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Black Lives Matter Chicago Sues to Prevent Occupation by Trump’s Paramilitaries
Marjorie Cohn | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
Taking a page from Hitler’s Brownshirts, Donald Trump is sending his secret paramilitary forces into U.S. cities to terrorize the population…
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Sweden: The One Chart that Matters
Mike Whitney | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
While the Covid-19 epidemic continues to drag on in the United States, it’s largely over in Sweden where fatalities have dropped to no more than 2 deaths per day for the last week. Sweden has been harshly criticized in the …
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How Vietnam’s socialist approach is winning the battle against COVID-19
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-26
Vietnam, with a population of 100 million people, has not recorded a single death from COVID-19. There has not been a single local case of the virus in the last three months.
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Single Mothers and Their Children Are Taking Over Abandoned Public Buildings
Mindy Isser | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
The purpose of the encampments is to house people, but to also create a space where “they are treated with dignity, like they have the right to exist.”
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Tire workers report Kumho’s COVID-19 safety lapses
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-26
Macon, GA – Workers at Kumho Tire in Macon alerted health officials July 20 to rampant COVID-19 safety failures in their workplace. | The workers, who voted to join the United Steelworkers (USW) despite Kumho’s repeated efforts to thwart the election, expressed both the fear that they are unprotected from contracting the coronavirus at the tire plant and their concern that the lack of precautions could put the wider community at risk. | They addressed the Macon-Bibb County Board of Health during a public meeting conducted by telephone because of the pandemic. | The workers said Kumho failed to adequately distribu…
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Minneapolis protests Trump’s repression in Portland
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-26
Minneapolis, MN – Over 600 people rallied and marched here, July 23, at the “Portland to Minneapolis: Protest Trump’s Goons Attacking Our Movement,” called by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar (TCC4J.) | On July 20, Trump announced plans to send the Department of Homeland Security to cities across the U.S. Agents in military fatigues were deployed in Portland, grabbing demonstrators off the street, detaining them in unmarked cars and attacking protesters. Homeland Security agents were also sent to Washington, DC and Seattle. 150 federal agents are headed to Chicago, and there are reports that 2000 mor…
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Hundreds protest in Chicago against police abuses and demand the defunding of police
Don Gross | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-26
The action occurred on the four-year anniversary of the original occupation of Freedom Square in 2016. The…
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Video: The Real Virus Plaguing Humanity. The Numbers of Corona Deaths are Being Skewed. Dr. Annie Bukacek
Dr. Annie Bukacek | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests are not scientifically suited for “COVID-19” diagnostic purposes. (1) | Governments and media, however, are using results from these tests, and manipulating results from these tests, to create fear and to drive hidden agendas. | We have …
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Hundreds stand with Black youth and against racism in Shoreline, Wa
Jane Cutter | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-26
The protest was organized in response to an incident in which a 13-year-old BLM activist was threatened with lynching.
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It’s Futile…. We’re Feudal! “The Super Rich Own the Two Party / One Party System”. Social Inequality in America
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
As of a year ago Wal-Mart’s CEO pay was 1076 times that of their average worker worldwide (2.3 million employees). Those workers average $21,952 a year, with little or NO major benefits… sometimes NONE at all! The Nike CEO received …
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Remembering Congressman John Lewis in Photos
splcenter.org | 2020-07-26
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Revisions on China: Abandoning the Nixon Legacy, Pompeo the Puffed-up Hawk
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
There is little doubt about it. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the puffed-up hawk of the Trump administration, talons at the ready, beak protruding. While the president coos at the prospect of seeing, or admiring, the next strongman …
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Haydée y Melba: Las mujeres del Moncada
Granma | peoplesworld.org | 2020-07-26
´Con un ojo humano ensangrentado en las manos se presentaron un sargento y varios hombres en el calabozo donde se encontraban Melba Hernández y Haydée Santamaría. Dirigiéndose a la última, y mostrándole el ojo, le dijeron: “Este es de tu hermano, si tú no dices lo que él no quiso decir, le arrancaremos el otro”. …
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The state’s use of technology: An issue for the movement
Ben Carroll | workers.org | 2020-07-26
Data are everywhere. In 2020, technology is a ubiquitous part of everyday life for many workers in this country and around the world. We use social media and email to keep in touch with family and friends. We watch livestreams of events and activities that take place across the globe. . . . | Continue reading The state’s use of technology: An issue for the movement at Workers.org
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Hungarian media workers protest bid to weaken press freedom
Peoples Dispatch | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-26
Protests took place in Budapest after the editor-in-chief of the news portal Index.hu was fired. Many journalists resigned in the aftermath. A businessman close to PM Viktor Orban had earlier gained a stake in the portal…
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Iran faces twin challenges of COVID-19 and American sanctions
Abdul Rahman | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-26
The worst hit country in West Asia, Iran has had a tough time coping with the pandemic amid US sanctions. It has resorted to strengthening links with countries such as Russia and China towards this end…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/26/iran-face…

Questions Swirl Around Portland Police’s Coordination With Federal Officers
Arun Gupta | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
The Portland police have been cagey about how they work with the feds. Deputy Chief Chris Davis has said Portland police offered “suggestions” to the federal forces and coordinated efforts with them.
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Trump Is Daring Us to Stop Him
Sonali Kolhatkar | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
Trump’s deployment of federal officers to Democratic-run cities is extreme even for him…
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Minneapolis protests Trump’s repression in Portland
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-26
Minneapolis, MN – Over 600 people rallied and marched here, July 23, at the “Portland to Minneapolis: Protest Trump’s Goons Attacking Our Movement,” called by the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar (TCC4J.) | On July 20, Trump announced plans to send the Department of Homeland Security to cities across the U.S. Agents in military fatigues were deployed in Portland, grabbing demonstrators off the street, detaining them in unmarked cars and attacking protesters. Homeland Security agents were also sent to Washington, DC and Seattle. 150 federal agents are headed to Chicago, and there are reports that 2000 mor…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/25/minneapo…

Tire workers report Kumho’s COVID-19 safety lapses
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-26
Macon, GA – Workers at Kumho Tire in Macon alerted health officials July 20 to rampant COVID-19 safety failures in their workplace. | The workers, who voted to join the United Steelworkers (USW) despite Kumho’s repeated efforts to thwart the election, expressed both the fear that they are unprotected from contracting the coronavirus at the tire plant and their concern that the lack of precautions could put the wider community at risk. | They addressed the Macon-Bibb County Board of Health during a public meeting conducted by telephone because of the pandemic. | The workers said Kumho failed to adequately distribu…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/25/tire-wor…

What Should We Do With Racist Sports Team Owners?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
Call Them Out Relentlessly…
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Saying goodbye to Congressman John Lewis
splcenter.org | 2020-07-26
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Need Money for a Green New Deal? Get It From ICE
Josue De Luna Navarro | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
An ICE agent in Salem, Ohio on June 19, 2018. Image courtesy U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. (Photo: Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Eclipsed Race and Class? Calling AOC a ‘B*tch’ Is Not Just About Sexism
Nafisa Tanjeem | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wears a face mask to protect herself from the coronavirus during a press conference in the Corona neighborhood of Queens on April 14, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Fed Guarantees Unproductive Debt and Perilous Speculation
Ralph Nader | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
President Donald Trump waves after introducing his then-nominee for the chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell during a press event in the Rose Garden at the White House, November 2, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Anti-Armenian Foreign Policy of Armenian Nationalists
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
On July 23, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan presented Yerevan’s position on the tension on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and the process of peaceful settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. | “The co-chairs countries of the OSCE Minsk group have made a great | …
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Video: NATO 2020: A Coalition of the Unwilling
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
The problem with alliances is that they ultimately either become victims of their own success, or cannot figure out what to do with themselves once the original rationale disappears. The original Cold War-era NATO was a relatively cohesive entity led …
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On Contact: Paying The Land
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to comics journalist Joe Sacco about his new book, ‘Paying the Land’. In the book Sacco travels to the frozen Canadian Northwest Territories to reveal the Dene people in conflict over the costs and benefits of the resource extraction industry and development. | The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of being.
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The Real Collusion Scandal of the 2016 Campaign
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-26
Tim GRAHAM | Four years ago this week, the leftists at WikiLeaks tried to ruin the Democratic convention by posting a trove of emails exposing how the Democratic National Committee blatantly favored Hillary Clinton and tilted against Bernie Sanders. But even then, the media downplayed the juiciest tidbits for conservatives: emails in Clinton aide John Podesta’s account that demonstrated how shamelessly reporters and Democrats work hand in hand to shape the “news”. — Some might even say it sounds fake. For example: | 1. ABC’s George Stephanopoulos harshly interviewed “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer on h…
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Adams Meets Johnstone — The Monsters Are at Home Now
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-26
In his long career John Quincy Adams was President, served in both houses of Congress, was nominated for the Supreme Court, was Secretary of State and U.S. ambassador to many of the great powers of the day. An unequaled record and one very hard to imagine ever being duplicated. He was a proud believer in his country, its constitution and its stated ideals. He had two great fears for his country. | A convinced opponent of slavery, he foresaw no way it could be ended but by the decree of a commander-in-chief during a civil war. A decree th…
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What could be wrong with a fiscal deficit?
Prabhat Patnaik | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-26
If wealth inequality is to be prevented from becoming worse than the horrendous level it has already attained, then the only way this can be done is by larger government spending that is financed by a tax on the rich, either a profit tax or a wealth tax…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/26/what-coul…

