Trump’s Concentration Camps for Children
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-24
This week, the Trump Administration declared that immigrant children can be detained indefinitely, and in conditions that can be described as concentration camps. We talk to Sasha Abramsky of The Nation…
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Kashmir: Decentralize Power and Revive Regional Political Institutions
Nyla Ali Khan | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
Introduction As the decade of the 1990s dawned, the politicial, cultural and socioeconomic fabric of Kashmir was severely impaired by the free rein given to Indian military and paramilitary forces to quell dissidence, and also by Pakistan-trained militants who, in a no holds barred conflict, inflicted atrocities on their co-religionists as well. New Delhi hadn’t…
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Kashmir on the edge of the abyss
Tariq Ali | mronline.org | 2019-08-23
Tariq Ali on the situation in Kashmir. | Source…
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Bolivia Orders World’s Largest Air Tanker to Combat Amazon Fires
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
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 that have that spilled over from Brazil. By Wednesday evening, the government confirmed that the tanker …
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Bolsonaro May Send Army to Fight Massive Amazon Fires
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-23
France accuses the Brazilian leader of lying over his commitment to save the rainforest, which is seen as crucial to slowing global warming.
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Climate change, Amazon fires come to France with G7 protests
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-23
BIARRITZ, France–The continuing controversy over international action — or lack of it — to deal with climate change, and the latest big threat to the environment, the massive Brazilian Amazonian wildfires, will descend on the G7 summit here this weekend. The object: To force the leaders of the world’s top industrialized nations to do something …
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‘Counter-G7 Summit’ Rejects Cynicism of Developed Nations
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-23
Less than 24 hours before the Group of Seven (G7) Summit begins, over 15,000 police and military have been drafted into Biarritz to prevent environmental, gender and social activists from reaching this French elegant town. | RELATED: | ‘G7 Summit Should Address Crisis at the Amazon’, Germany Says | “I know there’s 15,000 police and it doesn’t scare me,” activist Genevieve Legay said, adding that the “desperate” French government might use its security forces to hit “us who are aski…
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Mura Indigenous Tribe Vows to Protect Sacred Amazon Land
teleSUR, TR | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-23
A record number of wildfires have raged for weeks and are decimating the Brazilian Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest whose protection scientists say is critical to the fight against climate change. | The blazes have nearly doubled this year compared with the same period in 2018, according to Brazilian officials, prompting a global outcry. | The wildfires come against the backdrop of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has railed against environmental fines for farmers and called for indigenous reserves and other protected areas to be opened up for development. | The Mura tribe has long had…
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GOP Lobbyists Help Brazil Recruit U.S. Companies to Exploit the Amazon
Lee Fang | theintercept.com | 2019-08-23
This summer, fires are being used to clear wide swaths of the Amazon at an unprecedented rate. One-fifth of the Amazon has already been destroyed in the past 50 years; further industrialization of the rainforest risks destroying another fifth, a loss that would be catastrophic for the global ecosystem. | The disaster is widely blamed on interests seeking to clear the world’s largest rainforest for cattle ranching, mining, and export-focused agribusiness. Documents reveal that those interests a…
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Joint Statement on the Amazon Rainforest Fires and Brazilian President Jair Bolonsaro’s War on Indignenous
commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
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Amazon Fires Put the Planet at Risk
Tierra Curry | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
In Brazil, the Amazon rainforest is now burning at a record rate. The greedy, short-sighted policies of Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro are jeopardizing indigenous peoples and countless plants and animals. Indeed, in the midst of a climate emergency, Bolsonaro’s policies to slash environmental protections and develop the Amazon for mining, ranching and farming jeopardize…
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GateHouse’s Takeover of Gannett: Bad News for Journalism and the Planet
Janine Jackson | fair.org | 2019-08-23
