Eds. (2019-07-27). For a new world. mronline.org Basking in record-breaking high tempertures, slowly barbecuing ourselves, Britons may well welcome the benefits of global warming. Don\'t fool yourselves. | Source

teleSUR (2019-07-27). North Korea Tests New Missile in Warning Message to South Korea. telesurenglish.net The firing of two \"new-type tactical\" weapons from the DPRK has prompted worries from South Korea and the United States. But Washington said it still wants \"diplomatic engagement.\" | RELATED: | US Jeopardizes Peace Talks With North Korea Over New Drills | In a report released Friday, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the DPRK move a d…

Joe Piette (2019-07-27). \'Stop police terror, from Philly to Philippines\'. workers.org Dozens of people braved 99Àö weather to rally in front of Philadelphia\'s City Hall on July 21. They gathered to demand \"U.S. stop funding terror in the Philippines\" and instead \"Fund jobs, health care, housing and education, not imperialist wars.\" Speakers included Cero Parel and Jeeva of BAYAN-USA, Nora Kerrich . . . | Continue reading \'Stop police terror, from Philly to Philippines\' at Workers.org

Staff (2019-07-27). The War on Drugs in Mexico Is Also a War on Journalists. truthout.org | | What is press freedom and how do we know what it looks like? While we in the United States are absorbed in Julian Assange-related quandaries about just who is a journalist, and whether leaked information can or should compromise national security, reporters in Mexico are harassed and killed daily for covering a \"drug war\" launched in 2006 by President Felipe Calderón, but abetted by the U.S. governme…

Eds. (2019-07-27). At least 6 people killed in mob lynching incidents in Bihar in past week. mronline.org Not just that, a dozen more incidents of mob violence have also been reported in which people were attacked, thrashed, injured, abused and humiliated by mobs for alleged crimes or no crimes in some cases. | Source

Martha Grevatt (2019-07-27). Northeast Ohio says \"Never again\" workers.org Over 100 members of the Jewish community and allies demonstrated July 23 in northeast Ohio outside the Geauga County Safety Center, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement to detain immigrants. Among them were Holocaust survivors and their children, doctors, educators and many youth, including organizer Lexi Stovsky. Protesters chanted \"Never . . . | Continue reading Northeast Ohio says \"Never again\" at Workers.org

Renee Parsons (2019-07-27). Presidential Candidates Kamala Harris or Tulsi Gabbard. globalresearch.ca It has been decades since a bona fide anti-war candidate ran for US President; that is, a candidate who \'felt\' peace in their bones rather than a political calculation to be exploited. By my reckoning, that last campaign would be …

Eds. (2019-07-27). \"The U.S. got scared\" voices of the resistance in post-coup Honduras. mronline.org Members of the resistance in Honduras tell MintPress how a US-backed coup — and the Neoliberalism it brought with it — have impacted their country. | Source

The Canary (2019-07-27). Demonstrators arrested ahead of Moscow election protest. thecanary.co Russian police have been arresting people outside the Moscow mayor\'s office ahead of an election protest demanding that opposition candidates be allowed to run for the city council.The dispute comes as the Kremlin is struggling with how to deal with strongly opposing views in its own sprawling capital of 12.6 million people.OVD-Info, an organisation that monitors political arrests, said at least 26 people had been detained by police 30 minutes before the protest against the exclusion of opposition candidates from September\'s ballot was to start.There was no immediate information on what charges the detainees migh…

Sarah Aziza (2019-07-27). A Syrian Mother\'s Letter to Her Daughter, \"For Sama\" Shows War in an Unusually Intimate Light. theintercept.com For the majority of Western audiences, the region known as \"the Middle East\" is conceived as a vast swath of constant and inscrutable chaos. In this imagination, diverse conflicts, insurgencies, and civilian revolutions are flattened into a single horrorscape, represented by ubiquitous images of billowing smoke and colorless destruction. Violence, it would appear, is endemic to the region, as natural and inevitable as the endless, hostile desert. | This lack of historicity — and subsequent denial of responsibility — can be partly blamed on Western media that rewards sensationalist, reductionist headli…

