Deep organizing key to historic Flint Sit-Down Strike
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2020-07-17
These slightly edited remarks were given at a July 9 Workers World Party webinar on “Introduction to Revolutionary Deep Organizing.” There is a medical definition for “inoculation”: a set of methods of inducing immunity against various infectious diseases. The capitalists inoculate people against unionization. So what does it mean for . . . | Continue reading Deep organizing key to historic Flint Sit-Down Strike at Workers.org…
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øPor qué ganaron los beneficios de DACA?
Workers World Party | workers.org | 2020-07-17
La Corte Suprema por más de 230 años ha llevado a cabo los objetivos conservadores de sus creadores. Ha protegido la propiedad privada, incluida la “propiedad” de los seres humanos, y ha minimizado el derecho de los pobres a asociarse para la lucha unida. Actualmente, Corte Suprema de los Estados . . . | Continue reading øPor qué ganaron los beneficios de DACA? at Workers.org…
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Where is Facundo Astudillo? The evidence points to involvement of Buenos Aires police
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
Two and a half months after the disappearance of Facundo Astudillo, the justice investigates a possible forced disappearance and international organizations like the UN are pressuring the Argentine state to give responses…
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Philippine President Duterte signs ‘Anti-Terrorism Bill’ into law
Mark Andrews | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-17
Main photo: National Democratic activists and allies denounce the Anti-Terror Law. Credit: Anakbayan Silicon Valley On July 3, the president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, signed into law the Anti-Terrorism Bill of 2020, commonly known as the “Anti-Terrorism Law.” The bill, which broadens the definition of terrorism, takes effect July 18. Historical context The National …
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It’s Going to be a Long, Hard Recession
Dean Baker | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
When the unemployment rate goes up, a standard theme in the media is that workers don’t have the right skills. We saw that yesterday in the New York Times when an article told us “The Pandemic Has Accelerated Demands for a More Skilled Workforce.” It tells us how the growth of telecommuting in response to…
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Building Power to Win Is the Revolutionary Approach to “Bourgeois Electoralism”
Ajamu Baraka | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
We must make clear that it is imperialism that degrades and destroys the earth, makes water a commodity, food a luxury, education an impossibility, and health care a distant dream. | The following is excerpted from a presentation by Ajamu Baraka …
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A New Generation of Protest Holds Great Promise for America
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
The inspiring rise of a new generation protesting against racial injustice is driving a new era of change in America, like the generation that emerged 60 years ago to build the civil rights movement of that time. July 16, 1960 is marked in my memory: that is the day I joined seven other friends to…
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A New Generation of Protest Holds Great Promise for America
Jesse Jackson | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
The inspiring rise of a new generation protesting against racial injustice is driving a new era of change in America, like the generation that emerged 60 years ago to build the civil rights movement of that time. July 16, 1960 is marked in my memory: that is the day I joined seven other friends to…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/16/a-new-genera…
Time’s Up Israel: Get Your Knee Off Palestine’s neck
Sam Bahour | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
The timer is now ticking on Israel. While Israel historically put Palestinians on the slow burner, gnawing at their lands and livelihoods, time was in Israel’s favor was the world turned a blind eye. Those days are over. Israel must now choose, allow the state of Palestine to emerge, or have it imposed upon them.
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Exporting Toxic Chemical Waste to Poor Countries Must End, Says UN
Alan MacLeod | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Last year, at least 30 rich countries exported locally-banned toxic substances to poorer ones, allowing corporations to write off their costly waste and transferring the costs to some of the poorest people on earth. | *** | The practice of dumping …
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Vietnam’s Success Against COVID-19
Do Thi Thu Huong | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
While other countries are still lifting quarantine or planning to re-open public activities, Vietnam — a small, developing country that has about 1,400 km of land, river and stream and borders with China — has been opened up for more …
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India-Iran Relations in Crisis: Geopolitical Realignment in Favor of China
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
These easily discernible strategic chain reactions were regrettably missed by many experts owing either to unfamiliarity with the guiding motivations of each related party and/or pressure to comply with the so-called “political correctness” being pushed by some of the players …
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Belarus Is Doing America’s Bidding by Blaming Russia for Its Color Revolution Unrest
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Belarus blamed Russia last month for stoking Color Revolution unrest ahead of its presidential election in early August, but even though this accusation is completely false, it still risks being instrumentalized as part of a perception management plot to convince …
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Tweedledee, Tweedledum, COVID-19, and China in the U.S. Election
Gary Leupp | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-16
Trump’s Main Crime is Criminal Negligence Trump cannot turn back time and re-do February and early March. He cannot undo the damage caused by his inaction on the virus. The fact is, tens of thousands of people in this country became infected while the president pooh-poohed the problem. He showed ignorance and indifference, acting belatedly–as …
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A new generation of protest holds great promise for America
Jesse Jackson | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
The inspiring rise of a new generation protesting against racial injustice is driving a new era of change in America, like the generation that emerged 60 years ago to build the civil rights movement of that time.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/a-new-generation-o…
Making America Feared Again: The Trump Administration Considers Resuming Nuclear Weapons Testing
Lawrence Wittner | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
Americans who grew up with nightmares of nuclear weapons explosions should get ready for some terrifying flashbacks, for the Trump administration appears to be preparing to resume U.S. nuclear weapons tests. The U.S. government stopped its atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons in 1962, shortly before signing the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963. And it Read…
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Lee Camp: The Life-Saving COVID-19 Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (and Why)
Lee Camp | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-16
Only the ridiculously profitable drugs are worth hyping. Only the money makers deserve 80,000 commercials telling every consumer to irrationally demand them. The cheap drugs that simply — save lives — those are garbage.
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Video: Covid-19 Unlawful Acts: Law Suit against Trudeau Government: Constitutional Lawyer Rocco Galati
Rocco Galati | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
A large constitutional claim against Canadian government actors for their actions in COVID-19 has just been filed at the Superior Court in Toronto, Canada. | Watch Atty. Rocco Galati speak in the video below. | Thanks to Mark Taliano for bringing …
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Capital Comes to America: Charles H. Kerr & Company and the Cross-Atlantic Journey of Marx’s Master Work
Allen Ruff | mronline.org | 2020-07-16
On his regularly appearing “Publisher’s Notes” page of the ISR, Kerr would often emphasise that the company was organised to do just one thing–to bring out books valuable to the international socialist movement and to circulate them at prices affordable for working class readers.
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Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s Regular Press Conference on July 15, 2020
Dissident Voice Communications | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-16
Global Times: US National Security Adviser O’Brien said the following in an article published by the Washington Post on July 13: “Under Marxism-Leninism, the self-proclaimed ideology of the Chinese Communist Party, individuals do not possess inherent value. People are merely a tool to achieve the ends of the collective nation-state”; “The details of the CCP’s …
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Video: The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
The unspoken truth is that the novel coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to trigger the entire World into a spiral of mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair. | Michel Chossudovsky interviews Economist and Geopolitical …
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COVID-Stricken Marc Lamont Hill: New Floyd Video Shows Familiar Ritual of Racist Police Terror
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-16
In Minneapolis, newly released police body camera footage reveals devastating new details of George Floyd’s killing on Memorial Day, showing that officers pulled a gun, swore at George Floyd to “get out of the f–ing car,” as he wept and pleaded, “Please don’t shoot me.” The video also showed that medics did not appear to rush to Floyd’s aid after they arrived on the scene. We discuss the latest developments in the case that sparked an ongoing national uprising against racism and police violence, with Marc Lamont Hill, author of “Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint a…
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Marc Lamont Hill: “Disturbing” New George Floyd Video Shows Familiar Ritual of Racist Police Terror
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-16
In Minneapolis, newly released police body camera footage reveals devastating new details of George Floyd’s killing on Memorial Day, showing that officers pulled a gun, swore at George Floyd to “get out of the f–ing car,” as he wept and pleaded, “Please don’t shoot me.” The video also showed that medics did not appear to rush to Floyd’s aid after they arrived on the scene. We discuss the latest developments in the case that sparked an ongoing national uprising against racism and police violence, with Marc Lamont Hill, author of “Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint a…
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/16/marc_lamo…
“The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse”: Is Another Lockdown the Only Way to Avoid Catastrophe?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-16
As health experts warn the coronavirus is on the rise in 41 states, many governors are reimposing restrictions after attempts at opening up the economy, but President Trump wants schools open. We speak with public health historian John Barry, who warns “The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse” if we don’t take bolder action now. Barry is a | professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”
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“The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse”: Is Another Lockdown the Only Way to Avoid Catastrophe?
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-16
As health experts warn the coronavirus is on the rise in 41 states, many governors are reimposing restrictions after attempts at opening up the economy, but President Trump wants schools open. We speak with public health historian John Barry, who warns “The Pandemic Could Get Much, Much Worse” if we don’t take bolder action now. Barry is a professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and author of “The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History.”
