RT (2019-09-07). Not great, not terrible: US tests refurbished missiles after admission nuclear refit lagging behind. rt.com The US Navy test-fired a volley of decades-old Trident II nuclear missiles, proving they can still fly days after a top official said the upgrade of bombs and warheads was lagging, and Russia offered to sell US some of its tech.

Eds. (2019-09-07). Evo Morales, providing leadership in times of adversity. mronline.org While other South American leaders delayed operations to fight fires for days as flames spread across the Amazon, Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma personally led efforts to confront the tragedy | Source

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-09-07). Malaysia\'s Prime Minister Mahathir: Insufficient Evidence to Blame Russia for MH17 Crash over Eastern Ukraine. globalresearch.ca Malaysia\'s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad casts doubt on the controversial Dutch JIT investigation pertaining to the July 2014 crash of Malaysian Airlines MH17 over Eastern Ukraine. | In an interview with Sputnik News at the Vladivostok East Asia Economic Summit, Mahathir …

Party for Socialism and Liberation (2019-09-07). Socialism Forum \"The Fight Against White Supremacy & Racist Violence\" indybay.org San Jose Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. 7th St. San Jose…

Jon Britton (2019-09-07). PSL Public Forum: The Fight Against White Supremacy and Racist Violence. indybay.org San José Peace & Justice Center, 48 S. Seventh Street, San José, CA 95112…

Joseph Thomas (2019-09-07). The 5G Network: Southeast Asia Ignores US War on Huawei. globalresearch.ca The Western media has begun complaining about Southeast Asia\'s collective decision to move forward with 5G network technology from Chinese telecom giant Huawei despite US demands that nations ban all Huawei products. | These demands are predicated on clearly fabricated security …

WSWS (2019-09-07). Jury finds one defendant not guilty, deadlocked on second in 2016 Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire case. wsws.org The criminal trial of two defendants, Derrick Almena and Max Harris, charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter, has come to an end with a deadlock and an acquittal.

Center for Biological Diversity (2019-09-07). Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Will Lead \'Walk for Juristac\' Sunday to Protect Sacred Lands. indybay.org SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif.— The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band will be stepping forward in a public journey of healing and restoration on Sunday. One of the greatest challenges before the tribe is the protection of their sacred grounds at Juristac (Sargent Ranch). The site is currently threatened by Sargent Quarry, a proposed 320-acre sand-and-gravel mining operation.

Alicia Jrapko (2019-09-07). Venezuela: Embassy Protection Collective Speaks. indybay.org Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists\' Hall | 1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org…

Lynda Carson (2019-09-07). Fascist NRA gun organization labeled a domestic terrorist organization. indybay.org On Tuesday, September 3, 2019, a resolution passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors declared that the fascist right-wing extremist National Rifle Association of America (NRA), a very troubled organization that supports the Trump regime and Republicans with major political campaign contributions, is a domestic terrorist organization!

Lynda Carson (2019-09-07). Exposing the contributors to the NRA, a domestic terrorist organization. indybay.org Now that the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution declaring that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is a domestic terrorist organization, this may mean that the NRA and it\'s contributors should come under much closer scrutiny!

unitedEditor (2019-09-07). Saudi Arabia and the UAE\'s Proxy-War and the Humanitarian Crisis in Southern Yemen. uwidata.com A rivalry between Saudi Arabia and the UAE has emerged in southern Yemen, the winner of which stands to greatly strengthen its position in the international arena. However, this power struggle is taking place as a result of the crisis in Yemen, likely the worst humanitarian disaster of the 21st century. THE SIDES OF …

Vijay Prashad (2019-09-07). We will see roots reaching out for each other. mronline.org Last week, Agence France-Presse got its hands on a draft UN report called Special Report on the Ocean and Cyrosphere in a Changing Climate. This 900-page document is study of the oceans for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN body which won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. | Source

Mark Gruenberg (2019-09-06). Rating the presidential hopefuls: Only a few support unions in public. peoplesworld.org Labor Day is now past and the madcap race for the Democratic presidential nomination enters the fall, though with fewer hopefuls in the running. That\'s because the Democratic National Committee, sponsor of the series of nationally-televised debates between the aspirants, has imposed higher criteria for those who seek to qualify for the third round, in …

Staff (2019-09-06). We Are Teetering on the Brink of War With Iran. truthdig.com Sanctions are squeezing Tehran to death. If the EU can\'t salvage the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, things could escalate quickly.

