The Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump: A Threat to American Democracy and an Agent of Chaos in the World?
Prof Rodrigue Tremblay | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-25
When 46.1% of Americans who voted for Trump in November they did not know precisely \"what they were buying\". They did not expect that the promised \"change\" the Republican presidential candidate envisioned and promised was going to be, in fact, \"chaos\" and \"turmoil\" in the U.S. government.
globalresearch.ca/the-imperial-presidency-of-donald-trump-a-threat-to-american-democracy-and-an-agent-of-chaos-in-the-world/5574923

Prior to 9/11: US Covert Support to Al Qaeda in Macedonia, \"Financing Both Sides\"
Prof Michel Chossudovsky | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-25
This essay was first published by antiwar.com in April 2001, barely 5 months before the September 11, 2001 attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon. | It was subsequently published by Global Research when the site was launched in September 2001. …
globalresearch.ca/prior-to-911-us-covert-support-to-al-qaeda-in-the-macedonia-financing-both-sides/5428298

Trump\'s Concentration Camps for Children
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-08-24
This week, the Trump Administration declared that immigrant children can be detained indefinitely, and in conditions that can be described as concentration camps. We talk to Sasha Abramsky of The Nation…
therealnews.com/stories/trumps-concentration-camps-for-children

#CloseTheCamps: Daily Protest at ICE Headquarters San Francisco (Aug 27)
Month of Momentum Group | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825659.php

#CloseTheCamps: Daily Protest at ICE Headquarters San Francisco (Aug 28)
Month of Momentum Group | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825660.php

#CloseTheCamps: Daily Protest at ICE Headquarters San Francisco (Aug 31)
Month of Momentum Group | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825663.php

#CloseTheCamps: Daily Protest at ICE Headquarters San Francisco (Aug 26)
Month of Momentum Group | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825658.php

#CloseTheCamps: Daily Protest at ICE Headquarters San Francisco (Aug 30)
Month of Momentum Group | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825662.php

#CloseTheCamps: Daily Protest at ICE Headquarters San Francisco (Aug 24)
Month of Momentum Group | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825657.php

#CloseTheCamps: Daily Protest at ICE Headquarters San Francisco (Aug 29)
Month of Momentum Group | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), 630 Sansome St, San Francisco 94111…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825661.php

Trump Administration Revives Clause That Kept Nazi-Era Refugees From the US
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-24
| During the Nazi era, roughly 300,000 additional Jewish refugees could have gained entry to the U.S. without exceeding the nation\'s existing quotas. | The primary mechanism that kept them out: the immigration law\'s \"likely to become a public charge\" clause. Consular officials with the authority to issue visas denied them to everyone they deemed incapable of supporting themselves in the U.S. | It is not possible to say what happened to these refugees. Some immigrated to other countries th…
truthout.org/articles/trump-administration-revives-clause-that-kept-nazi-era-refugees-from-the-us/

Israel\'s Ban on Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Backfires
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-24
| During Congress\'s August recess, a group of 41 Democratic and 31 Republican congressmembers traveled to Israel on a delegation sponsored by American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). AIPAC subsidizes congressional trips to Israel in order to further the \"special relationship\" between Israel and the United States. Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. military aid: $3.8 billion annually. AIPAC is the chief Israel lobby in the United States and a consistent apologist for Israel\'s oppressive policies t…
truthout.org/articles/israels-ban-on-rashida-tlaib-and-ilhan-omar-backfires/

Twitter relying on US/European gov-funded regime-change groups to crack down on foreign states
Ben Norton | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-24
Twitter is relying on organizations funded by the US government and European allies, such as right-wing lobby group Freedom House,…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/24/twitter-relying-on-us-european-gov-funded-regime-change-groups-to-crack-down-on-foreign-states/