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In Attempt to “Intimidate Protesters,” 87 Face Felony Charges for Kentucky Sit-In for Breonna Taylor
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-16
In Louisville, Kentucky, civil rights groups are calling on prosecutors to drop felony charges against 87 people who held a peaceful sit-in protest Tuesday outside the home of Attorney General Daniel Cameron. The demonstrators were demanding the arrest and prosecution of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor, a Black Louisville resident who was shot inside her own home in March. Among those arrested: the president of the Minneapolis NAACP, Houston Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills and Women’s March co-founder Linda Sarsour. If convicted on felony charges, they could face up to five years in prison. “What they’re…
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Chris Hedges: America Faces A Historic Choice — “Ugly Corporate Tyranny” Or Revolution
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
Time is broken in Donald Trump’s America. Minutes feel like hours, hours feel like days. Weeks are months, and months are years. And there is an overwhelming sense of time warped by dread as the country careens towards a dangerous climax on Election Day — whatever the outcome. | Disorientation is a feature of life in a failing democracy where fascism is ascendant. | In a widely read conversation here at Salon during the first few weeks of the national pandemic lockdown and the implosion of America’s economy, journalist and bestselling author Chris Hedges warned that, compared to what may lie ahead, “these w…
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Modi’s ‘New’ India: Notch Or Knot On China’s Belt (And Road Initiative)
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
File it in the rapidly-brimming “biggest-stories-of-2020-you-haven’t-heard-about” folder. | Amidst the madness merger of pandemic and protests — both of which Trump’s minions have blamed on China — there’s been scant attention paid to a brewing conflict between two of the world’s nine nuclear-armed powers (accounting for some 430 warheads between them). One is a rather flighty proxy — India — that Washington has long pursued with the oft-hopeless passion of a smitten suitor. The other, an “enemy” of “freedom,” America, and apple pie everywhere: a Chinese dragon to whom new cold war enthusi…
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The Life-Saving COVID-19 Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (And Why)
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
The American profit-based healthcare system impacts us in more ways than just our gargantuan bill at the excretion end of an emergency room visit. Right now, our lovable idiotic inhumane healthcare system is acting as a hurdle to the manufacture and procurement of the right drugs to treat Covid-19. | One of the drugs currently trumpeted as our savior is remdesivir. Despite sounding like the name of a Hobbit in Middle Earth, some reports from the corporate media make it sound like the drug will thrust us face-first into a fresh world of happiness — water parks and restaurants and random no-holds-barred make-…
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The Gates Foundation’s “Green Revolution” In Africa
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
Fourteen years ago, the Bill and Melinda Gates and Rockefeller Foundations launched the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) with the stated goal of doubling productivity and incomes by 2020 for 30 million small-scale farming households while reducing food insecurity by half in 20 countries. AGRA claims success, but a broad-based civil society alliance has just published “False Promises: The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA),” in which they conclude that the number of Africans suffering extreme hunger has increased by 30 percent in the 13 countries that AGRA eventually focused on. I spo…
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Covid-19: Phase 1 of the “Permanent Crisis”?
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Let’s assume that the events of the last five months are neither random nor unexpected. | Let’s say they’re part of an ingenious plan to transform American democracy into a lockdown police state controlled by criminal elites and their puppet governors. …
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Out of bounds: How media monopolies keep radical ideas off the agenda
Emily Karreman | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-16
Whoever controls the media, controls the people. And whoever controls the people, controls the future. Probably the most well-known–and scientific–book on media bias is Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman. The authors describe the mass media’s uncritical “reporting” on the federal government, specifically regarding foreign policy. These institutions–The New York Times, CNN, FOX …
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An Ultimate Meaning of the Bernie 2020 Campaign: “Not Him. Us.”
Norman Solomon | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
Those of us who regret some of Bernie’s tactical decisions during the last three months would do well to recall Eugene Debs’ words about why he was not seeking to “lead you into the promised land.” The future is up to us.
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An Ultimate Meaning of the Bernie 2020 Campaign: “Not Him. Us.”
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
We’ve got to lead ourselves out of the capitalist wilderness…
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The U.S. Struggle for Justice for Palestine Begins a New Chapter
Mary Miller — Ariel Gold | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
2020 has indisputably been a chaotic year. From the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent disruption of daily life, to the killing of George Floyd and the passionate resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement that followed, to the looming general election: there has been plenty occupying the minds and newsfeeds of Americans. But in between all…
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Good News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-16
While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’ that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace. | Trump’s policies on Israel and Palestine have been damaging, culminating in the outrageously unfair ‘ Deal of the Century’, and his administration remains largely committed to the trend of growi…
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Good News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-16
While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’ that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace. Trump’s policies on Israel and Palestine have been damaging, culminating in …
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US-NATO Seek to Exclude Russia from the Mediterranean. In Libya, Russia is on the Side of Haftar
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Russia is conducting “military intimidation” in the Mediterranean according to RAND in a newly published article titled “Russia Is Eyeing the Mediterranean. The U.S. and NATO Must Be Prepared.” The authors claim that “As part of its great power exertions …
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Israeli Proxies Profit from U.S. Coronavirus Funding
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Washington D.C. is surely one of the most corrupt places on earth. Money talks and nearly everyone into the game sometimes referred to as politics has his or her hand out and expects to end up a millionaire. Given that, …
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Turmoil at Home, Turmoil Abroad: Israel and the U.S. Escalate Their War Against Iran
Philip Giraldi | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-16
Taking action to destroy an economy is an act of war just like staging attacks using bombs carried by spies or using missiles fired from planes. | As the combined impact of the corona virus and the wholesale destruction of America’s history and culture, or at least the part of it that is white, continues, it is nice to see that other nations are getting into the game that will lead to the de facto elimination of western civilization. No one is yet quite up the U.S. level of senseless destruction and looting by the heroes of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa, but in Britain mobs are beating policemen, statues…
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Amid Sri Lankan elections, YouTube censors Tamil-language WSWS posts
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Amid national elections, YouTube, the San Bruno, California subsidiary of Google, has been continually removing Sri Lankan World Socialist Web Site and Socialist Equality Party videos at its website.
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Video: US Presidential Election, Prospects of Kiev Military Advance against Donbass
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
For the past several years, the war between Ukraine and the breakaway and still-unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic and Lugansk People’s Republic has settled into a tense routine of attritional trench warfare, punctuated by sniping, clashes between patrols, small-scale raids, …
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Video: Syria Sends Pantsir Air Defense Systems to Counter Turkey in Libya
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
The Syrian government seems to be deploying Pantsir-S1 air defense systems to Libya to assist forces of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar in their battle against the Turkish-controlled Government of National Accord. | An unusual Pantisr-S1 air defense system was for the …
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Video: Turkish Proxies in Syria Went Out of Control, Attack Joint Turkish-Russian Patrol
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
On July 14th and 15th, Syrian Army artillery units and warplanes of the Russian Aerospace Forces conducted extensive strikes on positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Turkistan Islamic Party and other radical groups in northern Lattakia and southern Idlib. The …
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Britain Caves to US, Bans Huawei from 5G Network Build-Out, More US Anti-China Sanctions Coming
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Trump regime hardliners are pushing a diabolical full-court press to weaken and isolate China on the world stage — wanting its economic, industrial and technological development undermined. | I stressed these points in earlier articles, stressing as well the risk that …
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US War on Russia’s Natural Gas
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
According to US Energy Information Agency data, America, Russia, and Iran are the world’s leading natural gas producers, in that order — followed by Qatar, Canada and China. | US shale oil and gas development made it the world’s leading producer …
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Capitalist system is ‘not above the law’
Editor | workers.org | 2020-07-16
Big Media headlines trumpeted “Supreme Court says Trump not above the law” when SCOTUS ruled on July 9 that the president’s tax returns had to be revealed to — practically no one. The verdict gave narrow access only to New York state criminal prosecutors — and definitely not to Congress . . . | Continue reading Capitalist system is ‘not above the law’ at Workers.org…
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The left candidate for leader of Unite reveals his bold vision for ensuring ‘workers win’
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-07-16
The United Left (UL), a left-wing coalition of Unite the Union’s members, will decide on its nominee for general secretary on 18 July. One of the people vying for that endorsement, Howard Beckett, has just revealed his bold vision for ensuring ‘workers win’. | “Fight. Fight. And Fight some more”: | Beckett began his campaign to be the UL nominee for the union’s general secretary position on 15 July. He says it would be an “absolute honour to receive the nomination” a…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/07/16/the-…
Syrian Christians Respond to Erdogan’s Neo-Ottoman Agenda
Vanessa Beeley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
The steadfast city of Al Sqeilbiyyeh responds strongly to the move of neo-Ottoman would-be-Emperor, Erdogan, to convert the historic church of Hagia Sophia from a secular, inclusive museum into a Mosque. | According to Turkish media (Hurriyet) changes will be applied …
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Laos Has Tackled COVID-19, But It Is Drowning in Debt to International Finance
Vijay Prashad | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
On June 11, Laos (Lao People’s Democratic Republic)–a country of 7 million in Southeast Asia–said it had temporarily prevailed over COVID-19. Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith said that his country had “gained an important victory in the first campaign against this vicious enemy.” The first cases of COVID-19 detected in Laos were registered on March 24; a total of 19 people had been infected with the virus by April 12, and–after 58 days of no new cases–the last patient was discharged on June 9. There were no new cases of COVID-19 in Laos since April 12 (93 days of no new cases as of July…
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Top Amazon Deforestation Satellite Researcher Sacked by Bolsonaro
Jenny Gonzales | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Just days after the publication of data showing that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has reached destructive levels not seen since the mid-2000s, the administration of President Jair Bolsonaro sacked the top scientist responsible for tracking and analyzing the data….
