Ed Sykes (2019-07-29). Anger as Boris Johnson lets Tory MP Mark Field off the hook for attack on peaceful protester. thecanary.co Conservative MP Mark Field attacked a peaceful protester in late June. But just over a month later, new prime minister Boris Johnson has let him off the hook. And for many, Johnson\'s inaction shows he \"really doesn\'t give a hoot about misconduct\". | Letting a thug off the hook: | On 20 June, Greenpea…

John Washington (2019-07-29). \'It\'s Not Shameful to Work in the Fields. But It\'s Hard.\'. thenation.com \'It\'s Not Shameful to Work in the Fields. But It\'s Hard.\'

teleSUR (2019-07-29). Colombian Social Leader Shot a Day After \'Defend Peace\' March. telesurenglish.net Yisella Trujillo, a social leader from Colombia was murdered Saturday, less than 24 hours after a march took place against the mass murders of Colombian social and community leaders including members of the People\'s Alternative Revolutionary Force of Colombia (FARC). | RELATED: | 100s of Cities Around World Join to \'Defend Peace in Colombia\' | Trujillo…

Kani Xulam (2019-07-29). An Open Letter to Paulo Coelho. counterpunch.org \"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.\" —Voltaire Dear Mr. Coelho, You are hot news in Kurdistan—among our literati so to speak. But we can\'t yet award you any literary prize for honoring our homeland and its hapless children in your novel, Eleven Minutes. Perhaps we should. We genuinely thank More

George Burchett (2019-07-29). For a Peaceful and United Korea. counterpunch.org I have watched live on TV all three meetings between Chairman Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump: the first one in Singapore on June 12, 2018, the second one in Hanoi (where I live) on 27-28 February 2019, and the last one at the DMZ on June 30, 2019. All three meetings were moments More

Staff (2019-07-29). Headlines for July 29, 2019. democracynow.org Baltimore Pushes Back After Trump Calls City \"Rodent Infested Mess\" and Attacks Rep. Cummings, Gunman Kills 3, Injures 15 at Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California, Shooting at Brownsville, Brooklyn, Block Party Kills 1, Injures 11, SCOTUS OKs Trump Plan to Use Military Funds for Border Wall, U.S. and Guatemala Sign Controversial Immigration Deal Despite Widespread Opposition, Dir. of National Intelligence Dan Coats Resigns, Brazilian President Bolsonaro Threatens Glenn Greenwald with Imprisonment, Miners Raid Tribe in Brazil, Killing Leader as Amazon Suffers Mass Deforestation by Illegal Loggers, Russian…

Michael Hudson (2019-07-29). The Coming Savings Writedowns. counterpunch.org Debts that can\'t be paid, won\'t be. That point inevitably arrives on the liabilities side of the economy\'s balance sheet. | But what of the asset side? One person\'s debt is a creditor\'s claim for payment. This is defined as \"savings,\" even though banks simply create credit endogenously on their own computers without needing any prior savings. When debts can\'t be paid and debtors default, what happens to these creditors? More

Jonah Raskin (2019-07-29). Why I Write Murder Mysteries. counterpunch.org \"The Valley is a good place to write about precisely because behind the white picket fences and the mansions with their green lawns and swimming pools, you will find the kinds of human dramas that inspired Hammett, Chandler and Dorothy Hughes, another great California mystery writer who ought to be better known than she is.\" More

Philip Giraldi (2019-07-29). The Media Is Reluctant to Report Israel Boasts of Killing Iranians. globalresearch.ca It is rare that a high official in a government will admit that his country has been killing foreigners without any declaration of war or being subjected to an imminent threat, but that is exactly what Israeli Regional Cooperation Minister …

Whitney Webb (2019-07-29). MintCast Interviews Doug Valentine, Author of The Phoenix Program and The CIA as Organized Crime. mintpressnews.com Douglas Valentine joins the MintCast to discuss his extensive work investigating CIA covert operations and current CIA efforts to undermine independent media.

