my life actually seen a tank roll, but you get the point. They don’t let anything stand in their way — or nothing is supposed to stand in their way. Hence the Hong Kong Chinese should back off if the People’s Army…
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U.S. States: We Weren’t Hacked by Russians in 2016
Gareth Porter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
A “bombshell” Senate Intelligence Committee report released in July repeated the familiar claim that Russia targeted the electoral websites of at least 21 states–but statements from the states themselves effectively undermine that narrative. | It turns out the reality is dramatically …
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Tulsi Gabbard Gets Some Vindication
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
In the aftermath of the second Democratic primary debate on July 31, Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard emerged as the most Googled of all candidates, an indication that her performance (which included a stunning takedown of California Sen. Kamala Harris…
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Malaysian Airlines MH17: Quest for Justice Continues
Askiah Adam | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
This Saturday, a conference will convene in remembrance of the 298 passengers and crew on board the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, which was shot out of the sky over a war zone in Ukraine. | Organised jointly by the International Movement …
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Criminal War Propaganda Directed against Iraq and Syria: “We Think the Price Is Worth It.”
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
When we play their game, we will always lose, and they will always win. “They” are the largely unelected “Permanent State”, sometimes called the “Deep State”. “They” are the publicly bailed-out transnational, corporate monopolies and their political fronts that destroy …
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Put an End to the Endless War Inflicted Upon Our National Forests
Steven Krichbaum | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
To facilitate the fabrication of stumps, roads, and erosion in America’s National Forests, now the Trump administration has proposed to alter the USDA Forest Service’s [USFS] implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act [NEPA]. The 1969 NEPA was specifically designed to achieve three main things: 1) require agencies like the Forest Service to use science…
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NYPD officer fired for death of Eric Garner after ‘implausible & self-serving’ account
rt.com | 2019-08-19
The New York Police Department has fired the officer responsible for the death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man killed during arrest over the “selling of loose cigarettes,” after the officer’s account of events was questioned. | A disciplinary hearing has recommended that NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo — accused of killing Garner with a chokehold prohibited by the department — be removed from the police force, and the move was eventually announced Monday by New York Police Commissioner James O’Neill. | “It is clear that Daniel Pantaleo can no longer effectively serve as a New York City Police offic…
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Offering Choice but Delivering Tyranny: The Corporate Capture of Agriculture
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Many lobbyists talk a lot about critics of genetic engineering technology denying choice to farmers. They say that farmers should have access to a range of tools and technologies to maximise choice and options. At the same time, somewhat ironically, …
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The Price of Publishing Independent Thought: We Need Your Support!
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Dear readers, | With freedom of speech continually being curtailed, running an independent counter-current news media in 2019 is no easy feat. By todays standards, you are by all means free to speak if what you say upholds the mainstream narrative. …
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Dear Guys Who Got Arrested for Throwing Water on NYPD Cops
Susie Day | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
You hosed Harlem. You bedewed Brownsville. You wetted Woodhaven. News media report that you’ve sprayed or doused water — yes,vile, menacingly wet water — on police officers in incidents all over New York City. No one knows where you will strike next. You: young, smirking, and — need we add — black. Shown on social media brazenly enjoying yourselves…
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Follow the Money Trail Behind the Hong Kong Protests
Sara Flounders | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
The demonstrations in Hong Kong, now an open confrontation with the People’s Republic of China, have a global impact. What are the forces behind this movement? What provides the funds and who stands to benefit? | *** | The increasingly violent demonstrations …
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Hong Kong in the crosshairs of global power and ideological struggles
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-19
Hong Kong is one of the most extreme examples of big finance, neoliberal capitalism in the world. As a result, many people in Hong Kong are suffering from great economic insecurity in a city, with 93 billionaires, second-most of any city. | Hong Kong is suffering the effects of being colonized by Britain for more than 150 years following the Opium Wars. The British put in place a capitalist economic system and Hong Kong has had no history of self-rule. When Britain left, it negotiated an agreement that prevents China fr…
