Daily Archives: August 22, 2019

2019-08-22: Social Media Postees

Indian Assault on Kashmir in Third Week, Thousands Arrested
Deepal Jayasekera | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The state of siege that India’s Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has imposed on Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) is now well into its third week. | Cell phone and internet access continue to be denied to many of …
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Record number of fires burning in Amazon rainforest
Olivia Rosane | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-22
There are a record number of wildfires burning in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil’s space agency has said. Their smoke is visible from space and shrouded the city of Sà£o Paulo in darkness for about an hour Monday afternoon, CBS news reported. “It was as if the day had turned into night,” Sà£o Paulo resident Gianvitor Dias told BBC News of the …
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Brazilian Government’s Failures are Fueling Wildfires Across the Amazon
commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
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Leaked Documents Show Brazil’s Bolsonaro Has Grave Plans for Amazon Rainforest
Manuella Libardi | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
Wildfires have raging through the Amazon rainforest for weeks. Satellite data show an 84% increase of fire outbreaks on the same period in 2018. (Photo: Pixabay) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Bolivia Orders World’s Largest Air Tanker to Combat Amazon Fires
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced on Wednesday that Bolivia had purchased a Boeing 747 ‘Supertanker’ to help extinguish huge forest fires in the Amazon have that spilled over from Brazil. By Wednesday evening, the government confirmed that the tanker is arriving in the country and will be operational on Friday. | RELATED: | Bolivia’s Evo Morales Visits Fire-Affected Eastern Region | The ‘Supertanker’ can carry more water than…
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Bolivia Orders World’s Largest Air Tanker to Combat Amazon Fires
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced on Wednesday that Bolivia had contracted a Boeing 747 ‘Supertanker’ to help extinguish huge forest fires in the Amazon have that spilled over from Brazil. By Wednesday evening, the government confirmed that the tanker is arriving in the country and will be operational on Friday. | RELATED: | Bolivia’s Evo Morales Visits Fire-Affected Eastern Region | The ‘Supertanker’ can carry more water tha…
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The Amazon Is Burning, and the Entire Planet Is at Risk
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
What follows is a conversation between Amazon Watch’s Christian Poirier and Dharna Noor of The Real News Network. Read a transcript of their conversation below or watch the video at the bottom of…
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The Amazon Is Dying and Bolsonaro Is Fanning the Flames
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-22
| The Amazon rainforest is the largest rainforest on planet Earth. Generating half its own rainfall and holding 20 percent of all the world’s rivers within its borders, it covers an area two-thirds the size of the contiguous 48 United States, and produces 20 percent of the oxygen in the world’s atmosphere. | There are more than 1,100 tributaries of the Amazon River alone, with seventeen of them longer than one thousand miles. The rainforest also creates “flying rivers,” — massive streams of airborne mo…
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Bernie Sanders Backs Rescinding Medals for Wounded Knee Massacre
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-22
| This week 10 Democratic candidates and one independent in the 2020 presidential race, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, addressed indigenous communities at the first-ever Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. During the two-day event, candidates individually answered questions from a panel of tribal leaders and Native American youth and elders on issues including treaty rights, voter suppression, and murdered and missing indigenous women. | TRA…
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Interview with BDS activist Willie Burnley Jr.: “I can’t be okay knowing that the people fighting racism are being labelled racist.”