Staff (2019-09-06). US and Iran \"At Cliff\'s Edge\" therealnews.com Iran\'s president Hassan Rouhani presented an ultimatum of two months to the EU to save the Iran nuclear deal. However, the deal is likely to continue to deteriorate, says The Independent\'s Patrick Cockburn…

John Bachtell (2019-09-06). With hurricane destruction as backdrop, Democratic aspirants address climate change. peoplesworld.org Hurricane Dorian, with its decimating fury unleashed on the Bahamas and the Southeastern U.S. seacoast, became the latest red alert warning of the rapidly mounting effects of climate change. It was also the backdrop for a historic Democratic presidential town hall forum on the climate crisis. The forum was nationally televised on Sept. 4 by …

Eds. (2019-09-06). Returning to Fidel as the Amazon burns. mronline.org More than 27 years have passed since Fidel\'s warning, during the Earth Summit in Brazil, that an important species was endangered: human beings. | Source

RT (2019-09-06). \'Jack Ryan\' TV show means US coup in Venezuela is toast. rt.com CIA agent Jack Ryan will tackle \'nuclear-armed\' Venezuela in the next season of the Amazon streaming show. That is perhaps the clearest admission that Washington\'s attempt at regime change in Caracas has failed. | Amazon teased the second season of \'Tom Clancy\'s Jack Ryan\' this week, ahead of its premiere in November. The 90-second trailer shows the title character on a mission to Venezuela, which may have secretly obtained nuclear weapons from the evil Russians (who else?), or something to that effect. | Needless to say, this has been met with everything from raised eyebrows to outright derision by journalist…

Staff (2019-09-06). U.S. Propaganda Doesn\'t Get More Shameless Than \'Jack Ryan\'. truthdig.com In the second season of the Amazon series, the titular hero races against the clock to stop Venezuela from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Staff (2019-09-06). Climate Forum Shows Candidates\' Key Differences. therealnews.com At CNN\'s seven-hour climate town hall, ten Democratic candidates disagreed about fracking, nuclear power, and how much to fund the Pentagon. TRNN\'s Marc Steiner, Dharna Noor, and Steve Horn discuss.

Staff (2019-09-06). Candidates Don\'t Agree On How Much To Spend on Climate Plans. therealnews.com At CNN\'s marathon climate town hall, candidates detailed environmental plans that range from $1.3 to $16.3 trillion, but moderators failed to address the cost of inaction…

Richard Moser (2019-09-06). A Different‚Äã War Story: the Soldier and Veteran Resistance Against the War in Vietnam. counterpunch.org The battle over American war stories began during the peak of the last revolution. Millions of Americans and tens of thousands of veterans and soldiers opposed the war in Vietnam. In the war\'s moral outrages, crimes and betrayals, many saw the US empire for the first time. [1] For the last 40 years, the ruling class More

Ron Jacobs (2019-09-06). A Battle for Existence. counterpunch.org They are landscapes my mind escapes to regularly. The painted canyons in eastern Montana and the Zion region of Utah. Forests of huge conifers in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest and northern California. The incredible arid desolation of Utah west of Salt Lake City and the deserts of Nevada. Sagebrushed plains in the Southwest. More

Yoav Litvin (2019-09-06). The Case Against the Zionist \"Left\" counterpunch.org Zionist historical revisionism constructs an erroneous presentation of Israel as accommodating a left-to-right political milieu, the left-flank of which amenable to a peaceful resolution of \"the conflict\", instead of recognizing the entirety of Zionism, including its \"liberal\" faction, as inherently white supremacist, settler colonialist and genocidal. The supposed left, \"liberal\" wing of Zionism, comprising Israeli political More

Andrew Levine (2019-09-06). Trump Year Three: Three Random Late Summer Thoughts. counterpunch.org The underlying premise was never plausible, but for a while it was still possible to hope that, under Trump, American foreign policy would be less bellicose than it would have been had Hillary Clinton not managed to lose the 2016 election. Trump did, after all, seem less enthusiastic about restoring the Cold War that the More

James Bovard (2019-09-06). 9/11 and the American Orwellian Nightmare. counterpunch.org Next week will mark the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Politicians and bureaucrats wasted no time after that carnage to unleash the Surveillance State on average Americans, treating every citizen like a terrorist suspect. Since the government failed to protect the public, Americans somehow forfeited their constitutional right to privacy. Despite heroic efforts by former NSA staffer Edward Snowden and a host of activists and freedom fighters, the government continues ravaging American privacy. More