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DeVos Courts Disaster By Claiming It’s Safe To Reopen Schools
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-16
Despite financial threats, school districts across the country are rejecting the guidance of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, a fundamentalist billionaire heiress with zero educational experience.
therealnews.com/columns/devos-courts-dis…
Every Billionaire Is A Predator: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-16
Step 2: Buy up all news media. | Step 3: Structure outlets to elevate voices who defend the status quo. | Step 4: Smear non-plutocratic media who don’t protect the status quo as crazy conspiracy theorists and Russian propaganda. | Step 5: Dominate the narrative about what’s going on in the world. | ~ | Mainstream news is just advertising. You watch advertisements for maintaining the plutocratic status quo, then you watch advertisements between those advertisements for useless crap to make plutocrats even richer. It’s all just different layers of marketing. When I was getting my journalism degree they used to talk…
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Gates, Bezos-backed Firm Searching for Cobalt in Canada
Cecilia Jamasmie | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
KoBold Metals, a start-up backed by a coalition of billionaires led by Bill Gates, plans to scour for cobalt in Canada using advanced mapping technology and it’s targeting northern Quebec, just south of Glencore’s Raglan nickel mine. | The company, …
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Trump’s latest comment about military spending shines a revealing light onto the right-wing mindset
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-07-16
US President Donald Trump’s latest speech was one of his usual rambling and semi-coherent rants. It was filled with the standard litany of misrepresentations, half-truths, and outright lies we’ve come to expect of him. But one comment stood out as particularly revealing. | Though certainly a falsehood, it wasn’t the kind of falsehood that is confined solely to the tangled mind of Trump or the ignorant worldview of his followers. Rather, it has formed one of the centerpieces of right-wing thought in the US since long before Trump entered the political arena. This shines a revealing light on the fundamental nature…
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The Fall of Oligarch Vlad. Plahotniuc. New Hope for Moldova? Towards a Multipolar Alliance with Russia and China?
Matthew Ehret-Kump | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
In June 2019, the small landlocked nation of Moldova found itself in a life or death struggle between two opposing futures: Oligarchs like the notorious Vladimir Plahotniuc had worked diligently for years to bring this nation into the hull of …
globalresearch.ca/fall-plahotniuc-new-ho…
The Inertia Bugaboo
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-16
Planetary heat is turning skeptics into climate change worrywarts with record temperatures galore! But wait! The worst is yet to come. It’s guaranteed, as future heat is already locked and loaded into the vast climate system. It’s the inertia bugaboo. Today, we’re living with yesteryear’s carbon emissions from the turn of the century. Meantime, the …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-inertia-b…
The faulty science, doomism, and flawed conclusions of Deep Adaptation
Thomas Nicholas, Galen Hall, & Colleen Schmidt | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
The claim that runaway climate change has made societal collapse inevitable is not only wrong — it undermines the cause of the climate movement…
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The Inertia Bugaboo
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
Planetary heat is turning skeptics into climate change worrywarts with record temperatures galore! But wait, the worst is yet to come. It’s guaranteed, as future heat is already locked and loaded into the vast climate system. It’s the inertia bugaboo. Today, we’re living with yesteryear’s carbon emissions from the turn of the century. Meantime, the…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/16/the-inertia-…
Cuba’s president and international coronavirus fighters talk about the pandemic
Arleen Rodríguez Derivet | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-16
HAVANA — The Cuban president arrived early, when the blazing summer sun was still just a gentle caress over the beautiful gardens of the La Pradera International Health Center, in the western part of the capital, Havana. “We made this really early, 7: 30 in the morning, so you can be home soon, which you must be …
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Meatpackers hit for discrimination against workers of color in virus protection
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-16
WASHINGTON — The nation’s big meatpackers, notably Tyson Foods and JBS, are racially discriminating against their predominantly brown, Black, and Asian front-line labor force by not protecting rank-and-file workers against the coronavirus, a coalition of civil rights and pro-worker groups says. And the groups want to punish them by cutting off their federal cash. Fed …
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The New Lysenkoism in Washington
Gregg Gonsalves | thenation.com | 2020-07-16
The New Lysenkoism in Washington…
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El presidente de Cuba y los combatientes del coronavirus hablan sobre la pandemia
Arleen Rodríguez Derivet | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-16
El Presidente llegó tempranito, cuando todavía el sol abrasador de estos días, era una caricia sobre los hermosos jardines del Centro Internacional de Salud La Pradera, al oeste la Capital. “Bien temprano, para que puedan estar pronto en sus casas, que es lo que más ansían”, dijo a manera de explicación de aquella cita a …
peoplesworld.org/article/el-presidente-d…
Charlie Russell, Grizzly Whisperer
Louisa Willcox | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
One day in 2003 I was surprised to get a call from Charlie at a time when he should have been in Kamchatka. In the faintest whisper, he told me that his cubs had been killed. He discovered bear gallbladders nailed to the door of his cabin — clearly a threat intended to send him and his partner Maureen Enns packing back to Canada. The cubs were nowhere to be found. “They are lost, all is lost,” he moaned. Charlie’s family had been murdered. I could find no words.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/16/charlie-russ…
Seeing the World Through Touch During a Pandemic
Jyoti Saraswati | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
Vimal Thackeray is washing clothes in the tiny bathroom of her two-room house in Vangani town, struggling, with weakened hands, to apply soap to a pile of sarees, shirts and other garments, pouring water over them from a green plastic mug. She then takes each washed item to her nose and smells it several times to…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/16/seeing-the-w…
Charlie Russell, Grizzly Whisperer
Louisa Willcox | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
One day in 2003 I was surprised to get a call from Charlie at a time when he should have been in Kamchatka. In the faintest whisper, he told me that his cubs had been killed. He discovered bear gallbladders nailed to the door of his cabin — clearly a threat intended to send him and his partner Maureen Enns packing back to Canada. The cubs were nowhere to be found. “They are lost, all is lost,” he moaned. Charlie’s family had been murdered. I could find no words.
counterpunch.org/2020/07/16/charlie-russ…
How Protester Occupations Can Succeed
Nick Licata | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
Nationwide demonstrations, mobilized around the Black Lives Matter movement’s response to the killing of George Floyd, were held in all fifty states and in 5,000 cities. Rallies were held in public squares and larger cities saw their freeways and bridges blocked. Only a few cities ( Richmond, Va.; Philadelphia; Oakland, CA, and New York City…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/16/hower-occupa…
Republicans Are Afraid to Attend Their Convention But Want Your Kids in School
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
The hypocrisy is breathtaking, perhaps literally so if you’re a teacher who catches COVID in homeroom. Fortunately, the Trump administration’s permanent policy of brazen shamelessness is not having the desired effect…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/republicans-are-af…
The End of Private Health Insurance?
F. Douglas Stephenson | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
Covid Crash shows Why we Need Medicare for All…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-end-of-private…
The Ravages of Lithium Extraction in Chile
Yanis Iqbal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
In Chile, the Covid-19 pandemic is raging with an unprecedented speed. There are more than 300,000 confirmed cases with one of the highest per capita infection rates of 13,000 cases for every 1 million people. The economy is severely …
globalresearch.ca/ravages-lithium-extrac…
How Settler Colonial States use incarceration as a tool of dehumanization during the COVID crisis
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-16
Incarceration is a manifestation and continuation of chronic and interwoven structures of oppression…
mronline.org/2020/07/16/how-settler-colo…
The Battle for Pandemic Sanity: Hydroxychloroquine Efficacy vs. Its Suppression
Elizabeth Woodworth | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Covid-19 cases are on the rise again in the U.S. | Why are Dr. Anthony Fauci’s NIAID, the FDA, and the CDC so blind to the real-world success of HCQ+azithromycin? | If this combination is the simple, cheap, safe way to prevent …
globalresearch.ca/hydroxychloroquine-eff…
Video: Covid-19 Unlawful Acts: Law Suit against Trudeau Government: Constitutional Lawyer Rocco Galati
Rocco Galati | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
A constitutional claim against Canadian government actors for their actions in COVID-19 has just been filed at the Superior Court in Toronto, Canada. | A lawsuit against the Trudeau Government for its handling of the COVID-19 Crisis has been launched. | What …
globalresearch.ca/video-constitution-law…
Chaos in UK Health Care. NHS Staff Are Being Silenced Over COVID-19. “Lose Their Jobs if They Speak Out”
The Bernician | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Here lies an anonymous statement from an A&E consultant in a major hospital in Surrey, in relation to the criminal gagging of all levels of NHS staff, who have been threatened that they will lose their jobs if the speak …
globalresearch.ca/nhs-consultant-says-st…
Towards a Totalitarian Regime? European Commission Adopts GMO Vaccine to Combat Non Existent Covid-19 Virus
Julian Rose | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
In a decision which will shock many, the European Commission has taken a big step towards its ambition to subject its citizens to a totalitarian regime in which DNA altering technology forms the centre piece of mass control and unapologetic …
globalresearch.ca/european-commission-ad…
Turin grants honorary citizenship to head of Cuban medical brigade (+ Photos)
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-16
The Municipal Council of Turin granted the honorary citizenship of that city in the region of Piedmont to Dr. Julio Guerra, head of the Cuban medical brigade that helped fight COVID-19 there.
mronline.org/2020/07/16/turin-grants-hon…
Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean will deepen in coming months, experts claim
Tanya Wadhwa | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-16
Several reports by international and regional organizations on the impacts of the global COVID-19 pandemic on Latin America and the Caribbean indicate that the economic, health and social crisis is going to aggravate in the region in the coming months…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/16/crisis-in…
Rise in women prisoners and COVID measures, ‘making sentences worse’
news.un.org | 2020-07-16
More than 700,000 women are in prison around the world, and that number is growing much faster than men, the Human Rights Council has heard.
