What Lies Ahead: Permanent Job Losses, Poverty in America, Financial and Political Instability
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-18
On July 6, 2020 I posted my extended view and analysis why the 3rd quarter US GDP would falter–and lead to a W-shape recovery, as it typical of all Great Recessions. The current recession’s scenario was compared with 1929-30 and …
globalresearch.ca/what-lies-ahead-perman…
The “Russian Vaccine Hack” Is a 3-for-1 Deal on Propaganda
Kit Knightly | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-18
The Guardian, and all the other predictable voices, are currently reporting that Russian “state sponsored hackers” have been attempting to steal “medical secrets” from British pharmaceutical researchers. | At this stage they offer no substantiation, but it does serve as good …
globalresearch.ca/russian-vaccine-hack-3…
U.K. and Hong Kong: Mutually Reinforced Ignorance
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-18
Three years ago, I visited Old Supreme Court Building in Hong Kong, also known as The Court of Final Appeal, together with my friend, an Afghan-British lawyer, who was on a personal mission of ‘re-discovering Asia.’ Coming from a prominent, highly educated family in Afghanistan, my friend was extremely well aware that both the United …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/u-k-and-hong-…
Naomi Klein on Juice Podcast
Naomi Klein | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Interview on the lessons we’re learning during this historic period, Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, and why the liberals are going to get us all killed…
zcomm.org/zvideo/naomi-klein-on-juice-po…
Why the Bill Gates Global Health Empire Promises More Empire and Less Public Health. Gates Foundation Owns the WHO!
Jeremy Loffredo | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-18
Behind a veil of corporate media PR, the Gates Foundation has served as a vehicle for Western capital while exploiting the Global South as a human laboratory. The coronavirus pandemic is likely to intensify this disturbing agenda. | *** | President Donald …
globalresearch.ca/why-the-bill-gates-glo…
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s regular press conference on July 15, 2020
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
O’Brien should really read up on Marxist-Leninist works. The people’s position is the fundamental political position of Marxist parties. People are the creators of history and the true driving force behind historical progress.
mronline.org/2020/07/18/foreign-ministry…
Why Government Mostly Helps People Who Need It the Least–Even During a Crisis
Richard D. Wolff | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Government policies likely worsened the relative decline of small and medium businesses. Concentration and monopolization tendencies within U.S. capitalism strengthened…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/why-government-mos…
What If All Native Treaties Were Upheld?
Alleen Brown | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision last week that altered the map of Oklahoma. The eastern half of the state, including much of Tulsa, is now, for legal purposes, Indian country…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-if-all-native…
Major conservation charity drops a bombshell, putting the trophy hunting industry on very thin ice
Tracy Keeling | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
A bombshell dropped by the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) UK section has put the trophy hunting industry on very thin ice. The Times reports that following a backlash over the global organisation’s effective support for trophy hunting, the UK-based part of the charity has “made a U-turn”. The media outlet claims WWF-UK’s stance against the practice is now “more hardline” than the UK government’s, which it says has “committed in principle to ending it”. | A public rejecti…
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COVID-19: Rot exposed by pandemic augurs a future of fear
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
Vijay Prashad raises deep questions about the exhaustion of the global capitalist system in a time of great human suffering.
mronline.org/2020/07/18/covid-19-rot-exp…
Indictment against the State of Israel on Charges of War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Genocide
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-18
Below is the text of the procedure as well as the formal indictment on charges against Amos Yaron and the State of Israel. | The State of Israel was charged on 20 November 2013 with war crimes, crimes against humanity and …
globalresearch.ca/indictment-against-the…
Climate Crisis: Biden Climate Plan Will ‘Double Down’ On Oil; Dakota Access Lives On
Staff | therealnews.com | 2020-07-18
Joe Biden released his climate policy plan, Trump attacks a bedrock environmental law, and an appellate court says oil can still flow through the Dakota Access Pipeline.
therealnews.com/columns/climate-crisis-b…
Will the Biden-Sanders Economic Task Force Report Rattle the Rich?
Sam Pizzigati | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Wish-lists of progressive public policies never change the world. But they sometimes do excite the people who can…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/will-the-biden-san…
Brazil surpasses two million coronavirus cases as reopening drive continues
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
“We cannot continue suffocating the economy,” President Jair Bolsonaro said, as Brazil suffered the highest single day death toll in the world.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/braz…
US escalates economic warfare against Russia and China
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
After securing a decision by the UK government to ban the Chinese firm Huawei from its 5G rollout, the US is pressuring the Merkel government in Germany to take the same decision.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/trad…
[Comment] Offline: COVID-19 and the dangers of Sinophobia
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
One of the most productive experiences editors at The Lancet have had during the past 6 months has been the intense collaborations with medical and public health scientists in mainland China and Hong Kong. Cooperation began early in the pandemic. During the last week of January, The Lancet published five research papers from mainland China and Hong Kong describing the clinical presentation of patients with COVID-19, human-to-human transmission, genomic relatedness to the SARS coronavirus, and the risks of a global pandemic.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31600-7/fulltext?rss=yes
The Sky Is Falling: Yes? No?
Robert Hunziker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-18
The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society. In that regard, according to the details of a scathing review by ScientistsWarning.org (“SW”) of Jem Bendell’s wildly popular “Deep Adaptation” the answer …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-sky-is-fa…
FROM THE FIELD: Frontline resilience in Somalia
news.un.org | 2020-07-18
One hundred thousand households in Somaliland in northwest Somalia have better access to water, protecting them not just from the ravages of climate change but also against the spread of COVID-19, thanks to a project supported by the UN Development Programme.
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[Comment] COVID-19: Africa needs unprecedented attention to strengthen community health systems
Lyudmila Nepomnyashchiy, Bernice Dahn, Rachel Saykpah, Mallika Raghavan | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
As the first cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Liberia, in March, 2020, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,1 among others,2 highlighted the need to adopt lessons learned from the response to the 2014–16 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa. Ebola claimed about 11‚Äà300 lives in 21 months across Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.3 Comparisons to Ebola benefit from remembering the key differences between the two viruses. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a respiratory virus and is infectious among asymptomatic carriers.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31532-4/fulltext?rss=yes
Australian medical experts call for workplace and school shutdowns as Victoria’s COVID-19 surge escalates
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
Despite the highest spike in Australian coronavirus infections since the pandemic began, the Victorian Labor government has implemented a “lockdown” that leaves schools and most workplaces open.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/ausp…
Putting ethics before profits
Nicole Hassoun | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Ending the pandemic will take global access to COVID-19 treatment and vaccines…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/putting-ethics-bef…
The $600 is essential for the unemployed, extend FPUC now!
