Fukushima: an ongoing disaster
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-20
n March–on the eighth anniversary of the Fukushima disaster–Time magazine published an article with the headline: \"Want to Stop Climate Change? Then It\'s Time to Fall Back in Love with Nuclear Energy\". | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/20/fukushima-an-ongoing-disaster/

From capturing bodies to capturing minds. Why the UK\'s attempt to tell us that Prevent is \'safeguarding\' will fail
Layla Hadj | thecanary.co | 2019-07-20
Dr Layla Hadj is managing director of CAGE. This independent grassroots organisation works for a world free of injustice and oppression. CAGE campaigns against discriminatory state policies and advocates for due process, the rule of law, and an end to the injustices of the War on Terror. In this guest post, Hadj writes about the implications of Prevent for the UK\'s Muslim communities. | Prevent is the UK government\'s counter-extr…
thecanary.co/feature/2019/07/20/from-capturing-bodies-to-capturing-minds-why-the-uks-attempt-to-tell-us-that-prevent-is-safeguarding-will-fail/

How the Plastics Industry Is Fighting to Keep Polluting the World
Sharon Lerner | theintercept.com | 2019-07-20
The students at Westmeade Elementary School worked hard on their dragon. And it paid off. The plastic bag receptacle that the kids painted green and outfitted with triangular white teeth and a \"feed me\" sign won the students from the Nashville suburb first place in a recycling box decorating contest. The idea, as Westmeade\'s proud principal told a local TV news show, was to help the environment. But the real story behind the dragon — as with much of the escalating war over plastic waste — is more complic…
theintercept.com/2019/07/20/plastics-industry-plastic-recycling/

Why We Must Restore the Title, \"War Department\"
Ernest A. Canning | commondreams.org | 2019-07-20
The top 15 countries for military expenditure in 2016. Source: SIPRI | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/militaryexpenditure.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/20/why-we-must-restore-title-war-department?cd-origin=rss

US, EU and NATO, once again, threaten Turkey with sanctions
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-07-20
In recent years, Western countries and, above all, the United States, have persistently attempted to make Turkey their proverbial \"whipping boy.\" Ankara, for its part, is aware of the situation, and the times when it\'s politicians preferred to bow their heads and accept the outside influence are now firmly in the past: Turkey is resolutely …
uwidata.com/4382-us-eu-and-nato-once-again-threaten-turkey-with-sanctions/

As Flood Risks Increase Across the US, It\'s Time to Recognize the Limits of Levees
Amahia Mallea | commondreams.org | 2019-07-20
Grape-Bollin-Schwartz Levee overtops in numerous areas June 27, 2011. The road that crosses the railroad and goes to the levee is overtopping and eroding. (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo by Susan Abbott via flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/rethink-levees-climate.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/20/flood-risks-increase-across-us-its-time-recognize-limits-levees?cd-origin=rss

Consortium News website taken down by a malware attack after streaming program defending Julian Assange
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
The independent investigative journalism website Consortium News was brought down on Monday by a malware attack following the inaugural episode of CN Live!
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/cons-j20.html

Mixed signals on rate cut prompts Trump to demand the Fed enlist in US trade war against rivals
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
Trump is demanding that the Fed drop all pretence of \"independence\" and openly serve as an instrument of Washington\'s economic war against its global competitors.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/fedr-j20.html

\'Your child may be taken from your home\': School warns parents over unpaid lunch bills
rt.com | 2019-07-20
The Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania warned parents that their children could be taken from them and placed in foster care if they fail to pay their outstanding lunch debt. | …
rt.com/usa/464644-school-lunch-debt-foster-threat/

UK intelligence agencies exonerated of responsibility in London Bridge terror attack
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
The families of the victims presented evidence before the inquest showing that the attacks could and should have been prevented.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/lond-j20.html

Iran seizes UK tanker in Strait of Hormuz as danger of Middle East war mounts
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
Chief responsibility for the growing war danger in the Persian Gulf rests squarely with US imperialism, which has relentlessly escalated its provocations against Iran.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/iran-j20.html

Cuba, Russia, China, Iran — Pompeo lists every nation that \'must leave\' Venezuela, except one
rt.com | 2019-07-20
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says foreign nations (Russia, China, Iran, and Cuba) must stay clear of Venezuela, so that the one foreign nation not on the list \"can begin to do the work to rebuild that country.\" | …
rt.com/usa/464613-pompeo-venezuela-must-leave/

US immigration agents use children to inflict terror on migrant families
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
Three recent incidents highlight the depravity of the US government\'s bipartisan war on immigrants, spearheaded by the Trump administration.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/immi-j20.html

\'Close the Camps!\': Protesters March Against Trump\'s Plan to Imprison Migrant Kids at Site of Japanese, Indigenous Incarceration
Andrea Germanos, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-07-20
Fort Sill was the site of one of the nation\'s Japanese American internment camps during World War II, decades after it was the site of imprisoned native communites | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/fort-sill-close-camps-migrant-children.jpg …
commondreams.org/news/2019/07/20/close-camps-protesters-march-against-trumps-plan-imprison-migrant-kids-site-japanese?cd-origin=rss