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PDF of July 16 issue
A. Majumdar | workers.org | 2020-07-16
Download the 12-page PDF. Boston #SayHerName: Black women lead BLM march Down with white supremacy!: Rayshard Brooks Peace Center; Charleston school renamed; Cambridge Black youth sit-in. Revolution and proletarian democracy; SCOTUS undermines birth control; Trump’s xenophobic attacks; Disabled people vs. police terror; Editorial ‘Not above the law’; Reopening schools? TEAR . . . | Continue reading PDF of July 16 issue at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50045/?utm_source=rs…
The Ultra-Rich Elites of the New World Order and Their Diabolical Agenda
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
A human being is by nature a social being, related to the community of fellow human beings, and has a natural inclination for the good. According to Thomas Aquinas this is “written in his heart” by the eternal law (lex …
globalresearch.ca/cerberus-new-world-ord…
With NEPA Changes, Trump Administration Puts Public Health at Risk for Private Gain
Dr. Kathleen Rest | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Today, the Trump administration has announced a major weakening of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This rollback would increase the risk of environmental damages from major development projects, and limit the power of the communities to weigh in on …
globalresearch.ca/nepa-trump-administrat…
The Day After 9/11: UN Security Council’s Passes Resolution 1368 and Starts “Pillar Four” of the United Nations
Elias Davidsson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
The first draft of this article was written in 2014. It is now ready for publication (including several corrections). | The first overt diplomatic achievement by the United States related to 9/11, was Resolution No. 1368. It was adopted at | …
globalresearch.ca/day-after-nine-eleven-…
Instability in the Caucasus: Turkey Supports Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh Dispute with Armenia
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia has become increasingly serious. Both countries claim the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh and between the late 1980s and early 1990s there was a war between them to decide the control of the region. Tens of …
globalresearch.ca/turkey-supports-azerba…
How Many Ways Can Israel Wage War on Iran Before the Media Reports Israel Is Waging War on Iran?
Ted Snider | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-16
Israel just bombed Iran. And no one noticed. | On July 2, 2020, two explosions erupted in Iran, and both seem to have been ignited by Israel. Neither explosion attracted much reporting, and what reporting there has been remains thin and …
globalresearch.ca/how-many-ways-can-isra…
Cancel culture cannot erase a strong argument
Robert Jensen | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
How can we determine what are good and bad ideas in the gender identity debate if we cancel those having the conversation?
zcomm.org/znetarticle/cancel-culture-can…
Burning Down the House
J.T. Williamson | thenation.com | 2020-07-16
Burning Down the House…
thenation.com/article/politics/burning-d…
New Tech Company Partnership to Offset Responsibility for Public Safety and Health onto AI
Raul Diego | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-16
A new tech partnership augurs a bleak vision for the future of public safety and health emergencies where algorithms and mass profiling of entire populations make the social contract obsolete.
mintpressnews.com/new-tech-company-partn…
Prison: Therapeutic Centers Or Academies of Crime?
Graham Peebles | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-16
We may know where one is, we may regularly pass by one, but most of us will never go to prison. Dark Islands of Confinement, existing in a space separated from the rest of society, where men, women and youths are locked up, often poorly treated, seldom rehabilitated. Black men and people from Asian and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/prison-therap…
Thousands gather in Martinez to condemn white supremacy and police brutality
Claudia Drdul | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-16
A July 12 action in Martinez, California, protested against white-nationalist fliers distributed within the small Bay Area community.
liberationnews.org/thousands-gather-in-m…
Rally in Chicago denounces sanctions on 5-year anniversary of Iran deal
Shabbir Manjee | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-16
“Sanctions are unjust. Too frequently they are talked about as if they are harmless. We know that sanctions kill.”
liberationnews.org/rally-in-chicago-deno…
Return or resign: Texas teacher says schools issue reopening ultimatum
Dan Wright | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-16
The coming months will mark the 18th time that I have begun a school year. It promises to be a year like no other, but not for the reasons that we would generally presume. The joy and anticipation of meeting new students and getting off to a fresh start in the adventure of learning are …
peoplesworld.org/article/return-or-resig…
Despite Trump’s happy talk, 2.4 million more claim jobless benefits
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-16
WASHINGTON — Another 2,432,380 people filed for unemployment insurance benefits last week, the Labor Department reported, pushing the official total of jobless above 32 million, and the unofficial total far beyond that. Just over 1.5 million (1,503,892) newly jobless sought state-paid benefits, funded by employers’ contributions and payroll taxes–sources that are rapidly running out of …
peoplesworld.org/article/despite-trumps-…
Justice for Breonna Taylor: 87, including NFL player Kenny Stills, arrested
Rebecca Reynolds Yonker, Dylan Lovan | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-16
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Eighty-seven demonstrators who gathered at the home of Kentucky’s attorney general to demand justice for Breonna Taylor have been arrested and charged with a felony for trying to “intimidate” the prosecutor, police said. Protesters with the social justice organization Until Freedom gathered for a sit-in on the front yard of a …
peoplesworld.org/article/justice-for-bre…
Tunisia’s prime minister, Elyes Fakhkah, resigns after allegations of financial wrongdoing
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-16
Ennahda, the largest party in the ruling coalition, had moved a motion of no confidence in Fakhfakh citing clash of interest due to allegations of the prime minister holding shares in companies getting government contracts worth USD 15 million.
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/16/tunisias-…
Canadian Workers Fight to Nationalize GM Plant
Sam Gindin | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
In Oshawa Ontario, workers organize for a public takeover an unused GM plant to produce electric vehicles or supplied to fight the pandemic…
zcomm.org/zvideo/canadian-workers-fight-…
Social Democrat-led coalition leads in North Macedonian polls, Left enters parliament
shweta | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-16
The Social Democrat-led We Can coalition has established a slender lead in the polls in North Macedonia that were held on July 15. This is likely to strengthen the pro-EU bloc in the country…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/16/social-de…
Disabled people fight police violence with accessible protests
Workers World New York Disabilities bureau | workers.org | 2020-07-16
Because most of the mass protests held after the police murder of George Floyd were not accessible, on June 7 Black disabled activists in Milwaukee held their own. The Milwaukee action was the second George Floyd protest held by Black disabled activists. The first was held in Washington, D.C., where . . . | Continue reading Disabled people fight police violence with accessible protests at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50032/?utm_source=rs…
UK’s Huawei ban is a bid to nullify Chinese lead in telecom
Newsclick | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-16
Newsclick’s Prabir Purkayastha talks about the decision of the United Kingdom to ban Huawei from its 5G network. He explains how technological development may suffer due to the decision and also the challenges before Huawei in overcoming restrictions by both the UK and the US…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/16/uks-huawe…
White Professors Live In Fear
Paul Craig Roberts | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-16
Academics, if they are white, live in fear of their jobs. Professors lost their authority when administrations ceased backing them and instead allowed student complaints to result in investigations. Once an investigatory procedure is in place, it keeps itself funded by investigating. Feminist complaints, followed by political correctness, had the investigative process well oiled prior to the rise of wokism. Now almost any word can be turned into an offense requiring investigation. One professor is in trouble because he read to the class Martin Luther King’s “Letter from a Birmingham jail.” King’s letter contained…
thealtworld.com/paul_craig_roberts/white…
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: It’s Time to Dump the Democrats
Riva Enteen | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-16
As in 2016, you’d think it would be easy to beat the Orange Menace, but the Democrats are challenging him with somebody even worse than Clinton, a man in steep cognitive decline.
mintpressnews.com/desperate-times-desper…
Minneapolis Ballot Measure to Dismantle Police Will Test Strength of Our Movement
Robin Wonsley | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
Winning the November charter amendment vote on this popular platform would dramatically boost the confidence, class unity, and power of our multi-racial movement…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/minneapolis-ballot…
How Civil Asset Forfeiture Could Undermine Efforts to Defund Police
Ella Fassler | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-16
The public has little control over the police budgets, and no control over their external revenue sources like asset forfeiture, which massively contribute to the expansion of the police state.
