The Citgo conspiracy: Opposition figures accuse Guaidó officials of \'scam\' to liquidate Venezuela\'s most prized international asset
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-04
Venezuela\'s opposition has long accused the Bolivarian government of corruption and mismanagement. But with Citgo on the verge of liquidation,…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/03/the-citgo-conspiracy-opposition-figures-accuse-guaido-officials-of-scam-to-liquidate-venezuelas-most-prized-international-asset/
We\'re All Julian Assange
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Forcefully dragged from Ecuador\'s London embassy by UK police and imprisoned at the behest of Trump regime hardliners, Julian Assange is being slowly killed for the \"crime\" of truth-telling journalism. | Ruling authorities of both nations want it suppressed, operating in …
globalresearch.ca/were-all-julian-assange/5687988
Freedom of Speech: Federal Election Commission (FEC), Social Media Giants Powwow on Circumventing First Amendment
Kurt Nimmo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
It\'s hardly surprising The New York Times and The Washington Post didn\'t bother to report on the rally at the British Home Office in support of Julian Assange. | A quick search of the news reveals AOL and Reuters reported …
globalresearch.ca/fec-social-media-giants-circumventing-first-amendment/5687985
Hong Kong Withdraws Extradition Bill That Sparked Protests
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-09-04
HONG KONG–Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Wednesday the government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations, bowing to one of the protesters\' demands in the hope of ending the increasingly violent unrest. | But lawmakers warned that the bill\'s withdrawal was not enough to end the turmoil, which has increasingly focused on alleged police brutality against protesters and democratic reforms. A youth activist also rejected the move as insincere and warned it could be a precursor to a clampdown. | The bill would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to…
truthdig.com/articles/hong-kong-leader-carrie-lam-announces-withdrawal-of-extradition-bill-that-sparked-months-of-protests/
Extinction Rebellion SFBay Action to Promote Climate Strike
Nancy Roberts | indybay.org | 2019-09-04
Activists from Extinction Rebellion SFBay were in downtown San Francisco before dawn on September 3, postering to raise awareness of the Global Climate Strike actions, Sept 20-27.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/03/18825934.php
Colombian Peace Agreement in Peril: Rebels Return to Armed Struggle
W. T. Whitney | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-04
Civil war in Colombia may have a new lease on life. Appearing in a video released on August 29, Iván Márquez (formerly Luciano Marín Arango) spoke for former FARC guerrillas accompanying him. He announced they had returned \"to the mountain,\" to armed struggle. Guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) had fought Colombia\'s government since 1964. In late…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/04/colombian-peace-agreement-in-peril-rebels-return-to-armed-struggle/
Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center 50th Anniversary: Peace Fair
Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center | indybay.org | 2019-09-04
Civic Park in Walnut Creek | 1375 Civic Dr | Walnut Creek, CA 94596…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/03/18825949.php
Support SCI Albion prisoner on hunger strike!
Jerome Coffey | workers.org | 2019-09-04
Greetings of love, peace and humanity! On April 28, politicized prisoner Demetrius Grant went on a hunger strike here at State Correctional Institution Albion. He is presently housed in the medical infirmary, being force-fed by correctional officers through a court order. Grant is on a hunger strike attempting to expose . . . | Continue reading Support SCI Albion prisoner on hunger strike! at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/09/04/support-sci-albion-prisoner-on-hunger-strike/
Hong Kong leader withdraws extradition bill that sparked protests
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2019-09-04
Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam has announced the government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations.The move bows to one of the protesters\' demands in the hope of ending the unrest.But a pro-government politician warned that the bill\'s withdrawal was not enough to end the protests, which have increasingly focused on greater democracy and demands for Lam\'s resignation.The bill would have allowed Hong Kong residents to be sent to mainland China for trials.People block policemen trying to arrest protesters near the airport in Hong Kong on Sunday (Vincent Yu/AP)It has pr…
thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/09/04/hong-kong-leader-withdraws-extradition-bill-that-sparked-protests/
Bolsonaro Slams UN\'s Bachelet for \'Meddling\' in Brazil
