Legislation in Congress Would Require Flying Flag With Pentagon on It
David Swanson | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
While war monuments are being toppled, a war flag is being raised.
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Barriers, Water Cannons, Arrests: Netanyahu Treats Thousands of Israeli Protesters Against His Corruption Like Palestinians
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-07-19
Israeli police spray protesters with water cannons during an anti-government demonstration in Jerusalem on July 18, 2020. (Photo: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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“Optimism of the Will”: Palestinian Freedom is Possible Now
Ramzy Baroud | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-19
In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now, but that it would take a whole new generation to bring about such a paradigm shift. As innocuous as the declaration may have seemed, it troubled …
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The U.S. struggle for justice for Palestine begins a new chapter
Ariel Gold | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
The progress and victories of recent years absolutely are a cause for celebration. But it is important to keep in mind that the fight is far from over.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-u-s-struggle-f…

Video: Armenia -Azerbaijan Clashes, Shifting Balance of Power in South Caucasus
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-19
The Armenian-Azerbaijani tensions have once again turned South Caucasus into a hot point increasing chances of a new regional war. | The key difference with previous military incidents between the two countries is that the point of confrontation shifted from the …
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Hunger is a Weapon of War: Syria Under US Coalition Blockade and Scorched Earth Policy
Vanessa Beeley | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-19
In a world dominated by American exceptionalism and neo-colonialism, hunger has become a weapon of war. “The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited” under i nternational humanitarian law yet the U.S. regularly …
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US Targets Thailand with Attempted “Color Revolution”
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-19
US seeks to disrupt growing Thai-Chinese relations. US-funded protesters seek to remove elected government and rewrite constitution, or at the very least, cause Hong Kong-style chaos. | *** | The Western media is claiming “pro-democracy” protests are taking place in Thailand. | English-language …
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Milwaukee: Northside marches against WE Energies and for green jobs
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-19
Milwaukee, WI – On July 16, Northside Rising held a rally seeking divestment from WE Energies (also known as Wisconsin Electric), a waiver of their planned moratorium on energy assistance, and investment in green, net-zero carbon jobs that are not monopolized by the company. Investing more in a climate justice plan, as well as a solution to the depletion of job opportunity for Milwaukee’s Northside, would be a step in the right direction for the city’s Black residents. | The rally began at the Victory Garden Park in the Harambee neighborhood. Speakers included Pastor Jonathan Barken, Supreme Moore Omukunde, Dana…
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Milwaukee: Northside marches against WE Energies and for green jobs
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-19
Milwaukee, WI – On July 16, Northside Rising held a rally seeking divestment from WE Energies (also known as Wisconsin Electric), a waiver of their planned moratorium on energy assistance, and investment in green, net-zero carbon jobs that are not monopolized by the company. Investing more in a climate justice plan, as well as a solution to the depletion of job opportunity for Milwaukee’s Northside, would be a step in the right direction for the city’s Black residents. | The rally began at the Victory Garden Park in the Harambee neighborhood. Speakers included Pastor Jonathan Barken, Supreme Moore Omukunde, Dana…
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Prescription drugs & American exceptionalism
Dean Baker | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
It would be a great thing for humanity if a low-priced coronavirus vaccine became the first example of a new prescription drug policy in America.
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Africa to Become Testing Ground for “Trust Stamp” Vaccine Record and Biometric Digital Payment System
Raul Diego | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-19
A new biometric identity platform partnered with the Gates-funded GAVI vaccine alliance and Mastercard will launch in West Africa and combine COVID-19 vaccinations, cashless payments, and potential law enforcement applications. | *** | A biometric digital identity platform that “evolves just as …
globalresearch.ca/africa-testing-ground-…

Trump Rush to Reopen America Is Causing a Covid Resurgence
Robert Reich | commondreams.org | 2020-07-19
“In the biggest public health emergency in US history, in which nearly 136,000 have already lost their lives, still no one is in charge,” writes Robert Reich. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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‘My children ask me when I am coming home’: stranded seafarers share their frustrations
news.un.org | 2020-07-19
Hundreds of thousands of seafarers are finding themselves stranded at sea, sometimes for over a year, and with no end in sight, as a result of COVID-19 travel restrictions. The uncertainty and long spells away from home are taking a heavy mental toll.
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America Is on Track for $1M Covid Cases a Day and 800K Deaths
Irwin Redlener | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
Until we have effective and safe medications, a proven vaccine and better testing, our best shot at getting control would be to again close many businesses and activities…
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Trump’s withdrawal from WHO is a cover-up for his abject failure on COVID-19
Prabir Purkayastha | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-19
The WHO, warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global coordination. It is hated by the right-wing precisely for these reasons.
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Teaching Under Covid: NY School-Reopening Guidance Highlights the Need for a Radical, Uniform National Response to Covid-19
Lisa Arrastia | commondreams.org | 2020-07-19
A girl wears a face mask as students sit in a classroom of the Petri primary school in Dortmund, western Germany on June 15, 2020. (Photo: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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The racist reality of who is dying of Covid-19
Laura Flanders | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
The institutionalized bias that reflects this is even more of a national shame–or it should be–than that distractor-in-chief, our president…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-racist-reality…

