2019-07-08: Social Media Postees

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Stop Immigrant Arrests, Close The Camps, Transform Immigration Policy
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-08
Protesters stand up to Trump\'s attacks on immigrants in Los Angeles (Molly Adams|flickr). Public awareness of the brutal repression against immigrants seeking entry to the United States, the reasons for their migration, and terrorism against immigrants living in the US are reaching levels that make them hard to ignore. The current immigration crisis is self-created …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/stop-immigrant-arrests-close-the-camps-transform-immigration-policy/

War, Memory and Gettysburg
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2019-07-08
GETTYSBURG, Pa.–Over 50,000 soldiers were killed, wounded or reported missing here in July 1863, many of them dying in terrible agony on the battlefield or carted off to improvised hospitals where arms and legs were swiftly amputated and tossed into large heaps on the floor. Abysmal hygiene–surgeons would nonchalantly wipe the blood from their bone saws on their pus-stained smocks and move on to the next victim–caused infection, blood poisoning and gangrene. To buy time, regiments such as the 1st Minnesota were ordered into battle against superior forces and as a result were decimated within min…
truthdig.com/articles/war-memory-and-gettysburg/

\'We\'re worse than Venezuela!\': Hondurans in US-backed regime speak out
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-07-08
Average Hondurans in the capital Tegucigalpa\'s central park tell Max Blumenthal their humanitarian crisis is much worse than Venezuela\'s. The…
thegrayzone.com/2019/07/08/worse-than-venezuela-hondurans-us-backed-regime/

British Museum to help return ancient artefacts looted from Iraq and Afghanistan
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-08
Ancient artefacts that have been looted from Iraq and Afghanistan after recent conflicts and illegally exported to the UK will be returned to their country of origin.The British Museum is working with the UK Border Force and other government law enforcement agencies to help to return the seized items, which were brought there for analysis, conservation and cataloguing.Hartwig Fischer, director of the British Museum, said: War, conflict, climate change, globalisation, poverty and migration all play a part in the threats to cultural heritage. | The museum adopts a systematic approach, working with many colleagues ac…
thecanary.co/global/2019/07/08/british-museum-to-help-return-ancient-artefacts-looted-from-iraq-and-afghanistan/

US and Europe to Iran: Do as We Say, Not as We Do — Or Else!
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The US considers itself master of the universe, demanding submissiveness from all other nations. | Its bipartisan ruling authorities tolerate no independent states or social democracies like Venezuela, no military or economic superpowers like Russia and China respectively — what hegemonic …
globalresearch.ca/us-europe-iran-do-we-say-not-we-do/5683020

Nobody Is Talking About the Sanctions Against Syria!
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
In the news: The smart US regime discovered an oil shipment heading from Iran to Syria and ordered their British ever-loyal servants to steal a large Iranian oil tanker carrying oil to Syria and crossing half of the world …
globalresearch.ca/nobody-talking-about-sanctions-against-syria/5682949

Cheated by the JCPOA, Iran No Longer Trusts Europe and Is Heading towards Full Withdrawal
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
For more than 14 months now, Europe has offered no solution to ease the crippling US sanctions on Iran, giving the \"Islamic Republic\" no valid reason to hold on the JCPOA nuclear deal. The Leader of the Revolution Sayyed Ali …
globalresearch.ca/cheated-jcpoa-iran-no-longer-trusts-europe-heading-towards-full-withdrawal/5682941

Venezuela — The Bachelet \"Human Rights Lie\"
Peter Koenig | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
\"American sanctions are deliberately aiming to wreck Venezuela\'s economy and thereby lead to regime change. It\'s a fruitless, heartless, illegal, and failed policy, causing grave harm to the Venezuelan people.\"
globalresearch.ca/venezuela-bachelet-lie/5683019

Venezuelan Government Slams \'Biased\' UN Human Rights Report
Ricardo Vaz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The Venezuelan government has disputed the findings of a report released by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). | Having seen the report in advance of its publication, Caracas issued a 70-point statement pointing towards …
globalresearch.ca/venezuelan-government-slams-biased-un-human-rights-report/5682993

Ghana to donate $10 for AfCFTA secretariat operationalization
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-07-08
Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo | Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday pledged to donate 10 million U.S. dollars to the African Union to support the operationalization of the secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). | The Assembly of Heads of State and Government of AU on Sunday selected Ghana as the host country for AfCFTA. | The decision was announced at the 12th AU Extraordinary Summit held in Niamey, Niger after Ghana beat off competition from the other six countries including Egypt and Ethiopia. | In his acceptance speech, the president thanked the A…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/07/08/ghana-to-donate-10-for-afcfta-secretariat-operationalization/