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-27). Trump Regime Pressuring Turkey to Keep Its S-400s Nonoperational. globalresearch.ca Pompeo reportedly warned Turkey that it faces \"more (US) sanctions\" if its Russian S-400 air defense missiles become operational. | What\'s the point of them if not able to protect against potential aerial threats. In 2018, US and Ankara officials discussed …

teleSUR (2019-07-27). China, Philippines Reach Consensus on South China Sea. telesurenglish.net China and the Philippines have reached an important consensus on bilateral ties: the South China Sea issue and regional development cooperation. The agreements were made during the 22nd diplomatic consultation between the two countries, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday. | RELATED: | US Sanctions Chinese State-Run Energy Company Over Iranian Oil | Spokesperson Hua Chunying told reporters that this diplomatic meeting in Manila was the first to take place af…

Adelaide Mena (2019-07-27). Addressing the Climate Crisis, Worldwide Reforestation and Industrial Hemp. globalresearch.ca Planting billions of trees across the world is by far the cheapest and most efficient way to tackle the climate crisis. So states a July 4 article in The Guardian, citing a new analysis published in the journal Science…

Sharon Kelly (2019-07-27). As risky finances alienate investors, fracking companies look to retirement funds for cash. nationofchange.org A year ago, Chesapeake Energy, at one time the nation\'s largest natural gas producer, announced it was selling off its Ohio Utica shale drilling rights in a $2 billion deal with a little-known private company based in Houston, Texas, Encino Acquisition Partners. | For Chesapeake, the deal offered a way to pay off some of its debts, incurred…

Nino Pagliccia (2019-07-27). The Caracas Manifesto: Proposal and Promise at the Sao Paulo Forum 2019. globalresearch.ca The 25th Annual Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum is taking place July 25-28 in Caracas, Venezuela. The first meeting was held in 1990 in Sà£o Paulo, Brazil, with 48 political organizations and social movements led by Fidel Castro…

Jamie White (2019-07-27). Highlights: Watch House Republicans Tear Mueller Apart at Hearing. globalresearch.ca Former FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday over the findings of his report into so-called \"Russian collusion,\" and Republicans took him to the woodshed. | Throughout the hearing, Republican members of the committee exposed …

BroadbandSearch (2019-07-27). Who Invented the Internet — A Full History. globalresearch.ca The internet has become a staple of modern life. We use it to shop for what we need and want, talk to friends and family, run businesses, meet new people, watch movies and TV, and pretty much everything you can …

Hassan Diab Support Committee (2019-07-27). Report on Hassan Diab\'s Illegal Extradition from Canada. The Segal Report. globalresearch.ca We were informed that the Department of Justice will release tomorrow (Friday July 26) the findings of an external review of Dr. Hassan Diab\'s extradition to France in 2014. | The external review was conducted by Murray Segal, former …

Anya Karaman (2019-07-27). Agricultural Literacy: A Solution to Youth Idleness and Unemployment. globalresearch.ca At a juvenile detention center in Fes (Morocco), it feels like summer camp is all year round. There, \"maximum security\" is an open, white building complex, \"delinquents\" are watering plants and planting seeds, and the only guard in sight, if …

John Helmer (2019-07-27). The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Tragedy, Suppression and Tampering of the Evidence. New Documentary. globalresearch.ca A new documentary from Yana Yerlashova and Max van der Werff, the leading independent investigator of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 disaster, has revealed breakthrough evidence of tampering and forging of prosecution materials; suppression of Ukrainian Air Force radar …

Andrew Korybko (2019-07-27). The U.S. Has No Place in Stirring Up China-Vietnam Relations. globalresearch.ca American diplomats were trying to stir up trouble in Chinese-Vietnamese relations by making aggressive statements regarding Hanoi\'s request that Beijing cease conducting seismic research in part of the South China Sea region that lies within the nine-dash line. A survey …

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-07-27). Australia\'s Mack Horton\'s Anti-Drug Stance. globalresearch.ca The first rush of enthusiasm on looking at this is clear: a high-achieving swimmer on the circuit — the Australian Mack Horton — decides to take a stance. It\'s not about refugees, Donald Trump or climate change. Unlike other sportspeople …

Staff (2019-07-27). These Three Bills Could Help Rein in Executive Pay. truthout.org | | Here\'s one sign of the unpopularity of overpaid corporate and banking executives: Shortly before heading home to face constituents during the summer recess, members of Congress introduced three bills to crack down on excessive compensation. | Stop Wall Street Looting: | The new Stop Wall Street Looting Act would protect workers and communities against the vulture-like private equity firm…