Dylan Citron and Sofia | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-22
“…something I was not expecting was the kindness, the hospitality, the friendliness…”
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No Agreement on Idlib: So-called “Militants” (aka Al Qaeda) Continue to Kill Syrian Civilians
Ahmad Al Khaled | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The 13th round of negotiations on Syria in Astana format was held in the capital of Kazakhstan on the 1st and 2nd of August. As the result, three guarantor states — Russia, Turkey and Iran — accepted a statement which …
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US Unveils Warrant for Seizure of Iran-operated Grace 1
Press TV | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
According to a Press TV report: | “The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has unveiled a warrant for the seizure of the Iran-operated Grace 1 supertanker a day after Gibraltar’s Supreme Court confirmed the release of the vessel. On Thursday, Gibraltar’s …
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Panama to US: We Won’t be Your ‘Safe Third Country’
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
The Trump administration is looking to turn all of Central America into a ‘safe third country’, but Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo says that’s “not viable” in his nation. | RELATED: | Won’t Block Venezuela Ships Despite US Sanctions, Panama Claims | Newly-inaugurated President Cortizo ruled out the possibility of signing an agreement with the United States to make Panama a ‘safe third country’ to asylum seekers not allowed to stay within the U.S. while they await their…
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Trump schemes to smash immigration judges union
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-22
WASHINGTON –Anti-worker President Donald Trump, infamous for hating federal workers and their unions, has now taken the next step. Not satisfied with cutting back on workers’ rights, he’s scheming to literally obliterate the union sector that represents federal immigration judges. And, in the process, he’s trashing immigrants, too — an even higher Trump priority. Trump’s …
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All Proceeds from Sale of the Song Support Immigrant Families Together
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
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Jesus Santrich Given Interpol Red Notice
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
Interpol have officially issued a red notice for the arrest of FARC leader Jesus Santrich, following his no-show at a scheduled court appearance in Colombia, and failure to inform authorities of his whereabouts. Santrich helped negotiate the 2016 peace agreements which many say are breaking down due to the state not meeting its obligations. | RELATED: | Colombian Indigenous Peoples Declare Emergency in Cauca Valley | While at a FARC reintegration ca…
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A Palestinian/Israeli Experiment for Peace in the Middle East
Cesar Chelala | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
Changing dynamics in the Middle East make peace between Israelis and Palestinians more elusive than ever. Both sides have rights, and both sides made wrongs. How to overcome these wrongs is what two professors, a Palestinian and an Israeli, have been trying to do for over two decades. Their work may represent one of the…
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Sanders, Gillibrand Tied for Lead in New Greenpeace Climate 2020 Ranking
commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
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Bolivarian revolution and Black liberation
Lyn Neeley | workers.org | 2019-08-22
Portland’s Hands Off Venezuela PDX sponsored a Skype teach-in on Aug. 17 with Dr. Layla Brown-Vincent, an assistant professor of Africana Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, who spoke about the role of racism in Bolivarian Venezuela to a room of 25 Oregonians. She said, “Just as Haiti . . . | Continue reading Bolivarian revolution and Black liberation at Workers.org
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Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution is still thriving, after 40 years
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-22
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal reports from Managua, Nicaragua on the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, which toppled a US-backed…
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Syrian Army Opens Humanitarian Corridor For Terror Victims
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
Following the defeat of Al-Qaeda linked jihadists in Khan Shaykhun, The Syrian Arab Army has opened a ‘humanitarian corridor’ between Idlib and Hama to allow residents to leave areas still held by foreing-backed terror groups. | RELATED: | Assad Vows to ‘Liberate Every Inch of Territory from Terrorists’ | Syrian state media outlet SANA reports that the town of Suran will become a ‘humanitarian corridor’ that will allow civillians in Southern Idlib and Northern Hama to flee Jih…
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Trump Regime’s Hardball with China: A Losing Strategy
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
China is a major player on the world stage, geopolitical know-nothing Trump outclassed, outshined, and outwitted by its ruling authorities. | He’s an embarrassment compared to other major world leaders, a laughing stock geopolitical wrecking ball. | His regime’s unacceptable Indo/Pacific agenda …
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Mexican Protector of Macaws Found Murdered in Chiapas
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
The Attorney General of Chiapas confirmed Thursday the murder of Mexican biologist and environmentalist Nora Lopez who spearheaded the red macaw breeding project in southeastern Mexico. | RELATED: | Mexico: Indigenous Activist Killed After Protests Against Energy Plants, Pipeline | “The Prosecutor’s Office of Homicide and Feminicide (reports) that the victim was found dead in a hostel along the Palenque-Ocosingo road,” read a statement from the attorney genera…
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FIFA Overlooks Israel’s Ban on Palestinians Footballers
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) is accused of turning a blind eye towards an Israeli ban on Palestinian football players from Gaza who were supposed to compete with West Bank players for the Palestine Cup. | RELATED: | US Wins 4th FIFA World Cup Amid Chants for ‘Equal Pay’ | Euro-Mediterranean Human Right Monitor said Wednesday that Isra…
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Police Killings Reaches Historic Record in Rio de Janeiro
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
The mega-city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil recorded a 49 percent increase in civilian deaths at the hands of police in July compared to the same month last year, making it the highest number of deaths by security forces on record since tracking began in 1998, official sources say. | RELATED: | Brazilian Congress Committee Approves US to Use Alcantara Base | A total of 194 people were killed by the police in July – that’s more than six deaths per day, on average, that took place…
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Despite Devastating Crashes, Boeing Stocks Fly High
Andrew Cockburn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
In a turbulent world, some things remain stable, even to an irrational degree. One example is the price of Boeing stock, which, at $329 a share as of midday August 16, has barely moved–down just 1.6 percent–from a year ago. …
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De’Von Bailey: Police that killed Black teen back on streets, announced day of his funeral
Sarah Farley | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-22
Justice cannot be served until killer cops are taken off the streets.