IGAD lauds integration of moderate Islamic group into Somali army
CGTN Africa | cgtn.com | 2019-07-08
East African bloc, IGAD on Sunday welcomed the launch of an exercise to integrate forces of moderate Islamic group Ahlu Sunna Waljama\'a (ASWJ) into Somali security forces. | IGAD Executive Secretary, Mahboub Maalim | Mahboub Maalim, executive secretary of Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), reaffirmed the bloc\'s support for the integration exercise and also the ongoing political dialogue and reconciliation in Galmudug State. | \"The launch of the integration exercise marks an important milestone in the implementation of the Somalia security architecture and transition plan, which are essential to en…
africa.cgtn.com/2019/07/08/igad-lauds-integration-of-moderate-islamic-group-into-somali-army/

Could Trump\'s Tricks Boost His Ratings and Settle the Syrian Conflict?
Firas Samuri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Recently the U.S. President Donald Trump formally launched his 2020 re-election campaign in front of a large crowd in Orlando, Florida. The campaign is gaining momentum. We have already seen the celebrities and politicians speeches, preliminary ratings and even the …
globalresearch.ca/could-trumps-tricks-boost-his-ratings-settle-syrian-conflict/5682988

The Role of Debt and China\'s Shadow Banking System: Is Baoshang Bank China\'s Lehman Brothers?
F. William Engdahl | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The surprise collapse of a small Inner-Mongolia Chinese bank, Baoshang, has suddenly focused attention on the fragility of the world\'s largest and largely opaque banking system. The timing is very bad, as China struggles with a sharp domestic economic slowdown.
globalresearch.ca/baoshang-bank-chinas-lehman-brothers/5683006

US Call for German Troops in Syria Angers Berlin
The New Arab | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Discord broke out in German Chancellor Angela Merkel\'s ruling coalition Sunday, after the United States urged the country to send ground troops to Syria as Washington looks to withdraw from the region. | \"We want ground troops from Germany to | …
globalresearch.ca/us-call-german-troops-syria-angers-berlin/5682990

Swedish Prosecutors: \'It\'s Not on the Cards\' to Interview Assange — After Hanging Arrest Warrant Over Him for Seven Years
Nina Cross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Swedish prosecutors have this week announced that for the time being they will not be issuing a European Investigation Order (EIO) to interview Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks. According to Sweden\'s Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson,\"…it …
globalresearch.ca/swedish-prosecutors-its-not-cards-interview-assange-hanging-arrest-warrant-over-him-seven-years/5682985

Export License System Lets \'Illegal\' Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia Continue
Billy Briggs | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Bombs and missiles will still be exported to Saudi Arabia under a secretive licensing system that means business as usual for defence firms despite a landmark ruling that UK arms sales are illegal. | In a judgement on 20 June at …
globalresearch.ca/export-license-system-lets-illegal-arms-sales-saudi-arabia-continue/5683016

Offshoring and Industrial Relocation: Profits from Exploitation in Honduras. Transnational Companies are Impoverishing us All
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Imperialists employ myriad strategies to \"open the veins\" of prey countries. Economic warfare is one such strategy. Prolonged and sustained economic warfare against long-suffering Honduras advances the tentacles of the Big Monopolies as it impoverishes and destroys Honduras. Transnational companies, …
globalresearch.ca/gildan-activewear-inc-profits-exploitation-honduras/5682961

The JCPOA Crisis Isn\'t About Nukes at All. Embedding US Strategic Influence Worldwide
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The so-called \"international community\" can\'t proverbially \"see the forest through the trees\" and therefore fails to grasp the larger ambitions being pursued by the US through the JCPOA Crisis that it manufactured, which isn\'t about nukes at all actually but …
globalresearch.ca/jcpoa-crisis-isnt-about-nukes-at-all-actually/5682998

Is China\'s Debt Load the Locus of the Next Crisis?
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
A reader of this blog recently noted the magnitude of the debt problem in China and argued it will be the locus of the next debt-financial crisis–not Europe. Making good points in support of his view, my reply follows arguing …
globalresearch.ca/chinas-debt-load-locus-next-crisis/5682953

Why Trump Is Dead Wrong About the Census
Eric Zuesse | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to add to the U.S. Census a question as to whether the respondent is a U.S. citizen, but that would be illegal for him to do, at present, and not because the U.S. Supreme | …
globalresearch.ca/why-trump-dead-wrong-about-census/5682935

Netanyahu Compares Iranian Uranium Enrichment to Nazi Invasion of the Rhineland
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
The prime minister of Israel would have the people of Europe believe Iran\'s recent decision to increase uranium enrichment–currently at a paltry 3.67 percent–is comparable to the German army marching into the Rhineland in March 1936. | . | . | Netanyahu: Iran\'s | …
globalresearch.ca/netanyahu-compares-iranian-uranium-enrichment-nazi-invasion-rhineland/5682957