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Hong Kong in the Crosshairs of Global Power and Ideological Struggles
Kevin Zeese | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Hong Kong is one of the most extreme examples of big finance, neoliberal capitalism in the world. As a result, many people in Hong Kong are suffering from great economic insecurity in a city with 93 billionaires, second-most of any …
globalresearch.ca/hong-kong-global-power…
Hong Kong in the Crosshairs of Global Power and Ideological Struggles
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-19
Hong Kong is one of the most extreme examples of big finance, neoliberal capitalism in the world. As a result, many people in Hong Kong are suffering from great economic insecurity in a city with 93 billionaires, second-most of any city. Hong Kong is suffering the effects of being colonized by Britain for more than …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/hong-kong-in-…
The Foreign Policy Litmus Test for Democrats in 2020
Marjorie Cohn | commondreams.org | 2019-08-19
These war crimes promise to continue unless the U.S. military completely withdraws from Afghanistan. (Photo: Tech. Sgt. Joseph Swafford / U.S. Air Force photo) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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2020 Democrats Must Commit to Ending the Carnage in Afghanistan
Marjorie Cohn | truthdig.com | 2019-08-19
Only two of the presidential candidates running have committed to withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan during their first year in office.
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Huge Wildfires in the Arctic and Far North Send a Planetary Warning
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-19
| The planet’s far North is burning. This summer, over 600 wildfires have consumed more than 2.4 million acres of forest across Alaska. Fires are also raging in northern Canada. In Siberia, choking smoke from 13 million acres — an area nearly the size…
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Amy Klobuchar: The favorite Democrat of Senate Republicans
wsws.org | 2019-08-19
Underneath the banality of Klobuchar’s presidential campaign are pro-war, right-wing politics.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/19/klob…
Warren Apologizes to Native Americans for Heritage Claim
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-19
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren offered a public apology Monday to Native Americans over her past claim to tribal heritage, directly tackling an area that’s proved to be a big political liability. | “Like anyone who has been honest with themselves, I know I have made mistakes,” the Massachusetts senator said at a forum on Native American issues in the pivotal early-voting state of Iowa. “I am sorry for the harm I have caused.” | Monday’s remarks were an effort to move past the fallout from her past claims of tribal ancestry, which culminated in a widely criticized release of a DNA analysis last…
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The Isle of White: a Tale of the Have-Lots Versus the Have-Nots
John Davis | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
The island of North Haven in the Penobscot Bay, Maine, is an eastern establishment, white-shoe summer-place overlain on a diesel swilling, bottom feeding lobster-industry that supports the year-round residents of this tiny, fractal-shored resort. It is washed by the Gulf Stream and reports the fastest rising ocean temperatures in the Western hemisphere, dramatic sea level rises and a devastated eco-system. Comprehensively cleared of its old-growth hardwood forests in the nineteenth century, its second growth pines are now attacked by bark beetles moving north under the duress of a warming climate…But some still…
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Newark, New Jersey residents denounce Democrats over lead-poisoned water
wsws.org | 2019-08-19
The city began distributing bottled water last week after it was revealed that faucet filters were failing to screen toxic lead from home drinking water.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/19/newa…
Financial turbulence continues as major economies move towards recession
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-19
In response to the Wall Street decline, markets in Asia fell, with Japan’s Topix index down 1 percent while the Australian market dropped 2.9 percent, wiping $60 billion off share values. Markets in Europe also fell before recovering some of their losses later in the day. | Source…
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Trump administration calls for permanent restoration of bulk phone communications surveillance
wsws.org | 2019-08-19
The outgoing director of National Intelligence appealed to Congress for the restoration of the surveillance program that was exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/19/surv…
Against fascism and war: The Communist Party USA’s third decade
Norman Markowitz | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-19
As the Communist Party USA’s second decade ended, World War II, the greatest war in human history, began. In all major capitalist countries, the mass media blamed the war on the Soviet Union’s signing of a non–aggression pact with Nazi Germany and condemned Communist Parties’ support for the Soviet Union. Was there truth to the …
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Turkey-Syria War on the Horizon: Airstrikes Target Invading Turkish Army Convoy
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-08-19
Turkey and Syria could be headed for war as their armies increasingly clash on front lines in southern Idlib.
