B. Nimri Aziz (2019-08-01). Intimacies From an Awful War. counterpunch.org If you think you\'ve seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven\'t. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the birth of your child, comes an intimate demonstration of how war happens to you and More

Fight Back (2019-08-01). \'Never Again is Now\' protest shuts down ICE in Minneapolis. fightbacknews.org Minneapolis, MN – A few hundred protesters blocked off all roads outside of the Whipple Federal Building here at a 'Never Again is Now' protest July 30, shutting down business as usual to demand that the government close the concentration camps at the U.S.-México border. | Hundreds of cars were blocked from leaving the building where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is housed for several hours at the end of the work day. At the end of the action around 30 people were cited and released by Hennepin County cops. | The protest was organized by Jewish community members opposed to the camps at the U…

Eds. (2019-08-01). Russiagate as organized distraction. mronline.org Oliver Boyd-Barrett looks at who benefits from having the corporate media suffocate their public with a puerile narrative for over two years. | Source

Martha Rosenberg (2019-08-01). How Slick Consulting Firms Get Us on Drugs. counterpunch.org Ninety-one people a day die from opioids and 1000 visit ERs in the US according to the CDC. How did opioid makers get such a deathly grip on the US population? Recently, the New York Times reported that the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company had a big hand in these morbid figures. McKinsey advised More

David Mattson (2019-08-01). Grizzly Twister and Other Games that Scientists Play. counterpunch.org Those of you who were born after 1970 probably don\'t remember a game made by Milton Bradley called Twister that in 1966 exploded onto the national stage and into America\'s living rooms and dens. Its popularity was considerably enhanced when Johnny Carson leaned scandalously over Eva Gabor\'s partially clad buttocks during a live demonstration of More

Linn Washington Jr. (2019-08-01). Presidential Racism: Shining Example of America\'s Somber Status Quo. counterpunch.org Trump trumpets the low unemployment rate among blacks as proof that his body contains no racist \"bones.\" | But what Trump doesn\'t say (and what the media doesn\'t report adequately) is that the current unemployment rate for blacks remains about twice that of whites. The June 2019 national unemployment rate for whites was 3.3 percent compared to 6 percent for blacks. The June 2000 rate was 3.6 percent for whites and 7.8 percent for blacks. More

Staff (2019-08-01). Democrats\' Divisions Test Biden\'s Front-Runner Strength. truthdig.com DETROIT—The ideological divisions gripping the Democratic Party intensified on Wednesday as presidential candidates waged an acrimonious battle over health care, immigration and race that tested the strength of early front-runner Joe Biden\'s candidacy. | The former vice president was repeatedly forced to defend his decades-old political record against pointed attacks from his younger, diverse rivals, who charged that Biden\'s eight-year relationship with President Barack Obama was not reason enough to earn the Democratic nomination. | The attacks on Biden in the second presidential debate were most vivid com…

teleSUR (2019-08-01). Yemen\'s Houthi Attack Military Parade in Aden: 32 Killed. telesurenglish.net Yemen\'s Houthi Movement launched this morning a drone and missile attack on a pro-government military parade in the port-city of Aden. | RELATED: | Saudi Forces Kill 13 in \'Massacre\' at Yemen Market | According to a report from the Houthi-aligned Military Media, the attack was carried out on a military parade at the Al-Jalaa Camp in the Buraiqa District of Aden. | The Medecins Sans Frontieres tweeted that tens of wounded were hospitalized, while other reports claimed that 32 were killed, in…

teleSUR (2019-08-01). Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man at Gaza Border. telesurenglish.net A Palestinian man was killed on Thursday morning while attempting to carry out an operation to break the siege on the Gaza region, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported. | RELATED: | Palestine Energy Initiative: Use Biomass to be Self-Sufficient | According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the operation was carried out by Hani Abu Salah, a Palestinian man in his twenties from the Gaza region. | The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced shortly after the attack that thre…

teleSUR (2019-08-01). Rouhani Accuses US of \'Childish Behavior\' Over New Sanctions. telesurenglish.net Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursdayslammed the U.S. Treasury\'s recent decision to sanction Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, describing the move as puerile and senseless. | RELATED: | Iran to Europe: Fix INSTEX or Will Reduce Deal Commitments | According to the state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency, Rouhani accused the U.S. of \"childish behavior\", especially after the Trump administration expressed an interest to meet with the Iranian government in Tehra…

Jason Ditz (2019-08-01). US Sanctions Iran\'s Foreign Minister; Move Seen as Rebuke of Diplomatic Offer. theantimedia.com The latest US sanctions on Iran are very specific, hitting FM Javad Zarif, blocking all property and financial interests he has in the US.