Lessons from the Amazon Tax Victory in Seattle
Jonathan Rosenblum | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
Pressed by a relentless working class movement, the Seattle City Council on July 6 adopted a first-time-ever tax on Amazon and other big businesses that will bring in at least $214 million a year to fund affordable housing…
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Decriminalize Fare Evasion
Kayla Soren | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
You don’t go to jail for missing a highway toll. It shouldn’t be any different on transit.
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The Global Elite’s Coup Against Humanity. Fear and “Submissive Obedience”
Robert J. Burrowes | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
Any serious study of the relevant scholarly literature reveals at least four possible paths to “human extinction”: nuclear war, the climate catastrophe, the deployment of 5G and biodiversity collapse. | Moreover, as I have documented previously, under cover of a virus …
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“The Russia Did It” Coverup. The Russian and Chinese Vaccines
R. A. Jones | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
The sheer magnitude of what is supposed to be news from so-called “prestigious” outlets–whether the New York Times, Washington Post, or even Reuters–or the lack thereof falling short of nothing but pure apolitical blasphemy of Russian conspiracies menacing the United | …
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Boogaloo Movement: USA Far Right Is Growing, Thanks to Donald Trump
Robert Fantina | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-26
As of this writing, the United States is rocked with civil unrest due to racism and police violence, and the country continues to break records for the most cases of coronavirus [the data are skewed]. The unstable and unhinged president …
globalresearch.ca/boogaloo-movement-usa-…

People want a greener, happier world now
George Monbiot | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
Our politicians have other ideas…
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Record harvest, record stocks: Yet, why are India’s people hungry?
Subodh Varma | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-26
It is beyond belief and understanding why the Indian government led by prime minister Narendra Modi is refusing to distribute the mountain of food grain stocks sitting in its warehouses…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/26/record-ha…

Current and Future American Policing
Gene Glickman | zcomm.org | 2020-07-26
“There’ll Be Some Changes Made”:…
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Spain’s coronavirus epidemic is under control, government says
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Spain’s coronavirus epidemic is under control, the foreign ministry said on Sunday, after the British government imposed a 14-day quarantine on all travellers returning from the Mediterranean country in response to a surge in new cases there.Hospitals are coping well with the increase in infections and more than half of new cases are asymptomatic, the ministry said, adding that outbreaks in Catalonia and Aragon should soon be brought under control.
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US Reportedly Ramping Up Pressure on European Contractors to Stop Nord Stream 2
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-26
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The United States has stepped up pressure on European contractors in order to make them abandon the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 pipeline project, Die Welt reported, citing informed sources.
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The ADA at Thirty—Hooray in Part
Mike Ervin | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
“Today, inclusion has become the cultural default position. That’s an enormous change. Everyone expects public transportation to be accessible for disabled people, and it is considered surprising if it’s not.” (Photo: Elvert Barnes/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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With Just 100 Days Left Until the Election, New Polls Signal Americans Are Disappointed in Trump
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
“Our country is in crisis… And Trump is unable to govern at even the most elementary level.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Remembering the Bonus Army Protest of 1932
Gary Olson | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
A recipient carries a box of food as others wait in line at a Food Bank distribution for those in need as the coronavirus pandemic continues on April 9, 2020 in Van Nuys, California. (Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Single Mothers and Their Children Are Taking Over Abandoned Public Buildings
Mindy Isser | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
A homeless encampment nestled in a park at 22nd Street and The Benjamen Franklin Park Way brings to light the need for housing, healthcare, food security, and community, connecting them to the defund the police and Black Lives Matter movements in Philadelphia on July 5, 2020. (Photo: Cory Clark/NurPhoto via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Casket of Rep. John Lewis Carried Across Edmund Pettus Bridge 55 Years After Selma’s Bloody Sunday
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
“An incredibly moving and fitting tribute for John Lewis, a man who carried the baton of justice until the very end.” | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Federal Crackdown in Portland Provokes Solidarity Protests Across the Country
Jessica Corbett, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
“This is my first protest,” said a 45-year-old woman who joined the “Wall of Moms” at a Saturday demonstration in Seattle. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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The Next Election Is About the Next 10,000 Years
Bill McKibben | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
A home burns as the River Fire, part of the Mendocino Complex, moves through the area on July 31, 2018 in Lakeport, California. (Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Donald Trump’s Misguided Attacks on WHO
César Chelala | commondreams.org | 2020-07-26
“For President Donald Trump to withdraw support of the WHO at a critical time in the world’s history, when a pandemic of enormous proportions is threatening the survival of millions of people, is unethical.” (Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
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Netanyahu Says Won’t Allow Iran’s Military to Establish Itself Along Israeli Border
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-26
Earlier this week, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a statement that the country’s armed forces were stepping up security measures on the northern border on the heels of an escalation unfolding on the frontier with Lebanon and Syria.
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NYC rallies to defend Portland
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-26
New York, NY – Over 40 people gathered in Union Square in New York City, July 24, to stand in solidarity with Portland against the recent targeting of activists there. The action was called in response to viral videos of protesters in Portland being picked up by unmarked vans and brought to undisclosed locations, all just for speaking out against racist violence. | The action was called by the Workers World Party and included speakers from New York Community Action Project, Code Pink, Peoples Power Assemblies, Veterans for Peace, A Call to Action on Puerto Rico, and The Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum. | The speeches…
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NYC rallies to defend Portland
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-26
New York, NY – Over 40 people gathered in Union Square in New York City, July 24, to stand in solidarity with Portland against the recent targeting of activists there. The action was called in response to viral videos of protesters in Portland being picked up by unmarked vans and brought to undisclosed locations, all just for speaking out against racist violence. | The action was called by the Workers World Party and included speakers from New York Community Action Project, Code Pink, Peoples Power Assemblies, Veterans for Peace, A Call to Action on Puerto Rico, and The Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum. | The speeches…
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Germany’s confirmed coronavirus cases rise by 305 to 205,269
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 305 to 205,269, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday.The reported death toll was unchanged with 9,118, the tally showed.
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Education ‘key in recognition, justice for Srebrenica’
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
The most important thing to receive recognition and justice for Srebrenica is to educate people about the genocide, and Bosnian history in general, according to a Balkans expert.On July 11, 1995, one of the world’s most horrific genocides took place in the heart of Europe.As the world remembered Srebrenica genocide on its 25th anniversary on July 11, scholars and genocide survivors discussed what is to be done this year to help survivors find justice.- Relevant education on genocide is keyBosnian Muslims are still burying bodies that are uncovered from mass graves, and they still await justice.The most significan…
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Erdogan: Turkish intelligence conducts global-scale operations
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
“Turkish Intelligence Organization conducts works on areas of cryptology, cyber, satellite, signal intelligence all around the world,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the opening ceremony of a new service building of MIT in Istanbul.”The activity capacity of terrorist organizations in Istanbul declined considerably thanks to the close cooperation between the organization and other security institutions,” he added.Erdogan also stressed that MIT has so far ensured repatriation of over 100 members of Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) to Turkey.FETO and its US-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup…
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Civilian killed in Syria’s Idlib by regime forces
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
At least one civilian was killed in a mortar attack by Assad regime forces in the de-escalation zone in Idlib, northwestern Syria, a civil defense group said Sunday.Two others were also injured in the attacks targeting Ein Laruz village, the White Helmets said.Idlib falls within a de-escalation zone forged under an agreement between Turkey and Russia.The area, lying along Turkey’s southern border, has been the subject of multiple cease-fire understandings, which have frequently been violated by the Assad regime and its allies.The influx of displaced civilians has increased its population to about four million in…
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Russia reports 5,765 new coronavirus cases in past 24 hours
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Russia on Sunday reported 5,765 new coronavirus cases and 77 more deaths, a steep decline from the 146 deaths reported a day earlier.The nationwide tally of infections has risen to 812,485, Russia’s coronavirus crisis response centre said. The COVID-19 death toll now stands at 13,269 and 600,250 people have recovered.
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Turkey urges end to provocations over burning of its flag in Greece
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Turkey on Sunday called on an end to provocations such as burning of Turkish flag in Greece over reversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque, and also “strongly” condemned the act, according to the National Defense Ministry.”We strongly condemn and curse the burning of Turkish flag in Greece’s Thessaloniki,” the ministry said on Twitter. | “We warn that such and similar provocations and harassments be terminated immediately,” it said, adding: “Dirty hands reaching to our glorious flag will be broken.” | A group of far-right Greek extremists burned Turkish flags late Friday in Thessaloniki to protest the reopening of t…
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Prince Harry took offence at brother’s advice, says book
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Britain’s Prince Harry took offence at what he thought was Prince William’s “snobbishness” when he advised his brother to “take as much time as you need to get to know this girl” when he was dating Meghan Markle, a new book says.Harry and his wife, Meghan, have distanced themselves from the book called “Finding Freedom”, saying they were not interviewed for the biography being serialised by The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers and made no contributions to it.The book documents, citing sources, a time when Harry and Meghan were dating and William wanted to make sure the American actress had the right intentio…
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Turkish relief group to help needy in 26 countries during Eid al-Adha
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Turkey’s charity association will help nearly 1 million underprivileged residents in 26 countries, many under lockdown, during the Muslim Eid al-Adha celebrations set to begin on July 31.The Feast of the Sacrifice festival will be celebrated July 31 to Aug. 3 in Turkey.The Yardimeli International Humanitarian Aid Agency will help the needy ahead of the holiday.The head of organization’s board Sadik Danisman told Anadolu Agency the group is making efforts to reach 700,000 across the globe.The animal slaughter and distribution of meat will be carried out in 53 different regions in 26 countries, he said.”We went thr…
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Qatar emir meets US military chief in Doha
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani held talks on Sunday in Doha with General Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.The talks dwelt on strategic cooperation between Qatar and the US, particularly in the defense, military and security fields, the Amiri Diwan, the emir’s office, said in a statement.The two sides also discussed regional developments and joint efforts to enhance security and stability of the region, the statement said.Qatar hosts some 13,000 US troops in al-Udeid Airbase, 30 km southwest of Doha. The base is used as a central command for operations against the Daesh/ISIS terr…
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Twenty-four Rohingya feared drowned off Malaysian resort island
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Muslim-majority Malaysia has long been a favoured destination for Rohingya Muslims seeking a better life after escaping a 2017 military crackdown in Myanmar and, more recently, refugee camps in Bangladesh.Malaysia’s coastguard said 25 people had tried to swim to shore late on Saturday when their boat was near the west coast of the island but only one reached land.Two boats and one aircraft were sent out on Sunday to scour an area of more than 100 square nautical miles, according to Mohd Zawawi Abdullah, provincial director for the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency.”We have relayed information to other rescue…
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News of Kuwait emir’s health ‘very reassuring’, parliament speaker says
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
News about the health of the Emir of Kuwait, who is in the United States for medical treatment, is “very reassuring”, parliament speaker Marzouq al-Ghanim said on Sunday in a statement carried on the parliamentary Twitter account.Kuwait’s 91-year-old ruler, Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah arrived in the United States on Thursday to complete medical treatment following surgery for an unspecified condition in Kuwait.
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Putin says Russian Navy to get hypersonic nuclear strike weapons
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday the Russian Navy would be armed with hypersonic nuclear strike weapons and underwater nuclear drones, which the defence ministry said were in their final phase of testing.Putin, who says he does not want an arms race, has often spoken of a new generation of Russian nuclear weapons that he says are unequalled and can hit almost anywhere in the world. Some Western experts have questioned how advanced they are.The weapons, some of which have yet to be deployed, include the Poseidon underwater nuclear drone, designed to be carried by submarines, and the Tsirkon (Zircon)…
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Governments should protect residents’ data on digital platforms
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
It is inadvisable to trust a social media platform completely and governments should protect residents’ data on digital platforms, according to a digital communications expert.Ensuring personal security is one of the primary duties of states, said Nabat Garakhanova, the head of the MEZO Digital consultancy firm.In the first six months of the year, 16 billion personal data records were leaked in many sectors, such as accommodation and health care.According to researchers, only 8.4 billion data records were leaked in the first three months of 2020, and 4.1 billion in the first half of 2019, she told Anadolu Agency…
yenisafak.com/en/news/governments-should…

