Embargoes and Other Acts of War
David Rovics | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-13
The war between the United States and Japan began with a US-enforced oil embargo against the Japanese Empire. Right now, in the United States, huge detention camps are being constructed for the increasingly criminalized refugee and migrant population, a campaign of government-sponsored domestic terror run by a supposedly temporary, \"acting\" head of the department created …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/embargoes-and-other-acts-of-war/
\'We will respond with force\': Former Turkish military leader issues warning to Washington amid S-400 tension
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-13
The former head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Turkey, retired general ƒ∞lker Ba≈übuƒü recent made a number of powerful statements about his country\'s purchase of Russian S-400 defense systems and American F-35 fighters (which Ankara still counts on receiving despite threat from the US to the contrary). Here are the most …
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Carnegie Library told to respect union drive
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-07-13
Pittsburgh, PA – A group of Pittsburgh community members delivered a petition to the Carnegie Library, July 11, in support of the workers\' efforts to unionize with the United Steelworkers. | The petition, delivered to the main Oakland branch and the East Liberty location, includes over 1,000 signatures calling upon the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh to release a statement of neutrality towards the United Library Workers\' unionization efforts and act in good faith. | \"The staff at the library in my community are incredibly knowledgeable and helpful, and they should be able to collectively bargain for better workin…
www.fightbacknews.org/2019/7/13/carnegie-library-told-respect-union-drive
House Votes to Block Trump From Launching Unauthorized War With Iran
Jake Johnson | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-13
The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan amendment barring Trump from launching an unauthorized war with Iran.
theantimedia.com/house-votes-block-trump-unauthorized-war-with-iran/
Police under fire after warning to press over leaked diplomatic cables
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-13
The Metropolitan Police came under fire after warning journalists against the publication of further leaked diplomatic dispatches.Scotland Yard announced on Friday it was launching a criminal investigation into the leak of cables from the British ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, which were highly critical of the Trump administration.Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu said there was a \"clear public interest\" in bringing the perpetrator to justice given the damage caused to Britain\'s international relations. | In a highly unusual move, he also warned the media that they could face prosecution if there was any f…
thecanary.co/breaking-news/2019/07/13/police-under-fire-after-warning-to-press-over-leaked-diplomatic-cables/
US Silent as Turkey Begins Receiving Russian Missiles in Challenge to NATO
Jason Ditz | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-13
The US refused comment on Friday as Turkey started making the delivery of the first Russian missiles in the system.
theantimedia.com/turkey-begins-receiving-russian-missiles/
Fresno\'s Radical Past
Mike Rhodes | indybay.org | 2019-07-13
This is an article about the 50 Years of Resistance event held on June 22, 2019 in Fresno. We brought together Anti-War and Draft Resistance activists who were active in Fresno 50 years ago. The photo below shows this young woman being arrested at an antiwar protest at Fresno State, probably on May 23, 1970. This photo is from the Special Collections department at Fresno State.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/12/18824644.php
Bossa Nova pioneer, songwriter and musician Joà£o Gilberto dead at 88
wsws.org | 2019-07-13
Together with the composer Antà¥nio Carlos Jobim, Gilberto pioneered a \"new wave\" in Brazilian popular music during the mid-to-late 1950s that had a worldwide impact.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/13/gilb-j13.html
Stop the Deportations! US Hands off Iran and Venezuela! National Day of Protest
Judy Greenspan | indybay.org | 2019-07-13
Oscar Grant Plaza, 14th and Broadway, Oakland…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/10/18824569.php
Seventeen-year-old girl fatally shot by police on California freeway
wsws.org | 2019-07-13
Hannah Williams was shot and killed after being involved in a minor traffic accident with a police vehicle in Fullerton, California.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/13/full-j13.html
Euthanasia bill before New Zealand parliament
wsws.org | 2019-07-13
The bill, which would make assisted suicide legal, is sponsored by leader of the far-right ACT party amid a sharpening social crisis.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/13/nzeu-j13.html
Resist US Imperialism: Close the Camps, No War With Iran
Dayton Andrews | indybay.org | 2019-07-13