The Electoral College: protecting the rich from democracy since 1787
Mario Carbonell | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-19
The Electoral College is designed to protect the U.S. government from excessive influence from the “unruly mob.”
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The Call for “Social Distancing” Pursues Hidden Goals
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-19
Citizens worldwide are still being urged to avoid direct contact with other people in order to protect themselves from infection with the corona virus, even though this virus does not pose any particular danger and “social distancing” has not been …
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The Disastrous Handling of the Pandemic Is Libertarianism in Action
Thom Hartmann | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
Will Americans Finally Say Good Riddance?>…
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Palestinian Family Forced to Demolish Their Homes in East Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-19
By order of the municipality of West Jerusalem, the Palestinian Abu Turki family, on Saturday, continued to self-demolish their two homes in the Jabal al-Mokabber village in occupied East Jerusalem, according to local sources. The Abu Turki family told the Wadi Hilweh Information Center (Silwanic) that they began to demolish …
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The simplest way to close the racial wealth gap? Direct cash payments
Dedrick Asante-Muhammad | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
Here’s my proposal: give $20,000 to every American with an enslaved ancestor, every year, for 20 years. We can afford it…
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Israeli Army Detains Palestinian Youths from Ramallah, Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-19
The Israeli army, at dawn Saturday, stormed al-Jalazoun refugee camp in the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and detained three Palestinian teens, the Palestinian Information Center reported. According to Asra Media Office, members of a special Israeli military unit detained three teenagers from their homes in al-Jalazoun camp. The …
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Israeli Forces Injure Many Palestinians, Including Medic at Peaceful Demonstration Near Nablus
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-19
Two Palestinian civilians were injured, on Saturday, and many others choked on tear-gas fired by the Israeli forces, at a nonviolent protest in the village of Beita, Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. WAFA correspondent stated that Palestinians held a demonstration, south of Nablus City in the northern occupied West Bank, …
imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-injure-…

How We Remember a Prophet
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II | thenation.com | 2020-07-19
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II How We Remember a Prophet…
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Reflection on the Upcoming 75th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Thea Paneth | commondreams.org | 2020-07-19
“It is fitting that the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset the Doomsday Clock at 100 seconds to midnight. This is an urgent warning,” writes Thea Paneth. (Photo: ICAN) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Burger Chef And Dan Died On The Same Day
Terry Everton | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
If you’re like most 16 year old males, there’s a better than average chance that the suit inventory in your wardrobe consists of a total of one. And by suit I mean the matching sport coat and pants that was purchased on clearance from a discount warehouse that has as much chance of staying in Read…
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Dozens of Palestinians Choke on Tear-gas in Hebron Protests
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-19
Dozens of Palestinian youths suffered the toxic effects of tear-gas inhalation, on Saturday, when they confronted Israeli forces in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, the Jerusalem Press reported. Local sources said that hundreds of Palestinian youths were protesting Israel’s annexation plans, at the “Shuhada Street” military roadblock, …
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Housing Is a Worker Issue
Stephanie Luce | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
Why the Labor Movement Should Support the ‘Beyond Recovery’ Campaign…
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The Kalkbreite: Participative housing planning in Zurich
Nicole de Vries | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
As housing affordability diminishes in large cities and inexpensive living space becomes scarce, the cooperative model is resurging in popularity…
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Homeless in Portland, Oregon
Mike Hastie | zcomm.org | 2020-07-19
Old Town Portland looks like a huge refugee settlement. I deliver lunches to 4 homeless encampments three days a week. It is like walking into a poverty war zone…
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Covid-19 claims 209 lives in past 24 hours in Iran
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — Iran’s Health Ministry spokesperson announced on Sunday that in the past 24 hours the lethal coronavirus has claimed 209 lives in Iran.
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VIDEO: protest against Netanyahu
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — Police used water to disperse demonstrators around Zionist regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s residence on Saturday as protests mounted against him over alleged corruption and his handling of the coronavirus crisis.
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Iran-Turkey flight canceled due COVID-19 restrictions
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) –According to reports the Iranian Mahan and Qeshm airlines announced the cancellation of the flights to Turkey.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161163/Iran-Turkey-…