68 Protesters Detained as Leaders Gather at G-7 Summit
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-24
BIARRITZ, France–The Latest on the Group of Seven summit (all times local): | 11: 05 p.m. | French authorities have detained 68 people taking part in a tense protest near the G-7 summit. | The regional administration says those detained are accused of throwing projectiles, concealing their faces or possessing objects that could be used as weapons. | Police fired tear gas, water cannon and dispersion grenades at a crowd of about 400 mostly peaceful anti-capitalism demonstrators Saturday in the town of Bayonne. The regional administration says n…
truthdig.com/articles/68-protesters-detained-as-leaders-gather-at-g-7-summit/

It\'s Time to Indict Aung San Suu Kyi for Genocide Against the Rohingya in Myanmar
Mehdi Hasan | theintercept.com | 2019-08-24
Aung San Suu Kyi, a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, is an essential part of the decimation of the Rohingya Muslims in Burma. She should face trial.
theintercept.com/2019/08/24/aung-san-suu-kyi-rohingya-genocide/

Brazilian Troops Deploy to Fight Amazon Fires
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-08-24
RIO DE JANEIRO– Backed by military aircraft, Brazilian troops on Saturday were deploying in the Amazon to fight fires that have swept the region and prompted anti-government protests as well as an international outcry. | President Jair Bolsonaro also tried to temper global concern, saying previously deforested areas had burned and that intact rainforest was spared. Even so, the fires were likely to be urgently discussed at a summit of the Group of Seven leaders in France this weekend. | Some 44,000 troops will be available for \"unprecedented\" operations to put out the fires, and forces are heading to six Br…
truthdig.com/articles/brazilian-troops-deploy-to-fight-amazon-fires/

How an application for propane fracking attempts to circumvent New York\'s fracking ban
Justin Mikulka | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-24
Four years after New York announced the state was banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking), Tioga Energy Partners, LLC has filed an application with the state to frack for natural gas, but there\'s a catch. The company is proposing to swap propane into the industry standard mix that usually calls for water. | Environmental advocates consider this application to use liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and specifically a propane gel, an attempt…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/24/how-an-application-for-propane-fracking-attempts-to-circumvent-new-yorks-fracking-ban/

Leaked documents show Brazil\'s Bolsonaro has grave plans for Amazon rainforest
Manuella Libardi | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-24
eaked documents show that Jair Bolsonaro\'s government intends to use the Brazilian president\'s hate speech to isolate minorities living in the Amazon region. The PowerPoint slides, which democraciaAbierta has seen, also reveal plans to implement predatory projects that could have a devastating environmental impact. | The Bolsonaro government has as one of its priorities to strategically occupy the Amazon region to prevent the implementation of multilateral conservation projects for the rainforest, specifically the so-called \"Triple A\" project. | \"Development projects must be implemented on the Amazon basin to…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/24/leaked-documents-show-brazils-bolsonaro-has-grave-plans-for-amazon-rainforest/

#SaveTheAmazon: Action at Brazilian Consulate in Solidarity w/ Amazon\'s Indigenous Peoples
Brasil Solidarity Network & others | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Brazilian Consulate | 300 Montgomery Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California 94104…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/23/18825644.php

Brazil Isn\'t the Only Far-Right Government Destroying the Planet
Basav Sen | progressive.org | 2019-08-24
As the Amazon burns, the terrifying parallels between the U.S. and Brazilian governments highlight the damage authoritarian leaders are doing.
progressive.org/dispatches/brazil-far-right-destroying-planet-sen-190824/

Double Standards in Iran Reporting
Florian Zollmann | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Iran has not attacked any country militarily in the last 100 years. This is mostly unmentioned in the media. Demonizations occur in the Iran reporting. In comparison, reporting about human rights in Saudi Arabia is not on the agenda.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/23/18825629.php

Media Availability: Prabir Purkayastha on How Big Data\'s Threat to Elections and Democracy Is Quickly Becoming a Global Problem
Eds. | mronline.org | 2019-08-24
The cost of the 2016 U.S. elections was $6.5 billion if we combine the presidential and congressional elections. The Indian Parliamentary election of 2019 outspent the 2016 U.S. 2016 election, costing about $8.6 billion. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/24/media-availability-prabir-purkayastha-on-how-big-datas-threat-to-elections-and-democracy-is-quickly-becoming-a-global-problem/