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-18
San José, CA – In less than two weeks the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation or FPUC, which provides an extra $600 a week to those who are unemployed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, will end. The FPUC was part of CARES act passed back in March as disaster relief as the pandemic began to ravage the U.S. economy. | In addition to the $600 a week in extra unemployment benefits, another part of the CARES act protecting tenants is about to expire. There has been an eviction ban on all apartment buildings that are part of federal assistance programs, or whose landlords have federally insured mortgages. These…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/18/600-esse…
[Comment] The Lancet–Chatham House Commission on improving population health post COVID-19
Harry Rutter, Richard Horton, Theresa M Marteau | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
The health of populations across the planet is in a perilous state during the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than 550‚Äà000 deaths worldwide as of July 10, 2020.1 The disease burden is falling mainly on the most disadvantaged groups worldwide and there are major impacts on health systems across high, middle, and low-income countries. In parallel with these direct health impacts, the economic effects of lockdowns are leading to an unprecedented global recession which will have ramifications well into the future.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31184-3/fulltext?rss=yes
Australia: Hundreds of health workers in Victoria contract COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
A national survey of 500 healthcare workers found that half were experiencing PPE shortages and some were having to source their own supplies.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/vict…
[Perspectives] Seven things organisations should be doing to combat racism
Esther Choo | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
In the USA, the racial disparities in COVID-19 health outcomes collided with national conversations about racism sparked by the police killing of George Floyd. These events stimulated many organisations, including health-care institutions, to scramble to vocalise their stances on racial equity. The coming years will show if these statements translate into fundamental, lasting change. There are seven actions I hope to see from health-care organisations committed to addressing structural racism and building equitable environments.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31565-8/fulltext?rss=yes
US hits record 74,987 new daily COVID-19 cases
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The number of daily new cases in the United States has tripled from a month ago amid a massive resurgence of the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/viru…
SEP candidates respond to California state officials in ballot access lawsuit
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz respond to California officials who would have Socialist Equality Party (SEP) signature gatherers run a deadly COVID-19 “minefield” to gain them ballot access in November. In federal court they argued that putting the signature gatherers and the public at risk during the pandemic is unconstitutional and unacceptable.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/1883514…
As violent protests grip Portland for weeks, Dems call for an investigation of ‘horrific’ tactics by federal law enforcement
rt.com | 2020-07-18
With Portland plagued by weeks of violent protests, including attacks on police, Oregon’s leaders are demanding an investigation into federal officers who they branded an “occupying” force assaulting “peaceful protesters.” | Four Democratic lawmakers from the state — US Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, as well as US House members Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici — called for the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to probe the “violent actions of federal forces in Portland” on Friday. | Like Mayor Ted Wheeler, who said on Tuesday that his biggest wo…
rt.com/usa/495137-portland-democrats-occ…
Oregon attorney general files lawsuit against federal agencies amid reports that officers ‘kidnapped’ Portland protesters
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is taking the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies to court, after accusing federal officers of detaining Portland demonstrators without probable cause. | Rosenblum announced on Friday night that the Oregon Department of Justice had filed a lawsuit in federal court against the DHS, US Marshals Service, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Federal Protection Service. The suit claims federal law enforcement agencies have been wrongfully seizing protesters and seeks a temporary restraining order which would prohibit them from using such tactic…
rt.com/usa/495139-portland-lawsuit-dhss-…
Israel ‘relieved’ as ICC adjourns war crimes probe
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
The Israeli government breathed a sigh of relief after a decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to adjourn without opening an investigation against Tel Aviv over possible war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to Israeli media.The ICC pre-trial was supposed to assess if the court’s chief prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, has the authority to open an investigation into war crimes by Israel along with defining the territorial boundaries within which the investigation will take place.In May, Bensouda said that there is a basis to launch an investigation into war crimes committe…
yenisafak.com/en/world/israel-relieved-a…
[Editorial] No more normal
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
Do you long for a return to normal after COVID-19?
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31591-9/fulltext?rss=yes
Call for investigations into federal operatives in Portland
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
“The jarring reports of federal law enforcement officers grabbing peaceful protestors off the street should alarm every single American. This is not the way a government operates in a functioning democracy.”
mronline.org/2020/07/18/call-for-investi…
A Multi-Racial Coalition Is Necessary For This Moment
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Interview on seizing this moment with a broad-based, multi-racial movement to change an ‘impoverished democracy.’…
zcomm.org/zvideo/a-multi-racial-coalitio…
Unions thwart liquidation of South African Airways
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-18
The decision of stakeholders to approve a rescue plan for the crisis-ridden South African Airways ensures that it will not get liquidated as was feared earlier. Unions fought a long battle to prevent liquidation…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/18/unions-th…
[Perspectives] Abolition medicine
Yoshiko Iwai, Zahra H Khan, Sayantani DasGupta | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
Who do you serve, who do you protect? Doctors and nurses are not soldiers. Antibiotics are not bombs, hospitals are not the front lines, hard-working medical trainees are not “gunners”, and neither disease nor patients are “the enemy”. Militarised language valorises aggression and violence in medical training and the clinical encounter while obfuscating the loyalties of health workers who serve and protect individuals and communities in need.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31566-X/fulltext?rss=yes
[World Report] New funds proposed to prevent pandemics
Ann Danaiya Usher | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
A new fund to prevent future pandemics has been proposed by the US Senate, and another by the World Bank. But some global health leaders have criticised the plans. Ann Danaiya Usher reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31592-0/fulltext?rss=yes
Slovenian Left faces opposition to pro-worker bill
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-18
The parties in the Slovenian parliament supporting the re-opening of the economy postponed the Slovenian Left party Levica’s bill to ensure a mandatory holiday on Sunday for workers in private shops across the country. On July 16, the pro-market parties in the National Assembly decided to postpone the final vote on Levica’s pro-worker bill which was expected to have been approved on Thursday with bipartisan support. | Meanwhile, an amendment was put forth by the Modern Centrist Party (SMC) and received support from the right-wing incumbent Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) and opposition party SAB to hire students…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/18/slovenian…
8 Palestinians Detained by Israeli Forces, All Former Detainees
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-18
Israeli forces, Thursday evening, detained a Palestinian astro-physicist at the entrance of Anata town, northeast of occupied East Jerusalem, said Palestinian WAFA News Agency correspondent. He reported that Israeli soldiers ordered Imad Barghouthi, 56, an astrophysics professor at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem, out of his vehicle at the entrance …
imemc.org/article/8-palestinians-detaine…
1978: Ernest Mandel — Rosa Luxemburg and political economy
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
The Accumulation of Capital was published in 1913, and it was probably only after completing her magnum opus that Luxemburg resumed writing her Introduction to Political Economy. Interrupted once again, now by the outbreak of war, she continued to work on the Introduction during her stay in prison in Wronke, in the German province of …
mronline.org/2020/07/18/1978-ernest-mand…
Several Palestinians Suffocate at Kufur Qaddoum, Nablus and Salfit Protests
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-18
Three major demonstrations were held by Palestinians, on Friday, to express their objection to Israel’s continued colonial settlement activities in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces opened fire, on Friday afternoon, towards Palestinians during a peaceful protest north of Nablus city, in Asira Ash-Shamaliyya town, northern West Bank, according to …
imemc.org/article/several-palestinians-s…
[World Report] Cumberlege Review slams health care in England
Talha Burki | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
The Review describes a culture of denial, institutional resistance to responding to safety concerns, and an absence of accountability. Talha Burki reports.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31593-2/fulltext?rss=yes
US: Trump Sends Undercover Police to Quell Portland’s Protests
telesurenglish.net | 2020-07-18
U.S. Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) Thursday denounced that President Donald Trump has deployed federal agents in Portland, Oregon, dressed in camouflage but without any visible insignia, to round up and detain U.S. citizens. | RELATED: | Donald Trump “Has Plans” for Venezuela | “Multiple videos released on digital platforms show federal officials approaching people, arresting them and leaving without any explanation to justify the arrest,” OPB said in a statement. | Since at least July 14, officials have dr…
telesurenglish.net/news/us-trump-sends-u…
What If We Actually Listened?
Jill Richardson | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
Here’s what I learned when I stopped trying to convince anyone of anything…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-if-we-actuall…
Week in Review July 12th — 18th
graham | truepublica.org.uk | 2020-07-18
Editor’s Review Of The Week It’s difficult announcing the biggest story of the week nowadays when there’s so much to report. Take for instance the Parliamentary Constituencies Bill that has just had its second reading in the Commons. To all intents and purposes — its a power grab by the Tories. If the Bill is …
truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/week-in-review-july-12th-18th/
Paralysed companies rescued by an ‘army’ of volunteer workers
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-18
The 2270-strong Productive Workers’ Army has recuperated 14 state-run firms that had been run into the ground.