Abu Graib at Home in America
Barbara Nimri Aziz | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
\"This is not what America is about\" argues a reporter referring to revelations of misogynist, violent, racist behavior by employees of the U.S. Border Patrol \'guarding\' migrants held in detention centers. | Sorry Mr. Thompson (Propublica journalist who broke this story); …
globalresearch.ca/abu-graib-home-america/5682706

A Secret Meeting to Plot War?
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
On June 5, 16 heads of Jewish organizations joined 25 Democratic senators in a private meeting, which, according to the Times of Israel, is an annual event. All of the Jewish organizations but one were openly declared advocates for …
globalresearch.ca/secret-meeting-plot-war/5682937

Selected Articles: UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela Faulty by Design
Global Research News | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
A future without independent media leaves us with an upside down reality where according to the corporate media \"NATO deserves a Nobel Peace Prize\", and where \"nuclear weapons and wars make us safer\". | . | . | | | If, like us, this is …
globalresearch.ca/selected-articles-un-report-on-human-rights-in-venezuela-faulty-by-design/5683026

USAID Anti-Russia Propaganda
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-08
Both right wings of the US war party consider nonbelligerent Russia an existential threat. | The CIA, National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Republican Institute (IRI), National Democratic Institute, USAID, right-wing US think tanks, the CIA/AFL and other large labor unions, …
globalresearch.ca/usaid-anti-russia-propaganda/5682938

Their Deplorables and Ours
Andrew Levine | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
Hillary Clinton\'s \"basket of deplorables\" speech at a September 2016 fundraiser probably did her campaign more harm than she claims her favorite scapegoats, \"the Russians\" and James Comey, could ever have hoped to do. But what she said wasn\'t wrong; many a Trump supporter back then was deplorable by any and all reasonable standards.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/their-deplorables-and-ours/

Debunking the Rumors about Russia Caving in to Israel
The Saker | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-08
‚Ä¢ Author\'s Note: This analysis was written for the Unz Review ***** This Spring saw a sudden increase in the volume of articles in the so-called \"alternative media and blogosphere\" about Putin \"selling out\" Syria or Iran to the Israelis and their US patrons, or both. What was particularly interesting about this campaign is that …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/debunking-the-rumors-about-russia-caving-in-to-israel/

Russian-Made S-400 Air Defense System is En Route to Turkey
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-08
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday morning that Russia\'s S-400 air defense missiles are currently being prepared to be flown to Turkey. | RELATED: | Cuba, Turkey to Attend Venezuela\'s Transplant Patients | Speaking to reporters before leaving for Bosnia on Monday, Erdogan wouldn\'t say, however, when the Russian missile defense system would reach Turkey or where they will be deployed. | \"The preparations for the journey, the loading (of the S-400) is continuing ..
telesurenglish.net/news/Russian-Made-S-400-Air-Defense-System-is-En-Route-to-Turkey-20190708-0003.html

In Afghanistan, We Have Three Dreams
Dr. Hakim Young | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
Dear fellow human beings, Some of us have wondered, \"Are people today too disconnected and frantic to calm down, in order to solve global challenges together? Are we so polarized and self-absorbed that we cannot stop judging one another or insisting on our partisan ways?\" In Kabul, our thoughts and feelings are diverse, complicated and…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/in-afghanistan-we-have-three-dreams/

The Coming Renewable Energy Revolution
San Jose Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2019-07-08
San José Peace and Justice Center | 48 South 7th Street | San José, CA 95112 | Bus routes: 22, 522, 23, 11, 63, 64, 72, 73, 81, Hwy 17 Express, MST 55, Dash, LRT, 181…
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Chinese VP Says World Cannot Shut China Out
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-08
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan took an indirect jab at the United States during his opening address to the World Peace Format Beijing\'s Tsinghua University. | RELATED: | \'Pacific Alliance\' Reaches Out To Other Regional Trade Blocs | The Chinese Vice President pointed out the faults of the U.S. administration\'s pressure on China, while highlighting the fact that Beijing plays a critical role in the world\'s economic development. \"China\'s development can\'t shut out the rest of the…
telesurenglish.net/news/Chinese-VP-Says-World-Cannot-Shut-China-Out-20190708-0001.html

Japanese American Internment Survivors Protest Plan to Jail Migrant Kids at Prison Camp
Repost, Democracy Now! | indybay.org | 2019-07-08
Japanese Americans, including at least one from San Francisco, demonstrated at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma on June 22, one day after President Trump directed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to conduct a mass roundup of migrant families that have received deportation orders. They were met by uniformed military police who told them they did not have permission to congregate and might face arrest. \"You need to move right now!\" one of the officers shouted. \"What don\'t you understand? It\'s English: Get out.\"
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/07/18824511.php