Pakistani viewers glued to screens in live broadcast of Hagia Sophia Mosque reopening
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Pakistanis watched live on their television screens the reopening of Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul as the country’s news channels dedicated a large portion of their broadcast time to the historic event.Channels like ARY News, GNN News, 24 News and Samaa TV, among others, prepared special programs for Hagia Sophia’s mosque reversion, with before and after broadcast panels to cover the event.The Pakistani broadcast from Istanbul, including the Friday sermon of the head of Turkey’s religious affairs, was simultaneously translated into English, which was received with jubilation and interest from Pakistani au…
yenisafak.com/en/world/pakistani-viewers…

COVID-19 cases in Africa top 828,000
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
The number of coronavirus cases in Africa reached 828,214 on Sunday, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).At least 17,509 more people died of the virus across 54 countries in the continent, the Africa CDC said in its daily update.Recoveries in the continent have reached 484,038.Southern Africa is the worst-hit region with 452,000 infections, while North Africa recorded 147,500 cases, West Africa 118,400, East Africa 65,000, and Central Africa 45,300.As for the death toll, Southern Africa suffered 7,000 fatalities, North Africa 6,300, West Africa 1,800, East Africa 1,500, and Ce…
yenisafak.com/en/world/covid-19-cases-in…

Interior minister to form new government in Tunisia
yenisafak.com | 2020-07-26
Tunisia’s Interior Minister Hisham El-Mechishi will form the country’s government, the official news agency announced Saturday.Tunisian President Kais Saied appointed el-Mechishi to form the government, according to the Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP).Having no attachments to a political party, el-Mechishi was not nominated for the prime minister’s seat by any party.El-Mechishi was born in 1974 and was appointed to his post as interior minister in February. He holds a doctorate in political science and law, and completed his master’s degree in France.Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh submitted his resignation to the pres…
yenisafak.com/en/news/interior-minister-…

Transparency International Silent On Jailed Transparency Journalist Assange
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
Berlin, Germany – On a cool July day, the Berlin neighborhood where Transparency International’s global headquarters is situated feels a thousand miles away from London’s Belmarsh Prison. But it is not just the pleasant setting a few blocks from the Spree River that makes the influential NGO seem so detached from the maximum security penitentiary’s most famous inmate, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. | Transparency International has been vocal in defending jailed opposition activists in states like Zimbabwe, Russia, and Venezuela.
popularresistance.org/transparency-inter…

Anti-China Hysteria Drives Record 2021 US Defense Spending
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
Anti-China hysteria has emerged as the central ‘threat’ designed to justify endless U.S. military spending and adventurism in the Asia-Pacific. | The 2021 Department of Defense spending bill has become contested terrain for a progressive wing of Democrats seeking to curtail endless military spending and a Republican-led bipartisan coalition focused on increasing spending to “stay competitive” with ostensible threats from Russia and China. | On July 21, the House passed its version of the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with an increase in stipulated defense spending from 2020’s $658 bi…
popularresistance.org/anti-china-hysteri…

Wall Of Vets, Grandparents Support Black Lives Matter Movement
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
Portland, Ore. — The protests have drawn people from all walks of life, and on Friday night, veterans from all over showed up downtown to create a “Wall of Vets” to protect protesters. | And they showed up in white shirts to support the Black Lives Matter movement. | “It’s something I believe in. The other vets here — this is the first time they’ve come down; they don’t like crowds either; we believe in something; it’s time to stand,” said Jonathan Fisher, a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. | Veterans responded after the Navy veteran, Chris David, seen on video being beaten by federal officers, called for…
popularresistance.org/wall-of-vets-grand…

South China Sea Provocations And Meeting China Halfway
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
In the words of (ret.) Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, Secretary of Defense Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff, the Trump Administration has been dangerously “poking China in the eye.” | After sending aircraft carriers and destroyers to the precincts of the Taiwan Strait, last week the Pentagon dispatched two aircraft carrier strike groups — including escort cruisers and destroyers, 120 warplanes and 12,000 troops — to South China Sea waters claimed by China. China responded by deploying fighter jets to its near-by base on Woody Island and reminding the world of its anti-aircraft carrier missile capabilities.
popularresistance.org/south-china-sea-pr…

