Presidential Candidates Kamala Harris or Tulsi Gabbard
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/kamala-tulsi/5684695

The War on Drugs in Mexico Is Also a War on Journalists
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-07-27
| 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…
truthout.org/articles/the-war-on-drugs-in-mexico-is-also-a-war-on-journalists/

Northeast Ohio says \"Never again\"
Martha Grevatt | workers.org | 2019-07-27
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…
workers.org/2019/07/27/northeast-ohio-says-never-again/

Demonstrators arrested ahead of Moscow election protest
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-07-27
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…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/07/27/demonstrators-arrested-ahead-of-moscow-election-protest/

North Korea Tests New Missile in Warning Message to South Korea
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/North-Korea-Tests-New-Missile-in-Warning-Message-to-South-Korea-20190727-0008.html

Trump Regime Pressuring Turkey to Keep Its S-400s Nonoperational
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-pressuring-turkey-keep-its-s-400s-nonoperational/5684733

A Syrian Mother\'s Letter to Her Daughter, \"For Sama\" Shows War in an Unusually Intimate Light
Sarah Aziza | theintercept.com | 2019-07-27
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…
theintercept.com/2019/07/27/syria-war-documentary-for-sama/

\"The U.S. got scared\" voices of the resistance in post-coup Honduras
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
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…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/the-u-s-got-scared-voices-of-the-resistance-in-post-coup-honduras/

China, Philippines Reach Consensus on South China Sea
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-27
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Philippines-Reach-Consensus-on-South-China-Sea–20190727-0009.html

At least 6 people killed in mob lynching incidents in Bihar in past week
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-07-27
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…
mronline.org/2019/07/27/at-least-6-people-killed-in-mob-lynching-incidents-in-bihar-in-past-week/

Addressing the Climate Crisis, Worldwide Reforestation and Industrial Hemp
Adelaide Mena | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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…
globalresearch.ca/cheapest-way-save-planet-grows-like-weed/5684658

As risky finances alienate investors, fracking companies look to retirement funds for cash
Sharon Kelly | nationofchange.org | 2019-07-27
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…
nationofchange.org/2019/07/27/as-risky-finances-alienate-investors-fracking-companies-look-to-retirement-funds-for-cash/

\'Stop police terror, from Philly to Philippines\'
Joe Piette | workers.org | 2019-07-27
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…
workers.org/2019/07/27/stop-police-terror-from-philly-to-philippines/

The Caracas Manifesto: Proposal and Promise at the Sao Paulo Forum 2019
Nino Pagliccia | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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…
globalresearch.ca/caracas-manifesto-proposal-promise-sao-paulo-forum-2019/5684703

Highlights: Watch House Republicans Tear Mueller Apart at Hearing
Jamie White | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/highlights-watch-house-republicans-tear-mueller-apart-hearing/5684705

Report on Hassan Diab\'s Illegal Extradition from Canada. The Segal Report
Hassan Diab Support Committee | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/hassan-diab-press-conference-parliament-hill-friday-july-26-3pm-respond-segal-report/5684670

Who Invented the Internet — A Full History
BroadbandSearch | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/who-invented-internet-full-history/5684683

Agricultural Literacy: A Solution to Youth Idleness and Unemployment
Anya Karaman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/agricultural-literacy-solution-youth-idleness-unemployment/5684676

The Malaysian Airlines MH17 Tragedy, Suppression and Tampering of the Evidence. New Documentary
John Helmer | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/mh17-evidence-tampering-revealed-malaysia-fbi-attempt-seize-black-boxes-dutch-cover-up-forged-telephone-tapes-ukrainian-air-force-hid-radar-records-crash-site-witness-testimony-misreport/5684692

The U.S. Has No Place in Stirring Up China-Vietnam Relations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 | …
globalresearch.ca/u-s-has-no-place-stirring-up-china-vietnam-relations/5684610