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Colonialism Lives on in the Mind of Donald Trump
Kim Petersen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Outside of melting glaciers and global warming discussions, Kalaallit Nunaat does not often find itself in the spotlight, and when it does, it is usually referred to as Greenland. United States president Donald Trump’s real-estate aspirations have given Kalaallit …
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Bears’ Lives Undervalued
Brian Horejsi | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
Bears have been in the news lately. The reality is we could say that just about any day between March and November. Recently there were two incidents that warrant examination and comment. An adult man was apparently attacked by a male grizzly bear while walking along a logging road on B.C.s coast. Media coverage, including…
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Colonialism Lives on in the Mind of Donald Trump
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-19
Outside of melting glaciers and global warming discussions, Kalaallit Nunaat does not often find itself in the spotlight, and when it does, it is usually referred to as Greenland. United States president Donald Trump’s real-estate aspirations have given Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland prominence in recent news. It seems Trump is serious about the US purchasing Greenland. Judging …
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Lung Disease Outbreak: First Casualties of the War on Vaping?
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
On August 15, Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services announced “a cluster of people with severe lung disease who all reported recent vaping or dabbing (vaping marijuana oils, extracts, or concentrates).” CNN reports more than 120 similar cases nationwide based on a survey of state health departments. “Vaping” has been a thing for a decade or…
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The Truth Is Out About Israel’s Cover-up of Nakba Facts
Asa Winstanley | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Recent news reports have shed light on the lengths to which Israel’s security establishment is going in order to cover-up the history of the country’s war crimes against Palestinians. A long piece in Haaretz earlier this month explained that for …
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The Proud Boys Take Over the Streets of Portland, Oregon
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
Antifa marches at Trump’s inauguration and the condemnation is almost universal, including from some on the political Left. No one is harmed, but initially charges are brought against Antifa. The Proud Boys, a neo-fascist, far-right group march in Portland, Oregon (an “unpermitted” march), although they have committed acts of violence, and they are allowed a presence on the streets. Now, just…
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Red States Cut Worker Pay by $1.5 Billion
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-19
| Last month, the House voted to incrementally raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. | If the Senate passes the bill, it would be the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade — far too long for residents of the 21 states that don’t have their own higher minimum wage. | Here’s another sad truth: Plenty of cities in those states have tried to raise their minimum wage, only to be stymied by state lawmakers. That’s thanks to state preemption laws that keep localities from adopting all kinds of policies,…
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One Budget Line Congress Can Agree On: Spending Billions on the US Military
Rebecca U. Thorpe | commondreams.org | 2019-08-19
While the U.S. has the most powerful military machine in history, it is also incomparably the most expensive — and members of Congress work aggressively to maintain it. (Photo: Scott Nelson/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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With Trump’s Help, Israel Chooses Short-Term Land Grabs Over Long-Term Legitimacy
Miko Peled | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-19
As Israel prepares for another round of elections, the Trump administration seems poised to give Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an invaluable campaign contribution by providing a green light for Israel to declare sovereignty in Area C of the West Bank.