Kurt Nimmo (2019-08-01). The National Security State Needs an Enemy: Senator Warren Warns About \"White Supremacist\" Threat. globalresearch.ca The national security state requires a roster of enemies to justify its existence. Beginning in the late 1940s, it was the Commies, not simply the Soviet Union but Commies everywhere—in the State Department, the neighborhood PTA, even under your bed….

Barbara Nimri Aziz (2019-08-01). Intimacies from an Awful War. \"For Sama\" by Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts. globalresearch.ca If you think you\'ve seen enough of conflict, especially the war in Syria, you haven\'t. From love of nation and loathing of military rule, from inchoate hope of redemption and improbable determination, indebted to lost friends and seeded in the …

Miri Wood (2019-08-01). Idlib and NATO\'s War of Terror against the Syrian People. globalresearch.ca UN Bullies in meticulous suits have launched another hospitals bombing psywar campaign to support NATO\'s last terrorists in Idlib. It should be scandalous, international news, that key members of the United Nations continue to ignore the Geneva Agreements on hospitals, …

Asad Ismi (2019-08-01). Bolsonaro\'s Clearcut Populism.\"The Barbarism has Begun\" globalresearch.ca \"The barbarism has begun,\" declared the Pankarurú Indigenous nation after Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil\'s neofascist president, won fraudulent elections in October 2018 amidst accusations of breaking financing rules and shamelessly spreading fake news. The Pankarurú inhabit a northeastern part of …

Jerome Irwin (2019-08-01). Water Not Oil: Battle Cry Of The Blue Planet. counterpunch.org It\'s Mother Earth\'s battle cry inspired by the world\'s dire climate crisis that has been sung by many for years yet still hasn\'t yet resolutely been taken up by the world as a whole. So the cry remains: what ultimately is more important: Water or Oil? The Human World is starved for both. But which More

Michael Doliner (2019-08-01). An Encounter in Pershing Square. counterpunch.org I was sitting at one of the cheap plastic tables in Pershing Square when a woman who had already stowed more than a couple under her belt fell into the next chair. She took out a wineskin and two glasses, poured a glass for each of us, and asked me what I did for a More

Harry Blain (2019-08-01). Calls to \"Send Them Back\" are Mainstream in Israel. counterpunch.org President Trump and his supporters have exploited the state of Israel for two shifty rhetorical maneuvers: accusing their opponents of racism, and concealing their own. The rebuttal to Trump\'s many flirtations with anti-Semitism and anti-Semites is his overflowing love for the Jewish State, while the Muslim women mildly supporting Palestinian rights in Congress are smeared More

Wim Laven (2019-08-01). We Fall, Divided. counterpunch.org On Sunday July 28th\"the world\'s greatest summer food fair\" came to a tragic end. A \"really angry\" 19 year-old-white-supremacist snuck into the Gilroy Garlic Festival and committed a mass shooting, killing three people and injuring 15 more. I followed closely as the events were reported; I had flashbacks to the worst mass shooting in recent More

Sufyan Bin Uzayr (2019-08-01). Astana, Kazakhstan: the City of the Future? counterpunch.org Continuing my travels through the ex-Soviet states, I reached Astana (now, Nur-Sultan City) from Tashkent. Ever wondered what would happen if someone were to play Minecraft in real life? Like, build stuff from the ground up? Meet Astana, now known as Nur-Sultan City. This approx 1-million strong city happens to be the capital of Kazakhstan. More

Dean Baker (2019-08-01). Missing Issues on the Economics of a Fed Rate Cut. counterpunch.org A Washington Post piece on the issues surrounding a rate cut this week by the Federal Reserve Board missed many important points. First, and most importantly, it never once mentioned that inflation has been persistently below the Fed\'s 2.0 percent target. This matters both for the Fed\'s credibility and more importantly as a protection policy More

Andrés Castro (2019-08-01). Should I Speak of Distant Oppression? counterpunch.org Should I Speak of Distant Oppression? Generations of my people were never butchered for their land or turned into roaming refugees; my elders were not tortured for talking back; I was not forced to see a sister or mother raped; my son and daughter never ran for their lives; they could simply walk to school More

F. William Engdahl (2019-08-01). Erdogan\'s Risky Geopolitical Pirouette. Turkey\'s Economy in \"Troubled Waters\" globalresearch.ca Turkey\'s economy has been in increasingly difficult straits for months, especially since the failed July 2016 coup attempt. The latest move by President Recep Tayyip Erdoƒüan to fire his central bank head and replace him with a more amenable loyalist …

Julian Rose (2019-08-01). 5G Agriculture — Food from Frankenstein Farming. globalresearch.ca The director of development at Ericsson, Marcin Sugak, is excited. He has a new toy to sell to agribusiness farmers. This particular toy, he claims, is going to \'overcome\' all the difficult new challenges facing agriculture today. It will be …