The SF Federal Building, 90 7th st SF CA, 94103 | We will meet on Seventh street, right in front of the main entrance.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/12/18824638.php
Canada\'s Liberal government hosts anti-Russia conference on Ukraine
wsws.org | 2019-07-13
Discussions at the Ukraine Reform Conference focused on \"affirming Ukraine\'s sovereignty and security in the face of Russian aggression.\"
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/13/ukra-j13.html
Trump\'s nominee for top US military commander calls for nuclear buildup to confront China
wsws.org | 2019-07-13
General Milley, tapped as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, predicted that the US would be in confrontation with China for the next 100 years.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/13/nuke-j13.html
House Passes Bill to Halt US Support for Yemen War, UAE Withdraws Troops
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-13
The war in Yemen could end, if U.S. and United Arab Emirates\' support for Saudi Arabia\'s war in Yemen is truly over. However, the House NDAA bill still faces a major hurdle in the Senate. If those who want US military involvement to end pressure Congress, it can be done, says CodePink\'s Medea Benjamin…
therealnews.com/stories/house-passes-bill-to-halt-us-support-for-yemen-war-uae-withdraws-troops
Police crack down on undocumented workers occupying Paris Pantheon
wsws.org | 2019-07-13
Late yesterday afternoon, approximately 700 undocumented immigrant workers held a peaceful demonstration and occupied Paris\' historic Panthéon building, demanding an immediate recognition of their right to reside in France.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/13/pant-j13.html
Socialist Analysis & Discussion on U.S. War Threats Against Iran
Party for Socialism and Liberation | indybay.org | 2019-07-13
San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/10/18824570.php
Reading Between The Headlines: Stop The War on Immigrants!
Party for Socialism and Liberation, Sonoma | indybay.org | 2019-07-13
A\'roma Roasters Coffee | 95 5th Street | Santa Rosa…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/12/18824635.php
The Untold Story of Christian Zionism\'s Rise to Power in the United States
Whitney Webb | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-12
Well before Theodore Herzl founded political Zionism and published The Jewish State, Christian Zionists in the United States and England were already seeking to direct and influence the foreign policy of both nations in service to a religious obsession end times prophecy…
mintpressnews.com/untold-story-christian-zionists-power-united-states-israel/260532/
Earth Over the Brink
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Glacier National Park is drip, drip, dripping into a puddle. People and companies and governments are cutting down trees to burn them to save the planet from global warming, mixing the sacrificial trees with oh-so-clean coal, and in Detroit with tires, and in North Carolina with chicken shit. Others are hacking down old forests to…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/earth-over-the-brink/
Know Your Rights: How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Preparing for Looming ICE Deportation Raids
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-07-12
Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major cities. The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. New Orleans had been on the list, but the city announced this weekend that ICE was temporarily postponing the raids due to Tropical Storm Barry. We speak with a roundtable of immigrants\' rights activists: Adelina Nicholls, th…
www.democracynow.org/2019/7/12/trump_ice_raids_know_your_rights
Amazon forces Shakopee, Minn., warehouse workers to walk out again
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-12
SHAKOPEE, Minn.–Amazon is forcing its workers at its monster warehouse in Shakopee, Minn., to walk out again. The 1,500 workers, one-third of them migrants and refugees from Somalia and other nations of East Africa, plan to peacefully walk off the job for six hours on July 15. That\'s the first of the monster distributor and …
peoplesworld.org/article/amazon-forces-shakopee-minn-warehouse-workers-to-walk-out-again/
Noam Chomsky says \'there is not much time\' to avert global catastrophe
John McEvoy | thecanary.co | 2019-07-12
In an interview published on 12 July, Noam Chomsky told Jacobin that \"there is not much time\" to avert global catastrophe. He also talked about Iran, Venezuela, and antisemitism allegations aimed at the UK Labour Party. | Climate crisis and the Green New Deal: | Most importantly, he attended to the issue of global climate crisis. On the subject of rising sea levels, he said: the ca…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/12/noam-chomsky-says-there-is-not-much-time-to-avert-global-catastrophe/
Venezuela: \'Progress\' Reported in Gov\'t-Opposition Talks as US Sanctions Counter-Intelligence Agency
Lucas Koerner and Ricardo Vaz | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-12
The agenda of the talks has not been disclosed but the topic of elections is reportedly being left for last.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14584