Iranian elite abroad cooperating with country: official
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) -An official in the vice presidency of science announced the statistics of the definite return of elites to the country, adding that…
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FM Zarif, Iraqi President discuss regional, intl. issues
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Iraqi President Barham Salih hold a meeting in Iraq’s capital on Sunday.
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Zarif holds meeting with Iraqi officials
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Baghdad on Sunday morning to meet with Iraqi officials.
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Hunger increases across world: FAO
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — The United Nations agencies say that the world is not on track to achieve Zero Hunger, warning if recent trends continue, the number of people affected by hunger will surpass 840 million by 2030.
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Zarif, Hakim hold meeting in Baghdad
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met and held talks with Leader of the National Wisdom Movement of Iraq Seyyed Ammar al-Hakim on Sunday.
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Iran sends medical aid to Iraq concurrent with Zarif’s visit
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — Islamic Republic of Iran sent medical aid, as weigh as 1 ton, to neighboring Iraq concurrent with the visit of Iranian Foreign Minister’s visit to Iraq.
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‘Goodby Olymbic’ goes to Chinese film festival
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-19
TEHRAN, Jul. 19 (MNA) — Iranian short ‘Goodbye Olympic’ directed by Mojtaba Pourbakhsh has made it into the competition program of Beijing International FICTS Festival.
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G20 Finance Ministers Kick COVID Crisis Decisions to Fall
Zach Conti | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
Washington DC – Chaired by Saudi Arabia, G20 Finance Ministers met virtually and focused on the global health and economic impacts of the coronavirus. A communiqué issued by the Ministers suggested most decisions on the crisis will be made later in the year.
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Housing wage for 2 bedroom unit is $43.06 for Oakland-Fremont area
By Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
COVID-19 Guidance for Multifamily Residential Buildings:…
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Military-garbed agents in unmarked vehicles at Martinez protest
Pika-Nonymous | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
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.
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In Memory of Sam Johnson at Effie’s House in Oakland
Lynda Carson | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
In Memory Of Sam Johnson:…
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Sunday 7/26: Reimagine Public Safety & Police Reform, July 26th
PACT -People Acting in Community Together | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
Downtown San Jose – City Hall | Santa Clara and Fourth St. SJ…
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Friday 7/24: Orion’s Awesome “Live No Jive Hamond b3 Organ Trio w Special Guests
Orion the elder | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
Alameda Dog Park 1302 8th street alameda…
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Monday 7/20: Alameda County Strike for Black Health and Vitality
Alameda Health System SEIU & others | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
ALAMEDA COUNTY: | Highland Hospital, 1411 E 31st St, Oakland, CA 94602 | Fairmont Hospital, 15400 Foothill Blvd, San Leandro, CA 94578…
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Saturday 8/1: #GOTV Action: Training to Win 2020 Election Virtual Conference
Women’s March, Indivisible, NorCal Blue, more | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
Online/virtual conference…
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Tuesday 7/21: #NoShutoffs Town Hall: Demand a Nationwide Moratorium on Utility Shutoffs
#NoShutoffs Coalition | indybay.org | 2020-07-19
Online via Zoom…
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Florida officials admit counting MOTORCYCLE death as Covid-19 fatality, remove it from list after media scrutiny
rt.com | 2020-07-19
Officials in Orange County, Florida have confirmed that a motor accident death was initially included into the coronavirus death toll. It was later struck off the list, but not until authorities were challenged by the media. | Florida Department of Health in Orange County announced on Saturday that it no longer counts the death of a man aged in his 20s in a motorcycle accident as a coronavirus fatality. | The case “was reviewed and he was taken off the list for Covid fatalities,” Kent Donahue, spokesman for Orange County Health Officer Dr Raul Pino, told Fox35, which initially broke the story after perusing li…
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‘Not comfortable having them in our space’: Portland mayor orders feds to be kicked out of police incident HQ as riots grip city
rt.com | 2020-07-19
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said he has banned federal officers, who were deployed to the city to protect federal property, from sharing headquarters with police amid claims they whisk “peaceful protesters” away in unmarked cars. | “Earlier today I directed that staff who are part of federal agency operations are no longer allowed to co-locate with the police bureau’s incident command,” Wheeler tweeted on Saturday. | Although the Democrat mayor acknowledged that “sharing a space” advanced cooperation between local and federal law enforcement, allowing for clearer communication, he said that “recent actions” by…
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Activists call for Harvard University’s Board of Overseers to be renamed due to racist connotations in latest wokeness crusade
rt.com | 2020-07-19
Harvard University is again caught up in controversy over a name that some students and alumni have found to be racially offensive, as an activist group is pressing the Ivy League school to rename its Board of Overseers. | The Coalition for a Diverse Harvard is taking issue with the word “overseers” because it harks back to slavery. The men hired by plantation owners to supervise and violently control slaves were called overseers. | The activist group has been urging individual members of Harvard’s second-highest governing body to get rid of the word “overseers” in its name since 2017, and with anti-racism pro…
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Police union office set on fire as Portland protest descends into riot (PHOTOS, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-19
A mob broke into the office of the Portland police union and set a small fire to the building amid growing hostility between demonstrators and law enforcement in the city. The blaze was later put out as officers cleared the area. | …
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UK’s Raab says clear Uighurs in China suffered human rights abuses
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday it was clear the Uighur minority in China had suffered abuses of their human rights.”It is clear that there are gross, egregious human rights abuses going on, which is why in Geneva at the UN we raised this with 27 partners … to call out the government of China for its human rights abuses of the Uighurs, also of Hong Kong,” Raab told the BBC’s The Andrew Marr Show.Beijing’s ambassador to Britain Liu Xiaoming told the same programme that most Uighurs were living happily and that ethnic minorities in China were treated as equals.
yenisafak.com/en/news/uks-raab-says-clea…