Police Budgets Are Ballooning As Social Programs Crumble
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
Faced with mass teacher layoffs, deep cuts to education and social services, and a looming eviction crisis, police budgets across the nation remain absurdly high and have been largely insulated from Covid-induced belt-tightening. Worse yet, a number cities have opted to increase police budgets, claiming the funds are needed to pay for reforms. This is despite the fact that racial justice protesters across the country are clearly calling for the defunding of police–a demand that stems from abolitionist principles. Budget cuts are seen as part of a process of dismantling prisons and policing while investing i…
popularresistance.org/police-budgets-are…

400,000 Marylanders Face Eviction As COVID-19 Spikes
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
After weeks of declining COVID-19 cases, Maryland is experiencing rising hospitalization and positivity rates, especially among those 35 years of age and under. | The number of COVID-positive patients at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore doubled overnight from July 20 to July 21, according to two nurses who help treat patients recovering from the coronavirus at the hospital, which is helping lead the international response to the pandemic. | The hospital had to transfer non-COVID patients from one unit in order to accommodate the influx of new cases, the nurses said, speaking on the condition of anonymity becau…
popularresistance.org/400000-marylanders…

Popular Movements Can Overcome Authoritarian Policing
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
Today is the 60th day of protests since the murder of George Floyd. This weekend, people marched in cities across the country in solidarity with Portland and in opposition to the US becoming a police state. | President Trump sending troops to cities added fuel to the nationwide uprising against racist police violence. Protests have grown not only in Portland but in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Omaha, Austin, Oakland, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, DC, among other cities. | Trump is not a ‘law and order’ president, he is a chaos and disorder president.
popularresistance.org/popular-movements-…

Julian Assange’s Next Hearing On Monday, July 27
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
WikiLeaks Editor-in-Chief Kristinn Hrafnsson said “Julian has not been able to see his lawyers for seventeen weeks. The computer supplied to him after over a year of asking has its keys glued down and the typing function is disabled. The case material consists of tens of thousands of pages, and Julian cannot even type up notes or instructions for his lawyers. Each and every step of the way, the tools Julian should have to be able to put up a fight are being taken away from him. I call on UK prisons minister Robert Buckland to take every step necessary to reverse restrictions that are preventing Julian from being…
popularresistance.org/julians-next-heari…

The Arts And Symbolism In Mexico’s Feminist Movement
_____ | popularresistance.org | 2020-07-26
Last August, during a press conference with Mexico City’s police chief, a group of young women were seen breaking windows and throwing pink glitter in the police chief’s face. This was to demand justice for a teenager allegedly raped by four police officers. The episode sparked what became known as the glitter revolution, a new wave of feminist activism in Mexico with connections to other feminist collectives worldwide. | Feminism in Mexico has many internal strands ranging from what some may consider “radical” tactics (such as vandalism) to peaceful demonstrations.
popularresistance.org/the-arts-and-symbo…

Fall of the Ancient Maya: Top Five Reasons That May Have Led to the Demise of Ancient Civilisation
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-26
The sophisticated civilisation inhabited the area in what is now known as southeastern Mexico, all of Belize and Guatemala and western parts of Honduras and El Salvador from the 2nd century BC until 1697 AD when the last city, Nojpetén, surrendered during the Spanish conquest of the region.
sputniknews.com/science/2020072610799867…

Bye Dollar, Buy Gold? US Political Instability Sways Investors Toward Precious Metal, Analyst Says
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-26
The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic has sent global markets into tailspin leaving only a small area of safe havens for investors. And this time it appears dollar assets are not among their top picks.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202007261079986…

What Does America Want by Intensifying Confrontation With China?
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-26
According to experts interviewed by Sputnik, neutralising China’s competitive advantages, curbing the growth of its influence in the world, making concessions in trade negotiations, and tackling the challenges of the presidential election campaign are the main motives for a new round of confrontation with China provoked by the US.
sputniknews.com/analysis/202007261079987…

Grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau Wants to Build Underwater Version of International Space Station
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-26
Fabien attempts to continue his family tradition. In the 1960s, Jacques-Yves Cousteau built underwater villages as part of the Conshelf projects, aimed at creating an environment where explorers could live and work. Back then, Aquanauts lived at a depth of 36 feet (almost 11 meters) for two weeks in the Red Sea.
sputniknews.com/science/2020072610799877…

FM Zarif to address online lecture on Mon
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to deliver a speech at an online lecture titled ‘The World in Transition’, which is planned to be held via a live Instagram on Monday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161472/FM-Zarif-to-…

Iraq’s PMU, army launch anti-ISIL operation in Diyala Prov
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Hashd al-Sha’abi and Iraqi army launched a large-scale anti-terrorist operation in Diyala Province, east of Iraq.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161463/Iraq-s-PMU-a…

Nation’s sagacity, guarantor of foiling enemy’s plots
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Sun. issued a statement on the anniversary of Operation Mersad, underscoring that the wisdom and vigilance of the noble nation of Iran guarantee the failure of enemys’ plots.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161483/Nation-s-sag…

Envoy urges US to ponder Iran’s positions on regional issues
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Iran’s special envoy for Afghanistan Mohammad Ebrahim Taherianfard advised US officials to carefully study Iran’s positions before commenting on the views of Iranian officials on regional issues.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161468/Envoy-urges-…

WAIA issues statement on reopening Hagia Sophia Mosque
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — The Secretariat of World Assembly of Islamic Awakening (WAIA) issued a statement, calling the reopening of Hagia Sophia Mosque in Turkey after 86 years as a courageous step taken in return of Islamic heritage to Islamic World.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161466/WAIA-issues-…

New, outgoing ambassadors meet with Iran FM
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Outgoing Ecuadorian, Slovakian, and Norwegian ambassadors and the new Spanish and Portuguese envoys met and held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161479/New-outgoing…

2 Afghan police forces killed in Helmand Provin
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Two members of the Afghan local police were killed in a bomb blast in Helmand province on Sunday.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161481/2-Afghan-pol…

UK media reveals Pompeo’s role in assassinating Iran Gen
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — UK-based The Guardian newspaper in an editorial revealed the role of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in assassinating former IRGC Quds Force Commander Martyr Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161482/UK-media-rev…

US federal agents fire tear gas on peaceful protesters
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — US federal troops have used tear gas and flash-bang grenades against Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, on the 59th consecutive day of unrest in the city.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161464/US-federal-a…

KTAI corridor launched to connect Iran to central Asia
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — According to IRICA Director of Transit Bureau, Iran has sent two cargoes from Shahid Rajaee Port in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas to Kyrgyzstan through Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Iran (KTAI) corridor.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161477/KTAI-corrido…

VIDEO: Fire rips through boats in New York
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Several boats caught fire at Evers Marina in the Bronx in New York, the US, on Saturday morning. The footage shows the flames engulfing at least four boats. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161462/VIDEO-Fire-r…

Iran steel production on positive track despite pandemic
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — According to the World Steel Association recent release, ‘June 2020 crude steel production’, Iran’s steel production has grown by 10.2 percent.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161475/Iran-steel-p…

Zionist regime’s fighter jets violate Lebanese airspace
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — The Zionist Regime’s fighter jets have flown over southern Lebanon on Sunday, according to the sources.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161474/Zionist-regi…

Iran’s export to Eurasia increased by 17 percent
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 27 (MNA) — Head of Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) Hamid Zadboum said that Iran’s total exports to Eurasia has increased 17% compared to the same period last year.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161478/Iran-s-expor…

Taremi among three top scorers of Portugal’s league
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Iranian international striker Mehdi Taremi finished the season of Primeira Liga with 18 goals, standing among the top three scorers of the league.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161465/Taremi-among…

US to continue efforts to extend Iran arms embargo: Hook
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Repeating allegations against Tehran, US representative for Iran affairs Brian Hook said that Washington will continue efforts to extend the UN arms embargo on Iran which is due to expire in October.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161467/US-to-contin…

Two explosions reported at military base in Baghdad
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — According to reports two explosions have hit Al-Saqr military base in Baghdad on Sunday night.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161486/Two-explosio…

Iran records 2,333 COVID-19 cases in 24 hours
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has infected 2,333 people and claimed 216 lives in Iran in the past 24 hours, a senior health official said.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161469/Iran-records…

Iran to continue peaceful nuclear program: Deputy FM
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 27 (MNA) — Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said that Iran will continue its peaceful nuclear program in accordance with IAEA regulations.
en.mehrnews.com/news/161484/Iran-to-cont…

1st group of pilgrims arrive in Mecca to perform Hajj rituals
Mehr News Agency | en.mehrnews.com | 2020-07-26
TEHRAN, Jul. 26 (MNA) — Hajj rites and rituals in this year will be performed on July 29 by observing strictest health protocols and guidelines due to the outbreak of the coronavirus global pandemic, COVID-19.
en.mehrnews.com/photo/161458/1st-group-o…