\"The Globalization of War\" and \"The Globalization of Poverty\" — Two Books by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
Special Price: $29.00 for two books!: | Click here to order! | The Globalization of War: America\'s \"Long War\" against Humanity by Michel Chossudovsky | America\'s hegemonic project in…
globalresearch.ca/the-globalization-of-war-globalization-of-poverty-two-books-by-michel-chossudovsky/5436244
Remnants of War
Kathy Kelly | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-12
Intense fighting and hideous attacks battered Afghans throughout their country last week as negotiators in Qatar weighed the benefits and costs of a peace agreement that might stop the bloodshed. In Kabul at least 40 people, including one child, were killed in a complex Taliban attack. Dozens of children whose school was partially collapsed by …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/remnants-of-war/
Defeating the Trump Administration\'s Racist, Republican-Rescuing Census Corruption
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
President Donald Trump, thanks to a congenital inability to stop running his mouth, may ultimately undermine his administration\'s effort to corrupt the integrity of the upcoming 2020 Census. His latest blurting out that the reason for his wanting to add a controversial question about citizenship status to the Census form is for \"redistricting\" could be…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/defeating-the-trump-administrations-racist-republican-rescuing-census-corruption/
Maduro Pens Powerful Response to UN High Commissioner
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-12
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro penned on July 11th a powerful response to U.N. High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet, who accused the government of the Bolivarian Republic of killing nearly 7,000 people. | RELATED: | Norway: \'Spirit of Cooperation\' at Venezuela Talks in Barbados | President Maduro slammed these allegations from Bachelet, pointing out that these unfounded accusations were harmful to Venezuela and its people. \"The report presented by your Office to the Human Righ…
telesurenglish.net/news/Maduro-Pens-Powerful-Response-to-UN-High-Commissioner–20190712-0004.html
Planetary emergency: Climate crisis and nuclear danger threaten humanity\'s existence
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-12
This is part 2 of the full main report, \"Unity to save people and planet: For full equality, democracy, peace, and green socialism,\" to the 31st National Convention of the Communist Party USA held in Chicago, June 21-23. Other installments available here. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA national …
peoplesworld.org/article/planetary-emergency-climate-crisis-and-nuclear-danger-threaten-humanitys-existence/
Palestine: US Relations Resume When D.C. Committs to Peace
teleSUR -EF | telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-12
The Palestinian Authority says diplomatic relations with the United States can be resumed on the condition that Washington is committed to the peace process in the region. | RELATED: | Israel\'s Apartheid Wall Stands 15 Years After UN Deemed it Illegal | Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesperson for the government, said in a Thursday statement that the Palestinians have never rejected any negotiations or initiatives for Palestinian-Israeli peace. | \"Peace can only be established in accordanc…
telesurenglish.net/news/Palestine-US-Relations-Resume-When-D.C.-Committs-to-Peace–20190711-0023.html
Remnants of War
Kathy Kelly | commondreams.org | 2019-07-12
Martha, a granddaughter of the Catholic Worker Movement\'s founder Dorothy Day, is one of seven activists, the \"King\'s Bay Plowshares 7\", whose April 4, 2018 action was in accord with their deeply held beliefs that life is sacred, and must not be taken in war. (Photo: Kathy Kelly) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/kings_bay_plowshares_7.jpg …
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ICE to Launch Nationwide Raids to Arrest Undocumented Migrants
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-12
The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will carry out raids onJuly 14th to detain undocumented migrants in ten large cities, an operation which is expected to be focused mainly on those having final deportation orders. | RELATED: | Migrants Protest Against Bribe Requests by Mexican Officials | These raids were expecte…
telesurenglish.net/news/ICE-to-Launch-Nationwide-Raids-to-Arrest-Undocumented-Migrants-20190712-0001.html
Colin Kaepernick, Ted Cruz, Frederick Douglass and the Meaning of Patriotism
Nicholas Buccola | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
\"Ted Cruz schools Colin Kaepernick on \'context\' of Frederick Douglass quote.\" So read a headline in the Washington Times last week. The story that followed was about a twitter exchange between the athlete-activist and the junior senator from Texas. On Independence Day, Mr. Kaepernick tweeted out a quotation from Douglass\'s famous…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/colin-kaepernick-ted-cruz-frederick-douglass-and-the-meaning-of-patriotism/
An Unsurpassable Sterling Record of Stamina!
