California greenlights ‘Orwellian’ solar-powered fracking scheme
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-07
California-based multinational oil company Chevron landed two rounds of drilling permits from Gov. Gavin Newsom this summer–evidence, climate advocates say, that Newsom is not committed to tackling the climate crisis. | The permits bolster Chevron’s position in the Lost Hills Oil Field, the sixth most prolific field in industry-heavy Kern County, and will shift drilling in the field largely towards using power from solar panels. One critic called the way the permits use climate crisis rhetoric “Orwellian,” incorporating solar power into drilling operations to expand the use of fracking and oil production. T…
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Washington DC deadlocked as 30 million have their unemployment benefits cut
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-07
San José, CA – Talks between Democrats and Republicans about extending economic aid remained deadlocked as of Thursday morning, August 6. In May, Democrats passed their HEROES act to extend the $600 additional unemployment benefit, known as FPUC, or Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, as well as other economic aid for renters, state and local government, and others. But Republican senators and the Trump administration did nothing, hoping that the COVID-19 pandemic would go away, and the economy would recover in short order. The Republicans have also been hampered by divisions in the Senate, where a large…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/washington-dc…

Waupaca, WI: Black Lives Matter protest disrupted by cops, protester violently arrested
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-07
Waupaca, WI – On the afternoon of August 1, members of United Action Oshkosh (UAO) and supporters of Black Lives Matter from the Fox Valley area gathered with local supporters in the small town of Waupaca for a march. Nearly 30 people plus a small caravan of cars turned out for the rural action. | The Black Lives Matter march was the second in Waupaca for many of those in attendance, including the organizers from UAO. At the first march, the protest was greeted by a resistant police force and a slew of racists in their cars. At one point, one of these cars tried to drive through the back of the small march, nearl…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/waupaca-wi-bl…

Choking China and Hassling Huawei
CGTN | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-07
U.S. attacks against China have shifted to a fresh round of arbitrary threats forbidding travel to the United States by employees of Huawei and by the Communist Party of China members and their families. The reasoning behind it is astounding.
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/choking-china…

28 Million Evictions Loom as Houses Sit Empty
Lee Camp | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
America is not based on hard work. Get it out of your head that this society is set up to be fair. Fair would be everyone with a roof over their head…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/28-million-evictio…

Document exposes new U.S. plot to overthrow Nicaragua’s elected socialist gov’t
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
A disturbing new document outlines plans for a U.S. regime-change scheme against Nicaragua’s elected leftist government, overseen by USAID, to bring about a “market economy” and a purge of Sandinistas.
mronline.org/2020/08/06/document-exposes…

Public Health vs. Politics
Katherine Eban | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
White House Scrapped Nationwide COVID-19 Testing Plan to Hurt Blue States…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/public-health-vs-p…

Israel demolishes multiple Palestinian-owned buildings in occupied territories
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
A spate of illegal demolitions were carried out by the Israeli army on August 5, Wednesday, in the occupied territories of West Bank and East Jerusalem. Since Tuesday, Israeli authorities have destroyed three Palestinian homes, a barbershop and various unspecified structures on a large tract of land near an illegal Israeli settlement, as well as a number of animal shelters. | Khaled Abu Tayeh, a member of the Committee for the Defense of Silwan Land in occupied East Jerusalem, said that Israeli police and Jerusalem municipality staff escorted bulldozers into the Ein al-Lowza area of Silwan to carry out demolition…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/israel-de…

Global Research Newsletter Temporarily Suspended
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Dear Readers, | Due to technical issues, our daily newsletter sent out via e-mail is currently suspended. We will be able to resume the send-out within the next week or so. We thank you for your patience. | In the meantime, as …
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Covid Aid, Relief and Economic Security. The CARES Act: Is the Money is Going the More Prosperous Neighbourhoods?
Bart Naylor | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Ann Garrison spoke to Bart Naylor, financial policy advocate with Public Citizen, about the stimulus bill passed on March 25th and the one now pending. | *** | Ann Garrison: Most of us have heard that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, …
globalresearch.ca/we-need-national-indus…

Why the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ben Becker | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-06
The following article first appeared in the August 2005 issue of Socialism and Liberation magazine . The 75th anniversaries of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Japan are Aug. 6 and 9 of this year. August 6 and 9 of this year mark the 60th anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Hiroshima: A “Military Base” according to President Harry Truman
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
“The World will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians..”(President Harry S. Truman in a radio speech to the Nation, August 9, 1945).
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-a-military-b…

Progressives score big wins in Missouri and Michigan
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
ST. LOUIS–Progressive candidates, running on causes such as Medicare For All, the $15 minimum wage, workers’ rights, and the Green New Deal, scored impressive wins in the August 4 Democratic primaries in Missouri and Michigan. Next battle up: Minnesota. The biggest win came in St. Louis, where Cori Bush, in her second try for the …
peoplesworld.org/article/progressives-sc…

Coalition to March on the DNC responds to Biden’s decision to stay home
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-06
Milwaukee, WI – While Joe Biden shelters himself from COVID-19 and the movement for Black lives in Milwaukee, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be in the streets. Regardless of whether Biden comes to Milwaukee or not, the Democrats will hear from the people on the front lines fighting police crimes, especially the families who have lost loved ones to killer cops. | “Our main goal as a group is to defeat Donald Trump. He is the key figure in promoting racist killings of Black, Latino and indigenous people, whether by vigilantes or the police,” said Ryan Hamann, one of the co-…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/coalition…

Coalition to March on the DNC responds to Biden’s decision to stay home
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-08-06
Milwaukee, WI – While Joe Biden shelters himself from COVID-19 and the movement for Black lives in Milwaukee, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention (DNC) will be in the streets. Regardless of whether Biden comes to Milwaukee or not, the Democrats will hear from the people on the front lines fighting police crimes, especially the families who have lost loved ones to killer cops. | “Our main goal as a group is to defeat Donald Trump. He is the key figure in promoting racist killings of Black, Latino and indigenous people, whether by vigilantes or the police,” said Ryan Hamann, one of the co-…
fightbacknews.org/2020/8/6/coalition-mar…

Right-wing violence against Mapuche people in Chile widely condemned
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
Social movements are demanding that urgent actions be taken against the Carabineros and that the interior ministers be removed from his position for their complicity in the violence against the Mapuche Indigenous community…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/right-win…

Native Americans Win Historic Victories in U.S. High Court Rulings
Talli Nauman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Heat on the U.S. Presidential election campaign thermometer reached new highs during the dog days of summer 2020, with the final rulings of the Supreme Court calendar year favoring indigenous causes diametrically opposed to those of incumbent candidate Donald Trump. The highest court in the land ruled in favor of the exercise of Native American…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/native-ameri…

US GDP Collapses and Economic Rebound Fades
Jack Rasmus | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
This past week US economy collapsed in the 2nd quarter by 32.9% at annual rate and nearly 10% just for the April-June period. Never before in modern US history–not even in the worse quarters of the 1930s great depression–has the US economy contracted so quickly and so deeply! All the major private sectors of the…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/us-gdp-colla…

America’s Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the DR Congo
Justin Podur | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Joe Emersberger interviewed Justin Podur regarding his new book about a conflict few understand thanks to, among other things, “Africanist” scholars.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/americas-wars-on-d…

Revealed: How U.S. Gov’t & Hollywood Secretly Worked Together to Justify Atomic Bombings of Japan
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-06
On the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, when the United States became the only country ever to use nuclear weapons in warfare, we look at how the U.S. government sought to manipulate the narrative about what it had done — especially by controlling how it was portrayed by Hollywood. Journalist Greg Mitchell’s new book, “The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood — and America — Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” documents how the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki triggered a race between Hollywood movie studios to tell a sanitized version of the story in a major motion picture.
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/6/greg_mitch…

“The Beginning of Our End”: On 75th Anniversary, Hiroshima Survivor Warns Against Nuclear Weapons
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-06
On the 75th anniversary of when the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, killing some 140,000 people, we speak with Hideko Tamura Snider, who was 10 years old when she survived the attack. “The shaking was so huge,” she recalls. “I remember the sensation, the color and the smell like yesterday.” Tamura Snider describes her harrowing journey through a shattered city, suffering radiation sickness following the attack, and her message to President Trump.
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/6/hideko_tam…

Tuesday 8/11: Indigenous Leadership in the U.S. Environmental and Climate Justice Movements
Climate Reality Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online…
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Saturday 8/22: What Lies Ahead: Online Townhall with economist Jack Rasmus
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online meeting, see website for details…
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CLDC Fighting Corporate-Fueled Legal Persecution Of Human Rights Lawyer
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
For several years now, human rights attorney Steven Donziger has been in the fight of his life and career after Chevron vowed to destroy him for winning a $9.5 billion judgment for indigenous communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon that had been poisoned by the company’s oil drilling. From buying off judges and experts in Ecuador to filing trumped up racketeering charges in the U.S. and getting the inappropriately sympathetic federal judge Kaplan to demand that Mr. Donziger turn over his laptop, cell phone, and attorney-client communications with his extremely vulnerable indigenous clients, Chevron will stop at noth…
popularresistance.org/cldc-fighting-corp…