‘I’m outta here’: Joe Rogan flees Los Angeles for ‘more freedom’ in Texas
rt.com | 2020-07-26
Comedian Joe Rogan, host of wildly popular podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” has confirmed his plan to move to Texas from Los Angeles sometime soon to escape crushing traffic, rising homelessness and overcrowding. | Left unsaid was the fact that he also figures to save millions of dollars in taxes. “I just want to go somewhere in the center of the country, somewhere it’s easier to travel to both places and somewhere you have a little bit more freedom,” Rogan said Friday on his show, which ranks No. 2 in the US on Apple P…
rt.com/usa/495930-rogan-moves-los-angele…

Rwandan refugee working as diocese volunteer confesses to setting Nantes cathedral alight — lawyer
rt.com | 2020-07-26
A 39-year-old man, who had already been detained, questioned and released by French police, was brought into pre-trial custody again, having admitted to starting fires at the 15th-century cathedral in the western city of Nantes. | The impressive Nantes Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul fell victim to a blaze back on July 18, with several fire brigades scrambled to put out the flames. As the story developed, investigators established that the man — who worked as an altar server — was the one who closed up the building for the night. | He was briefly detained by police last week but was then released…
rt.com/news/495883-rwandan-confessed-nan…

Riots are driving Portland’s small businesses under, but mainstream media wants to sell you a different story
rt.com | 2020-07-26
After nearly 60 straight nights of violence, business owners in Portland are sick and tired of riots. But as their stores go under, the coastal media treats the rioters to glowing coverage and city authorities do nothing. | Portland is a liberal stronghold, and as ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests fizzle out around the country, anger remains at boiling point in the Oregonian city. The protests there have not been all banner-waving and slogan-chanting affairs though. Instead, droves of ‘Antifa’ types have laid siege to the city’s Justice Center for almost 2 months, tearing down barricades, lobbing fireworks, settin…
rt.com/usa/495926-portland-riots-damage-…

One person critically injured in shooting during protest in Austin, Texas (VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-07-26
Gunfire erupted during a protest in downtown Austin, resulting in at least one life-threatening injury. A chilling video from the scene shows people screaming and running for cover. | Police asked the public to avoid the area while they investigate the incident, but revealed few additional details. | It was not immediately clear if the shooting was a deliberate attack related to the ongoing protest, but a video from the march captured the moment shots were fired. | #BREAKING: Police are on scene of a shooting that occured during a…
rt.com/usa/495878-texas-shooting-injured…

Austin protester seen in video with AK-47, keen on exercising his rights before deadly shooting
rt.com | 2020-07-26
A man shot dead at a protest in Austin, Texas, was armed with an AK-47 rifle, and told a local reporter that opponents of Black Lives Matter are “p**sies.” His death set off a partisan blame game online. | The victim, an adult male, was taken to hospital with “critical, life-threatening injuries” late on Saturday evening, where he died shortly afterwards. A police spokeswoman said he was attending a ‘Black Lives Matter’ protest in the city, and may have approached a passing car while brandishing a rifle. | The driver, who shot the victim from inside his vehicle, was taken into custody by police. | Also on rt.c…
rt.com/usa/495927-austiner-dead-ak47/

Spain’s Covid-19 death toll could be 60% higher than reported, El Pais claims
rt.com | 2020-07-26
Spain’s Covid-19 death toll could be off by 60 percent, according to calculations by the country’s leading newspaper, El Pais, which suggest Spain has the second-highest number of deaths in Europe after the UK. | An El Pais investigation published on Sunday found that the official figure of 28,432 deaths is likely far less than the true number of people who have died with the virus. | Spain’s official death toll only includes people who had a confirmed Covid-19 diagnosis, and not those…
rt.com/news/495914-spain-death-toll-wron…

Federal forces stretched thin? Triple whammy of pandemic, riots and now hurricanes puts Trump administration to perilous test
rt.com | 2020-07-26
US Homeland Security officials have added hurricane relief to a to-do list already crammed with responses to the Covid-19 pandemic and riots across the nation, calling into question how far federal resources can be stretched. | Hurricane Douglas is approaching Hawaii and is forecast to skirt or pass over the islands through tonight, “bringing a triple threat” of damaging winds, flooding rain and dangerously high surf, the National Hurricane Center said. President Donald Trump declared an emergency for the state.
rt.com/usa/495929-fema-stretched-hurrica…

Political murder? Republicans seek federal probe into ‘senseless’ killing of black Trump supporter in Milwaukee
rt.com | 2020-07-26
The murder in broad daylight of Milwaukee’s Bernell Trammell is prompting calls for a federal prosecutor to investigate whether the 60-year-old black man was killed because of his passionate support for President Donald Trump. | Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Andrew Hitt asked that US Attorney Matthew Krueger investigate whether the “senseless” killing was politically motivated. Trammel was gunned down around midday Thursday in front of his small publishing business, eXpressions Journal. Police are still looking for the shooter. | “No American should fear for their personal safety because of where they li…
rt.com/usa/495876-bernell-trammell-murde…

Seattle radio host who mocked Trump’s reaction to protests now says he needs a gun after Starbucks below his apartment is trashed
rt.com | 2020-07-26
Paul Gallant has a new perspective on violent protests after mocking President Donald Trump in June for saying anarchists were burning and pillaging Seattle. All it took was for the mayhem to come near the talk show host’s home. | “I feel like I need to buy a firearm because this is clearly going to keep happening,” Gallant said Saturday night on Twitter after coming home to see the Starbucks coffeeshop below his apartment complex “destroyed” by vandals. “Enough is enough. It looks like a block party down the street from me. Really angry right now.” | I feel like I need to buy a firearm, because clearly this i…
rt.com/usa/495921-seattle-riots-gallant/

Police declare riot in Portland after protesters pull down courthouse fence (VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2020-07-26
Law enforcement officers have begun pushing protesters away from Portland’s federal courthouse after demonstrators pulled down a fence surrounding the building. | Activists used wire cutters, power saws, and ropes to attack the fence on Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday morning. Videos show a group of demonstrators rocking the chainlink barrier back and forth, ultimately pulling it down. Projectiles and tear gas flew across the sky, in what one observer described as a scene resembling a battlefield. Several fires were then lit outside the courthouse before police declared a riot and emerged fro…
rt.com/usa/495888-portland-fence-riot-vi…

Sunday 7/26: Unity Rally – Re-imagine Public Safety
PACT Silicon Valley | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
San José City Hall…
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Saturday 7/25: Wall of Moms Bay Area Action in Palo Alto
Moms and Grannies | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Corner of Embarcadero and El Camino in Palo Alto across from the main entrance to Stanford. Palo Alto 94301.
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Friday 8/7: The Battle for Portland & the Implications Nationwide
Commonwealth Club | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883540…

Saturday 8/8: Indigenous Women Activists During & After the Protest Occupation of Alcatraz Island
San Francisco Public Library | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Online via livestream…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883540…

Monday 7/27: Emergency Protest–COVID-19 in S.C. Jails & Shelters
with additions by Norse | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
701 Ocean St. On the steps in front of the front of the Courthouse…
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Monday 7/27: SF Union Members Speak Out Against POA & Support For Defunding The Police
SEIU, AFT 2121, UESF, AFSCME 3299, CFA, JWJ | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
POA | 800 Bryant St. | San Francisco…
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Sunday 7/26: “Birddog Nation” Film Screening & Panel Discussion on Progressive Grassroots Activism
Center for Popular Democracy and others | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883539…

Massive DDoS Attacks Against Indymedia in Germany (de.indymedia.org)
Solidarity with Indymedia | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
In the last six months more and more funds were raised to silence us (de.indymedia.org). They, the aggressors (the far-right and their party friends, up to federal authorities and government representatives), apparently see it as a possibility to use malicious technical means to silence one of the voices of the counter-public view.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883540…

Joaquín Murrieta y el Camino a Tres Piedras
Stan Santos | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
En 1980 familias campesinas lucharon por viviendas y dignidad cerca al Arroyo de Cantua, lugar que en 1853, se dio el último choque violento entre la banda de Joaquín Murrieta y los Rangers de California. Desde entonces, jinetes del área celebran esto eventos en la historia del Valle San Joaquín.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/1883532…

At Solidarity with Portland March, A “Wall of Moms” Ready
National Day of Action | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
On July 25, Oakland stood strong with Portland in opposition to Trump’s invasion of cities. A recently formed Wall of Moms was ready to take up their place on short notice between police and protesters.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883538…

Animal Liberation Front Retaliates for the Murder of Activist Regan Russell
Animal Liberation Press Office | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
On the morning of Friday, June 19, Canadian animal rights activist Regan Russell was hit by a truck and murdered whilst peacefully protesting against a slaughterhouse. The truck which killed her was carrying the very pigs whose plight she was attempting to draw attention to. Despite being clearly visible to the driver, who accelerated towards her, and continued to drive even as her body was torn in half, no one has been arrested for the crime.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/1883532…