Pakistan’s COVID-19 daily tally continues to drop
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
Pakistan’s daily coronavirus tally continued to fall, as the country recorded only 1,579 new cases over the past 24 hours, the lowest single-day sum since May, Health Ministry data said Sunday.With the new cases, the total number of infections reached 263,496, with 1,763 of them in critical condition, the data showed.Another 46 patients lost their battle against the disease across the country in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 5,568. Nearly 70% of patients, or 204,276, have recovered so far.Health experts, however, cautioned that a sharp fall in the number of COVID-19 cases could be the result of fe…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistans-covid-1…

Germany’s Merkel warns of summit failure on EU recovery fund
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
European Union leaders toiled in search of a coronavirus stimulus deal for a third day on Sunday but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the mounting acrimony over the level of spending might not easily be overcome.Germany and France, the EU’s powerbrokers, are seeking a deal on a 1.8 trillion euro ($2.06 trillion) economic recovery package to rescue the bloc’s economies that are facing their worst recession since World War Two.Sticking points are the size of the new recovery fund and what proportion should be in grants and loans, with some “frugal” richer states led by the Netherlands pushing to limit it,…
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Turkey has suspended flights to Iran amid coronavirus outbreak
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
Turkey has suspended flights to Iran amid a coronavirus outbreak in the Islamic Republic, a spokesman for Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, Reza Jafarzadeh, said on Sunday, according to the official IRNA news agency.The suspension of flights had begun on Saturday, he said.
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Greek PM calls for deal on COVID stimulus, says EU cannot appear weak
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Sunday he hoped the third day of EU leaders’ summit will manage to ove…
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Turkish steel exporters hail US ruling against Trump
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
A US court ruling striking down US President Donald Trump’s high tariffs on steel imports from Turkey is being welcomed by Turkish exporters and experts alike.In 2018 and 2019 the Trump administration raised tariffs up to 50% on steel imports from Turkey, causing major losses for Turkish steel exporters.The US Court of International Trade last week ruled that the move was unlawful.Turkish exporters hailed the ruling, adding that they would file a claim for compensation.Ismail Gulle, head of the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM), said the court’s decision was belated but right.Trump’s decision to double tariffs la…
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Iraqis protest power outage in Karbala
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
Hundreds of protesters shut down a power plant in Iraq’s southern Karbala province on Sunday over repeated power outages.Angry protesters barred employees from entering the plant in the al-Jammaliya area in the province until their demands are met.”Hours of electricity cuts have increased at a time when temperatures are very high,” Yasir al-Hakim, a protester, told Anadolu Agency.Iraqis suffer shortage in power supplies, especially in camps where thousands of displaced Iraqis live.Iraq generates around 13,500 megawatts and plans to increase its capacity with an additional 3,500 megawatts this year, according to t…
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Blast at power plant in Iran’s central Isfahan province
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
An explosion occurred at a power plant in Iran’s central Isfahan province on Sunday but there were no casualties, the official IRNA news agency reported.The blast was caused by the wear and tear of a transformer at the power plant in Islamabad, the managing director of the Isfahan power company told IRNA.There have been several explosions and fires around Iranian military, nuclear and industrial facilities since late June.
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Kuwait says emir, 91, had successful surgery
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-19
Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 91, underwent successful surgery on Sunday, according to the official KUNA news agency.KUNA cited a statement by the country’s royal court calling the surgery a “success,” but gave no further details.The royal court said Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah “temporarily assumed some of the emir’s constitutional duties for the duration of the operation and till the [emir’s] health event was over”.Last October, Sheikh Sabah, who ruled Kuwait since 2006, conducted “medical checkups” in the US.*Ahmed Asmar contributed to this report from Ankara…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Stories from the youth climate movement in the Global South
Inés M. Pousadela | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-18
Young people who had mobilized for the climate across the world in 2019 were right: Much environmental damage is the result of human action, and as such, can also be reversed through human initiative.
nationofchange.org/2020/07/18/stories-fr…

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 …
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Open letter against ‘cancel culture’ backed by ‘frauds,’ says Glenn Greenwald after authors ‘outvote’ him from signers list
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Journalist Glenn Greenwald has called the signatories of a letter opposing ‘cancel culture’ “frauds,” after it emerged they canceled him from signing it. | In the now-famous ‘ Harper’s Letter,’ 150 prominent academics, journalists and public figures took a stand against what they called the creeping “ideological conformity” of the left. These figures are not right-wingers or conservatives, and there are no open supporters of President Donald Trump among them. However, there are some big names, including l…
rt.com/news/495180-glenn-greenwald-harpe…