mronline.org/2020/07/18/paralysed-compan…
[Correspondence] Tackling corruption in global health
Antoine Dugast, Nathan Judais, Faith Nganyi, Huangjin Zhang | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
The fight against corruption, which is defined by the global anti-corruption body, Transparency International, as “an abuse of entrusted power for private gain”, is a transversal theme of the Sustainable Development Goals that the UN member states aim to achieve by 2030. The health sector is highly affected by corruption, for reasons including the increasing demand for health services, the amount of public money spent on these services, and the consider ≠able scale and complexity of this sector, which has led to information asymmetry and entry barriers to accessing health care.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)30307-X/fulltext?rss=yes
Trump’s Occupy Portland Gambit
Mel Gurtov | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The protests against this federal deployment by Oregon’s state and local leaders are fulsome, but will the governor act to remove these play soldiers and let Donald Trump know that his test run at military occupation cannot stand?>…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-occupy-port…
‘Inequality defines our time’: UN chief delivers hard-hitting Mandela day message
news.un.org | 2020-07-18
Inequality, an issue which “defines our time”, risks destroying the world’s economies and societies, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said in a hard-hitting speech on Saturday.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/07/1…
Periodic “devastation” necessary for forest health
George Wuerthner | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The bottom line is that our forest health is dependent on episodic events that cause significant mortality. This is not only natural but required for “healthy forest ecosystems.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/periodic-devastati…
[Obituary] Bertram S Brown
Geoff Watts | thelancet.com | 2020-07-18
Influential leader in US mental health. He was born in Brooklyn, NY, USA, on Jan 28, 1931, and died of cardiovascular disease in Bala Cynwyd, PA, USA, on May 14, 2020, aged 89 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31567-1/fulltext?rss=yes
Federal Agents Invade Portland, Citing Trump’s Executive Order Protecting Statues
Dan Friedman | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The Border Patrol says it has authority to “conduct arrests” in Portland…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/federal-agents-inv…
Fighting the Great Depression From Below
Jeremy Brecher | zcomm.org | 2020-07-18
The grassroots movements of workers and the unemployed formed a crucial part of the process that led instead to the emergence of the New Deal and the development of new and expanded forms of working-class organization…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/fighting-the-great…
Sixth Indian shipment to Afghanistan arrives at Iranian port
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
CHABAHAR, Jul. 18 (MNA) — India’s sixth consignment of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan has arrived at Chabahar’s Shahid Beheshti Port, the director-general of Sistan and Baluchestan Ports and Maritime Department said on Saturday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161104/Sixth-Indian…
Iran-China cooperation major challenge to US unilateralism
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Chinese TV in a report described Iran-China 25-year cooperation roadmap as the result of US maximum pressure, stressing it has posed major challenge to the US unilateralism in the international community.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161099/Iran-China-c…
Iranian researchers produce antivirus hospital clothing
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Iranian researchers in a knowledge-based company designed and produced isolated antivirus hospital clothing, applicable in the fight against the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in particular.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161100/Iranian-rese…
A different look at US recent fire incidents
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Since last week, the US has been a hotbed of major fire incidents, from the fire on board the USS Bonhomme Richard to Utah wildfire, all of which large-scale yet with no cause yet mentioned.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161122/A-different-…
Economic benefits needed for Iran’s full compliance to JCPOA
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs said on Saturday that expecting Iran to fully comply with JCPAO obligations without having the country benefit from the economic advantages of the deal is not acceptable.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161113/Economic-ben…
Admitting defeat against Iran better than foolish bluffs
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said accepting defeat against powerful Iran is better than foolish bluffs.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161115/Admitting-de…
Parl. investigating withdrawal form UN ‘additional protocol’
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — An MP informed on Saturday that the Parliament is investigating a new plan to have Iran out of the United Nations’ additional protocol.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161103/Parl-investi…
VIDEO: Explosion at ‘ArcelorMittal Plant’ in NW Indiana
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — An explosion rocked the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Burns Harbor, Indiana Thursday morning, sparking a fire and causing damage to equipment near a blast furnace.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161105/VIDEO-Explos…
Saudi sponsored TV channel showed utter obscenity: envoy
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 18 (MNA) — Iran’s Ambassador to UK Hamid Baeidinjad reacted to the live broadcast of the gathering of MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq) terrorist group on the Iran International Channel in his Twitter account.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161112/Saudi-sponso…
Iran-Syria military coop. to defeat Zionist Regime
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-18
TEHRAN, Jul. 17(MNA) — An Iranian Lawmaker said that military cooperation agreements must be signed between Iran and regional countries including Syria to strengthen Iran and the axis of Resistance and to defeat the Zionist Regime and other enemies.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161096/Iran-Syria-m…
Housing wage for 2 bedroom unit is $43.06 for Oakland-Fremont area
By Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
COVID-19 Guidance for Multifamily Residential Buildings:…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/1883515…
The 9 coffin nails of democracy
Roland Rottenfuss | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Democracy is an achievement and must be won anew, expanded and defended against attacks in every era… The political conformity of the mainstream press is a sad chapter. “Representative democracy” is a fine word, but who do the representatives actually represent today? Citizens want “representatives of the people.”
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/1883515…
Monday 7/20: Alameda County Strike for Black Health and Vitality
Alameda Health System SEIU & others | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
ALAMEDA COUNTY: | Highland Hospital, 1411 E 31st St, Oakland, CA 94602 | Fairmont Hospital, 15400 Foothill Blvd, San Leandro, CA 94578…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/18/1883515…
Military-garbed agents in unmarked vehicles at Martinez protest
Pika-Nonymous | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
During the July 12th protest in Martinez there were military-garbed agents, who arrived and left in unmarked civilian-looking vehicles.It is unclear what agency they are part of.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/1883515…
Monday 7/20: Bay Strike for Black Lives in Oakland
The Fight for $15 | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Mosswood Park, 3612 Webster St, Oakland, CA 94609…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/1883515…
TALES of THE RESISTANCE – San Francisco Mime Troupe – Interview with Michael Sullivan
John Malkin | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Interview with actor, playwright, director Michael Sullivan on the 61st season of the San Francisco Mime Troupe. “Tales of the Resistance” is a series of nine radio play podcasts from July to October, 2020.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/1883514…
Saturday 7/25: F*ck the UC: No cops, no firings, no layoffs
UC Students & Workers | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
UC Office of the President, 1111 Franklin Street, Oakland CA 94607…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/1883514…
Saturday 7/18: Emergency protest! No Trump Gestapo in Portland!
Refuse Fascism, Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
S.F. Federal Building, 7th St. @ Mission St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/17/1883515…
Thousands of Elected Officials see a turning point, and rally against fossil fuel industry
Ramona du Houx | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/16/1883514…
Friday 7/24: Orion’s Awesome “Live No Jive Hamond b3 Organ Trio w Special Guests
Orion the elder | indybay.org | 2020-07-18
Alameda Dog Park 1302 8th street alameda…
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Bolivians Take To The Streets Against The Añez Government
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
Bolivia’s Workers Central (COB) Tuesday called for tens of thousands of people to hold a mass protest in several cities against the coup-born regime led by Jeanine Añez. | “The Bolivian people, the Indigenous groups, and educational organizations raised their voice of protest today,” the COB Secretary-General Juan Carlos Huarachi said in La Paz. | One of the demonstrators’ main calls is the definitive confirmation of the general elections for September 6. | “We ask for a democratically elected government that resolves the country’s economic and health crisis caused by COVID-19,” Huarachi added, adding that citize…
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Artists Install Anti-Trump Living Statues Around DC
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
Living statues were installed around Washington, D.C. on Friday depicting President Trump as a “destroyer of civil rights and liberties.” | A group of artists known as the Trump Statue Initiative is behind the installations, including one that depicts Trump holding up a Bible while Black Lives Matters protesters are beaten and another showing him telling a masked child to “go back to school” while holding a golf club. | “The concept is that the history he’s painting of himself right now, where his narcissistic or racist or self-serving moments abound, this is what he’s leaving us with,” filmmaker Bryan Buckley to…
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Cops And Their Supporters Unite To Attack BLM Counterers
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
George Floyd’s murder, along with the murders of Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and so many others, laid bare for the world how police are mandated by the state to terrorize people of color, especially Black people. The severe repression against protesters put this violence on display on a mass scale and showed the lengths the state is willing to go to keep its hold on “law and order.” Yet, even as politicians, NGOs, and nonprofits try desperately to co-opt and pacify the movement, the most leftward expression of protesters’ demands — from defunding and disbanding police departments to abolishing police a…
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CBP says Portland protester in viral ‘kidnapping’ clip was assault & vandalism suspect, denies officers wore no insignia
rt.com | 2020-07-18
The US Customs and Border Protection agency has taken credit for a Portland protester’s hot-button arrest this week, saying the man was a criminal suspect, while refuting claims he was ‘kidnapped’ by agents wearing no insignia. | The CBP sought to address the incident in a statement on Friday, noting that the protester arrested one day prior was suspected of vandalism and attacks on agents amid anti-police brutality demonstrations, which it said were organized by “violent anarchists.” | “CBP agents had information indicating the person… was suspected of assaults against federal agents or destruction of feder…
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Trump says ‘seldom seen niece’ Mary Trump ‘violated NDA’ & ‘broke the law’ in 1st comment about her tell-all book
rt.com | 2020-07-18
US President Donald Trump has taken aim at his niece, Mary, soon after the publication of her highly critical book, insisting she made deceptive claims — and even ran afoul of privacy law — in his first comments on the memoir. | …
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Leader of radical black-only militia NFAC ‘believes in violence’ & wants a real-life Wakanda for every black person in America