Document Exposes US Plot To Overthrow Nicaragua’s Elected Governmentt
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
A newly released document exposes a US government operation to overthrow the democratically elected socialist government in Nicaragua. | The plot is administered by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), a regime-change vehicle that uses the pretense of “humanitarian aid” to advance Washington’s aggressive foreign-policy interests. | The document (PDF) details the creation of a new “task order” called Responsive Assistance in Nicaragua (RAIN) and its plan for “Nicaragua’s transition to democracy”…
popularresistance.org/document-exposes-u…

Number of families affected by benefit cap surges due to Covid-19, figures show
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
The number of families affected by the benefit cap, which limits how much any one household can receive in total benefits, rose by 93% from February to May due to coronavirus (Covid-19), the government has confirmed.Statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that 154,000 households had their benefits capped in May, and that the rise from February represents the biggest single increase in the number of capped households since the policy was launched in April 2013.Of those now affected by the cap, 52,000 are single parents with at least one child under five years old.The DWP said this wa…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/06/number-o…

EU to mobilize over €33 million to support Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
The European Union is mobilizing over ‚Ǩ33 million for Lebanon after Tuesday’s deadly explosion at Beirut’s port, the head of the EU Commission told Lebanon’s premier over the phone on Thursday.According to a readout of the phone call issued by the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen told Hassan Diab the bloc will provide further support depending on the ongoing humanitarian needs assessment.The EU’s long-term support to help with the city’s reconstruction also discussed during the phone call.The 27-member bloc Wednesday announced that it activated its “Civil Protection Mechanism” and send…
yenisafak.com/en/news/eu-to-mobilize-ove…

Iran sends aid to Lebanon over explosion at Beirut port
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
The devastating tragedy in Beirut on Tuesday has drawn tremendous outpouring of shock and grief around the world with many countries, including Iran, coming forward with offers of help.Iran, one of Lebanon’s key allies in the region, dispatched the second shipment of humanitarian aid to Beirut on Thursday, following the first shipment late on Wednesday.The consignment of humanitarian aid includes mainly food and medical supplies, said Mohammad Baqer Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS).Iran has also set up a field hospital in Beirut and sent a 37-member medical team comprising gen…
yenisafak.com/en/news/iran-sends-aid-to-…

Tane Chatfield’s family: ‘We deserve justice’
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-08-06
Indigenous Rachel EvansIssue 1275 Australia Aboriginal deaths in custody SydneyAugust 6, 2020The mother and father of Tane Chatfield spoke in the front of Lidcombe Coronial Court on July 17, the…
greenleft.org.au/content/tane-chatfield%…

Beirut Goes up in Smoke
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
WhatsApp Image 2020-08-04 at 12.19.47 To see Beirut and its port area with a huge mushroom cloud hanging above is a truly surreal sight. But what is not surreal in battered Lebanese capital? A big part of the downtown looks flattened, thoroughly ruined. One of my Japanese friends based in Beirut exclaimed: It looks like …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/beirut-goes-u…

Another Hiroshima Is Coming
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Above photo: A human nuclear blast ‘shadow’ formed on bank steps after the explosion of the atom bomb in Hiroshima (1945).i.imgur.com. Unless we stop it now. In a major essay to mark the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, John Pilger describes reporting from five ‘ground zeros’ for nuclear weapons — from Hiroshima to …
popularresistance.org/another-hiroshima-…

Democrats drifting to extreme left because they are ‘owned by George Soros,’ claims former House speaker Gingrich
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The Democrat Party continues to drift radically leftward, and its leadership will never rebuke militant elements like Antifa, because it’s controlled by billionaire leftist George Soros, former US House speaker Newt Gingrich said. | “All of these Democrats are now basically owned by the left,” Gingrich said on Wednesday in an interview on Fox News. “They are not going to pick any fights. They are owned by people who are financed by George Soros.” | Gingrich made his comments after Democrats in a US Senate hearing on Tuesday refused to directly criticize the conduct of Antifa, whose members have been accused of…
rt.com/usa/497220-gingrich-democrats-sor…

Biden says Latinos are ‘incredibly diverse,’ UNLIKE BLACK VOTERS
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden took time out from a question asked by a Latina reporter to state that while black voters all think alike (with “notable exceptions”), Latino voters are “incredibly diverse” in opinion. | In the midst of answering a question on whether he would extend protected status for Venezuelan immigrants during a Wednesday town hall, Biden veered off on a self-congratulatory tangent touting his supposed knowledge of the Latino community. | What you all know but most people don’t know, unlike the African American community with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an i…
rt.com/usa/497306-biden-black-latino-ali…

A Message to the Swing State
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Trump is waging a war on truth, decency, our planet, and on working people. If Biden wins, we’ll be at his door on day one, demanding the kinds of structural reforms that advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. But before that, we have to #VoteTrumpOut in swing states…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-message-to-the-s…

Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
To make a progressive future possible, beating Trump is absolutely necessary while very far from sufficient. To organize against a government headed by Trump is to push against a thick stone wall. To organize against a government headed by Biden holds out the real potential of progressive breakthroughs.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-the-left-must-…

Why the Left Must Reject and Elect Biden at the Same Time
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
We have to get rid of Trump…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/1883571…

“Conspiracy Theory” — What Is It?
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Being blamed for disseminating “conspiracy theories” and therefore being a “conspiracy theorist”, is an extraordinarily and smart tactic used by the true conspirators against the truth seekers. | It works most of the time with often more than 90% of the …
globalresearch.ca/conspiracy-theory-what…

Voting Fraud Is Real: The U.S. Electoral System Is Vulnerable
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
The United States national election is now only three months away and it should be expected that the out-and-out lies emanating from both parties will increase geometrically as the polling date nears. One of the more interesting claims regarding the …
globalresearch.ca/voting-fraud-real-elec…

US Contracts Out Its Regime Change Operation In Nicaragua
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Masaya, Nicaragua – An extraordinary leaked document gives a glimpse of the breadth and complexity of the US government’s plan to interfere in Nicaragua’s internal affairs up to and after its presidential election in 2021. | The plan,[1] a 14-page extract from a much longer document, dates from March-April this year and sets the terms for a contract to be awarded by USAID (a “Request for Task Order Proposal”). It was revealed by reporter William Grigsby from Nicaragua’s independent Radio La Primerisima[2] and describes the task of creating what the document calls “the environment for Nicaragua’s transition to dem…
popularresistance.org/us-contracts-out-i…

Video: War Drums Beat in the Middle East and the Beirut Explosion
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
On the evening of August 4th, a massive explosion rocked the port of the Lebanese capital of Beirut, causing devastating damage and leaving thousands of casualties. The explosion sent a shockwave across the city and blew out windows up to …
globalresearch.ca/video-war-drums-beat-m…

Can Trump Legally Suspend Payroll Taxes by Executive Order?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Trump pushed the dubious scheme earlier. | Again this week, he claimed to have “a lot of…executive powers,” adding: | “(W)e’re looking…very seriously” at suspending payroll taxes. | The US Constitution’s Article II covers executive powers. They include nothing about circumventing matters over …
globalresearch.ca/can-trump-legally-susp…

Post-communism to barbarism: The Law and Justice Party’s bid for absolute power in Poland
Muhammed Shabeer | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
Poland’s Supreme Court has upheld the election of president Andrzej Duda. His victory is another step in the consolidation of the ruling Law and Justice Party’s hegemony over the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/post-comm…

Nigel Farage sinks to a humiliating low in his latest attack on refugees
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Nigel Farage launched an attack on refugees ( again) on 6 August. Or rather, he screeched at his Twitter followers that refugees had mounted an attack on Britain. A “shocking invasion” had happened, apparently. He even invoked the language of World War II, describing the refugees as making a “beach landing”. | Farage also included what he said was “exclusive footage” of the alleged offensive. And what did it show? Around a dozen or so people, including women and children, pulling themselves fr…
thecanary.co/trending/2020/08/06/nigel-f…

Do Not Reach for the Sky Just to Surrender
Vijay Prashad | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
Greta Acosta Reyes (Cuba), Neoliberalism, 2020. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Beirut, mon amour. Those shattered mirrors once were The smiling eyes of children, Now are star-lit. This city’s nights are bright. and luminous is Lebanon. Beirut, ornament of our world. Faces decorated with blood Dazzling, beyond beauty. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/do-not-reach-…

Diaspora organization seeks action after hunger death of Lesotho national in South Africa
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
Thabiso Mokhele died allegedly of hunger on Wednesday. The Lesotho High Commission is accused of failing to respond despite repeated calls for help. A diaspora organization called for the removal of its officers…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/diaspora-…

Brazil’s Money Laundering Scandal from Hell
Pepe Escobar | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Two decades after a political earthquake, a powerful aftershock that should be rocking Brazil apart is being met with thunderous silence. | What is now termed “the Banestado leaks” and “CC5gate” is straight out of vintage WikiLeaks: a list, published for …
globalresearch.ca/brazil-money-launderin…

A review of Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency: War Communism in the Twenty-First Century
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
What can a virus tell us about climate breakdown, in its causation and in humanity’s response?>…
mronline.org/2020/08/06/a-review-of-andr…