USA Today’s “Just the FAQs” video ( 8/20/19) on the Amazon fires–which promises to explain, “How does this affect our planet?”–manages to avoid ever using the words “climate” or “global warming.” (There is one reference to “carbon and greenhouse gases,” not further explained.) | by Janine Jackson | USA Today ran a piece ( 8/20/19) on the Amazon fires in which “anthr…
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Wildfires rage throughout the Amazon rainforest
wsws.org | 2019-08-23
The Amazon rainforest supplies one-fifth of the world’s oxygen and plays a key role in the planet’s climate.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/23/fire…
Bolsonaro Wants to Occupy the Amazon to Obstruct Multiracial Conservation Plans
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-23
| Leaked documents show that Jair Bolsonaro’s government intends to use the Brazilian president’s hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazon region. The PowerPoint slides, which democraciaAbierta has seen, also reveal plans to implement predatory projects that could have a devastating environmental impact. | The Bolsonaro government has as one of its priorities to strategically occupy the Amazon region to prevent the implementation of multilateral conservation projects for…
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Views of Destruction: Satellite Images Reveal Devastating Amazon Fires in Almost Real-Time
Rhett Butler, Mongabay | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
With near-daily overflights and high-resolution imagery, Planet’s constellation of satellites is providing a clear look at some of the fires now burning in the Brazilian Amazon | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The Amazon Is Burning Because the World Eats So Much Meat
Eliza Mackintosh | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
A satellite image from NASA shows the fires raging in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil in August 2019. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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When Reporting on Global Crises Like the Amazon Fires, the Media Needs to Focus on Who’s Fighting Them
Janine Jackson | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
Corporate media addressing modern day crises like the Amazon fires will never do them anything approaching justice. (Photo: Getty) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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As Amazon burns, Brazilians Disrupt Minister of the Environment Presentation Demanding Climate Action
commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
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World Watching the Fate of Iranian Tanker
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
At 11: 30pm on Sunday, August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya-1 left the shores of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. This ship had been detained about six weeks previous by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar officials. The …
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Trump Regime Threatens Illegal Sanctions on Nations Legally Buying Iranian Oil
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The US under both extremist right wings of its war party is a rogue state by any definition. | It operates extrajudicially at home and abroad. It’s increasingly repressive and totalitarian, heading toward full-blown tyranny if the present trend continues unchecked….
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Australia joins US naval operation against Iran, foreshadows involvement in South China Sea
wsws.org | 2019-08-23
Sixteen years after the Iraq war, US imperialism has plans for even more catastrophic crimes–against both Iran and China.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/23/auir…
‘Crime does pay’: CNN hires disgraced ex-FBI director Andrew McCabe
rt.com | 2019-08-23
What does one get for leaking to the media, lying to federal investigators about it, and allegedly participating in a plot to derail an American election? If you answered jail time, too bad. The correct answer is a job at CNN. | …
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More Russiagate unraveling? Ex-CEO says FBI instructed him to have relationship with Maria Butina
rt.com | 2019-08-23
Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has told media that he was ordered by the FBI to initiate a romantic relationship with imprisoned Russian gun activist Maria Butina, seemingly confirming claims made by her lawyer. | Byrne, who resigned from the online retail company on Thursday, explained to CNN’s Chris Cuomo that he had been asked by the FBI — on the orders of then-director James Comey — to “rekindle a romantic relationship” with Butina. | Taken aback by the claim, Cuomo interjected: “You believe that Jim Comey knew that you were being asked to do these things in the name of the United States gove…
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US escalates preparations for nuclear war with Russia and China
wsws.org | 2019-08-23
After withdrawing from the INF treaty, the US is accelerating its preparations to fight a nuclear war with China or Russia by testing and stockpiling dangerous new weapons in a nuclear arms race.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/23/nucl…
WATCH: Plane cabin fills with smoke moments before emergency landing