War with Iran as 2020 election boost? Ron Paul optimistic Trump may tell Bolton \'to get lost\'
rt.com | 2019-07-20
With tension between the US and Iran running sizzling hot, some fear President Donald Trump may see war as a potential boost for his re-election campaign. Ex-congressman Ron Paul told RT he is optimistic that Trump won\'t. | …
rt.com/usa/464643-ron-paul-war-iran/

Publico reports Spanish intelligence facilitated 2017 Barcelona terror attack
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
The report is prima facie evidence of criminal behavior by the Spanish state, abetted by other NATO powers, to create the climate to build a fascistic police-state regime.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/spai-j20.html

Cross-border drug traffic peaking thanks to focus on migrant crisis, US drug czar says
rt.com | 2019-07-20
More drugs than ever are flowing into the US from south of the border as federal resources have been diverted to the migrant crisis, leaving Border Patrol hopelessly overstretched, the US drug policy chief has warned. | …
rt.com/usa/464611-drug-czar-trafficking-high-migrants/

An interview with veteran French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier about actress Lillian Gish and director D. W. Griffith
wsws.org | 2019-07-20
French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier (Round Midnight, Coup de Torchon, Life and Nothing But, It All Starts Today, In the Electric Mist) is one of the most admirable figures in cinema over the past 45 years.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/tave-j20.html

Revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-07-19
Impossible to deny the reality of poverty in our world. Studies of the data on income and wealth routinely show that billions of people on the planet live with minimal access to resources. These studies demonstrate that poverty cannot be measured merely by the financial resources that are not available; they demonstrate how billions of […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/19/revolutions-are-not-the-train-ride-but-the-human-race-grabbing-for-the-emergency-brake/

Stranger Things, Stranger Times
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
To say we live in extraordinarily strange times is perhaps the ultimate understatement. Strange times indeed, and terrifying as well. Rising global fascism, the continued threat of nuclear war, an imperiled biosphere and a climate that is rapidly heating up. In the US it is even more apparent. There are concentration camps on the southern…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/19/stranger-things-stranger-times/

Israel\'s Choice for U.S. President
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
In late June, President Donald Trump flailed away with his own particular brand of nondiplomacy at the G20 Summit in Japan, but it is worthwhile noting on the plus side that his administration is so inept that it could not …
globalresearch.ca/israels-choice-u-s-president/5684079

Spying on Julian Assange
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-19
History\'s scope for the absurd and tragic is infinite. Like Sisyphus engaged in permanent labours pushing a boulder up a slope, the effort of making sense of such scope is likewise, absurdly infinite. To see images of an exhausted and world-weary Julian Assange attempting to dodge the all-eye surveillance operation that he would complain about…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/19/spying-on-julian-assange/

The Billionaires v. Bernie
Michael Sainato | progressive.org | 2019-07-19
The democratic socialist candidate is under attack from the super rich, their corporations, lobbyists, and think tanks. Some are even backing his 2020 Democratic primary rivals.
progressive.org/dispatches/billionaires-v-bernie-sainato-190719/

First men on the moon \'came in peace\' to UN Headquarters \'for all mankind\'
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-19
As the world remembers Saturday\'s 50th anniversary of the \"giant leap for mankind\" made by all those involved in the pioneering Apollo 11 space programme, we take a look back at the visit made by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, to UN Headquarters in New York, just a few weeks after their historic mission.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042921

The Nationwide Scandal Hiding in Plain Sight
Robert Scheer | truthdig.com | 2019-07-19
Some investigative reports reveal such extreme levels of greed, immorality and abuse that they can seem inconceivable. Such is the case of the bombshell series by the Center for Investigative Reporting on the egregious exploitation of residential care home workers. Jennifer Gollan, the Emmy Award-winning journalist in this investigation published by Reveal, joins Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer to discuss her work on this week\'s episode of his podcast \"Scheer Intelligence.\" | Below is an excerpt from the multimedia report by Gollan: [The] burgeoning multibillion-dollar elder care industry … is enabling op…
truthdig.com/articles/the-nationwide-crisis-hiding-in-plain-sight/

\'Firmly united\' Security Council can bolster Colombia\'s efforts to secure lasting peace, says UN envoy
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-19
The Colombian peace process is an outstanding example of how much support the United Nations can provide when the Security Council is \'firmly united\', a senior UN envoy said on Friday, calling for the 15-member body\'s continued commitment as the country works to overcome secure lasting peace.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042941

Nigerian Political Prisoner Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-19
Nigerian rule is tyrannical, headed by military dictator/turned politician Muhannadu Buhari and his so-called All Progressives Congress party (APC). | His February re-electoral triumph was dubious at best, critics citing voter-suppression and vote-buying. | Political violence occurred in the run-up to the …
globalresearch.ca/nigerian-political-prisoner-sheikh-ibrahim-zakzaky/5683923