mintpressnews.com/civil-asset-forfeiture…
Shaking Up Your Perceptions
Stuart Klawans | thenation.com | 2020-07-16
Shaking Up Your Perceptions…
thenation.com/article/culture/welcome-ch…
OCHA Report: West Bank Demolitions and Displacement | June 2020
OCHA | imemc.org | 2020-07-16
The United Nations Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Summary for June 2020 100 structures demolished or seized in June, the highest level since January 2017. Of the targeted structures, ten were humanitarian aid, including a tent used as a quarantine site. Only …
imemc.org/article/ocha-report-west-bank-…
Struggle for community control of Rayshard Brooks Peace Center in Atlanta
Arielle Robinson | workers.org | 2020-07-16
Atlanta July 11 — Today the Atlanta community continued to protest, demanding community control for the site of the burned-out Wendy’s restaurant where Atlanta police murdered Rayshard Brooks the night of June 12. The Rayshard Brooks Memorial Center in Atlanta. The Saturday demonstration, organized by Community Movement Builders, was in . . . | Continue reading Struggle for community control of Rayshard Brooks Peace Center in Atlanta at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50037/?utm_source=rs…
Cambridge, Mass.: For Us, By Us Collective calls for funding communities, not cops
| workers.org | 2020-07-16
By Katya Zinn Cambridge, Mass. On June 22, the author acted as an accomplice to a Black-youth-organized civil disobedience demonstration in Cambridge, Mass. This is their field report. Central Square, 6 p.m. An early summer dusk painted a grapefruit haze over awnings of padlocked dive bars and deserted cafés. Outside . . . | Continue reading Cambridge, Mass.: For Us, By Us Collective calls for funding communities, not cops at Workers.org…
workers.org/2020/07/50050/?utm_source=rs…
Why Face Masks Don’t Work, According to Science
RT | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-16
So much debate over whether or not we should be wearing masks in order to fight COVlD but multiple scientific studies over the past decade have already settled this question. Not only do medical masks not prevent the spread of the virus, but a 1995 study proves that wearing a cloth mask can put you …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/why-face-mask…
Stir Crazy! Episode #67 — “Virtue Knows No Color Line”
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-16
On today’s show: TRNN visual producer Andrew Corkery and political commentator Marcus Ferrell. Hosted by Kim Brown. If you have comments/questions/suggestions email us at stircrazy@therealnews.com…
therealnews.com/stories/stir-crazy-episo…
As Grayling comes second in a one horse race, Johnson’s authority is in tatters
John Ranson | thecanary.co | 2020-07-16
It may seem like no more than a classic Westminster soap opera. But the hoo-ha over Chris Grayling’s failure to win a parliamentary committee chair says everything about Boris Johnson’s cack-handed attempts to run the country. In effect, Johnson attempted to rig a process that was already stacked in his favour and still failed to get the result he wanted. | Jobs for the boys: | The select committee system is one of the bits of Westminster’s obscure structure that actually has the potential to work rather well. Committees are set up to fo…
thecanary.co/opinion/2020/07/16/as-grayl…
Police surveilled George Floyd protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-16
The monitoring seems at odds with claims from both Twitter and Dataminr that neither company would engage in or facilitate domestic surveillance following a string of 2016 controversies.
mronline.org/2020/07/16/police-surveille…
Thousands gather in Martinez to condemn white supremacy and police brutality
Claudia Drdul | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-16
A July 12 action in Martinez, California, by Together We Stand, Southern Alameda County Resistance Network, and Martizians for Black Lives protested against white-nationalist fliers distributed within the small Bay Area community. Nakenya Allen, a resident of Martinez who lives a few blocks from where the fliers were found, said: “There was absolutely no way …
liberationnews.org/thousands-gather-in-m…
The Harper’s Letter Is Really A Case Against Open Debate
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-16
Cultural and intellectual elites are trying to save themselves from accountability, not protect your free speech.
therealnews.com/stories/the-harper-s-let…
Where Is the Outrage Over Anti-Semitism in Sports and Hollywood?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
If we’re going to be outraged by injustice, let’s be outraged by injustice against anyone…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/where-is-the-outra…
Anti-Semitic Comments by Athletes Demand a Better Response
Dave Zirin | thenation.com | 2020-07-16
Anti-Semitic Comments by Athletes Demand a Better Response…
thenation.com/article/society/desean-ste…
Why You Should Give A F*ck | Ep. 6 | Accountability
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-16
We look at how to hold people in government accountable, and the systems that act as a check on their power.
therealnews.com/stories/wysgaf-governmen…
How the Pandemic Hit Americans: Selective in Its Impact, the Virus Has Struck the Homeless Hard
Rajan Menon | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-16
The novel SARS-CoV-2 has roared through the American landscape leaving physical, emotional, and economic devastation in its wake. By early July, known infections in this country exceeded three million, while deaths topped 135,000. Home to just over 4% of the global population, the United States accounts for more than a quarter of all fatalities from…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/16/how-the-pand…
Anarchism and Management — an Odd Couple
Thomas Klikauer | zcomm.org | 2020-07-16
Every unethical step management has taken has been ideologically legitimised by business ethics, which has not only morphed into an ideology but also into a business ethics industry…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/anarchism-and-mana…
The Dollar “Has Us by the Throat”: Chinese Party Official Urges Decoupling
Tyler Durden | anti-empire.com | 2020-07-16
With all eyes on Trump’s Tuesday evening Rose Garden speech which unveiled that he’ll sign new and punitive measures indirectly targeting China — namely the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, a bipartisan measure to penalize banks that work with Chinese officials found to be interfering in Hong Kong affairs — it remains that arguably the most important recent statements out of China came not from current government officials, but from Zhou Li, the 65-year-old former deputy head of the Chinese Communist Party’s International Liaison Department. He’s considered an important voice who echoes the outside the box thi…
anti-empire.com/the-dollar-has-us-by-the…
Moderna’s Vaccine Side Effect Is COVID-19
Robert Langreth | anti-empire.com | 2020-07-16
Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine produced antibodies to the coronavirus in all patients tested in an initial safety trial, federal researchers said, clearing an important milestone as the U.S. continues to grapple with a surge in new infections. | The findings are likely to increase hopes that a vaccine can be brought to market quickly. However, a number of patients in the trial experienced side effects, some of them severe. The vaccine will move into a much larger late-stage trial later this month that’s likely to determine whether it’s approved by U.S. re…
anti-empire.com/modernas-vaccine-side-ef…
The Heat: Global view of U.S
Mike Walter | america.cgtn.com | 2020-07-16
As coronavirus rages across the United States and after weeks of protests against police abuse, has America’s reputation taken a global hit? The U.S. response to its huge number of COVID-19 cases and deaths has caused dismay to people watching around the world. Meanwhile, weeks …
america.cgtn.com/2020/07/16/the-heat-glo…
Iran supporter of Afghan peace talks: Araghchi
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-16
TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) — Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi announced Iran’s support for peace talks in Afganistan.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161056/Iran-support…
Iran ready to mediate between Armenia, Azerbaijan
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-16
TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson announced Iran’s readiness for mediating between Armenia and Azerbaijan for resolving the conflict over Karabakh.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161055/Iran-ready-t…
2nd phase of desalination project in Bandar Abbas goes online
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-16
TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — The second phase of the desalination project in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan province southern went on stream on Thursday.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/161050/2nd-phase-o…
Iran ready to host intra-Afghan peace talks: Atmar
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-16
TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — Afghan Acting Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar said on Thursday that Iran has offered readiness to host intra-Afghan peace negotiations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161054/Iran-ready-t…
Iran’s military diplomacy challenging US, Israel comfort
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-16
TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) — The new phase of Iran-Syria military cooperation will be the strengthening of Syria’s air defenses, which could be a serious countermeasure against the US and Zionist threats in the region.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161047/Iran-s-milit…
Community-led response ‘essential’ to deal with pandemic
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-07-16
Anti-racism Jacob AndrewarthaIssue 1273 Australia COVID-19 public housing United Workers UnionJuly 16, 2020Public health wo…
greenleft.org.au/content/community-led-r…
Calls mount to expel police unions from trades halls
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-07-16
Workers & unions Leo CrnogorcevicIssue 1273 Australia Police Association of Victoria Victorian Trades HallJuly 16, 2020The widely-shared video of the police murder of George…
greenleft.org.au/content/calls-mount-exp…
Closest-ever images of the Sun reveal ‘campfires’ near the surface
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-16
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has unveiled its first images, including what appear to be ubiquitous miniature solar flares.
imperial.ac.uk/news/199953/closest-ever-images-sun-reveal-campfires-near
Brain waves of Formula E world champion measured on Top Gear race track
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-16
For the first time, a new study simultaneously tracks brain activity, eye movements and body movements of a pro race car driver in extreme conditions.
imperial.ac.uk/news/199833/brain-waves-formula-world-champion-measured
Excellence in Animal Research celebrated with 2020 Provost Awards
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-07-16
Three individual staff members and one team have been recognised in the Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Animal Research.