rt.com | 2020-07-18
NFAC, the masked, armed black militia that recently marched through a park in Georgia, deems violence and killing an acceptable response to oppression. Their end goal is to break away from the US as their own black-only nation. | The NFAC (Not F*cking Around Coalition) grabbed plenty of attention on social media with a high-profile public debut on July 4. The sight of an all-black militia, clutching rifles and handguns, marching in the heartland of the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain caused plenty of ripples. | But very little is known about them, despite a frenzy of speculation. It’s not even clear when they w…
rt.com/usa/495109-nfac-black-militia-blm…
Rep. John Lewis, iconic civil rights leader, dead at 80
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Longtime congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis has passed away at the age of 80 after a months-long battle with cancer, his family announced. | The Georgia Democrat, who served in Congress for more than three decades, was diagnosed in December with stage-four pancreatic cancer. “He dedicated his entire life to non-violent activism and was an outspoken advocate in the struggle for equal justice in America. He will be deeply missed,” Lewis’ family said in a statement announcing his death. | Lewis, a colleague of Martin Luther King Jr, was one of several keynote speakers at the 1963 March on Washington f…
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Portland police ‘retreat’ after standoff with NAKED female protester (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Police officers in Portland, Oregon were caught off guard after being approached by a nude female demonstrator, who lay down in the street and began performing yoga. The cops were then filmed “withdrawing.” | A woman wearing nothing except a mask and a beanie approached a group of officers clearing out the downtown area in the early hours of Saturday. A line of police and federal agents were standing at an intersection when the naked woman seemingly appeared out of nowhere. | “Naked Athena appeared and the little boys didn’t know what to do,” joked Donovan Farley, a reporter on the ground who documented the ri…
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‘Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine’ Is the Dumbest Story Yet
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-18
Caitlin JOHNSTONE | Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. | “Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the U.S. and Britain said,” reports The New York Times. | “Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain’s National Cyber…
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The Pendulum Swings Again: the Desecration of Hagia Sophia
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-18
The Turkish President should have consulted the prophecies of St. Paisius of the Holy Mountain rather than whatever kitaps he was reading before embarking on his risky provocation. In plain Greek, several decades ago St. Paisius was educating Turkish leaders about the sequence of events that the reconversion of Hagia Sophia would set in motion: “When the cathedral of Hagia Sophia is turned into a mosque, Turkey will disintegrate”. He also added reassuringly, for the benefit of his audience, that “I will not see that happen, but you will.” Th…
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How NATO-Member Turkey Reverted Back to Being an Islamic Dictatorship
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-18
The gradual process of Turkey’s becoming an Islamic sharia-law country, again, is no longer so gradual. It has taken a sudden and sharp rightward turn, into Islamic-nationhood. Turkey’s Hagia Sophia, which had been “the world’s largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520,” has now been officially decl…
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Mayor demands that Trump remove federal police from Portland
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
The mayor of Portland has demanded that US president Donald Trump remove federal law enforcement from the city. Black Lives Matter protests have taken place in the city for nearly two months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on 25 May.Federal agents in green camouflage uniforms have reportedly arrested and detained protesters in the city. This happened after they were sent solely to protect federal property. Portland mayor Ted Wheeler told reporters: Keep your troops in your own buildings, or have them leave our city.Federal officers deployed tear gas and fired less-lethal rounds into a crowd…
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Civil rights icon John Lewis dies aged 80
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
Civil rights hero John Lewis has died aged 80. It was Lewis’s bloody beating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 that helped galvanise opposition to racial segregation,House speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Lewis’s passing late on Friday 17 July. She called the veteran politician “one of the greatest heroes of American history”. Both Democrats and Republicans sent Lewis tributes when he announced in December 2019 that he had advanced pancreatic cancer.Civil rights activist: Lewis was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists. This was a group led by Martin Luther King Jr that had the…
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George Yancy: To Be Black in the US Is to Have a Knee Against Your Neck Each Day
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-07-18
What drives the current rift between white and Black America, and how as individuals can we effectively contribute to the fight against the worldmaking of whiteness? | Philosopher George Yancy, a leading public intellectual in the critical study of race who received backlash for pointing out the U.S.’s yoke of whiteness, argues that white supremacy bre…
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Trump Blocks CDC Experts From Testifying to Education Panel on School Reopenings
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-07-18
The Democratic chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee revealed Friday that the Trump administration is blocking Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials — including agency director Dr. Robert Redfield — from testifying at a congressional hearing next week on school reopenings as the White House continues its effor…
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Trump’s Federal Police Are Kidnapping and Brutalizing Protesters in Portland
Staff | truthout.org | 2020-07-18
On July 11, Donavan LaBella, 26, was shot in the head with an impact munition as he stood at a protest holding a speaker over his head. “It caused a pretty deep laceration, but he was bleeding from his nose, his mouth, his ears — it was pretty bad,” Jessica Shifflett, a woman who helped LaBella after he was shot. Videos show protesters rushing to his side, while federal officers…
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UK pauses daily coronavirus death toll update over data concerns
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Britain said on Saturday it was pausing its daily update of the death toll from the coronavirus after the government ordered a review into the calculation of the data over concerns the toll might have been exaggerated.Academics have said the way that Public Health England (PHE), the government agency responsible for managing infectious disease outbreaks, calculates the figures in England means they may be distorted compared to other parts of the United Kingdom.”Currently the daily deaths measure counts all people who have tested positive for coronavirus and since died, with no cut-off between time of testing and…
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UK coronavirus antibody test found to be a success
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Following successful trials, the British government is set to start distributing millions of free coronavirus antibody tests, local media reported on Saturday.The finger-prick tests can tell within 20 minutes if a person has been exposed to the virus and were found to be 98.6% accurate during human trials that took place in June.The test was developed under a partnership between Oxford University and leading diagnostics firms of the UK.Sir John Bell, professor of medicine at Oxford University and head of the government’s antibody testing program, was quoted by The Telegraph as saying: “This rapid test appears to…
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Libya’s oil firm calls for foreign mercenaries to leave
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) on Saturday called for the immediate withdrawal of foreign mercenaries from oil facilities in the country.In a statement, the NOC condemned the deployment of Russia’s Wagner Group and Syrian and Janjaweed mercenaries in Libyan oil installations, most recently at Es Sidra port.”NOC demands their immediate withdrawal from all facilities,” it said, calling the UN to “send observers to supervise the demilitarization in the areas of NOC operations across the country.””There are currently large numbers of foreign mercenaries in NOC facilities who do not share this wish,” the state…
yenisafak.com/en/world/libyas-oil-firm-c…
Germany’s military missing over 60000 rounds of ammunition
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
More than 100 weapons and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition have disappeared from the inventory of the German armed forces and police, the daily WELT newspaper reported Saturday.At least 60,000 rounds of ammunition have been unaccounted for in the German military and police force over the past 10 years.This figure does not include around 48,000 rounds that went missing from the army’s elite Special Forces Command (KSK) unit, which lately made headlines after far-right extremism was exposed among its soldiers.The German Defense Ministry has reportedly launched an investigation into the incident.The exact r…
yenisafak.com/en/world/germanys-military…
Ethiopian premier in Eritrea to discuss regional issues
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Ethiopia’s prime minister arrived in Eritrea on an official visit on Saturday.Abiy Ahmed was welcomed in the capital Asmara by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and other senior officials.The two leaders will confer on bilateral and regional issues, according to a statement by the Ethiopian premier’s office.Relations between the neighboring countries were restored in June 2018 after two decades of mistrust and tensions.They fought a bloody war from 1998 to 2000 that claimed around 70,000 lives.Abiy won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for leading efforts to normalize Ethiopia and Eritrea’s ties and for making regional…
yenisafak.com/en/world/ethiopian-premier…
Azerbaijanis on border stay put despite Armenia attacks
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Despite living with the sights, sounds, and danger of attacks from the Armenian army, Azerbaijanis living in villages along the border with Armenia are not going anywhere.For nearly a week now Armenian forces’ attacks on Azerbaijan have aimed at seizing strategic heights along the border and targeted not only soldiers but also civilians.Many houses in the region have become unusable after attacks by artillery and mortar on the border villages of Azerbaijan’s Tovuz province, but local civilians have not fled.The Azizovs are one of the families living within earshot of gunfire.They lost their uncle Aziz Azizov, 76,…
yenisafak.com/en/news/azerbaijanis-on-bo…
US swoops down on Portland protesters after Trump order to protect monuments
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
Federal law enforcement officers are cracking down on protesters in Portland, Oregon, under the Trump administration’s new executive order to protect U.S. monuments in what the state’s Democratic governor has called “political theater.”Multiple videos posted online show camouflage-clad officers without clear identification badges using force and unmarked vehicles to transport arrested protesters.”It’s kidnapping people!” one person said off-camera, as officers marched a protester away.A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokeswoman said on Friday agents had been deployed to Portland to support a newly laun…
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-swoops-down-on…
US government executes third prisoner after 17-year hiatus
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
The U.S. Department of Justice executed a convicted murderer on Friday in the third federal execution within a week after a 17-year hiatus, according to a reporter serving as a media witness.Dustin Lee Honken, 52, was a dealer in illegal methamphetamine when he and his girlfriend murdered five people in Iowa in 1993, including two girls aged 10 and 6. He was convicted in 2004.Honken was pronounced dead at 4: 36 p.m. EDT at the Justice Department’s execution chamber at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, the media witness said.