Australia\'s Mack Horton\'s Anti-Drug Stance
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-27
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 …
globalresearch.ca/australias-mack-hortons-anti-drug-stance/5684680

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

Free speech advocate Jacob Rees-Mogg is literally banning his staff using certain words
John Shafthauer | thecanary.co | 2019-07-27
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…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/07/27/free-speech-advocate-jacob-rees-mogg-is-literally-banning-his-staff-using-certain-words/

Stranger Things, Season 3: Nostalgia for the 1980s meets anti-Russian hysteria
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
Stranger Things, created by the Duffer Brothers, continues with its tribute to the 1980s, science fiction and horror themes.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/stra-j27.html

Australian central bank chief fearful of rising global tensions
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
\"When businesses are nervous, they don\'t want to invest,\" Philip Lowe warned a corporate lunch audience.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/lowe-j27.html

The mass drownings off Libya and the fight to defend refugees
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
The ongoing wave of atrocities against refugees demonstrates that it is impossible to defend immigrants without a mass, international movement against capitalism.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/pers-j27.html

Rally: Defend the Amazon & Support Brasil\'s Indigenous Women\'s March!
Brasil Solidarity Network & others | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
Brazilian Consulate, 300 Montgomery St, San Francisco 94104-1901…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/25/18824996.php

Troubled nuclear fuel plant in S. Carolina kept radioactive trash in LEAKY & RUSTY container
rt.com | 2019-07-27
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. | …
rt.com/usa/465179-westinghouse-nuclear-waste-leak/

FTC imposes $5 billion fine on Facebook for \"deceiving users\" about data privacy
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
The settlement is part of a concerted effort by the US government to implement regulations and control over social media platforms.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/face-j27.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins House Democrats in vote for Trump war budget
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/budg-j27.html

AIPAC\'s Anti-BDS Resolution Easily Wins Bipartisan Support
Register Peace & Freedom or Green | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
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…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/24/18824957.php

German government uses 75th anniversary of plot to kill Hitler to promote rearmament and war
wsws.org | 2019-07-27
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.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/27/germ-j27.html

Insect invasion: Massive grasshopper swarms strike Las Vegas (PHOTO, VIDEOS)
rt.com | 2019-07-27
Las Vegas has been invaded by thousands of swarming grasshoppers that descended en masse on the tourist-filled strip. | …
rt.com/usa/465217-grasshoppers-invade-las-vegas-videos/

Lessons of Nashville: The working class and the defense of immigrants
WSWS Repost | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
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.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/25/18824968.php

Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Nuclear Weapons Protest Rally & March at Livermore Labs
Tri Valley Cares & Co-sponsors | indybay.org | 2019-07-27
Livermore Lab, Vasco Rd & Patterson Pass Rd, Livermore, California…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/07/27/18825006.php

Salvini Orders Italian Coast Guard Not to Rescue 135 Migrants
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
Italy\'s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini Friday announced that 135 migrants, who remain at an Italian Coast Guard vessel, will not disembark in his country unless European countries agree to welcome them. | RELATED: | 115 Migrants Feared Dead as Boat Capsizes off Libya | \"The European Commission has been officially requested to coordinate the distribution operations of immigrants…
telesurenglish.net/news/Salvini-Orders-Italian-Coast-Guard-Not-to-Rescue-135-Migrants-20190726-0002.html

Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace
Reese Erlich | commondreams.org | 2019-07-26
\"Warren\'s foreign policy positions have shifted a fair amount in recent years, particularly during the past few months.\" (Photo: Marc Nozell/flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/warren_11.jpeg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/07/26/elizabeth-warren-war-and-peace?cd-origin=rss

Killing Tariq: Why We Must Rethink the Roots of Jewish Settlers Violence
Ramzy Baroud | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-26
Seven-year-old Tariq Zabania from Al-Khalil (Hebron) was killed on the spot when an Israeli Jewish settler ran his car over him on July 15. Little Tariq\'s photograph, lying face down on the road, was circulated on social media. His untimely death is heartbreaking. | Tariq\'s innocent blood must not go in vain. For this to happen, we are morally obliged to understand the nature of Jewish settler violence, which cannot be viewed in isolation from the inherent racism in Israeli society as a whole. | We a…
mintpressnews.com/killing-tariq-violence-racism-israel-society-jewish-settlers/260774/