Sarang Narasimhaiah (2019-09-06). \"Everywhere is Kashmir\": Unraveling Weaponized, Corporatized Hindustan in India\'s Northeast. counterpunch.org \"In India today,\" said an Indigenous activist I recently interviewed in the northeastern Indian state of Jharkhand, \"everywhere is Kashmir.\" At first glance, this statement seems overblown, perhaps even outrageous. No other part of India is as much of a consolidated internal colony as Kashmir. For that matter, Palestine is one of the only other More

Kathleen Wallace (2019-09-06). Extinction Via Rugged Individualism. counterpunch.org I was recently amused by a train of thought on Twitter excoriating Henry David Thoreau for his experiment in self-sufficient living. True, he was on the land of his wealthy neighbor, his mother did his laundry (and brought him old-timey donuts to eat), but it was rugged, dammit. Okay, it was something akin to a More

Staff (2019-09-06). Hemp Legalization Has Made It Harder to Prosecute People for Marijuana. truthdig.com After passage of the 2018 federal farm bill legalized hemp production, states scrambled to pass their own laws legalizing hemp and CBD. But in doing so, they may have inadvertently signed a death warrant for the enforcement of marijuana prohibition. | Forty-seven states have now legalized hemp, but only 11 have legalized marijuana. The other 36 may be in for a refresher course in the law of unintended consequences. | Hemp and recreational marijuana both come from the same plant species, cannabis sativa. The only thing that differentiates hemp and weed is the level of the intoxicating cannabinoid, THC. Under feder…

Staff (2019-09-06). US-China Trade War Causes Damage, but is Exaggerated. therealnews.com Trump hit China with more tariffs on $300 billion of imports, but as a percentage of GDP the trade war remains relatively small in its impact, and is thus unlikely to lead to a recession says CEPR\'s Mark Weisbrot…

Staff (2019-09-06). Agreement to End US Involvement in Afghanistan War, But War Will Continue. therealnews.com The US and the Taliban are about to sign an agreement to withdraw 14,000 US troops from Afghanistan, potentially ending the longest war in US history. However, the Afghans will not see an end to fighting yet, says The Independent\'s Patrick Cockburn…

CounterSpin (2019-09-06). Hassan El Tayyab on US Out of Yemen, Kate Bronfenbrenner on Labor Board vs. Labor. fair.org Media…

Staff (2019-09-06). Joni Ernst Says the Quiet Part Loud. truthdig.com Senator Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, just said out loud what Republican politicians usually only talk about in secret meetings with their billionaire donors: The GOP wants to cut our earned Social Security benefits—and they want to do it behind closed doors so that they don\'t have to pay the political price. | At a recent town hall, Ernst stated that Congress needs to \"sit down behind closed doors\" to \"address Social Security.\" She vaguely asserted, \"A lot of changes need to be made in this syst…

Conn Hallinan (2019-09-06). Funerals for glaciers: Is it too late for Europe\'s Green New Deal? peoplesworld.org On Aug. 18, several dozen people gathered around a patch of snow in Iceland to commemorate the demise of the Okjokull glacier, a victim of climate change. Further to the west, Greenland shed 217 billion tons of ice in the month of July alone. Paris reached 108.7 degrees on July 25, and normally cold, blustery …

Anya Parampil (2019-09-06). \"Go to hell\": Venezuelan coup leader Ricardo Hausmann stages WhatsApp meltdown when confronted with his own hypocrisy and lack of transparency. thegrayzone.com Over the course of an entire day, Venezuelan coup leader Ricardo Hausmann melted down on WhatsApp after I confronted him…

Robert Scheer (2019-09-06). The Most Consequential Whistleblower Who Wasn\'t. truthdig.com While so many have heard of whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden making history in recent years, few have heard the story of Katharine Gun, the subject of the film \"Official Secrets,\" directed and co-written by Gavin Hood. On the latest installment of \"Scheer Intelligence,\" the \"Official Secrets\" director tells Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer that he learned about Gun from Ged Doherty, a producer he\'d worked with on the film \"Eye in the Sky\" about drone warfare, and realized the whistleblowe…

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2019-09-06). What Happened on the Planes on September 11, 2001? The 9/11 Cell Phone Calls. The 9/11 Commission \"Script\" Was Fabricated. globalresearch.ca Given the prevailing technology in September 2001, it was extremely difficult, if not impossible, to place a wireless cell call from an aircraft traveling at high speed above 8000 feet: At least part of the Commission\'s script in Chapter 1 on the cell phone conversations, is fabricated.