yenisafak.com/en/world/us-government-exe…
Protest held against Armenia’s border attacks in Hungary
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-18
The protest was organized by Azerbaijani associations based in Hungary.Carrying Azerbaijani, Turkish and Hungarian flags, the protesters chanted slogans.Ramiz Emirli, the head of the Azerbaijani-Hungarian Brotherhood Association, told Anadolu Agency that they organized the protests to announce in Europe that Armenia attacked Azerbaijan and martyred its soldiers.Armenian attacks since last Sunday have martyred a dozen Azerbaijani soldiers. However, they have since withdrawn after suffering losses following retaliation from the Azerbaijani military.Azerbaijan has blamed Armenia for the “provocative” actions, with T…
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Video: “The House Cat Flu” is Coming. The Meow Apocalypse
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
The following episode of the Simpsons was released in 2010. | It is a satire. But at the same time it reveals the unspoken truth. The writer of the script is an award winning author and political analyst. Michael Price | This …
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Saudi Coalition Attack on Yemen Wedding Party Leaves Over 30 Civilians Dead
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-17
United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths called for a transparent investigation into the attack, which comes just weeks after the UN took Saudi Arabia off its list of child killers.
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Aid Groups Call for Worldwide COVID-19 Bailout Amid Fears of Mass Hunger
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-17
“As many as 12,000 people could die every day from COVID-linked hunger, which is more than those dying daily from the virus itself,” warns Oxfam America President Abby Maxman.
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Portland Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters
Alan Macleod | mintpressnews.com | 2020-07-17
Human rights groups, activists, and local politicians are decrying what appears to be the Trump administration’s latest tactic to crush nationwide protests that erupted in late May over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police.
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Portland Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters
Alan MacLeod | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-17
Human rights groups, activists, and local politicians are decrying what appears to be the Trump administration’s latest tactic to crush nationwide protests that erupted in late May over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police. | MPN– Anonymous masked federal agents in military uniforms jump out of unmarked minivans, abducting seemingly random people on the street in Portland, frightening new viral videos show. Officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Protection’s BORTAC have been sent to the city to tamp down of 49 days of continuous demonstrations against raci…
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Denouncing Seema Verma’s “Textbook Definition of Corruption,” Jayapal Calls for Medicare Chief’s Ouster
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-17
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Does Sanders Have a Secret Deal with Biden?
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Though Bernie Sanders is less dishonest than any other of the U.S. political leaders who have contested in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Presidential primary campaigns, no one should trust his endorsements of the DNC’s choice (which was what it …
globalresearch.ca/does-sanders-have-secr…
Thoughts on Bayard Rustin Nostalgia
Louis Proyect | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
A Dustin Guastella article on Nonsite dated July 9th generated controversy because it opposed defunding the cops. Like Bernie Sanders, another opponent of defunding, Guastella proposed reforms that would satisfy everybody since they would lead to less crime. If there were massive increases in federal social spending, there would be more jobs and hence less…
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‘Masks for All’: Bernie Sanders Calls on Federal Government to Provide Face Coverings for Everyone in the Country
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-17
“The science is clear: Wearing a mask not only saves lives, but the widespread use of masks will get Americans back to work sooner and reunite families who have stayed apart.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The Downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17: The Quest for Truth and Justice. Review of the Evidence
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
The MH17 Inquiry has been conducted in an insidious fashion. Important pieces of evidence including eye witness reports, audio & video material transmitted through Ukraine Intelligence (SBU) have been manipulated or excluded from the Dutch inquiry, which largely endorses Washington’s accusations directed against Moscow.
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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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“This Is Trump’s War”: U.S.-Backed Saudi Bombing in Yemen Continues as Coronavirus Spreads
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-17
As the coronavirus spreads in Yemen, where the population already devastated by the world’s worst humanitarian crisis faces growing hunger and aid shortages, the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed coalition continues to drop bombs in the country. We speak to Yemeni scholar Shireen Al-Adeimi, who calls the ongoing crisis “Trump’s war.” “We’re seeing death rates that are just astronomical,” Al-Adeimi says. “The war continues, the bombing continues, the blockade is still enforced.”
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Sonia Shah: “It’s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus — Our Lives Depend on It”
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-17
The United States hit an all-time high of 75,600 new COVID cases Thursday — the largest number recorded in a single day since the pandemic began. Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says the spike in cases resulted from states rushing to reopen their economies. We speak with investigative journalist Sonia Shah about the government’s failed response, the false idea that the virus is a “foreign incursion,” and “vaccine nationalism.” In her latest piece for The Nation magazine, she argues, “It’s Time to Tell a New Story About Coronavirus — Our Lives Depend on It.”
www.democracynow.org/2020/7/17/sonia_sha…
Philadelphia Delays Unhoused Encampment Eviction as CDC Says “Let Them Remain” & Stop COVID Spread
Staff | democracynow.org | 2020-07-17
As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says unhoused people living in encampments should be allowed to remain where they are to help stop the spread of COVID-19, we go to Philadelphia, where the mayor has postponed the eviction of an encampment planned for this morning. “The Philadelphia Housing Authority has about 5,000 vacant properties,” notes Sterling Johnson, an organizer with Black and Brown Workers Cooperative, who joins us from the camp. “We want to use them to create a community land trust. What they want to do is auction them off to private developers.” The move comes as many cities have cont…
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Now Comes the Davos Global Economy “Great Reset”. What Happens After the Covid-19 Pandemic?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
First published by GR on June 10, 2020 | For those wondering what will come after the Covid19 pandemic has successfully all but shut down the entire world economy, spreading the worst depression since the 1930s, the leaders of the premier …
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With US support, Taiwan planted deception about warning the World Health Organization of Covid
Ajit Singh | thegrayzone.com | 2020-07-17
Taiwan’s claim that it provided early warning to the WHO about Covid and “human-to human-transmission” has been exploited by the…
thegrayzone.com/2020/07/17/us-taiwan-lie…
What Lies Ahead?
Jack Rasmus | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
Like another financial-banking crash, a major political instability event–domestic or foreign–could easily send an already weak US economy struggling in the midst of a Great Recession into the abyss of the first Great Depression of the 21st century…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/what-lies-ahead/
Roaming Charges: The Meaning of BB King in the Age of BLM
Jeffrey St. Clair | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
In the summer of 1998, Alexander Cockburn and I spent a few days in North Richmond, California, a battered industrial city just outside of Berkeley. We had just published our book Whiteout on the CIA and drug trafficking and had been invited to speak at a black church about the horrific toll of the drug…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/the-meaning-…
Making America Feared Again: The Trump Administration Considers Resuming Nuclear Weapons Testing
Lawrence Wittner | commondreams.org | 2020-07-17
The nuclear testing now being considered by the Trump administration is designed with the same purpose that weapons have traditionally had in world affairs: to intimidate other nations. (Photo: Scott Howe/DVIDS) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The Life-Saving Covid-19 Drugs You’ve Never Heard Of (and Why)
Lee Camp | counterpunch.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…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/the-life-sav…
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Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2020-07-17
Let’s take a minute to review the President’s continued attacks on our system of justice.
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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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An Ultimate Meaning of the Bernie 2020 Campaign: “Not Him. Us.”
