On Medicare\'s 54 Birthday
Kevin Zeese, Margaret Flowers | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare Act. Within a year, and without the aid of computers, the United States provided more than 19 million seniors with health coverage. Before the law existed, over half of the elderly in the United States did not have health insurance. Medicare, which now includes people with disabilities,…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/on-medicares-54-birthday/
The New Politics of the White (Supremacist) Evangelical Republican Party
David Schultz | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
No matter what Donald Trump does or says, most Republicans and white evangelicals are not going to criticize or break from him in 2020. It is a fantasy if Democrats think that they can sway them, hoping that perhaps talking about jobs, prescription drug prices, or immigration reform will move these voters. It is also…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/the-new-politics-of-the-white-supremacist-evangelical-republican-party/
Trump Campaign Ran Over 2,000 Ads Warning of Immigrant \"Invasion\" Before El Paso
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-07
| Before a white gunman targeted dozens of Latinos in response to what he believed was an immigrant \"invasion,\" President Donald Trump\'s 2020 re-election campaign ran more than 2,000 Facebook ads calling immigration an \"invasion.\" | Although Trump rejected white supremacy after the alleged gunman killed 22 people and injured dozens of others Saturday at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, the gunman echoed the president\'s own rhetoric w…
truthout.org/articles/trump-campaign-ran-over-2000-ads-warning-of-immigrant-invasion-before-el-paso/
In the Face of McConnell\'s Inaction, Progressives Call for Gun Reform
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-07
| As the nation calls for gun control in the wake of two mass shootings in 14 hours over the weekend, Democrats and activists are taking aim at Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell for refusing to take action on the continuing gun violence crisis. | McConnell has refused to move forward on a number of bills from the Democratic Party-controlled House that currently sit on his desk awaiting a Senate vote. | \"This is actually, literally in the hands of one person in terms of this legisl…
truthout.org/articles/in-the-face-of-mcconnells-inaction-progressives-call-for-gun-reform/
Trump Regime \"Maximum Pressure\" High Crimes Against World Peace. Illegal Embargo against Venezuela
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Maximum pressure is a Trump regime euphemism for unlawful political, economic and financial collective punishment against a sovereign state, its leadership and population — for not bending to Washington\'s will. | Binding international law Fourth Geneva\'s Article 33 prohibits it, stating: …
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-maximum-pressure-high-crimes-against-world-peace-illegal-embargo-against-venezuela/5685826
This Iran War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don\'t Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess
Habib Ahmadzadeh | mintpressnews.com | 2019-08-07
War is not our business, but negotiations and diplomacy are. War is not our purpose. Peace is our mission. Peace is our philosophy in life, and you are right, diplomacy is our art.
mintpressnews.com/iran-war-vet-advice-trump-dont-play-checkers-grandmasters-chess/261160/
Will Mercenaries Fight America\'s Wars? Private Mercenary Army on Behalf of Venezuela \"Opposition\"
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
President Donald Trump\'s pre-election pledge to end America\'s useless wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan just might turn out to be somewhat less than what was promised if some political allies of the president have their way. For …
globalresearch.ca/will-mercenaries-fight-americas-wars/5685769
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the spies who prevented a criminal US with a nuclear monopoly from making more of them
Dave Lindorff | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-07
Seventy-four years ago yesterday, the U.S. dropped the first-ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, a non-military target of several hundred thousand, instantly vaporizing some 70,000 people, mostly civilians, and causing the painful, slower death of another 70,000 who died of burns and radioactive damage to their bodies over the next four months. Another …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/07/hiroshima-nagasaki-and-the-spies-who-prevented-a-criminal-us-with-a-nuclear-monopoly-from-making-more-of-them/
China Just Went Nuclear in the Trade War, and There Is No Turning Back Now
Michael Snyder | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
When will Americans start to wake up and realize what is happening? At the end of last week, President Trump announced that the U.S. would be imposing a 10 percent tariff on 300 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports, and …
globalresearch.ca/china-just-went-nuclear-trade-war-no-turning-back-now/5685836
Opponents Delay $1.25 Billion Plastic Complex in Louisiana
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-07
| \"Look at what is coming into the Parish, instead of saying \'Yeah, yeah, yeah\'– it is time to say \'No,\'\" Pastor Harry Joseph told the St. James Parish Council on July 24. He implored councilmembers to consider freshly unveiled public health and economic concerns before they reaffirmed a permit allowing yet another petrochemical plant in a southern Louisiana community fed up with its already rapid industrialization. | Joseph, pastor of Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James, is one of the plaintif…
truthout.org/articles/opponents-delay-1-25-billion-plastic-complex-in-louisiana/