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
I\'ve always been fascinated by stamina. Lou Gehrig was my boyhood hero, and not just because of his batting average, clutch hitting, and dignified comportment. From 1925 to 1939 he played 2,130 ballgames in a row, not missing one, despite injuries and illnesses. (It was the record until eclipsed by the Baltimore Oriole\'s formidable Cal…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/an-unsurpassable-sterling-record-of-stamina/
Know Your Rights: Immigration Activists Prepare for Looming ICE Raids
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-12
Immigrant communities across the country and their allies are preparing for nationwide raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to begin Sunday that will target undocumented members of immigrant families in at least nine major cities. The cities where raids will take place are said to be Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. New Orleans had been on the list, but the city announced this weekend that ICE was temporarily postponing the raids due to Tropical Storm Barry. We speak with a roundtable of immigrants\' rights activists: Adelina Nicholls,…
truthout.org/video/know-your-rights-immigration-activists-prepare-for-looming-ice-raids/
The Guardian publishes, then censors Jewish open letter defending smeared pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson
Ben Norton | mronline.org | 2019-07-12
Britain\'s leading newspaper The Guardian, which has relentlessly attacked Jeremy Corbyn and his leftist allies, published but then quickly removed an open letter signed by Noam Chomsky defending Labour MP Chris Williamson from \"anti-Semitism\" smears. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/12/the-guardian-publishes-then-censors-jewish-open-letter-defending-smeared-pro-corbyn-labour-mp-chris-williamson/
The Glaring Holes in Michelle Bachelet\'s Venezuela Human Rights Report
Roger D. Harris | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-12
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Michelle Bachelet\'s report on Venezuela echoes the US government\'s talking points, which are designed to terminate the two-decade-old Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. The report fails to acknowledge Venezuela\'s manifest accomplishments or even recognize victims of US-backed right-wing violence in Venezuela. The US economic war against Venezuela, US threats of a \"military option,\" and opposition violence are treated in the Bachelet report as figments of the imagination, \"alleged internal and external threats.\" | Mean…
mintpressnews.com/glaring-holes-michelle-bachelet-venezuela-human-rights-report/260552/
Skull of Death: Mass Media, Inauthentic Opposition, and Eco-Existential Reality in a Pre-Fascist Age of Appeasement
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair | Alongside and consistent with other privilege- and power-serving missions, so-called mainstream corporate media\'s role is to keep the populace focused as best it can on relatively trivial matters and diverted from the most urgent topics of our time. | Kamala Harris Wants to Kill Your Health Insurance | Two Sundays ago, in a fit of masochistic media research, I watched some cable news talking heads do their weekly news roundups. CNN had a panel of know-it-all neoliberals who reflected on the Democratic Party\'s first two presidential debates. Everyone agreed that Kamala Harris had…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/skull-of-death-mass-media-inauthentic-opposition-and-eco-existential-reality-in-a-pre-fascist-age-of-appeasement-2/
US Extradites Ex-Colombian Agriculture Minister for Corruption
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-12
The United States has extradited the Colombian ex-Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Andres Felipe Arias Leiva to his native country after a five-year legal battle over embezzlement charges. | RELATED: | UN Visits Colombia to Review Failing Peace Accord | The Colombian official arrived in El Dorado, Colombia at 8: 20 Friday morning to serve his 17-year prison sentence for corruption and embezzlement during his tenure in the previous decade. | Leiva was convicted for diverting fe…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Extradites-Ex-Colombian-Agriculture-Minister-for-Corruption-20190712-0012.html
Evolution of a Medium
Tim Riley | truthdig.com | 2019-07-12
\"I Like to Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution\" | A book by Emily Nussbaum | Emily Nussbaum began writing her New Yorker TV column in 2011, surfing the medium\'s Great Transformation. Ten years ago, nobody streamed; today, fewer and fewer watch \"live\" television. In 2007, Netflix shipped its billionth DVD mailer, propping up the U.S. Postal Service; today its streaming proves harder to resist than even Amazon Prime. Like Netflix, Prime\'s brand now routinely pumps out original shows and movies. Oscar sweeps appear imminent. | By 2014, Ferguson\'s street protests, police brutality, and sexual harassment s…
truthdig.com/articles/evolution-of-a-medium/
Donald Trump, The Manchurian Candidate and The Russia Probe. The Rosenstein Comey Mueller Intrigue
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-12
Trump\'s Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was to organize the so-called Russia Probe pertaining to alleged Kremlin interference in the November 2016 elections. Rosenstein\'s first step consisted in the firing of FBI Director James Comey & appointing former FBI Director Robert Mueller to lead the Russia Probe.
