Two Foxes and a Hen: Sexual Assault in the Military
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-05
This is now a nation governed by thugs, a government in many ways reminiscent of right-wing authoritarian societies throughout history. It\'s a smiling version of authoritarianism unless a person happens to be an immigrant. There aren\'t death camps or gulags here, unless you\'re an immigrant, or in some cases a prisoner in a place like the federal…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/05/two-foxes-and-a-hen-sexual-assault-in-the-military/

US President Trump proposes tighter gun control tied to immigration reform
rt.com | 2019-08-05
US legislators should pass tougher gun control laws and possibly \"marry\" them to immigration reform, President Donald Trump tweeted. It comes ahead of an announcement on gun violence which he promised to deliver later on Monday. | …
rt.com/usa/465808-trump-tighter-gun-control/

Trump Vows Action After Shootings but Gives Few Details
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-05
The president has suggested a new bill could be paired with immigration reform without explaining how or why the two issues are related.
truthdig.com/articles/trump-vows-action-after-shootings-but-gives-few-details/

The War on Drugs in Mexico is Also a War on Journalists
Susie Day | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-05
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…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/05/the-war-on-drugs-in-mexico-is-also-a-war-on-journalists/

The Artist as Prophet
Chris Hedges | truthdig.com | 2019-08-05
Where is America headed? As the question is endlessly argued, especially during the presidential campaign, potential answers tend to inhabit political realms. However, Chris Hedges, in this column from May 29, 2017, suggests that we also look elsewhere in seeking answers: to our artists. A new article from Hedges will appear next Monday after he returns from vacation. | The Israeli writer and dissident Uri Avnery asked an Egyptian general how the Egyptians managed to surprise the Israelis when they launched the October 1973 war. The general answered: \"Instead of reading the intelligence reports, you should have r…
truthdig.com/articles/the-artist-as-prophet-2/

How Joe Biden\'s Privatization Plans Helped Doom Latin America and Fuel the Migration Crisis
Max Blumenthal | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden has boasted of his role in transforming Colombia and Central America through ambitious economic and security programs. Colombians and Hondurans tell The Grayzone about the damage his plans did to their societies. | *** | While …
globalresearch.ca/how-joe-bidens-privatization-plans-helped-doom-latin-america-fuel-migration-crisis/5685639

Lies and buffoonery: How Boris Johnson\'s fantasy world casts dark shadows in the Middle East
Robert Fisk | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-05
I\'ve worked out that in the past week, I\'ve been told to wait \"only five minutes\" at least four times. In the Arab world, any interview that is delayed will always be accompanied by the assurance that I will only have to wait for five minutes. Or I will be called back on the phone…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/05/lies-and-buffoonery-how-boris-johnsons-fantasy-world-casts-dark-shadows-in-the-middle-east/

Trump Regime Aiming to Blockade Iran and Venezuela?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
International law is clear. Blockades are undeclared acts of war. | No nation may legally use this tactic against another state unilaterally or with coalition partners. | UN Charter provisions are binding international law. Article 39 authorizes the Security Council alone to …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-aiming-blockade-iran-venezuela/5685571

Mass Shootings in America. The US is a \"Gun Society\"
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
They happen with disturbing regularity, two over the weekend. More on them below. | *** | Gun Violence Archive maintains a database of reported shootings in the US, information gotten from law enforcement, media, and government sources. | In 2019, it reported 33,028 …
globalresearch.ca/mass-shootings-america/5685567

Tulsi Gabbard, the Mainstream Media and Treason
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
In case you had not noticed, there is an existential crisis going on within both the MSM and Democratic party that has been on full display during the June and July DNC sponsored presidential debates — and today the DNC …
globalresearch.ca/tulsi-mainstream-media-treason/5685583

NPR Shreds Ethics Handbook to Normalize Regime Change in Venezuela
Lucas Koerner | fair.org | 2019-08-05
The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. | As Greg Grandin writes, Otto Reich, head of the administration\'s Orwellian propaganda outfit known as the Office of Public Diplomacy, informed the public network that his office had contracted \"a special consultant service [to listen] to all NPR programs\" on Central America. Dependent on state funding, NPR promptly buckled under pressure, reassigning reporters viewed as \"too easy on the Sandinistas,\" and…
fair.org/home/npr-shreds-ethics-handbook-to-normalize-regime-change-in-venezuela/