Norman Solomon | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
We’ve got to lead ourselves out of the capitalist wilderness…
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WATCH: Immigrant workers camp outside Bezos’ NYC apartment as part of AOC-sponsored campaign to tax billionaires
rt.com | 2020-07-17
Dozens of immigrant workers have begun a joint 24-hour fast and sleep-out outside billionaire Jeff Bezos’ $16 million penthouse in Manhattan, to lobby New York authorities to tax the wealthy to help the pandemic-affected poor. | High-profile Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is among those behind a campaign to push New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to further tax the mega-rich in the state and use the revenue generated to help workers in need of assistance during the pandemic. | Eyewitness footage from the scene shows the workers, joined by city council members, set up camp on Fifth Avenue near the Amazon-o…
rt.com/usa/495024-workers-bezos-nyc-aoc/
Remembering Israel’s Killing of Four Children on the Beach in Gaza
Muhammad Hussein | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
What: Israeli missile kills four children of the same family on a beach in Gaza | When: 16 July, 2014 | Where: The Gaza Strip, occupied Palestine | What happened? | Israel’s military offensive on the Gaza Strip in 2014 — “Operation Strong Cliff” …
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Good News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats
Ramzy Baroud | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
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…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/good-news-fr…
Germany’s Presidency of the EU Will Determine if the Bloc Joins the New Multipolar World Order
Paul Antonopoulos | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Relations between the U.S. and European powers like Germany and France are reaching a historic low. This is especially true after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew a large portion of the American military stationed in Germany to other European countries …
globalresearch.ca/germany-presidency-det…
Trump: White Bread Not Yet Toasted
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The Orange Fascist Death Machine Donald Trump is a fascist death machine. He’s proved it again and again in numerous ways, including but not limited to these: the separation and caging of migrant children, hailing Nazi white supremacists as “fine people,” pardoning sociopathic fascists and war criminals, holding regular white nationalist hate rallies, conveying far-right…
counterpunch.org/2020/07/17/trump-white-…
China’s Economy and Globalization: A Look into the Future
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
After the corona crisis, may the world be facing a monumental paradigm shift of power towards a more balanced civilization — more social justice and equity? The global almost total lockdown, chosen by most governments around the globe in response …
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Turmoil at Home, Turmoil Abroad: Israel and the U.S. Escalate Their War Against Iran
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
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 …
globalresearch.ca/turmoil-home-turmoil-a…
Good News from Washington: AIPAC, Israel Losing to Progressive Democrats
Ramzy Baroud | commondreams.org | 2020-07-17
More sobering news is that Israel’s traditional stronghold over the country’s Jewish communities is faltering—and quickly so. (Photo: Screen shot / Twitter) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Foreign Correspondent: Russia Bounty Story Falls Flat
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2020-07-17
Opportunist Democrats and foreign policy insiders drive ‘hysteria.’…
progressive.org/dispatches/russia-bounty…
Why Government Mostly Helps People Who Need It the Least…Even During a Crisis
Richard D. Wolff | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
In January 2020, the NASDAQ stock market’s index stood just under 10,000. In the March crash, it fell to 7,000. As of July 10, 2020, it hit 10,600. The U.S. government’s economic policies produced a “recovery” for the rich who own the vast bulk of stocks. Their holdings are worth more now than before COVID-19 hit us. The other major benchmarks for securities, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard and Poor 500, show similarly dramatic, slightly smaller recoveries.
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Why government mostly helps people who need it the least–even during a crisis
Richard D. Wolff | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
The system is the problem.
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Workers Struggles: Europe, Middle East & Africa
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
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SEP (Australia) holds lecture series on the history of Trotskyism
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
The lectures, now all available online, reviewed some of the fundamental lessons of the protracted struggle by the Trotskyist movement for socialist internationalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/lect…
SEP candidates respond to California state officials in ballot access lawsuit
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz respond to California officials who would have Socialist Equality Party (SEP) signature gatherers run a deadly COVID-19 “minefield” to gain them ballot access in November. In federal court they argued that putting the signature gatherers and the public at risk during the pandemic is unconstitutional and unacceptable.
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Amid Sri Lankan elections, YouTube censors Tamil-language WSWS posts
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2020-07-17
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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Why Laos, Vietnam & China Have Beaten the Virus and India, Brazil and the U.S. Have Not
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-17
Vijay Prashad explores the differences between the pandemic responses of a few countries with socialist governments and others in the capitalist order. | Vijay PRASHAD | Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus; there are no confirmed deaths from Covid-19 in either country. Both of these Southeast Asian states border China, where the virus was first detected in late December 2019, and both have thriving trade and tourist relations with China. India is separated from China by the high Himalaya Mountains, while Brazil and the United States ha…
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Video: Unidentified Warplanes Struck Turkish-led Forces in Syria. Turkish Spy Plane Crashed Near Iraqi Border
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Early on July 16, unidentified warplanes conducted at least 3 airstrikes on the Turkish-occupied town of al-Bab in the Syrian province of Aleppo. The strikes destroyed a large building in the town center and led to multiple casualties. Pro-Turkish sources …
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Dems and GOP to Debate Extended Stimulus Benefits Next Week
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Current federal unemployment benefits expire in days. | In May, House-controlled Dems narrowly passed a new $3 trillion stimulus package. | So-called Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) legislation extends current federal benefits through at least yearend. | Senate Majority Leader …
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On the Separation of Church and State
Evaggelos Vallianatos | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
Once again, the Supreme Court showed its undemocratic and misogynist colors. It came down against women, encouraging employers not to pay for birth control services. The Supreme Court is obviously catering to the fashionable superstitions of religious preachers who resent the struggle of women for dignity and equality. The judges are also woefully ignorant the planet has…
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Supreme Court declines to overturn lower court decision that bars Floridians with felony convictions and unpaid fines from voting
Ashley Curtin | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-17
Voting rights advocacy groups called the Supreme Court’s decision “deeply disappointing.”
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From trans rights to treaty rights, the U.S. Supreme Court breaks progressive?
Derek Royden | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-17
While American progressives will need a laser focus on the courts in the years ahead, these four decisions will likely reverberate around the world and create new possibilities for justice in many places beyond the country’s borders.
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Supreme Court Stopped One Million Floridians From Voting In November
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-17
The Supreme Court all but guaranteed that nearly 1 million Floridians will be unable to vote in the 2020 election because of unpaid court debts in a shattering order handed down on Thursday. Its decision will throw Florida’s voter registration into chaos, placing a huge number of would-be voters in legal limbo and even opening them up to prosecution for casting a ballot. The justices have effectively permitted Florida Republicans to impose a poll tax in November. | Florida’s ex-felons have a right to vote under both the state and federal constitutions. In 2018, a supermajority of residents approved a constitution…
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At least 72 Taliban killed as violence rages in Afghanistan
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-17
As violence surges across the country, Afghan security forces on Friday said at least 72 Taliban militants, including four top commanders, have been killed in operations in three provinces.In a statement, the Afghan National Army said 32 more insurgents were also injured in ground and air offensives in northern Balkh, Faryab, and Sar-i-Pul provinces over the past 24 hours.Earlier this week, at least 36 security personnel were killed and over 60 others wounded in northern parts of the country amid a rise in Taliban-claimed attacks.On Sunday, the Taliban rejected growing calls for cease-fire by the Afghan governmen…
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Each heartbeat must be our song; the redness of blood, our banner
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
Too little has been made of the fact that countries like Laos and Vietnam have been able to manage the coronavirus; there are no confirmed deaths from COVID-19 in either country.