Making America Feared Again: The Trump Administration Considers Resuming Nuclear Weapons Testing
Lawrence Wittner | commondreams.org | 2020-07-18
“The Trump administration now seems to be preparing to ignore treaty constraints and world opinion by reviving nuclear weapons explosions,” writes Lawrence Wittner. (Photo: U.S. Department of Defense) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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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…

Wake Up, America! We Must Force Trump to Resign or At Least Step Aside
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-07-18
“The Trump Administration’s lethal incompetence is unprecedented in American history,” writes Ralph Nader. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Russia Bounty Story Falls Flat
Reese Erlich | commondreams.org | 2020-07-18
The U.S. occupation of Afghanistan has killed over 100,000 civilians. Here, refugee children in Kabul. (Photo: Reese Erlich) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/views/2020/07/18/russia…

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…

Alien hunter claims UFO was captured on Google Maps hovering over New Zealand beach (POLL)
rt.com | 2020-07-18
UFO hunters believe they finally have proof that Earth has been visited by alien crafts after a peculiar pattern was spotted hovering over a beach in New Zealand on Google Maps’ street view. | The supposed unidentified flying object appears to be suspended in the air over St Kilda beach on New Zealand’s South Island in the Google 360-degree image. The photo was uploaded by a user named David Newstead all the way back in 2014, but it shot to prominence this week after self-proclaimed alien-hunting expert Scott Waring posted a video about it on Friday. | “The UFO looks like a fat disc, thicker in the upper and l…
rt.com/news/495182-ufo-new-zealand-beach…

Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/labo…

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…

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…

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
The State of Israel was charged on 20 November 2013 with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. | The procedure was initiated by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission under the helm of the former Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun …
globalresearch.ca/indictment-against-the…

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…

A Constitutional Crisis in Portland
Doug Brown | aclu.org | 2020-07-18
I’ve been documenting violent and militarized police responses to protests in Portland for more than four years, but nothing prepared me for the unrestrained brutality I’ve witnessed and experienced in recent days. , , Night after night, since the police killing of George Floyd, people have been taking to the streets to demand an end to racist policing and a new vision of public safety for our community, one that protects the safety of our Black community members. Police in Portland, who have their own history of killings, have been meeting those demands with violent attempts to silence the protests. | On Jun…
aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/a-cons…

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…

‘Hundreds of billions’ of EU coronavirus aid could become an easy target for criminals. But problems with aid don’t end there
Peadar O’Cearnaigh | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
EU leaders are meeting in Brussels this weekend in the hope of agreeing a coronavirus (Covid-19) financial aid package. This package would help the EU’s 27 member states to recover from the damage inflicted by coronavirus. These are the first face-to-face discussions between leaders since the pandemic outbreak. | Estimates suggest the agreed package could be spread over seven year…
thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2020/…

Leaks Expose Conservative Movement Funders Prince and DeVos Family Offshore Money
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-07-18
Nassau, Bahamas — Former U.S. Navy SEAL and founder of Blackwater Inc., (now ‘Academi’) Erik Prince, and his extended family have been tied to a new batch of data leaks, revealing offshore business entities filed in the Bahamas, Unicorn Riot has found. In these leaks,…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/leaks-expose-conservative-movement-funders-prince-and-devos-family-offshore-money/

New delivery workers demonstration in Brazil exposes unions and their allies
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
After a massive continent-wide strike on July 1, delivery workers in Brazil are being told to place their fate in the hands of the unions and Congress.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/deli…

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…

New Zealand’s opposition National Party in turmoil after another leadership change
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The National Party, which supports stronger business links with China, has been thrown into chaos by the escalating US-led preparations for war.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/nzna…

US moving to ban China-based TikTok social media app
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
There is bipartisan support in Congress for the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts against the Chinese app.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/tikt…

[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.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/07/1…

Hospitals are suddenly short of young doctors–because of Trump’s visa ban
Dara Lind | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-18
Doctors treating coronavirus patients were supposed to be allowed into the U.S. But hundreds of young doctors have their visas put on hold indefinitely.
nationofchange.org/2020/07/18/hospitals-…

[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

We Need Healthcare Professionals in Washington to Fight Back Against a Reckless President
Robbie Goldstein | commondreams.org | 2020-07-18
Members of National Nurses United, the largest nurses union in the United States, protest in front of the White House April 21, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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U.S.-Backed Saudi Bombing in Yemen Continues as Coronavirus Spreads
Democracy Now! | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-18
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 …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/u-s-backed-sa…

‘Welcome to Typhoid Mary Middle School’: Why an Educator and Dad Thinks Reopening Our Schools Is a Non-Starter
Caleb Castaneda | commondreams.org | 2020-07-18
Children in an elementary school class wear masks and sit as desks spaced apart as per coronavirus guidelines during summer school sessions at Happy Day School in Monterey Park, California on July 9, 2020. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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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…

[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

COVID-19 spread accelerates across Europe as EU summit opens
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The back-to-work policy implemented by governments and trade unions across Europe since lock-downs ended in May is leading to a collapse of social distancing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/euro…