James Wright (2019-07-27). How the UK\'s most extraordinary festival is fighting climate catastrophe. thecanary.co The UK\'s most extraordinary festival, Boomtown, has stepped up its sustainability plans for 2019. The initiatives behind its latest \'chapter\', entitled \'A Radical City\', cannot come soon enough. With the global consensus for acting on climate catastrophe moving from 12 years to just 18 months, it\'s im…

John Shafthauer (2019-07-27). Free speech advocate Jacob Rees-Mogg is literally banning his staff using certain words. thecanary.co As Jacob Rees-Mogg takes his place in Boris Johnson\'s new cabinet, it\'s been revealed that he has a style guide and a list of banned words. They\'re as backwards and weird as you\'d expect. People had fun with it, but some of Rees-Mogg\'s writerly demands are troubling.It turns out the free speech advocate

RT (2019-07-27). Insect invasion: Massive grasshopper swarms strike Las Vegas (PHOTO, VIDEOS). rt.com Las Vegas has been invaded by thousands of swarming grasshoppers that descended en masse on the tourist-filled strip.

Brasil Solidarity Network & others (2019-07-27). Rally: Defend the Amazon & Support Brasil\'s Indigenous Women\'s March! indybay.org Brazilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery St, San Francisco 94104-1901…

Tri Valley Cares & Co-sponsors (2019-07-27). Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Nuclear Weapons Protest Rally & March at Livermore Labs. indybay.org Livermore Lab, Vasco Rd & Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore, California…

WSWS (2019-07-27). FTC imposes $5 billion fine on Facebook for \"deceiving users\" about data privacy. wsws.org The settlement is part of a concerted effort by the US government to implement regulations and control over social media platforms.

RT (2019-07-27). Troubled nuclear fuel plant in S. Carolina kept radioactive trash in LEAKY & RUSTY container. rt.com A rusty shipping container full of uranium-tainted trash was found to be seeping contaminated sludge into the soil at Westinghouse fuel rod factory in S. Carolina, adding another radiation spike to the facility\'s list of troubles.

Register Peace & Freedom or Green (2019-07-27). AIPAC\'s Anti-BDS Resolution Easily Wins Bipartisan Support. indybay.org Palestine remains the litmus test issue and once again, the Democrats showed their true colors on July 23, 2019 with 209 Democrats joining 189 Republicans in voting for pro Zionist Israel AIPAC\'s HRes 246, Roll Call 497 opposing the Boycott Divest Sanctions Movement of the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. See https: //clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll497.xml. The bill may be found at www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/246/all-actions?overview=closed&q=%7B%22roll-call-vote%22%3A%22all%22%7D…

WSWS (2019-07-27). Australian central bank chief fearful of rising global tensions. wsws.org \"When businesses are nervous, they don\'t want to invest,\" Philip Lowe warned a corporate lunch audience.

WSWS Repost (2019-07-27). Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants. indybay.org In this commentary from the World Socialist Web Site, Patrick Martin describes how a recent viral video helps expose fundamental lies behind doomsday predictions of an America on the brink of race war.

WSWS (2019-07-27). Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget. wsws.org Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, both members of the Democratic Socialists of America, voted for a bill that includes a record $738 billion for the military.

WSWS (2019-07-27). German government uses 75th anniversary of plot to kill Hitler to promote rearmament and war. wsws.org It is only logical that the German ruling class hails the assassins of July 20, who were extreme nationalists and deeply involved in Nazi crimes.

WSWS (2019-07-27). The mass drownings off Libya and the fight to defend refugees. wsws.org The ongoing wave of atrocities against refugees demonstrates that it is impossible to defend immigrants without a mass, international movement against capitalism.

WSWS (2019-07-27). Stranger Things, Season 3: Nostalgia for the 1980s meets anti-Russian hysteria. wsws.org Stranger Things, created by the Duffer Brothers, continues with its tribute to the 1980s, science fiction and horror themes.