Connecticut activists take up Hiroshima mayor’s call: “Unite against all threats”
Joelle Fishman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
NEW HAVEN, Conn.–“Civil society must reject self-centered nationalism and unite against all threats,” warned Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima, Japan on the 75th commemoration of the horrific devastation of its people when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city and three days later on the city of Nagasaki. The mayor’s statement was read as …
peoplesworld.org/article/connecticut-act…

Ireland and Slavery: Debating the ‘Irish Slaves Myth’
Brian Kelly | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Over recent months, social media in Ireland and the United States has been saturated with claims and counterclaims about ‘Irish slaves’ and a broader controversy about Irish complicity in the transatlantic slave trade. The timing of the ‘debate’ is far from coincidental: a series of false and malicious assertions that the American far Right have…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/ireland-and-…

PDF of August 6 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-08-06
Download the 12-page PDF. Boston school workers blast ‘reopening plans’ WORLD: Brazil; China; Fidel Agcaoili °presente! ALSO: John Lewis & Selma legacy; Disabled people: ‘Part of the working class’; #SEIUDropTheCops; Pandemic relief sabotaged; Sahara dust cloud; Heat waves & socialism. BLACK LIVES MATTER: Remembering Garrett Foster, anti-racist fighter; Pensacola solidarity; . . . | Continue reading PDF of August 6 issue at Workers.org…
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There Is No Political Solution to the Syrian Conflict
Steven Sahiounie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of the Obama administration, created a mantra for the media: “There is no military solution to Syria.” He said it so many times, he seemed to convince everyone. However, after 9 years of …
globalresearch.ca/no-political-solution-…

Raise, Don’t Stabilize and Don’t Reduce Social Costs
Collective 20 | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
We seek radical social transformation. But short of that, our actions should not only force elites to respond to our demands they should also expand democracy and plant the seeds of a new future in the present…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/raise-dont-stabili…

Artists, writers and human rights groups urge Egypt to release Sanaa Seif
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
Sanaa Seif has been held in pre-trial detention since June for protesting the illegal detention of her brother, activist Alaa Abdel Fattah. She was abducted from outside the prosecutor general’s office where she had gone to file a complaint…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/artists-w…

“Man Attacks Grizzly” and Other Leading Bleeding Stories
David Mattson | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
My Google Alerts inbox has been flooded during the last week by an article making the rounds among national and regional media outlets with a title that virtually screams “Official: 7 Grizzly Bear Attacks This Year.” More matter-of-factly, the article leads off with the observation that…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/man-attacks-…

End the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
On Sunday a demonstration is planned in Montréal against the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement (CIFTA). Under the banner “Against Israel’s annexation of the Jordan Valley. No to the Canada Israel Free Trade Agreement!”, the march is seeking to politicize CIFTA amidst Israel’s plan to formally annex parts of the West Bank. The march follows …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/end-the-canad…

Fight to jail Long Island killer cops & corrupt DA continues
Danny Towle | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-06
“Say his name! Kenny Lazo!” This chant and many others could be heard as a crowd of 60 Long Island residents marched down Fifth Avenue in Bay Shore, New York, July 25. The protesters marched on the Suffolk County Police Department Third Precinct building, where Kenny Lazo died in police custody 12 years ago after …
liberationnews.org/fight-to-jail-long-is…

75 years after Hiroshima, the clock is ticking
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To this day, we are under the threat of nuclear war.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/75-years-…

Trump’s cold war with China is heating up
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-06
The world’s largest economic powers are in a battle for dominance complicated by the pandemic and Trump’s escalation.
therealnews.com/stories/trump-cold-war-w…

Nuclear War or Invasion: The False Dichotomy of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Brett Wilkins | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Like other dark chapters in U.S. history, the official narrative of the decision to unleash the most destructive weapon humanity has ever known upon an utterly defeated people is deeply flawed. | *** | Seventy-five years ago, the United States waged the …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-war-false-dich…

Dossier 31: ‘The Politic of Blood’: Political Repression in South Africa
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
In his famous speech from the dock in April 1964, Nelson Mandela spoke of ‘revolutionary democracy’ rooted in precolonial forms of collective deliberation and decision making.
mronline.org/2020/08/05/dossier-31-the-p…

Legacies of African American Struggle: Rev. C.T. Vivian and Rep. John Lewis Efforts to Dismantle “Legalized Segregation”
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Two luminaries in the African American struggle which emerged during the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. C.T. Vivian and Congressman John Lewis, passed away on July 17. | Both figures played a prominent role in the efforts to destroy legalized segregation,…
globalresearch.ca/legacies-c-t-vivian-jo…

Huawei and 5G Technology. US-China Confrontation
Azhar Azam | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
This informative article focusses on the China-US confrontation regarding 5G. it does not address the impacts of 5G on health. | *** | First-generation mobile technology offered only analogue calls and no browsing, data transfer or SMS. Even though today’s 4G long-term …
globalresearch.ca/huawei-bans-delay-glob…

Apocalyptic Scenes from the Site of the Deadly Beirut Blast
MintPress News Desk | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-06
A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city’s port, damaging buildings across the capital and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 100 people are feared dead and thousands injured, with bodies buried in the rubble, officials said. | It was not clear what caused the blast, which struck with the force of a 3.5 magnitude earthquake, according to Germany’s geosciences center GFZ, and was heard and felt as far away as Cyprus more than 200 kilometers (180 miles) across the Mediterranean. Lebanon’s interior minister said it appeared that a large cache of ammonium nitrate i…
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Staring into the Economic Abyss
Max Elbaum | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
It will take an across-the-board combination of militant protest, get out the vote, and doing whatever is necessary to protect the results to best position partisans of justice, peace and saving the planet for the bitter battles that lie beyond November…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/staring-into-the-e…

Fast and Furiously Nonviolent
Extinction Rebellion | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Whether the virus spreads or shrinks, without action our world will continue to burn. We need to keep confronting a self-destructive system that is spiraling out of control…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/fast-and-furiously…

“Weapons of Mass Radiation”: Hundreds of 5G Spy Satellites Launched into the Ionosphere
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Keeping us preoccupied with a phony virus which was supposed to kill millions and landed-up causing no more deaths than the normal winter flu, sure was a useful way of directing attention away from the earthly and upward deployment of …
globalresearch.ca/musk-5g-spy-satellite-…

Neil Young sues Trump campaign, slamming use of famous tunes
Larry Neumeister | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
NEW YORK (AP) — Neil Young sued President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign Tuesday for copyright infringement, saying he doesn’t want his music used as a theme song for a “divisive un-American campaign of ignorance and hate.” The Grammy-award winning Canadian-born musician filed the lawsuit through his lawyers in Manhattan federal court, seeking up to $150,000 …
peoplesworld.org/article/neil-young-sues…

Big Tech Antics: The Data Robber Barons Appear Before Congress
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
Silicon Valley continues to sprawl in influence, and its modern robber barons bestride the globe with a confidence verging on contempt. The technology giants that mark that region of California are praised as “virtuosos of ingenuity,” to use Steve Forbes’ words, “creating and supplying products and services that were once unimaginable and that have been …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/big-tech-anti…

Suffrage: The Myth of Sisterphus
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.” — The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, 1848 Woman is the nigger of the world Yes, she is If you don’t believe me, take…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/suffrage-the…

GOP fiddles as jobless cavalcade continues and pandemic rages
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
WASHINGTON–Congressional Republicans fiddled and made no moves to help the unemployed, as the cavalcade of jobless workers continued in the week ending August 1. And the fiddling may come back to haunt them in November, polls show. In those seven days ending August 1, another 984,192 people sought state jobless benefits, the Bureau of Labor …
peoplesworld.org/article/gop-fiddles-as-…

I’m a Dirty Thievin’ Bastard
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
Most corporate retailers rely and count on maintaining constant environments of mistrust, fear and turnover of the people they employ to boost their profitability. By avoiding anything resembling allegiance among their staff, these barons of modern day capitalism turn and burn personnel while avoiding costly expenditures such as benefits and pay increases, instead transferring that …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/im-a-dirty-th…

The US bombed Japan in 1945 to demonstrate its power to the USSR. Intimidation, NOT deterrence was, is and always will be the goal
Scott Ritter | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-06
As the world reflects on the decision by the US to drop two atomic bombs on Japan …
thealtworld.com/scott_ritter/the-us-bomb…

The Lessons We Haven’t Learned
Dr. Helen Caldicott | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
My birthday is August 7, sandwiched between the anniversary dates for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively). I was six years old when the first bomb fell. My course in life was …
globalresearch.ca/lessons-we-have-not-le…

Reverse the New Nuclear Arms Race
Howie Hawkins, Madelyn Hoffman | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
August 6 is the 75th anniversary of the only time any nation in the world dropped an atomic bomb on people. On August 6, 1945, President Harry Truman ordered Fat Man dropped on Hiroshima. 210,000 people were killed instantly. Three days later, Little Boy was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 70,000 more people instantly. Now would…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/reverse-the-…

The Covid-19 Pandemic, Does It Exist? The Truth is Being Obliterated. The Global Elite’s Campaign Against Humanity
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
The COVID-19 virus. Does it exist? Is it a novel virus? Is there a Pandemic? | If you ask any doctor or scientist in the world to show you a scientifically-verified proof, they will not be able to show you one….
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-does-not-exis…