rt.com | 2019-08-23
Horrified passengers of Hawaiian Airlines were lucky to escape disaster after their cabin filled with smoke during a flight to Honolulu on Thursday. Their plane made an emergency landing before the crew evacuated all on board. | Seven passengers, five adults and two children, were hospitalized after suffering “smoke-related symptoms,” the airline said in a statement. | Also on rt.com | | Watch Swiss fighter jets shadow Russian GOVERNMENT PLANE as ‘act of hospitality’ | Smoke began filling the cabin 20 minutes before the flight from Oakland, California lan…
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ICE Raids Benefit Bosses by Creating Fear in Workers
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-23
| On August 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents carried out coordinated raids at seven agricultural processing plants in Mississippi, detaining 680 immigrant workers. Officials told The Washington Post that the operation was “the largest single-state workplace enforcement action in U.S. history.” | The massive operation generated terror in immigrant communities alrea…
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Suddenly West is Failing to Overthrow “Regimes”
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-23
It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If the country did not collapse within months or just couple of years, the bombing would …
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Suddenly the West Is Failing to Overthrow “Regimes”
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
It used to be done regularly and it worked: The West identified a country as its enemy, unleashed its professional propaganda against it, then administered a series of sanctions, starving and murdering children, the elderly and other vulnerable groups. If …
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Sasha Abramsky on Trump’s New Attack on Immigrants
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-08-23
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Justice Department Admits It Emailed Judges a Link to a White Nationalist Site
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-23
| The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Thursday said an email sent to all immigration court employees this week mistakenly included a link to a white nationalist website. | The email, which included links to various news articles on immigration, included a link to a blog post on VDare, a white nationalist website, BuzzFeed News reported.
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Trump Fine-tunes Peace Deal with Taliban
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The US President Donald Trump’s remarks at the Oval Office in the White House on August 20 regarding the Afghan peace talks and related issues exuded an overall sense of satisfaction that the “endless war” is finally ending –although …
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Venezuela’s Maduro Confirms Secret Trump Talks as US Navy ‘Ready’ For Action
Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-08-23
US Southern Command chief said US Navy will “do what needs to be done.”
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US Navy “Ready” to “Restore Democracy” in Venezuela through Military Means?
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
“I’m not going to detail what we’re planning and what we’re doing, but we’re ready to implement policy decisions, and we’re ready to act … | The United States Navy is the most powerful navy in the world. … | If there …
globalresearch.ca/us-navy-ready-to-resto…
They Don’t Make Republicans Like the Great Paul Findley Anymore!
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
In his 22 years in Congress (1960 — 1982), Paul Findley achieved a sterling record for fundamental positions, proposals and breakthroughs that revealed a great man, pure and simple. He never stopped learning and applying his knowledge to advance the right course of action, regardless of political party, ideology or pressure from various groups. Findley,…
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The War on Indigenous People is a War on the Biosphere Itself
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” — E.O. Wilson “Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.” –Cree Proverb…
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Indigenous People’s Rights and Canada’s ‘Vampire’ Pension Plan
Prof. James K. Rowe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Wet’suwet’en people have never ceded their land through treaty; like many Indigenous people they continue to practice relations of responsibility with the places and beings that give them life, including protecting them from ecological devastation. In January 2019, the RCMP …
globalresearch.ca/indigenous-peoples-rig…
Educators Actually Do “Work” in the Summer
Laura Finley | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
I love what I do. Being an educator is interesting, creative, and rewarding. And it is also hard work. That’s why it is offensive as we head back to school to hear people say “must have been nice to have the summer off to do nothing.” Surely most do not intend to offend. I get…
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Is Environmental Protection Possible?