No Cause Has Achieved Combination of Deranged Views and Raw Power as the Modern American Right-Wing
Mike Lofgren | commondreams.org | 2019-08-07
Republican presidential hopefuls Donald Trump (L) and Jeb Bush high five during the Republican Presidential Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California on September 16, 2015. Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump stepped into a campaign hornet\'s nest as his rivals collectively turned their sights on the billionaire in the party\'s second debate of the 2016 presidential race. (Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/donald_trump_jeb_bush_deranged_gop.jp…
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The Promise of Offshore Wind
Karl Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed off on the largest offshore wind agreement–so far–off the United States. What has been named the Empire Wind Project–to consist of 88 wind turbines if 10 megawatt turbines are used–would rise in the ocean south of New York City, adjacent Nassau County and western Suffolk County on…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/the-promise-of-offshore-wind/
Don\'t Let Mass Shooters and the New York Times Destroy Freedom of Speech
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
\"Online communities like 4chan and 8chan have become hotbeds of white nationalist activity,\" wrote the editors of the New York Times on August 4 in the wake of a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas. Then: \"Law enforcement currently offers few answers as to how to contain these communities.\" Wait, what? Is the Times really…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/dont-let-mass-shooters-and-the-new-york-times-destroy-freedom-of-speech/
Cheering a New Arms Race: The End of the INF
Binoy Kampmark | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
US President Donald Trump is a master of the withdrawal method. That said, it is often forgotten that the United States remains that most fickle of creatures, joining, or abandoning international regimes that might be seen to jar with the national interest. Initial preparations for such global arrangements tend to be initially optimistic, even rosy.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/cheering-a-new-arms-race-the-end-of-the-inf/
Steve Bullock\'s Attacks on Vitally-Needed Progressive Policies
George Ochenski | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
\"Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.\" –Robert Kennedy Montana\'s Gov. Steve Bullock got his moment on the debate stage with the host of other Democratic presidential hopefuls last week and played his part of the \"moderate\" to the hilt. But…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/steve-bullocks-attacks-on-vitally-needed-progressive-policies/
The Rise of the American Gestapo
John W. Whitehead | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
Despite the finger-pointing and outcries of dismay from those who are watching the government discard the rule of law at every turn, the question is not whether Donald Trump is the new Adolf Hitler but whether the American Police State is the new Third Reich. For those who can view the present and past political…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/the-rise-of-the-american-gestapo/
More Money, Fewer Jobs: the Stubborn Truth About Employment and the Defense Industry
Nia Harris, Cassandra Stimpson and Ben Freeman | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
A Marilyn has once again seduced a president. This time, though, it\'s not a movie star; it\'s Marillyn Hewson, the head of Lockheed Martin, the nation\'s top defense contractor and the largest weapons producer in the world. In the last month, Donald Trump and Hewson have seemed inseparable. They \"saved\" jobs at a helicopter plant.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/more-money-fewer-jobs-the-stubborn-truth-about-employment-and-the-defense-industry/
The \"Feel Better\" President: Making Racism Fashionable Again
John G. Russell | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
Recently, after complaints from consumers, so-called \"feel better\" rag dolls reminiscent of sambo dolls and other picaninny kitsch were recalled. This has not been the first time that such products have been removed from the market. The list includes Pradamalia, Prada\'s own line of kitschy blackface collectibles, Gucci\'s blackface wool balaclavas, Burberry\'s noose hoodie, and H&M\'s \"coolest monkey in the jungle\" hoodie ad.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/the-feel-better-president-making-racism-fashionable-again/
White Supremacy Goes Prime Time
Chandra Muzaffar | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-07
A number of commentators have linked the killing of 20 people at a Walmart store in El Paso in the United States of America on Saturday 3rd August 2019 to the rising tide of White Supremacism. White Supremacism is a belief that whites are superior to others and therefore have a right to dominate them.
counterpunch.org/2019/08/07/white-supremacy-goes-prime-time/
Watch common sense get poured on Sky News as it tries to link Labour to US mass-shooting
John Shafthauer | thecanary.co | 2019-08-07
Novara editor Eleanor Penny appeared on Sky News on 6 August. During the segment, presenter Jayne Secker suggested the UK \"far left\" are \"in no way innocent\" in a discussion of the recent mass-shootings in America. Penny quickly dismantled this ridiculous claim. | I went on to Sky News to discuss the horrific shootings in the USA by far right terrorists. Presenter then implied that the \'far left are in no way innocent here\'. We need to combat these aston…
thecanary.co/trending/2019/08/07/watch-common-sense-get-poured-on-sky-news-as-it-tries-to-link-labour-to-us-mass-shooting/
Will Germany Become the Military Power it Once Was?