Caoimhghin àì Croidheáin (2019-08-01). Romanticism and Literature: Serving Human Liberty? globalresearch.ca \"Swift has sailed into his rest; | Savage indignation there | Cannot lacerate his breast. | Imitate him if you dare, | World-besotted traveller; he | Served human liberty.\" | W. B. Yeats translation of Jonathan Swift\'s Latin epitaph. | Introduction | In this continuing series on the …

Makia Freeman (2019-08-01). Psychotechnology: How Artificial Intelligence Is Designed to Change Humanity. globalresearch.ca Psychotechnology is a word coined by William Ammerman, although the word may also have been coined by others and share multiple meanings. Ammerman defines the word as \"technology that influences people psychologically by deploying artificial intelligence through digital media.\" …

Party for Socialism and Liberation (2019-08-01). Socialist Analysis & Discussion \"Money for War, But Can\'t Feed the Poor\" indybay.org 2969 Mission St., near 26th St.

Jake Johnson, staff writer (2019-08-01). Latest Proof Trump \'Unwilling and Incapable\' of Engaging in Peace Talks as US Sanctions Iran\'s Top Diplomat. commondreams.org \"Again, President Trump has chosen an action to push Iran away from the negotiating table, isolate America on the world stage, and take diplomatic options off the table.\" | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/javad_zarif.jpg …

pip.hinman (2019-08-01). Rojava Revolution celebrated in Sydney. greenleft.org.au Kurdish community members and supporters gathered on July 27 to celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Rojava Revolution in northern Syria. | Greens MLA for the seat of Balmain Jamie Parker addressed the function along with the Socialist Alliance\'s Susan Price. | Parker pledged to continue supporting the campaign to remove the Kurdistan Workers\' Party (PKK) from the Australian government\'s list of proscribed terrorist organisations and recognise them as an organisation fighting for freedom. | Price praised the Rojava Revolution as a \"beacon of hope\" in the Middle East, and remembered the martyrs from the People\'s P…

WSWS (2019-08-01). The Democrats and Detroit. wsws.org The bitter experience of Detroit workers exposes the claims by Sanders, Warren and others that the Democrats represent a genuine alternative to Trump\'s reactionary policies.

RT (2019-08-01). New twist in Butina case possible after FBI informant denied she posed threat to US — lawyer to RT. rt.com A new development in the case of the Russian gun activist Maria Butina has emerged after an FBI informant, with whom she had an affair, revealed that he repeatedly told the agency that the woman posed no threat to the US.

RT (2019-08-01). Trump wants to strip medals from Navy lawyers who failed to convict SEAL of war crimes. rt.com US President Donald Trump has demanded the Navy strip military prosecutors who failed to convict SEAL Eddie Gallagher on murder charges of the medals they were awarded after losing the case, calling the awards \"ridiculous.\"

Staff (2019-08-01). UN Report on Child Casualties Blacklists only Muslim Perpetrators. therealnews.com Secretary General Antionio Guterres presented the report on child casualties in war to the Security Council on Friday. Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen are the areas with the highest numbers of child casualties, followed by Palestine. Nearly all the children killed were Muslim…

The Canary (2019-08-01). Labour slams the government\'s \'Neo-police state\' plans for traffic officers in no-deal \'chaos\'. thecanary.co Lorry drivers and haulage firms face increased fines in the event of a no-deal Brexit, with Labour comparing new powers for traffic officers to a \"neo-police state\". | According to Sky News, the Department for Transport has set out proposals for Highways England traffic officers to be given the power to demand and check drivers\' documentation in a consultation. | John Howarth, Labour MEP for the South East region, which covers Dover, said the Government is secretly seeking to give draconian powers to traffic officers. | He added: \"I am alarmed by the reports of secret plans for unprecedented summary powers for tr…

susan_p (2019-08-01). Seventh anniversary of the Rojava Revolution. greenleft.org.au July 19 marked the seventh anniversary of northern Syria\'s Rojava Revolution. On that day in 2012 the nascent People\'s Protection Units (YPG) took control of the Kurdish-majority city of Kobanê. The outnumbered forces of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad surrendered and were allowed to depart (without their weapons). Other Kurdish cities and towns in the north were soon liberated as well. | From these beginnings, the liberated zone has grown into the General Council of the Self Administration in Northern and Eastern Syria (NES). Together with civic councils in towns liberated from the Islamic State (Manbij, Tabqa,…

San Francisco-Bay Area Veterans For Peace (2019-08-01). Vigil to Expose Monsanto. indybay.org Union Square, Downtown San Francisco. Bordered by Geary Blvd. and Post Street; and Powell and Stockton Street.