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-04
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro continued his attacks on foreign leaders and U.N. personnel this week as he shifted his attention to human rights chief Michelle Bachelet. | RELATED: | Brazil: Bolsonaro Seeks to Privatize Strategic Economic Sectors | Bolsonaro accused Chile\'s former leader Michelle Bachelet, now the United Nations human rights chief, of meddling in his country\'s affairs after she criticized a rise police violence and an erosion of democracy. | In comments to re…
telesurenglish.net/news/Bolsonaro-Slams-UNs-Bachelet-for-Meddling-in-Brazil-20190904-0006.html
Forget the Russians: It\'s the Federal Reserve which is Seeking to Meddle in Our Elections
Rep. Ron Paul | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
The US Constitution never granted the federal government authority to create a central bank. The Founders, having lived through hyperinflation themselves, understood that government should never have a printing press at its disposal. But from the very beginning of America\'s …
globalresearch.ca/forget-russians-federal-reserve-seeking-meddle-our-elections/5687983
Hezbollah Won\'t Tolerate Israeli Aggression
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Make no mistake. Israel is run by anti-democratic hardliners. Nuclear armed and dangerous, along with maintaining stockpiles of chemical, biological, and other banned terror weapons, Israel is a Middle East menace. | It\'s second only to the regional threat posed by …
globalresearch.ca/hezbollah-wont-tolerate-israeli-aggression/5687992
Trump, racism and capitalism
Fred Goldstein | workers.org | 2019-09-04
Published on Aug. 11 at lowwagecapitalism.com. Let there be no mistake about it. Donald Trump has the blood of all those killed and wounded in the mass shootings of the recent past on his hands, from Gilroy, Calif.; to El Paso, Texas; to Dayton, Ohio. And let there be no . . . | Continue reading Trump, racism and capitalism at Workers.org…
workers.org/2019/09/04/trump-racism-and-capitalism/
Undermining Israeli Deterrence: Hezbollah Is Preparing to Shoot Down a Drone. Netanyahu\'s \"Election War\"
Elijah J. Magnier | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Hezbollah is preparing to down an Israeli drone in the coming days, after leaving time for Israeli politicians and media to increase their criticism and attacks on Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, accused of undermining Israel\'s vital deterrence strategy in …
globalresearch.ca/undermining-israeli-deterrence-hezbollah-preparing-shoot-down-drone/5688076
Losing My Religion
Howard Lisnoff | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-04
\"I should have known better\" begins an old Beatles tune, and I really should have known better than to involve myself in the losing battle with organized religion. But I didn\'t and now I\'m out a few bucks and I think that I\'ve been chastened enough to have learned a lesson. The learning experience came…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/04/losing-my-religion/
UK Rapidly Developing New Drone Programmes: \"Mosquito\" and \"Swarming\"
Chris Cole | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
While the primary focus for UK military drone operations has been around larger systems like Reaper, the forthcoming \'Protector\' and Watchkeeper; the UK is increasingly funding the development of smaller drones to engage in war-fighting roles. | Mosquito | At the International …
globalresearch.ca/uk-rapidly-developing-new-drone-programmes-mosquito-swarming/5688065
UN Report on Yemen: US, UK Accomplices to Atrocities, While Inaction Continues
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-04
Prof. Asad Abukhalil argues that the UN Human Rights Council\'s report on Yemen acknowledges US and UK complicity in the war crimes being committed, but it still soft-pedals them because the US dominates the body…
therealnews.com/stories/un-report-on-yemen-us-uk-accomplices-to-atrocities-while-inaction-continues
New York transit agency seeks casualization of its workforce
wsws.org | 2019-09-04
Management\'s demands are nothing less than a declaration of war and an attempt to institute slave-labor conditions.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/04/nyct-s04.html
Israel: \"Wiped off The Map\". The Rumor of the Century, Fabricated by the US Media to Justify An All out War on Iran
Arash Norouzi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Global Research Editor\'s Note | The following text by Arash Norouzi first published by the Mossadegh Project and Global Research in January 2007 confirms that the alleged \"Wiped Off the Map\" statement by Iran\'s (former) president was never made. | In the …
globalresearch.ca/israel-wiped-off-the-map-the-rumor-of-the-century-fabricated-by-the-us-media-to-justify-an-all-out-war-on-iran/21188
Ukraine\'s War on Donbass: \"The Truth is the First Victim of War\"
Max Fadeev | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