\"Child Actorvism\" and the Extinction Agenda of Neoliberal Racists
Mathew Maavak | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-08-24
There is no shortage of social justice causes trumpeted by the West‚Ä with a revolving medley of \"child actorvists\" at the forefront. The logical observer may question whether these endless multi-billion dollar campaigns have had any tangible effect at all, except in serving as a stalking horse for mass-mediated interferences in the affairs of other …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/08/child-actorvism-and-the-extinction-agenda-of-neoliberal-racists/

Insulin Prices Killed Josh Wilkerson. Now His Mother Is Taking On Big Pharma
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-24
| When Josh Wilkerson was a boy, he would page through his family\'s church directory to find people celebrating birthdays that day so he could call and wish them, \"Happy Birthday!\" He played Little League baseball and loved pro wrestling, often pantomiming the faux violence he saw on TV with his three brothers. One time, he peed on his brother\'s bed after they\'d fought and blamed it on spilled apple juice. | He was, in other words, a vibrant, lighthearted kid. \"He was normally easygoing a…
truthout.org/articles/insulin-prices-killed-josh-wilkerson-now-his-mother-is-taking-on-big-pharma/

Henry A. Giroux and the culture of neoliberal fascism
Christian Fuchs | mronline.org | 2019-08-24
HENRY A. GIROUX\'s book The Terror of the Unforeseen analyzes the conditions that have enabled and led to Donald Trump\'s rule and the consequences of that rule, that have ushered in an authoritarian version of capitalism. Giroux provides a realistic analysis that holds out the hope that, through collective efforts, change is possible and democracy […] | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/24/henry-a-giroux-and-the-culture-of-neoliberal-fascism/

US commander says navy ready for Venezuela intervention
wsws.org | 2019-08-24
The threat by the head of the US Southern Command came as both Trump and Maduro confirmed that US and Venezuelan officials have been holding direct talks.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/24/vene-a24.html

Bernie Sanders\' Manhattan project: The game-changing Green New Deal
Juan Cole | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-24
Sen. Bernie Sanders\' breathtaking Green New Deal, with an advertised price tag of $16.3 trillion, is aimed at nothing less than saving the planet from the worst consequences of global heating. | The plan aims to create 20 million new, well-paying jobs. It should be noted that one possible outcome of big Federal R&D monies and a rapid shift to renewables would be to revivify the US industrial sector, which has fallen to only 12 percent or so of the US GDP. Although the price tag seems formidable, Sen. Sanders points out that climate inaction wil…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/24/bernie-sanders-manhattan-project-the-game-changing-green-new-deal/

Air pollution now linked to degenerative eye disease and mental health problems in children
Alexandra Jacobo | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-24
It seems like nearly every week a new study is coming out to warn us of a new link between air pollution and various health problems. This week two new studies have revealed a link between air pollution from cars, general air pollution, and serious health problems. | A new study conducted by researchers in the United States and Denmark showed a connection between air pollution and an increased risk of mental health problems in people that spend their childhood in areas with high levels of air pollution. | When looking at the insurance data for 151 million individuals collected between 2003 and 2013 in the Unit…
nationofchange.org/2019/08/24/air-pollution-now-linked-to-degenerative-eye-disease-and-mental-health-problems-in-children/

\"We are all equal!\" Captain who saved refugees refuses award from Paris mayor
wsws.org | 2019-08-24
Klemp repudiated the award and denounced the anti-refugee polices of the Paris authorities.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/24/klem-a24.html

Centrists Are Going to Kill Us
John Atcheson | commondreams.org | 2019-08-24
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during a rally at Howard University May 13, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/centrists-kill-us.jpg …
commondreams.org/views/2019/08/24/centrists-are-going-kill-us?cd-origin=rss