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-07
Annette Groth discusses the three demands by the U.S to Germany to increase its military power and presence overseas, and the new right-wing minister of defense Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. For now Germany is loathe to send troops or ships to Syria or Hormuz, but Kramp-Karrenbauer has already announced her intention to increase military spending to 2%…
therealnews.com/stories/will-germany-become-the-military-power-it-once-was
Video: Collapse of Ceasefire, Syrian Military Vows to Resume Operations Against Al Qaeda Militants
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The new ceasefire agreement designed to cease hostilities in northwestern Hama and southern Idlib has just collapsed. | On August 3, the leader of Hay\'at Tahir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra), Abu Mohammad al-Julani, announced that his group would not withdraw …
globalresearch.ca/video-collapse-of-ceasefire-syrian-military-vows-to-resume-operations-against-al-qaeda-militants/5685745
Erdogan Announces Military Operation East of Euphrates River to Push Back Kurds, US Urges Him to Reconsider
Sarah Abed | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
In what would be Turkey\'s third cross-border military operation in Syria since the war began, in as many years, Erdogan announced on Sunday that he would be launching a military operation east of the Euphrates river, to push back Kurdish …
globalresearch.ca/erdogan-announces-military-operation-east-euphrates-river-push-back-kurds-us-urges-him-reconsider/5685820
Syrian Security Confiscates Armored Vehicles, Weapons, Captagon, Drugs
Arabi Souri | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Syrian security units and Syrian Arab Army units operating in Hama northern countryside, northwest of Syria, and Daraa countryside, south of Syria, had a busy day busting, discovering, and confiscating large stashes of weapons, munition, gears, armored vehicles, illicit drugs …
globalresearch.ca/syrian-security-confiscates-armored-vehicles-weapons-captagon-drugs/5685732
Future of Amazon Deforestation Data in Doubt as Research Head Sacked by Bolsonaro
Karla Mendes | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
After a month of intensifying criticism from far-right President Jair Bolsonaro concerning data revealing a spike in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over recent months, the Brazilian President has fired the head of the government agency in charge of tracking …
globalresearch.ca/future-amazon-deforestation-data-doubt-research-head-sacked/5685832
EU Opposes Recent US Total Blockade Against Venezuela
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-07
The European Union said Wednesday it rejected new moves by the White House to impose a total blockade on Venezuela. Though the EU has also placed sanctions on the elected government of Venezuela, they oppose U.S. attempts to extend the sanctions \'extraterritorially\'. | RELATED: | Venezuela Denounces the \'Imperialist\' Total Blockade by US | \"We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures,\" said EU spokesperson Carlos Martin Ruiz de Gordejuela, spokesperson for the…
telesurenglish.net/news/EU-Opposes-Recent-US-Total-Blockade-Against-Venezuela–20190807-0006.html
This Iranian War Vet Has Some Advice for Trump: Don\'t Play Checkers with the Grandmasters of Chess
Habib Ahmadzadeh | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Dear President Trump, | In a recent Tweet, you claimed that \"Iranians never won a war, but never lost a negotiation.\" As a world citizen and a veteran of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, I have firsthand experience with the bitterness of …
globalresearch.ca/iranian-war-vet-has-some-advice-trump-dont-play-checkers-grandmasters-chess/5685775
Caught in the Strait. Britain\'s Confrontation with Iran
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
It is clear that the United Kingdom could not have thought this through. Was it a touch of the Suez jitters, the haunting syndrome of 1956 leaving a false impression that the Old Empire still had it? To taunt a …
globalresearch.ca/caught-strait/5685794
Wired\'s Gee-Whiz High-Tech Militarism
Julianne Tveten | fair.org | 2019-08-07
by Julianne Tveten | A deluge of major Western publications stated last month that the US destroyed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman (e.g., New York Times, 7/18/19; NPR, 7/19/19; NBC News, 7/18/19). Citing unproven reports from Don…
fair.org/home/wireds-gee-whiz-high-tech-militarism/
Dossier 19: Iranians will not forget. The hybrid war against Iran
The Tricontinental | mronline.org | 2019-08-07
It is impossible to predict what will happen in West Asia. Impossible to know whether the United States will conduct a military strike against Iran, which has already faced the full brunt of a U.S.-driven hybrid war against it for the past seven decades. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/07/dossier-19-iranians-will-not-forget-the-hybrid-war-against-iran/
UN Afghan Mission \'outraged\' by deadly Taliban attack in Kabul, as hardline group threatens election violence
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-07
The UN Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed outrage at a Taliban attack in Kabul, that led to \"scores\" of civilians casualties on Wednesday. In a Tweet, the Mission said that such \"indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks in heavily populated civilian areas must stop\".