Attacks on Margaret Sanger are cover for right wing’s assault on women
Lowell B. Denny, III | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
Recently, Planned Parenthood took steps to publicly disavow their founder, Margaret Sanger. The organization announced it was removing her name from a clinic in Manhattan, citing her support for eugenics. This decision has not satisfied right-wing “right to lifers” who continue to attack Planned Parenthood, but it has garnered support from pro-choice, anti-racist activists, who …
peoplesworld.org/article/attacks-on-marg…

We Must Organize Like Never Before
Rosa Pavanelli | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
To rebuild our public services and protect our communities, we must break the unholy alliance of finance and the far right…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/we-must-organize-l…

The American Narrative of Hiroshima is a Statue that Must be Toppled
Robert Jacobs — Ran Zwigenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
In August 1945, the United States attacked two cities in Japan with nuclear weapons in the last days of World War Two. The US used weapons of mass destruction against a primarily civilian population, instantly killing over 100,000 human beings, with tens of thousands of wounded and irradiated people who would die in the subsequent…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/the-american…

Seafarers face a tough challenge amid COVID-19
Pavan Kulkarni | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
The worsening morale and mental health of hundreds of thousands of seafarers stranded aboard ships across the globe due to COVID-19- related lockdowns has been described as a “ticking time bomb.” This might lead to dangerous consequences if not immediately addressed. | As per a report published by The Mission to Seafarers on July 29, uncertainty over when they can reunite with their families and the perpetual fear of getting infected has begun to exert a heavy toll on seafarers. Many fear that if infected, they will be unable to a…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/seafarers…

Idaho Man Charged With Hiding Remains Had Links to Apocalyptic Church
splcenter.org | 2020-08-06
An Idaho man charged with hiding the remains of his stepchildren has ties to an apocalyptic and antigovernment form of Christianity that predicts the end of civil society.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/08/06/idaho…

Stomp Out the Establishment
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-06
Stir Crazy! Episode 75: Today we are joined by sociologist Taure Brown, TRNN visual producer Andrew Corkery, and writer and organizer Jesse Myerson. With special guest Oluchi Omeoga who is an organizer with the Minneapolis based Black Visions Collective. Hosted by Kim Brown.
therealnews.com/stories/stomp-out-the-es…

On the Enduring Significance of Hiroshima after 75 Years
Canadian Peace Congress | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Seventy-five years ago, an act of international criminality and infamy took place, the consequences of which have posed an existential threat to humanity ever since. For the first time ever, a species had created the capacity to not only bring …
globalresearch.ca/enduring-significance-…

Wearing the Mask is Mandatory in Quebec: The Legault Government’s Legitimacy Questioned
Dr. Micheline Ladouceur | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
globalresearch.ca/wearing-the-mask-is-ma…

Bolivia begins the week with an indefinite general strike and roadblocks
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
In the early hours of this Monday morning, the indefinite general strike and roadblocks began throughout Bolivia, called by the Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) and the organizations that constitute the Unity Pact, which demand that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal respect the election date established by law for September 6.
mronline.org/2020/08/06/bolivia-begins-t…

Why You Should Give a F*ck | Ep. 9 | Finale
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-06
We take you through the first season, and explain how the concept of power connects all the topics we covered in Season 1.
therealnews.com/stories/wysgaf-power-acc…

Falling Behind: COVID, Climate Change, and Chaos
Mel Gurtov | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
“Normal” isn’t good, as in the following warning in November 2019:…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/falling-behind-cov…

Watch Enormous Beirut Blast from 15 Synchronized Camera Angles as Mystery Surrounding Its Cause Persists
RT News | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Videos of the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut that left over 70 people dead and thousands wounded continue to emerge, painting a comprehensive picture of the destruction — though shedding no light on its cause. | A mega-compilation of | …
globalresearch.ca/watch-enormous-beirut-…

Seeking peace on the Korean Peninsula
Martin Hart-Landsberg | mronline.org | 2020-08-06
Although the date drew little notice in the U.S. media, July 27, 2020 marked the 67th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice Agreement, an agreement that ended the fighting but not the war between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea).
mronline.org/2020/08/06/seeking-peace-on…

75 Years Since Hiroshima: Nuclear Sword of Damocles Hangs Over Humanity
Colin Todhunter | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
“Some fell to the ground and their stomachs already expanded full, burst and organs fell out. Others had skin falling off them and others still were carrying limbs. And one in particular was carrying their eyeballs in their hand.” The above is an account by a Hiroshima survivor talking about the fate of her schoolmates. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/75-years-sinc…

Study: Billionaires That Donated to Gates-Buffet Giving Pledge Now Richer Than Ever
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-06
As the assets of the billionaire class in the US swell to $3.5 trillion amid the pandemic, a new study of philanthropic giving reveals that many of America’s wealthiest are using charitable donations to stay rich and get richer.
mintpressnews.com/study-billionaires-don…

Toxic fossil fuel chemicals poisoning dolphins and whales, study finds
Jordan Davidson | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
peoplesworld.org/article/toxic-fossil-fu…

On 75th anniversary of Hiroshima, nuke threat rises
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
peoplesworld.org/article/on-75th-anniver…

How the Fascists Won World War II
H. Bruce Franklin | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Come you masters of war You that build the big guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks –“Masters of War,” Bob Dylan This is a mystery story.
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/how-the-fasc…

Trump Administration Approves the “Stealing” of Syria’s Oil
TRT World | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Months after US president Donald Trump…
globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-a…

The Heat: The new normal — millions working remotely due to global pandemic
Mike Walter | america.cgtn.com | 2020-08-06
In the wake of the global pandemic millions now work remotely. It’s a seismic shift that could have profound economic implications.
america.cgtn.com/2020/08/06/the-heat-the…

Tehran, Baku stress expansion of bilateral coop
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Iranian Minister of Labor, Cooperatives and Social Welfare Mohammad Shariatmadari and Azerbaijan’s Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population Sahil Babayev stressed on the expansion of bilateral cooperation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161968/Tehran-Baku-…

US, Israeli nukes threaten region: Zarif
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — Stating that the US was the first and only user of nuclear weapons, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that today, the US and Israeli nukes threaten our region.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161966/US-Israeli-n…

Army unveils ‘Order of Sacrifice’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 06 (MNA) — The ‘Order of Sacrifice’ of Imam Ali Officers’ University was unveiled on Thursday morning in the presence of Deputy Coordinator of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Army Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari.
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Lebanese people united against devastating blast
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-06
TEHRAN, Aug. 07 (MNA) — Amal Abou Zeid, Advisor to the President of the Lebanese Republic, said in an exclusive interview with MNA that the Zionist regime is extremely frightful of Lebanon’s possible reaction to Beirut devastating blast.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161970/Lebanese-peo…

Neil Young sued the Trump campaign for illegal use of his music
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Neil Young Sued The Trump Campaign For Illegal Use Of His Music In An Un-American Campaign Of Ignorance And Hate:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/1883567…

Thursday 8/6: Communities of Color: Communicating Safe Voting Options for November
NAACP, Human Rights Campaign & others | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via livestream at Human Rights Campaign Facebook…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/1883570…

Hunger Striker At KPFA Calls For More Programming On Testing/tracing & Worker Safety
Labor Video Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
An artist and KPFA member John Sheridan spoke out in front of KPFA about the need to have more programming on the need for mass testing and tracing to stop the pandemic…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883569…

Sunday 8/9: Our Freedom, Our Fight: NARAL Activists’ Summit for Reproductive Rights (Day 2)
NARAL Pro-Choice America | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via Hopin…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/1883567…

A fair and solid crisis financing
Philipp Gerhartinger and Joseph Woss | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
The contrast between the EU and the US in COVID financing could hardly be greater. McDonald’s operators, Marathon Oil (over $400 million), Exxon, Chevron and Sea World received relief and will reduce their future tax payments. Tax gifts charac terize the US way of corruption and contradict these recommendations.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883567…

E$tado $hileno: racismo contra el pueblo Mapuche
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Investigación revela racismo institucional contra el pueblo Mapuche…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883567…

EPIC Win For Mendocino National Forest at the Ninth Circuit
Environmental Protection Information Center | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
In a major victory, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) in a case impacting fragile post-fire forest in the Mendocino National Forest.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883569…

Thursday 8/6: Hiroshima Nagasaki Accord for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Livestream
United Religions Initative | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via livestream & restream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883570…

Thursday 8/6: Voting Rights Act 55th Anniversary: COVID19, Voter Suppression, Vote by Mail, & More
Faith In Action | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via Twitter…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/1883570…

Coalition Calls for Shut Down of Calpella Wood Pellet Plant
Bradley Allen | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Local tribes, activists and statewide organizations are joining forces to demand closure of the Calpella wood pellet plant during the COVID-19 pandemic.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883569…

Sunday 8/9: A Virtual Remembrance: 75 Years After the Atomic Bombings hosted by Nichi Bei SF
Nichi Bei Foundation of San Francisco | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883568…

Saturday 8/15: 11th Annual GLIDE Legacy Gala, A Virtual Gathering
GLIDE | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883569…

Giants and Warriors Give their Workers the Boot
Marc Norton | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
While loudly proclaiming support for BLACK LIVES MATTER, the Giants and Warriors fired 2,154 largely Black, Latino and Asian concession workers last week.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/1883571…