Can We Reach 100 Percent Renewable Energy in Time to Avert Climate Catastrophe?
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-24
| Ten years ago, two climate scientists, Mark Jacobson and Mark Delucchi, published a groundbreaking article in Scientific American outlining a road map for becoming 100 percent reliant on energy generated by water, wind and sun by 2030. This was something that needed to be done \"if the world has any hope of slowing climate change,\" the researchers warned at the time. | The article proved incendiary. \"First of all, nobody believed…
truthout.org/articles/can-we-reach-100-percent-renewable-energy-in-time-to-avert-climate-catastrophe/

Huawei, evil Chinese & decapitated cat: Bannon serving warmed-over propaganda to Trump & Americans
rt.com | 2019-08-24
Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon has faced the \"China threat\" head-on with a lukewarm propaganda film dramatizing the Huawei case in Canada, hoping to galvanize the American people (and president) for a second Cold War. | Claws of the Red Dragon — \"inspired by real life events\" — tells the tale of a stand-in for Huawei\'s Meng Wanzhou, her arrest in Vancouver on US orders, the retaliatory arrest of two Canadians for definitely not spying in China, and the Huawei-standin\'s totally real collusion with an especially evil Chinese government. Characters include a plucky Chinese-Canadian journalist hot…
rt.com/usa/467176-bannon-huawei-china-propaganda-film/

Unifor convention gives centre-stage to Trudeau, Freeland and the Liberal re-election campaign
wsws.org | 2019-08-24
Unifor is spearheading a massive union drive to keep the big business, pro-austerity, pro-war Trudeau Liberal government in power.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/08/24/unif-a24.html

Sen. Jeff Merkley Speaks: His New Book on Trump\'s War Against Migrant Families
World Affairs SF | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
World Affairs, 312 Sutter St., Suite 200, San Francisco 94108…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/24/18825654.php

Seven Whispers of the White Dove
Iranian Students Association in America | indybay.org | 2019-08-24
Hertz Hall | 101 Cross-Sproul Path | University of California | Berkeley, CA 94720…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/23/18825645.php

Israel bombs Iraq, escalating violence targeting Iran
Aaron Maté | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-24
An Israeli bombing of a weapons depot allegedly used by Iran is the first Israeli strike on Iraq in nearly…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/24/israel-bombs-iraq-escalating-violence-targeting-iran/

President Trump Has Legalized Concentration Camps
Sasha Abramsky | thenation.com | 2019-08-23
President Trump Has Legalized Concentration Camps…
thenation.com/article/immigration-kids-trump-flores-concentration-camps/

Weekend Read: ICE\'s deliberate cruelty
splcenter.org | 2019-08-23
Five days after taking office, President Trump signed \"Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States\" — an executive order calling for the hiring of thousands of new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and the use of state and local police to enforce immigration law.
splcenter.org/news/2019/08/24/weekend-read-ices-deliberate-cruelty

Sasha Abramsky on Trump\'s New Attack on Immigrants
CounterSpin | fair.org | 2019-08-23
Media…
fair.org/home/sasha-abramsky-on-trumps-new-attack-on-immigrants/

Whither the Resistance to our Capitalist Overlords?
Gary Olson | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
All efforts to reform the American system is capitulation. — Chris Hedges Without massive resistance to white supremacy and war, the U.S. empire threatens to devour itself alive and will no doubt attempt to take us with it. — Danny Haiphong No serious change, remotely popular sovereignty, no protection and advance of the common good…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/whither-the-resistance-to-our-capitalist-overlords/

Hybrid wars are destroying Democracies
Vijay Prashad | mronline.org | 2019-08-23
In Brazil recently, I gave an interview to Brasil de Fato, which was born in 2003 as the weekly magazine of the World Social Forum. It is now one of the most important windows into Brazil\'s political world. The newsletter this week carries the text of most of the interview. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/23/hybrid-wars-are-destroying-democracies/

World Watching the Fate of Iranian Tanker
Prof. Vijay Prashad | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
At 11: 30pm on Sunday, August 18, the Iranian tanker Adrian Darya-1 left the shores of Gibraltar at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea. This ship had been detained about six weeks previous by British Royal Marines and Gibraltar officials. The …
globalresearch.ca/world-watching-fate-iranian-tanker/5686898