Norma Smith (2019-08-01). Poetry to Close the Camps. indybay.org 630 Sansome St (Immigration and Customs Enforcement HQ)…

susan_p (2019-08-01). When Japanese print workers resisted war. greenleft.org.au Against the Storm: How Japanese Print-Workers Resisted the Military Regime, 1935-1945 | By Masao Sugiura
| Translated by Kaye Broadbent & Masa Sato | Interventions, Melbourne | 2019, $24.95 | \"In doing what is normal for any trade union activist today —recruiting, arguing and organising — my comrades and I were made to suffer persecution, imprisonment and death,\" writes Masao Sugiura. | When researching Japanese working-class resistance to World War II, Kaye Broadbent discovered in a Japanese university archive Sugiura\'s 1964 memoirs detailing the formation and activities of the Shuppanako Kurabu…

pip.hinman (2019-08-01). Thanks Miranda Devine, but we will win abortion reform. greenleft.org.au Thank you Miranda Devine for your wild overreaction to the bill before NSW parliament to treat abortion as a health issue (\"Vote Libs, get Greens\", Daily Telegraph, July 31), as it will no doubt lose you and News.com support. | It must also surely rank as top fake news of the week. Far from being \"one of the most dangerous radical abortion bills on the planet\", the bill is modelled on existing Queensland and Victorian law. | Moreover, your view that Coalition MPs\' support for basic health care for women is somehow a Labor-Green plot is equally bizarre. This bill is not about late-term abortions, as you suggest. I…

WSWS (2019-08-01). Video shows Dallas, Texas police joking as a 32-year-old man dies in their custody. wsws.org Disturbing body camera footage was only released after all charges were dropped and the three officers who killed Tony Timpa in 2016 returned to active duty earlier this year.

WSWS (2019-08-01). German politicians and media urge military action in the Persian Gulf. wsws.org The more the US pushes ahead with its preparations for war against Iran, the louder the voices will become in Europe that are pushing for military action.

susan_p (2019-08-01). Legendary anti-war singer to headline Sydney Folk Festival. greenleft.org.au Legendary Scottish-Australian folk singer Eric Bogle, best known for his anti-war classics \"And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda\" and \"The Green Fields of France\", will headline the Sydney Folk Festival this month. | Although headlined by Bogle, whose career has spanned decades, the festival being held on August 16-18 aims to highlight new music in \"a massive celebration of the best and most adventurous in today\'s new generation of folk\", according to the festival\'s director, Warren Fahey. | Fahey said the festival will \"totally blow away\" any outdated stereotypes of \"old school\" folk. | \"For quite a while folk m…

Eugene E Ruyle (2019-08-01). Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Build Nuclear Weapons. indybay.org NPML, 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)…

Democracy Now! (2019-08-01). Gilroy Shooter Touted White Supremacist Text, Posted Racist Content Before Massacre. indybay.org In California, police have identified the gunman who killed three people—including two children—at a mass shooting Sunday at the Gilroy Garlic Festival as 19-year-old Santino William Legan. He was fatally shot by police at the scene. Authorities say they are still determining a motive for the attack, but the gunman\'s social media activity shows him promoting a manifesto on white supremacy just moments before the rampage. He also wrote in a post Sunday, \"Why overcrowd towns and pave more open space to make room for hordes of mestizos and Silicon Valley white twats?\"

WSWS (2019-08-01). Body of Steve Caniàßo, killed in police raid, found in France\'s Loire River. wsws.org Prime Minister Edouard Philippe shamelessly declared that \"no link\" could be established between the police raid and Caniàßo\'s death.

susan_p (2019-08-01). Gunboat diplomacy in the Persian Gulf. greenleft.org.au The United States and Britain are ensuring that tensions remain high in the Straits of Hormuz as they continue beating the drums of war against Iran. | A second British warship arrived in the Strait of Hormuz on July 29, tasked with escorting British-flagged commercial vessels between the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf. | This latest escalation follows a number of incidents since June 13 when two oil tankers (one Japanese, the other Norwegian) were hit by explosives and caught fire. The US immediately blamed Iran for the attacks, accusing it of trying to disrupt oil supplies. | A few days later a US spy drone…

Curt Wechsler (2019-08-01). No Concentration Camps! No Fascist USA! Trump/Pence Must Go! indybay.org Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | 630 Sansome Street, San Francisco | This event is part of 30 Days of Action to Close the Camps…

WSWS (2019-08-01). Mass protests erupt after Sudan\'s military junta guns down school children. wsws.org Six people were killed, including four young students, and more than 60 injured. The junta has now closed down all the nation\'s schools in an effort to shut down demonstrations.

WSWS (2019-08-01). Blair\'s number two, Alastair Campbell, reveals how Corbyn tried to keep him in the Labour Party. wsws.org An unindicted war criminal alongside former prime minister Tony Blair, Campbell was a key architect in concocting the lies about Iraq\'s possessing Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Eds. (2019-08-01). How fast is the climate changing? mronline.org Are recent weather patterns a prescient warning that Climate Change is upon us? Yes, according to John Molyneux, and time is running out. | Source