The following is an interview conducted by email with a filmmaker based in Donetsk, who has been documenting Ukraine\'s war on the Donetsk People\'s Republic and the tragedies this has caused civilians living there. | \'Maxim Fadeev\' is actually the pseudonym …
globalresearch.ca/ukraine-war-donbass/5688058
Brazil: Bolsonaro Seeks to Privatize Strategic Economic Sectors
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-04
Brazil\'s president Jair Bolsonaro is getting ready to implement an ambitious process of privatization of state-owned assets related to energy production, port infrastructures, gas extraction and natural resources, Brazilian independent outlets are warning. | RELATED: | 2,000 New Fires in Amazon Despite Brazil\'s Burning Ban | \"The Bolsonaro administration operat…
telesurenglish.net/news/Brazil-Bolsonaro-Seeks-to-Privatize-Strategic-Economic-Sectors-20190904-0001.html
\'Don\'t do it!\' Whoopi Goldberg recalls McCarthy era as she slams call for \'blacklist\' of Trump fans
rt.com | 2019-09-04
A demand by Will & Grace co-stars Debra Messing and Eric McCormack for a public \"list\" of Trump supporters in Hollywood has not been received well, with even Trump-hating actress Whoopi Goldberg slamming it as \"not a good idea.\" | Recalling the McCarthy-era witch hunts against alleged \"Communist sympathizers\" in the US entertainment industry, Goldberg delivered a stark warning to her Hollywood colleagues on the first episode of the new season of ABC\'s talk show \'The View.\' | Listen, the last time people did this, people ended up killing themselves. This is not a good idea | The \'Will and Grace\' co-stars recent…
rt.com/usa/467917-whoopi-goldberg-trump-blacklist/
US, UK and France May be Complicit in War Crimes in Yemen
Thomas DeLorenzo | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
A UN panel reported Tuesday that the US, UK and French governments may be complicit in war crimes for their assistance to the Saudi-led coalition that is attacking and starving civilians in Yemen as a military tactic. | The panel\'s report…
globalresearch.ca/un-us-uk-france-complicit-war-crimes-yemen/5688071
Sanctions and Double Standards
Fabian Goldmann, Florian Zollman & Hans Blixi | indybay.org | 2019-09-04
Sanctions are war with other means-and not an alternative to war. The civilian population pays the price with their bodies and their lives. Export prohibitions on the most important revenues of a country cause impoverishment and suffering. That Iran has not attacked another country militarily in the last 100 years is mostly unmentioned in the media.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/03/18825920.php
ISIS R Us. US-NATO Support ISIS and Al Qaeda Globally
Mark Taliano | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
U.S-led NATO and its allies support ISIS and al Qaeda globally. They supported al Qaeda to destroy Libya, they support al Qaeda/ISIS and their affiliates in Syria and in Iraq, and now evidence demonstrates that they are also supporting al …
globalresearch.ca/isis-r-us-us-nato-support-isis-and-al-qaeda-globally/5688040
Apartheid Had Always Been the Plan
Kenn Orphan | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-04
What do wealthy capitalists do in response to the ever present threat of nuclear annihilation or a biosphere teetering on the edge of collapse? Why they build enormous, fortified bunkers deep underground, of course. Here they can live like the descendants of the mammals that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs in the late Cretaceous…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/04/apartheid-had-always-been-the-plan/
Russia and Turkey intensify military cooperation over US objections
wsws.org | 2019-09-04
Turkish purchases of Russian missiles and possibly fighter jets are fuelling tensions between Turkey and its imperialist allies in Washington and Europe.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/04/mosc-s04.html
The Russia-Mongolia Strategic Partnership
Padraig McGrath | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
On September 2nd, Russian President Vladimir Putin began a 2-day visit to the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, at the conclusion of which a permanent treaty of mutual friendship and extensive strategic partnership will be signed with Mongolian President Khaltmaagiin Battulga. …
globalresearch.ca/mongolia-lesson-geo-political-management-west/5687968
Russia\'s Asian Pivot: The Vladivostok-Chennai Maritime Corridor
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Credible reports have been circulating that this year\'s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok will see the formalization of the Vladivostok-Chennai Maritime Corridor between the Russian Far East and India, which would be the key to comprehensively diversifying Russia\'s \"Pivot to …
globalresearch.ca/vladivostok-chennai-maritime-corridor-key-russia-asian-pivot/5687967
The way Poland works with Byelorussia
Scott Duncan | indybay.org | 2019-09-04