Thursday 8/6: Mitch Better Have My Money! Day of Action
CFPDAO | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Actions online, by phone, or by fax…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/1883570…

Benchlands Cleared for Double Fenced Containment Camp
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Yesterday (Wednesday August 5) most of the remaining tents on both sides of the expanded Containment Camp run by the County in the San Lorenzo Benchlands was stripped of survival campers. Police reportedly with little or no notice gave those in tents “the option” to leave, face citation or arrest, or accept the concentrated residency of the new temporary govt. camp.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/1883571…

Will “Defunding-the-Police” Bring Prosecutorial Reform?
Imran Khaliq | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
“Defunding the Police” needs to include prosecutorial reform as prosecutors have even more power and impact on oppressing minorities than the police.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883568…

Friday 8/7: 75th Anniversary Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered Ceremony (PPC & Peace Action)
Peace Action, PPC, & peace partners | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/06/1883571…

Food Not Bombs needs volunteers to help serve food to the hungry masses
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Older Photo Of Some Hungry People In Line To Get A Free Meal From Food Not Bombs At People’s Park In Berkeley. Photo By Lydia Gans.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883569…

Friday 8/7: US Census Car Caravan / Parade by the City of South San Francisco
City of South San Francisco | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
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San Francisco Empty and Abandoned Buildings (2nd Quarter, 2020)
San Francisco Food Not Bombs | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
SF Food Not Bombs has updated the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection’s list of empty and abandoned buildings through June, 2020 on this webpage: sffnb.org/list-of-san-francisco-empty-an….
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/05/1883568…

Saturday 8/8: Our Freedom, Our Fight: NARAL Activists’ Summit for Reproductive Rights (Day 1)
NARAL Pro-Choice America | indybay.org | 2020-08-06
Online via Hopin…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/08/04/1883567…

Nuclear War Can Be Stopped Before It Begins
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Nuclear weapons have been posing a threat to humanity for 75 years — ever since the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. | These days, our focus is understandably on the COVID-19 virus and the threat it poses to human life. But as we commemorate the anniversary of these bombings, it is important to acknowledge that unlike the coronavirus, nuclear weapons can only be remediated with prevention. Millions of people could be killed if a single nuclear bomb were detonated over a large city, and the added threats of radiation and retaliation could endanger all life on Earth.
popularresistance.org/nuclear-war-can-be…

First Person: Sick And Afraid Inside San Quentin
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
Death Row San Quentin Prison – We men and women who unfortunately have been sentenced to death and sent to death rows here at San Quentin State Prison (for men) and the Central California Women’s Facility at Chowchilla have often been referred to as the “walking dead” or “Dead Man Walking,” as made famous by the 1995 movie, starring Sean Penn and Susan Sarandon, about a death row inmate. | We were called these names long before the COVID-19 pandemic came upon us all, seemingly out of nowhere. After it came on the scene, we death row inmates got a double dose of death.
popularresistance.org/first-person-sick-…

Our Planet Missed The Opportunity To Unite Against The Pandemic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
It is time to stop irresponsible finger-pointing. | All over the world, as this essay is being written, well over 17 million COVID-19 cases have been reported, and 676,000 people died. And instead of concentrating on serious research, trying to save human lives and attempting to stop the global calamity, ‘residents’ of the White House are spending all the energy on their own political survival, as well as on the survival of the regime. | In the U.S., both the establishment and opposition are buzzing with phantasmagoric conspiracy theories. Everyone is shouting, and no one is listening.
popularresistance.org/our-planet-missed-…

Preliminary Report From Beirut
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
The nature of Tuesday’s explosion in the port of Beirut and the extent of the damage across the city and beyond is not yet clear. There are plenty of unconfirmed reports and it is hard to take official statements as transparent. That being said, the effects of the explosion were felt across the city and beyond. For those familiar with the geography, nearby areas such Karantina and Gemmayzeh as well as further away areas such as Manara, Hamra, Burj Hammoud, Sin al-Fil, and Brummana felt the explosion.
popularresistance.org/preliminary-report…

Does The US Military Assassinate Journalists?
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
As the cries of United States’ ‘exceptionalism’ are heard from the hallowed halls of Congress, one of the alleged hallmarks is freedom of the press. No nation, the breathless masses are told, protects press freedom like the United States. This belief is similar to Santa Claus: pleasant, comforting, but having no basis in truth. | The government only allows news to be reported that is favorable to the U.S. Censorship has accompanied all its major wars, with the government actually writing articles for news outlets. Historian William Clayton Mullendore, in commenting on censorship during World War I, said…
popularresistance.org/does-the-us-milita…

‘Radical Real Estate Law School’ Is In Session
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-06
When Christine Hernandez saw an ad for something called the “Radical Real Estate Law School” in Oakland, she was intrigued. | “I thought, radical? That’s me,” she said. “Real estate? I’m interested. Law school? Never thought of it.” | The program is offered through the Sustainable Economies Law Center in downtown Oakland, one of the handful of organizations taking advantage of a little-known rule in California and a few other states allowing people to take the bar exam without first obtaining a traditional law school degree.
popularresistance.org/radical-real-estat…

‘Is this it?’ Anti-Trump #Resistance thrilled as NYT says Deutsche Bank ‘complied with subpoena,’ NY AG preps ‘major announcement’
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Critics of President Donald Trump are again convinced the ‘walls are closing in’ on the US commander-in-chief, excited by reports that his bank complied with a subpoena from New York prosecutors as part of a broad criminal probe. | The New York Times reported on Wednesday that prosecutors looking into Trump’s tax records had subpoenaed his decades-long lender, Deutsche Bank, sometime last year, suggesting the document request was part of an investigation larger in scope than was previously known. The bank reportedly complied with the subpoena, handing over “detailed records, including financial statements and…
rt.com/usa/497223-trump-new-york-ag-majo…

Blade Runner & HAL 9000 racist? ‘Whiteness’ of artificial intelligence ‘exacerbates racial inequality,’ new study suggests
rt.com | 2020-08-06
A University of Cambridge study examining the depiction of artificial intelligence in film, television, Google searches, images, and voices, suggests it is yet another area that showcases racism. | While most would likely assume a machine cannot have a race, the researchers said that they do indeed have “racial identities” influenced by “real world” stereotypes. | These “racial identities” can be found in both the fact that AIs and depictions of AIs have caucasion features and also typically talk in “standard white middle-class English,” including voices given to smartphone technology. The study suggests “blac…
rt.com/usa/497287-cambridge-artificial-i…

‘These are killers’: Giuliani blasts BLM as ‘terrorist group’ that ‘hate white people’
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, has slammed Black Lives Matter as a “domestic terrorist organization” full of “killers” who “hate white people” and want to “overthrow our way of life.” | Trump and officials from his administration have been critical of aspects of the BLM protests happening across the country, but none have gone as far as Giuliani did on Thursday’s ‘Fox & Friends.’ | The former New York City mayor compared BLM to the left-wing Antifa group, labeling both “domestic terrorist organizations.” | Do you know who knows that best? African-Americans. I’ve actually had them tell me,…
rt.com/usa/497308-rudy-giuliani-black-li…

Chief US campaign watchdog can’t even CALL A MEETING as bureaucratic gridlock threatens 2020 vote
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The Federal Election Commission, the nonpartisan body tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws, has been effectively sidelined, throwing the resolution of hundreds of cases — let alone November’s election — into question. | Of the six seats on the FEC, just three are currently occupied, meaning the group couldn’t call a meeting even if it wanted to — a quorum of four commissioners is required for that. | The LA Times reported on Wednesday that the president’s nominee to fill the critical fourth vacancy hasn’t even been submitted to the Senate for approval. Given that the last nominee &#150…
rt.com/usa/497281-elections-commission-d…

‘Virtue signaling her way to reelection’: Michigan governor roasted online after declaring racism ‘PUBLIC HEALTH crisis’
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer was accused of pandering to those engaged in identity politics, after she declared racism a “public health crisis” and said that everyone is plagued by unconscious bias. | The executive order signed by Whitmer on Wednesday mandates implicit bias training for all state employees. The ultimate goal is to build “a more inclusive and unbiased state that works for everyone,” the Democrat governor said. | Implicit, unconscious bias exists within each of us, and, as public servants, we have a duty to understand how our bias can impact the lives of others. | Another measure rolled ou…
rt.com/usa/497235-whitmer-racism-executi…

October surprise? Trump says Covid-19 vaccine possible before Election Day
rt.com | 2020-08-06
US President Donald Trump has stepped up the already-improbable timetable on a potential coronavirus vaccine, hinting one might be ready “much sooner” than the end of the year – even before Election Day in November. | Asked by radio host Geraldo Rivera when the much-hyped Covid-19 jab will be available to Americans, Trump promised “Sooner than the end of the year, could be much sooner” on Thursday’s show. | Also on rt.com | | ‘Harmful Covid-19 misinformation’: Facebook scrubs Trump post stating children ‘virtually immune’ to coronavirus | When R…
rt.com/usa/497280-trump-covid-vaccine-el…