imperial.ac.uk/news/199935/excellence-animal-research-celebrated-with-2020
G20 Must Act, Say Hundreds of Religious, Labor, Human Rights, Environmental and Developmen
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Washington DC – Ahead of Saturday’s G20 Finance Minister meetings, a wide range of 213 organizations is pressing for more action to confront the global health and economic impacts of the coronavirus. The largest religious bodies in the United States and Africa were joined by the biggest labor unions, human rights, environmental and anti-poverty groups in letters sent to the G20, IMF and White House.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/1883513…
Thursday 7/23: Food Supply, Diet and the Environment in the age of COVID-19
Earth Day Network | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Online via livestream and Zoom…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/1883512…
Wednesday 8/19: Oakland Privacy: Fighting Against the Surveillance State
Oakland Privacy | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Online via Zoom (see below)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/1883512…
Monday 7/20: Nationwide Strike for Black Lives
Strike for Black Lives | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Nationwide car caravans, rallies, and protest actions…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/15/1883511…
Thursday 7/16: Saving Life on Earth: The Wall & Current Ecological Devastation of US-Mexico Borderlands
Center for Biological Diversity | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Online…
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Large corona aid for “small” companies
Bulgan Molor-Erdene | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Dozens of tenants in buildings owned or managed by Trump received funds. More than 20 companies registered at 40 Wall Street, an office building Trump has owned since the mid-1990s, have also reportedly received government loans of at least $20 million. Among the recipients were law firms, financial services companies and non-profit organizations.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/15/1883511…
Wednesday 7/22: History of Alcatraz & Mass Incarceration In America Today
San Francisco Public Library | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/1883512…
Singing Out & Standing Up For Freedom! Group Yorum Banned & Repressed By The Government
LaborFest.net | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
This documentary is about Group Yorum band from Turkey and their music of struggle against the system. They have been banned and repressed by the government.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/15/1883511…
Friday 7/31: Outdoors While Black: Unpacking History, Reframing Safety, & Taking Action
One Earth Film Festival & other | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Online…
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Friday 7/17: Online Socialism Forum: People or Profits? U.S. Pandemic Priorities
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
register here: bit.ly/people-v-profits…
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Thousands of Elected Officials see a turning point, and rally against fossil fuel industry
Ramona du Houx | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
In this historic moment of reckoning for the energy future of America, elected officials join indigenous and front-lines organizers in celebrating victories over unjust and exploitative pipelines. With the tide of public opinion clearly opposed to carbon emissions and the oil industry’s devastating reevaluations the vise-like grip of the fossil fuel industry’s lobbying influence has begun to weaken.
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Sunday 7/19: LaborFest 2020: Death and Dismissal of Mexican and US Workers
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
This is a free LIVE Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
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Thursday 7/23: LaborFest 2020: Community Colleges Under Attack and the Right to Higher Public Education
Laborfest | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
This is a free LIVE Zoom based event. You can be anywhere to view and participant. Please visit the LaborFest 2020 website URL to register and to receive a Zoom invitation to the event.
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Monday 7/20: San Francisco City Hall Strike for Black Lives
SEIU Local 1021 | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
San Francisco City Hall, 1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102…
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PPP loans for filmmakers, musicians, the arts, guitars and entertainment
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
The Sundance Institute:…
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Questions Still Unanswered
Robert Norse | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
In late May, I wrote SCPD boss Andy Mills a lengthy letter reiterating questions asked him around three years ago that have largely been unanswered with any specificity. He responded (“An Updated Letter to SCPD Police Chief Mills in the Wake of the George Floyd Murder” at www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/05/29/188…). This is my follow-up to his response written in mid-June. I received no answer to any of the follow-up questions…
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Economic impact of corona lockdowns
Christian Kreiss | indybay.org | 2020-07-16
Even before the current lockdown-induced economic depression, the assets of the lowest 20 percent of US households – between 2007 and 2019 – had fallen by about a third according to the Wall Street Journal, and their incomes had fallen by 2 percent in real terms in these 12 years. Then came the lockdown. It hit the bottom fifth of the US population correspondingly hard.
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Government Gave Big Oil The Power to Prosecute Its Biggest Critic
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-16
In recent years, the American government has given the fossil fuel industry hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies and opened up wide swaths of public land for drilling. Now, as the climate crisis worsens, a federal judge has given a private corporate law firm with ties to fossil fuel companies the power to criminally prosecute one of the industry’s biggest foes–a lawyer who notched one of history’s biggest legal victories against a major oil company. | In 2011, Steven Donziger led the legal team that secured a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron for polluting the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. Chevr…
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Blockbuster Oil Bribery Scandal Exposes Corrupt Double-Dealing Of Guaidó ‘Attorney General’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-16
Below the radar of US media, a district court in Florida tossed out a multibillion-dollar bribery case in March 2018 thanks to testimony delivered by a former member of the shadow administration of Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó. | That ex-official, Jose Ignacio Hernandez, served as attorney general in the US-backed Guaidó junta until July of this year. As this investigation will reveal, Hernandez’s testimony was bought and paid for by foreign oil giants with an interest in defrauding Venezuela’s state petroleum company out of billions of dollars. | These corporate titans, which included some of the world’s l…
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Atlantic Coast Pipeline Win Was A Hard-Earned Victory
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-16
Sunday’s announcement of the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) was remarkable for so many reasons. Not least that the two companies, Dominion and Duke, are the most powerful corporate entities in their respective states (Virginia and North Carolina). For these two corporate giants to back down is a rare and beautiful thing to behold. | This victory comes as an enormous relief to people all along the more than 600 miles of pipeline route through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Farmers, homeowners, small business entrepreneurs — the pipeline fighters who won this rich victory were…
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‘Attempted Murder Of Your Post Office’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-16
Postal workers and their allies in Congress are vowing to fight back after the new head of the U.S. Postal Service–a major donor to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party–moved this week to impose sweeping changes to the popular government agency as it faces a financial crisis manufactured by lawmakers and exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic. | The Washington Post reported late Tuesday that Postmaster General (PMG) Louis DeJoy, who took charge last month, issued memos announcing “major operational changes” to the USPS “that could slow down mail delivery, warning employees the agency would no…
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Asheville Approves Reparations For Black Residents
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-16
Asheville, NC – In an extraordinary move, the City Council has apologized for the city’s historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties to Black residents and voted to provide reparations to them and their descendants. | The 7-0 vote came the night of July 14. | “Hundreds of years of black blood spilled that basically fills the cup we drink from today,” said Councilman Keith Young, one of two African American members of the body and the measure’s chief proponent. | “It is simply not enough to remove statues. Black people in this country are dealing with issues that are systemic in nature,”
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Pausing In The Pandemic Portal
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-16
Think of the clarity that this moment has provided you with who sustains you. Who sustains us. The farmworker. The health worker. The delivery worker. The cleaners. The grocery store workers. | Can you hold on to this clarity as we step through the portal? That what sustains life is not those that choose profit, but those that ensure care. | And can you remember that it is those that sustained us who were forced to keep on working? | Can you remember once we are through this portal that we lived through once a period where almost all inessential travel was stopped. Where people chose to stay home, and often consu…
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‘Coordinated social engineering attack’: Twitter confirms employees with access to internal systems targeted in bitcoin scam hack
rt.com | 2020-07-16
Twitter has said that alleged bitcoin scammers targeted some of its employees to get access to “internal systems and tools,” which they then apparently used to hack into high-profile accounts, such as Joe Biden’s. | We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools.– Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020 | Noting that it is still investigating the circumstances behind the hack,…
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Georgia governor bans mask mandates. ‘Ignore the science and survive the best you can,’ Savannah mayor complains
rt.com | 2020-07-16
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has prohibited cities from forcing residents to wear masks in public, voiding requirements put in place by some local governments. The move led to one mayor hurling incendiary accusations at Kemp. | The ban on mandatory face coverings was part of a new executive order which extended state measures purportedly put in place to fight the spread of coronavirus. Although Kemp has encouraged voluntary mask-wearing, his order made it clear that cities and counties could not coerce people into donning a face covering. The move voids orders adopted by at least 15 local governments across the…
rt.com/usa/494897-georgia-ban-mask-manda…
‘Not the Onion’: US top doctor Fauci lands glossy fashion magazine cover as Covid-19 rages on
rt.com | 2020-07-16
US chief virologist Dr. Anthony Fauci has taken some time off his coronavirus-busy schedule for a photo shoot with a fashion magazine. Some loved the splash, but others argued it was a “bad look” during a pandemic. | Fauci landed a digital cover of InStyle magazine, along with a lengthy, if somewhat self-congratulatory, interview. “With all due modesty, I think I’m pretty effective,” the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said, as US Covid infection numbers continue to break reco…
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Saying ‘pro-life’ is racist and should be banned, says Rolling Stone writer
rt.com | 2020-07-16
Staying woke on what’s acceptable and what’s racist is an ongoing process of shifting standards, as a Rolling Stone writer proved with the latest addition to terms that have surprisingly been branded as bigotry: “pro-life.” | Jamil Smith, a senior writer who covers “the intersection of politics and identity” for the magazine, opined on Twitter Wednesday that the term “pro-life” deserves to be banished along with other recently outlawed characters and words. A wave of racial sensitivity brought on by the Black Lives Matter protest movement has already brought down decades-old consumer products brands such as Un…
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‘Tough day for us at Twitter’: Twitter unmutes most blue checks after bitcoin scammer hack, says ‘functionality may come & go’
rt.com | 2020-07-16
The majority of the verified accounts that were silenced by Twitter as it dealt with its most prominent hack to date — allegedly by bitcoin scammers — have been unlocked, the site said, noting that the issue is not yet resolved. | …
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Minneapolis nixes anti-topless ordinance after police use DRONE to film nude sunbathers
rt.com | 2020-07-16
Minneapolis has repealed a measure that barred women from going topless in city parks and beaches after police let slip they were using drones to spy on nude sunbathers — supposedly because of complaints about drinking and drugs. | The Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Department voted to roll back a ban on showing “female breasts” in city parks on Wednesday, condemning the “discriminatory” measure and bringing park rules into line with the laws that govern the rest of Minneapolis. Full nudity is still prohibited in parks, however — suggesting the creepy drone flyovers will continue. | Going topless…
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Twitch cracks down on US Army’s ‘fake giveaway’ program aimed at teens after activist complains
rt.com | 2020-07-16