A Syrian Leader Tells His Country\'s Story: An Interview with SAA General Hassan Hassan
Eva Bartlett | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-05
For years, international headlines spotlighting Syria have claimed that the Syrian government, army, and its allies were guilty of a variety of atrocities. Yet as time has passed, many of the accusations levied at government and its allies have been shown to have been either falsified, staged (as in the case of allegations of chemical attacks in eastern Ghouta), or actually committed by the myriad terrorist groups operating in the country. | For their part, Syrian leadership has maintained from the start that the uprising…
mintpressnews.com/syria-interview-with-syrian-arab-army-general-hassan-hassan/261146/

The End of a Cocaine-Fueled Presidency? Juan Orlando Hernandez Faces Regime Change in Honduras
Adrienne Pine | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-05
Honduras has been the epicenter of the Central American exodus and northward migration since the U.S.-backed coup 10 years ago and the ultra-violent repression by President Juan Orlando Hernandez\'s regime, as well as its ultra-neoliberal policies.
mintpressnews.com/end-cocaine-fueled-presidency-juan-orlando-hernandez-regime-change-honduras/261134/

Nobody Will Stop the US if It Blockades Venezuela
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
The US has full escalation dominance in the Hybrid War on Venezuela, so while it would be internationally illegal and morally wrong, neither Caracas nor its partners in Moscow, Beijing, and Tehran would do anything of substance to stop Washington …
globalresearch.ca/nobody-will-stop-us-it-blockades-venezuela/5685618

El Paso Massacre Galvanizes Accelerationists
Cassie Miller and Hatewatch Staff | splcenter.org | 2019-08-05
The domestic terror incident this past weekend in El Paso has energized the growing \"accelerationist\" bloc of the white power movement, which argues violence is the only way to achieve its goal of creating a white, non-Jewish ethnostate.
splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/05/el-paso-massacre-galvanizes-accelerationists

NPR Has Disgraced Itself in Its Venezuela Coverage
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-05
The Reagan administration in 1982 coerced National Public Radio (NPR) to cover more favorably the US terrorist war then being waged against Nicaragua. | As Greg Grandin writes, Otto Reich, head of the administration\'s Orwellian propaganda outfit known as the Office of Public Diplomacy, informed the public network that his office had contracted \"a special consultant service [to listen] to all NPR programs\" on Central America. Dependent on state funding, NPR promptly buckled under pressure, reassigning reporters viewed as \"too easy on the Sandinistas,\" and hir…
truthdig.com/articles/npr-has-disgraced-itself-in-its-venezuela-coverage/

Mass Shootings, Militarism and Policing Are Chapters in the Same Manifesto
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-05
| This weekend, after two mass shooters killed and injured dozens of people in Texas and Ohio,?Rep. Steve Cohen?tweeted, \"You want to shoot an assault weapon? Go to Afghanistan or Iraq. Enlist!\" | Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, apparently did not take issue with the El Paso shooter\'s desire to slaughter people of color — he merely wanted to redirect his bullets toward people of color outside of the United States. His tweet was a chilling reminder of?how the United…
truthout.org/articles/mass-shootings-militarism-and-policing-are-chapters-in-the-same-manifesto/

Rivers of Dust: Water and the Middle East
Conn Hallinan | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-05
Syria and Iraq are at odds with Turkey over the Tigris-Euphrates. Egypt\'s relations with Sudan and Ethiopia over the Nile are tense. Jordan and the Palestinians accuse Israel of plundering river water to irrigate the Negev Desert and hogging most of the three aquifers that underlie the occupied West Bank.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/05/rivers-of-dust-water-the-middle-east/

Brazilian Inmate Tries Jailbreak Disguised as Teenage Daughter
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-05
A masked Rio de Janeiro inmate dressed as a woman tried to break out of a Brazilian jail this weekend in a surreal act of derring-do, only to be thwarted on the cusp of freedom by state prison authorities. | RELATED: | Brazil Prison Riot Kills 52, with 16 Decapitated | Clauvino da Silva, a drug dealer from the city of Angra dos Reis, was caught by prison guards at the Bangu jail complex in Rio state on Saturday, as he tried to exit via the front door after visiting hours. The Rio state prison au…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazilian-Gang-Leader-Tries-Jailbreak-Disguised-as-Teenage-Daughter-20190805-0009.html

Is There a Third Way in Libya? What can Break the Deadlock in Libya\'s Civil War?
Richard Galustian | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
What can break the deadlock in Libya\'s civil war? | Ghassan Salame, the UN\'s point man for Libya began his analysis and brief to the Security Council last week by emphasising that the armed conflict in Libya \"shows no signs | …
globalresearch.ca/is-there-a-third-way-in-libya-what-can-break-the-deadlock-in-libyas-civil-war/5685577