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-29). US/UK Militarization of Persian Gulf Waters Risks War. globalresearch.ca Britain is an appendage of Washington\'s belligerent imperial agenda. Israel, the Saudis, UAE, and other regional regimes hostile to peace operate the same way. | Sending more US and UK warships to Persian Gulf waters has nothing to do with regional …

Robert Fisk (2019-07-29). From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes. counterpunch.org Many believe the Jewish Holocaust was planned by the Nazis at a Berlin lakeside villa at Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Most historians still think the Armenian Holocaust was hatched up by the Ottoman Turks in Istanbul in 1915. Of course, we\'ve long known that the mass slaughter of Europe\'s Jews began the moment the Germans crossed the Polish border on 1 September 1939 — and carried on across the Soviet Union in 1941, seven months before Wannsee. More

Ramzy Baroud (2019-07-29). Bassam Shakaa: The Making of a Palestinian \'Organic Intellectual\'. mintpressnews.com Between his birth in Nablus in 1930 and his death, Bassam Shakaa fought a relentless struggle for Palestinian rights. He challenged Israel, the PA, US imperialism and reactionary Arab governments. Throughout this arduous journey, he survived exile, prison and an assassination attempt.

Fight Back (2019-07-29). Twin Cities marches on Eagan mall demanding justice for Isak Aden. fightbacknews.org Eagan, MN – Hundreds of community members rallied and marched on the Twin Cities Premium Outlets in Eagan on Saturday afternoon, July 27, to demand justice for Isak Aden, a Somali man who was killed by police in this Saint Paul suburb on July 2. | Since the suburbs aren\'t known as Black Lives Matter strongholds, and the Eagan police had militantly tried to prevent family members and protesters from addressing the city council the week before, the rally was started as a line-up along the public sidewalk with chants and political speeches for an hour. This allowed for the crowd to swell as plans were made for furth…

teleSUR (2019-07-29). At Least 20 Killed in Suicide Bombing in Afghanistan. telesurenglish.net Several people were killed on Sunday when a suicide bombing was carried out inside Afghanistan\'s capital city of Kabul, the government said in a statement on Monday morning. | RELATED: | US-Taliban Deal To Precede Intra-Afghan Talks in Peace Process | According to reports, t least 20 people were killed and 50 injured in Afghanistan\'s capital Kabul on Sunday in a suicide bombing and gun battle at vice presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh\'s office. | Saleh, a running mate of A…

Andrew Moss (2019-07-29). Asylum as a Human Right. counterpunch.org In the past year the Trump administration has been applying increasingly restrictive policies to block asylum seekers from pursuing their claims in the U.S. The most recent measure, now temporarily barred by a federal judge\'s injunction, would have required migrants traveling through another country such as Mexico to show proof that they had applied for, More

Staff (2019-07-29). Mass Protests in Colombia and Abroad Decry Killings of 500 Activists Since Peace Accords. democracynow.org Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on Friday in more than 50 cities and towns across Colombia to protest a surge of lethal attacks on indigenous, Afro-Colombian and environmental leaders in recent years. Solidarity marches were held in dozens of cities around the world, from Mexico City to Athens. In 2016, the Colombian government and FARC rebels signed a historic peace accord to move the country forward after a half-century of armed conflict. But since then, nearly 500 human rights activists, many from the Afro-Colombian community, have been killed, targeted for their work combating illegal m…

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-29). Israeli Deadly Force Against Palestinian Civilians. globalresearch.ca For over half a century, Occupied Palestine has been and remains a deadly undeclared free fire war zone. | Time and again, Israeli forces gun down Palestinians engaged in peaceful demonstrations threatening no one. | Gazans under more than 12 years of …

Robert Hunziker (2019-07-29). Alaska Governor Demolishes Climate Research. counterpunch.org Is it merely coincidence that spending cuts hit just as global warming starts \"strutting its stuff like never before\" with collapsing permafrost, like fallen tinker toys that, heretofore, was solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, over eons? What\'s up with this sudden massive thawing of rock-solid permafrost that contains tons and tons of carbon? More