Mèxico_Tlaltenco: Defensa de nuestra tierra
reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Mèxico_Tlaltenco: Defensa de nuestra tierra | LA ALCALDÂA DE TLAHUAC ATENTA CONTRA POSEEDORES EN TLALTENCO…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883539…

Sunday 8/2: San Quentin Prison Protest: No State Execution by COVID-19
No Justice Under Capitalism | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Larkspur Ferry Terminal Parking Lot, Larkspur, CA…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/25/1883533…

Saturday 8/1: No More Billionaires Privatization, Union Busting & Racist Attacks
SPTESR | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
10: 30 AM Oakland Coliseum & Caravan To | GAP Corporate Headquarters Folsom & Embarcadero | San Francisco with rally at 12: 00 noon…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/1883532…

Wednesday 8/5: Voices from the Front Line: Health Care Workers & the Fight Against Covid
Haymarket Books | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883540…

Flare-up between Armenia and Azerbaijan; as the fog of war lifts
David Davidian | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
The reality of Armenian sovereignty over themselves and the region of Nagorno-Karabakh is in stark contrast to Azerbaijani zero-sum land claims.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883534…

Wednesday 8/5: Protecting Sacred Landscapes: Saving Indigenous Sites in CA from Juristac to Medicine Lake
AMTBGF | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Online…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883540…

J25 Stand with Portland March, Call and Response
Rise Up Now | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
One min 15 second video by Micky Souza, Pro Bono Photo. | Please give credit.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883534…

Oakland March In Solidarity With Portland
Leon Kunstenaar | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Close to a thousand in Oakland protest for BLM and against hostile Federal occupation of cities.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883536…

Los Gatos BLM Demonstrators Shut Down Hwy 17/Face-off with Maga Hatters
July Brings Protests | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
On July 20, approximately 200 Black Lives Matter protesters gathered near the tony town’s farmers market, marched through the small downtown area, then shut down Highway 17 for over an hour. But first, they encountered a small group of racist Trump supporters, seemingly emboldened by the presence of cops nearby.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883534…

J25 Stand with Portland March, Quanah Parker Brightman Address
Rise Up Now | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
video by Micky Souza, Pro Bono Photo. Please give credit. | 2 min 23 second video…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/26/1883534…

Defund OPD: Oakland Mayor Schaaf & the City Council Failed Us
APTP | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
On Tuesday night, Oakland City Council had the historic opportunity to address the decades-long budget inequity that has left police with the lion’s share of our tax dollars and many residents without healthcare, housing, and critical social services during the pandemic. Instead, Councilmembers Reid, McElhaney, Taylor, Gallo, and Mayor Schaaf chose to overfund policing over funding basic needs for the people of Oakland, ignoring hours of public comment calling for further cuts to OPD’s budget.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/24/1883532…

Saturday 7/25: Race, Police, and Prisons: The American Gulag
Monterey Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2020-07-26
Online webinar…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/22/1883527…

Tech Giants Eye Lucrative Rent Market as End to Eviction Moratorium Could Leave Millions Homeless
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-26
A “tsunami” of evictions is about to sweep across the United States when the 120-day moratorium ends today, threatening millions of Americans with homelessness or worse — a new set of landlords called Facebook, Google and Apple. | Raul DIEGO | In a ‘normal’, pre-pandemic economy, a number roughly equal to the population of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania — or about 3.7 million people — are evicted every month in the United…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/26/te…

America Invades America
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-26
So apparently U.S. President Donald Trump has “invaded Oregon” according to the Mainstream Media and even the governor of the state in question Kate Brown who is not surprisingly a Democrat. This is in reference to the Federal Government sending in agents to arrest protestors often by just dragging them into unmarked vehicles. The Black Lives Matter p…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/26/am…

Why Trump’s Paramilitary Force Is Unconstitutional. ‘A Profoundly Un-American Attack On Civil Society’
Lawrence Tribe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
We are being confronted in city after city with a nationwide paramilitary force, its troops unidentifiable and its vehicles unmarked, directed in deliberately vague terms to protect property and preserve domestic order. | It began in Portland, Oregon where chilling video…
globalresearch.ca/a-profoundly-un-americ…

Trump’s Reelection Strategy Involves Terrorizing Us With Secret Stormtroopers
William rivers Pitt | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
Trump’s actions in Portland are terrifying by any standard.
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-reelection-…

Who is the most dangerous fascist?
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2020-07-25
Most American leftists are incoherent on the term fascism, and Democrats have utterly destroyed the word’s meaning.
mronline.org/2020/07/25/who-is-the-most-…

Trump’s Troop Surge to Democratic Cities
Noam Chomsky | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
“His entire attention is this one issue on his mind: that’s the election. He has to cover up for the fact he is personally responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans. It’s impossible to conceal that for much longer.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/trumps-troop-surge…

After 23 Years of Media Warfare Against Venezuela, the US Says it Will Start a Media War
Clodovaldo Hernández | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
After 23 years of unremitting media warfare against Venezuela, the United States announces that it will start a media war against Venezuela. It’s cynical, it’s tragic, it’s even comical. Since 1997, when Commander Hugo Chávez Frías began to emerge in …
globalresearch.ca/after-23-years-of-medi…

US secretary of state sets out case for conflict with China
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
By ruling out a return to the policy of “containment,” Pompeo’s speech marks a strategy aimed at regime change in Beijing.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/lead…

Israeli Supreme Court rules: Palestinian prisoners have no right to social distancing protection against COVID-19
TLCFAMRII | imemc.org | 2020-07-25
By Adalah The Legal Center For Arab Minority Rights in Israel: 23/07/2020: Israel’s top court rejects Adalah petition demanding Israel implement COVID-19 protective guidelines for prisoners at Gilboa prison; 30 prison guards and 7 prisoners are infected while 489 guards and 58 prisoners are in quarantine.
imemc.org/article/israeli-supreme-court-…

US Fighter Jets in Near Miss against Iran Passenger Plane in Syrian Airspace
Middle East Eye | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
This event is downplayed by the Western media. | Why were those US jet fighters in Syrian airspace? | US and Israeli jet fighters are routinely violating Syrian airspace. | And why were they threatening a civilian passenger plane? | The unspoken truth is …
globalresearch.ca/us-fighter-jets-in-nea…

The Moment of Truth Is Now for COVID and Economic Relief
Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-25
The US Senate returned to work this week after a two-week vacation during which COVID-19 exploded and the economy imploded. The moment of truth has now arrived. Will the House and Senate now bring forth a Covid relief package adequate to the Covid health and economic crises? The last six months of the pandemic and …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/the-moment-of…

Palestinian Child Abducted by Under Cover Agents in Jerusalem
Ali Salam | imemc.org | 2020-07-25
Undercover Israeli police abducted, on Thursday, a 12-year-old Palestinian child from the occupied Jerusalem neighborhood of al-‘Isawiya, the Palestinian WAFA News Agency reported. Witnesses revealed that undercover agents were seen getting out of a civilian vehicle, and abducting Moath Ewewi, 12, taking him to an unknown location. Undercover Israeli forces, …
imemc.org/article/palestinian-child-abdu…

UK ‘Russia report’ fear-mongers about meddling yet finds no evidence
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2020-07-25
A long-awaited UK report finds no evidence of Russian meddling, but that hasn’t stopped the fear-mongering. The report claims the…
thegrayzone.com/2020/07/25/uk-russia-rep…

Racism in Chile
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-25
They killed black woman Recently, when a retired Chilean U.N. employee tried to enter ECLAC (United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Santiago de Chile) to claim her pension in a bank inside the compound, her car was stopped by a U.N. security officer. She was asked to complete formalities. …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/racism-in-chi…

Death of the Liberal Class — review
Radical Reviewer | mronline.org | 2020-07-25
Radical Reviewer reviews the book Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges…
mronline.org/2020/07/25/death-of-the-lib…

First the National Security State Surged Baghdad, Now It Is Surging Portland and Seattle
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2020-07-25
Federal officers walk through tear gas while dispersing a crowd of about a thousand people during a protest on July 21, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo: Nathan Howard/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files…
commondreams.org/views/2020/07/25/first-…

Global Destruction, 
The COVID-19 Lockdown: Economic and Social Impacts
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
Planned Destruction of World-wide Economy | What we have to realize is that the global, country-by-country destruction — happening simultaneously — is not a coincidence. | It has been planned for decades. Thousands of pages were written alone for the preparation of …
globalresearch.ca/global-destruction-%e2…