Amid Conservative Assault on Organized Labor, Democratic Lawmakers Are Advancing Laws to Expand Workers\' Rights
Rachel M. Cohen | theintercept.com | 2019-08-05
Nevada and Delaware passed laws this summer giving public-sector workers the right to collectively bargain. Colorado is expected to follow suit next year.
theintercept.com/2019/08/05/unions-collective-bargaining-laws/

We Desperately Need Marianne Williamson\'s Message. It\'s Ominous That We\'re Only Getting It From Marianne Williamson
Jon Schwarz | theintercept.com | 2019-08-05
It\'s alarming that only someone given to wild flights of irrationality believes that America can hear the truth about itself and respond rationally.
theintercept.com/2019/08/05/marianne-williamson-2020-presidential-campaign/

The Dirtbag Magnetism of Phoebe Waller-Bridge\'s \'Fleabag\'
Erin Schwartz | thenation.com | 2019-08-05
The Dirtbag Magnetism of Phoebe Waller-Bridge\'s \'Fleabag\'…
thenation.com/article/the-dirtbag-magnetism-of-phoebe-waller-bridges-fleabag/

Dayton shooter was apparently a self-professed \'leftist,\' Warren & Sanders fan
rt.com | 2019-08-05
Judging by his supposed activity on Twitter, the Dayton shooter appears to have held views opposite to those of the El Paso gunman from hours earlier. A now-suspended account, allegedly his own, implies he was a die-hard leftist. | …
rt.com/usa/465790-dayton-shooter-leftist-antifa/

\'Threat to life\' still priority in Whaley Bridge dam drama, residents warned
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-05
A minority of people refusing to leave their homes amid fears of a damaged dam bursting are \"taking their lives into their own hands\", a police chief has warned.Thirty-one residents, including a \"small number\" who were initially evacuated but have since returned to their homes, remain in 22 properties in the evacuation zone in the town of Whaley Bridge despite warnings of catastrophic consequences if the the dam at Toddbrook Reservoir collapses.On Monday, Derbyshire\'s police and crime commissioner, Hardyal Dhindsa, acknowledged that locals had faced a \"big disruption\" as the around-the-clock operation to return t…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/05/threat-to-life-still-priority-in-whaley-bridge-dam-drama-residents-warned/

Stocks Plunge 3% in Worst Loss of Year as Trade War Escalates
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-05
Rattled U.S. investors react to China letting its currency, the yuan, drop to its lowest level against the dollar in more than a decade.
truthdig.com/articles/stocks-plunge-3-in-worst-loss-of-year-as-trade-war-escalates/

More Fake News and US Statistics About Payroll Jobs. The Trend Towards Part-Time Employment
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
Yesterday\'s column referred to a \"falling labor force participation rate.\" | One of the main points of the article is that the number of payroll jobs are not the same thing as the number of employed Americans. Jobs have been trending …
globalresearch.ca/more-fake-news-jobs-part-2/5685519

The Dangerous New US Consensus on China and the Future of US-China Relations
Prof. Mel Gurtov | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
The trade war and technological competition with China are symptomatic of a much larger issue: a dangerous gridlock in US-China relations that may become permanent, with dire consequences not just for the two countries\' economies but also for the global …
globalresearch.ca/dangerous-new-us-consensus-china-future-us-china-relations/5685593

Email fraud warning issued to students ahead of A-Level results
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-08-05
UK students are at risk from email scams because many top universities are not following best practices to block fraudulent emails, new research has claimed. | According to a report by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint, 65% of the UK\'s top 20 universities were not using any form of an industry-recommended email authentication tool. | It says this could enable cybercriminals to imitate the universities in question easily, placing students applying for higher education after receiving their A-Level results at greater risk of email fraud. | The Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) recor…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2019/08/05/email-fraud-warning-issued-to-students-ahead-of-a-level-results/

The Global Currency War Has Begun. China\'s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band. Why is The Dollar Rising?
Dr. Jack Rasmus | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
Over this weekend, China\'s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not purchase more US agricultural goods. The Trump-US Neocon trade strategy has just …
globalresearch.ca/china-yuan-breaks-7-1-band-global-currency-war-has-begun/5685617

Trump\'s Trade War Measures Hit the Financial Markets
Nick Beams | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
Financial markets around the world fell on Friday as a result of the shock wave from US President Trump\'s surprise announcement Thursday that he intended to impose a 10 percent tariff from September 1 on a further $300 billion worth …
globalresearch.ca/trumps-trade-war-measures-hit-the-financial-markets/5685597