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Each Heartbeat Must Be Our Song; the Redness of Blood, Our Banner
Vijay Prashad | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
This level of public action is simply not available in the advanced capitalist countries, where mass organisations have been tethered and voluntary action has become professionalised in non-profit organisations…
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Hong Kong Security Law Is Common Sense, Not Controversial
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
China’s special administration region of Hong Kong saw the passing of a security law outlawing acts universally recognized as criminal and threats to any nation’s security and sovereignty. | Despite what would appear to be common sense legislation, the Western media …
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While Trump Protects His Cronies, Governors can Use That Same Power to Protect the Most Vulnerable
Dylan Hayre | aclu.org | 2020-07-17
Since Roger Stone’s commutation first made news, politicians on both sides of the aisle have been quick to condemn Donald Trump’s grant of clemency to his long-time confidant. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has even gone so far as to threaten legislation that would curtail the president’s clemency powers, and other elected officials have shared similar outrage. , , Their scorn is well-founded. “This is the most corru…
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Padma Lakshmi on Immigration, Food, and Authorship
aclu.org | 2020-07-17
Recently, we’ve seen a reckoning in the culinary world around the whitewashing and co-opting of ethnic food. The industry has long been controlled by a limited number of people — many of them white — who have authored and then profited from the foods we eat and the stories we share. But the tide is turning. And our guest for this episode, Padma Lakshmi, is part of that movement., , You’ve likely seen her tasting and critiquing some of the best chefs in the U.S. on Top Chef, sharing her favorite recipes across social media and advocating for immigrants rights and women’s rights. Pa…
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Students, Colleges, and Universities Win Against the Trump Administration’s Latest Anti-Immigrant Attack
Manar Waheed | aclu.org | 2020-07-17
After a week of chaos, international students were able to relax after the Trump administration agreed to rescind its latest attack on immigrants: an attempt to ban international students whose classes would be entirely online this fall. The administration has normalized chaos, fear, and trauma over the last few years, beginning with airports all over the country during the Muslim ban and tearing children apart from their parents to attempting to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and Temporary Protected Status programs. In the last several months, the administration has repeatedly used the p…
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Withdrawing Troops From Afghanistan and Germany Is Still a Good Idea
Tom Gallagher | commondreams.org | 2020-07-17
The immediate matters at hand are Trump’s plans to withdraw the 8,600 American troops remaining in Afghanistan and 9,500 of our 34,500 troops in Germany. (Photo: U.S. Army/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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People Over the Pentagon
Jeff Jurgens | peaceaction.org | 2020-07-17
Senator Bernie Sander’s, along with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, will be introducing an amendment to the FY2021 National Defense Authorization Act to cut the Pentagon’s budget by 10%, or $74 billion, to better fund healthcare, affordable housing, and improvements to education programs, etc. Watch the video below, courtesy of our friends at Brave …
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Vulgar Militarism: Expanding the Australian War Memorial
Binoy Kampmark | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-17
It was a decision both rash and indulgent. In November 2018, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, after being nudged incessantly by then Australian War Memorial director Brendan Nelson, committed to a redevelopment project intended to double the exhibition space in Campbell. The amount for the project would be just shy of a half-billion dollars and …
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‘Cancel culture’ is a myth. So is the idea that the political right is under siege
Peter Bolton | thecanary.co | 2020-07-17
An open letter in a major US current affairs magazine has provoked a storm of debate about so-called ‘cancel culture’. The letter’s general thrust is that today’s public sphere has been severely damaged by a decline in open discourse due to a culture of political correctness. According to its proponents, this in turn poses a huge threat to ‘free speech’, or perhaps even to the foundations of open discourse itself. | There’s certainly something superficially attractive about this argument. After all, who could possibly be against free speech an…
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The ‘strongmen’ have failed
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
Three countries, the US, Brazil and India, lead the global COVID-19 case count. What connects them are their leaders -Trump, Bolsonaro and Modi – whose policies and polarizing ways have hindered efforts to combat the disease.
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The US Increases Risk of War in South America, Lula Warns
telesurenglish.net | 2020-07-17
Brazil’s former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva harshly criticized President Jair Bolsonaro’s new National Defense Policy (NDP) and warned that the United States is pushing his country into a warlike conflict against Venezuela. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces US Destroyer Incursion in Contiguous Zone | “I have been reading with concern the reports on the NDP new edition. Our governments have tried to make the defense policy and strategy instruments for peace, sovereignty, a…
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COVID-19 tightens its grip on the African continent
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent surpasses 600,000, the nature of the virus has taken on its own character. This happens while the global infection rate has surpassed 13 million cases, with the US, Brazil, India and Russia accounting for almost half of the confirmed COVID-19 cases globally. Irrespective of the seemingly low number of COVID-19 cases in Africa, confirmed cases vary dramatically from country-to-country, with South Africa reporting 40% of the continent’s confirmed cases. While the virus is present in all African coun…
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Neoliberal discourse on land harms livelihoods and environmental security: Oakland Institute report
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-17
Studying the cases of countries like Ukraine, Zambia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Brazil, the Oakland Institute report debunks some of the myths on development and land use propagated by mainstream economics, and calls for the preservation of commons.
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America Declaring China’s Territorial Claims Illegal Is All Bark & No Bite. The US Is Militarily & Economically Impotent
Scott Ritter | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
Mike Pompeo’s statement that Beijing’s claims in the South China Sea are unlawful was seen by some as a dramatic step toward war. But it’s little more than bluster as the US knows it is not yet capable of taking …
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The United States Deploys Aircraft Carriers in the South China Sea
telesurenglish.net | 2020-07-17
President Donald Trump’s administration Friday deployed the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carriers to the South China Sea when relations between the United States and China are becoming increasingly strained. | RELATED: | The China-Iran Deal to Undermine US Geopolitics and Sanctions | “Nimitz and Reagan Carrier Strike Groups are operating in the South China Sea, wherever international law allows, to reinforce our commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, a rules-ba…
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Facing mounting crisis, US lashes out against China
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
Confronted with an economic and social crisis at home and his own worsening election prospects, Trump is aggressively confronting China across a whole range of potentially explosive issues.
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Stop Harassing Chinese Enterprises, Diplomat Hua Asked the US
telesurenglish.net | 2020-07-17
China’s Foreign Affairs Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying Friday urged the United States to halt its unjustified and unilateral sanctions against his country’s companies. | RELATED: | The United Kingdom Excludes Huawei From Its 5G Network | “Stop suppressing specific Chinese enterprises unreasonably, stop abusing the concept of national security, and stop smearing China maliciously,” Hua said, as reported by Xinhua. | On Aug. 13, the U.S. will implement new regulations aimed at prohibi…
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The great American firewall: On the question of censorship
Danny Haiphong | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
It should not surprise anyone that China would take protective measures against the threat of U.S. imperialism in the realm of cyber technology.
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Geo-Strategic Chessboard: War Between India and China?
Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
New Delhi caught between alliances? An encircling military ring that involves India has been created around China.
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Will China be the New Russia?
Richard Falk | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
The Future of American Geopolitics…
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The East-Bound Wind Causes a Storm in the West: Iran-China Sign Long-Term Trade Agreement
Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
A few months after the publication of his remarkable book, Adam Smith in Beijing, I had an illuminating conversation with Giovanni Arrighi about the significance of China in world history. The late sociologist was interested in knowing more about the subject of my scholarship–modern Iran and the Iranian revolution. When he saw my puzzled face,…
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The Sky Is Falling — Yes — No
Robert Hunziker | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The sky is falling is one of the more disturbing thoughts in society today, as to whether climate change is on a fast track collision course with doomsday amidst a collapsing society. In that regard, according to the details of a scathing review by ScientistsWarning.org (“SW”) of Jem Bendell’s wildly popular “Deep Adaptation” the answer…
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COVID-19, the Climate Crisis, and Our Urgent Duty to Rebuild This Country
Tim Whitehouse | commondreams.org | 2020-07-17
The United States, writes Whitehouse, “must adopt a recovery plan that addresses the intersecting crises of economy, climate, and justice through policies that speed the transition to clean energy, train unemployed workers for jobs in energy efficiency and renewable energy, make communities healthier and more resilient, promote smart growth and electric transit in cities, and restore biodiversity and soil health in rural areas.” (Photo: Ronen Tivony / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files……
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Argentina Rejects U.S. Plans To Rule Regional Bank
telesurenglish.net | 2020-07-17
Argentina’s Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola Thursday rejected U.S. intentions to propose a candidate for Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) presidency. | RELATED: | Latin America To Face Deepest Economic Fall in a Century: ECLAC | Several countries have already presented candidates after Colombian Luis Alberto Moreno announced that he will be leaving the Bank’s presidency in September. | In this line, Mauricio Claver-Carone became the U.S.’s first candidate for this p…
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“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-17
Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. | “Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the U.S. and Britain said,” reports The New York Times. | “Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain’s National Cyber Security…
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More than two hundred Mexican oil workers at PEMEX have died from COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
The state-owned oil company reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/peme…
Russia Denies British Allegations Of COVID-19 Vaccine Hacking
telesurenglish.net | 2020-07-17
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov Friday rejected London’s claims that Russian intelligence services allegedly hacked a coronavirus vaccine research. | RELATED: | Russia Successfully Completes COVID-19 Vaccine Trial | Early this week, the British National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) stated that the Russians were linked to a hacker group called APT29, which was accused of being the main actor in a cyberattack aimed at R&D organizations working on the making of COVID-19 vaccines in the…
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Eric the Clapper tells us why he claps
Eric A. Gordon | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-17
LOS ANGELES — “Did you clap tonight?” my faraway husband in Mexico asks me almost every evening when we talk. He’s stuck there for immigration reasons, and I’m stuck here for coronavirus reasons. We haven’t seen each other since early January, except on Facetime. “Oh, yes,” I answer, and he always likes to grasp the …
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Canada’s largest lingerie and swimwear retailer scraps worker bonuses
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
La Vie en Rose workers, many of whom are paid minimum wage, are being pressured to show up even when they have coronavirus symptoms and are receiving totally inadequate workplace protection from the company.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/lavi…
More than two hundred Mexican oil workers at PEMEX have died from COVID-19
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
The state-owned oil company also reported that 234 family members of workers have also died from coronavirus.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/17/peme…
Cuba in the last stretch of the Pandemic
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-17
Cuba is only a few days away from ending its coronavirus quarantine. Except for Havana, all the other provinces are free of the contagion and have begun moving toward a new normality.