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
The US EPA I joined the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1979. It happened by accident. A friend in Alexandria, Virginia, was working for the personnel office of EPA. We talked and I expressed interest in EPA. I said to him something to the effect the EPA was a great and necessary institution in late…
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Congo’s Patrice Lumumba: The Winds of Reaction in Africa
Kenneth Good | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
The Congo won independence from Belgium in June 1960 with Patrice Lumumba, age 35, as Prime Minister. Immediately it began to fall apart, under revanchist Belgian assault, Cold War pressures, adjacent settler colonial reaction and collaborationist Congolese elites like Moise Tshombe and Joseph Desire Mobutu. On 12 July Lumumba and President Kasavubu asked UN Secretary…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/congos-patri…
The Politicization of the US Justice System
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The American criminal justice system has long been a sharp painful thorn in the nation’s consciousness as if to remind us of a major flaw in the American way of life. Mostly, that awareness has focused on the inequities of …
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Lawsuit Challenges Trump Administration Attack on Endangered Species Act
Earth Justice | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Environmental and animal protection groups today sued the Trump administration over its new regulations that dramatically weaken the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Earthjustice filed the lawsuit on behalf of Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Natural …
globalresearch.ca/lawsuit-challenges-tru…
Our Vanishing World: Melting Glaciers
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Something is causing the worlds glaciers and mountain ice fields to melt. And, despite your first thought, it is not the ongoing climate catastrophe. | It does not matter where on Earth the glaciers and mountain ice fields are located, they …
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California Tightens Restrictions of Police Use of Lethal Force to Counter Nationwide Outrage over Unarmed Civilian Murders
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
A new law passed on Monday in California and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom now allows police officers to only use lethal force when it is “necessary” in response to a threat instead of the existing “reasonable” standard. | Assembly bill …
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Are terrorist watch lists expanding under Trump?
Dave Lindorff | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-23
My wife, Joyce, and I recently traveled to Vienna for a week, where she had been invited to perform on Austrian state radio. Passing through Heathrow on our way home, we were separated by an automated security gate. The gate, which required you to scan your boarding pass, allowed Joyce through, but when I ran …
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Notes on Inauthenticity in a Creeping Fascist Nuthouse
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
The reigning corporate Democrats would rather lose to the right, even to a proto-fascistic white nationalist and eco-exterminist right, than lose to the left, even to a mildly progressive social democratic and environmentalist left within their own party. How else explain their insistence on promoting the ridiculous, right-wing arch-corporatist, imperialist, and dementia-plagued right-wing gaffe machine Joke Biden in the long march to the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries?
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/notes-on-ina…
Why a Defense Agreement with Israel Would be a Disaster for Americans. Lindsey Graham’s Blank Check
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Two world wars began because of unconditional pledges made by one country to come to assistance of another. On July 5, 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledged his country’s complete support for whatever response Austria-Hungary would choose to make …
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Whither the Resistance to our Capitalist Overlords?
Gary Olson | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
All efforts to reform the American system is capitulation. — Chris Hedges Without massive resistance to white supremacy and war, the U.S. empire threatens to devour itself alive and will no doubt attempt to take us with it. — Danny Haiphong No serious change, remotely popular sovereignty, no protection and advance of the common good…
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Hybrid wars are destroying Democracies
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-08-23
In Brazil recently, I gave an interview to Brasil de Fato, which was born in 2003 as the weekly magazine of the World Social Forum. It is now one of the most important windows into Brazil’s political world. The newsletter this week carries the text of most of the interview. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/23/hybrid-wars-are-…
One Woman’s Research on Aquatic Bioinvasions, Seaweed, Wave Energy
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-23
Symbioses — prolonged associations between organisms often widely separated phylogenetically — are more common in biology than we once thought and have been neglected as a phenomenon worthy of study on its own merits. Extending along a dynamic continuum from antagonistic to cooperative and often involving elements of both antagonism and mutualism, symbioses involve pathogens, …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/one-womans-re…
German defence minister visits troops in Jordan and Iraq
wsws.org | 2019-08-23
The message of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was the same everywhere: The German army should continue and even expand its operations in the resource-rich Middle East.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/23/kram…
NPR Mocks Cancer Survivor in Drumbeat of Syria Propaganda
Rick Sterling | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-23
While NPR snorts about Asma Assad “sporting a chic blonde pixie cut”, Lilly Martin points out that she was recently bald while fighting for her life.