The streaming platform Twitch has removed a ‘bait and switch’ ad by the US Army that sought to harvest teenagers’ data through a misleading video-game controller giveaway, after complaints from a progressive activist. | “This promotion did not comply with our Terms, and we have required them to remove it,” Twitch told the videogame news site Kotaku in an email on Thursday, after the Nation published a piece by the self-described progressive activist Jordan Uhl, who brought up the practice. | Video gam…
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Wounded children treated in Yemen hospital after Saudi airstrike hits residential area (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-07-16
A heartbreaking video from RT’s video agency Ruptly shows children undergoing treatment after a Saudi airstrike hit a residential area in Yemen’s northern province of al-Jawf. | The attack on Wednesday left nine people dead and almost as many wounded, with the local officials saying that the most of the victims were women and children. | A doctor at the al-Jawf General Hospital told Ruptly that the facility received up to four kids after the airstrike. They suffered torn wounds to their limbs and bodies, with one small child having his face mutilated by shrapnel. | WARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT | “We’re sad and…
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RIP ‘CLAT’? Police shut down Portland protesters’ short-lived CHAZ-style ‘autonomous zone’ (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-16
Portland police have brought a swift and unceremonious end to a newly-created ‘autonomous zone’ in the city, which was seen by many as an offshoot of a now-defunct protester camp in Seattle. | Protesters camping out at the Chinook Land Autonomous Territory (CLAT) were ordered by law enforcement to leave the area on Thursday morning. Several arrests were made due to non-compliance, according to local media. | Videos and photographs show police and federal officers clearing out the streets around Portland’s Lownsdale Square Park, the location of the short-lived ‘autonomous’ zone. The park sits across the street…
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Trump turns to Facebook to announce replacement of Brad Parscale as campaign manager after huge Twitter hack & account lockdown
rt.com | 2020-07-16
US President Donald Trump has tapped a new campaign manager, but deprived of his Twitter handle following a major hack on the platform, decided — or was forced by a shutdown of verified accounts — to declare the move on Facebook. | …
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Nick Cannon dubs Jews ‘magnificent people’ in long apology after anti-Semitism charges, stays mum about calling whites ‘savages’
rt.com | 2020-07-16
Entertainer Nick Cannon has offered a lengthy apology after creating a wave of controversy with anti-Jewish remarks in a recently published interview, but offered no mea culpa for similar inflammatory comments about white people. | “First and foremost I extend my deepest and most sincere apologies to my Jewish sisters and brothers for the hurtful and divisive words that came out of my mouth during my interview with Richard Griffin,” Cannon said in the first of a series of tweets on Wednesday night, adding that he is “ashamed” his comments “reinforced the worst stereotypes of a proud and magnificent people.”
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UN Global COVID-19 Response Plan Seeks Over $10Bln to Aid Poor Countries
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-16
(Sputnik) – The United Nations expanded its appeal to fund the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic in vulnerable countries and now seeks more than $10 billion, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement on Thursday.
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Trump Administration Reportedly Exempts European Students From COVID-19 Travel Ban
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-16
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US Reportedly Tested ‘Super Duper’ Hypersonic Missile That Flew 17X Faster Than Speed of Sound
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-16
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The US military recently tested a hypersonic missile that flew 17 times faster than the speed of sound, CNN reported citing a senior defense official.
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The Future for China
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-16
The path forward for China will be increasingly for China to serve as a defender of the independence of the nations in its area (such as the Philippines), so that they won’t need to accept the U.S. regime’s offers of military assistance. Either this, or else China itself will cede control of its own neighborhood over to a distant enemy-nation, the ceaselessly grasping U.S. regime, and might as well just quit altogether, and become an American pawn itself.
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The Case for Regionalism in a Post-Coronavirus World
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-16
Mathew MAAVAK | The lingering COVID-19 scourge continues to devastate the global economy. Initial fears of an impending supply chain shock, arising from shuttered Chinese factories, have instead led to a moth-eaten global economy where rising supply is met with depreciating demand and vice versa. To make matter worse, COVID-19 relief funds — amounting to trillions of dollars in the West alone — have ended up benefiting the rich instead of the poor. Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which were ostensibly…
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How America’s Adult Children Who Never Grew Up Became Dostoyevsky’s Demons
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-16
Many contributors on this platform have rightly pointed out the two most perplexing developments within the United States this century that carry truly terrifying implications for the peace and stability of the entire world: | The first is the manic American obsession with lecturing other nations around the world and then intervening recklessly and without end to topple governments and remake entire societies. Over the past half century these endless misadventures in so-called “nation building” (in reality the exact opposite, the destruction of nations) have failed catastrophically wherever they have been tried.
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Turmoil at Home, Turmoil Abroad: Israel and the U.S. Escalate Their War Against Iran
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-16
As the combined impact of the corona virus and the wholesale destruction of America’s history and culture, or at least the part of it that is white, continues, it is nice to see that other nations are getting into the game that will lead to the de facto elimination of western civilization. No one is yet quite up the U.S. level of senseless destruction and looting by the heroes of Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa, but in Britain mobs are beating policemen, statues including that of Winston Churchill are being attacked and the Cenotaph commemorating the country’s war dead has been vandalized. In a bizarre inc…
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Tory government accused of ‘corrosive’ lack of transparency over coronavirus spending figures
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-16
Rishi Sunak’s emergency Plan for Jobs to tackle the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis will involve up to £10bn less spending on previously planned projects, economists said. | Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) revealed that the proposals — which the chancellor said could amount to up to £30bn of support — are partly funded by spending cuts on previously planned projects and investments which are now deemed less of a priority or infeasible given the Covid-19 plan. | The think-tank was critical of the “lack of transparency” from the Treasury which is “corrosive to trust”. | http…
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Tory government accused of ‘corrosive’ lack of transparency over coronavirus spending figures
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-16
Rishi Sunak’s emergency Plan for Jobs to tackle the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis will involve up to £10bn less spending on previously planned projects, economists said. | Analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) revealed that the proposals — which the chancellor said could amount to up to £30bn of support — are partly funded by spending cuts on previously planned projects and investments which are now deemed less of a priority or infeasible given the Covid-19 plan. | The think-tank was critical of the “lack of transparency” from the Treasury which is “corrosive to trust”. | All…
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Nurses and midwives ‘at high risk of burnout and bullying in the workplace’
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-16
Working conditions for nurses and midwives pose a significant threat to their mental health, which could worsen due to the pandemic, a review has found. | The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) reviewed the mental health and wellbeing of nurses and midwives in the UK before the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. | Among its findings, published in a report on 16 July, it identified the high risk of work-related stress, mental health problems and burnout in the professions. | SOM warned that these problems are likely to have risen further due to the pandemic, as many are “at high risk of post-traumatic stress sympt…
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Sculpture of Black Lives Matter protester removed from Colston plinth
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-16
A sculpture of a Black Lives Matter protester erected on the plinth where a statue of slave trader Edward Colston used to stand has been removed.Artist Marc Quinn created the life-size black resin and steel piece of Jen Reid after seeing a photo of her standing on the empty plinth following the toppling of the Colston statue in Bristol.The sculpture, A Surge Of Power (Jen Reid) 2020, was installed shortly before 4.30am on 15 July by Quinn’s team without the knowledge or consent of Bristol City Council. | This morning we removed the sculpture. It will be held at our museum for the artist to collect or donate to ou…
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EU court of justice strikes down data-sharing pact with US over snooping fears
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-16
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled an agreement that allows big tech companies to transfer data to the United States is invalid.It said national regulators need to take tougher action to protect the privacy of users’ data.The ruling to invalidate Privacy Shield will complicate the transfer of a lot of data outside the EU and it could require regulators to vet any new transfers due to concerns the US government can snoop on people’s data for national security reasons.Companies such as Facebook routinely move data between servers around the world (Dominic Lipinski/PA)It will no longer simpl…
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EU regulators to probe Alexa, Siri and other voice assistants
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
EU competition regulators are seeking information from 400 companies to establish if there are problems in the market for voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri and other internet-connected devices that could lead to antitrust cases.The European Commission has opened similar inquiries in the past into sectors such as e-commerce, pharmaceuticals, financial services and energy that led to cases against companies and eventually hefty fines.Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Alphabet’s Google Assistant are among the most popular voice assistant devices.”It sends an important message to powerful operators in these mark…
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Italy imposes travel ban on 3 more Balkan nations
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Italy on Thursday imposed a travel ban on three more Balkan nations due to the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s heath minister said.Italy’s list of high-risk countries now contains 16 nations with new additions; Kosovo, Serbia, and Montenegro, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said on Facebook.Travelers, who had been in these countries in the last 14 days, will not be able to enter Italy.The list of restricted countries included Armenia, Bahrein, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia Herzegovina, Chile, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, Oman, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic, Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo.Since originati…
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Spain to cull 93,000 mink at a farm hit by coronavirus
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Health authorities have ordered the culling of all 93,000 mink at a farm in eastern Spain to prevent human contagion after discovering that most of the animals there had been infected with the coronavirus.The farm in the village of La Puebla de Valverde in the region of Aragon, 200 km (125 miles) east of Madrid, came to the attention of the authorities after the wife of one of its workers tested positive in May.Joaquin Olona, head of the Aragon agriculture department, told reporters on Thursday that seven farm workers had subsequently tested positive, including the woman’s husband.Authorities initially ordered th…
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India’s Muslims vs Modi: Dirilis Ertugrul and Israel’s Fauda locked in fierce soft power battle
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Two international hit television dramas, one produced by Turkey and the other by Israel, have captured the interest of large audiences in India after the country began to implement stay-at-home orders to curb the spread of coronavirus.During quarantine, Turkish television series “Resurrection: Ertugrul,” known as the Muslim Game of Thrones, glued Indian audiences to the small screen, while interest in the Israeli Netflix show “Fauda” skyrocketed.The Israeli political TV series “Fauda” (Arabic for “chaos”) is attracting mostly right-wing nationalists in India. The spy thriller is based on the story of an Israeli u…
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Minister tells French public: don’t wait to put on masks
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
French Health Minister Olivier Veran on Thursday encouraged people to start wearing masks in enclosed public spaces immediately, instead of waiting for a government order that takes effect next week.”I invite the French people to start wearing the masks now,” Veran told parliament. “We don’t need to wait for a decree.”French officials have accelerated plans to make face coverings compulsory in shops and other enclosed public spaces in response to signs that the COVID-19 outbreak is flaring up again in some places.