mintpressnews.com/with-trumps-help-israe…
Health Care Imperialism: Looting the World’s Doctors
David Penner | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-19
To poach and rely on highly skilled foreign workers from poor countries in the public sector is akin to the crime of theft. — “Migration of Health Workers: An Unmanaged Crisis,” The Lancet, May 28, 2005 What is striking about the tyranny of the medical industrial complex is not only its unconscionable oppression of the …
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Germany: Ex-intelligence chief campaigns for Christian Democrats and far-right AfD
wsws.org | 2019-08-19
Maassen is organizing election meetings in which there are often more supporters of the far-right AfD than CDU voters.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/19/maas…
Al Qaeda Militants are Drugged. 400,000 Amphetamine Captagon Pills Confiscated by Syrian Security Forces
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Syrian security forces have deprived terrorists of more than 400,000 Captagon pills. On 17 August, authorities in the suburbs of Damascus seized a truck with hidden compartments filled with a large quantity of this Amphetamine-type Stimulant (ATS) known as Captagon….
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Fire on US Military Contracted Plane at Shannon Airport Raises Serious Questions
Shannonwatch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Shannonwatch are calling for an immediate review of the safety standards applied to US military and military contracted planes at Shannon Airport. A fire on an Omni Air International troop carrier brought the airport to a standstill on Thursday August …
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All Along the Watchtower: The Follies of History
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
There must be some kind of way outta here | Said the joker to the thief | There’s too much confusion | I can’t get no relief | Business men, they drink my wine | Plowmen dig my earth | None were level on the mind…
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Saints, Sinners and Hypocrites
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
In today’s climate of increasing Neo Nazi thought and behavior in Europe and here at home, a must see film is director Marc Rotthemund’s Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005). | Sophie Scholl was a member of the White Rose, …
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Are Gene Edited Cows or Humans What We Really Need?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Scientists using the “second generation” of genetic manipulation technology have used gene-editing to alter the DNA of breed of cattle so that they supposedly do not grow horns. At around the same time another group of scientists claim to have …
globalresearch.ca/gene-edited-cows-human…
Marcus Ball’s “Proposed Prosecution” against Boris Johnson: “Not Everything Is as It Seems”
Oliver Murphy | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Marcus Ball says “there is something majorly wrong going on behind the scenes” after his appeal to take Boris to Supreme Court for “wilfully misleading the British public” gets thrown out. | *** | On 14th August, the High Court rejected an …
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A Brief History of Harlan County, USA
Cal Winslow | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
They say in Harlan County, there are no neutrals there You’ll either be a union man or a thug for J.H. Blair Which side are you on? “Which Side Are You On?” became the anthem of a reborn United Mine Workers (UMWA) union in the 1930s, then an anthem for all workers, a reflection of…
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Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue is Just Part of a Loathsome Administration
Jim Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-19
When US Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue jokes about farmers being whiners or Donald Trump Jr. calls out “looser teachers” they are just showing their loyalty to a president who has said, “I need loyalty, I expect loyalty” . Apparently, in this administration, if you can park any ethics you may have had at the door and be loyal, you…
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Brazil: New Leak Proves Further Conspiracy Against Lula
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-19
New private messages exchanged between the Lava Jato (Car Wash) prosecutors involved in the judicial case against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were published Monday by his defense attorney, giving more evidence that the leader of the Workers Party was “victim of a conspiracy.” | RELATED: | Brazil’s Car Wash Investigation in the Mud | “The messages are directly related with the two clearly corrupted procedures that were initiated in the Federal Court of…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-New-Leak-…
Inequality in the U.S. is stifling economic growth and could cost us as much as $1.5 trillion
Ruth Milka | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-19
Failure to close the gap, leaving the majority of wealth among the super-rich, will cost the economy anywhere from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion by 2028.
nationofchange.org/2019/08/19/inequality…
Bernie Sanders Vows War on White Nationalism
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-19
If elected in 2020, the Vermont senator pledges to “throw the full force of the law” at those who commit acts of “domestic terrorism.”
