Whitewashing American History: the WPA Mural Controversy in San Francisco
Jack Heyman | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
There has a been a controversy percolating the last couple of years over protests against the \"Life of Washington\" murals painted in 1935-36 by Works Progress Administration (WPA) artist Victor Arnautoff that are on display at George Washington High School in San Francisco. These murals dared to challenge the patriotic stereotype of Washington, instead portraying…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/whitewashing-american-history-the-wpa-mural-controversy-in-san-francisco/

Why Boris Johnson is Even More Dangerous Than Trump
Patrick Cockburn | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
Is the rise of Boris Johnson to be the next prime minister the product of a soft coup? Does Donald Trump\'s racist demonisation of four non-white congress members prove him to be a \"fascist\" leader like Mussolini and Hitler? The two questions should be answered together because political developments in Britain tend to emulate those in the US,…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/why-boris-johnson-is-even-more-dangerous-than-trump/

Minnesota, White People, Lutherans and Ilhan Omar
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
Interesting that Trump\'s current opportunistic vilification campaign focuses on a congresswoman from Minnesota. My late mother was from Minnesota. Daughter of an immigrant Swedish father and a mother born of Norwegian immigrants, she had a kind of Ingrid Bergman look. The hospital record describes her as \"comely\" (as though this were a technical term) at…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/minnesota-white-people-lutherans-and-ilhan-omar/

Assange and His Wiki Wicked leaks
John Kendall Hawkins | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
\"But all the same,\" insisted the Savage, \"it is natural to believe in God when you\'re alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…\" \"But people never are alone now,\" said Mustapha Mond. \"We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it\'s almost impossible for them ever to have it.\" Brave…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/assange-and-his-wiki-wicked-leaks/

US Sanctions Chinese State-Run Energy Company Over Iranian Oil
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-23
The Trump administration announced on Monday that they were sanctioning the Chinese state-run energy company Zhuhai Zhenrong Co Ltd. for allegedly violating restrictions imposed on Iran\'s oil sector. | RELATED: | Iran Says Arrested 17 CIA Spies, Some Sentenced to Death | The announcement, which was made by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, addressed the prohibition of Iranian oil without a waiver provided by Washington. | \"We\'ve said that we will sanction any sanctionable behavio…
telesurenglish.net/news/US-Sanctions-Chinese-State-Run-Energy-Company-Over-Iranian-Oil-20190723-0003.html

How John Bolton Tricked Clueless UK Tories Into Confrontation With Iran
Juan Cole | commondreams.org | 2019-07-23
National security advisor John Bolton has tricked London into an adversarial posture toward Iran, with ratcheting tensions. And that is a big win for Iran War hawks around Trump. (Photo: Jorge Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/oil_0_0.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/23/how-john-bolton-tricked-clueless-uk-tories-confrontation-iran?cd-origin=rss

Trump Cannot Declare War–Especially on Iran–Without Congress
John Nichols | thenation.com | 2019-07-23
Trump Cannot Declare War–Especially on Iran–Without Congress…
thenation.com/article/khanna-trump-war-iran-congress/

Non-Aligned Movement Condemns US Sanctions Against Venezuela
Paul Dobson | venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-23
The 120-member movement held a ministerial meeting in Caracas as a US spy jet reportedly violated Venezuelan airspace.
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14596

Nationwide Blackout in Venezuela, Third since March — VA\'s on the Ground Coverage Affected
venezuelanalysis.com | 2019-07-23
A government communique states that the probable cause was an \"electromagnetic attack.\"
venezuelanalysis.com/news/14595

\"Electromagnetic Attack\" Sparks Massive Blackouts Across Venezuela
Tyler Durden | theantimedia.com | 2019-07-23
(ZH) — Widespread power blackouts were first reported on Monday evening across 15 Venezuelan states and Caracas, as per a report from Reuters Caracas newsroom. Central #Caracas (#Chacao) right now #apagón #blackout #Venezuela pic.twitter.com/6Pvp3QdPPW — Adriano Mérola Marotta (@AdrianoMerola) July 22, 2019 Venezuelan information minister Jorge Rodrigues said an \"electromagnetic attack caused the nationwide blackout\" and power companies along with …
theantimedia.com/electromagnetic-attack-blackouts-venezuela/