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…

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…

Build rank-and-file safety committees at every workplace to save lives!
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The number of COVID-19 infections is rising all across the US, and emergency action has to be taken.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/safe…

[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

[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

Destruction of full-time jobs intensifies in Australia
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
Governments and employers are working with the trade unions to exploit the COVID-19 catastrophe to accelerate the casualisation of the workforce.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/jobs…

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…
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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…

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…

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…

Armenia-Azerbaijan border clashes threaten broader war in Caucasus
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The fighting threatens to escalate into a direct clash between the two Caucasian republics’ main allies, Russia and Turkey.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/cauc…

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…

[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

EU Court Again Rules That NSA Spying Makes U.S. Companies Inadequate for Privacy
Danny O’Brien | commondreams.org | 2020-07-18
The message to the U.S. government is simple: Fix U.S. mass surveillance, or undermine one of the United States’ major industries. (Photo: Screenshot) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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American Airlines announces 25,000 job cuts
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The unions have not taken any action to fight for safety or defend jobs. Their only response has been to plead for another government bailout for the airlines.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/amal…

[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

#Anne Frank Parallel Stories: The young victim of the Nazis
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
#Anne Frank Parallel Stories is a documentary streaming on Netflix that retraces the life of Anne Frank, as well as five living women who survived the Nazi concentration camps in World War II.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/fran…

Silver Spooner Tells Out-of-Work Americans to “Find Something New”
Terry Everton | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-18
See ” Ivanka, White House Tells Out Of Work Americans To ‘Find Something New'”
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/silver-spoone…

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…

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…

Hawaii officials push unsafe reopening of schools despite outcry by educators and parents
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The reopening of the schools, along with the the lifting of travel restrictions in Hawaii, will greatly exacerbate the spread of the virus throughout the islands.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/hawa…

[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

[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

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…

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…

A grim week on federal death row: Three men sent to their deaths in Terre Haute, Indiana
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
Dustin Lee Honken was the third prisoner executed in five days after a 17-year de facto moratorium on the gruesome practice at the federal level.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/exec…

Neo-Nazi network in police covered up at highest levels of German state and politics
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The threats are intended to intimidate the widespread opposition to the right-wing policies of the grand coalition of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD).
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/terr…

Nearly 650,000 jobs lost in UK during pandemic, with much worse to come
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The collapse in the number of workers in employment takes place along with a drastic fall in hours for those remaining in a job, and a fall in wages.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/jouk…

‘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…

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/

The Birth of a Bill, the Death of an Activist
Fiona Roossien | commondreams.org | 2020-07-18
Regan Russell, the Toronto Pig Save activist who was killed by a truck carrying pigs to slaughter. (Photo: Agnes Cseke) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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German automaker Daimler plans fresh assault on jobs and conditions
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
In an interview with the Stuttgarter Zeitung, Daimler personnel manager Wilfried Porth threatened to increase the number of jobs to be shed at the auto company.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/daim…

[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

Liberal Zionism begins the Journey Towards a One-State Solution
Jonathan Cook | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-18
Peter Beinart, an influential liberal commentator on Israel and Zionism, poked a very large stick into a hornets’ nest this month by admitting he had finally abandoned his long-cherished commitment to a two-state solution. Variously described as the “pope of liberal Zionism” and a “bellwether for the American Jewish community”, Beinart broke ranks in two …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/liberal-zioni…

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 …
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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…
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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…
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Former police officer charged with murder after using chokehold on video
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-18
Initially charged with manslaughter and fired from the police department, the officer was recently hit with a murder charge after a new prosecutor reviewed the case.
nationofchange.org/2020/07/18/former-pol…

From preaching to the chickens to preaching to the angels
splcenter.org | 2020-07-18
News of the passing of Congressman John Lewis hit me hard. I have never met a more extraordinarily kind and generous man. He was a true testament to the goodness to be found in each of us. I never grew tired of hearing him tell his story.
splcenter.org/news/2020/07/18/preaching-…

WE Charity Scandal and NGOs’ Role in Imperialism
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-18
Once again the media focuses on salacious details rather than the big picture. While TV and newspapers have focused on the whiff of corruption surrounding the government’s $900 million contract with the WE Charity, some broader points have been ignored. Whatever the Trudeau and Morneau families have pocketed from WE, the deleterious impact that NGO …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/we-charity-sc…

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…

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…

Johnson’s return-to-work speech: UK ruling class opts for mass murder
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
Johnson’s homicidal plans to end home working and lift public transportation restrictions reveal a financial oligarchy hell-bent on driving millions back to work no matter what the cost in human life.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/john…

Raab’s attack on Corbyn fails to mention the real source behind alleged Russian interference in UK election
Tom Coburg | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
On 16 July, UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab recycled a story from the 2019 general election. During that election campaign, then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn publicised a leaked document on proposed UK-US trade which suggested privatisation of NHS services. | The timing of Raab’s recent intervention is interesting. It comes only days before the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is expected to publish its long delayed report on Russian i…
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2020/07/18/raab…