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White Supremacy Is Terrorism, Not a Difference of Opinion
Edward Burmila | thenation.com | 2019-08-19
White Supremacy Is Terrorism, Not a Difference of Opinion…
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Bernie Sanders: ‘We will go to war with White Nationalism’
NationofChange Staff | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-19
Senator Bernie Sanders announced to a Black Church PAC Presidential Forum in Atlanta this week that, if elected, his administration “go to war against white nationalism and racism.” | “When we combat white nationalism and when we combat racism,” Sanders told the crowd. “We are gonna use all of the laws in our power, including executive orders in every area, to make certain that we end the discrimination which now exists in healthcare, where black women are dying three times the rate of white women when they give birth.” | Referring to white nationalism as “domestic terrorism”, Sanders also said that “Too many…
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1.7 Million Turn Out for Hong Kong Demonstration With Vow to ‘Keep Fighting’ as Protests Enter 11th Week
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-19
Protests in Hong Kong that broke out in June over a now-shelved extradition bill have entered their 11th consecutive week, with a series of events over the weekend that included a peaceful mass demonstration Sunday that organizers said was attended by as many as 1.7 million people. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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After Nationwide Calls for Justice and Family’s Tireless Advocacy, NYPD Fires Officer Who Killed Eric Garner
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-19
Just over five years after Eric Garner was killed during an arrest by an New York City police officer—and following years of unrelenting advocacy by his family and other supporters—the officer who killed Garner was fired on Monday. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Corbyn says a Brexit general election is a once-in-a-generation chance for change
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-19
A general election triggered by the Brexit crisis will provide a “once-in-a-generation chance” for a change of direction in politics, Jeremy Corbyn will say. | The Labour leader is set to use a speech in Northamptonshire on 19 August to set out his vision to rebuild Britain and vow to do “everything necessary” to prevent a no-deal exit. | Corbyn will say a general election could lead to a change on the scale of 1945 or 1979, warning that things “can…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/19/corbyn-s…
Britain’s Uncertain Future: The Downing Street Plan of Chaos
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
The man behind shaping Boris Johnson’s premiership, the architect of Vote Leave, Brexit and the U.K.’s future in the world also wants radical change in the way Britain is run and to rebuild world politics. This vision includes seeing the …
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No Deal Chaos: The Brexit Cliff Face and Operation Yellowhammer
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Britain’s Boris Johnson is driving his country to the cliff face, along the way mouthing and spouting all manner of populist reassurances. Still fresh in the job, he declared that UK preparations for a no-deal Brexit on October 31, when …
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Activist Scott Warren, Facing Federal Charges for Aiding Migrants, Says He Won’t Be Deterred
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-19
We broadcast live from Tucson, Arizona, where the government recently put humanitarian activist Scott Warren on trial amid the ongoing policing of the U.S.-Mexico border, separation of families, and cruel and inhumane conditions at immigrant jails across the country. Warren, a longtime volunteer with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, was charged with three felony counts for his alleged crime of providing food, water and shelter to migrants in Ajo, Arizona. The immigrants had arrived at the doorstep of a humanitarian shelter after a perilous journey across the Sonoran Desert. At the same time, he and othe…
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“Humanitarian Aid Is Never a Crime”: No More Deaths Volunteers Drop Water in Desert to Aid Migrants
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-19
Volunteers with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths have been venturing into the harsh Sonoran Desert for years to leave life-saving supplies for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Longtime volunteer Scott Warren was charged with three felonies for the alleged crime of providing food, water and shelter to migrants. After a hung jury, he is facing retrial on two felony counts and faces a possible 10 years in prison, if convicted. As he awaits his next trial as well as deals with misdemeanor charges in another case of aiding migrants, Democracy Now! followed him into the Sonoran Desert for his first tr…