3 teens with LOADED AK-47 hop wall into Trump’s Mar-a-Lago by ‘mistake,’ claim they ‘found’ the gun
rt.com | 2020-08-06
A trio of 15-year-old boys scaled a wall outside US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida carrying a loaded AK-47 in a backpack, in what police say was a desperate attempt to evade arrest. | The three teens were taken into custody soon after they breached the walls around the resort on Friday, according to Palm Beach Police spokesman Michael Ogrodnick, who said the boys tried to dump a backpack containing a loaded semi-automatic Mini Draco AK-47 with a 14-round magazine. He added that the suspects likely did not know where they were at the time, however. | “Honestly, I really don’t believe they…
rt.com/usa/497219-teens-mar-a-lago-ak-47…

NY Attorney General announces lawsuit to dissolve National Rifle Association for ‘years of self-dealing’ and ‘illegal conduct’
rt.com | 2020-08-06
New York Attorney General Letitia James has said that she is filing a lawsuit with the intention of dissolving the National Rifle Association (NRA), alleging they are guilty of years of “illegal conduct.” | Announcing the lawsuit on Thursday, James accused the NRA of diverting millions of dollars “away from its charitable mission” and into the pockets of “senior leadership.” This, she says, violates New York’s charity laws. | The lawsuit is targeting the gun-rights organization as a whole, but also names senior leadership, including NRA Chief Executive and Executive Vice President Wayne LePierre. | #BREAKING
rt.com/usa/497290-new-york-sues-nra-over…

NY and DC attorneys general sue National Rifle Association for alleged misuse of charitable funds
rt.com | 2020-08-06
The attorneys general in New York and DC have launched separate lawsuits against the National Rifle Association (NRA), alleging it is guilty of illegal conduct and the misuse of charitable funds, benefiting senior executives. | Announcing the lawsuit on Thursday, NY AG Letitia James accused the NRA of diverting millions of dollars away from its charitable mission and into the pockets of its senior leadership. This, she says, violates New York’s charity laws. | The lawsuit is targeting the gun-…
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‘You’re breaking the law!’ LA mayor vows to CUT WATER & POWER to homes that host ‘large parties’
rt.com | 2020-08-06
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has warned that residents hosting large home gatherings can expect their water and power utilities to be cut, a sharp escalation of the city’s strict Covid-19 measures amid a series of recent house parties. | Starting on Friday, Garcetti said that the city’s Department of Water and Power (DWP) would shut off service to properties where there are “egregious” violations of local health orders, pointing to house parties in the Hollywood Hills and Calabasas in recent weeks, which he said were held in “flagrant” defiance of the law. | “While we have already closed all bars and nightclubs, the…
rt.com/usa/497222-la-cut-water-power-gat…

Portland protester violence continues, spreads to suburbs despite claim that ‘if feds leave, we’ll leave’ (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-08-06
Despite claims to the contrary, protests and violence have continued in Portland following the withdrawal of federal police. Tear gas and flashbang grenades were used to disperse crowds that have now moved to the city’s suburbs. | Local authorities declared a riot for the second night in a row on Wednesday, as violence continued in the city for the 70th consecutive night since the death of Geroge Floyd in police custody. | A crowd of approximately 100 people gathered outside the Portland Police East Precinct s…
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Case vs. Casings
sputniknews.com | 2020-08-06
The New York Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit to dissolve the National Rifle Association (NRA), the US gun advocacy organization that only offers up its “thoughts and prayers” to victims of deadly mass shootings.
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Voting Fraud Is Real: The Electoral System Is Vulnerable
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-06
The United States national election is now only three months away and it should be expected that the out-and-out lies emanating from both parties will increase geometrically as the polling date nears. One of the more interesting claims regarding the election itself is the White House assertion that large scale voting by mail will permit fraud, so much so that the result of the voting will be unreliable or challenged. To be sure, it is not as if voter fraud is unknown in the United States. The victory of John F. Kennedy 1960 presidential election has often been credited to all the graveyards in Mayor Richard Daley…
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The Department of Homeland Security: The Ideal Authoritarian Tool
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-06
Bymelvin GOODMAN | In the wake of 9/11, the Bush administration made a series of blunders that have created havoc in U.S. governance. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the worst of these decisions, but not far behind was the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The DHS has turned out to be the perfect authoritarian tool in the hands of a corrupt administration, and there is ample evidence of the department’s role in degrading public life in America in the past several weeks. The department has become Trump’s tool for targeting “anti-fascists,” the label that he has broadly applied to all protesto…
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The DNC Convention Is the Election
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-08-06
For nearly a year it has been my primary thesis that the DNC nominating convention would determine the fate of the presidential election here in the states. These four days may, in fact, be more dramatic than any Democratic convention since 1860 when incumbent James Buchanan was tossed aside to ensure a lawyer with railroad ties from Illinois, Stephen Douglas, squared off against Republican Abraham Lincoln. | Lincoln was also a railroad lawyer from Illinois. Just sayin’. | The convention is less than two weeks away and serious questions about the Democrats’ strategy should be plain to see for anyone who pays even…
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50 million face masks bought by government in £252m deal cannot be used by NHS
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Fifty million face masks bought by the government as part of a £252m contract will not be used in the NHS due to safety concerns. | The masks, ordered from Ayanda Capital, have ear loops rather than head loops, and there are concerns over whether they are adequate. | The government has confirmed in court papers that the masks, which are now in the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) logistic chain, will not be used in the NHS. | The Good Law Project and EveryDoctor, which are suing the government over its Ayanda contract, estimate the 50 million masks would have cost more than £150m. | Gover…
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50 million face masks bought by government in £252m deal cannot be used by NHS
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Fifty million face masks bought by the government as part of a £252m contract will not be used in the NHS due to safety concerns. | The masks, ordered from Ayanda Capital, have ear loops rather than head loops, and there are concerns over whether they are adequate. | The government has confirmed in court papers that the masks, which are now in the Department of Health and Social Care’s (DHSC) logistic chain, will not be used in the NHS. | The Good Law Project and EveryDoctor, which are suing the government over its Ayanda contract, estimate the 50 million masks would have cost more than £150m. | https…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/08/06/50-milli…

New York attorney general sues National Rifle Association in bid to dissolve it
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
New York’s attorney general has sued the National Rifle Association (NRA), seeking to put the gun advocacy organisation out of business.Letitia James’s lawsuit, filed in state court in Manhattan on Thursday after an 18-month investigation, alleges high-ranking executives diverted millions of dollars for lavish personal trips, no-show contracts for associates and other questionable expenditures.The NRA’s long-time leader Wayne LaPierre is accused of awarding himself a $17m (£12.9m) post-employment contract.Wayne LaPierre is accused of diverting millions of dollars for personal benefit (Jose Luis Magana/AP)Si…
thecanary.co/us/us-news-us/2020/08/06/ne…

Thousands of NHS workers to protest this weekend over pay
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Thousands of NHS workers are expected to take to the streets this weekend demanding a pay rise.Unite, which has 100,000 members in the health service, said it is supporting those wishing to attend the socially-distanced protests so that the government can see the depth of discontent and frustration among NHS staff.A demonstration is organised in London on Saturday morning, while protests will also take place in other towns and cities across the UK.NHS workers march from St Thomas’ Hospital to Downing Street to demand a pay rise on 29 July (Yui Mok/PA)Health workers are in the final year of a three-year deal and a…
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Twitter introduces new labels for government and state-linked media accounts
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Twitter is to begin adding labels to the accounts of government officials and state-affiliated media groups to provide more context on who the account represents.The new feature will initially focus on senior political officials who are the voice of their state abroad and accounts belonging to state-backed media, its editors and senior staff.The social media platform said that for political figures, the labels would currently only be applied to accounts from the countries that make up the five permanent members of the UN Security Council — China, France, Russia, the UK and the US.Personal accounts of heads o…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/20…