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“Putin Hacked Our Coronavirus Vaccine” Is The Dumbest Story Yet
Caitlin Johnstone | thealtworld.com | 2020-07-17
OMG you guys Putin hacked our coronavirus vaccine secrets! | Today mainstream media is reporting what is arguably the single dumbest Russiavape story of all time, against some very stiff competition. | “Russian hackers are targeting health care organizations in the West in an attempt to steal coronavirus vaccine research, the U.S. and Britain said,” reports The New York Times. | “Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical inst…
thealtworld.com/caitlin_johnston/putin-h…
Trump’s ‘Plan’ Is Simply to Make the Virus and Its Casualties Disappear
Sonali Kolhatkar | zcomm.org | 2020-07-17
Source: Independent Media Institute When schoolchildren across the United States began their summer break, President Donald Trump had more than two months to bring the coronavirus crisis under control in time for schools to reopen for the fall. But, instead of tackling the virus’ spread head-on, he did what most observers expected of him: Read…
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Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘A rogue nation?’– a commentary
Mumia Abu-Jamal | workers.org | 2020-07-17
This slightly edited commentary from July 8 by political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is available at prisonradio.org/media/audio/mumia. Several days ago, the European Union announced that Americans were not welcome to visit any of the 28 member countries of the EU. Why? Because of the explosive expansion of the coronavirus among U.S. . . . | Continue reading Mumia Abu-Jamal: ‘A rogue nation?’– a commentary at Workers.org…
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To labor cheers, Virginia OKs emergency anti-coronavirus safety standard
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-17
RICHMOND, Va.–To cheers from Virginia workers and unions, the state Department of Labor and Industry went where GOP President Donald Trump’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration won’t: Imposing a statewide emergency standard ordering firms to immediately craft and put in place plans to protect their workers against the coronavirus pandemic. And if the firms don’t …
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Recovering Fully From the Coronavirus Shock Will Require Large Increases in Federal Debt—and There’s Nothing Wrong With That
Josh Bivens | commondreams.org | 2020-07-17
It is important to note that right now, and for the foreseeable future, we are in a demand-constrained economy, not a supply-constrained economy. (Photo: Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Why Did Hundreds Of CEOs Resign Just Before The World Started Going Absolutely Crazy?
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-17
In the months prior to the most ferocious stock market crash in history and the eruption of the biggest public health crisis of our generation, we witnessed the biggest exodus of corporate CEOs that we have ever seen. And as | …
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US automakers continue cover-up of COVID-19 outbreaks as workers call for action
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
Fiat Chrysler, with the aid of the United Auto Workers and the corporate media, continues to downplay the uncontrolled spread of the virus at the Toledo North Assembly Complex.
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Warnings Grow: “We are in a Massive Economic Downturn”
Pam Martens, Russ Martens | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
This week, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard gave a speech via webcast to the National Association for Business Economics. She warned, effectively, that the rosy spin coming out of the Trump administration needed to be weighed against the reality on the ground. Brainard raised the caution that credit downgrades on bonds and corporate defaults are…
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Dark Army of Enablers
Joseph Natoli | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
We are a culture rift with hypocrisy. We like to say that power comes from The People but in both corporate and governmental sectors power asserts and maintains itself through enablers, apologists, henchman, hired guns, attack dogs, spin doctors, Think Tank apologists, and loyal bloviators. President Donald J. Trump is surrounded by such a crowd.
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After Years of Underfunding, Public School Teachers are Now Supposed to Save the Economy?
Jeff Bryant | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
“After 9/11, New York City police and firefighters were hailed as heroes,” said Mary Parr-Sanchez, president of the New Mexico affiliate of the National Education Association, when I spoke with her about how educators have responded to the pandemic in her state.
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Behind the #MeToo Headlines with JoAnn Wypijewski
Susan Block | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The wise, compassionate and refreshingly sex-positive JoAnn Wypijewski has come out with a remarkable new book with a very long name, What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About #MeToo: Essays on Sex, Authority and the Mess of Life (Verso). The title’s luxurious length underlines how important it is sometimes to discuss things fully, and how, when we…
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Freedom vs. Public Health: a False Dichotomy
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
There has been a new addition to the tedious U.S. culture wars: mask wearing. It didn’t have to be this way. A simple tactic to protect oneself and also limit the spread of Covid-19 did not have to become a political hot potato. Wearing a mask did not have to mean one supports secular science…
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Of Toddlers, Wolves, and Public Lands Ranchers
Samantha Bruegger | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
As I sit here thinking about wolves, my child is now peacefully sleeping in his room. I know he will awake tomorrow and much of his toddler fury will have subsided, creating a time for us to interact with each other positively. I can’t help but think of the parallels between some bad-acting livestock producers, grazing on public lands across the West, and my raging pre-bedtime toddler. The evening meltdown ritual is full of entitlement, irrational beliefs, and a lot of whining. It is now in these precious hours of silence that I understand why these tantrums are so familiar. I hear the same chorus from stock grow…
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A Proposed Origin for SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Jonathan Latham — Allison Wilson | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
In all the discussions of the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, enormous scientific attention has been paid to the molecular character of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including its novel genome sequence in comparison with its near relatives. In stark contrast, virtually no attention has been paid to the physical provenance of those nearest genetic relatives, its…
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Class Disparities and Child Abuse in Ireland 2020
Kerron àì Luain | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The newly formed government of the Twenty-Six County state in Ireland has been in existence less than a month but is already mired in several controversies; the usual circuses thrown up by capitalist society with governments lurching from each to the next without any alteration to the status quo. One of them is worth looking…
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In Lockdown With Edward Hopper’s Prophetic Paintings
Monika Zgustova | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
When I lived in Chicago, I often went to the Art Institute to admire the paintings of Edward Hopper, especially Nighthawks. Later on, I would do the same thing in New York, at the Whitney; both galleries have excellent Hopper collections. I remembered those visits when, in full lockdown, social media were flooded with images…
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Angel Olsen and Hand Habits “Walls”
CP Editor | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
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We Treasure What We Measure
Laura Flanders | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
Transparency, transparency, transparency. The word has become a battle cry in Trump times, and there was another skirmish this week when the administration ordered hospitals to send their Covid-19 data not to the Centers for Disease Control, where it’s publicly available, but rather to the Department of Health and Human Services, where it will be…
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We Can’t Cancel Class
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
Lately, I have faced many rejections and I wondered if it was time to cancel myself to save others the time and trouble. However I could think of no other place more interested in trouble and no place that I would even have interest in writing to, and seeing I would write no matter what,…
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Cut the Pentagon Budget 10 Percent and Invest in Public Health
Lindsay Koshgarian | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
It feels like the world is falling apart. But with a pandemic raging and an eviction crisis looming, the Senate is preparing to spend three quarters of a trillion dollars… not on public health or housing, but on the Pentagon. The United States may be going down, but we’re going down well-armed. At a time…
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Where Have All the Demos Gone? Cappies Killed ‘Em, One By One
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The world’s greatest democracy will lead a whole world of democracies. — Bill Clinton He can’t even run his own life / I’ll be damned if he’ll run mine, sunshine — Jonathan Edwards There we were, two months in, lost at home, ball-and-chained to a virus, but finally, because we’re a nation of ‘rugged individualists,’…
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The Republicans and Democrats: Two Wings, Same Bird
Robert Fantina | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
The Republican and Democratic conventions are still to come, but the election is already well underway. That is obvious from, among other things, the amount of solicitation emails this writer is receiving from Democratic candidates and organizations. These are all basically the same, and follow a pattern which clearly shows that these people and groups…
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Of Toddlers, Wolves, and Public Lands Ranchers
Samantha Bruegger | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
As I sit here thinking about wolves, my child is now peacefully sleeping in his room. I know he will awake tomorrow and much of his toddler fury will have subsided, creating a time for us to interact with each other positively. I can’t help but think of the parallels between some bad-acting livestock producers,…
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Economic Crisis and the Question of Capitalism
Rob Urie | counterpunch.org | 2020-07-17
On the precipice of what will likely be the worst economic crisis in modern history, the question not being asked is: why capitalism? To date, temporary government payments– tilted largely toward the rich, have sustained some parts of the pre-pandemic economy through a state of suspended animation that ended in fits and starts with reopening.
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“Palace letters” point to the plotting behind the 1975 constitutional coup in Australia
wsws.org | 2020-07-17
Together with the military coup in Chile in 1973, the Labor government’s dismissal was one of the first acts in what became an international counter-offensive against the working class.
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