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To Protect and Serve
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
I don’t like dealing with police. I picked up this prejudice, which I feel is an intelligent way of dealing with police, from lots of experiences that came out of the decade of protest in the mid to late 1960s and the early 1970s. I saw how police dealt with kids that hung out around…
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For True Climate Justice, Abolish ICE and CBP
Josue De Luna Navarro | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
Last month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Senator Kamala Harris released their Climate Equity Act — the first draft of a critical component of a Green New Deal. The act aims to protect marginalized communities as Congress attempts to “address” climate change by creating a system that gives environmental legislation an equity score based on its impact…
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Bad credit: Apple warns its new titanium credit card could be damaged by … pretty much anything
rt.com | 2019-08-22
Apple has finally rolled out its first-ever credit card, but the company appears worried that users will damage the new product before they get to use it, warning of the many things that could wreck the card, fueling jeers online. | Months after it was first announced, Apple this week officially launched the new project, offering both a digital version integrated with its Wallet app, as well as a physical card that can be swiped. Though the card is constructed from titanium, Apple has posted a notice for users online listing t…
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Scientists Definitively Debunk the Biggest Climate Change Lie
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years, but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause. | Other historic changes — the so-called Medieval Warm Period and then the “Little Ice Age” that marked the 17th to the 19th centuries — were not global. The on…
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South Korea To Scrap Intelligence Pact With Japan Amid Tension
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-22
South Korea said Thursday it will scrap an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, drawing a swift protest from Tokyo and deepening a decades-old row over history that has hit trade and undercut security cooperation over North Korea. | RELATED: | 23 Dead, About 13,000 Hospitalized Due to Extreme Heatwave in Japan | Seoul’s decision not to extend the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA) shows how the political and trade dispute between the Asian neighbors a…
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John Pilger: We Are in a WAR SITUATION with China!
RT | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-22
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger on a round-up of all the latest issues. John describes the current state of global affairs as in a state of world war, warning that the ‘coming war on China’ he warned about…has now arrived, he also discusses the Hong …
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Who is to Blame for Argentina’s Economic Crisis?