Food, capitalism and the necessity of a socialist program
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-25
Capitalist food production is based on ecological destruction, imperialism, inhumane labor practices, and the degradation of human health. A socialist program that guarantees healthy food for all is the only alternative.
mronline.org/2020/07/25/food-capitalism-…

Workers Struggles: Asia and Australia
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/labo…

SEP election campaign in Sri Lanka: Workers denounce establishment parties
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Over the past weeks, SEP campaigners have discussed with workers and youth the need to politically fight on the basis of a socialist program.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/slec…

SEP files appeal to Federal Sixth Circuit Court in Michigan ballot access case
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
The Socialist Equality Party candidates Joseph Kishore for US President and Norissa Santa Cruz for US Vice President have appealed to the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit for review of the July 8 ruling of Judge Sean Cox rejecting their lawsuit against Michigan ballot access requirements during the pandemic.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/camp…

Democrats have gone ‘stone cold left,’ want to turn America into ‘Venezuela on steroids’ — Trump
rt.com | 2020-07-25
President Donald Trump has called on the Republican-held Senate to kill a bill that would overturn his controversial travel ban. The Democrats, he said, want to turn the US into “Venezuela on steroids.” | Comparing one’s opponents to communists or Stalinists is a tired trope in American politics, but President Donald Trump added another anti-socialist slur to the phrasebook on Saturday. | “The Democrats in the House are trying to undo my big win Travel Ban Bill, which successfully keeps very bad and dangerous people out of our great Country,” he tweeted. “Passed along party lines. Hopefully, will be DEAD in th…
rt.com/usa/495850-trump-democrats-venezu…

Wednesday 8/12: Online Study Group: What Will It Take to Save a World in Crisis? Reform vs. Revolution
Freedom Socialist Party Bay Area | indybay.org | 2020-07-25
Zoom (details in description)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/07/23/1883529…

Weaving Impunity for Dictatorship Crimes in Chile
_____ | strategic-culture.org | 2020-07-25
In 1968, the U.S. backed a covert intelligence surveillance campaign in which Latin American right-wing governments conspired to annihilate socialist and communist influence in the region. The plan, known as Operation Condor, was formally implemented in 1975, two years after dictator Augusto Pinochet took power in Chile through a military coup supported by the U.S. Up to 80,000 left wing opponents are estimated to have been killed; 30,000 of them disappeared by right-wing governments in Latin America by 1989, when Operation Condor was officially terminated. Over 400,000 people were detained as political prisoners…
strategic-culture.org/news/2020/07/25/we…

US Economic Collapse: The Worst in US History
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
by Stephen Lendman ( stephenlendman.org — Home — Stephen Lendman) | The myth of recovery ignores the US economy’s dismal state. | Numbers calculated as they were pre-1990 before rigging them occurred tell all. | According to economist John Williams, real US …
globalresearch.ca/us-economic-collapse-t…

Afghanistan Frees Further 50 Talibs in Push for Peace Talks – Reports
sputniknews.com | 2020-07-25
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Afghan government released another 50 Taliban* inmates on Saturday in the hope of starting long-awaited peace negotiations, media reported.
sputniknews.com/asia/202007251079983929-…

[Correspondence] Dismantling racism in research
April Joy Damian, Melanie Gonzalez | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The widespread dissemination of how George Floyd was murdered prompted people around the world to demand structural reform. We agree with the points raised in the Editorial about the need to “find ways to use science as an instrument for social change”.1 Here we highlight approaches for dismantling racism within research.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31534-8/fulltext?rss=yes

How cop shows serve to reinforce the racism at the heart of our culture
Mareike Jenner | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-25
Recognizing that there are many problems, overt and covert, involved in cop shows is important and avoids simplistic narrative solutions being used to plaster over deeper problems.
nationofchange.org/2020/07/25/how-cop-sh…

Hiroshima at 75: Health lessons still current
Joseph Mangano | nationofchange.org | 2020-07-25
The devastating threats that atomic power poses to health still are a huge threat to humanity.
nationofchange.org/2020/07/25/hiroshima-…

Germany: Daimler doubles job cuts from 15,000 to 30,000–shareholders rejoice as stock price rises
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Daimler workers and millions of employees in companies associated with the automotive industry should regard these dismissals as the beginning of a broad campaign of unprecedented attacks.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/daim…

Trump’s federal repression election ploy spurs greater resistance
Joyce Chediac | liberationnews.org | 2020-07-25
Far from being intimidated, Portland residents were outraged when unannounced paramilitary units started grabbing protesters off the street.
liberationnews.org/trumps-federal-repres…

New York City transit officials prepare to slash jobs and wages
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Faced with a financial crisis that threatens its survival, the MTA is planning devastating cuts to jobs and service.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/nyct…

The Bonus Army Veterans’ Protest of 1932, “The Cruelest Year of the Great Depression”
Gary Olson | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
July 28 will mark almost the 90th anniversary of one of most controversial protests in U.S. history and yet it remains virtually unknown to most Americans. On that day, in 1932, 500 U.S. army infantrymen with loaded rifles, fixed bayonets …
globalresearch.ca/the-bonus-army-veteran…

[Obituary] Kirk R Smith
Jonathan Mingle | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Pioneering scientist focused on health, climate, and environmental impacts of air pollution. Born in Berkeley, CA, USA, on Jan 19, 1947, he died at his home in Berkeley of a cardiac arrest following a stroke on June 15, 2020, aged 73 years.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31596-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Iowa Department of Health underreported confirmed cases at meatpacking plant by more than half
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
The Iowa Department of Health cover-up occurred at the height of the “back to work campaign” and ongoing meat industry production.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/iowa…

[Articles] Emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide vs emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (DISCOVER): primary results from a randomised, double-blind, multicentre, active-controlled, phase 3, non-inferiority trial
Kenneth H Mayer, Jean-Michel Molina, Melanie A Thompson, Peter L Anderson, Karam C Mounzer, Joss J De Wet, Edwin DeJesus, Heiko Jessen, Robert M Grant, Peter J Ruane, Pamela Wong, Ramin Ebrahimi, Lijie Zhong, Anita Mathias, Christian Callebaut, Sean E Collins, Moupali Das, Scott McCallister, Diana M Brainard, Cynthia Brinson, Amanda Clarke, Pep Coll, Frank A Post, C Bradley Hare | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Daily emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide shows non-inferior efficacy to daily emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for HIV prevention, and the number of adverse events for both regimens was low. Emtricitabine and tenofovir alafenamide had more favourable effects on bone mineral density and biomarkers of renal safety than emtricitabine and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31065-5/fulltext?rss=yes

[Perspectives] Pandemic science and politics
Philip Ball | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
In 2019, the Global Health Security Alliance assessed worldwide adherence to the International Health Regulations (2005), which supposedly commit nations to measures that prevent or control the spread of infectious diseases and mitigate their effects. The study found that no nation was fully prepared, and many countries–rich or poor–fell woefully short. This finding is only one of the many indications that we could have been ready, nationally and globally, to deal with a crisis like COVID-19, but were not.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31594-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Massive Crowd Outside Aurora PD in Solidarity with Elijah McClain & Portland
Unicorn Riot | unicornriot.ninja | 2020-07-25
Aurora, CO — This evening over a thousand protesters demonstrated outside the Aurora Police Department (APD) to continue calling for justice for Elijah McClain, as well as, to show solidarity with Portland. | Unicorn Riot is covering the event, which you can check out below. | Aurora…
unicornriot.ninja/2020/massive-crowd-expected-outside-aurora-pd-in-solidarity-with-elijah-mcclain-portland/

[Correspondence] An AI-ECG algorithm for atrial fibrillation risk: steps towards clinical implementation
Frank J Wolters | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Zachi I Attia and colleagues1 show us that we live in a time in which there is more to computer observations than meets the eye. Machine-learning methods for detecting imminent atrial fibrillation on electrocardiograms (ECGs) with sinus rhythm are a valuable step forwards, especially for patients with embolic stroke of undetermined source. However, some methodological drawbacks–related to the selection of controls–hamper implementation of their presented algorithm in clinical practice.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31062-X/fulltext?rss=yes

100 years of Florestan Fernandes, a theoretician who served the working class
Brasil de Fato | peoplesdispatch.org | 2020-07-25
When he completed his Social Sciences degree at the University of Sà£o Paulo (USP), in 1944, Florestan Fernandes didn’t graduate as a sociologist shaped merely by books. Sociology actually first came to him through work, and only later through reflection. This is an idea of the sociologist himself, and what permeates the complexity and totality of his thoughts. | Florestan was the only child of Maria Fernandes, a young Portuguese woman who arrived in Brazil to work the fields at age 13. She gave birth to him on July 22 of 1920. Florestan first witnessed class conflicts while at the Bresser (a wealthy Brazil…
peoplesdispatch.org/2020/07/25/100-years…