Richard Becker (2019-07-29). \'El Chapo\' Guzman Gets Life — U.S. \"Drug Bankers\" Walk Free. globalresearch.ca Joaquin Guzman, also known as \"El Chapo,\" will likely spend the rest of his life in isolation inside a \"supermax\" prison in Colorado, after his sentencing on July 17 for drug trafficking, money laundering, and other crimes. No U.S. …

Staff (2019-07-29). Russia Arrests Nearly 1,400 at Opposition Protest as Leading Activist Is Possibly Poisoned in Jail. democracynow.org Police in Moscow used violent force to stop an opposition protest on Saturday, arresting nearly 1,400 people in what\'s been described as the largest mass arrest in Russia in a decade. Meanwhile, Alexei Navalny—one of Russia\'s most prominent opposition figures—has been hospitalized after suffering an acute allergic reaction in jail. Navalny\'s doctor said he may have been exposed to \"some toxic agent.\" Saturday\'s protest was organized to denounce the recent barring of opposition candidates from running in an upcoming election for Moscow City Council. We speak with Samuel Greene, director of the Russia I…

Stephen Lendman (2019-07-29). Failed Trump Regime Coup Plot Against Venezuela Continues. globalresearch.ca Over six months since Trump regime designated puppet/usurper in waiting Guaido illegally declared himself interim Venezuelan president, a flagrant constitutional and international law breach, White House hardliners continue pursuing their failed coup plot. | On Saturday in Caracas, Venezuelan National Constituent …

Howie Hawkins (2019-07-29). The Threat of Nuclear War: Nuclear Disarmament Should be a Top 2020 Campaign Issue. But It\'s Being Ignored. globalresearch.ca Two years ago on July 7, 2017, 122 nations approved the text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of NuclearWeapons (TPNW). The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017 for spearheading this achievement. …

Staff (2019-07-29). Baltimore Residents: Trump\'s Attacks on the City Are Rooted in \"Racism and White Supremacy\" democracynow.org President Trump is facing widespread outrage after describing Baltimore as a \"disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess\" in tweets attacking Congressmember Elijah Cummings, one of the most prominent African-American lawmakers in Washington. Trump tweeted that Cummings\'s district is \"considered the Worst in the USA,\" and said \"no human being would want to live there.\" Trump\'s initial tweets came after Fox News ran a story about Baltimore and after Cummings criticized the conditions of immigration jails along the Mexican border. Officials across Baltimore and Maryland denounced the president\'s remarks, and The Balti…

Ronnie Cummins (2019-07-29). The 9% Lie: Industrial Food and Climate Change. counterpunch.org The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S. farmers. This great awakening has arrived just in time, given the record-breaking temperatures, violent weather, crop failures and massive waves of forced migrationthat are quickly becoming More

Dr. Gary G. Kohls (2019-07-29). Ike\'s Warning About America\'s Threat to World Peace: The 15 Biggest Pentagon Contractors that Make Up the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex. globalresearch.ca \"Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of ploughshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well…We have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions.\"…

Dean Baker (2019-07-29). The Dangerously Irresponsible Arguments of the \"Responsible\" Budget Gang. counterpunch.org Last week the Washington Post ran a column by Maya MacGuineas, the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, one of the many pro-austerity organizations that received generous funding from the late Peter Peterson. The immediate target of the column was the standoff over the debt ceiling, but the usual complaints about debt More

Chris Hedges (2019-07-29). The Great Flood. truthdig.com In 2017, Chris Hedges wrote about American society\'s refusal to confront climate change and sea rise. Now, in a month when a hurricane flooded parts of Louisiana and other states and when the Mississippi and some other rivers were at menacing levels, Truthdig reposts that Sept. 10, 2017, column. A new article by Hedges will appear Aug. 12 after he returns from vacation. | How many times will we rebuild Florida\'s cities, Houston, coastal New Jersey, New Orleans and other population centers ravaged by storms lethally intensified by global warming? At what point, surveying the devastation and knowing more is inevita…