\'It\'s a Terrible Existence\': The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants
Eilís O\'Neill | thenation.com | 2019-07-08
\'It\'s a Terrible Existence\': The Crisis of Emergency Dialysis Care for Undocumented Immigrants…
thenation.com/article/dialysis-health-immigration/

Thousands of U.S. Citizens Have Been Mistakenly Detained or Deported
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-08
We are law professors who have studied civil litigation involving citizenship disputes and thousands of cases involving citizens caught up in immigration cases. | That includes the U.S. citizens who have been accidentally swept up in the government\'s immigration enforcement efforts since the mid-19th century. In many cases, they have been det…
truthdig.com/articles/thousands-of-u-s-citizens-have-been-mistakenly-detained-or-deported/

Amazon\'s 25th anniversary: A conglomerate based on parasitism and exploitation
wsws.org | 2019-07-08
The technology and infrastructure behind Amazon\'s meteoric trajectory and the biggest individual fortune in modern history must be turned towards the needs and aspirations of the world\'s population as a whole.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/08/pers-j08.html

Do We Need a Dictatorship to Respond to Climate Change?
Kollibri terre Sonnenblume | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
Globally, June 2019 was the hottest June on record. Though it is tricky to attribute any particular event to anthropogenic climate change, scientists estimate that the likelihood of the month\'s extreme heat was made five times more likely by human contributions. This heat is no anomaly. The top ten hottest years on record globally have all…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/do-we-need-a-dictatorship-to-respond-to-climate-change/

5G Complexities and National Security
Renee Parsons | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
In case you missed the kickoff, there is an unprecedented \'must win\' wireless race for the US to cross the 5G finish line before China as alluded to during the recent Senate Commerce Committee oversight hearing on the Federal Commerce Commission. The details were thin with no real discussion on the need for 5G or…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/5g-complexities-and-national-security/

Going Nuclear in the Antipodes: Australia\'s Megadeath Complex
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
The antipodes has had a fraught relationship with the nuclear option. At the distant ends of the earth, New Zealand took a stand against the death complex, assuming the forefront of restricting the deployment of nuclear assets in its proximity. This drove Australia bonkers with moral envy and strategic fury. The New Zealand Nuclear Free…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/going-nuclear-in-the-antipodes-australias-megadeath-complex/

The Ethics Lesson (or: To Kill a Shark)
Elliot Sperber | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
The Ethics Lesson (or: To Kill a Shark) For some it\'s more important To make money, turn a profit, Than to kill a shark — to slice its fins off And toss it back into the water To drown, slowly, on the sea floor And, for some, it\'s more important That that shark should live…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/the-ethics-lesson-or-to-kill-a-shark/

Reparations for Millennials
Nick Pemberton | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
Let\'s begin by wishing everyone a wry, not sardonic, 4th of July! I\'ve been waiting for Elizabeth Warren to collapse. When will people see she is an opportunist? Seriously. A Republican through the first Clinton term and a Clinton supporter just two years prior. Warren is running on Bernie Sanders\' coattails from two years prior.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/reparations-for-millennials/

The International Spy Museum in DC: Lies, Spies, and Paranoia
Melvin Goodman | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
The mainstream media have given rave notices to the new International Spy Museum, a striking edifice that is close by the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The New York Times finds the museum \"remarkable,\" and the Washington Post credits the museum with taking an objective look at both intelligence analysis and clandestine operations. However, there are serious shortcomings in a curation that has given the entire intelligence community a remarkable and stunning recruitment tool.
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/the-international-spy-museum-in-dc-lies-spies-and-paranoia/

Faulty by Design: the UN Report on Human Rights in Venezuela
Nino Pagliccia | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
Following Michelle Bachelet visit to Venezuela last June the official report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR ) on the situation of human rights in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela was released on July 4, a day before initially scheduled. Judging by the quick review I made, the mainstream media is…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/faulty-by-design-the-un-report-on-human-rights-in-venezuela/

When We See Him: Trump and the Central Park Five
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
\"People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.\" –James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/when-we-see-him-trump-and-the-central-park-five/

Conservation Groups Challenge Logging and Burning Project in Idaho Roadless Area
Mike Garrity | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-08
The Caribou-Targhee National Forest just approved the Rowley Canyon Wildlife Enhancement Project that would cut and burn 1,666 acres of sagebrush, juniper, maple, and mountain mahogany trees with mechanized, track-based, mastication equipment. But nothing about this project even marginally enhances habitat for wildlife. If the Forest Service accurately labeled the project, it would have been…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/08/conservation-groups-challenge-logging-and-burning-project-in-idaho-roadless-area/

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