Since long ago, a scheme was invented by the West elegantly to transform state financing of worthy projects into \'non-state funding\'. These are the funds, which are considered to be some kind of public organizations. But a State can always tell businesses where they should carry their money not to damage existing relations. Businesses do it and all is well, no red flags.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/04/18825972.php
Video: Russia Accuses US of Sabotaging Idlib Ceasefire
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
On September 1, the Russian Defense Ministry said that the recent US strike on Idlib province had \"endangered the truce\" in the area and \"violated all previous arrangements.\" The defense ministry noted that the air raid led to \"multiple casualties …
globalresearch.ca/video-russia-accuses-us-sabotaging-idlib-ceasefire/5687961
German Elections: a Mixture of Joy and Great Sorrow
Victor Grossman | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-04
State elections in eastern Germany on September 1 brought mixed joy to some and great sorrow to others. With many, it was less joy than sighs of relief; neither Saxon nor Brandenburg voters gave the far-right, fascist-leaning Alternative for Germany (AfD) the Number One position it had hungered for. In Saxony this was prevented by…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/04/german-elections-a-mixture-of-joy-and-great-sorrow/
Fighting Fossil Fuels in South Africa: Campaigners Invoke Specters of Climate Chaos
Patrick Bond | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-04
South Africa is one of the most difficult places to combat fossil fuels, including the petrochemical complexes that regularly poison the third largest city, Durban, founded by white settlers on the east coast in the mid-19th century. The average South African emits 9 tons of CO2 annually, which is the 11th highest among countries with…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/04/fighting-fossil-fuels-in-south-africa-campaigners-invoke-specters-of-climate-chaos/
The African American Struggle: Reflections on the Black Panther Party\'s United Front Against Fascism (UFAF)
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
During July 18-20, 1969 a gathering in Oakland, California sought to galvanize a broad cross section of progressive and revolutionary organizations across the United States into a united front opposing the escalating repressive policies leveled principally at the African American …
globalresearch.ca/reflections-national-conference-united-front-against-fascism-1969/5688027
Fear and Loathing Under Modi\'s Second Term
Asad Ismi | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
The Pakistani feminist poet Fahmida Riaz, who moved to India from Pakistan in the 1980s to escape that country\'s Islamic fundamentalist military dictatorship, only to encounter growing Hindu funda- mentalism in her new home, captured the experience in a | …
globalresearch.ca/fear-loathing-under-modi-second-term/5688053
Trump EPA\'s Reckless Attempt to Undo Key Health and Safety Protections Regarding Methane Emissions and Leaks
Physicians for Social Responsibility | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
On August 28, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an attempt to roll back key provisions of the 2016 New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), which provide critical health and safety protections to prevent harm to public health from …
globalresearch.ca/trump-epa-reckless-attempt-undo-key-health-safety-protections-methane-emissions-leaks/5687981
The West Oppressed the Third World for so Long that It Became Third World Itself
Andre Vltchek | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Many have already noticed: The U.S. really, really doesn\'t feel like the world leader, or even as a \'first world country\'. Of course, I write that sarcastically, as I detest expressions like \'first world\', and the \'third world\'. But readers …
globalresearch.ca/west-oppressed-third-world-it-became-third-world-itself/5688022
Fire Did Not Cause 3rd Tower\'s Collapse on 9/11, New Study Finds
AE911Truth | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
On September 11, 2001, at 5: 20 PM, the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint, falling more than 100 feet at the rate of gravity for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second destruction. | Despite calls for the evidence …
globalresearch.ca/fire-did-not-cause-3rd-tower-collapse-911-new-study-finds/5688098
Mother Files Lawsuit Against Boeing in Tragic Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 Crash
Ribbeck Law Chartered | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Ribbeck Law Chartered, which represents the majority of families of the victims of the deadly Boeing 737 MAX 8 crashes, and Global Aviation Law Group, has filed additional lawsuits against Boeing for an Egyptian family in U.S. federal court in …
globalresearch.ca/mother-files-lawsuit-against-boeing-tragic-ethiopian-airlines-flight-et-302-crash/5688079
Inevitable Withdrawal: The US-Taliban Deal