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Video: Khan Shaykhun Liberated, Northern Hama Pocket — Next
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
On August 21, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and the Tiger Forces liberated the town of Khan Shaykhun and the areas of Khazanat and Tal Taeri, thus fully encircling remaining militants in northern Hama. | The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham strong points …
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Syria’s SDF’s Child Soldiers
Miri Wood | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
In Syria news briefs today, two children were injured in another landmine blast; a child fleeing from US ‘SDF’ criminal militia was shot to death; Reconciliation continues; an increase in olive production is expected. | Two children were injured …
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Syrian Terrorists Cannot Hold Northern Hama Pocket for Long Time
Ahmad Al Khaled | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The Syrian army has managed to make significant progress in clashes with “opposition” groups in Northwestern Syria, taking the strategically important city of Khan Sheikhoun. The SAA also cut the highway located to the North from the city, blocking supply …
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What China’s Leadership is Really Worried About: Rising Debt
Tom Clifford | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
Beijing. 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 the Yellow Sea. But far from the madding crowd, the resort, 200 km north…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/what-chinas-…
On Those Downward Jobs Revisions
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that its benchmark revision to its job numbers shows that the economy created 501,000 fewer jobs between March of 2018 and March of 2019 than previously reported. There are a few points to be made about this number. First, there is nothing fishy here. Trump has zero to do…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/on-those-dow…
The Realism and Unrealism of the Green New Deals
Pete Dolack | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
A problem facing advocates of serious action to deter global warming is that the costs of not acting aren’t quantifiable and remain somewhat abstract. In contrast, calling for a phase-out of fossil fuels understandably leads to fears of job losses, especially since capitalism isn’t going to offer new employment for those displaced. There will be…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/the-realism-…
Farmers Need a Bill of Rights
Jim Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
On January 11, 1944 in his annual State of the Union Address, President Roosevelt noted that while the Constitution guaranteed a set of political rights, they were in some respects inadequate. To ensure equality, Roosevelt proposed an Economic Bill of Rights that would guarantee: -Full employment with an adequate income -Freedom from monopolies and unfair…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/farmers-need…
The White-Nationalist Great Fear
David Rosen | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
A century ago, the nation was wracked by race wars known as the “Red Summer” of 1919. Today, race wars are resurging, but implemented not by gangs or groups as in the early-20thcentury but by isolated — and heavily armed — individuals who share a common white-nationalist ideology. During much of the late-1910s and early-20s, gangs…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/the-white-na…
Beware of the Gun-Lover-in-Chief
Rev. William Alberts | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
President Trump loves guns. They are an extension of his violent personality. It is assumed that, as a last resort, guns will be the means by which he will try to enforce his authoritarian will on Americans if he loses the election in 2020. The signs are there. When running for president, Donald Trump said…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/beware-of-th…
Meditation on a Racist Nation
Ron Jacobs | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
What You Gonna’ Do When the World’s on Fire? is a powerful film. Set in a Black neighborhood in the US deep South years after the flooding from hurricane Katrina, the film tells a story of hope and despair, anger and love, and joy and sorrow. Political in the sense that all human experience is…
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What It’s Like to Grow Up Hunted
Josue De Luna Navarro | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
It was a quiet Sunday night when my dad told me to hide in a closet — and stay there until he said to come out. As I sat in the dark, I knew this was part of my life, part of my identity. The darkness and fear slowly penetrated my heart. I tightened up…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/what-its-lik…
What Netanyahu’s Travel Ban Has Revealed
L. Michael Hager | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
Until a few weeks ago America’s unqualified support for Israel was solidly bipartisan. Aided by media bias and reporter reluctance to address on-the-ground realities, AIPAC and its affiliates had the public relations space virtually to themselves. Reinforced by mainstream media, the “Exodus” narrative captured and retained popular sympathy, while U.S. policymakers began to regard Israel…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/what-netanya…
Saving the Planet Means Fighting Bipartisan Corruption
Daphne Wysham | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
Burning fossil fuels boils our planet — that much is generally well known. But often these fuels do serious damage before they ever get to market. They spill out of pipelines, poison groundwater, or explode on trains. Even when they don’t, building new pipelines and export terminals helps companies sell more fuel — often of…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/saving-the-p…
Brazil: From Global Leader to U.S. Lapdog