UK’s first Dutch-style roundabout which prioritises cyclists opens in Cambridge
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
The UK’s first Dutch-style roundabout — which prioritises cyclists and pedestrians over motorists — has opened in Cambridge.Cyclists have an outer ring on the roundabout, with cycle crossings over each of the four approach roads in a contrasting red surface.There are also zebra crossings over each approach road for pedestrians.Motorists must give way to pedestrians and to cyclists when joining and leaving the roundabout.Cambridgeshire County Council said that the old roundabout “was perceived by many people to be dangerous to cycle around” (Joe Giddens/PA)Reduced lane widths on the roundabout and at exi…
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Johnson defends decision not to suspend Tory MP accused of rape
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Boris Johnson has defended the decision not to suspend a senior Tory MP who was arrested on suspicion of rape. | The prime minister insisted on Thursday that the allegation is being taken “extremely seriously” after the Conservatives defied calls to remove the whip from the former minister. | Johnson, in his first comments about the arrest, said a decision will be made when the police investigation is concluded. | “I think it’s very, very important that we take all these cases extremely seriously and we will continue to do so,” he told reporters during a visit to Warrington. | “I think we’ve got to wait for the p…
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Artwork explores Hiroshima and Nagasaki in context of climate change and racism
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Two London-based artists explore the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in new perspectives, including in the context of climate change and racism, with their digital artwork.I Saw The World End, by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston, reflects on the impact of the events from the points of view of the British artist and Japanese designer.The 10-minute video includes script from letters written by Albert Einstein and J Robert Oppenheimer during the Second World War, as well as first-hand testimonies from the survivors of the bombings.The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities on 6 and 9 Aug…
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Capacity to confront blast impact ‘limited’: Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
Lebanon’s financial capacity to deal with the impact of the port warehouse explosion is “very limited,” the country’s economy minister said Thursday. | Raoul Nehme told a TV channel that damages of the devastating explosion, which killed at least 137 people and injured about 5,000 others in the capital Beirut on Tuesday, are estimated to be in billions of dollars. | “The capacity of the state is very limited, and so is that of the central bank and the banks,” he said. “Grain silos [structures for storing bulk materials] have been completely destroyed, and we need time to evaluate the damages.” | The Port of Beiru…
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French president urges to prioritize aid to Lebanon
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
French President Emmanuel Macron stressed on Thursday to prioritize aids for blast-hit Lebanon without any condition.Following his arrival in Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, Macron met with his Lebanese counterpart Michel Aoun and the two leaders visited the site of massive explosion at the Port of Beirut.Macron said: “Lebanon is not alone … and we are fully aware that Lebanon’s crisis is massive.”He also vowed to secure and coordinate international aid to Lebanon, including medical supplies and medicine.The massive blast that rocked the Port of Beirut on Tuesday has left so far at least 135 dead and around 5,000 in…
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Two Palestinians contract coronavirus in Israeli prisons
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
Two more Palestinian detainees have been infected with coronavirus in Israeli prisons in Ramallah, occupied West Bank. In a statement Thursday, the Palestinian Prisoner Society (PPS), a non-governmental organization, said: “The administration of the Israeli prison of Ofer — western Ramallah — announced that Naim Abu Turki, 38, has been infected with coronavirus.”Abu Turki, arrested at his home in Hebron, has been under detention for the last four days. The PPS warned of further spread of coronavirus among the Palestinian prisoners. | Earlier in the day, the Palestinian Authority Prisoners’ Affairs Com…
yenisafak.com/en/world/two-palestinians-…

Ebola cases in DR Congo rise to 74 in latest outbreak
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
At least 74 Ebola virus cases have been recorded in the latest outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the World Health Organization announced Thursday.So far there are 74 cases, with 70 confirmed and four probable, 32 deaths and 28 recoveries from the 11th Ebola virus outbreak in Mbandaka, Equateur province, the WHO African Region tweeted.For several months, the DRC has been battling with several diseasing including, Cholera, Ebola, Measles.Last month the WHO office in the Central African country said that a total of 12,959 people have been vaccinated since the start of the 11th Ebola outbreak in ear…
yenisafak.com/en/news/ebola-cases-in-dr-…

‘India not releasing jailed critics despite virus risk’
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
India is among several countries where human rights defenders and activists imprisoned for criticizing the government have been kept in jail despite the risk of COVID-19, Amnesty International said in a report released on Thursday.The new briefing, Daring to Stand up for Human Rights in a Pandemic, states that India is one of the countries that has “left prisoners of conscience to languish in appalling conditions despite widely publicized prisoner release programs.”According to the report, 131 people who speak up for human rights have been harassed, prosecuted, killed, or imprisoned on COVID-19-related pretexts i…
yenisafak.com/en/news/india-not-releasin…

Coronavirus claims another 174 lives in Iran
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
A total of 2,634 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, raising the tally to 320,117, according to ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari.She said more than 277,000 patients have recovered so far, while 4,156 are still hospitalized in critical condition. “Over 2.6 million tests have been conducted in Iran to date,” Lari added.The surge in daily fatalities has increased the fears of a collapse of Iran’s already overwhelmed health care system.Since appearing in China last December, the virus has spread to at least 188 countries and regions, according to figures compiled by the US’ Johns Hopkins U…
yenisafak.com/en/news/coronavirus-claims…

Plane with 20 tons of supplies lands in Beirut: WHO
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-06
A plane carrying 20 tons of World Health Organization health supplies has landed in Beirut to support the treatment of patients injured by the massive explosion that rocked the city, the WHO said Thursday.”The supplies will cover 1,000 trauma interventions and 1,000 surgical interventions for people suffering from injuries and burns resulting from the blast,” the WHO said.Beirut and its surrounding suburbs were rocked Tuesday by a massive blast that left at least 135 people dead and nearly 5,000 injured.In health emergency response, WHO’s logistics hub in Dubai airlifted the shipment.”We are working closely with…
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“A Perpetual Motion Machine of Killing”
Media Lens | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-06
On August 1, a rare in-depth investigative piece appeared on the BBC News website based on credible and serious allegations that UK Special Forces had executed unarmed civilians in Afghanistan. The BBC article was produced in tandem with a report, ‘”Rogue SAS Afghanistan execution squad” exposed by email trail’, published by the Sunday Times. Special …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/a-perpetual-m…

Taxing the Rich. Imposing A “Pigou Wealth Tax” in the Time of COVID-19
Kavaljit Singh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-1959), a British economist, is well known for his contributions to welfare economics. One of the most prolific writers of his time, Pigou wrote over a dozen books and more than 100 articles and pamphlets dealing with …
globalresearch.ca/pigou-wealth-tax-time-…

Hiroshima, Nagasaki Survivors Remember
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
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Trouble in Paradise Valley
George Wuerthner | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-06
Paradise Valley, Montana, is aptly named. The Yellowstone River flows north to Livingston, Montana, framed by the Absaroka Mountains on the east and the Gallatin Range on the West. It’s one of the most stunning landscapes in the entire West. Due to its location immediately adjacent to Yellowstone Park and the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, Paradise…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/06/trouble-in-p…

75 years: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki–the struggle for peace continues
La Riva 2020 | liberationnews.org | 2020-08-06
Today our hearts go out to the Japanese people.
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Hiroshima survivors hammer Japanese government for not signing anti-nuke treaty
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2020-08-06
Survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima 75 years ago confronted Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe today over his refusal to support nuclear disarmament. On the anniversary of the U.S. atom bombing, which killed an estimated 140,000 people, survivors gathered before the Hiroshima Peace Memorial–the bombed-out ruin of Hiroshima’s prefectural industrial promotion hall–for a minute’s …
peoplesworld.org/article/hiroshima-survi…

Today marks 75 years since the world’s first nuclear bombing
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
After three quarters of a century of the nuclear bombings, the Japanese people continue to resist creeping militarism and right-ward tilt. The government of Shinzo Abe has been pushing for expanding military power…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/today-mar…

No Matter Who Biden Chooses as VP, It Will Be a Bittersweet Win for Women
Joan Walsh | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
No Matter Who Biden Chooses as VP, It Will Be a Bittersweet Win for Women…
thenation.com/article/politics/suffrage-…

Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS): To Nancy Pelosi — Did Russia Hack the DNC Emails?
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-06
The lack of detail demanded by Pelosi may simply mean the absence of credible evidence of Russian interference as well as the absence of Clapperesque officials to conjure it up. | *** | MEMORANDUM FOR: Speaker Nancy Pelosi | FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals …
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Down Goes Clay
Ryan Grim | zcomm.org | 2020-08-06
Down Goes Clay: Cori Bush Knocks Off Half-Century Dynasty…
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It’s advantage Rajapaksa brothers as counting begins in Sri Lanka parliamentary polls
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-08-06
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s older brother, 74-year-old Mahinda Rajapaksa is predicted to lead his party, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), to victory in the elections. The results will be announced late on Thursday…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/08/06/its-advan…

Establishment Democrats are getting cocky. That could mean 2016 all over again
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-08-06
Polls on the upcoming 2020 presidential election in the US show presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden ahead by large margins. As a result, Biden’s campaign now seems confident of a decisive victory, or perhaps even a landslide. In fact, i…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/08/06/establis…

A Lethal Traffic Stop in Georgia
ML Kejera | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
A Lethal Traffic Stop in Georgia…
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Stupid Scientific Reality!
Josh Gosfield | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
Stupid Scientific Reality!
thenation.com/article/politics/stupid-sc…

Why We’re Demanding No Cops for Veep
Jennifer Epps-Addison | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
Why We’re Demanding No Cops for Veep…
thenation.com/article/politics/biden-vp-…

As the Hurricane Season Intensifies, Is Puerto Rico Ready?
Ed Morales | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
As the Hurricane Season Intensifies, Is Puerto Rico Ready?
thenation.com/article/politics/isaias-pu…

Biden, Just Say Yes on Medicare for All!
D.D. Guttenplan | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
Biden, Just Say Yes on Medicare for All!
thenation.com/article/society/medicare-b…

For Ottessa Moshfegh, Novel Writing Is a Spiritual Experience
Rosemarie Ho | thenation.com | 2020-08-06
For Ottessa Moshfegh, Novel Writing Is a Spiritual Experience…
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Why Housing Is a Human Right
Lee Camp | counterpunch.org | 2020-08-05
Congress’s inability to actually represent the real-live human beings of America, combined with an economic system that rewards lack of empathy and an excess of greed, has brought us to a dark time when an oncoming tsunami of financial ruin, destitution and evictions towers over our heads, blocking out the sunlight. The impending evictions may…
counterpunch.org/2020/08/05/why-housing-…