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…

Unsubmissive France leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon calls for massive French military build-up
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
Mélenchon’s criticism of the Macron administration is from the right: that it is not sufficiently aggressive in its pursuit of French imperialist interests.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/mele…

UK MPs submit early day motion on Assange
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The signatories have all either hitherto kept a criminal silence over Assange’s persecution, or, in the case of Corbyn, McDonnell, Abbott and Long-Bailey, found their voice only after losing leading positions in the Labour Party.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/assa…

Michigan teen sent to juvenile detention for failing to do her homework
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
Amid the chaotic transition to online learning during the pandemic, a teenage girl has been taken into criminal custody for “failure to submit any schoolwork.”
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/mich…

US pushes fabricated claims of Russian hacking of virus research
wsws.org | 2020-07-18
The United States is most nakedly pursuing a nationalistic course, aimed at enriching American oligarchs and deploying the vaccine not as a means to save lives, but as a weapon against countries in the crosshairs of US imperialism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/18/pers…

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…

Boris Johnson to reward people who backed Brexit with life peerages
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-07-18
Boris Johnson is to mark his first year in Downing Street by rewarding Brexit supporters with life peerages, it has been reported.Former England cricketer Ian Botham is among 30 new peers to be announced later this month, according to the Times. The list is also said to include four ex-Labour MPs — including Frank Field and Gisela Stuart — who both supported Brexit in the 2016 referendum.Botham publicly supported the Brexit campaign, appearing alongside Johnson before the referendum.Rewards and peace offerings: There will be peerages also for MPs and former Labour members Ian Austin and John Wood…
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The Heat: Israel’s annexation threat
Anand Naidoo | america.cgtn.com | 2020-07-18
Israel threatens to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. Will Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu follow through on his controversial plan?>…
america.cgtn.com/2020/07/18/the-heat-isr…

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.
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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…

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.
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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…

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.
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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…

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…

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…
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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.
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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…

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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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…

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…

ACLU Sues Trump Administration Over Use Of Secret Police In Portland
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon sued the Trump administration late Friday over its deployment of federal agents to Portland, where unidentified officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Marshals Service have been detaining Black Lives Matter protesters without explanation and using indiscriminate force to crush demonstrations. | “This is a fight to save our democracy,” Kelly Simon, interim legal director with the ACLU of Oregon, said in a statement. “Under the direction of the Trump administration, federal agents are terrorizing the community, risking lives, and bruta…
popularresistance.org/aclu-sues-trump-ad…

The East-Bound Wind Causes A Storm In The West
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
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, he told me that he believes that all this apprehension in the west about Iran, is actually rooted in apprehension about China. Arrighi thought that if there were any “mainstream” of world history, it ought to be located in the story of China, the only civilization tha…
popularresistance.org/the-east-bound-win…

World Mayors Call For Car-Free Streets And More
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
Mayors from some of the world’s major cities have unveiled their vision for how the world can recover from the coronavirus pandemic while encouraging environmental justice and fighting the climate crisis. | The C40 Mayors’ Agenda for a Green and Just Recovery, announced Wednesday, includes measures already being adopted in many cities to recover from the pandemic in a way that addresses inequalities and keeps global heating to the Paris agreement goal of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. As part of their vision, the mayors are calling on national governments to end all subsidies for the fossil fuel…
popularresistance.org/world-mayors-call-…

Hard Times: ‘It’s Like They’re Trying To Kill Us’
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
American prisoners are incarcerated for years, often decades, often a majority of his or her life. Many prisoners serving more than a couple years are transferred from one prison to another, often multiple times, throughout their sentences. For this story, I spoke to three long-term Alabama prisoners about their experiences being transferred to a different prison mid-sentence or waking up to learn their friends have been transferred — including in the middle of a pandemic — and tried to square them with official policy. | Linda Mays, Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) Communications Director, sa…
popularresistance.org/hard-times-its-lik…

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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Assange’s Father Speaks Out
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
Well we fight against the United Kingdom, Sweden, the United States, and to a certain extent Australia. They have marshaled all of their forces and broken every law in human rights and due process in order to send Julian to the United States and destroy him. | Before our eyes, we have watched the gradual murder of Julian through psychological torture, through ceaseless breaking of procedures and due process. So that is what we fight against. | During the latest hearing, the judge Barrett asked Julian to prove that he was unwell, that he didn’t come onto the video. So again, we see a process that we witness over a…
popularresistance.org/assanges-father-sp…

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…
popularresistance.org/cops-and-their-sup…

Portland Mayor Condemns Masked Federal Agents Abducting Protesters
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
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 racist police brutality. The move appears to be the Trump administration’s latest tactic to crush the nationwide protests that erupted in late May over the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis Police.
popularresistance.org/portland-mayor-con…