Helder F. do Vale | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
Brazil recently gained the vaunted status of “Major Non-NATO Ally.” This title symbolizes the new, preferential relationship that Brazil has been pursuing with the U.S. as a result of the continued efforts by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to inaugurate a new phase in Brazil’s global role. Bolsonaro’s presidency has initiated deep changes in Brazilian foreign…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/brazil-from-…
Earth 4C Hotter
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
A decade ago several prominent climate scientists discussed the prospects of a 4C Earth. Their concern was qualified “… if greenhouse gases do not slow down, then expect a 4C Earth by 2055.” Of course, that would be catastrophic, and one can only assume those scientists must have recognized real risks. Otherwise, why address the…
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Mr. Trump Goes to Kensington
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
The election of Donald Trump should have forced broad reconsideration of the American project. Whatever the factors one chooses to explain his political ascension, he comes from outside the realm or ordinary expectations. However, in Mr. Trump’s case, it is the expectations that are skewed. In a world run by and for the rich, less probable explanations of how wealth and power are achieved predominate.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/mr-trump-goe…
Recession Now, Please
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
It is a basic fact of economic life in capitalist economies: recessions happen, there are cycles of boom and bust. By the 1850s, Karl Marx had pretty well figured out the how and why, the underlying mechanisms. His account has held up well over the years, though you would hardly know it to hear mainstream macro-economists tell it.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/recession-no…
Risks to Health and Well-Being from Radio-Frequency Radiation (RFR) Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices
Anthony B. Miller | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
We bring to the attention of our readers this important scientific report on the health impacts of cellphone radio frequency radiation. | Below are relevant excerpts. To access the full report click here. | emphasis added | *** | Radiation exposure has long been | …
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Giant 5G Drones in Hawaii Skies? Pushback Is Growing
Dr. Debra Greene | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
As we approach the 5G Crisis: Awareness & Accountability online summit, Dr. Debra Greene uncovers a crazy development in Hawaii, in her 4-min video above, or on YouTube here. Sign the petition to help stop the 5G drone development …
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Imperial Sentiments: Donald Trump, Greenland and Colonial Real Estate
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Haven’t the critics worked it out yet? US President Donald Trump chugs to the coal of nonsense that may come in the wrapping of some sense. Initial mad-cat comments, when cobbled together, might reveal some pattern in time. | Take, for …
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Boris Johnson Government’s High Speed 2 (HS2) Rail Link Evaluation Fatally Flawed by Incompetent Ministers
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
It is inappropriate that the cost benefit analysis of the largest civil construction project in Europe, worth between £56 billion and £100 billion, is essentially in the hands of a newly appointed, inexperienced transport minister with a less than savoury …
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Eighty Years Ago… The Hitler-Stalin Pact of August 23, 1939: Myth and Reality
Dr. Jacques R. Pauwels | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
In a remarkable book, 1939: The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, the Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley describes how, at the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union repeatedly tried, but finally failed, to …
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U.S. to “Drown the World” in Oil
Nick Cunningham | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The U.S. could “drown the world in oil” over the next decade, which, according to Global Witness, would “spell disaster” for the world’s attempts to address climate change. | The U.S. is set to account for 61 percent of all new …
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The “Lungs of the Earth” Are Literally Being Burned Away as Unprecedented Wildfires Absolutely Ravage Our Planet
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
We have never seen anything quite like this. This week the skies above Brazil’s largest city turned black in the middle of the afternoon due to the massive wildfires that are currently raging in that country. But the wildfires aren’t …
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If Statues Could Talk
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
A poem, (written by Emma Lazarus) that is highlighted on the base of the Statue of Liberty contains the following: | “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. …
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Hidden Trump report reveals water plan will harm endangered whales and salmon
Jordan Davidson | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-23
It’s become a familiar story with the Trump administration: Scientists write a report that shows the administration’s policies will cause environmental damage, then the administration buries the report and fires the scientists. The latest chapter in that book happened this summer in California when federal officials suppressed a scientific report that warned that the administration’s plans to …
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Newark fights for clean water
Esteban Guevara | liberationnews.org | 2019-08-23
Residents in Newark are organizing and fighting back for the right to clean water.