Global Research Newsletter Temporarily Suspended
The Global Research Team | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Dear Readers, | Due to technical issues, our daily newsletter sent out via e-mail is currently suspended. We will be able to resume the send-out within the next week or so. We thank you for your patience. | In the meantime, as …
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Media’s ‘cancel culture’ debate obscures direct threats to first amendment
Alan MacLeod | mronline.org | 2020-08-05
A short and rather vaguely worded open letter published in Harper’s Magazine(7/7/20) earlier this month caused an unlikely media storm that continues to rumble on.
mronline.org/2020/08/05/medias-cancel-cu…

Backed by Millions from Pro-Israel Interests, Antone Melton-Meaux Takes Aim at Ilhan Omar
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-05
A little-known union-busting attorney from Minnesota is raking in millions in campaign donations, mostly from out of state, in his attempt to unseat anti-war Rep. Ilhan Omar.
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Backed by Millions from Pro-Israel Interests, Antone Melton-Meaux Takes Aim at Ilhan Omar
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-08-05
A little-known union-busting attorney from Minnesota is raking in millions in campaign donations, mostly from out of state, in his attempt to unseat anti-war Rep. Ilhan Omar. | MPN– Some of the most committed pro-Israel and anti-Palestinian groups are flooding the Democratic primaries in an attempt to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar. | On the surface, there are five candidates Democrats vying to be the congressional representative for Minnesota’s 5th district. But, in reality, it is a two-horse race, with two candidates raising millions, mostly from out of state, in this unusually hotly contested primary. One’s prese…
thealtworld.com/alan_macleod/backed-by-m…

Beirut Blast a Deadly Blow to Lebanon’s Already Shattered Economy
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-08-05
With Lebanon already suffering from a food crisis, currency collapse, and economic sanctions, the devastating explosion at Beirut’s biggest port may be a death knell for the country’s economy.
mintpressnews.com/beirut-blast-deadly-bl…

Amazon violates its own health and safety rules in COVID-19 coverup
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Amazon continues to withhold the number of reported coronavirus infections from its own workers and the public, placing countless lives in danger.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/amzn…

Brazilian teachers oppose back-to-school drive
wsws.org | 2020-08-05
Amid intense opposition from teachers and parents, private schools were reopened last month in the state of Amazonas and this week in Rio de Janeiro.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/05/braz…

The End of Big Tech? Calls Grow to Break Up Facebook, Amazon for “Mob-Like” Behavior, Monopoly Power
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-05
Calls are growing to break up the Big Tech giants, with a handful of companies controlling more and more of the technology industry, crowding out or acquiring would-be competitors and exercising vast power over the U.S. economy. Lawmakers grilled the CEOs of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook during a hearing last week on whether their companies are guilty of stifling competition, in a scene reminiscent of the 1994 hearing of tobacco executives who claimed cigarettes were not addictive. This came just days after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly made $13 billion in a single day, even as the coronavirus pandemic ha…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/5/scott_gall…

Amazon Workers Blocked Delivery Trucks For Hours
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-08-05
Amazon warehouse workers shut down deliveries at an Amazon Distribution Center in the San Francisco Bay Area for several hours on Saturday, demanding the company implement more safety measures to protect workers against COVID-19 and increased pay to reflect the cost of living in one of the country’s most expensive metro areas. | Early Saturday, a caravan of cars, organized by Bay Area Amazonians, an Amazon warehouse worker and delivery-driver led group, drove into the warehouse parking lot, blocking Amazon delivery vans from leaving the facility for roughly three hours and disrupting the flow of business, accordi…
popularresistance.org/amazon-workers-blo…

Ex-NYT reporter publishes new anti-lockdown book, calls out ‘90% of media’ on parroting same lines on Covid responses
rt.com | 2020-08-05
Alex Berenson’s latest chapter in a series of books about Covid-19, the first of which was briefly censored by Amazon, questions both the media’s coverage of the pandemic and the effectiveness of lockdowns. | “I think it’s really important, at a time when 90 percent of media… is saying the same thing, with very little pushback or smart questioning, to get different perspectives,” Berenson told Fox News about the self-published ‘Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns: Part 2: Update and Examination of Lockdowns as a Strategy.’ | “Even if you disagree with me completely, it’s always good to know what o…
rt.com/usa/497205-alex-berenson-covid-lo…

“This Doesn’t Smell Right”: Acting State Dept. Inspector General Resigns Just Months After Predecessor Fired
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
Questions are being raised over the sudden departure amid lingering concerns of alleged impropriety by Secretary of State Pompeo. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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‘This Is a Big Deal’: Iowa Gov. Ends Voting Ban for People With Felony Convictions
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-08-05
The new executive order means there is now no U.S. state categorically banning people with former convictions from voting. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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5 August 2019: The Kashmir Conflict and the Aksai Chin Border Clash, A Dark Day for India-China Relations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-08-05
Most observers at the time regarded India’s de-facto annexation of Jammu & Kashmir on 5 August 2019 as being a defining moment for either India’s internal affairs or Indian-Pakistani relations, but in reality it was a defining one for Indo-Sino …
globalresearch.ca/5-august-2019-defining…

Journalist Rami Khouri: Beirut Explosion Follows Years of Lebanese Gov’t Incompetence & Corruption
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-05
The explosion in the port of Beirut, which killed at least 100 people and injured about 4,000 others, is the latest blow to Lebanon, which already faces an economic, political and public health crisis amid the coronavirus pandemic. The blast is believed to have been triggered by 2,700 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate inexplicably left unattended in a warehouse for six years. Journalist Rami Khouri says it’s further proof of “the cumulative incompetence, corruption, lassitude, amateurism and uncaring attitude by successive Lebanese governments” that have failed the country. “It’s the ruling political elit…
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/5/rami_khour…

“Despair and Destruction”: Doctor in Beirut Describes Harrowing Scenes After Massive Port Explosion
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-08-05
As Beirut reels from a massive explosion that killed at least 100 people and injured thousands, we get an on-the-ground update from pediatrician and writer Dr. Seema Jilani, who treated her own daughter for injuries after the blast. “It was extremely packed because we’re just coming out of a four-day lockdown,” says Jilani. “Everybody was out.” Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab called the explosion a “national catastrophe.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/8/5/beirut_exp…

Apartheid or One State: Has Jordan Broken a Political Taboo?
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-08-05
What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic assessment of the situation on the ground indicates, with palpable clarity, that there can never be a viable Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank and Gaza. Politically, the idea …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/08/apartheid-or-…

Trump Has A Path To Victory. It’s Voter Suppression
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-08-05
The real threat facing the 2020 election isn’t Russian interference or voter fraud, it’s the GOP’s massive voter suppression effort, argues journalist Greg Palast.
therealnews.com/stories/trump-has-a-path…

Iran to send 2000 humanitarian packs to Beirut
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — “2,000 packages weighing 9 tons of food, as well as medicine and medical supplies, will be sent to Lebanon by IRCS”, Iranian Red Crescent Society spokesman announced.
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Iran’s shipment of humanitarian aid to Lebanon
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-08-05
TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) — Iranian Red Crescent Society sent 95 tons of food and medicine to Beirut from Mehrabad Airport on Wednesday evening.
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Tuesday 8/11: Indigenous Leadership in the U.S. Environmental and Climate Justice Movements
Climate Reality Project | indybay.org | 2020-08-05
Online…
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Saturday 8/22: What Lies Ahead: Online Townhall with economist Jack Rasmus
Speak Out Now | indybay.org | 2020-08-05
Online meeting, see website for details…
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John Pilger: Another Hiroshima is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target — China. | John PILGER | When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps was still there. It was an almost perfect impression of a human being at ease: legs splayed, back bent, one hand by her side as she sat waiting for a bank to open. | At a quarter past eight on the morning of August 6, 1945, she and her silhouette were burned into the granite. | I stared at the shadow…
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Turkey ‘neutralized’ more than 100 terrorists in July
yenisafak.com | 2020-08-05
Turkish security forces “neutralized” more than 100 terrorists in July, a government official said on Wednesday.Speaking at a monthly news briefing, Turkish Interior Ministry spokesman Ismail Catakli said the country “neutralized” 105 terrorists, including 80 PKK/KCK, 23 Daesh/ISIS, two leftist terror group members.Catakli added that five of them were on the gray category of the Interior Ministry’s wanted terrorists list with up to a bounty of 500,000 Turkish liras ($71,246) on each head.The wanted list is divided into five color-coded categories, with red as the most wanted, followed by blue, green, orange and g…
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Happy Birthday: Critique of Dialectical Reason!
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-08-05
On the 60th anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s key text on Marxism, Robert Boncardo shows us why it is still relevant, and urgently needed, today.
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Breaking through the walls of isolation: What is the Prisoners Solidarity Committee?
Editor | workers.org | 2020-08-05
This slightly edited statement first appeared in the Sept. 17, 1971, WW as part of a special eight-page Prisoners Solidarity Committee insert, “A Report from Inside Attica,” in tribute to the Attica Prison uprising that occurred Sept. 9-13. This justified rebellion resulted in the massacre of over 40 prisoners by . . . | Continue reading Breaking through the walls of isolation: | What is the Prisoners Solidarity Committee? at Workers.org…
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