Robert Fisk (2019-07-29). From Nazi Germany to Ottoman Turkey, Genocides Begin in the Wilderness, Far From Prying Eyes. counterpunch.org Many believe the Jewish Holocaust was planned by the Nazis at a Berlin lakeside villa at Wannsee on 20 January 1942. Most historians still think the Armenian Holocaust was hatched up by the Ottoman Turks in Istanbul in 1915. Of course, we\'ve long known that the mass slaughter of Europe\'s Jews began the moment the Germans crossed the Polish border on 1 September 1939 — and carried on across the Soviet Union in 1941, seven months before Wannsee. More

Fight Back (2019-07-29). Nicaragua celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Popular Revolution. fightbacknews.org Managua, Nicaragua – On July 19, 500,000 Nicaraguans filled Managua\'s Plaza de la Fe to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the triumph of the Sandinista Popular Revolution and Nicaragua\'s liberation from the U.S.-imposed Somoza dictatorship. | President Daniel Ortega, Vice President Rosario Murillo, Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez and international representatives electrified the crowd – many in attendance had traveled hours in packed caravans from all over the country – with calls for peace, continued economic and social progress, and the defense of Nicaraguan sovereignty in the face of U.S. aggression.

teleSUR (2019-07-29). US: 3 Dead, 15 Injured in Mass Shooting at Food Festival. telesurenglish.net A gunman killed at least three people including a 6-year-old boy, in a mass shooting at a food festival in California Sunday before being shot dead by police. | RELATED: | San Diego Synagogue Shooter Inspired by New Zealand Shooter | The shooter has been identified as 19-year-old Santino William Legan and police were hunting for a second person Monday they believed was involved in the killings. | Progressive Democrats condemned the shooting, calling for immediate gun law reforms…

Chelli Stanley (2019-07-29). Mueller and Trump: Blah Blah Blah. counterpunch.org When I first heard about the possibility that Russians had interfered with our election and were the cause of Trump\'s win, I thought it absurd and laughed aloud. \'Playing on the old American fear of the Russians, huh?\' is what I thought, and didn\'t given it much thought. After noticing the media talking about it More

Danny Sjursen (2019-07-29). How America\'s Wars End (Messily). commondreams.org A dehydrated American infantryman receives trail-side intravenous therapy from U.S. Army field medics. (Photo: Norman Copley/Flickr/cc) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/afghanistan_1.jpg …

teleSUR (2019-07-29). Iran Rejects Talks With Pompeo in Tehran. telesurenglish.net U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Sunday that Iran has rejected his offer to travel to Tehran for direct talks with the Iranian people. | RELATED: | Iran Nuclear Deal Parties Meet, No Solution Reached Yet | \"I recently offered to travel to Tehran and speak directly to the Iranian people. The regime hasn\'t accepted my offer,\" he tweeted. | He added that Washington was not afraid of Iranian officials coming to the United States. | \"We aren\'t afraid of @JZarif [Irani…

Frank Scott (2019-07-29). \"CapitalGate\" Is the Problem, Not \"RussiaGate\": The Imperial System of Global Capitalism is Under Threat. globalresearch.ca \"Under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent …

David Klion (2019-07-29). Can a New Think Tank Put a Stop to Endless War? thenation.com Can a New Think Tank Put a Stop to Endless War?

Dave DeCamp (2019-07-29). US Sanctions Are Still Strangling Venezuela. globalresearch.ca As tensions in the Persian Gulf are taking up most of the headlines, the Trump administration is still seeking regime change in Venezuela. Since coming into office President Trump has had an aggressive policy towards Venezuela\'s President Nicolas Maduro. …

Robert Hunziker (2019-07-29). Alaska Governor Demolishes Climate Research. counterpunch.org Is it merely coincidence that spending cuts hit just as global warming starts \"strutting its stuff like never before\" with collapsing permafrost, like fallen tinker toys that, heretofore, was solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, over eons? What\'s up with this sudden massive thawing of rock-solid permafrost that contains tons and tons of carbon? More

Kerry-anne Mendoza (2019-07-29). One man\'s reason for backing Corbyn is going viral. thecanary.co One man\'s reason for backing Corbyn is going viral. Centrists and Conservatives alike fail to understand the public\'s love affair with the Labour leader. But this man\'s story goes a long way to explaining it.Corbyn cares: Stewart took to Twitter to explain, in three tweets, why Jeremy Corbyn retains his support.