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Trump Never Had a Grand Strategy for China
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-23
President Trump has delayed the new tariffs he threatened to impose on Chinese imports in the early fall, and exempted some other Chinese imports altogether. The de-escalation of the Sino-U.S. trade war is especially welcome, given the markets’ renewed concerns about impending recession. Also striking was the president’s tacit acknowledgment that the tariffs threatened to harm the Am…
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‘Winning is for capitalists’? Socialist Monopoly takes a whack at America’s favorite bogeyman
rt.com | 2019-08-23
A new “socialist” Monopoly reboot has won over conservatives and triggered eye-rolls from liberals — and mysteriously disappeared from store shelves faster than you can say “a spectre is haunting Europe.” | Monopoly: Socialism — subtitled “winning is for capitalists” and “what’s yours is ours” — has joined Hasbro’s increasingly bizarre stable of Monopoly spinoffs that now includes Monopoly Game of Thrones, Monopoly for Millennials, Monopoly Star Wars, and Monopoly Gamer. Or has it? As of Thursday night, the game is no longer listed on Target’s website, where it was sold for $19.99, and only a h…
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‘Who is our bigger enemy?’: Trump lashes out, compares Fed chairman Powell to Chinese President Xi
rt.com | 2019-08-23
President Donald Trump has lashed out at the Federal Reserve chairman, after Jay Powell refused to cut interest rates to Trump’s liking, a move that would have given the president ammunition to escalate his trade war with China. | “As usual, the Fed did NOTHING!” Trump tweeted on Friday, after Powell announced that he would “sustain the expansion” of the US economy, but not by slashing interest rates by a whole percentage point, as Trump has repeatedly called for. Instead, Powell is likely to lower rates by around a quarter of a percentage point, from their current level of 2.25 percent. | Also on rt.com…
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Brandenburg, Germany: Far-right AfD leads polls in state election
wsws.org | 2019-08-23
While large parts of Brandenburg have been deindustrialised and abandoned, nearly 600 millionaires live in the state.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/23/bran…
Mercosur-EFTA Sign Trade Accord After 20 Years of Negotiations
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-23
In a historic signing, countries within Mercosur and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) came to a free trade agreement Friday after 23 years of negotiations. | RELATED: | ‘Brazil to Leave Mercosur if Cristina Wins’, Minister Guedes | Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called the document, “another great victory for our commercial opening and diplomacy,” who currently presides over the Mercosur bloc, which includes Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay. The head of state,…
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Man CRUSHED by elevator in nightmarish incident in luxury Manhattan high-rise
rt.com | 2019-08-23
A malfunctioning elevator in a posh New York City apartment building killed a man in a gruesome way, as other residents watched in horror. | Video of the graphic incident, captured by the building’s security cameras on Thursday morning, shows one person getting out of the elevator. When another passenger tries to follow, the elevator plummets down, shearing him in half and crushing his body against the shaft.Samuel Waisbren, 30, was pronounced dead at the scene. | “The elevator took him down,” one of the people who witnessed the event told the New York Daily News. “It’s awful. It was disgusting.” | Oh my gosh…
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US: Billionaire Tycoon, Tea Party Donor David Koch Dies at 79
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-23
Billionaire industrialist David Koch, behind conglomerate Koch Industries who, as one of the world’s richest people became a major financier of conservative causes and the Republican party, has died at age 79, his brother said Friday morning. | RELATED: | Richest 10% in US Will Own 100% of the Wealth by 2052: Study | Charles Koch, Koch Industries Inc.’s chairman, disclosed the death in a statement, saying the cause of his younger brother’s death was prostate cancer. | Koch amassed his va…
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Trump Tried — and Failed — to Slash and Burn Foreign Aid Programs
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-23
| For the last few weeks, the Trump administration has publicly mulled canceling roughly $4 billion in foreign aid already voted into law by Congress. On Thursday, facing a barrage of criticism, the administration abandoned those efforts. | The process, known as “rescission,” which reins in approved-but-as-yet-unspent dollars, would have set up yet another huge constitutional fight over which branch of go…
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David Koch, billionaire conservative & one of the world’s richest people, dies at 79
rt.com | 2019-08-23