More Russiagate unraveling? Ex-CEO says FBI instructed him to have relationship with Maria Butina
rt.com | 2019-08-23
Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has told media that he was ordered by the FBI to initiate a romantic relationship with imprisoned Russian gun activist Maria Butina, seemingly confirming claims made by her lawyer. | Byrne, who resigned from the online retail company on Thursday, explained to CNN\'s Chris Cuomo that he had been asked by the FBI — on the orders of then-director James Comey — to \"rekindle a romantic relationship\" with Butina. | Taken aback by the claim, Cuomo interjected: \"You believe that Jim Comey knew that you were being asked to do these things in the name of the United States gove…
rt.com/usa/467136-butina-byrne-fbi-informant-russia/

Trump Fine-tunes Peace Deal with Taliban
M. K. Bhadrakumar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The US President Donald Trump\'s remarks at the Oval Office in the White House on August 20 regarding the Afghan peace talks and related issues exuded an overall sense of satisfaction that the \"endless war\" is finally ending –although …
globalresearch.ca/trump-fine-tunes-peace-deal-taliban/5687038

South Sudan: UN rights experts see little headway on peace deal amid spike in local-level violence
United Nations | un.org | 2019-08-23
A United Nations expert group looking at human rights in South Sudan said on Friday that it is \"deeply concerned\" that, although the overall armed conflict has waned, there has been little progress in adhering to the peace agreement that guided the country thus far.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2019/08/1044831

Climate change, Amazon fires come to France with G7 protests
Mark Gruenberg | peoplesworld.org | 2019-08-23
BIARRITZ, France–The continuing controversy over international action — or lack of it — to deal with climate change, and the latest big threat to the environment, the massive Brazilian Amazonian wildfires, will descend on the G7 summit here this weekend. The object: To force the leaders of the world\'s top industrialized nations to do something …
peoplesworld.org/article/climate-change-and-amazon-fires-come-to-france-with-protests-against-g7/

Notes on Inauthenticity in a Creeping Fascist Nuthouse
Paul Street | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
The reigning corporate Democrats would rather lose to the right, even to a proto-fascistic white nationalist and eco-exterminist right, than lose to the left, even to a mildly progressive social democratic and environmentalist left within their own party. How else explain their insistence on promoting the ridiculous, right-wing arch-corporatist, imperialist, and dementia-plagued right-wing gaffe machine Joke Biden in the long march to the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries?
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/notes-on-inauthenticity-in-a-creeping-fascist-nuthouse/

Why a Defense Agreement with Israel Would be a Disaster for Americans. Lindsey Graham\'s Blank Check
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
Two world wars began because of unconditional pledges made by one country to come to assistance of another. On July 5, 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany pledged his country\'s complete support for whatever response Austria-Hungary would choose to make …
globalresearch.ca/lindsey-graham-defense-agreement-israel-disaster-americans/5686996

Trump Regime Threatens Illegal Sanctions on Nations Legally Buying Iranian Oil
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-23
The US under both extremist right wings of its war party is a rogue state by any definition. | It operates extrajudicially at home and abroad. It\'s increasingly repressive and totalitarian, heading toward full-blown tyranny if the present trend continues unchecked….
globalresearch.ca/trump-regime-threatens-illegal-sanctions-nations-buying-iranian-oil/5686908

They Don\'t Make Republicans Like the Great Paul Findley Anymore!
Ralph Nader | counterpunch.org | 2019-08-23
In his 22 years in Congress (1960 — 1982), Paul Findley achieved a sterling record for fundamental positions, proposals and breakthroughs that revealed a great man, pure and simple. He never stopped learning and applying his knowledge to advance the right course of action, regardless of political party, ideology or pressure from various groups. Findley,…
counterpunch.org/2019/08/23/they-dont-make-republicans-like-the-great-paul-findley-anymore/