globalresearch.ca/donald-trump-the-manchurian-candidate-and-the-russia-probe-rod-rosenstein-james-comey-and-robert-mueller/5655073
For the reasons that follow, that Country is currently not likely to be the United States
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-07-12
The largest delegation from outside Russia at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in early June came from China. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/12/for-the-reasons-that-follow-that-country-is-currently-not-likely-to-be-the-united-states/
Donald Trump\'s Fake Isolationism
Charles Davis | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Donald Trump was never coy about how he\'d Make America Great Again, abroad. He\'d carpet-bomb the terrorists, kill their families, and maybe do a straight-up, throwback war for oil in Iraq. The manufactured crisis with Iran in 2019 follows from the erratic militarism suggested at every stop on the 2016 campaign trail, where Trump repeatedly…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/donald-trumps-fake-isolationism/
Trump Gives Up Citizenship Question But Doubles Down on Terrorizing Immigrants
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-12
On July 11, President Trump gave up his fight to ask people about their citizenship on the 2020 census. | The question, which the administration has been trying to add to the census since 2017, would have resulted in a significant undercount by dissuading people in households with undocumented residents from responding to the census. An estimated 6.5 million people could be uncounted if the question were included, according to the Census Bureau. | The census is used to calculate…
truthout.org/articles/trump-loses-citizenship-question-battle/
SPLC: Holiday recognizing early Ku Klux Klan leader an insult to Tennessee residents
SHREKKKLITR | splcenter.org | 2019-07-12
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has proclaimed Saturday as Nathan Bedford Forrest Day in his state, honoring a Confederate general who became the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist organization that targets African Americans.
splcenter.org/news/2019/07/12/splc-holiday-recognizing-early-ku-klux-klan-leader-insult-tennessee-residents
Congresswoman Barbara Lee Applauds the House\'s Historic Vote to Repeal the 2002 Iraq Authorization for the Use of Military Force
commondreams.org | 2019-07-12
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commondreams.org/newswire/2019/07/12/congresswoman-barbara-lee-applauds-houses-historic-vote-repeal-2002-iraq?cd-origin=rss
Trump\'s Bluster Diplomacy
John Feffer | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
It was not very long ago that Donald Trump was calling North Korean leader Kim Jong Un \"Little Rocket Man\" and threatening to rain \"fire and fury\" down on North Korea. In response, Kim called Trump a \"dotard\" and promised an equally fiery attack on the United States. But now, two summits, the exchange of…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/trumps-bluster-diplomacy/
How Real is the Trump Administration\'s New Flexibility with North Korea?
Gregory Elich | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-12
Although widely derided by the Washington Establishment as an empty photo opportunity, the recent meeting between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un at Panmunjom produced an agreement to resume working-level talks in the near future. According to the North Korean news agency KCNA, the two leaders discussed stumbling blocks in improving relations and easing…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/12/how-real-is-the-trump-administrations-new-flexibility-with-north-korea/
Pyongyang on the Potomac
John Feffer | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-12
When Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un shook hands on June 30 at the line dividing the two Koreas, the pictures that appeared on front pages all over the world depicted two very different leaders. Trump is a tall, 73-year-old white man who leads the world\'s most powerful democracy. Kim is a short, plump, 35-year-old …
nationofchange.org/2019/07/12/pyongyang-on-the-potomac/
FTC Reportedly Approves $5 Billion Settlement With Facebook
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-12
The record-setting fine for privacy violations wouldn\'t have much of an effect on the company with nearly $56 billion in revenue last year.
truthdig.com/articles/ftc-reportedly-approves-5-billion-settlement-with-facebook/