US billionaire businessman and key Republican Party donor David Koch has died at the age of 79. | Koch stepped down from the family business, Koch Industries, last year amid health problems. His death has been confirmed by his older brother Charles. | “It is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing of my brother David,” says Charles Koch in statement.– Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 23, 2019 | David was listed by Forbes…
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$5 billion in EXIM Financing for Mozambique LNG Plant Fuels U.S. Contribution to Climate Emergency
commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
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Top 1% up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% down $900 Billion
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-23
The insights of this new data series are many, but for this post here I want to highlight a single eye-popping statistic. Between 1989 and 2018, the top 1 percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion. The bottom 50 percent actually saw its net worth decrease by $900 billion over the same period. | Source…
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2019-08-23
Portuguese truck drivers’ strike called off but dispute continues; further strikes by ground staff at Spain’s Barcelona airport; national strike at Nigeria’s universities…
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‘Our Lungs Are on Fire’: Climate Campaigners Rally at Brazilian Embassies to Protest Destruction of Amazon Rainforest
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
“We need governments around the world to speak up against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro—and put pressure on him to stop these devastating fires and protect the Amazon.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Critics Condemn Inclusion of Anti-Semitic, White Nationalist Blog Post in Daily Briefing Sent to Immigration Judges by Trump’s DOJ
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
A nationwide organization of U.S. immigration judges demanded immediate action to ensure that the U.S. Department of Justice operates without xenophobia, racism, and anti-semitism after a DOJ office sent a link to a white nationalist website to the entire immigration court system. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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It Is Definitely Not Enough
Futher Column, By Abby Zimet, Staff Writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
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Warnings of Grave Climate and Human Rights Impact as US Export-Import Bank Approves $5 Billion for Natural Gas Project in Mozambique
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
“If there is a project with serious alarm bells, it’s this one.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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After Life of Incalculable Harm, Billionaire Climate Denialist and Right-Wing Villain David Koch Dead at 79
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
“Death is an escape hatch for David Koch while the rest of us are left scrambling for the emergency brake before we go over the cliff.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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After Handing Rich $1.5 Trillion Tax Cut, Trump Reportedly Considering Slashing Medicare and Social Security as ‘Second-Term Project’
Jake Johnson, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-08-23
“Mr. Trump, you are not going to have a second term,” tweeted Sen. Bernie Sanders in response to the president’s reported plan | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Video: Under the “Shield”, US Nuclear Weapons in Europe
Manlio Dinucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The NATO missile site at Deveselu in Romania (photo), which is part of the US Aegis “defence missiles” system, has finished its “update”, begun last April. NATO’s communique assures that it has added “no offensive capacity to the system”, which …
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Deep Time and the Green River, Floating
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
These days there isn’t a vacant hotel room to be found in Vernal, Utah. Or Craig, Colorado. Or Pinedale, Wyoming, for that matter. The rooms are all booked up with oil workers, pipe-layers, explosive technicians and tax accountants versed in the intricacies of the depreciation allowance. The No Vacancy signs out here in the Interior…
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The War on Libya, US-Turkey Power Play? Marshal Haftar vs Recep Erdogan
Yuri Veselov | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Marshal Haftar made this statement when speaking at the LNA TV channel from Benghazi for the first time after a long break. | “The Libyan National Army will defeat any plot to build foreign bases that support and finance terrorism in | …
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Jewish Settlers Rule the Roost in Israel, But at What Price?
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
Israeli Jewish settlers are on a rampage in the occupied Palestinian West Bank. While settler violence is part of everyday routine in Palestine, the violence of recent weeks is directly linked to the general elections in Israel, scheduled to be held on September 17. The previous elections, on April 9, failed to bring about political…
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