Rick Nagin (2019-07-26). Impeach Trump—A template for writing your member of Congress. peoplesworld.org Following the testimony of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which again repeated the evidence of Trump\'s obstruction of justice and other crimes, People\'s World correspondent Rick Nagin in Ohio wrote to his member of Congress, Marcy Kaptur. He encouraged her to push Congressional leaders to begin impeachment proceedings against the president. We share his letter …

Ricardo Vaz (2019-07-26). Venezuela recovers from blackout as Guaido \'approves\' military treaty reincorporation. mronline.org Caracas blamed the blackout on an \"electromagnetic attack\" while recovery was faster than before. | Source

Paul Street (2019-07-26). How the People Change History. counterpunch.org The Electoral College is a far greater obstacle to democracy in the United States than the laughably minor problem of \"Russian interference in our [supposed great] democracy\" — the matter that Democrats and their many media allies sadly chose to roil the nation about, dangling the threat of impeachment, for the last two and half years. More

Tony Cartalucci (2019-07-26). Destabilizing Pakistan: Bookending Washington\'s China Policy. globalresearch.ca Much is being said of US activities aimed at China. Recent protests in Hong Kong together with a US-led propaganda campaign aimed at Beijing\'s attempts to quell a growing terrorist threat in Xinjiang are aimed at pressuring the nation to …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-07-26). US Foreign Policy in Shambles: NATO and the Middle East. How Do You Wage War Without Allies? globalresearch.ca Israel is obviously a major partner of the US and NATO. But there\'s another element in US-Israeli relations. Israel also has an unspoken and unofficial alliance with Russia, where Netanyahu has a personal relationship with Putin.

teleSUR (2019-07-26). Colombia: Ex-Farc Killed, Justice Protests Staged Around World. telesurenglish.net Six bullets ended the life of a former guerrilla of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Thursday night, Colombian police reported Friday. | RELATED: | 100s of Cities Around World Join to \'Defend Peace in Colombia\' | Carlos Alberto Montaño Mosquera was ambushed outside a welding workshop in Cali, Valle del Cauca by armed men riding motorcycles. | \"It all happened when a subject arrived on a motorcycle, called him to the front yard and triggered six shots,\" said Sant…

Andrew Levine (2019-07-26). Trump: the GOP\'s Exterminating Angel. counterpunch.org Anyone with normal sensibilities who does not tune the world out completely cannot help but find the Trump presidency disorienting and upsetting — not only because the fate of the planet is in the hands of an illiberal, willfully ignorant, inept, sleaze ball with a Mussolini smirk, whose modus operandi is to stir up racial More

Dave Lindorff (2019-07-26). Hong Kong and Puerto Rico: Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control. counterpunch.org Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of Britain, which conquered and held onto it since the Opium War in 1841, now returned to China, but still existing in a kind of neo-colonial relationship to that country, the other an island More

Reese Erlich (2019-07-26). Foreign Correspondent: Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace. progressive.org Warren\'s troubling foreign policy history includes uncritical support of Israel, supporting sanctions on Venezuela, and vilifying Russia and China as national security threats. But her views are also evolving.

John Bachtell (2019-07-26). Political and constitutional crisis: The extreme-right threat to democracy. peoplesworld.org This is part 4 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, Illinois, June 21-23, 2019. Other installments available here. The abbreviated oral presentation is available here. John Bachtell served as CPUSA …

Michael Barker (2019-07-26). Combatting Surveillance Capitalism: An Orwellian Lesson in History from Ford to Google. counterpunch.org Close scrutinization of the daily lives of workers has always played an important role in enabling capitalists to squeeze greater profits from their workforce. The relentless surveillance of employees, whether it be on the factory floor or in the workers\' homes, was something that the anti-Semitic industrialist, Henry Ford, was proud to have honed to More

Dave Lindorff (2019-07-26). Corporate Media\'s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew. counterpunch.org In 2016, we learned that the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton Campaign, even before the primary season began, conspired to sabotage the campaign of her leading opponent for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). The conspiracy, that ranged from obtaining campaign debate questions in advance for Clinton and front-loading primaries in states More

Ryan Grim (2019-07-26). Ohio Republicans Balked at a Nuclear Bailout, so the Industry Elected New Republicans — and Walked Away With $1.1 Billion. theintercept.com A newly elected state legislature, backed by a dark-money effort linked primarily to the nuclear industry, overcame years of opposition to pass the bailout.