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1043851
India\'s Tryst with Destiny: Freedom Struggle from Exploitation and Degradation Is Global
Colin Todhunter | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Today, we are in the grip of a globalised system of capitalism which drives narcissism, domination, ego, anthropocentrism, speciesism and plunder. A system that is using up oil, water and other resources much faster than they can ever be regenerated. …
globalresearch.ca/indias-tryst-destiny-freedom-struggle-exploitation-degradation-global/5685759
\"Pre-Emptive Arrest\": An Open Invitation to Tyranny
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The FBI has published a document that concludes that \"conspiracy theories\" can motivate believers to commit crimes. | Considering the growing acceptance of pre-emptive arrest, that is, arresting someone before they can commit a crime that they are suspected of planning …
globalresearch.ca/pre-emptive-arrest-an-open-invitation-to-tyranny/5685816
Britain\'s Flagship Drone Projects: UK Government Spending Watchdog Highlights \"Significant Issues\"
Peter Burt | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
The Ministry of Defence\'s two flagship drone projects — the \'Protector\' programme to introduce the Certifiable Predator B drone into service with the Royal Air Force, and the Army\'s Watchkeeper surveillance drone — continue to face \'significant issues\' according to …
globalresearch.ca/government-spending-watchdog-highlights-significant-issues-uk-drone-projects/5685822
The Skripal Poisoning: Anonymous\' Revelations Point to UK Intelligence Motives
Karin Brothers | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Sergei Skripal was a former Russian double agent for Britain. After a high-profile spy swap in 2010, he lived in Salisbury, England, near his former MI6 handler, Pablo Miller, who he reportedly kept in touch with. | Late in the …
globalresearch.ca/skripal-poisoning-anonymous-revelations-point-uk-intelligence-motives/5685778
Trade War: China Suspends Purchases of US Agricultural Products
Telesur | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
China\'s Commerce Ministry announced Tuesday that the Asian country will suspend the purchase of U.S. agricultural goods in response to the recent announcement that the President Donald Trump administration will increase tariffs to Chinese exports. | \"It has been agreed that | …
globalresearch.ca/trade-war-china-suspends-purchases-us-agricultural-products/5685799
Assessing President Diaz-Canel\'s Commitment to the Ideals of the Cuban Revolution
Dr. Birsen Filip | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Fidel Castro was an unparalleled leader. Although some of his adversaries had hoped that the ideals and objectives of the Cuban Revolution would die with him, they have in fact persevered, thereby supporting Fidel\'s view that \'a combatant may die, …
globalresearch.ca/assessing-president-diaz-canels-commitment-ideals-cuban-revolution/5685751
U.K. Breakup? New Poll Sets the Scene for Scottish Independence Referendum
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has hailed as \'phenomenal\' a new poll which shows majority support for Scottish Independence. The survey, which was carried out by Lord Ashcroft in the wake of Prime Minister Boris Johnson\'s visit to Scotland …
globalresearch.ca/new-poll-sets-scene-scottish-independence-referendum/5685771
India\'s Finding Out the Hard Way that It Isn\'t \"America\'s Exclusive Ally\"
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
India hitherto thought that the US needed it more than the reverse and that\'s why took its nascent military-strategic alliance with it for granted by trying to play \"hardball\" in pressing for a better trade deal, yet it\'s now finding …
globalresearch.ca/india-finding-out-hard-way-it-isnt-us-exclusive-ally/5685793
Hiroshima Unlearned: Time to Tell the Truth About US Relations with Russia
Alice Slater | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
August 6th and 9th mark 74 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where only one nuclear bomb dropped on each city caused the deaths of up to 146,000 people in Hiroshima and 80,000 people in Nagasaki. Today, …
globalresearch.ca/hiroshima-unlearned-time-tell-truth-about-us-relations-russia/5685824
\"On a Scale of 1-10, It\'s an 11\" — Wall Street Reacts to China\'s Retaliation
Zero Hedge | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