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Selected Articles: The Crisis in Hong Kong
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Our objective at Global Research is to recruit one thousand committed “volunteers” among our more than 50,000 Newsletter subscribers to support the distribution of Global Research articles (email lists, social media, crossposts). | Do not send us money. Under Plan A…
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Anti-War Committee denounces Israel’s ban of Omar and Tlaib
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-19
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following August 15 statement from the Twin Cities based Anti-War Committee. | The Minnesota Anti-War Committee condemns the Israeli government’s August 15 decision not to allow US Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering occupied Palestine, to which the Israeli state controls all access. Reps. Omar and Tlaib join the thousands of peace activists, human rights officials and people of conscience around the world who are denied entry over their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel and its Zionist policies of occu…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/18/anti-war…
America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia
James Bovard | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-19
Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Approximately 1,500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest sham morality plays of the modern era. …
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#CloseTheCamps: Protest by Healthcare & Harm Reduction Workers for Migrant Rights
Do No Harm Coalition, Public Health Awakening | indybay.org | 2019-08-19
Office of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), | 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
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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 | 2019-08-19
NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…
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APTP Monthly Membership Meeting: Scott Morris on Santa Rita Jail
Anti Police-Terror Project | indybay.org | 2019-08-19
East Side Arts Alliance | 2277 International Blvd. | Oakland, CA 94606…
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How the US Media Demonizes Iran
Serge Halimi, Pierre Rimbert | thenation.com | 2019-08-19
How the US Media Demonizes Iran…
thenation.com/article/iran-media-war/
France Commits to Welcome 40 Migrants from ‘Open Arms’ Ship
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-18
French Ministry of Interior announced Sunday that it would welcome to France 40 migrants from the Open Arms boat. | RELATED: | Italian PM Blasts Salvini for Being Obsessed with Immigration | “Coordination of solidarity between the countries that have committed themselves to receive migrants is maintained,” said the French Minister of Interior, Christophe…
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Iranian Oil Tanker Leaves Gibraltar Despite US Pressure
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-18
The Iranian oil tanker seized as a tool of confrontation between the Persian country and the West has finally left Gibraltar Sunday after the British territory rejected a request from the United States to pursue the detention. | RELATED: | France Fires Back at Trump Over Iran Comments | The Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as Grace 1, left anchorage off Gibraltar around 11: 00 p.m.
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Colombia’s Duque Shuns Nobel Winner Meeting Rape Survivors
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-18
Colombian President Ivan Duque was slammed for refusing to meet with Nobel Laureate Denis Mukwege who visited the country to support the victims of sexual violence. | RELATED: | Colombian Social Leader Shot a Day After Global March Against Activists’ Killings | The physician from Congo won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for his “efforts to end the use of se…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombias-Duque-…
13 arrested, 6 injured after Portland protests descend into violence
rt.com | 2019-08-18
Police have arrested 13 people on a range of charges, including disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and unlawful use of a weapon, after right-wing demonstrators squared off with Antifa counter-protesters in Portland, Oregon. | Speaking at a press conference in the wake of the protests in Portland, which were marred by sporadic incidents of violence, city mayor Ted Wheeler hailed police for doing “an exemplary job of de-escalating the situation.” He described the demonstration as a “largely peaceful event” despite the emergence of multiple videos documenting attacks mostly by Antifa on right-wing demonstrators…
rt.com/usa/466740-portland-arrests-viole…
Hundreds of Thousands Turn Out for Peaceful Hong Kong Protest
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-18
Organizers say at least 1.7 million pro-democracy demonstrators showed up in heavy rain for a rare calm weekend in the Chinese territory.