World War II: US Military Destroyed 66 Japanese Cities Before Planning to Wipe Out the Same Number of Soviet Cities
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
The number of Japanese cities destroyed was the exact figure that the Pentagon compiled when finalizing plans, in mid-September 1945, to eviscerate the Soviet Union. Indeed, 66 Soviet cities were earmarked to be wiped out — with 204 atomic bombs — less than 2 weeks after Japan\'s surrender.
globalresearch.ca/us-military-destroyed-66-japanese-cities-before-planning-wipe-out-same-number-soviet-cities/5680934

Trump Says Fake News, Not His Hate Speech, Behind Shootings
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-05
U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that his country must \"condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy\" after a gunman killed 20 people in an attack in Texas that authorities said appeared to be a racially motivated hate crime. | Trump did not directly address accusations that his anti-immigrant and racially charged comments have contributed to a rise in hate crimes. | \"These sinister ideologies must be defeated,\" he said in remarks at the White House. \"Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul.\" | Trump said he was directing the Department of Justice to…
telesurenglish.net/news/Trump-Says-Fake-News-Video-games-Not-His-Hate-Speech-Behind-Shootings-20190805-0005.html

Democracy Threat? Trump Demands \'Realignment of British Politics\'. The Americanization of Britain
True Publica | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
I said that this moment would come. It has almost arrived. I warned that Britain is to become a European outpost of America (READ: The global alliance taking over Britain) and if ever proof was needed, it is the …
globalresearch.ca/democracy-threat-trump-demands-realignment-of-british-politics-the-americanization-of-britain/5685635

The Case for Socialism
Eve Ottenberg | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-05
Anyone doubting the arguments for socialism, should read Bhaskar Sunkara\'s \"The Socialist Manifesto.\" It presents old rationales in new clothes; the clothes are simple and attractive, while the rationales are sound. They come, however, with a big warning.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/05/the-case-for-socialism/

John McDonnell takes new chancellor Sajid Javid to the cleaners with scathing letter
Ed Sykes | thecanary.co | 2019-08-05
On 5 August, Labour\'s John McDonnell shared a damning letter which takes Boris Johnson\'s new chancellor Sajid Javid to the cleaners. | Javid involved with \"financial weapons of mass destruction\": | The shadow chancellor wrote to Johnson on 31 July calling for \"two investigations into Mr Javid\'s past conduct in matters of financial stewardship and decision-making\". McDonnell said tha…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/08/05/john-mcdonnell-takes-new-chancellor-sajid-javid-to-the-cleaners-with-scathing-letter/

The El Paso Shooter Embraced Eco-Fascism. We Can\'t Let the Far Right Co-Opt the Environmental Struggle
Natasha Lennard | theintercept.com | 2019-08-05
On Aug. 4, 2019, a man places an American flag on a makeshift memorial outside the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where a mass shooting occurred the previous day. | The four-page manifesto believed to be written by suspected El Paso mass shooter Patrick Crusius abounds with Trumpian racist nationalism. \"This attack is a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas,\" notes the text, published shortly before Saturday\'s massacre. The manifesto, which decries \"race-mixing,\" states, \"some people will blame the president or certain presidential candidates for the attack. This is not the case,\" noting that the autho…
theintercept.com/2019/08/05/el-paso-shooting-eco-fascism-migration/

The Retainer Solution: the European Union, Libya and Irregular Migration
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-05
There is a venom in international refugee policy that refuses to go away: officials charged with their tasks, passing on their labours to those who might see the UN Refugee Convention as empty wording, rather than strict injunction carved upon stone. They have all become manifest in the policy of deferral: humanitarian problems are for…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/05/the-retainer-solution-the-european-union-libya-and-irregular-migration/

Monday\'s Daily Brief: Independent UN experts on Myanmar, UN chief renounces attacks in US, Libyan airport violence, UN spokesperson on Kashmir, and FAO and Italy on development
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-05
Our main stories today: Myanmar companies bankroll \'brutal operations\' of military; UN chief renounces shootings in the United States; \'Repeated indiscriminate\' shelling of Libyan airport raises concern; UN voices \'concern\' over Kashmir; and new UN agriculture chief reaffirms commitment with Italy on development…
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043731

The Resurgence of the \"Absentee Landlord\" Beast
Philip A Farruggio | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-05
No politician from either of the Two Party/One Party imbroglio will ever mention anything about this Absentee Landlord disgrace. Sadly, absentee landlords have been with us since time in memoriam. These people were even mentioned in the story of Jesus …
globalresearch.ca/nature-absentee-landlord-beast/5685580

Trump Administration Ends Long-standing Safeguards Protecting Kids from Dangerous Class of Pesticides