One day after China finally snapped, and demonstratively refused to intervene and keep the CNH above 7.00 vs the dollar, escalating the trade war into a currency war, stocks are tumbling and Wall Street analysts — all of whom had …
globalresearch.ca/scale-1-10-its-11-wall-street-reacts-china-retaliation/5685801
We\'re All Enemies of the State: Draconian Laws, Precrime and the Surveillance State
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
\"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.\"–H.L. Mencken | We\'ve been down this road many times before. | If …
globalresearch.ca/we-all-enemies-state-draconian-laws-precrime-surveillance-state/5685762
Why Oliver Stone\'s Latest Film on Ukraine Is Must-watch
Johanna Ross | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
Oliver Stone is afraid. Afraid of war. That was the stark message conveyed by his latest film on the Ukraine crisis, \'Revealing Ukraine\' which picked up the Grand Prix at the Taormina film festival in Italy last month. The documentary, …
globalresearch.ca/why-oliver-stones-latest-film-ukraine-must-watch/5685676
Can the Progressive-\"Conspiracy\" Divide be Bridged?
John Kirby | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-07
People from a variety of advocacy communities who tackle issues ranging from the assassinations of the 1960\'s to vaccine safety are rightly upset by a recent NBC News.com op-ed authored by Lynn Parramore, a progressive journalist known for her …
globalresearch.ca/can-progressive-conspiracy-divide-bridged/5685749
Explosions in three states highlight dangers of aging fossil fuel infrastructure
Sharon Kelly | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-07
On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge\'s Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman, Lisa Denise Derringer, and injured at least five others. Flames towered 300 feet high when the 30-inch diameter pipe ruptured at 1 a.m. and forced at least 75 people to evacuate. \"We …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/07/explosions-in-three-states-highlight-dangers-of-aging-fossil-fuel-infrastructure/
One \"Little\" Legislative Crime that Keeps on Giving
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-07
NOVA: If this region–New Orleans, the wetlands, and all–were a patient in the hospital, how would you describe them? At what stage are they? IVOR VAN HEERDEN: Close to death. […] There is the potential for extremely high casualties–people not only killed by flying debris, drowning in the soup, but also just imagine, how do …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/one-little-legislative-crime-that-keeps-on-giving/
Russia Needs Its Own Bernie Sanders
Nadezhda Azhgikhina | thenation.com | 2019-08-07
Russia Needs Its Own Bernie Sanders…
thenation.com/article/russia-bernie-sanders/
Is Justin Trudeau Pro-Nukes?
Yves Engler | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-07
Justin Trudeau presents himself as \"progressive\" on foreign affairs. The Liberals claim to have brought Canada \"back\" after the disastrous Harper Conservatives. But their nuclear weapons policy demonstrates the emptiness of this rhetoric. Reducing the chance nuclear weapons are used again should be a priority for any \"progressive\" government. But, powerful Canadian allies oppose nuclear …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/is-justin-trudeau-pro-nukes/
Trump\'s China Trade War Increases Risk of Recession
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-07
Trump accuses China of currency manipulation because their currency devalued in the wake of his tariffs. However, as Bill Black explains, this accusation has no basis in fact. Instead, Trump\'s trade war only increases the likelihood of a recession…
therealnews.com/stories/trumps-china-trade-war-increases-risk-of-recession
Brazil\'s PT Warns Lula Prison Transfer Is Political Persecution
telesurenglish.net | 2019-08-07
The substitute judge of the 12th Federal Court of Curitiba Carolina Lebbos decided Wednesday morning to transfer former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from a federal jail in Curitiba to a prison in the state of Sao Paulo. | RELATED: | \'Resistance Caravan\' Travels Brazil in Support of Lula | A few minutes after this information was released, the Worker\'s Party (PT) president Gleisi Hoffmann explained that such ruling did not respect the request made by Lula\'s lawyers, who had asked…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-PT-Warns-Lula-Prison-Transfer-Is-Political-Persecution-20190807-0002.html