Mark Weisbrot | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
What are we to make of Argentina’s surprise election results on August 11, which jolted pollsters and analysts alike, and roiled the country’s financial markets? In the presidential primary for the country’s October election, the opposition ticket of Alberto Fernández trounced President Mauricio Macri by an unexpected margin of 15.6 percent. The Fernández coalition attributes…
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UK Licensed £6.3bn Worth of Arms to Saudi-led Forces in First Four Years of Yemen Conflict
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The UK government licensed £6.3bn ($7.6bn) worth of arms to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen in the four years of the group’s bombing campaign, according to a new report by Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT). | According to new government …
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South Africa bans old racist flag as hate speech
Mark Waller | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-22
PRETORIA, South Africa — A landmark Aug. 21 ruling by South Africa’s Equality Court has criminalized gratuitous displays of the national flag of the apartheid era. The case was brought before the court by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, backed by the South African Human Rights Commission. The apartheid flag is often displayed by far-right white …
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Al-Golani’s Defiance of Turkey Leads to Syrian Government Control of Khan Sheikhoun
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
During the first week of this month of August, the ex-ISIS commander and current head of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra) Abu Mohammad al-Golani held a press conference in the occupied northern city of Idlib. He declared …
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Hundreds of Cancer-Causing Chemicals Pollute Americans’ Bodies
EWG | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
Hundreds of cancer-causing chemicals are building up in the bodies of Americans, according to the first comprehensive inventory of the carcinogens that have been measured in people. EWG released the inventory today. | EWG spent almost a year reviewing more than …
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US Now Admits it is Funding “Occupy Central” in Hong Kong
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
This article first published almost five years ago on October 1, 2014 is of particular relevance to an understanding of recent developments in Hong Kong. | *** | Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called “Arab Spring” began spreading chaos …
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US Court Ruling: You Can Be “Too Smart” to Be a Cop
Melissa Dykes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
This article was first published on GR on December 18, 2014 | Can a person actually be “too smart” to be a cop in America? | A federal court’s decision back in 2000 suggests that, yes, you actually can be. | Robert Jordan, …
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Europe on the Brink of Collapse?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The Empire’s European castle of vassals is crumbling. Right in front of our eyes. But Nobody seems to see it. The European Union (EU), the conglomerate of vassals — Trump calls them irrelevant, and he doesn’t care what they think about him, they deserve to be collapsing.
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American Apocalypse: The Government’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out … without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is …
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The Woodstock Summer of Love? Fifty Years Ago
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
Goodness, how 50 years seemed to go like a blink in the eye of memory. Almost to the day, two sets of events harnessed the attention of our nation in August of 1969. On August 9th and 10th, what was …
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“Seeds of Destruction” and “The Global Economic Crisis”
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
We are happy to offer you two important books from Global Research Publishers at discounted prices: | Seeds of Destruction, by F. William Engdahl: | “Control the food and you control the people.” This is no ordinary book about the perils of …
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The Beidaihe Political Summit: Is the “Chinese Dream” Still Viable? China’s Debt Crisis
Tom Clifford | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
The resort town of Beidaihe has just held one of the world’s most important, and secretive, political gatherings. Members of the public flock there in the summer months to relax on the beach gently lapped by the shallow waters of …
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Defense Department kills multi-billion dollar missile contract with Boeing
rt.com | 2019-08-22
The Pentagon is scrapping a multi-billion dollar deal with Boeing to replace an outdated missile interceptor, citing years of delays and technical problems and jealously eyeing rivals’ capabilities. | “Ending the program was the responsible thing to do,” Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary for research and engineering, said in a statement on Wednesday. | We decided the path we’re going down wouldn’t be fruitful, so we’re not going down that path anymore. | The exact details of the project’s failure would not be released “due to the classified nature of the program,” a spokesman for the Pentagon’s Missile D…
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Henry A. Giroux: Neoliberal Capitalism Sets the Stage for Fascism
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-22
| We spoke with cultural critic and one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy, Henry Giroux, about his latest book, The Terror of the Unforeseen, in which he warns that the economic tyranny of neoliberal capitalism and a culture of cruelty and objectification set the stage for Trump’s rise and the emergence of fascism. | Media For Us: In The Terror of the Unforeseen you explain how our economic system enabled Trump…
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It’s About Time for Ethnic Studies in Our K-12 Schools
ECOGLO | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
“Why haven’t we been taught this history before?” Students have asked us this question countless times over the past twenty-five years of teaching Latin America Studies and Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Cal State Los Angeles, Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University. The emotions triggering this question are usually the same. Students feel lied to and cheated. Some are frustrated and downright angry that ethnic studies has been excluded from their schooling.