Mueller Gave Congress All It Needs to Defend the Rule of Law
Tim Weiner | thenation.com | 2019-07-23
Mueller Gave Congress All It Needs to Defend the Rule of Law…
thenation.com/article/mueller-report-congress-barr/

Peckerwood Populism is About Political Strategy, Not Personal Belief
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
The controversy around President Donald Trump\'s recent tweets targeting \"The Squad\" — four Democratic members of Congress who are all women, all people \"of color,\" and all of whom Trump seems to think aren\'t \"from America\" (one came from Somalia as a young woman and became a US citizen at 17; the rest are…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/peckerwood-populism-is-about-political-strategy-not-personal-belief/

Lunar Narratives: Landing on the Moon, Politics and the Cold War
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
Anniversaries are occasions to distort records. The intoxicated recounting of the past faces a record in need of correction. Couples long married hide their differences before guests. Creases are covered; the make-up is applied generously. Defects become virtues, if, indeed they were ever there to begin with. In historical commemoration, the same is true. The…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/lunar-narratives-landing-on-the-moon-politics-and-the-cold-war/

The American West as Judeo-Christian Artifact
Christopher Ketcham | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
I. It is fair to say that most people in the modern world regard nature as a collection of \"resources\" that exist solely for our aggrandizement. Even the foremost putative \"progressives\" now on the national stage (Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, et al.) argue that we should continue to exploit resources to keep the capitalist growth…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/the-american-west-as-judeo-christian-artifact/

What Has Happened to the U.S. Since the Kids Left Woodstock?
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
A next-door neighbor recently said that she can\'t remember much about being at Woodstock, although she was there. I watched from afar at a camp for disabled kids near New London, Connecticut. I was a kind of cultural voyeur, looking on jealously at the photographs on the covers of major weekly magazines. For many of…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/what-has-happened-to-the-u-s-since-the-kids-left-woodstock/

Free La Donalda!
Richard Ward | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
The Queen was in a furious passion, and went stamping about, and shouting, \"Off with his head!\" or \"Off with her head!\" about once in a minute. For whom sleep is possible comes a measure of solace, only to awaken each day to a nightmare that far exceeds anything our dreamscapes can manufacture. It\'s not…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/free-la-donalda/

The Overlooked Difference Between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren
Aidan Smith | thenation.com | 2019-07-23
The Overlooked Difference Between Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren…
thenation.com/article/the-overlooked-difference-between-bernie-sanders-and-elizabeth-warren/

U.S. economic warfare and likely foreign defenses
Saul Foster | mronline.org | 2019-07-23
Keynote Paper delivered at the 14th Forum of the World Association for Political Economy, July 21, 2019. Today\'s world is at war on many fronts. The rules of international law and order put in place toward the end of World War II are being broken by U.S. foreign policy escalating its confrontation with countries that […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/23/u-s-economic-warfare-and-likely-foreign-defenses/

Through the Climate Looking Glass into Grizzly Wonderland
David Mattson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
Strangely enough, grizzly bear researchers and managers seem to have integrated a faith-based version of climate-change-denial into their collective world view. In fact, these ostensibly well-educated men and women bring to mind well-schooled ecclesiastics professing a belief system:…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/through-the-climate-looking-glass-into-grizzly-wonderland/

\"How Could They?\" Why Some Americans Were Drawn to the Communist Party in the 1940s
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-23
Kevin Baker, reviewing \"A Good American Family: The Red Scare and My Father\" by David Maraniss for the New York Times, asks \"…what were his parents, and especially his father, doing in the Communist Party in the first place?…\" This moved me to ask myself the same question: How in the world could I too…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/23/how-could-they-why-some-americans-were-drawn-to-the-communist-party-in-the-1940s/