truthdig.com/articles/hundreds-of-thousa…
Spain Offers Port to Stranded Migrants, Salvini Claims Victory
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-18
Spain on Sunday offered Algeciras as a port to disembark more than a hundred migrants on a charity rescue ship stranded off the coast of Italy after the vessel had spent more than two weeks waiting for a safe port to be made available. | RELATED: | Open Arms Allowed to Land 27 Minors at the Lampedusa Port | The migrants, most of whom are African, were picked up by the Open Arms boat off the coast of Libya and have been waiting to disembark on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa…
telesurenglish.net/news/Spain-Offers-Por…
Tlaib and Omar’s Denial of Entry by Israel Is Not a “Freedom of Speech” Issue
Rima Najjar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-18
For how long will discourse on the plight of the Palestinian people be hostage to the notion that “impartial observers”, i.e., the silent majority on Israel, must be addressed in a manner that accounts for “where they are, not where …
globalresearch.ca/tlaib-omar-denial-entr…
‘Racism Witch Hunt!’ Trump rips into NYT leak scandal, calling it ‘evil propaganda machine’
rt.com | 2019-08-18
US president Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on the “failing New York Times” on Sunday, accusing the paper of engaging in a “Racism Witch Hunt” following leaked comments from the news outlet’s executive editor. | “The failing New York Times, in one of the most devastating portrayals of bad journalism in history, got caught by a leaker that they are shifting from the Phony Russian Collusion Narrative (the Mueller Report & his testimony were a total disaster), to a Racism Witch Hunt,” the president said on Twitter. |…
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‘Racism Witch Hunt!’ Trump rips into NYT leak scandal, calling it ‘evil propaganda machine’
rt.com | 2019-08-18
US president Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on the “failing New York Times” on Sunday, accusing the paper of engaging in a “Racism Witch Hunt” following leaked comments from the news outlet’s executive editor. | “The failing New York Times, in one of the most devastating portrayals of bad journalism in history, got caught by a leaker that they are shifting from the Phony Russian Collusion Narrative (the Mueller Report & his testimony were a total disaster), to a Racism Witch Hunt,” the president said on Twitter. |…
rt.com/usa/466771-trump-new-york-times-l…
Bounty Hunters Are a Lethal Weapon in a Justice System Corrupted by Money
Shaun King | theintercept.com | 2019-08-18
A group of bounty hunters and bondsmen, in pursuit of money, killed an innocent man in Tennessee. They were mostly let off by a jury.
theintercept.com/2019/08/18/gun-violence…
Corporate Media Are Downplaying Resistance to Brazil’s Far-Right Leader
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-18
Protesters march against the Brazilian president in Belo Horizonte, one of 211 cities where demonstrations took place. (Dowglas Silva) | Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets of 211 cities on Aug. 13 to protest far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s austerity cuts and privatization plans for the public university system. It was the third in series of national education strikes, dubbed “the Education Tsunamis,” organized by nation…
truthdig.com/articles/corporate-media-ar…
How Washington Is Meddling in the Affairs of Hong Kong
| globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-18
While there has been growing coverage of the unrest in Hong Kong, there has been minimal coverage of what may lie behind the pro-democracy protests. Even Donald Trump has entered the fray with this tweet which clearly condemns China’s actions …
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Video: Syrian Army Overwhelms Militants’ Defense in Southern Idlib
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-18
The southern part of Idlib province and the northern part of Hama province remain the main areas of hostilities in Syria. | On August 14, a Su-22 warplane of the Syrian Air Force was shot down during a combat sortie over …
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Islamic State Claims Bombing at Kabul Wedding That Killed 63
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-18
The deadliest attack in the capital this year comes as the U.S. and the Taliban appear to be on the brink of ending America’s longest war.
truthdig.com/articles/islamic-state-clai…
History of the Third Reich. Hitler and the Atomic Bomb
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-18
Author’s preface | German dictator Adolf Hitler had a central role in initiating World War II, by pursuing a list of bold and aggressive foreign policy actions dating from the mid-1930s, and culminating in his invasion of Poland in the autumn …
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Destruction of the Pillars of the Syrian Economy: Terrorists Destroy Grain Silos, Farmer Tractors in Tal Al-Sakhr, North West of Hama
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-18
Nothing new with the crimes committed by the Turkish pariah Erdogan’s most loyal terrorists in Syria, like their sponsor Erdogan and like Israel, they are not satisfied with the crimes they commit upon entering a town, and during their presence, …
globalresearch.ca/nato-terrorists-destro…