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The NYT’s Upside Down Economics on Germany and the Euro Zone
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
Paul Krugman already jumped on this New York Times piece, but the paper really deserves a thrashing for it. The story is that Germany’s economy had been driving the euro zone economy. It now appears on the edge of recession, having shrunk at a 0.4 percent annual rate in the second quarter. The article then…
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Breaking the Web of Life
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
You wouldn’t expect someone who spent his entire life in high-rise penthouses to understand much about the stunning complexity of Earth’s natural environment and the millions of species that depend on what is called the interconnected “web of life.” And sure enough, while the Sixth Great Extinction is ongoing and accelerating, President Trump is changing the Endangered Species Act through administrative rules, not to rise to the challenge of stopping extinctions, but to make it easier for commercial and extractive enterprises such as oil, gas, mining, logging, ranching, road-building and development to actually e…
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The Metaphysics of Revolution
Dan Corjescu | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
Socrates was the first revolutionary. He opened up with a legendary oracular search the inner space from which the individual, as we understand him today, would eventually emerge. His “daemon” was that which spoke the necessary freedom and autonomy to become what we are. His was the first lesson. His student, Plato, brought on the…
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Sanders And Bezos’s Shared, Debilitating, Basic Premise
Clark T. Scott | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
There have been a number of articles recently which have highlighted liberal displeasure over the ways in which major mainstream corporate media outlets are portraying the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders in a negative manner. More of these articles have appeared after Sanders tamely speculated about the possibility that the Washington Post’s owner, Jeff Bezos,…
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Bernie Sanders’s Climate Plan Is More Radical Than His Opponents’ — And More Likely to Succeed
Kate Aronoff | theintercept.com | 2019-08-22
The $16.3 trillion plan would not only transition American society away from fossil fuels but renegotiate decades-old nostrums about the government’s role in the economy.
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Amid recession warnings, Trump reportedly considering more tax cuts for rich and corporations
Jake Johnson | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-22
While continuing to publicly downplay warning signs that the U.S. economy is barreling toward a recession, the Trump White House is reportedly weighing a number of supposed stimulus measures, including more tax cuts for the rich and large corporations. Politico reported late Tuesday that Trump officials are considering “a cut of an additional percentage point or two to the …
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Flint’s Water Crisis Shows State Takeover is Not a Solution for Newark
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Farmers Need a Bill of Rights
Jim Goodman | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
Kudos to Senator Warren for endorsing the Farmers Bill of Rights, and to Senator Sanders for seriously mentioning the farm crisis. (Photo: TumblingRun/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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The Pentagon Belongs to Silicon Valley Now
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have opened a back door to the Department of Defense. One whistleblower tried to warn us.
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Australia’s US Studies Centre advocates war-footing against China
wsws.org | 2019-08-22
The policies that the pro-US think tank proposes could not be implemented without the suppression of widespread political opposition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/22/ussc…

Planned Parenthood Feels Squeeze After Quitting Federal Program
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-22
SALT LAKE CITY–Planned Parenthood clinics in several states are charging new fees, tapping financial reserves, intensifying fundraising and warning of more unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases after its decision to quit a $260 million federal family planning program in an abortion dispute with the Trump administration. | The fallout is especially intense in Utah, where Planned Parenthood has been the only provider participating in the nearly 50-year-old Title X family planning program and will now lose about $2 million yearly in federal funds that helped 39,000 mostly low-income, uninsur…
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US Steel announces up to 200 layoffs at Great Lakes Works in Ecorse, Michigan
wsws.org | 2019-08-22
The recent layoffs in suburban Detroit serve to shatter any illusion that workers’ jobs and living standards can be protected through trade war measures.
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KrisAnne Hall Addresses League of the South Chapter
Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-08-22
KrisAnne Hall, a self-described “constitutional attorney” who thinks states have the right to secede, recently addressed a neo-Confederate hate group whose goal is to create what the Civil War did not: a separate Southern nation.
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Boris Johnson’s Brexit Helter Skelter
Kenneth Surin | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
Trump sent his national security adviser John “Bonkers” Bolton to London, where the neocon Bonkers could hang out with Trump’s pal BoJo Johnson, absolutely relaxed in the knowledge that this was one place in the world where his host would not treat Bonkers on the latter’s proven merits, that is, as a bona fide nut-case.