Black helicopters over DC? Pentagon accidentally reveals \'classified\' domestic Black Hawk mission
rt.com | 2019-07-23
The US Army apparently plans to swarm the nation\'s capital region with Black Hawk helicopters as part of an ongoing \"classified flight mission\" that the Pentagon accidentally exposed while requesting funds from Congress. | …
rt.com/usa/464805-pentagon-reveals-black-hawk-dc/

March of the Uyghurs
Andre Vltchek | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-23
Important note: The Uyghurs have managed to create a very old and deep culture. Most of them are good, law abiding citizens of the PRC. Also the great majority of followers of Sunni Islam are peaceful people. This work is addressing terrible problems related to extremism and terrorism, most of them crafted and then fueled …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/march-of-the-uyghurs/

How the pharmaceutical companies, Congress and the DEA made the opioid epidemic a billion-dollar industry
wsws.org | 2019-07-23
Previously undisclosed government information shows how drug manufacturers and distributors responded to the emerging opioid epidemic by pumping more pills into the hardest-hit regions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/23/pers-j23.html

Uncertainty Looms Over Boris Johnson\'s Response to Iranian Seizure of British Tanker
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-07-23
Could Trump and Bolton push Britain out of the Iran nuclear treaty? Eksandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi discusses whether Boris Johnson could act as the U.S.\'s errand boy if he assumes power as prime minister…
therealnews.com/stories/uncertainty-looms-over-boris-johnsons-response-to-iranian-seizure-of-british-tanker

Iran accuses 17 of spying for CIA as tensions escalate
wsws.org | 2019-07-23
Iran\'s arrest of 17 alleged CIA agents follows weeks of intense US pressure that brought the Trump administration within 10 minutes of bombing raids.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/23/iran-j23.html

India Denies Trump\'s Claim About Mediating Kashmir Dispute
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-23
India has firmly denied U.S. President Donald Trump\'s claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to help mediate with Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir, saying there could be no talks until Pakistan ended cross-border terrorism. | RELATED: | India Flood Victims Hungry, Desperate: \'Nobody Cares About Us\' | Trump said on Monday that Modi had asked him to help resolve the decades-old dispute over the Himalayan region that has been the heart of two of three wa…
telesurenglish.net/news/India-Denies-Trumps-Claim-About-Mediating-Kashmir-Dispute-20190723-0001.html

Credit Suisse Banker Pleads Guilty in Mozambique Loan Scandal
Kate Zeller | indybay.org | 2019-07-23
On Friday, former Credit Suisse banker Andrew Pearse pled guilty in US Federal Court for accepting millions of dollars in a fraud scheme that led to a $2 billion Mozambique loan scandal and debt crisis in the East African country.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/22/18824914.php

Peace Strike for Climate & Amazon Rainforest in State Capital
Fridays For Future Sacramento | indybay.org | 2019-07-23
California State Capitol Museum, West Steps | 1315 10th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/19/18824857.php

California Has Its Faults
Michael Steinberg | indybay.org | 2019-07-23
Two big recent earthquakes shook up all things nuclear in the state, and beyond too…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/22/18824915.php

Cuba witnesses Nation\'s first transgender marriage
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-23
Cuba witnessed the nation\'s first transgender legal union this week when a couple was married at the Palace of Marriages of San Francisno de Paula in Havana, the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex) reports. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/07/23/cuba-witnesses-nations-first-transgender-marriage/

A powerful protest highlights the ongoing tragedy of DWP deaths
Fréa Lockley | thecanary.co | 2019-07-22
On 22 July, disability rights activists staged a peaceful protest outside the head office of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in London. The action drew attention to the rising number of deaths as a result of DWP benefit cuts. Ahead of the protest, artist and activist Dolly Sen wrote to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt to draw attention to this situation. Both failed to respond. | \"Broken Hearts for the DWP\":…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/07/22/a-powerful-protest-highlights-the-ongoing-tragedy-of-dwp-deaths/

U.S. Troops Back in Saudi Arabia: What Could Go Wrong?
David Swanson | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-22
The First Gulf War back in 1990 was a big huge success. One of the things it accomplished was a major U.S. troop presence in Saudi Arabia. Muslims around the world were outraged. Bombs were repeatedly set off at Khobar Towers where troops were stationed. In 1998 Osama Bin Laden declared:…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/22/u-s-troops-back-in-saudi-arabia-what-could-go-wrong/