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Gabon appoints first woman prime minister amid government shakeup
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Gabon President Ali Bongo on Thursday promoted his defence minister, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, to prime minister on Thursday, the first time a woman has held the role in the country.Ossouka Raponda, 56, is the sixth prime minister appointed since Bongo succeeded his father in 2009. Her first job is to form a new government after her predecessor, Julien Nkoghe Bekale, stepped down earlier in the day.She will take on two major challenges: declining oil production and prices, which have weighed on growth in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Central African country has registered nearly 6,000 cases…
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Top Iraqi diplomat meets French counterpart in Baghdad
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Iraq’s foreign minister met with his French counterpart in the capital Baghdad on Thursday and discussed Daesh/ISIS militants of French origin, who are currently held in Iraqi prisons.”The reason for our visit to Baghdad is to support the Iraqi government which is currently facing dangers,” France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told reporters at a joint news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein.”We support Iraqi security forces against Daesh/ISIS terrorist group. We will not compromise against the enemy,” Le Drian added.The two sides also discussed French companies’ investments in Iraq and th…
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Azerbaijani group slams ‘pro-Armenian’ US lawmakers
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Calling Representatives Adam Schiff, Brad Sherman, Judy Chu, TJ Cox and Senator Andreas Borgeas “pro-Armenian” on Twitter, the community accused the lawmakers of “supporting invasion and ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijan by Armenia.”The community urged “all” friends of Azerbaijan to condemn such remarks.The members of the Congress described the tension between the two countries as “provocation of Azerbaijan,” claiming Armenia is suffering the violence.On Sunday, the Armenian army attempted to attack Azerbaijani positions with artillery fire in the northwestern Tovuz border region and withdrew after suffering losses…
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Relations with Turkey ‘on solid ground’: Russia
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Relations of Russia and Turkey are “based on solid ground” and have “positive interdependence,” Russia’s deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.The two countries are working together on long-term projects, including the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant and the TurkStream gas pipeline, Alexander Grushko said in an interview with Russia’s Interfax news agency.”If you look at the content of bilateral relations, including the economy, energy, and humanitarian ties, it is hard not to see that they are based on a solid ground,” he asserted.”There are clearly elements of positive interdependence here. Pr…
yenisafak.com/en/world/relations-with-tu…
Facebook studying EU court ruling on data transfer
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Facebook said on Thursday it was looking at the implications of a European court ruling that deemed a transatlantic data transfer deal invalid because of concerns about U.S. surveillance.The ruling effectively ends the privileged access companies in the United States had to personal data from Europe and puts the country on a similar footing to other nations outside the 27-country bloc.”Like many businesses, we are carefully considering the findings and implications of the decision of the Court of Justice in relation to the use of Privacy Shield and we look forward to regulatory guidance in this regard,” Eva Nagle…
yenisafak.com/en/technology/facebook-stu…
Azerbaijani group slams ‘pro-Armenian’ US lawmakers
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-16
Azerbaijani Community of California condemned Thursday the statements made by some US lawmakers on Sunday’s border clash between Azerbaijan and Armenia. Calling Representatives Adam Schiff, Brad Sherman, Judy Chu, TJ Cox and Senator Andreas Borgeas “pro-Armenian” on Twitter, the community accused the lawmakers of “supporting invasion and ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijan by Armenia.”The community urged “all” friends of Azerbaijan to condemn such remarks.The members of the Congress described the tension between the two countries as “provocation of Azerbaijan,” claiming Armenia is suffering the violence.On Sunday, the…
yenisafak.com/en/news/azerbaijani-group-…
Trump Fires Latest Salvo in US-China Sanctions War
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-15
Trump’s new law, the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, places mandatory sanctions on officials or organizations (including businesses) that the White House views as helping Beijing clamp down on political freedoms.
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Trump Fires Latest Salvo in US-China Sanctions War
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-15
Trump’s new law, the Hong Kong Autonomy Act, places mandatory sanctions on officials or organizations (including businesses) that the White House views as helping Beijing clamp down on political freedoms. | MPN– In a speech at the White House Rose Garden yesterday, Donald Trump announced new sanctions on Chi…
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UN Warns COVID-19 Fears Leading to “Alarming” Decline in Immunizations and Hospital Visits
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-15
The WHO and UNICEF have expressed concern over what they describe as an “alarming decline” of children’s immunization programs, hospital visits for serious issues, including heart attacks and even a reversal in the fight against AIDS. | MPN- United Nations agencies are warning that the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to trigger famine and outbreaks of other diseases that could prove far more deadly than the coronavirus itself. | Today, the…
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UN Warns COVID-19 Fears Leading to “Alarming” Decline in Immunizations and Hospital Visits
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-15
The WHO and UNICEF have expressed concern over what they describe as an “alarming decline” of children’s immunization programs, hospital visits for serious issues, including heart attacks and even a reversal in the fight against AIDS.
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German anti-Semitism chief must resign, say Jewish and Israeli scholars
Ali Abunimah | zcomm.org | 2020-07-15
As Israel moves towards annexing large parts of the occupied West Bank, the scholars say that “the need for loud international criticism and opposition is only growing,” but Klein keeps “chilling the public and political debate in Germany and beyond.”
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‘Pandemic Has Been Very Good for Insurance Companies’: UnitedHealth Posts Largest Profit—By Far—Amid Covid-19
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-15
“Incredible—as hospitals are furloughing workers and cutting wages as budgets are squeezed, UnitedHealth’s profits soar.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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101 Organizations Call on Congress to Enact $1.5 Trillion Student Debt Jubilee as Part of Covid-19 Relief
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-15
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Where do we go from here?
Bernie Sanders | zcomm.org | 2020-07-15
I intend to do everything I can throughout this election season to energize the progressive community and support candidates who will stand by our agenda…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/where-do-we-go-fro…
Did neocon cancel queen Bari Weiss stage her NY Times resignation to fuel her career?
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-07-15
A closer look at the events surrounding Bari Weiss’ resignation suggests she omitted some critical details about her toxic presence…
thegrayzone.com/2020/07/15/bari-weiss-ca…
Did neocon cancel queen Bari Weiss stage her NYT resignation to fuel her career?
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2020-07-15
A closer look at the events surrounding Bari Weiss’ resignation suggests she omitted some critical details about her toxic presence…
thegrayzone.com/2020/07/15/bari-weiss-ca…
2009 H1N1 Vaccine Caused Brain Damage in Children. Dr. Anthony Fauci on “Vaccine Safety” Issues
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-15
A lawsuit against the Trudeau Government for its handling of the COVID-19 Crisis has been launched. What is at stake is the violation of fundamental rights of Canadians. | “The mass and indiscriminate containment of citizens, the restriction of access to …
globalresearch.ca/video-dr-anthony-fauci…
The Doomsday Machine Still Exists
Daniel Ellsberg | zcomm.org | 2020-07-15
Interview on seeking profit in spite of the risk of nuclear winter is “institutional madness”
zcomm.org/zvideo/the-doomsday-machine-st…
Tucson Mayor Romero Slams Arizona Gov. Ducey for Downplaying COVID & Hasty Reopening as ICUs Fill
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-15
As COVID-19 cases soar in the U.S. South and Southwest, we go to the hot spot of Arizona, where 88% of ICU beds are full and the family of one man accuses Arizona Governor Ducey and President Trump of being directly responsible for his death, after they downplayed the threat of the virus and obstructed local officials from requiring masks even as Arizona’s case numbers were exploding. “We have been in a state of crisis since Governor Ducey decided to hastily reopen the state,” says Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, who has been standing up to Ducey and is the first Latina and the first woman to be elected mayor of Tucs…
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/15/arizona_c…