Coalition to March on the DNC announces shift, to prioritize movement against police crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-25
Milwaukee, WI – On August 20, the day that Joe Biden is expected to be in Milwaukee to accept the Democratic nomination, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention is hosting a march and rally within sight and sound of the Wisconsin Center. | People in cities and towns across the country are protesting racist police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Alvin Cole right here in Milwaukee. Protests in Minneapolis ignited a fire that swept across the country, producing the largest civil rights movement in U.S. history. | For the Coalition, a shift in priority is necessary. Rather than maint…
fightbacknews.org/2020/7/25/coalition-ma…

[Comment] Abrocitinib for atopic dermatitis: a step forward
Stephan Weidinger, Stefan Schreiber | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Atopic dermatitis is one of the most common chronic inflammatory skin diseases worldwide with a global annual prevalence of 3–4%.1 Few data are available on disease activity strata, but in a 2018 multinational survey between 10% and 20% of adults with incident atopic dermatitis reported severe disease.2 Atopic dermatitis pathophysiology is characterised by epidermal dysfunction and T-cell-driven inflammation, with increased production of inflammatory cytokines, in particular type 2 cytokines such as interleukin (IL)-4, IL-13, and IL-31.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31284-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Trump orders federal police to more cities
Eds. | mronline.org | 2020-07-25
The Trump administration is stepping up its unconstitutional moves toward dictatorial rule, tear gassing antipolice violence protesters in Portland, Oregon and announcing the deployment of federal police to three more cities–Detroit, Cleveland and Milwaukee–in addition to Chicago and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
mronline.org/2020/07/25/trump-orders-fed…

Judge orders former Trump enforcer Michael Cohen to be released from prison
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
In a slap at President Trump and Attorney General Barr, Federal District Court Judge Alvin Hellerstein has ordered the release of former Trump confidant and disbarred lawyer Michael Cohen.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/cohe…

London bus drivers launch crowdfund appeal for family of murdered French bus driver: “Help the family of Philippe Monguillot!”
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
London drivers launched the crowdfund for Monguillot’s family two weeks ago and are appealing for support.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/driv…

[Comment] Offline: Preparing for a vaccine against COVID-19
Richard Horton | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The results of two randomised trials reported this week in The Lancet give great encouragement to the view that a vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) can be produced within the next 18 months. There are no guarantees. But the evidence is hopeful. Pedro Folegatti and colleagues from The Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford used a chimpanzee adenovirus viral vector expressing SARS-CoV-2 spike protein to create a vaccine given by a single intramuscular injection.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31636-6/fulltext?rss=yes

Unstoppable Resistance to Charter Schools
Shawgi Tell | dissidentvoice.org | 2020-07-25
In 2015 the Washington Post shared this observation of privately-operated charter schools by a veteran public school official: David Hornbeck was the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools from 1976 to 1988 and the superintendent of the Philadelphia school district from 1994 to 2000. For years he was a supporter of charter schools, seeing them as …
dissidentvoice.org/2020/07/unstoppable-r…

John Deere announces layoffs, salary buyouts for US workers
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
The layoffs and dangers posed by the raging coronavirus pandemic require workers to form rank-and-file committees to fight for their lives and safety.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/deer…

Thailand Sees Largest Anti-Government Protests Since 2014 Military Coup
Sammy Westfall | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
The youth-led protests appear to have taken a page from Hong Kong’s highly decentralized pro-democracy movement last year…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/thailand-sees-larg…

Coalition to March on the DNC announces shift, to prioritize movement against police crimes
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2020-07-25
Milwaukee, WI – On August 20, the day that Joe Biden is expected to be in Milwaukee to accept the Democratic nomination, the Coalition to March on the Democratic National Convention is hosting a march and rally within sight and sound of the Wisconsin Center. | People in cities and towns across the country are protesting racist police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Alvin Cole right here in Milwaukee. Protests in Minneapolis ignited a fire that swept across the country, producing the largest civil rights movement in U.S. history. | For the Coalition, a shift in priority is necessary. Rather than maint…
www.fightbacknews.org/2020/7/25/coalitio…

[Editorial] COVID-19 and China: lessons and the way forward
The Lancet | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
China has largely controlled COVID-19. A country of 1 ∑4 billion people and a size similar to Europe or the USA now reports only clusters of cases rather than widespread community transmission. China has been widely criticised for its role and responsibilities during the pandemic because of censorship, transparency, and human rights concerns. But the rest of the world can still learn from China’s successes in bringing its outbreak under control.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31637-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Brazilian autoworkers strike after Renault fires 747 workers
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Workers were outraged over the targeting for layoffs of those who were out because of work-related injuries and even coronavirus infections.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/braz…

150,000 dead in the US and no end in sight
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
The resurgence of COVID-19 is a result of the campaign by the Trump administration–with the assistance of the Democrats and the media–to force workers back on the job as the pandemic continues to rage.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/pers…

[Correspondence] Dupilumab for nasal polyposis — Authors’ reply
Claus Bachert, Leda P Mannent | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
We appreciate the interest shown by Brian Lipworth and colleagues in our Article1 and would like to take this opportunity to address their comments.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)30563-8/fulltext?rss=yes

Illinois Democrats embrace Trump’s law enforcement “surge”
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Illinois Democratic lawmakers have made public statements aimed at assuaging public fears that the federal forces will crack down on anti-police violence protesters in Chicago, just as they have in Portland.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/chic…

Remains of one of Mexico’s missing Ayotzinapa 43 students identified
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Mexico’s attorney general has announced that human remains found in Cocula, Guerrero state had been identified as Christian Adolfo Rodriguez Telumbre.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/mexi…

Energy isn’t just electricity
George Loumakis | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
The common mistake obscuring the mammoth task of decarbonisation…
zcomm.org/znetarticle/energy-isnt-just-e…

Nuclear Weapons and Extreme Threats. A Tale of Two Men Handling Emergency
Judith Deutsch | globalresearch.ca | 2020-07-25
One man reacted to emergency and the other one didn’t. The two men are Richard Feynman (1918 — 1988), the highly revered Nobel Prize laureate nuclear physicist, and 22-year old David Livingston, Senior Airman and missile repairman who was killed …
globalresearch.ca/nuclear-weapons-and-ex…

Workers voice opposition to privatization of US Postal Service
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Postal workers have responded with outrage to leaked memos from USPS management which reveal plans for the accelerated privatization of…
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/post…

[Comment] Ombudsman’s report for 2019
Malcolm Molyneux | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
I submitted Annual Reports for 20151 and 2016,2 but there were no events of sufficient concern to the Ombudsman during the following 2 years that required investigation and reporting.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31546-4/fulltext?rss=yes

Full Steam Ahead on Reopening Schools? No Way, Say Teachers
Monique Dols and Peter Lamphere | zcomm.org | 2020-07-25
“I just want everyone to know that educators, when we fight, we’re not just going to fight for us. We’re going to fight for those parents that are being forced to make a choice between having to go to work and putting their kids in the school building.”
zcomm.org/znetarticle/full-steam-ahead-o…

As the spread of COVID accelerates, Ford workers in Michigan and Kentucky denounce flouting of safety measures
wsws.org | 2020-07-25
Ford workers in Michigan and Louisville, Kentucky describe the disregard of basic COVID-19 safety protections by management while the UAW works to suppress any opposition.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/07/25/ford…

[Perspectives] Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo: anti-apartheid campaigner
Georgina Ferry | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Few have done as much to forge an individual identity as “Dr Goonam”, the name Kesaveloo Goonaruthnum Naidoo (1906–98) adopted as the first woman of colour to practise medicine in South Africa during the 1930s. She demanded women’s inclusion in political organisations representing her Indian community, and joined others in passionate opposition to the apartheid policies that oppressed them.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)31595-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Correspondence] Dupilumab for nasal polyposis
Brian Lipworth, Rory Chan, Chris RuiWen Kuo | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The encouraging results of the LIBERTY trials1 evaluating the effects of dupilumab in patients with severe chronic sinusitis with nasal polyposis that use mometasone furoate nasal spray offer much-needed hope to patients with this condition. However, we believe that these results might not reflect real-life best clinical practice.
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PI…(20)30562-6/fulltext?rss=yes

[Comment] DISCOVER: much accomplished, but not yet for all
Hans M L Spiegel | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
Since the initial studies of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) a decade ago, multiple clinical trials in all key populations worldwide have confirmed the efficacy and safety of emtricitabine combined with tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (F/TDF) for HIV prevention.1,2…
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[Correspondence] Women’s reproductive rights
Marge Berer | thelancet.com | 2020-07-25
The Correspondence by Ciaran Clarke1 is a sophisticated attempt to support forced motherhood, but, in reality, it is a vicious antiwomen statement.
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