Rising Resistance And Solidarity In The Americas
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-22
\"If there isn\'t justice for the people, there won\'t be peace for the governor.\" Protesters in Old San Juan on Tuesday call for the resignation of Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, who has vowed to remain in office (Thais Llorca/EFE/Zuma Press) This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Sandanista Revolution in Nicaragua. Hundreds of thousands …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/rising-resistance-and-solidarity-in-the-americas/

Trump Expands Fast-Track Deportation Authority Across U.S
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-07-22
SAN DIEGO — The Trump administration announced Monday that it will vastly expand the authority of immigration officers to deport migrants without allowing them to appear before judges, its second major policy shift on immigration in eight days. | Starting Tuesday, fast-track deportations can apply to anyone in the country illegally for less than two years. Previously, those deportations were largely limited to people arrested almost immediately after crossing the Mexican border. | Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, portrayed the nationwide extension of \"expedited removal\" authority as…
truthdig.com/articles/trump-expands-fast-track-deportation-authority-across-u-s/

Anglo-Persian Confrontation. Britain\'s Impounding of Iran\'s Grace Supertanker. Former UK Foreign Minister on Britain\'s \"Mistreatment of Iran\"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-22
On Sunday, former Labor Foreign Secretary Jack Straw wrote a London Daily Mail op-ed on why Iranians will never trust Brits. | The same goes for their US counterparts Straw didn\'t address in his opinion piece. More on this below. | ***…
globalresearch.ca/former-uk-foreign-minister-britains-mistreatment-iran/5684286

WikiLeaks, Julian Assange and Decoding the National Security Commentariat
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-22
The Fourth Estate, that historical unelected grouping of society\'s scrutineers, has become something of a rabble. An essential premise in the work of WikiLeaks was demonstrating, to a good, stone-throwing degree, how media figures and practitioners had been bought by …
globalresearch.ca/wikileaks-julian-assange-decoding-national-security-commentariat/5684300

Never Again: What about the Palestinians?
Kim Petersen | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-07-22
concentration camp: a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of aliens, members of ethnic minorities, political opponents, etc., especially any of the camps established by the Nazis prior to and during World War II for the confinement and persecution of prisoners.1 The people seeking a new life in the United States are mainly an …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/07/never-again-what-about-the-palestinians/

\"You a U.S. Citizen?\": Traveling under the watchful eye of the Border Patrol
Al Neal | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-22
People\'s World correspondent Al Neal is in the field reporting from sites all along the U.S.-Mexico border. In his dispatches, you will get a view of the towns and people caught up in Trump\'s \"border crisis.\" You will see the women, men, and children impacted by the administration\'s immigration policies as well as U.S. foreign …
peoplesworld.org/article/you-a-u-s-citizen-traveling-under-the-watchful-eye-of-the-border-patrol/

Popular Chilean Mayor Questions Omissions in Bachelet Report
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-22
One of Chile\'s most popular politicians and the mayor of Recoleta, Daniel Jadue, questioned the report from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, on Venezuela because the former Chilean President \"said nothing about the coup attempts that she supported.\" | \"Both in her first and second government, the foreign ministers of President Bachelet attempted against democracy and against the Venezuelan process. Nothing different could be expected from a report from the commissioner, \"Jadue said in an interview with La Tercera newspaper. | REL…
telesurenglish.net/news/Popular-Chilean-Mayor-Questions-Omissions-in-Bachelet-Report-20190722-0021.html

Pentagon Angst over China-Russia Strategic Unity
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-22
Sino/Russian unity represents a vital anti-imperial alliance. A DOD/Pentagon white paper called Russia a strategic US threat, especially united with China. | NYT editors addressed the issue, falsely calling both countries \"adversaries.\" Indeed they\'re \"growing closer,\" both nations portrayed as strategic …
globalresearch.ca/dod-pentagon-angst-sino-russian-unity/5684282