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The Mad World of Theresa May Has Lured the EU into a Trap
Rodney Atkinson | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
This article was originally published in December 2018. | The British Prime Minister’s Brexit has been so epically disastrous that it has trapped the EU into an ideal result for the UK. This is consistent with the upside down world she …
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No Deal Chaos: the Brexit Cliff Face and Operation Yellowhammer
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-22
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 Britain would leave the European Union, would receive a boost — a “turbocharge”, no less.
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Should we fight a war on white terrorism?
Harry Blain | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-22
Although its precise scale is hard to measure, violent white supremacy is clearly a problem in the United States. From El Paso to Pittsburgh, the fears and fantasies of an immigrant invasion, a liberal Jewish betrayal, and a righteous race war have motivated surgically targeted slaughter. With law enforcement — especially the Federal Bureau of …
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Should We Fight a War on White Terrorism?
Harry Blain | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
Klu Klux Klan rally on the National Mall, 1926. (Photo: Shutterstock) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Are Terrorism Watch Lists Expanding Under Trump?
Dave Lindorff | thenation.com | 2019-08-22
Are Terrorism Watch Lists Expanding Under Trump?
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I’m a Journalist. Why Did I End Up on an FBI Terrorist Watch List?
Dave Lindorff | thenation.com | 2019-08-22
I’m a Journalist. Why Did I End Up on an FBI Terrorist Watch List?
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Bolsonaro’s ‘Disastrous’ Policies on Amazon Led to Fires, Say Observers
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
“We must stand together behind the Indigenous communities and leaders across the Amazon region—from Brazil to Ecuador and beyond. For them the Amazon is more than the lungs of the world, it is their home.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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‘She Is Failing Us’: Demanding Trump Impeachment, Progressives Disrupt Pelosi ‘Resistance’ Award Ceremony
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
“Trump is selling the government to the highest bidder and migrant children are dying in detention—on her watch.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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‘Time We Cast All Medals Into Spearheads of Revolution:’ Refugee-Rescuing Boat Captain Rejects Humanitarian Award
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
“We do not need authorities deciding about who is a ‘hero’ and who is ‘illegal.'” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Sanders and Warren Celebrated for Returning Donations From Employees at Hedge Funds Linked to Puerto Rico
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
“No candidate should take contributions from hedge funds and vulture funds driving austerity in Puerto Rico.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Water Rights Group Calls on Newark Officials to Resist Privatization of City’s Water Supply Amid Lead Crisis
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-22
Pointing to the public health crisis that ensued in Flint, Michigan after the city turned over control of its water to the state, water rights advocates called on leaders in Newark, New Jersey to retain their authority over the city’s water as they confront their own lead crisis. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Russia’s UNSC Kashmir Stance Wasn’t Influenced by India or Pakistan, but by China
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
Russia didn’t want the issue of Kashmir to be brought before the UNSC at all, though it allowed China to go forward with the meeting out of respect for their strategic partnership but then remained conspicuously silent about India’s threats …
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What’s Russia Up to in the Iranian Port of Chabahar? The North-South Transport Corridor (NSTC)
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-22
There have been wild reports over the past few weeks about Russia’s activities in the Iranian port of Chabahar, with some sources even alleging that Moscow plans to open up a naval base there. | *** | An interesting sequence of events | …
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Relentless sequence of disasters in Asia-Pacific ‘sign of things to come’, cautions UN regional body
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-22
Changing patterns and worsening impacts of natural disasters in Asia and the Pacific, coupled with environmental degradation and climate change, are not only making efforts to predict such catastrophes more difficult, but are also a “sign of things to come”, the United Nations development arm in the region has warned.