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
It took gallons and flagons of blood, but it eventuated, a squeeze of history into a parchment of possibility: the Taliban eventually pushed the sole superpower on this expiring earth to a deal of some consequence. (The stress is on …
globalresearch.ca/us-taliban-deal/5687997
Is the U.S. Government \"An Enemy of the People\"? America\'s Lost Liberties, Post-9/11
John W. Whitehead | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
\"These are the times that try men\'s souls.\" ‚Äï Thomas Paine, The American Crisis | Take heed, America. | Our losses are mounting with every passing day. | What began with…
globalresearch.ca/u-s-government-enemy-people-americas-lost-liberties-post-911/5688034
Mandatory Vaccine Agenda Is Step-by-Step Repealing Religious & Philosophical Exemptions
Makia Freeman | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
The Mandatory Vaccine Agenda is a worldwide plan which has been picking up steam lately. Unfortunately for the causes of individual rights, medical autonomy and sovereignty, natural health and freedom in general, many countries and US states have been accelerating …
globalresearch.ca/mandatory-vaccine-agenda-repealing-religious-philosophical-exemptions/5687995
Concealing the Truth
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Concealing the truth from the people is not unusual in politics. It is perhaps more pronounced in global politics partly because it is more difficult to hold powerful global actors accountable. That might is right is an adage that rings …
globalresearch.ca/concealing-truth/5688047
History: Implacable Foes of Southern African Apartheid and Colonialism
Adeyinka Makinde | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Nigeria\'s military government headed by Murtala Muhammed (1938-1976) and Olusegun Obasanjo (b. 1937) from July 1975 to October 1979 was one that was marked by its implacable opposition to Apartheid and colonialism in southern Africa. | The hardline stance it took …
globalresearch.ca/murtala-muhammed-olusegun-obasanjo-implacable-foes-southern-african-aparthied-colonialism/5688042
Remembering Sophie Tucker\'s Hit Song \'My Yiddishe Momme\', the Very Antonym of Netanyahu\'s Zionist State
Hans Stehling | globalresearch.ca | 2019-09-04
Sophie Tucker was a Jewish American singer and radio personality. Known for her powerful delivery, she was one of the most popular entertainers in America during the first half of the 20th century and was widely known by the nickname …
globalresearch.ca/my-yiddishe-momme-antonym-netanyahus-jewish-state/5687929
Golpistas occidentales lanzan campaña para culpar a Evo Morales por los incendios en la Amazonía
Wyatt Reed | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-04
Mientras Bolsonaro en Brasil permite a los terratenientes de élite incinerar el Amazonas, los golpistas como Jhanisse V. Daza buscan…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/04/golpistas-evo-morales-incendios-amazonia/
What is Happening in Venezuela, and What Can the U.S. Do? PART II
Laura Wells | indybay.org | 2019-09-04
PART II of a three-part series on Venezuela, written after participating in an End-Sanctions delegation in April 2019. The PDF has the Tikkun magazine article that combines the three parts: What\'s really happening, Why did both Obama and Trump sanction Venezuela, and How did the Venezuelan economy get so messed up?>…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/03/18825967.php
What is Happening in Venezuela, and What Can the U.S. Do? PART III
Laura Wells | indybay.org | 2019-09-04
PART III of a three-part series on Venezuela, written after participating in an End-Sanctions delegation in April 2019. The PDF has the Tikkun magazine article that combines the three parts: What\'s really happening, Why did both Obama and Trump sanction Venezuela, and How did the Venezuelan economy get so messed up?>…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/03/18825969.php
What is Happening in Venezuela, and What Can the U.S. Do? PART I
Laura Wells | indybay.org | 2019-09-04
PART I of a three-part series on Venezuela after participating in an End-Sanctions delegation in April 2019. The PDF has the Tikkun magazine article that combines the three parts: What\'s really happening; Why did both Obama and Trump sanction Venezuela, and How did the Venezuelan Economy get so messed up?>…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/09/03/18825966.php
Wildfires: Focus on Defensible Space, Not Large Scale Logging
Steven Krichbaum | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-04
It seems both major parties can be sadly misinformed about forests and fires. The president recently promoted logging as a way to curb fires even though studies have clearly shown it to be ineffective. Now two western Senators, Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., intend to introduce legislation to further Trump\'s agenda. The most comprehensive…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/04/wildfires-focus-on-defensible-space-not-large-scale-logging/