The 2020 Olympics Are Likely to Be a Disaster
Dave Zirin, Jules Boykoff | thenation.com | 2019-07-22
The 2020 Olympics Are Likely to Be a Disaster…
thenation.com/article/tokyo-okotowari-olympics-protest/

\'Close the camps!\': Protesters march against Trump\'s plan to imprison migrant kids at site of Japanese, Indigenous incarceration
Andrea Germanos | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-22
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 communities.
nationofchange.org/2019/07/22/close-the-camps-protesters-march-against-trumps-plan-to-imprison-migrant-kids-at-site-of-japanese-indigenous-incarceration/

Powerful Explosion Hits Somalian Capital, Gunfire Reported
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-22
A powerful explosion was heard inside the Somalian capital city of Mogadishu on Monday morning, prompting local civil defense units to quickly emerge on the scene. | RELATED: | Ilhan Omar Was Right on \'Black Hawk Down\' Events in Somalia Despite Right-wing Media\'s Lies | Following the explosion, the Mogadishu police forces told the Reuters News Agency that heavy gunfire was heard in the vicinity of the explosion. | No one immediately claimed responsibi…
telesurenglish.net/news/Powerful-Explosion-Hits-Somalian-Capital-Gunfire-Reported-20190722-0003.html

Protests Called Against Murder of Colombian Social Leaders
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-22
The Defenders of Peace Movement said Monday that in the last one month at least 10 social leaders were killed in Colombia and called for an international march on July 26 in protest of the murders. | RELATED: | Colombia: Revered Social Leader and Activist Killed in Colombia | \"We invite all citizens to walk with us and make a presence in the events scheduled for that day for the life of those who defend life and peace in the territories,\" the organization said in a statement.
telesurenglish.net/news/Worldwide-Protests-Called-Against-Murder-of-Colombian-Social-Leaders-20190722-0010.html

UN peacekeeping in Mali boosted with addition of 250 UK troops
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-22
The United Kingdom is to send a contingent of 250 troops to Mali next year, to support the UN\'s peacekeeping operation in the country, MINUSMA.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1042991

American Visitors to the Gestapo Museum Draw Their Own Conclusions
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-22
The words would melt a heart of stone — save for those of the Gestapo torturers upstairs. The prisoners wrote their stories, their poems, their last pre-execution laments on the walls of their cells — which you can still read in the basement of the old Nazi secret police headquarters in Cologne. I spent hours…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/22/american-visitors-to-the-gestapo-museum-draw-their-own-conclusions/

The \"Battle of Seattle\" and the Anti-globalization Movement
Rossen Vassilev Jr. | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-22
Next November will mark the 20th anniversary since the so-called \"Battle of Seattle.\" It refers to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference held at Seattle, WA, in late 1999, which became the scene of widely-reported protest …
globalresearch.ca/the-battle-of-seattle-and-the-anti-globalization-movement/5684265

Omar and Trump
Gary Leupp | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-22
\"Send her back! Send her back! Send her back!\" What preceded the now-infamous 13 seconds in which the president, frowning and nodding, listened to the mob chant? \"Ilhan Omar,\" Trump had thundered, \"has a history of launching vicious anti-Semitic screeds!\" Well, then, thought the North Carolina rabble, Get her out of here! Send her back…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/22/omar-and-trump/

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\'s Bizarre Bid for Political Relevance
Samuel Thrope | thenation.com | 2019-07-22
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad\'s Bizarre Bid for Political Relevance…
thenation.com/article/ahmadinejad-iran-trump-antisemitism-nuclear/

Iran says Britain acts at U.S. behest in ship seizure standoff
Morning Star | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-22
The ongoing standoff in the Persian Gulf witnessed a significant escalation this weekend after Iran\'s Revolutionary Guards targeted two vessels in the area around the Strait of Hormuz. The events come five days after the MT Riah, a Panamanian-flagged and UAE-based tanker, was detained after straying into Iranian waters. It has transpired that the vessel …
peoplesworld.org/article/iran-says-britain-acts-at-u-s-behest-in-ship-seizure-standoff/