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Tales from the Extinction Rebellion Chill Zone
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-22
climate emergency Amy WarneIssue 1234 Australia Extinction Rebellion arrests Declaration DayCommunity activist Amy Warne was ar…
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‘International emergency’ as fires devastate Brazil’s rainforest
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-22
environment Jake JohnsonIssue 1234 Brazil Amazon forest fires climate changeThe hashtag #PrayForAmazonia went viral…
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Collusion in Brazil’s judiciary brings the curtain down on the rule of law
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-22
corruption Tony RosenbergIssue 1234 Brazil Operation Car WashMessages between Brazil’s federal prosecutor, Deltan Dallagnol, who led Operaàßà£o Lava Jato (Operation Car Wash) and then-judge, Sergio Moro, have revealed that the evidence used to jail Brazil’…
greenleft.org.au/content/collusion-brazi…

Arms race accelerates as US tests cruise missile
susan_p | greenleft.org.au | 2019-08-22
arms race Jessica CorbettIssue 1234 United States US missile testNuclear experts and disarmament advocates are warning that the world is witnessing a new arms race after the United States tested a new missile on August 18. | The test would have violated a Cold Wa…
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Warren Apologizes to Native Americans; Sanders Backs Rescinding Medals for Wounded Knee Massacre
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-22
This week 10 Democratic candidates and one independent in the 2020 presidential race, including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, addressed indigenous communities at the first-ever Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa. During the two-day event, candidates individually answered questions from a panel of tribal leaders and Native American youth and elders on issues including treaty rights, voter suppression, and murdered and missing indigenous women.
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The Amazon is Burning at a Record Rate
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-22
The fires are the product of Bolsonaro’s policies that prioritize agribusiness over people–especially indigenous people, says Amazon Watch’s Christian Poirier…
therealnews.com/stories/the-amazon-is-bu…

Emergency Palantir Mass Mobilization–#StopICEterror
Coaltion to Close the Concentration Camps | indybay.org | 2019-08-22
100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94301-1616, United States | (Palantir Headquarters)…
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APTP Monthly Membership Meeting: Scott Morris on Santa Rita Jail
Anti Police-Terror Project | indybay.org | 2019-08-22
East Side Arts Alliance | 2277 International Blvd. | Oakland, CA 94606…
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Indian assault on Kashmir in third week, thousands arrested
wsws.org | 2019-08-21
Despite India’s efforts to black out what is happening in Kashmir, information is leaking out that points to both widespread repression and popular resistance.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/21/kash…

Solidarity with the people of Kashmir
Sara Flounders | workers.org | 2019-08-21
Workers World Party has always recognized the right of the people of Kashmir to self-determination. WWP considers Kashmir to be an oppressed nation under the rule of India. At this time, the entire state, called Jammu and Kashmir, is under total lockdown and marshal law. The Indian government has more . . . | Continue reading Solidarity with the people of Kashmir at Workers.org
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In defense of Palestine
Editor | workers.org | 2019-08-21
The issue of occupied Palestine once again took center stage in the world press when two women members of the congressional Squad — Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — were initially denied the right to enter Israel by its fascistic Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Aug. 15, at . . . | Continue reading In defense of Palestine at Workers.org
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Jewish activists support Congressperson Tlaib
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2019-08-21
About 60 members of Metro Detroit’s Jewish community held a rally and Shabbat service Aug. 16 to support their congressperson, Rashida Tlaib. Israel recently denied Tlaib permission to meet with Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank, along with Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Tlaib had also planned to visit . . . | Continue reading Jewish activists support Congressperson Tlaib at Workers.org
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Representatives Omar and Tlaib speak out against being banned from Palestine
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-08-21
St. Paul, MN – On August 19, Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Michigan) held a press conference in the State Capitol in Saint Paul to a packed room, with an overflow of 100 people, on the human cost of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and travel restrictions. | On August 16, the Israeli government denied the representatives visas to visit Palestine. Their visas previously had been approved, but after a tweet by Donald Trump denouncing Omar and Tlaib’s visit, the approval was revoked. Congresswoman Stacy Plaskett, delegate to House for the Virgin Islands, was to join them on th…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/8/21/represen…