As US Beefs Up Military Presence in the Gulf, Yemen\'s Houthis Turn to Russia for Support
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-07-26
Houthi attempts to engage the UN to broker a peaceful solution to the war on Yemen have stalled. Now, out of options, the movement may have found a willing partner in Moscow.
mintpressnews.com/us-beefs-up-military-gulf-yemen-houthis-turn-to-russia/260792/

Records Show Palantir Made $60 Million Contracting with ICE for Mobile App
Eric Draitser | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Palantir, the secretive data company founded by billionaire Trump surrogate and well-known Silicon Valley techno-goblin Peter Thiel, has come under fire in recent months for its work with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other government agencies involved in implementing Trump\'s racist anti-immigrant policies. Protests organized both from within the tech community and from immigrants\'…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/records-show-palantir-made-60-million-contracting-with-ice-for-mobile-app/

Voices of Afghan women \'must be heard at the table in the peace process and beyond\' UN deputy chief tells Security Council
United Nations | un.org | 2019-07-26
Afghan women have \"paid a high price\" during their country\'s nearly four decades of conflict, the United Nations deputy chief said on Friday, addressing the Security Council a day after Kabul had been hit with a fresh round of \"horrific\" bomb attacks.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/07/1043321

Political and constitutional crisis: The extreme-right threat to democracy
John Bachtell | peoplesworld.org | 2019-07-26
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 …
peoplesworld.org/article/political-and-constitutional-crisis-the-extreme-right-threat-to-democracy/

Only Civic Driven Voter Turnout Can Defeat Tweeter Trump
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
Does the Democratic Party know how to defeat the foul-mouthed, bigoted, self-enriching crony capitalist Donald Trump? Trump pretends to be a populist. In reality he does the bidding of Wall Street instead of Main Street and weakens or repeals governmental health and safety programs. Defeating corrupt, disgraceful, disastrous Donald should be easy. He is, on…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/only-civic-driven-voter-turnout-can-defeat-tweeter-trump/

Corporate Media\'s Trashing of Bernie Sanders Starts Anew
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/corporate-medias-trashing-of-bernie-sanders-starts-anew/

Colombia: Ex-Farc Killed, Justice Protests Staged Around World
telesurenglish.net | 2019-07-26
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…
telesurenglish.net/news/Colombia-Ex-Farc-Killed-Justice-Protests-Staged-Around-World-20190726-0014.html

Foreign Correspondent: Elizabeth Warren on War and Peace
Reese Erlich | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
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.
progressive.org/dispatches/foreign-correspondent-elizabeth-warren-on-war-and-peace-erlich-190726/

Destabilizing Pakistan: Bookending Washington\'s China Policy
Tony Cartalucci | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
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 …
globalresearch.ca/destabilizing-pakistan-bookending-washingtons-china-policy/5684659

The Acid-Washed Witch Hunt Hoax Apple
Mark Fiore | progressive.org | 2019-07-26
Mueller? Boring! The real story is the psycho lovers . . .
progressive.org/dispatches/the-acid-washed-witch-hunt-hoax-apple-fiore-190726/

Hong Kong and Puerto Rico: Two Colonies Doomed to 2nd-Class Status and Remote Central Government Control
Dave Lindorff | counterpunch.org | 2019-07-26
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/07/26/hong-kong-and-puerto-rico-two-colonies-doomed-to-2nd-class-status-and-remote-central-government-control-2/

US Foreign Policy in Shambles: NATO and the Middle East. How Do You Wage War Without Allies?
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-07-26
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.
globalresearch.ca/us-foreign-policy-shambles-nato-middle-east/5684713