Trade Unionists Back Campaign To Free Assange
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
In Birmingham, Plymouth, and Newcastle trades councils have voted to join the campaign to halt the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States where he could face 175 years in jail. | In recent weeks the three metropolitan trades councils, which are attended by delegates from all the local unions, have voted overwhelmingly to support Assange. | Even in Plymouth where a similar motion was defeated last year the National Union of Journalists’ inspired resolution sailed through last week. | Both Birmingham and Plymouth meetings invited a speaker from the Don’t Extradite Assange campaign to a…
popularresistance.org/trade-unionists-ba…

We Reviewed Police Tactics Seen In Nearly 400 Protest Videos
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
As protests denouncing police brutality against unarmed Black people spread to thousands of cities, it was videos of police violence — this time, directed at protesters — that went viral. Clips showed officers launching tear gas canisters at protesters’ heads, shooting pepper spray from moving vehicles and firing foam bullets into crowds. | ProPublica looked at nearly 400 social media posts showing police responses to protesters and found troubling conduct by officers in at least 184 of them. In 59 videos, pepper spray and tear gas were used improperly; in a dozen others, officers used batons to strik…
popularresistance.org/we-reviewed-police…

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…
popularresistance.org/artists-install-an…

Oregon Sues Federal Agencies Over Protest Enforcement
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
The Oregon Department of Justice is suing several federal agencies for civil rights abuses, and state prosecutors will potentially pursue criminal charges against a federal officer who seriously injured a protester. | The federal lawsuit names the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service, the United States Customs and Border Protection and the Federal Protective Service, agencies that have had a role in stepped-up force used against protesters since early July. The state filed the lawsuit late Friday night. | It lists defendants specifically as John Does 1-10 because the “identity of the of…
popularresistance.org/oregon-sues-federa…

The Post Office Belongs To The Public
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-18
On June 15, Louis DeJoy of Greensboro, N.C., began his new job as Postmaster General of the United States. | We are postal worker union activists who also hail from Greensboro (and are now American Postal Workers Union president and solidarity representative, respectively). For decades we have defended the interests of the public Postal Service and postal workers, and we bring a much different perspective than that of multi-millionaire businessman DeJoy. We are concerned that DeJoy, a mega-donor to Republican Party causes and to President Trump, has been tapped to carry out the administration’s agenda.
popularresistance.org/the-post-office-be…

‘Jesus matters!’ WATCH Christian activist dump paint on de Blasio’s ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural in New York
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Police dragged away Christian activist Bevelyn Beatty after she dumped a tin of paint on the ‘Black Lives Matter’ mural on New York’s Fifth Avenue. All week, activists have been dropping paint on the controversial mural. | Beatty is a black, conservative, Christian activist, and is no stranger to controversy. She’s taken to the streets in Seattle to blast protesters and supporters of Joe Biden, she’s been handcuffed for protesting outside Planned Parenthood in New York, and arrested for…
rt.com/usa/495194-black-lives-matter-pai…

Four German soldiers probed for links to Turkey’s shadowy ultranationalist Grey Wolves group — media
rt.com | 2020-07-18
The German army’s counterintelligence service, MAD, is investigating four suspected followers of the Grey Wolves, a far-right, pan-Turkist youth organization the members of which were allegedly trained for urban guerilla warfare both at home and abroad. That’s according to Germany’s ARD broadcaster, citing a confidential government response to a parliamentary request filed by the Left Party. | The document also reportedly discussed the supposed ties between the Grey Wolves’ German branch…
rt.com/newsline/495177-german-soldiers-t…

London police threaten RAVE RAIDS after officers attacked at illegal block party in Hackney (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-18
London’s Metropolitan Police have warned would-be ravers that officers will be deployed to shut down illegal music events across the city. The threat comes after officers were attacked at an illegal block party in Hackney. | “I urge anyone considering attending an event like this to re-think their plans,” Deputy Assistant Commissioner Lucy D’Orsi warned on Saturday. “Officers will be out across London, closing these events down, and they will arrest anyone suspected of criminal offenses.” | Gatherings of more than six people are still banned in the UK, but it was one particular noise complaint that prompted D’…
rt.com/uk/495176-police-raid-rave-hackne…

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…
rt.com/usa/495138-portland-border-patrol…

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…
rt.com/usa/495163-nakeder-portland-polic…

Russian & Azerbaijani defense ministers talk on the phone amid Baku’s tensions with Armenia
rt.com | 2020-07-18
Russia’s defense minister Sergey Shoigu and his Azeri counterpart Zakir Hasanov have discussed the situation in the Southern Caucasus during a phone call, Russia’s Ministry of Defense has said. | The talks come after almost a week of border clashes between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which have left more than a dozen dead on both sides, according to various estimates. Moscow had earlier offered to become a mediator in peace talks between the two former Soviet republics. | Relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia have remained tense since the early 1990s, when Nagorno-Karabakh, a large Armenian-populated enclave in…
rt.com/newsline/495169-russia-azerbaijan…

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. | …
rt.com/usa/495136-trump-niece-book-broke…