Omar, Tlaib, and the United States of Israel
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
I’m trying to remember when Israel wasn’t the fifty-first state. It receives my tax money and a blank check by the United States government to torture, ethnically cleanse, and murder Palestinians. | Israelis are apparently more important and cherished than Americans, …
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Venezuela: About 4 Million Sign Petition Against US Blockade
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
Venezuela’s government announced that the petition to collect signatures calling on the United States to lift the unilateral blockade under the “#NoMoreTrump” campaign has reached four million rubrics with about three weeks still to go. | RELATED: | Venezuela: Arreaza Denounces Blockade to UN Security Council | “We already reached four million signatures. Do not be left behind, go out to sign, in the Bolivar Squares of the country, for the defense of Venezuela, for the peace of th…
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Rick Perry, politician responsible for US nukes, falls for embarrassing Instagram hoax
rt.com | 2019-08-21
The US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry showed his age and social media naivety by reposting a hoax that supposedly stops Instagram from making its users’ public posts… public. | The former governor of Texas, who’s currently responsible for America’s nuclear arsenal, shared…
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Assad Vows to ‘Liberate Every Inch of Territory from Terrorists’
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-21
Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad reiterated his government’s commitment to ‘”liberate every inch of territory from terrorists,” following a victory for the Syrian Arab Army in the key Idlib town of Khan Sheikhoun. | RELATED: | China Warns of Reemergence of Islamic State Group in Syria | President Assad made the statement while receiving a delegation from Russia’s Douma, headed by lawmaker Dmitry Sablin. At the meeting, Sablin congratulated Assad for the army’s recent military vic…
telesurenglish.net/news/Assad-Vows-to-Li…

Washington intensifies its collective punishment of Venezuelans
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-21
Despite previous sanctions leading to over 40,000 deaths in Venezuela over two years, the U.S. is escalating its economic offensive. | Source…
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US to allow indefinite detention for migrant children following rule change
rt.com | 2019-08-21
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced a change in policy that could see migrant children detained indefinitely, replacing a previous restriction limiting confinement of undocumented minors to 20 days. | The department announced on Wednesday that it would terminate the 1997 Flores Settlement, which set requirements for detaining migrants, arguing the rules contained a “loophole” that drives illegal immigration into the US. | “By closing this key loophole in Flores, the new rule will restore integrity to our immigration system and eliminate the major pull factor fueling the crisis,” acting Home…
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That Couldn’t Be True: Restorying and Reconciliation
Michael Welton | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
The Canadian nation-state presents itself to the world as a benign peacekeeper and benevolent force for good in the world. This myth washes over us and leaves us unwilling and reluctant to face up to our past as a white settler colonial state. If we did a few nasty things in the past, well, that…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/that-couldnt…

Taliban Peace Talks Must Not Ignore CIA-Funded Afghan Militias, Report Says
Alex Emmons | theintercept.com | 2019-08-21
“If cut loose by the CIA,” the report notes, militias “may be reborn as private armies or ‘security guards’ in the service of powerful individuals.”
theintercept.com/2019/08/21/taliban-peac…

Australian Investigative Journalist Exposes Mainstream Media Betrayal of Assange
Oscar Grenfell | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-21
At a Sydney “Politics in the Pub” meeting on Thursday night, award-winning Australian journalist Mark Davis revealed new first-hand information exposing the extent of the betrayal of Julian Assange by the Guardian and the New York Times, and refuting the …
globalresearch.ca/australian-investigati…

The Forest Service Puts Ranchers Ahead of Grizzlies (and the Public Interest)
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
The recent killing of more grizzly bears by the Wyoming Game and Fish, a listed endangered species, to protect ranchers in the Upper Green River Allotment on the Bridger Teton National Forest is another shameful example of the mixed-up priorities and mismanagement of our public lands. Why should native animals, especially endangered animals, be killed…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/21/the-forest-s…

The Dead Letter Office of Capitalist Imperium: a Poverty of Mundus Imaginalis
Kenn Orphan — Phil Rockstroh | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-21
PR: What has been of greater service to humanity, the dark vision of humanity, limned in satire, by Jonathan Swift or the positivity-rancid homilies of corporate church of self-actualization? What is more propitious to the psyche, a descent into the underworld by Orphic imagination or the Icarusian dazzle on Instagram or the narcissistic intoxication induced…
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