Claire Edwards (2019-07-29). 5G Wireless Technology Is War against Humanity. globalresearch.ca This article was first published in February 2019. | Disclosure about 5G — and its considerable risk for humanity — is occurring within the United Nations. This is thanks to longtime UN staff member and whistle-blower Claire Edwards, who recently contacted …

Staff (2019-07-29). US Leaders Can Now Be Prosecuted for Illegal War. truthout.org | | War is gathering around the world, and autocratic leaders are undermining the legal checks on their discretion to launch attacks abroad. With the rule of law under threat, the International Criminal Court recently defined and activated for prosecution a new crime called the \"crime of aggression.\" The crime of aggression — leadership responsibility for planning, preparing, initiating or waging illegal war — has begun to permeate interna…

Craig Murray (2019-07-29). Tanker Seizures and the Threat to the Global Economy from \"Resurgent Imperialism\" globalresearch.ca The British seizure of the Iranian tanker off Gibraltar was illegal. There is no doubt of that whatsoever. The Iranian response to the seizure of its tanker in the Strait of Gibraltar, by the seizure of a British Tanker in …

Steven Sahiounie (2019-07-29). The Continuing Denial of Rights and Justice to the Palestinian People. globalresearch.ca The right of resistance to occupation, by the Palestinian people, is grounded in international law. Freedom-loving people of the world must remember the words of Nelson Mandela: | \"We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the …

Miri Wood (2019-07-29). NATO Terrorists Bomb Syrian Towns, SAA Bombs NATO Terrorists. globalresearch.ca The flood of tears from NATO media journalists over the impending liberation of Idlib has completely blinded them to facts on the ground in Syria. Over the past weeks, they have missed the mortar, missile and IED attacks on civilians…

Dr. Binoy Kampmark (2019-07-29). Permissible Deviance: Privacy Violations and Facebook\'s FTC Fine. globalresearch.ca It was something of a shrug moment. One of the world\'s largest digital platforms had been fined $5 billion for privacy violations by the Federal Trade Commission, claiming it had violated its 2012 order. The FTC order also requires the …

Global Research News (2019-07-29). Help Secure the Future of GlobalResearch.ca. globalresearch.ca The situation for independent media has changed significantly over the past few years, and not for the better. Despite this, in the face of large corporations attempting to censor our content and curtail our traffic and revenue, we are still …

Ted Walter (2019-07-29). Call for New 9/11 Investigation: New York Area Fire Commissioners Make History. globalresearch.ca They started off by saying the Pledge of Allegiance. Ten minutes later, they were reading the text of a resolution claiming the existence of \"overwhelming evidence\" that \"pre-planted explosives . . . caused the destruction of the three World Trade …

Jonathan Cook (2019-07-29). With Criticism Crushed in the West, Israel Can Enjoy Its Impunity. globalresearch.ca Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in its actions. | The arrival of Donald Trump in the White House …

Pepe Escobar (2019-07-29). The Dragon Lays Out Its Road Map, Denies Seeking Hegemony. \"China\'s National Defense in the New Era\" globalresearch.ca The key merit of China\'s National Defense in the New Era, a white paper released by the State Council in Beijing, is to clear any remaining doubts about where the Middle Kingdom is coming from, and where it\'s going …

Andre Vltchek (2019-07-29). Why Should Iran be Cherished and Defended? globalresearch.ca As I pen this short essay, Iran is standing against the mightiest nation on earth. It is facing tremendous danger; of annihilation even, if the world does not wake up fast, and rush to its rescue. | Stunning Iranian cities are …