Michael Atkinson (2019-09-06). Immigrant Song: \'I\'m Leaving Now\'. progressive.org A new documentary trains our focus on an underexposed slice of the immigration dynamic: the urge to return home.

Karen Kinney (2019-09-06). At the Dividing Line Between the U.S. and Mexico, Two Very Different Visions of God Meet. commondreams.org If love is indeed an indicator of true religion, then let us choose love. (Photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/trump_immigration.jpeg …

The Intercept (2019-09-06). Livestream: The Right to a Future — With Naomi Klein and Greta Thunberg. theintercept.com The Intercept invites you to watch a special event in New York City hosted by Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein, author of the forthcoming book \"On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal,\" and headlined by trailblazing climate activist Greta Thunberg, author of \"No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference.\" Together with youth leaders Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Xiye Bastida, and Vic Barrett, as well as Indigenous Amazon leader Tuntiak Katan, Thunberg and Klein will help us envision a just and sustainable future, confront our climate emergency, and discuss the emerging cross-generational, transnational mov…

Staff (2019-09-06). Ex-Starbucks CEO Schultz Rules Out Independent 2020 Bid. truthdig.com WASHINGTON—Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says he\'s no longer considering an independent presidential bid. | Schultz said Friday in a letter posted on his website, \"I have concluded that an independent campaign for the White House is not how I can best serve our country at this time.\" | Schultz faced intense resistance from Democratic activists who feared an independent run would give President Donald Trump an easier path to reelection. Schultz says not enough people are willing to back an independent because they fear doing so \"might lea…

Andrew Korybko (2019-09-06). A US-Taliban Peace Deal Would Redefine the Regional Balance of Power. globalresearch.ca The tentative peace deal that the US is negotiating with the Taliban would redefine the regional balance of power if it\'s officially promulgated, thus continuing the ongoing trend of Great Power realignment in Eurasia. | It\'s been widely reported that the …

Reese Erlich (2019-09-06). Foreign Correspondent: Can Trump Bring Peace to Afghanistan? progressive.org Don\'t hold your breath.

Ramzy Baroud (2019-09-06). The War Ahead: Netanyahu\'s Elections Gamble Will be Costly for Israel. counterpunch.org On September 1, the Lebanese group Hezbollah, struck an Israeli military base near the border town of Avivim. The Lebanese attack came as an inevitable response to a series of Israeli strikes that targeted four different Arab countries in the matter of two days. The Lebanese response, accompanied by jubilation throughout Lebanon, shows that Israeli More

Ralph Nader (2019-09-06). Chuck Todd, Labor Day, and Getting Serious. counterpunch.org Labor Day has come and gone. To most people it\'s a day off and a splash of sales. The symbolism and meaning that inspired this national holiday back in 1894 has long since dissipated. Labor Day parades are affairs of the past, with very few exceptions, and those that still exist are facing dwindling participation More

Ted Rall (2019-09-06). Billionaires Who Promise to Save Journalism. counterpunch.org Let\'s talk about fraud: \"a person or thing intended to deceive others, typically by unjustifiably claiming or being credited with accomplishments or qualities,\" the dictionary calls it. Let\'s also discuss breach of contract. \"A breach of contract occurs when the promise of the contract is not kept, because one party has failed to fulfill their More

Ricardo Vaz and Lucas Koerner (2019-09-06). Mastercard Blocks Two Venezuelan Banks as Inflation Rises. venezuelanalysis.com A Chinese contractor has also suspended work on an oil expansion project.

Stephen Lendman (2019-09-06). Trump\'s Anti-Iran \"Blood Money\" Offer: \"$15 Million for Any Person Who Helps Us Disrupt the Financial Operations of Iran\'s IRGC-Qods Force\" globalresearch.ca According to Christian scripture, bribe money is blood money, a longstanding US specialty — followed by toughness when offers are rejected. | Bribery for political, economic, military, and/or other purposes reflects a corrupt society — what characterizes US public and private …

Stephen Lendman (2019-09-06). Trump Regime Training Paramilitaries to Attack Venezuela? globalresearch.ca Washington wants Bolivarian Venezuela transformed into a US vassal state — to eliminate its social democracy and gain control over its vast oil reserves, the world\'s largest. | On Wednesday, the Trump regime earmarked over $120 million for Colombia. | Masquerading as …